Chapter 603: Rumors of the Skinning Cellar

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Due to the geographical environment, there are patches of black swamps in a forest in the northeast of Kurast, so it was named Huge Wetland by the Kurast people.

To strangers, the huge wetland is like a deserted place of death. It has swallowed up the lives of countless travelers. Under the swamp, there are graves filled with bones.

But for those who are familiar with the swamp terrain, it is a paradise, especially the hunters of Kurast, who like to use the swamp terrain to hunt here. If adventurers are familiar with it, they can also use the terrain to deal with monsters.

Therefore, there is no absolute in everything, but a double-edged sword, it just depends on whether you can use it.

We didn't plan to spend time getting familiar with the swamp terrain, so everyone happily agreed with the little ghost's suggestion of a detour. Before the rainy day came, a group of six people hurried on the road and spent more than four days. When they saw a magic sign on the intersection,

When the four big characters on the sign were "Skin-peeling Forest", we knew that we had finally reached our destination.

The terrain of Kurast Forest is different from what we have walked in the past. For example, in Lugaoyin, we must pass through the gravel wilderness before reaching the next area of ​​dry highland. Starting from the Spider Forest, we can either follow the gradual Spider Forest

-The route from the Huge Wetland to the Peeling Forest to the lower level of ancient Kurast can also go directly from the Spider Forest to the Peeling Forest.

But if you want to reach the lower level of ancient Gulast, you must go through the Spider Forest route. There may be other paths to take, but the Alliance has not discovered it yet and is too lazy to expend manpower and material resources to explore. This behavior is like knowing that it is open to the public.

You can pee with a chain, but you have to take off your entire pants to show that you are an extraordinary person walking an extraordinary path.

"These dwarfs seem to be stronger."

Two hours after entering the Skinning Forest, we encountered five small groups of dwarves (about fifty in number) led by a boss-level dwarf mage and an ordinary dwarf mage, and eliminated them without any risk.

Later, Vilas frowned slightly and said.

These dwarfs are stronger than the dwarfs in the spider forest in terms of speed and life. The five little mages who were already familiar with the strength of the dwarfs in the spider forest calculated the best attack combination to deal with them.

, they were a little too busy and were approached by the dwarfs several times. Fortunately, the little ghost's exorcism was launched in time, allowing them to eliminate these monsters without any harm.

"Of course. The dwarf in the Skinned Forest is an advanced monster of the dwarf in the Spider Forest. It's called the Skinned One. It should be stronger."

Sitting on Xiao Jia's back, I walked up from behind, responded with a smile, and looked at her like a princess.

"Calculating the most appropriate and economical means of attack is indeed an essential quality for a good adventurer team. However, you are still a little inexperienced in responding to emergencies, so you cannot be like other teams and be too calculating.

, I would rather spend more energy, but also have some room for improvement. Not to mention that the same kind of monsters will advance, even monsters at the same stage have slightly different health and attack power."

"..."

Ah, she turned her head away. This little princess turned her head away as if nothing had happened. It is rare for my master to teach me kindly, but she did not appreciate it. Is there really such an arrogant maid in this world?

Seeing Princess Sanwu, with her big and bright bright yellow eyes open, she suddenly turned her head to the side, completely ignoring my sight, I immediately gritted my teeth in anger, and countless ways of revenge flashed through my mind.

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Since it is called the Skinning Forest, even if I think with my toes, I know that the most monsters in this area are probably the Skinners. Even with such mental preparation, after hanging around here for a few days, I was still...

Shocked and stunned.

Now we are still in the outer layer of the Skinning Forest. Before we go deep, we have already encountered many dwarves (because Skinners are an advanced level of dwarves, adventurers are also called dwarves uniformly). Those who go out to hunt

The largest number of dwarfs we encountered in the Spider Forest was no more than two hundred.

But yesterday, we saw with our own eyes a group of thousands of dwarfs, densely packed and swarming, just like the overwhelming number of ants stacked up and down, sweeping across from a distance with an astonishing momentum.

Just one hunting team has such a large number. It is hard to believe how big the tribe that houses these dwarfs is. I am afraid there should be five or six thousand, or even tens of thousands. And if the leader of this tribe is a dwarf wizard,

If so, the mini-boss level will definitely not be able to escape, and if it is a dwarf, it is not surprising that it is at the demon king level.

