The red wolf felt himself soaked in the warm water, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Immediately after, he felt a soft force lift himself up, and his hot skin suddenly came into contact with the cold air, and he instinctively shivered, and his eyes opened suddenly.

Two familiar faces greeted, and he murmured, "Mary and Dina, are you guys?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the sensitive and suspicious fierce warrior sat up suddenly, although his consciousness was not yet fully awake, but with the cautious habits he had developed over the years, he quickly and covertly looked around, and found himself in a small wooden cabin, sitting on a wooden bed with his whole body **, and a large bathtub next to him, the water in it was steaming, and exuded a strange smell of herbs. Obviously, he had just been soaking in the tub, no wonder it felt like a hot spring.

The red wolf froze, frowned and asked his sword-wielding maid, "I...... What happened?"

Two sword-wielding maids smiled softly and sweetly at the man, gently pressing him to the bed, their four slender hands massaging his muscles and bones.

Mary and Dina have undergone three body reshapings, and their posture and appearance are all first-class, the room is hot and hot, the air is humid and hot, their clothes are light, their snow-white feet are bare, and the spring light looms when they lean over, which is particularly attractive.

The red wolf was restless and reached out to grab their thin waists, but was blocked back. Mary, with a round face, showed her dimples to her partner and smiled, "I just woke up and wanted to do bad things." ”

Dina, with her brown hair and green eyes, said softly, "My dear, my master has commanded that he will summon you when you are fully awake." As for what you have experienced, you must recall it yourself, and we must not mislead. Now, we're using secret methods to help you regain your spirits, and you'll have to bear with it. ”

The two maids began to rub the red wolf's body with their small hands, sometimes pressing heavily on certain parts and twisting the tendons of the membrane. This technique is not a simple massage, it is a hammer forging method created by Victor according to the secret technique of massage and forging inherited by the York family, combined with the theory of spiritual blood, which is specially used to stimulate people's inner potential and spirit.

Mary and Dina's technique was skillful, and as the hammer forging method unfolded in a hurry, the sensations of pain, soreness, numbness, and itching went straight to the bone marrow, and then transmitted from the spine to the brain, and the red wolf gritted his teeth and endured it bitterly, and the muscles and tendons that were pounded contracted instinctively. Fortunately, the sword-wielding maid was three times more powerful than an ordinary person, so she was able to perform the hammer forging method on the fierce warrior with a strong physique.

Gradually, the red wolf felt the warmth inside and outside his body, but his mind was cold and sober, and the lust and restlessness brought by the secret method of Portanos were all dissipated, and his experience of encountering monsters was also recalled.

After the massage and beating, the red wolf was refreshed, and the sword-wielding maid dressed him neatly before hurriedly leaving the cabin.

He went outside and found it a semi-permanent camp. Strong soldiers cut down logs in the forest, set up wooden huts and watchtowers on the banks of a shallow river, and the wooden shelves of the camp were covered with hides and dried meat. The soldiers even built a drying ground, and piled up all the nuts, fruits, mushrooms, and wild vegetables they had collected on top of it to prepare for the manufacture of dried fruits and vegetables.

It seems that the expeditionary force intends to spend the winter here. However, the elite warriors of the Randall family can easily build a camp, and a semi-permanent camp like this can also be said to give up, anyway, the last thing in the forest is wood.

In fact, the red wolf remembers this place, to be precise, he has an impression of the river. More than ten days ago, they had crossed the shallow river and entered the Black Forest on the other side of the river before they encountered the terrifying and strange humanoid monster.

Now the expeditionary force retreated from the Black Forest on the opposite bank to the river. The red wolf had an ominous premonition: could it be because of the monsters in the Black Forest that His Highness Randall chose to return to the river and camp the same way?

The largest wooden house in the middle of the camp must have been the residence of His Highness Randall, and Renault and Shaq were guarding the door, and when they saw the red wolf approaching, they took the initiative to open the wooden door and motioned for him to enter.

