Pale Emblem

Chapter 140 Overnight in the Woodland

Harvey took action and struck the four elderly thieves on the back of the head one by one, ensuring that they would not be able to inform others for a period of time. As for whether they will have sequelae in the future, or simply not wake up, there is nothing that can be done about it.

Only Stephanie sympathized with the half-elf Jolsa, which was related to the tragic experience of the little girl’s family being destroyed. The rest despised and loathed the grey-eyed Jolsa.

Victor had no prejudice against the "Grey Eyes" and only regarded them as bandits.

The reason behind the gathering of bandit gangs and siege of Water Snake Town is probably related to him.

Victor probably knew the reason. It was simply that the famous nobles of Luoye City regarded him as an important person to be hunted by Golden Nightingale, so he ordered the so-called "bandit" gang to stage a show with Water Snake Town to confuse people's attention and cover up the truth. The plan was to capture Victor quietly and use him as a political bargaining chip in Luoye City.

That's why there are so many men and women, old and young, Yorsa half-elves appearing as bandits outside Water Snake Town.

The "grey-eyed" bandits actually don't have much fighting power. They are just a bunch of ragtag gangs who pretend to be nothing. But that doesn't mean that all the bandit gangs besieging Water Snake Town are "gray-eyed". There are always some of them who are real gangsters. Moreover, it is not impossible for the famous wealthy families in Luoye City to secretly dispatch elite private soldiers, disguised as bandits, and wait for opportunities to act.

In any case, their real target is Victor himself, not Water Snake Town.

Victor led his men to escape from Water Snake Town through a secret underground passage. The bandits should not have thought of it in advance, but just after leaving the town, they were not completely out of danger.

It is foreseeable that once people inside and outside the town discover that the target person has escaped from Water Snake Town, a wild hunt will be staged.

Therefore, Victor and his party hurriedly traveled through the night. In order to eliminate as many traces of their whereabouts as possible, they first took the business road, then sneaked into the woods on the side of the road halfway and started trekking in the wild.

Although Water Snake Town is located in the northern suburbs of Luoye City, in the hinterland of the Alliance, the surrounding population is sparsely populated, and there are large areas of unexplored wilderness beyond the trade roads, mainly woods and hills. Unfortunately, the trees are not dense enough and the mountains are not high enough. It’s hard to hide.

On the other hand, the biggest fear of getting lost is when trekking in the wild, because food and water are not so easy to obtain, and most plants are inedible. If you get lost in the wild, searching for food and water will consume 80% to 90% of a person's energy, which means that travelers will be trapped and it will be difficult to escape.

Victor had been lost in the wilderness before, and he never wanted to do it again.

Fortunately, the mayor's butler prepared a detailed map in advance, which now gave Victor an advantage.

With this map, Victor knew his location well, but he would not choose the escape path designated by the mayor's butler. Instead, he would lead the team to the southeast, heading for Jinsha Town, where they fell in Braun Town. The meeting place was agreed upon before.

Now, they just have to compete with possible pursuers and play a game of tracking and counter-tracking.

This is of course the job that Maddie is best at. All the suggestions he put forward on the way were basically adopted by Victor. For example, it is better to trek slower, but also to abandon the hand trailer to avoid leaving ruts, and to separate important items in the car. Carry it with you; even if it takes a lot of detours, you still have to hike for a period of time in the mountains and streams; or you can deliberately leave traces of your walking and climb a hill, and everyone can jump over the steep places with your agility.

In this way, the team walked all day without stopping, and it was not until nightfall the next day that they found a leeward place to camp for the night. At this time, they had traveled nearly 300 kilometers. Since they needed to go around the mountain col, it certainly couldn't be a straight distance. If counted as a straight line, they are currently more than 100 kilometers away from Shuishe Town.

Victor and his entourage basically kept marching at a speed of 12 kilometers per hour for more than 20 hours. This definitely tested everyone's physical fitness, but they completed it easily. Only Stephanie's physical strength was not enough, so it was not difficult for an alchemy demon swordsman to carry her on his back.

This is due to the fascial nerve vines spread out by the Alchemy Snake's touch to provide extra life energy to the host to maintain the host's strong physical strength.

