Chapter XVII: Sources of Pollution
"Get down!" Dearlando raised his hand to summon the weapon and flung it out, the white sword swirling in the air and slashing in an arc towards the "self" in the distance. Hearing the command, Achille instinctively immediately hugged Luna and fell down. The sword slashed through them and slashed into the "man's" body.
The blade pierced through its body and continued to swirl forward, bringing up a small splash. However, the body pierced by the sword was not affected at all, and continued to move forward.
The sword disappeared in flight, regrouping at Dearlando's fingertips, this time into a long-handled two-handed axe, with a particularly wide surface. Deirrando hurried in front of Achille, then swung his hand in a sweep, slamming the familiar face with his axe.
Under the vigorous swing of Deirlando, the heavy axe smashed the face of the "person" opposite at once, like a flattened tomato, and the originally handsome facial features were squeezed together, and then the whole flew out of the body.
"Tsk~weishenme, I think my face hurts......" Dearrando looked at the thing that lost its head and shook it and turned into liquid and scattered to the ground, and began to complain about who this broken monster chose was not good-looking, but chose his own.
Achille screamed suddenly, and the liquid had condensed again behind Deirlando, and he reached out as if to say something.
"Take Luna and join the girls, I'll leave it here!" Diarlando immediately shifted his position, back between the monster and the others.
The man finally re-simulated Diarlandor, this time not moving in place, but trying to say something. Unfortunately, all Dearlandor could hear was gurgling and bubbling.
"Doom...... Do you have anything to say?" asked Dillando, turning the handle of the axe in his hand, with interest.
"Gollum Gollum Gollum ......" The "self" on the other side nodded as he pointed to his throat and then to the other side of the cave.
The terrain here seems to be very complicated, and although the sky can be seen through the narrow cracks overhead, it is like a labyrinth below. The direction the monster was pointing again, blocked by the protruding rock wall, and it was still some distance to walk past.
Deirlando looked at the girls huddled together with disapprehension, and Achille felt two stones from the ground and held them in his hands, looking around with a wary expression. Although he had the heart to follow his other self to see what was over there, he had to get these people out first.
"Send them back to the city! Dearlando gestured to the crowd and began to negotiate with the monster.
"Goo-goo...... Gollum Purr!!" The monster waved its arms anxiously and spun in place, looking very anxious.
"That...... It said that there was danger up there and that it could not be carried up. A timid voice rang out. Diarlando turned around and realized that it was Mossey who was talking.
"Can you understand what he's grunting?" Dearlandor raised an eyebrow in surprise.
"Good...... I seem to be able to understand. Tess nodded, "Although I don't know Weishenme, I just can understand what he means." ”
"Okay...... Come over here and help me translate. Achille, I'll arrange a helper for you, and you'll be waiting for me to come back. While keeping an eye on the humanoid monster, Diarlando retreated to the black bear and kicked the bear hard.
The bear shuddered, woke up, shook his head, spilled saliva on both sides, and got up with a grunt.
Diarrando placed his right hand on the bear's forehead and chanted in a low voice, "Grant you wisdom and liliang with the power of Reeth, and grant you the status of a beast servant." As soon as the words fell, the chains and daggers that had been attached to the bear glowed, and then shrunk into a glowing ball of metallic liquid, which then broke into four or five small pieces and attached to the black bear's body.
The black bear let out a loud roar that seemed to be in pain. The metal attaches to the limbs, forming sharp claw sleeves that cover the forehead, forming a strong head armor, and a long strip of chain mail from the forehead to the tail vertebrae.
When the light of all the armor dimmed, the black bear man stood up and snorted and made a human voice: (Master!)
"Protect them!" Diarrando nodded, then gave the order. The black bear staggered towards Achille. All the awake people were stunned, and it was not until the bear got closer and closer that the function of speech was restored.
Achille said nervously, "Boss, boss...... It's okay, it won't bite us again all of a sudden, right?" Luna clutched Achille's clothes tightly and hid behind her, she had never been afraid of Nana before, and she had fed her food, but this time she saw the ferocity of the black bear and left a shadow. Two girls had just been woken up by their companions, and when they saw the black bear coming over, they fainted directly.
"I obey my master, and I will protect you to the death. The black bear stopped ten paces in front of the crowd, turned his back to the crowd, and sat on the ground with his ass on his back, looking at his back as if he was quite reliable. Achille looked at the bear worriedly, then at the stone in his hand, and could only choose to believe Dearland.
"Gollum...... Gollum......" The imitator urges again, and this time Dearlando reaches out and pulls Tessie, following the monster's footsteps deeper into the cave.
