The Wizarding Age

The Black Forest under the night is never peaceful.

In the deep and sneaky darkness, unpredictable dangers lurk everywhere.

Jungle beasts that go out to hunt at night, vampire vines camouflaged in vines, sour swamps that look like grass but are actually the habitat of ugly witches, and fierce predators that wander in the depths of the forest like ghosts...

If you add those legendary polluters, monsters and demons, these things together form a real wild world with rich species and resources - the Black Forest.

60 kilometers north of the Flame Throne Witch Tower, this is a territory occupied by the Yabei Beemen.

The night is deep.

But here, it is still a tense and busy scene.

Teams of bee warriors holding poisoned spears and bows and arrows flap their wings in and out of the forest, many of them holding the prey of this trip in their hands. Most of them are common jungle creatures such as horned sheep, coyotes, and apes. From time to time, you can also see violent apes, scavengers, and human mercenaries.

Under normal circumstances, each bee team consists of fifteen bee warriors.

According to a certain pattern, they travel through the black forest within thirty miles of the nest, carefully and meticulously searching for prey to hunt. Whenever they encounter jungle beasts or other monsters that come out to hunt, it means that a battle is inevitable.

Precisely because of their terrible aggressiveness, these bee teams returning to the nest are almost not full, and the worst team even has only four bee warriors who can return. But without exception, they all brought back some spoils of war.

The nest of the Yabei bee is built in a dense forest. It is a strange witchcraft building similar to a beehive.

This is also the delivery room of the bee queen, a special space for her to produce and cultivate the tribe.

Those ordinary beemen are not qualified to enter the hive. Only some specially selected beemen attendants can gather around the queen, serve her food all the time, and take good care of the newly hatched bee eggs.

The incubation period of beemen is very short. It only takes seven days for a bee egg to hatch into a beeman warrior from birth. So as long as there is enough food, a beehive can produce beeman warriors at an explosive speed.

According to the wizard's power classification method, the power of ordinary beeman warriors is only 0.7 points. But don't look at their individual strength. As long as a certain number is gathered, their danger will rise sharply.

They have wings to fly, and they have superb poison-quenching skills. They can use bows and arrows to launch long-range attacks, and they can also hold up tridents to launch dive attacks in close combat. These advantages are stacked together, plus a steady number of them. Once the Yabei beemen gain a foothold, they can quickly become the overlords of the nearby mountains and forests.

In this vast black forest, except for the monsters with thick skin and strong combat power such as giant elephants and wyverns, which they dare not provoke, the rest of the creatures and monsters are almost on the prey list of the Abe bee people.

Therefore, during the time when Grimm left the Flame Throne, the number of Abe bee people, who were temporarily not controlled by natural enemies, expanded rapidly at an explosive speed. And their disorderly growth undoubtedly greatly threatened the peripheral forces that had just been established around the Flame Throne.

In just seven or eight days, Gargamel had received news of the death of two foreign apprentices and more than a dozen mercenaries. For a time, the area of ​​30 to 40 miles around the Abe bee nest was designated as an extremely dangerous area by the Flame Throne, and the Wu Tower even issued a ban on approaching this area.

However, the appearance of an overly powerful monster group around the Flame Throne was not a good thing in any way. So on the one hand, they ordered mercenaries and low-level apprentices to be forbidden to approach the hunting area of ​​the Yabei Beemen. On the other hand, Wuta also issued a clearing mission internally, calling on high-level apprentices to clean up these disordered monsters in a planned manner.

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A skirmish had just ended near a narrow mountain stream.

A lone red flame tiger with a body length of 3 meters and a weight of 300 kilograms became the prey of the beemen's hunting team.

The dead red flame tiger lay motionless on the grass in the forest, with black short arrows piercing its bright yellow body covered with red magic patterns, and even two broken spears on its neck.

The weak strength of the beemen warriors was not enough to kill the violent red flame tiger, but the poison on their weapons could. So the unlucky lone red flame tiger in front of him was poisoned to death alive!

However, the violent fireballs spewed by the red flame tiger also caused great damage to the bee-man predator team. Four bee-man warriors were blown to pieces because they could not dodge in time, and three bee-man warriors died from the red flame tiger's terrifying bite and long flame tail when they dived to attack.

The remaining eight bee-man warriors also suffered some fire damage to a certain extent, but this did not prevent them from happily cutting the body of the red flame tiger and then transporting the tiger meat back in batches.

