Rows of metal cages have been built along the walls of the main hall in this huge "cell", and after countless years, the color of the thick metal pillars that make up the cages has turned black, but there is no sign of decay and rust.

In the hall, there are layers of metal cages distributed in the shape of "Hui", metal cages three meters long, two meters wide, and two meters high, obviously not used to detain humanoids, but more like those dark demon rats with a body length of three meters.

Most of the metal cages were sealed, and the bones scattered inside proved Jialan's guess that these cages forged from thick iron pillars with thighs were indeed used to hold the dark demon rat.

And in the middle of the circle of circular cage arrays, in a relatively open square, stood an exceptionally tall metal cage, which held the amazing giant beast, countless dark demon rats, because of the invasion of outsiders like Jialan, gathered next to the giant cage, desperately screaming, as if guarding the giant beast.

It is said that it is a "giant beast", but in fact it is just a huge mouse, but this mouse is really huge, which is a bit excessive.

The giant cage was piled up with all kinds of mutilated corpses, mountains of bones, as well as a large number of tangled furs and piles of feces, and even overflowed from the gap between the iron pillars of the giant cage to the outside of the cage, piling up into a "mountain".

Compared to its fat body, the slender limbs of this super giant rat like a mountain of flesh were obviously unable to support its bloated and fat body, and it collapsed on the top of the garbage mountain, and as it squirmed, the rotting corpses and feces heaps would be squeezed out of the pus-like black water flowing in all directions.

There was a terrible rancid stench in the air. Even if you hold your breath, you will be swirled between your noses, not to mention that it is difficult to breathe, and you will also have strong nausea and nausea, just near the secret door leading to the "Rat Cage Hall", the mercenaries have already felt dizzy.

"Poisonous!?"

Captain Kenmet exclaimed in surprise, and shook his head vigorously as he struggled to resist the dark demon rats that rushed out of the rat cage hall, trying to sober himself up, but he couldn't restrain it anyway. The nausea and nausea vomiting sensation between the chest and abdomen.

Just after splitting out a few sword qis, he couldn't help but squirt out, and he vomited, even the strong physique of a gold-level great swordsman like him couldn't resist the invasion of this stench. Not to mention the other mercenaries of a slightly lower level, almost all of them have lost their combat effectiveness.

(Lao Sao's note: The above article omitted the two orders of "Great Swordsman" and "Great Swordsman" between "Swordsman" and "Great Swordsman".) It doesn't match the wizard's hierarchy. Corrected from here, the previous text was not changed, sorry. ）

Fortunately, compared to the fighters who are accustomed to "moving forward bravely" when encountering battles, magicians take more care of their bodies, and they are far away. After smelling this unbearable smell, he immediately put on a blister technique that can isolate odors and toxins, and he was far away, so he was not affected much.

A junior mage of the water system in the team. As soon as he noticed the abnormality, he immediately began to release the water bubble technique for his fellow mercenaries, and the intermediate magician of the water system even waved his wand and chanted to release a "water curtain technique" to the secret door, isolating the pervasiveness of the terrible smell in the hall of the isolation rat cage.

With the breathing barrier of the blister technique, the mercenaries who gathered in a formation to rely on each other to resist relieved themselves and began to organize a counterattack, gradually gaining a foothold, blocking the secret door and beginning to encircle and suppress the dark demon rats that rushed out.

Jialan, who was standing near the group of magicians in the rear, secretly released a "Detection Poison", and found that the filthy air overflowing from the rat cage hall was not fatally toxic, but it had a faint plague!

Staying in such an environment for a long time to fight fiercely, rapid breathing will cause this epidemic to enter the body, although there is a certain degree of protection from the water blistering technique, but the people who have just been infected with the epidemic may still be infected with the plague!

Fortunately, this epidemic will not break out immediately, and the mercenaries will not lose their combat effectiveness for the time being.

There are too many dark demon rats rushing out of the secret door, because the secret door with a height of three or four meters is too narrow, and a large number of dark demon rats are crazy, crowding each other and trampling each other to rush out, so that it looks like a huge dark demon rat is "sprayed" out of the secret door!

Although Captain Kenmet brought sixty or seventy silver-level mercenaries, in the face of the huge number of dark demon rats, the mercenaries were still a little difficult to support, so that the encirclement became larger and larger, and the vicious circle of dark demon rats that were too late to kill gathered more and more.

The Dark Demon Rat is also a silver-level magical beast, both in terms of muscle strength and the toughness of its fur, and it is not so easy to kill, so the magicians who have been protected by the mercenaries began to do it!

