Shadow Covenant

Chapter 102 "Legendary Battle"

"you know?"

Looking at Wagner who suddenly realized, Woody was also a little confused. After all, he judged that he didn't understand at first, but judging from his reaction after he said it, he seemed to understand something.

"Of course, when my grandfather was an apprentice under a dwarf blacksmith, he saw dwarves using this technique at that time, but for other reasons, my grandfather left that place before he mastered this technique. In the city in the mountains, I returned to Palermo to marry a wife and have children, and gave birth to my father. His wish before he left was to let us go back to the blacksmith shop to master the blacksmith skills he had not completed... ..."

"I see."

Woody nodded half-understood, but he didn't care too much. If Wagner can understand or know, it will be beneficial to him and not harmful.

In the following time, in order to let Wagner clearly understand the quenching process, Woody also took time off from making potions the next day to go to the blacksmith shop to guide him in further understanding of the quenching process and how to operate it.

After all, although there is only one process for quenching, in essence, it is processed by multiple processes, and none of them are the essence condensed by the predecessors.

Among them, the preparation before quenching includes the three processes of annealing, normalizing, and tempering, all of which require the blacksmith to have extremely high control over the temperature of the weapon itself. The performance of weapons has been greatly reduced, and there is a situation where there is a difference of a thousand miles, and this move cannot be sloppy.

Fortunately, this kind of craftsmanship may be too high-end for apprentices who are new to the blacksmith's threshold, and they don't know much about it. A group of strong adult dragons who have lived for many years meet a young female female dragon.

The blacksmith's memory has made him deeply understand every process, and new processes can't stump him. He can learn by analogy without teaching, and he has made rapid progress.

However, during that time, there was a small episode, that is, an earthquake occurred in Palermo.

It was a quiet afternoon, and Woody was in the carriage preparing to go to Wagner's blacksmith shop to continue to stare at the progress of the curved sword. He could say that apart from refining potions, the rest of his energy was devoted to this custom-made weapon. .

However, before arriving at the blacksmith shop, or just crossing the bridge, there was a sudden jerk, first the carriage stopped suddenly, and the pulling horse refused to move.

And no matter how the coachman whipped it, it still refused to move forward. Instead, it yelled and hoofed, as if it had been frightened worse than the whipping.

Woody also felt strange, but he had just stepped out of the carriage and wanted to check the status. His 17-point perception allowed him to capture the violent tremor coming from the depths of the earth.

In the next second, the seaside city was submerged in an instant like a huge wave coming from the ground.

The earth is shaking!

The earth and rocks wailed in unison, and the city buildings and people also wailed like echoworms.

If it wasn't for Woody being a little more prepared than the others, maybe he would be stunned and panicked by this powerful ground.

And ten seconds later, almost everyone in the city heard the thunderous reverberation in their ears.

——"Boom!"

The strangest thing is that the sound like thunder and lightning passing through the dark clouds does not come from the top of the head, but from the depths of the ground. It is like a human heart, which is constantly beating violently, transmitting its anger to the world.

However, the shock and sound came and went quickly. After about 1 minute, the shock that could affect people's normal actions disappeared, leaving only a human city full of mess and screams.

After Woody saw that the shock disappeared, he, who knew how to ride a carriage, didn't thank God like others, but frowned.

It is not uncommon for earthquakes to occur along the coast, but it is almost impossible for an earthquake without the slightest warning, and judging from the frequency of the aftershocks, it does not seem to be a natural formation, coupled with the strange thunder coming from the ground instead of the sky, On the contrary, it seems that someone has made a big move underground.

Coupled with the speed of sound propagation time, and the time to infer the shock, it is roughly one or twenty miles away from the city of Palermo.

Could it be... Woody's brain circuit instantly connected this matter with the underground team that went underground to fight against the drow elves not long ago. After all, there is a terrifying existence in that team that can indeed cause such a big impact .

——"Legendary level professional."

