Chapter 67: The Demon Lovers of the Swamp
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The water ripples are approaching quickly, and judging from the lines, if it is a fish, it must not be small. Who knows if it will come out and bite off its head.
Kaye pulled the Emperor off the side of the ship, hearing a creaking overhead, and a ranger with his bow drawn and aimed underwater.
The stuff in the water swam to the side of the boat, spun around, and then it was out of sight. The three of them held their breath when suddenly a miserable white hand reached out from under the water and slammed into the boat, and Asherwall gasped. "Water ghosts?"
Apparently not, the ranger put away his bow and jumped down to hold the hand, and a young woman, Tia, was dragged up. She looked like a half-grown child, very immature, draped in a soaked garment, and panting.
Strangely, even if you try to swim, you won't get such water lines, and it looks like an animal like a fish. Kaye was shaken and guessed that it might be a druid.
The girl glanced curiously at the two humans, then anxiously said something to the boat ranger while pointing to the river on the back of her back. The ranger's face turned grim and he whistled loudly, and all the elves in the fleet walked out of the cabin. The ranger shouted orders, the ships turned their rudders and lowered their sails, and the elves' faces were not good-looking.
Kaye and Asherwall looked at each other, even if they didn't understand Tiya—something was wrong with the river ahead. Things were more severe than they had expected, and the envoys, who had been tired all day and were sleeping deeply, were called up and asked to disembark.
Many people thought that this was an elf who wanted to turn his face and use the envoys and the emperor to pay tribute to the war dead, and the scene was tense. Fortunately, Asherwal's loud shouts eased the atmosphere, and the envoys were reluctant to put away their weapons. The ship docked, the process can be described as hasty, there is no trestle pier, you can only jump directly into the shallows, and the boots are filled with water.
When they heard that the elves had let them into the dark woods, the nobles stopped and insisted on an explanation. Even Asherv's words were useless, and the weakness of the emperor's lack of prestige was exposed.
"If you want to die here, whatever. Kaye spoke coldly, quieting the scene, and then pulled the Emperor into the shade. The authority of the emperor comes from the army and the system, but in the Tiya Forest is not as intimidating as Kaye's mystery, the rest of the people look at each other, the guards hurry to follow, and then the servants, the nobles have no choice but to walk over.
One foot deep and one foot shallow more than ten meters away from the river bank. Behind them there was the sound of large creatures lapping the water, and everyone looked back at the moonlight, only to see a blunt-tipped pitted plank diagonally breaking through the water, and then the plank grew larger and longer, comparable to their boat. The envoys looked at it in bewilderment, and then suddenly realized, and cold sweat was dripping - it was the palate of some kind of creature.
The hideous troll shows half of its body in the water, similar to a crocodile. The scaly back and the wide, huge kiss, but this was too big, and I saw this guy bite the most advanced ship with a gentle movement. There was a click, and it deflated like biting a biscuit, and the crocodile had no effort at all. One by one, the humans of the envoy swallowed, and Asherwall whispered, "In the valley of the Thorin River...... That's it, right?"
Kaye didn't reply. He was depressed, he had been on a boat twice in his life, how could he have encountered such a thing every time? Could it be that he had the cursed constitution of "if you ride a boat, you will be destroyed by a water monster"? But this crocodile is in terms of size and temperament. Much better than the last Titan Siege Crab.
Just as he was thinking, the female druid who had swam over pointed to another piece of water, and another crocodile appeared. As soon as the two terrible creatures came into contact, they immediately clashed! The calm river exploded in all directions, and the empty boat shattered like a leaf on a collision, and the sound was incredibly loud. In addition to the fierce collision of long kisses, there were four anaconda-like things whipping at each other, which were tentacles growing from the corners of the lips of the two crocodiles.
A boat was whipped like a fly and smashed into the center of the crowd, causing chaos as everyone tried to flee the riverbank.
After running for a while before stopping, the elves told the envoys to stop, and then ran away again.
The means of transport were gone, they were in the dark forest, and they did not want to return to the river. After the negotiation, the elf was very helpless and said that he could only camp for the night, and a team would pick him up the next day.
The guards had no choice but to light a bonfire to prevent the beasts, and ran too hastily to bring nothing but important texts, so they could only lie on the ground. The nobles cursed in a low voice, believing in extreme that this was premeditated by the elves. The body temperature and smell attract mosquitoes and buzz around incessantly. The underage druid girl was strangely revealed, and Kaye didn't have a single bug around her. The mosquitoes smelled the weak sour smell on Kaye's body and bypassed it directly. Druid doesn't mean insecticide, she was also bitten enough, and subconsciously leaned towards Kaye.
The two looked at each other, and the girl had a vigilant expression of "if you dare to mess around, I will call", which was the same as Mina. Kaye whispered, "It's a swamp demon in the river?"
The little druid was startled and looked him up and down.
Kaye continued, "Isn't that thing supposed to live in a swamp and have its own territory, how can it be messed around?"
