A full moon shone on the silent desert, and as far as the eye could see, there were only rolling sand dunes, boundless emptiness, not to mention human figures, not even a single grass. Amon stood there with his hands behind his back, frowning and asking, "Did you notice any movement?"

Medanzo also frowned, and listened intently for a while before replying: "The rustling sound, and a little buzzing, like something hard rubbing against the sand, but I can't really hear where it came from, what did you hear?"

Amon waved and took out a staff out of thin air, and the staff was inlaid with seven divine stones in a spiral shape, which was the one obtained from Obama-Lington, and handed it to Medanzo and said: "Take it, this staff is yours, and then use the detection magic to investigate the situation." ”

Medanzo took it, surprised and delighted, "Hey, isn't this the same as Link's staff?"

Amon smiled bitterly: "Don't be too happy, take the staff and prepare for battle, haven't you figured out the situation yet?"

With this staff in his hand, Medanzo's detection magic doubled in power, and he immediately exclaimed: "Not good, these sounds are coming from under the sand dunes, and countless scorpions are approaching, in all directions, we are surrounded!"

As he spoke, Amon suddenly slammed the iron staff in his hand, plunged it deep into the sand, and a force of impact rippled through the depths of the ground, and then said, "Medanzo, it's up to you!"

I saw that countless black dots suddenly appeared on the pale white sand dunes on all sides, coming densely from all directions, looking down from the sky, the place where Amon and Medanzo stood became a white circular island in the black tide, which was the result of Amun's staff suddenly forcing all the scorpions back from the ground.

These scorpions were nearly a foot long, holding double pincers and long, tails with poisonous hooks, and they looked terrifying. If it is just one or two scorpions, it may be trampled to death by raising its feet, and even if it is accidentally stabbed by a poisonous hook, it will not be fatal, but thousands of poisonous scorpions, no matter who sees it, will be terrified.

Medanzo, however, was undaunted, and waved his newly-acquired staff with a shout, and a whirlwind rose up and swept away in a circle with a spiral of sand. The grains of sand blown by the wind are like tiny needletips, and the needletips are mixed with countless indistinguishable wind blades. The scorpion's hard shell was shattered by grains of sand, and its body and chelicerae were severed by the wind blade, leaving a trail of corpses in its wake. Some of the scorpions were broken in half, and their mutilated bodies were still struggling and writhing.

This attack on the large-scale Qi Elemental Divine Technique was really powerful, but the desert scorpion did not flinch because of the death of its companion, and the scorpion group behind it kept pouring up again with the corpses all over the ground. Amon didn't make a move, he only said: "These scorpions are very large, the shell is very hard, and it is too laborious to use the Qi Element Divine Technique. ”

Medanzo then raised his staff, and a bright filigree appeared in the whirlwind, and the fiery wire instantly turned into a flying dragon circling between the sand dunes, and the remains of the scorpion were first ignited, and then the scorpions that came up behind also twisted and rolled in the sea of fire, burned into char and ashes. A faint smoke rose from all sides, mixed with a foul smell.

Amon spoke again: "The scorpion has venom in its body, so much venom volatilizes around us, and the smoke will be extremely poisonous. ”

Without Amon reminding him, while Medanzo was performing the Fire Sea Technique, the whirlwind did not stop but blew smoke outward. These scorpions seemed to be very fire-resistant, many of them were only smiling with flames and struggling to crawl closer, and they were slashed not far away by wind blades, and Medanzo was already casting two large-scale mid-level divine techniques at the same time at this moment.

After a while he shouted, "O god Amun, have we gotten into the scorpion's nest? There is no need to do this, why should we be besieged by a group of scorpions, just go, the speed of the scorpions cannot catch up with us." ”

Amon pulled out his staff and put away the tent out of thin air, nodded and said, "Then let's go, you come to break through." ”

Medanzo pointed his staff forward, and the whirlwind gathered in a straight line and shot out, blowing a wide furrow between the sand, and the scorpion swarm was swept to both sides. The flames vanished, and then turned into ice. The nearby scorpion froze on the ground, and the scorpion movement that seemed to be slowed down by the cold, Medanzo took the opportunity to stride forward, Amon followed with a leather bag.

