Chapter 481 Lurking in the Gryphons Nest, Manticore Tiger [5K]
This is the first exploration operation after the Winter Challenge.
The goals are clear and the preparations are thorough.
Although the Winter Challenge seemed to restrict Zong Shen's actions, it did not affect his improvement in strength at all.
In fact, such challenges are the opportunities that the lord system gives all lords to improve their strength.
It is a kind of quick training, because experience and lessons are the best teachers.
After experiencing many battles, Zong Shen has become proficient in the use of various weapons.
Fighting and fighting do not require skills at all. The skill of fighting must of course be cultivated in fighting.
Fighting is the best teacher, when a person has experienced thousands of battles.
Every attack will be the most appropriate and efficient way.
Obsessing with routines and techniques will lead to inferiority.
No matter how boxing, swordsmanship, swordsmanship or fighting skills, in the final analysis, practice makes perfect.
Learning routines and techniques simply amounts to mastering fighting techniques in a softer way.
But Zong Shen completely replaced practice with actual combat, so there was no need to consider routines at all.
The power of all the turbofan units of the goblin airship was increased to the maximum gear, and the thrust reached the limit.
You can hear the sound of fans spinning around you while sitting in the pod.
The sky is relatively calm two to three thousand meters above, and the vast airspace is much wider than the ocean.
The golden line navigation manifested in the strategy tips is the best route to the destination.
All known hazards are excluded from the route.
The airship headed towards the northern part of the territory, first passing over the Bone Burial Ground, and then gradually turning to the west.
About thirty or forty minutes later, the airship had already flown into the sky above the mountain forest.
The lush green forest can be seen from the cockpit.
At this moment, all traces of the winter challenge have disappeared.
As far as the eye could see, there was no longer any unsightly ice and snow. This feeling made Zong Shen feel much better.
The world of ice and snow is really too depressing, and due to the nature of the challenge, there is an obvious sense of sensory separation between the lords and the aborigines. No matter what they see, feel, or touch, they are actually all different.
Although this difference is bearable, it still makes people feel uncomfortable.
Now that everything is over, Zong Shen has returned to a normal world with the same senses as the aborigines.
The terrain in the mountains and forests is extremely undulating. Looking down from a high altitude, you can clearly see the rolling hills, with peaks standing on each other, and the bottoms are connected to each other, forming a chain of interlocking valleys, ravines, ravines, and peaks.
Three-dimensional scenery.
During this period, we could also see unknown birds and raptors flying by in the distance.
From a high-altitude perspective, and because the weather is clear, the clouds are thin, and there is no obstruction, these soaring birds of prey are only as big as a grain of rice.
The distance between the two is at least tens of kilometers.
This distance is safe enough and will not arouse their hostility.
Less than an hour and a half later, the airship had arrived near its destination.
Zong Shen let the airship slow down and enter the circulation state. He stood up, took out the [Single Telescope (Purple)] he had just drawn, closed his right eye, and put his left eye to the telescope.
This is a single-cylinder retractable telescope. When not extended, it is about as thick as an adult's arm and about thirty centimeters in length.
After stretching, the length can reach 70 centimeters, and the diameter of the end lens cylinder is approximately equivalent to five fingers placed together. When Zong Shen observes with a telescope, the field of view increases several times.
There is a huge stone cliff on a high mountain twenty or thirty kilometers in front of the airship.
The top is extremely flat, without any trees, and there are steep rocks on both sides. There is a drop of more than a thousand meters from the bottom of the cliff on the mountainside to the top of the cliff.
Counting the altitude from the bottom of the mountain to the mountainside, the total height of this cliff reaches more than 2,000 meters.
Most of the mountains here are hills and hills with an altitude of several hundred meters, so this cliff is also a commanding height nearby. Standing among the mountains, it gives a feeling of standing out from the crowd.
Right on the top of this cliff, there is a huge dome nest.
This nest is so huge that it almost looks like a bird's nest hat has been put on the cliff.
