Blood tax

Chapter 58 The Unknown Ruins Part [-]
This unknown relic has been eroded by the years, and the original solid building has been damaged.Half-ruined passages, sloping pillars, and limestone floor tiles are all rife with cracks, allowing glimpses of untouchable shadows in the depths, far worse than the Watch Fort at the edge of the forest.

This is the case, the ruins of the ruins are still solemn and solemn, the gloom and decay that cannot be dissolved in the raving forest cannot invade here, and even the old withered vines by the roadside has an atmosphere that people cannot despise.

Griffith passed a cracked floor tile, the pale moonlight cast into the deep crevice, and a huge shadow flashed from below.He tried to speak, but was speechless.

A group of people passed through the leaking passages and came to an open platform like an altar.The platform was built on the edge of a towering cliff, and part of it has collapsed.From there, you can look out into the dark night, and you can faintly see a faint light flickering.

There may be a reinforcement brigade there!Griffith's heart shook, and he hurriedly looked towards the sky.According to the position of the stars, the shimmering location is north-northeast, and it is most likely in the direction of Overwatch Castle.

As soon as the thought flashed past, Griffith almost jumped off the cliff and ran for a safe way out.However, his body was completely out of control, and he was still pulled by a strange force to keep up with the team.

At the still intact position on the south side of the platform, seven tall pillars stood out in the darkness, covering the seven half-collapsed small doors respectively.While staring at these pillars, Griffith heard some vague and distant voice, which seemed to be speaking, and seemed to be cursing.

Professor Lordes raised his wand.Seven of the goblins bound by Karius immediately walked out, and without a word, got into the seven small doors.Each goblin had a thin black shadow wrapped around his ankle, unable to resist at all.

"Prepare for battle," the professor said rarely to the crowd, "light a bonfire in the center of the altar."

It's really an altar here, what kind of sacrifice?Griffith was curious to ask a question, but could not speak.

Apprentice witcher Hank immediately took out the flint and wool, chopped some dead wood nearby and lit the fire.LaVine skillfully took down the arrows and inserted them into the gaps of the flagstones next to the fire, seemingly preparing to stay mobile in the next battle.

"The tunnel on the left is a trap, my goblin was killed," Karius suddenly said, "Monsters are gushing out of the tunnel."

From the deep darkness, maggots that were thicker than buckets and looked like giant pythons gushed out.They wriggled their short gray-black lower limbs and drilled out of the hole, opened their sucker-like mouthparts, revealing layers of serrated fangs, and rushed towards the crowd.

"It's better to deal with them with flames," Karius smeared on the long sword, and the blade was immediately wrapped in flames.He stabbed a sword into the mouthpart of a maggot, and the flame on the blade immediately made a crackling sound, and the stabbed maggot immediately twitched.

Hank shouted and raised his round shield to meet him.He fought like the heavy infantry of the army, resisting the swarms of maggots, while backing steadily, from time to time he took out a vial of potion from his pocket and smashed it to the ground.Where the vial was broken, a green mist rose up, and the movement speed of all maggots under the mist was greatly reduced.

When these maggots all entered the deceleration state, other apprentice demon hunters began to attack.Raven and Pella fired rockets, and Hakan's giant wolf specialized in biting maggots that were about to leave the deceleration zone.

The five people spread out in an arc, alternately covering, always compressing the maggot's range of action.Their attacks were methodical, and the maggots shot by arrows burst into clumps of minced flesh and pus under the attack, and they were about to be annihilated.

Griffith couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and was very interested in the way the witcher fought.However, Professor Lordes, who was beside him, suddenly said impatiently:
"too slow."

Suddenly, a large group of venomous snakes poured out of the adjacent passage.Their bodies are black and green, and their bodies are equally huge. The densely protruding horny heads on their heads have just been raised, and they are surrounded from all directions.

Hank, who was still on the move, panicked, and he was attacked by a poisonous snake behind him and hurriedly fled.As soon as he withdrew, the maggots that were about to be eliminated suddenly found a gap and swarmed up, immediately breaking through the Demon Hunter's defense line and throwing the Demon Wolf to the ground.

Lavin shot an arrow at the maggot, and the rocket shattered the monster's limb, but the stump still bounced on him as if alive.A group of tiny fangs quickly grew from the broken maggot limb, biting down on Lavin's arm.

"Ah!" The bitten LaVine screamed immediately, the serrated mouthparts tore off his leather armor little by little, and sawed the flesh.

