Chapter 13: The Forest of Tree Demons
The area of this piece of land, if compared with the Xihai Province, which spans the three regions, is simply compared to the earth dog and the elephant, but the area of six or seven million square kilometers is really not small. It's about the size of an Australian state on Earth. Several humans are like bacteria inside, and coupled with the special overall environment of the Devil Sea, it is not easy to find out.
Zhang Mu didn't dare to be careless.
Because it was the special forces of the main city that chased and killed several people, everyone has undergone rigorous training and is good at tracking, searching, assassinating and other special tasks. The number of skills mastered is very large, and it is suitable for fighting against non-Holy Spirit powerhouses in any environment.
In addition, you need to beware of threats from demons and monsters.
"We've been walking for hours, and those guys shouldn't catch up."
This was a clearing in the middle of the Black Forest, and several people stopped to take a few elixirs against demonization. The negative energy of the Devil's Sea environment is too strong, ordinary people are in the nearby energy environment for a long time, and they will be eroded by negative energy for a long time, gradually increasing the negative emotions of anxiety, anger, restlessness, and fear, and then there will be a decrease in attributes, and the situation of weakened combat ability will occur, if you stay in the negative energy environment outside the limit of tolerance for too long, or have been living in the environment, then you will hallucinate, become crazy, thirsty for killing, and zuihou will even be demonized.
Zhang Mu can't be undead and demonized, so he doesn't need to think about the environmental impact, and the others are different. This adventure was well prepared, and a lot of anti-demonization elixirs were prepared.
The Demon Slayer Sword was inserted into a broken tree trunk, and Zhang Mu sat down to rest.
I saw a "sneering" sound from the broken wood, and green smoke came out from the part where the sword was inserted, like a red-hot iron piece inserted into a piece of raw meat. Because the positive energy on the Demon Slayer Sword is very strong, and the dead wood is full of negative energy, the energy of the two opposing energies is in contact, so it has an ablation effect.
On the branch of a half-dead old tree in front of them, two black strange birds, bald, small-eyed, very ugly, were quietly upside down like bats, and their scarlet eyes were watching the outsiders who broke into the forest. Underneath this tree, there is a pair of rotting bones, which should be some kind of magical beast, dead for some time.
Dead forest, gray haze. The trees are sparse and sparse, not densely grown, and at the same time crooked, the trunks are full of tumors, and in the harsh environment, there are always various mutations in organisms. However, no matter what the tree is, the trunk, the branches, and the leaves are all as black as ink.
At noon, the sky was a deep grayish-black, like a thick layer of lead. The sky was dark, the ground was black, the trees were black, and there was no color in the whole shijie, and the energy in the fog weakened the transmission of sound waves.
Eerie, terrifying, and depressing at every turn.
This is the current environment, much like the scenes and images presented in a black-and-white silent movie.
After a few minutes, the elixir kicks in to cleanse the body of negative energy.
Zhang Mu pulled out his sword, "It's time for us to go." â
"Squeak!"
Suddenly, the strange bird standing upside down in the tree flew up, the nearby woods trembled slightly, and dozens of strange birds flew up at the same time, hovering in the sky, as if waiting for something?
Zhang Mu looked at the bones on the ground, his eyebrows condensed slightly, clenched the hilt of his sword and said, "Be careful, we may be in trouble." â
Ye Qianqiu clenched the dragon killing spear, Leng Yun and Lin Caiyan, each blessed themselves with magic protection, and Qiao Weier was ready for battle. It's just that it's puzzling that there is no biological activity in this vicinity, and there are strange birds that basically have no combat effectiveness except for trees, and they can't find threatening food.
"Tree! Watch out for these trees! â
Lin Caiyan was a priest, so she was very sensitive to the evil Liliang, and immediately raised her staff, and the holy light condensed, "Sword of light!" The radiant sword immediately became ten times larger, and slashed at the nearby trees with a heavy sword.
Rumble!
