Chapter 18: The Black Rain Swamp
At this time, the strong man with the broken arm also slowly went around to the other side of Hook, tore off his coat with one hand, fixed the injured arm with both hands and mouths, and slowly lifted the chain flail.
The smile on Hook's face grew, and the aura of danger emanating from his body became stronger and stronger! The patterns on the moire long stick became brighter and brighter under the infusion of fire attribute fighting energy! Hook took a deep breath, folded his hands, and the long stick was spread across his arms, looking up at the transparent circular dome of the arena, and said with a solemn expression: "Teacher, today is the first time in the ten years since I left the school! I hope the teacher can forgive me for failing to keep my oath." β
After speaking, Hook's momentum converged, and the cloud pattern of the long stick shone even brighter! As if there was dazzling magma flowing.
The ground under Hook's feet shattered, and the figure suddenly accelerated forward! The moire stick dragged the ground, dragging a long line of fire on the ground with Hook's high-speed movement, and at this moment, the dancing whining meteor hammer was already invisible to the naked eye, and suddenly the strong man made a big turn, and the meteor hammer had been thrown towards the rushing Hook! The meteor hammer made a dull sound of breaking the air! It suddenly went straight to Hook's door and smashed it, and at the same time as the other, there was also a sound of metal breaking the air on the other side! It was a chain flail!
At this time, Hook's feet did not stop! Continue to rush forward! The moire long stick in his hand dragged the blazing sparks from the ground to the attacking hammer head, when! Scratch and pull! Whoosh! The long stick hit the chain under the hammer head, sending out a burst of sparks, the hammer head was driven by inertia to wrap around one end of the long stick, Hook's arm exerted force, the long stick pressed down, and when the long stick was also hit by the other end of the long stick! The strength of the long stick did not decrease, and Hook's arms were infused with strength! Forcefully dragged the hammer head back to exert force! The great force was transmitted to the strong man through the straightened chain, and the center of gravity of the strong man was moved forward! The long stick reversed and touched! It had already hit the top of the strong man's head, and the heavy iron helmet was smashed flat in an instant! Hook turned around and shook off the hammer hanging on the stick, and hit the strong man on the jaw again, the strong man leaned back, and Hook suddenly rolled forward and rolled behind the backward strong man! His hands supported the ground and his body was arched together, and his feet kicked the strong man's backward body! The strong man was kicked up by this huge force! Hook got up and swung the long stick at the strong man in the air! The falling body was beaten and swirled, Hook was slightly concentrated and briefly accumulated, and the blazing long stick slammed into the chest of the falling strong man, boom, the strong man was slammed to the ground, but this strong man could still get up!
Hook smiled, and looked at the strong man who was slowly getting up! The long stick was broken apart by it, holding one stick in each hand, and his body spun and rushed towards the strong man who was struggling to stand still!
Phew!...
Nearly a dozen violent sounds of metal hitting flesh and bones came with a strange rhythm! Each impact was as if there was a small explosion! Boom! As the double sticks slammed into both sides of the strong man's head, the strong man, who was no longer in human form at this moment, slowly fell to the ground...
The strong man next to him, who had just finished throwing the chain flail, trembled a little and roared as he retreated: "Let me go, let me go! I..."
Before the words fell, poof! A streamer of light had already penetrated the chest of the backward strong man, and the weapon that broke out of the body was the moire short stick in Hook's hand! Hook put away the short stick and looked at Yuri on the sidelines!
Yuri looked at Hook, who was covered in blood, and said, "Finished venting?"
Hook: "I, young master, I..."
"Okay, get out of here when you're done, give you half an hour to clean yourself up, and I'll ask you something when I come back!"
Hook threw the bat to Panson, and without saying a word, went up the stairs, and after a hurried wash, went downstairs to meet Yuri.
"What's going on with these two guys today? Why are you still playing on your own?" Yuri looked at Hook who had just come down from upstairs in confusion, Hook hurriedly walked to a small bar, picked up a glass of fruit wine on the bar and drank it down, Whew! Hook drank the wine in the glass, exhaled before turning to face Yuri, "This Yunyan fighting spirit is good for everything, but every time it runs out, it's like being thirsty for a few days!" These two guys are the horses of Xerxes, the black crocodile on West Street, after their boss was killed by Bawingo, Xerxes's gang divided his property, and recently some of them took refuge in us, and we only learned that the disappearance of the arena transport team the year before last was related to them, and they were really bold enough to dare to go back to the dukedom!"
"Who exactly is the mastermind? just the two of them? What about the others, they didn't say?" asked Yuri.
