Chapter 711: Flaming Grassland
The vast expanse of flaming grassland.
Two hundred years ago, this was a place where many principalities of all sizes in the Holy Continent competed for supremacy.
Because this Flame Grassland is flat, the land is fertile and the grass is lush, and there is a plant called Flame Grass growing on the grassland.
Although Flame Grass is not a magical plant, it is a favorite delicacy of herbivores, and even some low-level magical beasts like to eat it.
Because as long as the animal eats the flame grass, over time, there will be a hint of flame on its body.
This hint of flame can make the animals here a bit stronger than ordinary beasts.
At first, the human principality liked to raise war horses and other mounts on this flaming grassland. Over time, they could obtain countless flaming war horses.
Although this warhorse has not reached the level of a true Warcraft, it is still three times stronger than the best ordinary warhorse.
Unfortunately, due to the catastrophe two hundred years ago, the human race suffered heavy losses and had to withdraw from this fertile grassland.
Even though the disaster has passed for two hundred years, no Holy City wants to attack this place again because of the fear that the disaster will come back.
Time flies, and half a month has passed in the blink of an eye. Gervis and his group of more than 500 people finally crossed the dark swamp where the crisis was lurking.
At this time, they were taking a short rest on the edge of the flaming grassland.
There are many magical beasts in the Dark Swamp, and many of them are predators hiding under the mud and water.
Fortunately, Gervis had purple kiwifruit, and he used it to prepare ten bottles of magic potion.
Originally, with a purple kiwi grapefruit-sized potion, it would not be a problem to have at least 20 to 30 bottles, but in order to prevent the effect from being too weak, Gervis only configured ten potions.
After he prepared the potion, he immediately went looking for those low-level monsters and gave them the potion.
In the end, Gervis got ten monster minions who could barely obey his orders but were not close to him at all.
And all these Warcraft minions were used by Gervis to explore the way.
Because of the presence of these ten magical beasts along the way, the more than 500 people did not suffer any losses and walked out of the dark swamp intact.
However, Gervis lost eight of his monster minions.
These eight monsters accidentally broke into the ambush circle of other powerful monsters while exploring the way, and directly became food of the powerful monsters.
However, Gervis didn't feel too bad about this, after all, these monsters were originally used to explore the way.
"In the past, you humans could be seen everywhere in this flaming grassland. I never thought that it would become a no-man's land now. The flaming grass has grown to half a person's height!"
After more than 500 people set up camp, smoke rose from the camp and the soldiers were busy cooking.
Gervis, on the other hand, was relaxing and contented, standing on a small hill overlooking the endless prairie around them.
Olde had traveled to the Flaming Grassland in the past, so he was very emotional at this moment.
"Father, were the undead really so terrifying back then? Even the humans and beastmen didn't dare to come and occupy such a fertile grassland!"
Alice and Gervis both came from Eurasia, so they had only heard that it was a catastrophe, but they did not have a deep understanding of how powerful the undead were.
"It's more than terrifying, Alice. Those undead are like demons from the devil world. They are fearless and endless!"
"And the further back you go, the stronger the undead become! If it weren't for your aunt and other top warriors who risked their lives to block the gap, perhaps the Holy Continent would have really perished!"
Old's tone was serious, and the solemnity of his expression was clearly visible on his face.
"Alice, Prince Alder, look what that is!"
Alice was talking to Alder, but Gervis didn't interrupt. Instead, he listened quietly and overlooked the magnificent scenery around him.
The flaming grass is bright red in patches, mixed in with the emerald green grass like burning flames, as if the entire world is burning in flames.
Such scenery was not often seen in previous lives.
But just as Gervis was looking down, he suddenly discovered a black dot at the end of the horizon.
As the black spot got closer, Gervis was surprised to find that it was a huge flying beast, but due to the long distance he could not tell what kind of monster it was.
After hearing Gervis's reminder, Olde and Alice immediately looked towards the black spot.
"It's a dragon!"
After a moment, Alder exclaimed!
"What? A dragon?"
Gervis and Alice were both stunned. Although they knew that there were giant dragons in the Holy Continent, they did not expect to actually see one.
"Brass dragon! Don't act rashly! It won't have any ill intentions towards us!"
After observing for a while, Olde continued to give instructions to Gervis and the other man.
At this time, the huge creature in the sky was getting closer and closer to them, and they could vaguely distinguish the color of the dragon.
"Nadine, go tell everyone to scatter and hide, don't move!"
After hearing what Olde said, Gervis immediately gave orders to Nadine.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Gervis was also very curious about Western dragons, so he also read books about dragons.
It is said that according to books, red dragons and black dragons are the most dangerous among all dragons, because they are greedy and prefer to eat meat.
Many times they would sneak away from the dragon's habitat and go to the Holy Continent, and then collect gold and silver treasures in the human kingdom. Any shiny object would be their favorite thing.
Therefore, human towns are often attacked by red dragons or black dragons. They not only plunder treasures, but some of them also feed on humans.
Because of this, in the biographies of knights slaying dragons, it is often red dragons and black dragons that are slain by human knights.
As for dragons of other colors, such as the brass dragon in the sky at this moment, it is said that this kind of dragon likes to eat metal, especially brass, so it rarely appears in the human kingdom and will not maliciously attack human cities.
