A shadowy figure appeared behind him, glaring at the furious face, and the butcher's ax in Andrew's hand emitted blazing flames.
But at the moment it was chopped down, the ghost leopard lying under the tree suddenly opened its eyes, opened its bloody mouth and bit Andrew's wrist.
Andrew lowered his wrist and wiped the edge of the butcher's ax towards the ghost leopard's big mouth. The ghost leopard's head was very flexible. With a slight swing, it bit the handle full of spiral patterns, and then cloud patterns burst out from the ghost leopard's body.
pattern, his claws sank into the soil, and he suddenly shook his head.
Andrew was actually thrown away by the ghost leopard...
After all, it is a level four monster, and its speed and strength are not weaker than those of level two monsters.
The ghost leopard felt that the people who rounded it up this time were very powerful and had no intention of continuing the fight.
It was also frightened by those arrows with lightning, and it didn't dare to mess with Samira again no matter what.
When he turned around and looked again, he saw the ogre with a fireball in one hand and a big stick in the other, feeling inexplicable fear in his heart.
It instantly determined the direction of the breakout, and chose Surdak, whose dwarf chain shield had turned into a crumpled piece of scrap metal. His body turned into a black mist and disappeared suddenly.
Insect wings appeared behind Aphrodite, chasing after the cloud pattern ghost leopard. She was almost floating on the ground, holding an unnamed thorn rattan in her hand, and waved an overwhelming whip with one hand.
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The whip hit the ghost leopard that had escaped into the void until it revealed its figure, causing the ghost leopard to let out an irrepressible roar. The pain came from the soul level, with a strange and soul-stirring aura.
Facing the cloud-patterned ghost leopard that rushed towards him, Surdak could only face it bravely.
He couldn't get out of the way, because once he got out of the way, the ghost leopard would definitely speed up suddenly and open a hole to jump out from him.
Surdak was originally a shield warrior who was good at defense. Facing the frontal attack of the Ghost Leopard, he threw away the dwarf chain shield in his hand and turned it into scrap metal.
Holding the blood-red crescent moon in his left hand and the holy light torch in his right hand, he then recited a series of rune spells.
‘Ral’-‘Ort’-‘Tal’
What emerged under his feet was a magic circle composed of countless runes and magic lines.
In the magic circle, countless earth fires gush out from the rocks, lightning falls from the sky, and the poisonous mist that fills the air forms a shield of red, white and green elements.
This is the oldest rune language
'ancient oath'
However, it was not attached to the shield, but was summoned by Surdak in the form of a holy seal.
Then, the shadow of a two-faced demon god silently emerged from behind him, and four large golden translucent hands alternately covered Surdak's body.
At the same moment, the ghost leopard felt the resistance in front, and it suddenly accelerated, dodging a series of arrows shot by Samira from behind. After these arrows were shot in the air, they shot through the rocks on the ground one after another, causing bursts of explosive force.
The air and dust left only a row of arrow holes on the stone floor.
The ghost leopard's body disappeared again.
The moment it disappeared, a fireball exploded where it appeared.
The ghost leopard jumped out of the flames, and the flames ignited on its body were blown out by the wind around its body. As expected, the ogre's flames had no power over it, and could only accurately predict where it would appear.
The cloud pattern erupted with light like an explosion, the source of power in the body exploded one after another, and a series of air explosions sounded in the air.
The ghost panther smashed the elemental shield with one head.
It then used its sharp teeth to bite into pieces the four big golden hands protecting Surdak. Its body stagnated as a result. It stood in front of Surdak and raised its sharp claws to grab at Surdak's chest.
, ready to tear Surdak in half.
Surdak instinctively put on a defensive posture at this moment, which had almost become an instinctive reaction of his body.
The sword in his left hand and the torch in his right hand were accurately placed on the sharp claws of the ghost leopard, but the huge power was transmitted through the sword blade and the fire channel, and he was immediately forced to half kneel on the ground.
The other sharp claw of the ghost leopard left four light blades in the air, which actually broke the blood-red crescent moon of Surdak into five pieces. The sharp light blade even cut through the entire body of Surdak.
The black iron armor was cut open almost effortlessly from the left shoulder to the right ribs, and the salamander skin armor worn inside was also deeply scratched.
A dark ball of light fell from the sky and hit the ghost leopard in front of Surdak.
The ball of light was like a flower bud, exploding instantly when it hit the ground. The eight petals wrapped the cloud-patterned ghost leopard from all sides, forming a shadow prison.
Then an arrow of light shot from the direction of Samira. It accurately passed through the shadow prison and hit the ghost leopard's neck.
At the same time, a lightning pillar fell from the sky, penetrating the shadow cage and hitting the ghost leopard.
The arcs of electricity that overflowed from the shadow cage spread out overwhelmingly. Some of the arcs penetrated into Surdak's body, making him feel numb all over and his body trembled involuntarily. The feeling of being burned by the arc seemed familiar.
