A ray of early morning sunlight shines through the dense canopy into the damp woods.

Surdak led a squad of Ghost Soldier Ant Warriors from the Tree Farm camp and headed east along the Gandar El Mountains.

The two-headed ogre Gullitham, whose body has been completely healed, is also with this exploration team this time, and the exploration team has a total of twelve ghost-patterned soldier ants and twelve infantry soldiers, in addition to this, there are also druid Lanni and the magician Basil in the team.

In the early morning, before the fog had completely cleared from the river, the sorcerer Basil explored the river at the foot of Mount Gandar.

The transpiring mist makes the river feel dangerous, and many birds fly among the lush trees on both banks.

It was the rainy season, and the river at the foot of Mount Kandar was turbulent, and the clear water smashed on the large rocks on the bank, and suddenly shattered into countless crystal beads.

Between the endless mountains, there is the sound of birdsong from time to time......

Surdak led the exploration team to follow the path in memory and re-enter the deep mountains and Daze.

When Aphrodi was lying in bed last night, he made fun of him for not being able to let go of the obsession in his heart, and he couldn't be considered a qualified commander at all.

Surdak didn't have any excuses, he actually didn't know what he was looking for in this mountain range when he led the exploration team out this time, whether it was the Earth Storm Bear or the indigenous tribe?

The river at the bend is so wide that the water becomes soothing, but the water here is not so deep, and Surdak remembers that he followed the second team to catch fish here......

He rode his horse, stood quietly by the river, closed his eyes, and the image of the young and lively native girl came to his mind.

She was not very beautiful, her wheat-colored skin was a little rough, and her hair was braid in fine braids, but her eyes were incomparably bright.

She stood under the willow tree across the bend and smiled and waved to herself!

Surdak opened his eyes suddenly, but the figure in his memory disappeared from his mind, and he flicked the reins of his war horse, and the war horse stepped into the river, trampling on the trickling river, and walked to the other side of the river step by step.

Gulit hurriedly followed from behind with a big stick, but the ghost-patterned soldiers and ants who accompanied him were blocked by the river on the opposite bank, and they kept wandering on the bank, but they did not dare to enter the river anyway.

Surdak could only let Ranny lead the exploration team to search downstream along the opposite riverbank, which belongs to the hunting area of the river valley, although the jungle beasts have not been seen in the woods on both sides of the riverbank, but Surdak is also worried that there will be a demon hunting team, so he asked the magician Basil to stay, at least to echo the exploration team.

And he is looking for the road in his memory, riding a horse and constantly groping forward.

The place was overgrown with weeds, and the original path could no longer be found, so Surdak could only look at the mountains on both sides and grope forward according to his memory, and saw Surdak's face tense, and the two-headed ogre did not bother him, but followed silently.

Along the way, Gulit and Brainflower were talking in whispers, their armor almost a pile of rotten iron from the last battle, and although it had been carefully repaired by the blacksmith Herak, it still looked like tattered beggar's clothes and made a clanging sound.

So wherever the ogre goes, it will scare the birds that perch on the canopy of the trees and fly away.

Finally found the valley in the memory of the deep mountains, this valley is very secret.

If Surdak hadn't been here many times, he would probably have been in the labyrinth of mountain paths by now, but once he entered the valley, there was a dead silence.

At the entrance to the valley, Surdak saw a few charred trees, rode inside, and saw a scorched earth, and the trees were reduced to piles of black ashes, and the wood that had not been fully burned was completely charred and fell to the ground.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Surdak was not surprised in his heart, the last time the demon army captured the forest farm camp, the forward troops were even all over the big meadow, although I don't know how Duke Newman drove these evil spirits back to Moyun Ridge and took the forest farm camp back.

But as you can imagine, the Demon Hunting Party has already covered the surrounding mountains.

The Demon Legion needs an adequate supply of food, and in the eyes of this group of Demon Warriors, the one-horned bison, yellow sheep, and wild boar are delicious in their eyes, as are the Imperial warriors and the natives of the plane.

This valley is secretive, but it is not a hidden place for demon hunters.

It can be seen that all the buildings here have been burned, but there are no bones in the ashes that have completely melted into the earth, and it is certain that the natives have either moved away or have been used as food rations by the demons to make bacon.

Walking some way along the scorched earth of the village, Surdak stopped in front of the grassy altar, which still had a few broken totem pillars and even some skulls of demonic beasts.

Surdak jumped off his horse and climbed the steps up the steps to the altar, which was only half a room in size.

Aphrodite came out of the Void Gate in silk pajamas and looked like she had just woken up, her hair still a little messy, and a steaming glass of milk in her hand, swollen and shivering as the rabbit walked in her pajamas.

"Is this what you remember? A local Aboriginal village? Didn't you get brought back to life by those hoplites in the woodyard camp? Aphrodite asked curiously, standing beside Surdak as she handed him the steaming cup.

Surdak squatted on the altar, touched the blurred patterns on the stones on the altar with his hand, and said to Aphrodite: "I learned to sacrifice here!" ”

Aphrodite looked around in surprise and asked in disbelief, "You mean the sacrifice given to you by the indigenous witch here?" ”

Surdak nodded.

"I can't believe it...... So how did they come to their demise? Aphrodite said with a puzzled expression

"During the time I lived here, the tribe had decayed to the point where there were no young warriors to carry those magical beasts......," Surdak said this, and suddenly remembered that at that time, the Great Wizard of Inoyatilla was on the altar, and he peeled off the skin of the demonic beasts, and draped almost the entire body on the young warriors of the tribe.

In this way, they will gain the power of the monsters, and then they will give these warriors the blessing of the 'Divine Blessed Body'.

In this way, although the carrying capacity of the young native's body is not enough, it can hold out for three days with the help of the 'Divine Blessed Body', during which time these young warriors will have extraordinary strength.