This kind of monster flesh and blood with a strong elemental breath is a great tonic and one of the favorite foods of the bee queen.

However, just as they were busy surrounding the red flame tiger corpse, a sound came from the forest not far away, and a humanoid creature hidden in a thick black robe appeared in the bee-man warrior's field of vision.

Human!

The other party is not only a human, but also the queen's favorite human spellcaster!

Because in this forest, only those so-called wizard apprentices dare to run around in black robes.

The bee-man warriors were overjoyed.

Buzz buzz buzz...

The bee-like wings flapped loudly.

The eight bee warriors threw away the bloody debris in their hands, grabbed their spears, and instantly flew into the air. In order to avoid possible witchcraft attacks by the human apprentices, several bee warriors spread out in all directions, using the cover of dense branches and vines to quickly approach the black-robed humanoid.

What surprised them was that the black-robed humanoid didn't try to escape, but raised his head slightly. A pair of strange green eyes shined from the shadow of the hood, scanning the bee-man coldly.

Although they felt that the situation was a bit strange, the bee warriors still attacked the enemy according to the fixed procedure.

The first wave of attacks was of course the semi-long-range poison-quenching bows and arrows.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh...

Eight poisonous arrows passed through the gaps between the trees and shot into the black-robed humanoid as densely as locusts.

The opponent had no intention of evading, nor did he use any defensive magic. He just stood there and let the poisonous arrows hit him. Judging from the dull sound of the poisonous arrow entering the body, the opponent did not wear any metal armor under his black robe.

As a result, the eight bee warriors became even more excited, rapidly approaching while firing arrows continuously. When they rushed to less than ten steps away from the black-robed figure, they dropped their long bows one by one and swooped down with three-pronged spears in their hands.

When the eight spears were inserted into the opponent's body with a harsh friction sound, the black-robed figure suddenly erupted with a strange and sharp hiss. The entire body suddenly exploded into black beetles that filled the sky, instantly drowning the eight bee warriors in the terrifying tide of insects.

This was the first time that the bee warriors encountered such a terrifying counterattack. They screamed in horror and tried to pull themselves up again, but their heads, faces, bodies, legs, and even the translucent wings were covered with a layer of strange things. black beetle.

What made them even more frightened was the strange rustling sound that was as dense as spring silkworms gnawing mulberries, and the terrible pain emanating from their limbs and bones.

A few strong bee warriors barely flapped their wings and flew up, but because they couldn't see, they all hit the horizontal branches and fell down.

The bee warriors struggled and fought back crazily... Many black beetles the size of soybeans were crushed into blood paste and poisoned into black water, but the remaining number was still enough to kill these eight beetles without other witchcraft abilities. Unlucky guy.

Soon, the forest returned to silence.

There was only a creepy and strange rustling sound left in the quiet and deep dark forest.

After a while, the black beetles that had feasted gathered together again and re-condensed into the appearance of Billis.

The wizard's apprentice, who had won a great victory in the first battle, stood quietly in the blood on the ground, silently enjoying the comfortable feeling of sweet blood rushing through his body.

Although the Abe Bee is a kind of monster, its appearance is a mixture of bees and elves, and it is also a humanoid monster. In the past, with Bliss's character, he would never have done such a cruel act of eating the opponent alive.

But today, after merging with the mutated insect mother, everything in front of me has become so natural and no longer strange!

This is my ideal world!

Ever since the fusion was successful, Bliss' violent and bloodthirsty nature has been strongly suppressed by Grim. Although he had secretly preyed on a lot of 'blood food', those weak humans could not bring him much evolutionary energy at all.

In comparison, monsters imbued with elemental power are the most suitable as food!

Of course, those sweet and delicious human apprentices are also walking delicacies. However, Master Grim had issued a strict order that he could not feed on wizards and apprentices without permission. Therefore, Bilisi could only forcefully suppress the urge to live in the witch tower and hunt for prey. Under the assignment of his master, he came here to cause trouble for the Yabeis.

After finishing eating, Bliss continued to move deeper into the jungle with heavy and staggering steps. Behind him, dense swarms of insects were wrapped in scattered pieces of flesh and blood, following him closely like loyal hounds.

Now Bliss has barely completed the evolution of the insect body and has an undead insect body, but none of the mutant beetles to fight for him have been cultivated yet. Such him is undoubtedly extremely weak. Once he encountered those powerful monster leaders, he had no choice but to turn around and run for his life.

So, it’s time to find a place to build a bug nest! chapter;