"Taylor, I can smell at least seven monsters now, and they are less than 20 meters away from us."

After checking a witchcraft prop that looked like a piece of rotten wood, Taifas suddenly stopped and looked at the quagmire in front of him with a serious look.

"In addition to the seven monsters around us, there are two saltwater crocodiles lying in the mud ahead. They're the kind I told you about, the kind that doesn't require salt to make bacon."

Ah...looking at the situation, there are ambushes in front and pursuers behind. We have to fight.

Taylor grinned, which meant that now nine monsters were targeting them?

He walked up to Taifas and asked in a low voice.

"How do we deal with this situation? I feel like the round badge the steward gave me is not enough to deal with this nine-headed monster."

"Of course it's not enough. One badge can only deter one or two monsters, but now there are nine of them. They attack from all directions. According to the contract the wizards signed with them, as long as they don't see the badge, it doesn't count as a restriction."

As expected, it is the patrol mission with the highest return and the most wizard reward points. High-return missions do have high risks.

Well, I haven't had a proper fight with Warcraft yet.

Taylor silently increased the magic power of the Fire Medal, and then the Spider Eye hanging on his chest began to glow faintly, fireballs began to float in the palm of his hand, and with the other hand he held the round badge and was alert to the surroundings.

"Do you know why no one is taking up the patrol mission in the Monster Forest in the south?"

"Why?"

"Because of the lack of food in the south, there are basically no major problems in the north, west, and east. At most there are one or two blind monsters. But in the south, there are usually at least five monsters."

“…………”

"Put away the round badge in your hand. It will only hinder you when you fight later."

As the two were talking, a series of mud bubbles emerged from the quagmire ahead. Within Taifas's olfactory range, the seven nearby monsters were also eager to try, as if they could no longer contain their hunger.

At this time, Taylor held out his hand to Taifas and said to him, "Give me your round badge first."

"What do you want him for?"

"Just give it to me first. I can't let both of us be eaten by the monster at the same time, right?"

Upon hearing this, Taifas placed a small round badge in Taylor's hand.

"If a fight breaks out soon, can you handle two crocodiles in the mud?"

"That's no problem. Two crocodiles combined can't beat me, but what about the seven monsters behind me?"

This is also the helplessness of a melee wizard like him. At most, he can fight one against two, or one against three. If there are more enemies, he will be helpless.

As if feeling that the monster was getting closer and closer to them, Taifas' eyes began to be stained with blood red, his nose kept twitching, and he became more and more irritable, and the crocodile tail behind him kept swinging from side to side.

"There is a tree five meters ahead. A black snake is coiled on the second treetop. This snake is called the Black Demon Snake. It is very poisonous, but it has no scales to protect it, so it is very fragile."

As soon as he finished speaking, Taylor made a move instantly. Five crescent wind blades suddenly flew towards the direction that Taifas had just pointed and cut a black fleshy venomous snake into several pieces.

A huge gorilla and a three-eyed tiger suddenly jumped out from the depths of the dense forest in the distance and were about to pounce on them. Taylor waved his hand, and two spider silks with two round badges attached to the bodies of the two monsters, making them freeze in place and unable to move.

"bring it on!"

Taifas's body suddenly swelled, and waves of magic power surged in his muscles, turning him from a thin, bespectacled ordinary apprentice into a muscular man of 1.9 meters in height in an instant.

He leaped out like a tiger, covered with thick crocodile scales, and crashed directly into the mud. He pressed down the head of a giant saltwater crocodile with one hand, turned around and pressed down with the strong scales on his back. Another giant saltwater crocodile was about to launch a sneak attack, but he turned one of his hands into a tentacle, wrapped around the crocodile's mouth, and trapped it in the mud.

The three big guys were stuck in the quagmire, fighting each other. The situation on Taylor's side was not optimistic either. He killed a black magic snake with one move and silenced two unusual-looking monsters.

But he still needs to deal with a buffalo with four horns, a fox with two heads breathing fire, a green-haired monkey holding a brick, and a huge python with thick scales coiled on a big tree.

The two-headed fire-breathing fox couldn't help it anymore, and opened its mouth to spit out two fireballs flying towards Taylor. The light red light shield on Taylor's body instantly absorbed the fireballs and did not hurt Taylor.

Then, the buffalo with four horns lowered its head and pawed its hooves as it rushed towards Taylor. A green gust of wind lingered under Taylor's feet. After dodging it instantly, he released two streams of black mist that covered the heads of the fox and the buffalo.

The improved and optimized black fog technique can not only interfere with the target's sense of smell, vision, and hearing, but also has a significant effect on the mental confusion it causes.

The two heads of the fire-breathing fox were shaking, and it had begun to be disturbed by the chaotic mental power. The buffalo was shrouded in the most black mist, covering the widest range.

The buffalo howled madly and ran around everywhere, but it still couldn't get out of the black fog. In Taylor's sight, it kept turning in circles.

The green-haired monkey was roaring on the tree and throwing bricks, branches, stones and other things. The monkey kept screaming at the top of his lungs.

When these continuous screams reached Taylor's ears, he felt a tingling sensation in his temples and his mental strength began to weaken.

The spider eye worn on the chest shot out an illusion ray, which hit the green-haired monkey directly between the eyebrows. Then, several spider silks as hard as steel tied the monkey to the trunk of a tree.

The giant python perched on the tree suddenly moved, and climbed down from the tree in a winding manner, arching its body high. It was actually taller than Taylor. Its sturdy body and extremely deterrent snake head all demonstrated the power of this monster.

"hiss…………"

The python stuck out its forked tongue, swinging it back and forth between its nose and chin. After climbing down from the tree, it swung its tail and whipped the four-horned buffalo directly out of the black fog. It then instantly tied up the buffalo's body and crushed all of its internal organs.

Taylor also took the opportunity to cut off the two heads of a fire-breathing fox trapped in another black fog with two wind blades.

Putting the dead buffalo aside, the python crawled in front of Taylor. It seemed to think that it should eat the appetizer first to moisten its intestines before eating the classic dish.

(End of this chapter)