"Thank you very much, Mr. Village Chief." After saying that, Chen Mo looked at Elena with a smile, "Then let me complete this hidden mission as well. You can wait here for my good news."
"It seems that I have really found a good companion. With you here, I just need to lie down and receive the reward." Elena said with a smile.
Chen Mo smiled and said: "Then remember to pay me my wages later. One eternal gold coin is never too little, and ten eternal gold coins are never too many."
"Then let me keep you." Elena smiled and reached out to hook Chen Mo's chin.
"I'm afraid I can't afford it. I'm very expensive."
After joking for a while, Chen Mo left Elena and her men in the village, while he walked alone to the mysterious forest that the village chief mentioned.
He can fly himself, so he can actually go around it directly.
But the army cannot get around it.
For the safety of the army, Chen Mo decided to go in first to explore the depth.
After leaving the village and walking for about five kilometers through the green forest, Chen Mo finally saw a forest shrouded in mist.
"This smog covers such a large area." Looking at the fog in front of him that seemed to be enough to cover the entire world, Chen Mo realized that if he came here during the day, it would be impossible to move even an inch.
He tried to use his perception ability to sense it.
Fortunately, the pioneer's perception ability has not failed, and the shielding effect of this smoke miasma is equivalent to nothing for Chen Mo.
He relied on his perception ability and slowly entered the mist.
Going deep into the misty forest is like entering a mysterious world that is completely different from the human world.
In the boundless gloomy green, miasma and poisonous gas are constantly rising and rolling, like the suffocating heat from hell.
This heat carries a disgusting rancid smell, as if warning all creatures who dare to enter this place that this is the realm of death.
Not long after Chen Mo smelled this smell, he was reminded by Tiandao that he had been exposed to the poisonous mist and started to lose blood continuously.
Moreover, this poisonous mist is quite powerful. The shield on Chen Mo’s body is completely ineffective against the poisonous mist.
Chen Mo tried to hold his breath.
Mainly I want to see if this poison can be avoided by holding my breath.
But obviously not, this poison can enter the body through the skin and is simply unavoidable.
Seeing this, Chen Mo stopped paying attention to the poisonous mist.
After all, he had to regain his health, and he was either dead or not. He didn't care much about the deduction of blood, and even relied on this poison to build up poison resistance.
At this moment, he was more curious about the two missing villagers.
"In this poisonous environment, my blood is losing so fast. How can those two villagers withstand it?"
At this time in Green Forest Village, Elena and the others had already drank the fruit wine prepared by the village chief.
The moment she drank the glycolic fruit wine, Elena received a reminder from heaven and she obtained a BUFF.
It is the BUFF that can reduce the damage caused by poisonous fog.
The villagers in Green Forest Village have been drinking fruit wine all year round, and they have already developed a strong resistance to the poisonous fog. Naturally, they will not lose blood as quickly as Chen Mo.
But it's falling slowly, but it's still falling.
If no one comes to save them for a long time, they will still be poisoned to death.
The first thing you see when entering the dense forest are tall and ancient trees. Their twisted figures are tightly entangled with dark vines, as if they are wailing silently, telling the weirdness and terror of this forest.
The deeper you go, the green environment becomes less and less, replaced by some hazy feeling.
After going deep into the dense forest, Chen Mo saw the leaves of the trees that were withered and twisted, with all kinds of strange fungi attached to them, emitting a suffocating stench.
The water droplets on the leaves are mixed with toxins and drip onto the ground, making a faint ticking sound.
Every drop is full of corrosive power, making people fearful.
The floor of this forest is covered with thick leaves, and walking on it feels like stepping on a blanket, making a rustling sound.
During the rotting process, these fallen leaves emit a sour smell, mixed with miasma and poisonous gas, forming a special atmosphere that makes people feel fearful.
Seeing the rotten leaves on the ground mixed with some unknown slime, Chen Mo couldn't help but feel a little nauseous. He directly chose to float and fly forward in the dense forest.
After continuing deeper into the forest, some disturbing sounds began to be heard. They were the cries of various strange creatures and the sound of poisonous gas flowing in the air.
Although this forest is full of death and terror, the power of life still survives tenaciously in it.
Some strange-shaped plants tenaciously survive the miasma. Their leaves are twisted and tough, and their surfaces are covered with a thick layer of mucus. This is their way of resisting the poisonous gas.
The flowers of these plants are even more bizarre, some are like burning fire, and some are like carvings from ice crystals. They bloom with the colors of life in this dead forest.
And deeper in the forest is a dark swamp.
