Chapter 261 111. The Real Lustria Jungle
"That's that?" Colonia asked curiously, looking at the tree frog held by a skink.
"That's a firefly frog. This kind of tree frog is usually found high on tree trunks. Strange? How did he catch it? When looking for insects, tree frogs will use the pads on the tips of their toes to stick to branches or trunks. With yellow and black stripes Or blue with black spots to warn predators of the highly toxic secretions in their skin. However, skinks raise large numbers of tree frogs to provide a steady supply of venom for their blowpipe darts." Wren just glanced at After that, they started talking.
"You know so much."
Ren didn't say anything, but smiled dryly. He glanced at Colonia with envy.
Surrounding Colonia was a faint black light, a spell protecting her from the heat and the jungle. She looked relaxed, not as if she was walking hard in the jungle, but in Krakalund. Like walking on the beach by the sea.
Soon it was time to camp at night. In order to take care of these hot-blooded people who had many things to do, Inxi Huzi had to walk around in a big circle to find a suitable place to camp. If it was just him and the skinks, how could there be so many? After tying up
the cold lizards, the family guards, under the command of Renn, carefully used tools to cut out several wooden boards from the tree, applied insect repellent and placed them on a relatively In the open space, after struggling for a long time, I finally finished it, and even made a simple table.
The table was covered with dried meat from at least five different beasts, all trophies obtained by the team led by Ren when they arrived. The skinks collected some edible fruits and carried a large quantity of dried insects with them, and a group of skinks even collected some nectar, which filled their gourds.
The water is rainwater, filtered by Colonia's magic. Of course, Renn learned a valuable experience from Darkus, which is to boil the water and drink it.
The family guards sat around the table, nibbling on rotten dried meat sprinkled with some salt.
Renn took a dried worm and threw it into his mouth and chewed it. He also took the dried worm in his hand and tried to share it with Colonia and the family guards. After seeing the family guards wave their hands and refuse and Colonia looked at him with disgust, He threw the dried worm into his mouth again. He didn't touch this thing at all before because he was not adaptable mentally and physically, but it is different now. Without Darkus' magical talent, he rode a cold lizard all the way from Krakalond to here. He had to apply lotion, and after such a long time, he had already lost his sense of taste and smell.
After eating, Renn chatted with Insi Huzi for a few words, such as why you are bigger than other skinks, what special talents you have, etc., and then asked Mazdamudi, Chupa Coco, Regarding the situation of Coptiti, Hesiota, and Spicazuma, no useful information was obtained.
Yinxi Huzi stumbled and said that the ancient sage Huangqi had blessed him, and knew nothing else. Lord Mazdamudi and Chupa Coco usually stayed in Spicazuma and rarely returned to Hesiota, only on important occasions. Moments will come back, such as when he was born, Lord Mazdamudi came back once, and when the Triceratops with the blessing of the ancient saint Iqi broke out of the blessing incubator, but it only stayed for a while. The meeting returned to Spicazuma. He had no idea who Coptiti was. The affairs of Hesiota were managed by Skink Priest Pikipochi.
It was an uneventful night, and the team packed up and set off again the next day.
Huge plants blocked the light, and the air was filled with a fragrance and rotten smell that the Drukhi could not smell. Brightly colored birds scream among the branches of towering trees, and small insects move across the carpet of plants that cover the jungle floor.
The family guards who came to the Lustria continent for the first time could not bear the unbearable heat and kept wiping the sweat that kept flowing out.
In the distance, a huge reptile rushed out of the low trees.
"Scaly iguana! Get ready to fight!" Ren noticed the lizard rushing out, his face changed drastically, and he shouted in an unnatural tone. He knew that the team was in trouble.
Squamous iguanas are large, extremely aggressive carnivorous lizards. Their bodies are light brown and have scales and spikes on their skin, which can be expanded when angry or frightened. Iguanas are arboreal as juveniles, but become more terrestrial as they age. They are aggressive predators that attack their prey and inflict vicious, venomous bites. Once the prey falls, whether it is completely dead or not, the scaly iguana will start eating, and the most important thing is that this kind of lizard lives in groups. The presence of one means there are more nearby.
