Sweating profusely, it took only five minutes for the sweat to soak the inside of the carcass that Yajiro was wearing closely. The heat rises from the neck and if it weren't for the sweat sucked up by the cloth under the forehead, the sweat dripping from the forehead would erode the eyes like rain, further disturbing the already poor vision.

The biggest difference between actual combat and the competition field, in addition to the weapons in hand and the opponent will not follow the rules one-on-one, is probably this complex environment.

The arena has been renovated by a special person to have an unobstructed view, and even the ground is smooth to the point where there is no trace of undulation. But this is not the case in the wilderness, where the ground is rocky, shrubs, weeds, and weeds regrow, uneven, muddy and slippery when it rains, and dust that can be raised to obscure the view when it is too dry.

If you don't pay attention to the ground you are stepping on, you won't even be able to stand still. In the forest, it's even more troublesome, as shrubs can snuck around clothing to obscure your view, and if your opponent isn't a human but a creature crawling on the ground, you can't even tell where they're coming from.

- It's so damn dead, it's still windy at the moment.

The sound of "rustling-" came from the bushes in front of him, and the young master grabbed the cross gun in his hand and turned to face in that direction, but he couldn't be sure whether it was a soil spider or the sound of the wind.

The flaming torches flickered wildly in the wind, but this was their best means of lighting - the lantern candle had a small illumination range suitable for use in the camp and was relatively fragile, this rough environment was only suitable for simple and rough torches, and it could also be used as a blunt weapon to hit enemies in an emergency.

Yajiro held the torch with the middle finger and thumb of his left index finger, while the remaining two fingers hooked the tip of the crossshot, which he extended forward to illuminate the scene as much as possible, while his right hand held the end of the crossshot, his center of gravity sank, and the tip of the spear pointed at the bushes below.

His feet were weak, and he couldn't move like he had been filled with lead because of the long stalemate.

The sound of rustling surrounded them, telling the fact that they were already completely surrounded.

"How is it possible, there are so many carnivorous creatures of this size, what the hell did they eat to survive. Aya, who was in the center of the defense formation, said to herself, unable to think of a reasonable explanation anyway. The three young samurai from Pingshan County, including Torotaro, looked terrified, trembling even though they were holding their weapons in their hands.

"It's coming!" shouted Old Joe, who was in charge of the other direction, and then stabbed the crossbar from the bottom up, and the Galeva next to him was half a beat slower, but he also followed with the advantage of height and length.

"Smack!" "Hiss-" The giant spider, half a man tall, had risen from the ground, but Old Joe and Kaleva had been stabbed accurately, and the cross-wings of the cross-spear stopped it.

"Guy! "Nail the ground!" "Okay. Old Joe commanded the tall but inexperienced young man, and after Caleva stabbed the spider the ground, Old Joe drew his cross spear and turned it around and stabbed it accurately into the gap in the center of its torso.

"Hiss-" The earth spider hissed, its seven legs curled together, twitching for a moment before it was silent.

"How many?"

"11, and the teacher has already killed 7 hundred-legged. Mira, who was standing on Yajiro's side, replied, "Of all of them, our Roan girl is probably the most experienced in combat except for Henry, but even she is still very nervous in this environment when facing such an enemy.

"Above. Because of the lack of the ability to fight head-on, Lulu, who was in the center of the defense formation and found a big stone for herself to stand as a sentry post, suddenly spoke, and the group looked up, several huge bird shadows hovering in the dim moonlight, getting closer and closer.

"Human-faced birds, attracted by insect corpses. Aya sounded like she was able to keep her composure, using her knowledge as a doctor to try to analyze these monsters to help everyone, but the more she thought about it, the more she felt that it was all unreasonable.

Although there are deer, wild boars and rabbits in the wild, there are no predators of this size. The size of these insects is often half a human size, and even if the consumption of arthropods is lower than that of warm-blooded animals, it is absolutely impossible for a territorially strong soil spider with a strong sense of territory as an ambush predator to live in such a group of a dozen heads.

Not to mention the giant centipedes, which are two or three meters long, do not interfere with each other, but only attack the group.

It's as if they're all under the command of some higher being.

This is not a product of nature.

The so-called monster reminds Mira of a lot of things, and this unpleasant sense of disobedience points to a fact-

A fact she didn't want to think about and didn't have time to think about it right now.

"Bang ——!" Henry stepped on another hundred-legged oily and slippery shell, this meter-long giant centipede curled up for the first time and planned to wrap around his legs and climb along the body, the sage held the sword with his backhand and gently cut off its body, and swung the sword high upwards with a squirt of insect body fluids, and slashed off the head of another hundred-legged person in front of him who was about to spew venom with a reverse robe.