Poisonous gas emerged from the black soil, and the water here was black with a strong rancid smell. Chen Mo estimated that the poisonous mist in the smoky forest was evaporated from the swamp.
There are some strange creatures living in the swamp. Their twisted figures flicker on the black water, giving people a terrifying feeling.
Through perception, Chen Mo discovered that there are many types of monsters in the forest.
Miasma Ghost:
Appearance: The body of the Miasma Ghost is exuding dark black smoke. It has no obvious facial or body features, and usually only a pair of red eyes can be seen.
Attributes: High dodge, low health, weak physical and magic attacks, able to move silently in smoke.
Toxic Dryad:
Appearance: The poisonous dryad is tall, with its body covered with tangled branches and vines, its skin is light green, and its eyes are red.
Attributes: high defense and high blood volume, strong physical attack power, can release poison attacks, cause poison damage, and poison the enemy.
Smoke Miasma Spider:
Appearance: The Smoke Miasma Spider is huge, with eight spider legs with sharp fangs and a gray-black spider abdomen. In the smoke, their bodies appear to be made of smoke.
Attributes: High attack power and medium blood volume, able to release poison attacks and bite attacks, causing physical and poison damage.
Mist Behemoth:
Appearance: Mist behemoths are tall and strong, with strong scales and steel-like claws. Their bodies are shrouded in thick smoke, and their eyes are usually red.
Attributes: high attack power, high defense and high blood volume, can absorb smoke to enhance its own strength, can release physical attacks and poison attacks, and can use long-range attack and melee attack skills.
There are several others like this.
Chen Mo compared these monsters with the soldiers under his command. Although the number of soldiers under his command was large enough, if the two sides really encountered these monsters and fought, many of the soldiers under his command would die. It was a pity that he did not take them with him.
come over.
Of course, it would be relatively easy for Chen Mo to deal with them by himself.
It's just that he is in no mood to conflict with these monsters at the moment. He is circling the dense forest searching for the two missing villagers of Green Bamboo Village.
At the same time, a large number of skeleton monsters under his command were also dispersed and dispatched.
This can effectively increase search efficiency.
However, it is also easier to encounter monsters.
But this is only a level 40 dungeon. Each of Chen Mo's skeleton monsters can do as much damage as level 4. Even if you encounter a monster, it will be a flat push all the way, and there is no difficulty at all.
As Chen Mo entered the smoky forest for five minutes, he couldn't help but complain: "This forest is too big. With such a wide range of perception capabilities and three million skeleton monsters, I couldn't find anything."
Traces of two villagers?
Is this a 12-hour limited time mission?”
Chen Mo couldn't help but wonder if he could only find the person if he came at night.
However, because the forest is too big, he has not yet searched it all over, but he has not given up directly.
In the following time, Chen Mo continued to search deeply for traces of the villagers in this dark and mysterious forest.
After a while, just when he was about to give up and prepare to attack Stormwind City first, one of his skeleton monsters found a weak clue.
Those were some footprints similar to human shoes. After careful observation through his concentric ability, Chen Mo discovered that these traces were left by human shoes.
After discovering this clue, Chen Mo suddenly became energetic. He asked the skeleton monsters to continue searching in this direction, while he himself accelerated his flight and rushed over.
As the skeleton monster moved forward in the direction where the footprints were found, Chen Mo soon discovered more footprints in the forest, as well as some discarded items and some torn cloth.
These all prove that humans have appeared nearby and the direction is right.
"Finally found it."
Seeing the torn cloth, Chen Mo was sure that he had found nothing wrong.
However, he was a little curious. Since he was a villager in Green Forest Village, he should be very aware of the danger of this dense forest.
Knowing that the forest is so dangerous, why did they choose to go deep into the forest?
Soon, Chen Mo knew the reason.
Continuing to move forward in the misty forest, Chen Mo gradually discovered some strange traces, which seemed to be traces left by some kind of sacrificial ritual.
He couldn't help but frown slightly, the scene in front of him felt unusual.
After a while, the skeleton monsters had arrived in front of a large circular altar made of earth and stone. There were traces of blood and candle wax on the altar. It was obvious that someone had just performed some kind of sacrificial ceremony here.
As the skeleton monster approached the center of the altar, Chen Mo discovered a strange object exuding a dark aura, which looked like a medium used to summon demons.
There are also many sacrifices used by cultists placed around, including animal carcasses and some unknown objects.
The altar is surrounded by a circle of strange symbols and patterns. These symbols and patterns are very mysterious and are probably used to strengthen the power of the ritual.
The entire altar exudes a strange atmosphere, which makes people feel unusual and scary.
"Are these two villagers kidnapped by cultists? Are they going to be sacrificed alive?"