The Red Wolf entered the wooden door and saw His Highness Randall, Lord Nelson, Lady Charlotte, and Father Dane sitting around a simple wooden table, seemingly ready to discuss something. Without much thought, he stepped forward and bowed half-kneeling, and said respectfully, "Venerable master, your loyal servant Wolf answers your call. ”

The flattering greeting is the usual style of the red wolf, Victor smiled, and said, "Red wolf, it seems that you are recovering well, do you know what happened to you?"

The red wolf lowered his head and replied, "My lord, I remember it all. Three days ago, Brandon and I encountered an unkillable monster in the Black Forest, and when I tried to lure it away, it used some kind of supernatural power on me...... I felt a chill spread from my back to my whole body, my mind froze, I didn't seem to be interested in anything, and I had only sadness and despair in my heart. I saw the monster approaching me, but I just didn't want to move...... No, I mean I didn't have any thoughts in my head at the time. ”

He was silent for two seconds, and then said with palpitations: "That feeling, it's like I'm sliding into a dark and cold abyss...... I've become a dead man?"

Then, he took a deep breath and said in confusion, "Then, Portanos awoke from my body, and I watched in the dark abyss as He manipulated my body to quickly escape from the monster...... I never thought I could run that fast, until I ran far, far away, and then the speed gradually slowed down. Brandon then led someone to catch up with me, and he asked me what was wrong, but Portanos was furious and manipulated my body to threaten Brandon not to come close. ”

He said ashamedly, "Brandon and I seem to have done something and broke his ribs...... I swear it wasn't my intention, it was all Portanos' doing. Brandon and a few brothers joined forces to subdue me and carry me back with a stick, and Reverend Dain cast a magic spell to make me, oh no, quiet Portanos. I entered the state of cultivating the secret method, and I didn't wake up until today. ”

Victor and Dane exchanged glances and said to the red wolf, "Well, you stand up and speak." ”

"Yes. The red wolf stood up from the rough wooden floor, bowed solemnly to Pastor Dain, and said humbly, "Praise the Lord of the Supreme Radiance, and thank the Lord Priest for saving my soul." ”

Dane, dressed in a linen robe, nodded and said reservedly, "Your devotion has been rewarded by my lord's protection of the Lamb and the dispelling of darkness...... Of course, you also have to thank yourself for practicing the secret method of Portanos diligently, otherwise you will not be able to wait for the salvation of the Lord and have been dragged into the dark abyss by the forces of evil. ”

The red wolf said yes again and again, and Nono asked, "Master Reverend, how is Brandon's injury? I really didn't mean to hurt him, I was like a beast at the time." ”

Dane smiled, "Brandon is fine, he took people out hunting." But he was angry about being injured by you, and said that when you return to normal, he will compare with you again. ”

The red wolf smiled bitterly: "He should beat me up and get angry." If I was beaten too badly by Brandon, I asked the priest to heal me. ”

Nelson looked the red wolf up and down, and asked with great interest: "Brandon is a mid-level bronze knight who ignites the fire of the heart, I also wonder how you can hit him without realizing it until he vomits blood, if it weren't for the help of 6 family warriors by the side, it is estimated that Brandon would be in danger." ”

The red wolf thought about it seriously, frowned and muttered, "I don't know what's going on...... But after going through this incident, I found that I had made great progress in cultivating the Mystic Method of Portanos, and the Mythical Three-Headed Lizard Visualization had become vivid in my mind, and it might not be long before I was able to cultivate the fifth stage of the Mystic Method. ”

Nelson's eyes lit up, he stood up, and said excitedly, "Oh, what else is going on? I ...... it."

"Shut up and sit down. ”

Victor stopped Nelson, squinted at him, and said coldly, "Do you want to imitate the red wolf and try the natural power of the undead monster?" ”

Seeing that his master was angry, Nelson had no choice but to sit down and smile at Dane with a little flattery.

