Chapter 66: Dangerous Forest (Part 2)
The sky of the Hell is always gray, without day and night, and without seasons. When a volcano erupts, the fire will illuminate the sky, and plants will absorb heat wildly and grow desperately. The forests located on the edge of the volcanic area can absorb the most heat and are the most luxuriant.
This is so much like a demon plane, except for the crimson sun.
Nelis stretched out her body intoxicatedly. The color of her snow-white leather jacket became darker, and soon overlapped with the color of this world. Her figure also became faint. From a distance, she could not even see a demon hiding on the top of the barracks.
It is not so difficult to create combat puppets. A level 4 magician can do a good job. Rex is already at the peak of level 5, and it is not a problem to refine thirteen combat puppets at the same time. The room is just small. As the head coach's barracks, one room can accommodate ten people, and the thirteen combat puppets almost fill the barracks.
Sika sat at the door and waited. It was unknown how much time had passed before Salin and Rex walked out of it.
"Sarin, how about it?" Shika was a little anxious.
"It's done."
Salin finished speaking and walked out of Rex's barracks. These puppets were less than two meters tall, with human figures on the upper body, heavy metal armor, wolf-shaped lower body, four legs, and sharp claws. Because they were consumables, these claws were very long, and they would inevitably wear out after a long time.
The lower body of the half-human and half-beast puppet is also covered with armor, the helmet is completely closed, and there are metal gloves on both hands, wrapping all fingers. The puppet has only four fingers on both hands, in order to make the fingers thicker and able to withstand greater strength.
The puppets held metal shields in their left hand, and the right hand held a wide-blade arc-shaped knife, and the end of the knife head was reverse serrated. It was obviously thicker than humans and was carrying a bundle of javelins behind their backs. The length of these javelins was less than one and a half meters, and the whole body was made of metal. If this javelin was used by humans, only warriors like Sika, who were born with divine power, could throw it out.
Thirteen combat puppets were in order, and they walked around the camp themselves and took on the task of alert.
"Everyone rest for one night and set off tomorrow." After Rex said that, he took Hall's alchemy telescope and flew upwards. Rex flew upwards for more than 400 meters, and he could no longer control the airflow. A level five magician can fly with the help of magic props, and Rex also relied on his colorful robe to fly.
To cross the forest, you need to find a relatively close road. Rex raised his alchemy telescope and began to observe in mid-air. On the Meers continent, the forest stretches for hundreds of miles is also very common. Rex does not want to see the end of the forest, but needs to find a way out.
The plants in the Hell of God's Punishment grow very regularly, and even the arrangement of leaves seems to follow the principles of magic formulas. There is no sunlight here, and the leaves of plants are used to absorb elemental energy. Rex silently wrote down the arrangement of trees at each angle, then fell to the ground and began to calculate using the Figaro magic formula.
Thirteen combat puppets faithfully surrounded the camp, which was shrouded in dark space. This night, everyone can rest with peace of mind. After entering the forest, even if there are puppets watching the night, no one can sleep soundly.
Everyone had rested for ten hours. Rex removed the dark space and took back the two metal plates to the Ring of Shinra. Salin slept well. At this time, he took over the command of the three combat puppets and dismantled the camp with Rex. While dismantling the camp, Salin was familiar with the control of the combat puppets. He found that he was very humble and said that he could only control four puppets. After Rex took his demon spider into consideration, he only gave him three.
Controlling combat puppets is much more difficult than controlling demon hunting spiders. The demon hunting spiders are very small and the magic array inside is also very simple. They win completely by relying on special materials. Although the combat puppets have four legs, it is extremely difficult to control the balance of the puppets.
Salin was ashamed. He thought it was a very easy thing, but now it has become a burden. Suddenly a puppet lost control, Salin was startled and immediately felt that the control of the puppet had been taken away by Neris.
Soul ability?
This technique is so good, Salin felt relieved, and it would be much easier to control two combat puppets.
The combat puppet was tireless and consumed the power of the magic core. The camp was quickly dismantled into various huge parts, and Rex took back the Shenluo Ring like that. Then Rex took out five cloaks and distributed them to everyone.
"If everyone gets lost, put on the hood and there is a magic circle that transmits sounds. However, in the forest, I estimate that the farthest can sense more than 500 meters, that is, two magic circles are opened at the same time, and the sound can be transmitted for up to one mile."
Salin took the cloak and draped it on his body. The texture of the cloak is pretty good. Strictly speaking, it is not considered magical equipment, but it just does not affect the release of magic. Salin's magic robe has three solidified magic, invisible shield, resistance to fire ring, and great power technique. These three are not water-based magic, and need to be stimulated by the magic core embedded in the belt. If the resistance to fire ring is activated, the ordinary cloak will be burned.