Casting the water elemental magic in the dry desert is thankless, but with the ice sealing technique unfolded by the wind shuttle technique, that chill is a good way to deal with these scorpions, maybe you can't freeze them to death, but as long as you stop them from moving, you can break through the scorpion group.

The two of them walked unhurriedly among the scorpions, and the staff of Medanzo pointed all the way to the way, and the scorpions around them had become scarce when the sky was twilight, and there were still endless white sand dunes on all sides. Medanzo finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned back to Amon and said, "How can so many poisonous scorpions come out, have you encountered them before?"

Amon shook his head: "There are poisonous scorpions in the desert, and there have been people who have been accidentally bitten to death, I have heard of them since I was a child, but I have never heard of so many scorpions, it may be that the environment has changed after the flood." ”

Medanzo frowned and said, "These scorpions are obviously too big, and they look very poisonous, not ordinary sand scorpions?" As he spoke, he suddenly stomped his foot, trampled on a scorpion that suddenly came out of the sand, and scolded: "How can there be, endless!"

Amon suddenly thought of something, and said in a deep voice: "I heard that there are monsters in this area before I came, and it seems that these scorpions are also one of the monsters. I have seen a volume of myths and legends in the Temple of Isis, called "The Land of Malduk", which records that the town of Duk was once the battlefield of the battle of the gods, and that a long time ago the gods created nine kinds of monsters to help them fight, namely the Hydra Snake, the Swamp Serpent, the Scorpion-tailed Dragon, the Sea Monster, the Giant Lion, the Three-Headed Dog, the Human-Faced Scorpion, the Enchanting Mermaid, and the Wild Bull. ”

Medanzo: "Isn't that the Youngdi river god Humbaba? It is said to be Enriel's gatekeeper, and was recently slaughtered by both Gilgamesh and Enki. ”

Amon nodded and said, "The Hydra is likely to be Humbaba, who should have been subdued by Enriel in that battle and became the gatekeeper of the Divine Domain." Though Humbaba was dead, he still had many descendants, whom I had met in the Eudes. Humbaba has multiplying offspring, other monsters may not be absent, among the nine kinds of monsters is a human-faced poisonous scorpion, and the scorpion we encountered may be its descendant. ”

Medanzo stuck out his tongue and said, "Then we have to be careful, we can't say what poisonous insects and beasts we will encounter." ”

Amon nodded again: "Yes, if you encounter it, there is no need to entangle, you can avoid it as much as possible, we are not here to destroy the monster, it is impossible for the two of us, just to investigate the situation here, and arrive at Duke Town as soon as possible." ”

As they continued to walk, their speed slowed down, and there were always poisonous scorpions in this desert, and they suddenly came out of the sand in cold numbers, sometimes in groups, sometimes only five or six. Almost every day, he had to go through several encounters, large and small, and Medanzo almost let the scorpion sting. Amon just followed behind and didn't make a move, leaving all Medanzo to deal with, and just like that, he walked for another seven or eight days, and gradually the sparse shallow grass could be seen on the desert.

Amon asked, "Medanzo, can you still hold it?"

Medanzo took a few breaths and said: "Since I started cultivating the divine arts, the total number of divine techniques I have performed has not been more than these few days, and the opponent is just a scorpion, but I can't stand it continuously, maybe it will come out at any time." If it weren't for the fact that you have always been by your side, God Amun, I am afraid that I would not have been able to stand it a long time ago. ”

...... On the same day that Amon and Medanzo decided to turn north from the trade route, there were three people in the temple of Enriel, a distant city-state of Syria, an old man and two of his younger disciples.

Ge Lie's appearance did not change, his goatee was full of wrinkles, but his eyes seemed to be clearer and deeper than two years ago, and he said to Raphael: "During this time, have you ever insisted on cultivating your divine power without interruption?"