But once the blessed power of the 'Divine Blessed Body' wears off, then these young warriors will also explode and die.

This is the specific reason for the decline of this tribe.

This is different from Surdak's implantation of the Life Pattern into those first-turn warriors, the carrying capacity required for the Life Pattern itself is very small, and it is implanted in the body of the first-turn warrior.

He didn't implant the entire skin of the monster into the warrior and turn them into the kind of monster that was neither human nor ghostly.

Now that I think about it, I can imagine how helpless the Grand Wizard of Innoyatila would have been in the first place.

Surdak stood in the jungle, reluctant to say a word.

After a while, Surdak regained his mood and asked Aphrodite, "Why are you here?" ”

"It's not that I feel like you're in a bad mood, so I'll come and comfort you......" Aphrodite yawned, squinted at Surdak and smiled, before saying, "By the way, I almost forgot, my daughter woke up, I'm going to go next door to see ......"

As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and pushed forward, and a void door instantly appeared in front of her.

Just like at home, casually walking in, Surdak realized that she had come barefoot, and her graceful figure disappeared from the altar in an instant.

The two-headed ogre under the altar wiped his eyes vigorously, showing envy for Aphrodite's ability to freely travel through the rift in time and space.

Surdak had not been able to meet the Earth Storm Bear in the mountains, and he had hoped to have another chance encounter here, but when he thought about it, even small beasts such as grouse and hares were almost extinct in the entire mountain, which shows how ferocious these demon hunting groups are.

Fearing danger to the expedition team he had brought out, Surdak simply stopped for a moment in the ruins of the tribe and rode back.

Just as he was about to reach the bend, the two-headed ogre suddenly stopped and pulled Surdak in his tracks.

Gulit stood hunched over the reeds by the river, where the reeds were so dense that they could hide a three-meter-tall two-headed ogre.

He pointed across the reeds and lowered his voice, "I smell meat, what do you say?" ”

"Are there many people on the other side?" Surdak asked.

"It should be a full demon hunting team!" Gulitham replied with an oath.

Surdak asked in disbelief, "You can smell this too?" ”

"Hehe, I'm guessing later, but I'm sure there won't be a lot of people......" Gulit smiled and whispered as he half-crouched in the reeds.

"If you meet it, you can't let it go, who would think that there are many black magic crystals!" Surdak said to the ogre, then added, "Wait until I call Aphrodite ......"

In fact, it's not that the two of them can't defeat a team of demon warriors, after all, both of them are second-turn powerhouses, but Surdak is worried that even if it is an ambush, the two of them will not be able to eat the entire demon team, and if they accidentally let one or two go, it will be a loss.

If Aphrodite could put them all to sleep with the 'Sleeping Cloud', the battle would be much easier.

Surdak proved to be right, and Aphrodite passed through the Void Gate again, releasing the cloud of sleep in the reeds as the demon team passed by the shore.

Surdak then walked out with his broadsword and cut off the heads of four demons with a dagger like a melon and a vegetable.

However, the ogre Gullitm had a bit of an itchy hand, he didn't want to smash the head of the demon warrior with the big stick in his hand, and he didn't have a sharp knife, he didn't want to use his own meat cleaver, so he tried to twist it by hand......

It's a pity that he underestimated the strength of the demon warriors, who shouted out before their heads were screwed off.

Finally the sleeping demon warrior woke up in an instant, and he sprang up from the ground, and when he saw the miserable scene around him, he let out a series of angry roars, and then he was about to burrow into the thick reeds beside him.

Surdak was still willing to let it go, and with his brand new bone shield in hand, he took a few steps and chased after the demon warrior, swinging the bone shield forward......

The demon warrior felt a strong gust of wind behind him, and he didn't dare to resist with his body, so he half-turned and glanced back, but his body jumped forward honestly.

Seeing that he was about to rush into the reeds, he saw that the bone shield in Surdak's hand was clearly covered with the bone face of a demon general.

The anger in the demon warrior's heart reached its peak in an instant, and his mind was hot, and after jumping into the reeds, he rushed out of it again, and stabbed Surdak in the chest with a fist sword in his hand.

As a veteran shield warrior, Surdak really didn't have much to do about the demon warrior turning and fleeing, but he was not afraid to turn around and fight back.

The bone shield in his hand accurately blocked the demon warrior's killing blow.

The demon warrior saw the venerable bony face on the shield again, and then gritted his teeth and stabbed Surdak with his sword.

Surdak didn't think that in the end, this demon warrior would be so hot in the head, even if he was the only one left, he still fought back regardless of it.

What a dedication!

The ogre Gullitham came from behind, waved his big stick, and knocked the demon to the ground with just one stroke.

"Woo...... Refreshing! The two-headed ogre cheered, it was the first time he had killed a demon warrior since he had recovered, and the thrill of revenge filled the ogre's mind.

Surdak held the shield, looked down at the bone shield, frowned and asked Aphrodite, "How can this be?" Why didn't he run just now? ”

Aphrodite unleashed a group magic, her face was a little pale, she looked at the bone shield in Surdak's hand, and then said, "I guess it was because the bone shield in your hand angered him and made him get carried away by anger!" ”

"Can it still be like this?" Surdak said with some excitement.

"It's the most likely......" Aphrodite explains.

Surdak said with a look of surprise: "So my shield is a taunt for the demon warriors?" ”

Aphrodite stood by the river, looking at the sky in the distance, and the magician Basil actually flew along the river on a magic handle, followed by a group of ghost-patterned soldiers and hoplites on the opposite bank.

Seeing the corpse of the demon warrior lying on the ground here, he glided in the air for a while, turned around again to reduce his speed, and then slowly fell.

(End of chapter)