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Chapter 150 The Basilisk Appears

With Dui's bubble head spell, the poisonous gas in the surrounding air could no longer affect the elven warriors.

The elven army no longer had any scruples and once again demonstrated its powerful fighting capacity, advancing rapidly southward and killing all the giant spiders that blocked the way.

The rest all fled south in panic.

The army marched straight ahead and soon recaptured half of the Mirkwood.

But soon, everyone discovered something was wrong.

Because there was no giant spider in front of him, not even one in its nest.

It seems that the giant spiders have given up on this place.

The situation remained the same as we advanced southward for dozens of miles.

In the spider's nest, in addition to some uneaten animal corpses, there are even spider eggs that have not yet hatched.

It looked like he had just escaped after hearing the news.

But the crowd did not look happy, instead their expressions became solemn and serious.

Giant spiders are very cunning. The only possibility is that they are all gone from their nest so unusually.

There must be a lot of giant spiders gathered together, and the next battle is bound to be a difficult one.

Dui stopped the elves from destroying the spider eggs and collected the spider eggs that looked like black pearls.

Some are frozen as potion ingredients, and some are kept for hatching as a source of future potions and as a reserve of food for the basilisk Herpo.

Just as the army continued to march south with vigilance and alertness.

There was a sudden noise in the forest.

The elf warriors vigilantly drew their bows and shot arrows, but they were quickly blocked by the oncoming attackers.

I saw a wooden sled pulled by a big rabbit rushing over from a distance, and then it stopped abruptly in front of the elf team.

"Darigast! Why are you here?" Dui came forward and greeted in surprise.

The visitor was the brown-robed wizard Darrigast. He looked a little crazy, and his eyes lit up when he saw Dui.

"Ah, it's you, Doyle! What are you doing here?"

"His Majesty Thranduil is exterminating the giant spiders in the forest, so I came here to help." Dui explained, then asked, "But why are you here, Daregast? Did something happen?"

"Me? Oh, yeah, I almost forgot!" Daregast was startled, patted his head, and then said immediately, as if he remembered something, "I'm here to warn you! I'm here to ask the elves for a warning!"

"What warning do you want to give us?" Thranduil asked with a frown.

As neighbors living in the Mirkwood, Thranduil naturally knew the Brown-robed Wizard.

There just isn't much overlap between them.

Seeing Thranduil, Daregast seemed to have found his target and immediately said, "All the spiders are gathering to the south! There are thousands and thousands of them, densely packed together. All the animals in the forest are scared, and I am scared too!"

"Those brood of Ungoliant are preparing to attack now. Led by the Spider Queen, they are ready to wipe out all the elves in one fell swoop. You must be prepared..."

"Wait, what Spider Queen are you talking about?" Thranduil asked, seizing the key point.

"Spider Queen? Oh yes, the Spider Queen! Her name is Senasa, and she is the largest giant spider in the entire forest! She is also the leader of all giant spiders!" Darrigast answered somewhat incoherently.

When he spoke of the Spider Queen, his expression became particularly excited, and he said with some fear, "She's even bigger than my little house! And she's a minion of the Dark Lord! Now she's gathering all the spiders to attack you!"

Thranduil's expression grew serious when he heard Daregast's words.

And Dui was also very surprised.

I didn't expect that there was such a thing as the Spider Queen in the Mirkwood, and that she was related to Sauron.

Upon hearing that the giant spiders were gathering, Thranduil did not hesitate and led his army south, vowing to drive all the spiders out of Mirkwood.

The brown-robed wizard Daregast also joined in.

With Darrigast's leadership, everyone did not stop and headed straight towards the Spider Queen's lair.

The Spider Queen's lair lies at the southern end of Mirkwood, not far from Dol Guldur.

The trees here are taller and more secluded, and the sky is blocked by countless layers of spider webs and leaves, so that not a single ray of light can get in, and it is so dark that the ground cannot be seen at all.

Moreover, because the giant spiders have been living and breeding here for thousands of years, the entire dense forest is covered with countless spider webs, and there are only spider web tunnels specially for the giant spiders to walk through, forming an extremely huge spider kingdom.

Other creatures have a hard time here and may even become food for giant spiders.

When Dui and other elf troops arrived in the valley, they saw the endless "Spider Castle" in front of them.

Such a spider kingdom can no longer be achieved through pure destruction.

Seeing the spider web's iron wall, Thranduil frowned and looked serious.

If we don't seize the opportunity to catch all the giant spiders in one go, this encirclement and suppression campaign will be a failure.

Once the giant spiders reproduce again, they will sooner or later spread to the north of the forest, squeezing the elves' living space and threatening the safety of the forest kingdom.

