Age of Adepts

Chapter 178: Discord

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The warm sunshine shined on his body through the mottled tree shadows, which finally brought a little relief to Mo Ke.

A resident bird in the nearby forest was frightened into flight, and it flew and sang quickly above the forest tops, breaking the tranquility of the forest.

After a whole night of running wildly, in the dark jungle where he couldn't see anything, in the primeval jungle where the branches stretched across the ground, the vines were everywhere, and the bushes were overgrown, although his forehead was black and blue, and the corners of his mouth were swollen, but from where? Escape from the scary nightmare jungle.

Running wildly all the way, even though no creature was chasing him, Mok still kept looking back, as if some invisible demon had been following him.

Suddenly, the continuous jungle came to an abrupt end. Below the gentle shallow slope is a green grassland, and the sharp corners of the small village wooden houses and the curling smoke can be seen in the distance.

Seeing this scene, Mo Ke's heart was finally put back in his stomach.

Stumbling out of the jungle, Mo Ke went straight to the small mountain village without looking back.

That's the village of Colca!

A small village located on the edge of the Greenland forest. Although there are not enough supplies inside, it is still possible to supply some meat and clean water. Therefore, many mercenaries and adventurers who live in the Greenland forest like to rest there for the night.

The small village was dead silent.

It stands to reason that this time should be the busiest time for the hunters in the small village. They will go into the jungle in groups to check whether there is any harvest in the traps, while the old people in the village will meet and chat at the village head, and the women will start to chat in the house. The animal furs that have just been tanned are dried in the front and back of the house...

Mo Ke looked at the empty village in front of him with some doubts. He couldn't even see those little boys who were always running around in the open space of the village and fighting endlessly.

No one in the village is here

No, there are people in the village!

After all, Mo Ke was a mercenary. Although his ability to kill people is not very good, he has a good grasp of the ability to see the small things. He could see the faint reflection of eyeballs from behind the closed gates of every house, and he could also detect the sound of heavy breathing.

"Hank! Thor! Dhaka! Are you all there? It's me, Mork! What are you all doing hiding? Don't you know me? Mork from the Black Bear Mercenary Team..."

Hearing Mok's yelling over and over again, a wooden house in the village creaked and opened the gate, and the familiar figure of Hank the Orion appeared at the door. For some reason, he didn't come out to greet Mo Ke as boldly as in the past, but stood silently in the shadow inside the door, slowly giving way.

The panic-stricken Mo Ke ran around in the jungle all night, already tired and exhausted, and couldn't wait to get into the house.

"Hank, no matter what you have here, bring me food and drink first. I have a rest and I need to rush back to Lanqiu City immediately. Let me tell you, you must warn the villagers that this period of time is absolutely impossible. Don't go into the mountains again. There…”

As soon as he entered the house, Mo Ke squinted his eyes slightly to adapt to the darkness in the house, and was surprised to find that the dozen or so hunters in the village were all here. They stood quietly in the house, their faces hidden in the shadows, and it was difficult to see the expressions on their faces.

"Are you in a meeting? Why don't you know how to light a lamp?"

Before Moke finished speaking, there was a sudden darkness behind him, and that Hank actually closed the gate again.

As a result, the wooden house became increasingly dark and evil!

Mo Ke suddenly shivered, feeling the strangeness of the scene in front of him for the first time.

As soon as his body took a step back, he was hugged tightly from behind by a person, and then two more people rushed up, and their big iron-like hands grabbed his arms and shoulders from left to right.

"What are you doing? It's mine... It's me, Mork..."

Mo Ke struggled hard, his right hand wanted to touch the dagger behind his waist, but he was held hostage by three people from behind and on both sides, making it difficult to move. The Orion in the mountains already has the strength, and it is still three-on-one. Now Mo Ke is really hard to resist!

Just as Moke hissed and cursed, a crooked figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

With gray hair and beard, and an old wrinkled face, it was the old village chief Nohan Papa of Kocal Village.

However, before Mo Ke handed over Nohan's name, the kind-faced old man suddenly opened his mouth, and it opened wider and wider. Due to his mouth being opened too wide, the old Nuohan even tore the corners of his mouth, all the way to the base of his ears.

But what he opened was not a mouth, but... but a ferocious four-petal mouthpart, and the edge of the lip was covered with canine-toothed fine teeth, which looked creepy. And in the middle of the four-petal mouthparts, inside the blood-red pipe, suddenly drilled out an extremely ugly and strange scorpion.

And that old Nuo Han approached step by step, prying open Mo Ke's mouth with his lips, and spit that terrible scorpion into his mouth.

