Chapter 179 Heading west, ruins and gray-spotted lizards
Kaolin - The southern border of Ithulian actually refers to the narrow and pleasant climate zone between the Cave Mountains and Azata's "Ladder of the World", surrounding the shores of the Long Lake, surrounded by several towns and dotted with civilization.
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But leaving this area, the mountains rise to the east, deep into the holy land of the dwarves, 'Eldron'; to the south, the water of the Long Lake merges into the lowland swamps of Nognith, surrounded by jungle; to the west, it crosses the mountains of Idos.
The ruins are the vast yellow sand of Istania that is dusty all year round, and they are all inaccessible places.
Fang Plover and his party left Vanrick and headed west. After passing by the shore of the shallow gold lake, they went deep into a barren mountain and wild forest. As far as the eye could see, the cliff zone formed by gray cliffs and dark forests stood above the lake.
There is no trace of civilization left inside.
The small village that everyone passed by a few days ago seemed to be the last stop of the Kaolin-Ithurian Kingdom in the south. After passing it, they had penetrated deep into the hinterland of the inaccessible wilderness. After two days, everyone could not even see a single person.
There were no more adventurers encountered, and there was only silence in the forest. Occasionally, an alert gray deer could be seen flashing through the forest.
Or the goshawk crows above the mountain stream, and a feeling of independence arises spontaneously.
Sylvide will tell everyone about the history of the Southern Territory. In fact, as early as a century ago, this road led to Idos, and there were civilized settlements, villages and towns along the road. But since the Dragon Witch Disaster,
After the destruction of Idos, the large and small settlements along this road became deserted.
A large number of adventurers and hunters fled this area, and local residents also moved to places like Vanlike and White City. The traces of human beings on this road have since begun to fade. The dense vegetation has followed the retreat of humans.
The footprints spread and grew, and it didn't take long for the area to be covered again.
As if to confirm her words, not long after, Mr. Huiyan passed by a village that was more than half a century ago. The place was no longer what it used to be. The vaguely visible towers and broken walls were covered with layers of emerald green.
of leaves.
An adult male wyvern stood on the top of the tower, watching these rare outsiders suspiciously. However, humans, paparals and big cat people were not on the wyvern's food list, so the two sides had no intersection.
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The well opened in the center of the village more than a century ago is still usable, and even after decades of settlement, the well water has become increasingly clear against the backdrop of clumps of ferns. The water below is probably connected to an underground river.
There are also a few black fish.
The Papalar people looked over and saw that there was no trace of the fish.
Fang Plover planned to spend the night here. The ruins could provide Mr. Huiyan with a safer environment, but they had to clean the place before moving in.
After all, in addition to the 'original people' who lived on the tower and were on equal terms with them, there was also an uninvited guest and a wandering gray-spotted large-jawed lizard.
When Fang Plover and the others discovered it, this reckless intruder was lazily basking in the sun on the street. Its four small eyes quickly captured the newly appeared prey, and then it shook off the dust on its body and stood up.
It's about the size of a van.
The first battle ended quickly in defeat.
The grading of beasts, aberrations and magical creatures in Etalia, from level 19 up to level 19, is the first dividing line. From level 19 down, most creatures tend to rely on their own body strength to fight, which is fine.
Huatou, a well-equipped and well-prepared team of adventurers can easily defeat a monster whose level is no more than three levels above the average level of their team.
But starting from the 19th level, the various types of creatures began to have clear distinctions. The creatures that relied on physical fitness began to become extremely large. For example, Mr. Gray Rock and his tribe, and even the petrified cow 'Catoblepas'
'As huge as a mountain.
And the floating island whale of this evolutionary line.
Other creatures have developed special abilities. They are called aberrations, or magical creatures. These creatures have various abilities, such as the elemental immunity of the quartz dragon monster, the physical immunity of the withered tree elder, or various abilities.
There are living blood monsters, various types of mud monsters, glens, and even half-water monsters with magical abilities.
Not to mention the third level, even in the confrontation of the same level, the adventurer team will often be wiped out when encircling and suppressing these monsters.
Among them, the rock shark that Fang Plover has seen is a representative of this type of creature. Its level is not high. Rock sharks generally hover between level 15 and level 22 from juvenile to adult. Young rock sharks
They have almost no resistance in the face of hunting, so they will not easily get close to the continental layer.