But if they were to actually attack, the countless spider webs before them would be a huge obstacle, and destroying them would be even more difficult. "Father, let me lead the squad through those spider tunnels and force them out," Legolas volunteered with a determined expression.

Thranduil shook his head and rejected it: "No, there are countless giant spiders in there, not to mention the Spider Queen. Going in is like walking into a trap!"

"But if we allow these giant spiders to continue to exist, Mirkwood will never be at peace. It won't be long before they multiply again and move north, threatening us!" Legolas said worriedly.

"Besides, I still have the magic taught by the Duyle religion, so I can protect myself even if I enter."

But no matter how Legolas persuaded, Thranduil was not going to let Legolas take the risk.

Watching Thranduil and Legolas arguing.

Dui said, "Your Majesty Thranduil, since we can't break the spider web, can we use fire?"

Hearing Dui's words, Thranduil and Legolas looked at him in surprise.

Thranduil shook his head. "I've considered your suggestion, but if we set a fire, the entire forest will be affected if we're not careful. Not only will the creatures in the forest suffer, but we'll also be left homeless!"

"But you can let your army open a firebreak in the forest and then set fire to the forest in the south. Then you don't have to worry about the fire spreading to the north," Dui said.

But Dui underestimated the elves' love for nature. The elves of Mirkwood have a close relationship with the forest and rely on the forest environment to survive. The forest is their home and shelter.

Therefore, the elves rarely even cut down trees, let alone choose to burn down large tracts of forest in order to eliminate giant spiders.

In addition to the elves, the brown-robed wizard Daregast also strongly opposed this suggestion.

As a Maia descendant of Yavanna, the goddess of plants, Daregast loves plants even more than the elves. For this reason, she even forgot her mission to come to Middle-earth and chose to stay in the forest with the company of plants and animals.

So I can't bear to see trees being harmed.

Seeing this, Dui gave up this suggestion with some regret.

Otherwise, you can just set fire to it and burn these giant spiders in a sea of ​​fire, which is convenient and simple.

He was also confident that he could control the fire and prevent it from spreading outward.

However, the fire attack method did not work, so Dui simply tried a slightly more troublesome method.

"Your Majesty Thranduil, I have another way to force the giant spiders out, but it's a little risky. I wonder if you are willing to try it?"

"What method?" Thranduil asked curiously, knowing that Dui would not speak without purpose.

Dui took out a suitcase from the space bag.

"What's in here?" Thranduil frowned slightly.

He felt the breath of a dark magic creature from inside, a species he had never seen before, and it was extremely dangerous, making him feel his life was threatened.

"It's a creature I bred, called a basilisk," Dui explained. "Its eyes are dangerous. Ordinary creatures can't look directly into them, or they'll die. Even looking through a mirror will turn you to stone."

"There is such a creature?!" Thranduil was very shocked. Just by listening to Dui's introduction, he knew how dangerous this creature was.

Legolas, Arwen and others were also very surprised.

They had never heard Dui say that he had such a creature before.

"So if Your Majesty is willing to give it a try, I can send the basilisk out to force them out of the spider's lair. But before that, everyone needs to be alert and not look directly at the basilisk, otherwise I can't guarantee everyone's safety!"

Dui said very seriously.

Thranduil hesitated for a moment after hearing this, but finally agreed to Dui's method.

Then he immediately issued an order, telling everyone not to look directly at the basilisk, and explained the danger of the basilisk in advance.

After everyone was ready, Dui opened the suitcase and took a few steps back.

The next second, a huge snake head with a blood-red feather on its head emerged from the box space.

All the elves present except Dui, including Thranduil, closed their eyes.

However, even though they closed their eyes, the elves were still able to feel everything around them with their super perception.

Powerful and ancient elves like Thranduil can even perceive with their mental power, which is not much different from what they see with their eyes.

So in the perception of Thranduil and other elves, a green giant python that was ten meters long and as thick as an adult's torso crawled out of the box, emitting a powerful aura of black magic.

Dui did not close his eyes at this moment, because he had signed a "blood oath" contract with the basilisk Herpo, so the basilisk could not hurt him in any way.

So when the basilisk saw Dui, it would close its eyes on its own initiative.

The basilisk grew very fast, especially after eating the two giant spiders raised in the tower. Its size increased dramatically and was not far from its adult size.

Like other snakes, basilisks can sense their surroundings and catch and track prey by relying on their tongue, sense of smell and heat induction even with their eyes closed.

At this moment, the basilisk was very excited. It used its tongue to sense the air around it, and immediately slapped the ground with its tail excitedly.

"Master, I smell food! It's delicious food! (Snake language)"

Upon hearing this, Dui patted its head gently.

"Then go find your food, kill them with your eyes, force them out! (Snake language)"

(End of this chapter)