As a lord, I was forced to farm

Chapter 805 Burning
"Sizzle—" The flames on the torch burned fiercely. The miasma worms are insects and are afraid of fire. This scene was like moths flying into a flame. The air sizzled and roasted, and the aroma of meat filled the air.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's a good response!"

Everyone praised the squad leader for coming up with the idea of ​​using the Azure Cloud Grass Pill to deal with the poisonous insects, saying, "He saved our lives!"

The appearance of the miasma alerted everyone. Although there were no powerful beasts in the Twilight Swamp, the dangers lurking under the vegetation should not be underestimated.

Jiang Ran led her team through the Twilight Swamp for three days, winding their way around the swamp. On the fourth day, they finally discovered a strange place using the Flowing Cat's Eye.

He led everyone to this strange place. When they saw the scene before them, they covered their noses and made retching noises, almost throwing up everything they had eaten the night before.

This is an arched black hill covered with countless maggots. These maggots are not ordinary maggots; they are covered with black demonic energy.

Why are there so many maggots?

The hill was about ten meters high and covered with maggots, each as thick as a wrist.

The dense swarm of maggots was terrifying. Li Mei covered her nose tightly. "Your Highness, this must be the source of the miasma. What should we do?"

"Fire it."

Jiang Ran's eyes flashed, and she activated her Purple Jade Demon Eye ability. The more she looked at the "hill," the more she felt something was off about it... It looked like a corpse...

According to the people of Yajin Town, when they arrived, the Twilight Swamp was already filled with poisonous miasma, and Yajin Town has existed for about 150 years.

"More than a hundred years, what kind of creature's corpse could be preserved for so long, being gnawed on by maggots for a hundred years... or even longer?" Jiang Ran muttered to herself.

Jiang Ran said to burn it, and the people below immediately sprang into action, searching for dry firewood in the forest.

After about half an hour, the group had collected a lot of firewood nearby, but they didn't know what else was in the pile of maggots, so they didn't dare to get too close. Instead, they threw the firewood in, and gradually, the hill was filled with firewood, covering the maggots.

Everyone covered their mouths with thick cloths. The village chief, who had used the Azure Cloud Grass Pill to expel the miasma, lit a fire. Instantly, flames shot into the sky, and a strange smell filled the air with smoke. The maggots writhed in agony as they were burned by the flames. The visual impact of this scene was so great that everyone's faces contorted in disbelief.

"Burn it quickly, burn it quickly! If we look at it any longer, our eyes will explode!" the crowd complained.

Fortunately, the mountain of maggots was only a bit scary to look at. Occasionally, dozens of insects at the Spirit Refinement Realm would jump out, but the more than one hundred soldiers that Jiang Ran brought were all quite strong. With their elite equipment, they managed to deal with these Spirit Refinement Realm maggots without any major incidents.

“These maggots are the result of metamorphosis.” At this moment, Bai Mei suddenly poked his head out and stared warily at the pile of firelight. “Roar! Master, this is the corpse of a magical beast, the corpse left behind by a powerful being.”

Jiang Ran nodded. "But he's already dead."

A sense of melancholy welled up in my heart. What kind of powerful being could have survived so many years without its body perishing? Yet, despite its immense power, it still perished in this remote forest of Cloudfall.

The sparks gradually dwindled, but to everyone's surprise, all that effort they had put into burning them had only resulted in tens of thousands of maggots. The hill revealed its true form: a huge and jagged corpse!

"How terrifying!" Even though the flames had just dissipated and the surrounding temperature was still very high, everyone felt a chill and goosebumps appeared on their skin.

Jiang Ran took a few steps closer, but the soldiers behind her stepped forward to stop her. "Your Highness, please don't rush. Let your subordinates go and take a look first."

Jiang Ran sighed and nodded in agreement.

It was easy to see that the attendant was somewhat fearful, and his steps forward were extremely cautious.

He poked the huge corpse with a twig.

A foul odor and a stiff feeling hit me. But thankfully, apart from the poisonous miasma, there was no additional danger.

It is speculated that the body of some powerful magical beast was severed. The body was extremely powerful in life and very difficult to destroy. Because of the humid environment and the abundance of saprophytic creatures in the swamp, it gradually turned into a persistent miasma forest in the Twilight Swamp over a long period of time.

Jiang Ran tried to deduce what kind of monster it originally was from the riddled and ravaged corpse.

Four legs, enormous size, tailless...

"Ouch, what's that?" Someone tripped over something and almost fell.

Jiang Ran looked over and saw a pair of enormous... horns?

It has four legs, a huge body, no tail, and a pair of horns.

"..."

"The miasma is being released from these corpses." Although they knew the source, everyone was still at a loss. Zhuo Qin sighed, "Ordinary flames don't seem to be able to burn these corpses."

Jiang Ran gestured for everyone to make way, and a ball of black flame ignited in her palm, flying into the corpse of the demonic beast.

Ink-black flames instantly engulfed the massive corpse, and the terrifying heat gradually eroded the miasma. The soldiers continued to retreat, feeling that if they got any closer, their bodies would be engulfed in sparks and turned to ashes.

"How, how is it?"

"It's burning! It's burning! The corpse is getting smaller!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, yet were also terrified by the power of the Inkfire, which seemed capable of burning everything.

"It's practically the sacred flame!"

After the initial fear, it transformed into a deeper sense of worship.

The corpse burned for a long time, about three hours, until the hill-like corpse turned into a small fire, which continued to shrink until a gentle breeze blew, extinguished the inky flames, and the bones turned into ashes.

The soldiers poked at the ashes with twigs, worried that there might still be some unburned remains or fragments that could cause future problems.

Suddenly, a soldier shouted, drawing everyone's attention, "There's still one horn that hasn't been burned off!"

From the ashes, the outline of an animal antler was visible, shaped like a tree crown, similar to that of a deer, only much larger than ordinary deer antlers.

Everyone was at a loss.

"Bring the things over here," Jiang Ran's calm voice came.

She sensed that the energy in the antlers was very gentle.

The group immediately sprang into action, working together to pull the antlers out of the ashes. They wiped the dust off, revealing the antlers in their entirety. The group stared in disbelief at the sight before them.

As the dust settled, a pure, crystal-clear antler on the ground was ice-green, shaped like a withered tree yet blooming with spring flowers. However, the antlers on the corpses that everyone had seen before were not like this; they were as black as rotten wood.

It was as if the fierce fire just now had dispelled the ominousness, burned away the old grime on the surface, and revealed the true appearance of the antlers.

Jiang Ran reached out her hand, and the soldier bowed and respectfully placed the deer antlers in her palm.