……

The magic carpet was very conspicuous, and as soon as it lowered its height, it was noticed by the frogs.

They watched the magic carpet warily, their mouths croaking, and a few frogmen raised their spears.

But they were soon stopped by another frogman who appeared to be the leader.

Matthew noticed that the skin of these frogmen was green, which meant that they were all warriors by profession.

The Frogmen are a race with a strict social hierarchy and a clear division of occupation.

Within it, everything is divided by caste, and the specific symbol of caste is skin color.

The green- and blue-skinned frogs were of the lower castes, the former mainly warriors, hunters, and low-class laborers;

The latter were the servants of the artisans or the high-caste frogmen.

Purple and red are for the middle caste.

The purple frogmen are usually conductors, leaders, and may also be overseers who oversee laborers or slaves;

Red Frogmen are generally scholars or low-level spellcasters.

Further up there are the very rare higher castes.

There are elite warriors with orange skin, and there are also crazy frogman royals with golden skin.

They wield forces that are inconceivable to other frogmen, and therefore have a firm grip on dominance.

However, Matthew did not despise the group of green frogmen in front of him because of this, their social status may be low, but their combat effectiveness may not be so.

To be cautious.

Matthew docked the magic carpet on another hill, more than a hundred meters apart, with enough buffer space.

Rhaegar lazily stepped off the magic carpet with his sword on his shoulder, looked at the frogmen who were hugging him, and asked:

"Do you need me to anoint?"

Matthew shook his head:

"There's no hurry."

As he spoke, he greeted him.

The frogmen dragged the woman over.

The wariness in their eyes was clear.

As he walked, Matthew flicked himself a "Spotless" to make the badge on his chest look more dazzling.

"It's an Alliance Mage!"

Seeing this, the leader of the mad frogmen hurriedly turned back to his companion, and then respectfully wanted to salute Matthew.

But at this time.

The woman suddenly broke free from the grip of the two frogmen.

She jumped up from the ground and ran to Matthew like crazy:

"Help me! Help me! ”

"They're going to kill me, these monsters have snatched me back from the side of the road, they're going to take me back to do their laundry, cook for them, and have children! I don't want to live like that, please save me! ”

She screamed as she ran.

As she passed by the other frogman, she leaned and slammed into his waist, knocking the frogman to the ground.

The other frogmen tried to make a move, but were stopped by the leader.

The woman then ran towards Matthew.

Hope was written all over her face.

However, the next second.

Matthew raised his hand, and a short chant sounded—

"Human Immobilization!"

In a flash.

The woman froze in the running motion.

See this scene.

Rhaegar was amazed:

"You really don't have the instinct to pity the jade."

"Replaced by another young man in his twenties, I'm afraid this is the dream script of a hero to save beauty."

"Shouldn't you just draw your sword at this time?"

Matthew glanced at him:

"Whom?"

"She?"

Rhaegar shrugged.

"From my point of view, the frogman was punching and kicking her, but he wasn't killing her. On the contrary, it was this woman who, while I was negotiating with the frogman, suddenly made a move, and had a tendency to try to exacerbate the conflict. ”

Matthew said calmly:

"So if I had to choose between them, I would probably choose to help the frogman instead of this human woman."

"Can you keep an eye on her for me?"

Rhaega gestured to me and you can rest assured.

Matthew turned to the group of frogmen:

"I'm a mage of the Alliance, what's going on here?"

The leader of the frogmen stammered:

"Hello, Master Mage, this woman, she, stealing children, many children, can't be found, our children, gone."

Matthew lost his "literacy".

Soon, he learned the truth in the mouth of the mad frogman-

According to the leader of the fighters.

The woman, who claimed to be the leader of the caravan, fled after being attacked by robbers and seriously wounded, only to get lost and find herself in the territory of the frogmen.

She begged the frogs to save her life, and promised to reward her with a lot of money when she was well healed.

The frogman agreed, and took her to the village to take care of her.

Who knows how many days it won't take.

They noticed that the children in the village were starting to disappear.

Wait until they suspect the woman's head.

She had quietly fled.

