Age of Adepts

Chapter 428: Spider Forest

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Under the dim starlight, the forest around the diseased forest looked very quiet.

Not only are there no traces of those large carnivorous jungle creatures, even the singing of birds and insects has disappeared. The entire black forest is like a tomb, and the silence is terrifying.

The uplifted earth hills in the diseased wood forest have disappeared, and the collapsed pit has swallowed hundreds of tons of soil, sand, stones and dead trees, making this place a complete rock pile.

However, at this moment, at a corner of the pile of rocks, strange rustling sounds continued to come out. At the beginning, the voice was as weak as a gopher secretly digging a hole, but gradually, the voice became louder and louder.

Boom...

With a violent bang, a strange monster with a short neck and short tail, which looked like both a flying dragon and a griffin broke through the mud layer and got out from the ground. It has a strong body, great strength, and sharp teeth and claws, but the hard gray skin is full of terrible scars.

It got out of the ground, shook its body violently to shake off the soil on its body, and with its neck stretched and hissed, its thick hind legs kicked vigorously, and its majestic body flew into the sky again.

Quickly circled twice on the pile of rocks, the biped flying dragon king raised his neck and let out a long hiss of grief and anger, turned around and went straight to the high cliff where he lived in the east.

Not long after it disappeared, a dark figure appeared beside the burst hole.

Under the reflection of the night, the soft and flexible body of the dark tentacle monster can hardly be seen, only a huge black shadow can be seen dimly.

After hesitating for a moment, the figure of the dark tentacle monster slowly floated up, and under the cover of night, it quickly fled towards the distance.

It was originally a guy who liked to go alone, and the destruction of the beast horde would undoubtedly have the least impact on it. However, considering the possible revenge of the human wizard in the future, it feels that this forest is no longer a safe place.

Time to think about relocation!

While thinking about it, the dark tentacle monster shuttled through the endless darkness, its body getting farther and farther away.

And just as they moved away one after another, a big mouth exploded again somewhere in the rubble, and the Demon Hunting Spider Tula rolled out of it wrapped in a huge cocoon, and disappeared into the forest without looking back.

This time, it took a full hour before new changes appeared in the pile of rocks.

With a crackling sound, a certain layer of mud suddenly collapsed, revealing a huge winding hole. Immediately afterwards, figures of different shapes emerged from the inside, arranged near the entrance of the cave, as if they were waiting for some important person.

Greem was of course the last one to emerge from the hole.

After the bloody battle just now, although Greem was a little tired, his strong desire to gain something still supported him to continue fighting.

Greem's height of 2 meters was by no means the tallest among the group of black shadows, but the moment he appeared, all the black shadows bowed slightly to greet him.

Greem's eyes slowly swept across this group of 'people'. The team consisted of less than twenty people, but covered three identities of disciples, subordinates and servants.

"Meryl, take Kodar, the harpies, the manticore leader and the two manticores to Mount Twin Towers, the lair of the rampaging giant baboon, and if all goes well, you can visit the harpy's home on the way back..."

"Understood! Don't worry, teacher!"

"Gargamel, you take Sabrina, the Snake Demon, and the three manticores to the red stone of Medusa's lair first, and then take everything you can take away from the Snake Demon's lair..."

"Leave it to me, master!" Gargamel let out his signature sneer again.

"Okay, the rest will go with me to the spider cave in Tula, let me see if that guy has gone back to his lair!"

"Yes!" The three magic dogs replied weakly.

Just being controlled by others, even the wounds in his body have not healed in time, so he needs to go on an expedition to the lair of the monster lord Tula, which makes him unhappy anyway. But the situation is stronger than humans, and now its life and death are in the hands of that human wizard, so it has no other choice!

A simple team, three human wizards matched with three groups of quasi-sorcerers, monsters and manticores. Such a team will not be easily overthrown by the enemy even if they don't get much advantage from those fleeing enemies. After all, several monster leaders know each other well, and after this battle, it is clear what family property is left under the opponent's hands.

So after weighing the pros and cons, Greem decisively dispatched the main force of the Wuta to search for some useful resources as much as possible.

Of course, the place where Wuta lives and lives cannot be too empty. Therefore, Greem left the forest monster behind, and with the assistance of a group of wizard apprentices such as Amu, if they guarded the witch tower tightly, it would be difficult for the few remaining monsters to break into it.

Therefore, after waving goodbye to everyone, Greem stepped onto an adult manticore, and headed straight for the spider lair of the monster lord Tula with the three-headed magic dog Anguja.

...

The spider lair of Tula the Demon Hunting Spider is actually a huge cave.

The location is about 200 miles north of the diseased forest in a valley.

Along the way, Greem straddled the manticore's back, slightly looking down at the forest below him, and the number of life breaths that could be detected within the range of spiritual perception had dropped to an embarrassing level.