The entire ground tumbled, and countless hideous roots broke through the ground, like dragons dancing wildly, and some of them went directly to catch the lightsaber. As a result, Lin Caiyan's attack ability was underestimated, and the lightsaber slashed four or five thick roots, and Zuihou landed on a tree trunk, making an incision of one-half.
From inside the incision, a large amount of blood flowed out.
Do trees bleed?
But before the doubt could arise, the woods trembled, and the outsider's approach clearly alarmed something. The trees full of tumors seemed to come to life in an instant, and on the huge sarcomas, terrifying eyes appeared, and on the dark trunks, the images of human faces and facial features also appeared.
Jovielle felt sick, "What is this?" â
"Dryad." Leng Yun replied, "I've seen relevant records, this is a pretty powerful demon. â
The entire forest has become a tree demon, hundreds or thousands, and there are many of them, and the tree demon is full of disgusting sarcomas, and the sarcomas have terrifying eyes on them. One by one, the roots of the trees are turned up from the ground, each one black, and if you look closely, you will see that they are covered with fuchsia suckers the size of a coin. The roots of the trees are surging, like a hundred Jiao biting each other, and the scene is very spectacular.
Zhang Mu's face was as condensed as iron, and he lowered his voice and said: "It's troublesome, we have strayed into the area of the demon clan monsters, break through immediately, and kill it quickly!" â
Lin Caiyan saw that there were dozens of miles nearby, all of them were surrounded by tree roots, and dealing with this kind of plant and attacking with fire attributes should have a good effect, maybe they could burn the tree demon in one go. Lin Caiyan is a priest with fire-based magic ability, and immediately completed a large-scale B-grade magic, and countless large fireballs fell like raindrops, smashing on the tumbling tree roots, instantly turning the surroundings into a large sea of fire.
"Killed?"
Leng Yun hurriedly shouted: "Don't attack with fire, it's useless, the tree demon will absorb magic, the more you attack, the stronger it becomes!" â
Lin Caiyan couldn't believe it, as if to verify Leng Yun's words. The burning flame immediately began to extinguish, and the suction cups on the roots of the tree were opened, greedily sucking in the fire elemental from the outside world, and when enough energy was absorbed, the roots became thicker and branched, giving birth to more roots.
Almost in the blink of an eye, there are more tree roots around.
Qiao Weier's face changed: "Then how to fight?" â
Lin Caiyan said: "Use non-attribute energy, or use thunder and light attacks, because the thunder element and light element are the nemesis of demons!" â
The Dryad began to attack.
Underground, on the ground, in the air, tree roots appear endlessly, constantly appearing, and are winding towards several people. The Dryad is really difficult, it can absorb almost any attack, and then become more powerful, unless it uses a pure physical attack, or an attack by light elemental or thunder element, it cannot defeat the Dryad.
There are too many roots.
Zhang Mu raised the Demon Exterminating Sword and cut off a large piece, but his hand was not withdrawn, and a few roots wrapped around his right arm, his left arm was also entangled, and his waist was also entangled, and his feet were vacated at once, so that Zhang Mu had nowhere to exert his strength, and the roots of the tree were not torn, but just suspended people in the air. More tree roots covered it, and the whole person was wrapped into rice dumplings.
Zhang Mu was surprised to find that life and magic were decreasing sharply.
The Dryad has a special attack method, as long as it is in direct contact with the target, it completely ignores defense, and directly absorbs life and magic from the prey, especially magic liliang, and the loss rate is 3 times that of life. Once Zhang Mu's magic was sucked dry, he could no longer resist, and could only be tortured to death by the tree demon!
"Damn it!"
Zhang Mu turned his body vigorously, and the Demon Slaying Sword emitted golden lightning, instantly chopping all the tree roots. Zhang Mu flipped back, broke the roots of the tree on the ground with a sword, and then fell to the ground.
The situation of the others is not very good, Ye Qianqiu's attack does not have attributes, he is still very sharp, after opening the ghost and god transformation skills, the gun shadow is like a tide, but he can protect himself. Joviel is hand-to-hand, fighting with the Tree Demon, the most taboo thing is direct contact, and every time she is directly lifted, she will be deprived of a part of her life and magic.