"The leader is said to be a guy wearing an iron mask, and there are some former Xerxes diehards involved, but most of them have disappeared, I heard that after the two of them came back, I designed to capture them, and I wanted to kill them directly, but I heard that the bastards said that these two guys had two hits, so I planned to use them to practice their hands, anyway, they are all going to die, it is better to use waste!" After saying that, he poured a glass of wine.
Yuri slowly clicked his finger on the small bar a few times and then muttered: "Let's put this matter aside for the time being, those guys from the west a few days ago asked for something?"
Hook shook his head and nodded suddenly, "They are indeed from the Black Rain Swamp, and they are indeed minions of a certain force, but they can't tell the specific information, they only know that the person who gave them the order is also a masked guy, and the others such as the information of the stronghold, the number of members, and the geometry of the masters, all of them don't know, as if their memories have been sealed, and a tattoo of the same style was found on their bodies, Pan Sen..."
Soon Panson came up with a tray, and Hook picked up a translucent piece of paper from the tray, and on the paper was a pattern of a hound with a single horn, the hound's eyes were closed, there was a vertical eye in the center of the eyebrows, and a long horn with a spiral pattern on the top of his head, Yuri looked at the pattern, he had not found any information about this species from memory.
"What does this pattern represent? is there any information?" asked Yuri, frowning.
"I've asked a lot of old guys, but I don't know, but I don't rule out that this is just some signs within its organization, representing internal ranks or something, I don't want to interpret it too much, maybe young master, you can ask those mages and warlocks who are proficient in these aspects. β
Yuri nodded and folded the paper and put it away, "If it doesn't have a special meaning, it's best, those guys didn't die, right?"
Hook shrugged and said, "One is dead, two are dying, and only the Iron Demon Bull is left to barely hold on." β
Yuri nodded, "Take me to meet him later, I have some questions, see if I can get something, by the way, you asked people to go to the alchemy laboratory to ask Master Aiden, we need his knowledge and spells to confirm something." β
Hook sent someone out, turned his head to Yuri and asked expectantly, "Young Master, you said you were going out last time?"
Before the dragon slaying incident, Yuri often organized people to explore some ruins, often organized hunting, and sometimes went to hunt down some more famous wanted criminals, and also attacked some bandits' lairs, Hook thought about it, since Yuri and that guy named Jace often mixed up, he didn't take himself out much, and he was quite resentful!
Hook didn't have any other thoughts, he just felt that he was too boring in the arena, and he was about to go crazy! How could he not be excited when he heard Yuri say that something might be good a few days ago!
"Well, I'll leave in the next two days! I'll go to the Black Rain Swamp!"
"Black Rain Swamp?" Hook's eyes lit up when he heard this.
Yuri glanced at him, and Hook's hand was holding on to the bar, "Young Master, there is a Black Rain Alliance over there, and our people can't get in at all!"
"I know all of this, but there is eyeliner in the family, and I want to find out something this time. β
"So, is the Duke finally going to do it?" Hook excited.
Yuri shook his head, and couldn't help but remember that this black rain swamp was assigned to Lehman on the territory map of the empire, and its area accounted for almost one-eighth of the dukedom. Under the strong mediation of the major families and the strong pressure of the emperor, the plain area that was replaced at the end of the matter was still divided into Lehman, and this black rain swamp that no one wanted was tacitly mentioned by everyone! On the map, it already belonged to Lehman's territory.
This black rain swamp is named because it is shrouded in a layer of slightly toxic black gas all year round, and it is named after the relationship between the rainy season all year round, and the rain within its range is black, the rain is mixed with toxins, and it will be poisoned when it rains often, and the poison insects in the dense forest are rampant, and even some large beasts with rough skin and thick flesh can not survive, resulting in the normal biological chain of the outside world cannot exist in it, according to the records of books and people who have been there, there are not many beasts there are distorted and deformed, and the minerals in this area are barren, and the only specialties are only some poisonous weeds and some strange creatures that are only needed for alchemy and potionsγ
These regional characteristics have made this a place that no one cares about, there are some natives in this area, they don't know when they appeared here, no one wants to verify it anyway, there are also wanted criminals of all races on the mainland, and it is rumored that there is also a one-eyed lizard with huge wings, they are the overlords of this dense forest area. Over time, this place has formed a distribution center of various dark forces such as poisonous insects, natives, fugitives, wanted criminals, twisted beasts, etc., and there are already some bazaars established on the basis of the swamp natives.
The dukedom has only recently managed to infiltrate the spy agents, and there is not much information obtained, and as far as Yuri knows, one of the reasons why Bawen sent people into the swamp this time is that this is a dukedom after all, although it has little value, but it can't always be smeared, and secondly, because the family's opponent in the empire, the territory of the Prince of Mandan, is adjacent to the Black Rain Swamp, and the Prince of Mandan, the imperial capital, has been a little too active recently, and has to be guarded against......