Such a large proportion of half-elves and elves, coupled with their far longer life spans than humans, is destined to determine that both living customs and most political decisions in this valley are in the hands of elves and half-elves rather than humans.
Therefore, people here, whether they are elves, half-elves, or humans, all live in elf-style tree towers and tree houses. Most of the buildings are far away from the ground. When the place is flooded by flooding lakes and rivers, it will naturally It will not be affected. On the contrary, there is a unique scene of people living in the house and fish swimming at their feet. Many half-elves or humans with leisurely elegance throw out their fishing rods and start fishing directly in front of their homes. However, unless Forced by hunger, otherwise they would fish with straight hooks. Fishing is not their purpose. Their fun lies in cultivating themselves and playing with natural creatures. This is a way of life that non-residents of deep forest valleys cannot understand.
Only the ordinary residents of the Deep Forest Valley are leisurely and contented. The non-ordinary residents of the Deep Forest Valley will feel as if they are facing a powerful enemy at this time.
The lord of Deep Forest Valley, Selmen Urras, will inevitably lead the elite Deep Forest Swords of Deep Forest Valley with his own think tank, magic instructor, and the famous Deep Forest Valley prophet Master Lawuntates, and arrive in the deep forest north of the Glarim River. A place that even ordinary residents of the Deep Forest Valley rarely visit - the Black Prison.
This is a long black rift directly carved in the dense forest. The charred and twisted trees are its mark. According to the detection of the Elf King's Court and the Valley Mages, this rift was once a prison, and a leader was imprisoned inside. A powerful evil god of decay and decay.
However, no one has yet figured out whether it is the early form of the fallen and corrupt god, or another evil existence.
It is also unclear whether the evil one is still imprisoned in the prison, because the Elf Royal Court successively sent several powerful exploration teams into this bottomless crack, all led by those powerful quasi-legends and legends. Team.
These exploratory teams either had no idea where they were going, no one alive or dead, even complete resurrection and wishing spells were useless to them, or a very small number of strong people had withdrawn, and without exception, they were all trapped in a trap. In a state of madness, he will kill everything around him, including his own relatives.
The only thing that is certain now is that the Black Prison is much deeper than seen, and is connected to evil souls or dark gods, which will pollute the spirit of those who enter.
The creatures that wander around this forest tend to fall into a crazy killing state if they stay here for a long time.
For this reason, Deep Forest Valley had to set up an isolation zone here, send people to drive away those forest creatures, and prohibit them from entering.
Over time, those forest creatures will naturally avoid this place.
However, this method is not easy to use every time during the rainy season. The spreading river water will follow the terrain and arrive here, forming a huge temporary river channel, pouring the river water into the black prison, and these river water will naturally bring a large amount of water creatures.
This black crack is like a greedy monster mouth. No matter how much river water and aquatic creatures it swallows, it will never be satisfied. It will never fill up, making people wonder whether it is directly connected to hell.
It's impossible to connect to hell, but it's possible to connect to an underdark area that's huge and beyond imagination.
The elites of the Deep Forest Valley are stationed here, not to prevent the flooding of the river, but to prevent the indescribable terrifying existence from jumping out.
Fortunately, just like its name, this place is a huge prison that has always been accessible but not accessible.
If it were a short-lived and forgetful race like humans, they would probably have ignored this place long ago.
But elves and half-elves with long memories are different. Many warriors in the Sword of the Deep Forest were witnesses of the exploratory team sent by the Elf Court. They witnessed with their own eyes the crazy appearance of the people who returned from it. At the same time, they were stationed in the dark all year round. The experience of being in prison also let them know how weird this place is, and the erosion of the spirit is invisible and invisible.
Once you stay here for a long time, you often start to become irritable, paranoid, suspicious, anxious, etc.
Therefore, they adopt a rotating duty here. The same soldier's rotation time here must not exceed three months a year, and a mental evaluation will be conducted every ten days. Once a change in mental state is found, he will be transferred out of this place immediately. No more rotations here.
It is precisely because of the above reasons that even if there is no abnormality in the Black Prison for many years, Deep Forest Valley maintains sufficient vigilance from top to bottom and does not dare to be careless at all.
This conscientious spirit allowed them to immediately notice the strange situation coming to the Black Prison.
"What it is?"
"That's a dark area created by magic."
"Something is wrong, something is very wrong. There is a powerful dark aura in the darkness. Some evil beings want to enter the dark prison. Hurry up and report it to the lord and the prophet."
"The mage prepared the daylight spell to tear open the darkness to see what was hidden inside. It turned out that even at night, he was covered with darkness."
Elves and half-elves have low-light and dim vision. They can see very far even on a moonless night, let alone the current moonlight.
A darkness that they could not see through surged on the temporary river. Only the dark area formed by magic could explain it.
boom! boom! boom!
As the daylight spells were struck one by one, gaps were torn open in the deep darkness, allowing everyone to see clearly what was going on inside.
"What the hell is this?"
"Is this a spider drow? Or a pile of corpses?"
