Age of Adepts

Chapter 23: The golden cicada sheds its shell

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As a strange monster that has survived for hundreds of years, the hag has already lost her heart, throat, chest and abdomen, and other fatal vitals. However, the brain is the host of the broken soul. Once destroyed by the enemy, they are also in danger of dying.

Therefore, sensing the emptiness and weakness in his chest, the ugly face of the hag leader Simba flashed with hatred and viciousness, and his ferocious face became more and more distorted and fierce.

As the master of this silty swamp, Simba can even compete with the swamp giant crocodile with his tough skin, sharp and poisonous claws, and many of his men. Its deadly teeth and claws can directly tear half an inch of armor, and the toxin hidden in the black fingers can paralyze the opponent the moment it touches flesh and blood.

But unfortunately, like most swamp monsters, it doesn't have any good long-range attack methods. Debilitating rays and sleep spells with too short range can hardly penetrate the basic magic protection. Therefore, when meeting Alice who can fly and attack from a distance, Simba's physical fitness can completely crush the opponent, but the lack of attack methods makes it difficult. It was beaten and could not fight back.

Afraid of the opponent's invisible witchcraft, Simba stomped his feet, and the giant lizard sank into the pool without saying a word. Simba only showed a head above the water, staring at Alice viciously with vicious eyes, without the slightest intention of backing down.

Angry Alice shot again and again, but Simba, who hid most of his body, dodged them. After all, her signature attack moves are too eye-catching, as long as she is a little vigilant and leaves her position in time, she can avoid her space attack.

Alice tried many times, but only got some foul-smelling sewage, which made her even more manic. He pulled out the rotten brains of seven or eight hags in one breath, scaring the rest of them into the mud and disappearing. In the entire huge muddy swamp, only Alice and that Simba were left confronting each other.

Alice vented her anger, but also found some shortcomings in herself.

Her space witchcraft is indeed sharp and mysterious enough, but all of them focus on single-target attacks, and do not have the large-scale and powerful terrifying effects of elemental witchcraft. This may allow Alice to have awesome lethality in the battle with the wizard apprentices of the same level, but in the current situation, she is a little powerless.

If she mastered the lava fireball witchcraft, it only takes a few shots to turn the stinking pool under her feet into a roiling cauldron, boiling the horrible monsters inside. It's a pity that she is too obsessed and confident about space witchcraft, so she doesn't bother to delve into those simple elemental witchcraft.

Therefore, facing today's scene, she had nothing to do for a while, and she couldn't do anything about that hateful hag leader who refused to fight.

If it was replaced by the strong man with the giant sword who came with her, he might be able to use his physical advantage to forcibly enter the hag's lair. However, Alice is a long-distance wizard with a fragile body. Once she fights with a large number of hags in the quagmire, she is not absolutely sure that she will be able to escape unscathed.

But today Alice has already made up her mind to capture or kill Greem, and after a moment of hesitation in mid-air, she propped up the full-face space barrier again, crashing into the quagmire like a falling star. middle.

Simba obviously didn't expect this little human loli who was blind in one eye to be so violent, and hastily drove the giant lizard into the deeper muddy water, and continuously emitted a strange sound wave with a super high frequency from his mouth, summoning with his men.

The mud waves rolled over and the muddy water flowed across the river. The swamp and quagmire, which had been calm just now, boiled like boiling water in an instant.

Water lines frantically flocked to the place where Alice entered the water. It was the giant lizard raised by the hags. Each of them is more than 5 meters long, and their bodies are covered with tough scales. In addition to sharp minions, there are also petrified rays with a range of no more than 10 steps. And the hags were also ups and downs in the muddy sewage, desperately besieging this villain who dared to invade their home.

In the stinky muddy water that cannot be touched by sight, Alice is wrapped in an indestructible space barrier, the only remaining one eye flashes with hatred, and she is using her unique witchcraft to kill everyone who appears in front of her enemy.

There is a lot of witchcraft that can be regenerated from the right eye that has been eaten by scorpions, but this bad breath still makes it difficult for her to swallow. Although it was the nasty exorcist who made the move, the instigator was this eccentric low-level apprentice.

The means by which the other party can perceive the power of space, whether it is a natural ability or some kind of witchcraft, must not be leaked out, otherwise, once it falls into the hands of the enemy, the terrifying reputation that Alice has built up for a long time will be in jeopardy.

As the two sides fought a bloody battle at the bottom of the pool, the entire mud swamp became a battlefield for them to fight fiercely. However, at this moment, the instigator of this battle, Greem, a junior apprentice, was being carried into the lair by four hags in a stiff body.

After the battle began, the four hags dragged the petrified Greem to the bottom of the quagmire, digging a hole in the foul and smelly mud. Dragging Greem, they got into it. The tunnel was filled with sticky and foul-smelling mud, but that didn't prevent them from moving quickly.