He began to conduct a detailed search around the altar, and soon found more unusual traces.
The cultists placed multiple sacrifices around the altar, and some of the corpses showed signs of being tied up, making them look like humans being used as sacrifices.
Chen Mo frowned slightly and glanced at the Tiandao prompt.
Fortunately, the countdown to the task is still decreasing normally. It can be seen that the sacrificial objects currently used on this altar should not be the villagers of Green Bamboo Village.
"Since these guys chose to perform their rituals in such a dangerous smoke-stricken forest, what on earth do they want to do?"
Chen Mo couldn't help but become more curious.
Judging from the traces, these cultists are probably performing dark magic summoning rituals, and the purpose may be to summon a demon or other evil being.
They placed multiple sacrifices around the altar, including animal and human corpses, which also shows that they needed sacrifices to enhance the power of the ritual.
In addition, the strange object in the center of the altar is likely to be a medium used for summoning. This reminds people of the summoning medium in ancient magic. No matter what they want to summon, it is obviously very dangerous and evil.
exist.
"You won't summon some demon god. This is just a one-turn copy."
But then I thought about it, this is a hidden mission, a type of branch. Sometimes this kind of hidden mission is not necessarily tied to the difficulty of the main mission.
Just like when you encounter a treasure secret realm, a monster that far exceeds the strength of the current copy may be released.
Although he was wary in his heart, Chen Mo was not very afraid because of his arrogance and life-saving ability.
Moreover, he hasn't flown over yet, the skeleton monster is in action, and even if a powerful demon is really summoned, it won't be able to hurt him.
As the skeleton monster quickly continued to search forward, more and more traces were revealed.
After a while, Chen Mo himself had already arrived.
With his own arrival, the range of perception was instantly larger than that of the skeleton monster by an unknown amount.
Soon, Chen Mo discovered an extremely crazy scene.
In a dark open space ahead, a group of cultists, all covered in black robes and with strange symbols painted on their faces, gathered together around a huge stone platform and whispered an incomprehensible language.
The tone of the recitation was so weird that it sounded like a voice coming from the depths of hell, which made people shudder in their hearts.
After chanting for a while, the behavior of these cultists became even more bizarre and crazy.
Some were spinning around in circles, as if dancing an evil dance, while others were tearing off their hair crazily and smearing it with blood on the stone platform. The hair slowly burned on the stone platform, emitting
There is a foul smell.
There are also cultists who grab the dirt on the ground and stuff it into their mouths, as if they are enjoying a strange delicious food.
On both sides of the stone platform, two villagers were tied to pillars. Their bodies were tied tightly with thick ropes. Their faces were as pale as paper, and their eyes were full of fear.
When they looked at these insane and insane cultists in front of them, they felt as if they were seeing devils in hell.
Their bodies were shaking and their lips were twitching. They wanted to call for help, but fear prevented them from making any sound.
They have always lived in a mysterious forest like a paradise, and they have never seen such a strange situation.
Fortunately, it was still daytime, and these cultists were not directly calling for sacrifice, but were making some preliminary preparations, so the two villagers were relatively safe.
It was the perverted behavior of the cultists around here that really caused them considerable psychological fear.
Every time the cultists complete a weird ritual, they bite each other, drink each other's blood, and then burst into crazy laughter, as if they are enjoying an incomparable pleasure.
There is no humanity in their eyes, only madness and evil.
Around their bodies, there was a black air flow slowly surging, which was a breath full of death and stench.
Chen Mo sensed the attributes of these cultists. In fact, their attributes were not very high, and even a casual level 40 professional could deal with them.
This made Chen Mo very confused. After all, these cultists were too weak.
This is a hidden mission in the SSS level difficulty dungeon, and it doesn’t match the intensity at all!
Can this hidden mission really be completed so easily?
Although he felt it was a bit unreasonable, Chen Mo still ordered the skeleton monster under his command to launch an attack.
For a time, arrows and energy bombs flew towards these cultists in dense numbers.
According to the current powerful attack power of skeleton monsters, their attacks should be able to kill one of these garbage cultists instantly.
But when the skeleton monster's attack fell on the cultists, although the blood volume of these cultists was instantly cleared, they were all strangely alive!
At the same time, they all looked in the direction of Chen Mo.
But Chen Mo is in a state of invisibility now, so it stands to reason that it is impossible for these rubbish cultists to see him.
Now Chen Mo couldn't help but feel that the current scene was even weirder.
At the same time, I confirmed my thoughts. As expected, hidden tasks are not that easy to do!
