Chapter 25 The Stalker
Siva had many shortcomings, but to be fair, he was not a coward who was afraid of death. Otherwise, he would not have spent all his family's wealth after his companions disappeared and hired people to come to the place of death again and again.
Housekeeper Mason is different from Ilistin and Idriya. He is just an ordinary old man. Perhaps Sifer knew in his heart that the possibility of surviving the old man in this encounter was almost zero, but he could not convince himself to retreat at the last moment.
Since he has arrived here, he will see a result with his own eyes no matter what. Qin Lun's few casual persuasions only accelerated his determination.
After the group left, the almost rare open space deep in the swamp calmed down again. Shortly after they left, a slender figure appeared like a water mirror and gradually condensed into shape.
"Oh no, they are actually heading towards the center of the swamp." Linda suddenly appeared in place at the mercenary union's registrar.
At this time, the little girl no longer wore the big rustic black-framed glasses and dress, but changed into an adventurer's outfit, her soft blonde hair was tied into a ponytail and was swaying behind her head.
"What should I do? If I follow in, the teacher will find out and I will have to copy books from Candle Castle for many years." Linda did not carry a weapon, and her expression seemed a little depressed.
"Forget it, it's rare to have a chance to take risks every year. Besides, isn't it time to go back to the candle castle yet!" Soon the little girl stuck out her tongue, revealing the happy smirk of the weasel stealing the little hen. Even though she knew that the teacher was not by her side, she still shrank her head and looked around, and her figure slowly disappeared into the air.
After the little girl Linda disappeared, the swamp clearing did not last long, and a short black shadow appeared out of thin air, as if he had never left.
The black shadow was wrapped in a black cloak, and the face covered by the black cloth only showed a pair of glittering eyes. But it seemed that he was not young anymore, with the vertical lines on his forehead with deep ravines.
"Interesting, these people's strength is a bit more than expected, and there is actually a dragon vein protecting them!" He raised his hand and touched the stubble under the veil. Looking at the sea of fire that was still not extinguished on the water, a gleam flashed in his eyes, "It seems that this bounty from the Anboli Church is not easy to get!"
Black Shadow's voice was a little hoarse. If it weren't for it on purpose, then his throat should have been injured. Judging from his image, he turned out to be the killer of the Anboli Church who had met Qin Lun at the mercenary workers' association.
Obviously, he did not think that Qin Lun was not suspicious as he said, but followed him and observed them.
When he arrived at the Dragon Fly's Nest, Rand showed his signature lava skills, which made him truly sure that there were indeed rewarded people in this team who attacked the Ambori Church.
Qin Lun's sensing along the way was nothing wrong, but it was hard for anyone to think that there would be so many tails behind the team. Except for Mastaxia who deliberately showed his breath, the two people behind him were much more careful.
Even outside the land of death, Qin Lun and the thief Lago could only vaguely sense it. When the team entered the depths of the swamp, they would not notice the two people behind them.
The assassin of the Ambori Church quickly followed, but he seemed much more careful in his actions. After all, this is already the center of the Death Swamp, and even if he follows everyone to take advantage of the risks, he should be careful of the dangers hidden around him.
After the assassin left, the place returned to peace again, but before he knew it, the mist on the water became much thicker. The mist seemed to have its own consciousness, pressing heavily against the sea of fire on the water like a thick quilt.
The sea of fire seemed to have encountered a natural enemy, and suddenly rose up, dispersing a small part of the fog, but soon became exhausted and was pressed back to the water by the rolling fog. Finally, with a "poof", the fire sources everywhere were extinguished at the same time.
After the fog was extinguished by extinguishing the fire sea, it merged into the lake, and a huge blurred face slowly appeared on the water surface.
The human face had no expression and slowly opened its mouth and sucked it. The water flowed over and rushed into the mouth of the human face with the water-bound spirits gathered around it. Dozens of water-bound spirits were swallowed by it in one mouthful and disappeared without a trace under the water. Other water-bound spirits fled in panic and left the range of the human face.
After swallowing dozens of water-bound spirits, the human face seemed to be satisfied, and burped anthropomorphically, spit out a large number of blisters in his mouth, slowly disappearing on the water surface. The strangeness of the land of death is obviously far beyond everyone's imagination. Strong people with strong self-confidence can easily ignore certain truths.
If the Land of Death is really only a little dangerous, just some legendary creatures entrenched here, then from ancient times to the present, why did only the legendary pirate Bodean cross here?
Of course, Qin Lun and others didn't know that the swamp open space they slept on last night would be so terrifying. Even if they understand now, they probably wouldn't care, because they had encountered another threat.
