The demigod-level lightning light gradually dissipated, and a strange scorching smell permeated the entire clearing.

In Angel's almost blinded vision, the huge body of the feathered serpent no longer stood upright, but collapsed limply on its coiled tail, and a black liquid slowly flowed from the huge mouth that originally spit out the snake's core—it was the poisonous blood of the infected disease, which had gradually attacked, and began to destroy the organs in the feathered serpent's body.

As for the thick wings on the snake's back, which spread out to the maximum angle, the white feathers were also burned away by the scorching thunder, and only the thin skeleton was left over its curled snake.

Under the sandwich of "disease" and "lightning storm", this demigod-level feathered serpent died like this?

Angel was a little unsure, she turned on her vision, and found that the faint glow on the huge body of the feathered serpent was slowly condensing, and the "living corpses" that had been resurrected several times around her had also died in the new round of disease, so she cautiously approached, entered the foundation of the palace that had not yet been completed, and came to the corpse of the feathered serpent.

"It doesn't have a spirit thread."

Klein, who had released his demigod ability, put away the precious "Lemanno's Travel Notes", retrieved the two bronze whistles, followed Angel step by step, and said suddenly.

Does it mean that the feathered serpent was originally dead and was reawakened by some kind of force?

Hearing Klein's words, Angel began to analyze the battle just now.

She could feel the power of the "Grim Reaper" on the Feathered Serpent's body, this kind of induction based on divinity is difficult to fake, even if the other party is not a demigod, must have some kind of demigod-level power, such as magical items, extraordinary characteristics, or some kind of gift......

But judging from the process and results of the battle, this feathered serpent is not a real demigod at all, its attack method is rigid and stiff, in addition to using its own death breath to resurrect the surrounding living corpses and summon endless ghosts, it can only use its huge body to "suppress" attacks.

Of course, the advantage of size is it, or the biggest reliance of all giant creatures, which is vividly reflected in Angel's battle with the "King of the North" in "Grossell's Travels", an ice dragon roughly equivalent to sequence 5 will be overwhelmed by a group of sequence 5 and sequence 6, if it is not for everyone's tacit understanding, let alone killing each other, I am afraid that the whole army may be wiped out.

If that wasn't the Ice Dragon, but the Tiger Lion, two Sequence 5s would easily solve it......

And this feathered serpent, I'm afraid, is only a "lucky one" who has a certain amount of demigod power, but can't fully grasp the power itself?

Thinking of this, she continued to approach the corpse of the feathered snake, and easily pulled the hair that had returned to its normal shape behind her head, and was about to pull it out and insert it on the other party's body, the "Sword of Dawn" that had been scorched black by the lightning storm just now, but suddenly found that the scales on the huge snake body had a little yin green in the black, and there were still a lot of white feathers between the gaps, which began to turn grayish-white, like weathered stone slabs, quickly became rough, and cracks appeared on the edges.

"It seems that it has been dead for a long time, and perhaps, these 'living corpses' driven by it are building a mausoleum for it? Is this some kind of means of resurrection? ”

Behind the two of them, Alger, who had just escaped with Angel's mirror double, muttered, reaching out to caress the flimsy scales of the feathered serpent, but stopped just as he was about to touch it.

The three of them watched quietly as the corpse of the feathered serpent quickly "died", the scales fell off, and it turned into flying ash when it landed, the flesh and blood below had long since decayed and disappeared, and the spine that was clasped together lost its protection and scattered all over the ground, stacked with the body of the "living corpse" it had controlled around it, forming a strange scene like an open-air burial ground.

Among these bones, except for Angel's "Sword of Dawn", there was only a feather that radiated a pale luster under the spiritual vision, which was different from the white feathers that were stained with oil and looked dirty, but the surface was smooth and clean, and the shape was elegantly curved, like angel wings.

Extraordinary traits, or some kind of magical item from the source of Quetzalcoatl's powers?

Angel guessed, did not touch it directly with his hands, but picked it up with invisible silk threads, looked at the two people beside him, and saw that they had no objections, so he put the feather into the bag he carried with him, and sealed it with a spiritual wall.

- Dispose of the loot after the battle is over, this is the principle agreed by the three before the operation.