Raphael replied: "Divine cultivation has been my hobby since I was a child, and I have become accustomed to it, two years ago, my teacher sent me to investigate the terrain around Duke Town, because of an unexpected encounter, I did not practice for a while, but since then I have never stopped. ”

Ge Lie asked, "Half a year ago, I sent you to the Black Fire Swamp again to investigate the situation of monsters there, which is much more dangerous than the mission two years ago, and you haven't interrupted your cultivation of divine arts?"

Raphael replied respectfully: "Yes, under your teaching, it has become a kind of self-realization, I don't have to remind myself what to do, I will naturally do it every day." Spiritual foundation meditation is also a way to recover mana, and only then can I persevere in that dangerous environment and finally complete the task assigned by the teacher. ”

Ge Lie smiled and asked again, "Young man, in such a dangerous environment, do you know why you can always save the day?"

Raphael showed a thoughtful look: "I also had doubts in my heart, there were several encounters at that time that were indeed very dangerous, but I was always able to get through it safely, as if there was a god blessing me. ”

Ge Lie smiled and shook his head, "Maybe you really got the favor of the gods, but the person who protected you at that time was Wallett, and I specially sent him to secretly follow you, but you didn't know it." ”

Raphael was taken aback, stood up and said to Wallette: "It turns out that you are protecting me, so you should have saved me several times, why didn't you tell me?"

Wallette smiled slightly: "The teacher didn't let me say it at the time. ”

Raphael knelt down and saluted: "Even if I didn't say it at the time, but it's been half a year since I completed the task, and you haven't mentioned it for so long, you have quietly saved me so many times, but I haven't expressed my gratitude!"

Wallette still smiled: "This is what I should do, and what I am willing to do, if the teacher doesn't let me say it, then I won't say it, since the teacher said it again today, then say it." I'm just completing the task, and I don't ask for any thanks, but of course, I accept your thanks at this moment. Get up, my brother!" he pulled Raphael to his feet.

Golie looked at Wallette again and said, "This state of mind is very good, I deliberately didn't tell Raphael in the past six months, and you yourself didn't take this matter to heart." Wallette, have you ever wondered when you will become a great magician? I have mentored many students in the kingdom of Hati, but you are the first person with the best hope to become a great magician. ”

Sixth-level magician Wallette replied humbly: "It's not a question of whether I want to or not, I'm afraid that all the magicians on the continent want to be able to take this step, but this is not a wish out of thin air." When faced with this goal, I can only decide how to do it myself, and I don't think much about it. ”

Ge Lie nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, I hope you are consistent in your heart and can really do it." This time I'm going to send the two of you on a mission, and I'm going to cross the Syrian Desert together, and then go to the city-states of Uruk in Barron and the city-state of Cape Eju, respectively, and send a secret letter to the two lords, Gilgamesh and Rod Dick, and then come back after receiving an answer, whatever the response. ”

The ninth-level great magician took out two small sealed leather cylinders and handed them to the student, and then instructed: "You must not open it yourself, the content of the letter may also cause trouble, if there is trouble, try to solve it yourself, come to me with an echo."

It's still a bit of a hassle to travel through the Syrian Desert, so try not to fight those powerful monsters and make sure you pass safely. Here are a few scrolls and a flying weapon, and if your life is threatened, Wallette, you can harness it and escape with Raphael. But this is also a trial journey, and you can't use scrolls and flying magic weapons until the last moment. ”

...... Amon and Medanzo had reached the edge of the desert, where low, hardy grass could be seen growing on the dunes, and after a day's walk, they would reach the inland lake. This kind of grassy sand dunes is also the most suitable environment for the growth of poisonous scorpions, Medanzo couldn't help but raise his vigilance, but after walking for most of the day, he didn't see the shadow of the poisonous scorpion, he couldn't help but sigh: "It's really strange today, why haven't you seen a single scorpion?"

Amon smiled: "Haven't you annoyed the poisonous scorpions these days, do you still want to meet the scorpion swarm?"