Even for the most ordinary warrior who has become a legend, the damage he caused can only be described as inhuman. The strength of more than 25 points is enough to make him comparable to a large-scale mechanical creation. Although he has not reached the realm of punching the void, but In the mortal world, there is nothing that can stop him, and it only takes a few minutes to demolish a small building covering an area of ​​several hundred square meters with bare hands.

If you insist on describing him, you can think of him as a brat who got into the pile of models randomly, no model is his one general, and destruction and destruction are even within his one thought.

And if it is a spellcaster, then the fate of Palermo in his previous life is the best proof. Palermo covers an area of ​​more than 300 square kilometers, with four urban areas and tens of thousands of mansions under a legendary spell "Meteor". When it fell from the sky, it turned into a desolate ruin of ruins and rubble.

However, the reason why legends are legends is precisely because there are still too few in the base number. Just like Asenland before the disaster of destroying the world, the number of active legends in various places is basically controlled within [-], even in In the plane of Terra, the era when saints came to the mortal world one after another, it is impossible for every city that passes through to have a legend stationed or roaming in it.

Legend is still a difficult mountain to climb, but when you are in that position.

In your eyes, you can no longer tolerate the mountains under your feet.

……

Fungal Forest, outside Taqia City.

The human alliance has fought against the drow's army in the forest outside the city.

The fungal forest is a vast forest in the Underdark composed of countless three to four meter tall fungi. This sea of ​​fungi is also called the mushroom forest.The fungal forest is located two miles before the gate of Taqia city.It surrounds most of Takia's city walls, leaving only a short rear exit, and the human coalition forces attack from the front.

At this time, the flames ignited by the battle had followed the initial fungus all the way to a position less than four miles outside the city of Taqia. Standing at the gate of the city, the scorching flames could feel the pressure from the pavement.

However, neither the flame nor the poisonous gas from the fungus burning had any effect on the group of uninvited guests.

Long before deciding to use flames to exempt the group of underground creatures from their advantage, some mass spells had already been blessed on every member of the expedition team whose average occupation level was over 5.

A city's financial resources are used as backup, and it is very scary to do certain things regardless of the cost.

All kinds of brilliance from the magic shields visible to the naked eye shone on the bodies of these leather armored warriors.

——"Protective elemental shield!"

——"Protection from energy damage!"

——"Deflect the flying arrow force field!"

——"The majesty of a group of eagles!"

……

As human beings whose numbers are inferior to the drow elves, it is precisely by relying on these along the way that they can advance to the drow elves, the outskirts of this emerging city, in the dangerous dark area.

Angelina was also one of them and followed the large army in a mushroom forest she had never seen before.

It took her two days to catch up with this underground adventure team that stopped during the battle underground. She told the leader of her appeal, a mysterious black-robed man named Goss, with a head on his shoulder. There was also an extremely handsome sea eagle standing there, and it was to tell everyone many underground news, and he agreed to Angelina's joining.

After Angelina passed the polygraph enchantment of the spellcasters in the team, as a person with extraordinary perception, she was quickly accepted by everyone, and was successfully incorporated into an auxiliary combat team. The purpose of this team It is to protect the spellcasters in the team from being disturbed by underground shadow creatures together with the Templars.

To put it simply, it is an early-warning sentinel to prevent sneak attacks. It is dangerous, but compared to scouts, it is still relatively safe. Obviously, the person who assigned Angelina also saw that her strength and combat experience were slightly weak. , compared to fighting, she is more suitable to use her superb perception to catch enemies in the shadows.

This is already the second day after Angelina joined the team, but in just one day, Angelina had dozens of encounters. She saw a poisonous spider secretly lurking on the top of the cave waiting for an opportunity to attack. , there are also drow assassins who hide in the shadow of the rock wall and try to assassinate the spell-casting group surrounded by them. Under the buff of the spell, they are all blessed by Angelina's monk's almost terrifying perception. Enemy" perceived.

Their malice is like a green light in the dark, shining spontaneously.

--"careful!"

Although the road that Angelina walked was the same as that of the team in front, it does not prevent the fish that slipped through the net, such as this fungal spore that is about to explode. She sensed the danger coming from the road on the right, Timely reminded the teammate on the right to lean to the left. Sure enough, within three seconds, there was a loud bang, and a huge fungus with a height of four or five meters on the right exploded inside, accompanied by a dense powder mist-like gas, which soon Spread quickly.