Mork was terrified, struggling desperately, and let out a shrill whine.

Too bad none of this helped!

The terrifying scorpion wormed its way into his throat. After a while, when the three let go of their arms, Mo Ke stopped struggling, and all the painful expressions on his face disappeared without a trace, turning into a numb and stiff look.

He lowered his arms, and a dark red color appeared in the depths of his pupils. Like other hunters, he stood silently in the darkness, waiting for his master's order.

At this time, a nearly transparent wind-breathing monster was floating above the wooden house, silently waiting for something.

"Hmph, Greem, you've crossed the line!" A hoarse and noisy mental wave similar to the hiss of a bug suddenly sounded in the core of the wind's breath monster's consciousness.

"This is not called crossing the boundary, but stalking!" Greem's lazy voice was also transmitted through this temporary spiritual channel: "You have also seen that I am stalking my prey! Should I go to Korgan? How can I sue you for intercepting my prey on the way?"

"Hmph, you can sue as much as you want! Korgan gave me an order to seal off this forest, and not allow anyone else to enter or leave. I'm just following the order. As for you, a powerful fire wizard , Let a human mercenary break into your territory. Shouldn't you explain your incompetence to Korgan!"

"No, no, no... Since this prey has been intercepted by you, forget it, I'll go now!" As soon as Greem finished speaking, the wind breath monster began to rise slowly, as if it was about to leave here soon. .

"..." Entik, who was hiding in the dark, suddenly became alert.

Since dealing with this Greem, he has never been easy to talk to. This time, such a quick show of weakness and retreat immediately made him feel a little inappropriate.

Just when Entik was suspicious, the wind-breathing monster that rose to the sky suddenly sent another mental wave: "By the way, Entik, don't you check the other person's body every time you create a bugman?" ?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the wind-breathing monster rushed into the jungle without looking back.

But at this time, Mok's body in the wooden house suddenly began to heat up sharply, and his whole body turned into a human bomb in an instant, and exploded with a bang when the energy and blood all over his body swelled to the limit.

Due to the density of the "insectified" Orion stations in the hut, Mok's explosion affected the remaining seven insects. The seven worms were riddled with broken bones and hot plasma, and then melted in pain.

Each worm has a heart-eating worm bred by Entik in his body, and the eight heart-eating worms were wiped out in an instant, and the mental pain brought to Entik can be imagined.

In the next second, Entik's screams of curses soared into the sky.

It's a pity that the wind breath monster has already fled and disappeared!

...

When Greem returned to the wizard camp with a series of prisoners of war, the boy followed him.

The boy's name is Edwin, and his hometown is in a faraway place called Clayty. It is rich in grape wine and is also a well-known area with beautiful scenery. It's a pity... After he awakened that weird talent, he was forced to leave his hometown, and lived a life of wandering around, hiding in Tibet.

It's a pity that even though he hid in the depths of the Greenland forest, he was still blocked in the cave by those mad dog-like fanatical witcher knights. Six of the seven companions who had been together day and night for half a year died, and he was the only one who survived. It was because the group of witcher knights wanted to take him back to the city and execute him publicly, which temporarily saved his life.

However, his life changed drastically last night, making him embark on a completely different path from then on!

It's only been two or three days since we saw each other, and there have been huge changes in the camp.

A three-story stone tower has stood up, and more than a dozen mechanical beasts are floating outside the stone tower, carefully etching special rune lines on the tower wall.

Although this is not a real wizard's tower, it is enough to serve as a wizard's residence temporarily after the continuous strengthening of the strong runes, anti-magic runes, and anti-prophecy runes. If you want to refine more and finer magical items and witchcraft potions, you cannot do without the alchemy laboratory and alchemy table.

So giving priority to building the tower of witchcraft has become the top priority!

After returning this time, Greem found that there were twice as many witch beasts outside the camp than before. Moreover, Greem also found traces of the spoils he sent back on several powerful wizard-level wizard beasts.

Such as bloodthirsty ogres, such as berserk giant apes, such as poison-eyed giants...

The refining of these powerful wizard-level witch beasts is too rough, and the life system is not stable at all. At first glance, they are defective products of temporary seals. Although such a guy has no loss in combat strength and can reach the strength of a wizard, his vitality is only a short period of one or two months.

And when Greem and Korgan began to hand over the newly captured witcher knights and human mercenaries, the young Edwin was looking at everything in the camp with a pilgrimage.

For him, this place is simply the holy land of spellcasters in his dreams, and it is also a place he is willing to protect to the death!