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"What the hell is that. Lina limped over to Vivien's side, picked up Vivien's feet, and repeatedly swept Vivien's wounds with the white light on her right hand, while looking at the rocky surface not far away. She still vividly remembered that the hard rock surface had become a little soft before she was kicked into the air.

"Never seen it. At this time, Elad had already heard the surviving night owl and phantom fox tell what had happened, and he also said with a shocked face, "I haven't heard of this creature. ”

Although Lina was busy treating Vivian, Vivian looked indifferent, and when she heard Elad answer, Vivien stared at Elard with strange eyes for a few seconds before silently retracting her gaze.

"It's a sludge. Standing on the edge of the mossy rocky surface with a serious expression, Pannis whispered, "One of the most terrifying killers in the wild, and the enemy of all professions except demigods. ”

"Is this the legendary Sludge Monster?" Lina cried out in surprise, "That mysterious creature whose vast majority of the contents of the Monster Atlas are unknown?"

"That's it. Pannis picked up a stick from the side and poked at the surface of the rock, but the rock that had taken a life had returned to its normal appearance, and there was nothing unusual at all.

"What the hell is going on. Catherine also walked over, giving the mercenaries room to comfort the disabled gophers and mourn the dead Shadow Wolf: "What are their characteristics, why did they suddenly become like this?" ”

"The sludge monster is a very terrifying magical beast, we are actually lucky, the encounter belongs to the small silt monster, if you encounter a large silt monster, it is estimated that one will not be able to run. Pannis sighed and said, "The Sludge Monster is like a lump of mud that has no fixed form. They often choose to live on rocky ground, first corroding the rock, corroding the rock into a deep pit, filling it with their amorphous body, and then quickly hardening the upper body surface and changing it to the same color as the environment, from the outside it looks like a rock with some moss. ”

"And then they use this camouflage to wait for their prey to come to the door?" Catherine, with her metal shin armor resisting corrosion, stepped heavily on the sludge monster, and found that it felt exactly the same as stepping on the rock: "And then they secreted corrosive fluid to attack after the prey came to the door?" ”

"It's really not that simple. "First of all, they don't secrete corrosive liquids, but high-intensity, corrosive gases that are tightly bound to the body. After deciding to attack their prey, they will emit such a gas on the surface of their bodies, and the gas will have an anesthetic effect when it corrodes, and many people don't know why they die until they die. This gas is only a few millimeters high, and it will not easily escape when it surrounds the surface of the ooze monster's body, and can quickly corrode most objects, but the time of corrosion is different. Secondly, they are not random prey, and a single prey cannot meet their nutrient replenishment, so they generally only secrete gas to attack when a large number of creatures pass above them. ”

"Insidious monsters. Lina patted Vivien's recovered feet and asked her to put on a new pair of shoes from her backpack before interjecting, "I felt their surface soften. ”

"Yes. Pannis nodded: "After launching an attack, once a prey falls, the position where the prey falls will quickly soften, swallow the prey into the body and slowly corrode and digest, and absorb the corpse fluid formed after corrosion as nourishment." The mimicry ability of this kind of demonic beast is too strong, before launching an attack, it is impossible to find it, even if it is attacked, it is difficult for the person who is attacked to detect it, fortunately, the number is relatively rare, otherwise I am afraid it will cause a lot of casualties. ”

"Then how did you find out?" Lina asked curiously, "If it weren't for your shouting, I'm afraid everyone else would have died except for the eldest sister and Dora who could support themselves with metal armor." ”

"Height. "I'm a little bit sharper than usual, I walked a few steps and I felt like my height had dropped by about a millimeter, so I felt something was wrong, I raised my foot and looked at the soles of my shoes, and then I reacted." ”

"Hehe, hehe, a millimeter. Lina rolled her eyes and laughed dryly a few times, but quickly restrained her smile, and glanced at the mercenaries who were holding a farewell ceremony not far away with regret: "It's a pity, it's still a step too late." ”

"If only I could have found out in advance. Catherine sighed, shook her head, and said, "It's a lack of experience, it seems that we have been a little too complacent recently, and we haven't experienced enough." By the way, Pennis, you mentioned earlier that if we encounter a large sludge monster, we won't be able to escape? Why? After we get out of range, will it be able to catch up?"