——!The acid splashed from the split head immediately began to corrode on the clothes, and even the fallen leaves on the ground emitted a little green smoke, but no one noticed it because of the dimness.

"Acid spewing for self-defense. Aya noticed the scene happening next to her again, a hundred-legged body only half the width of a palm, although it was disgusting to humans, but it was a predator in the middle of the ecological niche. The pungent smell and corrosive acid stored near the back of their neck is their means of self-defense against threats - while the sages are undoubtedly a threat, the current use of these hundred feet is clearly inconsistent with the self-defense instinct to flee after spitting out acid.

- It was used as a means of attack: the creeping ground caught the night and the difficult terrain of the hundred feet approached the sage, while the front kept his distance to attract his attention while spitting acid to interfere.

Buy time for their counterparts on the ground, allowing them to attack from the Sage's blind spot at night with more threatening fangs.

It's hard to imagine, it's hard to understand. The more she thought about it, the more she came to the conclusion that it was because she had so much biological knowledge as a scholar that the behavior of these monsters was so unreasonable to Miss Doctor.

Contrary to nature, even beyond the wisdom of the insect's brain, this division of labor and cooperation is a seamless practice.

Like, yes.

Humans alike.

"Bang-" Kaleva and Old Joe killed another jumping earth spider, there are sages on the periphery to clean up the flatter body of the hundred feet that are not easy to find, and it is not difficult for the group to defend against the more fat earth spiders with a careful formation, but this is only if there is a result of all this.

"It's endless!!Let me out!!I'm leaving!" One of the three of Torotaro's young samurai didn't make any effort but seemed to collapse under pressure, he grabbed the knife in his hand and swung it in fear in the formation of the group, and Lulu, who was crawling on the stone, was almost slashed by him and fell directly to dodge, but fortunately was held up by Aya. Noticing the movement, Mira turned her head and kicked him in the side accurately, then stomped on the fallen young samurai's right hand so hard that he released the knife in pain.

"If you can't use it, don't pull it out. "Our lady of Luoan, who is very different from the gentle and human, has decisively disarmed this broken samurai, lest he cause a fire in the backyard. But before this interruption, there was only one person left in the defensive circle that was already under great pressure, and the two earth spiders immediately rushed out of the bushes, and the little young master stabbed one quickly, but the other crossed the defense line and pounced directly at the Luoan girl who was facing the enemy in the back.

"Mira!" Aya shouted anxiously, and Lulu struggled to pull out her knife.

"Woo-woo-" Henry on the other side threw out a throwing knife, but couldn't stop it completely because it wasn't heavy enough.

"Tsk-" One after another, our Luo'an girl, who noticed all this, knew that she was too slow to turn around, so she directly turned the cross gun in her hand and poked the head of the gun out of her back - since this guy is rushing towards herself, you only need to defend yourself as the center.

"Click-ah!" The spider's carapace is very weak, even the half-human-tall earth spider has no power to resist in front of the metal weapon, and the torso of the earth spider that was pierced by the cross spear weighing more than 10kg immediately made the Luoan girl who held the gun in one hand in an emergency unable to bear the strength to let go of the weapon, but she did not hesitate to turn around and at the same time pulled out the long knife on her waist and slashed into the spider's skull with a knife draw.

"It's shallow. The power and speed of the unaccustomed weapon were not the same, and the knife couldn't cut deep, so she directly kicked the back of the knife with her foot to let the attack go deep enough to cut off the nerves before the earth spider stopped.

"The bird is coming!" Yajiro on the other side noticed that Mira couldn't pull out his hand and put the torch under his armpit, stepping on the wing blade of the cross spear, pulling out the waist knife and stabbing into the center of the spider to kill it, and the human-faced bird that had been hovering in the sky suddenly swooped down at this time and planned to join in the fun, Mira hurriedly lay down and pulled out the flying knife that Henry had just thrown, and at the same time rolled to avoid the dive of the human-faced bird, but this strange giant bird of prey was not staring at the insect corpse but flying towards her, despite the hurry, the Luoan girl who still remained calm judged the other party's intention in the darkness and threw the flying knife。

"Woo-" but it didn't work.

"Get down. Lulu, who had finally been tidied up, screamed behind her, and the Luoan girl's hearing, which had been raised to the maximum sensitivity, accurately captured the tightness of the bowstring, and she lay on the ground decisively.

——!The hunter-turned-petite girl unleashed her long, disproportionate recurve bow, and with the special bow bonus, the extremely fast arrow quickly met the human-faced bird with its outstretched claws, and hit its left eye with unmistakable accuracy, piercing the fragile hollow skull of the flying creature.

