If it is said that Greem's fire witchcraft brought the greatest damage to the manticores, then Gargamel's continuous throwing of the smoke poison into the cave was the most insidious means to force the opponents into desperation.
Without Gargamel, today's battle would have been protracted. Greem might be able to block the manticores in the cave, and it's hard for him to get out, and he doesn't want to deal with them quickly. Seriously speaking, the overall strength of the manticore group is two to three times that of Greem's.
But there is never an if in the world!
Reasonable tactics, appropriate candidates, and strong execution have contributed to this perfect battle of winning more with less.
When several adult manticores failed to knock over the 'stones' blocking the way with their strong bodies and fearless fighting will, they were doomed to a tragic ending!
The manticore leader was seriously injured and fled deep into the cave, replaced by two young manticores. The strongest ones have all been injured and retreated, and only the weaker young manticores can come out to attack.
And what they faced was the Howler who had basically repaired his body and Greem who had retreated to the second line. A meat shield and a fire witch, together with the gags of the Rotten and Gargamel, made it impossible for the two young manticores to replicate their previous bravery.
Before they got close to the growler, the two of them were beaten to pieces by a series of witchcraft, and screamed again and again. When they finally got close to the stone man, they stopped eating again with an 'earth tremor'.
And then another stormy baptism of witchcraft!
The two young manticores immediately knelt down. If the manticore behind them hadn't bit their tails and dragged them back, they would have died in the narrow entrance on the spot.
At this moment, one has to curse Gargamel for being insidious.
If there were no smoke poisons, even if the manticores couldn't get out, they would still be able to defend against danger, blocking the entrance of the cave and playing a protracted battle with Greem. But it was Gargamel's existence that filled the entire cave with suffocating and terrifying poisonous smoke, and the manticores had no choice but to use their flesh and blood to fight their way out.
Of course, if the manticore leader is more vicious and cunning, first send a few young manticores to take the lead, let them fight the growler at their peak physical strength, and consume the strength of Greem's side. Then carry out the elite manticore group assault, then the probability of their breakthrough will be even higher.
After all, Greem's side only had a wizard-level tank, the Growler, and Greem's half tank. Once the growler is blown up, the whole situation will collapse, and the festering will be difficult to deal with!
After all, it is not as good as before. Without the heavy firepower of the Flame Tyrant, Greem's own strength can barely be on the side of the veteran wizard. If the Balrog Heart is unsealed, he may have the explosive power of an elite wizard in a short period of time, but the time is only a quarter of an hour after all.
Facing elite-level monsters with such strength, there is still a great danger of being overthrown by the enemy!
But fortunately, under the confusion of many factors, the tactics he deduced by relying on the chip's battlefield simulation were basically completed, and finally took down the group of manticores without any risk.
The 11 manticores were not blown up by Greem's berserk fire-type witchcraft. Instead, they were knocked down by Gargamel's poison mist one by one, lying in the cave and softened into a puddle of mud.
Even the seriously injured leader of the elite manticore!
All the hair on his body fell out, his body was covered with scabs and scabs full of pus and blood, the terrible yellow water flowed wantonly, and the smell was full of pungent stench...
After dispelling the poisonous fog and entering the cave, Greem couldn't help feeling a little bit sad when he saw the scene in front of him. Such a powerful manticore family was easily taken down by a few of them. Now that I think about it, it's a bit weird and unbelievable.
But looking at the poor manticores limp like dead dogs, the pity in Greem's heart was only for a short moment. Immediately afterwards, he told Gargamel in a loud voice: "Hurry up and treat them! We must not let them die easily, otherwise the loss of benefits will be too great!"
In fact, he didn't need to give orders, after Gargamel entered the cave, he couldn't help laughing out loud when he saw the group of manticores stumbling around and unable to move.
"Quick...quick...quick..." Gargamel ordered repeatedly: "Give them the antidote, and tie them up..."
They were only in charge of guarding the periphery. The mercenaries who couldn't reach out during the battle swarmed in, covering their mouths and noses with wet cloths, and the pungent smell of medicine could be faintly smelled from them.
With their assistance, those who poured the potion poured the potion, and those who tied the rope tied the rope. In a blink of an eye, 11 manticores were tied up in such a way that it was difficult to move.
Gargamel was not so kind, he detoxified them completely. Once out of the control of the poison, they can break free from the ropes woven with iron wire vines in minutes by virtue of the monster's natural strong physique. That's why Gargamel took out some 'improved' antidotes, which not only saved their lives, but prevented them from fully recovering, and also infiltrated some terrible toxins into their lungs, so that they could be controlled later. .
