Age of Adepts

As the team slowly entered the poisonous swamp, everyone became more and more nervous.

There are soft and slippery water plants and duckweed under the feet, and it is difficult to stand on the slippery side, but it is still much easier than everyone expected.

A long rope more than 30 meters long, woven from tough rattan, strung everyone together, and the very end was tied around the waist of the old Yao Nong. And a silver knight with a long rope in one hand and a long sword in the other, followed closely behind the old Yao Nong, ready to lend a helping hand when appropriate.

After all, there are still a lot of scavengers and highly poisonous creatures living here, and there are also many unnamed monsters and ghosts, which are extremely difficult to deal with.

More than 20 paladin squads entered the swamp one after another, and the distance between each squad was less than ten meters, which was convenient for them to echo back and forth. In this way, the possibility of being attacked by witches is also reduced.

And the seven golden knights near Black Mountain City have gathered here at the same time, escorting Lena and the little witch who was just captured to walk in the middle of the team. With the number and strength of the team far exceeding that of the opponent, they were not worried that the witches would attack in large numbers, but worried that the opponent would run away and refuse to fight.

To be honest, wearing a full set of fine steel armor and trekking long distances in the mountains and jungles to hunt down those witches who are extremely flexible and cunning is by no means an easy and comfortable thing.

Catherine held a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, and followed the team through the swamp.

Looking around, I could barely see the five-meter range illuminated by the torch clearly. Beyond five meters, there was a foggy and white expanse. The mist floated around him, making everything around him seem to be covered with a thick layer of veil, making it difficult to see carefully.

The mist is rich in water vapor, which is intertwined with the flames burning on the torch, making strange crackling noises. And the road under his feet didn't look like a 'road' at all, just slippery footprints stepped on by his teammates in front of him.

And the latecomers don't need to identify the road, they just need to step on the footsteps of the former.

What would be the consequences of making mistakes in such a place? A young black iron knight told everyone about the danger here from his own experience.

Maybe it was because he just looked around, or maybe he slipped away mentally. The black iron knight stepped outside the 'grass road', and immediately tilted his body and fell into the muddy puddle.

And this is like lighting a striking torch, and the entire swamp that was triggered in an instant began to boil!

Visible to the naked eye, the mud in the foul-smelling pool stirred and rippled, as if some strange creature was digging and stirring underneath. And as the black iron knight kept struggling in the mud, the restlessness in the stinky mud became more and more obvious, and the clear water lines from far to near quickly approached the person who fell into the water.

"Everyone, pull him up hard..." The Silver Knight leading the team screamed, and the two closest to the Falling Water Knight grabbed the rope wrapped around their waists, exerted all their strength, and slammed him away like pulling a carrot. Pulled up from the foul-smelling mud that sank deeper and deeper.

The 'prey' disappeared suddenly, and the strange monsters hiding in the mud were furious one by one, and they got out of it one after another.

All of a sudden, a large group of old hags and slime monsters appeared in the stinky mud pool around the team.

From the appearance, the old hag is a kind of strange humanoid monster similar to a drowned corpse, with unkempt and dirty hair, dark and dark claws, and incomplete but sharp fangs. Their minions attack with terrible toxins, and they are even more dangerous in the swamp than ghouls.

As for the silt monster, it is a low-level monster made of pure stinky silt and strange substances. It has several special combat abilities such as 'silt missile', 'acid splash' and 'split multiplication'. The attack power may not be strong, but it is disgusting enough to kill people.

In the face of the swamp creatures coming in large numbers, the paladin squad is not afraid.

With the "Holy Light Bullets" raining out, every named swamp creature will be purified of its soul in this near-holy pure holy light, and then the old hag will turn into a rotting corpse , and the ooze monster will turn into a puddle of mud and die.

Seemingly aware of the difficulty of these intruders, the old hag and the silt monsters squeaked and yelled as they floated up and down in the swamp and mud, using the mud to avoid each other's holy bullets. In the long line that lasted 3 miles, many old hags had already charged onto the grassy road, fighting with the paladins in melee.

If the guys who broke into the poisonous swamp today were replaced by imperial soldiers, I am afraid that there would have been a large number of casualties and poisoners by now. However, the paladins with the blessing of the Holy Light have unparalleled lethality when facing these low-level monsters and strange monsters.

No matter how sharp the old hag's claws and fangs were, they couldn't penetrate the holy light barrier and the thick holy light armor outside the body of the paladins. However, their hard skin, which they thought was tough and injurious like old cowhide, was as thin as a piece of paper in front of the long swords of the paladins soaked in rich holy light.

