The blood is still warm - the battle to expel the Devil's Rift Chapter 8: The first defeat
"The bones have the breath of the soul." The poor man Moeng Nan, who put on his cloak, said dutifully.
"Really?" Alexander also used her special vision ability to observe the white bones, but she couldn't see anything special. After all, she hadn't figured out the dark vision of her eyes and recently discovered the ability to see some spirits.
Where did it come from? "But why can't I see it?"
"It's probably the remnants of the deceased, not something evil." Moeng Nan said with certainty.
"Just skeletons." Heath turned his attention away.
Fageni felt a little uncomfortable wearing this wristband, so he took the opportunity to pause and adjust his position. Then he threw the short staff of rejuvenation to Sophia, indicating that he no longer needed it.
"This also proves that this scorpion is quite dangerous." Sophia caught her magic equipment and put it away.
"Why did the five leopard brothers come so far and be stopped by this scorpion?" Fageni was confused, but it was obviously a female, a male and three cubs. The rusty knife in his hand and the pile of corpses
He compared the rusty iron equipment inside and laughed softly.
"Who knows? Be careful." Sophia looked at the bones and said.
"Perhaps I was really scared." As a dragon vein warlock, Mo Engnan has a deep understanding of this.
"If you can't get up and beat us, it won't be a big problem. Why are there so many bones here... Someone must have come to attack this guy." Alexander made a reasonable guess.
Sophia patted the stone wall of the cave to try to awaken the spirit of the rock. However, this area was disturbed by other energies, and the awakening spirit released had no effect.
"Trouble, something is interfering with my spell here. I can't use the spell to reveal the location of the scorpion. Please move forward carefully." Sophia felt that she had stayed here long enough.
Alexander walked closer and observed the white bones on the ground for any clues. Her eyesight was excellent. Judging from the number of skulls, there should be nine corpses. And it could be seen that these bones had been corroded by time to the point where they turned into powder when touched.
, the knowledge of weathering jumped out of the archer's mind. "Something is wrong, very wrong. These bones have been here for a long time, and they are all humanoid creatures. They should not be done by scorpions."
Fageni came back to his senses, glanced at the people who were waiting for the meeting, and stood in front of them on guard.
Sofia also felt something strange, so she looked at the thick stalagmites in the cave to see if there was any hiding place.
Alexander put away her bow and decided to look through the pile of bones and equipment to see if there were any other clues. While searching, she found that the hand bone pressed by a pelvis was strange, maybe because it was wearing a ring.
The reason is that this hand bone has not been corroded.
Alexander tried very hard not to cry out, and took off the ring tremblingly. After observing it, she put it on to try to synchronize. Sure enough, it was a space equipment with storage function, just to see if she could put it inside.
Take out the things.
Sofia looked at the hole that continued to extend: "Alexander, can you see how far down there is?"
"You still have to go in..." Hitz looked a little worried.
But this ring is no better than the one she is equipped with now. It can open up to five square feet of storage space. It takes more than ten seconds to put in and take out items. More importantly, this ring must have magic power to drive it, and people with weak mental strength
It is impossible to view the items in the storage space.
In addition to these, there are also the same small shortcomings as other space equipment, such as the inability to store living creatures, conscious items, highly active pharmaceuticals, etc. Surprisingly, when Alexander used her mental power to move the items inside, she discovered this
The speed of time passing in space is only one-tenth of that in the outside world.
But there are only some adventure items in it, such as a flint kettle and the like. The only valuable ones are a bottle of anti-venom and a bottle of healing potion, but they may have lost their effectiveness.
Alexander took out all these things and checked to see if there were any clues, such as the inner wall of the kettle. She didn't believe that this man had hidden the ring before he died and only had this little debris.
Unfortunately, nothing unusual was found in the end. Perhaps the carrier died before he could react.
Sophia released a detection toxin in this area. There was a very weak toxin reaction on the stone floor next to one of the skeletons.
"Tsk." Alexander closed the exit of the ring's storage space, then put the sundries into his backpack, put the potions he didn't know if they were still useful into his pocket, and closed the ring. "I thought...it seems like I have too many
I’m relieved. Let’s move on.”
"Be careful, these skeletons have existed for so long, but they still have some toxin reactions. It is not ruled out that the scorpion has the ability to be very poisonous." Sophia said.
"Huh?" Alexander looked in the direction Sofia pointed, and then scanned to see if there were any traces of traps, but found none. There seemed to be nothing else worth noting here.
Fageni had been looking deep into the depths. Hearing this, he said: "This scorpion is not ready to come out yet?"
"Have we brought an antidote?" Moengnan asked in order to highlight his role and not appear to be doing nothing.
