Don't call me evil god

Chapter 958: Spiny Flying Snake? Metal Monster!

The black shadow pounced to the location of the [Bait Trap], and then stopped in a daze.

It attacked following the sound and clearly heard a target worthy of attack, but in the end it missed.

More importantly, [Bait Trap] is a continuously effective wilderness magic. Before the magic effect dissipates, this thing will continue to emit pre-recorded sounds.

So from the shadow's "perspective", it fell into an endless loop:

There is a target making sounds nearby!
Attack the target!

Missed!
Capture the target again!
Try to raid!

Missed again!

It just keeps spinning in circles.

Lancelot opened his mouth slightly in surprise.

Because the shadow stopped, they were able to see the monster's true appearance.

It looks like a snake.

The snake has a winding and twisted body, a bright red tongue that occasionally pops out, and sharp fangs.

Two very strange features appeared on it.

It has several symmetrical fleshy wings on its back.

The fleshy wings are as thin as cicada wings and are translucent. If you don't look closely, you will find them difficult to spot.

The back is covered with dense and rugged bone spurs.

By looking at the cold light on the bone spur, you can roughly guess how sharp it is.

"A snake?!"

Limited by the [Silent Field], believers cannot make any sound and can only communicate through the phantom light curtain in group chat.

"Will it attack based on sound?"

"Hiss... No wonder it's so fast. With such a small body, wings, and the ability to fly, it must be a master at sneak attacks!"

"But it doesn't seem to be very smart. The Silent Forest that the gray dwarves are so afraid of can actually be broken by making some noise in the distance. You can even capture or kill the culprit!"

"So how do we catch it? With realgar?"

Snakes are afraid of realgar. Even snakes transformed into monsters will be scared when shot with arrows coated with realgar powder.

I just don't know if this feature will still work on the "snakes" in the deep area.

A courageous Ranger follower was planning to try to capture this strange-looking flying snake while it was being attracted by the [bait trap].

They have special methods to deal with animal-type enemies.

Whether it is [Talk to Animals], [Tame Beasts], [Animal Affinity], or [Beast Summoning Roar], you can often quickly gain the trust and closeness of animals.

A ranger who specializes in this field can even specialize in the "Beast Spirit Walker" route when he is promoted to Level 4, providing various temporary or permanent status blessings for his tamed animal companions, allowing them to assist the ranger in combat.

When rushing from the settlement of Paisi to the settlement of Limoen, the seekers of knowledge who were rangers had already done a test and found that some animal-type monsters in the deep regions could also be tamed, but they were more wild and easily injured instead of tamed.

"and many more!"

Before several rangers could take action, Dolan stopped them with a sudden message in the group chat.

"Don't go over there yet!"

"Open the [Cognitive Protection Barrier] and take another look at what it looks like!"

Dolan's expression was extremely solemn. He raised his left hand and bent his fingers.

This means what Gray taught them: be safe and hide where you are.

They were in a [silent zone] at the moment and couldn't make any sound. In order to prevent someone from not paying attention to the information in the group chat, gestures became a good way to remind them.

The companions followed their instructions. The next second.

"Waterfa!"

"what?!"

"Fake!"

The group chat immediately exploded.

The moment they activated the [cognitive protection barrier], the thorn-backed flying snake that was confusedly looking for its target in front of them suddenly changed drastically!
An unknown monster made entirely of metal, shaped like a sea urchin, with its surface covered with various sharp metal spikes, replaced the Spiny Flying Snake and appeared in everyone's sight!

The reason why it is described as a "strange shape" is because this thing doesn't have a clear shape at all!

If you observe carefully, you will find that its body is made up of various metal structures, and these small metal structures are constantly changing their adsorption methods, causing various changes in the appearance of this strange-looking creature.

What’s even more terrifying is!
Although this thing has no face, and even the front and back cannot be distinguished, the believers just have a feeling:

They were targeted by it!
It's a feeling similar to a dangerous intuition.

Although it is hard to explain, it is extremely accurate!

Fortunately, the metal monster seemed to be afraid of the seekers of knowledge. It seemed to be able to judge that if it attacked the other party, it would probably be met with a fierce counterattack.

Although it is extremely fast, it has lost the right to attack first by surprise once its position has been confirmed. The seekers of knowledge can exchange their lives for those of their companions at any time for an opportunity to attack.

The metal monster maintained a safe enough distance and constantly changed its structure.

But no matter how it changes, its metal spikes that resemble sea urchins still grow everywhere on the surface of the metal monster.

"Gudu."

Petunia swallowed silently.

"I know that the information provided by the gray dwarves is not trustworthy at all. The world they see is not real at all. A lot of the information is definitely wrong!"

The markings on the map and Gray's reminders only told them that they had to remain quiet when passing through the Silent Woods, otherwise they would be attacked by monsters that followed the sound and could easily die.

But judging from the state of this metal monster in front of him.

It definitely has recognition methods other than sound!
"Could it be that cognitive interference is not a sorcery given to the Supreme Truth by the evil god, but a natural existence in the abyss for a long time?"

Dolan felt overwhelmed.

In his opinion, the plan to capture this sound-seeking monster and bring it to the Howling Abyss was almost aborted.

This metal animal... you can't feed him ore to cultivate his affection!

What's even more troublesome is that this monster, which only exists in the "two world lines" and has completely different appearances, does not seem to have any connection with the cultists of the Church of the Supreme Truth.

There was no reason for the cultists to casually impose cognitive interference on such a monster.

You can't just let it stay in the Silent Woods and hunt down every unlucky gray dwarf that passes by, right?
The cognitive interference it encounters seems more like some kind of naturally existing phenomenon.

"So...how did this interference occur? What is the pattern behind it?!"

Dolan couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.

A Ranger suddenly excitedly sent several messages in the group chat:
"hey-hey!!!"

"Guess what I found!"

"I just wanted to try to use [Tame Beast] on it, but [Battle Assist] gave me a warning that the taming failed!"

"It's a taming failure!"

“Not untamable!!!”

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(End of this chapter)