However, with a gust of wind blowing, the mist and flames blew in another direction, far away from the path the team was walking on.

——"Wind-making technique!"

The casters in the team made a move, and Angelina's reminder also prevented the people in the team from accidental explosion damage.

The spellcaster who had cast the wind gust didn't stop for a moment. Wearing a mage's robe, he continued to chant the next spell meticulously, and the battle ahead was already anxious.

This is the most difficult battle since they went deep underground.

Not to mention those drow warriors who are also shrouded in the brilliance of divine magic, there are many spider-like drows with human heads and spider bodies in the fungal forest, plus the dense spider swarm like the sea, if it weren't for the flames for them A safe defense line has been formed. I am afraid that all of them have long been submerged in this vast ocean of spiders.

Swarms of sword spiders, shadow spiders, mutant spiders, and even magic-eating spider beasts that target spellcasters, plus a swarm of spiders with an average individual over one meter, can be said to have stabbed a Spider nest.

However, the preparations for going deep underground this time are naturally complete. Almost every spellcaster is equipped with various spell scrolls, not to mention the evocation spells for arthropod creatures like spiders.

The fireball technique thrown from the center of the team made a loud noise 300 meters away, and the scorching flames blasted the fungal forest into mushroom scum, and shot everywhere.At the same time, the impacting air wave knocked down batch after batch of spider insects.

There are still many spells like this, and the intensive bombing has already made some spiders feel uneasy, and began to follow their biological instincts to retreat.

The originally scorched battlefield gradually became clearer, but as the team advanced three miles away from Taqia City, the gate of the city made of drow rock was close in sight.

Angelina accidentally sensed the malice hidden under this land, so she loudly reminded everyone around her without hesitation.

"Be careful where you step, there is an ambush!"

Sure enough, before she finished speaking, huge, threatening shadows broke free from the ground like waking lands. Their red eyes were particularly eye-catching under the tongue of fire, and what was also frightening was the crooked shadows. No one wants to be bitten by the needle-pointed fangs in the big mouth.

"Devil fish?"

Angelina couldn't understand why it existed on land, but someone from the caster team not far away had already given her a thoughtful reminder.

"It's a dormant pseudo-monster! Prepare for mental protection!"

Then Angelina felt these dormant pseudo-monsters like devil fish making irresistible calls. To be precise, she didn't hear any sound, but the power made her clearly feel her own It's like being in a weird sound wave.

All kinds of negative effects came one after another, such as fear, stiffness, vomiting, and dizziness, which even made it difficult for her to breathe.

It wasn't until the "group mind protection" of the spell-casting team shrouded her body that these negative effects gradually dissipated, and she finally knew the horror of these creatures.

Even without fangs and sharp claws, people can be defeated silently. What's even more frightening is that if you have never seen this kind of creature, you don't know how to defend yourself, and the death is even more unclear .

In addition to the infrasound waves emitted by special organs, the attack method of the dormant pseudo-monsters is also extraordinarily abundant in their own physical strength.

When they are close to the enemy, they like to wrap their wide wings like a cloak around the opponent, so as to achieve the effect of enveloping and winding. In addition, it also has a very flexible tail with needle-like barbs on it. , with a strong toxin, very dangerous.

Not long after, they fought with the team fighters near Angelina, but after being reminded by many prepared spellcasters, the team didn't have much impact except for the panic at the beginning.

But soon, a creature with a size comparable to more than a dozen adult dormant pseudomonsters glided out of the rock wall at the top. It seemed that it couldn't bear to see its own kind being slaughtered wantonly like this, and it fell rapidly. The more intense whispers attacked the many humans fighting on the ground.

And at this moment, after meeting Angelina, the leader of the team named Goss also made a bold move, raising the staff in his hand and pointing towards the sky.

An invisible magic ripple suddenly appeared in midair.

Everyone's original discomfort dissipated immediately.

