A praying mantis, a praying mantis from hell.

The scythe-like forelimbs were constantly condensed with dead energy, and instead of a bulky, huge belly, in the middle were two claw-like arthropods, and the two strong hind limbs allowed him to leap long distances like a grasshopper.

Its body is an eerie dark purple, with green compound eyes on either side of the skull, forming a large oval eye patch, and the wings behind it are transparent, which can be completely attached to its back when folded, and it crawls on the ground as it crawls between mountain walls.

The piece of fresh flesh in front of him was what it had seen with its own eyes, tearing through the space and falling in, and then stuck in the rock crevice of the mountain.

It hadn't smelled such fresh blood for about two weeks, and it was unknown how many predators like it were hunting in this desperate ridge.

It cherished the opportunity, so it showed a lot of patience and tried to kill with one hit.

It could feel the stench of fresh blood food, and in its eyes the human was like a bug that would fart when touched by its hand, but it didn't matter in the face of hunger, it needed to eat.

It was also startled to see that the human had almost fallen off a cliff without fully grasping one hand, and it feared that the easy prey would get under its nose into the mouth of another predator.

Fortunately, after falling a few meters, he grabbed the raised stone again, and the human looked a little embarrassed, but it was this embarrassment that made it a little more reassured.

It didn't want to miss the hunt, and it didn't even want to get hurt and cut its prey in two.

The tentacles on the side of the pointed mouth trembled slightly, it adjusted its posture, the transparent insect wings behind it opened suddenly, and the two hind legs bounced its body high and powerfully, and after the insect wings opened in mid-air, the body drew a graceful arc, and two giant scythes appeared behind the human......

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If it weren't for the wind blowing behind him, and the slight humming of wings flapping in his ears, Surdak would have thought it was a dead place.

The black valley, without any vegetation, makes people feel extremely hopeless and depressed.

Surdak raised his head and looked at the top of the mountain wall. There was no end in sight to the towering mountain, and he wanted to find a fulcrum to rest, the torch of light was inserted in the crack of the stone, it was very strong, so he tried to use his arms to pull up and sit on top of the torch of light.

At this moment, he suddenly heard an inaudible humming sound, and he decisively picked up the Goethe shield, stepped on the mountain wall with both feet, and his body made an incredible turn in mid-air, and the shield faced behind him.

A black scythe that almost tore through space slashed and hit the shield that Surdak had swung around.

The shield erupted with a dazzling silver light, and the divine aura collided with the annihilation death qi, and the divine aura instantly dissolved the annihilation death qi, revealing a bone scythe covered in barbs, which slashed into Surdak's shield with a thud.

The huge impact caused Surdak's body to hit the mountain wall, and a large cobweb-like crack suddenly appeared in the crispy mountain, and countless debris rolled down the cliff, but Surdak held the torch of holy light with one hand and found a foothold on this collapsed mountain wall.

The mantis's bony scythe had a crumbling spot on its blades, and it was pushed beyond the cliff with its shield successfully blocked.

It was only as it fell outwards that the insect wings behind the praying mantis opened again, pushing its body smoothly to land on one side of the mountain wall that Surdak's vision could not see.

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The ambush failed, and it hid in a crack in the stone wall of the mountain wall.

Assault is not a good option, and it is more afraid of getting hurt than not being able to eat blood.

For predators, injury is likely to mean chronic death, so it hides in the shadows and continues to wait for an opportunity, but the humans on the mountain wall are obviously on guard, and it may take a little patience to find a chance to pounce again, and a good predator must know how to endure and wait for an opportunity.

It constantly touches the bone scythe with the tentacles around its mouth, and where its teeth have broken and needs to be repaired, it secretes a milky mucus that solidifies to form a hard bone blade.

After the Annihilation Death Qi was dispelled by the Holy Light, it couldn't condense such a rich Annihilation Death Qi on the bone sickle in a short period of time.

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Surdak climbed the cliff and waited for a while, but found that the praying mantis had not come out again.

Only then did he step on the point of strength, with great difficulty, pulled out the torch of holy light inserted in the crack of the rock wall, and continued to climb to the top of the mountain.

With a predator at his side, Surdak had to be careful, he touched the broadsword hanging from his waist, and looked up at the dim sky, which was covered with thick dark clouds, the mountain wind whined in his ears, and the cliff bottom was covered with sharp stone pillars.

