Volume 1 Chapter 98 Encounter with Marching Ants
Albert has already regretted that with Yasinger stepping into the Eisena Desert, the environment here can no longer be described as bad, it is simply hell, if it were not for Yasinger to help Albert several times, he would have been swallowed by the wind and sand or tortured to death by the poisonous sun or extremely cold night.
"We're tossed like this before we're halfway there, and the hell knows what's left. ”
When night fell and Yasinger set up a bonfire, Albert began to complain.
"It's okay for a few days, but I'm afraid we should run into Warcraft as we move forward. Yasinger put away Lauder's map and said quietly.
"Warcraft?!" Albert was visibly stunned, "Haha, what kind of Warcraft can this ghost look like here, a desert ogre, or a desert serpent?" Listening to Yasinger's words, Albert began to taunt him.
"Not really, but it's more troublesome than the guys you mentioned. Yasinger let out a long sigh, and really regretted that he didn't bring two more companions.
"Really, fake?" Seeing Yassinger's melancholy look, Albert seemed to believe it a little.
"I don't know exactly what they are, but Lauder Kruru only told me about the two most common species, the flame monitor lizard and the marching ant. ”
"Ants and lizards are so scary. Albert said with a look of indifference.
I didn't ask, but he said that if you want to pass through this desert, you must widen your mana perception to the maximum extent possible, so that you can avoid danger. ”
"Okay, no problem, your rank is higher than mine, so naturally this errand will be handed over to you, if there is any danger, I don't think I will need to go out. Albert found a big rock beside him and prepared to rest.
"Well, I naturally..."
Before Yasinger could speak, his ears were startled by Albert's loud shouts.
"What the fuck is this!!"
Albert jumped up from the sand in an instant, and it was the first time that Yasinger had ever seen a human being able to jump so high.
What frightened Albert was the 'stone' that was supposed to be used as a pillow, and when he set the stone in place, the stone actually grew many tentacles and began to crawl.
Yasinger stared at the stone carefully for a long time before noticing that it was just a creature with a back shell that looked a bit like a stone, and when it went around it and walked to the front, this creature was really a little disgusting, with its head hidden in the stone shell, its eyes glowing red, and its mouth was so big that it couldn't count how many teeth there were in the mouth of the round hole.
Yasinger looked at this strange creature, and temporarily named it 'Stone Worm', the Stone Worm seemed to be aggressive, and after being moved away from its original position by Albert, it actually shifted its gaze to Albert's body, and its mouth was still squeaking and I don't know what to scream.
"Disgusting thing!"
Albert roared angrily, and when he raised his hand, a magic ball hit the stone worm's body.
The orb landed on the back of the stone worm, but nothing happened after a crunch, and the stone worm continued to scream at Albert, without even a single scar on the back shell.
Neutralization?!
Yasinger looked at this scene and immediately reacted, generally speaking, many magical beasts have certain special attributes, such as neutralization, that is, through a special physique, it is resistant to magic or attribute magic of a certain level, which can completely make these magic ineffective, which is invalidation.
"Damn!"
Seeing that his orb was out of action, Albert became even more angry - 'Magic spear!'
A spear-like impact magic came out of Albert's hand, this time the magic penetrated the back shell of the stone worm and shot completely into its body, realizing the danger, the stone worm turned around and was ready to flee, but how could Albert stop there, a series of magic spears were thrown, and the stone worm was nailed to the sand.
"It's disgusting!"
Albert felt a little sick to his stomach as he looked at the purple blood flowing from the stone worm's body.
It was also the first time that Yasinger had seen a creature with purple blood, so he was naturally a little unaccustomed to it, but he didn't take this too seriously, and it was already deep, so he had to rest early and still need to hurry tomorrow.
Yasinger slept quickly, but Albert had been suffering from the stone bug, and said that he was not sleepy at all, and stayed alone by the fire until it was late, when he fell asleep because he could not resist the sleepiness.
The two of them slept until the next morning.
Yasinger woke up because of the wind blowing in the desert, and whenever there was a breeze blowing in the desert, it would not be long before a huge sandstorm hit, so after Yasinger woke up, he was ready to check that the storm would come from that direction, and he prepared first.
