The knightly guard, the retinue, the assistant, Duke flew in an airship this time, and like other arcane mages, he took the whole team and served himself.

Levine was also brought over by him, and the airship would land in Serpent's Head Town, just in time for Levine to go to Little River Bay Farm to have fun.

He himself intends to live in a villa on the farm.

There are also spirit plants left by him, a 1-ring spirit plant-monkey earring, and a batch of 0-ring spirit plants.

Of course, if the Black Snake family invited him to live in the Black Snake Manor, then he would not refuse, after all, there was more spiritual energy there.

"Here we are." Vikas held his glass of red wine and sighed with some emotion, "Another new adventure is about to begin." ”

This time, it wasn't just Penrose Mage Tower's Loop, but five airships came to the Green Sea Valley to investigate.

The Black Snake family held a grand banquet in the manor, inviting all the arcane mages to go.

When the banquet was over, the mages said goodbye and left, not choosing to stay in the Black Snake Manor, but looking for their own accommodation outside.

Only Duke stayed, and invited Mentor Penrose and others to stay in Black Snake Manor.

"The development war in the Cuihai Valley has made my Black Snake family embarrassed in the Black Jiaohe River, and many arcane mages think that our cooperation with the Bernoulli Mage Tower is an act of betrayal." Muhans Black Snake, while chatting with Duke, said with resentment.

Duke didn't answer.

Muhans continued: "Actually, this is simply a rake, the information of the spiritual fountain in the Green Sea Valley has leaked, and no one in the city can stand up and start a pioneering war, and the Bernoulli Mage Tower has taken the lead, but the blame is placed on us. ”

"It's just temporary, when the Bernoulli family merges into the Black Jiaohe Riverland, everything will return to the past." Duke reassured.

"Perhaps, but thanks to your retention, otherwise His Excellency Penrose would never have stayed in the Black Snake Manor, let alone the lady of the sky of the Angry Waves family."

"A little bit." Duke laughed.

Born in Snakehead Town, it limited Duke's relationship with the Black Snake family, and it was too late to cut it, and there was no need to cut it.

Being strong is the last word.

"By the way, Uncle Muhans, what happened to the Emerald Sea Valley that caused the United Tower to personally call the Arcane Master to investigate?"

"Let's have a cup of tea first to relieve the hangover, and then I'll tell you more about it."

As the patriarch of the Black Snake Family, Muhans naturally knew about the recent changes in Emerald Sea Valley, and immediately told Duke in detail.

"At the beginning, everyone withdrew from Cuihai Valley, and then when the mercenaries went and returned, they found that the No. 3 well area was a little different, and the originally green camp suddenly became colorful."

After a pause, Muhans frowned and said: "It's lichen, a lichen with an evil aura, which can grow sharp teeth, once you step on this lichen by mistake, your feet will be broken at the lightest, and your legs will be broken at the worst, and many mercenaries will be abolished because of this." ”

Colorful fanged lichens, which have spread from the camp in Well 3, have spread to most of the Cuihai Valley.

It's hard to guard against.

"In addition to lichens, there are more things with an evil aura appearing, although these things are not very strong, but they are very unappetizing, I have seen some mercenaries infected with evil breath, the wounds are rotten and smelly, and there are some mycelium in them."

Muhans said with a disgusted face: "It's disgusting, the effect of using arcane treatment is not good, you have to use physical means to sanitize." ”

"So it's a fungal-like infection?" Duke asked.

"When the high priest saw it, he didn't think it was a mere fungus, but it might be the contaminant of something evil."

"Evil thing......" Duke narrowed his eyes.

He believed that this kind of fanged lichen and the like were definitely related to the forbidden land sealed under the No. 3 well area, and it was very likely that it was caused by the molting of ancient evil creatures and polluting the outside world.

However, the matter of the forbidden land has been signed, and Duke cannot say it explicitly.

I could only continue to listen to Muhans's description of all kinds of strange things that appeared in the forest, and the disgusting experiences of the mercenaries.

We were chatting.

Penrose's retinue came and called for Duke to come and assemble.

"Go ahead, be careful when you enter the forest, don't venture in." Muhans admonished.

"Yes."

Duke rushed to assemble, and when everyone was ready, Penrose led the team directly to the third safe passage to the Green Sea Valley.

Levin went to the farm, Mulari stayed at the Black Snake Manor, and his retinue was left on the farm.