If it weren't for the shaman in the village who could track her location, they wouldn't have been able to find her.

When Matthew and the two came over.

This group of frogman warriors had just found her hiding place, and they were going to take her back directly, but these warriors also had children stolen, so they were very angry and decided to beat her up first.

According to the leader of the fighters.

At present, the atmosphere in the village is very tense, and there are many female crazy frogmen who are going crazy.

This woman is very important to them.

He begged Matthew to let them take the woman back to the village.

Matthew nodded after listening.

Compared to other subhuman species, the growth cycle of frogmen is quite long.

The larvae spend a full 90 days in the pond as tadpoles, during which time the temperature of the pond must be warm enough to prevent the tadpoles from freezing to death.

During these ninety days, the tadpole has completed its metamorphosis and metamorphosis into a baby frogman, and it can go ashore.

It's just that young frogmen usually need 18~24 months of care before they can grow into young frogmen.

After that, it takes the same amount of time for them to enter the breeding period.

Compared with kobolds, goblins, jackals, etc., the fertility cost of frogmen can be said to be relatively high.

It's no wonder that female frogmen go crazy.

"Master Mage, our shaman said that he saw this woman with another mage in the tracking technique, and that they were premeditated."

The warrior leader looked at Matthew with some nervousness.

Matthew replied firmly:

"If there is really a mage involved, it must be a wild mage, and it can't be a mage of the alliance."

The leader of the warriors barely managed to squeeze out an ugly smile on his face:

"That's a certainty, that's a certainty!"

Matthew isn't talking nonsense.

He now has a full understanding of the tone of the alliance, and this kind of thing, if they need it, it is impossible for them to come and steal it.

They will just grab it.

At this time, the woman's immobilization technique had passed, and she was crushed by Rhaegar, and could only shout hoarsely:

"They lie! Those monsters are lying, please don't believe them, they are evil monsters, and I, we are all human beings, we are compatriots, shouldn't the words of our compatriots be more credible? They're lying to you! ”

Matthew looked at her calmly:

"I'm just going to give you one chance to tell me who is lying?"

"You should know that polygraphy is a piece of cake for every mage."

"By the way, I'm a necromancer, and if you dare to deceive me, you should know what will happen, right?"

As he spoke, he snapped his fingers.

Ah Bing slowly emerged from the shadows, and the exposed white bones made the woman tremble in fright.

The frog people were also scared.

"Now, answer me."

At this moment, in the eyes of the woman, Matthew was full of evil all over his body.

She had to plead:

"I'm sorry my lord, I was forced to do it, I didn't want to do this, Lord Spencer instructed me to do this, if I didn't listen to him, he would ......"

The plea for mercy stopped abruptly.

Rhaegar pulled out a rag out of nowhere and stuffed it in her mouth.

"It's out! What are you going to do about it? ”

He asked.

Matthew mused:

"Give her to the frogmen and let them deal with it themselves, the sin of stealing children is unforgivable for any race."

Rhaegar grabbed the woman and dragged her through without mercy.

"Look at it, little frog."

Rhaegar handed the woman over to the frogman.

The leader of the warriors looked grateful, and the rest of the frogmen nodded to the two of them.

Matthew asked:

"Are there any particularly big trees around here?"

After entering the mossy hills.

The Enemy of the Woods is much less effective in tracking.

This is not to say that the effect of ritual magic is ineffective, but that it is interfered with by another magical force.

It was clearly from the blighters.

This is normal.

Prophecy and tracking spells are often interfered with by their targets.

The Blighters may not have found themselves targeted by Matthew, but as a criminal organization that is not popular with mainstream society, it is likely that they will update the anti-reconnaissance spells around the camp from time to time.

Now that coordinate in his mind is becoming more and more blurry for Matthew.

What he could vaguely see was a large tree that was rare in the hills.

This kind of thing is most convenient to ask the natives.

Really.

The leader of the warriors immediately replied:

"Walking in this direction, walking through nineteen hills, you can see a very large tree, which is the "Tree of Falling Snow", also known as the Tree of Ominus. The shaman warns us not to go too far from there, and the beasts near the Ominous Tree are more dangerous than the normal ones. ”

Trees of Falling Snow?

