Chapter 47: The Griffon (I)
"Aaron, do you think that's the hill that Cass is talking about?" Out of the village, the two walked straight east for two hours, and soon saw a small hill, the peak of which was only about three hundred meters above the ground, not very high, and the terrain was not very steep.
"I've calculated the distance along the way, and now I've walked twenty-one miles, so it's probably this mountain. Aaron stood at the foot of the hill and looked up, and there was only this hill nearby, and the rest of the place was a flat terrain.
"If you want to go up the mountain later, let's go together, it's safer, this place is out of my family's territory, if you encounter any trouble, the people who sent the signal family won't be able to receive it. Bruce glanced around and became very wary.
Aaron nodded, knowing very well in his heart that in some borderlands, there are often some black-robed mages haunting, and after coming to this continent for so long, he clearly understands the classification between some mages.
Generally, mages wear white robes, and most of these mages are moderates who will not hurt people for no reason, while most of the mages in black robes are bloodthirsty people with distorted personalities, unscrupulous means to achieve their goals, and like to carry out some crazy practices.
It can be understood that the black-robed mage pursues strength, while the white-robed mage pursues the truth, but everything is not absolute, and there are some relatively low-key black-robed mages, and not all the white-robed mages are moderates.
Anyway, the two factions don't like each other, and the black-robed mages are relatively stronger in combat, but the number is smaller than that of the white-robed mages.
If he encounters a black-robed mage in such a place, it is very likely that a battle will break out, so Bruce has become much more vigilant than before, if it weren't for helping Aaron, he wouldn't want to run to this kind of place.
There was no road on a barren mountain like this, so Aaron and Bruce found a relatively stable spot and walked up on foot.
The mountain didn't look like it was going to be a powerful creature, Aaron didn't have much hope, and Cass said it was a month ago when he saw it, so much time had passed, and the flying creature had probably left here and gone somewhere else.
After Aaron and Bruce entered the mountain, they did not look around at the foot of the mountain, but kept walking to a higher place, generally speaking, those flying creatures like to stay in high places, and the view of the mountain is relatively open, and you can see a large area when you look down, so it is a good choice to go directly to the top of the mountain.
"What's the sound?" "Halfway up the mountain, Aaron suddenly heard a small sound, somewhat similar to the sound of a large bird's wings stirring.
As soon as he heard this voice, Aaron immediately stopped, raised his head, looked up into the sky, and kept moving his feet to look in other directions.
"It's very likely that this is the unknown creature I'm looking for!" When the body moved dozens of degrees, a figure appeared in Aaron's sight, fanning huge wings, the hesitation distance was not very close, about two hundred meters away, the specific appearance was not clear, but it was vaguely similar to the description of the unknown creature.
At first, Bruce didn't hear the sound of those wings stirring, and when Aaron stopped and looked into the distance, he was missing something, so he also looked in the direction Aaron was looking: "What's that?"
"Don't worry about that much yet, let's lean over there right now. Aaron couldn't help but say, and then ran to the place where the creature was hovering.
Seeing this, Bruce immediately followed, his eyes fixed on the creature from time to time.
The creature didn't know what it was doing, it kept hovering over the vicinity, and didn't fly anywhere else, but it was a good thing for Aaron, if it did fly away, then he wouldn't be able to catch up with the winged one who flew in the sky on two legs.
As the garbage wore away, Aaron gradually saw the creature's appearance clearly, the body of a griffriff but not particularly similar, two forelimbs connected to wings, with huge claws like a hook, a dark blue mane growing on the back of the neck, a reddish-brown body, only the beak was black, like an eagle's beak.
"Absolutely! It must be an unknown creature!It matches the characteristics in the description!" Aaron was sure that this was what he was looking for, but the creature seemed to be larger than the description.
Aaron thought about it, when Bruce's cousin found out about it, it was two years ago, and now that he has grown up, it is not strange, but it seems normal.
At this time, Aaron was still a hundred meters away from the creature, and he saw it swoop violently, go to a certain position below, and disappear from sight, seeing this, he immediately quickened his pace.
But when Aaron got closer, the unknown creature reappeared in the sky above, but this time he didn't hover, but flew straight in the direction of the top of the mountain.