Surdak faced the spreading arc and approached the shadow cage step by step. The ghost leopard was wailing in the electric column. He injected the power of holy light into the blood-red crescent, and a dazzling sacred energy suddenly emerged from the broken blade.
Flame.
Cut it down with one sword.
The sacred power turned into a sword light and struck the forehead of the cloud-patterned ghost leopard.
The cloud-patterned ghost leopard was bound in the electric pillar and could not escape. Suddenly, the cloud-patterned ghost leopard's head was split open with the sword light of the sacred aura.
The sacred aura spread around, instantly dispersing the shadow cage. At the same time, the electric pillar also turned into countless arcs and dissipated in the air.
Surdak walked out of countless electric arcs carrying the broken blade and the holy light torch, and his body was burned to a crisp by countless electric arcs.
Surdak endured the burning and numbness all over his body and used the 'Holy Light Technique' repeatedly to treat himself.
Andrew, Samira, Gulitem and Afro gathered from all around.
Andrew and Gulitem went to check on the Moiré Phantom Leopard.
Samira was relieved when she saw that Surdak was fine.
Surdak just took a short rest. As a skinner who is proficient in skinning techniques, he had to peel off the leather of the cloud pattern ghost leopard as soon as possible and put it into the magic sealing box while the blood was still wet.
He walked up, leaned next to Andrew, and inspected the cloud-patterned ghost leopard, which was more than three meters long.
After all, it is a level four monster. The entire high-grade monster leather is filled with elemental power, with natural magic cloud patterns on it, as if it contains mysterious power.
This kind of magic beast leather most tests the inscription master's understanding of the magic patterns. When the inscription master is carving the magic patterns, he may need to integrate the magic pattern array into these cloud patterns.
Andrew split the ghost leopard's skull open, and a magic core larger than an adult's fist was embedded in the skull.
Such a large magic core is destined to produce a high-grade magic crystal.
The head was split in half and could not be preserved as a sacrifice. Andrew casually broke off four crystal clear leopard teeth and threw them to Samira who was holding the Sky Strike Bow and reinstalling the magic crystal.
Andrew then used a butcher's ax to chop off four sharp claw blades.
Seeing the elemental aura from the cloud-patterned ghost leopard's body quickly dissipating, Suldak did not hesitate at all. He opened the sacrificial altar and blessed himself with the 'Blessed Body' and the 'Eye of Truth'.
He immediately discovered that a very complete magic pattern of life had been formed on one of the ribs on the left side of the ghost leopard. Surdak quickly dismembered the ghost leopard's limbs.
The high-grade leather, spirit-patterned ribs, teeth, and claws were all put into the magic-sealing box. As for the fresh meat of this ghost leopard, half of the box was also packed, and the rest will become everyone's dinner.
Under darkness, the cavalry battalion formed a long queue and returned to the copper mine camp.
The copper mining camp suddenly became noisy.
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The next morning, Andrew took 500 cavalry to accompany the surveying officer to conduct on-site measurements of the copper veins.
Eighteen armed thunder rhinoceros were still gnawing dewy grass at the foot of the mountain, and were driven halfway up the mountain by the driver. Surdak decided to start digging for copper mines from here. There were several giant rocks weighing dozens of tons.
, they need to be moved down the mountain, and now they have been dug out by the young indigenous people. They need to be dragged away by these thunder rhinos.
Three hundred young indigenous people started digging stones on the mountain side of the camp early in the morning.
These copper ores are sandwiched in the stone layers exposed on the surface. They need to dig out these dark brown ores and smash them with sledgehammers.
Then a stone mill is used for preliminary grinding. The ground copper ore powder can then be immersed in the pool, an activator is added to precipitate a solution containing copper elements, and finally a catalyst is used to replace the copper.
This involves a lot of alchemists' knowledge of metal substitution. This process is not destined to be the simplest and most efficient, but it is definitely the cheapest, and it does not have nearly stringent ratio requirements for operation.
Since the metal pool has not yet been transported, Suldak can only ask the indigenous young people to select the ore first, and then conduct preliminary crushing. When all the stone mills and large iron cans are transported, the copper can be further precipitated.
After arranging these matters, Suldak selected an aboriginal from Dodan Town to be the director of the copper mine, and arranged for six aboriginals to be foremen, each of whom would supervise fifty aboriginals.
The copper mine mine frame is pulled up.
Surdak brought an iron bucket from Dodan Town, filled it with some copper ore powder and clean water, and added some active agents into it.
After a day, some copper sand really precipitated, and the copper sand showed a dark purple color.
These copper ores in the copper mine are not the most valuable. The magical red copper accompanying these copper veins has good magic conductivity and is usually used to make cheap magic products. This is another major factor in the copper mine.
income.
