After searching for herbs for a day in the bushes, near evening, the two of them came to a ten-chi (3-meter) wide river with no end in sight and turbid water. The pupils shrunk into a line, and Roy looked at his back and thought of the feline whose body was tensed because of the fried fur. Of course, it was an enlarged version.
"What's wrong? Is this place dangerous?"
Leto motioned him to keep quiet, then tiptoed and slid two ghostly steps towards the river, picked up a blue scale from the crevice of the pebbles on the bank, put it to his nose, sniffed, and quickly moved towards him. Retreat.
"Looks like we're going to find a farther place to stay, there's something dirty in the river."
"What do you mean..." Roy noticed the turbid surface of the river, and he became excited.
"There are water ghosts hidden in the river..." Leto threw the scales into his palm, "Look, the scales of water ghosts are different from ordinary fish, they are thicker, there is a small synapse in the center, and you can smell it on them. A smell of rotting corpses."
Probably because the perception is not high enough and the sense of smell is not sensitive enough, Roy couldn't smell it.
He lowered his head and followed Letho for a distance away from the river, suddenly patted the other's back like a wall, and said hesitantly, "Master Leto, can you give me a lot of insight to see the legendary Water ghosts? Since you are on this road, you will have to deal with them sooner or later. This is not just a chance to get to know this monster. If you leave them alone, how many people will suffer?"
"Did you know that the water ghost has a nickname in the witcher community—" Leto said coldly, "The rookie killer! It specializes in killing a curious, nosy kid like you."
Roy shrank his neck.
Having said that, Leto found a place to tie the horse. After returning to the riverbank to investigate again, he found a few scales, pondered for a moment, and began to organize his equipment, weapons, alchemy bombs, and potions.
Roy noticed that the other party looked like he was facing a great enemy, and was slightly surprised, "Is this necessary? The fighting power of the water ghost doesn't seem to be very good?"
He has slaughtered a lot of this kind of humanoid in the game, and he has at least hundreds of water ghosts under his command.
He has learned about this monster in countless killings - its strength is similar to that of ordinary people, and its movement speed may be slightly faster. Except for its excellent swimming skills, it has no impressive abilities.
"It seems that your dream is not a return to Turin." Leto smeared light green corpse-eating oil on the dagger, "Have you not heard a sentence in your dream, 'Being a monster is really lame, becoming a Groups make them happy,' and when it's out, it's usually a 'bringer'."
"So kid, pay attention to your attitude. No matter how weak you are, you have to keep your spirits high."
"Witchers don't have a second life, and dying underestimating an enemy deserves no sympathy. This is a second lesson for you."
Letho took a bloody wolf's leg from his saddlebag and chopped it up with his short sword.
"Understood, I promise not to make the same mistake again." Roy lowered his head in shame, and the witcher reminded him, with his current strength, what qualifications does he have to underestimate the water ghost? This scornful attitude will sooner or later bury himself in the grave.
In retrospect, since his last adventure, he had this after-effect, and it was time to wake up.
"Master Leto, what should I do? How can I help?" Roy took out his crossbow and loaded the arrows ahead of time.
"You can just hide and watch a good show." Lexo paused and looked at him blankly, "You can help if you want, do you know the weakness of the water ghost?"
Roy's lips wriggled twice, closed his mouth, and quietly looked like he was listening.
Leto nodded with satisfaction, and the other party finally realized the importance of humbly accepting, "You have to remember that poison and blood loss have no effect on water ghosts."
Roy was terrified after hearing it for a while. He really planned to use the butcher's anesthetic powder to deal with the water ghosts. At that time, he might become the first transmigrator to be eaten by the water ghosts.
"Because the water ghost's brain is not good, it is stupider than shoes, and the effect of the Axifa seal is also very poor. But their eyesight is not good, even in the daytime, once the distance from the target exceeds 40 (12 meters), it is equivalent to half a Blind. But there is a premise that you can run past them. Besides, they are most afraid of the fire element, everything related to fire." Leto took out a half fist-sized transparent glass jar from the alchemy pocket and threw it to Roy.
Through the glass, the gas in it can be seen faintly flowing with dreamy colors.
"Dragon's Dream, a kind of alchemy bomb. It contains flammable and explosive gas," Lesso said. "Your hand crossbow is good, and the head should be fine? After the water ghost is drawn out, Follow my orders and throw the Dragon Dreams where they gather the most. Then I'll detonate them, understand?"
"clear."
…
Leto disintegrated into dozens of pieces of flesh with blood and water, sprinkled it on a flat ground about 20 feet away from the river, quickly ran back and hid with Roy at a safe distance, staring at the river.
