A hell mantis flew up silently from behind, Surdak could tell it to be a large predator with the sound of insect wings flapping behind him, he stepped on the rock wall bulge, two bone sickles swept towards his throat and waist respectively, he held the shield in one hand, and just as he was about to make a move, he blocked the mantis's fatal blow, and before the mantis could flappe its wings away, the broadsword stabbed out from behind the shield and cut off the mantis's head at an incredible angle.

The body of the praying mantis fell from the cliff wall into the abyssal stream, but the falling head was picked up by Surdak with a sword, and the bleeding head was hung around his waist against the stone wall.

This hill is an excellent ambush spot found by Surdak, and although it looks unusually steep, it has a rocky bulge that can be firmly stepped on by both feet. point, he can turn around and fight the moment the mantis pounces.

For shield-wielding paladins, hell mantises, assassination-type magical beasts, as long as they know them well enough, the bone scythe in their hands can't break through the shield with divine aura.

Surdak glanced at the corpse of the hell mantis that fell into the deep stream with some regret. There are still a lot of precious materials on the level of demonic beasts, especially the two bone scythes are definitely good bone weapons, if they can be brought back to Mukuso City, they are definitely collectibles that the nobles in the city are vying to buy.

After recovering his physical and mental strength, Surdak found that his combat effectiveness had improved significantly.

Especially some time ago, I saw the notes of the ancestors of the Gophilo family about the broadsword, when he was lying on the rattan chair and reading the notes carefully, he didn't find anything outstanding in the notes, but when he was now struggling alone in the predicament, he found that the skills of those broadswords were really very ingenious.

The Gophilo patriarch emphasized the need for timing on the battlefield.

Surdak took advantage of this, luring the Hell Mantis to pounce from behind him, and just when the Hell Mantis felt that it could make a killing blow and its vigilance was completely consumed by greed, he blocked the mantis's nidal blow, and without waiting for it to make any dodge, a sword stabbed out, and he raised his arm again to sweep, cutting off the head of the Hell Mantis.

If Surdak misses this blow, he will immediately be in danger, and his outstretched arm will be severed by the bone sickle that is close at hand.

Surdak ambushed and killed a total of seventeen Hellmantis on this mountain wall, and on three occasions was almost dragged into the abyss by the Hellmantis.

However, the more he killed on this kind of battlefield, he seemed to exude a faint murderous aura, at first, Surdak himself was not aware of it, and when the eighteenth praying mantis appeared on the top of the mountain, it did not pounce as scheduled, but looked at him and let out a few unwilling hisses, and then spread its insect wings and flew away on the top of the mountain without looking back, and Surdak finally exhaled a long breath.

It took Surdak half a month to walk along the ridge of Blackstone Ridge out of this neutral zone of the Seventh District.

Along the way, he tried to summon the ogre Gullitham, Andrew, and Samira with a magic flare, but nothing responded.

Walking out of this barren ridge, I finally saw some sparse bushes at the edge of the Black Rock Ridge.

Some of the ground was covered with purple moss, and these mosses grew small yellow flowers, which seemed to be stepping on fat when stepped on, and the leather boots were covered with purple sap.

Surdak glanced back behind him, and there were still a few hell mantis hidden in the crevices of the mountain wall, but they all lost the courage to strike at the end.

Only then did Surdak pull out a magic sealing box from his magic waist bag, and put the last few hell mantis heads in the cloth bag around his waist into the magic sealing box.

Then he carefully read the map and continued to the northeast of the seventh district.

There are no tall trees growing in this land, there are some low bushes everywhere, and there are some plants that grow in the hellish realm, the most common being purple moss and blood thistle flowers.

It seems that Aphrodite said that this blood thistle flower belongs to a kind of magic grass, which has a mild hallucinogenic effect, and it is easy to become addicted when eaten regularly.

The land here is jet black with a faint oily sheen, and the purple moss that grows in the places where it grows is polluted by demonic energy and the vegetation dies before it grows this purple moss that can grow in any environment, and it is said that this purple moss can grow even on snow-covered frozen soil.