Albert woke up with dark circles because he slept late, but he still advised Yasinger to leave before the sandstorm was there to see if he could get out of the area before the sandstorm appeared.
Yasinger adopted his idea, and the two of them simply packed up and prepared to leave, but when Yasinger took the first step, he pulled Alberta back, who was walking in front.
"What are you pulling me for?"
Albert, who was pulled back, was clearly a little upset.
Yazinger put his finger to his lips to signal him not to speak, then reached out to the spot where the stoneworm died last night.
Albert looked for directions, but he didn't dare to say anything.
There was nothing where the stone worm died now, the corpse was gone, even the purple blood that had flowed all over the ground was gone, and if the traces were covered up because of the wind and sand, at least a sand dune would have been puffed up in the same place, but there was nothing there.
Above the desert, it was as silent as ever, with nothing but sand.
Yasinger slowly spread his magic power, a kilometer... Five kilometers ... Ten kilometers ... Nothing.
Odd?
Yasinger was puzzled by the disappearance of the corpse of the stone worm, but he released such a wide range of perception but nothing, could it be that the stone worm did not die and ran away?
While Yasinger was still wondering, Albert reached out and nudged him, and then Yasinger saw Albert aim his finger at the bottom of the desert.
"You mean... Below?!"
Yazinger suddenly came to his senses, yes, all the senses he spread out were aimed at the ground, and he had never explored the ground, and then he went deep into the ground.
Soon, a series of lifeform reactions were reflected, and Yassinger's heart suddenly tensed.
Needless to say, Albert also saw the answer in his face, there was something under this desert.
Rustling... Rustling...
The wind on the desert was getting stronger and stronger, and Yasinger felt a slight restless agitation coming from under his feet, it seemed that the coming wind and sand had caused these creatures hidden underground to react, could it be that they were moving with the sandstorm?
Yasinger was still thinking about how to deal with the current situation, and Albert planned to move in the opposite direction to bypass the underground creatures, but he didn't expect to wake up the underground creatures after just a few steps.
On the sand dunes, one by one bulging bags slowly stood out, I don't know one, there were dozens of them, and the number continued to rise, Yasinger and Albert were almost surrounded by these guys who had never met before, back to back.
Soon, the true colors of the sand dunes were revealed, all of them were giant ants with a body length of nearly one meter and a dark body, with a lighter hind belly and dense cuts on their bodies, and a lighter cut on their hind abdomen. There are no compound eyes, and the hair is sparse and short. There are some erect hairs on the ventral surface and ends of the abdomen on the front and back of the head.
"It's still ant !!," Albert was shocked when he saw such a creature for the first time.
It's hard for Yasinger to imagine that this is what Lauder Kruru calls marching ants, which are gigantic iron beetles.
Looking at the limbs of these ants, the whole body is dark and hard, and you can imagine that ordinary weapons may not be able to hurt their armor, and they look like they have the opportunity to do it to themselves immediately.
Without waiting for the marching ants to show hostility, Yasinger took the lead in unleashing a magic spell to test the opponent's strength - 'Magic Crystal Scatterball!'
The area-of-effect impact magic began to spread in a semicircle, and if the third stage of armor-piercing magic couldn't hurt these guys, then Yazingh would have to take a more laborious way.
The crystallized scattered bullets hit the marching ants in front of Yasinger in a large area in a conical shape, but when these magic bullets hit the surface of the marching ants, they were shattered by the hard case, and the scattered magic power for a while was like snowflakes falling to the ground.
Although the marching ants that were attacked were not physically harmed, they suddenly became furious, and one by one they opened their huge mouths and roared, as if they were charging.
The distance between the two was quite long, but Yasinger was able to ask from the open mouth of the marching ant a very unpleasant smell, it was the smell of carrion and gastric juice mixed together, it was a kind of disgusting feeling when it smelled a little, the marching ant traveled very fast, which also had a lot to do with its thick legs.
"Attention, these guys have a lot of jagged bite, if they can't, they can fly into the sky. ”
Yasinger warned Albert while dodging the attack of the marching ants that these marching ants could resist third-order magic, so Albert, a fifth-order assassination mage who was not very good at using range magic, could still deal with one or two, but if the opponent was outnumbered, Albert would completely lose the ability to resist.
'Pillar of Flame!'