Compared to the scaly iguana, Ren would rather meet the iguana. The iguana is a lizard that is larger than the scaly iguana. It has two rows of scaly spikes on its back and tail. What grows between the spikes is not scales, but broad scales. Their jaws have two large fangs that can pierce their prey and cause it to bleed. Although they have an extraordinary sense of smell, like vultures they are scavengers and generally do not touch live animals.
Even more troubling than that is the sound of fighting that might attract nearby predators.
"Don't use the repeating crossbow, use the harpoon crossbow! Don't get bitten. No one can save you!" While roaring at the top of his lungs, Ren took out the harpoon crossbow from the side of the saddle and pulled the bowstring with great effort.
As a skink leader, Yinxi Huzi was also hissing and shouting. At this time, he spoke very fluently. After all, it was related to combat and was imprinted in his mind from birth.
Wet leaves slapped Insi-Huzi's face, blurring his vision. Then another scaly iguana rushed out and hit him hard. He immediately thrust his short spear javelin into the scaly iguana's mouth, but he was also knocked to the ground by the scaly iguana's impact.
Although the lizardmen are adapted to the jungle environment and are good at living in the jungles of the Lustria continent, and can reasonably use the creatures in the jungle as traps and tools, some creatures here are also deadly to them. Predators will not ignore them just because they are lizardfolk, but skinks are also on the diet of these predators.
Yinxi Huzi instinctively followed the force and fell on his back on the wet ground, rolling continuously.
The scaly iguana's mouth full of fangs snapped shut in front of a skink. The skink easily dodged the fatal attack, and then a harpoon launched by a family guard hit the attack. Skink scaly iguana.
After the family guards fired the harpoon, it was too late to reload it. They were well-trained and quickly placed the harpoon crossbow, took out the Soul Eater from the saddle and prepared to fight. The cold lizards under them kept roaring, cold. The lizard seemed a little impatient, and obviously those scaly iguanas were also on the diet of the cold lizard.
After taking off the Soul Eater, Renn looked around. His heart beat faster and his breathing became heavier. There were far more scaly iguanas than he thought. He couldn't run away, and there was no way to run away. He could only fight bravely here.
The Skink's weapons cannot cause effective damage to the Scaled Iguana. Even Druchi's standard weapons are difficult to deal with. Renn once fought against the Scaled Iguana. The only weaknesses of the Scaled Iguana are its mouth and eyes, unless it is It took the Cold Lizard sprinting at full speed to stab the Soul Eater into the scaly iguana's scaly and spiked folds of skin. Renn looked around again, wanting to see how Colonia was doing. Maybe the hope of the battle would be pinned on Colonia.
The black light of the protective spell surrounded Colonia, and for the first time along the way she felt Wren panic, not even when they bumped into their cousins in Anaheim, and she removed it and pinned it to her belt. He drank a bottle of potion in one gulp, sprinkled a small bottle of innocent blood on the churning ground, and began to cast spells.
Subsequently, an Anizipal's space gate appeared out of thin air on the charging path of many scaly iguanas, opening the door to another world. Indescribable creatures were attracted to the dimension of the medieval world, stretching out inexplicably. The titular tendril hunts as many scaly iguanas as possible before the gate collapses.
The successive releases of annihilation spells and small demonic arrows of destruction brought unparalleled destructive power. Blazing black flames were thrown out by Colonia. Creatures touched by the spell would disappear and be annihilated, as if they had never appeared before. .
Ren controlled the cold lizard that was about to lose control to jump up, firmly grasped the front of the Soul Eater, and stabbed it into the mouth of the scaled iguana, but this blow did not penetrate the scaled iguana. His brain, but it must have pierced an organ such as the trachea. Something seemed to crunch under the blow. The violent scaly iguana was still trying to bite him forward, sending its poisonous teeth in. In the palm of his hand.
After a moment, the scaly iguana fell down, opened its mouth wide, and let out a last silent roar before death, but no sound came out from its broken throat.
As the Soul Eater was pulled out cleanly, green blood flowed from the scaly iguana's mouth, and a strange coppery smell filled the air. Unfortunately, Renn has lost his sense of smell and cannot smell it. But there was nothing wrong with his hearing, and he knew another scaly iguana was coming to his right.
