After staying in the Royal Capital for one month, Gray said goodbye to Sophia, Francis and others and left the Royal Capital. He used space teleportation. After several moves, he appeared in the basement of the Storm Mercenary Group's residence in the mercenary city.
"Master Gray!"
Seeing Gray arriving, Marlowe Sydney saluted respectfully.
Gray nodded and asked.
"Did you contact me because you have found the ice-type king-level blood beast?"
"Yes, sir, we have found the ice-type king-level blood beast you asked us to search for."
Marlo Sydney replied.
"Oh, where?"
Gray became interested and asked hurriedly.
"In Alligator Swamp."
"Do you have a detailed map?"
Gray knew about the Crocodile Swamp. It was a swamp located in the west of the kingdom. Because there were many crocodile-type blood beasts in the swamp, it was called the Crocodile Swamp.
"Yes, the place where the ice-type king-level blood beast was found has been marked with a red fork."
Marlowe Sydney quickly handed over a map, and Gray took it and opened it. On the map, a red cross stood out.
"Sir, do you need me to arrange someone to guide you?"
Marlowe Sydney asked carefully.
"No, just maintain the status quo of the Storm Mercenary Group. Be careful not to expose your relationship with me. Also, if there is news about the Kingdom of Flame, please inform me immediately."
Gray shook his head and ordered.
"Yes, sir."
Marlowe Sydney should be respectful. Although he is a strong person at the third level of the Wild Level, he does not have the slightest arrogance in front of Gray, and even in his heart, he does not feel dissatisfied with Gray at all.
The soul of the opponent resurrected by using the resurrection ability is no longer the original soul, but a soul reborn due to Gray's ability. The respect and loyalty to Gray are definitely greater than that of the so-called dead soldier.
After using space teleportation to cover a short distance, and then a distance without space teleportation, Gray mimicked blue-black wings and began to fly on his way. It took him a day to arrive outside the crocodile swamp.
It was getting late, and he settled in a small town hotel outside the crocodile swamp.
"Have you heard? Something strange happened in Alligator Swamp."
There are more than ten dining tables in the hotel, several of which are already occupied by people. The people dining there should be from the same mercenary group.
Crocodile leather is a high-quality material for making combat uniforms, so from time to time mercenary groups come here to hunt crocodile-type blood beasts.
The conversation among five mercenaries at one of the tables attracted Gray's attention.
"What's weird?"
Someone at the same table asked.
"It's foggy in Alligator Swamp."
The mercenary who just spoke said.
"Is it foggy at this time?"
Someone next to me sounded surprised.
At this time, it is summer and the highest temperature of the year. According to common sense, there should be no fog.
"And that's not the weirdest thing."
The person who spoke before glanced at the people at the same table and said.
"Isn't that the weirdest thing? What could be weirder?"
The people at the same table looked at the former with curiosity on their faces. Even the people at the tables next to him looked over after hearing their conversation.
"A mercenary group found it strange, so they sent people to investigate. As a result, all the people who went to investigate returned to their original places."
Being stared at by so many people, the mercenary who spoke felt that his vanity was greatly satisfied, and he suddenly spoke loudly.
"Back to where you were?"
"Yes, the people who are sent to investigate, no matter how they go, will eventually return to the original place and cannot enter the depths of the fog at all."
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Gray held his chin slightly with one hand. It was obvious that this fog was very abnormal. Both the time of appearance and the characteristic of making people go back to the original place indicated that this fog was abnormal and not naturally generated.
"Is the mist created by some blood beast?"
According to Gray's estimation, the mist is probably created by the blood beast's ability of a certain blood beast. It should have hallucinogenic abilities and can affect people's senses, so that people will return to the original place without knowing it.
The next day, Gray set out into the crocodile swamp.
Crocodile Swamp is naturally dominated by swamp terrain. The soil is overly wet, the ground is soft, and there is a lot of rotten silt. If you walk in it, you will fall into the silt if you are not careful, and it will sink deeper and deeper, and eventually the whole person will be buried in the silt. middle.
Of the people who die in the crocodile swamp every year, only a portion of them are killed by blood beasts, and a large number of others die in terrain like the crocodile swamp.
Such terrain was nothing to Gray, who had the ability to fly. With his wings flapping, he flew over the swamp and headed towards the place marked on the map where the ice-type king-level blood beast was found.
Uh-huh!
In the swamp mud, a blood beast with brown skin, almost the same color as the mud, spotted Gray flying in the air. It opened its huge mouth and slashed at Gray with a compressed water blade.
Kaka!
When the water jet was about to hit Gray, it suddenly turned into ice. Then the direction of the water jet turned into ice and struck at the blood beast with brown skin.
puff!
