As the team slowly entered the poisonous swamp, everyone became more and more nervous.
There were soft and slippery aquatic plants and duckweed under our feet. It was slippery and difficult to stand firmly, but it was still much easier than everyone originally expected.
A long rope more than thirty meters long, woven from tough rattan, strung everyone together, and the front end was tied around the waist of the old medicine farmer. And a silver knight held the long rope in one hand and carried a long rope in the other.
Jian, followed closely behind the old medicine farmer, ready to lend a helping hand when appropriate.
After all, there are still a lot of scavengers and poisonous creatures living here, and there are also many unnamed monsters and ghosts, which are particularly difficult to deal with.
More than twenty Paladin teams entered the swamp one after another. The distance between each team was less than ten meters to facilitate their response. This also reduced the possibility of being attacked by witches.
The seven golden knights near Black Mountain City have gathered here at the same time, escorting Reina and the newly captured little witch walking in the center of the team. As the number and strength of the team far exceed their opponents, they are not worried about the witches.
They will attack in large numbers, but they are worried that the other party will flee after hearing the news and refuse to fight.
To be honest, wearing a full set of stainless steel armor and trekking long distances through the mountains and jungles to hunt down those extremely nimble and cunning witches is by no means an easy and comfortable task.
Catherine held a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, following the team as they trudged through the swamp.
Looking around, I could barely see the five-meter range illuminated by the torch. Five meters away, there was a foggy, white expanse. The fog was floating around me, making everything around me seem to be covered with a thick veil, making it difficult to see.
Look carefully.
The mist was rich in water vapor, intertwined with the flames ignited on the torch, and erupted into a strange crackling sound. The road under your feet did not look like a 'road' at all, it was just the steps made by the teammates in front.
Slippery footprints.
And those who come after don't need to identify the road, they just need to follow in the footsteps of the former.
What would be the consequences of making the wrong move in such a place? A young black iron knight told everyone about the dangers here based on his own personal experience.
Perhaps he was just looking around, or perhaps his spirit slipped away. The black iron knight stepped outside the "grass path" and immediately tilted his body and fell into a swamp and puddle.
And this is like lighting a bright torch, causing the entire swamp to start boiling in an instant!
Visible to the naked eye, the mud in the stinky mire is stirring and ripples, as if some strange creature is burrowing and stirring underneath. And as the black iron knight keeps struggling in the mud, the turmoil in the stinky mire becomes more obvious, and a wave of
There is a clear water line from far to near, quickly approaching the person who falls into the water.
"Everyone pull him up with all your strength..." the silver knight leading the team shouted sharply. The two people closest to the drowned knight grabbed the rope wrapped around their waists, exerted force suddenly, and pulled him away with a pop like a carrot.
He was pulled up from sinking deeper and deeper into the foul-smelling mud.
The 'prey' suddenly disappeared, and the monsters hiding in the mud were furious and emerged one after another.
Suddenly, a large group of old hags and sludge monsters emerged from the smelly mire around the team.
The old hag looks like a humanoid monster similar to a drowned zombie, with shaggy and dirty hair, dark claws, and incomplete but sharp fangs. Their claws are included in the attack.
Packed with terrible toxins, they are even more dangerous in the swamp than ghouls.
As for the sludge monster, it is a low-level monster made purely of smelly sludge and strange substances. It has several special combat abilities and attacks such as 'mud missile', 'acid splash' and 'split proliferation'.
The power may not be strong, but it is enough to disgust people to death.
Faced with the massive incoming swamp creatures, the Paladin team showed no fear.
As the 'Holy Light Bullets' shoot out like raindrops, each named swamp creature will have its soul purified in this almost sacred pure holy light, and then the old hag will turn into a rotting corpse.
, and the sludge monster will turn into a puddle of mud and die.
Seemingly aware of the difficulty of these intruders, the old hags and sludge monsters chirped and floated in the swamp, using the silt to avoid each other's holy light bombs. In the long queue of 3 miles
, many old hags have already rushed onto the grass road and started fighting in close combat with the paladins.
If the guys who broke into the poisonous swamp today were replaced by imperial soldiers, I am afraid that there would have been a large number of casualties and poisoned people by now. But the paladins with the blessing of the holy light have the ability to face these low-level monsters and strange monsters.
Unparalleled lethality.
No matter how sharp the old hag's claws and fangs are, they can't penetrate the Holy Light barrier and the thick Holy Light armor outside the Holy Knights' bodies. And their hard skin, which they think is as tough and indestructible as old cowhide, cannot be penetrated by the Holy Knights.
