The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 441: Evil Snake

Ryan looked up at the dense forest in front of him, as if he had noticed something.

Suddenly, Cookie's ears stood up and he bared his teeth and growled.

At this time, there was a dense rustling sound coming from a large fan-shaped area in front, as if hundreds of small animals were rushing towards them.

The next second, hundreds of red-eyed squirrels as big as puppies, with their skin and flesh exposed, rushed towards the man and the dog.

Ryan could naturally sense that the mental state of these red-eyed squirrels seemed to be a little abnormal. They had ferocious expressions, revealing sharp incisors and scarlet gums, which was very different from the gentle state he had seen in the forest before.

There is no doubt that the root cause of this situation must be the Mother Tree Sect that held some special ceremony here.

Facing the attacking red-eyed squirrels, Ryan did not use his newly mastered crystal killing move "Sawtooth Cutting". Instead, he casually pointed his finger, and three dense, grid-like metal nets emitting a strong silver light quickly blasted towards the group of squirrels.

"Shh!"

These red-eyed squirrels seemed to instinctively sense the danger and tried to jump sideways to avoid it, but the three metal nets suddenly changed from overlapping front and back to three nets arranged horizontally and moving forward in parallel.

For a moment, this group of red-eyed squirrels were like a school of fish in the sea encountering a trawler, and were immediately caught in the net!
"Hey!"

The metal cutting net had extra fine mesh this time, resulting in almost no fish slipping through the net. Suddenly, a bloody storm rose from the air.

"Clap clap clap!"

The flesh and blood of the red-eyed squirrel fell like raindrops.

In less than two seconds, hundreds of red-eyed squirrels were killed by Ryan's liquefied killing move "Multiple Cutting Nets", and the few remaining ones were also killed by the sharp claws of the greyhound war dog Cookie.

It can be seen that Cookie seems to dislike these mutant squirrels with exposed flesh and blood.

It seemed that it was not willing to open its mouth to bite. It just killed it with its sharp claws and then threw it aside in disgust.

"This forest has been alienated." Ryan looked ahead and thought to himself.

Combined with what he had seen on the airship before, this area was quite large, probably tens of thousands of hectares.

"For such a large area, the Mother Tree Cult must have held a large prayer ceremony here, relying on the power of the gods to achieve this effect."

"But this kind of prayer requires a lot of preparation, including rituals, sacrifices, and multiple hosts. It seems that the intelligence from the headquarters is correct. If there are no traitors on the elves' side, this will be almost impossible to accomplish."

After a moment's thought, Ryan continued on his way.

He recalled the map in his mind. Although his destination was the elf town of Basaran where Anna was, there happened to be an elf outpost along the way. He planned to take a look at it and confirm his guess.

at the same time.

Located in a clearing in the forest between the elf town of Basara and Ferdinand City.

I saw a witch formation pattern covering several hundred square meters on the ground, which was composed of criss-crossing lines such as straight lines, triangles and circles. The pattern looked extremely complicated and emitted a faint green light.

This is actually a large-scale prayer ritual of the Secret Snake Sect.

However, if you look closely, you can see that there is a gap in the northeast corner of the ritual, as if a crater several meters deep was blasted out by some powerful witchcraft or extraordinary combat skills.

What was even more striking was that in the center of the magic circle were hundreds of handsome and slender pure-blooded elves tied up. Judging from their figures and faces, there were both men and women, young and old. It seemed that all the elves from a certain village or town had been captured.

"Vice-Pope Quileute, that man was too fast. We couldn't catch up with him and let him get away again." A man in a black robe with a python tattoo on his chest wiped the sweat from his forehead and said in panic.

The middle-aged man named Quileute was covered in a black robe and had a black hood on his head, so his face could not be seen clearly.

He just nodded and didn't blame his men.

Because the opponent is very fast, good at using two-handed swords, and very powerful, it seems that he is not far from being a sword master.

The other party first appeared yesterday, in the elf town of Basaran.

At that time, they had just captured the town and were planning to collect the elf prisoners, but the other party took advantage of their inattention and rescued a half-elf girl.

However, this was not a big deal. If this kind of hybrid was used in prayer rituals, its effectiveness was far inferior to that of a pure-blooded elf, and it was not precious, so he did not take it to heart.

Although this incident was a bit of an embarrassment to him as the leader of the team, the Vice Pope, it was not important compared to his main mission this time.

But what happened next made him a little angry!

