Blood tax

Chapter 122
Groups of illusory black figures gathered from all corners of the village, holding weapons such as hoes and hatchets, moving towards the hill where the altar stood like real living people.Firelight flickered on their charred bodies, leaving footprints of ashes and sparks along the way.

The historical ending of the villagers in the ridiculed village is sad.They gathered together to hunt down the monsters that could annihilate the extraordinary team, and they were destined to usher in a tragic end.

Griffith and Galadia walked among this group of terrifying residents, whispering curses in their ears from time to time.

"Kill him! Kill him!"

"Kill that monster!"

"Throw him into the pit of the earth dragon!"

Griffith looked up at the top of the hill, and in the shade of the trees, a black whirlwind that looked like mosquitoes and ashes could be seen from the top of the hill to the sky.

The battle is about to begin.

Griffith looked at the elf.They've been together for a while, and they can sense each other's thoughts sometimes without words.

His zombie subordinates also turned their heads in unison, staring at her with rotten and pale eyeballs.

Galadia felt terrified after being stared at, and began to honestly explain her abilities and share information:

"I have the dual characteristics of a spellcaster path sequence 8 polymath and a ranger path sequence 8 traveler,
"Needless to say the polymath characteristic, I can also attach light and wind spells to weapons without a magic wand, mainly to strengthen the effect of killing or restricting movement and purification,

"The characteristics of the traveler have strengthened my agility, precision, and insight. I am good at discovering magic power, traps, and abnormal states. I have two extraordinary abilities. One is 'gale wind', which bursts out a powerful single burst with the help of energy accumulation and mental power. Attack, or a short-term enhancement of the rate of fire; the other is called "Fengxing", which can improve agility, get rid of magic shackles, and greatly increase the probability of dodging physical attacks.

"I get the gaze and blessing of the gods, and I will have extraordinary good luck. If I consume a lot of spiritual power, my innate magic eyes contain the 'natural power', which can spawn and mobilize plants to attack or assist , can also use 'mental flogging' to traumatize the target's consciousness, restrict its actions and thoughts for a short period of time, and deepen the damage. You have seen most of these abilities."

"It's really powerful," Griffith nodded, "but after the fight starts, you still have to keep maneuvering, and don't covet the momentary attack results."

"Got it!~"

A scorched crowd gathered on the top of the mountain.Griffith and the elf found a place with a wide view and waited for the vision to happen.

"Griffith, have you noticed? The shape of this altar is a bit weird," Galadia pointed to the side of the mountaintop platform.There stands a tall tower.

The entrance of the tower is an irregular semicircle, decorated with eerie and pale fang-like carvings.Walking from the entrance, the dark passage narrowed a little bit, and there were layers of fang carvings along the way, just like walking into the mouth of a monster.

The body of the tower is even more weird. I don't know what material it is made of, and it is about 30 meters high.It looks like a gray wrinkled texture, which gradually narrows as the tower stretches upwards, leaving a long-broken section at the end.

No matter how it looks, it looks like a dried earth burrower.

"The villagers here worship the earth dragon, and they must have received its favor," Griffith said of his own thoughts, "maybe the earth dragon helped dig the canals in the village."

Galadia poked at the strange material on the tower: "It's not mud and stone, but it's very solid. By the way, there should be an earth dragon's cave nearby, let's look for it."

The elf pulled Griffith's sleeve and walked to the back of the tower, where there was indeed a deep well with a wooden shed.The mouth of the well is wide, dark and deep, and I don't know where it leads.

At this moment, the vision appeared again.Accompanied by the unsettling and frightening sound of the trumpet, the scenery began to peel and decay, and the flat floor tiles were hot as if burned by a raging fire.A burst of shrill cries and screams came from not far away.

On the platform of the altar directly in front of the tower, the scorched black figures gathered together have become a mess.They dropped the weapons in their hands, and shoved and shoved each other to avoid XZ.A black shadow rushed over in a hurry, passed Griffith's side, and fell into the dark deep well.

The monster with the ripped pocket appeared again.It was about the same height as the butcher who died underground, but stronger and more massive.It wielded a scythe, ignored the cries for mercy, and killed the phantom villagers who were crowded together like harvesting wheat.

The fallen villagers immediately disintegrated into shattered ashes, and disappeared without leaving their bodies.Huge cockroaches also swarmed from all directions, almost filling up the wide platform.

"Let's fight," Griffith said, "find out the true identity of this monster under the mask, and the will of this sealed item will be satisfied."

The cold air surged around him, and the ice spears came to life next to him.The increasingly powerful Frost Spell can replace the inconvenient heavy throwing guns in many cases, providing considerable damage.

He grabbed an ice gun, lightly weighed it in his hand, and then pulled away.

At the same time, five living corpses scattered.Instead of rushing to fight, they took cover on the periphery of Galadia, following her movements as much as possible, driving and blocking the dense cockroaches.

The monster that was massacring the villagers suddenly slowed down, staggering in place as if unconscious.

Galadia mentally whips the monster.A monster affected by this ability is sluggish and delusional, during which time the wounds it sustains become more severe.

