Fishing Druid in Another World
Chapter 396 Dark Swamp
From west to east, from south to north, and then from east to west.
The route that Faust planned for himself has a characteristic, that is, the right side is either highlands or mountains, and the left side is always swamps and plains, so there is basically no need to worry about getting lost.
Swamps are not suitable for horses. Even in the marginal areas, there are often intertwined water networks and no bridges.
But Faust's undead knights can overcome this.
Before coming, some preparations were made, including water control. For example, the new magic weapon that Faust obtained is a water-winning scepter with a tidal bead as the core, which is more than one foot long and looks like a white bone claw connected to the arm bone holding a bead.
This is indeed from a creature, but it is not a human, but a water beast. Specifically, it may be a distorted and mutated ancient naga.
Priest Luo, who made the Victory Water Scepter, was not very clear. He became more and more skilled in purifying the polluted area in the dream dimension. Even elite monsters could only last for three seconds in front of him. He had no time to look at them carefully. It was only when he cleaned the battlefield afterwards that he recalled a few things and corresponded to their general appearance.
Although the dream dimension is mainly used to accommodate spirits, the laws of the polluted area are distorted. Some entities enter, and some energy is shaped. This kind of tangible and qualitative characteristics are also the reliance of its evil dominance. After all, this can better interfere with the environment.
Unfortunately, the advantages that the dark ones have finally established were forcibly swept away by Priest Luo. With the elimination of evil and rectification of the soul habitat, the dark ones who have lost this breakthrough have found it very difficult to go deeper into the dream dimension.
And Priest Luo has accumulated a lot of spoils, all of which have been accumulated by the dark ones over a long period of time. From a human perspective, they are all treasures of the years.
Pastor Luo did not build a treasure mountain like the Dragon's Treasure, but displayed it somewhere in the Pure Land of Stars and Moon in a similar way to shelf storage.
When there is a need, take one or two, make them into magic tools, and give them to his subordinates to facilitate their work.
Faust has a heavy task and many treasures in his hands.
This water-winning scepter only needs to be carried and activated to provide a water-control aura, and the specific effects include stepping on water like flat ground and walking on waves.
Therefore, the horse team only needs to surround Faust and not exceed a certain range. The horse hooves will always be wrapped in aqua-blue light. When stepping on muddy water, it will leave a ripple-like light circle that will dissipate after a few seconds. The messy horse hooves will interweave these light circles, which is beautiful and even saves the lighting at night.
Of course, this function is meaningless. The undead slaves have very strong night vision. If it is a clear sky and moonlit night, they can see farther than during the day.
However, it is not very meaningful to see far away at the edge of the swamp.
The marginal areas are all freshwater wetlands, with plants that love water and shade, overgrown grass occupying the mud, twisted trees with branches full of aerial roots, and wet plants, large and small puddles and ponds reflecting the sky, or misty water mist.
In such an environment, what's the use of being able to see far?
In fact, for most outsiders who come to the marsh, the more unbearable is the ubiquitous humidity and mosquitoes.
In someone's words: "When you come here, you will feel like you have entered a cesspool, and you are feces, not only attracting mosquitoes, but also being rotten all the time."
Perhaps it is because of this harsh environment that the skin of the marsh people is black and gray, not the dry gray like the undead slaves, but with a greasy quality, and it is not known whether it is sweat, oil, or water.
In short, it gives people the feeling of mud sticks, so many people who have dealt with the marsh people call them "mud sticks". Of course, they usually don't call them that to their faces.
Unfortunately, Faust and his party rode for two days without seeing a mud stick. He began to doubt: "Is my idea too advanced? Most people in the marsh can still live in the depths of the marsh?"
Faust did not get angry immediately, but raised his hand again to release the holographic map for verification.
It must be said that Faust has a very high degree of trust in the information and objects given by Priest Luo, and almost never questioned it.
He combined the holographic map to confirm the current location of the group, and then made a decision.
"It's right here!" While trusting the information and objects given by Priest Luo, Faust also had some of his own calculations.
For example, assuming that Heisenberg was the first stake of the guardrail he knocked down in Zed, then where should the second one be?
In theory, it should be combined with reality, and not taken for granted.
After all, these stakes should not only accommodate refugees, but also develop industries so that people who come to take refuge can feed themselves, instead of being supplied by the dark forest.
In addition, the population distribution, road distribution, and specific environmental conditions in the areas involved in each pile are obviously also contents that should be considered. This is the specific manifestation of combining with reality.
But now, Faust feels that it is not necessarily wrong to be happy with himself.
Anyway, it is not what you want, anyway, like Heisenberg, the technology he provides is the main thing. In this case, why should he accommodate the locals too much, and finally make him dissatisfied and the locals dislike it.
It is important to please one party, right?
