482. The new legend is always built on the end of the old days, right? The King of Biting Bone
"Don't go over, watch out for it biting you! This guy has such a big mouth, you won't have it in one bite. β
"Don't make a fuss, it only has one breath left, how can it bite me? Don't scream there, be careful that I fall to my death here, my girlfriend is still waiting for me, I don't want her to be sad. β
On the ruins of Plague Town, the bandaged Niu Niu is holding the rock giant egg found in the ruins of the Warlock Tower, and is cautiously approaching the swamp serpent lying in the ruins with half of his body lying in the ruins.
This is not that he is deliberately looking for death, but something that the six brothers in the dormitory who have hung up specifically told him.
They demanded that Niu Niu must return the eggs they had stolen to the giant snake they had been using.
Behind Niu Niu, Khaki Tony Tai and Mud gave Luda Oil stood aside, making all kinds of strange noises and loudly threatening Niu Niu, the two of them had seen the scene of this thing wielding power before, and they would never venture closer.
Although the legend has it that the giant snake has eaten dozens of gold-burning high-explosive bombs in Pestipul Town and has been frantically attacked by the gnolls and warlocks and has entered its deathbed, God knows if it will return to the light of day?
If this really makes trouble, everyone in the town will probably have to bury it at the moment.
But Niu Niu doesn't see it that way.
As he approached cautiously with the rock dome in his arms, the serpent, which was lying in the ruins and sustaining its last breath, rolled its eyes with difficulty.
The tall black onyx-like eyes stared at him, revealing rather mixed feelings of hatred.
This made Niu Niu realize that the legendary creature was not low in intelligence, and when he placed the giant egg under the front paws of the swamp serpent, Ningkinanka struggled to get up, but it was really too weak to get up at all, and could only let out a cry.
It is the sorrow of the loss of life.
After observing the giant snake up close, although Niu Niu was not a biology student, he also realized that this giant beast had definitely persevered alone in time for a long, long time.
This can be seen in the traces of history that are scattered all over its peculiar gemstone scales, like growth rings.
Like an elephant that is about to die, the sadness can be easily perceived.
"Are you feeling sad about it?"
Ambo's voice came from behind.
Niu Niu looked back at his paper man's wife, nodded and said:
"We may have done something wrong, it wasn't a killing machine, but we brought it to the slaughter."
"Indeed, in the records of the Old Religion, Ninki Nanka is almost the most peaceful legendary creature, and it never voluntarily leaves the forbidden places deep in the swamp.
There are even several records of people who got lost by mistake but returned safely. β
Amber stepped forward, took off her gloves and placed her hand on the serpent's abdomen.
She felt the passage of life in this huge body, it must have used some kind of witch hunter's secret method, and after a moment of perceiving, she said to Niu Niu:
"It wouldn't have died, and as long as the swamp elves didn't leave the land, no matter how serious their injuries were, they would slowly recover, but the situation of this giant snake was a bit special.
It had been injured before.
The strange injuries made it impossible to recover, and the Gnoll Warlocks continued to wear it down with vicious means.
This is a legendary creature, my warrior, and even the journey to death is destined to be long.
Maybe we can save it? β
"Huh?"
Niu Niu will finish his deathbed silent mourning for this giant snake, and as a result, you say that it is still saved?
Isn't that embarrassing?
However, Niu Niu realized that he might have triggered a hidden mission from Ambo, so he immediately shared the news with the rest of the Beast Regiment.
After hearing that the giant snake was still saved, the student party quickly gathered.
They are still young in the end, so they are kind-hearted, coupled with the crazy urging of the dormitory six-person group who have gone offline, they finally took over the rescue mission of Anbo.
This is clearly an errand-based task chain.
Because the first step is to figure out the origin of the strange injuries that prevent the giant snake from healing itself, you must find out who actually hurt the giant snake in order to prescribe the right medicine.
While Amber and her witch hunter teammates use their psionic powers to keep the serpent's weakened state from worsening, the players run around looking for someone who can pinpoint the source of the damage, only to find and find the eldest lady.
Philimis was still hiding on the outskirts of Plague Town, pinching the Orb to surf the forum, and performing her daily duties as a member of the development team, after hearing the players say that they wanted to rescue the giant snake, she was stunned for a moment, seriously doubting that these guys were having a heart attack?
Feed!
Sober me up!
You lured the serpent out of the forbidden land, causing it to be seriously injured like this.
If the serpent is as intelligent and emotional as you say, then the first thing it will do when it recovers is to kill you bastards!
Oh wait, you're not afraid of death?
That's fine
"Alas, having so many lives is really nonsense capital."
Femis sighed in his heart, and then sent himself and the little players back to the giant snake with a teleportation.
She hovered from the staff of Nightscream, taller than the rest of hers, around the massive wound in the serpent's back, which had been cleared by the scattered players who had heard the news and shared the hidden mission.
The little rich brother also commanded his manticore lion to use his claws to flick the heavy ruins beside him, so that the wounds of the giant snake could be exposed and more convenient for the eldest lady to see.