Ren held the Soul Eater and had no time to adjust, so he could only turn around and use the Soul Eater's fist to thrust into the scaled iguana's mouth. The fist directly penetrated the scaled iguana's chin, but the scaled iguana was still struggling and was struggling. Stopping and pushing him back, he adjusted his body shape and controlled himself hard, pinning the Soul Eater there firmly to prevent him from falling off the cold lizard. The cold lizard under him was also opening its mouth and trying to tear him apart. Biting it, a relatively perfect golden triangle is formed, and no one among the three can do anything to the other.
A skink boy screamed and appeared in Ren's ears from far to near. Like the hissing sound of a boiling kettle, the skink became violent and kept hitting him with the stone stick in its hand. With the eyes of the scaly iguana, he also cooperated with the attack of the skink, twisting the Soul Eater's grip, trying his best to control the scaly iguana's struggle.
As the skink kid struck hard, the scaly iguana, whose eyes had been smashed, was still struggling until a family guard quickly ran over and sent two crossbow arrows that were set to close-range shooting mode. After entering the mouth of the scaly iguana, the scaly iguana stopped struggling.
In order to ensure that the scaly iguana was completely dead, the family guard pulled out the serrated dagger from his waist with his left hand and stabbed it hard into the scaly iguana's eye.
"May the Ancient Saint bless you!" After saying this, Renn did not draw out the Soul Eater, but instead drew out the long sword obtained in the ancient tomb and plunged into the melee, elegantly fighting in the whirlpool. dance to tune.
Every time Ren thrust out a sword, a scaly iguana would fall down. With the addition of Inshi-Huzi, the two of them turned the tide of the battle in the blink of an eye. In fact, there are not many moving scaly iguanas on the field now, and they are helping to touch up the damage and pick up missed shots.
But this did not prevent the two remaining scaly iguanas from escaping into the low trees.
Around Ren, the skinks continued to kill the injured iguanas, trying to use stone sticks to break the skulls of the iguanas and pierce the eyes of the iguanas. It seemed that the skinks were driven by fear and kept repeating. these actions.
Renn laughed, knowing that although the Skinks would occasionally run away and attack again when fighting started, he always believed that the Lizardmen were as cruel and violent as the Druchi, no matter what the source of this cruelty and violence. . He liked this feeling before he followed Darkus, but now, he couldn't tell.
Colonia was still riding on the cold lizard, looking around coldly, looking for a target for her to attack.
"I hope the two who ran away are a male and a female, otherwise their tribe will be ruined. Are you okay?" Renn came back, pulled out the Soul Eater and looked at Colonia and said.
During the battle, raindrops fell gently on the canopy of leaves, dripping down and making the road become muddy. The birds fell silent, and dim light fell on the lizardmen and Druki.
"It couldn't be better. These creatures are indeed difficult to deal with. The jungle here is more dangerous than the Kulish Jungle!" Colonia said with a smile. She was still looking around, but she returned to her previous appearance.
"We have to get out of here quickly. If it weren't for your magic, the battle just now would have been very difficult. Did you find anything interesting?" "I found
these skinks are very strange. They are very scared when fighting, but they are also Very cruel."
Renn smiled, and when he was about to say something, his smile froze on his face. He heard the sound of the earth shaking, and he was really afraid of what might happen.
The Skink Lizards who were still handling the trophies also stopped what they were doing and looked in the direction of the vibration, as did the Cold Lizards who were eating.
Ren looked around again. The shaking sound was getting closer and closer. He realized that it was too late to evacuate. Apparently, the giant beast was attracted by the sound of the battle just now. With no way to retreat, they could only bite the bullet and continue fighting. He now One can only pray to the Old Ones that the appearance of something other than an outrageous beast like the Tyrannosaurus Rex will appear.
The moment Ren shouted to prepare for battle, the Ancient Saint responded to his prayer, and a triceratops rushed out from the bushes nearby.
The moment the Triceratops rushed out, the skinks put down what they were doing and scattered in panic, running in the opposite direction from where the Triceratops came. No matter how Inxi-Huzi shouted, they He didn't look back, but asked Yinxi Huzi to run with him.
Ren didn't know whether to be grateful or feel lucky for himself. What appeared was a Triceratops, not a terrifying behemoth like an ancient Triceratops or a Tyrannosaurus. The first time he saw a Triceratops fight was in Wo. In Brother Walter's manor, he was an ally of the Triceratops at that time. Without the support of the Reaper ballistae, Brother Walter's guards and mercenaries had no power to fight back in front of the Triceratops. Then, in Forest Farm City There was a confrontation with the secret keeper in the village, and the triceratops was killed by the secret keeper's halberd! But that was the Keeper of Secrets, a Chaos Demon!
