The dungeon spiral ladder is built quite steeply, and coupled with the dust and soil accumulated over the years, it has actually become a slope. It is quite dangerous to walk on it. If you are not careful, you may roll down.
Fortunately, the members of the expedition team were all experienced senior mercenaries. In addition to sending people to guard the magician Jialan, the journey was very smooth.
The golden thief who was exploring the way forward was quite experienced in his investigation skills. His seemingly tiptoe movements were actually very quick, carefully checking whether there were traps and mechanisms on the spiral ladder, and at the same time squatting down from time to time to check some subtle and subtle on the stairs soil.
trace.
The thief in front stopped and turned around and said, "Be careful, there are creatures here, and I'm not sure what kind of creature it is, but..."
He spread his palms and gestured at the remaining marks on the ground. It was a five-finger mark that looked like the size of a human palm, but its knuckles were much longer than ordinary people's fingers, and there were sharp and curved claws at the fingertips.
"This is...the claw marks of some kind of rodent!? But how could it be so large? The distance between the front and rear claw marks is visually measured. If this big mouse is not considered a tail, it will be at least two meters long!"
The old thief Jimmy bent down to pick up a piece of pale skeleton, looked at the tooth marks left on it, patrolled the traces around him, and said in surprise: "Is it a giant rat? But even a giant rat is like a giant rat.
Can't grow that big!"
"Senior is right!"
The golden thief nodded to Old Jimmy, not despised because he was not as high as himself and was a disabled person. Then he looked up and said to his leader: "Head, there is good news and
A bad news, do you want to hear that?”
Kenmait laughed and scolded: "Damn it! I hate this kind of multiple-choice questions the most! Tell me quickly!"
"The good news is that the flying head has indeed flew below this!"
The golden thief rubbed his fingers and showed everyone the stains on his fingers. It was the dirty blood dripping from Feitouman's body. He shrugged: "The bad news is that there is a big mouse nest underneath! The giant rats live in groups.
Judging from the number of claw marks distributed on the ground, the number of animals may be huge!”
Giant rats are one of the most common monsters encountered by mercenaries during ruins exploration. This small monster can grow up to more than one meter when adults. In addition to size, other characteristics and habits do not exist as well as ordinary mice.
What's the difference, it's not too difficult to deal with.
However, this kind of monster that is always in a state of hunger is much more aggressive than ordinary mice. Depending on the degree of hunger, their courage will also be different. If they are hungry, they will definitely be even more powerful than wolves.
Terrible existence, because their biggest advantage is quantity!
A nest of giant rats can be as few as dozens and hundreds of them. If they rush up, they will definitely be a kind of enemy that can break rocks with their sharp teeth.
Although he was saying "bad news", both Kenmait and the mercenaries behind him looked smiling and did not show any nervousness because of the existence of the giant rat group, because these people
But they are all warriors of silver or even gold level, while giant rats are at most black iron level monsters.
"Maybe there is another good news or bad news... The good news is that from the distribution of claw prints, the denser it goes down, and there is almost no ground at the entrance of the dungeon, which shows that these giant rats are quite photophobic
,Their range of activities is limited to this dungeon, and they rarely appear on the ground!"
Old Jimmy imitated the tone of the golden thief and interrupted the mercenaries' jokes: "The bad news is that the giant rat with this characteristic is probably more dangerous than the ordinary giant rat, and the dark demon living deep underground.
mouse!"
Everyone looked at each other and subconsciously looked at the distance between claw marks that were twice as wide as ordinary giant rats. They couldn't help but frown. Moreover, any creature associated with the words "dark" and "demon" was associated with the words "dark" and "demon".
, usually it is not something that is pleasing to the eye and in a happy mood.
"No matter what it is, just kill it!"
Kenmait waved the big sword in his hands and said confidently: "Don't say it's a big mouse that is two meters long, it's three meters long..." Kenmait, who was about to say something bold to encourage morale, suddenly
He was silent, and his eyes were straightened to the bottom of the spiral ladder.
Everyone was shocked and turned their heads to look subconsciously, but they almost jumped up. In the darkness that the Yongming Light Staff could not shine, a dense blood-red light spot suddenly appeared, and a huge mouse
, slowly poking out of the darkness!
"My Lord is above!"
A mercenary said in a dismay: "Is this a mouse?"
He can't blame him for making a fuss. He slowly hunted from the darkness, the mouse that was walking out of the road was indeed huge and exaggerated, and it was not the two meters long they predicted, but the full
It's as three meters long as Kenmet blurted out!!!
