This strange green glow, like fluid or electric light, was seen many times by Hug on the former Rat Run, as well as in the underground of Ernst Manor.

A similar magical glow appeared on Kzlov of the Black Sun Society.

This color is strange and abnormal, the gloomy and dark green always reminds people of poison and corrosion, but behind this appearance, there is another special power, which is a kind of vitality that has been mutated and amplified, and has become extremely vigorous under some kind of blessing.

That's the trace of Mother Earth.

The chaotic information entered Xiuge's mind through a magical link, and the moment he saw these powers, a huge number of thoughts and thoughts exploded in the limited head of the Running Rat, and it was now flustered and dazed, with a sense of the betrayer's sudden encounter with his past comrades.

Fortunately, absolute loyalty to Shug was written at the lowest level of Snige's consciousness, which was the basis of its existence and power, and could not be violated in any way, so even at such moments, its first thought was to take the initiative to report to its master and ask for advice.

It's just that right now, Xiuge can't give it an exact reply immediately.

He just calmly calmed the other party, and then focused all his attention on the hunchbacked figures that suddenly appeared.

These ambushers are not simple, and it is clear that they have been hiding in this place for quite some time, and if it weren't for the magic used to detect traces, they would have chosen to continue to hibernate.

And as soon as they appeared, they showed their purpose of hibernation.

That's hunting.

A hunt for these weak creatures of the Abyss who seek to pick up the dregs of their souls and wills.

Shuge saw that figures were constantly jumping out of all kinds of unexpected places, all dressed in crude cloaks and cloaks of unknown material, and the weapons in their hands were also strange, some were crude clubs, and some were spears and blades sharpened from objects such as bones.

The ambushers attacked their targets in a very orderly manner as soon as they appeared, and in the chaos, a large number of already very timid abyss scavengers were impaled through the bodies by those weapons that shimmered with a dark green luster, and then, the magical light that submerged into their bodies spread and spread like the roots of plants, and in a matter of seconds, these abyss creations exploded into clouds of mist.

Immediately afterward, some hunchbacked figures with bone staff in hand stepped forward, they seemed to be the casters or priests of these ambushers, and with the low chanting and the slow shaking of the bone staff in their hands, the abyssal mist that was about to drift away re-condensed, and turned into one crystal after another under the wrapping and squeezing of dark green light and shadow.

The hunters near the orbs immediately took out the containers they had brought with them—bottles that looked like they had been polished from some kind of crystallization—and they carefully received them inside the bottles, and then quickly retreated to the back.

After the initial hunt, a considerable number of "hunters" gathered around the priests, and they began to slowly approach in the direction of Shuge, holding their weapons, and an encirclement had been formed.

Surrounded by these unidentified ambushers, Xiuge was not very flustered, he only had curiosity and doubts in his heart.

There's even a hint of excitement.

Through the other party's body shape and footprints, as well as the magic revealed, Xiuge had roughly guessed the identities of these ambushers, and not only that, Xiuge did not feel too obvious hostility from the other party's "encirclement" behavior.

Shug didn't make any gestures of preparing for battle, he just raised his palm and gently rested it on the back of the Rageing Rat, and calmed it down with his magic.

As if sensing the kindness of Shug, the ambushers did not shrink the encirclement further, and after a brief pause, a priest with a gaunt figure stepped forward.

Compared to the rest of the priests, it was dressed markedly differently.

On the top of its head, there is a crown made of polished and patched white bone, which looks like two asymmetrical horns, and the tip of the bone staff it holds in its hand also has a similar horn structure.

The priest stopped only a few steps away from Shog, and lifted its hood to reveal its face before Shog, the head of a rodent with distinctive features.

Eyes glowing green, gray-white hair, and large exposed front teeth.

Shuge's conjecture was most perfectly verified at this moment.

These are nezumi, and it looks like they're still loyal followers of Mother Earth.

The old priest looked at the Raffling Rat lying beside him, then focused his gaze on Shoge's face, and after a brief moment of observation and observation, it opened its mouth and spoke in its own low, hoarse voice and strange and obscure tone.

Xiuge couldn't help but frown.

The language used by the other party sounds like a lingua franca, but its accent and grammar are really strange, and even if Xiuge has accumulated a lot of messy knowledge related to the languages and dialects of various places, there is no way to immediately understand the meaning of the other party.

The old priest repeated this sentence twice, and when he saw that Xiuge kept shaking his head, he scratched his head helplessly.

After a moment's thought, the nezumi priest raised his bone staff, and a dark green magical light flickered, and soon a small dark green ball of light emerged from the horns at the tip of the bone staff, and it slowly floated in front of Shug and hovered.

Shuge carefully unleashed his magic and made contact with the orb of light in front of him.

In the next moment, a clear word entered Xiuge's mind through the trembling of magic.

"Thou ...... Who? Where did it come from? Why? ”

So Shug immediately responded to the other party in the same way: "A wanderer, who has come from Van En and strayed into this place, is looking for the right way back and out. ”

Hearing this, the old priest's mouse face clearly showed a look of surprise, and it hurriedly opened its mouth and asked two questions, but then it reacted again, and hurriedly made a new ball of light, and handed it to Shuge.