Chen Mo found some mysterious runes at the feet of the cultists. If you look closely, you will find that these runes are intertwined with each other regularly, as if forming a strange magic circle.
Chen Mo's intuition told him that this magic circle might be the reason for the immortality of the cultists.
Thinking of this, Chen Mo glanced at the central area surrounded by these runes. If this was a magic circle, then the central area of the runes should be the center of the magic circle. Destroying the center of the circle should be equivalent to destroying the magic.
Formation!
Knowing his target, Chen Mo immediately ordered all the skeleton monsters to turn around and direct their attacks toward the center of the magic circle.
Facing Chen Mo's attack, these cultists didn't pay any attention to it, but simply muttered something in their mouths.
As a large number of attacks from Chen Mo's skeleton monsters fell on the center of the magic circle, a powerful magic power was suddenly released from the formation. Instantly, a strange and deep hole like a black hole appeared in the center of the magic circle. This terrifying hole
It continuously rotates, sucking in the surrounding trees, rocks, even miasma gas, arrows and energy bomb attacks from the skeleton monsters.
If the two villagers hadn't been tied up quite firmly, they would have been sucked away.
As a strange black hole appeared in the center of the magic circle, it absorbed everything around it.
At this time, the bodies of the cultists also began to change. Their eyes emitted a red light, their skin became dark, and their bodies began to surge with visible black liquid. There seemed to be an invisible force in their bodies.
Expanding.
Their eyes became wild, they completely lost their reason and humanity, and their whole figures seemed to have turned into devils.
His whole body exuded a dark aura, and he looked even more terrifying than before.
Under the influence of this dark power, their attributes suddenly became extremely powerful, beyond the reach of even some high-level professionals.
Seeing this scene, Chen Mo frowned slightly.
These seemingly relatively weak cultists have actually become so powerful with the help of the magic circle. The most perverted thing is that they are completely immortal. This is the most difficult thing to do!
If you want them to die, you must first break the magic circle, and the magic circle will absorb attacks and cannot be destroyed at all, as if it is trapped in an unsolvable cycle.
With no way to go, Chen Mo could only start thinking of other ways to crack the magic circle.
However, the cultists were not idle at this time, and they didn’t know why they could see Chen Mo and his skeleton monsters. After they were all greatly strengthened, they directly faced Chen Mo and his skeleton monsters from a distance.
Attack launched!
These cultists are all skilled in dark spells, and their lethality is astonishing. Coupled with their current powerful attributes, normal people will definitely avoid them when they encounter them.
However, they did not rely on their enhanced attributes to attack Chen Mo and his skeleton monsters. They actually chose a prayer ritual to launch a strange attack.
I saw the strange gestures in the hands of these cultists changing, and the next moment they all suddenly shouted in unison, speaking a strange language that Chen Mo had never heard before.
While chanting strange spells, they all raised their hands and pointed their index fingers at Chen Mo and his skeleton monster. Then the spells in their mouths became louder and faster, as if they were calling for something.
After a while, Chen Mo felt the magic elements in the air begin to surge crazily, and a depressing atmosphere instantly enveloped the entire area.
A black magical energy appeared around the body of the cultist. This energy was like a black hole, swallowing up everything around it.
Then, the cultists suddenly opened their mouths and spit out streams of black smoke.
The smoke quickly spread in the air, forming a huge black cloud.
The black clouds continued to gather and spin in the sky, getting faster and faster, as if a huge black hurricane would sweep everything away at any time.
Boom! Boom! With a thunderous roar, the black cloud suddenly burst open, and black lightning shot out violently from the cloud, like giant black dragons, towards Chen Mo and
His skeleton monster suddenly rushed over.
These black lightnings were extremely fast, as if they could travel through space, and arrived in front of Chen Mo and the skeleton monsters almost instantly.
Chen Mo clearly sensed that these black lightnings were completely different from ordinary attacks.
These black lightnings carried a terrible destructive power, and each lightning gave him a strong sense of threat, as if carrying a destructive power.
As the black lightning crazily fell into Chen Mo's team.
The skeleton monster next to Chen Mo began to explode continuously, turning into a lot of bone powder, and then transformed and disappeared completely.
No matter how thick the shields on these skeleton monsters are or how high their HP is, every lightning bolt is enough to instantly turn a skeleton monster into powder.
However, the lightning falling on Chen Mo obviously had no such effect.
Chen Mo finally understood that this lightning simply had the ability to instantly kill summoned objects.
Of course, the damage of lightning itself is also very high, but the threat is not as terrifying as it currently appears.
Seeing that Black Lightning was simply looking at the large formation and that the threat was not that great, Chen Mo ignored it and continued to think about how to solve the situation in front of him.