And as a savior who is almost responsible for everything, what's wrong with him being happy with himself? Could it be that the people of the marshland are refugees and have a temper like a master? Don't they even understand that people have to bow their heads under the eaves? Are you going to talk to him about respect and human rights?
"That's right!" Faust convinced himself, but still called the translator and consultant over: "Tahir, take a look at the environment around here, and tell me what kind of marshland industry can be developed."
As he said, he pulled out the Victory Water Scepter from his waist and tapped on Tahir's mount.
He turned around and circled the scepter at more than ten cavalrymen nearby.
With the blessing of magic, within 1 hour, it has the effect of water control, including wave stepping and micro-water barrier.
The micro-water barrier is to form a film on the surface of the body with internal and external water vapor, so that it can always maintain the appropriate dryness, not get wet, and not dry enough to generate friction and electricity.
Tahir is a small businessman in his forties. He has been doing business with his father since he was a child. He is flexible and has a broad vision.
When the news of the evil god's minions came, he did not wait and rely on others. He found a reliable person to investigate and prepared for a long journey with his family.
The situation turned out to be worse than he expected. Even if the scouts followed his advice, they almost didn't come back.
Although he left quickly, he still encountered robbery on the way to escape. Although he had made a plan to save people and property, his old father died of illness on the road, and his wife and eldest daughter were not saved.
But even so, the difficulties still couldn't crush this man. He took the rest of his family and ran to the Grey Spear Coast in one breath.
For someone like him, even if he worked for the sea people, he could still make a living, but the appearance of Faust made him see an opportunity, and he also seized it, and recommended himself, saying that he could act as a translator and give opinions from the locals' perspective on all things in the marshland.
Faust felt that such a person was really needed, so he made him an attendant. Tahir couldn't ride a horse, so Faust asked the undead slave to be his groom and human-shaped armchair.
Tahir is very hard-working. Faust has extraordinary abilities, and the undead slaves are just tools. They are almost insensitive to the difficulty of walking. But Tahir is just an ordinary person. He runs every day, even if he walks on a flat road, he will suffer a lot of bumps, but he endures it.
Faust saw it and initially recognized this man.
In fact, making Tahir comfortable is just a matter of magic. But this is not a reason to spoil him.
Faust himself has also suffered a lot. He thinks that workers should have the minimum awareness of workers. The boss can reward, but this kind of reward is just the boss's kindness, not the so-called should.
It has to be said that this kind of thinking seems a bit heavy in the modern "master flavor" of the earth, but in the world and era where Faust lives, it is already reasonable, and there are many darker ones than this.
And following Faust, there are fewer times of suffering, but many rewards.
Like eating and drinking, Faust does not have the rules of most nobles in this era that I eat first and servants can only eat leftovers.
Although he would not sit at the same table with servants, he would divide the food first and then eat it separately, instead of "I finish eating and you eat whatever is left".
To Tahir, Faust was a typical first-generation master who had just made a fortune and had not yet formed a set of perfect rules. In the eyes of the old nobles, he was full of jokes and unruly.
But for someone like him, he was an absolute potential stock, so Tahir worked very hard. Try to show your own value and attitude as much as possible.
For Faust, he had seen many people with good value and attitude.
For example, the Hiram family expressed their willingness to let their best children lead the horse and serve him. But he refused on the grounds that he was not used to it.
There are many specific reasons, but it is not wrong to say "I don't have that habit". He thinks that some habits can be developed slowly. When he travels around the world and is no longer moved and impulsive by the wonders outside, it is not too late to develop these habits...
Tahir almost returned within the limit of one hour. Faust threw him a water bag and asked him to talk slowly.
Tahir already knew that Faust's attitude towards cooking was almost religious. He would not be absent-minded in his thoughts or actions when cooking.
So he still briefly described the situation he observed and some opinions.
Faust nodded after listening, "So, the environment here is fine, and my choice is also fine. There are other reasons why the refugees did not come here. I understand."
He stood up and divided into five scout teams, each with five members, in a cone ray, each exploring a direction, and for this purpose, he also added six hours of water resistance.
So, the twenty-five riders went to the depths of the swamp like five sharp arrows.
Instead of waiting for six hours, they all returned in about four hours.
The moon was already high in the sky, and the delicious dinner had been digested for a while. They were not upset by the bumpy ride, so Faust did not wait and immediately led the team to the scouts to explore the strange areas.
About an hour and 40 minutes later, the black fog area reported by the scouts appeared in Faust's sight.
"Have you seen such a thing when you were fleeing?"
"Reporting to Bey, I have never heard of it."
Bey meant the master, but this master was the status of "bo" in the Eastern nobility. In the context of the establishment of states, he belonged to the princes who could govern one side.
Faust did not care about such details, it was just a title, and he really just listened to it.
He patted the back of his mount, and the whole person soared into the sky wrapped in blood energy.