"I have a bottle." Fageni pointed to one of the bottles on his waist.
"I didn't bring it with me, but I know the detoxification and healing spells." Moengnan saw that the soldier who had not spoken to him much was paying attention to him, so he talked to him, but all he got in exchange was a nasal sound indicating that he understood.
After Alexander checked whether there were any traps nearby, he continued to move forward and looked into the depths. This time, Fageni walked first, and Moengnan followed second.
The five people advanced about one hundred and fifty feet, and then the temperature of the entire area seemed to drop to the point where it was like being placed in an ice cellar.
But this is not a real drop in temperature, but a feeling of coldness on a perceptual level. Sophia and Shiz sensed that there are no fire elements, water elements, light elements or wind elements below, which are related to these four elements.
Evocation magic cannot be released due to inhibition. However, the power of magic involving dark elements and earth elements has increased.
"Hiss..." Fageni took a breath, and he remembered the last battle in that cave.
"My defensive spells can't be used. There is no light element or wind element required for spells here." Sophia was a little distressed. This was her main defense method.
"Don't worry, the earth element here is very strong. If I release my magic power here, it will increase a lot." Heath comforted him.
"If you want to fight, you have to draw him out to fight. My magic shaping skills are all of the wind type." Moeng Nan said in a low voice.
"I feel like something is getting weird about this place." Although Alexander used the thunder element enchantment with a spell-like ability, it didn't have much impact.
"Indeed, be extremely careful." Sophia said and drank a bottle of magic potion before using Detect Malice.
"I wonder what skills that scorpion has, how to roar, etc." Fageni thought inexplicably. After all, he was the only one who was a complete insulator of magic power.
"Well... I just tried to detect it, and no malice was detected." As she said that, Sophia first cast a petrified skin spell on herself, a spell she rarely used.
"But it's not necessarily absolutely safe. For example, traps and the like, some monsters are very smart." Hitz reminded that passive factors are not within the scope of the alarm for detecting malicious intent.
"Keep walking, I don't know how deep the hole it dug." Fageni lowered the hand holding the torch a little higher.
"How can this place be safe?" Alexander moved forward cautiously.
The five people moved forward for another minute. About sixty feet diagonally below, a huge dark gray mass appeared in Moeng Nan's black field of vision. He stretched out his hand to signal everyone to stop, and then pointed.
Next, I compared the jewelry at a corresponding distance, and then turned off the soul vision.
Fageni stopped, said nothing, and looked down curiously. Sophia nodded to someone to show her understanding, and then made preparations for the battle.
As for Alexander, she picked up a stone from beside her feet and prepared to throw it over. The passage was now fifteen feet wide. A few people had a forty-five-foot field of vision in front of them, while others were blocked by the stone. The passage had slight ups and downs, and the height difference was between five feet and ten feet.
between feet.
Before the stone fell to the ground, the brown scorpion arrived five feet in front of Fageni as if teleporting. Then two large pliers poked out and attacked Moengnan behind Fageni. All five people felt
The huge upturned scorpion tail needle of the scorpion stared at him like an eye.
"You're a piece of trash!" Fageni was beaten badly, and he got up from the ground and couldn't help but uttered a curse word from his hometown.
"It's so cruel. It's so troublesome without magic." Moeng Nan was hit hard and hit the wall. He laughed at himself before he could stand still.
"Everyone, be careful." Sophia belatedly reminded her and then chanted a short spell, projecting the sword-shaped mark onto Alexander, then the jade-shaped mark onto Shitz, and finally projected the mirror-shaped mark onto her head.
She used all her strength to strike, and Alexander's enchanted adamantine arrow hit the bow. Then she activated the ice attribute additional effect of the Cloud-Splitting Bow that she had already used proficiently, and the magic power in her body turned into thunder, wrapping the arrow around the arrow and attacking the scorpion's tail stinger.
Although the arrow was only shallowly pierced on the shell in the end, the elemental damage attached was not offset. The jumping current and large amounts of frost at the impact point actually caused damage to the monster.
Along with the chant, Hitz raised his hands above his head and waved his arms towards the scorpion, as if he was drawing a precise structural diagram. As his arms were lowered, a magic circle was instantly generated on the top of the scorpion's head and a huge circle dropped.
The huge boulder fell towards the scorpion.
The scorpion instantly teleported back a short distance, and the large pincers also flashed out of sight, so naturally they were not harmed.
