Law of the Swarm

Chapter 238 Tragic Hydra

Hearing the sound of fighting in the distance, Necromancer Rowan held his staff tightly, and a huge zombie giant was summoned by Rowan.

However, the noisy sound in the distance soon stopped. The mercenaries had already won, and Rowan also dispersed the summoned zombie giants back to the underworld.

It didn't take long for the mercenaries to escort eight people to the chamber of commerce.

Of the eight escorts, two were fully armed and wore heavy armor, probably knights, and five wore light armor, apparently guards. As for the remaining one, both Jenny and Gino were very familiar.

It was Miss Jenny's biological father, that is, Earl Ian Tennyson.

As a result, the earl and his party of eight who had been escorted were immediately released by Jenny, and the scene became a little awkward for a while.

But the stalemate did not take as long as expected.

The earl who loves his daughter has always had a good relationship with Jenny. Although the scene was beyond the earl's expectation, the earl accepted his daughter's words.

After his daughter used [Spiritual Connection] to communicate spiritually with her, the Earl even believed that Jenny was the darling chosen by the god System.

Two days later, as Jenny's father, Earl Ian joined the Golden Banana Chamber of Commerce and became the first nobleman in the Golden Banana Chamber of Commerce...

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I don't know if it was an illusion, but when System recalled the banana in his dream, he inexplicably thought of Jenny, the count's daughter who was a little out of order.

But this illusion only appeared for a short while, and never happened again, and System could not imagine that the little girl Jenny would have any connection with bananas.

After all, System did not think of any useful results from the banana in his dream.

But as he continued to experience bananas, System's [intuition] gradually showed more sensations. It seemed that the things hidden in these bananas would be closely entangled with him in the future.

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The research on bananas did not delay System any time, because thinking about bananas would only be carried out when System was free.

For most of these two days, System has been preparing for [Shadow Incarnation] to visit Hydra Diamius, to gain a deeper understanding of the snake-man Rex's ability and knowledge about the Hydra's nine heads. temperament.

However, the snake man wizard doesn't know much about Hydra, but he knows that most of the heads of Hydra are not very irritable, and all snake heads can communicate.

Being able to communicate with Hydra is very consistent with System's previous inferences about most abyssal creatures - in abyssal creatures, the higher the level of strength, the higher the wisdom; the higher the wisdom, the more irritable personality will become reason.

In addition, System also obtained a very special piece of news about the Hydra through the snake-man wizard. The legendary abyssal creature Diamius the Hydra never left in the more than one hundred years since Rex was born. His lair is 20 meters away.

For more than 100 years, it has been living in its own lair and never going out. It has to be said that it is not a small miracle.

This made System very puzzled.

Is the Hydra an otaku creature in the abyss?

Or is there a particular reason?

But just relying on Rex and another snake wizard could not give System a better understanding of Hydra.

In any case, knowing that the Hydra Diamius would not leave the lair easily, and giving System more confidence in sending [Shadow Avatar], System also decided not to wait any longer, after all The time left for him is really limited.

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After making some preparations, System controlled [Shadow Incarnation] to follow the snake-man wizard Rex, heading east to the Hydra lair in the blackwater wetland jungle.

The movement of the snake-man wizard looks clumsy, but in fact the speed of movement is not slow. Even in the monad swamp full of mud, the snake-man squirms quickly and can reach a speed of about 40 kilometers per hour.

However, compared to the flying System, the Snakeman's speed is still slower.

However, if there is no extraordinary snakeman to open the way, the [Shadow Incarnation] flying all the way will inevitably encounter many unnecessary troubles and be attacked by magical creatures with strong territorial awareness.

It took a day and a half, and after a proper rest, System's [Shadow Incarnation] traveled a distance of nearly a thousand kilometers and arrived at the forest-like blackwater wetland.

Although it is like a forest, there is still a big difference between the black water wetland and the real forest, because the types of plants here are not very rich, and there are no more than ten kinds of plants at most.

There are many unknown trees in the jungle, about the thickness of a bucket, and the height is no more than three meters. The branches of the trees are very rugged, with many branches, and the leaves are like willow leaves, turning purple.

There are also many trees of this kind in the Monet Swamp, but in the Monet Swamp, these trees don't grow very big at all, at most they are small saplings of more than ten centimeters, like grass plants.

After entering the jungle, System could clearly feel that although there were still a lot of mosquitoes here, they were at least two-thirds less than those in the Monad Swamp.

In the jungle, there is obviously a new kind of bug at the bottom of the food chain, and that is the earthworm that can be seen everywhere.

Some large earthworms roll in the soil, even reaching the level of snakes, and can be half a meter long.

However, compared to the vicious and violent mosquitoes, earthworms are obviously vegetarians and feed on the mud in the wetlands.

When they hear some movement, or are attacked more violently by mosquitoes, the earthworms will take the initiative to escape and burrow into the soil to avoid the attack.

On the upper level of the food chain, apart from a few toads and lizards, most of the abyssal creatures here are abyssal snakes.

To put it simply, big snakes eat small snakes, and small snakes eat earthworms.

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Because of the general sense of territory at the level of the abyss, as an extraordinary creature, Rex would evade most of the hostile creatures as long as he released his breath during his movement.

This is true in the Monad Marsh, and it is also true in the Blackwater Wetlands.

After traveling for nearly a day and continuing to advance several hundred kilometers, System's [Shadow Incarnation] and the snake-man Rex successfully arrived near the lair where the legendary creature Hydra Diamius was.

There were still two kilometers away from Hydra Diamius, and System felt a faint oppressive force.

This oppressive force is very secretive, if it wasn't for the talent [Perception], perhaps it would be difficult for System to feel it.

300 meters outside the hydra lair, a very large fence was surrounded by the snake people with relatively straight tree branches. The fence is covered with jungle-specific vines, which looks like a wall.

There are only a few entrances and exits in the enclosure, and each passage is guarded by relatively tall snake warriors holding wooden spears.

It seems that they are afraid that ordinary snake people will disturb the Hydra Diamius who lives here.

System's [Shadow Incarnation] was not blocked because of the snake wizard Rex's opening the way, and he easily passed through the guards and entered the vine wall, and saw the legendary creature Hydra with his own eyes.

The level of [Mind Teleportation] inherited by System's [Shadow Incarnation] is not very high.

So the [spiritual connection] couldn't be as far away as proprioception, and System didn't discover the inconceivable condition of the legendary creature Hydra until he got close to it...

(End of this chapter)