Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 512 Entering the Town
A blood moon hangs in the desolate night sky. A ghost in red clothes is floating in the darkness like a fly, giving out a cold low laugh from time to time.

The black locusts on the roadside have long faded from their original green color, and they are as dead as skinny old witches.

'They' rooted unevenly on the decaying roadside, stretched out their sinister arms, and those arms were so thin that they could only hang weakly on the ground, trembling slightly.

As Thorne walked towards the small town in the distance, he pulled out the sharp sword from his waist and held it tightly in his hand.

From the moment the group of people arrived here, he immediately felt the inexplicable disgust and anxiety in his heart.As a wilderness ranger, facing this unnatural and decaying place, he instinctively rejected this space.

However, with the protection of the paladin Avar's magic and the undead concealment technique performed by Kefla, this gradually made him feel more at ease.

Even with the protection of spells, they could quietly walk past the undead wandering unconsciously, but the group of people moved forward still cautiously.

After all, this concealment spell can only cover undead creatures that are similar in strength to Kefla at most. If you encounter powerful undead above Tier [-], no one can guarantee that you will be able to avoid their induction.

It would be troublesome if it was accidentally discovered and besieged by the vast number of undead.

"Look, there is a sea of ​​flowers over there."

At this time, among the group of people, the elven banshee Kaif, who looked the most relaxed, stretched out her little hand, pointed to Thorne at an open space close to the outline of the town, and lowered her excited voice as much as possible.

Thorne followed the instructions of the little banshee and looked forward, but unfortunately the place where his eyes touched was still a chaotic darkness, and he did not find the sea of ​​flowers at all, so he involuntarily accelerated his steps towards the direction she was pointing at.

He didn't find anything abnormal, and he didn't think that Kefla was lying to himself.

After all, her true identity is also an undead creature, and she is naturally at home in this closed space full of negative energy. It can be said that there is no place that makes her feel more physically and mentally happy than this place.

This also makes her more sensitive to her surroundings than a paladin.

It is not surprising to be able to discover things that others cannot perceive temporarily.

As the footsteps of the people involuntarily accelerated, with the light and elegant fragrance of flowers permeating their noses, they soon discovered the so-called sea of ​​flowers in Kefla's mouth.

Diagonally opposite the path, there is a large unremarkable plant, which is a black trumpet-shaped flower exuding faint luster, with three long ovate leaves and slender rhizomes.

If you don't observe carefully, the flowers in the sea of ​​flowers are actually no different from the wild flowers and weeds on the roadside.

This sea of ​​flowers, which has existed for an unknown number of years, seems to have withered. Under the caress of the cold wind, it is still and still maintains its original beauty, which makes people feel very strange.

But when Kefla walked to the edge of the flowers, everything suddenly became jaw-dropping.

I saw her looking at these black flowers curiously. She didn't know that the tendon was out of order. Before everyone could react, she suddenly stretched out her hand and pulled out a small black flower by the root.

Immediately afterwards, the uprooted black flower revealed a fist-sized rhizome underneath.The most shocking thing is that this stem looks like a little baby, with hands and feet, and even the facial expressions are very human-like.

Moreover, the baby-shaped rhizome showed a strange bright red color, as if it had been full of human blood.

The moment the flower was pulled out, the 'little baby' on the rhizome showed a panicked look, dancing its limbs wildly like a baby, struggling in mid-air, and making ear-piercing noises from time to time. The scream made everyone's eardrums hurt.

At the moment when the ear-piercing sound sounded, Thorn's attribute panel even showed the data of the death judgment.

Fortunately, he held the Steel Soul Sword in his hand, and with the blessing of the ancient characteristics, when he encountered the scream of the dead, he automatically activated the Steel Soul faction's counter skill "Spiritual Defense", which instantly helped him resolve the attack Unprepared soul attack.

And Lance, the elf swordsman beside him, was even more unlucky. If the sorceress Cecil hadn't given him a spell to protect him from evil damage in time, even if he didn't die, he would have been severely injured.

Kefla, the culprit, obviously didn't expect such a weird thing to happen.

Even she herself was so frightened by the sudden scream that her face turned pale.

Fortunately, as an undead creature, she could easily be immune to this kind of necromantic attack spell, so she didn't suffer any damage.

She immediately threw the whole little flower in her hand like a hot potato, then retreated and hid behind Thorne, showing a look of rejoicing.

And this little flower that was thrown away was like Kevlar, wandering around in the flowers like a headless fly, and made a weird sound like cursing.

In the end, he found a new foothold, stretched out his little hand and dug a small pit on the ground with difficulty, and buried himself in it.

It turned out to be a black datura flower, and Thorne instantly recognized the name of the flower.

Datura flower, a magical plant that can grow by absorbing the power of resentment in the breath of negative energy.

Because the necessary condition for its growth is the breath of negative energy, the rhizome has anesthetic and psychedelic effects even without any processing, so it has become the favorite of necromancers, especially necromancers who are proficient in making potions .

They are extremely good at planting this kind of evil demonized plant in the main material world, and they also know very well how to speed up the growth of this plant.

Thorne is quite familiar with this point, because the first owner of the Emerald Tower was originally a wizard who was proficient in the necromancy school, so he naturally recorded a lot of these things.

The easiest way is to use fresh corpses or even living people to make offerings. This kind of plant, which has always been endowed with horror by the world, will automatically absorb its vitality.

According to legend, there is a ghost living in every black mandala flower, which can help you realize your wish, but there is a condition in exchange, that is, human blood.

As long as you water the enchanting black mandala with your own blood, when it blooms, the ghost in the flower will grant one of your wishes, but you can only water it with your own blood, because ghosts like this kind of warmth and happiness. Deadly feeling.

