Chapter 168: The Shocking Change of the Cursed Swamp (1)
After careful comparison of the three of them, it was soon found that in the three hunting records last year, the records of the spring hunting adventure were very detailed and clear, as the leader of the team at that time, Nightingale, truthfully recorded all the details of the entire activity, under her command and leadership, the entire hunting team covered many areas of the Cursed Swamp, and the harvest was very rich and the team's own losses were very small, and there was not even a single seriously wounded, which perfectly showed the outstanding military talent of Christina, who was nicknamed "Nightingale".
Lane remembers that shortly after that, he had transferred Nightingale to the Netherlands to consolidate the territory's armies, and later assisted Alendor in exterminating the kobolds who had plundered the caravans and the Sallon sinners who had taken the kobolds. As for the transfer of Nightingale, Cassano handed over this aspect to one of Adella's cousins, and Ryan naturally did not know about this trivial matter, and only found out from the records of the autumn hunt and the reminder of Richie, who had been living in Cassano, which suddenly gave Ryan a hint of alarm in his heart.
Sure enough, in the record of the autumn hunting adventure, a kind of impatient mentality was revealed, the cousin Adela who finally got the real power on the throne, probably too eager to show himself and prove his strength, actually organized the largest hunting team in history, not only Cassano himself needs to experience the army, but also from the human continent to gather several large chambers of commerce, and also hired a lot of mercenary groups, this adventure team of nearly a thousand people even if the number of people entering the endless frozen plateau in the north is too many, not to mention that it is only an area that is not particularly large Cursed Swamp?
Relying on the advantage of numbers, Adela's cousin did get amazing gains, but compared with the personnel losses he paid on this trip, as well as the expenses paid by the mercenary chamber and the mercenary group, it was a little beyond his means, so this cousin of Adela didn't know who he listened to, and despite the persuasion of the accompanying mage, he forcibly opened the defensive magic array set up by Ryan at the entrance to the ruins of the Temple of Apocalypse, and led the team deep into the ruins of the terrifying underground palace, and he really found another warehouse full of supplies.
After returning to Cassano, Adela's cousin naturally wanted to say that the merit of three points was ten, and then he asked himself that he had a wealth of experience, and that there should have been a hunting adventure twice a year, so there was one more time in winter, in order to maximize his own interests, Adra's cousin all used Cassano's own manpower, and the result was that this adventure full of anticipation was met with a terrible nightmare, the legendary human-faced spider queen, the legendary berserk monitor lizard...... The Swamp of the Damned tore off the veil of tenderness and mystery in an instant, opening its bloody jaws to devour almost a third of the members of the party, eventually forcing Vivien to temporarily halt all activity in the area.
These records were almost passed by in a few strokes, but Ryan didn't need to be very detailed, just looking at the area where the entire hunting party had been, it was enough to roughly guess what was going on. In fact, when Ryan heard the description of the "Temple of the Apocalypse" from Richie's mouth, he had already confirmed in his heart that the shocking change in the Cursed Swamp today must be related to Adela's cousin's adventure in the ruins of the Temple of the Apocalypse.
But under the influence of a group of businessmen who can do anything for the sake of immediate interests, and under the leadership of the cousin Adela who can ignore the lives of his subordinates for the sake of his superiors but does not understand anything and cannot listen to persuasion, Ryan believes that this group of damned bastards will definitely have the courage to directly sell the spider goddess Rose's favorite maid as a slave girl, they will not think about it at all, and it is impossible to see what the consequences of doing this are, just like the cursed swamp made this matter, and in the end, if those powerful demonic beasts broke out in order to forage for food and besieged Cassano's new Iron Fist Castle, that cousin of Adela would definitely beg Vivian to hide in the floating city at the first timeAs for the entire innocent people of Cassano, it is left to fate.
Remembering that I was with Faraz, Elendor and the others worked hard together to kill the hydra, and then entered the ruins of the Temple of the Apocalypse together, and the image of an old man in his fifties wearing a silver-white priest's robe immediately appeared in front of Lane's eyes, the former high priest of the Temple of the Apocalypse became a dark sacrifice under the dark ritual of the undead legion, and wandered in the prayer room of the ruins of the Temple of the Apocalypse for two hundred years alone and painfully, but finally he was freed in the hands of Ryan, and then Ryan's ears seemed to ring the words spoken by the soul of the high priest before annihilation: "That seal, if it is not a last resort, don't touch it!