Duke only took Vivien and six other great knights with him to protect him, and he was not shabby compared to other arcane mages.

Of course.

It can't be compared to Kiria Furytao, in addition to the five 1-ring knights by her side, there are also two 2-ring phantom beast knights.

This is the "Guardian Knight" selected by the great nobles for their own potential juniors, so that the younger generations can more steadily step into the spiritual mysteries.

"It's really extravagant, the 2-ring phantom beast knight as a guard...... Duke looked at Kiriya not far away, and sighed in his heart, "But it can also be seen that the knight is really in decline, and the 2-ring phantom beast knight can only be a guard, and it is said that the more veteran nobles will even choose the 3-ring high-level phantom beast knight as the guardian knight." ”

Fortunately, the dragon knight is just a legend, otherwise the real arcane mage master might choose the dragon knight as the guardian knight of his own junior.

"This era is the age of spiritual arcane, the age of arcane masters."

Gathering his thoughts, Duke followed the team closely, such a mixed team of arcane mages and knights was full of security.

Safe passage No. 3 has been repaired by the mercenaries.

On the wide weed road, there is nothing taller than a calf within a few hundred meters, except for a few weed leaves.

In the middle of the team, there is also a black beetle car, which follows as a mobile laboratory.

And on the road, you can occasionally see black beetle carts, pulling huge spirit beast corpses, or tightly bandaged spirit plants, and other strange things.

"Stop here and start researching here." Mentor Penrose, as the team reached the bottom of the mountain, announced the start of the investigation.

On the opposite side of the mountain range in front is the Cuihai Valley.

This can only be regarded as the periphery of the Cuihai Valley, and the mysterious changes of the Cuihai Valley have extended to this area, and it is expanding outward every day.

While dormant in the countryside, Duke had gained a lot of experience in the jungle, so he quickly led his team of escort knights into the jungle next to the safe passage.

Xiaoyi hung up the "Rain Falling Breathing Method", and all the situations within a radius of 500 meters were under control.

Forthwith.

The holographic screen of Douqi in the field of vision outlines a map.

On the map, gray represents normal areas, and colored areas are abnormal areas, such as red for spirit animals and green for spirit plants.

At this time, there is a large black patch on the map.

"Master, the breath in these areas resonates abnormally, and there is a special aura that suppresses the natural power emitted by the plants."

One of them was black, right at Duke's feet.

He crouched down and saw that the ground was covered with a mixture of pale yellow and pale pink fungus lichens, which were very different from the surrounding surface.

It's a bit like the slime molds that are often used in experiments.

"That's the kind of tusk lichen that Muhans mentioned?" Duke wore gloves, crouched down, thought for a moment and activated the Douqi armor.

However, at this moment, the Douqi armor did not spread all over the body, but concentrated on the hands and arms.

Then he stabbed the fanged lichen with his dagger, and the next moment, as if it had come to life, the fanged lichen quickly expanded from the place where it had been stabbed into a large mouth full of fangs, and bit down on Duke's hand.

Duke opened his mouth to the fangs and punched him down.

The Douqi armor wrapped his fist and directly smashed the large mouth of the fanged lichen into a big hole with a big head: "Disgusting thing." ”

Juice splashes.

were all blocked by Duke's vindictive armor.

"My lord, what is this, and it's still a living thing?" The female Grand Knight Teyasi, following Duke and frowning, asked, "I haven't seen anything like this strange thing when I went on adventures in the forest, a living creature like moss. ”

"Who knows, go and help me get the collection tube." Duke commanded.

The Grand Knights acted as his research assistants, quickly collecting the test tubes, while Duke stuffed the fanged lichen that he had smashed on the ground with tweezers, and then tightened the lid of the test tube and put it into a package carried by a spirit horse.

Soon he found fangs lichen of various colors nearby, a small piece of fangs lichen can not grow fangs and mouths, only large pieces of fangs and lichens can grow fangs and mouths.

He took a sample of all kinds of fanged lichens.

"These things make my heart burn." Damon, the great knight, wielding a knight's sword, slashed at the fangs of the lichen on the ground.

The fighting spirit is full of swords, and the lichen slime is flying.

"Damon, don't do it, it's disgusting to get slime on your body." Affleck, another great knight, frowned and scolded.