Adult rock sharks above level 19 are big ones that require the combined efforts of several teams to catch them.
However, rock sharks are basically the lower limit of this type of creature. And the other lower limit that is recognized by people is a large family of gray-spotted lizards, from the gray-spotted mandible lizard to the gray-spotted crested lizard.
The lower limit is the lower limit, but if you think that rock sharks and gray-spotted lizards are easy to deal with because of this, you are totally wrong.
Therefore, everyone immediately suffered a heavy loss under the sonic attack of this big guy. At the same time, the powerful angel who went around to attack behind could not break through its thick scales for a while. When the attack was fruitless, everyone could only feel dejected.
Come back first.
Fortunately, Fang Plover and Orphen's Twin Stars can first block the opponent's pursuit and then recover from a distance.
After the defeat in the first battle, Fang Yu quickly adjusted his thinking.
Of course, this does not mean that they cannot defeat this big lizard head-on. After all, the dark dragon Fang Plover has seen it more than once. In his opinion, this stupid lizard is nothing more than a small wind and a wave. If he must take action
, ten shots of 'Fire Djinn' can turn it into flying ash.
Or risking the damaged defenses of the Orphen Twins and fighting them head-on, you may not lose.
It's just that spending time like this is quick, but for normal adventures, it's too much of a loss. If you try it a few more times, the Seven Seas Traveler will go bankrupt.
A normal adventure group's battle is, of course, based on minimizing losses. After all, for most adventure groups, taking risks is to make money, not to fight hard or to be cool. Only then did Fang Plover ask the team to take it back and talk to everyone.
We discussed countermeasures.
In the end, everyone unanimously agreed with Tang Xin's method.
The gray-spotted giant-jawed lizard has a skill called 'Heavy Scale Rage', which can make it immune to 60% of physical damage for a short period of time. It will use this skill after launching a sound attack to wait for its vibrating organs to recharge.
magic power, and launches the sound attack again.
Under the global sonic attack, magicians, elementalists and naturalists are unable to take action at all. It can be said that in this loop state, this thing is a troublesome hedgehog.
The usual way for adventurers to deal with it is to use Silent Dust. This by-product of potion science doesn't cost a lot of money, but it's very useful. Unfortunately, Fang Plover's adventure group's previous experience was very different from that of a normal adventure group, and he actually forgot to prepare these regular supplies.
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There isn't even a resonance crystal, which means there's nothing they can do when encountering a rock shark.
Fang Plover was a little confused now, but he couldn't say that you should wait until I return to the ship's workshop to match and fight again tomorrow. Fortunately, Tang Xin said that the gray-spotted large-jawed lizard has a characteristic. It has a characteristic on the front.
When the enemy is too close, the sonic attack will be concentrated into a fan out of vigilance, and the main attack will be on the enemy who is too close to itself.
If someone can withstand a blow from the gray-spotted large-jawed lizard head-on, others can approach the big guy from other directions and entangle it, giving Luo Yu, Jita and Box a chance to cast spells.
Fang Plover slapped his head and then remembered that there were already professional defenders in the team. It was no longer the case before that his construct was needed for both big and small things, and he was carried in front along with the big cat man and the paladin.
So he patted Luo Hao's shoulder: "Leave it to you."
"Is my level too low?" Luo Hao was a little panicked. He had only joined the team for a few days, and he suspected that these people were using him as cannon fodder.
"Don't worry, Mr. Reid will support you."
Luo Hao glanced at the big cat man and saw that the other man's level was not low, so he nodded bravely.
He had no choice but to join this team, which was an order from above. He was a selectee of the military, so it was natural that he had to obey the arrangements as his first duty. And fortunately, he knew Fang Plover, who was in Dawn Star, and he had been there not long ago
His performance in that battle gave him some confidence.
Luo Hao, sweating profusely, walked up with his shield in hand and said loudly: "Big Cat, when I call you later, you have to use your skills."
"Got it, little fat man," Rhett squinted his silver eyes. The scar was a little conspicuous under the hot sunshine. In fact, gray-spotted lizards are more common in Rotao, and they are even the totems of many clans. This made him
I couldn't help but remember some things from the past.
The big cat man replied casually: "Don't worry, you don't need to shout, my judgment will be much more accurate than yours."
