my age of magic

Chapter 1187 291. Murder by the River

The hotel owner, Mr. Billy, was sitting on a chair in the front desk, reading with relish a parchment book called "The Biography of the Ranger". When he saw a guest coming out of the stairs, he asked casually: "Gentlemen, do you want to drink first?" A little warm cornmeal?"

He pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, looked up and saw that we were not walking towards the side door leading to the tavern from the hotel, but towards the door of the hotel, and said to us: "In such a cold weather, we should go to the tavern for a drink Alcohol is not suitable for going out!"

Only then did Mr. Billy see the huge body of the tauren Luka behind me. He rubbed his eyes vigorously and asked in surprise, "Luka, are you back? I'm sorry, I didn't see you just now. You come in!"

The tauren warrior Luka turned around awkwardly in the narrow corridor, and greeted Mr. Billy, the innkeeper, but revealed my figure. Mr. Billy recognized me at a glance, and he cheered : "Wow... who did I see?"

Mr. Billy came out from the bar and said to me very enthusiastically: "Hello, Your Excellency Jijia Magician! I heard that you left Tanton City a while ago, are you going to Pereira City? Over there How is it going?"

I stopped and rubbed my hands, and stood at the door of the hotel and said to him: "Mr. Billy, I'm sorry! I'm not from Pereira City, and I don't know anything about the situation there!"

"Oh, that's right." Mr. Billy's eyes revealed disappointment that could not be concealed. He looked a little anxious, scratched his messy hair with both hands, and said to me incoherently: "The magic airship over Pereira City is here again. It's been postponed, I haven't heard from my family over there for almost a month, I hope there will be no bad news!"

"Don't worry, nothing will happen. Pereira City is the only gate of the Grimm Empire on the Hierro plane. No matter where there is trouble, Pereira City will be fine." I comforted Mr. Billy.

Perhaps Mr. Billy felt that what I said was quite reasonable. His tightly knit brows relaxed a little, and he asked me again: "How is Swordsman Justus's injury?"

I replied, "The injury has stabilized!"

Mr. Billy breathed a sigh of relief and said: "That's good. He has locked himself in the room these days, and even I won't let him in. I'm really worried that something will happen to him. When he came back from outside last week , I saw that he was covered in wounds and left a lot of blood, the floor of the hall was stained red by his blood, I thought he wouldn't be able to survive this time!"

I said, "It's a good thing he's physically strong, and he's a very good swordsman."

"Of course he's a real gentleman," said Mr. Billy.

Seeing that I was going out, he asked me curiously, "Master Jijia, where are you going?"

I said, "I'm going to look outside the city. I think there may be some surviving adventurers in the Black Forest. If you can find them, bring them back."

Mr. Billy looked out of the window again. The sky was gray with rain and fog.

He praised me: "You are really a kind-hearted magician, so I wish you good luck. Oh, yes, please bring this, the sausage made by my wife. If you are hungry during the search and rescue process, you can Take it out and roast it on the fire, believe me this sausage is really delicious."

After speaking, he walked to the restaurant behind the bar and brought out a bunch of sausages for me.

Seeing his sincerity on his face, he is definitely not pretending, so it is inconvenient for me to refuse.

So he took the string of sausages, and said to Mr. Billy, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Billy."

……

A group of us hurried out of Tanton City in cloaks and rainproof hoods.

Tanton City was built on the hillside, and outside the city was a vast green grassland, which was covered with alfalfa, and a small light yellow flower bloomed everywhere.

The rain made the only major road outside the city muddy.

The long leather boots will sink deeply every time they step on the muddy water, and it takes a lot of effort to pull the feet out of the muddy water.

No one is going out of town in this weather except our group.

Looking at the edge of the Black Forest from a distance, the entire forest seems to be melted into a landscape painting, surrounded by mist and rain, and the dark green trees are hidden in the mist.

Nebulu spider warriors also don't like rainy days. When the rain gets wet, it will flow into their book lungs along their backs, making their breathing not so smooth, and the rain will spray out from the book lungs from time to time.

Giant spiders will also hide in tree holes and not come out. Following the map drawn by Justus himself, we found the Amur River in the Black Forest.

