Chapter 189: The Surprise Attack of the Skull-piercing Bird

"Whoa~~~~", a huge roar resounded through the mountains and forests, and the sound of the tiger's roar continued to echo in the mountains, and the sudden wind accompanied the tiger's roar came to the face, rolling up pieces of messy fallen leaves when it swept over the treetops. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Prepare for engagement. Pannis's face was as calm as a lake without waves, even if the tiger's roar carried a strong coercion, even if the tiger's roar blew his clothes and hunted flying, it could not have any effect on his heart. Pannis just slowly drew his one-handed sword and looked faintly to the northeast, where the tiger's roar came from.

It's been the fifth day since leaving the camp on the cliff, and within five days, the team has crossed more than a dozen magical beasts' territory, and the medium-sized battles have experienced nearly sixty times, and every night, the girls will fall asleep in the extreme exhaustion of both spirit and body, and although the demigods who are responsible for escorting them say that they have no special care for them, they are actually very considerate and exempt from their vigil tasks, but even so, the girls still feel that both the body and the will have reached the limit, and even on the last day, the girls often wonder if they will lose consciousness and fall down in the next momentHowever, every time the girls think that they can't support it anymore, they will find that their potential seems to have been squeezed out again, and they have survived it again.

It wasn't until these five days that the girls really understood the meaning of the Forest of Death, and it was not for nothing that it was recognized as one of the most dangerous places in the world of Yara. On a previous journey, the girls thought they had seen the dangers of the Death Forest, all kinds of strange creatures made it impossible to guard against, and the powerful monsters were almost difficult to fight, and the girls thought that this was the true face of the Death Forest. However, now the girls know that it is just a beautiful and safe cloak of the Forest of Death, and that what is hidden under the cloak is the real hideousness of the forest.

Yes, the real hideous, the hideous of death. For five days, the maidens were still surrounded by all sorts of hidden dangers, plants that could die at the touch of a button, insects that were difficult to find, natural traps everywhere, everything seemed to reflect the malice of the forest, as if every intruder must be put to death. Although there are constant reminders from Pannis and Fural, the girls still have to spend a lot of energy to observe the environment, after all, the two of them are not omnipotent, and there are always situations that they can't take into account in the malice around them, such as the next day, Catherine encountered the biggest crisis since entering the forest, and almost became another victim of the Forest of Death.

The team was passing through a nest of crystal-eating ants, giant thumb-sized ants that lived in the open near unstable crystalline crystalline ore veins, which had no mining value, but were the best source of food for crystal-eating ants, and they seemed to be closer to elemental organisms, requiring no traditional food, only absorbing the weak energy contained in the gnawed crystals to survive. However, these crystal-eating ants are indeed like a nightmare for those who pass by, they do not actively attack creatures, but once attacked, they will carry out fierce counterattacks, a pair of teeth that can be crushed by crystals can tear the bodies of most demonic beasts, enough to make a giant beast turn into white bones in a minute, and when they encounter a powerful opponent, the hedron energy accumulated in their bodies will explode violently like when the hedron fusion fails, allowing themselves and the enemy to die together.

Seeing them, the girls recalled the giant cockroaches they had seen in the underground world of Dragon's Scar that also lived by absorbing hedrons, and the danger of the two seemed to be very close, but they were completely different when they were carefully distinguished. Giant cockroaches, although they explode on their own, only explode in their abdomen, and mainly rely on toxin attacks, but these crystal-eating ants are different, they are real explosions. Although the size of the crystal-eating ants is not large, the compressed crystal energy in each body is almost equivalent to a crystal of a thousand terres, and hundreds of crystal-eating ants produce a chain reaction and explode at the same time, the power is almost equivalent to a small earthquake, and the demigods can resist through the shield, or they can escape into the realm to avoid the explosion, but if the person in the center of the explosion is a legendary-level professional, then there is no possibility of sparing.

The team was confronted by a giant colony of more than 100,000 ants, covering a radius of several kilometers around the area, and everyone needed to maintain a high level of concentration as they passed, and if one was trampled to death, the consequences would be devastating. And Pannis and Vral focused their attention on everyone's feet, and their perception ability had been expanded to the maximum, so they were afraid that when they stepped on it, a crystal-eating ant just came out of the soil, and this kind of accident did not happen before. The two of them were not too worried about the dangers of the outside world, because there would be no animals in the colony of crystal-eating ants, and the creatures that dared to break in were often either torn apart or blown up.

However, everyone ignores a problem, that is, the threat from the sky, the crystal-eating ants control the ground, but the birds in the sky are like creatures from two worlds, there is no intersection with each other, and among the birds, sometimes there are deadly predators.

