Chapter 26: The Man in the Tree

"Hit them in the head!" Dearlando shouted at Kenda. Kenda jumped out of the gap, pulled out his twin spears in mid-air, and swept over the head of something like a metal snake.

The heads of those monsters were all in the shape of a closed tooth, and Kenda's gun hit it, and it shattered those teeth directly. The shards flew apart, and the body made of filaments attached to the back of the teeth split into several thinner strips along with the shards.

The teeth that had been reduced to splinters still fluttered relentlessly, trying to find a chance to get into Holm, who was being protected by Deerlando. Holm was pressed face down to the ground, and at this moment he turned his head with all his might, and looked at the flying monsters with the rest of his eyes, and shouted in horror, "What is that? Who are you?"

"Shut up!" Diarlandor was impatient with his shout, slammed him with a punch, and then raised his hand and two more belts to whit the annoying Tooth Breaker away.

Kenda frowned dissatisfiedly and changed her offensive strategy. This time, he used the force of the drill to attack, and the tip of the spear with the power of the spear went directly through the widest part of the gums, and put the gums on the slender and smooth body of the gun.

The teeth were stuck in the barrel of the gun and began to writhe in an attempt to break free. But once Kenda finds a way, he won't stop there. I saw him shoot one shot on the left and one shot on the right, and he wore the rest in the same way.

The teeth pressed against each other, although they kept pulling, trying to take off into the air, but they were all dragged by Kenda, and they didn't fly after all. There was a cacophonic scraping sound as the silver filaments spread out and twisted into thicker ones, flicking like pythons in an attempt to wrap around Kenda's arm.

Kenda's two guns swept through each other, and the sharp wind of the guns cut through the filaments, cutting a large piece. Some of the broken filaments were long enough to fly up and merge with the others, and some less than a finger long were scattered on the ground, as if they had lost their vitality and could no longer move.

In this way, a dozen monsters were soon sliced to the teeth and writhed bare on the barrel of Kenda's gun. But the fragments of the teeth that had been shattered at the beginning were still circling around Deerlandor like flies. Because they were so small, Kenda couldn't control them.

Dearlando looked at the monster string in Kenda's hand, nodded and said, "This time I must have caught enough live specimens to study, let Ryses eat the rest." Anyway, this kid is dizzy and can't see it. ”

After saying that, Deirlandor released Ryses from the star box, and the young white dragon was already impatient to wait, and as soon as it was released, it immediately bounced into the air and gnawed at the metal fragments. In a matter of moments, the remnants of the surrounding monsters were swept away.

The young dragon was still unsatisfied after eating, turned to look at Kenda's hand, and then purred coquettishly at Deirlando.

Dearlando looked at the two strings of tooth monsters in Kenda's hands, which looked somewhat like the lower halves of a human skull. But compared to human mandibles, these metal gum incisors are sharper, canines are more prominent, and the bones are much larger, and it is not known that they are made of the bones of any creature.

"Okay...... You can eat a bunch. Dearlando looked at the monsters and said that it would be good to save a little for Fayle, and nodded in agreement to let Ryses eat more. "Don't look at me like that! at least you have to keep three for me. Dearlando was eventually defeated by the dragon's wistful eyes.

The victorious one won the bargain, and the young dragon happily landed on the tip of Kenda's spear, biting off the writhing prey one by one and eating it one by one.

While Kenda was eating Supper at Riess, he finally had time to ask what had just happened. Instead of answering immediately, Diarlando crouched down first, turned Holm over, and checked it up and down. Except for the bag on the back of his head and the scratch on his forehead and chin, the son of the city lord was all right.

When Dearlando had finished inspecting it, he stood up reassuringly, clapped his hands, and said, "When I got to the other side of the gap, I saw this boy lying in front of the hole praying. As he spoke, Diarlando pointed to the root of the branch at his feet, where there was a cave that was half a man high, and a faint orange-red light was radiating from it.

"The filaments came out of the rock, and the teeth, as if they had grown out of this strange tree. Dearlando touched the metal branches beside him, he had just watched the teeth come out of the trunks, but now they were silent and silent.

Kenda followed Dearlando's footsteps, looking around on guard. This is in the belly of the mountain, and there are narrow paths carved out of the surrounding stone walls, and many stone basins have been carved into the stone walls, in which blubber is placed and lit with thin cotton threads, illuminating the whole cave.

