127. Capture
In this way, the group entered the Traveler's Swamp in a mighty way, and the leader of the leopard clan saw that Zhao Yuan completely ignored his enthusiasm, and his heart was also a little depressed, so he changed his strategy and began to introduce himself to Zhao Yuan: "My name is Akuma, what is your name, little brother?"
"Zhao Yuan. Zhao Yuan's words were concise and to the point, he was not afraid that the other party would recognize him, after all, his name was only louder in the wolf clan, lion clan and elf clan, and people from other tribes would not know him unless they often haunted well-informed places.
"It turns out that your name is Zhao Yuan, little brother, what an authentic human name. You're your first time in the Traveler's Swamp, aren't you?" Akuma asked, the more he looked at Zhao Yuan, the more he felt that this Terran mage was unusual, and he made up his mind to pull him into his team to stay in permanence, making Nini's little girly skin regret it.
Zhao Yuan nodded, at this time they had already entered the periphery of the swamp, the ground here looked flat, but if they accidentally stepped on it, it might be a mud.
At the same time, an unpleasant smell also enveloped them, although Zhao Yuan could relieve the toxicity of the miasma, but he had no way to start with its unpleasant smell, so he could only instigate his nose to endure it.
Akuma originally wanted to continue chatting with Zhao Yuan, but the orc's sense of smell was already much more sensitive than that of the human race, and he opened his mouth several times, but finally held back the words that came to his mouth. The group moved cautiously in silence through the swamp.
The Leopard Mercenary Team has obviously been familiar with the terrain here for a long time, although there are many of them, they are all divided into groups of three or five, and they are moving forward in the swamp, and no one has stepped into the swamp for such a long time, Zhao Yuan is also secretly admired.
The sky is dark all day long in the Traveler's Swamp, and everything around is shrouded in a gray-green color, which inevitably makes people feel depressed discomfort after watching it for a long time.
Zhao Yuan followed the team for I don't know how long, I only knew that he released two more expulsion techniques halfway, and according to the calculation of every four hours, they also walked for most of the day, but they still didn't reach their destination.
"Little brother, I'm about to enter the heart of the Traveler's Swamp in a minute, where the miasma is even more severe, please use a few more expulsion spells. With that, Akuma stuffed a glass bottle containing a blue liquid into Zhao Yuan's hand. "This is a potion to replenish mana, don't be reluctant to drink it, Lao Ge has a lot of it here. After speaking, he smiled at Zhao Yuan, and then quickly closed his mouth.
"Qi, you weren't like this to Nini before. A leopard clan muttered indignantly, how keen Akuma's hearing was, he turned around and glared at the leopard clan fiercely, and then looked at Zhao Yuan's expressionless face, seeing that Zhao Yuan really didn't seem to hear anything, before relenting and continuing to lead the way.
The central swamp is indeed as Akuma said, the miasma is even more powerful, the original gray-green miasma has a wisp of black gas, and there are no slightly tall plants here, only some mosses or aquatic plants in the mire can grow here.
In addition, there were fewer and fewer places for people to put their feet on, and the line of hundreds of people formed a long line, all following Akuma as they walked through this dangerous area.
Zhao Yuan felt strange in his heart, Akuma had said before that they were looking for a mutant miremon, but now it seemed that they were completely heading straight for a clear target location.
After two more evictions, Akuma finally stopped. His expression was not as relaxed as before, a condensation condensed between his eyebrows, his eyes scanned the large mud in front of him, which was no different from before, and raised his right hand to make a gesture behind him.
Zhao Yuan didn't understand what this gesture meant, but he saw that the entire team suddenly took action in a well-trained manner. They took out a strange vial and sprayed a white mist at the surrounding swamp, and the muddy swamp became hard and frozen when it touched it, turning it into a trodden area.
Zhao Yuan patted his head, yes, why didn't he think of such a simple way, sure enough, this kind of mercenary who specializes in art has a way.
I saw that the whole team quickly dispersed, forming an encirclement, and when they stood in formation, Zhao Yuan was also led by five martial artists to stand in the center of the team, which was also the safest area.
Zhao Yuan looked at the five third-order martial artists who were standing around him, waiting for him, and smiled bitterly in his heart, it was the first time he had been protected as a mage, and he couldn't wait to fight the enemy hand-to-hand in the previous battles.
Such a novel experience also made Zhao Yuan feel a lot better, maybe it was the first time he entered the swamp and was not used to it, that gray-green hue made his mood very depressed, and he didn't give a good face to all kinds of care and flattery to Akuma along the way, and now the corners of his lips showed a smile.