"Bang Bang - Bang ——!" The scream couldn't be made, and the big bird, who died directly, fell crookedly in front of the young warrior who was holding the hand that was trampled by the Luo An girl and secretly weeping in front of the young warrior, the strange humanoid face and a little blood gushing out of the eye socket frightened the person to jump up directly and hit Lao Qiao with his back, almost not causing him to fall directly.

"It's not enough!" Yajiro finally scolded uncontrollably, he put his waist knife back into his sheath, clenched the cross gun with both hands, picked up the earth spider and threw it to the side to clear the ground nearby, so as not to hinder the movement of the worm corpses, and then joined Mira who had regained her arms and walked over to stabilize the defense again.

"Whew-whew-" Panting, our Luoan girl rolled on the ground, her white hair was stained with fallen leaves and dust, and there were small scratches on her arms from small pebbles.

Both physically and mentally suffered a huge drain, and this was when the sages spared no effort to clean up a large number of bugs on the periphery.

The great sword is not suitable for defending the formation, and his physical strength and speed are more suitable for walking around alone outside, relieving the pressure on his companions who form a formation with spears in the middle.

"It's hard to move an inch. Old Qiao sighed, and the Galeva next to him nodded sympathetically.

The attack seemed to pause, and the human-faced birds in the sky were gone, but the torches themselves could not illuminate the sky and the moonlight was not bright enough tonight.

They've already attacked once, maybe they'll come again, and the human-faced birds swoop so fast that they won't necessarily notice the next time.

Inseparable from.

Although the Aya and Lulu of their own family have no combat effectiveness, they can still come in handy, and the uncomfortable thing is that these three young samurai from Pingshan County are completely wastewood, not to mention that waving weapons indiscriminately because of fear will only cause trouble for themselves and others.

4 people protect 5 people, and even if there is a cross gun with a longer attack range, it is still very troublesome.

The most important thing is the loss of vision - although the wind is gradually decreasing, the flickering torches still do not illuminate the large scenery, and if it were daytime, as long as the target can be seen from a distance in the open ground, they will not be in this dilemma, and the darkness now makes the enemy a more threatening target.

"Light. ”

If there is.

If you won't be blown back and forth by the wind, or blown out by the rain, and if you're stable enough to illuminate the light around you—

Unknown words suddenly rang in her ears, and Mira shook her head vigorously, she felt that she was hallucinating because of the pressure, but her voice only grew stronger.

There was a pain in the vicinity of the heart, but it was not the heart or the lungs.

It's a magic pool.

This was followed by a burst of hotness and tingling in the blood vessels near the collarbone and arm.

"Qiangdang—" She let go of the crossbar in her hand.

"Mira?!" the young master next to him shouted, and Henry decisively hacked the last one and kicked it away and rushed back.

“...... Medeluna, Bhausser. ”

"Iruna Tiam (White Moonlight)"

"Bang Bang-" A strong white light instantly rose from the forest, and then exploded, turning into a sky of debris, illuminating the entire forest as bright as day, the sage immediately closed his eyes and covered them with his hands, and then quickly got used to the change in light, and then jumped up and stepped on the trunk of the tree to help jump into the air, splitting a low-flying human-faced bird in half, and when he landed, he just supported our Luoan girl, who had become pale again.

"It's so bright!"

"What's going on. ”

The debris exploded like snowflakes, but instead of falling to the ground, it floated in mid-air, covering a radius of 20 meters, enough for everyone to see what was happening.

"She—" Aya watched all this in shock, even more exaggerated than she had seen the insects before, and she looked at our Luoan girl, who was weak due to the consumption of mana, and stopped talking.

"What a bright light, calling for light, as if the great moon god. Yajiro stared blankly at Mira, and the Roan girl whispered to Henry after she was sure she could barely stand, and the sage slowly let go of her hand and let her stand up with the crossshot.

"Ahh The dazed Kaleva looked around slowly, and noticed something that the others hadn't.

"Hey, isn't that over there—" He patted Torotaro's shoulder and pointed ahead, and the martial arts kid of Pingshan County, who had been cowering, shouted the moment he saw the luggage.

"It's our thing, Ahui, where are you, Ahui!" Torataro, who shouted loudly, rushed out of the defense circle and ran in front of the thing, and Yajiro snorted and hurriedly followed the guard. The other two Pingshan County warriors also followed, and I don't know if it was because of the white light, the insects undoubtedly retreated, and they were not in any danger for the time being.

"Teacher, do you know something, I don't know something. Mira, who had more or less regained some blood, looked at the white light around her, and then at Henry, who had rushed over before her magic could be released, as if she clearly knew what was going to happen.

"What the guy I interrogated before said, and the witch seems to know me, what is the connection between the Luoan people and this land. ”

"Me. ”

"What the hell is it? She smiled wryly and looked at her hands, having a power that she didn't know brought to this girl not an inflated confidence, but confusion.

