The legendary path of the abandoned half-elf

"There is also a theory that this place is connected to a lower plane full of undead creatures, which is why these monsters keep appearing."

She turned over to the roof of the car and looked at the faster undead creatures. She flicked the silk thread with her fingers, causing a slight sound of breaking through the air. The silk thread passed through the head of the ghoul as if it were alive. As the head was cut off in half, these had entities. All the undead creatures fell to the ground.

Lorenno's first reaction when he saw Finoa's attack was not that it was powerful, but "so handsome."

"This is a silver thread, which can effectively cause damage to undead creatures," Finoa saw Lorenno's interested look and introduced after coming down. "The left hand is silver thread, and the right hand is a special alloy, which can inject magic power to increase the weapon. Strength of."

After clearing out this group of undead creatures, the remaining zombies moved slowly, not even as fast as a packhorse. Soon after they left this area, they encountered something strange again.

……

Thick fog gradually appeared around him. Lorenno couldn't help but smack his lips. He took out the "Travel Guide to the Hills of Despair" written by someone he didn't know and looked at it. The book said that this thick fog was caused by ghost-type undead creatures. If you can see the thick fog, If you look at the mountains in the distance, there are usually 5-10 ghosts hiding in the thick fog.

Lorenno looked up. Not to mention the mountains, they couldn't be seen with the naked eye even 10 meters away.

She flipped through the book to find the answer, but the result made her look very unhappy:

[If creatures 10 meters away cannot be seen clearly within the thick fog, it means that there are about 50-100 ghosts who jointly created this fog area. 】

[Please don’t panic. Among so many ghosts, only 10-20 have combat effectiveness. One of them is a ghost that has reached the intermediate level. You can escape if you are careful. A team of four people at level 9 who are confident in their own strength can try to kill it. 】

[But be careful of its mental attacks. 】

The reason Lorenno is in trouble is not because ghosts are difficult to kill. Psychic power and Undead Slash can restrain them.

She was worried about her surroundings because—

According to the map, ahead of here is the town where professionals reside.

In other words, there are more than 100 ghosts in or near the town.

Chapter 203 Druid and Soul-Covering Vine

"Holy water! Oh my God, why don't you come and take a look? Although it is diluted, the effect is absolutely great!"

"Herbs that can quickly refresh you! Even if you don't use it in the Hill of Despair, it can still make you great!"

"Does anyone need heavy armor? My friend died fighting a ghoul. Now I need to sell his heavy armor to give his family some subsidies!"

……

Lorenno was walking on the lively streets. This town was full of professionals. There were no children or old people. Businessmen and customers bargaining could be seen everywhere. There were men and women engaged in unexplainable activities in the alleys. All kinds of filth remained on the streets. things.

The surrounding houses are all low buildings made of stones. This is one of the supply points after officially entering the Hill of Despair.

"no problem……"

Everyone is a living person, no matter what the senses are, the extra magic power does not detect the smell of death.

Originally, she thought that everyone in the town died, just like some supernatural stories, but now it seems that professionals are professionals after all. Unless a legend is present, there is no way such a thing will happen. The pastor in the city is not a decoration.

So where did this thick fog come from?

Lorenno closed her eyes and unfolded her original consciousness. Unknown fluctuations spread, and she finally targeted the northwest corner of the town.

"Is it okay if we go check out the situation, Miss Finoa."

"It doesn't matter. It won't take much time anyway. I'm going to take action with you next."

After receiving the permission, the ranger girl took out the Immortal Sword in her pocket and walked towards that direction, and then met a strange person.

In front of her was a gloomy old castle. The walls, windows, eaves, and doors were all tightly entangled with endless vines. On the side were a group of people wearing clothes made of primitive furs and leaf vines.

Their appearance is easy to distinguish. They are a group of druids. Judging from their clothes, they should not be radicals. (The kind without clothes.)

As soon as Lorenno approached, two druids stretched out their hands to stop them. She intentionally waved the Immortal Slash in her hand. The Church of Endless Light was still very useful. After seeing it, the attitude of the druids became much better. The druid asked: "Miss Half-Elf, what can I do for you?"

"The source of the thick fog outside must be here. I want to see what's going on."

"This……"

The arrogant man was a little embarrassed, and finally said: "Please allow me to report to the captain."

Not long after he entered the wall, the rough man asked another druid to go around and said: "Miss Half-elf, our captain invites you in."

Stepping into the fence, Lorenno saw more druids, both men and women. They were all trying to do something to the vines, but unfortunately it seemed to have little effect.

"Hello, what is your name?"

A girl with green marks on her face came up and asked Lorenno's name seriously. She had beautiful long green hair and dark eyes.