In the battle of the diseased forest, tens of thousands of jungle creatures were wiped out, and the impact on this black forest was unprecedentedly huge. Although the creatures in the Black Forest are very mobile, and the vacant creatures here will be filled by the jungle creatures in the nearby area soon, but the quantity and quality are definitely several grades lower.

And the density of jungle creatures also determines the number of monsters that this black forest can support.

With fewer monsters, the security of the Wu Tower will be much higher, but the resources of monsters will be somewhat lacking.

While Greem was daydreaming silently, the three magic dogs Anguja, who had been running wildly on the ground, finally stopped at the entrance of a huge valley.

Greem's manticore circled around, wrapped in the howling wind with its huge bat wings, and lowered its body beside Anguja.

Greem jumped off the manticore, and seriously looked at the eerie forest in front of him.

Compared with the common Black Forest, this place should simply be called 'White Forest'.

The valley chosen by Tula the Demon Hunter as its lair was full of tall, straight old trees, but rarely saw the leafy crowns and shrubs, thorns, and vines that climbed the glades. The other is a white spider web that looks like a ghost.

On the canopy, between the branches, between the trees...

In short, as long as there are gaps, they are covered with white sticky cobwebs and groups of large or small white cocoons.

Some of the white cocoons are entangled in the branches, some are embedded in the tree holes, and some are hanging on the sides of the road, gently swinging up and down as the night wind blows.

In some of the white cocoons, Greem sensed a faint breath of life, and most of the life in the white cocoons had been sucked dry of body fluids, turning them into horrible mummies.

But what was unusual was that Greem led the three magic dogs into the valley several hundred meters, but he didn't find any spider-like creatures!

All buried in the magma sea

As soon as this idea came up, Greem himself denied it.

Such a cunning monster lord like Tula would definitely not be able to do such a decisive thing. Its lair must still be hiding enough spiders to protect its homeland, and after it escapes from the ground, it may hide in its lair immediately to recuperate.

If I guessed right, it probably also intended to restore its strength by sweeping away Medusa before leaving. The only thing I don't know now is that it plans to eat that Medusa raw, steam it, or fry it.

Thinking of Medusa's gorgeous face and beautiful snake-like figure, Greem couldn't help feeling a burst of regret. It would be too wasteful to eat such a 'stunning thing'!

Greem's black pupils gleamed with blue light, and he slowly swept across the spider forest in front of him, his expression gradually becoming serious.

In his mind, whenever he scanned a dense spider web, the elemental vision would scan a small amount of energy flow in the spider web. And the chip warnings are endless.

"Warning... Warning... An unknown protective force field has been found... This protective force field can absorb mental power and block the penetration of spiritual perception..."

Huh, a spider web that can block spiritual perception

Greem strolled to a tall ancient tree, stretched out his hand to grab the dense cobwebs that overturned the tree trunk and tightly wrapped the ancient tree, and tore it lightly.

Sticky, tough, and with a hint of numbness that can paralyze people's spirits...

If Greem was an ordinary jungle creature, he would probably be drained of his spiritual energy soon after bumping into such a spider web, and thus become one of the many white cocoons here.

Greem tried hard, and with his 3 points of strength, he couldn't move these seemingly ordinary spider webs. You know, the strength of an adult black bear in the black forest is only 3 points. 3 points of strength are enough to make Greem a humanoid beast in the jungle. Even without any witchcraft, he can defeat most of the carnivorous beasts with bare hands.

Of course, monsters such as the Earth Violent Bear and the Iron Armored Rhino are not included in this list!

Greem snapped his fingers lightly, and a raging flame immediately ignited on the right hand that grabbed the spider web. With the help of witchcraft, a large piece of the spider web that was as tough and sticky as rhinoceros hide just now disappeared with a bang.

It seems that the flame is indeed the nemesis of this spider web!

Greem stretched out his flame-filled palms, and the cobwebs that wrapped the ancient tree layer after layer immediately melted away like boiling soup and snow.

Soon, the dark and thin bark of the ancient tree was revealed.

Greem punched out without hesitation, and the star-fiery iron fist directly crushed the outer skin of the ancient tree and penetrated into it.

The ancient tree is hollow!

When Greem pulled out his fist, purple-black and foul-smelling blood flowed from the opening of the ancient tree, and countless small spiders gushed out from it. And through the breach, Greem saw white bones and remnants of hair in the hollow tree cavity.

Greem's discovery seemed to have touched the entire spider forest. The horrible mummy hanging between the treetops and branches suddenly moved strangely, tearing the spider webs on their bodies stiffly and rigidly.

Once they got rid of the shackles of the spider webs, they flew across the tall ancient trees with an agility no less than that of a cheetah, and rushed towards Greem and the three magic dogs howling.

All of a sudden, the entire spider forest rioted!