my age of magic

Chapter 1493 43. Murloc
The night is fading a little bit.

It was very dawn, and a fish-belly white streak lit up on the sea level in the sky.

Standing on a steep reef, looking up at the whole island, there is a ridge in the northwest of the island, from where you should have a panoramic view of the island.

After the tide receded, a large white sand beach was left in front of the palm grove. If you look down from the sky, you will find that this beach surrounds the island like a silver collar. There are several sandy beaches not far away. There is a coconut tree, and a group of barbarian slaves are sleeping soundly on the beach under the coconut tree.

There was only a layer of white carbon ash left on the bonfire on the beach. When a gust of wind blew, the charcoal ash was blown up by the wind, leaving a layer of dark red charcoal on the bonfire.

Several gnawed shark skeletons were discarded randomly on the beach, and one shark skull was swept far away by the waves.

The orc warriors were scattered around the beach, and they were all leaning against the tree trunk, falling asleep while standing or sitting.

Ying Li wore a long linen dress and walked barefoot with Helena and Becky, leaving three rows of shallow footprints on the beach. They would sometimes squat down to pick up shells on the beach, and there was a smell of fish in the sea breeze. Salty breath.

The waves flocked to the beach in the distance.

At this time, I found some silvery things surging out of the white foam, and the sound of 'gurgling' sounded like drinking water from a distance, and I immediately became alert and looked towards the distant coastline, I found more than [-] murlocs coming out of the sea. These murlocs have webbed feet like frogs. Their legs don't look very long, but they look very strong. They hold fishbone knives in their hands and carry them on their shoulders. There are still a few fresh sea fish hanging on the bone fork on the bed, walking out of the sea all the way.

These murlocs have the body and head of a fish, as well as the limbs of a human. They have elementary intelligence and belong to the sub-human species.

They are similar to amphibians. Although they can walk freely after leaving the water, due to the lack of a protective film on the outermost layer of the skin, they will die of dehydration if they leave the water for too long. Many demon hunters in the Grimm Empire like to hunt murlocs. The main reason is that these murlocs who live by the water like to collect pearls and gems. Murlocs themselves are also a material for resisting monsters. Murloc leather is very popular in the magic market of the imperial capital.

Kalancuo jumped down from the arbor, and she strode down to the beach, wearing the spider warlord's hard leather armor with magic patterns on her body with one hand, and dragged her black heavyweight with the other hand. The sword, leaving a deep trail on the beach.

The group of murlocs didn't realize the danger was approaching at all. One murloc even tripped over a rock on the beach and fell solidly on the sand.

Some orc warriors who were in charge of guarding around the woods also noticed these uninvited guests, and hurriedly carried the bulky Moonblade Axe, gathered their men to follow behind Kalanzo, and rushed towards the murlocs who were trying to land.

These orc fighters have all hunted and killed murlocs in the Vashj plane, so they are very familiar with the temperament of murlocs. They chose to go around from the left and right flanks, preparing to outflank these murlocs, but they did not expect this group of carefree When the local fishmen saw Kalantso walking quickly with an epee coming from the front, they were not ready to fight, but happily held up the fishbone fork in their hands, shaking the fresh fish in their hands vigorously.

When they found that no matter how much they shook the fresh fish in their hands, Kalantso’s footsteps on the opposite side did not stop. The group of murlocs panicked and threw the fish in their hands to Kalantso, and the murlocs turned around and ran away. Back in the sea, the orc warriors had no time to block the retreat of the murlocs, so they could only stand knee-deep in the sea and watch the murlocs vigilantly.

Originally thought that the murlocs who fled back to the sea would run away without a trace, but they did not leave too far away, and they would pop up from the sea surface from time to time and swim up and down the sea surface, quite a picture of "you come here." Catch me!You can't catch me no matter what! 'That hateful look.

I didn't expect there to be a tribe of murlocs living on this island. The murlocs in front of me are obviously a group of hunters, and their tribe should be nearby.

Thinking that since I came to this island, I couldn’t return empty-handed. Thinking of this, I jumped off the high reef and let Justus and Kalantso lead the people to push along the coastline to both sides, looking for The murloc tribe hiding on Zao Island, those murloc hunters who hide in the sea and hide and seek with us seem to be unaware of causing big trouble for the tribe at this moment.

