Chapter 25 Encounter
April on the grassland is the best season in spring. The green grass is lush and lingering in the wind. The colorful wild flowers make the grassland full of a faint fragrance. The wild bees and butterflies dance among the flowers, and the little beasts chase each other among the grass. In the sky, the soaring goshawks burst into clear cries. In the distant fields, the heads of wild horses raised their heads and neighed. The dark night shadow leopard lurked in the grass without moving, but the two ears twisting around showed its alertness. The prairie bear, as majestic as huge rocks, finally survived the cold winter. In the spring sunshine, it looked foolish and attacked the bee's honeycomb with a short tree.
Spring on the grassland is always full of moving vitality. Even when lazy people stand on this land piled up by vitality, they can't help but indulge in the air. But even so, once they turn their eyes to the grass occupied by the dead, they can clearly find that all vitality is gradually disappearing.
Perhaps it is not accurate to describe this phenomenon by the disappearance of vitality. The plants on the ground are still growing vigorously and have not been disturbed at all, but the animals on the ground have long left far away under the interference of death energy and are unwilling to step into this step. In fact, the death energy will not have much impact on life, but too strong death energy will make organisms feel physically uncomfortable and will also become mentally confused. In the most serious situation, hallucinations will occur. The weaker the life body, the more common this phenomenon is. It is also because of this that when the silver wolf's hunting ground is gradually polluted by death energy, the wild beasts are the first to escape, followed by the weak monsters. At this time, even if the silver wolf finally wins, there is probably only the way to migrate.
Five silver giant wolf carries five people and runs slowly in the mountains. Wolves are very special. They are not as fast as leopards and less powerful than lions. There is nothing worth noting about, but their endurance is the strongest among the beasts on the grassland, and they can stay awake. They keep chasing prey for hundreds of kilometers at the same speed. No matter how powerful the beast is, it can only be slowly dragged down under the pursuit of the wolf pack.
Now these five silver wolves are using this speed to plaster behind the two skeleton knights, neither fast nor far nor near. They cannot escape or get rid of them. After following about two kilometers, Panis suddenly raised his hand and stopped the team from advancing.
"What's wrong?" Catherine rode the wolf and rushed up: "Well, I understand."
"Well. It's this position, the sudden death energy appears." Panis rubbed his arms: "There was no sign and it suddenly became so thicker, and the more you walked forward, the thicker you became. This situation is very strange and has never been encountered before."
Just now, while approaching Panis, Katherine didn't understand why Panis stopped the previous step, but when she took the next step, she felt the pressure of death energy, so she immediately understood the reason why Panis stopped. At this time, Katherine took a few more steps back and forth and frowned and said, "It's strange, it's like there is an obvious partition, not very much like it formed naturally."
"Can it be artificial?" Lina also rode on the wolf and asked curiously: "It seems there is a layer of film."
"I don't think that it can be achieved by relying solely on the power of nature." Panis looked at Lina and asked strangely: "Why haven't Diana come out again for so long?"
"Because the opponent is the undead." Lina pressed her chest, as if she was pressing the world in her heart: "As a priest, I am far more suitable than Diana as a priest. Diana herself knows this clearly, so just after the five giant wolf explained it for a while, she returned to her own world and asked me to call her when I need it."
"Okay. It seems that this is the junction with the normal outside environment." Panis took two steps back and poked his fingers at the edge of the death world: "It probably won't be so easy after entering."
"Yeah." Catherine nodded and said, "From the concentration of death energy here, it is not surprising that there will be any kind of undead."
"Are you all ready?" Panis stood in front of the boundary, spreading his hands and making a stern gesture. Facing the boundary, facing the boundary, he said loudly: "My children, this is the boundary between life and death. If you step through this boundary, you must abandon all hope of life. If you step through this boundary, you must regard yourself as a dead person, so..."
With a "bang", Panis was knocked away by a huge wolf's head, and screamed and fell into the grass within the boundary. Vivian lay on the back of the silver wolf and walked into the boundary as if nothing had happened: "Sorry, don't block the way, let me give in."
"Hey, you should say this in advance." Panis lay in the grass, with a few weeds on his head, and shouted dissatisfiedly: "How can you knock someone away first and make way for someone to make way? And I'm inspiring everyone, how can you make trouble?"