"I don't know. The sage ruffled her gray hair as always, and the little one they had met was now only a head shorter than him, and she was growing at an astonishing rate.

Time flies, maybe it's all too fast.

"Most magicians learn to master new magic, but it is also said that there are some who are naturally very sensitive and can comprehend it on their own in certain situations. ”

"There is a theory that there is an atavistic phenomenon in magic, and if triggered under certain circumstances, it can have the ability of ancestors. He knew that Mira was no longer satisfied with a simple word of not knowing, so he continued.

"But my parents just—" Miss Loan sighed.

"Probably has something to do with the land. The sage then rubbed her head until Mira grabbed his hand and began to straighten her messy gray hair with her other hand.

"It's a nuisance. "If you can't figure it out, you can put it aside for the time being, and there are more important things at the moment.

Ignore and move on. This is a strong nerve that adventurers must have, and if they are always stuck in a puzzle that cannot be solved for the time being, they will only miss out on what really matters.

They followed the group, and the rest of the group, who walked away to do something else while the two were talking, found two things in total-

"The cave, that's where the earth spiders probably came out. In the light of white light, it was as bright as day, and in order to save time for burning, the group temporarily extinguished most of the torches. They found a large cave that could accommodate two people walking upright in parallel, hidden under the bushes, and if it weren't for the fact that there were too many bugs just in and out, they wouldn't have been able to find it.

The first to arrive had already cleared all the excess bushes with a one-handed knife, and when the fire shone on it, it was full of water, and the darkness in the depths was invisible, which made people shudder.

But judging from the luggage scattered at the door, it was clear that the missing retinue and samurai had been dragged inside.

The other thing is the result of our Doctor's investigation that she can't suppress her doubts.

"Look at this, did you find anything? She pointed to the dead bodies of two earth spiders on the ground.

"What, it's so big? Woo wow looks even more disgusting in the bright light, were we just fighting this. Stunned Qing touched his upper arm and said, while Aya glanced at him and sighed helplessly, and then moved closer to the leg that pointed more accurately at the earth spider.

"Both, seven-legged. Yajiro was stunned.

"Yes, and so are all the other corpses next to it. ”

"Ahh Before Galeva could react, Mira kicked him: "Idiot, don't you see the broken gap?" ”

"That's right, it's all broken. Aya nodded, "I also checked on Hundredfoot and the two dead Human-Faced Birds, and they all have the same scars or disabilities, except for the fresh wounds we caused. ”

"Combined with the density of these carnivorous creatures and the way they behave against their habits. ”

"Artificial. Henry crouched down and looked at the dead bugs.

"Is it some kind of summoning spell?" Mira suggested the possibility based on her knowledge of Rigal's magic.

"Not really. Aya shook her head: "If the summoning technique you are talking about is similar to the concept of the Onmyoji Envoy Divine God, it requires the Envoy's own spiritual power to maintain it. ”

"Most of Onmyoji's Shikijin are semi-spirits, because to maintain their entities in this world, they need to rely on things. ”

"The most common is a paper figure or a puppet, in which case if you kill it, it will change back to its original form, and if you die, it's still a bug, so it's not a shikigami but a creature - at least that's what the book says. Aya added the last sentence with some unconfidence.

"So what the hell is this?" asked Old Qiao, and Miss Doctor sighed helplessly: "I don't know, it's beyond my knowledge." ”

God doesn't need to make everything conform to human knowledge and understanding. Coldly, our sage next to him said this.

"What does that mean. Aya asked, interested.

A common word used in the church to use this phrase to oppress people when faced with something they can't justify themselves. The sage shrugged his shoulders: "Although they always claim that man is the heir of God and the most important primate of all things, there are too many unreasonable things in this world. ”

"When these things happen. Henry pointed to the sky: "It's all on the gods, and it is said that it is the will of God, which is supreme, and does not need to be explained to the world, and does not need to be reasonable." ”

"It's true, it's a convenient argument for yourself. Lamo is, Rigal is like this, place. Miss Doctor lowered her eyes thoughtfully.

"Anyway. It is exactly the same as a mass product made by a craftsman, that is. ”

"There's going to be more of that, right? Mira transposed the message in a pattern she could understand – enemies, there would be more enemies.

"Probably, although we don't know the energy and production methods of these creatures, after all, this place-" "Anyway-" The girl covered Aya's mouth when she fell into scholar mode again, and then turned her head to look at the three Torotaro who were arguing next to her, "It seems that some people don't want to stay any longer." ”

The son of Pingshan County Ling obviously wanted to go into the cave to save people, but the other two, including the man who was trampled on by Mira, went through this series of events and just wanted to go down the mountain and hide next to the campfire.

"We'd better go back and move some reinforcements. Henry said, and everyone around him nodded.