The ice coffin that holds Princess Ariel is placed under the shade of a tree at the moment. This ice coffin is made of glacial rock, and after soaking in the sea for half a night, there is no sign of melting at all. Instead, condensation around the ice coffin A thick layer of ice floes made the ice coffin a bit too heavy when it was dragged to the island. The crystal skull of Zampra, the Great Wizard of Janna, was placed on the lid of the ice coffin, which seemed to be related to the ice coffin. condensed together.

But I didn't see her staff that can absorb the power of lightning. If we had that staff, we probably wouldn't have to spend more time on this island now.

Although this ice coffin shows no sign of melting, I am still sticking four 'continuous frost magic rune plates' on the four walls of the ice coffin to ensure that the ice coffin will not melt.

Because there are traces of murlocs in the sea. Although these murlocs do not pose much threat to us, the harpoons in the hands of some murlocs are smeared with snake venom. In the pergola.

Princess Ariel established a soul contract with Ying Li, and I asked Ying Li curiously: "Then how did you communicate with that Princess Ariel, did you communicate in the sea of ​​spirits?"

Ying Li smiled and said to me: "It started like this. After the soul contract ceremony, she fell into a deep sleep. We didn't talk too much, and we don't know each other very well."

"Then you have another soul living in your body, what kind of special feeling will you have?"

"I don't have any special feelings. Princess Ariel's soul stays in the soul link contract circle. It doesn't seem to have any effect on me for the time being. By the way, she doesn't seem to like humans very much!"

"It's normal not to like it. After all, I experienced that disfigurement incident when I was young, and anyone will leave a shadow in my heart." "By the way, the hint that Prince Hitt gave us at the funeral before was probably a warning to us. Unfortunately, we were Didn't realize it."

At this time, there was a rustling sound at the edge of the woods. Blowpipes protruded from the dense bushes and blew a handful of thin and dense poisonous arrows towards the arbor. The incident was too sudden. , we didn't even have the slightest defense. The poisonous arrows are the tough thorns of some kind of plants, and the strength of the blowpipe is not too strong. After entering the gazebo, most of them lost their strength and stuck crookedly on the railing, and some even fell on the floor.

Looking at the poisonous thorns flying out of the bushes, I remembered that Kalancuo led the orc warriors who were in charge of guarding around the forest to search for the murloc camp along the beach. Those barbarian slaves were still lying under the coconut trees. After waking up, it was at this time that the security post on our side was vacant. I never thought that the island would be attacked by a group of aboriginal murlocs.

Now I think of the twenty or so murloc hunters who appeared on the beach in a big way. They stood on the beach and shook the harpoons in their hands vigorously, shaking the fresh fish on it. They probably wanted to lure those orc warriors away. When did the murloc actually learn to use his brain?

Katerina slid down the railing against the arbor, bowed her waist and rushed towards the bushes against the rain of arrows.

Unexpectedly, those indigenous murlocs were much braver than I imagined. They found that the blowpipe poison arrows did not pose any threat to us, so they rushed out of the bushes without hesitation, and rushed towards us with fishbone knives and forks. When we came over, there were countless tribal murlocs hidden in the huge bushes. They rushed towards our arbor like a swarm, and some rushed out of the bushes, rushing towards the sleeping barbarians lying under the trees like a black tide.

The tauren Luka under the coconut tree was the first to discover this situation. He stood up abruptly from under the tree, holding the big shield of the 'Ancient Oath' in one hand, and howled like a roar at the wave-like native murlocs.

"Moo..."

The deafening sound suddenly awakened the barbarian slaves under the coconut tree. After these barbarian slaves woke up from their sleep, they saw the poisonous arrows shot over the sky. The rain of tiny arrows rushed back towards the murlocs with their bare feet, and the poisonous arrows that looked like thorns pierced the barbarian slaves one after another.

The muscles of these barbarian slaves are as hard as stones, and the poisonous thorns can only hang on the surface of the skin. The barbarian slaves rushed into the crowd of fish in three steps and two steps. Except for a heavy crossbow in their hands, now Each of them also carried a Moonblade Ax with them, and when the heavy Moonblade Ax slashed on the murlocs, most of them were decapitated.

