Blood tax

Chapter 228 Mythical Creature
Troll men and women began to mass, armed with throwing spears, stone axes, and wooden shields, the only metal weapons being a few cutlasses and machetes.Elder Jirapakasa pointed to the carvings and frescoes on the temple walls, and spoke of the dangers that might lurk here.

According to them, the sons of Domon in the dark will capture the soldiers who are alone, and no one knows where they are hiding and when they will appear.

The dangers in the ruins don't stop there.

There used to be some swamp beasts and monitor lizards entrenched near the reservoir, hunting each other with the trolls.But that was a long time ago.The cistern is now the lair of a monstrous beast.It devours and drives out other monitor lizards, wandering deep underground rivers and pools.The troll doesn't know which tunnel it entered the ruins from and why it won't leave.The most powerful warriors in the clan investigate its movements every year. Most of the time, they only see the terrifying huge shadow it casts on the rocks and ruins from a distance. No troll has ever seen it up close. Come back alive.

To sum it up, there are dangerous monsters near the other part of the ancient stone slab. As for the specific abilities of these monsters, they don't know what they look like.

Galadia listened to the troll's statement calmly, and tapped the pendant on the neckline from time to time.Finally, she nodded to Griffith, indicating that she had gained insight into whether the troll was deceiving through the mysterious item, and found no signs of lying.

But that doesn't mean trolls can be trusted.Griffith pondered for a while, and ordered the troll to pile up the bodies of the slain fellows and Professor Bell in a pile.

Twelve mutilated corpses were quickly assembled.Griffith backed away from the left and right, and began to pour psychic energy into the psychic crystal in his hand.

The deep voice echoed from the void and was transmitted to Griffith's mind through the crystallization:

"The powerful death knight, the suture monster Guratoni is at your service. Shape your body and fight for you."

The pile of corpses began to squirm and roll, gathering like reptiles.The broken hands and feet were entangled with each other, and the pieces of meat and internal organs were stitched together by hair, like a ball of meat.

The astonishing and disgusting sight was shrouded in a black light.

The fat and ugly Stitch Monster was reborn, and appeared in front of Griffith, with cloudy eyes looking from the gap between the flesh.Huge pale bones form scythes and chains in its hands, dragging along the ground, making teeth-itching rubbing sounds.

"Follow me, Stitcher, you will be the vanguard," Griffith led his servants out of the hall, and said to his companions and trolls who were staring at the Stitcher dumbfounded, "Gulatoni is my warrior, set out , to the cistern."

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The five-member team and their servants cautiously walked through the broken and toppled ruins of the Belomon Ruins towards the reservoir.A few rays of sunlight passed through the cracks in the dome high above, illuminating the ground near the edge of the rock wall.

"There is the water reservoir, the territory of the terrifying giant beast," Elder Jirapakasa said in a low voice, afraid of disturbing the missing creature. So attracted by his relic, wanders our lands to feed on the power of darkness. It comes and goes without a trace, and our ancestors honored it as—

"The Hidden One Mordossos."

Except for the sound of the marching procession, there was no movement in this desolate place.However, the deeper everyone went into the ruins, the more they felt something was wrong.

If the Belomon Ruins is a desolate and ancient ruin, then this is a haunted mass grave.An extremely chaotic magical atmosphere lingered among the ruins, exuding indescribable chaotic energy endlessly.

However, there is no trace of giant beasts here.Apart from the silent ruins along the way, there were no remains of food or footprints of giant beasts, making one wonder if the owner had moved away.

Under a tall stone wall that blocked his view, Griffith suddenly felt his skin prickling, as if countless fine needles were about to pierce in.Others also experienced varying degrees of discomfort.

Fiona immediately took the Eternal Patriarch and pointed upwards, and a delicate barrier covered everyone like a canopy, shielding the strange needle-pricking sensation.

However, she is not powerful enough to shield the trolls who follow.Soon, the trolls vomited one by one, with skin peeling and bleeding symptoms, and all fell into panic and confusion.

