Before everyone could discuss a result, a group of huge bats emerged from the passage, each one as big as a flapping roc, with fangs and claws gleaming with blood. Griffith immediately looked at
The professor's face turned pale.
"Hank, step forward and stop them! Others focus their attacks, don't let them get to the listener!" Karius shouted, "Apprentice knight, you come too."
How can I get in! Just with two daggers?!
Shield guard Hank had already rushed forward. He held a fine iron buckler and a one-handed ax and chopped a bat head-on.
The ax blade only penetrated half an inch into the flesh before it got stuck. Hank was immediately besieged by bats from all directions. These flying monsters attacked his shield with their sharp claws, making a sound like hail. Raven gritted his teeth and took out the remaining
The lowered crossbow arrows were fired at the bat that had just been attacked. Hakan's giant wolf and Pella also moved to one side, preparing to occupy the attack position.
Griffith held the only two daggers and didn't know what to do. Beside him, Lordes was hastily sketching lines with his wand. Along with his elusive chant, two arrows began to appear in front of Hank.
Layers of complex magic patterns rotated and formed in mid-air, and approached each other.
"Hank, stay where you are, hold on!" Karius gave the order, but he did not attack.
An extremely dangerous aura filled the air, as if staying within the range of the magic pattern would lead to disaster. Griffith immediately realized that this would be a large-scale attack spell. While Hank was restraining the bat,
, the professor is trying to eliminate them all at once.
However, it was too late! Griffith discovered that in less than ten seconds, Hank's shield to protect him had been deformed and twisted under the fierce attack. The bats that had initially gathered in front of him had spread out from both sides.
It attacked his arm and even started to circle around his back.
"Captain, it's impossible!" Hank screamed. The shield was suddenly knocked to the ground, and a bat bit Hank's wrist. Before he could struggle, the bats swarmed in and tore his body from all directions.
.
"Pfft!"
Griffith had never heard such a sound before. The tall and big Hank was torn into pieces like a rag doll and disappeared into a dark shadow.
"Hank!"
Pella screamed in surprise. The bats swarmed over in an instant and rushed towards the panicked demon hunter.
The complicated magic circle that Lordes was still sketching immediately dissipated, and his cold face flashed with anxiety and solemnity.
"Hakan, hold it with your wolf!" Karius shouted, "Others, protect the listener!"
Hakan's giant wolf didn't even hold on for five seconds before it was torn apart. At the same time, an earth-shattering thunderbolt fell, shattering a bat into pieces. The lightning bounced among the bats, killing two more nearby ones.
Only. But as the number of bounces increases, the lethality of the thunderbolt weakens rapidly, and finally disappears in the air.
Raven was thrown to the ground and the bat bit through his neck.
"My lord!" Karius shouted anxiously to the professor.
Lordes calmly withdrew a piece of blue crystal surrounded by electric light, and started the elusive chant again. His next powerful spell was about to take shape, but at this moment, the approaching bat emitted an invisible sound wave.
, everyone nearby, including Griffith, suddenly heard a loud noise in their heads, followed by continuous noise, making it difficult to concentrate.
Lourdes's spell failed.
The team suddenly lost the ability to resist.
Professor Lordes pressed his forehead, gritted his teeth, turned around and jumped to the bottom of the cliff.
Hakan was attacked first. He and Pella were chased by a swarm of bats and fled towards Griffith in panic. Then Karius was besieged. He screamed and rushed into a tunnel and disappeared.
in the dark.
These bats flew extremely fast, roaring through the icy night sky, and immediately threw Hakan and Perla to the ground. Perla screamed heartbreakingly, and suddenly saw Griffith out of the corner of her eye.
Si rushed towards her, followed by a string of giant bats.
Griffith did not escape down the cliff, but crashed into Hakan, Pella and a large group of bats.
"Far East Nova!"
The freezing air exploded in the bat group, freezing all the bats that were swarming in place. Griffith kicked away the two bats, picked up the two people who were besieged, threw them outside, and immediately smashed them towards the ground where the bats gathered.
A bottle of secondary slowing potion shouted:
"Split up and run!"
The gathering bats fell into the negative effect of deceleration. Before the three of them could say hello, Hakan ran towards the path up the mountain, Pella held her head and jumped off the cliff, and Griffith even rushed into the narrow path.
aisle.
…
Chase, catch up?
Griffith ran wildly in the narrow passage. Giant cockroaches had just emerged from this tunnel and had been cleaned up, without encountering any obstacles along the way.
