The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 18 The Dog Demon from the Deep Jungle

Rama misses his hometown very much, the air is full of filth, billowing smoke, hot magma flows everywhere, and the cruel and evil Burning Realm.It's a pity that he has to stay in the main material world, which makes him feel extremely uncomfortable. This is the fate and trial of Rama's race. Any young dog devil individual must leave the burning world and go to a relatively mild plane , as a pure killing race, they gain strength by constantly killing and fighting, devouring the flesh and vitality of the weak (especially humanoid creatures) to grow. When the barghests are fully grown and mature, they return to their hometown .

As a barghest that was about to mature, Rama was extremely tall and strong, with a hideous and terrifying appearance. Standing up, he looked like the ugliest blue goblin enlarged to a height of six feet.This evil demon occupies one of the most fertile and beautiful places in the Hidden Forest, a lake formed by a hot spring; the thick snow makes the whole land barren, only a few sulfur hot springs deep in the forest are still green, attracting A large number of hungry animals and monsters came to look for food in the winter. These surviving lives provided Rama with sufficient blood food, and the faint sulfur smell from the hot spring made him even more intoxicated. Aside from killing and eating, Grumpy Prime's greatest pleasure and enjoyment.

Rama has always thought that he has the intelligence and caution that other dog demons do not have, and is proud of it. Although it seems more timid and cowardly, whenever a strange and powerful presence appears near the lair, it always makes Lama feel uneasy. A few years ago, the death of two fellows who came to the main material plane earlier made him glad that he had understood and re-confirmed a truth early on - "The devil who came up has long since returned to eternity."

Two arrogant guys hunted humans unscrupulously near Sangbada in the Northland, attracting the attention of powerful beings in the main material world, and were killed by people (a small number of barghests said they were actually dark elves) The old nest served the pot.When every clansman or clan demon mentioned this matter, they would laugh at the stupidity, arrogance and ignorance of the barghest brothers who violated the tradition of trials.The unwritten tradition of the barghest juvenile trial: each trial barrog should try not to gather in the same place with the same kind; when killing, adopt the method of ambush and sneak attack instead of directly attacking, and avoid the attention of the original creatures around.

Rama is an absolute supporter of the trial tradition. He chose the trial area in the hidden forest in the barbaric and ignorant frontier, far away from the prosperous place of human beings.When he was still relatively weak, Rama pretended to be a wandering goblin and infiltrated a goblin tribe, secretly hunting down the goblins and other creatures that were alone in the hostile tribe or in the tribe.When Rama gradually matured, his physique became stronger and taller, and the color of his fur and skin changed from yellow to red, the barghest left the goblin tribe that could no longer provide him with cover, and turned into a giant wolf with dark red fur and infiltrated the forest. Among the wolf pack, and gradually became one of their leaders.

A mighty winter wolf from the north migrated here a few months ago. While conquering the pack of wargs, he recognized the true identity of Ramar, whose fur had turned blue, and demanded the demon's allegiance to him.Although the barghest is not weaker than the winter wolf, the cunning Rama did not directly refuse, but put forward a test for the winter wolf to prove that he is worthy of his loyalty-kill the wolf who used to wander in this area. A minor female frost giant.Rama actually knew that it was actually a powerful half-giant, and had now "surrendered" to a more powerful human.

Looking at the poorly defended village not far away, the barghest raised its front paw (although it can be transformed into a humanoid, Lama still feels that the beast form is more secure) pointed to the winter wolf and said: "The female frost giant lives here." Inside, there are three humans living at the same time, an adult and two children."

"Enough! You just need to tell me the location of that cowardly frost giant, there is no need to worry about other things! You cowardly fellow! Get out!" Facing the impatient rebuttal of the winter wolf, he secretly smiled inwardly. Rama, who had succeeded in the scheme, put on an angry look on his face, bared his teeth and roared in a demonstrative way: "Watch your tone! Cold guy! Don't blame the kind Rama for not reminding you! Be careful of your opponent, That girl is not so easy to deal with!" At the same time, I added in my mind: Of course that human man is even more difficult to deal with.

Rama said "Good luck!" with an angry look, and turned to go deep into the forest. When he turned his back, his wolf-shaped big mouth unconsciously grinned a ferocious and terrifying smile.

The ending was exactly as Rama had imagined—the winter wolf was killed by that human.Although the winter wolf tried several times cautiously and cunningly, it was not spared in the end, because it never figured out who was the threat that needed the most attention from the beginning to the end.The dog demon hiding in the distance was also frightened, and the winter wolf who was about the same strength as him was killed by Chen Jinyang with his bare hands after just a single encounter. The power of that human being was too terrifying.Rama turned around and jumped into any door to hide away from this area. Even every time Chen Jinyang went out to hunt, he would send his younger brother to watch, but he himself avoided the human hunting area far away.

While being afraid of the powerful human beings, Rama also coveted Chen Jinyang's flesh and blood. He believed that as long as he devoured the human body and vitality of the "terrifying" human being, he would be able to complete the trial and become an adult dog monster .It is even possible to grow into a more powerful large dog demon (of course this is impossible).Every once in a while, Lama couldn't restrain his inner ambition, wandered around the village in the dark, and then left in a panic recalling the scene of the winter wolf being killed.

