Blood tax

Chapter 59 The Unknown Ruins Part [-]
Before everyone could discuss a result, a group of gigantic bats emerged from the passage, each one the size of a flapping roc, with fangs and claws glistening with blood.Griffith saw the professor's face pale for the first time.

"Hank, step forward and stop them! Others concentrate on attacking, don't let them go to the Lord Listener!" Karius yelled, "Apprentice knight, you too."

How can I get on!Just with two daggers? !
Shield guard Hank has already rushed up.Holding a fine-iron round shield and a one-handed axe, he slashed head-on towards a bat.

The blade of the ax got stuck just half an inch into the flesh, and Hank was immediately besieged by bats from all directions.These flying monsters struck his shield with claws, making a sound like hail.LaVine gritted his teeth, took out the remaining crossbow arrows and shot at the bat that had just been attacked.Hakan's giant wolf and Pella also turned to one side, preparing to occupy the attacking position.

Griffith held the only two daggers and didn't know what to do.Beside him, Lordes is hastily drawing lines with his wand.Accompanied by his elusive chant, two upper and lower layers of complex magic patterns began to appear in front of Hank, rotating in mid-air and approaching each other.

"Hank, stay where you are, hold on!" Karius ordered, but he did not attack.

An extremely dangerous breath permeated the air, as if staying within the range of the magic pattern would encounter disaster.Griffith immediately realized that this would be a large-scale attack spell.While Hank keeps the bats at bay, the professor is trying to kill them all at once.

However, it's too late!Griffith found that in less than ten seconds, Hank's shield to protect himself had been deformed and twisted under the fierce attack, and the bats that had gathered in front of him at the beginning had spread out, attacking his arms from both sides, Even started to detour behind his back.

"Captain, no way!" Hank screamed.The shield was suddenly knocked to the ground, and Hank was bitten by a bat on his wrist. Before he could struggle, the swarming bats tore his body from all directions.

"Pfft!"

Griffith had never heard such a sound.The tall Hank was torn to pieces like a rag doll, disappearing into a dark shadow.

"Hank!"

Pera exclaimed.The swarm of bats rushed over in a blink of an eye and rushed towards the panicked witcher.

The complicated circle that Lordus was still sketching dissipated immediately, and his indifferent face flashed with anxiety and solemnity.

"Hakan, hold back with your wolf!" Callius shouted. "Others, protect the Listener!"

Hakan's giant wolf didn't even hold out for five seconds before it was torn apart.At the same time, an earth-shattering thunderbolt fell, smashing a bat to pieces, and the electric light bounced between the bats, killing two more nearby.But with the increase in the number of bounces, Thunderbolt's lethality is rapidly weakening, and finally disappears in the air.

LaVine was thrown to the ground, the bat bit his neck.

"My lord!" Karius called anxiously to the professor.

Lordes calmly retracted a blue crystal lingering with electric light, and the elusive chant resumed, his next powerful spell was about to take shape, but at this moment, the approaching bat made an invisible sound wave , Everyone in the vicinity, including Griffith, suddenly had a loud noise in their minds, followed by a continuous noise, and it was difficult to concentrate.

Lordus' spell thus failed.

The team suddenly lost the ability to resist.

Professor Lordes pressed his forehead, gritted his teeth, turned around and jumped down the cliff.

Hakan was the first to be attacked, and he and Pella were chased by a large group of bats, fleeing in panic towards Griffith.Immediately after, Karius was besieged, screaming and rushing into a tunnel, disappearing into the darkness.

These bats flew extremely fast, whizzing through the icy night sky, and immediately knocked Hakan and Pera to the ground.Pera screamed in agony, and suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Griffith rushing towards her, followed by a string of giant bats.

Griffith did not flee down the cliff, but slammed into Hakan, Pella and a large group of bats.

"Frozen - Nova!"

The freezing air exploded in the bat colony, freezing all the swarming bat colonies in place.Griffith kicked the two bats away, picked up the besieged two and threw them out, and immediately smashed a bottle of secondary deceleration potion towards the ground where the bats gathered, shouting:
"Run away!"

Clustered bats are caught in the debuff of the slow.Before the three of them could say hello, Hakan rushed towards the path up the mountain, Pera hugged his head and jumped off the cliff, and Griffith rushed into the narrow passage.

……

Chase, catch up?
Griffith ran wildly through the narrow passage.Giant cockroaches have just poured out of this tunnel, and they have been cleaned up, and there are no obstacles along the way.

