Chapter 131 Road Encounter
"How are you?"
"I'm fine." Zhao Mai replied. As long as you don't meditate and transform naturally, the body can hold on. At least this is what Wadsworth guaranteed him. The natural force, whether sweet or bitter, can be beneficial to the body - but it's not necessarily the spirit. Nature has its own will, and Atas's nature is filled with angry will.
"I know you, you don't look very good." Butcher said in a low voice: "These people are robbers, but their equipment is average and their physical fitness is not very good. I'm sure I can just get over half of it, and you just need to hold on to the other half. I can turn around and get rid of them."
"No, we can't turn against each other until we have to. We still need to find a way to a relatively safe city." Zhao Mai said: "And you have to be careful of their psychic powers, a spell that controls emotions and creates matter."
"All these people are warlocks?" Butcher was a little surprised.
"The poorer and more remote the countryside, the more fierce the people there may be. And here are deserts and wilderness, so they are naturally better." Zhao Mai shook his head and said, "Speak less, they may have the ability to interpret our common words."
Butcher closed his mouth and leaned against the cave wall to rest. No one would walk outside during this period from near noon to before sunset, so everyone was concentrated in the cave. As long as the sunset appeared, they would set out, go west and north along the mountain road, cross the entire mountain range, and then look for the road leading to the city of Tyr.
Zhao Mai called the reserved grain over, let it lie down, and then stroked its body with his hands. The natural force came out of Zhao Mai's palm and slowly penetrated into the puppy's body. "Relax, my brother." Zhao Mai whispered: "You have to adapt to the environment here, you have to grow."
Druids can use their natural force to strengthen the abilities of animal partners, such as improving their strength, agility, gaining better defense capabilities, and affinity for druid spells. People say that animal partners are extensions of druid limbs, and many reinforcement spells that can only be cast on themselves can also act on animal partners, which is also relying on this affinity. However, what Zhao Mai needs most now is that the reserve grain can adapt to the water and soil. It requires better soles of feet to tolerate the temperature of the ground, and it also needs better breathing habits to protect the moisture in the body.
The same is true for Xiaohua, and Zhao Mai also distributed the natural force to her. These force had been absorbed by him, stripping away the anger, leaving only the breath of the natural environment. It is a very long process to use the force to transform creatures, but as long as you persist, you can get good results. As people often say, when you go to a new place, drink local tea and eat local tofu, you can reduce the situation of being unacceptable to the local environment. In fact, the same principle is the same.
The flowing force naturally attracted the attention of the grandfather, and he couldn't help but be more curious about the identity of the two people. Opposite to Mount Megilot is a huge sea of sand, with no people at all and no oasis at all. Where did these two people come from? There are extremely tiny grains of salt in the sand that falls on them, which can only be stained in the depths of the sea of sand.
All-metal weapons, strange magical abilities, and the big body. How much food should I use to feed such a strong slave, and how can I make such a force obey orders? "Grandpa" gradually got an idea. Even if I had to eat these two people, I could not do it myself. Remember there is a place in the mountains, as long as it was done secretly, maybe the monsters there could help.
In the evening, everyone started to set out and headed north along the rugged mountain road. This is a path that only poachers, escaped slaves and robbers knew about, and there were many trap mechanisms in the middle. However, since the "Grandpa" and his group of people discovered this road, after careful exploration, they have figured out the situation on the road, so naturally they are not afraid of the mechanism being trapped.
Zhao Mai and his group walked in the middle of the front of the team, seemingly relaxed, but in fact they were full of vigilance. Since they set off on the road, roars kept coming from the mountains, and large stones fell from the top of the mountain to the deep valley, stirring up dust like clouds and sounds like thunder. Small dust rolled down the slope, and soon brought up a large amount of loose soil and rocks, forming a surging rock stream with a momentum. The trees that originally grabbed the gaps in the mountain walls lost their vitality and were buried underground.
This is the result of extracting the natural force, taking away the final support in the already barren area. Now it is just the beginning, and the collapse here will gradually intensify, and even the entire mountain may become a dune. This is how all deserts in Atas come from the blue ocean, the verdant forest to the brown dunes. The powerful magic has also changed the color of the sun several times, from the original golden color to the current red color, and even changed color again in the future. Compared with these great and terrifying forces, what Zhao Mai used is just a drop in the ocean.
Can this little power play a role in the major events in Tyr City? Zhao Mai is actually asking himself this question. As a bystander and as a participant, the terror of the Witch King is not a legend, nor is it as harmful as the lies he used to fool these sand thieves. Indeed, the benefits gained by following the rebels are greater, but who can guarantee that the future will be the one he knows? If the slaves fail, what if he fails with the slaves?
A sharp whistle interrupted his thoughts, and the team slowed down. The white-robed guest held the weapon in his hand and looked nervously at the front. Not far away was a valley, where the road would turn a sharp turn, and then lead to an open platform on the hillside. In one corner of the platform, there was a mountain wall that would seep out water at night, enough for everyone to replenish water. But now, I don’t know why the sound of the scorpion lion beast came from? Could it be that a monster occupied the platform? But from the sound, the scream just now implied the warning. The scorpion lion was warning, and does it have its owner?
"What a panic? The screaming scorpion lion shows that he is in a bad state, timid, or he has not been fully domesticated, and he cannot exert his combat effectiveness." The grandfather waved the stone hammer and pulled one of his "sons". "Go ahead and see who stole our place. Idukoin, who is guarding the water source here, is dead or alive!"
There is indeed a group of scorpion lions in the valley, which has occupied a shaded cave for a long time, but not nearby. When encountering danger, the grandfather will lead the enemy to fight with the scorpion lion beast and make profits from it. This time he also planned to frame two visitors from the sand sea like this, but he did not expect that a scorpion lion would run out, which would definitely arouse the alertness of the two people. Although scorpion lions love to clean, their caves still have some characteristics, and you will not miss it if you are careful.
"Son" turned the valley and a stone spear pierced his chest. The grandfather looked at the narrow path behind him. Now his only choice was to charge! "Son" was severely injured and fell off the cliff with a crooked body. During the fall, he was still trying to pull the stone spear out in vain. "Grandfather" waved his hand, and all the white-robed guests rushed up.
Zhao Mai also waved his hand and followed Butcher forward.
Chapter completed!