Chapter 122: Night Whispers (I)
When night finally falls and dinner is over, it's time for action.
"Alright!" Richard clasped his hands together, attracting the attention of the mages. "As mentioned, let's continue the hunt for Old Man Jira. Gwen, Petra, how's your doing?"
"I'm ready. Gwen held up her hand, and staying busy was the best way she could stop those disgusting memories.
"My list of spells is enough," Petra replied.
"Julian?"
"We're ready. "Julian's men look very excited as they are engaged in an operation to take down a level 6 monster.
"Felicity?"
"I covered them, Master Huang. Felicity's eyes sparkled. Surprisingly, she actually acted as a member of the Xu Party. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen and unpredictable circumstances, Xu's tanker was either shipwrecked or failed to meet the leading group. They don't know if their companions are safe until the end of the dungeon.
"Not a mage, not yet," Richard quipped. "Mina, you and Petra are on the left. Gwen, you yourself stand on the right platform. Can you handle it?"
"I can. ”
"Tao, fly, come here. Leah, let them harmonize with your mana. ”
A whirlpool of water flowed around Tao and Fei. Leah's mesmerizing translucent form flew in front of the two magicians.
"Jira is awake," Leah told both sides. "Can I start?"
"Everyone! Combat Station!" Richard stood alone beside the peat bog. Others hid behind platforms made of Bayan trees made of warped wood. "Tao, fly, you can start. ”
Deep in the swamp, Old Man Gila moved.
It existed in the dungeon dimension for a long time, almost a thousand years ago, arriving with the flow of mana storms. It began to conquer the local fauna, turning them into creatures like Jira. Its first egg lay is a blue cougar, which leaves the peat bog in search of prey. The subsequent spawn is red, followed by blue, then red. Occasionally, there would be a green Gila, but they were far apart, and without humanoid and half-human contact, Old Gila would not have been able to breed proper variants of its race, thus making its bloodline aggressive.
Then, as if in response from the god of chaos, the human appeared, and Old Gila was overjoyed. Not only that, but these humans are mages!creatures in harmony with the magical energies of the universe and the elemental planes!If you're lucky, Gila's reproduction is bound to produce a supreme being in strange chance arithmetic, like a gray or black Gila.
At the same time, the primitive fauna of the plane has become its offspring, although most of them do as they please, as does the nature of chaotic reproduction. However, with enough persuasion, Old Gila persuaded some of its spawns to feed the swampy mangroves and accelerate the growth of the magical fruits that the plane originally held – fruits that could extend the lifespan of the magical creatures that consumed it.
Even though Old Gila was old, it knew it would encounter an inevitable end that even chaos could not overcome. That is why it uses its limited influence to nurture the fruits of life.
When it awoke, it understood that the guard it had set up under a mature tree was dead, and the usurping invaders had taken its reward.
"Garop! Old Gila trembles with rage, trying to catch these humanoids and infect them with its parasitic eggs.
But old Jira also knows to be careful. These humanoid invaders have more than once almost taken its life. It needs to collect a large flock of its eggs and push the tree, where it will
"Yo! Lizard Bitch!"
Old Gila was surprised to find that her thoughts had been interrupted. In front of its nose, a wave of water turned into a human form! The creature had three white stripes on its skin and a strange thing on its head that looked like a duck's beak. It was taunting Old Man Gila, tossing his limbs around in an irritating way.
"Gallop?" said Old Jira, asking to know why he was here.
"I'm here to fuck you!" the picture met Old Gila's shriveled eyes, which were still the size of a dinner plate. "Punch a bitch!"
Despite realizing that it was a hallucination, Old Gila felt a brute force connect to its jaw, slamming its head upwards into the top of the cave.
"Garop !!" Old Jira roared, causing the water to rush and blur the image.
"Yo, Fei, hand it over. ”
Another image is close to the first, this one is another humanoid.
What did I find!" the hermaphrodite-looking little figure spoke. "A vita nut!"
"Who do you think this big handsome guy belongs to?" the first picture asks, looking around.