Turning the "Sword of Dawn" back into a bone bracelet that was used as a throwable object and successfully attracted lightning strikes, Angel could feel the fatigue that quickly spread from her body to her limbs, but compared to before, the side effects of this "knight's bracelet" could not affect her too much, and the duration would be greatly shortened, and it might not take half an hour to fully recover.

In the same way that the various extraordinary abilities of the medium sequence are difficult to work on the high sequence, the negative effects of magical items will be greatly reduced to me...... She pondered, her gaze swept over the remains of the Feathered Serpent on the ground and the "living corpses" of various races, and said:

"Let's move on."

……

Passing through the dead silence of the clearing, the three of them continued to walk towards the depths of the dense forest according to the path they had taken last time, this time, they did not hear the faint call of the bell tree, maybe because an old tree died, and another new tree had not yet grown into a transcendent creature that could actively hunt, or maybe they already had a territorial division, and the other bell trees would stay away from here and not let the hunting range overlap with each other.

"There are easy-to-hunt creatures like the Blue Shadow Falcon, as well as powerful demigod-level transcendent creatures, but I've never seen them take the initiative, just nest in their own territory......"

Alger is still at the forefront, but he is much more cautious than before, holding a lantern in one hand and a "magic pocket watch" in the other, ready to press the crown at any time to gain the ability to become a paper man.

His muffled words drifted back into the wind, into Angel and Klein's ears.

"There was a lot of movement in the battle just now, and the other creatures in the vicinity must have fled, although this will reduce the benefits of our expedition, but on the other hand, the journey into the ruins in the middle of the island will be much smoother."

With that, the three of them had come to the edge of the dense forest, to the spot covered with heavy cobwebs, where hunting black spiders were ambushing in the canopy.

Compared to the last time they arrived, there were many more remains of creatures inside the cobweb, both human and animal, and their unifying feature was that they had lost all their flesh and bones, leaving only dry bones with fur or clothing, scattered among the cobwebs, like a warning of danger to those who came after them.

"The spiders are gone."

Crane squinted and watched for a moment, then spoke.

Through the vision of the spirit thread, he can spot the figure of the spider hidden behind the canopy, hidden under the cobwebs, which is only 100 meters away when he was first promoted to the "Secret Puppet Master", but by gradually digesting the potion and summarizing the rules of playing, Crane, who can skillfully use his abilities, has been able to find creatures within 300 meters.

Of course, the demigod Quetzalcoatl who was hiding underground just now doesn't count, otherwise I would have called them to run away with me...... He laughed to himself, scanning his neighborhood again, making sure there were no living objects in the webs.

"It seems that the big battle just now scared them all away, and even left their territory, and that feathered serpent must have caused trouble for the surrounding 'neighbors' in normal times."

Alger scoffed, mocking the Quetzalcoatl, who had almost crushed him into a meatloaf, before continuing on his way.

This time, they simply didn't go around between the cobwebs, but Angel and Crane respectively summoned flames, burning the curtain-like cobwebs that stood in the way, and jumping out of a straight path.

By the time the black spiders returned to their territory and found that their cozy home had been burned down by three uninvited guests, they had long since left the island.

I wonder if this damage can contribute to the digestion of the "Despair" potion...... As soon as this evil thought came to Angel's heart, he felt that his skin tightened, his cold hair stood up, and his spirit also gave a warning of danger as if he were crazy.

This level of alertness has occurred less than five times in her nearly one-year career as an Extraordinary, and each time it meant that she was about to face an immensely formidable foe.

Another sneak attack of a "demigod"? Or have you stepped into some kind of extremely dangerous trap?

At this moment, Angel's brain was running faster than ever, and her eyes swept over the slowly burning cobwebs, over the grass in the shadows, and resting on a gray-white stone.

No, that's not a stone!

Underneath the gray-white object about the size of a person, the base of several slender roots of the same color loomed, and the stones were far away from the other side of the three of them, and smaller stones were embedded in it like bulging eyes.

It was a "hunting black spider", a transcendent creature turned to stone!

The spiders who call this forest home are not scared away by the battle between the three and the Feathered Serpent, but they are all dead, all of them have become lifeless, spiritless stones, and they can't sense the spirit thread!

And among the cobwebs has become the hunting ground of the deadly hunter.