Therefore, Qiao Weier fought very strongly, Leng Yun and Lin Caiyan respectively used the thunder magic shield and the light magic shield to protect themselves, except for the magic shield of light and thunder, as soon as any magic shield is cast, it will be absorbed by the tree demon in an instant, without the slightest defense.
"These things are so annoying!" Qiao Wei'er threw out a hard-to-find B-grade magic scroll, and more than twenty bucket-thick thunderbolts fell from the sky, instantly destroying a large number of tree demons, "I don't have many thunder scrolls, find a way to break through!" â
Thunder and lightning destroy some of the roots, and new roots cover the scorched roots, and then continue to attack the five.
The attack is a full range, up and down in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, as long as it touches it, it will immediately lose some life and magic, and it is impossible to prevent it at all, and there is no very haode defense means.
"I've prepared an enchantment." Lin Caiyan finished chanting, and the strong light attribute energy condensed in the staff: "You guys help me clear the neighborhood first!" â
Leng Yun completed a complex large-scale high-level thunder spell - [Thunder Wanjun], Leng Yun raised his staff high, the sky suddenly thunder and lightning jumped, and a large wave of thunder and lightning fell around the five people, instantly killing a large area, this is just the beginning, the second wave, the third wave, layer by layer outward, the roots of the tree were attacked piece by piece, shattered by thunder, scorched by electricity, but the new roots could not take a step beyond the thunder pool.
Zhang Mu cut off dozens of tree roots with a sword, dragged Qiao Wei'er, who was wrapped into a dumpling, and jumped behind Lin Caiyan.
"Holy Light Enchantment!"
Lin Caiyan's staff was inserted into the ground, and a circle of light with a diameter of several hundred meters appeared on the ground, and the roots of the tree tried to attack, but every time they were blocked back by a burst of strong light, and attacking from the ground had no effect, this enchantment was a full-range defense.
Joviel tore open the rhizome wrapped around her body, and lay on the ground gasping for breath.
In such a short period of time, nearly half of the lives were lost.
Lin Caiyan went up with a few healing techniques, and everyone immediately recovered to full life.
"The enchantment will keep the Tree Demon at bay for about 10 minutes, and we'll have time to regain mana." Lin Caiyan took out a bottle of super magic potion and drank it, looking at the crazy tree demon outside, a little palpitating: "I didn't feel it when I sat on the Dawn all the way, but now I know that the demon clan of the Devil Sea is terrible!" â
Several of them drank a few bottles of magic potions.
It is not advisable to stay here for long.
The five must break through as soon as possible.
Zhang Mu checked the storage bag and took out a few B-level light and thunder magic scrolls, "When the enchantment is lifted, we attack in one direction and open a way out of the tree demons. Lao Ye, your skill [Killing God Advent] is integrated in attack and defense, and the tree demon can't break you under the protection of the power of killing gods, so you are the vanguard. Qiao Weier followed behind, and then Lin Caiyan and Leng Yun, I'll come to the palace! â
"Good!"
"Now let's recover for a while, and then we will consume a lot."
Suddenly there was a "whoosh" scream.
A black arrow shot through the crack in the root of the tree, directly shooting the enchantment out of a hole, and then landed on Zhang Mu's chest, because the arrow pierced through the enchantment, and the aftermath was not enough to penetrate Long Ming's armor, so it was bounced away.
The barrier was pierced and immediately shattered like glass.
The Dryad strikes again.
"Who is it?"
A large group of black shadows appeared in the sky in the distance, each of them was wearing a mecha, among which the first ten people were dressed as task forces, one of them was holding a longbow in his hand, and "whoosh" shot another piece, the target was Lin Caiyan.
Zhang Mu hurriedly slashed the dark arrow with a sword.
"It's really worthy of the special operations team in the main city, and it was tracked down so quickly!"
Ye Qianqiu frowned and said, "Our current situation is not good. â
(It is basically diagnosed that there is a hemangioma, and it is estimated that it will have to be surgically removed, and it seems that a bloody disaster is inevitable!) T.Tīŧ