But now the barghest had to run for his life, and a more "powerful" monster appeared in the hidden forest, and Rama didn't even see the monster.As early as a few days ago, he had heard that the occupant of another nearby hot spring was expelled by a terrible monster. All the animals near the hot spring could not escape except the original leader. Recalling the horrible situation at that time, the cowardly dog ​​devil still has lingering fears.

On a dark night (actually, the moon was high), the dog demon was lying on the side of the hot spring, dreaming and falling asleep. Human beings were eaten alive bit by bit in desperate screams, and then the "great" Rama became even greater, the great king of the great dog devil-King Rama or Lord Rama.

Rama, reveling in her newly born, stronger, gigantic body—oh no!It was Lord Rama who suddenly felt a shock in his body, and the ground trembled loudly. A big foot the size of a small hill landed in front of the "King of Demon Dogs". Rama's eyes were fixed on the huge foot, his head was like The machine was raised little by little, and a giant whose upper body was covered by clouds stretched out an extremely huge head from the sky, opened its huge mouth that swallowed the sky like a bottomless abyss, and "roared" and fell down.

It's him!It was the human being who had just been devoured by him! "Ah——! Ah——! Ahhhh!" The frightened dog demon woke up from the nightmare, with an unconscious scream in his mouth, he slammed his head on the stone next to the hot spring, and then his pupils focused Rama, who rolled his eyes with scattered eyes, subconsciously opened the 'any door' and fled the scene with screams of terror.Maybe it was because he cared too much about human beings, so the dog devil inadvertently opened the direction of any door to the direction of Nome Village, and the frightened demon felt that there were horrible monsters chasing him behind him (actually, they were all tree trunks) , he ran faster and faster with the strength of breastfeeding, drawing a dim snow line on the white snow.

Rama, who was fleeing frantically, suddenly saw a huge "monster with a human face" lying on the ground waiting for him in front of him. The face of the "monster" was four or five meters high, and its body tens of meters wide shone on the ground. There are tens of feet thick.There was "ambush" before and "chaser" after. The "any door" once a day has long been used, and the "endless" dog demon finally rose in despair, and the tyrannical nature of the blood-flowing demon was aroused come out.

Since there is no way to escape, don't even think about it if I die!With the sturdy spirit of "willing to cut the whole body, dare to pull the emperor off the horse", Rama Tongzi instantly activated the berserk and levitation skills, jumped up with snow powder flying all over the sky, and rushed towards the "human face" with a flashing technique. Monster's eyes.The incidental effect of the flashing technique made Lama wake up instantly, but it was too late. The inertia of high-speed running combined with the full-power leap of the berserk state plus the effect of the flashing technique, it was like a car with a speed of [-] kilometers per hour crashing into On the cliff in front, the poor little dog demon only saw a dark moment in front of his eyes, a hard and sharp object pierced into his head, and then his whole body crashed into the "huge human face" like a meatloaf. The "brave" dog demon trembled a few times, and fell silently into the crushed ice all over the ground. The most humiliating dog demon who died in history was finally born!If it is someone who has never been seen before, I hope that the younger generation will work hard.

Tired in the waves of Finia, Chen Jinyang, who was drowsy, was awakened by a dull sound. He twisted his body lazily, his head slipped a little further into the arms of the giantess, and continued to sleep while snoring. .

At dawn in the morning, Chen Jinyang called Alos and Mishaer to start morning exercises. When they walked out of the cellar, they were surprised to find that the ice and snow fortress near the gate had been reduced to a pile of ruins. Unwillingly said:
"It's so disgusting! The 'Brother William's face' that took more than ten days to make is gone in an instant!"

Alos also muttered beside him: "Yes! It took me a lot of effort to install the eyelashes made of wooden thorns."

Although he was doubtful about the collapse of the still solid "Ice Castle", Chen Jinyang comforted the two little guys and said: "Okay, okay! The weather is getting warmer and warmer, and it's normal for the 'Ice Castle' to be weak, which just saves us Dismantling skills. Today we will not practice anything else, and specialize in cleaning up these broken ice cubes."

The faces of the two little slickers were shattered, and they looked for tools to carry the crushed ice dejectedly. Alos stepped on the creaking crushed ice to collect the wooden spikes that had been inserted. Suddenly he felt his feet go soft, as if stepping on to something soft.

"William! There's something here!" Alos beckoned his brother to come over and check it out. After clearing the covered ice, a huge blue wolf corpse appeared in front of him. The wolf's head was ferocious and terrifying. The wooden thorns from Ice Face's eyelashes pierced into the head and throat of the giant wolf, making the death extremely aggrieved and funny.

Chen Jinyang looked at the giant wolf's body and was dumbfounded: The voice last night turned out to be real, I thought I heard it wrong in a dream!It turned out to be it!It was one of the two strange beasts that wandered around the village with the winter wolf and the brown bear a few months ago, but its fur was not as blue as it is now.

"Let's go! Let's carry it in! It's really a good leather delivered to your door!" Chen Jinyang reached out and grabbed the dog monster's nape. The two little guys moved the hind legs and the tail, and dragged the corpse to the hut specially for slaughter. .

(End of this chapter)