Last night and this morning, the enemy launched two surprise attacks, interrupting the prayer ritual that was about to be completed. At the same time, they also planned to rescue these pure-blooded elves.

This is quite a slap in the face!

Of course, he did not do nothing. He organized several encirclement and suppression operations, but still let the other party escape.

Of course, it's not that the opponent is stronger than him. Quileute can see that the opponent has not reached the epic level. The problem lies with himself, because the gift he obtained in the original serpent prayer is the bloodline of the legendary earthly python 'Sladran'.

A legendary bloodline that tends towards gigantism, brute strength, biting, entanglement and poison. Relatively speaking, speed is his weakest point.

On the contrary, the opponent seems to be best at sword skills and speed.

This is quite a headache for the Quileute!
"Is Minos not here yet?" Quileute asked, tilting his head as if he had thought of something.

"Lord Minos should be here soon. Two hours ago, we received a message saying that Lord Minos was less than a hundred miles away from us." The subordinate at the side bowed and replied.

Minos is the number one among the Twelve Serpent Messengers.

As for why Quileute asked about Minos, it was because Minos' speed could be said to be the fastest in the entire Snake Cult.

If Minos was there, the man carrying the greatsword would not be able to escape, because as long as Minos could hold him back for a moment, his attack would definitely hit him.

"Well, contact Minos and ask him to speed up." Quileute said.

"Yes, Your Excellency the Vice-Pope." The black-robed subordinate quickly turned around and left.

"No, I'm already here."

Before he finished speaking, a figure flashed, and a circle of pale white air waves swept around. The next second, he stood in front of Quileute. At this time, the rumbling sound of breaking through the air caused by his high-speed movement was heard.

This man was in his early thirties, with golden curly hair and a slender figure, especially his legs, which seemed to take up 70% of his body. In Ryan's previous life, he would have been a long-legged Oppa.

The other person was wearing a noble hunting suit, and his identity as a member of the Secret Snake Cult was totally unrecognizable.

However, if you look closely at the back of his left hand, you can find a connection between him and the Secret Snake Cult. On the back of his hand is a tattoo of a thin emerald green snake, which looks vivid and lifelike!
"The Quileute Vice-Pontiff."

The young man named Minos smiled slightly, placed his right hand on his chest, and bowed to the Quileute.

Seeing Minos, Quileute smiled under his hood and said kindly, "Minos, you came faster than I thought."

"Just now, we encountered an enemy who was very fast. If you were here, he wouldn't have escaped from me."

"Vice-Pope of Quileute, you are too modest. Leave the tracking to me."

"Which direction did the other party go?" Minos turned his head and asked the man in black robe beside him.

"Lord Minos, the other party is heading towards Ferdinand City." The black-robed subordinate immediately bowed.

"Minos, the opponent's swordsmanship is very superb, and he is not far from the Sword Saint. You just need to find him." "Oh? I understand, Quileute Vice Pope, I'll go now." Minos smiled and said.

"Ah."

"Pay attention to my signal."

Before he finished speaking, a roaring sound of air waves was heard, and Minos, who remained in the original place, gradually disappeared. Everyone suddenly discovered that the Minos in front of them was just a residual image, and his real body was already dozens of meters away.

This speed is really terrifying!
But the members of the Secret Serpent Cult who are familiar with Minos know better that in addition to speed, Minos is also particularly good at poison, which is why he can sit firmly in the top spot among the Twelve Secret Serpent Cult members.

Minos, nicknamed 'the evil snake'!
On Ryan's side, he was attacked by a wave of red-eyed squirrels.

In the next ten minutes, they were attacked by two groups of other mutant creatures. Although they were also easily eliminated, Ryan noticed something was wrong.

It seems that there is someone behind these infected wild animals.

If that was the case, Ryan immediately looked up, his sharp eyes glanced at the sky through the mottled shadows of the trees, and determined his current position in Ferdinand Forest through the blood feather.

Comparing with the map he had memorized in his mind, Ryan discovered that he was about seven or eight kilometers away from an elf outpost.

"If my guess is correct, the enemy should be near that outpost." Ryan immediately moved quickly towards the direction of the elf outpost.

Sure enough, the frequency of the obstructions Ryan encountered became higher and higher.

Brown bears with flesh and blood turned inside out, giant tusked wild boars, and so on, are coming one after another!

However, Ryan laughed because this proved that his guess was basically correct.