Fageni first took a few steps back and seized the opportunity for the scorpion to teleport back and rush forward in an arc. He concentrated but only left a shallow knife mark on the shell. Fortunately, the scar was shallow, but due to the
The injured part was on the abdomen, and some foul-smelling yellow tissue fluid flowed out. After the blow, because he was about to die, he clamped his muscles to try not to bleed again, and backed away ten feet like water flowing between rocks.
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"It's so cruel, I burst into tears." Moeng Nan weighed his ability and stood still without taking action for the time being.
The scorpion's pincers waved upward, and countless sharp stones fell down like an earthquake. However, this was not a real earthquake, but a spell-like ability that caused vibrations or falling rocks similar to the Heath spell.
Alexander reacted quickly. She took out the metal card and released the iron wall. A wall condensed in mid-air. This barrier was precariously hit by the impact of falling rocks formed by a large number of earth elements, but it still held up.
While the scorpion was maintaining the falling stone, Alexander quickly observed that this kind of scorpion seemed to have earth attributes in its outer shell, but in fact it should be mainly dark attributes. Therefore, it should actually be afraid of light attributes and fire attributes. These two elements can fight against
Monsters deal more damage.
"This thing is afraid of fire, is there any fire?" Alexander drew his bow and shot at the scorpion the moment the iron wall disappeared, but this attack also had no great effect.
"I have a fireball card." Fageni coughed a few times and responded to Alexander.
"Leave this environment first. I think this environment has a great benefit on this monster." Sophia judged this and cast herself into Stride before starting to retreat.
"Then you go first, I'll block it." Alexander shouted, his voice echoing in the cave.
"Seize it!" Fageni had already thought about how to escape with his men. He threw the knife and torch at Moengnan, then found a good position to pick up Hitz and continued: "I have a bottle of medicine on my waist.
The little red one, Miss Heath, pour it into my mouth, I can't hold it in anymore." As he said this, the guy ran away like a fish in water toward the top of the tunnel.
"I'm sorry, I don't know how to accelerate." Hitz was a little flustered. This was the first time she had such close contact with a man after her amnesia.
After leaving the suppressed area, Moengnan released the breeze, using the airflow created by the energy shaping spell to accelerate himself. After relying on the spell to catch up with Fageni, he picked up the healing potion from his belt.
The two ran side by side, one drank and the other swallowed. Although he drank most of it, he didn't care about wasting it at this time. Then Fageni asked Moengnan to drink two bottles of potion for himself. You can drink any of them.
Scorpion swung its pincers at a speed that was hard to see clearly, and instantly hit Alexander, who was trying to delay his teammates and fired a diversionary shot. It was impossible to eat him again. At this time, it was better to run away.
Scorpion began to chase after him, and Alexander used his past training results to open up a little distance. Scorpion's teleportation ability seemed to be unable to be used much.
Then Alexander took the panting Sofia with him, and Sofia followed suit and fed her a bottle of healing potion.
In the end, Scorpion realized that he could not catch up with the five people, so he became angry and released the magic-like ability again. Fortunately, no one fell down due to the shock, and the Thirteenth Mad Wolf Mercenary Group successfully left the cave.
The elements outside the cave are normal. Do you want to run or fight? The scorpion has already chased out.
"Okay, turn around and fight back!" Alexander put down Sophia and shot an arrow. The latter also chanted a spell and released the scorching ray. The scorpion temporarily avoided the edge and teleported a short distance away.
"It has no effect at all. This defensive ability is too strong!" Sophia had a headache and three teammates were injured.
"Mo Nan, do you still know the way back?" Fageni asked dizzily after running some distance from the dark cave.
"There is no fixed route. You can only tell the difference while walking." Moengnan said. There is no straight path to enter and leave the forest. You must confirm your location every time you walk a certain distance. Of course, it is easy to do it when you are on the periphery.
go out.
"Then try your best. Alexander! Can you hold on?!" Fageni put down Hitz and took his own knife. He was also exhausted.
"I can still take a hit, but I still can't fight it! Retreat!" Alexander shot another arrow and ran away, followed by Sophia.
"Run, this is what happened today." After Fageni shouted, he realized that the scorpion had not chased him. After running into the forest, the scorpion disappeared. The five of them ran for a while to make sure that the scorpion had not followed.
"This guy is so fierce. He almost fell inside. To beat this guy, you need to bring a lot of tools." Mo Engnan's expression did not change, and he was still carefree.
"This scorpion is so powerful. It was out of the range of the spell all of a sudden, and it was completely useless to it." Hitz originally thought that with the bonus, he was sure of success.
"Those five leopards are so unlucky that they came here to bring food to this bastard." Fageni began to slow down and regain his strength.
"Tch, I didn't expect those leopards to cause it any trouble at all. But I finally got a storage ring this time, so it's not completely useless. Let's go back." Alexander deducted the money for the potion.