The entire body is made of thigh-thick logs crisscrossed together.
It's like a cylindrical wooden house, except that the roof of this wooden house is a strange bird's nest shape.
It's like wearing an afro made of wood.
There is only a circular entrance near the west side.
Because the distance is too far, Zong Shen cannot accurately estimate the diameter of the entrance to the nest, even with the help of a telescope.
You can only turn to the strategy module to supplement information.
After thinking about it, some parameters immediately appeared in his field of vision.
The shape of the entrance is actually not regular, but appears relatively circular in ultra-long viewing distance.
The diameter at the widest point is 56 meters and the diameter at the narrowest point is 42 meters.
This entrance is beyond imagination.
Gryphons are also roughly divided in size and strength according to age.
A normal captain-level griffon, that is, an adult griffin, is slightly larger than an adult hippogryph, and much larger than a dragon eagle.
But even so, the captain-level griffon's body length is about three meters, and its wings can reach a length of six or seven meters when fully extended.
A mature griffon at the command level can reach five to seven meters in length, with a maximum wingspan of fifteen or six meters.
It's like an airbus that can fly.
The wingspan of raptors can reach two to three times the body length, let alone aerial monsters like griffons.
As for the overlord-level old griffon, it is even more exaggerated. The body length can reach about 123 meters, and the wings can reach 278 meters when extended.
This body length is already comparable to that of young black dragons and young white dragons.
Gryphons also have a long lifespan, usually living for five or six centuries.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Among them, the lifespan of the golden-winged gryphon and the dragon-veined gryphon are even longer, and their size will be even larger.
One thing to say, such a large entrance is very suitable for the body shape of an overlord-level dragon-veined gryphon.
This all comes from the information provided by the strategy module.
It is said that griffons have a habit of collecting gems, and there must be abundant gems and gold and silver deposits near their lairs. I wonder if there are precious gem mines nearby.
From a geographical point of view, this place should have left the scope of Azshara Mine.
However, the existence of adjacent mineral veins cannot be ruled out.
Analyzing the actual situation, this is still very possible.
At the cruising speed of the goblin airship, it would take at most twenty or thirty minutes to reach the griffin's nest.
There are mountains and forests with dense vegetation nearby. It is not easy to find a safe landing place for the airship. The only flat area is the top of the cliff, behind the griffin's nest, where there is a piece of land that is not occupied by the nest.
The open space is enough for the goblin airship to land.
However, if you land there, you will definitely be besieged by the prime griffins and adult griffins who are staying in the nest.
Although the guide mentioned that the overlord-level dragon-veined griffons took away most of the griffins in the nest.
However, there are still basic defense forces in the Griffin Nest.
The air is their home field. Once they fight desperately, the goblin airship will not be able to hold on for long before it will be torn to pieces by these guys.
In the pod of the airship, it would be difficult for Zong Shen and the others to exert their due strength, and they would fall into passivity.
Therefore, the landing location provided by Golden Line Navigation is on the mountainside under the stone cliff.
There is also an open space without tree cover, more than a thousand meters away from the top of the cliff. As long as you are careful, you should not be discovered.
As for how to get up the cliff, it's easy to do. Caniggia knows the mass levitation technique, and Zong Shen also has the group levitation rune on hand. The height difference of the cliff cannot meet the requirements of the levitation technique.
After making up his mind, Zong Shen sat back in the cockpit, canceled the cruise mode, started manual control, turned in one direction, and flew towards the back of the griffon's nest.
Only a fool would fly towards the entrance without any cover.
At a flying speed of 80 kilometers per hour, it took about 20 minutes to reach the mountainside below the back of the griffin's nest. There were few trees here and there was an open space for the airship to rise and land.
When the airship stopped smoothly on the mountainside, it was already six past four in the afternoon.
The sunshine is gradually shifting away, but the weather is not bad and the temperature has returned to a normal level.