After careful observation, he suddenly discovered that the bodies of these cultists actually had the same symbols as those on the ground.
"Is there some connection between the symbols on their bodies and the symbols that form the magic circle on the ground?
Since the physical changes of these cultists are closely related to the magic circle, if the magic circle cannot be destroyed, it may be possible to destroy the magic circle by destroying the symbols on the cultists."
Thinking of this, Chen Mo immediately ordered the surviving skeleton monster to target the symbols on the cultists and launch attacks.
As a large number of arrows and energy bombs poured out, a black rain curtain formed in an instant, sweeping towards the cultists like a sudden rain and a violent wind.
The arrows roared, swishing through the air, and the energy bombs were like cannonballs, leaving tracks in the air and making a whooshing scream.
The black attacks poured down, like the Milky Way pouring down. The symbols on the cultists were hit wildly by arrows and energy bombs. After a while, the symbols on their bodies began to break.
I don’t know why, but none of them screamed miserably when their health was drained.
Originally, they never screamed pitifully when they hurt each other.
Now when the symbols on their bodies were shattered by the attack, they all let out bursts of shrill howls, like beasts being torn apart.
The scene seemed extremely strange.
As the skeleton monsters continued to attack, more and more symbols on the cultists were completely destroyed. At the same time, the dark power on the cultists slowly faded away, and their bodies gradually returned to their normal color, with red eyes.
It also gradually lost its luster.
After a while, the symbols on the ground began to crack and break, making strange sounds.
As more and more symbols were broken, the wailing sounds of the cultists became louder and louder, like the wails of a hundred ghosts, resounding throughout the area, making the monsters who originally lived in the dense forest become too scared to hear it.
Coming closer.
As the last symbol was broken, the strange black hole in the center of the magic circle suddenly stopped rotating. After a struggle, it shattered and disappeared. The entire magic circle also lost its power, and the once powerful cultists were all weak.
They lay weakly on the ground and twitched continuously. They groaned miserably. Their bodies seemed to have had all their life force drained out, and they instantly became extremely weak.
Within three breaths, their bodies suddenly trembled. Then, their bodies quickly shriveled up as if they had been drained of moisture, and finally turned into withered corpses, which rotted into the ground.
No bones were left.
When Chen Mo saw this, he felt more and more strange in his heart. He always felt that the matter was not over yet.
After all, the Heavenly Dao prompt did not sound. Obviously, simply destroying the magic circle is not the focus of this hidden mission.
However, just when Chen Mo was thinking this, suddenly, the corpse of one of those shriveled and rotten cultists did not rot. Instead, a black smoke suddenly rose up. The black smoke covered the corpse very quickly.
It condensed, and finally formed a strange skeleton that was completely dark and shiny.
This skeleton exuded a terrifying aura, and his eyes were flashing with cold green flames.
Every step he made was accompanied by the sound of sharp bone friction.
And above his head, the strange cloud that the cultist summoned before that could split black lightning condensed again.
Black lightning was rolling and flashing in the clouds.
Black skeletons, black lightning, and black forests form a terrifying and shocking picture.
The moment he saw the black skeleton appear, Chen Mo immediately sensed his attributes.
Obviously, we must defeat the black skeleton in front of us in order to complete the mission and protect the two innocent villagers.
But just when Chen Mo was checking the attributes of the black skull.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise from the center of the magic circle, and the place where the black hole was was suddenly torn open, and a dazzling light poured out from it.
Chen Mo turned around and saw a person appearing in the middle of the crack!
This man obviously has something to do with those cultists, because he also wears the same black robe as the previous cultists, but his black robe looks more high-end and majestic.
This man has a slender figure, and the aura exuding from his body is extremely terrifying, as if it can make the surrounding air become oppressive and heavy.
"I'm not afraid it's the leader of some cult." Chen Mo thought to himself.
At this time, the man looked gloomy, looked at Chen Mo and his skeleton monster, and said coldly: "Were you the one who destroyed my Dark Abyss Formation and killed our followers of the Dark Abyss God Sect!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and instantly summoned a huge black magic hand, grabbing Chen Mo from the air.
"Dark Abyss Cult?"
Chen Mo instantly felt that this word sounded familiar.
He immediately pulled out the Tiandao reminder and took a look.
It became clear immediately.
Good guy, isn't the leader of the Dark Abyss Cult one of the four marshals of the empire given before by Tiandao?
This seems to be the lord of Stormwind City.
Chen Mo recalled the relevant information about this world that Tiandao had given him before.
If the city lord of Stormwind City could be killed here, wouldn't it be much easier to attack the city?