Unlike the imaginary druids, these druids have no dust on their bodies and their nails are not very thick.

See clearly the person in front of you, "Lorenno, half-elf Lorenno, are you the captain of these druids?"

Having said this, the druid girl in front of Lorenno puffed up her chest: "Yes, I am their captain Sha Luo. You guys come here...ah!"

Before the girl named Shaluo finished introducing herself, a tall man standing by the castle strode over and hit the girl on the head with his fist.

"I am Sharda," the man with the same green hair and dark eyes as the girl stared at Lorenno and said, "Her brother, the leader of this druid team."

"Hello, calm blood beast."

"Hello, what is your association?"

"The Earth Society."

Druids are a profession similar to priests, except that most of them get spells and other magical powers from nature, or the world itself, and a few natural gods. This profession is divided into two major factions and countless smaller factions. , ideas and opinions vary.

The major factions are the Earth Society and the Moon Society. Among them, the Earth Society is more interested in plants. They are also the oldest society and guard many ancient knowledge and rituals.

Compared to the Moon Society, its members are gentler, but also more stubborn.

After introducing himself briefly and concisely, Lorenno did not ask them the purpose of coming here. He pointed at the castle and said: "My original consciousness told me that it is full of ghosts. Do you know what is going on?"

"It's the soul-covering vine."

Sharda pointed to the vines that the druids were trying to deal with.

The vines on this kind of castle are called soul-covering vines. They are generally plants found in the underworld or the lower world. They are rarely found on the ground. They are mostly located on battlefields, graves or places where negative energy accumulates.

If the orange grows in Huainan, it will be orange, and if it grows in north Huaibei, it will be orange. The soul-covering vine is similar. Even if there is one on the mainland, it is very weak. In the lower world, there are hundreds of kilometers of soul-covering vines. On an ordinary battlefield, there are only two or three. rice.

Although the environment outside the Hills of Despair is not very suitable for the growth of soul-covering vines, it is much better than outside the hills, which is why the soul-covering vines can grow so big.

Sharda said: "Some professionals must have brought the seeds of the soul-covering vine here by mistake, and over time it grew in this castle. This plant has been growing for about a month, and I am now trying to figure out how to deal with it. "

Druids do not absolutely protect plants. What they protect is the balance of nature. For example, sheep eat grass. If there are too many sheep and there is not enough grass, the druids will kill the sheep. If there are too few sheep and the grass grows wildly, they will cut off the grass.

Soul-covering vines are not something that should appear here, so they want to deal with the vines in the castle.

Lorenno looked at the castle entangled with vines and recalled the contents of the book.

The soul-covering vine has basically no attack power against living people at first. It can only attract and bind weak souls, and absorb the soul energy of ghosts to strengthen itself. The soul that Lorenno feels is the soul bound by it.

When there are enough souls, which is now, this plant will become aggressive and guide the souls bound by itself to attack or guide creatures, kill them and nourish itself with flesh and soul.

Yes, it is very similar to the Dryad Granny in Liaozhai. The principle is similar. Unfortunately, there will be no Nie Xiaoqian on the vines. Every bound soul is full of resentment and fear, and only wants others to suffer the same pain as them.

If it is allowed to continue to grow, it might actually build a ghost town as Lorenno had previously suspected.

"Can't we set fire?"

"I tried it, but it's hard to work. The first spell-like ability it has after absorbing so many souls is water creation (level 1), and it seems to have no limit on the number of times."

Sharda smiled bitterly and said, if setting fire could solve the problem, he would have done it a long time ago. Unfortunately, it didn't work. But he wanted to break in and kill the ghosts bound by the soul-covering vine, but he couldn't. The vine blocked them with his body. On the surface, It is almost as hard as steel and is difficult to remove in a short period of time.

Chapter 204: Destroy the Soul-Covering Vine

"That's why I said to use the withering technique!" said Shaluo, the younger sister who had previously pretended to be Sharda, dissatisfied.

The fourth-level withering spell is a spell specifically targeted at plants. Its effect is equivalent to an enhanced version of dichlorvos that is only harmful to plants. Ordinary plants within 4 meters will wither within three seconds, and it can cause great damage to extraordinary plants.

"No, this is against the teachings," Sharda said seriously to Shaluo, turning around to explain to the three of them, "One of the teachings of our sect is that it is forbidden to use the withering technique."

The structure of the Druid association is relatively loose, and it is divided into large and small sects. There are all kinds of strange teachings, and Lorenno is not surprised.

She is also thinking of ways to solve this problem. After all, this is a supply point for professionals, but pesticides or other things cannot be obtained for a while, and these druids do not know how to use greasy magic.

"By the way, let me try." Lorenno realized that she might be able to solve the things that the druid couldn't solve.