After waiting for about five minutes, the calmly flowing river suddenly became turbulent, like a pot of boiled water, with bubbles constantly emerging, and huge ripples on the water surface—
One head, two heads, three heads... A full five ugly humanoid creatures emerged from the water with their heads, Ulla Ulla screamed and rushed to the shore.
They looked like corpses plucked from the bottom of a pond, with skin ranging from blue to green, with mucus and mud oozing from every pore. Its limbs are covered with dark, slippery scales, the webs of aquatic animals can be seen between its toes and fingers, and its face has fan-like gills and catfish whiskers.
His chest, abdomen, and cheeks as thin as a skeleton were pale, revealing a set of jagged white teeth, staring at a pair of big white eyes and looking nervously from side to side.
The stubby nose moved, and the family screamed excitedly and rushed towards the pile of minced meat. The running posture was very strange, with their hands behind their backs, like a group of ostriches.
Roy glanced at Leto, but saw no gesture. So his eyes turned to the monster with the most serious alienation, and his eyes became deep.
water ghost
Gender: none
Age: 12
Identity: none
Health: 70
Strength: 5
Agility: 6
Constitution: 7
Perception: 3
Will: 2
Charisma: 0
Spirit: 0
Skill:
Transformed Body LV10: Some people think that they are the transformation of the dead underwater. In fact, the body structure is completely different from that of human beings. It is likely to be a magical creation, or a species of Bolai where the celestial spheres meet, immune to toxicity and blood loss.
…
Charisma 0, Spirit 0, are you sure it's not a few corpses? Roy slandered, it is no wonder that the Axif Seal will be invalid.
As soon as he turned his head and saw Lesso's gesture, he took a deep breath, and with a force of his right hand, "Dragon Dream" drew a perfect arc in mid-air and accurately landed among the five water ghosts.
"Crack", with the crisp sound of glass breaking, the dreamy colored smoke spread out in an instant, completely covering the five water ghosts who were still feasting.
Almost at the same time, the witcher rushed past like a gust of wind, raising his hand at the alchemy gas, which was an Igni sign—withdrew and retreated.
The cone-shaped flame seemed to ignite a ball of cotton, and it spread in a swish.
Roy, who held his crossbow, stared into the distance in a daze, and a grand "fireworks show" opened in front of him. Orange flames flickered in the colorful alchemy gas. Dyed with rainbow halo.
"Ulla Ulla..." Five smoky wolf figures stubbornly rushed out of the explosion, three of them fled to the river, and the witcher chased after him with a short sword. Two more rushed towards Roy. The latter calmly shot an arrow through the eye socket of one of the water ghosts, and moved his fingers to pull the string to set the arrow, but the other burning water ghost had already crossed a short distance of dozens of latitudes and approached him.
Not a single hair could be seen on the pale and ugly face, the orange flames jumped wildly in the facial features, and the strong scorched smell and the stench from its sharp teeth and sharp mouth madly poured into the nostrils.
Luo's whole body suffocated.
The god of death greeted him, then turned and left gracefully. The sprinting water ghost was stunned in place as if he had been hit by the immobilization technique. The huge inertia still carried this flaming body to Roy's reach. .
The situation was really weird, but he didn't have time to think about it. Roy called out a short knife and slashed its forehead viciously, causing it to fall back to the ground, and then inserted a crossbow arrow into its eye socket.
The water ghost was shocked and stopped struggling.
Kill the water ghost, gain experience 20
Kill the water ghost, gain experience 20
Experience LV2 (143/1000)
Roy breathed a long sigh of relief, dizzy for a while, and cold sweat dripping from under his clothes.
It was very dangerous, and he almost capsized in the gutter. If he hadn't suddenly triggered "shock and awe", he couldn't imagine what would happen to him? Embraced by a smoking water ghost death? It is estimated that if you don't die, you will also lose a small half-life.
"Little devil, now you understand why this thing is called a rookie killer." The tall witcher didn't know when he came to his side, and none of the three fleeing water ghosts behind him fell, and all their heads were separated. "Do you dare to underestimate them?"
Roy was silent, he didn't expect this bald head to have a cold face, and he liked to lecture.
"What to do with these half-baked corpses? Throw them into the river again, or burn them again?"
"First dig out their brains, and I'll teach you how to do it. The water ghost brain is an important material for refining the magic medicine 'Swallow', and some spellcasters will also buy this stuff." A small group of figures stood shoulder to shoulder, dragging five half-baked water ghost corpses into a row, "It's best to find a red mutant, otherwise we will lose a lot of money if we don't deduct the cost of Dragon Dream. "