More than a dozen junior mages chanted, waving their wands to release a blast of fireballs, wind blades, and earth thorns, while the earth mages among the five intermediate mages showed their might again, and several earthen walls rumbled up on the ground amid the chanting of awkward magic spells!

These earthen walls are not used to block the dark demon rat, but cleverly squeeze the width of the exit of the secret door, so that the space that the dark demon rat can pass through is further compressed, and then several earthen walls are arranged into a "river" shape, which diverts the dark demon rat that rushes out, greatly reducing the pressure on the mercenaries.

In this way, as long as the mercenaries hold the exit of the "Chuan" shaped earthen wall passage and break it one by one, they can suppress the swarm impact of the dark demon rats.

The wood-based mid-level mage spilled a piece of seed, and in the midst of the chanting, gave birth to a twisted vine, these thick and tough vines almost as thick as an arm, which could not only assist the mercenaries in imprisoning the dark demon rat during the battle, but also entangle the corpse of the slain dark demon rat and drag it aside to prevent blocking the passage of the earthen wall.

And several other intermediate magicians, as well as the fire high-level magician, did not make a move, but just stood at the back of the team with a calm expression to watch the battle, Jialan couldn't help but secretly admire on the side, the magicians of this era are really strong in combat!

They didn't blindly swarm to carry out magic bombardment on the dark demon rat, but formed a battle echelon in a very layered manner.

Because the magic power in the body of the magicians is limited, and after consuming it, the recovery is quite slow, so they are quite careful to conserve their magic power.

Even those junior magicians only use magic to suppress them when the number of dark magic rats increases and the mercenaries can't resist it, and once the mercenaries can withstand the pressure, they will stop and silently restore their magic, and the main battle is still left to the mercenaries to complete.

The reason why those intermediate and high-level magicians don't do it is not because they are lazy in their own identity, but because they effectively retain their magic power so that they can suppress it in a critical moment.

What's more, in the Rat Cage Hall, the number of dark demon rats is quite huge, and there is a huge and terrifying super mouse, that kind of size is not an object that can be solved by melee combat at all, and then is the time for them to make a move.

I am afraid that this will be a difficult war of attrition, and it is the wisest thing to do to effectively maintain the rhythm of the battle.

What made Jialan sigh was that he once thought that the spell-casting abilities of elemental mages were a bit simple and crude, but now it seems that they are not without their advantages.

At least in battle, the speed of magic release, the power of damage, and the rapid recovery of mana (compared to arcane law) are all much more advantageous than him, the arcane secret spellcaster.

Moreover, judging from the battles of these magicians, they are not blindly bombarded with magic, but also have their unique spell-casting skills.

In addition, the cooperation between the mercenaries and the magicians is also quite tacit, Jialan did not see any verbal communication between them, but in the battle, they can always help each other just right.

Several mages of the water and wood types did not participate in the battle, and they entrusted the task of suppressing the dark rats to their fire, wind, and earth partners, while they took on the healing and logistics themselves.

The mercenaries' physical strength is not unlimited, and every time the mercenaries retreat after a round of fighting spirit, there will be water and wood magicians to treat their injuries with "hydrotherapy", or slow but continuous "spring dawn" for a comprehensive recovery.

At the same time, as the wood magicians sprinkled handfuls of seeds around the battle arena and spawned various plants, the filthy and foul-smelling air in the space was being purified and gradually becoming fresher.

And the drizzle sprinkled by the "Ganlin Technique" released by the water magicians penetrated into the mercenaries' bodies, and the epidemic virus that invaded the mercenaries' bodies was gradually discharged with sweat.

This is the strength that a team can exert itself, although there are only less than a hundred people, but in the face of dozens of times the enemy, they can still use their combat experience and coordination skills to gain an advantage.

This battle will not be able to end in a while, Jialan watched with great interest for a while, and then eagerly took out the captured primary wand, and the frightened old Jimmy who was guarding him took several steps back, looking at him nervously, for fear that he would put a small forbidden spell out and knock everyone over.

Sensing old Jimmy's nervousness, Jialan could only touch his nose in a sneer, which can't blame old Jimmy for overreacting, but every time he makes a move, something seems to go wrong, the first wind ball almost killed his own people, and the second fireball almost caused everyone to die.

"I don't miss every time, do I!?"

Jialan muttered and complained, but he was very unconfident, and carefully injected a trace of wind elemental substance into the wand, and a loud roar sounded in front of him...... (To be continued......)