With this advantage alone, Victor and his team can eliminate most professionals in a foot power competition.

Hidden hunter Maddie confidently stated that the team was safe, and neither the Yoksa bandits nor the professionals from Water Snake Town could follow them.

The seven alchemical demons and Harvey, as experienced adventurers, also fully agreed with Maddie's opinion.

Victor then decided to set up camp and rest. On the one hand, he ordered Herman to take another archer out to hunt animals, preferably beasts; on the other hand, he had to carefully compare the maps stored in his mental dreams to determine his You can plan the route to Jinsha Town based on your location.

Animal sounds can be heard everywhere in the woods at night, which are scary and weird. Some are like the screams of young children, and some are like the sneers of evil spirits. In fact, most of the ones that make these strange noises are birds and insects, while large and medium-sized animals are often scarce in the woods, let alone beasts of prey.

It took Herman a long time to catch a wild boar, which was a small breed, weighing about 100 pounds. It must have been paralyzed by poison, but it didn't struggle when Herman held it in his hand. Only its eyes were moving, indicating that it was still alive.

Both the Alchemy Demon and the Alchemy Snake Touch liked fresh flesh and blood. Herman first relieved the paralysis and poisonous wound on the little wild boar, then immediately pierced its ventricle with an arrow, then pinched the wound and asked Victor to enjoy it first.

For the alchemical demon, the hot pig blood is full of vitality, but Victor waved his hand in rejection. So, the seven alchemy demons took turns sucking the blood of the wild boar.

The sight of them holding the wild boar in their arms and trying to suck blood scared Stephanie so much that her face turned pale. The little girl closed her eyes tightly, huddled behind Maddie, and asked in a low voice: "Uncle Maddie, are they vampires?"

Maddie moved her lips and explained forcefully: "Don't talk nonsense. We adventurers sometimes can't light fires in the wild. It's common to drink raw blood and eat raw meat... You have to learn to adapt, and I'll eat a piece of raw meat for you right away. look."

He is right to say that, but the actual situation now is that the alchemy snake tentacles parasitizing in their bodies need to absorb the life energy of fresh flesh and blood. And Stephanie is the only companion who has not been parasitized by the alchemical snake's touch.

Victor said she was too young to be implanted with the Alchemical Snake Touch.

The secret of the Alchemical Snake Touch is of great importance, and those who have not been implanted are not qualified to know the truth.

Maddie didn't want Stephanie to feel that she was being treated differently, so she had to find a reason to excuse her first.

This hurt Stephanie. Harvey, Maddie, Ruth and Jessica were all given raw wild boar meat, and under the influence of fascial nerve vines, they all ate with gusto. What Maddie gave Stephanie was a wild boar heart. The little girl, with her fierce and competitive personality, shed tears, gritted her teeth, vomited while chewing, and forced the bloody pig heart into her stomach, leaving it all over her face. Blood, she is now more like a vampire than anyone else.

"Sir, why don't you eat?"

Stephanie felt that she was the same as everyone now, so she began to care about Victor.

"I'm not hungry, you can eat my share too." Victor smiled slightly, and under the moonlight, he casually flipped through the newcomer's manual given by Demon Hunter Rhine.

He had previously determined his location by comparing it with the map in his spiritual dream. With the gift of gluttony, he did not need to use blood food to feed the parasitic high-level alchemical snake touch. Now that he had some free time, he took out the Demon Hunter Guild's Newcomer's Manual and read the contents.

The Newcomer's Manual mainly talks about the common sense of demon hunting, but for laymen, those are valuable demonology knowledge.

The hundreds of years of inheritance experience of the Demon Hunter Guild have been compiled into a book, which clearly proves that the ancient civilization in the Dark Land was destroyed by the hands of demons. The existing demons in the Dragon Kingdom are mainly entrenched in the dark land. Most of them are imprisoned and have almost zero direct impact on the Disa Alliance.

The second point is the relationship and difference between demons, monsters and half-demon.

Demons are supernatural beings, and spiritual beings directly contaminated and distorted by them will turn into monsters.

Using the power of demons or monsters to indirectly contaminate and impose human intervention to create half-demon.

In the Disa League, the norm for monsters and half-demon is generally half-elf.

