The muffled sound that echoed in the mountains sounded like rolling thunder, or like a huge rock falling from the cliff. It rumbled for half a minute, and Betsy stopped abruptly in the middle of her words.
After the sound subsided, he blinked and wondered, "Could it be that there was a landslide on the mountain road?"
Hao Ren's face suddenly turned bitter: "If I go, I won't be so unlucky, right?"
"Let's go first, don't waste time," Nangong Wuyue walked ahead, then quickly turned back, "Um, Betsy, you are here to lead the way, I don't recognize you..."
Everyone stopped talking nonsense, kept their heads down and continued on their way, starting to move forward at full speed on the rugged mountain roads.
This road was built hundreds of years ago under the leadership of the Horleta royal family. Now it has fallen into disrepair. Usually only brave mercenaries with skillful skills or adventurers who are really in a hurry would take a shortcut here. The ancient road is winding and winding.
The curved land stretches along the mountain. Some areas with wider terrain have flat stone roads. However, in places with narrow and steep terrain, there are only steep slopes formed by layers of stone steps. In some places, there are even no stone steps.
It is basically a primitive rock slope, with just guardrails made of thick iron chains added to the edge of the slope. Even the extremely tolerant and unique horses that are a specialty of this world will not be easy to move forward on this kind of road.
Therefore, after everyone crossed the gentle mountainous terrain that was easier to walk at first, their progress slowed down a lot.
Soon after, the team arrived at a famous and dangerous section of the ancient road. This section was dug directly into the side of the steep cliff. On one side was a thick and compressed rock wall, and on the other side was a vast mountain with the dry and cold mountain wind blowing.
Cliff. There are only a few thick iron chains suspended outside the road as protection beside the narrow mountain road that only allows one or two people to advance. These iron chains are fixed on several rusty iron piles, and the iron piles are nailed diagonally under the feet.
On the outside of the narrow path. If you slip under your feet, you may fall directly from the gap between the iron chain and the ground. It can be said that the psychological comfort of this "guardrail" is greater than its actual effect. Therefore, Hao Ren walked cautiously, and even Lily had a look on his face.
Nervously following Hao Ren, she grabbed the hem of his clothes and moved forward: This girl is currently in human form. If she had transformed into a werewolf, she would have already tucked her tail between her legs.
"It will definitely hurt if you fall." Lily stuck out her tongue and said as a gust of mountain wind hit her.
Hao Ren rolled his eyes. Lily only dared to say this thanks to her strong body. If an ordinary person fell, wouldn't it be described as "painful to death"?
Vivian is the most calm and carefree person on the scene, but she can fly...
Before embarking on this dangerous road, Betsy asked everyone to drive all the horses to the front of the team. Letting these old horses lead the way is the mercenary experience of this world: these horses know how to move forward on the dangerous road by themselves, and do not need to
People lead them in front. And letting them walk in front can prevent the horses from being frightened and rushing off the cliff in the event of an accident.
"I seem to smell..." Vivian was walking in front of Hao Ren. Halfway through this dangerous road, she suddenly turned around with a frown, "There seems to be the smell of blood ahead, it's very fresh."
"Bloody smell?" Hao Ren was suddenly startled, thinking that something bad happened to the visitor from another world, "leave quickly!"
Everyone finally walked through this narrow mountain road without any danger. After bypassing several huge rocks, the road in front of them suddenly became clearer. The bloody smell Vivian mentioned was getting closer and closer, even to Hao Ren himself.
To the point where it can be vaguely distinguished.
A burst of noise came from the front. Mixed with the roar of people, the collision of swords and the roar of something exploding, it seemed that a battle was taking place in front.
Betsy had already drawn her enchanted sword: "Can you guys fight?"
Vivian's eyes were already filled with blood, and Lily's ears and tail had popped out. The two of them had no worries about the trouble that transformation would cause in this world. So they transformed without hesitation when the situation required it.
Becky felt relieved when she saw them in this form: "Ha, it turns out they are werewolves and vampires. Then at least self-protection is no problem. Let's touch them carefully."
The sounds of battle were getting closer and closer, and those roars were also mixed with the cries of pain when some people were injured. After turning the last bend, Hao Ren finally saw what was happening in front of him: a group of people were fighting... some kind of stone monster.