Such a surviving manticore group is suitable for surrendering to be the future guard of the Wu Tower, so Greem entrusted Gargamel with the task of subduing the manticore group, while he himself sneaked into the depths of the ground alone, and A huge cave complex and a lava well were discovered there.
In fact, as soon as he stepped into this cave, Greem sensed a strong fire elemental aura. The entire group of caves that stretched for two or three miles were shrouded in dazzling red lights, and the air was filled with a suffocating sulfurous smell. And the source of all this comes from a lava well with a diameter of 5 meters in the center of the cave!
This is a lava well that leads vertically to the depths of the ground. When you lie down on the hole and look down, you will see a churning and turbulent sea of magma. The wellhead is about 50 meters away from the surface of the magma sea, and the surrounding stone walls are all volcanic rocks that can resist the magma attack, and it is also a natural stone for building the fire system witch tower.
Greem made a decisive decision, grabbed the witch staff and jumped into the lava sea below. Relying on the partial fire immunity brought by the flame body, he initially explored the shallow surface of the lava sea below, and was shocked.
This should be a natural 'earth lung'!
Just like people need lungs to breathe, the underground world also needs a channel to communicate with the energy of the surface world. The violent volcanic area is one, and more are 'lungs' like this.
They are hidden everywhere in the continent, even at the bottom of the endless sea.
Through the twisted and hidden passages, it can dissipate the heat from the ground to the surface, and then absorb the ubiquitous elemental energy into the depths of the ground.
And here, it is obviously a natural 'earth lung' mainly composed of fire elements!
Its existence, for a fire witch like himself, its great value is even more obvious!
So Greem immediately left a witchcraft mark near the lava well as the coordinates for future positioning, and then returned to the Manticore's lair contentedly.
And during the three days that Greem left, Gargamel also had a major breakthrough.
Among the 11 manticores, first two young manticores couldn't stand the threat of witchcraft and death, and finally lowered their heads in humiliation, let go of their hearts, and let Gargamel plant a soul imprint in them. With the dual control of witchcraft and soul imprint, the life and death of the two little manticores are completely controlled by Gargamel.
With 2 examples of their own experiences before them, the rest of the manticores also chose to surrender one after another and gained freedom. And the two elite-level manticores, including the manticore leader, would rather die than surrender. This undoubtedly made Gargamel look very annoyed.
But after Greem returned, he went to talk to the manticore leader, and he reluctantly surrendered! There are two factors that prompted it to surrender:
First, Greem promised that this is just an employment contract, not a slave contract. This also meant that Greem would have to pay the Manticore family regular employment fees in the future, and this fee was tentatively set at 30 magic crystals per month.
Second, the offspring of manticore packs are free. The baby manticores born in the future are no longer bound by the contract, and can live, reproduce and migrate freely, and wizards must not interfere!
For these two points, Greem naturally fully agreed, and the leader of the elite manticore just led his partner to join his team.
After the Manticore matter was settled, Greem left Gargamel, Mechanical Girl Sabrina, and Potion Apprentice Daniel in the Sickwood Forest, and then took the rest of the group on their way back to Songta Town.
As for the forest demon Ava, she has been hiding in the dark and has never met the mercenaries face to face, so the rest of the team members don't know her existence at all!
This trip to the Black Forest took twenty-seven days. When the adventurer team returned smoothly, the entire Songta Town boiled instantly.
The mercenaries who stayed in the small town flocked to the inn one after another, asking Luo Wei and others about the details of this adventure trip, but the team members who received a lot of money from Greem were silent, and they never dared to easily leak information about their employers. .
And Greem only stayed in Songta Town for one night, and hurried back to his family the next day.
The first thing Greem did when he returned to the family was to make a special trip to meet the head of the family, Sanaza, the wizard, and sent her an internal application for building a personal wizard tower.
This matter was promised to him by the great wizard Sarubo after the last family plane war, so what he mentioned was justified.
After not seeing each other for a few days, Master Sanaza seemed to be in a very happy mood, and she readily agreed to Greem's request, and quickly entrusted this task to the second-level wizard Furgen.
According to Greem's later understanding, the reason why Sanaza-sama is so happy is because the family's contact person stationed in the North has contacted Alice and obtained a considerable distribution of benefits from her.