"Yeah." Noli didn't change her leather armor. She just put on her gloves and carried her sword and completed her preparations. After seeing that everyone else was almost ready, she said, "Girl, let's go."
Noli, who had been waiting for a long time, was the first to walk in the direction indicated on the map. The hot sunlight penetrated between the leaves and shone on the adventurer's new snake scale leather armor.
"Ouch!" Susie shouted in response.
"I have no problem." Freya prepared what she needed to prepare, nodded and followed.
Sherlock followed listlessly.
Alexander held a bow in one hand and nocked an arrow in the other. After passing Noli, she walked carefully at the front of the team, moving in the direction given by the tribe. Her red eyes were hidden in the shadows caused by the hair hanging down from the headband, and she scanned warily.
All around.
First, we walked along the road, and when we approached the lake, we found some strange blood stains, which were obviously left by unclean creatures. In addition, there were also traces of many large animals passing through the jungle.
The adventurers cautiously lowered their speed and slowly approached the end of the road. Numerous and lush grasses and shrubs occupied the gaps between the trees. It seemed that they could only cut through the thorns and clear the way again.
There were no tracks at the end of the road, but several people saw other very messy beast tracks on the path leading to the creek. Perhaps the beasts ran out of the river.
"Well... what do you think? Let's make our own way here, or follow the herd's tracks to see if there is another way?" Alexander asked.
"Let's follow the trails created by the herd as much as possible. If it doesn't work, it's better for us to open a new path and save some energy." Noli tried to chop the thorns with her big sword, but it was not a mountain knife after all.
"It would be a waste of time to open a path, but if we chase the footprints, we might encounter unclean creatures?" Freya analyzed from the perspective of possible battles.
Alexander looked at the map, "Currently, it seems that if the river turns upstream, it will be in the same direction as the tomb of the giant beast. If we follow it like this, we may not be able to find the way, and we may waste a lot of time. I think we should open a way."
"Alexander started to look at Sherlock and Noli, "Please use your bare-edged weapons to clear the way in front."
"That's easy to say." Noli picked up the giant sword and swung it wide and wide, splitting all the weeds in front of her. Sherlock also started working without enthusiasm.
"Ouch!" Susie waved her paw, as if to indicate that she might be able to help. Alexander looked at Susie who raised her paw, and asked Noli: "What's wrong with Susie? I don't know if she raised her paw."
What do you want to do?"
"She probably wants to help. Girl, please wait a moment, don't get hurt by the thorns." Noli stopped what she was doing and comforted the she-wolf.
Susie whimpered, retracted her claws, and used her size advantage to get into the grass to investigate. In the end, Alexander and Freya also helped to cut off some vines and other things.
After a tiring period of time, the adventurers discovered a path extending from the direction of the tribe. This time it was much easier.
"Well... maybe we should ask for directions more clearly at that time. The map is still too abstract." Alexander said and carefully leaned towards the path.
Freya let out a breath, and then followed Alexander to investigate the situation.
"Hey, let's be careful next time." Noli relaxed the muscles in her hands, took a break, and continued on her way without stopping on her legs.
Starting from the lakeside and heading west, on the way to the tomb of giant beasts, the forest path finally ended, but a looming beast trail was just beside it. The surrounding scenery was the same, but it was a denser jungle.
However, the feeling of desolation and desolation always permeates everyone's heart, and from time to time, the sounds of wild beasts around can be heard rising and falling.
For a moment, the adventurers seemed to see themselves standing in a valley stretching to the sky. The skeletons of beasts protruded like towering jungles, and the scattered bones looked like vine branches. The weathered corpses scattered horizontally formed the earth beneath their feet.
.
Under normal circumstances, no animal would be willing to go near this cemetery, just like no human would be willing to walk into an abandoned mass grave. Unknown souls are hovering in it. Whether they are humans or animals, the living have respect for the mysterious dead.
"Ouch..." Susie suddenly stopped walking and leaned down, expressing her respect for the passing beast in her own way. Then, the female wolf stood up again,
Stay alert and keep moving forward.
Noli glanced at Susie subconsciously, and after confirming her reaction, she put on a serious face and silently felt the bleak atmosphere around her.