I also made money this time.
"There must be relevant information about this guy in the town. You can check it out when you get back. This guy can actually teleport. He's so powerful. I don't know how many people he's killed." Sophia said with lingering fear.
"Ah, by the way. Can someone treat me? I'm injured a bit badly, and I don't have any medicine to take. I don't have any magic power anymore." Mo Nan showed them his wound that was still bleeding.
"I have a bottle of medicine for external use here." Fageni threw the medical medicine to him, and Sophia also handed over the short staff of rejuvenation.
Alexander patted Mo Engnan on the shoulder and said: "You have pretty good abilities. Although it does seem that you are prone to encountering powerful monsters, this level is still within the tolerance of our team. From now on, just hang out with us."
"Ah, I can actually still use the medicine." Moeng Nan applied the medicine to himself, thinking that he couldn't afford the consumables before, and then said: "Thank you for your love, I will work hard."
It was already dusk when the group returned to Guzhuo Town. Alexander reported the situation truthfully and submitted a report. Fortunately, even if he did not attack personally, he still received a reward of 80 linseys.
The scorpion was once a B-level commission target. After two B-level teams were defeated, it was changed to an A-level. The herbs in the cave were not comparable to the loss required to clean up an A-level mission, so the commission was withdrawn.
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"Thank you for helping me find the herb. I'll take the reward from it." Although this exciting adventure frightened Hitz a little, it was still quite exciting.
"You're welcome. Let's go back to the hotel first. Miss Heath, I would like to thank you for your help this time. We are currently preparing to conquer the Aren Forest and need a guide. If you are interested, I hope we can continue to cooperate in the future.
.Where do you live? We will come and visit you tomorrow." Alexander gave her one-fifth of the reward minus the portion that Hitz needed to pay.
"Okay, I'll leave first then." Hitz told them where she lived, and she was busy going back to conduct her own improvement experiments.
The potion prepared by Alexander was immediately inactivated. It seems that Fageni and Moengnan can only take the strengthening potion in the lobby of the mercenary industrial company. They will have to trouble others to carry the sleeping two people later.
Let's go. She watched Hitz run away and then said: "You two should drink it quickly before this medicine wears off."
Fageni stood against the wall, split the potion in half with Mo Nan, and poured half of the potion into his stomach to avoid falling to the ground. Mo Nan also drank the remaining half of the potion.
After this elemental blending, Alexander felt that she was starting to get better at it. She had new ideas about the new Origin Cores. She always felt that there was an inspiration that she had not grasped yet, and there were two very different blood patterns.
The cores of origin have not been practiced yet, and one of them is the attribute of wind and earth.
Alexander took the two people who fell asleep quickly back to the hotel and threw them on Fageni's bed together. On the way back, he asked Sophia to help buy the absorption materials for the other three Origin Cores and prepare to prepare them.
Take it. Her first command was to buy the material for the fire thunder, and planned to try to use the thunder and fire fusion arrow to kill the scorpion.
There was one cyan one left. Alexander asked Sophia if she planned to try blending. Sophia had been learning from her before. This cyan one seemed to be effective without using other materials. "I'm free, Alexander, you know better.
, just recommend one." The girl was a little united. Every time she looked at her notes before, she took a peek, but she didn't expect to be discovered.
"Okay." Alexander thought for a while, maybe the Fengtu's Origin Core could be blended for Hitz's use, provided that he was brought into the team. She planned to tell Sophia how to dilute the cyan Origin Core first.
Then take the mixed wind and soil core to Shiz, and finally go back to the room to mix the thunder and fire and drink it.
After Alexander left, Sophia rested and took a shower. She recorded what happened today, then diluted the Origin Core according to Alexander's instructions, drank it and went to sleep.
I hope I won't have nightmares today.
"This is the potion prepared by the Core of Origin? I didn't expect you to be able to do this. I really want to learn it." Alexander had just finished the preparations for the experiment when he sent over the prepared guidance potion.
"Well, it's all based on the experience of predecessors. Just drink it before going to bed." Alexander smiled, but unfortunately it was not feminine at all.
"You are so kind, you even gave me something." Hitz's favorability towards Alexander increased a lot.
"You have also contributed, and I also said that we need a guide. It would be best if you are willing to help." Alexander decided that it was almost time.
"No problem, anytime." Hitz agreed readily.
"Okay, I'm counting on you then." Alexander smiled again, drank medicine and went to sleep after returning.
After watching the tall female archer walk away, Hitz sighed and closed the door to continue her experiment. Today was not going well either... After drinking the guidance potion, she fell on the bed and fell asleep.