At this moment, suddenly the loud cry of Blood Feather was heard in the sky, and three mutant vultures emitting red light were seen rushing towards Blood Feather. For a moment, the two sides started fighting.

Ryan's mind changed slightly, and he ordered Blood Feather to immediately break away from the fight with the mutant vultures and swoop down. Naturally, these mutant vultures followed closely and swooped down as well.

After the blood feather fell in front of Ryan, Ryan waved his hand and a huge silver metal net appeared in front of the mutant vulture that was chasing him!

The three mutant vultures were just diving when they saw a huge silver net suddenly appear in front of them. Before they could adjust their direction, they were transformed into three piles of minced meat with the sound of a sharp blade entering their bodies.

Suddenly, a mixture of feathers and flesh and blood floated down from the sky!

Xueyu chirped happily a few times, rubbed against Ryan, and flew into the sky again.

It’s not that Blood Feather’s fighting ability is not strong, but Ryan feels that since his master is here, there is no need to let his own combat pet fall into a situation of being besieged.

At this moment, the thin sheet on my chest vibrated.

Ryan took out the slice and injected mental power into it.

Immediately, Claire's voice came from the thin film: "Captain Ryan, I'm Claire."

"Claire, this is Ryan, go ahead."

"Captain, sorry to bother you. We have received the latest news from the headquarters. It seems that because this is the land of the elves, the Secret Snake Cult has launched a large-scale attack this time. Among the personnel sent are the deputy pope Quileute and the first of the twelve Secret Snake Envoys."

"Boo!"

Suddenly, the witchcraft communication seemed to be disturbed by something.

At the same time, Ryan seemed to hear some distant whispering in the void.

Although it was not difficult for him to resist this level of mental interference with his mental strength, he had a basic understanding of why even the birds in the sky were infected.

After all, it is easy for birds to leave if they realize something is wrong.

"Deputy Pope Quileute seems to be a powerful man of epic level." Ryan's eyes flickered.

Although Claire hadn't finished her words just now, he already knew that Claire was here to remind him.

"As for the number one among the Twelve Serpent Masters, I seem to have heard the Eredar sisters mention him. He seems to be a guy nicknamed 'Evil Serpent'."

"Interesting. I hope you are strong enough for me to test the combat capability of the Dragon Vein Wizard."

When Ryan heard the news, he was calm and fearless.

After killing the mutant vulture, Ryan soon came to a collapsed and burned building. According to the markings on the map, this was undoubtedly an elf outpost.

But the ruins before us only vaguely showed the remains of a square house and several long pieces of charred logs remaining on the ground.

The coke from the logs should be the support pillars of the outpost.

Ryan felt the temperature and found no heat left, which obviously meant more than 24 hours had passed. In addition, he looked around but did not find any elf corpses.

However, there were several obvious dragging marks and bloodstains on the ground around, and it seemed that the bodies had been taken away.

Because if it is bitten by wild animals, there will be some traces left.

Suddenly, Ryan stood up and looked somewhere in the dense forest.

Only a hoarse voice was heard:

"You're from the slave-catching team? This is not the place for you!"

"Hasn't anyone told you? You've crossed the line. Get out of here now!"

At this time, a hooded man in a black robe slowly walked out of the dense forest.

Obviously, the other party misjudged Ryan's identity.

This is because in the forest, dogs' keen sense of smell are used for tracking, which is a common pet combination for the slave-hunting team in Ferdinand Forest.

So, although Ryan is wearing a wizard robe, the slave-catching team here is extremely powerful and wizards are not uncommon. Of course, the main reason is that the combination of Ryan and Cookie, a man and a dog, inadvertently fits the appearance of the slave-catching team members.

No wonder this cultist made a mistake at first sight!

As soon as Ryan sensed it, he found that the aura coming from the other person was familiar.

It seemed to be very similar to the aura of an enemy he had fought before.

Immediately, Ryan thought of something.

"That's right. The opponent's aura is almost identical to that of the Flesh and Blood Tree Spirit. It seems that the one who attacked the Elf Outpost is indeed the Mother Tree Cult."

"However, judging from the other party's tone, it seems that the slave-hunting team here, or at least part of the slave-hunting team, seems to have reached some kind of agreement with this Mother Tree Sect."

"In this case, we can't just kill this guy right away."

"Perhaps interrogation is a more appropriate option!" Ryan thought to himself.

So, when Ryan's dark eyes looked at the other person again.

Somehow, a creepy feeling suddenly surged up in the heart of the man in black robe!

(End of this chapter)