Crane and Alger beside her felt a deadly shadow loom over their heads like a substance due to the gap in sequence, and the things shrouded in the thin moonlight in front of her seemed to be covered with frosted glass and became hazy.

Their hands and feet froze in place, starting from their fingertips, turning gray little by little, losing the luster of their skin, and turning into lifeless stones in the crimson moonlight like the "hunting black spider".

Witnessing this, Crane reacted immediately, his left hand "wriggling hunger" became transparent, and his right hand tried to grab Alger on the other side, but the feet of the two men closer to the ground were petrified to their knees, unable to take a step, let alone let their bodies come into contact and "teleport" away.

Bang –

There was a sharp sound, and on the other side of the cobweb, a pinch of black flames ignited from the position leaving the dense forest, it was less than 30 meters away from the three of them, only the size of a finger, but it was instantly reflected in the eyes of Crane and Alger, like the light of hope.

Without hesitation, Crane gave up the "teleportation", and his partially petrified body was shrouded in bright yellow flames, and suddenly appeared next to the black flames, and at the same time, he looked at another withered yellow grass farther away, and his gray-white and unbendable fingers shook slightly, and another flame was ignited there.

Two crisp explosions of flames in a row, Angel and Alger came to Klein's side through a flash of flames, the former used the ability of the "hypocritical" ring, and the latter held the hand of the "magic pocket watch" and hit the waist directly, and pressed the crown with the impact, and also temporarily obtained part of the ability belonging to the "magician".

It's like three magicians performing together...... Klein's mind shrouded in a sense of crisis barely deserted, and then immediately jumped to a pinch of flames farther away, his "secret puppet master" level flame jump can jump out of a hundred meters, but in order to take care of the "inverted hanged man" who is only at the level of a "magician", he only ignites the flames within 30 meters at a time, but even so, the tacit cooperation of the three of them allowed them to quickly move away from the cobweb-covered forest, and jumped to the vicinity of an ancient ruin in a row.

After passing through an invisible boundary, Angel felt that the danger alert sent by her spirit disappeared in an instant, and she subconsciously looked back, the forest stained gray and white by cobwebs and many stones was hundreds of meters away, and no suspicious targets were found in it, but as quiet as when they first entered, as if they were dead.

"That'...... What is it? ”

Alger asked hesitantly, his face so pale that Angel almost thought that the "petrification" had spread to the area above his neck, and he held the pocket watch that had saved his life tightly in his hand, and the gray that had spread to his elbows was fading little by little, and his fingertips were gradually returning to ruddy.

"Something stronger than a feathered serpent, with the ability to petrify...... Probably underground, we have petrification on our feet faster than on our hands. ”

Crane replied, shaking his stiff legs as he pressed the top hat on his head, surprised to find that the inanimate object had also been "petrified", and the brim had become hard and no longer soft like silk.

"It's the 'Witch'......" Angel thought for a moment and spoke, "Or the high-level transcendent creature that originated from the 'Witch' path, it just subconsciously exudes its own abilities, which is enough to petrify and kill all living creatures in that area." ”

As Sequence 4, she was not immediately affected by the "petrification" like the other two, but in that area, she could still feel her limbs stiffen and her thoughts almost frozen, as if her entire body did not belong to her.

Most importantly, it reminded her of the aura of destruction she felt when she used the "Calamity" charm, and although the two manifestations were completely different, in the final analysis, they were both outward manifestations of some form of "destruction", some kind of "decay".

At least "Ageless", perhaps one step closer, reaching the level of a "Calamity" witch...... She made a judgment with some trepidation.

"Fortunately, there doesn't seem to be any transcendent creature in this ruin, otherwise the guy who made the 'petrification' just now would have to flee immediately with 'teleportation', and we may not even be able to escape."

Crane spoke in a flat tone, but the frowning brow still betrayed his uncalm mood.

The other two nodded approvingly, looking at the ruins that had saved them.

Between the collapsed stone columns, the hollow walls, and the Quaternary buildings, a magnificent building, still intact, stands out in the foreground.

"That's what we're aiming for today, and there may be ancient relics that are no less valuable than the 'Blasphemy Cards.'"

Alger stretched out his finger and said in a slightly excited tone.

(End of chapter)