"Great Ability God Warrior, this is the breath of the God of Shadows, we, we can no longer move forward!" Jirapa Kasa vomited on the ground and couldn't get up, "Please let us retreat for a while."

His expression was terrified and earnest, and the trolls around him were also in a panic.

Griffith looked at the chaotic servant army and asked sharply, "Where is the slate?"

"Just ahead, behind those pillars and walls, there is a huge square and a pool, and there is an altar there, where the sacred stone tablet is hidden, and it is also the lair of the giant beast."

Galadia stared at the elder, and said after a while: "He didn't lie, on the surface. In addition, I performed divination again, and the result showed that the way to leave the ruins safely is ahead. No matter what these trolls are thinking, We're all going in once."

Griffith waved the troll back and turned around to make a suggestion:
"This old and cunning guy, if he didn't say that there is a weird smell here, there must be some kind of conspiracy. I will go in with the stitch monster, and you will wait for me behind."

"Against," Lana said first, "There may be a huge danger hidden here, and it's safer to gather everyone's strength."

Everyone else had the same opinion, and they disagreed to let Griffith go in alone anyway.

In this case, the investigation team followed the stitch monster and continued to move forward. After passing through some arched buildings, they saw a strange open space.

This is an empty square with a calm pool at the end.From the entrance of the square to the position of the pool, statues of trolls are stacked on both sides.Their postures were distorted, their faces were howling to the sky in extreme pain, and they stretched out their hands to grab something.Others sat on the ground with their hands on the ground and kicked their legs, trying to break free from some kind of terror.

The stone statues here are beyond imagination. Although many of them have been eroded and damaged by the years, the remaining parts are lifelike, presenting almost real fear and despair on the cold stone.If you look directly into the eyes of the stone statues, you will even have a terrifying sense of terror, as if they are also staring at you.

"This smooth arc, no, it's not a stone statue, it's a petrified curse," Sonia looked at it carefully for a while, and said with a serious expression, "Be careful, the monsters here may have extraordinary abilities in similar fields. If it really got the favor of the gods, then what we are facing will be a mythical creature."

Galadia surveyed the silent darkness around her uneasily: "I feel something is staring at us. But I can't catch its trace."

She immediately carried out a divination, looking for "the location of the ancient stone slab", and the result of the divination clearly pointed forward.At the end of the pool not far away, there is a low and sunken altar with a huge stone table in the middle.The slate might be there.

"Then let's pass here as soon as possible." Griffith looked around, but found no trace of the monster. "We'll leave after we get the slate."

Everyone took it for granted and rushed forward as soon as possible.

Before running a few steps, Griffith heard a "bang" from behind.He turned his head to look, and found that Sonia had fallen on the flat ground with nothing, and her face was slapped firmly on the ground.

"I, I tripped over something." Sonia said, covering her face.

Fiona smiled and went to help her up: "Fall on flat ground, Sonia, you are getting worse and worse..."

"thump."

Before Fiona could speak, she fell to the ground.She raised her head in surprise and looked at her feet:
"Something just touched me!"

Everyone was frightened, and their vigilant eyes swept around their feet and the ground around them.But the cold slate was empty.

"Get out!" Griffith whispered, "I'll get the slate."

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding scenery suddenly squirmed like a living thing.

Illusory ripples appeared in the air, the ground, the gravel, and the stiff stone statues of trolls were twisting and pulling indescribably, just like rough frosted glass passing in front of everyone, and the scene in front of them became blurred.

An astonishing terrifying momentum suddenly surged in the air.On the originally empty reservoir square, a phantom like a hill is gradually becoming clear.

From the silence and concealment that blended with the environment, the mythical creature known as Mordossus the Hidden One emerged in his true form.

Its whole body is covered with shield-like hard scales. Its huge body is entrenched on the platform, and its upper limbs that hang down into the pool are slowly rising. Eight thick and huge feet make a roar that shakes the ground. Boa constrictors generally roll over.

Its body looks like a monitor lizard enlarged ten times, but it has three heads raised high like a cobra, and a pair of red, golden and blue vertical pupils are opened from left to right, like a noble king looking down. own territory.

