CHAPTER XXIV

"I never thought I'd go and visit a sludge monster one day. Looking at the gray swamp that had already come into view in the distance, Sui Xiong only felt a little funny.

Yonir is a mutated ooze monster that inhabits a large gray swamp. As a famous legendary monster in the Ash Forest, it has a unique appearance and a maverick character, and is full of "different painting styles" style.

Sui Xiong flew a little closer and saw it. It was a huge puddle of mud, crawling in the middle of the swamp. It was swarthy, shiny black, with a metallic sheen that the mud should never have, and the swamp beneath its body exuded a strange aura, neither rancid nor vicious, not even poisonous, but like ...... Hunger.

Sui Xiong had heard about Yonier, a legendary monster powerful and gluttonous, but with a strange recipe - it didn't eat any known living creatures, and it had no interest in food, vegetables, fish, and meat, and the only thing it was interested in was bones.

What's even more amazing is that under the ash forest, there are endless bones buried. So much so that every night, a large number of skeletons will appear, frantically attacking any living creatures around them.

So during the day, Yonir slept lazily on the floor, and when it was dark and hungry, he would scatter into several sludge monsters and attack on all sides, sweeping up all the skeletons he could find.

Thanks to it, in the depths of this ash forest, there is a safe zone where there is no skeleton activity. Many creatures lived here, and some of them were wise enough to revere the giant mud monster as a patron saint and build an altar to it in the swamp where it usually rests. Acquire the bones of Warcraft as sacrifices.

The main source of these sacrifices is Dragon Roar Town.

As a dragon roar town that uses hunting monsters as its main source of income. Of course, there will be no shortage of bones of Warcraft. The intelligent creatures who believed in Yonir acquired a variety of bones to sacrifice, and eventually discovered that the Sludge Monster Patronus had a very simple and simple requirement for sacrifices—the bigger the bones, the better. The bigger it is, the more it likes it.

So they set their sights on those large demonic beasts, so that the hunters in Dragon Roar Town have developed a habit of hunting large demonic beasts, even if it is a little hard and troublesome, they have to dismantle their bones back, or directly drag them back entirely.

To be honest, those creatures were so poor that they had to rely on Yonir to live, so they couldn't afford any decent wealth. But the hunters in Dragonroar Town are mostly a group of hospitable people, as long as they don't cause too much trouble for themselves. They are willing to help others.

Not only that, but there are also forces that try to help Yonir, from time to time to stuff some money into the hunters and ask them to help those people.

Among them, there is a snowflake with the pseudonym "Extreme Cold Tyrant".

So even if the followers of Yonir were so poor that they could only trade wood and some ore that was not rare, they were always able to exchange a lot of things to support themselves.

As he approached Yonier, Sui Xiong slowly lowered his altitude. Avoid provoking hostility from the other party. But he was clearly overthinking, and the mud monster in the sun lay in the swamp that was almost completely frozen, lazily basking in the sun, not moving. Completely oblivious to his arrival.

Instead, a few gray sapient creatures on the ground took up their weapons and took a defensive posture.

Sui Xiong carefully examined the creatures who believed in Yonir, and they looked quite similar to humans. But the surface of the body is covered with grayish-black ash. This layer of ash has special magical powers and is able to maintain body temperature very well. So that they can live normally in this ice and snow.

Their lower limbs are somewhat short, and their upper limbs are very long. It looks weird, and although the head also has a structure similar to the eyes and mouth, there are no eyeballs to be seen, only two surging mud masses, which is very weird.

Of course, this is not what normal creatures should have, in fact, they only change into their current form when they are close to Yonir. When they move away from Yonir, they take on a different form - most commonly, wild people covered in thick fur.

Some powerful mages have seized this wild man to study, but found that their bodies and bloodlines are not significantly different from human beings in nature. The reason for this bizarre phenomenon is that they are too close to Yonir and are affected.

In the vicinity of the legendary behemoth, the "world" itself has been distorted into what it is accustomed to. The intelligent beings who inhabit its vicinity have also been twisted by its power, resulting in strange changes.

These sapient beings are not strong, not strong enough to resist this distortion, so they simply cannot detect their own changes, and it seems to them that no matter how close or far away they are from Yonir, they are still the same, nothing has changed.

Even when they found out that they had become hairy savages during their interactions with the residents of Dragonroar Town, they would not feel uneasy or worried, but would take it for granted and not be a big deal.

