The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 848 Cockatoo
The cockatiel is a kind of magical beast. Magical beasts can be directly regarded as monsters in many cases. Strictly speaking, the Phantom Feathered Serpent is also a magical beast. This part is more complicated, so I won’t go into details for the time being.

You just need to know that magical beasts are usually much more difficult to deal with than simple beasts, because they have some spell-like abilities, and the upper and lower limits of their levels are generally high.

To give the simplest example, a dragon can also be called a kind of magical beast.

Of course, the comparison between the cockatrice and the dragon is nonsense, but the spell-like ability of the cockatrice is called 'petrification attack', which means that after being hit by the cockatrice, the person hit is likely to turn into a stone statue. The success rate mainly depends on the level of the person being beaten or whether there are equipment and items that can resist the petrification effect.

Because of this characteristic of cockatrices, ordinary adventurers always take a detour when encountering them. Fortunately, there are usually only ten or twenty cockatrices in a normal herd. In addition, they are relatively blind, so it is not a big problem to avoid them. .

But this time is different, the herd of cockatrices must have exceeded a thousand by visual inspection. The beast horde they threw off was almost a vanguard.

Lin Tianci and the group of evacuated teams who were walking together happened to collide with the group of vanguards.

Lin Tianci also encountered such a large-scale herd of cockatrices when he came to Sevilla before, and Meili wondered if it was related to the demons. (See Chapter 229 for details)
If it's other monsters, maybe they can still fight. After all, this group of people are all strong men. They live in a plane full of dangers. They have received militia training since they were young.

But the cockatrice is too dangerous, plus there will be 100% cockatrice leader in such a huge herd, if it rushes into Kai Wushuang in the team, the casualties will definitely rise to an uncontrollable level.

Time waits for no one, the speed of the cockatrice is very fast, they are definitely approaching a little bit, and it will not take long to catch up with the team.

Clark said decisively:

"Even if I throw away all my luggage and escape on horseback, it's too late. Someone must go and delay."

This task is very dangerous at first glance, he turned to the soldiers beside him and said:
"You escort everyone to Emerald Castle, don't ask for anything, and my teammates and I will stay behind."

"But you want to face thousands of cockatrices, how can you do that?"

"You have to try if you can, and besides, don't underestimate us."

The soldiers also knew that now was not the time to argue, so they said:
"What do you need?"

"Meat, preferably fresh meat, we need meat as bait, see if we can wait a little longer."

The soldiers nodded. They brought a lot of food when they evacuated, and there must be some fresh meat.

Seeing them busy, Lin Tianci knocked on the shaft of the carriage with the spirit snake stick, and the two phantom feather snakes that rubbed against his shoulders to express their intimacy turned into light particles and disappeared.

"I'll go with you."

This seems to be a very dangerous task. Lin Tianci is still somewhat sure of the end result. If it is not possible, he can summon a large number of snakes to block it with the Spirit Snake Staff, which is more reliable than the five adventurers.

So Brother Lin is a good person, as long as he is within his ability, he never minds helping others, and he doesn't mind getting anything in return.

Clark hesitated and gritted his teeth for the last time:

"Consider that I owe you a favor."

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The resting team set off again under the urging of the soldiers. Everyone understood the seriousness of the matter. Although they were reluctant to give up, they could only lose most of their food and belongings. Anyway, the people in the town mainly depend on animal husbandry for their livelihood. The most important thing is the horse under the buttocks, and it doesn't matter if you lose anything else.

Everyone packed lightly and untied the reins of the carriages. Almost everyone had three horses at their disposal, trying to reach the fortified Emerald Castle as quickly as possible.

On the contrary, Lin Tianci and Clark's five teammates rode their horses in the completely opposite direction. They needed to hold back the progress of the cockatrice herd, and one inattentive...

Anyway, as long as you leave the range of the interferon, the effect will disappear as soon as the time is up. Lin Tianci can escape with the sword, and the others are afraid that they are close to death.

You can interpret Clark's behavior as kindness to his hometown, or as the professional ethics of an adventurer, it doesn't matter.

But they also have a plan, rather than simply being reckless.

Counting Lin Tianci, there were only six people in total. No matter how good they were at fighting, they would still not be able to make any waves if they were thrown into a herd of thousands of cockatrices. If they wanted to delay, they had to rely on the fresh meat they had just collected.

Cockatrices are carnivorous animals, very sensitive to magic power and blood, and usually prey on magical beasts such as lantern spiders.

Taking advantage of this characteristic, Clark asked people to hang fresh meat on the treetops, one every few trees, the more scattered the hanging, the higher the position, the better.

Cockatrices are not smart monsters. When they find fresh meat on the treetops, they will stop to look for it, and even fight over it.

Each of the six people carried a bag of fresh meat on their backs, and rode through the sparse poplar forest, trying to find a way to hang the fresh meat at a relatively high place.

This is very easy for Brother Lin, that is, it is a matter of jumping with the wind.