First they swam for more than ten meters flat, and then tilted upwards. With a soft bang, several people escaped from the ubiquitous mud and sewage and came to a damp tunnel. Just as the few people were crawling forward in the dark and damp tunnel, there was a dull and hoarse roar from the mud in the distance behind them. The sound was that of Simba's battle roar.

The urgency of the battle forced Simba to roar continuously, loudly summoning the hags of the entire mud swamp to join the battle, and even the tunnel where they were located was shaken so that the cave wall was constantly shaking.

Tempered, the hag under the intelligence immediately became restless. The two hags following Greem hissed a few times, turned around and burrowed into the mud again. Obviously, the two of them responded to the leader's call and also went to participate in the siege of foreign enemies. The other two hags roared a few times in anger, but they could only suppress Gu Qianwang who was fighting, and continued to drag Greem's shoulders to crawl forward.

The silt swamp is the home of hags. They can be soaked in silt and sewage all year round, waiting for their prey to come. But inevitably, they also need a place to put what they consider to be their treasures. Stale and smelly dried meat, broken and damaged leather armor, rusty weapons lacking maintenance, some collected plant roots...

These things must corrode quickly when soaked in sewage, so Simba, the leader of the hags, dug a parallel underground passage at the bottom of the quagmire where his group lived, and set up a relatively dry lair somewhere far away from the swamp. .

And now, the petrified Greem was also sent here.

The eyes, ears, mouth and nose were blocked by the smelly and sticky mud, and the whole body was petrified and stiff like a stone statue, but Greem's spiritual consciousness did not slow down in the slightest, and he could still perceive everything that happened around him.

It's finally fighting outside!

Through the faint ground shaking, Greem could imagine the fierce and bloody battle in the quagmire at the moment. Although the hag group led by Simba has an absolute numerical advantage and is still in the territory he is most familiar with, Greem still doesn't think they can do anything to get that terrifying little loli.

They don't understand elemental witchcraft, but rely on their strong and tough bodies to fight. They think that their powerful combat advantages are a joke in front of Alice's paper-thin space barrier. As long as they can't find the hidden "secret door" above Alice's space barrier, they will be exhausted and unable to break through the so-called indestructible space barrier.

Unless they can drain Alice's spiritual power in absolute numbers, otherwise... there is no victory in this battle. So when she and them have no time to look around, this is the best time for him to escape as soon as possible.

Although Greem's entire body had been petrified and could no longer move, his mental power was still unimpeded. Driven by the tentacles of his mental power, a spicy and pungent juice flowed out from the vial of reagent hidden in his mouth beforehand, and flowed into his stomach along the numb esophagus.

He has been patrolling the periphery of the swamp tower all year round, and has already known the innate abilities of the surrounding monsters. How could Greem not prepare some countermeasures for himself! This bottle of "freedom of movement" potion is the witch medicine he bought at a high price from other apprentices in the wizard tower, and it has extremely high effects on removing petrification and paralysis abilities.

As the effects of the witch medicine circulated in his body, Greem's already completely stiff body gradually became itchy, and part of his perception returned to his control.

After walking for 100 meters, they finally came to a slightly flat and dry crypt. The narrow space less than 20 meters around was full of musty smell, and the dirty air was almost suffocating.

The two hags threw Greem onto a pile of debris in the center of the crypt, and they roared loudly at each other, as if arguing whether they should participate in the battle or stay here to guard the "food". However, when the two "persons" were arguing endlessly, with two soft bangs, two groups of fist-sized elemental flames ignited in the darkness.

The two hags were stunned for a moment, and then they realized that at some point, the human who was originally as stiff as a stone statue stood up, each holding a ball of small flames that kept jumping and burning in his open hands.

How could a hag with only low-level intelligence figure out what was going on in front of her? She sensed the surging aura of flesh and blood on Greem's body, and immediately rushed over with a loud roar.

The two small flames instantly exploded into two streams of scorching hot flames, which burned towards the two hags. The two sides passed by each other, and Greem fell to his knees in the damp crypt gasping for breath as soon as his hands and feet went limp. His clothes were torn, and four terrible wounds appeared on his chest and ribs at the same time.

And the two hags hit the mud wall at the back, their thin and haggard bodies fell limply. The stream of flames controlled by Greem pierced through the big mouth, burning everything in the skull to ashes, and the two hags died instantly.

The air in the crypt was already scarce, and after the deflagration of the elemental flames, it became even thinner and pitiful. Greem panted with his mouth wide open for a long time before he recovered.

Venus is popping up in front of my eyes, and my body is even more uncomfortable. The bloodstains scratched by the hag's dirty claws not only didn't hurt, but were itchy, which made Greem's heart dark. Damn it, the attacks of these hags are all poisonous!

Struggling and swallowing a bottle of antidote, Greem's mind calmed down a little.

Holding his breath, he listened intently to the violent shock coming through the tunnel. This showed that the battle in the quagmire was still not over, and he still had a chance to escape. Then Greem confidently and boldly looked at the hag's lair in front of him.