Chapter 33: The Strange Ritual (Seeking Follow-up)

When the bell rings, they stop walking and fall to their knees, as if in prayer?

Because of the influence of the fog, Leo couldn't see it realistically, so he could only make a simple guess.

The bell rang for about 30 seconds, and when the bell stopped, the figures rose again and continued to wander aimlessly in the vicinity.

Leo's eyes narrowed, staring at the figures who got up and continued to wander, and had an idea in his heart.

He clenched the gravel in his hand and pushed it outward.

With his current physical fitness, he easily threw the gravel onto the wall of the farmhouse dozens of meters away, making a crisp "bang" sound.

The sudden sound made a wandering figure about five or six meters away from the farmhouse react, turning around and slowly approaching the source of the sound, while the wandering figures ten meters away from the farmhouse did not react.

The attracted wandering figure made a detour to the source of the sound, and when it saw that there were no living creatures, it paused in its footsteps, and then turned back to its place.

Looking at this scene, Leo's eyes flashed with thought.

These wandering figures seem to be far less sensitive to the outside world than the deformed dogs, have a fixed range of action, and have a special sense of bells?

Case......

Leo patiently hid in place, waiting for the next bell to ring.

Time passed, and after about an hour, the bell rang again.

Now is the time!

Leo looked stunned, rushed out from behind the cart quickly, took three steps and made two steps, and in just a few seconds, he crossed a distance of dozens of meters and came to the prowling figure next to the nearest farmhouse.

At such a close distance, Leo could finally see the monster clearly.

It was a humanoid monster dressed in tattered gray cloth and with a thin body, its face looked like a skull hanging from its muscles and skin, and on the ground beside it was a rusty farm tool of human length, which looked like a rake plowing.

Is it the farmer on the farm who has been eroded by deformity?

Leo's approach did not attract the attention of the farmer monster, who knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the bell, as if praying and begging for forgiveness from the gods.

In the face of such an "unresisting" monster, of course, Leo would not hesitate, and the long sword in his hand slashed at the neck of the farmer monster.

Ever since the last time he pierced a Soldier monster and sent it out of black mud, Leo no longer believed that the heart was the monster's weakness, preferring to use the more laborious method of severing the neck to ensure that the monster was completely killed.

"Click!"

With a crisp sound, the farmer monster's neck snapped, and sticky black blood splattered everywhere.

When he slashed out this sword, Li Ao used all his strength, he had used the long sword to cut the deformed big dog before, and experienced the abnormality of the solidity of its bones, but to Leo's surprise, the vertebrae of the farmer monster seemed to be very fragile, and the long sword passed through it, and only felt a slight blockage, and split it in two.

The detached farmer monster twitched on the ground a few times before it began to dissipate into ashes.

【Absorbing Broken Souls (1)......】

[Soul Fire Color: Light Gray]

[Soul Fire Brightness: 1.82→1.83]

[Current Status: Health]

"Absorbing Broken Souls (1)...... It's a monster of the same level as the Freaked Dog. ”

Leo muttered to himself, a little disappointed in his eyes.

After the Farmer Monster corpse dissipated, a rusty rake farming tool was left in place.

Leo leaned over to pick it up.

The introduction of the characters came as scheduled.

【Five-tooth nail rake】

[A kind of agricultural tool used for plowing land and pulling grass, it can also be used as a simple weapon, and the sharp rake nail has a certain lethality. He is a good partner of the farmers of Bourne Farm. 】

[Before the aberration struck, Byrne Farm was the largest farm in the entire city of Jor, and its owner, Viscount Bourne, was the younger brother of Count Alexander, the lord of Joel City. 】

"Berne Farm...... Viscount Byrne...... The brother of the lord of the city, Count Alexander......"

Chewing on these words, Leo thought thoughtfully.

At this time, the bell gradually became faint, and after finding out the details of the farmer monster and knowing that it was just a monster of the same level as the deformed big dog, Leo was much more confident.

He looked at the peasant monsters who were slowly rising from the ground not far away, and a sharp cold light flashed in his eyes.

……

Half an hour later.

Under the eaves of a farmhouse, Leo shook his wrist and scattered the black blood stained on the long sword.

Beside him was the corpse of a peasant monster that was gradually turning to ashes.

Although it is a monster of the same level, in Leo's senses, a slow guy like the Farmer Monster is far less threatening than a deformed dog, and even if an ordinary person musters up the courage and is not frightened by the ugly and terrifying appearance of the Farmer Monster, he can easily kill it.

In half an hour, Leo killed a total of 14 Farmer Monsters.

And the harvest is to grow to a soul fire brightness of 1.87.

14 Farmer Monsters, for a total of only 0.05 boost.

This made Leo suspect for a while that the first farmer monster he killed earlier could increase by 0.01 because of the residual blessing of killing the two deformed dogs.

After cleaning up the farmer monsters near the outer farmhouse, Leo went inside the farmhouse and searched it, only to see broken furniture and some gray-black crops scattered on the ground.

The crops had become a black mass and glued together, making it difficult to tell what they were.

Other than that, nothing exists that can cause a character reaction.

The indescribable smell of rotten crops caused Leo to "hide his nose and retreat", and then he looked at the three windmill houses not far away, his face solemn.

The farmhouses on the outer part are about 40 meters away from the three windmill houses inside.

At this distance, even with the fog, Leo could barely see a little of the situation near the windmill house.

Three windmill houses stand side by side, and in front of the middle one, there is a burning bonfire.

In front of the campfire, kneeling was an unusually bloated figure.

Even in a kneeling position, its height is still more than two meters.

And in the inner circle of the bonfire, there are large farmer monsters crawling.

As for the outer circle, there are more than a dozen soldier monsters patrolling with lanterns and large firewood knives and weapons.

Suddenly, a black shadow flashed in the hands of a bloated figure kneeling in front of the campfire, and rolled up a prostrate peasant monster not far away and threw it into the campfire.

The farmer monster wailed in a miserable voice, but the strange thing was that even though it was in extreme pain, it did not actively escape from the campfire, but let the flames completely consume its body.

When the prostrate farmer monsters in the inner circle saw this scene, they all kowtowed and roared feverishly.

For a moment, the scene was strange and solemn, like an evil ritual.

(During the double monthly pass, the big guy with the monthly pass begs to vote for the monthly pass!) )