"If it's possible... I don't really want to come here." Freya sighed silently, and then continued to observe her surroundings, cautiously guarding against any unexpected surprises.
Alexander walked quietly at the front of the team, keeping alert while paying attention to any traces of unclean creatures or humans.
After all, this is also a rainforest. The towering valleys are just an illusion after all, but the deep valleys are real. Before long, several clouded leopards with tribal war patterns appeared in the distance, trembling and roaring in front of the adventurers, trying to lure the strangers away from here.
Drive out.
Alexander stopped and observed the status of these clouded leopards. They seemed to be frightened, but they were still loyal to their duties.
"Hiss...are these the leopards of the tribe? Why are they still here?" Noli frowned.
"...Everyone, can any of you make these guys relax?" Alexander stared at these clouded leopards and asked: "The people of the tribe may not have thought that they are still alive here."
Noli checked and saw that Sherlock, who had been silent all the way, was still at the back of the team.
At this time, several adventurers heard some noises in the nearby rain forest. As soon as they moved their eyes, Solas, who had straps on his arms and tiger's mouth, grabbed the vine a few times and swung over from a distance. Fortunately, they were friendly forces.
They all breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, Solas, I'm so glad to see you." Alexander waved to him happily. "When the village gave us the commission, they didn't mention that there was anyone here."
We didn’t have anything in our hands that they could recognize, so we arrived just in time. While secretly rejoicing, Noli also asked Solas, “Are you here to pick them up?”
After swinging near the path, Solas let go and jumped down, landing with his back to the adventurers. Then he watched several clouded leopards put their left hands to their mouths and whistled.
"Be good, boys, you're back." Soras used strange phrases and phrases to make the clouded leopards leave as if they were amnesty. After that, Noli fell into a brief thought. It seemed that she still needed to learn how to communicate with animals. But there were more
Naturally, I wanted a helper, so I didn't say much.
"Don't worry about you, I plan to follow you next, hoping not to disrupt your combined attack skills." Solas turned to Alexander and replied.
"Well... we don't have any combined attack skills, we just fight." Alexander said and observed Solas: "How is your injury?"
"It's nothing serious." Solas untied the bandage on his right hand, and the wound had begun to grow new flesh.
"Are your injuries caused by fighting unclean creatures?" Freya asked.
"Those monsters, yes. Your name is very vivid." Solas shrugged.
"Okay, let's go." Alexander said and moved forward slowly: "Is there any new information now? It's said to be a certain level of strength, but I don't know what level it is. That's why we need someone to investigate... Let's take a look first and then decide.
Already."
"Their mobility is too strong. It would be better to avoid them as much as possible." Noli wiped the sweat on her forehead with her wrist.
"If you don't have a certain strength to go in, you will definitely die. Although there are not many in number, those monsters are too difficult. I need two hits to kill most of the monsters, and some require three or four times. Exchanging injuries for injuries is not a good idea."
Solas glanced at the clouded leopard that had run away.
"Well... that's a bit tricky for us." Alexander frowned and said, "The key is not to face too many at once."
"Anyway, try to avoid it as much as possible." Noli emphasized once.
Continuing forward, you can see the remains of many unclean creatures and leftover spears on the next road. The vegetation is getting less and less, and the feeling of desolation is even worse. You can also hear the roars of beasts echoing in the valley.
After recovering from the shock, we had reached a low ground, probably going into a deep valley.
Freya carefully observed the surrounding situation. In such a gloomy environment... it is better to be careful.
Susie no longer ran around as lively as before, but walked cautiously beside her owner, looking left and right from time to time, paying attention to the movements around her. However, Noli did not understand the surrounding natural environment, so she looked
Noticing Susie's actions, she just subconsciously looked around.
Alexander kept glancing left and right as he slowly walked down the ravine, but in addition to paying attention to the movements around him, he was also very concerned about Solas' movements.
This current environment forced the adventurers to be even more careful. Solas, who was more than twice as powerful as Sherlock, was injured.
Although his injuries have basically healed and he has gained experience in fighting enemies, Solas is still very cautious, except occasionally observing the sky and feet around him.