Victor turned to the Fierce Warrior and said, "Red Wolf, you have encountered danger, but you are lucky, both the power of the mind and the power of the bloodline have improved. We still have to stay here for a while, that wooden house is yours, you concentrate on cultivating the secret method of Portanos, and stabilize the fifth stage of the secret method as soon as possible, which can directly increase your lifespan. ”

The red wolf was overjoyed, bowed down and said, "Thank you master, I will definitely cultivate the secret method of Portanos and improve my strength to serve the master." ”

"Let's go down. ”

When the red wolf left the wooden house, Victor knocked on the table and said with emotion: "The secret method of Portanos will indeed strengthen the cultivator's animal instinct, but I didn't expect it to be able to restrain the innate power of undead creatures. The red wolf is considered lucky, but the others should not joke with their lives, if it weren't for Dane's timely use of magic to appease the restlessness of the red wolf's soul, he would either turn into a complete beast or die of exhaustion of potential. Right now, the expeditionary force only has one high-ranking priest, Dane, and don't expect him to save everyone in time. ”

Victor paused, and then said, "What's more, those undead creatures in the forest, the expeditionary force still needs Dane's magical power to destroy them. ”

Three days ago, the expeditionary force captured the unknown monster encountered by the scouts on the left flank, and after repeated tests, they finally figured out some of its characteristics. Since the core of the monster is a humanoid skull with ancient runes on it, it is obviously not a monster from nature, but some kind of half-undead artificially created by man.

Why is it called a half-undead?

Because this particular monster has undead properties, it also has biological characteristics that distinguish it from traditional undead - eating and growing.

Victor included this half-undead in a new species of monsterology, named the undead.

There is a new piece in his knowledge puzzle.

Ooze Trolls, large undead creatures of the Gold Tier, possess undead traits, creature traits, semi-elemental traits, dark realms, and despair sights.

Undead Traits: Ooze Trolls are immune to almost any form of physical damage, are resistant to fire, freeze, and toxin damage, and have high immunity to psychic and elemental damage.

There are currently three ways to kill a Ooze Troll, first, by slicing its body into pieces to prevent them from gathering towards the core skull, and after about 16 hours, its fragments will wither. But even so, the core skull of the undead troll will not die, but its power will be weakened to the extreme.

Secondly, a large amount of fire oil is poured into the undead troll and incinerated non-stop, completely reducing its body tissue to ashes. In the same way, its core skeleton will not die due to its body being burned by flames, frozen to pieces, or corroded and melted by venom, but still have a chance to regain form and strength through its biological traits. The breath of the four dragon maids is incredibly powerful, and it can quickly take out the body of the undead troll, but this is not a good idea, because the dragon maid is also a big burden for the dragon maid.

At the end of the day, the best way to kill a Ooze Troll is to break its core skull, and Victor uses Wind Elemental Sense to locate the core skull, which can kill in one hit. Others don't have it so easy to kill the ooze troll, as its skull moves around inside its body, and the only way to find it is to cut the ooze troll into pieces or incinerate its body.

Luckily, the ooze trolls are terrified of Dane's radiant magic, which can purify them with holy fire, exorcism, and even the most rudimentary holy light.

Creature traits: Ooze trolls exhibit the ability to eat and grow creatures, and have simple intelligence. It is particularly eager to hunt alienated creatures, followed by natural creatures, but has no interest in alchemical creatures. The more creatures a Ooze Troll absorbs, the larger its body will be, and its intelligence will grow. Of course, their intelligence is limited to combat skills and hunting skills, and they are basically stupid people who can't even "one plus one equals two", even more stupid than a fishman.

Semi-elemental trait: The Ooze Troll is capable of changing three forms, it has no blood, muscles, bones, or internal organs, and no lethal damage, which is a very obvious elemental trait. Its first form is a wriggling ooze covered in mushrooms and moss, which seems to survive as long as a plant, but Victor thinks it's also a disguise. The troll in the form of ooze automatically envelops creatures that come close to it, and forest animals that want to taste mushrooms and moss become its prey.

