With a clear master-slave relationship, Gargamel is no longer as lazy about this trip as before.
Relying on his special ability as a pharmacist, the small monster smelled the herbal bag hanging on his witch's staff and immediately hid as far away as possible. This also allowed the expedition team to avoid many unnecessary battles!
However, Gargamel's witch potion obviously only works on monsters and has no effect on ordinary jungle beasts. This is the moment to show the value of this group of mercenaries.
Ordinary beasts, the three of Lovi and Neil, a half-hearted hunter, can handle them. If they are attacked by a large group of beasts, the terrifying combat power of Sabrina, a mechanical girl, will be fully unleashed.
No matter how terrifying the beast is in her hands, it is nothing more than pieces of rotten meat that can be slaughtered and killed at will.
If it weren't for the fear of disturbing overly powerful monsters, Sabrina could even kill an entire pack of more than 200 wolves by herself without getting hurt.
Sabrina, who is protected by the power of witchcraft, is already an almost god-like terrifying existence in the eyes of adventurers, but in front of the two wizards, she often does not dare to take a breath and obeys their orders docilely. Even though.
That Gargamel, who was so thin and withered that he could be knocked down by a single wind, was so bossy and unscrupulous when he drove the mechanical girl.
With the full cooperation of Wizard Gargamel, the team's traveling speed was naturally accelerated countless times. In only 3 days, they arrived near the destination of their trip under the leadership of Lovi and others.
When they first arrived here, they did not act rashly. The team set up camp near a hidden canyon.
Sword and shield warrior Lovi led the two wizards Grim and Gargamel up a small slope. Through the gaps between the dense trees, they peered into the mysterious area half a mile away.
Sick wood forest!
This is also the local name for this black forest area that covers an area of 50 miles.
The only reason why it got such a title is that the trees here seem to be suffering from a strange disease. All the leaves are yellow and withered, looking sickly.
Seriously speaking, the sick wood forest is actually a small dirt mountain, with the highest point only 200 meters. The top of the mountain is flat and gentle, and there are no too steep peaks. The entire mountain is covered with skinny old trees, with leaves that are half yellow and half green.
It looks quite weird.
The ancient trees on the mountain are not very tall, and large metal rocks are exposed from time to time under the thin soil layer, reflecting little bits of light under the sunlight. The roots of the ancient trees stretch hard between the soil and rocks,
In many places, the fruit has been exposed to the soil.
The soil on the mountain is grey-brown with a hint of burnt yellow, as if an infinite heat is slowly coming out of the ground, turning this place into a small oven. And the ancient trees on the mountain are the baked semi-burnt cheese, if not
This heat is intermittent, giving them an opportunity to survive. I am afraid that the entire mountain will become a bare and barren land!
Grim and Gargamel looked at each other and nodded silently.
It can be seen from the shape of the diseased wood forest area that there is indeed a heat source underground. If you want to know the cause of the heat source in detail, you can only risk it and explore it.
"There is a cave entrance there, there and there. They are all narrow and short, only big enough for an adult to bend down and walk through. And in that direction... there is a slightly larger cave entrance, but it is full of scary bats. Outsiders
It's difficult to get inside without disturbing them..." Luo Wei is indeed an adventurer who has been making a living here all year round, and he is very familiar with dangerous areas like the Sickwood Forest.
However, it is obvious that his understanding is limited to the superficial layer of the diseased wood forest. As for the world under the earth mountain, it is not a field that he can touch at all!
Fortunately, Greem had already obtained some information from the forest demon, otherwise he would have had to bite the bullet and take the risk. Even with Greem's confidence, if he ran into a group of manticores with a black eye, he would be disgraced.
It's light. If he doesn't pay a price, even with his strength, he will still peel off his skin if he doesn't die!
At this point, the adventurer team has actually completed the commissioned task issued by Greem. As for going deep underground to explore the underground world, this is not a task that ordinary adventurers can complete. No matter how many magic crystal bounties Greem offers, Luo Wei
He wouldn't be stupid enough to lead his teammates into a group of monsters' lair.
Although the magic crystal is good, it still needs the life flower to be really good!
Greem did not insist on this, but only asked them to maintain the temporary camp on the ground. The real members of the expedition team were still Greem, Gargamel and Sabrina.
In the evening, when the sky darkened again, everyone gathered in the camp suddenly heard a strange sound.
A large number of nocturnal bats swarmed out of a huge cave at the foot of Bingmulin Mountain. The huge number even covered the nearby sky. They circled left and right in the sky, and when they gathered in sufficient numbers, they suddenly turned toward a dark cloud.