Then he came to the continent of Lustria. Under Darkus' magical talent, Ren always fought side by side as an ally of the Triceratops. He even climbed on the back of the Triceratops to stay on the combat platform, and sometimes even Will help take care of the triceratops.
But all of that was due to Darkus' talent. At this time, he found that Lustria was completely different from the Lustria he had stayed with for two years. Without Darkus, Lustria Chia was still Lustria, but it seemed like two different worlds. He doubted his own knowledge for a moment. Ren reacted quickly again. Instead of lamenting the magic of Lord Darkus, he didn't think that the Triceratops in front of him would let him go for Darkus' sake. He wanted to be a Triceratops for the first time. The enemy of the dragon is engaged in a life and death battle with the Triceratops.
The hot and humid air was filled with the reptilian lizard-like stench of the Triceratops. It was obvious that this giant beast in the wild had not been carefully cared for by the skinks. Even the rain could not wash away this suffocating stench. But luckily the druchis still can't smell it. The ground shook under its terrible footsteps, and it made a deafening roar. It seemed that it could knock the prey in front of it to the ground with just one loud noise.
Instead of using the Soul Eater, Ren drew the sword again. He felt a little ridiculous. It was as difficult to deal with this behemoth with this weapon as it was to deal with a cold lizard with a dagger.
"Stick to your position! Calm down! Don't run around! The consequences of getting lost in the jungle are death!" Ren roared hoarsely in Elvish. He no longer cared about the skinks that had escaped. He believed that as long as he Hold on here, those unreliable Skinks may come back to join the fight later.
In the past ten years following Darkus, Renn has experienced many dangerous battles, and there is a power in his voice that can make others obey even when they are most fearful.
The Triceratops was also attracted by Ren's shout. It turned its head and looked at the little guy who dared to challenge it. Its bright eyes stared at Ren fiercely. The sharp beak opened suddenly and rushed towards Ren at a speed that was completely unsuitable for such a huge creature.
Ren leaned forward, rolled under the Triceratops' front legs, passed between the Triceratops' front legs and hind legs, and rolled out from the side of the Triceratops. The moment he finished the move, he realized that he had made a mistake. Colonia was still riding a cold lizard behind him.
But Colonia was far more powerful than Ren thought. She could not escape the attack of the Triceratops and could only watch the Triceratops close the distance between the two sides. Moreover, the cold lizard under her body rushed towards the Triceratops. She opened her arms, recited ancient spells, and made mysterious magic gestures.
At the moment when the cold lizard and the triceratops collided, Colonia successfully used the flying technique. A sudden strong wind changed the trajectory of the raindrops and blew her into the sky.
The flying spell is a unique spell of Drukhi's dark sorceress, but it also has major flaws. Once the spell is successfully cast, the caster cannot cancel the spell. The caster cannot change the landing point, and can only land to the position where it first flew. , and this spell cannot be used indoors yet.
The Triceratops' jaws bit the cold lizard's body, and its big beak split the cold lizard's muscles. Even the cold lizard's hard scales could not withstand the blow.
The cold lizard's chest collapsed and bones crackled as it let out a final defiant roar, but its roar turned into an agonizing death scream as its body was torn in two.
On the other side, Ren used his long sword to strike at the weak spot where the Triceratops' thigh connected to its torso. He knew that the skin there was soft and not covered with thick armor like other parts of the Triceratops' body.
The outer flesh of the Triceratops split, and the muscles inside trembled slightly. It let out a deafening roar of pain, and Wren could barely move himself away from its feet as its columnar thighs swung.
Yinxi Huzi and the family guards picked up the soul eater, spear and shield and joined the battle. They were inspired by Ren's fighting spirit. Even though they saw the cold lizard being torn apart in the moment of the confrontation, they still stood aside. Shouting the names of their respective gods to cheer themselves up, they pounced on the Triceratops.
The Triceratops continued to attack, hissing from its nostrils. Its large beak was painted red with blood, but its thirst for killing was undiminished. In an instant, three family guards died under its attack.
"Spread out! Spread out!" Ren's expression was distorted, and he roared in between battles.
