Chapter 95: Chance Encounters and Cats
Dragons are naturally possessed with a keen sense of smell, and when they smell the smell of any person or thing, they leave a clear olfactory memory in their brains.
Quis stopped at the side of a wanderer curled up on the corner of the street, although it was blocked by the leather hooded burqa and the body odor caused by the wanderer's body not washing for many days, the young blue dragon was still sure that the smell emanating from his body belonged to a person he had seen before, and the muscular figure under this person's burqa seemed to support his suspicions.
"Hello, Mr. Blatch, the Elven Grand Samurai from Salem. ”
The boy's whispered greeting seemed to the ears of the wanderer, who was snoring with his eyes closed, like a thunderclap on the ground. The powerful elf, who was both a great samurai and a sorcerer, leapt from the ground in an instant, and two scimitars suddenly protruded from their robes. Between the rise and fall of the rabbit, he put on a posture of both offense and defense against Quis and the others.
Raising his hand, he stopped the strong ogre man who saw this scene and immediately took out the ebony barbed chain and wanted to rush forward, and the steampunk half-lich who also wanted to preemptively strike and cast a spell.
Quisi took a good time to observe the elf powerhouse in front of him who had a relationship with him, and I have to say that there is a feeling that things are wrong.
The two thick arms that showed out of his burqa were covered with scars that looked like they had just healed, the eyes that stared at his group under the hood, although still sharp, were not as bright as they had been remembered, and the two elven scimitars he held at this time were densely covered with gaps of various shades and sizes, and it was obvious that both weapons were as exhausted as their masters.
"Are you...... The dragon...... Your Excellency?" Bradch, the former "tongue puller" in Salem, also seemed to recognize who had just greeted him, although two years of bloody encounters had made Quest stronger and taller after turning into a human form, his face had not changed much, and the appearance of the three ogres who followed him was very distinctive.
Identifying who was coming didn't make Brach let his guard down, but he didn't want to provoke a dragon who might not be an enemy, so the powerful elf asked carefully, "Were you commissioned by Harkonnen to kill me?"
Harkonnen, another familiar name. Quest remembered the fourth son of the Salem Khan, who had allowed himself to harvest a few thousand silver Kate's fat sheep.
"Of course not, and quite the opposite," he said with interest, waving his hand, inheriting the powerful force field control ability of the Self-Power Dragon, a tabby cat lurking in the shadows not far away was ingested by the volley, "I can still help you, such as ......"
As if turning into a cat lover, the young blue dragon's fingers bent slightly, and he flicked the kitten with a frightened expression under the constraints of the stance twice: "If you hit me, you will be ashamed of me; Do you say?"
The tabby cat, which was originally frightened, immediately changed its expression when he heard this. Its eyes flashed with an emotion called anger, and it stared closely at the initiator in front of it, but this time it was a third bullet.
Pushed by the force field of Queth's bullets, the cat trapped in the force field was knocked away and hit the walls on both sides of the road. Thankfully, as the force field restraining its body was lifted, the tabby cat kicked the wall on all fours, turned and landed firmly on the ground.
With a meow and a roar, the little creature immediately lifted its physical disguise, and a creature resembling a tiger man suffering from bestiality appeared in its place. It's just that he only looks like a tiger man, and his distorted palms that are exactly the opposite of mortals reveal his true nature—he is a rakshasa.
Rakshasa is also known as the evil beast ghost. It is a Bato creature who, through a dark ritual, frees its spirit from the demon's body and is able to break free from the shackles of the lower realms and descend to the physical plane to satisfy its thirst for flesh and blood of humanoids and plot secret plots.
The moment the dark ritual was completed, they could no longer be considered Batzu demons. As a result, they no longer have the resistance bonuses that the Devils are used to, as well as spell abilities such as "Summoning Batzu".
Of course, there is a gain in the loss, and this creature not only gains the ability to leave Bartow's Nine Prisons freely, but also disguises itself as whatever it wants.
Few creatures are able to see the rakshasas in their true form, and they prefer to disguise themselves as powerful or influential figures, such as nobles of extraordinary origin, bishops who serve the gods, or wealthy merchants. Even if someone occasionally sees their true form, it is easy to be fooled by their appearance as a mixture of human and tiger features, and mistake them for a tiger man.
But this kind of disguise can't be concealed from Ques, you must know that this young blue dragon is a man who has personally commanded a Bato army. (Although most of them are mediocre mercenaries)
The words that Quest had just provoked this rakshasa were not nonsense, but there was such an aphorism in the rakshasas: "If you are stabbed, you will be ashamed, and if you are stabbed twice, you will be ashamed of me." ”
This Batow creature has a very strong vindictive mentality, and its only remaining Batzu trait is that it does not actually die after the physical plane is killed, and its body is remodeled after a few months or years.
When the Rakshasa is reborn, he retains all the knowledge and memories of his previous life, and uses it to find the person who killed him, followed by a brutal revenge called punishment. If the target is out of his grasp for some reason (e.g., death), the Rakshasa will turn his revenge on the target's family, friends, and descendants.
Of course, he didn't want to get revenge on anyone just now, he was just carrying out his mission - to kill Bradch the "Tongue Puller". And this is the second layer of disguise for the Bato outpost, disguised as a tailor's shop, the day-to-day business of an Assassin guild. Although he was suddenly transformed into a madman, this rakshasa is not reckless. In fact, he was quite accomplished in judging the situation, and after weighing the ability of the person who had just provoked him to play with himself, and seeing the group of people standing next to Quest who seemed to belong to the category of "unprovoked", Rakshasa was left to think about how to retreat with his whole body.
"This Tigerman ......" Watching a tabby cat suddenly turn into a humanoid, Bradge was slow to think that the target was probably himself.
"He's a rakshasa, not a tiger man. The young blue dragon in human form interrupted the elf's words, and revealed the true identity of the rakshasa in front of him: "Go back and tell that Tieflin that I have this elf useful." If she has any doubts, she can come to me in person, if she dares. ”
In the city where Baat's outpost is located, a Bato creature has appeared, and Quis can guess the connection between the two with his heels. However, he did have some other ideas when he rescued Bradge this time.
After returning to the material plane, the matter of exploring the ruins of the ancient Imaska civilization that he had thought about once reappeared in his mind.
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