Sword and Magic and Taxi

The human body is not suitable for flying. Even if the strength of the skin is enhanced, and even if there is strong energy support from evolved cells, the result is still the same: most of the force is used to overcome air resistance rather than accelerate.

The solution is actually obvious. Zhao Mai can transform into an air element or a fire element and then use psychic powers to accelerate, which will definitely be more efficient than his current flight. However, the reason why Zhao Mai does not use natural transformation is to avoid releasing the natural force. He wanted to see if Lamashtu's air force monitored other forms of energy and would detect his psychic powers and take off to intercept them. He used magic spells to make himself transparent, used psychic powers to fly, and even deliberately slowed down to give them a chance to react.

If the monsters do not pay attention to psychic powers and only react to the natural force, then their actions are completely planned for the Druid, and their goal is more likely to be to eliminate the Druid. There is no other way than to fight with all their strength. choose. If they also care about elemental powers, psionic powers, and other forms of energy, then they are guarding against all possible opponents. Although it cannot be used as evidence, this at least increases the possibility that they are really digging ruins.

Different from the situation at the edge of the forest, the vegetation in the Farmer Forest suffered less damage the further inward, and there were almost no traces of fighting. The lush tree canopy hid the situation below like an umbrella, and it was impossible to detect the truth of the killing with the naked eye.

It was too quiet - Zhao Mai had already noticed something was wrong. Not just auditory, but also quiet on a natural level: except for the trees, there are no traces of animals moving in the woods. There are no birds in the sky, no squirrels in the trees, and even insects in the grass have disappeared.

If Zhao Mai comes down, he can see the abnormality more clearly, because the monsters of Lamashtu are hidden under the canopy and in the shadows of the trees. In order to fill their stomachs, they have already eliminated all the edible meat. . Most of the time they have to stand still, waiting in ambush for their prey. Once an intruder is discovered, they will attack in groups and grab every bite they can.

Zhao Mai flew across the sky, maintaining the silence of the natural force, and no monsters really paid attention to him. He found a scout entrenched in the treetops. It was a three-meter-long black monster with a snake-like figure that was thick at the front and thin at the back. There was no obvious neck to distinguish the head from the body. A huge eye occupied the most part of the body. More than 80% of the front-end space.

Its mouth and four twisted hands were shrunken, looking small and brittle, and there were no scales, claws, or any organs that looked like they were used for fighting. Zhao Mai didn't know the name of this monster, but he was very sure of its purpose: everything was for the huge eyeball, and the eyeball was for observing the sky. Zhao Mai slowed down and hovered slowly, but his transparent body was very difficult to detect. The eyeball monster realized that something might be wrong, and tried to turn its eyes to scan the sky. But apart from the wind and clouds, it couldn't see Zhao Mai.

This was a bit strange, Zhao Mai scratched his head and paused. In a magical world like Golarion, spells can achieve a variety of concealment, so creatures that can be used for detection must also have a variety of detection methods, and naked eyesight alone is not enough. Generally speaking, you need to have the ability to see through invisibility, dark vision, and detect magic. More advanced ones may also have the eye of truth that can detect the undead or detect evil, and see through all illusions. It will be more reliable if it has tremor perception and blindsight.

Zhao Mai snapped his fingers, but the eyeball still had no response, indicating that its hearing was poor-at least worse than Zhao Mai expected. So Zhao Mai used a little bit of natural force to create a breeze. His eyes immediately turned to stare in the direction of Zhao Mai. Red bloodshot eyes suddenly covered his eyes, and the black eye sockets were full of veins. A shrill cry echoed through the forest.

Then Zhao Mai saw the air combat monster rising into the sky. Just as Lucius described, the humanoid monster was about two meters tall, with two pairs of bat-like fleshy wings on its back, six arms hanging on both sides of the body, and slender pointed claws like rapiers and sickles. They flew into the air, making constant buzzing noises, flying towards Zhao Mai from all directions.

It's not a sonic weapon, but... is it using sound for positioning? Zhao Mai put away his natural force and changed his position, and found that the other party could still find his position. The group of monsters couldn't keep shouting, but there were enough of them to keep up the sonar detection one after another.

Zhao Mai studied Druid, but he has knowledge of various fantasy worlds. If this Golarion deviation is not too big, then sound and the ability to detect the natural force alone cannot establish a blockade at all. Both mages and priests have many ways to crack it. But what about druids? Zhao Mai thought for a while. No matter what a pure druid does, he must rely on the force of nature, so there is really no way to escape.

So, this is a defensive formation against druids. After Zhao Mai confirmed this, he began to accelerate his flight. The faster he goes, the greater the air disturbance caused, and the easier it is for the group of monsters to discover Zhao Mai. They actively changed their heights, forming a spherical formation trying to close up and surrounding Zhao Mai.

Not only do they have a tight formation and organization, this group of monsters also has the ability to launch long-range attacks. With a high-pitched scream, the six-armed monsters fired acid balls at Zhao Mai's approximate location. The speed of the acid balls is not too fast, and their flight trajectories are different parabolas. The paths intersect to form extremely complex attack waves. Zhao Mai couldn't track so many targets with his naked eyes or calculate them with his mind, but there were simpler and more violent ways to crack them.

He accelerated suddenly, flew upwards diagonally, and began to escape. The monsters screamed and flapped their wings at high speed in an attempt to catch up. Zhao Mai found that the wings of the monsters did not play a significant role when speeding up, indicating that these guys did not simply rely on wind power to fly. Perhaps like dragons, they actually used magic to take off.

No matter what the method is, as long as there is not a powerful enough high thrust ratio engine, the gap in speed will only get bigger and bigger. Zhao Mai quickly left the battlefield, an obvious white cone-shaped cloud formed around his body, and the wind pressure blew the acid ball away. The monsters screamed in despair and watched Zhao Mai flying above everyone, leveling off and quickly moving away.

Wherever their cries reach, some new flying monsters will take off. However, these scattered monsters were no longer able to form a surrounding situation, and could only roar a few times behind Zhao Mai. Due to Zhao Mai's subsonic cruise, the roar of the monsters could only barely surpass him. Coupled with the delay in reaction and take-off, the monsters were getting farther and farther away from Zhao Mai, and tracking was meaningless.