"It's definitely not a spider drow. The size of this thing is at least as big as that of an ancient dragon. It has a super giant size. Even a spider drow that uses the giant transformation technique will not become so big."
"The undead, these are the undead made up of countless corpses."
"Stop it, stop it quickly, don't let it get close to the Black Prison. No one knows what kind of changes this thing will bring to this place after entering the Black Prison."
With the light created by the daylight technique, after seeing the scene clearly, these Sword of the Deep Forest warriors felt that their vision and spirit were greatly polluted.
The existence inside completely broke their cognition. Its mere existence was a kind of blasphemy against nature, not to mention the substantial darkness and evil that emanated from it.
The darkness emanating around it was not intentional, but was inherent. Its effectiveness far exceeded ordinary darkness spells. The daylight spell, which originally lasted in minutes, only lasted for tens of seconds around it. He was once again overwhelmed by the incoming darkness.
The warriors of the Sword of the Deep Forest did not hesitate to shoot sharp arrows at the indescribable evil thing. Although the opponent had been shrouded in darkness again, these warriors were full of absolute confidence in their archery skills. At a glance, one can accurately predict its current location.
Compared with swordsmanship, archery is what they are best at. The team was originally named the Sword of the Deep Forest Valley, which means that they are the swords of the Deep Forest Valley, wielded to protect the Deep Forest Valley, not in the name of their own characteristics.
A large number of arrows fell into the darkness, as unresponsive as stones sinking into the sea.
The speed of darkness' advancement suddenly increased, which meant that the terrifying monster inside was speeding up.
"All warriors, move away. Don't be sucked into the darkness." An old and powerful voice came from afar, followed by the sound of a spell being cast, "Sun Flame Explosion."
Eighth ring spell.
The deadly nemesis of dark creatures and the undead.
Blazing white light exploded silently in the deepest part of the darkness.
The positive energy used by the eighth-circle spell is different from that of the fourth-circle daylight spell.
The raging positive energy completely tore open the darkness of more than fifty meters in diameter, completely exposing the indescribable object hidden under the darkness, allowing everyone to see her whole face.
It was an existence as dark as ink, resembling a female spider drow, but her size was so astonishing. Just the part exposed above the river was enough to rival an ancient dragon, let alone the one hidden under the river. That part, they were blind men touching the elephant before, and they saw only part of it.
It's just that what she has is not a blended body, but there are traces of patchwork all over her body, with countless monster bodies embedded in it.
The Yangyan explosion, which is very lethal to ordinary undead, falls on it, but its power is quite average, because the opponent's size is really terrifying.
The terrifying positive energy shock wave did peel off several layers of black mist and corpses from it, but it was like an onion piled up with countless corpses, peeling off one layer and another, layer upon layer, no one could I don't know how many layers it has. Judging from the opponent's situation, this attack didn't hurt it at all.
Sometimes, quantity alone has an absolute advantage.
When the impact of the Yangyan Explosion passed, countless black mist poured out from the huge body, covering it again, and the speed of running towards the black prison reached an extreme.
"Back away, everyone, back away." Before Master Lawuntatz could cast his spell again, he flew as fast as possible away from this terrifying monster.
The darkness that shrouded this monster was actually sucked into the body by it, just like a person's inhalation. The next moment, like a porcupine, it shot out a black weapon from its body. Arrows are made purely of negative energy.
This kind of sharp arrows is different from those shot by the warriors in the deep forest valley. Rather than being said to be sharp arrows, they are more suitable as siege crossbow arrows. They are thick and long, and the number is so terrifying. There are giant black arrows in all directions. The sound of crossbows whizzing.
boom! boom! boom!
Even though they were formed by condensation of negative energy, the lethality of these giant crossbow arrows was quite terrifying. Even trees as thick as an adult's thigh could be directly broken by the impact. Several deep forest valley warriors who failed to evade in time were bombarded on the spot. Not to mention two knots, the soul consciousness was directly impacted from the body by the negative energy, eroded by the negative energy at a speed visible to the naked eye, and transformed into an immortal shadow on the spot.
The only good thing is that this kind of giant crossbow arrows are not really mechanically fired. In addition, the shooting volume is relatively large, so the overall range is not far, only less than a hundred meters. After exceeding a hundred meters, those giant arrows will start again. It disintegrated and turned into negative energy, following the terrifying monster without a trace, turning into the darkness around it again.
This terrifying existence has no intention of killing all these deep forest valley warriors. Its goal has been clear from beginning to end. Entering the black prison, it would have been a bit too painful if it hadn't been for Master Lauentatz's sunfire blast. , I guess I was too lazy to even take action. The counterattack just now was mainly to force back the powerful mage, and those deep forest valley warriors were all taken along.
In the short time they were forced to retreat, the opponent had already taken advantage of the situation and rushed into the black prison.
Ouch! ! !
A howl that was not like a human voice came out from the body of that terrifying existence, and countless howls followed, spreading to the deepest part of the black prison over and over again.
I don’t know if there are really monsters responding, or if those howls are reverberating in the narrow space of the black prison.