Seeing Solas raising his head, Alexander also looked at the crowns of the surrounding trees in a similar manner. It happened that when he looked up for the second time, he saw a crow on the branch of a nearby tree - it was difficult to determine whether it was the same crow he had seen twice before.
crow.
But the crow looked at the adventurers intently. "Hmm..." Alexander waved tentatively to the crow, and the crow spread its wings and pecked its feathers before flying away.
At the same time, Freya discovered a red flower as bright as blood growing next to the remains of an unclean creature, and then she called out to the others.
Freya carefully approached the blood-red flower and was about to take a closer look when Soras said: "Don't touch it, it is the flower of disaster. A warrior once swallowed this plant by mistake and gained great power.
With the blessing of magic power, he could release spells, but the good times did not last long and his body began to weaken. Although the magic power still existed, he could no longer become a proud warrior."
"Well... I understand, let's take a handful first. At least you can eat it to save your life when you are about to die?" Alexander felt that the flower still had enough value.
"It takes a while for the Flower of Disaster to take effect. Your idea is probably impossible." Solas' explanation made Alexander's idea go bankrupt.
At this time, Sherlock came back from his fugue: "What happened next? Is he dead?"
"Collect them first and decide whether they are needed later? It's better than nothing. Is there anything I should pay attention to when picking them?" After Freya said this, Alexander took out a handkerchief and tried to wrap the petals in it.
"Just pull off the petals. Be careful because there are thorns on the stems and there are weak toxins that will hurt for a long time." Solas was speechless for a while in response to Sherlock's confused question, and then wiped the sweat from his face: "He's alive.
He is very good, he is the most knowledgeable person among us, that is, the wizard. I believe you have met him more than once, well, you haven't met him yet."
"Huh? It's actually the wizard." Noli had a new evaluation of the flower in her heart.
"Oh, I understand. It's just to transfer the power from one aspect to another, that's pretty good." Sherlock's idea was quite optimistic, and it just solved the previous embarrassment.
Alexander was careful about the thorns and possible insects on the stems, and then successfully picked off the petals.
"Then let's continue?" Noli suggested after seeing that her teammates had finished handling the matter.
"The situation here is very complicated now." Freya sighed.
Alexander wrapped the petals in a towel and put them in his pocket: "Okay, let's go."
"Then let's go." Sherlock returned to his nonchalant expression.
After climbing down a short cliff not far away, I took a shortcut and walked for who knows how long. Anyway, it was a one-way road so I wouldn't get lost.
Several people passed through a narrow stone peak that could only be passed sideways, and suddenly they felt enlightened.
In front of you is a wide rift valley. Many scattered bones can be seen in the gravel and earth and rocks under your feet. There are cliffs on the left and right, as if you are in a barren tomb.
Occasionally, a few blades of grass fall leisurely from the top of a hundred-meter-high cliff, and are swept to unknown places by the wind. This is probably part of the tomb of giant beasts...
Alexander walked at the front and advanced slowly, careful of what kind of monsters would emerge under his feet. Noli leaned close to a relatively intact skeleton and bent down, trying to identify the race it belonged to and not the skeleton of a giant beast.
Freya followed Alexander and looked at a twenty-foot-long rib not far away, thinking about what she could recall about weathering.
At this moment! An unclean creature with a terrifying shape crawled out from a small pile of bones far away. In this quiet place, even if the teammates did not raise a warning, the sound of crawling out of the pile of bones alarmed Noli.
.
The shape of the monster has little to do with humanoid creatures. It has a rickety body, muscular legs and swollen arms. The head has no organs other than the mouth, but it has dense teeth like a deep sea monster fish.
It looked extremely ferocious.
Not only that, traces of green liquid slowly flowed from the gaps between the sharp teeth to the ground, making a sizzling sound. There were a large number of fist-sized tumors growing on the torso, which seemed to burst with the slightest touch.
Seeing this, several people stood ready. Freya, who had been silent before, only held the throwing knife tightly with her other hand and quickly pulled out the Virgo, as if she was always planning to attack in front of the guard.
"These monsters are sleeping among the bones." Sherlock beeped a few words, took out weapons with both hands, and got ready for battle.
Solas whispered: "My spear is made of wood and is easily corroded. It is up to you to deal with this monster. Of course, if the situation is dangerous, I will help." This chapter has been completed!