Everyone quickly left the airship pod, flexing their muscles and preparing the weapons they carried.
Zong Shen was the last to leave the pod, and he conveniently put the goblin airship into the storage compartment.
"Caniggia, use mass levitation."
"The rest of the people follow me, I will use the floating rune."
Zong Shen quickly ordered that the warning range of those griffins was not far away, at least they were not aware of it now, but this may be related to the reason that most of the prime and adult griffons had already left the nest.
Caniggia put away his playful smile as this was his first trip with the team after being recruited.
As a genius, he has his own fighting instincts.
He raised the wand gently, and there was no obvious chanting movement. There was light cyan wind spirit magic wrapped around the wand, flying around like light cyan fireworks, landing on the faces of twenty-nine teammates nearby.
There were exactly thirty people on him, including himself.
Zong Shen also took out the rune stones and began to activate and use them, selecting the last six people including himself. It is worth mentioning that Luna's Sentinel Black Panther alone occupied two floating quotas.
Everyone floated into the air and began to float upwards along the back of the cliff.
Taking advantage of this moment, Zong Shen once again asked for strategy tips and made final confirmation.
"What's the situation with the gryphon's nest above?"
(You are lucky, a group of scorpion-tailed tigers are preparing to attack. These scorpion-tailed guys with tiger heads and eagle wings and lion bodies are the mortal enemies of griffins. They are smaller than griffons, but their fighting power is not bad.
The scorpion tail can shoot poisonous stingers through the tubular part, and each sting is like an armor-piercing arrow.
Each manticore can fire thirty armor spikes continuously. In addition, their claws are also very sharp and can tear the hard scales and feathers of griffons.
They are natural enemies and often hunt each other. This group of manticore tigers has been planning for a long time and finally waited until the time came for the gryphon group to carry out large-scale hunting)
The golden reminder subtitles are very long, one paragraph after another.
Detailed introduction to the situation of the manticore tiger group.
It seems to be foreshadowing the fierce battle to come.
Zong Shen silently turned off the subtitle prompt. It seemed that this action was a coincidence.
The wilderness is not a peaceful place. Although those griffins are powerful, they also have natural enemies that are very powerful.
In order to reproduce and survive, there is only primitive hunting and fighting.
And now is the time when the guard strength in the griffin's nest is at its weakest.
Gryphons like to fly away from the mountains to hunt in the south, and Zong Shen also saw several small groups of griffons returning to their mountain lairs from south to north.
So this hunting operation can be said to be unprecedentedly large.
Otherwise, the overlord-level dragon-veined griffin leader would not have taken away most of the adult griffins in the territory.
According to the information mentioned several times in the guide, there should have been one overlord-level dragon-veined griffin in the griffin nest, twenty-seven rare-level adult griffins, forty-six captain-level young griffins, and ten juvenile griffins.
Six heads, plus seven gryphon eggs.
Zong Shen calculated based on this number, and found that at present, there are at most eight or nine mature griffins and fifteen or sixteen adult griffins left in the griffin nest.
Therefore, the gryphon nest is still capable of fighting, but we don't know how many manticores have come.
If the numerical advantage is too great, I am afraid that these remaining griffons will be killed quickly.
This group of griffons is already Zong Shen's designated territorial aerial beast, and those manticores must not be allowed to take advantage. On the contrary, Zong Shen is prepared to take advantage of them in turn.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The speed of levitation is not slow, and now the warriors have flown over half the height of the stone cliff.
"Please tell me how many manticores are here?"
"And mark their movements for me."
(The team is led by the Overlord-level Scorpion-tailed Tiger Steel Stinger and Minion. There are a total of eighteen Commander-level Scorpion-tailed Tigers and sixty-seven Captain-level Scorpion-tailed Tigers)
After the subtitle prompt appeared, a strange golden stroke also appeared in front of Zong Shen's eyes.
Those scorpion-tailed tigers were diagonally opposite Zong Shen's head. They seemed to be preparing to launch an attack from the side of the griffon's nest. The golden mark was in a stagnant state, and they were probably still ambush.