"Is there a way to take all these datura flowers away?" Seeing the little banshee whose expression quickly returned to normal, Thorne looked at the sorceress Cecil not far away.

Black mandala flowers are relatively rare in the entire main material world, let alone the mandala flowers whose rhizomes have sucked blood in front of them.

Judging from the scarletness of the rhizome, this mandala flower has probably grown here for at least several hundred years.

Especially when he saw the mandala flower that was uprooted by Kevlar just now, he would bury himself in the soil again.

This made him realize that this sea of ​​flowers is simply an invisible treasure, and if he can take all this large area of ​​plants away, its value will be immeasurable.

The paladin Aval at the side frowned slightly when he heard that Thorn planned to harvest the mandala flowers, and then canceled an idea that came to his mind.

As a paladin, when he saw this terrifying sea of ​​flowers, his first thought was to use the holy flame to clean it up completely.

But the situation of the people in front of him made him understand that it was not the time to worry about such things. When he heard that Thorne had thoughts about these plants, he voluntarily gave up his plans.

"No way." The witch shook her head slightly and explained to the ranger:
"This is no ordinary datura flower. Under the precipitation of such a strong negative energy atmosphere, I estimate that most datura flowers may have an instinctive self-protection mechanism. If you want to collect them, I'm afraid you can't It's as simple as imagined."

From the power of the screeching sound from the rhizome just now, she could judge the approximate growth year and basic characteristics of this mandala flower, so she was not absolutely sure, and dared to threaten to successfully take it away.

"That can only be left for later." Thorne looked at the things within his reach but couldn't take them away, and he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

However, these things are not without a solution for him.

After leaving this place, just ask Ta Ling, he believes that there is definitely a spell on how to subdue this weird plant in the tower.

Then hand it over to them to deal with.

After such a small episode, the group did not stay here too much, and continued along the gravel path, carefully walking towards the blurred outline of the town ahead.

Although this space has been sealed, it is still connected to the main material plane.

The only thing that puzzled Thorn was that before they came, it was clearly sunny noon, but after they stepped into this place, it was a dark and quiet night.

In this regard, he can only think that it is caused by the influence of the negative energy plane.

After all, Shadowfall Underworld itself is a dimensional space where all colors except black, white and gray will be taken away.

In any case, it is also a dark place that resists light. The sky inside is a pitch-black dome, with neither sun nor starlight, only a blood moon hanging in midair.

Thorn even believed that it was only a matter of time before this sealed space became a part of the Shadowfall Underworld as it was continuously eroded by negative energy over time.

After a while, they came to the small town without any risk.

The first thing that catches the eye is a stone wall made of thick stones. From the countless dilapidated marks left on the city wall, it can be seen that this town has experienced many fierce battles before it fell.

On this dilapidated city wall, Thorne also found stiff figures walking back and forth.

According to the clothes and appearance they kept before they were alive, Thorne guessed that the group of zombies, skeletons, ghouls and other types of undead creatures wandering around the city wall were probably the town guards in their lifetime.

This caused them to continue to guard the obsession in their hearts even after they died.

"This should be Dawn Town before the year of turmoil." Just as everyone was watching the town curiously, the silent paladin Avar suddenly said:

"From the remaining missions in the consciousness of this group of undead creatures, it can be seen that when this small town was transferred here, it happened very suddenly, which led to the fact that most of them failed to overcome the surging negative energy. survived the erosion.

Even if a very few people survived due to physical reasons, they would be unable to escape because the entire space was instantly sealed, and eventually they could not withstand the erosion of negative energy and were transformed into undead creatures. "

Dawn Town?
Hearing the name of the town mentioned by the paladin, Thorne remembered some experiences in the underground space of Twin Towers Town, and many doubts that remained until now were slowly solved.

Once, he saw a message from Winster in the Tower of the Dead in Twin Towers Town.

It tells the story of a person from Dawn Town who took the initiative to make a deal with the dark existence in order to defend the town that was about to fall, and then exchanged for a weapon that could destroy the enemy.

It's a pity that the final result is still a failure, and the Shuguang Town, which has become a dead town, is obviously the end of the failure.

Thinking of this, Thorne couldn't help wondering what the purpose of Winster, who used to be a person from Dawn Town, guiding them here, and what could be changed with the power of a few of them.

"So, all the undead creatures in the town should have been transformed by the former residents of the town." The female wizard Cecil looked at the undead patrol team on the city wall, and looked at the ghosts through the half-open gate of the town. All kinds of undead creatures on the street asked curiously.

"Not necessarily." The paladin Avar did not agree with the witch's guess. He looked into the town and said in a rather worried tone:

"Hundreds of years have passed since the most chaotic and turbulent year. There should be many undead creatures who will continue to invade here along the cracks of the negative energy plane. I am afraid that the number of undead in this small town will be too many It's unimaginable."

"That's not necessarily the case." Thorne also looked at the zombie skeletons wandering in the town.

He realized that the strength of these undead creatures did not threaten him at all, and was only slightly stronger than the ordinary undead in the main material world, so he refuted the paladin's guess and expressed his opinion to several people:
"Didn't you find a problem? All the residents of this small town were eroded by negative energy and eventually transformed into undead creatures, but they have been able to survive until now.

Does this mean that there seems to be no powerful undead creatures in the town that can threaten their safety, or that there are some kind of symbolic guardians in the town who have been secretly protecting these undead creatures who can only act on instinct? resident. "

"Go in and find out." The female wizard Cecil sensed the response of the magic amulet in her hand, so she suggested to everyone.

(End of this chapter)