Luo Hao was doubtful.
The crowd approached the big guy for the second time. The latter noticed someone approaching and spat out the metal fragments chewed in his mouth. They were the clockwork goblins that Fang Plover had used to lure the enemy. However, he did not have time to mourn for his flexible structure.
Just shout:
"Everyone get ready!"
Luo Hao raised his shield and rushed forward.
The gray-spotted large-jawed lizard turned its head and saw a wild boar rushing towards it in its field of vision. In its simple visual structure, it was difficult to distinguish the spherical creature in front of it under the monotonous black and white colors.
Whether it is a person or a wild boar, in short, both are almost the same.
But because of this, the gray-spotted lizard is easily angered. It opened its mouth wide, and an invisible ripple swept towards Luo Hao. After the sonic attack, Luo Hao immediately opened the magic shield on his shield.
However, the thin shield was already in pieces as soon as it was opened, and he almost flew out. Just as he was about to think about it, these people had indeed sold the fat uncle. But suddenly, a light golden streak appeared.
The light spreads from behind.
The golden light was like a water pattern, slowly moving forward, forming a semicircular barrier, and protecting Luo Hao inside. The lion paladin moved forward with one hand, and a steady stream of holy ether came from his magic furnace.
It was transmitted to his hands and supported the barrier.
The sound wave hit the barrier and caused a circle of ripples, and the smoke and dust it rolled up immediately dissipated a lot.
Fang Plover knew that this was the new skill Sacred Barrier that the big cat learned after Van Rick's upgrade. Within the barrier, ether magic power was consumed to reduce damage. Every three points of magic value reduced the damage by one point, and the maximum damage reduction could be 40%.
Red's fiery red mane was seen flying in the wind, looking extremely majestic, but he said: "My magic furnace only has a reading of 400, which can last for less than five seconds. You'd better hurry up."
As soon as Luo Hao relaxed his pressure, the tingling in his ears and tightness in his chest disappeared instantly. He was about to sigh that the Paladins above level 20 were really powerful, but when he heard this sentence, he quickly took it back and just shouted:
"Hurry up and seize the opportunity, we won't be able to support you anymore!"
A huge boulder flew over and hit the gray-spotted large-jawed lizard on the head without fail. The latter had to close its mouth, and the sonic attack was immediately interrupted.
Fang Yu didn't expect the box to have such a strange move. He couldn't help but feel a little happy, and immediately waved his hand: "Let's focus on hitting its left abdomen, which is closer to its heart!" As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't care about the gray spots.
To see if the lizard had 60% physical immunity, he also summoned two powerful angels and attacked.
After being approached, the gray-spotted large-jawed lizard no longer launches sonic attacks that take a long time to prepare, and only uses biological instinct to attack surrounding enemies. After all, its magic attack is very high, but its physical attack is also not low. In addition,
Covered in thick scales, Baggins, Shasta, and Alyssa, who joined the melee fight, were unable to do anything about it for a while.
Just a few seconds passed, and Attila, Jita and Luo Yu finally prepared their spells. After the battle with Vanrick, Luo Yu and Jita both entered the tenth level. Although this level of spells is not suitable for twenty
The level gray-spotted lizard is still not a fatal threat, but at least it can cause considerable spell damage to it.
After all, this thing has almost no magic resistance.
Etila's druid spell was much more deadly. When a spear of thorns fell down, the big guy was bleeding profusely and howling angrily.
Of course, the end of the final battle still had to rely on the Choppers of the Physics department. After the gray-spotted lizard's heavy-scale rage skill ended, Sylvide took the opportunity to shoot it out of its left eye, causing it to fall into a state of rage.
, the big cat man cut off one of its left legs with another sword.
The battle after that was basically a one-sided massacre.
It's not that everyone lacks sympathy, it's because this thing's defense is too high. Even if it lacks 60% of physical immunity, everyone can only cut the flesh with blunt knives and slowly rely on bleeding to make it seriously injured and fall to the ground.
The battle continued until dusk, until the gray-spotted large-jawed lizard finally breathed its last breath, and Luo Hao sat down on the ground.
He wiped away his sweat and asked Fang Pliance with some lingering fear: "Are all your battles so thrilling?"
Fang Yu shook his head.