Therefore, even if you encounter a brass dragon, it will not be as dangerous as a red dragon or a black dragon.
Apparently, Olde knew a lot about the dragon clan, which is why he told Gervis and the others not to act rashly.
The fact was just as Olde said, the brass dragon in the sky ignored them. It just lowered its head and glanced at them for a moment when passing over them, then let out a loud roar and flapped its wings to fly rapidly behind Gervis and the others.
That direction is the direction of the Holy Alliance.
"It should be going to get the passage light ball!"
After the giant dragon flew over, Olde said something immediately.
And Gervis nodded, probably thinking this was the only possibility.
When he was in the temple, he was wondering how to hand over the ball of light to the dragon clan, but he didn't expect that the giant dragon would come to take it personally.
"Let's go! Let's continue our journey after lunch! Dorsalon should have returned to the orc court. I'm worried that he will take the opportunity to invade the sacred forest!"
Afterwards, a group of people walked down the slope, leaving only a few sentries to continue guarding the place.
When they returned to the camp, the Rose Knights were still in shock.
After all, that behemoth with a body length of nearly thirty meters and a wingspan of twenty-five or twenty-six meters was once a legendary creature.
This was the first time they had truly seen it, and the shock to their cognition was undoubtedly like seeing the appearance of a god.
Even those elf youths are the same!
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When Gervis and his companions first entered the Flame Grassland, they felt that the scenery was magnificent and refreshing, but after traveling for more than a week, everyone felt bored.
Because in this vast and empty wilderness, apart from occasionally seeing a few woods, most of the time it is endless red and green grassland, as if these are the only two colors in the world.
In addition, after being deserted for more than two hundred years, the Flame Grassland has once again become a paradise for monsters. The danger of crossing the Flame Grassland is no less than that of crossing the Dark Swamp.
The only thing better than the Dark Swamp is that the view here is wide and unobstructed. When traveling during the day, with Gervis's two magical beasts serving as pathfinders, you can move forward with almost no worries.
Only at night do people need to be careful.
Although high-level magical beasts are rare on this flaming grassland, there are quite a lot of low-level and mid-level magical beasts, and they basically appear in groups, especially magical wolf packs.
The night before, Gervis and his companions were attacked by a pack of hundreds of wolves.
There are more than a hundred low-level storm wolves and a dozen mid-level storm wolves in this wolf pack.
Fortunately, Gervis and his group were all titled knights, and the Rose Knights were well-equipped, so there were no major casualties. Only a dozen Rose Knights were seriously injured.
Even more fortunately, there was Master Welton in the team. His wood magic saved the lives of more than a dozen seriously injured people, otherwise at least half of them would have died.
It was already late at night, and Gervis had just finished his training.
He had just finished practicing and was not sleepy, so he walked out of his tent immediately.
At this time, a simple fence had been built around the camp, and their camping site tonight was also on a high slope.
With the help of the flickering light from the campfire, Gervis prepared to inspect the safety of the camp for another week.
After the battle the night before, his last two Warcraft minions had died heroically.
In the past two days, Gervis had wanted to capture a few more monsters to serve as guards, but unfortunately, a large area nearby should be the hunting area of the group of monster wolves from the day before yesterday.
So in the past two days, apart from some ordinary wild beasts, there were no magical beasts for Gervis to catch.
As for ordinary wild animals, Gervis also caught two rabbits to try yesterday, but they disappeared inexplicably at night.
When Gervis went to investigate, he found that it had been eaten by other wild beasts.
The wild beasts posed no threat to Gervis and others, so if he continued to use these ordinary wild beasts as warnings, he would not be able to sleep well at night.
"Your Majesty!"
"Your Excellency!"
When Gervis walked to the edge of the camp to inspect, the Rose Knights and elven soldiers on duty saluted and greeted him.
"Um!"
Gervis nodded at them and continued his inspection.
Two or three minutes later, after inspecting the camp, Gervis found nothing unusual and immediately prepared to return to the tent to sleep.
However, just as he walked past a brazier used for lighting, Gervis frowned slightly and suddenly looked towards a grassy slope in the distance.
The night sky is pretty good tonight, with a crescent moon in the sky and no wind.
But Gervis seemed to see the flame grass on the grass slope in the distance swaying just now.
"Your Majesty?"
When Gervis suddenly turned around, the two soldiers on duty beside him immediately noticed his action and asked him carefully.
The day before yesterday, so many monsters attacked the camp. This was the first time they saw this since they came to the Holy Continent!
Of course, we can't be careless at this time!
"Fireball!"
However, Gervis did not answer the two soldiers' questions. Without thinking, he released three huge fireballs in succession towards the grass slope!
Bang bang bang!
As the fireball shot into the grass, it immediately exploded on the grass slope more than 30 meters away.
"ah!"
"Oh no, we've been discovered! They have at least three magicians! Run!"
"Run! There's a magician!"
As the fireball exploded, painful wails and panicked shouts immediately came from the grass slope ahead.
"What the hell?"
Hearing the wailing and shouting coming from the other side, Gervis immediately looked over there.
By the light of the fire he saw there were a large number of green-skinned humanoid creatures.
However, this thing is too small, much shorter than a dwarf, only about one meter tall at most.
It was the first time that Gervis had seen such creatures. The orcs didn’t look like orcs, and the humans didn’t look like humans.
(End of this chapter)
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