We felled trees by the river and set up a raft, and went down the Amur River. The first half of the Amur River was in a rush in the mountains, and the second half passed around the city of Tanton. After entering the forest area of ​​the Black Forest, the water gradually calmed down. After coming down, the tauren Luka pushed the raft into the river, and the raft moved forward gently in the river. On both sides of the river, there are water-loving trees such as weeping willows, metasequoia, and banyan trees. The scenery is beautiful and beautiful.

It's a pity that most of the animals and birds in this forest were hunted down by giant spiders, so that the whole forest was extraordinarily quiet. Occasionally, birds flew by in the sky, and they rarely dared to land on the treetops.

After entering the forest area, I felt the friendly atmosphere from the trees in the forest. It seems that the ancient war tree had a spiritual link with me twice in this forest, which caused the trees in this forest area to have a kindness towards me. some affinity.

Now that we can establish a connection with the trees in the Black Forest, the giant spiders hidden deep in the canopy will be invisible. We can always find out the location of the giant spiders in advance under the guidance of the trees, and dock the raft at After the shore, the tauren Luka stayed to guard the raft, and I took Katerina and Kalancuo to hunt the giant spiders on the treetops.

Basically, those giant spiders can't escape, and Kalancuo's shots are very fierce. As long as the giant spider chooses to break through from her direction, her double-edged sword will cut off the giant spider's spider legs without hesitation. Whether it's on the tree or under the tree, if it's on the tree, Kalantso will also give a kick to kick the giant spider off the tree.

A giant spider weighs nearly a thousand kilograms. Even if there is a bush under the tree, if it falls from the top of a tree tens of meters high, and because the spider's legs are cut off neatly, the giant spider will basically be thrown half to death. , Some giant spiders directly smashed their stomachs and turned into a pile of rotten meat.

After I sent back five giant spiders to Xinwillow Valley one after another, the dwarf Bernd who had been on standby in Xinwillow Valley for a long time could no longer sit still. Hundreds of barbarian slaves entered the Yero plane, and I asked Bernd to lead the barbarian slave fighters along the Amur River and follow behind our raft.

These barbarian slaves need a certain amount of time to adapt to the humid and warm climate on the Hierro plane, and also need to adapt to the environment in the jungle.

Bernd also needs to follow us to hunt giant spiders and understand the temperament of giant spiders. I hope that in the next few days, he can lead this group of barbarian slaves to move freely in this jungle, but before that, I need Take Katerina and Kalancuo to explore the spider camp together, and build a spider camp in the forest less than [-] kilometers away from Tanton City. This camp is undoubtedly built for Tanton City. Once this camp is formed After the scale, it will pose a potential threat to Tanton City.

It is like a poisonous fang, deeply embedded in the outskirts of Tanton City. If possible, I want to uproot it, but how to deal with the three spider warlords in the spider camp, I haven't figured it out yet, I have to think about it. The only way is to set up an ambush.

The barbarian slaves have a special preference for the giant spider legs that fall from the tree canopy. These spider legs are collected by these barbarians as delicious food, wrapped in oilcloth and carried on their backs.

There is still light rain in the sky. Although it is not heavy, the water of the Amur River has a rising trend. The river channel has widened a bit. It used to belong to the wetland covered with reeds on the bank, but it was also submerged by the river. At this time, the raft Drifting in the river becomes extremely difficult, and the heavy raft is always stranded on the shallows on the river bank.

Every time Luka the tauren was required to jump into the river and push the big raft back into the river. After several times, I had to decide to give up the big raft.

Bless everyone with the magic of 'walking on water' and walk along the river. Luka lifted me onto his shoulders. I held up a black umbrella and walked in the river.

A few hundred meters behind him, Bernd followed with five hundred barbarian slaves.

Seeing that Kalantso's killing spirit was too strong, I had to temporarily transfer four barbarian slaves from behind, and let them drag a huge net bag. Every time Kalantso climbed up the treetop to hunt giant spiders, let them The barbarian slaves cast a large net under the tree, and the giant spider that lost its legs fell from the canopy. At least there was a buffer, as long as it didn't fall to its death.

To me, each giant spider is a fortune.

Unexpectedly, we spent a whole day on the river valley road for forty or fifty miles, and hunted more than 20 giant spiders along the way. Except for three giant spiders that fell from the trees and died, there were two others who were hunting. He was accidentally killed during the process, and all the rest were transported back to Xinliu Valley.