Fortunately, Luo Hao had just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Fang Plover's lofty expression, as if he was deliberately suppressing the pride in his heart, and said lightly: "This is nothing, it's just a small scene."
"Holy shit!"
Luo Hao immediately gave this pretender a middle finger in his heart.
However, Fang Yu is quite happy. Since Box joined, a new member who is weaker than him has finally joined. If this continues, the authority of his captain will gradually be established. Big Cat Man, Shesta and Ba Jin
Although Si is powerful, he always feels like there are several mountains above his head.
Luo Hao sat on the ground and savored the taste for a while, and then suddenly felt that something was not right about this team. He fully expected that this team only had two combatants around level 20, one was the cold maid, and the other was the lion man in the team.
Paladin.
Why do they dare to provoke adult gray-spotted lizards?
He looked at the big guy lying in a pool of blood not far away, and then looked at the magic shield that had been slapped several times and had been scrapped into scrap metal. For a moment, Monk Zhang Er was confused.
For probably the first time, Luo Hao felt that he couldn't understand the world.
The gray-spotted lizard only had heavy scales and a vocal organ, which were very valuable. However, after a fierce battle, there were only a few intact heavy scales left. The Papalar people volunteered to remove the vibrating organ on the left side of the big lizard.
He came out and said that he had the certification of a first-level material collector, but he destroyed one by dividing three by five and two.
Then Fang Plover also broke one.
The two people have since been included on the list prohibited from approaching the corpse.
Fang Yu sat aside with great grievance, watching Miss Atila slowly cut open the body and took out the third magic organ, quality C-level. Tianlan cheered for a while and put the things into a glass jar filled with antiseptic fluid.
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After all, that thing is the main magical organ that allows the gray-spotted lizard to perform sonic attacks. If the quality is slightly better, the market price will be tens of thousands of lisels.
Then Tianlan encouraged Alyssa to try her hand. The latter touched it and pulled out a trembling leaf of grade A quality. She held the horny leaf that was still dripping with blood in a funny way and shook it towards Fang Plover.
Fang Plover was so angry that he took the Papalar man and left:
"I just saw some magic mushrooms over there. They are very valuable, no worse than the gray-spotted lizard."
"Really, how come I didn't know?"
"Wherever there are wyverns, there will be magic mushrooms." Fang Plover thought for a moment and then found a reasonable reason.
Not far away, Tang Xin and Tian Lan were holding a glass jar. She just rolled her eyes and watched these two idiots walking further and further away.
The dusk gradually became darker, and after the setting sun slanted through the forest, it cut under the mountains to the west. The dark mountain shadows penetrated directly into the golden clouds, looking like a long and narrow blade, splitting the burning clouds from them.
Baggins told everyone that it was the Dwarf Rose Mountains north of Nognis. The desert people called it Arsoni, which means scimitar.
It's just that this scimitar is still clearly visible from the west coast of the Long Lake Land after thousands of years, but the residents in the desert have long been left. Idus under the red stone ridge in the past, and the Dragon Country in the sea of sand
, have all turned into dust.
After the sky darkened, people stopped trying to find anything valuable from the gray-spotted lizard.
Its carcass was parked on the street, and soon attracted a few vultures to hover over the ruins, tentatively trying to land and feast. The gray-spotted lizard's meat is slightly toxic, and is sour and difficult to eat. Generally, no one would use it as a reserve.
Food, but it doesn't matter to these master birds.
On the contrary, the wyvern watched from a distance as this strange group of people helped it deal with the difficult enemy below, and then lit a bonfire in the ruins and started to set up camp. For a while, it was in awe and fear of such mysterious creatures as humans.
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It has no intention of causing trouble to the other party anymore. In fact, it has already begun to wonder whether it should move.
Standing at this place and looking through the woods, one can still see a corner of the long lake. As the last ray of sunlight gradually sank under the mountain col, the golden light on the water disappeared, leaving only darkness. The sky was now blue.
Tell Ai Xiaoxiao in a low voice that in Aitalia, the goddess of the lake lives in the lake.
If you pray to the goddess, the goddess will respond to you.
So the two of them yelled several times toward the lake. The sound was heard far away, and the flying dragon was so frightened that it flapped its wings and flew into the night sky.
However, not long after that, the two of them were blasted back by Aitila.