Griffith threw a shield-piercing blow at the monster that was close at hand.The cold light tore through the air, and exploded a mass of flesh and blood on the monster's chest.The ice gun pierced the monster's chest, spraying out a large mass of yellow-brown liquid.

The monster moved wildly.It grabbed a vision of a villager and held it against its chest.The second ice gun pierced through the villager's body and penetrated deeply into the monster's waist and abdomen.

At the same time, the monster had already shaken off the dizziness and slowness of the mental whiplash, and rushed forward with vigorous strides.

Griffith threw a bottle of deceleration potion at the monster.The yellow-brown potion exploded around the monster, grabbing the monster's legs and feet like muddy hands.

The burly monster continued to move forward, even breaking free from the slowing effect.

It has good resistance to magic!
Griffith's heart trembled, such characteristics are rare in the countryside or dark forces.

But now is not the time to think about this question, he ran quickly with the last ice spear in his hand.He wanted to control the distance and direction between the monster and Galadia, and give full play to the long-range firepower of the elves.

Although the monster in front of him is powerful, it has no armor or magic equipment, wasting its own physical advantage, as long as it controls the rhythm and distance, it can be consumed.

Galadia's arrow hit its head, shooting precisely from the position of its left eye.A swarm of cockroaches pursued her.With the lessons learned from last time, she deftly maneuvered under the cover of the living corpses, looking for an opportunity to bend her bow and arrow again.

She and Griffith circled the platform, always keeping a safe distance.

Whenever cockroaches swarmed, Griffith rushed into the swarm, using the burst power of the streamer shield to disperse them.

Galadia's light and graceful figure was rolling and jumping.Her archery skills are superb, and she can even look for an opportunity to shoot an arrow accurately while running at high speed.

Ordinary feathered arrows are enchanted, and each arrow comes with light, penetrating the monster's thick flesh and causing severe damage.

In just a few minutes, this terrifyingly powerful monster couldn't hold on anymore.

It suddenly stopped its pursuit, grabbed a black shadow of a fleeing villager beside it, sent it to the mouth under the pocket, ripped off the skin and bit it like eating a tomato.The murdered villagers were obviously just black shadows without flesh and blood, but they let out a scream and sprayed ashes like water.

The wound of the monster that was devouring the villagers stopped bleeding quickly, and even squeezed out the feathered arrows that had penetrated into the flesh and blood.Pieces of granulation squirmed in the wound, and it seemed that it would not take long for it to heal.

"cover me!"

Griffith threw the ice spear in his hand, holding a short spear around the monster's flanks.With the assistance of such powerful vitality, the elf's bow and arrow will be exhausted first, and fatal injuries must be caused as soon as possible.

A third ice lance pierces the monster's right arm, but it doesn't seem to care, intent on devouring the villagers.Griffith dodged to the monster's right hand, and stabbed at the ear of the devouring monster.

"Ow!" The short spear pierced the monster's right ear.With a terrifying howl, the torn bag flew out together with half an ear and a piece of flesh and blood.

This violent howl was like a mountain monster, with dizzy and slow abilities.

Griffith was dizzy from the heart-piercing roar, and before he could see the monster's appearance, he was sent flying by an arm that came from nowhere.

The trainee knight felt as if he had been hit by a heavy cavalry, rolling on the ground, his bones and internal organs were howling and trembling.

In the vague feeling, it seemed that someone helped him up, and a warm liquid was poured from his mouth.

This liquid feels hot, sticky and thick, and it is probably the healing potion he carries.After drinking the potion, Griffith gradually regained consciousness and found that Galadia was leaning against a low wall.

In front of them, the monster whose hood had been shot down was slowly raising its head.Yellow-green blood gushes from its right ear like a fountain.It wasn't until this time that the two of them saw the true face of the monster.

The monster's torso and limbs are indeed similar to the human body, with a thick neck and broad face bones.It raised its head slowly, staring at the humans and elves who injured itself.

The previously covered ears are pointed and long, the eyes are blood red, and four fangs are exposed from the big mouth that seems to have torn the cheek.

Orcs.

But compared with the orcs that Griffith had seen in the east, this monster lacked a bit of the majestic momentum of the orcs, but it was a bit more agile, vicious and cruel.

It's somewhat similar to Rudias' Uruk, but different.

Griffith struggled to stand up, holding Galadia behind him: "Someone cultivated it here! This area is the territory of Salorian. He and his assistant Velonos seem to have the same relationship with Rudy. Yas's orc experiment has something to do with it."

Galadia glanced at him with a calm face: "We will discuss the reason for this later. After leaving the sealed item, we must keep it a secret for the time being. The demigod of Sequence 4 is not easy to mess with. I will let my family intervene investigation.

"This monster has demonstrated the characteristics of anti-magic, has powerful devouring and healing abilities, and can use the control ability 'heart-piercing' like a mountain monster. Its real body strength is likely to be in Sequence 6, but as a sealed item Part of the anomaly, it's not real, intelligence and some abilities may have been impaired."

(End of this chapter)