When Hero and the others slid down the snow slope and slowly approached the layer of black mist that separated the upper and lower layers, they felt as if they had fallen into a ball of fat.
Smooth flesh enveloped them, and the cold touch was not like mist, but like physical tentacles touching the skin.
"Have you seen the Grand Duke's purpose?"
"That's not true."
"How do we go back? This thing seems to be easier to get down than to get up." Byrne pulled the wind flow into the shape of a kite and slowly descended.
He tried to use the wind to rise up, but after trying for a long time, he found that the effect was not good. It was like an illusory swamp.
You can only fall into it.
"Dig a hole, or climb."
Hero put away his spear and tested it.
The frozen soil that has lost its snow cover still retains its hardness here, and you can use the force to climb up slowly, but every step is very laborious.
"No wonder those people in front brought digging tools. They obviously knew about the abnormal situation here. It's not good. There is a difference in information between the enemy and ourselves."
Now that he can go out, the old man is not worried at all. He floats up and down in the black mist with Lilith on his back, as leisurely as if he is on vacation, but his tone sounds like he is in Yin Yang Hero.
This place is indeed like a swamp, and the sunken space is much deeper than it appears on the surface. Just when a few people were impatient, Ha Zhi reminded him loudly: "The feeling of being stared at by thousands of eyeballs is getting stronger and stronger, even
There is an illusion that I am standing on top of them."
At the same time, the small wings on Hero's back were constantly getting hot, making him feel extremely uncomfortable.
Crunch!
The two feet touched the bottom, and the touch made Hero's face look ugly and a little strange.
"Maybe there is a [nest] here." Hero tried to pull out the sole of his foot. Compared to the fleshy tissue of the nest, it was more sticky. You could vaguely see pus dripping from the sole of his foot in the black mist.
"Hey, is that large cemetery down here? How come this place is so weird and has never been discovered before?" Byrne was a little unsure of the danger under his feet, so he approached Hero and asked.
"Thousands of years have passed, and anything can happen in the meantime. It is normal for any changes to occur in the Grand Duke-level cemetery."
Although Hero said he was relaxed, he did not relax his vigilance.
Including this layer of black fog, it will not come down until it is confirmed that it is harmless and is only used for shielding.
As for the changes in the Grand Duke Cemetery?
Don't be kidding, who knows.
At least there is no record of a grand ducal cemetery appearing in the tower.
There are two reasons. The Grand Duke's cemetery is either deep in the Jedi forbidden area and cannot be discovered by ordinary magicians.
Or...they themselves have evolved into forbidden areas.
A grand sorcerer who was equivalent to a walking source of radiation during his lifetime was a danger in itself.
When these beings open up their own tower floor space, they will use special materials to reduce their own impact and damage to the tower.
And the dangerous power of the soul that affects the present world will not completely dissipate even after they die.
More often than not, it is combined with regional characteristics to create unknown anomalies.
And Helo is also having a headache about this.
Apart from the 'cage' that [The Nest] had mentioned to him at the beginning, they knew nothing about this Grand Duke.
Not to mention that another terrifying being may be buried in this large cemetery.
No one knows what will be born from the combination of the two.
Fortunately, at this point, there is no external danger, otherwise the strength of a few people's souls would have to stop here.
Squeak, squeak, squeak...
"what sound?"
Affected by the black fog below, everyone's perception level was greatly reduced. They could only detect abnormal situations happening around them, but they couldn't clearly see what they were.
"It's a spider!" Meese said after lowering his head for a while.
Then everyone also saw a blurry shadow.
The densely packed spider feet stepped on the muddy spot and then lifted up.
The tingling sound of adhesion makes one's scalp numb.
"The number is so huge that we don't even know the species of spiders yet."
Several people prayed in their hearts that it must not be a particularly powerful soul beast species.
There are many groups of spider spirit beasts in the empire, some are not harmful, and some are terrifying. I just don’t know which type of spider group is affected by the necropolis.
When the dense sound approached, Hero and others also saw clearly what the spider looked like.
It's not a known species.
"It's very small, and it doesn't seem scary."
To put it lightly, Byrne just wanted to lighten the atmosphere, but the atmosphere among everyone became even more stagnant.
"Can you see clearly what they are doing?" Holo looked solemn.
Countless palm-sized spiders crawled out of the gloomy black mist, but this volume included their slender and long spider legs. Their body was similar to that of a small ant queen, with a small head and a large tail, and the tail was very bloated. In the process of crawling, the tail kept growing.
Spray some small particles on the ground.
The appearance of groups in groups causes most of the small particles they eject to stick to their companions.
Not long after the particles were parasitized, pairs of silky spider legs emerged from the inside and swayed in the wind. They devoured the bodies of the same kind and automatically fell off when they grew to a certain extent.
A spider often has more than one larvae on its body, and its surrounding companions spray at the same time, causing their backs to be densely packed.
The moment the larvae fall off, that's when they die.
This process was extremely fast. In the few seconds that Hero could see them, he witnessed a round of larvae from birth to shedding.
Whether it's the crawling of an entire spider swarm or the birth of spider eggs.
"Hiss~"
Everyone couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
Not to mention whether the spider eggs will be parasitically corroded after being touched, such a huge number cannot be killed at all!
They are like a perpetual motion machine. In this difficult environment and lack of sufficient carnivorous prey, they seem to have evolved an unruly way of extending their lives.
The death of one spider can lead to the birth of hundreds of spiders, without seeing the way they mate. The newly landed larvae can immediately lay eggs after a period of growth.
“Unreasonable!”
"I know, but what to do? There are more and more of them!"
"Let's try to clean it up first."
Byrne took the lead and could not help himself. He formed a spiral windbreaker around his body to protect himself from being parasitized by spider eggs. Then he pulled out a wind bow, and green meteors streaked across the sky and hit the first wave of swarms.
In a swarm of spiders.
"It can be cleaned! Their strength is not high!" The first round of wind and flow transformations made Byrne keenly aware of their weaknesses.
Hero, who was nearest, took out the [Guardian Master] and added: "Their bodies are very fragile and will break if touched!"
On the corpses of a group of dead spiders, light spots smaller than grains of rice appeared, and the passive effect of [Nightmare Swallowing Complete Appearance] drew them closer without being prompted by Hero.
Modules of the same color emerged one after another, and were quickly absorbed by him.
You can tell from the quality that they are not good products. Their soul strength is too low.
'It's really not high, and the soul fragments produced are the same as none.'
Holo pursed his lips, a little disgusted, but he couldn't see the spider group at the end behind him and still sighed, "A little adds up to a big thing."
Every second, the number is growing exponentially.
It's a place to spawn monsters.
"kill!"
The [Fire Walker] module's built-in fire damage with a radius of three meters is like a moving barrier. Paired with a shield, Hero stands in front of everyone as a guardian knight.
The spider that got a little closer was burned to ashes by the flames before it could even jump up.
Among them were spider eggs scattered all over the ground.
"It's coming from behind too!"
"Forward, forward, forward! Kill through." The old man reminded at the side that once surrounded, they would be extremely passive.