Renne has lost too many companions along the way, and there is still a certain distance from the final destination. This journey seems destined to fail.
With a sweep of the giant head of the Triceratops, another family guard was thrown high into the air.
The family guard crashed into a distant tree trunk and fell heavily back to the ground, falling face down on the jungle floor. His body struggled and twisted for a few seconds, but his bones were broken, and then he stopped moving.
Colonia, who was in the air, was extremely anxious. The dense tree trunks blocked her sight. At this moment, she could only listen to the screams below and worry. She kept moving with the rising position as a fulcrum. She wanted to find an opening where she could cast the spell, but after searching for a while, she still couldn't find it. She had no choice but to close her eyes and try to use her senses to locate the Triceratops, but as soon as she closed her eyes, she sensed that something was wrong. There was a flying creature swooping towards her from a high altitude. She had no time to cast a spell, so she had to avoid it first.
Renn saw a weak javelin falling loosely on the back of the Triceratops. He turned his head and looked over, and found that the skinks that had just escaped ran back again. A skink was hiding in a tree and using Ranged projectiles attack the Triceratops.
Ren suddenly got an inspiration. He no longer had time to worry about whether the vines were poisonous. He climbed up the trunk, reached out to grab a vine, then jumped out and landed on the back of the Triceratops. He climbed hard on the back of the triceratops. Fortunately, he had been on the back of the triceratops before and knew where to grab it. He climbed towards the neck of the triceratops, knowing that that was also the triceratops's weak point.
When Ren climbed onto the Triceratops bone shield, he saw from the gap in the Triceratops bone shield that Inxi-Huzi had withdrawn from the battlefield, and what actions Inxi-Huzi was doing with a bag in his hand. , with the rapid shouting of Yinxi Huzi, he quickly realized what Yinxi Huzi was doing.
"Spread out! Spread out now!"
Fire leeches are small reddish-brown worms that can only be found in pools and slow-flowing streams with a small chance of being found. What makes it remarkable is that when provoked, it shoots a stream of searing flames from its rear.
The moment the remaining family guards retreated, Yinxi Huzi ignored the cold lizard who was still fighting. He gathered his strength and smashed the sling tied with fire leeches into the face of the Triceratops. The flames gradually expanded and filled the area. Ren's vision.
The Triceratops let out a scream of fear and pain, and Ren crouched down and hid behind the bone shield to avoid the impact of the blazing flames. Even so, he still felt like he was being burned. The vines hanging on the tree withered and died instantly under the burning flames. The Triceratops stood upright on its hind legs, roaring and spinning, and its bone shield kept swinging.
Ren took the opportunity to let go and jump to the ground. He tried to run away, but his feet slipped in the rain and blood, and he fell to the ground, about to be trampled mercilessly by the Triceratops.
At this time, a skink handed Insi-Huzi another sling with fire leeches tied to it. Finding a neutral position, he hit the sling on the Triceratops' face again.
Taking advantage of the moment when the Triceratops screamed and stopped moving, Ren rolled and crawled away from the danger. The Triceratops crashed into a nearby tree. Several skinks hiding in the tree were knocked to the ground before they could react and were trampled to death by the Triceratops.
The tree also broke in the middle and fell to the ground. Inshi-Huzi's third throw failed, and the sling hit the trunk of the tree. The trees quickly bubbled into flames, and the loud explosion of branches seemed to panic the giant reptile.
The Triceratops turned around and glared at Ren.
Ren seemed to be blocking the Triceratops' escape route. He met the Triceratops' eyes for a second, and he saw the anger in the Triceratops' eyes. The Triceratops' legs clawed at the ground like an angry bull preparing to charge. Before he could react, the Triceratops lowered its head and rushed straight towards him. In the words of Darkus, it was like a dump truck with failed brakes, although he still didn't understand what brake failure and a dump truck were. mean.
Ren smiled helplessly and stood motionless, as if welcoming the arrival of death. Everything came too fast, and the family guards behind the Triceratops could only scream in despair.
At this moment, Renn thought of his brothers and sisters, his family, his wife, and his daughter whom he had not seen a few times since she was born. He also thought of Darkus and the mission that Darkus had assigned him.