While being swept by the sight of this abnormal behemoth, everyone felt that their bodies became jerky, as if they were about to be petrified.

Galadia's long hair fluttered without the wind.Her thoughts spread out like silk threads, and illusory particles enveloped everyone present.

"The eternal starlight connects our hearts and keeps us from being confused and blind."

At this moment, Griffith found that his sanity became stable and his thoughts became clearer.The unusual jerkyness also temporarily disappeared.He seemed to hear the ethereal words of the elves praying, but he couldn't see her speaking.

Griffith immediately realized that Galadia was growing towards Sequence 6, and she had already touched the threshold of the "field" of extraordinary abilities.

At the same time, he also gained some knowledge about the monster in front of him.

This is the mythical creature "Three-Headed Dragon", a twisted and mutated subspecies of giant dragon, possessing powerful vitality and hidden abilities.Beyond that, each of its heads possesses independent minds and powerful magic.

The dragon head with blue vertical pupils is in charge of frost magic, and the dragon head with red vertical pupils has the power to breathe out flames.The battle with it must be mobile at all times, otherwise it will be swallowed by the crossed ice and fire.

Its strongest ability comes from the golden vertical pupils in the middle head, which can transform and play with its prey wantonly, and even understand their fears and use them.

The three-headed dragon feeds on magical energy, and its mouth full of fangs can bite, but it doesn't need flesh and blood to live.It sheds so much unholy energy at all times that all intelligent creatures within 40 yards of it lose their sanity continuously.Once sanity slipped to the limit of unsustainable, their souls and psychic powers would become food for the three-headed dragons, leaving only petrified and useless bodies.

"Spread out and attack it!" Griffith was the first to attack. He threw an ice spear at the mythical creature, which hit the stiff scales and was crushed, but attracted its attention.

The middle head of Mordossos immediately bit him, blocked by the shield.

This heavy blow knocked him back, but Lana and Fiona, who was wrapped in a magic shield, immediately surrounded him from both sides, and chopped down towards the long neck together.The scales as thick as a shield were smashed on the spot, leaving deep wounds.

Chill spread in the air, the right side of Mordossos's head was already raised high, and the blizzard gathered in the dark maw.

At the same time, a clear jet trajectory was outlined in everyone's mind.Galadia foresaw Mordosos's spray and showed everyone the trajectory of the spray.

"dodge!"

Everyone ran to the outer right of Mordossos, and the frost storm swept past where they stood, leaving a frozen path.

"Continue to attack!" This time it was Lana who faced the enemy. He swung his swords to restrain the head on the right side, buying time for his companions to maneuver.

The left head of Modosos couldn't reach the humans scurrying around, so it raised high and began to brew flames.

Sonia has already retreated into the distance, staring at the movement of this giant beast, and when she saw the flames flowing, she waved her wand: "Expand the arcane configuration 19, counter!"

Judging from the existing information, this monster does not have strong magic resistance, and the spell will be an excellent control ability.

The terrifying lava-like fire flow was blocked in the ferocious mouth, and Mordossos' flame spit was suddenly interrupted, and he even lost the ability to use magic of the same attribute for a short period of time.Its left head shook violently, spitting out the magma in its mouth like vomiting.

Under the successive heavy blows, Mordosos gave up his magic attack and pounced with three heads at the same time.Griffith, Lana, and Fiona immediately went up to it, resisting its attack with shields, anti-swords, and magic shields.

Modosos is huge and frightening in size, but it is not powerful because it is used to magic attacks, and even Fiona's defense cannot be broken for a while.

It finally fell into a rage, and its golden vertical pupils suddenly burst into a breathtaking light.

"Galadea, are you ready to strike with all your invincibility?" Griffith noticed this strange threat and shouted hastily.The short stalemate just bought some time, and Galadia should have taken the opportunity to complete the preparations for casting the spell.

As long as Galadia attacks...

"Quack!

"quack~"

The elf girl didn't answer him.Where she stood, a frog was hopping at the feet of the stunned Sonia.

(End of this chapter)