"Well, I won't. Pannis smiled bitterly: "Let's put it this way, the largest sludge monster that has appeared in the legend covers an area of about two hundred meters in a circular area, and they tend to wait until the prey is halfway through before they start hunting, except for the mage who can float up more than ten centimeters with water surface flotation to avoid, the rest of the people, how many of them can run out of a distance of two hundred meters without touching the ground in a few seconds?"

"I see. Catherine stared at the monsters pretending to be rocks at her feet, "Is there a way to kill them?"

"Prolonged scorching or scorching flames can weaken them. "But if you want to kill them, you have to burn all the parts of their bodies, and if you leave a small part, they can regenerate," Pannis said. Of course, regeneration will take a heavy toll on their reminders and abilities. However, I advise you not to, when it is scorched or burned, it will emit a strong corrosive gas, unless you can stably control the flame for a long time from a distance of tens of meters, otherwise don't think about it. ”

"Vivien, can it work?" Catherine said to Pannis through gritted teeth after receiving Vivien's affirmative answer, "Never underestimate a woman's vindictiveness, we must make it pay." ”

Pannis shrugged with a wry smile, walked slowly to the position of the mercenaries who were bidding farewell to the shadow wolf, and beckoned to the three girls: "Just come here, safe distance." ”

"Wait for death, damn it. Catherine and Lina walked over with Vivien in their arms, and Vivian's voice was cold and cold: "Pennis, help mark the specific range of the Sludge Monster." ”

Pannisy casually popped a few pebbles and landed on the rocky surface: "That's all for it, and the center of the sludge monster should be in the middle." But it doesn't matter if the range is not covered, there is no mimicry function inside the sludge monster, and the protective color cannot be changed at will, so it is easy to identify, as long as you remember, the green objects in the pit will be burned directly. ”

"Good. Vivian snorted coldly, her left hand secretly clasped a spar, the five fingers of her right hand flicked continuously, and a large number of orange-red crystal bottles continued to fly in the sky like marionettes, one bottle after another was dumped on the surface of the rock, and the liquid with strong fire attribute energy was directly splashed on the ground into a standard six-pointed star pattern, the range covered by the six-pointed star far exceeded the range of the Penis logo, and also exceeded the range of the appearance of 'moss', and the empty crystal bottle automatically flew back, the whole process was indescribably strange.

"It's ...... magic?" said Pannis, surprised, "You still have such ancient magic?"

magic is a magic that has been passed down for a long, long time, but it is not very advanced. This kind of magic first originated from folk artists, and its function was to manipulate puppets to perform puppet shows. After a while, a research mage became interested in this magic and studied it further, turning the earliest puppet manipulation into magic, and changing its function from puppet manipulation to manipulating different objects at the same time with a large number of magic threads. Of course, this is only a superficial function, and the real function of this magic is actually to directly manipulate the battle yourself, and use puppets or even some corpses to fight for yourself.

Unfortunately, although the idea is very good, the actual situation is very disappointing to the developers, and if you want to let the puppet or corpse move freely, it requires far more magic threads than manipulating the puppet to perform a puppet show, which is not at all something that a normal mage can afford, and at the same time, it is also a very severe test of mental strength and magic reserves. It can even be said that if a mage can control a combat puppet normally, then he can completely destroy ten such puppets at the same time with the same consumed mental power and magic power, so this kind of magic is classified as one of the most useless magic, and only some experimental maniacs still use this kind of magic to improve the speed of their experiments. And when spells such as the plural mage's hand were developed, even experimentatic maniacs no longer used primitive magic, and this primitive magic was completely swept into the depths of history and no one cared about it.

It was for this reason that Pannis was so surprised when he saw Vivien using magic tricks. Vivien was also stunned, obviously she didn't expect Pannis to be able to recognize this technique, but she could only smile perfunctorily at Pannis, her right hand was constantly drawing in the air, and there were words in her mouth.

"What is this doing?" said Dora after saying goodbye to her departed companion, noticing the adventurers' actions.

"Revenge. Vivien finished the final chanting and snapped her fingers, and a large amount of magic power immediately erupted from Vivien's body, surging along the thick lines drawn in advance with the same liquid on the ground to the circle dozens of meters away. In an instant, even if they were dozens of meters apart, everyone felt the heat emitted by the magic circle.

The heat was so high that from a distance, even the air was a little distorted, but there was not a trace of flames, not even the dead leaves that fell on the rocky surface, but simply became dry and black, and finally turned to ashes, as if there was no such thing as burning in that area.

"Thank you. Dora bowed to Vivien with a straight face before turning to Catherine and saying, "Senior sister, come here, there is something to discuss." ”