Half of these magical red coppers are born in the interlayer of this mineral vein.
This mine is currently very simple, it doesn't even have walls, it just has a few sheds built on the mountainside.
This is the Invercargill Forest, which is rich in timber resources. If Suldak wants to improve the livability of the mine, he must continue to build some wooden houses. These wooden houses will gradually replace the few work sheds.
Surdak also hired five women from the indigenous tribe to prepare three meals a day in the mine's canteen.
In addition to wheat cakes and oatmeal porridge, the food these indigenous people eat is basically in this forest. They like to collect some tree leaves, smash them into a green slurry with stones, and then mix them into wheat flour and stir.
It turns into a light green paste, spreads it on the iron plate and fry it into a palm-sized cake, and then eats it with salt.
Sometimes I would dig wild vegetables in the surrounding woods and cook them into soup with a bitter taste.
What Surdak didn't expect was that several aboriginal foremen could actually eat these foods.
There are always some adventure groups seen nearby recently, and they have regarded it as a temporary stronghold.
They came to the mine, and some adventure groups would also make some supplies here, probably exchanging fresh meat for some food.
They would carry the small beasts they hunted in the forest. Often the adventure group would hunt down a group of small beasts and kill more than twenty small beasts in one go. In addition to getting some leather, the freshly hunted animals
The members of the adventure group couldn't finish the meat no matter what, and they couldn't take it back to Duodan Town.
He can only bring it to the camp. He can use the fresh meat to exchange for some food. The only food stored in the camp is food. They will not take all the food away. They will just make some on their food bags.
The mark is stored in the grain depot of the mine, and you can pick it up whenever you need it.
Occasionally, you can also get some crafts such as animal bones and teeth from the indigenous people.
Of course, there is no such thing as exchanging bread for magic crystals, and the natives are not that stupid.
Nowadays, most of the magic herb resources in Invercargill Forest are in the hands of the indigenous tribe chiefs. They also know the value of these magic herbs from Suldak, and have reached a medicinal herb deal with Surdak.
The agreement will not be easily sold to others.
Relying on these adventure groups, the natives in the mine gradually have more opportunities to drink broth.
During this period, Surdak hunted and killed a level four monster, the Salamander Basilisk, in the iron ore vein stone forest. It was a monster that could spit out plasma balls. Samira's Sky Strike Bow was against it.
It had no effect at all, so Surdak simply took four second-level experts and spent four days to kill the Salamander Basilisk in the stone forest.
In addition to getting a piece of leather with the electric life magic pattern, the teeth of this python are as transparent as crystal, and the bend is exactly the shape of a dagger. As long as a handle is installed at the root of the tooth, you can get a very sharp one.
Beast fang dagger.
These are the sharpest teeth that Surdak has ever seen. In addition, the leather of the Salamander Basilisk is also a rare high-end product.
And on the slope where the iron wood is hidden, there is actually a cave hidden there. There is a level 4 dark bat lurking there. This bat is also a level 4 monster. There are hundreds of this old beast in the cave.
Descendants of bats.
To deal with this kind of monster trapped in the cave, Surdak's method was much simpler. He directly piled countless dry firewood at the entrance of the cave, poured a dozen barrels of kerosene on it, and then covered it with countless thunderbolts.
Rhinoceros feces and moss were removed, and finally the cave entrance was sealed with soil, leaving only a half-meter-high fire vent below the cave entrance.
Surdak asked people to ignite the dry firewood inside. After seeing the fire burning, he completely sealed the entrance of the cave with mud...
After the fire burned for most of the day, some thick smoke drifted out from some stone crevices on the slopes of the forest.
The ogre Gulitum simply slept next to the entrance of the cave, guarding his bacon every step of the way.
According to Surdak's request, the entrance to the cave remained stuffy until the third day before it was dug out by a group of cavalry. After digging, they found that the firewood and thunder rhinoceros excrement piled at the entrance of the cave had been burned to ashes, and the entire cave wall was stained.
There was a layer of black smoke oil hanging on it.
After waiting for the smoke in the cave to dissipate, the ogre led a group of native archers carrying sacks and happily ran into the dark cave to pick up the smoked meat.
In this situation, the fourth-level dark bat emerged from a rock crevice and rushed towards Gulitem almost desperately, but was shot through the body by an arrow from Samira who was guarding the entrance of the cave.
This dark bat is the third level four monster that Suldak hunted in Invercargill Forest.
It was an ice monster. When it bit the ogre brother, it not only sucked his blood, but also froze his whole body with a layer of frost.
If Samira hadn't taken action in time, the ogre brothers would have been no match for this giant bat.
Surdak obtained a life magic pattern with blood-sucking properties from this dark bat. Unfortunately, the life magic pattern containing ice was shot through by Samira with an arrow, and the entire magic pattern was completely destroyed.