"When that thing came out, I thought it was this kid manipulating it. But then he found that the monsters were gathering and he was unaware of them, and that all the monsters were lurking near the cave, as if they were going to do it when he came out......" Diarlandor patted the trunk of the "tree" with his hand, and then put his head into the hole where Holm had knelt and prayed.

The huge metal tree at the feet of the two men was jutting out into the inverted rocks on all sides, each branch was very thick, about half a human in diameter, and the main part was more than a dozen feet thick.

The shape of the whole trunk is not straight, but crooked and spiraling in the hole, the metal surface has no joints, and I don't know how such a huge piece was made, and the gray surface is embedded with large and small rock fragments when you look closely, and there are some uneven protrusions in some places.

"Tsk...... This kid turned out to be giving flowers to his mother. Diarrando lifted the silk curtain that had been hanging from the cave, and sighed.

The cave was small, about the size of a bed, and had been renovated to resemble a luxurious woman's bed. A petite woman with black hair is lying in a gorgeous silk bedding, with a beautiful face. There is a bouquet of fresh flowers in the vase next to it. If it weren't for the fact that the lying person's chest did not rise and fall in the slightest, he would have thought that the woman was just asleep.

The woman was twenty-six or seventeen years old, slightly emaciated, and wore a pearl necklace around her neck, the pendant of the necklace was a large heart-shaped pink pearl, and the rest of the jewelry was mainly pearls and silver silver.

The hands folded on the chest carried only one ring, the wedding ring on the ring finger. The ring was in a quaint style, with an oval-shaped colorless gemstone set on it, and on both sides of the gem was the relief decoration of the Grude family's family crest, which should be family heirloom.

I don't know what mechanism there is on the top of the cave, and the soft orange-red light shines down, making the corpse's pale face also have a trace of blood. Everything here is beautifully furnished and you can see how much the person who arranged it cares about this woman.

Reses finished eating the Tooth Monster and jumped back onto Dearlandor's shoulder, looking at the rings and necklaces on the corpse and starting to stir again. Dearlando grabbed it, carefully soothed it, and stuffed it back into the box.

"This necklace and ring contain a great amount of energy, and I wonder if this energy keeps this lady Gruod looking still glorious after years of death. ”

Dearlando didn't want to offend the dead woman and didn't go to check the necklace and ring himself. But standing so close, the dragon's instinctive perception struck his nerves, telling him that what was in front of him was magical.

Kenda had been carefully looking around, and at this moment he looked at the other bouquet of flower branches scattered under his feet, and found a strange phenomenon: "Your Highness, I suspect that it is not necessarily the effect of the necklace or ring, you see this flower ......"

Dearrando looked in the direction Kenda was pointing, and there were a lot of flower branches scattered about two or three paces along the entrance of the cave, which Holm had fallen from when Diarrando pounced on him. At the moment the branches were in two distinct states, the delicate near the mouth of the cave seemed to have been plucked from the branches, and the parts outside an invisible line were dry and black.

Diarrando picked up a branch of hibiscus on the ground and took it to the place where the boundary was divided. Right before the eyes of the two of them, the flowers and branches that stretched out of the border began to wither and blacken, while the rest of the flowers and branches were still fresh and bright.

"I said that the monsters were all sitting around and not moving, it turned out that there was something wrong with this hole, or that there was something wrong with the whole thing. Diarlando stomped on the branch on which he was standing, and heard the vibration travel along the metal into the rock face.

The parts of the metal that came into contact with the rock made a slight sound of peeling, and the large and small fragments fell one after another, crashing all the way down against the metal branches, making a dull and distant sound.

The wolf's thoughts suddenly rang out: (The source of the smell is underneath, and it is coming up at this moment.) Kenda heard the wolf and was about to jump in to check it out. Holm, who had been knocked unconscious by Diarlando, was woken up by the vibration and groaned.

As soon as he regained his senses, he jumped to his feet, pointed at Deirlando, and began to shout, "You guy......! What the hell is that?" Then he turned his head to see the silver-white gun in Kenda's left hand, moving his teeth, and stammered Kenda.

Dearlando threw away the flower in his hand, raised his hands to show that he was not hostile, slowly approached Holm, and then stopped five steps in front of him and said, "It doesn't matter who I am, you just need to know that we are here to help you." ”