Vivien said solemnly: "Keep up with it, protect your lords!" ”

"Roger, Captain." Damon withdrew his knight's sword and muttered, "The smell of these fanged lichens makes me smell uncomfortable. ”

"I can feel it, it smells evil." Zoe, the female knight, sniffed her nose, "It's like a spirit beast that has been dead for more than ten days, and the smell of corpses has rotted, and smelling too much makes people feel uncomfortable." ”

The last great knight, Matt, holding the knight's sword, looked around, and did not participate in the discussion.

three female Grand Knights, Vivienne, Teyasi, and Zoe; Three male knights, Damon, Affleck, and Matt.

These are Duke's six Guardian Knights.

He ignored the discussion of the big knights, and simply greeted: "Keep up, there is something new to collect ahead." ”

Then he walked forward quickly.

Matt and Damon quickly rushed in front of Duke, and the knight's sword was used as a sword to cut through thorns and weeds for him, opening a way.

Going two hundred meters deeper, Duke reached the small black dot displayed on the Douqi holographic screen.

Just now, Xiao Yi resonated through breathing and detected that there was a special area in front of him, and the breath fluctuations were similar to those of fangs lichen, but slightly different, so he set it to a small beating black dot.

At this time.

The small black dots were already exposed to Duke's eyes.

It was a large, grotesque flower that grew on the trunk of a dead tree, with no leaves, only a stem resembling a slime fungus like a fanged lichen, with roots deep into the trunk.

"This flower is so big!" Damon choked out an adjective, "And it stinks, too." ”

"It's very similar to konjac flowers, and some konjac flowers smell stinky, but this one should be contaminated with fanged lichen." Duke stimulated the weird konjac flower with a stick, and the next moment the konjac flower exploded with a bang.

The arcane shield fired instantly, blocking Duke's front and taking most of the slime produced by the explosion.

Only a small part of it splashed on the armor of the two great knights, Damon and Matt, and the strong smell made the two of them vomit on the spot.

Vivien and the other big knights scattered around, although they were not splashed, the stench still made them want to gag.

But Duke, who was on the front line, did not react at all.

Because Xiao Yi had already run "Douqi Armor" at the first time of the explosion, wrapping his whole body, especially his face.

The vindictive spirit completely isolates the stench.

"Everyone be careful and try to cover their nose and mouth as much as possible, these weird plants can be infectious. However, if you go back and run the fighting spirit a few more times, and there are no obvious wounds on your body, you will basically be fine. ”

The mercenaries gathered in the Cuihai Valley have already groped for these strange things, and they are not lethal for the time being.

At most, the wound is ulcerated and infected, and the flesh needs to be cut and amputated.

Because the explosion was so complete that even the dead trees were blown off, and the trunks were blown into slag, Duke could only scrape a little slime from the ground as a sample.

Then he went deeper into the forest.

In the Douqi holographic screen, there were a few more small black dots in front of him that Xiao Yi could not identify, waiting for him to personally investigate and sample.

"My lord, what's the use of studying these things, I feel like there's nothing to do but be disgusted." Teyasi watched Duke pounce on a new strange plant, and couldn't help but ask her doubts, "They don't match spirit beasts and spirit plants at all." ”

As he walked, Duke replied indifferently: "Any new thing has its intrinsic value, it depends on whether you can discover it." ”

Get closer.

It was another large tree with withered yellow leaves, and a small mutated konjac flower grew on its trunk, and Duke immediately approached cautiously.

With a simple touch, the small mutated konjac flower did not burst.

The reason why the mutant konjac flower exploded before was probably a sign of maturity, using the explosion to spread seeds or spores.

"Give me the oversized collection tube."

"My lord, here we are."

Duke directly dug up the whole mutant konjac flower from the trunk of the big tree, and stuffed it into an oversized collection test tube along with the rotten and deteriorated wood around it.

At this moment, in the bushes next to him, there was a sudden movement.

Vivien immediately led the knights to search the bushes, and returned a moment later with a dying beast with a knight's spear.

"My lord, it's a muntjac." "Seems to be infected by these fanged lichen-like things, lying convulsive in the bushes, not dead, but almost." ”

Duke crouched down to examine the infected muntjac.

The muntjac had a large cut on its hind leg, like it had been wounded by a mercenary, and then it was infected by something like fangs.

The hind legs were already covered with fangs of different colors, like a large mass of wriggling slime molds.

