Chapter 17: What Happened to the Red Pine Forest
The Baroque rose and fell from tree to tree, like a gust of wind, so swift that it was almost impossible to see its figure, even the elves who were called the children of the jungle. At this moment, he had the pleasure of a bird throwing himself into the sky, like a beast breaking out of a cage, faintly even if he didn't stand under the totem pole, he also had the feeling of being a wolf, and the power of the ice ring suddenly appeared outside the body uncontrollably. As they weaved through the gaps in the trees, the rings of ice crashed against the branches, and the thin branches were severed. The ice ring slammed into the thick trunk, leaving a deep scar and then shattered by the impact, and as the Baroque continued to run, the missing ice ring would reappear, and the cycle would repeat.
"Hey, even if I can't get it out, I'm a humanoid cutter now. Baroque can't help but laugh at itself!
After more than half an hour, Baroque felt exhausted, and the ice ring no longer appeared, but only a circle of white frost. If he was under the totem pole, he was able to hold the ice ring for three hours, and without the totem pole, he could only hold on for ten minutes. In other words, his most powerful power now has only one-twentieth of the time to play. I don't know if it will get better if it breaks through the critical point. After all, being trapped in a totem pole is a big problem, and sooner or later it will have to be solved!
As he was about to sit down and rest, Baroque wondered why he had been in the forest for so long and could not see a beast, and then he stood up with a sigh of relief, and not far in front of him, a wild boar had been staring at him for some time, snorting and panting. Baroque looked back and smiled wryly, behind him was a thick pine tree, the bark underneath had been worn off most of it, oozing layers of pine resin. It turned out that he was blocking other people's wild boars and wrapped his armor on his body!
The beast is intellectually low, and the Baroque has no communication with it to settle disputes peacefully. Besides, there is always food to eat at night, so I'm sorry. Almost at the same time as the wild boar scurried over, his body jumped high and landed behind the wild boar, and the short spear in his hand pierced extremely accurately from the weakest position behind the ear, and a wild boar with infinite strength, even if an ordinary grizzly bear encountered a wild boar that had to retreat, he just pounced on the ground and died.
Baroque followed Massimo for a year and didn't do nothing, the old man had been a gladiator for half his life, and it was almost a miracle that he could die of old age in the end, and his skills must be the most practical and effective,
Whether it's killing or defending. If you don't care about the fighting spirit, even those so-called high-level fighting spirit warriors come to ten, they may not be able to beat Massimo alone. Baroque exerted his ability to learn and comprehend, and squeezed out the old man's housekeeping skills in just half a year.
And it's not like he hasn't killed anyone, after just learning the old man's martial arts, he left the town of Red River Valley for several days, and even Massimo didn't know where he went, and even thought he had run away for a while. What they don't know is that hundreds of miles away in the town of Crow, there is a bloody crime, and the owner of the town's only blacksmith shop is found dead in his bed. And a group of more than a dozen gravediggers in the tavern, when the rotten drunkard was bragging loudly, was slaughtered by a masked man who suddenly broke in, and then left safely, and no one dared to stop him. Reputedly...... Those drunkards were bragging about how they mistreated and slaughtered orcs in the wasteland. Later, this matter became an unsolved case, and for a time, the people of Crow Town did not dare to talk about orcs presumptuously!
Baroque placed the boar under the tree and continued on its way. Most of the trees in the forest are about the same size and height, and it is difficult to tell the way, and it is easy to get lost without marking unless you are the best hunter. The Baroque entered the Forest of Trem for the first time, and it was prudent to scratch a scar on the trunk of the tree every other distance. After more than an hour of rapid progress, when he jumped on the branch of a tree to look, he suddenly saw a fiery red in front of him.
It was a large red tree, like a burning flame, and it was hard to believe that the pine trees were completely red from the branches to the pine needles, and this was a red pine forest!
Baroque walked in very carefully, like this weird and special place, there will always be some strange creatures, everything is careful, but don't find the green arrow squirrel, but encounter other terrifying monsters.
Amazingly, the Baroque went far and did not encounter any creatures, not even a bird or a bug, and if this is a dead place, it is full of life. He frowned and thought about it, and suddenly a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he sat down lightly on the ground, put down the short spear in his hand, opened his arms, and the power of the shaman was displayed, and with the almost inaudible whisper from his mouth, as if he was sitting under a totem pole, open his soul to feel!
Soon a wonderful world unfolds, he is able to touch with the tentacles of his soul, discovers many lifeforms, has magical hidden powers, and is peeking out in all the dark corners. They may be weak, but they have good intelligence, well-behaved little faces, fluffy tails, two front paws up, big front teeth in their mouths, and a bunch of cute squirrels!
