Chapter Ninety-Nine: An Abnormal Swarm of Rats
Shug placed the young girl who lived in room 519 on the bed.
Although she was not at the moment, Xiuge was completely unable to generate any thoughts—she was badly wounded, and her legs were covered with one horrible scar after another, which were left by the gnawing of countless rats, perhaps because their teeth contained toxins that could anesthetize human nerves and senses, the girl did not feel any pain, and there was no blood in those wounds, as if the flesh had been completely necrotic.
There is no way to rescue the girl right now.
He hurriedly opened the magic book and tore a page from it.
It was the only stream-level healing magic "Magic First Aid" that he had previously engraved in a magic book, and its name was very simple, and its effect was extremely simple and straightforward - it was widely used in the field of field medicine, and it was the easiest for spellcasters to learn, and it was basically the basic healing magic that spellcasters needed to master, which could temporarily relieve pain, stop bleeding, and boost the life force of the recipient with the effect of magic.
Shug didn't know if the magic would soothe the girl's damage, but it was the only healing method he had at his disposal.
Before the glow of "Magical First Aid" could envelop the girl's badly gnawed legs, a black shadow flew out from the direction of the bathroom and almost smashed against the wall behind Xiuge's head.
That's Snicky the Running Rat.
It looked like it had been hit so hard that it almost fell into a "rat cake" on the wall.
Seeing that the large black rat swarm was about to converge and take shape, the thin, pale young man suddenly raised his right hand quickly, and the two magic pages were thrown out, and under the effect of magic, they fell towards the terrifying black figure.
……
At first glance, the swarm of black rats that can be gathered into a concrete image seems to have a resemblance to the Descendants of the Abyss, but just a moment after the battle begins, Shuge notices a clear difference between the two.
The dark green mage's hand appeared beside the bed, and it quickly picked up two pieces of clothing under the manipulation of Xiuge, which covered the body of the young girl on the bed, and then Shuge once again spread out the magic book, and with the battle memories of the spellcasters accumulated in his brain, he tore off the two magic pages one after another.
Shug raised his finger slightly, and a black tentacle immediately rolled back, crushing a small group of black rats that tried to force him to his side, and he saw that the rats that had been cut in two by the sharp arthropods turned into an invisible magical mist on the spot, and dissipated in less than two clicks.
Needless to say, this will be another highlight of the return of Schug Ernst to the family.
Shuge picked up the teacup and slowly drank the refreshing herbal tea as he watched the rats circling around the jar: "Its behavior pattern is interesting, although it has a similar appearance to that of a mouse, it does not seem to have individual consciousness, but is more like an integral part of the so-called swarm consciousness."
Naturally, Xiuge is not among ordinary people.
"What's the point of these guys' existence? Aside from being resistant to toxins and corrosion, what's so special about it?"
….
So Xiuge's face turned grim, and all the Callon touches were immediately disbanded and withdrawn by him.
Many previous experiences have proved that the power of the messenger in the mirror is a natural shackle for magical creatures, so Xiuge quickly reached forward, and his misty palm accurately grabbed the panicked little black mouse, so the faint mist immediately turned into layers of shackles, locking the mouse in his palm.
The first page of the magic book shattered in the air, and in a series of pitch-black magic patterns, the stream-level "grease production" quickly took effect, and a large amount of black viscous grease splashed down, dripping on top of the humanoid.
He was sitting in his chair, looking at the glass jar in his hand.
At the same time, the figure formed by the surging swarm of rats came out of the bathroom, it was so tall, even taller than Xiuge, but it was such a burly "giant", but it was covered with the shadows of rats that were constantly moving all over his body, and this strange picture was enough to make every ordinary person who witnessed this scene trap
into fear.
He didn't want too many people to see the "evil magic" he used, which was very easy to cause unnecessary misunderstandings and troubles, after all, the shape of Calron's Touch was not ordinarily visually striking for ordinary people.
"The occupants of Room 519 have been devoured by them, which has not happened before, but it also reveals a potential possibility."
Through the information sent back by Snicky, Hug learned that the rats in the bathroom were not afraid of his corrosive magic, so he quickly disbanded his summon and summoned more Calon Touches.
"Take her away!"
Shug looked at the strange figure he had shot with a rifle before, and he now knew why the other party was able to move after the skull was shattered by the entity's metal bullet, because the other party was not a real humanoid creature in the first place, it had no brains, no facial features, and the skull was only a part of the "structure" for it, although the microscopic mice that made up the skull would collapse due to the physical impact when hit by the bullet, but it was not enough to cause real damage to them.
Just as he hesitated whether he should use violent methods to clean up the rats, his perception told him that someone was approaching in the hallway outside the room.
The blind mouse was awkward, not only because it had no eyes, but also because of its misshapen limbs.
At this moment, the door of room 519 was pushed open, and the two young ladies who had appeared in the corridor earlier and a group of guards appeared at the door.
Perhaps because someone had already greeted him, Xiuge was not questioned for "trespassing" into the lady's room, and the official mage status also came into play at this time, and after witnessing the battle between Xiuge and the terrible monster, the two family ladies who had brought in the guards regarded Xiuge's breaking down the door of room 519 as an act of righteousness by a qualified spellcaster.
Round and round.
Later demonic bullets proved that magical attacks could have an extremely effective and even lethal effect on them......