Zong Shen said nothing, and after a few more minutes, Caniggia and the others took the lead in reaching the top.
Then all the remaining six people climbed onto the stone cliff.
Their landing place was just behind the griffon's nest, with a large area of shadow and open space.
The huge griffon nest, which looks like a primitive wonder, is right next to it.
Zong Shen first arranged for everyone to hide in a corner on one side of the griffon's nest.
Then he looked at it intently, trying to see whether the griffon nest had the relevant system attributes.
[Griffin's Nest on the Cliff Top in the Wild (Special)]
[Self-built buildings for special ethnic groups]
[Sturdiness value: 150000]
[Building Armor: 65]
[Occupy area: 0.125 square kilometers]
[Effect: Reproduction (Griffin reproduction rate increased by 35%, growth rate increased by 15%)
Habitat (can provide the griffins with a health recovery effect of 25 points per hour)]
(Habitats and nests suitable for the reproduction of griffin beasts. Their reproduction here will receive certain bonuses. Due to environmental factors and compatibility, this building cannot be moved or rebuilt)
Good Guy is really a standard building with detailed attributes.
However, this building is closely related to the surrounding environment and cannot be relocated.
In other words, even if it moves to the territory, it is no longer suitable as a griffon nest.
Only the unique clifftop environment in this mountain forest is suitable for griffons to thrive.
It is about less than two hundred kilometers away from the territory.
It takes about two hours to ride the goblin airship.
The flying speed of griffons is much faster than that of airships.
A captain-level adult griffon can fly at a speed of 360 kilometers per hour.
The rare adult griffin can reach 420 kilometers per hour.
As for the overlord-level dragon-veined gryphon, it can reach at least 550 to 600 kilometers per hour.
In addition to battery life, this idling speed is almost comparable to that of old-fashioned propeller airliners.
If you ride a dragon-veined griffon, it only takes an hour and a few minutes to get from the territory to Bospan.
Therefore, this griffon nest is worth preserving, and some soldiers must be stationed here.
Relying on the mobility of the griffin beast, the garrison troops can quickly travel between the griffin nest and the territory.
In the future, when the material resources on hand are sufficient, a [100-kilometer-level space teleportation array] can be built in the griffin's nest.
At that moment, Zong Shen had decided to keep this griffon nest to maintain the normal reproduction of griffins and use it as a future air cavalry camp to continuously breed griffins.
However, it takes a hundred and eighty years for a griffon to reach adulthood. Unless there is some means to promote growth, it is unrealistic to expect a new generation of griffins to reproduce.
But no matter what, this place is worth building and preserving.
Just as Zong Shen was thinking, a fierce chirping sound suddenly came from the top of the cliff.
There are also sounds like the roar of a tiger and the flapping of wings.
In his eyes, the position of the golden mark moved and was now flying outside the lair.
"Vereesa, Caniggia, follow me."
"Luna, Doris, please continue to wait here with everyone."
Zong Shen pointed out two people and quickly left the back of the nest, walking around along the edge to one side.
As they approached, the chirping and roaring became more and more obvious.
Even the huge griffon's nest was trembling slightly. It was obvious that something hit it from time to time, and the nest made of logs was slightly distorted.
However, the strength of the griffin's nest is obviously beyond imagination.
These logs act like tree branches that birds use to build their nests.
They are riveted and intertwined with each other. Although the shape is a bit sloppy, the solidity of the entire griffon nest is definitely not bad.
The three of them held their breath and walked quickly close to the griffon's nest.
Finally, we came to the corner on the other side, where Zong Shen saw the scene.
Nearly a hundred manticores blocked the sky in front of the left side of the griffon nest.
They gathered together, curling their tails from under their bodies and aiming at the entrance of the griffin's nest.
It continuously shoots out black spikes, which at first glance looks like a black shower falling towards the griffon nest.
