A hell mantis flew up silently from behind. Surdak could tell it was a huge predator by the sound of insect wings flapping behind him. He stepped on the bulge on the rock wall,
Two bone scythes swept towards his throat and waist respectively. He held up the shield with one hand and blocked the fatal blow of the mantis at the last moment. Before the mantis could flutter its wings and leave, the broad sword thrust out from behind the shield.
The head of the praying mantis was chopped off at an incredible angle.
The body of the mantis fell from the cliff into the abyss, but the fallen head was picked up by Suldak's sword, and the bleeding head was hung on his waist against the stone wall.
This mountain wall was the perfect ambush location found by Surdak. Although the mountain wall looked extremely steep, there were rocky protrusions that could be firmly stepped on with his feet. He could turn around and fight the mantis the moment it pounced on it.
For the shield-wielding Paladins, as long as they know enough about assassinating monsters like Hell Mantis, the bone scythe in their hands will not be able to break through the shield with the sacred aura.
Surdak glanced at the Hell Mantis corpse that fell in the deep stream with some regret. There are still many precious materials in this level 3 monster in the hell world, especially the two bone scythes, which are definitely good bone weapons.
, if it can be brought back to Mukuso City, it will definitely be a collection that the nobles in the city will compete for.
After regaining full physical and mental strength, Surdak found that his combat effectiveness had been significantly improved.
Especially when he read the experience notes about broad swords written by the ancestors of the Gophero family some time ago. When he was lying on the wicker chair and reading the experience notes carefully, he didn't find anything outstanding in the notes, but when he was alone in the predicament now,
Struggling a lot, I found that the skills in using those broad swords were really clever.
The Gophero ancestor emphasized the importance of timing on the battlefield.
Surdak took advantage of this to lure the Hell Mantis to pounce from behind him. Just when the Hell Mantis felt that he could make a killing blow and his vigilance was completely swallowed up by greed, he blocked the Hell Mantis' killing blow.
With one blow, without waiting for it to dodge, he stabbed out with his sword, raised his arm again and swept across, cutting off the Hell Mantis' head.
This is a life-threatening fighting method. If Surdak misses this blow, he will immediately fall into a dangerous situation, and his outstretched arm may be severed by the bone sickle close at hand.
Surdak ambushed a total of seventeen hell mantises on this mountain wall, and was almost dragged into the abyss by the hell mantises three times.
However, the more people killed on this kind of battlefield, the faint murderous aura seemed to emanate from him. At first, Surdak himself did not notice it. When the eighteenth mantis appeared on the top of the mountain, it did not pounce down as expected.
It was after watching him let out a few reluctant neighs, then spreading his insect wings and flying away on the top of the mountain without looking back, that Surdak finally let out a long breath.
It took Surdak half a month to walk out of the neutral zone of District 7 along the Blackstone Ridge ridge.
Along the way, he tried to use magic flares to summon the ogres Gulitum, Andrew and Samira, but there was no response.
After walking out of this barren ridge, we finally saw some sparse bushes on the edge of Black Rock Ridge.
Some of the ground is covered with purple moss, and some small yellow flowers grow on these moss. When you step on it, it feels like you are stepping on greasy fat, and the leather boots are stained with purple juice.
Surdak turned around and glanced behind him. Hidden in the gaps in the mountain wall were several hell mantises that had followed him all the way. However, they all lost the courage to take action during the last part of the journey.
Only then did Surdak pull out a magic sealing box from his magic belt bag and put the last few hell mantis heads in the cloth bag on his waist into the magic sealing box.
Then he read the map carefully and continued to move toward the northeast of District 7.
There are no tall trees growing on this land. There are some low bushes everywhere, as well as some plants that grow in the hell world. The most common ones are purple moss and blood thistle.
I seem to have heard Aphrodite say that this blood thistle is a kind of magic herb that has a mild hallucinogenic effect and can easily become addictive if eaten regularly.
The land here is dark in color with a faint oily sheen. The places where the purple moss grows are after the demonic energy polluted it and the vegetation withered, and then the purple moss that can grow in any environment grows. It is said that this purple moss can even
It can grow on snow-covered frozen soil.