The size of the huge mouse does not look like a slender mouse at first glance, but is as strong and arrogant as a ferocious wild boar, with large muscles bulging, and a mane that stands upright like a steel needle.
Below, thick and strong bone spurs penetrate the skin and exposed it on the surface!
Mercenaries, including Kenmait, the golden sword master, gasped. Before Kenmait could give the order to retreat, the giant rat squeaked sharply, and countless old rats were all over the place.
, from the darkness behind it, rushing out like a tide, crawling directly across its body, screaming wildly.
"Stop!"
Kenmait roared, and two shield warriors rushed up and blocked the narrow spiral ladder side by side. They used their heavy armor and the metal shield in their hands to block the way the giant rats, while the three were light.
The sword warrior of Arm rushed behind his peers and resisted his peers' backs with his shoulders.
The giant rats rushing up along the spiral ladder collided with the shield. The five people who took advantage of the slope above were actually squeezed back by the group of rats. The five people shouted in unison, and a "boom" on their bodies ignited.
Various colors of light flames, with the force of force at the same time, barely blocked the charge of the rat group and stopped them!
The spiral ladder is only two or three wide, and is blocked by five senior silver mercenaries. With the size of the giant rat, it is impossible for too many to pounce on them at the same time. The three silver sword warriors took the opportunity to wield the sword in their hands and blew the sword swords in their hands, from two
In the gap between Shield War companions, they chopped the group of rats rushing up.
The sword light flashed, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere. Jia Lan, who was staying behind, stared at the light that exploded from the silver warriors, and whispered in surprise to the old Jimmy who was guarding him: "What is that?"
Old Jimmy was stunned by Jia Lan's questioning. She turned her head and looked at her before she realized that Jia Lan was talking about the silver-white flames on the warriors. She immediately looked at him with a strange face and said, "That's a fighting spirit, accurate."
That layer of light is the Douqi ignition formed by burning in the air when the Douqi is released from the body to protect the body... Have you never seen it?"
“Uh~”
Jialan laughed dryly, wondering how to explain to old Jimmy that the last time in Corland City, Iguana Tooth and the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group fought with each other, I had never seen them use this skill?
Old Jimmy didn't care. She thought that Jialan had been in the Demon Academy for a long time and rarely dealed with warriors, so she had never seen the fighting spirit that warriors would release when fighting.
"The various types of fighting spirits that the warriors practice will be violently released from their bodies during battle, forming this substance that looks like flames. The reason why they appear different colors is related to the attributes of fighting spirits in their bodies."
While paying attention to the battle situation, Old Jimmy explained: "The green one is the wind-type Dou Qi, the red one is the fire-type Dou Qi, the blue one is the water-type Dou Qi, the yellow one is the earth-type Dou Qi, and the green one is the wood-type Dou Qi...
There are also some special types of Dou Qi."
Jia Lan was speechless, "fighting energy" or something, he had never heard of it. In the past, what warriors used to strengthen their strength was an invisible and intangible "fighting energy" that only existed in their bodies.
The light effect is not as fancy as this kind of "fighting spirit".
After careful observation, Jia Lan found that "Fighting Qi" seemed to be completely different from the "Fighting Qi" he knew, just like "Ao Neng" was for the spell caster, "Fighting Qi" was the origin of the power of the warrior.
But in Jialan's view, Dou Qi is purely another mode of application of elemental energy. Are the warriors of this era all elemental warriors?
Unfortunately, the battle situation is urgent now, so he cannot study it carefully. In addition to the old Jimmy who is responsible for protecting him, Commander Kenmait and two other golden-level mercenaries also pressed on him.
The most conspicuous one is the golden-level archer. Amid the trembling sound of the bowstrings with "clang clang", the whistling arrows jumped up one by one on the same body, and the giant rats trying to cross the human wall shot to the ground.
Many of them screamed and fell into the bottom of the deep spiral ladder with arrows on their bodies!
But there are too many giant rats. Although most of them are just ordinary giant rats, these giant rats that are more than one meter long and are as big as jackals. Their fangs are no worse than those of wolf teeth, and they may even be fierce.
Fearing at death, the sword body directly bit and chopped towards them, forcing several silver warriors to shake off the heavy rat body that was locked on the weapon.
This will cause the attack frequency to slow down, and the two shield warriors holding iron shields to block the rat group will be unable to completely protect them.
"Get out of the way! Let me do it!"
A layer of blazing dark golden light rose from Captain Kenmait's body, and he jumped over the heads of his companions, shouted loudly, and fell from the air into the group of rats! (Unfinished)