The Triceratops rushed towards Ren at an astonishing speed. At this time, a specious voice echoed in Ren's mind. At first, he thought it was an illusion. In the process of thinking, he jumped up at the last moment of the collision. Jump on the long nose of the Triceratops, stab the left eye of the Triceratops with the sword, pull out the sword and step on the bone shield protecting the neck of the Triceratops, then fall on the back of the Triceratops, and then roll down in embarrassment. Triceratops' back.
The Triceratops did not fall to the ground after being injured, but continued to charge. It stumbled into the jungle, trying to escape the flames and pain, roaring to the sky to vent its anger and pain.
The heavy rain fell harder and harder, turning the jungle carpet into flowing green mud. In a sense, the marching team seemed to be walking under the green water. The rain splashed down from the canopy of the giant tree, forming small waterfalls, and the sound drowned out other surrounding sounds.
Ren was becoming more and more envious of Colonia's magic. Even though Colonia cast a rain-proof spell on him, he still felt that his armor, robes, and Kaitan were soaked, and his hair was tightly sticky. Above his head, mud clung to his boots and calves, making him look like he was wearing stockings that only the druchi attendants in the House of Flesh wore, and the stockings squeaked against the boots. It continuously emits light when it sounds.
On the other hand, in Colonia, the heavy rain did not cause her any trouble. The heavy rain was blocked a finger's width away from her body, making her look dry and comfortable. She was sharing with Renn that she had been covered in the sky just now. The experience of a pterosaur chase.
The Druchi and Skink lizards who survived the battle had their shoulders slumped, carrying heavy equipment, and walked hard with painful and heavy expressions. The only three remaining Cold Lizards also carried heavy equipment.
It was painful to walk like this for five days, but luckily there was no fighting during these five days. With the arrival of heavy rain, the creatures in the jungle seemed to be hiding, and occasionally some water tigers swimming in the water could be seen. lizard.
In the past five days, that voice has been echoing in and out of Ren's mind. At first, he was a little confused, thinking that he had been tricked. He knew how to be tricked, and when he was next to Darkus He had experienced too much, but the occasional clear voice made him feel that it was not a trick, because the voice came from the language of the lizard people, but it was obscure and he could not understand it.
The team trudged through the winding paths of the Viper Forest, and while trying to cross the Snake Tongue River at a wide fording point, the team gathered two other lizardman patrol teams heading back to Hesiota. Under Ren's command and coordination, a raft was built that could carry Druch and the lizards across the river. The skinks and monitor lizards pushed the raft and kept swimming in the already flooded river, transporting With.
The Snake Tongue River is located to the north of Hesiota and is the last barrier to Hesiota, but the team still has to travel another four or five days to reach Hesiota.
The City of the Sun, the great temple city of Hesiota, gradually emerged from the jungle. Colonia looked at this majestic and amazing city in surprise. In her eyes, this city was... So huge, eternal and indestructible.
The remaining six family guards looked at this huge city hidden in the jungle in shock.
As the bronze door of Hesiota slowly opened, Renn came to Hesiota for the second time.
"This is my second time here, but this time it's more embarrassing than last time, but fortunately, we are here after all." Renn shrugged tiredly and said with a wry smile, and then he asked Colonia and the family guards They recounted the events of their last visit, including the commotion and the Skink Gaze that occurred as Darkus's procession walked along the city's central parade avenue.
When the team arrived at the square of the Southern Star Pyramid, a burst of white light suddenly flashed in the square. At first, Renn thought that Lord Mazdamudi knew of his arrival and had returned from Spicazuma, but when he took a closer look, it was not the case. What appeared was an extremely embarrassed Druch. The Druch looked around blankly, reacted for a moment, and then shouted loudly in Elvish.
"Bibala Silses!" Silses yelled and realized something was wrong. He remembered what Darkus had told him, and then shouted, "Darkus! Darkus! Darkus! Darkus!" Keus!"
Renne and Colonia looked at each other, confused as to what was going on.
"Although I don't understand why he is here? But should you go and help him?" Colonia asked Ren, looking at Sirsis who was already surrounded by lizard guards.
Renn also reacted, put down the things on his back, and ran quickly towards the square.
On the other side, Druchi's Black Ark Fleet was welcomed by the violent storm of the Lustria continent and slowly sailed out of the underground sea.
Let's post it together, don't say I'm delaying again
(end of chapter)