"Is it motivating?" Vivian turned from the wolf's back and smiled sweetly at Panis: "In 1479, Emperor Jekein led his country's 150,000 troops to expedition the Land of Mages. Before entering the Magic Plateau, he was in such a fierce army. However, as far as I know, there were 71 people who came back that time, and all the others died in battle, and no one lived. Is this how you motivate everyone? I just said that history is a weakness, and that is compared with magic. Don't think I don't know this history."
"Go, so you know." Panis murmured in a low voice, then shook his hand and said, "No, no, no, I mean, don't worry about the result, just from the language point of view, what happened just now is still very..."
"It's stupid." A wolf claw stepped on Pannis directly, and Lina left a proper comment and caught up with Vivian.
"Go." Panis got up from the ground in dissatisfaction, picked off the grass stick on his head. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly jumped to the side in time and avoided the wolf head that was hit from behind. Catherine was shocked and waved to Panis to follow quickly. Then she followed the two girls and said loudly: "Everyone cheer up, the mission has begun."
"Okay!" The two girls responded in unison: "Come on together."
"These women are so hateful." Panis turned around and saw Marcia riding on the wolf's back. Two eyes as calm as lake water were looking at his face. She smiled happily. Panis said with emotion: "Macia is better than you. If you don't attack me with those women, I really like you more and more."
"I want to have wild mutton chops and swift soup for dinner." Marcia's eyes flashed with expectation: "That's all."
"Can you guys have a normal one?" Panis's sad shout echoed on the grassland.
After crossing the boundary and turning several bends along the foot of the mountain, some abrupt caves began to appear on the ground, lying on the grassland like traps. These caves that seemed to be dug from the inside out were obviously the original shelter of the undead, and the pits left when they were awakened by the energy of death and broke free from the ground.
"Be careful." Catherine, who was leading the way, suddenly let the giant wolf be stopped and looked carefully at the ground in front of her. There was an abnormal protrusion in the grass on the ground. Even through the grass, you could see the occasional vibrations in the protrusions. Suddenly, a skeleton with soil stretched out from the soil to the sky, waved aimlessly in the air for a few times before pressing on the ground. With the support of the ground, a pale skeleton drilled out from the ground. In the two deep eye sockets on the skull, the soul fire flickered strangely, and the jaw kept pulling and making a clicking sound. Even at noon when the sunlight was fierce, it would still make people who heard it feel palpitations.
"The newborn dead." Vivian stared at the skeleton and observed carefully: "There are not many opportunities to observe like this, and it is very valuable to study."
"What to study?" Lina asked curiously: "It's just a skeleton."
"The strength of the soul fire, the density of the bones, the strength and agility of the skeleton, and the time it is attacked by the energy of death." Vivian explained: "Through these, we can calculate the extent to which the impact of the energy of death on the corpse can be verified, but unfortunately there is not enough time now."
"Yes, there is not enough time." Catherine signaled to the Silver Wolf. The Silver Wolf jumped up and slapped the skull with one claw. Then he opened his huge mouth. His hard teeth directly shattered the skull. The soul fire that had lost its protection flashed and dissipated again in the air.
"Macia." Catherine shouted, "You've been here once, lead the way."
"Okay, come with me." Marcia rode the wolf and began to rush forward: "According to previous experience, at most ten minutes, you will start to encounter small skeletons."
"Leave a small number of skeletons to me." Catherine said: "Don't bother you. A small number of undeads don't have to be eliminated. If you break them up, just keep them from posing a threat. As long as they keep a distance, they won't chase us. When the root cause is solved, they will go back to deal with them. In addition, Lina and Vivian, you two try to save magic and mental power. If you encounter a big scene, you will depend on you at that time."
"I understand." The girls echoed in unison. Lina raised the silver mace, letting the light of power cover the surface of the mace. Vivian lay on the back of the silver wolf again. This low-speed mace was still bearable for her and would not lose her combat effectiveness as she did at the beginning.
"Then I will support you remotely." Panis asked for a riding bow from the tribe at some point, and he didn't know how many feather arrows were placed in his backpack. He was twisting three feather arrows on the bowstring.
"Yeah, you attack freely." With regard to Pannis's combat awareness and experience, Catherine knew that she had no need to consider it for him. No matter what tactics and tactics were, Catherine believed that he would conduct the best attack at the best time, so it was entirely up to Pannis himself to decide.
Chapter completed!