Baroque opened his eyes and walked towards the largest and thickest red pine tree in the distance, and he climbed the branches up to the canopy, and on top of it there was a particularly large hollow, where a squirrel with an exceptionally strong physique seemed to be waiting for him. The squirrel's fur was almost pure red, with only an emerald green hairstripe in the middle of its back, which looked like an arrow from the top of its head to its tail.
Baroque once knew a little bit about Warcraft, knowing the habits of this creature, most of the Warcraft that lived alone were of a relatively high level, and they were also the most ferocious and powerful. If it is a monster that lives in a group, the rank is often lower, but there will always be a particularly wise leader, who almost has the wisdom of a human child of six or seven years old, who can be called a king, leading the entire herd to avoid predators or predation. The squirrel in front of him is obviously the king of the Green Arrow squirrel.
Baroque sat down in front of the squirrel and looked at it silently. The squirrel bared its teeth, its eyes seemed to flash with blue light, and spit out a water arrow at the pine cone on a branch next to it, and the pine cone fell to the ground with a click, as if it was demonstrating!
Baroque smiled and shook his head at the squirrel, his strength was slightly revealed, and the surrounding temperature instantly became colder, and then frost and mist condensed, and ice rings appeared. With a flick of his shoulder, the ring of ice clicked off large pieces of wood chips on the branches. The king of the squirrels was instantly discouraged, obviously knowing that he was much weaker and was not an opponent at all.
The Squirrel King seems to have changed his tactics and jumped back into the hollow of the tree and pushed out a bunch of pine cones from inside and piled them in front of Baroque in what it seemed to be in exchange for the food. Baroque shook his head again and pointed to the squirrel itself. The Squirrel King has a very human expression of despair. Baroque believed that he was not mistaken, and it really showed a desperate expression. Turn around and turn your belly over to show Baroque.
Baroque clearly saw that there was a very obvious scar on the squirrel king's stomach, which seemed to be scratched by a dagger or something. It tilted its neck, and there was also a noticeable ring of strangulation marks on its neck. Baroque immediately realizes that this squirrel king was once captured by humans, kept as a pet, suffered painful torture, and escaped to save his life.
The orc shaman can communicate with the animals because they can feel the joy and pain of the animals, and in the face of the desperate complaint of the Squirrel King, Baroque suddenly found it difficult to help humans to catch the Green Arrow Squirrel! But he could not prevent Lady Celine and her party from finding the red pine forest, after thinking about it, and comparing with the Squirrel King for a long time, he finally had some eyebrows. The Squirrel King pointed to a snow-capped mountain in the distance and squeaked, adventurous, but always trying.
Of course, it can't be in vain, Baroque almost can't wait to grab the Squirrel King in his hand and signal it to release the 'water arrow' again............ I finally met a monster (although it was a little weak, but it was also a monster), and I always had to feel the process of its magic!
Poor King Squirrel was treated as a guinea pig for experiments. Every time Baroque tugged at its tail, it had to puff out its mouth, and with a flash of blue light in its eyes, it spat out a water arrow. Baroque closes his eyes and uses his heart to understand the process of the Green Arrow Squirrel releasing the water arrow!
After a dozen tuggings, the poor squirrel king had already rolled his eyes and could no longer spit out the slightest splash, and Baroque had to let go in disappointment. Its mana is so weak that it is barely perceptible to the process of unleashing. I vaguely felt a wave of fluctuation from my abdomen to my mouth, and then condensed the water elemental power in the air into a water arrow, which shot out. As for the method of excitation, it is not known at all.
Forget it, since you have promised someone else's things, you have to do it. Baroque spared the Green Arrow Squirrel, waved goodbye, jumped off the pine tree, and headed for the mountain.
The Baroque deliberately picked up its speed and galloped through the woods, and soon came to the foot of the high mountain, where there was also a forest of red pines, and it was much larger. It's just that it's too close to that mountain, and it's obvious that some kind of terrifying monster lives on the mountain, so the Squirrel King didn't choose this place as his home.
Looking up at the towering mountains, from the halfway up the mountainside, it was already covered with snow, and I didn't know what kind of demonic beast would be entrenched here. As long as Mrs. Celine and the others are brought to this red pine forest, even if the mission is completed, he is only here to explore the way anyway, and no one orders him to find the green arrow squirrel!
Deliberately bypassed the red pine forest where the squirrel king lived, and returned to the tree where he met the wild boar, the wild boar had not been dragged away by any animal, so he carried a few hundred catties of wild boar and walked back!
This time, he explored the way, and after more than three hours, everyone waited impatiently, and just as Miró was about to continue on, he saw the figure of Baroque.
Throwing down the wild boar, Baroque did not wait for others to ask, and said with a smile: "I found a large red pine forest, just at the foot of a high mountain, maybe there will be traces of green arrow squirrels there!"