Surdak would rest for a while after climbing for a while, and after resting like this for more than a dozen rounds, he finally saw a black boulder protruding from the top of the cliff.

He grabbed the edge of the boulder at the top of the rock with one hand, trying to flip his body up......

At that moment, the head of a praying mantis poked out from the top of the cliff, and its pea-green compound eyes met Surdak's eyes, raising its bony scythe high.

Surdak had to rest for a while every time he climbed a section of the mountain, just to wait for the praying mantis to appear, and the bone scythe slashed at his arm that held the cliff, and he immediately let go of his hand and fell down the cliff. fall

The praying mantis spread its wings from the top of the cliff and swooped down on the cliff.

Surdak had a safety rope attached to his waist and fell less than three meters before his fall came to an abrupt halt, and a rope hung him from the cliff face.

The praying mantis that flew down from the top of the cliff could not stop its fluttering momentum even if it spread its wings, and swung its bone scythe to cut Surdak's neck.

Surdak stepped on the cliff with his feet on the cliff, his body parallel to the ground, as if he was standing on the cliff, raised the Goethe shield in his hand and swung it towards the praying mantis.

The praying mantis took advantage of the falling and flew down, and between the lightning and the fire, the two bone scythes in his hand slashed at the shield at the same time.

What Surdak didn't expect was that with the huge impact, the two sharp claws on the mantis's waist and abdomen actually stretched out and secretly cut the broken rope.

When the shield blocked the bone scythe, the broadsword in Surdak's hand had already swept out, cutting off the pair of almost degenerated claws in the middle of the mantis, and cutting a hole in the mantis's waist and abdomen, and a handful of purple blood shot out from the mantis's body.

The praying mantis flew upwards suddenly, but Surdak fell towards the abyss at the bottom of the cliff.

At the moment of his fall, Surdak quickly grabbed the hooked toe at the end of the mantis's hind leg and hung it on the mantis.

The two pairs of insect wings on the back of the praying mantis spread out with all their might, fanning desperately, but still unable to stop the fall.

Looking down at Surdak on his toes, the two bone scythes sliced towards Surdak without hesitation.

Surdak slashed the hind limbs of the strong man of the praying mantis with his broadsword, and fell down from the cliff wall again, the bone sickle in the mantis's hand fell into the air again, and the thick hind limbs were cut off by the Qi brush, and fled to the top of the cliff with the wings of the insects.

The archangel's phantom appeared behind Surdak, and the moment the phantom appeared, it embraced his body.

The divine armor suspended high in the sea of Surdak's spiritual consciousness also emitted a dazzling brilliance, and the next moment it was worn on Surdak's body.

A dazzling beam of holy light fell from the sky and passed through Surdak's body, the archangel phantom and Surdak fused together, countless lights and sounds converged and weaved together, Surdak's body was not only completely wrapped in a rich divine aura, but even a pair of wings of light grew behind him.

The moment the wings of light unfurled, his body stopped falling and rushed towards the top of the cliff with a strong momentum.

The praying mantis was licking its wounds on the top of the cliff, spitting out more white pulp from its mouth to wrap the wounds, but it didn't expect Surdak to have the ability to fly, and rushed to the top of the cliff, slashing down with a broadsword that exuded a divine aura in his hand.

A sword aura seeped out from the blade of the broadsword, splitting the mantis's head in two, and the body of the hell mantis fell into purple blood, and the bone scythe kept twitching.

Surdak landed on the top of the cliff, and the Divine Armor vanished from his body......

After he put on the Divine Battle Armor, his body could only last for more than ten seconds, and now the Divine Battle Armor disappeared, and countless Holy Light powers collapsed around his body.

Surdak sat on the top of the cliff dizzily, and at this time he still did not dare to take it lightly, constantly looking at his surroundings.

He was on top of a rocky peak in the Black Mountains, surrounded by cliffs and fractured valleys, the rocks here were dark brown, and the nearby walls were almost devoid of vegetation.

After regaining some strength, Surdak took out the magic crystal from the mantis's head, and then arranged a sacrifice ceremony on the top of the mountain, sacrificing its head, which was considered a high-level sacrifice, and Surdak exchanged it for the 'Holy Shield' and 'Insight' from the Two-Faced Demon God.

