Chapter 43: Lotterden Forest
Located south of the city of Asare, the Forest of Lotsden is the heart of the Battle of the Scourge of yesteryear, near what is now the Realm of Light and Darkness.
As a result, the forest is filled with all kinds of dangerous beings left over from ancient times, and a large number of wandering demons often wander around.
The Kling dynasty considered the Lotsden Forest to be more dangerous than valuable, so they seldom explored it, and even avoided it.
Because of this, it became a retreat for those who were dissatisfied with the dynasty in the wasteland of Jojohaas.
They seem to be more inclined to contend with extreme druids, mutant beasts, wandering spirits, carnivorous plants, trolls, and demons than the Kreen dynasty formed by the dark elves......
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Of course, Team C, led by Donal, also likes these enemies that can be slashed without thinking about the moral level.
After entering this ghostly forest full of strange creatures and sights, Lily felt as if she had returned home, acting as a guide for everyone.
Giant predators and terrifying monsters hovered around them, allowing Lily to take advantage of the hide-and-seek skills she had honed in the Elysium Forest.
"Look, the fruit of this carnivorous plant is so delicious that we can make it our dinner today!"
The dark forest is infested with mist and monsters, giving the plants that follow the predators to pick up a rich source of nutrients.
Hearing this, the group looked at the plant that Lily was pointing at with her clawsβa tentacle vine that looked like a normal vine-like carnivorous plant when hidden in the bushes.
This plant has a higher intelligence than most animals(3) and knows how to move, camouflage, and set traps.
At the same time, it magically has two modes of predation, the former can swallow the victim alive and digest it with gastric juice, and the latter binds the living creature and pierces the skin with its tentacles to bury the seeds in the opponent's body to produce new copies.
Because of the paralyzing toxins contained in its tentacles, and its protective color in an environment like a dense forest, it has become the object of many adventurers' first enemy and disgust.
If it weren't for Lily pointing out the location, Donal, who didn't have two build teammates and had a detection module, wouldn't have been able to find out.
Of course, there are three organisms in the team, two dragons and one rat, and they can basically ignore its threat.
"And there is another reason why adventurers hate plant monsters - it belongs to the Black Five category of enemies."
Looking at the thorny tentacles blocking the way, Donal mused, "In most cases, adventurers try to avoid fighting such enemies. β
"What are the Black Five Categories?"
Lily had never heard of that.
"The Black Five are mud monsters, plants, elementals, undead, and constructed creatures, and most of these enemies are very difficult."
More than once Jerry had heard the astral gnomes complain about this.
Mud monsters themselves are special lifeforms composed of various sticky objects, plants are integrated with the environment, and the elements always have a home field advantage when they appear, undead creatures with various negative states can also fly away, and constructed creatures are resistant and dense.
At the same time, most of these enemies are immune to negative effects such as poison, paralysis, burns, sleep, sneak attacks, stuns, shocks, and psychic effects.
After all, you can't influence the mind of a brainless creature, can you?
And most importantly - it's hard to drop loot even if they are killed!
It is obviously impossible to have a lump of mud, a tree, a puddle of water, a corpse, a piece of furniture to have the concept of property.
Come to think of it, when the adventurer is forced to waste all his strength to finally hang on to a negative state and slash a murderous vine/creeping monster/tentacle demon vine, and then the only loot he gets is a pile of plant materials of little value......
It's a heart-wrenching heart.
That's not bad, if he encounters a mud monster or a slime or something, maybe even his own equipment will be blown up by the other party's corrosive body!
For adventurers, the Black Five Category is simply a heinous crime!
"Haha, I dare to say that at least Sneik is not included in this black five category." Donal said with a smile, if you really blow up the Mimic monster, you will definitely be able to explode the wealth worth tens of thousands of gold coins.
"Unfortunately, no, even if you do destroy me, it will be empty."
After all, the Mimic is linked to Fei Capital's treasury (suspected), and once its life comes to an end, this magical connection will be broken.
So the Black Five category is still too poor.
Dragons are good opponents, as long as adventurers have enough strength, dragons are almost their ATMs.
Conversely, the adventurer will also convert into an opponent's ATM under certain circumstances.
"But the tentacle vine is different, its fruit is edible! Let's make a pie with it!'
"We didn't have an oven with us, so do we have to teleport back to the ship?"
"An oven is also a box, and of course I can do the function of an oven as well." The treasure chest monster stood up without hesitation and took the lead in charging the tentacle demon vine.
I don't know what excited it is......
As a result, Donal didn't catch it at all, and the Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chicks also fished in the back, and they got rid of each other's natural enemies of the Mimic and Tunaras.
Then Chen Zhou sat back and enjoyed the success.
After dinner, the night deepened, the moon hung high, and the fog spread.
The shadows of the trees in the woods looked like evil spirits with teeth and claws in the moonlight, and when the people and animals fell silent, the looming howls and wails began to surround the ears.
"It's a good opportunity to tell a ghost story!"
What better way to tell a ghost story than in the depths of a forest full of ghosts?
And just as Lily was about to tell a ghost story she had heard in Avalon at the bottom of Elysium, Chen Zhou suddenly popped up through the projection generated by the device.
"Whew!!
The young dragon's psychic was wounded, sending a crackling sound wave through the outer layers of Lotstein Forest, sending almost everything in its vicinity flying away except for its teammates.
"I'm cowardly, don't scare me." Chen Zhou, who was the culprit, instead shook the pot, "Think about it a little bit, in the huge magic ship, there are all dead things around, and there is only one living person guarding the house, right?" β
Donal was skeptical: "How do I feel like you're at ease?" β
And he didn't even feel that the other party was out of the team, and he often had the illusion that Cen was by his side.
"Most of the high-level spellcasters are good at driving clones and projections." Mimics have been expecting this for a long time, and they will even operate their men/doubles at home to take risks.
However, most of them can't cast spells across a plane like Chen Zhou, and usually in this case, the casters will prepare enough scrolls or strange objects for the stand-in.
"Actually, I've been using the ship's materials to make all sorts of strange things to support you recently."
This is also the reason why Chen Zhou contacted everyone this time, and he showed what he was holding in a timely manner: "I found a lot of easter eggs when I was exploring Fubasket Zeng-2......"
Donalton became alert.
His magic ship is not a game, how can there be easter eggs!?
(End of chapter)