The black forest under the night is never peaceful.
In the deep and sneaky darkness, there are unpredictable dangers lurking everywhere.
The beasts of the jungle that go out to prey in the dark, the vampire vines camouflaged among the vines, the sour swamp that looks like grass on the surface, but is actually the habitat of ugly hags, and the vicious predators that wander in the depths of the forest like ghosts. By…
If the legendary polluters, strange monsters and monsters are added together, these things together constitute a real wild world with rich and colorful species and resources—the Black Forest.
60 kilometers to the north of the Flame Throne Wuta, this is a territory occupied by the Abebee people.
The night is deep.
But here, it is still a tense and busy scene.
Teams of beemen warriors with poisoned spears and bows flapped their wings in and out of the forest, many of them still holding their prey in their hands. Most of them are ordinary jungle creatures such as horned sheep, coyotes, and apes. You can also see berserk apes, scavengers, and human mercenaries every now and then.
Normally, each beeman team consists of fifteen beeman fighters.
According to certain rules, they walked through the black forest thirty miles around the nest, carefully searching for prey that could be preyed on. Whenever they encounter jungle beasts or other monsters that come out to prey, it indicates that a battle is inevitable.
It is precisely because of their terrifying aggressiveness that almost none of the beeman teams returning to the nest is full, and the worst team even has only four beeman fighters returning. But without exception, they all brought back some loot more or less.
The Abe bee's lair was built in a dense forest, and it was a strange witchcraft building similar to a beehive.
This is also the delivery room of the Queen Beeman, a special space for her to produce and cultivate herds.
Those ordinary beemen are not eligible to enter the hive. Only some specially selected beeman servants can surround the queen, serve her food all the time, and take good care of the newly hatched bee eggs.
The beeman's incubation period is very short. It only takes seven days for a bee egg to hatch into a beeman warrior. So as long as there is enough food, a hive can produce bee warriors at an almost explosive speed.
According to the division method of wizard's strength, the strength of an ordinary beeman warrior is only 0.7 points. But don't look at their individual strength is very weak, as long as they gather a certain number, their danger will rise in a straight line.
It has wings to fly, and has a superb poisoning technique. It can launch long-range attacks with bows and arrows, and can hold a three-pronged spear to launch a dive attack in melee. These advantages are stacked together, coupled with a steady stream of numbers, once the Yabe bee people have a firm foothold, they can quickly become the overlord of the nearby forests.
In this vast black forest, except for monsters with thick skin and powerful combat power like giant elephants and wyverns, they dare not provoke them, the rest of the creatures and monsters are almost all preyed upon by the Yabe bee people. list.
Therefore, during the period when Greem left the Throne of Fire, the number of Abe beemen who were temporarily uncontrolled by natural enemies was expanding at an almost explosive speed. And their disordered growth undoubtedly greatly threatened the newly established peripheral forces around the Throne of Flame.
In just seven or eight days, Gargamel had already received news of the deaths of two foreign apprentices and a dozen mercenaries. For a time, the thirty to forty miles around the Yabe beeman's lair was designated as an extremely dangerous area by the Throne of Flame, and Wuta even issued a ban on approaching this area.
However, the appearance of an overly powerful group of monsters around the Flame Throne is not a good thing from any point of view. Therefore, on the one hand, the mercenaries and low-level apprentices were ordered to be prohibited from approaching the hunting area of the Yabe beemen. On the other hand, Wuta also issued a clean-up mission internally, calling on the high-level apprentices to clean up these disordered monsters in a planned way.
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Near a narrow and small mountain stream, an encounter has just come to an end.
A single red flame tiger with a body length of 3 meters and a weight of 300 kilograms became the prey of the beeman predator team.
The dead Red Flame Tiger lay motionless on the grass in the forest, its bright yellow body covered with red magic patterns was full of short black arrows, and there were even two broken spears around its neck.
The weak strength of the bee warriors is not enough to kill the berserk red flame tiger, but the poison on their weapons can. So this unlucky single red flame tiger in front of him was poisoned to death alive!
However, the berserk fireball spewed by the red flame tiger also caused great damage to the bee-man predator team. Four bee-man fighters were torn apart when they could not avoid the explosion, and three bee-man fighters died from the red flame tiger's attack when they swooped down. Horrific Bite and Flame Tail.
The remaining eight beeman fighters also suffered some flame damage, but this did not prevent them from happily cutting up the red flame tiger's body, and then transporting the tiger meat back in batches.