His eyes are red, his hair is falling out, and his skin is rotting to varying degrees.

A foul smell came out.

"It's disgusting!" Damon wanted to gag again.

Duke frowned, this infected muntjac reminded him of something - a zombie, a zombie muntjac infected by a fungus.

"Give it a treat." Duke has no interest in research.

He is not a life scholar, he likes to study these special life forms the most, and this time he followed Penrose to investigate, more to feel the atmosphere.

At the same time, it is also to see if you can find new spiritual materials, improve the effect of card production, or reduce the cost of card production.

When Damon heard this, he beheaded the zombie muntjac with a sword.

At this time, on the hind legs of the zombie muntjac, a fanged mouth suddenly grew and bit towards Damon. Seeing this, Damon's foot, wearing Lingjin Iron Boots, stomped directly on the fangs.

Poof!

The juice was splashed, and the hind legs of the muntjac were stomped into a pulp.

"Damon, you're disgusting." Zoe and Tejasi scolded in unison.

Vivien also looked at Damon speechlessly: "Why bother to make such a move, ruin your interest." ”

"Sorry, the foot owes." Damon raised his hand in apology, then stomped his foot vigorously to shake off the juice that had splashed on his leg.

Duke, who was walking forward, suddenly paused.

Xiao Yi was giving back to him: "Master, in the area of three hundred meters ahead, I found a special aura, which is extremely disturbing to the resonance of breathing. ”

At the same time, a purple light lit up and flickered wildly on the Douqi holographic screen.

The purple point of light did not stand still, but moved rapidly, getting closer and closer to where Duke was.

"Watch out, there's something coming up!" Duke scolded.

Vivien immediately ordered: "Assemble, Guardian Lord!" ”

The Grand Knights changed their previous laziness and maintained a high level of vigilance, slowly approaching Duke and protecting Duke in the center.

Duke himself was on high alert, and the sand eagle was already in his hands.

In a moment, the purple light point on the Douqi holographic screen moved to the vicinity of Duke, and at this time, in the area ahead, a monster like a tiger quietly pounced.

The great knights quickly stepped forward and used their shields to block the tiger monster.

Bang knock!

The tiger monster was knocked away by the shield and rolled on the ground.

Only then did Duke see what it was, it looked like a tiger and not a tiger, but it had the general outline of a tiger, but in fact it was like a huge insect squeezed out of the tiger's body, a very strange combination.

There is no fur, only the kind of skin that resembles a caterpillar, and although the color is colorful, there is no splendid beauty, only deformity and ugliness.

And it has a strong pungent smell on it.

It's not a pungent nose on the sense of smell, but a psychological pungent nose that makes the Dukeling Sea, the Blood Sea, and the Qi Sea all produce a strong sense of discomfort.

"Evil breath......" Duke held the sand eagle and stood in place silently examining it.

The great knights had already divided the big ugly worm, which looked like a tiger, to the ground with shields and spears.

"My lord, are you going to kill?" Affleck asked.

"I'll take a look first." Duke approached and carefully looked at the strange "tiger insect", he had a guess in his heart, this should be caused by the molting and pollution of ancient evil creatures, and he didn't know if the body was really a tiger.

The tiger insect was pressed by the shield, and opened its mouth angrily, but it could no longer make any sound, as if its vocal cords were rotten.

There was only a puff and puff of air.

Sizzle.

Duke reached out directly, pulled out a tentacle from the tiger insect's head, and then injected psionic energy to probe the situation.

found that the spiritual energy was obscure and difficult to walk, and it could not work at all.

"This is not a spirit material, or even a kind of 'Absolute Spirit Body'!" Duke quickly made a judgment in his mind that spirituality is everywhere, and there is basically no object that cannot be penetrated by spirituality, and if there is, such a thing will be called an absolute spirit.

There are few records of the Absolute Spirit.

Some arcane mages have studied it and believe that the Absolute Spirit is not a thing of this world, but may be an extraterrestrial object carried by a meteorite.

Spirituality cannot penetrate, it is like a spiritual black hole.

The tiger insect is not this kind of absolute spiritual black hole, but it is difficult to penetrate the spirituality, and Duke's spiritual energy can only probe on the appearance of the tentacles.

He also tried to penetrate the spiritual energy from the broken wound, and when he also penetrated the superficial, he was blocked by the obscure feeling, and it was difficult to penetrate the slightest.