The long dress she wore was very difficult to walk among the half-man-tall flowers, she walked a few steps, couldn't stand it, borrowed a dagger from Diarlando, and then cut the long skirt in half in three strokes, and finally was able to keep up with it smoothly.
"Goo-goo...... Coo-grunt...... The imitator let out another grunt, and Tess blushed. Diarlando asked curiously, "What did it say?"
"It's nothing, he said I looked like Miss Winnie. Tsuki was a little embarrassed to translate.
"Oh~ Maybe you really have Miss Winny's blood, so you can understand what it says. Dearlando thought that made sense.
All three of them walked very fast, and in the blink of an eye they had rounded two corners, and in front of them was a funnel-shaped cave, the crack in the top had narrowed to the point that it had completely disappeared, and the light was dim, and only white hookah could be seen flowing out of the hole.
Dearlando opened the box around his waist and took the young dragon out and placed it on his shoulder. The pattern of the leather armor has many grooves, and the body of the young dragon can be firmly fixed to it. The young dragon emitted a soft white light, which immediately dispelled the darkness around it, and it seemed that there was a waterhole in the depths of the cave.
The monster stared at the young dragon with a frightened gaze for a few moments, but Zuihou turned his head and led the way into the cave. The ground was uneven, and Dearlando glanced at it, and saw that it was all a large number of petrified bones, and he didn't know how much time he had been here. Fortunately, Mossy's eyesight is not good and she can't see her feet clearly, otherwise she would probably jump up in fright.
As they went deeper, the scene inside the cave unfolded. Tess screamed and fell backwards, nearly falling to the ground, but Dillando grabbed her.
It was a massive, withered skeleton of some creature, almost half of the cavern, the dry muscles and skin of its long body clinging to the bones, and the scales that should have been shiny fell to the ground, leaving mottled scars on the stump.
The creature's head hung down into the hole of the hole, and it seemed to sleep peacefully, its sunken six eye sockets resembling six huge holes. Two long tentacle-like things hung down in the pool, and they seemed to be alive.
A little closer, you can see a young girl lying on her back in the pool, her long brown hair spread out in the water, undulating with the undulation of the pool. A long, crimson-shaped wedge-shaped slice was inserted into the girl's chest, and a lot of disgusting flesh and blood vessels grew in the parts that came into contact with the body, and they were still beating slightly.
“...... I didn't expect to be so young and beautiful after all these years, and I would say that I really resemble you. Dearrando squeezed Tessie's cold, shivering hand and made a joke, hoping that the girl would relax. The girl barely pulled a smile that was uglier than crying, and she was grateful to Dierlandor for her comfort.
The red-eyed imitator crouched on the edge of the pool, reaching out to reach the girl in the pool, when several tentacles suddenly popped out of the bloody mass and wrapped around it. Deirrando immediately drew his sword and cut off the tentacles, which withered and broke as soon as they fell to the ground, but Deirrando still watched the mass vigilantly to prevent it from moving.
He looked around and suddenly saw that this was the next door to the place where he had first come with the surging of the underground water, and he was about to let the young dragon come through the tiny hole and pass himself over, but Fair suddenly arrived, forcing the two of them to flee for their lives immediately.
The monster who led the way took two steps back without the spirit, sat down on the ground, and began to mumble a lot, shedding tears as he spoke.
Tessie listened carefully, and then gave Diarlando a translation: "He said that the red thing fell from the sky a month ago and landed right in his house, disturbing his life and that of her lover, and also sucking his energy, and now he is getting weaker and weaker, and can barely move. Ask you to unplug that thing and save the woman he loves. ”
"It seems reasonable, let me try it. Diarlando looked at the waterhole, which didn't seem to be very deep, so he jumped straight down and waded towards the girl's floating body.
Unlike what happened to the monster, the mass of sarcoma and blood vessels didn't attack him. Curious, Diarlando reached out and tried to touch the crimson flake, and realized that it was familiar to him......
It was a fragment from a magical wall that had been erected more than a month ago to protect Turanda. In order to prevent the powerful dark magic unleashed from Bran Space to engulf the continent, Deirlandor and the Starlight Dragon laid that protective net together.
The protective wall did its best, slowing down the impact, absorbing and transforming the dark magic of the Demon Dragon King, and then decomposing and scattering in the air, but I didn't expect such a large piece to fall here.
Unlucky Monster ...... Diarlando sighed silently in his heart, this accident was almost counted on his own head, who let the person who laid down the protective wall be himself.
He resigned himself to grabbing the red flake and pulling it up, the flake was torn off with tangled flesh and blood, and it was a big sticky mess. When the pollutants were completely removed, the girl's expressionless face seemed to show a smile, and then suddenly aged and peeled, and within a few seconds it turned into a plate of loose sand and sank into the water.
"Oh...... Oh no!" thought Diarador.