I finally understand why when we first supported the elves, those dark wanderers were able to easily organize millions of dwarves. Most of them were probably gathered from this skinning forest.

We are only a few years away from supporting the elves' operation, but the number of these dwarves is now growing like an ocean. If I still had that dwarf token, I might be able to walk around the Skinning Forest with it.

, it wouldn’t be surprising to gather millions more.

It’s really a terrifying fecundity and vitality. For the first time, I understand so deeply why some people say that no matter how advanced the technology is, cockroaches and mice cannot be eradicated.

With the strength of the five Vilas, it is not a big problem to deal with dwarfs numbering less than two hundred. Especially after becoming familiar with the strength of these dwarfs, they can almost do no harm within a hundred.

If you encounter more than 300 of them at one time, your life will be in danger.

Fortunately, large groups of dwarf hunting teams are extremely powerful and can be seen and avoided from a distance. These large numbers of dwarfs usually target other hunting teams of dwarfs or even smaller ones.

Dwarf tribe.

Although there are other monster animals in the Skinning Forest that can be preyed on, the dwarves, as the largest force in the Skinning Forest, have also become the largest source of food. For dwarves who are not picky about food, there is no pressure at all to prey on the same kind.

Even when there is a shortage of food due to too fast reproduction and excessive numbers, dwarfs in the same tribe will kill each other and eat their own brothers and sisters to reduce the number and maximize living space.

Moreover, only through such continuous tribal killings, these dwarfs will gradually advance from ordinary dwarfs to bosses, elites, mini-bosses, and even demon kings. The leaders of each tribe have gone through many cruel tribes.

Excellent warriors who emerged from internal fratricidal competition for survival.

Along the way, we carefully avoided the larger dwarf hunting teams and tribes, and only selected some small teams, or attacked when two dwarf hunting teams were fighting each other, which felt a bit like a guerrilla attack.

This different fighting method from the past also allowed the five girls to gradually become more flexible in their thinking. Methods such as tracking, hiding, getting rid of, and setting up ambushes, which were rarely used before, were used more and more.

Especially the little ghost. This little saint originally likes to beat sap and bricks in the background. She is even more comfortable with this kind of tactics. Once, she encountered a group of dwarfs (more than two hundred in number, five in number).

(less than 100), it was this daring little saint who actually used her flying ability to deceive two dwarf hunting teams that were supposed to pass by each other. Finally, they met each other and started fighting, and then they were hidden aside.

Vilas and the others used magic to blast them and made delicious dumplings.

So I have always felt that it would be more appropriate for the little ghost to become a witch.

Because of the strength of the dwarves, there are fewer other monsters in the Skinned Forest, but it is not without them. For example, there are swamp dwellers who can live underwater. They look like a fiery red strange fish with four limbs, somewhat like a fishman but

Not exactly, but what is certain is that they look the same as fish-men... no, even more disgusting.

These swamp dwellers are obviously aquatic monsters, but they can use fire magic and can breathe fire bombs from their mouths. Their attacks include poison damage, which is also a big trouble. The most helpless thing is that if they feel that the enemy is invincible, they will rush to the front.

They jumped back into the water, and the adventurers were helpless. There was no way they could jump in with them. There was no advantage for adventurers in the water, and there might be piranhas underwater.

When I mentioned this, I couldn't help but feel proud, and excitedly told Vilas and the others about my great achievements in the past. When I first experienced it in Kurast, under the leadership of Feini, I was disgusted by these swamp residents.

Once, in a fit of rage, he immediately caught one with a fishing rod amidst Fini's impossible cries, and whipped it to death a hundred times.

This is wisdom. If you don’t try, how will you know that you can’t do it? Taking the opportunity, I explained this truth to Vilas and the others over and over again.

There is also a kind of monster that is not affected by dwarfs, called winged nightmares. As the name suggests, they have wings and can fly in the sky. Naturally, they are not afraid of dwarfs, and they often even feed on lone dwarfs.

