As soon as Hero finished speaking, all the baby birds hidden at the entrance of the passage were revealed.
Their soul strength is already higher than that of the previous baby birds.
When you are concentrating on the inspection mission, you will not let go of any corner easily.
Once something unusual happens, many baby birds will come to investigate at the same time.
Even the petrification that Hero took the opportunity to release was not hidden from their sharp eyes.
Just a change in the color of the ruins caused five or six baby birds to come over to inspect it.
In the blink of an eye, the ruins were chewed by baby birds and torn into piles of powder.
It was obviously a solid century-old building, but now it was easily destroyed like a shoddy project.
"It's too late! You can't rush through. If you fly over, you will definitely be exposed. You can only fight out."
There is no pattern at all in the silhouette of the baby bird. In this case, one can only rely on Holo's mental power to forcibly change their perception.
But how can this situation last long?
Sure enough, they didn't even wait for the two of them to take action.
The moment a baby guarding bird passed by them, he hesitated for a moment, and had a puzzled expression on his face like a child.
"Wait a moment!"
Holo calmly held onto Byrne. Although Byrne already had two more romantic streaks on his hand, now was not the time to be impulsive.
There are too many baby birds here, let’s not say whether they can survive.
They are just the outermost ring of soldiers serving as vigilance.
They are very disciplined and fearless of death, so what's the use of killing them all.
It will only disturb the things inside. This time they are here to ask for the treasure, not to complete the task. Try to do as little as possible such actions that are not worth the gain.
As [Exponent Explosion] continues to increase the increase, the effect of transmogrification is also constantly increasing.
Before the baby bird could continue to notice the strangeness, Holo forcibly changed its perception.
"Don't be afraid. Keep walking inside. Fortunately, the baby birds here are just a group of guards. Their soul strength levels vary. Even the ones above are only slightly stronger."
Holo pinched his fingers. The tips of his fingers were so narrow that it was unclear whether they separated the gap.
The two walked slowly forward, taking nearly half an hour to cover the last ten meters.
There were too many baby birds encountered in the process.
I could only stop halfway and huddle up, trying not to let myself touch them.
Although Hero can forcibly change his vision, taste, smell, etc., physical contact is still too sensitive for these wild baby birds with simple minds and well-developed limbs.
It was with great difficulty that we passed through the boundary area formed by the city wall and the interior of the city.
Holo and Byrne stepped into the passage.
From the first step they took, they felt something different inside.
Byrne's heart palpitated as he dodged the baby bird passing behind him, and asked in a low voice with some confusion.
"The ground here is soft, what is it, soil? It's not like soil, it's soft and...hard, crunchy."
"Not soil, more like leaves or... bones?"
The ground here feels completely different from before, it is not hard stone.
There was still a gap of light between the inside and the outside, and the place under their feet was just in the shadow.
He could only bend down to look.
"Is it feathers? This whole floor is covered with feathers?"
Hero walked forward for some distance. The place was very empty. In the dark environment, they could not see very far, and with every step they took, they could feel that the touch under their feet did not change.
This means that this entire layer is covered with feathers.
When he was far away from those crazy baby birds and did not sense any danger around him, Hero released a little moon energy and saw a horrifying scene while shining.
"Are the feathers black?"
Before, in the shadows of absolute darkness, only outlines could be seen.
It is impossible to distinguish colors, not to mention that it is possible for gray to be stained black in this environment.
But when Hero rubbed it hard to distinguish it, he realized that these were not the feathers of the baby bird in his mind at all.
No matter what stage the baby bird is, it will never have this color.
"Is it related to what they eat? Maybe they ate some special meat or fruits, which caused their feathers to mutate?"
Byrne asked thoughtfully. They were still discussing before that there should be a shortage of food in this windy and snowy world.
But the baby bird can still eat and become fat, which is unreasonable.
In addition, there is a thick layer of black feathers accumulated here, like a carpet.
We can only speculate in this regard.
"Probably not. Just now, through the light shining in from the snow hole on the top, I saw that they all have gray wings, and there are no black feathers in front of my eyes. But it is true...the number of black feathers covering this area is too huge. It is definitely not the case.
Formed by individual mutations.”
Hero stepped on the black feathers under his feet and selected a few more for observation.
The wings of baby birds themselves are a high-quality soul beast material, and their feathers can also be used in many places as accessories. The simplest and most straightforward one is quills.
Holo saw it at a mobile stall in the market on the ground floor.
A broken baby bird quill can buy nearly a thousand soul coins.
If calculated based on rarity, their feathers are actually worthless. A raised baby bird can continuously produce energy, and this is a dominant characteristic for them and is not under their own control.
will grow naturally.
Just like the wool of a golden sheep.
What's valuable is that their feathers are a blessing for the smoothness of the depiction of special soul magic formulas.
This is a necessity for magicians of some systems.
The two of them walked forward for a while, and some stairs appeared in front of them. From here, they entered the inner city.
It now appears that the interior of this city is a spiraling building.
On the ground in front of the stairs, countless black feathers were rooted in the gaps in the floor. They looked strange from a distance, like plant seedlings.
This unusual gesture made the two of them stop in their tracks.
"This baby bird is so leisurely and elegant. It is also stuck on the ground one by one. It is different, don't you think?"
Hero ignored Byrne's joke, controlled the [Twisted Twins], slowly reached over, perfectly pulled out a black feather from the gap in the floor, and laid it out flat in front of him.
After sensing it for a while, I didn't find any difference.
"It seems there is nothing different, but why did they insert it?"
In this strange place, they need to analyze every suspicious place.
In the vast territory of the empire, there are countless dangerous places that look harmless, but can kill magicians in an instant.
As the twisted power attached to the twisted twins dissipates, the feathers collapse and disintegrate.
"Look, we thought too much. They didn't do this intentionally at all. They fell naturally from above. The source is at the top of the inner city!"
Just when Holo was doubtful, Byrne shook his shoulders vigorously.
Looking up, there happened to be two or three black feathers floating in front of the two of them. Looking around, there were still some feathers falling down in disorder.
When they landed, some lucky feathers happened to be inserted into the gaps in the floor. Due to inertia, after they had a fixed point, their feathers were still swaying.
Hero frowned, floating down from the top?
Are there so many baby birds shedding feathers on it?
If they are shedding normally, it means that these baby birds themselves are not healthy, so they must be affected by something bad to cause black feathers.
These black feathers are an ominous sign.
But if it is abnormal hair loss...
That means, above their heads...
"┗|｀O′|┛Ouch, I seem to have guessed wrong again."
As soon as he finished speaking, the [Wind Transformation] in Byrne's hand had already unfolded, and the violent wind power broke through the illusion space created by Holo.
Just when Holo was about to scold Byrne, he unconsciously glanced in the direction where Byrne was looking up.
As soon as I saw it... silhouettes appeared in the darkness.
They were some ferocious baby birds, stacked in pairs, with the baby bird at the back hugging the baby bird in front. From Hero's perspective, behind them, there was a pair of complete wings.
"How can this be?"
He didn't notice their arrival, nor did he think about why there were so many paired baby birds.