The girl said in a stumbling lingua franca, "How do you know?"
"I'm smart. Kaye smiled, the elf had no scheming.
The girl cut through and said, "Originally, we had lured all the swamp demons of the main channel to the excavated wetlands, separated them from vegetation and dry soil, but this one turned the dirt into water and ran out and broke into other areas. This animal can't be appeased even by the priest of Candace, it's so ferocious that it crashes head-on into the fleet, and if I hadn't warned me in advance, you humans would have been rations......"
The druids rambled, and Kaye recalled the description of the Swamp Demon in the Biobook, a giant magical beast with two tentacles at the corners of its mouth to compensate for the problem of agility, and it was spell-like. You can turn the waterfront into a swamp with [Roushijutsu], and you can also use [Water Walking]. He thought about the scene of the crocodile running on the surface of the water with its disproportionately short legs, it was funny and terrifying.
"How long have you been a druid?"
"It's been less than two years, but I'm the best at shapeshifting......" The girl was smug as the ranger shouted at her in the distance. She realized that she had said too much, with an expression of "you are a bad person", gritted her teeth and walked away.
"It was lovely. Asherwall leaned over and joked.
Kaye rolled his eyes, "You mean I'm going to pursue her?"
"Ah, then I'm afraid you're going to turn into flower fertilizer. The Emperor smiled.
"You seem to be happy, don't forget that we are more wolf bèi now. ”
"It's always fun, seeing all kinds of strange sights and animals in a strange and mysterious land, which is an adventure I've always wanted from this background. Asherwall bared a mouthful of large white teeth.
Kaye slept with his head covered, unable to figure out who the boy was.
The envoys had a terrible night, and the next morning some people became ill, diarrhoea and dehydration, and some were sucked by leeches and became anemic. The elves have disdain and helplessness, after all, the mistake is on their side, and if someone in the envoy dies of illness, Garlanord's reputation will be stained. The group had no choice but to go to the nearest outpost to find medicine.
Kaye wanted to keep talking, but the druid girl had been avoiding him since last night. The little mage sighed, he was loved by everyone in Razor City, from the old lady to the baby, he could please him, and his ability to communicate with him in the past few years had regressed in studying spells. On the other side, Asherwall and the Ranger leader picked up the conversation.
The ranger's face was cold and poisonous: "...... Only dead humans can be trusted. ”
"Perhaps. Asherwall disagreed, "But the truth is, there will be no large-scale military operation from the elves for at least ten years, so how can you rescue your captive compatriots?"
The ranger's eyes were even colder.
"Don't get me wrong, this is not a threat, before the peace talks began, I gave an order to stop the slave trade, the existing Tiya people were bought by the royal family, and those who refused to sell were forbidden to be humiliated and abused. ”
These words made the ranger slightly moved, and said, "Captured our compatriots and now talk about remedy, thinking that this can erase the past?"
"No, but we have to see the future, only the two countries can work together to save more Tia, don't you want them to go back to the forest? ”
The ranger's eyes were in a trance, and he immediately became vigilant, glaring at Asherwall, while Emperor Essien looked at him sincerely.
The elf was about to speak, when he suddenly let out a cry of pain and his left knee went limp. He shouted, "Conifer!"
Asherwall was startled when he saw a strange thing jumping down from a tree, about the height of a calf, covered in emerald green with stingers, and two arms like praying mantises, which looked like a large insect walking upright. The little eyes of the coniferous man rolled, and the thorns on his body flew towards the ranger's face. Asherwall pulled his hand to save the Ranger from a disfiguring attack, only to receive a few stitches to his body.
At the same time, more conifers jumped out, completely ignoring humans and viciously attacking elves. The nobles almost clapped their hands, but as the number of coniferous people grew, it turned into a chaotic war, and the emperor ordered an attack.
The coniferous enemies now spread from bows and arrows to swords, and soon scattered and fled, coming and going like the wind.
The needles weren't deep, and they weren't poisonous, but the tiny barbs hurt to pull out, and the ranger cleaned them up with his teeth in the crooks of his knees. He looked at Emperor Essien with complicated eyes, and if it weren't for that pull, his eyes would have been blinded. As the team continued to march, Asherwall could see that the elves had something to say. "Is there anything I can do?"
"I ...... There was a cousin named Milliel, who was taken captive fifteen years ago......"
"If she's in Essinne, I'll do my best to get home safely, with my crown," Asherwall said.
The Ranger leader did not let his guard down, but the hostility was noticeably weakened. Not only did he have a sentence to speak to the emperor, but he also took care of the body of the envoys and rested twice. Kaye smiled secretly, Asherwall just had a temperament that infects others.
Soon after seeing the outpost, Kaye frowned, this place is not suitable for stationing, it doesn't look like a post. The Ranger leader asked them to stay outside the outpost and no one was to approach them, and then sent someone inside to get their medicine. With a flick of Kaye's finger, the slime's splinter floated on the elf, and upon entering the outpost, he saw a scene of astonishment. (To be continued!)
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