There are small puddles of different depths everywhere, and the depth of the puddles is not judged by the size of the puddle. Sometimes it is just a puddle the size of a washbasin. If you step in, the entire puddle will be covered with water.
Even the thighs can sink into it, and sometimes the water in a pond only covers the ankles.
The wilderness is also full of dangers.
In particular, there were some small red insects rolling in the pond, clinging to Surdak's leather boots, seemingly trying to bite through the salamander-skin boots.
In this area, Surdak encountered a green swamp poison frog more than once. This swamp poison frog has fine red spots on its abdomen and three black stripes on its back. They are more than one meter long.
The hind legs are almost two meters long when stretched out.
They usually hide in puddles in swamps and only poke their heads out of the water when hunting.
But obviously there are no humans in their diet, so Suldak walked through this swamp and was not attacked by these swamp poison frogs.
When Suldak was sitting on the edge of the bush to rest, he happened to see a one-meter-tall egret falling in the swamp in front of him. Its long legs stepped on the puddles in the swamp, and its long beak
The little red insect pecking at the puddle is so nimble.
Just when it stepped into a small puddle, a big green mouth suddenly appeared from the puddle. It wrapped the egret's slender legs and swallowed its lower body into its belly.
The egret also reacted very quickly, flapping its wings and trying to fly into the sky.
However, the swamp poison frog closed its mouth tightly and lay next to the swamp puddle. Its mouth and throat kept flaring, and it swallowed the struggling egret alive, and then plunged into its belly.
Disappeared in the puddles in the swamp.
Suldak thought that he had walked through that puddle just now, and that such a big poisonous swamp frog had not noticed...
Just when Surdak was about to get up and continue moving forward, he suddenly found the demon scout team appearing on the horizon of the swamp. Surdak quickly hid in the bushes nearby.
After waiting for a while, a group of demon warriors leading hell dogs came from the swamp from north to south. There were six demon warriors in this team. There were two double-headed hell dogs in the team. The last one in the team
Also followed were two Gog who kept throwing fireballs in their hands and a big round meat ball. There were only a few tentacles hanging from the meat ball. The big meat ball was floating in the air, right in front of the center.
Has a huge eye pupil.
The six demon warriors wore dark armor, their faces were all dark gray, and they had two demon horns on their heads. Although their faces had eyes, noses, mouths and ears, they looked like expressionless faces.
It looks like a mask, and there is a pair of very short fleshy wings behind it.
They were all exuding black energy, and two two-headed hell dogs kept shaking their heads and tails beside them, running forward and backward.
The six demon scouts didn't have any conversation along the way, but the two Goges behind them chattered non-stop along the way. The floating eyeball behind them would stop every time they walked, and a stream of energy was released from their eyes.
He beamed a light beam of light and scanned a circle of 360 degrees with his own body as the center.
Surdak hid his body in the bushes and waited motionless for the demon scout team to pass by. They found some blood thistle flowers along the way, and several demon scouts stopped one after another and began to collect the blood thistle flowers.
Seeing that they didn't go far, Suldak kept hiding in the bushes.
This demon scout team did not go into the Black Rock Ridge on the south side. They collected some blood thistle flowers on the edge of the Black Rock Ridge. Everywhere they went, the one-eye kept rotating and scanning like a radar.
Surrounding conditions.
Surdak wanted to know more about the demon warriors on the battlefield, so he followed them from a distance.
I followed them along the edge of Black Rock Ridge until dark, and the demon scout team camped at the edge of Black Rock Ridge.
There was a demon warrior in the demon scout team with two hell dogs patrolling back and forth around the camp. The round eyeball did not rest. It was just above the camp, constantly rotating and scanning the surroundings.
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Surdak planned to secretly lurk next to the night demon scout, hoping to find an opportunity to arrest him and see if he could get some information.
He originally wanted to get closer and find a way to make some strange noises to lure the demon scout away, so that he could fight more easily.