He is not in a panic. The bat is very fast. After getting rid of the short-term deceleration, it is easy to be overtaken by escaping along the open road. This is the way Hakan chose. Relatively speaking, Pella jumped directly from the cliff.
vitality.
Griffith's idea was to rush into the narrow road. If the bats caught up with him, he would rely on the narrow terrain to fight them and get stuck in the position to kill them. When he found out that the demon hunter was in a bad situation, he was thinking about how to escape.
This route is the safest. He is the most proficient at hitting more card positions with less.
Suddenly, he felt severe pain in many places on his body, as well as the feeling of thick liquid flowing.
In the short pursuit and battle just now, the bat tore open Griffith's cheek and chest, and broke a rib. It all happened so suddenly that he didn't even react when he was injured. Wait until
After hiding in the passage, he discovered that the gurgling blood had stained half of his body red.
My blood is still red, not bad, this is good news!
Griffith wiped his hands on his clothes, reached into the wound, grabbed the broken ribs and broke them hard.
"Uh...ah..."
Griffith let out a groan that he tried to suppress, but the broken bone was broken off, so that it would not penetrate into the lungs and cause continuous damage. Although he has strong self-healing ability to support him, he does not have extra time and resources to slow down now.
Recover yourself slowly.
The bat swarm may still be gathering outside the tunnel, and even if they don't pursue it, it may block the way out. I'd better squat here and wait for a while to see the situation. Griffith grabbed two small daggers with gaps and hid in
In the shadow of the corner.
Suddenly, his torn cheek twitched and trembled violently. His face was covered in blood and his teeth could be seen. The wound on his facial bones looked like an oversized smile with lipstick on it.
He shook his head towards the cold, dark and empty tunnel wall, as if looking into a mirror:
"Why are you so serious?
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"
Griffith laughed wildly in the silent tunnel, laughed for a while and then suddenly closed his mouth as if nothing happened, and looked around nervously.
…
The moonlight passed through the cracks in the rocks above the head, shining a faint light into the tunnel. In the dark corner, Griffith seemed to see something crawling and swelling.
"I think I saw something," Griffith said to himself, "I have to take a closer look."
In the extremely quiet tunnel, he seemed to hear a ding-dong-dong-dong sound, and a shadow-like thing was slowly taking shape. At first, it was illusory like a mist, and gradually became thicker and more substantial, with a huge body.
The disproportionate hooves, jagged beak and goat's horns are extremely confusing and unrealistic.
What is this?
The shadow slowly walked towards Griffith, opened its big mouth, and bit him.
"Wow!"
The remaining mail on Griffith's body was actually bitten through, and a large piece of flesh was torn off. He hugged his head and fled towards the depths of the tunnel where there were no monsters.
After running for who knows how long, the strange shadow disappeared, and Griffith stopped to take a breath. The tunnel in this ruins is extremely deep, full of cave-ins and damage, and it twists and turns leading to nowhere.
But fortunately there is no fork in the road.
Suddenly, the unknown author's potion preparation notes that he kept close to him began to heat up slightly. He had been carrying this booklet with him since the last record appeared, and wanted to see when new records would appear. This feeling of heat made him feel warm.
Griffith, who had lost a lot of blood, felt very comfortable. He took off his tattered mail armor, took out his notes from his pocket, and found that a new chapter had appeared on it.
What appeared this time was not the knowledge and experience of potions, but a diary.
"Diary with illegible dates
"I dare to swear that this is the most shocking experience I have had since entering Homemonworth. I can only rely on my remaining sanity to record this weird experience.
"As a first-year student, I completed my homework very well. The professors unanimously believed that I had extraordinary talents and would definitely achieve a great career in the future. I should have studied hard like this and found a beautiful daughter from a famous family.
We made an engagement, but a lunatic's crazy words completely destroyed my life.
"It was a cozy evening, and I was discussing the Parnville Arcane Model with Miss Iletia. Hughes burst into the library, and his appearance startled everyone.
"He was covered in bruises. His left eye, left ear and left hand were missing. Blood and pus dripped from the wounds to the ground. His abdomen was torn apart by a terrible force, and his right hand with only two fingers left held the internal organs and organs flowing out of the abdominal cavity.
intestines.
"The girls screamed, and some even fainted. I was so surprised by Hughes' appearance that I was speechless, but his murmurs made me even more confused.
"He approached me dragging his belly,
"'In the Whispering Forest, at the altar of Black Peak, strange horns, teeth, claws, they are coming.'