"Chip, scan that creature!" At this time, the distance between the two sides was only about twenty meters, and Aaron hurriedly asked the chip to scan and analyze the unknown creature, recording the number and appearance.
"Drop, scanned!"
"Name: Unknown Strength: 23 / Agility: 20 / Constitution: 18" In just one second, the chip scans and displays the number jù.
"Hey!! so high number, it's a lot stronger than I expected!" The body element of the unknown creature is higher than Aaron expected at first, and it is much higher.
Originally, he thought that the unknown creature, the three basic numbers jù, was about 18, but now it seems to be underestimated, to deal with this unknown creature, with the current preparation, it is impossible, just 18 points of physique, those level 1 spells basically can't have much impact on it, even if he and Bruce go together, it will be difficult to kill it, unless it is an official level 1 mage who comes, there is some certainty.
The unknown creature flew towards the top of the mountain, and Aaron and Bruce immediately changed direction and went straight to the top of the mountain, but they were obviously not fast enough for the creature, and soon lost its shadow, and presumably stopped at the peak.
But when Aaron and Bruce reach the top of the mountain, they find a huge lair and meet the owner of the place, which is the unknown creature just now, and there are piles of white bones around it, and the atmosphere is particularly scary.
Neither of them dared to get too close, but only secretly observed behind a large tree dozens of meters away.
"Aaron, this is the same chance as my cousin described, although this is the first time I've seen this creature, but I can feel it's powerful, let's not pay attention to it!" Bruce looked closer, and whispered. He knew very well in his heart that this big guy was definitely not easy to mess with.
Aaron just nodded after hearing this, and secretly thought to himself: "It seems that this creature lives here, and it shouldn't leave in a short time, I'd better go back and find relevant information, and then find a way to deal with it." ”
Aaron knew that he would never be able to kill it now, and he didn't know any information about it, but he didn't give up the hunt because of this, since he already knew that the lair was here and had a clear appearance, then go back to find out the origin first, and be fully prepared to come over again, he wouldn't give up if he didn't try.
After a few more glances at the creature, Aaron looked at Bruce and waved, "Let's go!"
When he left the top of the mountain, Aaron didn't go straight down the mountain, but walked towards the place where the creature had been hovering, trying to figure out what it had just been doing there.
Coming to the vicinity of the unidentified creature hovering below, Aaron and Bruce searched around.
"Aaron, come here, I've found something here!" After checking around for a while, Bruce suddenly found something and hurriedly shouted to Aaron not far away.
Trotting to Ruth's side, he was greeted by a corpse, a fresh corpse, still with blood, a huge snake, not very long, only nearly 10 meters, but very thick, nearly 1 meter in diameter, and a huge head with a large hole pierced.
"This must have been killed by the creature!" I remember the snake seemed to be called the Giant Snake of the Black Man......" Aaron knew the origin of the snake at once, based on the information recorded in the chip.
"The Black Man Giant Snake, even if I come out to deal with it, that creature that looks like a griffin, killing it so lightly is definitely not an ordinary master, fortunately Aaron has given up!" Bruce took a deep breath, he knew the power of this giant snake, and secretly rejoiced.
"But why didn't the unknown creature kill it, and instead take the body back and dispose of it inside?
"If you don't take the Black Man Serpent as your prey, then why kill it, maybe there's some other reason for that. Bruce thought it was weird, but couldn't understand why.
Neither of them could figure out why, but Aaron didn't plan to stay any longer, but instead collected a little of the blood of the Black Man Serpent, and then left the hill with Bruce.
Now that the unidentified creature has been seen, the two immediately set off to return to Vicky Gardens, and on the way back, Aaron specially drew an image of the unidentified creature and gave it to Bruce to ask him to help see if he could inquire about the origin of this creature.
"Aaron, I didn't expect you to have such a talent! Looking at the delicately drawn image, Bruce couldn't help but nod in praise.
In this regard, Aaron just smiled faintly, there is no difficulty in painting at all, the chip directly transmits the experience of the painting master to his mind, and he can become a painter at once.
Speaking of which, the creature looks similar to a griffon, but is probably less than a tenth of its size, and legend has it that the real griffin is very large and has some details to differ.
Aaron is certainly not a griffin, but he should be related to a griffin, such as some creatures of subrace and the like, inheriting some characteristics of their ancestors, but much weaker than their ancestors.