There was no shortage of birds in the forest, and by the time the team passed through the crystal-eating ant nest, there were still a large number of birds in the canopy above, and even with Pannis's senses, it was impossible to identify each bird from the thousands of birds, and only roughly judged that there were no large predators among them. And it was a small bird called the skull-piercing bird that attacked Catherine.

Some scholars believe that the skull-piercing bird has a high degree of similarity with the common woodpecker in the outside world, and should belong to the homologous close relatives, but the woodpecker pecks through the trunk of the tree and eats the worm, while the skull-piercing bird is different from them, the skull-piercing bird pecks through the skull and sucks the brain.

If you look at the Monster Atlas, you can find that the Skull-piercing Bird is indisputably classified as a demigod Monster, and the danger level is also listed as A-, in fact, their flesh is as fragile as most of the Monsters of this level, and what is terrifying is their speed and strength. When hunting, they swoop down from tall trees, even faster than sound, using their sharp, piercing beaks with their sharp, penetrating beaks to easily pierce the hardest skulls of their prey, sucking fresh brain pulp from the skull.

This time, Catherine was its prey, and when Catherine took the last step, just leaving the crystal-eating ant's nest and her tense spirit relaxed a little, the skull-piercing bird launched a surprise attack at the perfect time. The short dive, faster than the sound, made no one have time to react, most people didn't even know what was happening, even Pannis only had time to raise his hand, and the constricted pupils reflected the figure of the skull-piercing bird that had pounced on Catherine's head.

At the most dangerous time, Catherine's long-term high-intensity basic training finally came into play, and many movements have been carved into the soul, when the skull-piercing bird was about to stab herself, the knight girl instinctively contracted her body and deflected her head at the same time, which is one of the ways to dodge attacks in the basic movements, and I am afraid that only as skilled as her can snatch a little time in the attack of the skull-piercing bird.

It was this little bit of time that allowed her to survive in the end, the sharp beak of the skull-piercing bird first cut off her right ear, and at the same time that half of the ear flew up, the bird's beak left a rolling scar on the girl's cheek, through which the gums and Bai Sensen's teeth could already be seen, the bird's beak continued to go down, cutting her right neck, although the carotid artery was severed, but because the speed was too fast, even the blood did not have time to spurt out. Eventually, the bird's beak passed through the girl's collarbone and pierced her right lung, and it was only then that blood spurted out from several wounds almost simultaneously, especially the wound on her right neck, which splattered two or three meters away, like a fountain. During the whole process, Catherine's Legendary-level flesh, the flesh that ordinary people could not cause damage even if they cut it with a sharp blade, was torn like a piece of paper, and it was completely unable to cause any effect on the attack of the skull-piercing bird.

When the skullpier found that the attack had failed, pulled out its beak as fast as possible and tried to escape back to the sky, Pannis's help also arrived, and the blade formed by the fighting spirit shot out from his fingertips, piercing the attacker's body like an arrow, causing the newly spread wings of the skull-piercing bird to fall to the ground after a few shakes on Catherine's shoulder.

The sudden and fatal crisis caused the teeth of several girls behind Catherine who were still within the range of crystal eating ants to crush, but the experience of the girls played the greatest role at this time. If you panic because Catherine was attacked, and want to run to her side to deal with her injuries as soon as possible, it will inevitably step on the crystal eater ant, causing a chain explosion, and the final result is that no one can survive, but the girls did not do this, even if their eyes have been bloodshot with fear and anxiety, the girls still forcibly let their eyes droop to the ground, and only after careful observation did they step down the steps that had not yet landed.

It wasn't until they stood firm on the ground and confirmed that they would not pose a threat to the nearby crystal-eating ants that the girls had other movements, Freya and Vivian did not move, and Eva held Rina hard behind her back, and the strong flesh of the Three-Eyed Clan made Eva's petite body burst out with great strength, allowing Lina to fly directly into the air, past Freya and Vivien, who were very cooperative, who bent down, and crossed the last section of the crystal-eating ant's nest and fell to Catherine's side.

While still in mid-air, Lina began to reach out and grab her backhand behind her back after landing on the ground, just in time to catch the red medicine bottle that Vivien had sent her with a magic thread. The priest girl rushed up to Catherine in one step, and without saying a word, the red potion poured directly onto the worst wound in Catherine's neck. The stimulation of the potion caused the torn muscles on the knight girl's face to twitch, and in this convulsion, the silver earth's praise also slapped on the outside of the wound. (To be continued.) )