The tired Medanzo also smiled: "I didn't mean that, I wish I could relax, I was afraid until now, but there was no movement in the place where the scorpion was most likely to be encountered, it was better to have a fight and get out quickly." ”

Amon: "The invisible enemy is the most dangerous enemy, and the feeling is torturous. But you have to be mentally prepared, even if we get out of the desert and get rid of the poisonous scorpions, there may be something waiting ahead, perhaps more difficult to deal with than the scorpions. ...... Hmm, there's a mark on the sand over there, what's that?"

There were very strange traces on the sand dunes in front of him, like frozen ripples on the water, Medanzo leaned down to observe, gasped and said: "I am very familiar with this kind of trace in the past few days, it is the footprints of scorpions crawling over the sand, but these scorpions are too big, each one is probably more than three feet long! It seems that they are all rushing in one direction, I don't know what happened? Take this opportunity, let's go quickly!"

Amon waved his hand: "Don't worry, let me see what those scorpions are doing, it's safer to figure it out." ”

He took out a magic stone inlaid on the golden base, which was obtained from Vitru's relic "Remembrance Lamp", standing in front of those traces holding the remembrance lamp and gently shaking the staff, the divine stone inlaid in the wick position scattered a circular circle of light, and the scene in the aperture was constantly changing, as if it was chasing the footprints of the scorpion on the sand dune.

I don't know how many sand dunes they have crossed, the light and shadow are already dozens of miles away, Amon and Medanzo saw a group of huge scorpions, each of which is more than three feet long from chela to tail, the shell of the whole body is black and shiny like hard armor, and the tip of the high hook tail also shoots out light blue flames from time to time, it is actually a terrifying mutated giant scorpion.

The flames shot from the hooktail are in a straight line, and can hit targets far away, which is the venom that burns after spraying, not only has great poison but also comes with high temperature, as long as it is stained with a little is fatal damage. These scorpions don't always spew venom, but form a formation that resembles a military formation, protecting each other and attacking in a staggered manner, only striking when they see the opportunity, Spitfire is only a ranged attack, and the most threatening weapons at close range are the thick giant claws and crochet needles on the long tail.

There are hundreds of scorpion colonies, all of which are giant scorpions of this mutation, which makes people's scalps tingle to look at. There are two young people who are surrounded in the middle of the scorpion group, and they are obviously magicians with magic staff in their hands, and they have deep mana and good means, and all kinds of large-scale defense and attack magic are staggered, and the advance and retreat coordination is very skillful. The older magician was in charge, and the other very young magician was in charge, moving and walking with the encirclement, but he was never able to break through.

Around them and on the road they had walked, there were scattered the corpses of nearly a hundred mutant giant scorpions, some of them were scorched, some were cut into pieces, some were frozen into ice slag, and some were obviously exploded by a huge force, and the two magicians did not know how many kinds of magic they had transformed.

Amon shook the staff in his hand slightly, and the light and shadow of the Passing Lamp expanded dramatically, and what he focused on was the corpses of those mutated giant scorpions. Two days ago, he and Medanzo also encountered poisonous scorpions, and the effects of various divine attacks were naturally very clear, if they were burned by the high temperature of the fire elemental magic technique, the scorpion would turn into ashes, and the hard shell left behind was also charcoal-like that would shatter at the slightest touch.

But look at the mutated giant scorpions that had been burned by the fire, their claws and tail pins were intact, shining among the sand and ashes of the corpses. The effect of the fire elemental magic attack is not very good, and it will ignite poisonous smoke, the two magicians tried it and then changed their methods, and the scorpion corpses left behind were all destroyed with other magic techniques.

Whether it was a spatial cut or a wind blade explosion, the body of the scorpion should be torn apart, but Amon found that behind those mutant giant scorpions, there was a palm-sized hard carapace intact, and its hardness could be imagined. The claws, tail needles, and back armor of these mutant giant scorpions are all good materials for processing weapons or magic artifacts, and it is even more rare to have such a large number, Amun, as the descendant of the master of artifacts Nietzsche, thought of it in an instant.

Medanzo asked in surprise: "There are still people who trek through the desert like us? They have met big guys, these giant scorpions are not easy to deal with, and they can even attack from a distance!

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(To be continued)