Chapter 316: The Lost City (V)
The harpy screamed and descended from the sky, overwhelmingly attacking the adventurers in front of her. These monsters act in a similar way to wolves, and when they attack, they all swarm and win by numbers. And each ethnic group has at least nearly a hundred harpies. Right now, they spread their wings like this, black and overwhelming, and they struck downward, and it seemed that they could completely engulf these insignificant adventurers in the blink of an eye.
However, the "Elves and Treasure Chests" adventure group is not in vain, they can enter the Lost City three times in a row and then escape with their whole body, so they are naturally strong. And the outer monsters of the harpy, although they look a little troublesome, these mercenaries still have a way to deal with them.
Aina raised her longbow and aimed it in the air. The next moment, the whistling arrow flew out from her bowstring, and flew forward with a white light, and the harpy who bore the brunt of the harpy was completely pierced through her body before she could make any movement, screaming and falling to the ground. The arrow light continued forward, piercing through the bodies of two or three monsters in succession, before finally spinning and shooting into the eye of a harpy, knocking it to the ground.
At this time, Aina had already drawn her bow and arrow, and another arrow shot out.
The half-elf's archer talent can be said to be vividly displayed at this moment, and I saw that Aina, who was standing in place, was like a humanoid fort, and the longbow in her hand couldn't help but shoot out a white light, like dense artillery fire penetrating the Harpy's formation. For a while, I saw feathers flying, and in the blink of an eye, dozens of banshees fell to the ground, and the originally dense group of harpy banshees was suddenly torn apart by Aina's arrows.
Others are also moving fast. The two thieves quickly threw out the blast stone in their hands, only to see the two small ones. The shimmering metallic stone flew into the air with a low thud. It sounded like a thunderstorm. This explosion did not bring any substantial damage, but it did bring a devastating blow to the harpy, these monsters have very weak eyesight, almost equal to the level of human myopia, they rely entirely on the transmission and rebound of sound to determine their location and the direction of their prey. And now, the sudden thunderstorm almost blink of an eye had made these harpies lose their judgment of their position, and they had now become completely deaf, and in this case, the harpies were almost unthinkable. They were now as if they were no longer able to maintain their balance after a frenzied spin on the ground for dozens of times, and the world in their eyes was chaotic. And the originally dense formation of these harpies also dispersed at this moment, and after losing the balance between each other's position and space, they could only smash around like a swarm of headless flies, and they couldn't even tell the difference between the sky and the ground.
And at this moment, the adventurers are also rushing forward, they know that this is the best chance to destroy the Harpy, after all, the entire adventure team is except for Aina, a genuine ranger shooter. There are only two thieves who make cameo appearances as crossbowmen, and the others are all melee. And Tilis, as a follower of Seron, is only good at assisting, and she can't help much in this regard. Therefore, if you don't take this opportunity to destroy these harpies, it will be difficult to deal with them after they react before they fly into the air.
A harpy who loses her sense of hearing is tantamount to losing her combat effectiveness. In addition, they were rushing down before, so that now these harpies can't instinctively fly up and pull up the distance, and now their hearing is blocked. I can't even find the target, so I can only rely on instinct to bite and beat thoroughly. This kind of fighting style is not worth mentioning at all for experienced adventurers, who are almost like tigers descending from the mountain. The tiger entered the flock and threw himself into the harpy in this way, and then he saw a series of sword lights and screams, and in just a moment's time, the harpy banshee who was still showing off her might in the sky before was suddenly killed and injured. By the time they finally got rid of the effects of the Burst Stone and screamed and waved their wings and flew back into the sky, there were only two or three kittens left, and even these two or three were completely wiped out by the spiral arrows fired by Aina later.
From the harpy attack to the complete rout, it took more than ten minutes, as the last harpy fell to the ground screaming, and Yiqiē regained its calm again. Most of the adventurers were panting and covered in blood—mostly the blood of the harpy.
"I really didn't expect to encounter such a big problem as soon as I came here."
Captain Steve put his sword back into its sheath and shook his head helplessly. And the others were also relieved at this time, although the Harpy Banshee was not such a powerful monster, it was not easy to deal with them. But now that it's over, these adventurers naturally don't think about those questions anymore. Instead, there were even a few fighters joking at Tilis, who was standing behind.