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Those people should also be mercenaries, wearing a variety of equipment. The styles of weapons and armor are uneven, which is the typical "miscellaneous army" characteristics of mercenaries. There are about twelve or thirteen people, and the one who fights them is Hao
Strange "creatures" that Ren could never imagine, they were a group of... strange things that looked like rock statues. They were four to five meters high, with a gray-brown rock texture, and roughly had the appearance of limbs and heads.
The top and bottom are covered with moss and broken vines, like a monster from a weird fantasy story.
The battle seems to have lasted for a long time. All the dozen mercenaries have been injured, and some of them have even lost their combat effectiveness. They are covered in blood and can only stand on the edge of the battlefield with the support of their weapons. At the same time, they are struggling to dodge the aftermath of the battle.
The situation of the remaining mercenaries was not much better. Those rock monsters seemed to have overwhelming fighting power. Although they moved a little slowly, they were invulnerable due to their thick mountain rocks. The mercenaries' swords slashed these monsters.
Most of them can only produce a string of sparks, and the magic bombardment only explodes some rock fragments. On the other hand, if the rock monster hits any mortal mercenary, the result will be bruised skin and flesh.
The fighting methods of those monsters are also very simple and crude, which is to collide and trample. Their slow movements are not a problem. No matter how slow a running speed of a huge creature four or five meters high is, it is not something that a short human can easily catch up with. Therefore,
The mercenaries could only wait for the monster to approach and then rely on agility to dodge in a small area: this should be the experience they have just accumulated.
There were only three rock monsters, but they put more than a dozen mercenaries into danger.
On the other side of the mountain road, Hao Ren saw a large pile of broken rocks. It seemed to be the only rock monster killed by the mercenaries. He didn't know how they did it.
Hao Ren was stunned for a moment when he saw such a bizarre battle scene for the first time, but Yzaks had already rushed forward shouting: "Hurry up and help!"
She had to take action. Vivian spread her wings and rushed into the air, quickly summoning two large groups of bats radiating with lightning, and began to prepare her powerful lightning impact, while Lily summoned herself
With the double blades of ice and fire, she raised her head to face the sun (there was no moon at this time) and let out a long wolf howl. After being dizzy by the sunlight, she lowered her head and rushed towards the cliff - Hao Ren quickly stepped forward and pulled her to change direction.
The silly girl then rushed towards those rock monsters.
Nangong Wuyue quickly found a safe place to hang out and carefully lowered her hatred value: There is no way, she is just a healer. If she faces ordinary creatures, her siren power may be useful, but what about those rock monsters?
It doesn't look like there is water in the body, nor does it look like there is a spiritual unit that can be hypnotized by singing...
Hao Ren handed his daughter's pot to Nangong Wuyue and rushed forward with a shield.
Although he doesn't like this kind of inexplicable fighting, he is a man and cannot watch from the side at this time.
"Boom!" Vivian's lightning strike was finally brewing. Two cone-shaped electric lights composed of bat swarms hit the stone monster closest to her like two high-explosive warheads. Suddenly, smoke filled the air and gravel splashed everywhere.
The huge explosion echoed in the mountains for a long time.
Lily waved her double blades and happily rushed into the explosion range. She wanted to grab people's heads angrily: "Look at my power!"
As a result, she rushed out in the next second: "Bat, you are a scammer! Stones do not conduct electricity!"
The mountain wind blew and the smoke dissipated. As expected, the rock monster hit by Vivian's lightning strike was still standing there. Although the explosion just now was indeed powerful, a layer of stone had been shaved off the monster's body, and half of its head had been chipped away.
It was also blown to pieces, and its whole body was covered with scorch marks and cracks, but it was still standing and had already begun to chase Lily, who had just rushed forward recklessly.
It seems that for a stone monster, this kind of injury is nothing at all.
Vivian's lightning shock has two stages of damage. One is the explosion caused by high temperature caused by the bombardment of two electric cones. The other is the strong electric shock itself. The latter's lethality to ordinary creatures is simply a natural disaster level.
The voltage is as powerful as thunder in nature, but the vampire girl seems to lack the experience to deal with such strange monsters: their resistance is too high, and they seem not to be afraid of exploding...
The advantage of sneak attack has been lost, and the next step can only be a head-on battle. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!