The swords of the knights were soaked in rich holy light, but they were as thin as a piece of paper.
Almost like chopping melons and vegetables, the Paladins chopped down the old hags who rushed onto the grass road one by one, and their souls were completely purified. However, facing the sludge monster with several long-range skills, the Paladins were a little embarrassed.
One after another, the sludge missiles came through the air and hit the holy light barrier outside the Paladin's body, exploding into a ball of extremely foul-smelling sludge. The smell and the content simply caused the spirits of each of the clean Paladins to collapse, and their noses were also damaged.
Suffering from torture.
Using Holy Light Slash, Holy Seal Sanction and other means to deal with a group of low-level monsters is simply too wasteful, so cheap Holy Light bullets fall like raindrops on the sludge monsters. How can a small silt monster withstand the purification of the Holy Light?
, one by one the mud monsters exploded silently.
However, before the smiles on the faces of the Paladins rose, the rotting mud-like bodies in the distance condensed again and split into three slightly smaller mud monsters.
The next moment, denser sludge missiles and acid splashes flew over.
What makes the Paladins feel more frustrated is that an ordinary sludge monster can split twice, and each individual can split into three smaller sludge monsters. In other words, it takes nine kills to completely kill an ordinary sludge monster.
Sludge monster.
Before that, these sludge monsters had completely covered the area where the Paladins were with the foul-smelling sludge and the strange acid brewing in their bodies.
For a moment, the entire paladin team was enveloped by a terrible stench that pierced the brain!
All the paladins were fighting and vomiting desperately at the same time. The funny and weird scene was simply unbearable to watch.
However, the strength of the Paladin team has far surpassed the aberrations and monsters in front of them. Therefore, although the situation is somewhat out of control, the Paladin team has not seen any combat attrition so far.
Whether it was the poisonous attack from the old hag or the acid splash from the sludge monster, some damage was purified by the brilliant and sacred light before it could accumulate on the paladin's body into visible damage to the naked eye.
The only pity is that the holy light can purify toxins and acid, but it cannot purify the stench!
Therefore, the Paladins who fell one after another on the battlefield did not suffer any physical injuries, but were simply knocked down by the stench.
Catherine was among the long queue, silently reciting words of praise to the great holy light, and inspired the holy light bullets in her hands to sway towards the figure shaking in the mist.
Her face was pale and she could hardly breathe.
The surface of the water, the grass, and myself were covered with sticky, slippery, disgusting acid. This 'body fluid' that had been bred in the body of the sludge monster for many years would emit a gleaming green color no matter where it landed.
The smoke ball smells like the horrible smell formed after the dirty and filthy "waste" in the sewer has been fully brewed and fermented.
Catherine just smelled it and vomited out all the contents in her stomach. In the end, even the acid in her intestines and stomach was vomited out.
Even though their hands and feet were weak from vomiting, each of the Paladins was still fighting bravely... no, slaughtering!
Groups of old hags and sludge monsters rushed out of the mist on both sides of the grass road, and then fell to the holy swords of the paladins with howling screams.
Although the battle could be described as 'tragic', the Paladin team strangely suffered no casualties!
The 3-mile-long team of Paladins all stopped and worked hard to purify the group of monsters and monsters. However, just as they were fighting hard, a huge monitor lizard suddenly emerged from the swamp mire.
As streaks of earth-yellow petrified rays shot out from the strange eyes of the swamp monitor lizard, several black iron knights who were unprepared were struck and were instantly paralyzed on the spot.
Visible to the naked eye, a layer of blue-gray color spread rapidly on their skin. Soon, not to mention the little finger, even the eyes of the paladin who was hit suddenly froze, turning into a hard stone statue.
The swamp monitor lizard rushed forward, bit the petrified paladin, turned around and dragged them into the mire.
So the next moment, the entire swamp rolled with mud waves, black water splashed everywhere, and swamp creatures swarmed in and bit the paladin madly, dragging him to the bottom of the deeper mire.
As for the long rope tied to the paladin's body, it was bitten off and could no longer be used as a helping hand.
"asshole……"
Some paladins who witnessed this scene were extremely angry and rushed into the mire with swords to fight with the swamp creatures.
But it is a pity that with their strength on land, it is no problem for a black iron knight to deal with seven or eight old hags. But in this special environment, two or three old hags can play with them until they are out of breath.
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Relying on the parasitic monsters like swamp monitor lizards, the swamp creatures actually broke through the defense of the paladins in some areas, and dragged each of the paladins into the swamp, which was too weak to survive.
Almost instantly, the Paladin team suffered double-digit casualties! (To be continued)