However, at this time, Akuma was not in the mood to pay attention to Zhao Yuan's face, he looked at the ordinary quagmire in front of him as if he was facing a great enemy, took out a long sword with a red body in his hand, and held a round ball in his other hand, and threw it towards the quagmire.
I saw that the black ball crossed a parabola in the air, and accurately fell to the center of the encirclement, and the moment it touched the quagmire, the ball made a loud "bang!" sound, and the violent explosion blew up the mud out of a big crater, and the mud around the big pit slowly flowed towards the big crater, and quickly filled it up.
After a while, Akuma saw that there was still no movement in the quagmire, so he took out the same small black ball that had just exploded, but this time it was five.
He threw the balls out one by one, and each time they landed accurately in the same place, and before the surrounding mud could fill the big hole that had been blown up, another small ball exploded again, deepening the hole that had just been blown up. In this way, each explosion went deeper into the ground than the last, finally awakening the creatures that were sleeping in the mud.
Zhao Yuan looked through the crowd in front of him and saw that something was suddenly bulging in the center of the quagmire, and then, the entire quagmire set off "waves", as if there was a big octopus waving its tentacles under the quagmire.
But then, looking at the uplifted and higher and higher "quagmire" in front of him, Zhao Yuan suddenly realized that this "quagmire" was clearly a mire beast that had become countless times bigger!
I saw that the long sword in Akuma's hand suddenly ignited a fiery red flame, and the center of the sword body lit up with a blue light, which was the martial energy that Akuma injected into the sword body, he roared angrily, and slashed at the mutated mire beast in front of him, the mire beast's body was as soft as plasticine, and the long sword in Akuma's hand was pierced on it, only making its body sink a big hole inward, but there was no substantial damage.
Despite this, Akuma was still struggling to attack the mutant mire beast, don't look at him smiling in front of Zhao Yuan, as a sixth-order martial artist, Akuma, who was full of firepower, was like a flame god of war, every blow was full of explosive power and skill, and the mutant mire beast was powerless.
At this time, Zhao Yuan noticed an unusual fluctuation of magic, and he glanced around, only to find that the mercenaries in a circle were all holding a small scroll in their hands and chanting.
As the magic fluctuations became more and more distinct, the familiar aura made Zhao Yuan suddenly realize that the scroll they were activating was a sixth-order ice spell - Mizuki into frost!
This ice-based spell Zhao Yuan rarely used, because its effect was very weak and harmless. Just like its name, this magic can make water and trees freeze into popsicles quickly, but it is not so effective against people and animals, and Zhao Yuan usually does not have a chance to use it. But the mercenaries of the Leopard had an ingenuity, and the small scroll they were holding was supposed to be an enhanced version of the spell, and it had an unexpectedly good effect when applied to the mutated miremon whose body was mainly composed of mud.
After Akuma and the mutant mire beast fought for more than ten minutes, there was a sudden bone-chilling chill in the originally cold air around him, and white ice crystals faintly appeared on the ground, and the mutant mire seemed to sense that something was wrong, and its body seemed to run away as soon as it curled up, but its body suddenly froze.
"Click!" Akumar slashed at the mutated mireur with a sword, making a sound of hard objects colliding, and the mire had completely turned into a large block of ice.
"Attack it!" Akumar shouted, ignoring the smell of the place. The surrounding orcs took out their weapons and rushed to the frozen mutant miremon, and began to attack with a clang. I saw that the huge mutant mire beast kept falling earth-colored ice cubes, and its body quickly shrank by more than half, only the size of an adult, and at this moment, one of the team members suddenly shouted: "Not good!" It turned out that he was holding a magical drill weapon, so he was faster than everyone else, but when he pierced into a deep place, he felt the flexible resistance of the weapon.
"Stop! this guy's body isn't frozen, it's waiting for us to smash its shell to pieces!" the orc reminded loudly, but it was too late, and the ice in front of them suddenly shattered, and a miremiremon that was only two circles larger than a normal mire appeared in front of them.
"Stop it!" exclaimed Akuma, but it backfired, as miremons were already easy to navigate swamps, and with their appearance almost indistinguishable from a puddle of mud, and their life-saving clone skills, it was often only effective to catch it with a wide range of attacks.
In just the blink of an eye, the mutant mire beast disappeared from front of them, Akuma looked angry, he had invested heavily in this time, and spent a huge amount of money to buy an enhanced version of the sixth-order magic scroll to catch the mutant miremon, but he didn't expect it to run away.