The Filthy Swamp has been changing, ever since the Transians captured Wolfsburg and banished the Plague Gnolls.

The members of the Church of Avalon claim that it was a blessing from the gods of nature, but the believers themselves are not sure what kind of blessing it is, but it is certain that after the vast area of filthy swamps was incorporated into the frontier by the Translancians, the natural atmosphere here has become stronger.

It seems that the gods of nature have really made up their minds to turn the Filthy Swamp, an important ecological region on the continent, into their own holy place.

But as the decisive battle of the Maginot Line approached, the rate of change in the filthy swamp increased suddenly, and it was not long before someone discovered that something was "wrong" with this blessing.

As for the cause, it was a minor accident.

In other words, there is a very niche section on the player forum dedicated to the group of "fishing guys", and cyber fishing guys led by one of the "three general stars of administrative players" will often share their fishing experience here, and will share some more hidden but exciting fishing areas.

Obviously, finding a random spot on the Cadman River to catch flying fish is no longer enough to satisfy these anglers, and even in the midst of the Plague, these guys will share what they think is a good place throughout the battlefield.

For example, Yinhu, one of the Zodiac brothers, found a hidden fishing spot in the upper reaches of the Huma River, where he caught a rare glow-in-the-dark gem fish and won a hidden achievement.

In addition, Hogg's Blue Wolf Army also has excellent Gnoll Anglers.

While following the virtuous wolf all the way to find their roots, they also continued to share the locations of some hidden fish in the depths of the dark mountains, and even the lucky ones fished in the unknown deep pools and fished a set of dominant-level psionic knight armor from the Third Black Calamity period.

This is shit luck, that set of armor was placed on the player's trading platform for less than five minutes, and it was given seconds by Lao Huo, who was not bad for money, saying that he wanted to buy it and give it to his friend, but in fact, it was his secretary and girlfriend-to-be.

There are also rumors that as long as you swing your club enough times, you may even catch the legendary "Holy Grail" by a certain pool, after all, the story of Lord Kudel, the tribune, has spread throughout the player community, and everyone knows that Lord Kudel became a Knight of the Holy Grail because he drank water by the pool when he was seriously injured, and as a result, he lost his luck.

From this point of view, although the Holy Grail of fishing for fishing by fishing for shit is low, it is definitely not zero.

However, for the administrative players who are biased towards civilian work, they can't go to the powerful fishing spots shared by fishing friends, and can only satisfy their fishing interests within the scope of Translancia, but it does not mean that it is absolutely safe in the novice village, for example, in a post last night, the senior angler shared his death experience in a half-risk:

All-risk semi-hanging: [Blanch! How did cannibal flowers grow in this filthy swamp? I was out fishing and was almost swallowed by that. Fortunately, Lao Tzu has been wearing a helmet and a gun when he fishes, otherwise he would really have to use himself to make a nest today. 】

Big Big Wolf: [??? I haven't been to the filthy swamps, but aren't those fishing spots near Wolfsburg? It's been a safe zone for a long time, so how can there be such a dangerous thing as a piranha? 】

All the danger is half-hanging: [Hehe, how do you know that Lao Tzu was blessed by misfortune and caught a big one? ] I'll open your eyes, pictures, pictures, pictures. 】

Yinhu: [Blanch, the fishing guy's unique self-talk!] Who asks you how big a fish you have caught? All we care about now is where you met the cannibal flower?

This thing has thick blood, and it's poisonous, and it moves quickly and heals itself.

Hurry up and share the information, don't let them run around there. 】

All-risk half-hanging: [You just say that my fish is not big, right? 】

Yinhu: [. Big, really big, is this really something that grows in inland waters like filthy swamps? How do I feel like a fish? Why does this thing still have bone spurs on its fins? 】

[I'm actually curious, this thing tastes similar to tuna, but the water depth of the fishing spot I usually go to is at most fifteen meters, and it is impossible to have such a big fish.

Anyway, the number of swamp tigers in the filthy swamp seems to have increased recently, and some people say that they also saw giant spiders when they were laying mines.

It's just a matter of the past few days.

! This ecological change is too strange.

Uh, I just found out that my orb contains a photo of yesterday's attack, so I'll send it to you to see. 】

The whole thing quickly posted a photo of himself to this post, which recorded the whole process of his sneak attack by the piranha, but someone soon found out that something was wrong.

Mr. Huo, a wife who is looking for a thousand miles: [No! Brother Half-hanging, it wasn't the cannibal flower that attacked you, the scientific name of this thing is 'bloodthirsty root', it's a close relative of the vampire vine, and the cannibal flower looks like but not the same plant, it doesn't have the deep roots and attack power of the cannibal flower.

But they are sprawling and do not appear alone.

If you find one, there must be many more in the vicinity, or even settlements have formed. 】

All-risk semi-hanging: [! You mean, I've been fishing these days surrounded by a bunch of plants that eat people? How do I feel a little bit of a tingling scalp. 】

Mr. Wife: [I don't know exactly what happened, but the ecological changes in the Filthy Swamp have always been on the radar of the Avalonian Church, but the speed of this change has suddenly increased in recent times.

