Chapter 31-31- War
Gone? How did it leave?
Holding the hilt of the knife, Rosaline looked in that direction in doubt and almost suspected that everything was just an illusion.
Then she looked around, turned and walked towards the magic skateboard, not intending to stay here for a moment.
But at this moment, some extremely small movements behind her made her feel alarmed. She turned around and swung her sword, and the oncoming bone knife slashed fiercely on the blade of the alloy battle blade, emitting a sharp metallic explosion and a series of sparks!
As expected, this creature's departure was just an illusion! It had actually quietly hidden in the shadows of the rooftop below, taking advantage of its prey's anxiety to escape and launching a deadly sneak attack!
"Buzz--sizzle!" The effects of high-frequency oscillation and high-voltage current were activated instantly. Rosalind took advantage of the momentum and stepped forward suddenly, pushing the blade forward fiercely, trying to fight back.
But the attacker had no intention of continuing to fight with the girl. He retreated after the first contact, keeping a distance of several dozen meters away, and used his two pairs of thin wings like a dragonfly to hang in the air outside the rooftop.
Then it lowered its head and looked at the bone blades on its arms. These gray bones were obviously not as strong as the alloy blades, and after a brief contact, they had already cracked slightly.
But the strange thing was that it still had that contemptuous and malicious smile on its face, as if it didn't care at all about the broken marks on the bone blade.
The next second, under Rosaline's vigilant gaze, it transformed into a black afterimage that was almost impossible to capture with the naked eye. It disappeared in an instant and merged into the shadow of the ruins of the high-rise building, disappearing without a trace.
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"Double-edged demon..."
In the evening, Yvette learned about this special humanoid deformity from her apprentice's expedition report on Gray Harbor City. She put down the teacup in her hand, her fingertips unconsciously sliding across the warm cup wall, her brows slightly furrowed.
Double-edged Demon was the name Rosaline gave to the humanoid deformed creature. Considering its uniqueness, it would be fine to give it a proper name.
She had long suspected that the level of Gu breeding among the island's mutants would inevitably produce a high-level mutant even she feared. Today, it finally appeared—though this was also due to her preference for staying in Ish City and rarely visiting neighboring Gray Harbor City or Luya City in the far north. If she patrolled the island whenever she could, there was still a chance to nip the threat in the bud.
What a troublesome guy... She sighed in her heart.
A head-on attack wouldn't be a problem, but the double-edged demon was clearly an assassin skilled at stealth and sneak attacks, and with such great speed, it posed a significant threat to the fragile mage. She could maintain her "Crimson Armor" at a low mana cost while sleeping to prevent sneak attacks, but Rosaline couldn't do that.
Fortunately, Rosaline had considered counter-detection on her way back and didn't return directly. Instead, she took the city sewers, which had been transformed into underground rivers and possessed a natural ecosystem. Otherwise, her address would have been exposed, and she might have been attacked in the middle of the night while she slept.
"Teacher, I think that deformed creature may have intelligence similar to that of humans. It can sneak attack me and laugh... It's completely different from what I've seen before." Rosalyn said worriedly. When she thought of the anthropomorphic smile she saw during the day, she felt that she would have a nightmare tonight.
I don't know if the teacher would allow her to temporarily sleep in the teacher's room...
"Then we'll separate it out, a third level higher than the 'Evolutionary Type', and call it... the 'Elite Type'. Its most obvious characteristic is its high intelligence and perhaps even great strategic skills."
Yvette thought for a moment, then said in a serious tone, "Tomorrow you and I will go to Gray Harbor City to see if we can get rid of it and investigate the source of the woodlice's unusual movements."
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The next morning, the midsummer weather on Ish Island was still sunny and cloudless.
But when they thought about the abnormal phenomenon of the deformed bodies in Gray Harbor City, Yvette and Rosaline's expressions became a little serious when they set off.
By the way, on the way, Yvette also explained that there was information about two places, "Ish Mountains" and "Lua City".
"Those are the two largest aberration nests on Ish Island," Yvette said.
"Lair?" Rosalyn chewed on the word.
"I've never been in there, so I don't know much." Yvette shook her head as she drove. "But if the mutants can really reproduce, then the source should be in those two places."
Many years ago, after escaping from the abyss base in the crater lake, Yvette took a trip around the island. In addition to collecting books with important knowledge that had not yet been corrupted, she mainly explored the situation on the island, determined whether there were any human survivors, and the ecological details of various animals, plants, and deformed creatures.
She discovered that the intensity and density of the distribution of aberrations in the interior of the Ish Mountains and in Luya City, the northernmost part of the island, were much higher than those in Ish City and Huigang City in the south, as well as various town ruins along the way. Therefore, she determined that these two gathering places were the most dangerous places on the island. Apart from anything else, the monster sea tactics alone were enough to daunt people.
The changes currently occurring in Gray Harbor City had given her a vague feeling that the aberrant ecosystem on Ish Island was undergoing some subtle shift. However, the exact cause and direction of the shift remained unknown.
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Compared with Rosalind's previous exploration experience, today's Gray Harbor City is much quieter than before. There are very few deformed creatures encountered along the way. Instead, many wild animals have the opportunity to come out and breathe, jumping and running freely in the forest-like streets.
After a while, the hovercraft arrived near the port area. Yvette followed the route indicated by Rosalind, gradually approaching the depths of Gray Harbor City, and then she heard a noisy sound coming from the direction of the city center.
They continued driving forward and indeed saw a huge army of deformed woodlice passing by the intersection ahead. Each of them was over one meter long, and there were about several hundred or even thousands of them.
But what was particularly strange was that, although these woodlice should have been within the hatred range of the floating magic motorcycle that was suspended about five meters in the air, they acted as if they had not seen it and allowed the two people to observe them on the car, and then continued to move forward without stopping, heading straight for their destination.
"Teacher, what should we do?" Rosalin was a little confused. She was ready to use her immature long-range skills to help cover the retreat, but who knew that the mutants were indifferent. It was unbelievable.
"Let's see what their purpose is." Yvette said, and then followed from the side, keeping a distance of about 100 meters.
"Will we be attacked suddenly?" Rosalyn was a little nervous.
"I'll take care of it," Yvette said calmly.
Hearing the teacher's calm tone, Rosalyn felt relieved.
In fact, after having the alloy battle blade and three years of training, she has already acquired quite outstanding individual combat capabilities. Even when sparring with her teacher, she can often get back and forth. However, her only weakness is clearing out the monsters. She immediately feels uneasy when seeing a pile of monsters - after all, no matter how high the attack power of the alloy battle blade is, she has to chop them one by one. How can she kill all the monsters if there are too many of them? They will be overwhelmed in a few minutes.
And the image of a wizard like her teacher, who can clear the sea of monsters with a snap of his fingers and the same overwhelming spell bombardment, is the most elegant and fundamentalist image of a wizard that she longs for.
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After flying over several blocks, the hovercraft landed on the top of a skyscraper that was only left with its skeleton and was wrapped by huge tree roots.
After getting off the car, a strange war scene unfolded before the eyes of the master and disciple in the distance below.
On the streets, a large number of deformed woodlice formed a constantly wriggling red tide, advancing towards the city center.
At the intersection heading toward the city center, a motley army of several hundred grotesque monsters, a variety of deformed forms, roared and roared as they fought tooth and nail against the onslaught of woodlice. Rotting worms spewed acid, multi-armed behemoths swung their fists, and multi-headed birds swooped down and bit like clouds of black clouds...
Looking at this chaotic, bloody, inhuman and horrific scene, Yvette narrowed her eyes.
There is no doubt that this is a war between aberrations.
(End of this chapter)
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