After the Hierro Plane War, the black iron weapon of the Nibru spider warrior became the standard equipment for barbarian slaves and orc warriors.

I propped up three ice shields for Katerina in the arbor, and Katerina rushed into the bushes, and a heart-piercing howl suddenly came from there.

Murlocs kept jumping out from the surrounding bushes. At first I thought there were at most a few hundred murlocs attacking the arbor, but then a large group of murlocs jumped out of the bushes, and I realized that I was misguided by inertial thinking. , some of them underestimated these murlocs too much.

At this time, there were at least thousands of murlocs jumping out from the bushes. They howled and howled, rushing towards the arbor, and surrounded the arbor in an instant. After all, Katerina's strength alone was limited. Countless murlocs rushed out of the bushes, but with her own strength, she couldn't stop them no matter what.

Those murlocs quickly rushed under the gazebo, they boarded the gazebo along the wooden ladder, and some even climbed over the railing and jumped directly into the gazebo.

The four series of stone drum totems are forced to be turned on. Once the 'petrified skin' effect appears, the sharp poisonous stingers in the murloc's blowpipe will have no effect on us. Then, facing the swarming murlocs, a ring of fire Bursting out from me, all the murlocs that had poured into the awning were pushed outside by a warm force.

A big fireball shot out from Ying Li's hand and exploded outside the arbor, several murlocs were swallowed by the fireball.

Helena stood in front of Yingli and me with two swords in hand, while Becky leaned against us. When behind us, occasionally a murloc rushed up, but the two of them killed them without hesitation.

There were too many murlocs rushing over from outside, and the arbor was completely surrounded by water. I decisively released the 'Frost Nova' to imprison the murlocs rushing up, and then unfolded a magic scroll, and an ice wall appeared out of thin air, and then Explode quickly.

'Ice Blast'

Turning the area around the arbor into a world of ice and snow, the extremely cold breath froze the nearby murlocs in place. Becky, wearing the 'Honkai Gloves', almost tore apart a murloc covered in frost and snow with one punch.

When the tauren Luka rushed out of the arbor with the barbarian slaves, he quickly built a line of defense outside the arbor. Due to the huge difference in strength between us and the murlocs, we soon took the initiative on the battlefield, the murlocs After dropping hundreds of corpses outside the arbor, they retreated into the bushes.

Katerina chased after those murlocs with a look of resentment and quietly killed them.

I shot a 'Frost Arrow' casually, and shot through a murloc who had climbed up to the roof of the arbor. The murloc looked in horror at the ice arrow stuck in his chest, and one fell from the roof and fell into the corpse below. pile.

The barbarian slaves guarding around the arbor all had more or less venomous thorns on their bodies, and some red spots appeared on the places where they were stabbed by the venomous thorns. The pain and itching made the barbarian slaves extremely painful.

Not long after, Kalancuo and Justus, who went out to investigate the murloc camp, returned one after another. They were shocked to see the mess on the side of the pergola, with murloc corpses all over the ground. They didn't expect these murlocs to be waiting for them to leave. Afterwards, they dared to sneak up on us.

The orc warriors picked up the murloc corpses one after another, and then peeled off the murloc skins. The fleshless bodies were thrown into the big pit dug temporarily on the beach. The murloc leather was constructed by the orcs. The soldiers were drying on the railings, and those drying bars were arranged in a matrix on the beach, and some tattered murloc skins were discarded directly.

This time, Kalantso brought back information about the murloc camp, a large tribe with a population of tens of thousands, built a large area of ​​thatched huts on the shallows of the entire coastline, and those thatched huts extended into the sea, waiting for Kalantso to bring the orcs When the constructed warriors tried to approach the murloc camp, several murloc wizards who could cast spells appeared in the camp. Under the protection of the murloc warriors, these wizards walked out of the camp and set up a battle, as if they wanted to Fight with Kalantso and the orc warriors.

Justus walked eastward along the coastline, and found a bend in the river. There was also a stranded ship in the sharp bend of the river. It looked quite old. The boards on the ship were almost moldy and rotten. There was nothing inside, but without searching carefully, I hurried back when I saw the signal from the side of the arbor.

(End of this chapter)