There are small puddles of different depths everywhere, these puddles are of different depths, and the depth of the puddles is not judged by the size of the puddles, sometimes it is just a puddle the size of a basin. Legs can sink in, and sometimes a pond of water only covers the ankles.

The wilderness is also full of dangers.

In particular, there were some small red insects tumbling in the pool, attached to Surdak's leather boots, as if they wanted to bite through the salamander's leather boots.

On more than one occasion in this area, Surdak has encountered a species of swamp poison frog with a fine red spot on its belly and three black stripes on its back, which is more than a meter long and has a hind leg stretched almost two meters long.

They usually hide in swampy puddles and only poke their heads out of the water when hunting.

However, it is clear that there are no humans in their diet, so Surdak walked all the way through the swamp without being attacked by these swamp poison frogs.

When Surdak was sitting on the edge of the bushes resting, he happened to see an egret more than one meter tall falling in the swamp in front of him, with long bird legs stepping on the puddle in the swamp, and its long beak pecking at the red insects in the puddle, its posture was so dexterous.

Just as it stepped into a small puddle, a large green mouth suddenly emerged from the puddle, which wrapped around the egret's slender legs and swallowed its lower body into its stomach.

The egret reacted very quickly, flapping its wings and trying to fly into the sky.

However, the swamp poison frog closed its big mouth tightly, and lay next to the swamp puddle, its big mouth and throat kept stirring, swallowing the egret that kept flapping its wings and struggling into its stomach, and then plunged into the puddle in the swamp and disappeared.

Surdak thought that he had just walked through the puddle, and such a large swamp poison frog was stunned and didn't notice it......

Just as Surdak was about to get up and continue walking, he suddenly noticed that the demon scout team appeared on the horizon of the swamp, and Surdak quickly hid in the bushes next to him.

After waiting for a while, a team of demon warriors leading the hell hounds came from north to south from the swamp, there were six demon warriors in this team, there were two two-headed hell dogs in the team, and at the back of the team were two Gog who kept throwing fireballs in their hands and a big round meat ball, only a few tentacles hung down from the meat ball, this big meat ball was floating in the air like this, and there was a huge eye pupil in the center of the front.

The six demon warriors were wearing jet-black armor, their faces were dark gray, with two demonic horns on the top of their heads, although their faces also had eyes, noses, mouths, and ears, they looked like expressionless masks, and there were a pair of very short meat wings behind them.

They all exuded black energy, and the two two-headed hellhounds kept shaking their heads and tails beside them, running forward and backward.

The six demon scouts didn't have any conversation along the way, but the two Gog in the back chattered non-stop along the way, and the floating eyeball behind it would stop every time it walked a while, and a light pillar of light was released from its eyes, scanning around its body three hundred and sixty degrees.

Surdak hid his body in the bushes and waited motionlessly for the demon scout team to walk over, they found some blood thistles along the way, and several demon scouts stopped one after another and began to collect those blood thistle flowers.

Seeing that they had not gone far, Surdak had been hiding in the bushes.

This demon scout team did not enter the Black Stone Ridge on the south side, but collected some blood thistle flowers on the edge of the Black Stone Ridge, and everywhere they went, the one-eyed kept rotating like a radar to scan the surrounding situation.

Surdak wanted to know more about the demon warriors on the battlefield, so he followed them from a distance.

Follow them along the edge of the Black Rock Ridge until it was dark, and the demon scout team camped on the edge of the Black Rock Ridge.

There was a demon warrior in the demon scout team with two hellhounds patrolling back and forth around the camp, and the round eyeballs did not rest, just above the camp, constantly rotating and scanning around.

Surdak plans to sneak up on the Daredevil scout in order to find an opportunity to capture him and see if he can ask for some information.

He was thinking of getting closer, trying to make some strange noises, and luring this demon scout a little farther away, so that he could easily move even if he was fighting.

He took advantage of the darkness of the night to touch it, and every time the evil eye scanned it, he would lie on the ground in advance to avoid its gaze.