"Tie it up and take it back!" Duke immediately ordered.

"Yes, sir!" The great knights took out their chains and tied the tiger insects together.

The strength of this tiger insect is not strong, it is equivalent to a 1-ring spirit beast, and it does not know arcane, so it can only be tossed in front of the big knights.

It was slow on the way, but fast on the way back, and in less than half an hour it was out of the jungle and back to Safe Passage Three.

The Black Beetle Experimental Car, still parked on the side of the road.

The other arcane mages who investigated had not yet returned, and Duke directly asked people to put all the collected experimental samples on the black beetle cart, and the tiger insect was also dragged over.

"Ahh Suddenly there was an exclamation from the car.

Duke realized that he had not come back alone, but that Kiria Fury had been in the test vehicle and exclaimed at the sight of the tiger insect.

Her Guardian Knight, faithfully guarding the side.

"You're back too?" Duke asked.

"Hmm." Kiriya had a look of embarrassment on her face, "I've had a bit of a problem in the forest, so I'll come back and clean it up." ”

Her clothes had obviously changed, and her hair was wet, as if she had just taken a shower.

Duke roughly guessed what was going on, but still asked, "What's the situation, don't you look very good?" ”

"Ah, this ......" Kiria hesitated, but still overcame the embarrassment and said, "I came across a disgusting flower, which accidentally exploded while researching, and I was drenched in some mucus and felt very uncomfortable. ”

"I see." Duke didn't ask any further.

Kiria had just been promoted to arcane mage, and apparently hadn't had time to build an arcane spectacle yet, so she didn't have instant arcane defense.

"Duke, what did you catch?" Kiria quickly changed the subject.

"I don't know, it's a strange individual, I'm going to show the mentor to see if the mentor can know what it is." Duke has limited knowledge.

I read a lot of books, and the Xiaoyi database has also expanded a lot, but I have nothing to gain from the fanged lichens, mutated konjac flowers, tiger insects and the like that are related to ancient evil things.

"Cuihai Valley doesn't know what happened, there is such a disgusting species spreading."

"Who knows."

Duke simply sat in the black beetle car, and the service staff on the car poured him a cup of coffee and took small sips.

Chatting with Kiria about the day that is not salty or light.

It doesn't matter what exactly you talk about, the main thing is that Kiria is too eye-catching, and the time spent with beautiful women is beautiful.

"Ah, you two are lazy." The presence of Oriana interrupts Duke's leisure to enjoy the good time.

"Sister Oriana, you're back." Duke smiled and said, "What's the catch in the forest?" ”

"What can I gain, it's all some disgusting stuff, the smell can smoke people to death, alas, this research really shouldn't have come." Oriana said in disgust, "It's better for you two to be smart, come back early to rest, and I'll be back early tomorrow." ”

Kiria smiled awkwardly.

Duke asked nonchalantly, "Have you seen the tiger insect in the cage outside the car, can you see what it is?" ”

"I'm not interested in reading it, let my mentor or Liedman guide the research." Oriana called the waiter and asked herself for a cup of green tea.

Then he leaned back in his chair and enjoyed the evening sunset, and chatted with Kiria about the gossip of the mages.

This kind of gossip, even the lady of heaven is not exempt from vulgarity.

Duke yawned, got out of the car, and crouched in front of the iron cage, studying the pollutants of the tiger insects.

"Is this a living thing?" He thought about the unfriendly experience he had had in the mines.

At that time, it felt as if the cave was the wriggling stomach of some kind of organism, and all the five senses were disturbed, and I heard the roar of a monster that seemed to be nothing.

"So, if it's really the ancient evil thing in the forbidden land, it will shed its shell, leak and infect it...... Is the tiger what it looks like when it is infected? ”

He pondered silently: "If this is the case, if Roroa Snow Eagle was unconscious at the beginning, could it also be a tiger bug-like infection, so he was later taken to Runwu City...... It should be sliced and studied by those high-level arcane mages. ”

"So is this infection a spiritual infection, or is it an infection against the spiritual?"

"There is a Guardian Mystic Vine in my Spirit Sea, and the feedback from the 3-Ring Tree King-Mystic Vine at that time is a special defensive barrier."

"But when the molting of the ancient evil thing interfered with me, the vine of the Guardian Mysteries did not react!"

"Whew!"

"It hurts my brain."

Ask for tickets~

(End of chapter)