Along the way, almost no survivors from the adventure group were seen.

Less than ten kilometers away from the spider camp, we finally encountered a spider scout team.

The drizzling rain made the visibility in the black forest very low, and at the same time, the trees regenerated. The five spiderman scouts explored along the river in the direction of Tanton City. They passed through the dense forest, and their bulky bodies often trampled the bushes.

They walked in a hurry. Although they were exploring, their thick spider legs stepped on the muddy forest glade, and they seemed to be advancing at full speed. Some of the mud brought up by the spider legs covered their bodies. The spider warriors seemed to be drilled out of the muddy water. The rain kept falling on them, but the muddy water on their bodies still couldn't be washed away. .

Because of the warning from the tree friends, we knew their existence in advance, so we set up an ambush on the way they must pass, and temporarily transferred [-] barbarian slaves to hide in the reeds of the river, and waited until the five spider warriors passed by. At that moment, a wave of crossbow salvos fired.

Perhaps it was because their senses became dull in the rain, and they were discovered by the spider warriors when the arrows flew less than three meters away from them. However, it was too late to avoid them at this time, and the spider warriors raised their hands Of course, it is impossible to block all the twenty rectangular crossbow bolts, so a few giant crossbow bolts more than three meters long nailed the five spider warriors to the tree trunk.

Kalancuo rushed up first, holding a double-edged sword in one hand, and now beheaded two spider warriors who were seriously injured and survived.

Then he and Katerina took out the scroll of the slave contract and asked the spider warrior 'surrender or die'.

Kalancuo stared at the spider warrior with a murderous look, and when the remaining three spider warriors chose to die, Kalancuo chopped off the heads of all three of them with a single sword.

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We made our way to the edge of the spider camp and climbed to the top of a huge fir tree.

The spider man camp built by the river has turned into a vast expanse of whiteness. In the black forest shrouded in drizzling rain, it seems like a world of ice and snow. Those white spider webs cover the forest, making the trees in the forest Lost in life, the leaves of the trees in the spider camp slowly withered and died.

Even though it was raining, the spider man camp was still expanding outwards. Hundreds of giant spiders kept spinning and weaving their webs in the rain, devouring the black forest bit by bit. The spider man camp could not see the end at a glance.

Looking at such a large camp of spidermen, Kalantso asked me suspiciously: "What are these Nibru spidermen doing?"

I said: "Regardless of what they are going to do, let's test it first and see if the Spider Overseer is in the camp."

Without saying a word, Kalancuo jumped directly from the big tree tens of meters high. When she was about to land on the ground, she skillfully inserted the dagger into the trunk, and the falling speed slowed down a little, and she jumped directly to the ground. War horse.

At this time, under the tree, there were [-] orc warriors standing by on black scale horses.

Kalancuo jumped onto the horse, clamped his legs around the horse's belly, and yelled at the black-scaled horse under his crotch: "Drive!" '

The war horse rushed out like an arrow from the string.The twenty orc warriors followed closely behind, urging their horses to follow, and a group of orc knights rushed towards the spider man camp.

At this time, I also jumped down from the canopy with Kalantso, and Katerina flashed behind me in mid-air. She stretched out her hands and put her arms around my waist, leading me down to the ground steadily.

"Let's go back to the river!" I said to Katerina.

After speaking, Katerina and I returned the same way we came.

The spider man camp was only a few hundred meters away from the river. Bernd led [-] barbarian slaves on standby by the river. Under the cover of reeds, the barbarian slaves stood knee-deep in the river, each with a heavy weight in their hands. The crossbow, the crossbow arrows resting on the bowstring ready to go.

These barbarian slaves bowed slightly, like cheetahs hunting on the grassland, trying to hide their bodies in the reeds as much as possible.

Standing with these barbarian slaves, the dwarf Bernd looked even smaller.

I ran with Katerina from one end of the barbarian slave line to the other, carefully inspecting the 'water walk' under the feet of the barbarian slaves.

There was the rumble of horseshoes running in the distance, and Kalancuo appeared in the rain and fog and dense forest with twenty orc knights, followed by a black shadow...

(End of this chapter)