He rushed towards the distant mountains and forests.
These little guys who stay up day and night are finally out!
Not long after the nocturnal bats were dispatched, the cave that had just fallen silent suddenly heard a huge roar of wind.
With strange roars, terrifying manticores as big as rhinoceroses and with hideous bodies flew out of the cave. They circled half-gliding in the sky, and landed on a towering stone pillar near the entrance of the cave.
fell down.
They have a lion-like body and head, with brown hair, a pair of leathery dark red bat wings on their backs, and a terrifying arthropod-like scorpion tail behind their tails. The scorpion tail has poisonous needles sticking up high.
It started to rise, and the ends of its limbs were flashing with a strange blue luster. It looked like it was no ordinary toxin.
Compared to the huge body of the Manticore, the bat wings on its back are too slender and thin. Obviously, such a size cannot lift them high into the sky, nor can they fly quickly, but the Manticore doesn't care at all.
After all, the manticore is a rare monster that lives in the underground world all year round. The area there is narrow and the terrain is rugged. If the wings are too large, it will be difficult to spread them. So it only needs to use bat wings to glide at a semi-low altitude, so that it can swoop down to the ground.
Just prey.
One, two, three, four...nine...
Greem and the other three hid in a crevice between rocks, used medicinal powder to eliminate the smell on their bodies, and observed the movements of the manticores at close range.
There are nine manticores in total, some are big and some are small, but all are adult manticores and young manticores that are qualified for the job of hunters. This also indicates that there are still two underage manticores staying in the manticore lair below the cave.
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After a moment of 'quarrel' and 'commotion', the nine manticores were divided into three groups, roaring and rushing in different directions. Although they are underground creatures, the food in the underground world is too scarce, so they also need food at certain intervals.
Come to the surface for a large-scale hunt to satisfy the new manticores in the tribe's desire for large amounts of blood!
"Let's go! Let's go meet those two little manticores!" After the figures of the manticores completely disappeared into the dark night, Greem waved his hand and led the two of them towards the entrance of the huge cave.
It was only after this departure that we could see that Sabrina, a coolie, was carrying a huge cloth bag on her back, and it seemed to be some kind of living thing squirming inside.
When you first entered the cave, a pungent stench that was so strong that it was suffocating hit your face.
Thousands of bats breed and live here, making the air in the cave extremely polluted, and the floor and stone pillars are covered with a thick layer of bat guano, making it impossible to get a foothold.
Greem stood at the entrance of the cave, his eyes slowly scanning the dark space inside, and quickly locked onto an area.
The moist and cold air blew out from there, and there must be a hidden passage leading to the lower level behind the jagged stalagmites.
In Greem's elemental vision, infrared detection, low-light vision and long-distance touch alternately work, supplemented by the wizard's spiritual perception, the darkness in the cave is rapidly retreating and peeling off. Each one is as sharp as a wolf's fang.
Stalagmites, stone pillars leading straight to the roof of the cave, hidden cracks hidden among the rocks... All of these slowly emerged in his mind with Greem as the center.
Multi-dimensional scene construction!
This is also because Greem's visual perception ability has been strengthened step by step as his strength has gradually grown stronger.
In the past, Greem could only see objects within straight line vision, but could not see things hidden behind walls or stone pillars. But now, with the improvement of his abilities and the increasingly powerful mental perception, his sight can even bypass obstacles.
See what you want to see.
Of course, the premise is that there is no energy interference or the wall is not too thick!
The birth of this ability also means that there will be no blind spots in his future battles. No matter whether the enemy attacks him from any direction or angle, he can react immediately and either attack, defend, or dodge.
, each time you can make a response that is more in line with your own interests from a more overall perspective.
"Come closer and I'll take you in!"
Grim gave instructions in a low voice, and when Gargamel and Sabrina came closer, he reached out and grabbed their arms, then paused slightly and disappeared in a burst of fire.
The next second, in a dark corner of the cave where bats did not dare approach, fire shot into the sky, and Greem and his three men emerged.
Gargamel was still indifferent, relying on his strong mental power to withstand the dizziness caused by the sudden change in space. As a quasi-witch apprentice, Sabrina was obviously experiencing the strange witchcraft of 'flame teleportation' for the first time. In an instant, she
I felt my throat was dry and the scene in front of me was confusing. I staggered two steps, held my hand on the stone pillar and panted for a moment before I recovered.
"Let's go, there are two babies waiting for us inside!"
Greem chuckled lightly and took the lead and dived into the dark underground passage.