"I told you not to enter the lake in the center of the Cursed Swamp and the ruins of the Temple of the Apocalypse, but these bastards took my words as wind in their ears!" Ryan was slightly angry in his heart, fortunately he returned to Cassano, if he continued to stay in the other world for a few years, he was afraid that this beautiful city would be threatened by the beast tide that broke out from the cursed swamp, and the embarrassment of encountering a backyard fire in the face of a strong enemy in the other world would definitely greatly involve Ryan's energy, and all this was completely caused by a few people who were messing around for the so-called merits, but in the final analysis, it was the dereliction of duty of the lord Vivian, which made Ryan have the idea of replacing the lord of Cassano in his heart.
Of course, these things will be done in the future, and the specific pros and cons will have to be weighed repeatedly, and the top priority for Ryan and his party at the moment is to solve the shocking changes caused by the cursed swamp. According to the analysis of the available intelligence, Ryan has reason to suspect that the seal under the ruins of the Temple of the Apocalypse has some degree of leakage, and those human-faced spider queens and berserk monitor lizards were affected by the aura of that unknown powerful creature to produce such an astonishing mutation, which Ryan has verified from the primeval black dragon that sleeps in the deepest part of the misty cavern.
Regarding the secret of the sealed powerful creature on the lower level of the Temple of the Apocalypse, only two or three people in the entire Cassano knew, Ryan obtained a lot of Mithril materials from there at that time, and later organized people to enter them several times, emptying all the materials in the warehouses pointed out by Emma, but since then, Ryan weighed the pros and cons, and felt that ordinary warriors could not deal with those wandering undead at all, and if there were no large number of magicians and priests accompanying them, it would not be able to serve the purpose of training the team at all, and too many people entered and exited the ruins of the Temple of Apocalypse too often, it was easy to leak the secrets there and cause unnecessary panicRyan re-strengthened the defensive magic circle at the entrance to the temple and warned his Cassano men not to go near the area, and for the next few years the hunting adventures were only operating in other parts of the Cursed Swamp until Adra's cousin took over the Nightingale's duties.
"Let's pack up those berserk monitor lizards first, and then go to the ruins of the Temple of the Apocalypse. Ryan gave the order in two faint words, and then Sias and the others packed up everything and hurried to rest, so that they could adjust their bodies and minds to the best state before the battle. About thirty minutes later, Ryan and his party were led by Sias Sissi and moved towards the habitat area of the berserk monitor lizards, although Ryan was worried about the matter of the Temple of the Apocalypse, but these emotions did not affect the current trial of his three students, Ryan still followed Sias and them from a distance with a calm attitude, silently watching the four-person team, including Emma, decide the battle plan and implement it on their own.
Because it was night, most of the rampaging monitor lizards were asleep, but at the edge of their habitat, there were a few monitor lizards whose strength was roughly the same as that of the ordinary advanced class, these "sentinels" The existence of Xiassi makes it difficult for them to launch an annihilating sneak attack, even if they can defeat half of the number of berserk monitor lizards at one time, with the difference in strength between the two sides, once these terrible creatures launch a counterattack against the opponents who have not yet stepped into the legendary realm, Xiassi and they will bear a heavy price, this kind of defeat-lose combat method is obviously unacceptable to Xiassi and others, so after some thought, Xiassi came up with a more alternative way.
The reason why the berserk monitor lizards are so named is because they have thick skin and flesh, and they are extremely defensive, and once attacked, they will enter a state of madness, and blood and food are the only pursuit of the berserker in this state, which is very similar to the berserker of the orcs. Anyone or creature will find it tricky when they encounter this group of enemies who are not afraid of life and death to attack frantically, and this effect is both a strength and a weakness of the berserk monitor lizard, and if used, it can be used to create a beautiful leapfrog challenge.
After some arrangement, Xiassi and the others entered the pre-set positions, and Xiassi, who was in charge of luring the enemy, was the first to launch, slaughtering several demonic beasts that were captured by several of them, and letting their blood flow in the surrounding muddy swamp. Under the reflection of the starry sky, the smell of blood in the air spread at an extremely fast speed, and in less than twenty minutes, there was a commotion from the group of sleeping berserk monitor lizards, almost all of them were awakened by this smell, and the bloodthirsty desire from biological instinct filled the brains of each berserk monitor lizard, driving them to move in the direction of the source of the blood smell.