I can't get back to the R-9 base right now, but I've already told them about the situation.

They are about to go back to the Maginot Line to get their weapons, so you tell him where you are fishing, and they check by to make sure what is going on.

But one thing is for sure, you administrative players and newcomers to the game don't run around the filthy swamp lately.

Things really aren't quite right over there. 】

Under the reminder of Brother Huozi, a genuine druid, the all-risk half-hung brother contacted Brother Woo Meow and made a great determination to tell them the location of his beloved fishing spot.

That place is really quite secret, and people can't help but wonder how the fishing guy found out about this place?

Maybe this is the unique talent of anglers?

However, Brother Meow, they did not come alone, and there were some Avalonians who came with them wearing forest robes and full of ascetic temperament.

These NPCs do not have any metal objects on them, and will decorate their clothes with roots and flowers.

There are also natural tattoos on their arms, neck, and cheeks, and they don't have long hair and beards, and they look like wild people, but they talk very elegantly and naturally, and although they occasionally make cameos as very hateful Riddlers, they are generally very favorable.

These guys were the last members of the Druids before the persecution of the Church of Avalon, and some of them can still be seen from torture, some of which are disabled.

They were all supported by Murphy from the Plantagenet Kingdom, and although they were not many in number, they effectively supplemented the Church of Avalon's lack of power in the field of spellcaster power, and this was their first outing, in order to find out what kind of blessed power the gods of nature had unleashed on the filthy swamp.

Brother Meow, who has become a red knight, and his brothers are wearing a very stylish Eagle exoskeleton, and everyone is carrying a bloody vulture claw, not like they are here to do a task, but more like they are here to stand on the street, and Brother Woo Meow is also carrying the holy relic of the Mother Earth God and the battle axe with his brothers to open the way in front, and the dexterity of 25 points makes them walk like flying in the swampy terrain, revealing a heroism.

These guys carefully avoid the minefields and traps that are marked as dangerous on the map, while protecting the druids behind them as they make their way to their destinations.

"We haven't been here for over two months, have we? How could there be such a large number of beasts in this swamp? There were three elite swamp tigers that I encountered along the way just now, as well as those big scary vampire bats, were they really those weak chicken beasts we had seen before? ”

Brother Meow whispered, and the three or five buckets beside him held a hot melt knife to chop the vines blocking the way, and replied:

"It's not just a beast, is it? I feel like the plants are getting bigger all over the filthy swamp, and you saw that plantain tree just now, right? The leaves grow like tropical plants. ”

"That's not a banana tree, my dear Sangodou, you're a little too unlearned, it's just that it looks alike, and you still serve Avalon at your level, be careful of being ridiculed by your family."

Brother Meow pouted and said:

"It's a stink bomb tree, and its fruit falls and explodes when it is stimulated by external stimuli, emitting a disgusting smell that can directly attack the respiratory system of life.

I've read in Eugene Sr.'s Nature Book that the fruit of a 30-year-old stink bomb tree not only explodes but also secretes strange dust, which makes people who come into contact with it itchy and unbearable, and in severe cases, it can even tear the skin and cause fungal infections.

This thing is said to only exist on some islands in the Misty Sea, and I haven't found it in the filthy swamp before. ”

As the two spoke, they walked forward, but as they walked around a redwood forest, they were suddenly stopped by a druid girl behind them.

"Stop! Don't move! Don't irritate something around you. ”

The druid girl with long green hair had a black scar on her face, which seriously damaged her appearance, but her mystical temperament was not affected, and after warning Brother Meow and Sanwudou, the girl released a druid spell on herself before she stepped forward slowly, carefully holding the invisible object a few inches above Brother Meow's head.

As her fingers pulled away, the true form of the thing was revealed.

It's like a plant like a flyweed, opening its "big mouth" covered with saliva and falling towards Brother Woomeow's head, and the viscous colorless juice contained in it is terrifyingly corrosive at a glance, and the worst thing is that this thing is "stealth".

Not even the Red Knight's perception was able to detect its existence.

The druid girl carefully took a little sticky juice, and slapped the strange plant from the roots with a special frequency, as if to soothe its predatory organs and return to the surrounding trees like a snake, and then entered a rather strange optical invisibility.

"Gluttonous flowers are dangerous carnivorous plants."

She turned back to Brother Meow and Sanwudou and explained:

"In the Holy Land of Grinny, we guard the treasure trove of nature with this greedy and dangerous plant, the sap it secretes can melt iron armor in seconds, and the creatures it bites are injected with paralyzing toxins, which will swallow them if they can't break free in time.

It only takes an hour for your organs and bones to be broken down.

It is one of the top 20 most dangerous plants in Avalon's Book of Nature, with special tissues on its body that cannot be killed even with fire, and the only way to completely isolate it is to use a specially formulated herbicide to make it melt itself.