He was not in a hurry.The bats are fast and can easily be overtaken by escaping along the open road after a brief slowdown, as Hakan took.Relatively speaking, Pera had a chance to jump directly off the cliff.

Griffith's idea is to rush into the narrow road, and if the bat catches up, he will rely on the narrow terrain to fight them, get stuck in the position and kill them.When he found out that the witcher was in a bad situation, he was thinking about how to escape, and this route was the safest.He is the most proficient at playing more with fewer card positions.

Suddenly, there were many severe pains on his body, as well as the feeling of viscous liquid flowing.

In the brief pursuit and fight just now, the bat tore apart Griffith's cheek and chest, and broke a rib.It all happened so suddenly that he didn't react when he was injured.After hiding in the passage, he realized that the gurgling blood had dyed half of his body red.

My blood is still red, not bad, that's good news!

Griffith rubbed his hand on his clothes, reached into the wound, and grabbed the broken rib with force.

"Uh...ah..."

Griffith let out a groan that he tried to suppress, but the broken bone was also broken off, so that it would not stab into the lung and cause continuous damage.Although he has a strong self-healing ability to support him, he doesn't have the extra time and resources to slowly recover himself.

Bat swarms may still be gathering outside the tunnel, and even if they don't pursue them, they may block the way out. I'll squat here and wait a while to see the situation.Griffith clutched at the two small notched daggers and hid in the shadows around the corner.

Suddenly, his torn cheek twitched, trembling violently, blood all over his face, and the wound where he could see the teeth and cheekbones was like an oversized smiley face with lipstick.

He shook his head towards the cold, dark, empty tunnel wall, as if looking in a mirror:
"Why so serious?
"Hahahaha, hey hahahahaha!"

Griffith burst into laughter in the silent tunnel, laughed for a while, then closed his mouth suddenly, as if nothing had happened, and looked around nervously.

……

Moonlight filtered through the crevices in the rock overhead, casting a faint glow into the tunnel.In the dark corner, Griffith seemed to see something squirming and swollen.

"I think I see something," Griffith muttered to himself, "I'll have to take a closer look."

In the extremely quiet tunnel, he seemed to hear the sound of ding ding dong dong, and a shadow-like thing was slowly taking shape.At first it was illusory like a mist, and gradually it became thick and real, with its massive body, disproportionate hooves, jagged mouth and goat's horns, utterly confusing and unreal.

What is this?
Shadow walked slowly towards Griffith, opened his mouth wide, and bit him.

"Wow!"

The remaining chainmail on Griffith's body was bitten through, and a large piece of flesh was torn off.He hugged his head and fled to the depths of the tunnel where there were no monsters.

After I don't know how long I ran, the strange shadow disappeared, and Griffith stopped to take a breath.The tunnel of this relic is extremely deep, collapsed and damaged everywhere, twists and turns, I don’t know where it leads, but fortunately there is no fork in the road.

Suddenly, his personal anonymous potion preparation notes began to heat up slightly.The booklet had been with him since the last time the records were revealed, to see when new records would be revealed.The feeling of heat made Griffith, who had lost a lot of blood, feel very comfortable.He took off his tattered mail, took the notes from his pocket, and found that a new chapter had appeared on it.

What appeared this time was not the knowledge and experience of potions, but a diary.

"Diary with ambiguous date
"I swear, this is the most shocking experience I have had since I entered Homonwarts, and I can only record this bizarre experience with my remaining sanity.

"As a first-year student, I did a great job in my homework. The professors agreed that I have extraordinary talents and will definitely achieve a career in the future. I should have studied hard like this and found a beautiful daughter from a famous family. A marriage contract was made, but the madness of a madman completely destroyed my life.

"It was a cozy night, and I was discussing the Parn-Vill arcane model with Miss Elidia. Hughes broke into the library, and everyone was taken aback by his appearance.

"He was covered in cuts and bruises. His left eye, left ear and left hand were missing. Blood and pus dripped from the wound to the ground. The abdomen was torn apart by a terrible force, and the right hand with only two fingers was holding the internal organs and organs flowing out of the abdominal cavity. belly.

"Girls screamed and some even fainted. I was speechless at the sight of Hughes, but I was even more puzzled by his murmurs.

"He dragged his stomach and came to me,

"'In the Forest of Whispering, the altar of Black Peak, strange horns, teeth, claws, here they come.'"

(End of this chapter)