Maybe it's because of being a summoner, the little rich brother can't see these beautiful and powerful beasts suffering, maybe he can be more promising to be a druid in the first place.
"Hey, this wound is a little weird!"
The eldest lady carefully examined the laceration on the back of the giant snake and soon realized that something was wrong.
Large chunks of flesh from the swamp serpent's wounds have rotted and developed strange blue-purple bruises, and blood samples taken from them have been heavily contaminated into horrific poisonous blood.
Although the serpent's blood was already poisonous, the purple liquid was mixed with other things besides the natural toxins.
Philimis put it in front of his eyes and analyzed it with spiritual energy, while the little rich brother next to him looked left and right, and he leaned over and whispered to the eldest lady:
"It was the astral creature that bit it!"
"Huh?"
The eldest lady looked at you and touched you poorly, and she asked:
"Why did you come to this conclusion?"
"There are two reasons!"
The little rich brother stretched out two fingers and said:
"First, I can detect some astral aura from this wound, because I am an astral summoner who studied under Master Murphy, and I am quite sensitive to astral aura.
Second, my manticore lion was reluctant to get too close to the serpent's wounds, and there was clearly something about it that made it feel disgusted or afraid.
The Astral Magoon is already in the middle and upper reaches of the Astral Circle, so I'm sure it must have been some powerful and terrifying Astral Beast that bit this giant snake like this.
But it lives in the material world, how can it have anything to do with the things of the astral realm?
The wound is very new.
Apparently a recent injury!
Maybe the gnolls summoned the astral beasts? β
"Don't make a fuss!"
The eldest lady shook her head and said:
"If the gnolls could really summon a behemoth of this level, they would have leveled the swamp battle line a long time ago, maybe some kind of accident happened? However, since it is certain that this is an astral scar, the next step is to remove the astral filth from the serpent's wound and purify its contaminated blood.
I can be responsible for the latter.
But for the ritual required for the former's purification, you'll have to look for the priests of the church in Avalon. β
"Ding"
The Rescue Serpent quest line has progressed smoothly to the next stage.
The flying vampires immediately flew out of the ruins to the camp on the Southern Front, where the priests of the Church of Avalon were there, and perhaps they had a way to complete the ritual of astral purification.
Fimes, who stayed where he was, and Ambo, who was calming the serpent below, glanced at each other.
The two of them worked together to create a quest chain, which meant that both guys were already familiar with the right way to deal with young players, and the tacit understanding and cooperation that was unique to high-level NPCs was all in place.
This scene was also secretly observed by Murphy, who made him feel satisfied with the collaboration in the task release system he had built himself.
As for why the swamp serpent was attacked by astral creatures, Murphy felt the same as Spiegel.
He touched the "Vientiane" device hanging from his wrist, and said to himself that it must have been the ghost of the cultist explorer from before.
However, the forced teleportation in the form of the Astral Guide Staff of the Vientiane Device is so powerful that it can banish legendary creatures like the Swamp Serpent to the Astral Plane?
The power ceiling of this thing is really high and terrifying.
"This device contains the coordinates of the previous exile of Ninky Nanka to the astral plane"
Murphy turned back to Tracy, who was gathering and examining the remains of the Lord of the Bite Bones behind him, and said:
"Say, should I take a look around the area as an astral summoner, and maybe I can find the killer who bit the serpent.
Being able to damage legendary creatures like this proves that the opponent is strong.
If you sign a summoning contract or something"
"Then you'll be killed instantly, my poor little Murphy."
Triss said without raising her head:
"Most of the contracts that can be signed by the Astral Summoner follow the reciprocal interaction of power, you can easily summon the Astral Wolves because your strength is higher than that of George and his men, but if you want to summon the Astral Behemoth that can seriously injure Ninkinanka, your fate will only be drained of psionic energy and flesh as a 'sacrifice' in an instant.
Isn't your apprentice's embarrassing situation at this time a reminder of your poverty?
In order to safely summon the Astral Behemoth into the material world, you must at least touch the edge of the Golden Rank to withstand the backlash of that power.
Therefore, my advice to you is, for the sake of your little life, please be calm. β
"That's normal, but I'm obviously not normal."
Murphy grabbed the cube box of the Vientiane Device, touched the switch on it to return it to the form of the staff of the Astral Guide Staff, pointed it to the ground and said to Tracy:
"This Creator's Key allows me to easily open the Astral Rift without any consumption, which means that I don't have to endure the squeeze from the Astral Plane and the Material Plane when I perform the summons.
As long as I can find the beast and convince it to sign a contract with me, then I can summon it at a critical moment without any backlash. β
β.β
Tracey raised her head speechlessly, looking at Murphy with a smug face, she thought for several seconds and didn't know what words to use to describe it, and finally could only stomp her feet indignantly and scolded:
"You damn shit! I'm not asking you to practice summoning with your heart, not for you to learn to hang up! You bastard apprentice. β
"I'm in a hurry, I'm in a hurry, I'm in a hurry."