"Gallop!" said old Gila weeping at the sight. That's his fruit! The one he's spent a century cultivating! The closest thing to ripening!
"No, it doesn't belong to anyone. The little image began to pull away from the fruit.
Suddenly, the water around Old Gila was filled with the smell of the long-awaited harvest! The rich smell of its holy fruit!The prize that Old Gila needed to prolong her life! Shockingly, it admitted that these villains must be eating the fruit now! They had just opened it! How else could it feel so strong? It must now attack these poor people! If it was lucky, it could eat the fruit before they could eat it, and it still had a chance!
With a wave of its massive tail, the Gila flew upwards and slid through the thick layers of peat, sliding through the tight crevices with the lubrication provided by the sticky exterior.
Its fruits! Its prizes! It will have its !
"It's coming!"
Li Ya appeared next to the illusory image of Fei and Tao busy tearing fruit. Between these two bickering illusions, there is a "superfluous" piece of fruit that Gwen originally hoped to keep, but now becomes a bait to lure Old Jira. Part of it is provided by Leah, whose elemental body carries delicious food down the river and deep into the earth.
The surface of the swamp swelled like an inflated balloon, and before it erupted, a foul-smelling, rotting fountain of water erupted into the air, enveloping the surroundings with a foul stench. The appearance of the red Gila is real, a giant salamander whose eyes and limbs have long shrunk from the motionless stillness of the stinking cavern.
With its exit, a strange group of Jira fauna also appeared. Lizard-like fish, frog-like lizards, from ankle-sized, sharp-toothed biters to dog-sized fish eggs, their jaws expand to hold more than half of their bodies, and they rush to Tao and Fei.
"Damn! Run!" Tao 'caught' the fruit and skimmed away with astwl, which could only be a gift.
At the same time, Fei turned to the right, distracting the little creatures, and he threw an ineffective spell at the swarm as it advanced behind Old Jira.
"Garop!" Old Gila roared frantically, feeling the fruit escape from its large nostrils. Let out a dull "Whew!" Its tail slid forward, leaning on its small, feeble limbs, towards the unfortunate humans, who it could swallow with a single flick.
As the swarm and Old Man Jira separated a little, Tao stopped and turned to face his enemy. The magician's face was pale with fear and pale with fear.
"No!" Tao winced before his inevitable death.
Old Jira's mouth was closed, and he felt like he was biting into something long, sinuous and sinuous about it. The next moment, its mouth was burned with necrotic energy. Old Jira swallowed instinctively.
"Now!"
Old Jira was beaten under the huge Bayan tree. It stared with its slime-covered head, measuring the presence of the humanoid.
Ambush! Splashed with mud. It must run away!
With a snoring of supernatural power, it spun around and slid a bend in the trail of slime, crashing into a tree, stirring up a flurry of fallen leaves. On it, a series of incantations began to rain.
As soon as Gwen felt that her reserves had dropped to half, she injected herself with mana potion. After summoning Caliban, Ariel, two shield bolts, dark tentacles, and summoning lightning, there was not enough left to keep her going.
With a hiss, Mina's delayed treatment pale yellow rapidly expanded.
When Gila devours Caliban, it crushes the lower half of the serpent, forcing Gwen to spend another part of her life force to sustain the badly injured underworld creature until it can begin its terrifying surgical excavation.
When the creature slid under the tree and tried to push backwards, Gwen and Petra knew it was, or never would be.
Let its needles be embedded in the soft mandala exterior. From above Jill, four sets of lightning bolts shot downward, scorching heat stinging its skin, tearing open the oozing surface and frying the fat dermis beneath. Then came four hollow substances, which bit into the flesh, digging out a large chunk of pink-black tissue from the barking beast's crimson exterior.
Gwen felt her vitality drop again, even though she had recently stepped up her access to Almuji's energy. A wave of vertigo surged over her body, forcing her to stand on a curved wooden platform.
"Caliban!" she ordered. Despite being suppressed by evil magic, salamanders are highly resistant to magic. If a smaller creature turns into minced meat, Old Gila is only injured and fully mobile.