Matthew was a little strange and asked about the origin of the name.

The leader of the warriors replied:

"That tree has snowflakes all year round, but the snowflakes are not cold, but damp and hot, and it is very uncomfortable to fall on the skin, it will make people irritated, and they can't help but want to hug each other or fight."

It could be a ploy of the blighters.

Matthew pondered that he must have found the right direction.

But he asked again:

"Are there any monsters around the mossy hills?"

The warrior leader thought for a moment:

"There are none in most areas, at most there are only a few mountain wolves and leopards.

In the high mountains of the northern part of the hills, a Chimera is said to live, but he usually spends his life further north, where there are man's alpine pastures where there are plenty of sheep for him to steal.

Then there was a monastery on a peculiar hill to the northwest, which had been stopped by the mages of the Alliance with runes, and there were many monks and knights wandering around it.

Finally, there's the Fallen Snow Tree, and there are some monsters nearby.

Some are very powerful, some are average, so be careful if you want to go there. ”

Matthew nodded secretly in his heart, what the warrior leader said basically matched the homework he had done in advance.

The monastery was called the Monastery of the Fallen Sun, and it was home to dead monks and knights of the Dead Bell.

It's the same place as the Ghost Castle, which is a bit of a problem, but it shouldn't be a big problem.

I don't know why the Seven Saints Alliance didn't sweep them away, but deliberately stayed.

At that moment, the two of them said goodbye to the frogman and flew in the direction of the Falling Snow Tree on the magic carpet.

Matthew noticed that Rhaegar seemed to be staring at the frogman all the time, and asked:

"You haven't seen a frogman?"

Rhaegar shook his head:

"How could it be that you haven't seen it? They're kind of neighbors in Rolling Stone. But the water from the well does not interfere with the river water, and I once watched some frogmen from afar during a tour of the territory in the early years, but we could not communicate with each other. ”

"I'm just looking at their body structure and behavior habits to judge their combat effectiveness. I've always had the feeling that these guys should be pretty strong when they fight. ”

Matthew nodded:

"The Frogmen are indeed the group with relatively good combat effectiveness among the sub-races, and they have two main characteristics, the first of which is "madness".

Berserk Qi is a transcendent energy unique to the Frogmen, who can swallow magical energy in some way that deepens their breathing through a squat, a bit like a mage's chant.

In this way, they can gather a certain amount of elemental power for themselves, but this elemental power is externally manifested into a qi-like appearance.

The madness gives the Frogmen melee abilities far beyond those of normal humans.

And another characteristic of their body, the different kinds of toxins, is also worth noting. ”

said.

Matthew casually handed over a piece of papyrus.

Rhaegar looked at it, and it was actually a detailed table of the mad frogman's skin color and the corresponding toxins.

"Frogmen secrete a venom from their body surface, and the venom secreted by different skin tones has different effects. This is my homework I did last night, so feel free to take a look at it if you're interested. ”

With that, Matthew concentrated on controlling the magic carpet's flight.

Flying low is actually a much more difficult thing to do.

But considering that it flies too high and is too conspicuous.

Matthew chose a flight altitude of 3~5 meters from the surface.

Rhaegar took the paper and looked at it carefully.

……

"Green Venom: After being poisoned, the target cannot perform any movement other than climbing and stand-up jumping;

If the target is a flying unit, it will not be able to take off or land.

Blue Venom: When the target is poisoned, they will remain screaming until the toxin wears off.

Purple: Poisoned target is eager to soak himself in mud, and must be in constant contact with mud and liquids or he will suffocate.

Red: Poisoned targets will continue to eat until they have eaten all edible items in their field of vision, and their symptoms will not be relieved; If there are no usable items in sight, the poisoned target may continue to gnaw their fingers or toes.

Golden: After being poisoned, the target is eager to hug each other.

Orange-red: The target will be enchanted after poisoning, and will only be able to communicate in frogman language.

During this time, he will consider himself a tadpole and instinctively seek the help of his mother frogman.