Murphy laughed with a hippie smile on the astral guide cane, and the angry Tracey couldn't wait to pick up the thigh bone of the king of biting bones in front of him and give it to this guy.
However, after the anger dissipated, Tracey still reminded very seriously:
"Okay, I'll admit that you've inherited pretty terrifying powers from the Creator, and this thing is the perfect 'graduation weapon' for an astral summoner, but you can't go after that mysterious astral beast at this stage, didn't you say Lord Pa Ying warned you about this?
Any astral summoner who can make it out will carefully choose who their first transcendent contract is for.
The other party's attributes and power traits will affect you because of the echo of the contract, and your psionic traits will be changed because of the contract, so you must be cautious.
I've heard a story about a barbarian summoner.
It is said that hundreds of years ago, a clan in the Frozen Bay region gave birth to a genius summoner who could make contracts with powerful creatures from the elemental plane.
She was too young to know about this pitfall, and immediately after perceiving the powerful echoes of the elemental plane, she completed a transcendent pact with the first elemental archon she had perceived.
This would have been a good thing.
However, when the summoner summoned her elemental companion, she despaired.
Because the contract with her was a powerful and ancient fire elemental archon, and the powerful elemental archon appeared in the material world and razed her tribe to the ground in the tenth second.
But that's not even the fire elemental's will to destroy.
It's just that the fire elemental is very unaccustomed to the cold weather of the ice bay, and the power of the fire elemental archon also affected the reckless summoner, making her lose the blessing of the cold winter and become a unique fire barbarian, and finally can only leave her hometown lonely and disappear again. β
Tris wanted to use this story to warn Murphy not to mess around, but Murphy blinked and asked:
"Flame Barbarian, that sounds so cool, if we make the protagonist of this story a 'rare skin', it will definitely sell well!"
"Smack"
Tracey slapped herself in the eye, and she said in despair:
"Forget it, when I didn't say it, you can do whatever you like.
Now, I've taken care of the remains of the Lord of the Biting Bone, the undead constructors have infused its body with the venom of the serpent, causing its internal organs and skin to be severely corroded, but it also saves us the trouble of corpse work.
Just wait for it to weather naturally to get the skeleton remains of the Biting Bone King.
Considering this guy is the king of the gnolls, let's call him 'Skeletron.'"
"Hey, you stalk that no one else understands."
Murphy complained.
He stepped forward to look at the skeletal remains of the Lord of the Biting Bones that he was visiting, and under Trace's gaze, Murphy reached out and grabbed the thigh bone and waved it in his hand, turning his head to her:
"This thing can make a very heavy bone hammer, and it can definitely make a very powerful weapon from such a high material, right?"
"Blanch!"
Tris exclaimed:
"Don't you even spare the dead now?
Didn't you say you were going to give this thing to Hogg as a 'family heirloom'? If you take away the bones of other people's 'grandfathers' and use them as weapons, aren't you afraid that Hogg will make some psychological shadows in the future? β
"That's fake, Hogg himself knows it's all fake."
Murphy picked up the calf bone of the Bone Biting King and threw it into his psionic bag without any psychological burden, and said:
"As a family heirloom, it is enough to have a complete skull, and the king of biting bones, if Izumixia knows, I have to thank us for helping it get rid of the sad fate of being desecrated by his own descendants, but it's all thanks, can you empty your teeth?
With such great kindness, it makes sense for us to get paid, right?
You see, I've got it all planned.
The left hand bone of the Lord of the Biting Bones was given to Colonel Fraser for King Louis as a birthday present, and the right hand bone was given to AndrΓ© to be sent to the Ice Palace to please his wolf sister.
The intact skull was returned to Hogg as a family heirloom.
The rest is ours.
The Bone King's skeleton is large and sturdy, which means that this set alone will allow us to craft a full set of 'Echoes of the Bone King' series of advanced and even graduation weapons, and even polish a series of trinkets and rings as rewards for the advanced missions we will issue later.
And this! β
Murphy took a shriveled eyeball out of her bag and handed it to Tracy, saying:
"The eyeball of the King of Biting Bone, this is a good material for making psionic magic weapons, you see, it's going to be the Holy Blood Festival soon, and I don't have anything to give you, so."
"Hey, I'll have to help you make this into a ring or a necklace and give it to me, right?"
Tracey rolled her eyes wide.
But in the end, she couldn't refuse Murphy's pleading eyes, and she couldn't refuse Murphy in this form.
And just when the two were flirting around how to deal with the "gift" of the king of biting bones, Bonnie, who was standing guard outside the door and eavesdropping on the way, poked her head out and said:
"Hogg is here, two adults, do you want to let it in?"
"Of course, invite the noble grandson of the King of Biting Bones to come in and pay homage to his great grandfather, who is not known and masked! Qiang claims that he has arrived, and now it's time to watch Master Hogg's performance. β
PS: There is no double monthly pass this month, brother Meng, if you have a monthly pass, hurry up and vote, there are only two days left, there is still a little distance from the 20,000 monthly pass, brothers, work hard, for next month's monthly pass! Rush Rush!
(End of chapter)