….
In an instant, the burly figure was cut into pieces of varying sizes.
Then they were horrified to see that in the middle of the room, a large group of black rats were crawling rapidly converging into tall human shapes, and on the opposite side of this monster, a young man of the Ernst family was confronting it, and the occupant of room 519 was now lying upright on the bed, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
He felt that such an enemy, let alone competing with professional mages above the raindrop level, even a few soldiers armed with the Demon Strangling Silver Sword had a chance to deal with them on the spot.
It's like executing a set program that has been written to death.
However, now Xiuge is not in the mood to think about these questions.
Xiuge seriously recalled what the rat group had done in the past two days, and his heart became more and more confused and puzzled.
The speed of the rat swarm was beyond Xiuge's imagination, he had just seen clearly that his magic flame was only igniting and destroying the superficial individuals in the rat colony, but strangely, these rats did not seem to like to be visible to people, and they began to flee quickly by the light of the fire, rushing to all the corners where they could hide at an alarming speed......
Shug was ready to join the battle himself, even using the special bullets of the Hound Fangs to eliminate the threat, but now, the behavior of his own enemies was really ...... Pull across.
"These strange magical creatures actually have a certain instinct, they instinctively eat the living creatures around them like hunting, but most of the time, they don't show their instincts, they are restrained...... The force that binds them prevents them from biting and devouring their prey and enemies like a real rat colony, nor does they flee after being hurt and frightened like real animals."
They are "tendrils" that grow directly from the body, and these tendrils are flexible and powerful, and they can either simulate the thighs that can support the body to jump and run, or they can resemble them
Ropes are wrapped around each other and tied to death...... Shug suspects that the rats are able to hold each other together because of this strange body structure.
"It's the same question as before...... These rats have a more efficient and faster way to kill people, but they always have to cling to things that only humans do, such as trying to drown their victims in a bathtub or trying to throw them out of the hotel, what happened in room 519 tonight is like an accident."
Now, the blind mouse seemed very confused, as if it had no desire to survive, and after the first struggle, it fell into this almost sluggish state—no struggle, no running, just crawling along the edge of the glass jar again and again, at a constant speed, and no matter how much Shuge obstructed, it did not stop moving.
Immediately after, a bright red glow lit up on the second magic page, and a very ordinary "Flame Evoke" magic erupted in the flammable grease, and the blazing fire instantly lit up the room, enveloping the pitch-black figure.
….
So now I naturally get used to it.
Similar scenes are often seen both in everyday dreams and in shelters.
The young man's voice came, not loud but with a commanding majesty, and the two guards immediately stepped forward, rolled up the futon, and led the young girl out of the house.
They were so weak that Shuge even wondered about the meaning of their existence.
Not only that, but Xiuge was also extremely puzzled by the behavior style of these rats.
A black mouse was left alone, and Shug immediately bent down, and the magic mist of the messenger in the mirror appeared in the palm of his hand.
Its forelimbs are very elongated, and each "palm" has five fingers and claws on the fingers, which looks more like a human hand with sharp nails.
However, these discoveries were still not enough to answer many of Xiuge's many puzzles about the manor hotel, and in the face of the black humanoid that was rapidly approaching him, Xiuge moved his left hand slightly, and a large number of black tentacles that had been waiting by his side for a long time immediately swept out, and the arthropod blade mixed with magic fell like a sharp and precise butcher's knife to all parts of the humanoid body.
"These rats can obviously use their numerical superiority to attack or harass from all directions...... However, it now seems that it is obsessed with forming a concrete human form and using this human-like form to fight, what is wrong with that?"
Looking at such an absurd and strange picture, Shug suddenly remembered what Zeke Ernst had said to himself before.
He carefully recalled all the clues related to them, and tried to arrange and organize them all in his own mind.
Its hind limbs are even more twisted and weird.
"If you look like this, you don't have to think about it, it must have something to do with those ancient creations......
As long as time permits, they will naturally be able to return to their original state.
The mist of the Mirror Emissary continued to overflow from the palm of Xiuge's hand, and it turned into a foggy shackle that was applied directly to the entire glass jar, and in the jar, the black mouse that Xiuge had captured was circling in a blank circle.
Shug shook the glass jar, and the strangely structured blind mouse immediately rolled in the jar, and it quickly crawled to its feet, and then continued to repeat its previous movements.
"You still deliberately avoided me before...... Why do you now have the courage to take the initiative to attack?"
For a moment, a series of piercing cries came from the pitch-black figure, which was the terrible screams of countless rats when they were burned, and the burly figures that had already formed quickly collapsed in the flames, and those individuals ignited by the flames quickly broke away from the rat group, and quickly turned into invisible mist in the burning.
"That manor hotel was, in fact, the family's first mansion, which, according to the association, contained the will of the Ernst family...... When the old and the new are replaced, all young people who are candidates for succession will be enrolled
Live in it, and be screened by the will of the family."
"The will of the family...... Lodging...... Screening?"
Xiuge read these words intermittently, looked at the mouse in front of him, and combined with what he had seen and heard in the Manor Hotel tonight, Xiuge suddenly had a very bad premonition.
He could not help muttering to himself, "I say, old man, that the will of your Ernst family and the dead 'ancestors, you will not all ...... in the end."
(End of chapter)
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