Rex demonstrated how to inspire the magic circle on the cloak, then pulled up his hood and said, "Go away."
The six people did not act separately, but only allowed the thirteen combat puppets to protect the surroundings, Rex in front, Salin and Neris controlled the three puppets to break the back.
Salin now knows that the magic string is precious, but it only stimulates the invisible shield on the magic robe to prevent accidents. It is impossible to walk too fast in the forest, and it doesn’t make much sense to use the wind speed technique. The worst person in this team may be Salin. Even he can rush to the road at twice the speed of an ordinary person.
The purple forest was getting closer and closer, and the cries of insects and birds could not be heard. The wind was very small, and the huge leaves made a rustling sound. Six people and thirteen puppets came to the edge of the forest in more than twenty minutes.
The trees here are no longer like vines, and there are more leaves on the canopy. Almost every tree has three or four people hugged me so thick, and the thickest ones even require more than a dozen people to pick them up.
Rex first sent four puppets into the forest. She stopped under a big tree, bent down, grabbed a handful of soil, and rubbed it in her hands. Her hands were wearing white magic gloves, and the black mud fell down, and the magic gloves were as white as before.
"How is it?" Salin knew Rex was studying the characteristics of the forest.
"It should rain frequently if the water is right. There are monster feces and insects. Be careful, the insects here may be larger."
Larger? Everyone thought of giant mosquitoes. Although giant mosquitoes’ body is fragile, its sharp mouthpart can pierce metal.
"I just hope there are no man-eating ants." Salin joked, and Rex turned around and glared at him.
Salin also felt absurd, because Hall and Bai Meng's faces were ugly. The man-eating ants are a special species in the central Meers continent and only move around the Purgatory Desert. This kind of ants is considered a first-level monster, but even a level six-level monster may be swallowed by a terrifying number of man-eating ants.
Rex turned around and walked into the forest. The light was still dim. Rex did not use lighting, but released fluorescence. This was a level 0 magic, and Salin was also good at it. This magic hardly caused elemental fluctuations, and the range of lighting was not large.
Except for the four puppets exploring the way forward, there are three puppets on the left and right and rear each on the alert, and the team's advancement speed has not slowed down. The plants on the edge of this forest are not lush.
The four combat puppets advanced about two miles, and suddenly a lynx-sized monster suddenly popped out in front of them. The monster had a wolf's face and was extremely short. Its tail was very similar to those of the monsters attacking the camp, like steel chains. The wolf-faced monster rushed past the four puppets, pounced on the bushes on the other side, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"There are beginnings of monsters." Rex warned in a low voice, Hall and Bai Meng both drew their swords and held them in their hands.
Continue to go deeper, there are more shrubs, and occasionally there are plants that can become tentacles. Rex controls the puppets and carefully chooses the route to move around these dangerous trees.
After moving forward for about ten miles, there were already low shrubs, vines, and grass everywhere among the trees. The combat puppets began to use arc-shaped swords to harshly open a path.
The reverse serration on the wide curved scimitar head can easily cut off tough vines and weeds. There are puppets to open the way, making everyone much easier. However, Rex had to release black fog to hide the moving forward team.
With a whoosh, outside the black fog, a colorful little snake pounced down from the treetops and bit the back of the neck of a combat puppet. The combat puppet is protected by a helmet, and there is a thick metal layer on the neck. The little snake bites it, and the thick metal armor leaves are directly bitten away half of the thickness and corrode a hole.
The snake twisted its body and was about to drill into the hole. A combat puppet next to it waved its scimitar and cut the colorful little snake into two pieces and fell to the ground. The snake's head had bitten the puppet's neck. If it were a human, it would have been bitten to death.
The puppets moving on the side also encountered trouble. The three combat puppets were moving forward in a difficult manner among the trees. When the puppet in the lead split a piece of vine, an open space appeared in front of them. There was a puddle in the middle of the open space. As soon as the puppet stepped in, tens of thousands of tiny insects flew up from the edge of the puppet and rushed towards the puppet.
The bodies of these insects are disgusting dark red, with a tangled protruding network on their bodies, which seeps outwards mucus. These insects live by the puddles, relying on besieging animals coming to drink water. The puppet in the lead is immediately surrounded by red insects, and in a blink of an eye it is already covered with all its bodies.
The other two puppets did not come forward to help, but turned around and ran away. The surface of the puppet's body wrapped in red bugs lit up and started to burn.
Chapter completed!