"Yes, yes! Thou hast come from the land of the gods, and thou hast been accompanied by the family of the Mother Goddess...... But why is there no grace from the Mother Goddess in it? ”

The second half of the other party's question was aimed at the Running Mouse, and it was obvious that the nezumi priest in front of him could recognize Snicky's identity, but after the previous transformation, Sniqi's body could no longer see any traces of the power of the Mother Earth God.

So Shug replied half-truthfully: "It is still faithful to the Mother Goddess and is able to obey my commands...... The favor is too strong to attract threats and it is inconvenient to walk here. ”

Hearing this, the old priest nodded slowly, and the Running Rat, who was lying beside Xiuge, cooperated with Xiuge at this moment.

I saw that a deep dark green light suddenly appeared from the huge sharp horns above its head, and in terms of color, these lights were much purer and richer than the magic used by the nezumi priests in front of them.

Seeing this with their own eyes, the rat people around them immediately let out a burst of amazement, and some of them were so devout that they even knelt down on the spot and posed as praying to the gods.

The old priest also became a little agitated at this time, he lowered his head, showed the utmost respect to Shuge, and then it sent another ball of light to Shuge: "Yes, prophecy! The prophecy of the prophets is faithful to their fulfillment! Messenger of the Great Eternal Mother Goddess, please come with me, please come with me! ”

Shug nodded in agreement, then rolled over and climbed onto the back of the Running Mouse.

The old priest was overjoyed to receive a clear response from Shug, and he opened his mouth and issued a series of orders to all the nezumi hunters around him, so the nezumi immediately went into action, and they swept the entire battlefield as fast as they could, collected all the loot, and then gathered around the rest of the nezumi priests.

The latter immediately began casting spells, a dark green light wafting out of their bone staffs and quickly joining together.

A magical mask large enough to cover the entire team was formed.

The deep light and shadow of the magic vision flashed in Xiuge's pupils, and he found that the models of the magic used by these nezumi priests were basically the same as the set of magic theories he was familiar with, and although it looked a little rough and rudimentary, it was able to maintain stable operation under the joint maintenance of multiple spellcasters.

And this also deepened Xiuge's curiosity about the so-called nezumi tribe.

Once the magic lights and shadows had enveloped Xiug in the same way, the team began to move forward, and to Shuge's surprise, the rats were traveling in the same direction as their original destination, and it seemed that the mountain in the distance was their target.

As Shug knew, the rats who entered the state of collective action always showed amazing efficiency, even the seemingly weak and old priests were able to keep up with the pace of the sturdy nezumi, and what surprised Shug even more was that the magic barrier cast by these nezumi priests was able to isolate the turbulence in the Abyss Wasteland to a certain extent.

This allows the confusion of time and space to be controlled to a certain extent, and the road that had almost no end becomes clearly visible.

The old priest always walked by Shuge's side, and it could be seen that it was very eager to say a few more words to Shuge, the "divine messenger", but the rush itself was too much of a burden on it, so it couldn't find time to communicate with Xiuge at all.

What the old priest didn't know was that at this moment, Hug was busy talking to Theseus.

"Why didn't you tell me before that there were still nezumi tribe activities in the Abyss Wasteland?"

"I really don't know about that."

Theseus was quick to respond to Hugh's questioning, but when he spoke back, Hug also heard the classic sound effects from a fighting game, and the guy had been busy experiencing life with his "teacher" lately, and it was clear that he was enjoying it.

"I'm familiar with the Abyss, but it's impossible to know exactly what's going on in every corner of the wasteland...... However, it is indeed worth exploring the fact that a group of rats can make their home here. ”

"I was about to ask, how did a group of rat people who believed in Mother Earth come here, and how did they survive in such a place? I remember you saying that all creatures that step into the Abyss will eventually become food for the Abyss itself. ”

"As long as the sample size is large enough, then exceptions will always happen."

Theseus replied, "For example, Azifus, who wrote the Poem of the Night, and you and I, are actually exceptions...... As for these rat people, I suspect that they have been here much longer ago, and perhaps they were the targets of a great hunt, so it would be better to find out for yourself. ”

While talking, the marching nezumi hunting team suddenly stopped, Xiuge raised his head, but saw that there was a strange magic vibration in an area in front of him, and the huge disc in Xiuge's spiritual world began to accelerate slightly, and the court hound that was recuperating in the disc also ended its rest at this time, it stood up and gave its own warning with a low roar.

The old priest of the nezumi on the side shouted a word from the old lingua franca in a hoarse voice.

The word is so simple and straightforward that even if there is no magic to convey a message, Hug can roughly guess its meaning by the intonation.

The nezumi priest shouted "wolves".

Yes, in the pile of rubble not far in front of the team, cracks were constantly being opened out of thin air, and immediately after, a large number of narrow figures with scarlet eyes quickly drilled out of these cracks.

The "wolves" mentioned by the nezumi priest refer to the hounds of the Abyss Court who came here, and as soon as these ferocious and strange pursuers appeared, they immediately entered the state of searching for their targets, and as they moved, chaotic and dangerous magic fluctuations continued to spread, quickly covering the surrounding area.

"Be careful, it doesn't look like a regular foraging or hunting...... Eighty percent of these stupid dogs come with a mission. ”

Theseus gave a timely warning, and at the same time, several powerful abyssal magic quickly poured into the metal disc.

Under the influence of this powerful magical force, the power transmitted by the disc to Xiuge became extremely vivid and powerful, and the mirror messenger and the court hound inside the disc also entered a state of high readiness for battle.

(End of chapter)