Other Colors: It is said that there is a very small chance that a rarer super-high caste will be born in the Frogman tribe, and their body toxin effects are even more amazing, but as long as you avoid direct contact with their skin or get hurt by their weapons, you can basically get away with it."

……

"You've done a lot of preparation!"

"It's still a little worse than me, though."

As he spoke, he flicked his storage ring:

"Anyway, are we just going to go straight to the tree? Skipping dinner or something? You see, it's almost dark. ”

Matthew stared intently ahead, casually throwing a loaf of bread to Rhaeggar.

An hour later.

A towering tree appeared on a hill in the distance.

"What a big tree!"

Rhaegar exclaimed:

"Aren't you a necromancer? You should be able to communicate with the big tree, right? ”

Matthew gave him a strange look:

"It could have been, but the inside of this tree has completely withered."

"Come down, let's walk forward."

Rhaegar reluctantly leaves the magic carpet.

The two walked on foot for a while.

Suddenly.

The hills on both sides remembered the howl of wolves!

Several mountain wolves appeared on the mountain bag.

Behind them is a whole pack of mountain wolves.

"Rhaegar!"

Matthew abruptly raised his voice.

Rhaegar unhurriedly put the greatsword on the ground and began to dig for something:

"Don't worry, I'll put on oil!"

Matthew stared at the movement of the mountain wolves, and took the time to glance down:

"Which bottle of oil are you going to apply?" Open the lid! ”

Rhaegar pulls out a bottle of black sword oil with the label "Canine Creature Special Attack" on it.

He opened the cap and smiled:

"Are you going to paint it for me?"

Matthew concentrated, trying to burst a syllable in the manner of Surrell's chanting.

The abruptly raised pitch not only startled Rhaegar by surprise, but even the mountain wolves on both sides retreated a few steps in disbelief.

The next second.

Magical energy poured out from the bottle cap, and in Rhaegar's shocked gaze, the sword oil in the bottle actually flew out automatically.

Under the control of an invisible hand, the application of sword oil was completed in just two seconds!

"Trick: Quick Oil!"

"Happy, aren't you?"

"This is a spell I learned for you before I left yesterday."

The corners of Matthew's mouth outlined a smile:

"Now, get on!"

Rhaegar waved his glittering sword with some chagrin, and he couldn't help but curse:

"How come you mages learn everything?"

Matthew summoned Renesmay as he urged:

"There are a few mountain wolves attacking from the west, almost on top!"

Rhaegar had no choice but to bite the bullet.

He rushed over with an arrow, and the big sword in his hand swung violently, although he didn't hit a single one, but it scared the mountain wolves a lot.

"Come on, come on, wolf cubs!"

"Taste your Uncle Rhaegar's great sword!"

Rhaegar didn't touch it, but the movement was not small.

His action immediately attracted the attention of all the mountain wolves.

Even the mountain wolf that appeared on Matthew's right hand before bypassed him and attacked Rhaeggar.

Rhaegar apparently noticed the scene as well.

He couldn't help but complain to Matthew:

"Oh no, Matthew, don't you think we lack a meat shield in our team?"

Then he noticed that Matthew was looking at him with a strange gaze:

"What do you think Zeller asked you to do?"

It's strange to say.

There seems to be a powerful attraction in Rhaeggar's body.

The wolves completely ignored Matthew's existence.

They are besieging Rhaegar from all sides!

"Do something, Matthew!"

Rhaegar swung his sword hard, and finally cut a few mountain wolves, I have to say, his weapons are really sophisticated, with sword oil, cutting mountain wolves is like cutting tofu dregs, a sword is a knife in two.

Matthew ordered the soldiers to sweep the formation, and let Renysme go all out.

He observed the situation and found that although Rhaegar was screaming fiercely, he was actually comfortable in the face of mountain wolves.

So Matthew quietly stuffed the attribute improvement scroll back.

He intends to use his spells to assist Rhaeggar.

And yet at this very moment.

Suddenly there were flakes of snow in the sky.

A disgusting smell of decay irritated Matthew's mouth and nose.

……

"Warning: You're about to step into the ritual grounds of the Blight Order, the Winter of Everything!"

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(End of chapter)