The second form of the Ooze Troll is a 3.8-meter-tall humanoid form that can hunt actively. When it encounters a strong opponent, it will enter the third combat form, and its body will condense to 3 meters, and it will have super strength, super tenacity, and super speed. The only people who can crush it in battle are Victor, Caligula and the four dragon maids, and Nelson may only be able to protect himself against the ooze trolls in their combat form.

Unless Priest Dain attaches the Holy Fire to his weapons, then the warriors of the Expeditionary Force will be able to purify the Golden-tier ooze trolls.

This is fundamentally a kind of restraint at the level of law.

As a result, Pastor Dane now has a burst of self-confidence, and his position in the Expeditionary Force has skyrocketed. With the exception of Victor himself and the alchemy creatures, everyone was polite and flattering to him.

In fact, this is normal, after all, Dane represents the strongest person in the church, the Holy Spirit pastor, and the glorious acolyte, Father Miller, and he highlights the role of the high clergy, and deserves equal respect.

Dark Realm: Combat Slime Trolls can spread out a two-meter radius of the Dark Realm on the ground, and the life that falls into the Dark Realm will be negatively affected by the opposite of the Radiant Divine Arts, and will rapidly age, lose spirit, and become sluggish. Because the Ooze Troll has a realm, Victor determines that it is a Golden-tier undead.

Desperate Sight: The pale flames in the coated eye sockets of the ooze troll inflict unique psychic damage on the target, depriving him of thoughts, emotions, and even survival instincts. The victim's heart is filled with despair, and it seems that he is transforming towards the undead.

This talent is completely ineffective against alchemy creatures, and the alchemy dragon lizard was confronted by the wandering ooze trolls, and fought each other for a long time, and finally the alchemy dragon lizard was still consumed alive by the ooze trolls.

When natural life faces the sight of despair, it depends on the willpower of the individual, the strong-willed knight can obviously resist despair, and the fierce warrior Red Wolf is much worse than Brandon, fortunately, he practiced the secret method of Portanos, and the sub-personality of the mythical three-headed lizard automatically awakened in the case of the silence of the main consciousness, not only allowing the red wolf to escape, but also a blessing in disguise, raising a total of nine visualization maps to the fifth stage.

The Ooze Trolls have ancient runes on their core skull, and they are certainly unnatural, meaning that the Ooze Trolls have other origins and may not be the only undead creatures.

In order to prevent an encounter with the undead, Victor ordered the expeditionary force to withdraw from the Black Forest and return to the river to camp and recuperate. He himself took Mei Wen to reconnoiter the enemy in the Black Forest, and found four more undead creatures of the same type one after another. However, they are nowhere near as powerful as the first Ooze Trolls, with two still crawling on the ground. But they all have core skulls, and they're all Inhuman skulls.

Victor could not recognize the origin of the skull, and the only thing he could think of was the Assyrians.

Placing the five skulls on the table one by one, Victor pointed at them and said, "In terms of color, it is the oldest, and the ooze troll is the most powerful, but it will not be more than 500 years old. The other four core skulls, I judge them to be 200 years, 150 years, 60 years, and 30 years old. Strength, silver level, bronze level...... Muddy, muddy. ”

His Highness Randall said something funny, and everyone laughed. Ordinary ooze monsters can only bully forest animals, they have no terrible natural strength, and their movement speed is particularly impressive, so they do not pose a threat to the expeditionary force.

Victor continued, "The mud reveals the most information, in addition to skulls, there are also pieces of clothing and decorative animal bones, which are not digested by the mud from the same civilization. The skull fracture has almost the same cuts with a sharp weapon, indicating that the victim was beheaded and made into an undead creature. ”

Charlotte nodded and said: "I have read the notes of the ancestors of Trigovar, the paladin recorded that the witch king of the Assyrian Empire held a large-scale blood sacrifice, beheaded more than 600 adult Assyrian males at a time, strung their heads on long wooden poles, and the blood that flowed gathered into a pool of blood, and the warriors of the Assyrian Empire jumped into the pool of blood and mutated into a giant monster more than 3 meters high, which is not only infinitely powerful, but also has a strong regenerative ability. These Assyrian trolls were the backbone of the Witch King's fight against the ant colony. ”