A magician once paid a few slaves to live with Yonir for a while, and when they changed, he tried to undo it. The experiment was a success, but the slaves didn't feel anything wrong when they looked at the images that had captured their strange appearances. According to them, everything is normal, there is nothing strange at all.

The magician was unable to hold back the burning fire of curiosity, and took up residence with Yonir himself. He used a bunch of protective spells on himself, but to no avail, and after a few months, he was also a monster around Yonir and a hairy wildling elsewhere.

Fortunately, he still had friends, and the friends pulled him back in time and cured him.

His sacrifice was worth it, and after this research, the magicians finally determined that the area around Yonir had undergone a similar change to the "Kingdom of God", and that the super-giant sludge monster had actually possessed god-like powers. It's just that its intelligence is too low to achieve a metamorphosis from its essence – or that the speed of this metamorphosis is so slow, so slow that it is almost impossible to observe, that is why this bizarre phenomenon has emerged.

Sui Xiong was of course a little curious about this, but first, he wanted to communicate with the followers of Yonir to convince them that he was not an enemy.

In fact, it's pretty simple.

The giant jellyfish waved its tentacles and pulled out a leg bone that was surprisingly large.

This bone did not come from any magical beast, but was made by Sui Xiong himself. Anyway, it's nothing more than building with various minerals and nutrients, and it's no different from building a house.

However, for those of Yonier, it was a true gift. They immediately laid down their weapons and happily stroked the huge leg bones that lay on the ground almost as tall as they were, and marveled.

"My lord will love this gift!" said a creature that seemed to be the leader, "Guests from afar, welcome to the Swamp of Tranquility!"

Tranquility Swamp is the name they gave to this area.

It's safe indeed, as long as you don't mind being a monster and your whole body and mind being twisted.

Sui Xiong, of course, was not affected by Yonir's power, he fell to the ground, shrunk in size, chatted with the inhabitants of the Peaceful Swamp who didn't even realize that something was wrong, and brought out food to share with them.

The inhabitants' recipes weren't as weird as Yonir's, and they still ate and drank like normal creatures. In order to avoid contamination of food and water by the ubiquitous negative energy, they dug storage rooms underground and used the magic materials they purchased to create warehouses that shielded them from negative energy.

It's not cheap, so clean food and water are valuable resources for them. Fortunately in winter, the snow and ice in the canopy of the forest are lightly polluted and can be used as a reliable source of water. But there is no way to do food, you can only rely on procurement.

The batch of food that Sui Xiong took out was specially circled by him and went to the sea to catch it, and the amount was quite considerable. For these poor people, it can be called a lot of wealth.

They happily lit a bonfire and sang and danced, and although the movements were strange and even weird, the joy was unpretentious. Sui Xiong lay on a nearby stump, and he couldn't help but laugh when he saw them so happy.

As the day wore on, and as it was getting late, the worshippers of Yonir laboriously dragged the ridiculously large leg bone to a rudimentary altar in the swamp using a variety of tools. Because the altar was not big enough, they had to put one side of the bone on it.

After doing this, they bowed to Yonir and prayed, and then went into the underground cavern.

The winter nights in the Northland are bitterly cold, and even if you are blessed by Yonir to change form, it is difficult to resist. Only by hiding in the relatively warm underground can you survive this long cold night.

When the moon rose, the huge sludge monster, which had been lying still all day, shook slightly, shattering a block of ice that had accumulated on its body during the day, and then slowly squirmed and changed shape.

In the center of the upper part of its body, the mud-like substance slowly flowed, converging into a humanoid form. But the head looks like a giant octopus, and each arm has four tentacles, which looks quite weird.

The strange creature and Sui Xiong, who had turned back into a giant floating jellyfish, looked at each other for a moment and asked.

The will was vague, slimy and soft, like a mixture of glue and mud, but I could finally figure out what it meant.

Sui Xiong smiled, sending out a friendly message and alerting it to the massive bones on the altar.

When Yonir noticed the massive bone, it let out a long, cheerful roar.

Just as it was trying to eat the bones, Sui Xiong took out another one and said that he had more.

As a result, the world's most powerful sludge monster, the unconscious guardian saint of the Swamp of Tranquility, was so easily bought by a pile of big bones.

When Sui Xiong said goodbye and left, this guy learned the first vocabulary in his life other than instinct.

Friend. (To be continued.) )