1470 Creatures of the Underworld 1
Since there is no distinction between the north and south poles of the earth's magnetism in the underworld, Raymond has set the direction he is currently heading in to the north.
But after leaving the swamp, I couldn't help but scratch my head a little when I saw the yellow sand in front of me.
According to the topographic map given by the Sirens, there are only six swamps, but there are only two swamps with deserts on the periphery!
One is the largest one, which takes more than five days to cross at the current speed.
The smaller one, on the other hand, is closer to a treacherous place, the center of which is said to contain a very strange and nasty being: the resentful spirit of the sand.
The map obtained from the Sirens was a messy and incomplete map, and although it seemed that the territory was not small, many of the areas were actually obscured by shadows, and apparently not explored in detail.
Moreover, there is no law at all about the rules of change in the terrain of the underworld.
Beyond the swamp there may be wetlands, or vast deserts, and even without any buffer, they become mountains, leaving one without any basis for judging until you reach the edge.
And the most troublesome thing for Raymond is that the deserts in the underworld are almost quite large, and the sand spirits hidden in the desert are also the most troublesome and difficult existences.
The Wraiths of the Sand are solitary creatures of the underworld, their bodies are made of countless pieces of gravel, they are almost immortal due to their environment, and their territorial awareness will expose any outsider who enters their territory to their undying attacks.
A resentful spirit of the sand that does not possess the heart core of an important artifact that ordinary sandmen have. Its weakness is a special artifact buried in the desert, which is said to be extremely difficult to find!
Standing on the dividing line between the swamp and the desert, Raymond was behind him the absolutely dark swamp. But the desert in front of him was a faint glow, allowing Raymond to see the sparse plants that seemed to be dry and lodging, or even buried in the sand.
It's just that these plants that seem to be dry dead plants are actually a kind of underworld creatures called 'Necromantic Vine' by the Sirens, and their strength is not high, but if they are inadvertently entangled, they will be attacked with an effect similar to 'paralysis'.
The sand dunes that stretch and don't know where the end is, the undulations are not particularly large.
But Raymond, who had begun to move forward, slowed down. Keep yourself ten meters away from the ground to avoid the necromantic vines that seem to have been dead for an unknown amount of time.
Because of the chip's memory, Raymond can determine his direction by relying on the positioning of spatial coordinates. It saves the time it takes to locate the Sirens.
It wasn't long after he entered the desert that the sand dunes, which had been undulating, began to rise high.
Although the Necromantic Vines mostly grow at the bottom of the dunes, some Necromantic Vines that appear at the top of the dunes due to the slow change in the position of the dunes begin to affect Raymond to some extent.
Necromantic vine at rest. It's no different from ordinary dead plants. But as soon as it enters its attack range, the trunk of the Necromantic Vine hidden under the sand will burst out in vain, silently appearing around Raymond's body.
The Necromantic Vine, which had been dry and even cracked, was like the most dexterous and tenacious whip when wielded, and its surprisingly large force was completely different from what it appeared.
Therefore, when Raymond was attacked by such an attack as he crossed the sand dunes quickly, he had to increase his flight altitude and withstand the extremely chaotic air currents in the desert. Continue towards the depths of the desert.
Time passed slowly, but the environment in which he was living gradually brightened.
The desert of the underworld, which originally had a glimmer of light. With the increase of many sand and gravel with strong radiation, the whole environment gradually became visible, but the increase in brightness also brought new discoveries.
Most of the creatures of the underworld are light-weary and dark-loving.
However, there are some exceptions that can survive in a variety of environments.
So soon after Raymond removed the green crystal piece that had been clipped to his left eye socket, with the faint light released by the sand, he saw the most special creature in the underworld: the Phantom Butterfly!
Similar to the beautiful wings of a butterfly, the facial features are similar to the phantom butterfly of a childish woman, although its body is between transparent and opaque, but its graceful body and elegant and graceful dancing posture can make people stop and stop after seeing it.
It is one of the very few Phantom butterflies that do not have active aggression, and because of the toxins it contains, it has special protection capabilities, and because the toxins it contains cannot be extracted, it will not be attacked and captured.
Phantom butterflies, which are not sane and almost instinctively roam the underworld, are mostly found in the depths of the desert because of their properties that make them a symbol of safety.
Therefore, when he saw this Phantom Butterfly, which belonged to the Underworld for a long time, Raymond also relaxed the nerves that had been tense.
But just as he was about to get closer to watch his graceful dancing, the sudden warning made Raymond's protective barrier suddenly expand outward, and his figure flashed a distance of more than ten meters!
However, Raymond, who was supposed to appear between the two sand dunes, crashed into the sand dunes that were not there before, and dozens of necromantic vines that erupted from the sand dunes also surrounded the sand dunes as if they were building a prison!
There was a faint glow flickering between the dry vines the thickness of an adult's arm, and slender rhizomes like roots suddenly emerged from these vines, piercing into the sand dunes like spikes stabbing at Raymond!
The sudden attack surprised Raymond, who crashed into the sand dunes and realized the strange imprisoning power around him.
The squeezed barrier around him caused a gap with a diameter of three meters to be forcibly expelled by Raymond within the sand dunes, and the stabbing blows formed by the roots of the necromantic vines naturally could not have any effect on him, but instead made him judge the location of those necromantic vines!
With his body slightly lowered, Raymond quickly rushed out of the sand dunes after performing a savage charge, and the many sands and gravels that he shot out instantly broke through the prison formed by the Necromantic Vine, causing the newly formed encirclement to collapse.
But Raymond, whose body suddenly rose up, faced the desert below him, his pupils shrank suddenly.
He hadn't paid much attention to the sand dunes before, but when he looked down, he found that the similar-looking sand dunes below him were strange!
The dozens of sand dunes that twisted in a spiral to the northwest formed a shape like a snail's shell, and the phantom butterflies he had seen before were as if they were imprisoned in the center of them, and they could not escape from them at all, waving their brilliant wings as if they were dancing, and they were actually struggling in vain.
The sand dunes at the top that had just been knocked through by Raymond were like craters, and at this moment began to heal silently, and the many sand and gravel that rolled up from the bottom of the sand dunes like mercury were like filling in the pits, and the necromantic vines that were waved by the crazy volleys were buried in them again and completely disappeared.
Raymond, who was hovering in mid-air, sank his heart when he saw this.
But the strange changes here don't end there.
Just below those phantom butterflies, the originally rough and undulating surface seemed to be collapsing, and as its overall brightness increased, a distorted face quickly condensed and formed, and there were no pupils in the slowly opening eyelids, but two bottomless deep holes.
Raymond, who realized that he might have encountered the resentful spirit of Nasha, even dispelled the idea of leaving quickly.
Because if he can't defeat the sand wraiths here, unless he immediately returns to the wizard plane to cut off the connection with the underworld, this extremely troublesome underworld creature will always follow him...... (To be continued......)