These winged nightmares are actually those damn advanced scavenger monsters in the Lugaoin Desert, which are not much different from vultures. They just change their gray image. Their whole body of feathers, including their bare necks, are all

They are so green that they hide in groups in the trees and are really hard to detect.

These winged nightmares have high IQs and are even more hated than vultures. After discovering adventurers, they know how powerful they are and generally do not attack them personally. Instead, they wander in the air, croaking and screaming to attract the dwarf hunting party, and then take advantage of them.

When fighting dwarves with adventurers, he flapped his wings and swooped down, grabbed a lone dwarf and left.

Fortunately, Veras and the others are all mages, and they can be accurate at long range. These winged nightmares had just taken off, and before they had time to scream, they were all shot down by a fire bomb and ice arrow, and then melted in Linya's mixed ice flame explosion.

For ashes.

What makes me most dissatisfied is that these winged nightmares are like vultures. They have bald heads, necks, and pockets. They are very naked and don’t carry a single piece of clothing. With the current explosion rate of Vilas and the others, they can kill more than a dozen winged nightmares.

, I just couldn’t get a single gold coin from them.

I just don’t know what those three guys from Lal’s team should do when they encounter these winged nightmares. Thinking of this, I laughed unsympathetically.

A paladin and two barbarians are both masters who are not good at long-range attacks. No wonder when I chatted with them a while ago, I kept hearing them clamoring to sign several long-range attack mercenaries. I guess many of them were attracted by these.

Winged Nightmare has been depressing.

The number of dwarfs is so huge that along the way, we encounter one group almost every hour. Sometimes, even before we have finished fighting with one group of dwarfs, another group will follow.

Fortunately, these dwarfs also have a predatory relationship with each other, so the team of dwarfs that suddenly appeared treated Willas and the others on the field equally with the team of dwarves. To put it simply, they wanted to kill each other, and the battle between the two sides suddenly turned into a three-party melee.

Since the first time they encountered this kind of emergency situation, and ended up in a state of embarrassment due to lack of response, the five girls have started to care about it. They encountered it many times later, and they gradually became able to deal with it skillfully. The simplest

The best way is to withdraw from the battlefield and let the two teams of dwarves fight to the death, while you can take advantage of it, which is even easier.

Thanks to the sacrifices of batches of dwarfs, the experience of the five people also increased rapidly, almost twice as much as in the Spider Forest. In the ten days of the Skinning Forest, each of them rose by more than one level.

Less than a quarter of the experience left to advance to the next level.

Of course, the biggest gain is the increase in their combat experience and skills. As a bystander, I can feel this change the most, and I am very happy in my heart.

The bonfire was crackling and dancing at night, and the six people sat around the fire, smelling the aroma wafting from the pot on the bonfire, swallowing their saliva, and discussing absentmindedly.

After a day of fierce fighting, everyone is hungry and exhausted. Fighting is the most physically demanding activity, especially close combat. Even adventurers must replenish themselves by eating a lot and sleeping. This is why they are known as the kings of close combat.

The savages ate and drank and slept to death.

After everyone had eaten and drank enough, everyone rubbed their eyes and discussed tomorrow's itinerary. Veras took out a large sheepskin map.

The map above is very simple. It roughly marks the topographic location from the seaport of Kurast to Cui Fank (the city center of ancient Kurast), as well as some rivers, roads, and signs of special places. You can buy it at the Mages Guild.

, two hundred gold coins each is not too expensive for adventurers.

I bought this map when I first came to Kurast, but I never took it out to look at it at that time. After experiencing Lu Gaoyin’s Temple of Death, I have deeply understood the fact that the map

This kind of terrain is simply a hindrance to me who is always trying to get lost and find adventure.

Therefore, when Princess Sanwu followed me, I was very concerned about her memory. It should be noted that getting lost is one of the five events with the highest rate of adventures along with cliffs, valleys, caves, and lake bottoms. How could I let this happen?

What if the little princess ruined her own fortune?

Fortunately, this little one seemed to be able to sense my resentment, and she never said anything along the way. She allowed me to take the initiative to get lost, never left me, and served her attentively. On this point, I have to praise her for being a qualified maid.

But now it’s the experience of the five of them, so it’s not up to me to make the decision.
To be continued...