"Run quickly, let's go to the back!" Rick dragged Winnie away, looking back from time to time, with a complicated look in his eyes.
"Captain, let me go, let us help him get rid of that monster!" Winnie struggled and shouted, with a faint light of tears in her eyes.
"You are a mage, you can only be able to play with it!" Hill, who was in front, turned around and smiled, "He is fine now, it's not too late for you to thank him later."
Time went back a minute ago, and everyone who left the camp was a little absent-minded because they were thinking about the next adventure. But when they passed by a small lake again, they unexpectedly came at a speed that was lightning speed.
A long and flexible cable burst out from underwater through the mist, and the target was the female mage Winnie walking in the middle of the team.
Faced with the sudden attack, Winnie's reaction was limited to lifting her staff and putting a magic shield on her, and her slender waist was wrapped in a long rope. Immediately afterwards, her body rose into the air and fell towards the lake. This time, her companions on both sides had no time to hold her back and could only watch her fly away.
Fortunately, Winnie is Hill and Qin Lun on both sides. The two murderers have a purer mind and do not have so many associations about the adventures that will be in the center of the swamp, like others.
Hill made his first move since he advanced to the second level. A purple-black light shot out from his hands like a laser, hitting the monster hidden underwater through layers of water.
Just as Hill hit the monster, a dull scream came from everyone's ears. Even through the lake, the sound still seemed loud and grand, as if someone was ringing a bronze bell in his ear.
The monster under the water was in pain, and the long rope-like object also released at the right time, retracting back under the water with a "whisper".
At this time, Qin Lun happened to arrive and circled in the air. Before Winnie could fall, she took her arm and threw it hard, throwing her to Rick by the water.
Even though the two killer demons had no communication, the cooperation was still seamless, as if they had arranged everything before taking action. But in this way, Qin Lun himself became dangerous. The painful monster roared again, and the long rope-like object shot like a spear, and actually wanted to penetrate Qin Lun directly.
However, the monster's movements were too loud. Qin Lun used the footrest of the pentagram crystal mirror to avoid the attack in a dangerous way and returned to the shore.
This monster was obviously the overlord of this area. After suffering a great loss, he certainly refused to give up. The agile long rope-shaped object kept attacking Qin Lun like a whip, which formed the current situation.
At this time, Lago and Mastasha who were exploring the way forward also ran over, and their faces changed drastically when they looked at the scene.
"What is this? Is some kind of snake?" Siphere let go now, and turned around curiously to ask the Highland Elf.
"No, let's talk about it later!" After seeing the long rope attacking Qin Lun, Mastaxia's face changed drastically and she shouted to Qin Lun in front, "Run quickly, don't bother with it, by the way, don't attack..."
Qin Lun dodged the flexible long rope in a mess. Relying on his excellent eyesight, he had already seen clearly that this thing was not a snake, but a red strip of flesh. Looking at the raised buds on it and the forked top, it looked a bit like some kind of... tongue!
When Mastasha was shouting, he was a little angry by this tongue. A sharp light flashed in his eyes. The longbow of the World Tree held tightly in his hand suddenly shook, turning into "Frost of Wind", and chopped it towards the flesh with a fierce knife.
What surprised him was that with the sharpness of the legendary weapon, he could not cut off the flesh rope. With the blood splattering everywhere, the flesh rope only broke a big hole.
However, "Frost of Wind" is a legendary weapon after all, and it is not just as sharp as sharp. The Frost Elf in the sword exploded once. Wherever the sword edge reached, the flesh rope was covered with a layer of white ice crystals, and it shattered under Qin Lun's brute force, and the flesh rope was obviously missing a large piece.
"Woo~~" the monster under the water whimpered and pulled back the flesh rope like lightning.
"What?" At this time, Qin Lun finally had time to respond to Mastaxia.
"Don't attack its... tongue!" Mastasha's face obviously collapsed, and a look of crying appeared on his face covered in oil paint, "And... run quickly!"
After the Highland Elf said that, her butt seemed to be on fire, turned around and ran towards the depths of the swamp.
"Ah?" Everyone was obviously stunned. Of course they knew that this monster was not easy to mess with, but the monster was in the water and they were on the shore!
"Boom!" As if responding to everyone's confusion, the lake with long tongues burst out suddenly.
The lake water was poured down like a heavy rain, and a huge black shadow appeared above everyone's heads. The huge creature at the bottom of the water jumped into the air and fell towards everyone like Mount Tai.
"Ambient wild rogue, you will get ashore!" The highland elf screamed without looking back, running more and more happily.
Chapter completed!