——"Advanced Mind Barrier"

Like the mind protection used to protect ordinary dormant pseudo-monsters, facing this head with a challenge level of at least 14 and a personal level of 18 or above, the dormant pseudo-monster elders will be defeated in an instant. If he doesn't make a move, the entire battle situation will be affected.

However, mutations often appear in an instant.

The moment the mage took action, a huge and deformed spider suddenly appeared from the shadows. Angelina didn't even notice it. Its forefoot covered with evil barbs had already passed through the man's body. His chest, his body was being manipulated by spiders like a rag doll.

All the people who saw it were stunned, and they didn't even have time to shout. The most important leader among them was directly killed by a spider.

And the person who can perceive the power of this terrifying creation is even more trembling, because he feels that it exudes the aura from the abyss and divinity from its body.

This is exactly the offspring summoned by Elise's Blood Sacrifice that contains the Queen of Darkness and combines the characteristics of the Demon Hunting Spider.

——"Frenzy Demon Hunter"

Far away on the high tower of Taqia City, the weak drow priest Elise smiled satisfied when she saw this scene. It was not in vain that she had prepared for a long time, and at any cost invited the dormant pseudomonster tribe as thugs to attract the group of humans attention.

Finally, they succeeded in destroying the most powerful pillar in their team.

She has witnessed the power of the Demon Hunting Spider with her own eyes. If it gets close, even a legend can easily kill it. After all, it has the poison attack that ignores the magic shield bestowed by Kosuster, and it also has the function of space blocking. It can be said to perfectly restrain the group of so-called invincible spellcasters.

But just when Elise thought the sneak attack was successful, her smile froze in place, because the spiritual barrier above her head was not broken.

Also at this time.

A creature larger than a spider emerged from the flames.

A living dragon!
His scales are bronze in color, more than 20 meters from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail, the outline is hidden in the shadows, only the dark golden vertical pupils are shining brightly in the flames.

Simultaneously with it, there were also things that would never appear underground. Dozens of bucket-thick blue lightning appeared in the depths of the dark region, accompanied by thunder that could scare people out of their wits.

——"Lightning storm!"

Most of the lightning strikes on the elder of the dormant pseudo-monster. He wanted to directly shoot down the dormant pseudo-monster that was still gliding in the sky, but he could only shoot down half the height, and at the same time, the head was blood red. The Demon Hunting Spider was also under the attack of lightning, and it sprang from the left to the right, trying to avoid it in a panic.

But as it seemed, the bronze-colored dragon wasn't satisfied.

——"Boom!!!"

There were dozens of dense lightning bolts again, and the dormant pseudo-monster that had just climbed up was suppressed again until it reached an extremely low height, and a huge figure was seen jumping up and down, and then the huge figure, which was still invincible just now, was suppressed. The elder of the dormant false monster was completely trampled under his feet.

At the same time, facing the Demon Hunting Spider who fled in embarrassment not far away and wanted to return to the shadow plane again, it grinned, revealing a mouth full of ferocious sharp teeth, raised its right paw slightly, and shot a spear from a silver ring the size of a swimming ring. Ray, the speed of this violent demon hunting spider's penetration into the shadow suddenly seemed to be stuck in mud, extremely slow.

——"Dimensional Anchor!"

Fixed space, all plane movement will be invalid at this moment.

At this moment, it half-opened its dragon jaw, and soon, from the chest to the abdomen and neck, thunder surged under the bronze-colored, shield-sized scales, accompanied by crackling electric currents. The sound gushes out from the throat.

In the next moment, like a dark cloud full of energy, countless lightning snakes rushed wildly, and a white light with a cross-sectional area larger than all the previous lightning bolts spewed out from the dragon's mouth.

Its incandescent flash illuminated the entire dark area, and the lichens and moss on the top were all burned under the influence of the high temperature at the moment of the explosion. The noise that was originally humming and accumulating power turned into a blatant thunder, directly causing the underground to vibrate.

—— "Lightning breath!"

All people and things on this path collapse and disintegrate under this blazing white light that can engulf everything.

The legendary power is so terrifying!
At this time, the battle of legends really began.

(End of this chapter)