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She used the Immortal Slash bevel to cut open the soul-covering vine, and before it closed, she inserted the standard long sword into the wound and activated her psychic energy.

The next moment, the life force accumulated by the soul-covering vine was quickly absorbed by Lorenno, not starting from this vine, but absorbing its life energy as a whole.

The vine trembled for a moment, but it itself was not too mobile, and slight movement did not affect the half-elf's ability to absorb its life.

"Drain life energy?"

Looking at the mist of life escaping around Lorenno, Salda immediately ordered the druids to prepare for the attack of the ghost and cut a few more wounds on the vines.

Sure enough, Lorenno hadn't been inhaled for long when twenty ghosts flew out from the castle wall. They looked bloody and mutilated and reached out to grab the half-elf.

"Ah!"

The two closest siblings, Shaluo and Sharda, were beating the ghost with two long straight wooden sticks that looked like weapons, while they were muttering something.

Level 1 [Oak Stick Technique]!

The evil spirits were directly knocked away by the two men with enchanted wooden sticks. The twelve druids rushed towards the ghosts to block their attacks, easily blocking Lorenno five meters away.

"Don't worry," Salda said, fearing that Lorenno would be distracted, "we can still block this ghost."

This is planting a flag for yourself.

Lorenno glanced at the Druid captain speechlessly. As soon as he finished speaking, a large number of ghosts were released from the castle. Their souls were broken and rotten, and all of them had deep resentment.

It was just the middle-level Sharda who commanded the druids to gather together. He was about to make some moves when Finoa stopped him.

"Let me do it."

The girl said coldly, pressing the five fingers of her left hand on the back of her right hand to gently pull the silver thread hidden in it. Her legs were slightly bent, and the shadow clung to her face, and the red in her pupils became more dazzling.

When the ghost got extremely close, Finoa moved.

Her bumpy body turned into a shadow and appeared directly behind a ghost. The silk thread in her hand was rolled up and wrapped around the ghost's head.

Fenoa returned to her original position in the blink of an eye. The silk thread in her hand was extended for tens of meters, and a circle of silver thread was wrapped around the necks of all the ghosts.

Lorenno caught a glimpse of her movements out of the corner of his eye. Finoya clenched her fist and pulled hard, and the extended thread tightened instantly! !

The silver threads around the ghosts' necks were all stretched and their heads were separated from their bodies within a second. The soul fragments of these undead creatures flew around and quickly dissipated in the air.

High-level professionals! !

Salda took a step back, her neck felt a little cold. Fenoa didn't even look at them. She didn't know what mechanism was on the glove. She pressed a certain part of the glove, and the silk thread that fell on the ground returned to the glove, holding up Aisha of Frost Moon. He stood there stunned and put the giant sword back behind him dissatisfied.

"That's amazing, Miss Finoa." Lorenno praised

"this is nothing."

Fenoa is extremely humble, and her normal strength is considered to be at the bottom among the Shadow Crows.

Lorenno regained consciousness and focused on absorbing the life energy of the soul-covering vine. She could hear its wails and roars, but the movements of the ranger girl's hands were not ready to stop at all, and she increased her efforts to absorb the life energy.

In response to this, the soul-covering vine has sent out all the souls it has captured in recent times. Now it can be said that it has no soldiers to use, and it can only watch itself being sucked to death——

Just like it sucks the soul of a professional.

The vines wrapped around the castle withered and turned into powder. Lorenno looked at the closed castle and asked Salda: "Is there anything inside?"

Sharda was treating the injured companion and subconsciously said: "This castle was originally used by professionals to store their belongings."

"No one can go in after the incident, right."

Lorenno's eyes lit up. It was reasonable to get some reward for solving such a big trouble!

Apparently the druids had also thought of this, and they all stared at the interior of the castle like wolves. Sharda was obviously a little moved, and nodded to Shaluo: "Take the uninjured people in and have a look."

"it is good!"

The druid girl excitedly approached the door with everyone, couldn't wait to open it, and then froze on the spot and shouted: "Huh?!"

"what happened?"

Lorenno poked her head curiously, and the scene in front of her made her unbelievable and almost suffocated.

The castle, where things are stored, is empty.

……

After discovering that there was nothing in the castle, Finoa went to the imperial garrison here to explain the reason. After obtaining permission to enter, she explored the situation inside. The druids were not used to the crowded environment and had left, leaving only a very curious person. The Shaluo is here.

The professionals were noisy. It was difficult for them to accept the fact that they had lost goods or other things. When the empire asked who owned this castle, no one could answer.

According to the testimony of some people, the salesman who introduced this castle to professionals to store goods was a handsome man and a cute girl, and the two seemed to have a father-daughter relationship.