Looking down from the sky with the bright light of the round-faced lady, this black fog is like some kind of living thing, twisting and wriggling constantly, just like many insects crowded together to dig up the soil and suck mud.
"This evil god is disgusting!"
After falling back and riding the undead horse again, Faust thought for a moment, and finally suppressed his impulse to send the undead fire ash dragon.
The effect of sending the fire ash dragon will indeed be very good, but there is a high probability that the situation will escalate quickly. This is not what he wants, so he still has to be safe.
He took out a magic crystal from his bag. It is an ordinary crystal that stores magic power.
The so-called magic power refers to the mixture of extraordinary power, just like many metal ores, iron, nickel, aluminum, lead, tin, everything, but in different proportions.
Magic crystals are generally mostly elemental energy, and the power of darkness and the power of light are the rarest, because these two powers are relatively grand and abstract, ubiquitous, but difficult to grasp.
Magic crystals are spellcasting materials for Faust, the more commonly used ones.
Now it was used. After blood energy was infused into it, the magic crystal stone suddenly became a scarlet luminous body. It did not release a dazzling light and illuminate all directions, but formed a layer of misty light smoke outside the crystal stone, with tiny lightning flashing from time to time, like a magical night light.
Throwing it to Tahir, Faust said, "Don't leave me." Then he rushed into the black fog area first.
Tahir did not need to control the horse, just hold the blood stone tightly with one hand and the saddle with the other.
Because of the water control aura, Tahir did not inhale the fog or smell any strange smell after rushing into the black fog.
As for the vision, it can only be said that it is really like moving in an environment with only a night light in the middle of the night. The light of the stars and the moon is completely blocked.
And there is a dead silence around.
The chirping of insects and frogs in the marshland is very noisy, and sometimes even the locals who were born and raised there are very annoyed. But now, Tahir really wanted to hear this kind of natural sound, instead of the dead silence except for the sound of riding.
Want some sound effects? No problem!
The sound came, like a swarm of bees, but it was not bees, more complex and chaotic, like a variety of flying insects together.
Tahir guessed it right! The reward is that the insect cloud suddenly rushed out and hit his face.
In fact, the other party had a process of coming, but his vision was really poor, so he felt that the other party had already hit his face when he saw it.
Tahir instinctively wanted to scream, even if he was not a patient with intensive phobia, this situation was still too terrifying and disgusting.
‘Buzz! ’ His scream just started, and was covered by the sound of the insect cloud collapsing.
If the flying insects enter within one foot of the undead servant, they will burn to ashes, and if they enter within one foot of Tahir, they will die instantly.
Flying insects are such tiny lives that they are not enough for blood magic to absorb.
In terms of game mode, the blood magic barrier created by the bloodstone, unless you have a strong enough law power, otherwise you are a superhuman of the model class, fully armed, jumping every second, and 1 point of damage must be recognized, and each of these poisonous insects does not even have 1 point, the result is instant death.
Soon after, more weird things appeared, looking like a mixture of mud, water, half-rotten plants, even animal hair and even rotten meat, and bones.
These things are not in animal form, but like a hideous version of the slime monster, a pile, wrapped in black smoke, and it is unknown whether it is swimming or floating on the water.
Anyway, it is quite fast, trying to intercept the cavalry, and at least it came up, which means that even if it is not as fast as a galloping horse, it will not be too much behind.
But the speed is enough, the ability is not good, the undead slaves at night are still very awesome.
This awesomeness does not come from Priest Luo, but from Rob.
You know, Rob has the title of Night Watcher\\Night Purifier, and is a member of the Immortal Brotherhood. His skills are much higher than those of Priest Luo's Soul Wizard.
Priest Luo's Soul Wizard is not a natural system, but Faust is a child of nature.
Therefore, the Immortal Seal in Faust's hands can bring out the characteristics of the Night Watch.
One of the characteristics is the power of Hellfire constructed by Rob.
The idea naturally comes from Ghost Rider.
However, Hellfire is more authentic than Hellfire, which can remove the evil of the soul, burn negative emotions, eliminate dark spellcasters from the root, and control the support of dark power.
But Faust is not proficient in this, and only uses the Immortal Seal to obtain some fur.
Even so, it can be called the nemesis of all sins and evil spirits. These monsters may be directly ignited and then burn to explosions, let alone being trampled by the undead warhorse, even if they are touched.
So the cavalry was like walking through a fire, and they left in the flames and ashes, leaving only the purple embers behind them burning silently, occasionally making a noise and a spark.
Apart from the insect cloud and the mixed monster, Faust and his party did not encounter any other strange things.
Faust knew that these two strange things were not worth mentioning to him and his team, but for ordinary people, they were a nightmare. Especially combined with the black fog environment.
Even Tahir figured it out, thinking: "No wonder people are escaping to the edge of the area, it turns out that they can't get out at all."
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