The Deep Forest Valley warriors standing on the edge of the black prison didn't know whether they really saw it or just an illusion. The black mist in the black prison was constantly surging, seeming to be integrated with the monster, and seemed to be responding. he.
"Prophet, what was that just now?" A half-elf who looked like he was only in his early thirties asked on his Pegasus mount and flew to Lauentetz's side.
This person is the lord of Deep Forest Valley, Selmen Ulas. Even though he looks like he is only in his early thirties, his actual age is probably older than an average human's lifetime, because as the lord of Deep Forest Valley, he has already It's more than thirty years old.
The old mage Lawentetz, who claimed to be omniscient, did not give an answer immediately this time. A puzzled look appeared on his old face and he said: "The other party must be an undead, but I have never heard of this species. It looks a bit like a Corpse Crab, and a bit like a Corpse Grave Demon, but neither its appearance nor its abilities are very similar."
"Could this be the latest war tool developed by a powerful necromancer?" Selmen took the opportunity to guess.
"This is the only way to explain it, but a necromancer who can create such a terrifying tool of undead warfare is definitely not an ordinary person. I have never heard of such a terrifying existence in our valley." Launtates frowned. I thought about the legendary necromancers that I was familiar with, but none of them matched the number.
"We can ignore his origins for the time being. What is the purpose of this thing entering the black prison? What should we do now?" This is what Selemen is most worried about.
This terrifying undead of unknown origin has shown its ability to conquer cities and territories, and now it has entered a dark prison where everything is unknown to them.
This is equivalent to stacking two layers of BUFF. It is definitely not as simple as one plus one equals two. It directly changes the whole situation from disaster level to hell disaster level.
Once it explodes, the deep forest valley will be the first to bear the brunt. If you are not careful, it will be blown up into ashes and no bones will be left.
"This matter has gone beyond the scope of our ability to solve it on our own. We immediately sent out an early warning to the surrounding valleys and asked for help from the Elf King's Court." Lawuntates also immediately realized the seriousness of the situation and put forward a request for help.
Their suggestions were not unreasonable, and the decisions they made were not unpleasant.
But the speed of development of the entire situation was completely beyond their expectations.
There was a terrifying loud noise from the black prison, as if something collapsed, and then there was the sound of countless rushing water, as if countless creatures were swimming upstream along the temporary river below.
The old mage Lawentetz suddenly changed his color, and without thinking, he faced the black prison and cast a daylight spell to expand his magic expertise.
The daylight technique, which greatly expanded the coverage area, immediately tore apart the darkness shrouding the black prison, revealing the situation below in detail.
They heard it right. There were indeed a large number of creatures swimming upstream, and they were extremely ferocious ones. A large number of blood flowers bloomed in the rapid river, and plump salmon floated with their bellies turned over. When he came up, he was instantly taken into the depths of the black prison by the rushing river water.
The creatures in the water were not hunting, but simply killing. Not only salmon, but all kinds of aquatic creatures soon floated up.
"Their wounds are wrong. Not all of them are bite marks, but also stab wounds from weapons. The other party is not purely a beast, but a creature that can use weapons." Selemen noticed from the corpses of those aquatic creatures at a glance , got enough information, "shoot the arrow, shoot the arrow, shoot the arrow."
But this piece of information alone is not enough, because there are too many possibilities. It may be an aquatic intelligent creature, it may be an amphibious intelligent creature, or it may be a terrestrial creature that is good at swimming. Considering that the one who got in earlier was an undead, It is possible for the opponent to recruit a bunch of undead that can swim.
The simplest way is to kill one and let him float up to identify him.
Without Selmen's order, hundreds of sharp arrows were shot out from the dense forests on both sides of the bank.
Their archery skills were not imprecise. Their arrows were aimed at the undulating areas, but they achieved zero results. Most of the damage caused by the arrows was blocked by the river water.
This is the embarrassment of land-based shooting weapons against aquatic creatures. The weak and invisible water flow is the best shield, and those aquatic creatures are very good at taking advantage of this.
But not only did they have an excellent marksman, they also had a mage, a powerful and experienced mage who quickly came up with a brilliant countermeasure.
With a spell thrown down, a section of the river that was twenty meters long and wide, and even the creatures in the water belt floated up and fell into the air.
The seventh-level magic anti-gravity.
Can make all creatures in the shrouded area in an anti-gravity state.
After just a few seconds of falling, the creatures in the water were basically disconnected from the water, exposing these killers hidden under the water.
These monsters have strong bodies that are very similar to dwarves. They are covered with dense fish scales the size of gold coins. Both their legs and hands are extremely thick, but a little shorter. However, the structure of their feet is very different from that of humans. They are not huge feet. , but like amphibians like frogs, they have giant webbed feet.
But the most distinctive thing is their heads, which are huge fish heads covered with sharp teeth like sharks. The black and yellow eyes are naturally located on both sides of the head. If you want to see things in the water, , naturally have superiority, but on land, they will become cross-eyed, unconsciously giving people a sense of stupidity, but if anyone believes in this feeling, then he is usually not far from death. Because this is a highly intelligent amphibious aquatic monster called Kuo Tao.
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