"Yo, our lovely priest, didn't you say that it was safer to take this path than the gate? How could I not see that those goblins could be more powerful than these troublesome harpies? ”
"This is the guidance of the Goddess..............."
Naturally, Tillise didn't have anything to say about this, but weakly pleaded a sentence. In fact, her divine skills are somewhat similar to the mage's prophecy, although she can predict the danger ahead, but only God knows what the specific situation is. This is also one of the reasons why the believers of Sailun are rare, after all, their biggest role is to guide the direction, but many times they will be like Tilis now, following the instructions of the goddess and pointing out a detour to others, although it is said to avoid the danger ahead, but people always do not hit the south wall and do not look back, many times, they would rather risk taking a shortcut than waste their precious time and wealth.
Most people didn't care about Tilis's rebuttal, they just laughed. After all, having ventured with Tillise for so long, they also knew that what the young lady said was not unreasonable, and the trust in her companion did not really make them doubt Tillis's abilities. Adventurers are still very open in this regard, unlike those mercenary businessmen, who take care of small profits and losses for a little bit, but they take money and sell their lives, if they even have to take this little thing to heart, then they are not tired to death?
And at this moment, as if to prove the correctness of Tilis's choice, a loud bang suddenly broke out.
"Boom !!"
This explosion almost resounded in the sky, and its power was far greater than the blast stone thrown by the two thieves just now, and for a moment not only the entire ground shook the ground, but even the adventurers staggered backwards, and those already fragile masonry and earth blocks rolled and shattered in this explosion, sprinkling the heads and faces of those adventurers who were caught off guard.
But now no one had the time to care about these little things, and they looked in amazement towards the place where the sound came from, and happened to see a pillar of fire rising into the sky.
Seeing this pillar of fire, Jenn also raised his eyebrows.
This is the elemental spell - the fire of judgment, a power that only a high-ranking mage can master.
"This ........."
At this moment, the adventurers also reacted, looking at the side with iron faces one by one, they were not mages, and they didn't understand what this meant, but anyone could see that the power contained in this pillar of fire was anything but unusual, at least not something they could deal with. And that is also the direction of the gate, it is conceivable that if they follow the original path from the direction of the gate to enter the Lost City, I am afraid that in the face of such a pillar of fire, I am afraid that there will be no good end.
For a while, everyone could only stare at the pillar of fire in the distance, and it was not until the pillar of fire disappeared that they let out a long breath.
"What's that............"
One of the warriors asked with a pale face, while the others, though they did not speak, looked just as puzzled as he was. They have entered the Lost City three times in a row, and they are familiar with the monsters here, there are only some weak monsters and goblins in the gate area, and they can't become any climate at all, and they don't even have a fire-breathing one, let alone be able to burst out such a fierce pillar of fire.
"I don't know, it looks like it's magic."
As a magic swordsman, Steve knows a little more, magic swordsmen and battle mages are the same as magic and martial arts, but the different directions of specialization on both sides make them different. Battlemages use spells in actual combat, while magic swordsmen use magic to aid in combat. As a magic swordsman, Steve naturally also learned some magic knowledge, and he could see at a glance that the pillar of fire should be caused by magic, as a half-spellcaster, he also felt the ripples caused by the fluctuations in the sea of magic, but Steve's spell knowledge was not enough to help him accurately judge what kind of spell this was, but one thing was for sure, that is, the other party was very strong, quite strong, at least not something he could deal with.
Could it be that some of the biggest adventuring parties have joined the quest for the Lost City?
Steve couldn't help but raise his vigilance, a team that could recruit high-level spellcasters was definitely not comparable to a small adventurous party like theirs. I don't know what the other party is going to do here, but from the scene just now, it seems that these guys are difficult to deal with. Thinking of this, Steve couldn't help but glance at Tilis, who was next to him with an uneasy face, if she hadn't warned the team in advance, I'm afraid they would have clashed with each other at this time. There is little friendship between adventurers, and at best they are expelled, and at worst they attack them and kill everyone. Fortunately, now the other party is at least not aware of their deposit, and in terms of direction, they are still one step ahead of the other party.
"Alright, let's move on."
Retracting his thoughts, Steve snorted coldly and gave the order. Then he glanced apprehensively at the distance of the Lost City, then looked back.
Now it's just time to hurry, and only then do they have a chance. (To be continued......)