Stepping on the slimy purple moss, the swamp was even more difficult to walk through at night, and he followed behind the demon scouts who led the two hellhounds.

As Surdak stared at the demon scout in front of him, he accidentally stepped into a small puddle with one foot.

There was a 'snap' and the water splashed.

As if sensing something, one of the Cerberus slammed free of the rope in the Demon Scout's hand and pounced in the direction of Surdak, while the other Cerberus followed from behind.

Surdak quickly moved away from the demon scout's makeshift camp.

'Oops, found out......'

Hellhounds are fast runners, and they seem to be more robust than the Hellhounds Surdak has seen in the Gampoo and Maca planes.

The Hellhound that rushed to the front pounced from behind, and just as its huge claws were about to rest on Surdak's shoulders, its two heads actually spat out two magic bullets, one red and one dark, at the same time.

Surdak was forced to stop, turning to block with his shield.

The fire bomb concentrated on the shield and exploded, but the dark ball of light quickly dissolved under the holy light that floated from the shield.

Hellhound's claws rested on the spikes at the edge of the shield, and two bloody mouths bit down on Surdak's neck.

Surdak lowered his head and hid behind his shield, chanting a string of runes in his mouth:

tir-el

This is the shortest spell in the language of runes, the simplest magic of the magic circle, and a flash of light suddenly appeared on the broadsword, and Surdak swung the long sword in his hand, slashing along the edge of the shield towards the two heads of the hellhound.

Hellhound wanted to dodge, but a half-foot-long sword suddenly burst out on Surdak's broadsword, just cutting off half of Cerberus's neck.

The Hellhound fell to the ground with a whimper, purple blood gushing out from its throats beneath the two heads.

Before Surdak could catch his breath, the hellhounds that rushed up from behind him silently rushed towards him. The leg bites over.

'Shield Strike'

Surdak waved the Goethe shield in his hand and smashed it the body of the two-headed hellhound, and at the moment when the hellhound's body paused slightly, the broadsword in Surdak's hand stabbed out from behind the shield, and a sword pierced the heart of the two-headed hellhound.

The action of drawing his sword did not drag the mud and water in the slightest, and Surdak continued to run out.

The demon warrior behind rushed up, he was holding a square battle blade with a blood groove in his hand, and when he ran, he could take a long step with every step.

Seeing Surdak slaughter two hellhounds in just two breaths, the demon warrior was furious, and the square blade in his hand emitted a stream of lava heat, and the entire blade turned red.

From afar, he could be seen leaping high, raising his blade above his head with both hands, and slashing at Surdak with all his might.

Surdak hastily adjusted his defensive stance, and pressed his right arm and shoulder against Goethe's shield to meet it, and with a bang, the blade smashed into the shield and splashed countless sparks.

A tremendous force came from the blade, and Surdak was about to block the blow with his shield, but the broadsword slashed his chest and abdomen with his backhand.

Unfortunately, this huge force smashed on the shield, although a silver shield appeared on the shield, Surdak actually flew out uncontrollably, and the upward movement of the broadsword in his left hand also pounced.

In the first encounter, Surdak suffered some dark losses......

With this strength alone, this demon scout has the strength of a second-turn powerhouse, and he is also extremely experienced in combat, and when he rushed up, his mask-like face had a weird and strange smile, and his mouth let out a whining sound.

After slashing the first slash, the Demon Scout jumped into the air again, raising the blade above his head with both hands, and striking an extremely sharp blow again.

Surdak had no time to take a defensive stance, and there was no way to avoid it, so he could only raise his shield again.

Worried that he would not be able to block the other party's sharp blow, he recited a string of runes in his mouth again:

shael-fth

This is also the simplest sentence in the rune language, I saw that a layer of flames quickly ignited on the shield, and the demon scout blade slashed on the shield, he first cut through the divine shield, and then burst into a cloud of sparks on the burning shield.

Because of the blessing of the rune word 'Rhythm', this time Surdak stood firmly in place.