Bright red blood spattered, and the blood and muddy water were mixed together. In the mud, a blood beast rolled in pain, muddy water splashed, and after struggling for a few times, it stopped struggling.
Gray had no intention of stepping forward to collect the blood, and flew straight over. Judging from the power of the water blade, it was probably just a mad-level blood beast that attacked him. It was difficult for a blood beast of this level to arouse his interest.
After flying for half a day, Gray had entered the depths of the crocodile swamp.
"Sure enough, there is a fog area!"
He found an area that spread for several miles. It was misty and completely covered by thick fog. It was incompatible with the surrounding yellow-brown terrain and looked quite strange.
Gray flew over and looked down from high altitude.
The fog was so thick that it looked like white clouds in the sky. The visibility was extremely low. Even if you looked hard, you could only see more than 10 meters away.
"I really want to find out!"
A blood beast ability that can create hallucinogenic mist. Although it does not have any attack power, it is a very practical ability.
Not only can it be used to trap enemies, but it can also be used to hide and escape at critical moments. If there is an opportunity to obtain the blood of this kind of blood beast, he will naturally not miss it.
"Forget it, the top priority now is the ice-type king-level blood beast. If the time delay is too long, this ice-type king-level blood beast has left its original place, which would be bad!"
In the end, Gray gave up the idea of exploring and resolutely chose to leave. Hunting the ice king-level blood beast was what he urgently needed to do now, and everything else had to be pushed to the back.
After spending a night in the swamp, Gray approached the place marked on the map the next day. He descended from the air and began to search carefully.
After some searching, Gray saw several traces left by large blood beasts. They were very huge. Based on the rough estimation skills he learned from the Demon Dog Mercenary Group, the number of blood beasts that left these traces should have exceeded 10. rice.
If nothing unexpected happened, a king-level blood beast did stay in this place, but it was obvious that this king-level blood beast had left and did not continue to stay in this area.
"It seems like a bottle of hunter's potion will be wasted."
Touching the purple ring, a bottle of hunter's potion appeared in Gray's hand.
According to Master Arnold's appraisal, this potion can give people a sense of smell comparable to the king-level blood beast Desolate Demon Dog in a short period of time, making people become tracking masters. This is also the origin of the name of its hunter potion.
He has a total of three bottles of such potion, and now it seems that he has to waste one bottle to find the Ice King Beast.
Unscrew the cork and drink the liquid in one gulp. The liquid has a slightly bitter taste and a hint of blood. After all, the main ingredient of this medicine is the blood of blood beasts.
call-
After swallowing the potion, Gray felt that his sense of smell became extremely sharp in an instant.
All kinds of smells came one after another, the freshness of plants, the stench of rotting leaves, the lingering smell of beasts around...
Whether it is small or strong, it is difficult to escape from under Gray's nose. Even if it is a tiny bit of smell hundreds of meters away, he can smell it.
Arriving at a place where the king beast left traces, Gray soon smelled a unique smell. The reason why it was unique was that it actually felt dangerous when smelling this smell.
Powerful blood beasts are able to drive away other blood beasts just by their smell. It is obviously not without reason. There is a strong and dangerous smell in their smell, forcing other blood beasts who smell the smell to stay away.
Gray followed the scent quickly.
A crocodile blood beast sank its body into the mud, with only its two eyes and nostrils for breathing out, completely integrated with the mud.
It spotted Gray who was walking dozens of meters away and hid in the dirt. It remained motionless and only waited for Gray to get closer before launching a thunderous attack on Gray.
Gray was getting closer and closer, and it was ready to attack Gray. At this moment, Gray waved his hand and slashed out a cyan wind blade.
puff!
A scratch dozens of meters long appeared on the ground. In the center of the scratch, the crocodile blood beast was cut in half by Gray's wind blade before it could launch an attack. Blood sprayed like a fountain.
After taking the hunter's potion, Gray's sense of smell became extremely developed. From a long distance away, Gray could already smell the smell of the crocodile blood beast hiding in the soil, which is why the scene just happened.
He followed them all the way for dozens of miles, encountering many ambushes by blood beasts along the way, but Gray discovered them all in advance and knew the danger in advance.
"Unmelted ice!"
Ahead, a piece of ice spreading for more than a hundred meters appeared in front of Gray's eyes. Judging from the signs that the ice had not completely melted, the blood beast that left this piece of ice had not left for long.
The feedback from the smell also confirmed this. Here, he smelled an extremely strong smell of blood beast, and this smell was exactly that of the suspected king-level blood beast he was tracking.
(End of chapter)