"That guy named Clark is pretty smart. He should have a lot of adventure experience, otherwise he couldn't think of such a way to delay the cockatrice."

Celie also spoke highly of Clark's plan, even if she was asked to find a way, there would be no better idea.

"How long can it last?"

"It's only half an hour at most. After all, the preparation time is too short. If there are more people and more time for the arrangement, it can be delayed for an hour or two."

The time is still too short, half an hour is not enough for people to escape the chasing range of the cockatrice.

If it doesn't work, you can only rely on the Spirit Snake Staff to enter the stage.

However, the Spirit Snake Staff can only be regarded as a last resort. Although the summoned snakes do not require mana to maintain, the mana consumption for activating the summoned snakes is not small.

It's not obvious that the Phantom Feathered Snake is low-level and has little combat power. To Brother Lin, it is similar to a fire spell, but if you want to summon a group of snakes that can block thousands of cockatrices, Even Lin Tianci could hardly bear such a high mana consumption.

After all, his cultivation base is still relatively low, and the fifth rank of human rank is only equivalent to about level 35. If he has the cultivation base of an earth immortal, then there is no need to hang any fresh meat, and he can directly use the spirit snake stick to level the cockatrice beast herd. no problem.

Speaking of the Spirit Snake Staff, Brother Lin asked:

"Are you saying that the cockatrice is a snake?"

"...You should continue hanging the meat."

This is no brains, even if the cockatrice's tail is in the shape of a snake, that thing is not a snake, just like a wolverine is not a wolf.

- There seems to be nothing wrong with this metaphor.

All in all, it is useless to rely on the aura of the snake king on the Spirit Snake Staff, and Sai Li simply let Lin Tianci die.

With the help of Suifengjin, Lin Tianci rode his horse through the forest to find a place to hang the meat very efficiently, and hung up the bag of meat he was carrying in a few minutes.

At this time, Lin Tianci heard the sound of flapping wings. Although the single sound was not loud, because of the large number, the low sound of flapping wings joined together.

Looking through the sparse poplar forest, he saw groups of cockatrices rushing towards this side like a tide.

This thing looks like a chicken, about the size of an ostrich, but it should be a bird with rows of fangs growing in its beak, and the tail feathers on its buttocks look like a big boa constrictor, and it spits out letters from time to time .

—Whew!

The sitting horse was a little uneasy, instinctively sensing danger and planning to run away.

Lin Tianci patted the horse's back to comfort him, then turned around and ran towards the main road, intending to meet Clark and the others.

In order to delay the time as much as possible, everyone divides them up more loosely, but since the cockatrice herd has reached a visual distance, even if there is any unfinished meat at this time, they can only throw it aside and give up, otherwise they will be like other chickens. Serpent's meal.

Clark's method was indeed effective. Lin Tianci saw that the fastest cockatrice had arrived near the tree where he hung the meat, and was bouncing around trying to reach the fresh meat on the treetop.

As Saili said, cockatrices really have no brains. Lin Tianci saw a large circle of cockatrices under the tree, crowded one by one like crabs put in a fish basket, but no one could get in. Go to the top of the tree and put the meat in your mouth.

Cockatrices can't fly, at most they can only run up and slide, and thanks to their inability to fly, otherwise they would have been caught up long ago.

At this time, a horse dashed obliquely out of the nearby woods, and Lin Tianci saw that it was Betty.

She threw away the bag with half of the fresh meat left, rode close to Lin Tianci and said:

"Let's meet Clark quickly, the cockatrice came sooner than I expected."

After she finished speaking, she took off the short bow on her back, turned around and shot an arrow on the horse in a heroic manner.

Arrows shot through the sparse poplar grove, knocking to the ground a cockatrice that hadn't been distracted by the flesh on the treetops.

Both Betty and Clark were adventurers who were born in this neighborhood. They grew up riding horses, and riding and shooting was commonplace for her.

Little brother Lin can't do it anymore. He only knows how to ride a horse, and he only knows how to shoot an arrow. The difficulty of riding and shooting is much higher.What's more, the distance between the cockatrice herd and him also exceeded the maximum range of the spell.

But Lin Tianci didn't just look at it like this. He took out a dozen talismans from the talisman box, and when the horse was walking through the forest, he stuck one on the tree trunk, and stuck it all the way.

When they ran out for almost 500 meters, the herd of cockatrices behind their buttocks were crowded in the forest.

"burst!"

With a snap of his fingers, the blasting charms that had been attached to the tree trunk lit up with a single aura, followed by successive explosions.

"Is that a scroll? That's a lot of money."

Betty showed a very painful expression, but anything that has anything to do with magic is of high value.

"Don't worry, I did it all myself."

People with a magical style of painting would definitely recognize the talisman as a magic scroll, and he didn't bother to explain it.

However, the blasting talisman alone can at most serve as a shield of sight, and it can't hold back the progress of the cockatrice at all...

(End of this chapter)