In the legends of the Elven Kingdom, the gluttonous flower represents the monster that specializes in handling corpses in the face of the Mother of the Forest, representing the messenger of the cycle of all things. ”

"This is definitely not a plant native to the filthy swamp!"

Brother Meow touched his neck with some fear, and he whispered:

"If these things were here, Translia would have been destroyed eight hundred years earlier, look at this crazy thing!"

"It's certainly not the native plant here."

Several of the leaders of the druids, an old man with a thornwood cane, said in a dumb voice:

"The last seeds of the gluttonous flower were destroyed when the Holy Land of Glennie was breached by King Louis's army, and this dangerous plant was theoretically extinct, but it reappeared here. Alas, I understand what the blessing of the god of nature has given to this swamp

That's the power of wild nature!

My god wants this to be a place of war, devouring all malicious intruders who enter it.

The Filthy Swamp is a place of the past, and it should now be called the 'Forest of the Flesh-Eaters', and these new dangerous plants feed on flesh and blood, and in this way our god supports the Transians in their fight against the Black Plague.

What an unimaginable gift. ”

"There is only one similar place in the forest of the Elven Kingdom of Castile."

The druid girl with a scar on her face explained to Brother Meow and Sanwudou:

"Legend has it that it is the sacred place of the Mother of the Forest of the Lord Avalon, and all life that steps into it without permission will be devoured by wild plants, and now there is a similar sacred place in Translasia, and the god of nature really loves you."

"But these things don't divide me, do they?"

Brother Wu Meow said with some concern:

"After the war, we are still planning to open up trade routes in the swamp, and if we do this, won't this swamp become a no-man's land?"

"No, the wrath of the gods of nature will only be directed against malicious intruders."

The leader of the druids shook his head and said:

"Otherwise, we will be attacked when we enter here, this swamp has its own consciousness, and Avalon's blessing strengthens this will of the wood, just like the ancestral woodlands, here is also born a heart of the wood.

It doesn't target innocent passers-by, nor does it blame destruction and hunting for survival, but if you show hostility and disrespect to nature here, you're done.

Keep moving.

Take a look at the place where the bloodthirsty roots are, I suspect there's something even more amazing. ”

"Huh? Isn't a large patch of bloodthirsty roots dangerous enough? ”

Sanwudou complained:

"I feel like I'm stepping into a haunted house of nature gods now, and to be honest, the action here makes me uncomfortable."

"Bloodthirsty roots have never been a problem."

The druid girl sighed and said:

"The things that come with the bloodthirsty root are the real big trouble."

She glanced at Brother Meow with a subtle look in her eyes and said:

"You've got something like that, Lord Red Knight, who executes the punishment."

"Huh?"

Brother Meow was stunned.

But he quickly reacted, reached out and took out the seed of his War Thorn Beast, as if sensing the breath of his kind, the ground of the swamp in front of him quickly shook, and a behemoth was rapidly approaching here.

"Don't move! Maintain goodwill in place and bring out the scent of nature! The wild thorn beast is coming! Don't provoke it. ”

The Druid girl shouted, and everyone stopped where they were.

A few seconds later, the vines and sludge in front of them were trampled away, and a black thorn beast as huge as a mammoth appeared in front of everyone.

It is larger than Brother Meow's Battle Thorn Beast, the wood grain on its body is more rugged, and its breath is more violent, it is obviously a primordial Thorn Beast that has not been domesticated by the Church of Avalon, and the essence of this thing is a special plant, which can never grow anywhere.

Its presence here proves that the filthy swamp has indeed undergone some disturbing changes.

"!"

Brother Woo Meow maintained his posture in place, and he scolded in a low voice:

"This hellish place is going to be finished, and plant overlords of this level have appeared."

"Look at the sky!"

Sanwudou suddenly shouted.

When everyone looked up, they saw more strange birds flapping their wings and flying out of the depths of the swamp under the stimulation of the movement of the primordial thorn beast.

Their heads are sharp, their skin is hairless, and their bodies are very similar to the pterosaurs in Brother Meow's memory, but these strange birds have sharp claws under them, and their whole body is red, very similar to the legendary little devil.

Mixed among these red birds were a few stunningly large snow-white birds of prey, which disappeared into the sky with just a few flaps of their wings, as fast as lightning.

"The Bone Crusher, a bird of prey that has been extinct for hundreds of years on Greeney Island."

The druid girl was stunned and said:

"And the wolf hunts! The largest silent hunter in the Church's records, feeding on gray wolves, reappeared in this world by the gift of the gods of nature, and I guess this is exactly what they are meant to do against the ferocious wolves of the gnolls.

But even the War Thorn and the Hunter Owl can only inhabit here, indicating that there must be something more dangerous hiding in the depths of this swamp.

The power of Avalon has reshaped the ecology here.

I think this is my God's response to the war on the Maginot Line, where a natural slaughter is about to begin. ”

(End of chapter)