"However, the Assyrian trolls are still flesh and blood, and they will still be killed by Ant-Man, unlike the ooze trolls. If there's one thing in common, it's the skull...... Trigovar's notes state that the Assyrians resembled humans, with a small number of scales on their necks and limbs, and their canine teeth were hollow and naturally secreted venom, somewhat like snakes. ”

The canines of these skulls are also hollow, indicating that they are Assyrians. What puzzles me is that the Assyrian Empire should have died long ago. More than 1,500 years ago, the Paladin, the ancestor of Trigovar, destroyed the altar of the Assyrians, causing the Ant Clan to attack the most important temple of the Assyrian Empire. And the ooze monsters we captured, some of the owners of their core skulls have only been dead for 30 years. ”

Nelson shook his head and said, "The death of the empire does not mean that everyone is dead, the Assyrians will always run away." Their descendants may live in the western part of the Black Forest. ”

Charlotte pondered for a moment and said, "There is also a possibility that the Assyrians were enslaved by some kind of being. ”

"It's the resurrected ancient devil!" Dane said with a feverish look in his eyes, "The Supreme Lord has guided us here, and it is our responsibility to destroy the devil, just as the priest broke the devil's altar 1,500 years ago, we must also eliminate the threat brought by the ancient devil to the glorious kingdom." ”

Ever since Dan easily purified the two ooze monsters with Holy Light, his spirit has become extremely excited, and Charlotte looks at him like a madman, but still said euphemistically: "The mission of the Randall Expeditionary Force is to scout the Ant-Man Lair, and the revived ancient devil is probably not something we can handle, after all, there is only one high-ranking priest in the team. My opinion is that the expeditionary force should avoid the Black Forest ahead, find the ant nest first, complete the reconnaissance mission, and wait for us to return to the territory, and then report the matter of the devil and the undead to the Holy See, and the Radiant Church will organize the clergy to crusade against the root of evil. ”

Charlotte first and foremost ensures Victor's safety, and is not at all willing to risk her beloved master. Dane could understand her concerns, his redemptive faith and the sense of mission of the clergy had filled his heart, and most importantly, he now believed that Miller, the Radiant Attendant, had entrusted him with a mission to destroy the resurrected ancient demons.

Dane was eager to take out Master Miller's Relic Crystal and tell Charlotte and Nelson out loud that he had brought the Church's top-notch magical power and that he didn't need to ask for any more Church reinforcements to deal with the Ancient Devil. But Mistress Miller did not reveal his identity, and Dane did not dare to reveal the secrets of the gods, so he had to rely on his temperament and explain to Charlotte:

"Lady Randall, if the devil could make undead creatures out of the skulls of Assyrians, he might have done the same cruel thing to humans. The devil is a bigger threat than an ant plague, and we cannot turn a blind eye. In fact, we are in contact with the undead, the whereabouts of the Randall Expeditionary Force have been exposed, and the devil may not let us go. ”

Charlotte said lightly: "That's not necessarily now, we can control our time, right?"

"Enough. Victor spoke to stop Charlotte and Dane's argument, and said with a calm expression: "What to do, I will depend on the situation." Emerson is using his sorcery to control the Falcon to probe the roots of the undead...... He seems to have found his target, and the outcome may not be good. ”

Dain paused, got up and ran to the door, where he saw Emerson hurrying over.

The wizard's steps staggered, his face pale and bloodless, as if he was seriously ill. Dane threw a heroic spell around a recovery spell directly at him, held the wizard's arm, and asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?

Imerson smiled gratefully, shook his head and said, "I'm fine, I terminated the wisdom guidance in time, the forest falcon I controlled was killed by a monster, but I'm okay...... I, I was scared. ”

"Master, I've found the root of the undead. Emerson broke free from the priest's support and walked into the cabin, turning to Victor with a sad face, "A ooze monster...... A super-large ooze monster, the size of half a Pinghu Fort!"