Almost like chopping melons and vegetables, the paladins hacked and killed the old hags who rushed onto the grass road one by one, and completely purified their souls. However, facing the silt monster with several long-range skills, the paladins were a little embarrassed.

The silt missiles came through the air one by one, and when they hit the holy light barrier outside the paladin's body, they would explode into a ball of extremely foul-smelling silt. That smell, that content, almost broke down the spirits of every clean-spirited paladin, and his nose was tortured.

It would be too wasteful to deal with a group of low-level monsters with holy light slash and holy seal sanctions, so the cheap holy light bullets rained down on the silt monsters. How could the little ooze monsters withstand the purification of the holy light? One by one, the ooze monsters exploded silently.

However, before the smiles on the faces of the paladins rose, the rotten mud-like body in the distance unexpectedly condensed again, splitting into three slightly smaller silt monsters.

The next moment, denser silt missiles and acid splashes flew over.

What makes the paladins feel more broken is that a normal ooze monster can split twice, and each individual can split into three smaller ooze monsters. In other words, it takes nine full kills to completely kill an ordinary silt monster.

Before that, these silt monsters were already enough to completely cover the area where the paladins were located with the foul-smelling silt and the strange strong acid brewed in their bodies.

For a moment, the entire paladin team was enveloped by a horrible stench that pierced the brain!

All the paladins were fighting and vomiting desperately at the same time, the funny and evil scene was simply unbearable.

However, the strength of the paladin team has far surpassed these strange monsters and monsters in front of them. Therefore, although the scene was a bit out of control, the paladin team has not experienced any combat attrition so far.

Whether it's the old hag's toxin attack or the ooze monster's acid spray, some damage has not yet accumulated on the paladin's body to become visible to the naked eye, before being purified by brilliant and holy rays of light.

The only pity is that the holy light can purify toxins and acid, but it can't purify the stench!

Therefore, the paladins who fell one by one on the battlefield did not have any injuries on their bodies, but were simply knocked down by the stench.

Catherine was in the long line, silently chanting words of praise to the holy and great Holy Light, and fired holy light bullets in her hands, swaying and smashing towards the swaying figure in the mist.

Her face was pale and she could hardly breathe.

The surface of the water, the grass, and myself were covered with sticky, slippery, disgusting acid. This kind of 'body fluid' that has been bred in the slime monster for a long time no matter where it falls, it will emit a bright green smoke, which smells like the dirty and dirty 'waste' in the sewer that has been fully drained. Horrible smell formed after simmering fermentation.

Catherine just took a sniff, and threw up all the contents of her stomach, and finally, even the acid in the stomach and intestines.

Even though the paladins vomited limply, they were still fighting bravely... no, slaughtering!

Batches of old hags and ooze monsters rushed out of the mist on both sides of the grass road, and fell under the holy swords of the paladins, screaming and screaming.

Although the battle can be called 'tragic', the paladin team strangely had no casualties!

The paladin team that stretched for 3 miles all stopped, trying hard to purify this group of monsters and strange creatures. However, at the moment when they were fighting hard, huge monitor lizards suddenly emerged from the swamp.

As a series of earth-yellow petrified rays shot out from the strange pupils of the swamp monitor lizard, several haggard black iron knights who couldn't defend themselves were struck and instantly paralyzed on the spot.

Visible to the naked eye, a layer of bluish-gray spread rapidly on their skin. Soon, not to mention Littlefinger, even the eyeballs of the paladin who had been recruited suddenly froze, turning into a hard stone statue.

The swamp monitor lizard rushed forward, bit the petrified paladin, turned around and dragged them into the swamp.

So the next moment, the entire swamp was tumbling with muddy waves, splashing black water, and the swarming swamp creatures frantically biting the paladin, dragging him to the bottom of the deeper quagmire.

As for the long rope tied to the paladin's body, it was bitten off in one bite, and it could no longer be used as a helping hand.

"asshole……"

Some paladins who witnessed this scene were furious, brandishing their swords and rushing into the swamp to fight with the swamp creatures.

But it's a pity that with their strength on land, it's not a problem for a black iron knight to deal with seven or eight old hags. But in this special environment, two or three old hags can make them out of breath.

Relying on the parasitic monsters like the swamp monitor lizard, the swamp creatures actually partially broke through the defense of the paladins, dragging each of the paladins into the impenetrable swamp.

Almost instantly, the paladin team suffered double-digit casualties!