He took advantage of the darkness and touched it. Every time the Evil Eye scanned over, he would lie down on the ground in advance to avoid its sight.
Walking on sticky purple moss, the swamp was even more difficult to walk at night. He followed the demon scout leading two hellhounds.
While Suldak was staring at the demon scout in front of him, he accidentally stepped into a small puddle with one foot.
There was a "pop" sound and water splashed.
One of the hell dogs seemed to have discovered something, and it suddenly broke free from the rope in the hands of the demon scout and rushed in the direction of Surdak. The other hell dog also followed closely from behind.
Surdak quickly moved away from the temporary camp of the demon scouts.
'Oops, I was discovered...'
The Hell Hounds run very fast, and they seem to be stronger than the Hell Hounds Surdak has seen in the Ganbu and Macha planes.
The Hell Hound at the front pounced from behind, and just when its huge paws were about to rest on Surdak's shoulders, its two heads actually spit out two magic bullets, one red and one dark.
Surdak was forced to stop and turned around to block with his shield.
The fire bombs concentrated on the shield and exploded, but the dark ball of light quickly melted under the holy light emerging from the shield.
The hell dog's claws rested on the spikes on the edge of the shield, and its two bloody mouths bit at Surdak's neck.
Surdak lowered his head, hid behind his shield, and recited a string of runes in his mouth:
Tir-El
This is the shortest spell in Rune Language and the simplest magic pattern in the magic circle. A flash of light suddenly appeared on the broad sword. Suldak waved the long sword in his hand and slashed along the edge of the shield towards the hell dog. Two dog heads.
The Hell Dog tried to dodge by turning his head, but a half-foot-long sword light suddenly burst out from Suldak's broad sword, cutting off half of the Hell Dog's neck.
The hell dog whimpered and fell to the ground, with purple blood spurting out from the throat under its two heads.
Before Suldak could take a breath, the hell dog that rushed up from behind silently bit his thigh.
'Shield Blow'
Suldak swung the Goethe shield in his hand and hit the double-headed hell dog hard. At the moment when the hell dog's body paused slightly, the broad sword in Suldak's hand thrust out from behind the shield. A sword pierced the heart of the two-headed hellhound.
The action of drawing the sword was not sloppy at all, and Surdak continued to run outside.
The demon warrior from behind rushed up. He was holding a square blade with a blood groove in his hand. When running, he could cover a long distance with every step.
Seeing that Surdak slaughtered two hell dogs in two breaths, the demon warrior suddenly became furious. The square war blade in his hand exuded a stream of lava heat, and the entire war blade became Turned red.
From a distance, he could be seen jumping high, raising the sword above his head with both hands, and slashing at Suldak with all his strength.
Surdak hurriedly adjusted his defensive posture, used his right arm and shoulder to hold up Goethe's shield and faced him. With a clang, the war blade hit the shield and splashed countless sparks.
A huge force came from the war blade. Surdak originally planned to use his shield to block this sharp blow, but the broadsword backhanded him and sliced open his chest and abdomen.
Unfortunately, this huge force hit the shield. Although a silver shield appeared on the shield, Surdak flew out uncontrollably, and the upward movement of the broadsword in his left hand was in vain.
In the first fight, Surdak suffered some hidden losses...
With this power alone, this demon scout has the strength of a second-level warrior, and he also has extremely rich combat experience. When he rushed up, his mask-like face had a weird smile, and he let out a whine.
Whining sound.
After the first slash, the demon scout jumped into the air again, raised the blade above his head with both hands, and struck again with an extremely sharp blow.
It was too late for Surdak to put on a defensive posture, and he had no choice but to raise his shield again.
Worried that he could not block the opponent's sharp blow, he recited a string of runes in his mouth: hael-Fth
This is also the simplest sentence in the rune language. I saw a layer of flames quickly ignited on the shield. The demon scout's war blade slashed on the shield. He first cut through the sacred shield, and then struck on the burning shield.
A ball of sparks burst out.
Because of the blessing of the rune language 'rhythm', Surdak stood firmly in place this time.