It flicked its tail and bounced back towards the cracks in the peat bog, trying to escape.
Unfortunately, the Gila has been unable to escape. Richard had used Leah to squeeze the passage together and block it like a choked esophagus.
"Garop!" a loud bang echoed through the surrounding woods.
Around them, Julian and the Xu family wrestle with the waves of little Jira's creatures that keep them away from the main combatants. Occasionally, one of them would cast a spell on Gila, though everything, except for the lightning of monster hunting and the void that consumes everything, seemed to slip from its appearance, like water on a duck's back.
"Gail, push quickly!" the Gila turned to Gwen's high position, spewing a cloud of corrosive liquid.
"Richard!" Gwen was too focused on maintaining her spells to strengthen shields or affect a dimensional gate.
"Water shield!" Two layers of water covered Gwen. The first bears the brunt of the attack, while the second, a shield with a wider base, prevents any phage liquid from reaching her.
"Gwen, I can't stand the Void Spell!" Petra's voice shouted from the right. "Mina is coming out! From here, everything is lightning!"
Behind Petra, Mina was exhausted and out of breath.
"One more bolt!" Petra ordered her cousin. "More positive energy!"
"I'm doing it!" Mina let out an effort moan, her shirt soaked with sweat as she sought a second wind.
Below, the older Jira slid forward, only to encounter a group of writhing tentacles. Whips of emptiness and lightning wrapped around its torso, neck, and bulging waist, cutting through the slime and reaching for the flesh.
Another bolt of void and lightning struck, piercing through the creature's skin. Where the pockmarks created by the Void were the size of a human head, lightning opportunistically pierced the newly created wound, expanding its unstable power into Jira's organs.
"Ice hockey!"
"Stonewall!"
"Flame Ball!"
"God forbid!"
The Xu family continued to isolate the bee colony from its creator, turning the surrounding area into an area of ice and fire separated by Felicity's barrier. Petra also spares no effort to lay the pre-prepared crystal wall and protect her team from wayward creatures.
Gwen held the salamander down with her tentacles and checked Caliban's progress. Her acquaintances told her that it would soon do its terrible job.
"Empty skin!!, she cast a spell, feeling the protective layer turn her body into midnight consistency. "Richard! I need to get closer!"
"I've got you!" replied Richard from below. "Fly!Tao, mirror, now!"
His order was answered in the affirmative. As Gwen floats towards the dying Jira, two images appear beside her.
Inside Gila, the Caliban has finally found its prize, the Creature Core.
"Go!" Gwen ordered, landing right next to Jira to keep its tail from wagging its tail. Every bone in her body could be punched.
An illusory Gwen landed near its head and was immediately crushed by its stomach, while another Gwen, who appeared near its tail, was shattered by a slap and triggered a small swamp water tsunami.
Gwen felt another wave of weakness as Caliban took a pound of its flesh and invested its spending power. Caliban made something for Gila's spine that was drawn in the Void Energy like Gwen.
"Come on!" Gwen's mouth was a little too audible, frightened by the huge Jira. The feeling is like standing next to a school bus as the bus tries to turn at full speed.
Her bulletproof bolt fired another shot, completing the firing of three bullets. Her summoning Void and Lightning are equally engaged, sending out terrifying arrows of destruction from her summoning signals.
Then, Caliban tore open Gila's spine, sending the churning beast to tremble. Driven crazy by pain and pain, Jira suddenly raised her head, turned to Gwen, and twisted her body for the final body slam.
"Gwen!" Richard shouted. "Leah!
Gwen was taken off guard by the beast's sudden energy. A creature in tonnage, with a momentum far exceeding Gwen's weight of more than sixty kilograms, slammed into her non-Newtonian shield. Gwen lay on the ground and saw the faint red material of Jira shatter her shield.
Richard's water membranes opened in front of her, but they only lasted a second under the physical strength of the dying monster.
With a loud bang, the creature landed.
There was a second of goosebumps paranoia as everyone watching held their breath, but then Gwen suddenly appeared on the other side of the Gila River.
A door!