Then he stood on the top of the cliff and looked around again, and the sky and the earth seemed to have been completely cleansed, and the line of sight extended two kilometers away......

The black-brown mountains were finally in full view of Surdak, who consumed a Hellhound's head and exchanged it for the 'True Eye', but unfortunately did not find the life pattern on the praying mantis.

He had no choice but to put the most valuable bone scythe and transparent insect wings from the mantis into his magic waist bag.

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Take out the map obtained from the Gatekeeper of the King Kong Gate, this is a map of the battlefield of the Seventh District, the entire battlefield is in the shape of a fishhook, according to the map, Surdak is located in the middle of the mountain area from the battlefield of the seventh district, here is all over this black and brown mountains.

This is not an occupied area by various forces on the Roland Continent, but a buffer zone owned by the demon army at the same time, not only the Hell Demon Clan has a large number of scouts and predators here, but the Roland Continent also uses this as a hunting ground.

Every time the 7th district is always the first to fight.

Therefore, Surdak was sent to the battlefield in the neutral zone, and if he wanted to walk back to the Blue Bridge Fortress, the straight-line distance from here to the Blue Bridge Fortress was about 500 kilometers, and if the road was all such steep mountain roads, Surdak felt that he would have to walk for a month.

The problem is that the ogre Gulitham, Andrew, and Samira are all missing at the moment, and if everyone is in the same area, he is worried that some of those three people will be unlucky and have been teleported to the south of the seventh district, which is the demon's sphere of influence.

Surdak finally made out the direction at the top of the mountain, and observed the way down the mountain, and he found that although the top of the mountain was more difficult to walk, at least there was a road, and many of the mountains here had to be climbed.

So Surdak decided to follow the mountain range at his feet all the way north.

Before leaving, Surdak pulled out a green one from his magic fanny pack. The magic flare, which is a symbol of safety, shoots into the sky from the top of the cliff, and a green light streaks across the dark clouds before exploding in the air.

Surdak didn't want to stay here, if Gulitham, Andrew, and Samira were nearby, they would definitely see the magic flare, but the predators and demon scouts hiding in the surrounding mountains could also see it.

He's going to get out of here at once, the flare has already pointed the way to the assembly.

Surdak didn't dare to be lazy at this time, put the shield into the magic waist bag, but directly put on the heavy shield on his back, and jumped down to the boulder in front, although the mountain wall here is very steep, but for a second-turn powerhouse like Surdak, at most the road is a little difficult, not that it can't be walked......

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Slowly move forward along the cliff wall of the fault, which can only accommodate one foot on it.

Surdak has been walking north for three days in a row, and has been shooting two magic flares into the sky almost every day for the past few days, but unfortunately he has not received any feedback from the other three.

Instead, a large group of predators attracted behind him, and last night a predator left a scar on Surdak's chest, and Esenhard's breastplate had been cut open by a bone scythe, causing at least two magic patterns on the breastplate to be unable to function normally, and Surdak's left rib was also broken.

If it weren't for the powerful resilience of the 'Divine Blessed Body' and the 'Earth Nourishment', Surdak would have been lying in this barren mountain and wilderness long ago.

However, Surdak was also extremely embarrassed at this moment, although the chest injury was not fatal, Surdak could be regarded as having more than 30 stitches on his chest.

Surdak was secretly glad that the wound was not in the back, otherwise it would have been difficult for him to stitch up.

In three days, Surdak killed a total of five Hell Mantis, and every battle was almost between life and death, the closer this battle was to death, the more it could stimulate the body's inner potential, Surdak found that since the successful second turn, the body has not moved for a long time, and now the surging power of the holy light is like impacting a certain node.

This was a sign that he was about to advance, and it meant that Surdak was about to move from level twenty to level twenty-one, which was a solid step forward in the early stages of his second rank as a knight.

Physical tiredness is constantly fed by the 'Divine Body' and the 'Earth's Nourishment', but mental fatigue is Surdak's greatest enemy.

He didn't dare to fall asleep even at night for the past three days, at most he closed his eyes and rested a little when he was tired, and there were so many predators around him, he didn't want to be a dinner for a predator......