"No!" Pera was shocked, waving two short knives to drive away the approaching monsters.But the short blade inserted into the limb of the maggot, like it was inserted in cotton, and it couldn't stop the monster's movement at all.On the contrary, it alerted the nearby poisonous snakes and maggots, which rushed towards her immediately.

Griffith kicked away the maggots that were beside Pera, and slashed a piece of blood from LaVine's arm with a dagger to drive away the monster, pulling them back.The witcher's line of defense collapsed in an instant, and twisted monsters were crawling and surging all over the square.

"Incompetent." Lordus glanced at the witcher captain contemptuously.The wand in his hand had already drawn a complicated shape, and an extremely thick salty smell suddenly filled the air, making it disgusting.

The maggots that were still biting just now stopped suddenly, they let go of the prey they had caught, and began to shake violently.

The thick and large limbs of these monsters began to wrinkle and break, breaking apart like dried wood.A maggot fell to the ground in front of Griffith, rolling and shrinking, and finally turned into a carpet-like layer of skin sticking to the ground.

The critical situation was immediately reversed.Lordes did not stop, he unfolded a scroll, and the icy freezing air whistled out, and the air cooled rapidly, freezing the attacked apprentice witchers in place.However, the aggression of those black and green monsters was greatly reduced immediately, and even began to flee back.

Seeing that they had just returned to the exit of the passage, a sickle-like wind pressure swept across the ground.The crowded monster snakes were cut and smashed in the blink of an eye, and they fell to the ground crackling.

The demon hunters broke free one after another, clutching their wounds and watching the scene in front of them in amazement.

"Quickly use coagulant to stop the bleeding," the high-level mage said coldly, "The third wave is coming."

……

That's it?With your combat power at this level, you still want to explore the ruins! ?

Griffith screamed in despair in his heart, completely unable to accept this situation.The witcher's team had just encountered a monster that came out of a passage and could still support it, but the problem was that their attack power was insufficient and they lacked the power to quickly destroy the monster.When the second batch of monsters appeared, the witcher team immediately fell into chaos, with no redundancy to deal with unexpected situations.

In addition, there is a more serious problem!
At the heart of this witcher squad's defense is Hank, quite possibly one of the weakest.His strength is limited, and his equipment is not sophisticated, whether it is facing giant creatures or a large number of monsters, it is powerless.

How can it survive if it faces more and stronger monsters.

The more he thought about it, the more flustered Griffith became. Suddenly, he grinned and laughed wildly:

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha."

While laughing, he turned and hugged a nearby tree, banging his head like a woodpecker.

Pera, who had just received his support, wanted to say two words of thanks, but was horrified by this sudden crazy scene, and immediately took two steps back to Hank.

"What's wrong?" Griffith suddenly stopped his smile and looked at Miss Demon Hunter with blood on his face. "What's the problem?"

"You, that's the problem." Pera couldn't help but tilted her head back and stood a little further away from him.

Hey, I can talk again, and it seems that the time for the silence spell and control given to me by the professor has come.But the situation is very serious.Although the configuration of this demon hunter team is good, the fighting power of the members is obviously insufficient.If they hunted one or two mutated creatures, it would be okay, but exploring such ruins would simply kill themselves.

Professor Lordes is indeed powerful, but he is only one person. If the pressure of battle continues to increase, he will definitely encounter a situation that is difficult to cope with.

Although the professor is not likable, he is at least on my side. If he is finished, I will inevitably go to Biliangpo with him.

The more Griffith thought about it, the more guilty he felt, but he did not dare to speak out to discourage him, for fear of being hit by a more powerful confinement spell.His eyes moved to the edge of the cliff again, and he began to figure out what posture and angle to jump off the cliff when the situation was unfavorable.

Another wave of new monsters poured out of the passage.They are crawlies like cockroaches, but each one is bigger than a dog.The hard carapace is hard to break and lasts long against fire, lightning and poison.

After finally repelling this wave of monsters, Griffith found that the summoned giant wolf was almost disintegrated, Hank's face was exhausted, and there was only The lower third of the crossbow is gone.

Lordes still stood in the center of the crowd with his face as still as water.He has released several spells of different attributes in a row, and also used scrolls and other items to assist him, but he couldn't even see the slightest breath and exhaustion on his face.

But LaVine and the others had lost all fighting spirit, and persuaded them: "Master Senior Mage, Captain, let's retreat! We have lost the ability to continue fighting."

"No, can't go!" Karius protested loudly, "The great listener will lead us!"

Lordes was indifferent to the compliment.His eyes were fixed on the next passage, and his expression was a little nervous.

(End of this chapter)