It is worth noting that as long as half-demons and monsters survive, as their evil power increases, they will eventually evolve in the direction of demons, but the degree of evil can be suppressed through other means.

This characteristic basically determines the social ecology of monsters and half-demons.

Third, the living habits and organization of monsters.

Half-elf monsters must absorb flesh and soul, so they often act as blood-sucking demons in the Disa Alliance, leaving behind many terrifying and strange rumors.

However, most of these rumors are inconsistent with the facts. The most typical example is that the half-elf people believe that monsters are immortal and can live for a long time, but the actual situation is that monsters have a short lifespan.

The lifespan of ordinary half-elves is calculated in years, and the lifespan of monsters is calculated in days.

Monsters absorb flesh, blood, and soul, becoming stronger and evolving into demons. When they evolve into demons, their life forms are extremely unstable, and each piece of flesh and blood develops its own will, causing it to disintegrate into a bunch of snakes crawling around in a short period of time.

The sages of the Demon Hunter Guild believe that the vitality of monsters is too strong, just like a burning pyre. The fire is very strong and burns out quickly. Therefore, every half-demon in the Demon Hunter Guild should have a "furnace" so that orderly and controlled burning can maintain a stable life form.

The Witcher Guild's version of Lady Silverblade almost does that.

For hundreds of years, vampire monsters have also been looking for a way out for themselves. The methods they come up with are to feign death, hibernate, and extend their lifespan through self-cooling.

Some of the half-elf monsters have even lived for hundreds of years, but they spend most of their time in suspended animation, with their wills silent, their actions stopped, and their behavior no longer affecting the outside world. Therefore, they should not be considered immortal species.

Monsters' fake death can easily turn into real death, so they need minions to serve them.

Those old antiques who are close to demons have enough power to create derivatives, and the method is to contaminate and distort them. Some half-elves are forced or willing to become spawn monsters to serve their creators, and the masters who created them are called primal monsters.

The increasing number of vampire monsters has triggered a counterattack by the Disa Alliance. After centuries of secret wars, the two sides have found a balance point of coexistence.

Currently, the vampire demons form five families. They strictly follow the rules of secrecy, carefully develop new members, restrain their bloodthirsty desires, and strive to control the number of family members, all in order not to irritate the Demon Hunter Guild.

Any vampire who violates the principle of coexistence will lose the cover of his family's power, and the consequence of being exposed will be that he will be hunted down by the "dog men and women" who hunt demons.

The vampire meant that the witcher's nose was as sensitive as a dog, and Victor felt there was some resentment in it.

Fourth, the weakness of monsters.

Monsters seem to have no fatal weaknesses. They trade short lifespans for strong vitality and have a terrifying regeneration effect. It is very difficult for ordinary half-elves to fight against monsters, even the powerful dragon-blooded half-elves.

A dragon-veined half-elf would die on the spot if his heart was broken, but a monster would not. Therefore, the Demon Hunters Guild chose to train the Silver Blade Lady to deal with the monsters.

Obviously, they have suffered losses before.

However, the vitality of vampire demons has its limit after all. As long as you keep slashing them with a knife, you can still kill them.

The most effective way for ordinary half-elves to deal with vampire demons is to have a large number of people and then besiege them to death.

In addition, mithril greatly inhibits the regeneration ability of monsters, making it easier to kill them. There are also several secret medicines with special effects that can also be used to deal with monsters.

Methods for making several secret medicines are attached at the back of the book.

When Victor closed the book, the sky was getting brighter. The content recorded on it was simple common sense, but it also opened his eyes.

He could judge that these common senses were basically correct by comparing the characteristics of the Alchemy Demon.

The essence of things can be seen through phenomena. Unfortunately, Victor currently does not have enough wisdom to analyze the important information behind the common sense of monsters and the knowledge of laws.

This made him a little bored, so he fell back on the grass, rested his head on his head with his hands, and looked at the purple sky to relieve his bad mood.

Suddenly, a big bird circling back and forth in the sky caught Victor's eyes. He observed it for a moment and felt something was wrong. He immediately stood up and shouted to his companions urgently: "Don't sleep, get up. Let's get up." Being caught up!"