The night passed quickly and a new day has arrived.
When the morning sunlight shines through the mottled leaves on the top of Yuxon City, the second challenge of the promotion ceremony is ready.
This challenge takes place in a place called "Flying Snake Swamp" in the south of Yuxon City.
This is a barren swamp full of all kinds of venomous snakes and insects. In the swamp grows a kind of tree called "Ghost Claw Tree". This kind of tree has no pages and only has countless densely packed ghost claw-like claws growing on the trunk.
Barb.
These barbs are full of toxins. As long as an ordinary person is scratched by the barbs, his body will soon fester and die.
However, these barbs have no effect on professionals and mercenaries. If they are stabbed, they will only have a very slight paralysis effect.
The mission target of the second challenge of the promotion ceremony is in this swamp full of ghost claw trees.
There lives here a kind of flying snake with bat wings on its back. This kind of flying snake is not a monster, but an ordinary native beast, and its longest length can only be as long as the middle finger of an adult.
This flying snake is venomous like most other creatures living in this swamp, but its venom is also ineffective against professionals and mercenaries.
The goal of all challenge participants is to try their best to hunt down a hundred flying snakes. Only the first 8 people to kill a sufficient number will be qualified to enter the next challenge.
It should be noted that although this kind of flying snakes cannot pose any threat to the mercenaries, they can fly very fast and are very flexible in the air. They can hover in the air and fly backwards, etc.
A difficult flying maneuver.
The most important thing is that these little things have protective colors on their bodies, and most of them live inside the trunk of the ghost claw tree. They rely on the spikes on the ghost claw tree for protection. Just trying to find them out of the trunk requires a lot of effort.
It took a lot of effort.
Therefore, it is not an easy task to successfully hunt them.
In addition, all participants must also pay attention to controlling the intensity of their attacks, because these flying snakes are just ordinary animals, and they have no resistance to the skills of mercenaries. If you don't pay attention to a little strength when hunting, it will be easy to kill them.
Beat the whole prey into a ball of meat.
The rules of such a prey promotion ceremony will not be recognized.
This challenge tests the participants' observation skills, patience and control of their skills and own strength.
Of course, if you are indeed deficient in these aspects, then you also have another option.
--snatch!
Like the previous challenge, participants are not prohibited from fighting each other in the assessment area, and they can still be teleported out of the assessment area only if they declare abstention.
The most important thing is that the body of the flying snake cannot be taken out of the assessment area. When you declare to give up, the body of the flying snake on you will fall to the place where you were when you teleported.
This provides some participants who are not good at careful observation and hunting with the possibility to wait for work and steal other people's trophies, and the trophies snatched in this way are also recognized by the rules of the promotion ceremony.
However, robbery naturally involves the risk of robbery. Not to mention that the roles of hunter and prey may change at any time. If the person being robbed is really unwilling to hand over the trophies, they can completely destroy everything before losing, so that the attempts can be made.
The plunderer gets nothing.
But even with the risk of getting nothing, the benefits from snatching the spoils of war are higher than slowly catching flying snakes one by one. The snatcher only needs to have a pair of eyes that are good at distinguishing the quality of the prey, and even
It is possible to hit the ground and advance directly.
Xue Hua is not worried that the two sisters will fall prey due to their strength, but the mimic chicks he sent to the small town of Saltera last night have heard back today.
Some Punishers did come to the island late yesterday, and just as Xue Hua expected, as soon as these guys entered the town near the port, they went directly to the tavern where he and Kane stayed after the assassination.
went.
So far, the reports sent back by the mimic hatchlings showed that those women had found out a lot of things. Because Xue Hua did not expect this at the time, he did not do anything to cover up his whereabouts.
Fortunately, the cargo ship "White Whale" had already re-recruited its crew and set sail that morning, so although they still found some fragments about Xue Hua's battle with the sea giant at sea, these messages were neither
The details are not first-hand. They have been "artistically made" by the "storytellers" in the tavern. The whole thing sounds like a fairy tale, with very low credibility.
The most information that the Punisher's spies found about Xue Hua in the seaport town was the brutal assassination that occurred near the pier. Even though several days had passed, the huge fireball and terror that erupted on the pier of the port pier.
The sound of the explosion still frightened the local townspeople.
Some of the Punisher spies even went to see the port. The thrilling half of the trestle and the smell of gunpowder smoke that had not completely dissipated made all the Punisher spies fall into silence.
Xue Hua's combat power once again far exceeded their imagination. To survive such an explosion, one must at least have legendary level defense.
Xue Hua watched every move of the Punisher's spies, and he knew that everything that happened in Saltera would soon be reported back to Yuxon.
Xue Hua's current identity and his own powerful power were enough to intimidate Fina so that she did not dare to have any ideas about him. However, when this woman realized that it was Xue Hua who had killed the messenger of the Storm Goddess, who she had high hopes for, she wanted to
It was probably impossible for her to swallow this breath like this.
Therefore, it is very likely that she will make a fuss in the promotion ceremony of Anne and Funya. After all, their relationship with Xue Hua is basically obvious.
Hurt them and hurt Xue Hua himself more painfully.
And Xue Hua would never let this happen.
Once there is any problem with his twins during the promotion ceremony, he will definitely make that woman taste the devastating bitter pill at all costs!
At the same time, in order to give himself a chance to rescue Annie and Funya, Xue Hua transferred all the monitoring king insects and node king insects in the surrounding area to the area above the Flying Snake Swamp.
Even if he wasn't afraid that this was going too far, he would have directly asked the Node King Insect to use its ability to block communications to completely shield the entire Flying Snake Swamp, preventing any signals from the outside world from entering.
Just when Xue Hua was still thinking about letting Isha try to see if he could send troops like cockroaches to sneak into the assessment area from the ground, the participants who came to participate in the second challenge finally arrived at the swamp under the leadership of their respective instructors.
edge.
A row of temporary sentry towers and high platforms were built behind them, and those on the high platforms of the sentry towers were the people who came to watch the ceremony.
Xue Hua and Kane were arranged on an independent viewing platform, just like last time, not far from the viewing platform where the three queens were.
But in fact, this viewing platform is of no use, because the Flying Snake Swamp is quite large, and if more than 20 participants spread out inside, they would quickly lose sight of anyone.
Moreover, the second challenge will last for three days in total. After three days, those who have not come out of the swamp will be deemed to have given up.
So except for Xue Hua, who can watch the live broadcast through the Supervisory King Insect, the people watching the ceremony here will probably come to cheer at the beginning, and then go through the show at the end...
Just when Xue Hua was secretly cursing the people on the wooden platform next to him, the priests at the edge of the swamp had already finished reciting their prayers, and a huge light curtain like a canopy enveloped the entire Flying Snake Swamp. The promotion ceremony
The second challenge is about to begin! (To be continued)