This kind of monster flesh and blood imbued with a strong elemental atmosphere is a great tonic, and it is also one of the favorite foods of the Bee Queen.
However, when they were busy around the red flame tiger corpse, a voice came from the forest not far away, and a humanoid creature hidden in a thick black robe appeared in the sight of the beeman warrior.
Humanity!
The opponent is not only among humans, but also the queen's favorite human spellcaster!
Because in this forest, the only ones who dare to run around in black robes are the so-called wizard apprentices.
The bee warriors couldn't help but be overjoyed.
buzz buzz...
The bee-like wings flapped loudly.
The eight bee warriors threw away the bloody debris in their hands, grabbed their spears, and flew into the air in an instant. In order to avoid possible sorcery attacks from human apprentices, several bee warriors spread out in all directions, and quickly approached the black-robed figure under the cover of dense branches and vines.
What surprised them was that the black-robed figure did not try to escape, but raised its head slightly, and a pair of strange green eyes projected from the shadow of the hood, scanning the bee-man coldly.
Although the situation was a bit weird, the bee warriors still attacked the enemy according to a fixed procedure.
The first wave of shots was of course the half-range poisoned bow and arrow.
whoosh whoosh...
Eight poisonous arrows pierced through the gaps in the forest, and shot densely like locusts at the body of the black-robed figure.
The opponent didn't even have the slightest intention of dodging, nor did he cast any defensive witchcraft, just stood there and let the poisonous arrows hit him. Judging from the dull sound of the poisonous arrow entering the body, the other party was not wearing any metal armor under the black robe.
As a result, the eight bee warriors became even more excited, and kept firing arrows as they approached quickly. When they rushed to less than ten steps away from the black-robed figure, they threw away the longbows one by one, and swooped down with the three-pronged spear in hand.
When the eight spears were inserted into the opponent's body amidst the ear-piercing friction sound, the black-robed figure suddenly let out a strange sharp insect hiss. The whole body suddenly exploded into a sky full of black beetles, instantly submerging the eight beemen soldiers in the terrifying swarm of insects.
It was the first time that the bee fighters encountered such a terrible counterattack. They screamed in horror and wanted to pull up their bodies again, but a layer of strangeness was overturned on their heads, faces, bodies, legs, and even their translucent wings. black beetle.
What made them even more frightened was the strange rustling sound as dense as spring silkworms gnawing mulberry, and the terrible pain from all limbs and bones.
A few strong beemen warriors barely flapped their wings and flew up, but because they couldn't see, they bumped into the horizontal branches and fell down.
The beetle fighters struggled and fought back frantically... Many black beetles the size of soybeans were crushed into blood paste and poisoned into black water, but the remaining number was still enough to kill the eight unlucky beetles without other magical abilities. Egg.
Soon, the forest returned to tranquility.
The only thing left in the quiet and deep dark forest is a strange, creepy rustling sound.
After a while, the black beetles that had eaten their fill gathered together again, and re-condensed into Billis' appearance.
The wizard apprentice who had won the battle for the first time stood quietly in the blood on the ground, silently enjoying the comfortable feeling of sweet blood rushing in his body.
Although the Abe bee is a kind of monster, its appearance is a mixture of the characteristics of bees and elves, and it is also a kind of humanoid monster. In the past, with Billis' personality, he would never have made such a cruel act of eating the opponent raw.
But today, after merging with the mutated worm mother, everything in front of me has become so natural, it's not surprising!
This is my ideal world!
Ever since the successful fusion, Billis' violent and bloodthirsty nature has been strongly suppressed by Greem. Although he also secretly preyed on a lot of 'blood food', those weak humans did not bring him much evolutionary energy at all.
In contrast, monsters imbued with elemental power are the most suitable food!
Of course, those sweet and delicious human apprentices are also delicious food that can move around. But Master Greem had issued a strict order that he could not feed on wizards and apprentices without permission. Therefore, Billis could only forcibly suppress the urge to live in the Wuta and hunt for prey. Under the assignment of the master, he ran here to find trouble for the Abe bee.
After eating, Billis continued to walk deep into the jungle with heavy and staggering steps. And behind him, a dense swarm of insects wrapped in scattered pieces of flesh and blood followed him closely like loyal hounds.
The current Billis had just barely completed the evolution of the insect body and possessed an undead insect body, but none of the mutated beetles that fought for him had yet been bred. Such him is undoubtedly extremely weak. Once he encountered those powerful monster leaders, he could only turn around and run for his life.
So, it's time to find a place to build a nest!