CH : 239 Exploring The New Realm
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The former is the patriarch of the Sieglinde family and is currently the only master-level spellcaster in Black Wing Lair besides me. In addition, his biological order has also reached the 16th order.
The latter is the leader of the wild tribe of gray-haired gnolls. After that battle in the wilderness many years ago, he quickly broke through to the master level. Now, many years have passed, his biological order has reached the 17th, and the blood profession [Warg Knight] has also reached the 17th level.
The two commanders were among the first batch of old men to follow me. They were quite sophisticated in terms of experience and strength.
One is an old man over a hundred years old who leads his family to prosperity, and the other is a ruthless jackal leader who has led his tribe to survive in the cruel wasteland for decades.
"Let's go!" Brian looked around, glanced at his energetic and ferocious subordinates, and immediately ordered.
The soldiers received the order and lined up in an orderly manner at the altar.
Brian looked at Roy.
Roy nodded slightly, waved his staff, and a large number of inferior energy crystals flew into the energy pool of the altar.
Along with Roy's incantation, the altar was activated, and a spiritual light shot up into the sky, only to be blocked by the barrier. When the spiritual light dissipated, one hundred monster warriors and two commanders left the Tal plane.
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Outside the desert island barrier, Fitz's most elite group of sea beast knights patrolled day and night, sealing the place to prevent any foreign creatures from approaching.
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Unknown material plane.
Brian, Roy, and the others appeared in a cave. After a moment of daze, they quickly looked around cautiously.
The mouth of the cave was sealed by several boulders.
"Roy, then we will divide into two teams according to the plan."
In the dark cave, Brian spoke in a deep voice.
Roy touched his long black beard and nodded slightly. "If anything happens, just contact me with the magic ball."
Brian held the fist-sized purple crystal ball in his arms and nodded slightly.
"Great. If you find anything over there, please inform my warlock as soon as possible."
After Brian finished speaking, he made a gesture with his eyes. Next to him, a six-meter-tall forest troll immediately stepped forward and smashed the boulder blocking the entrance of the cave with one punch.
Immediately, Brian and Roy each led five teams and headed in two different directions.
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In the dense forest, it was eerily quiet.
Brian looked around cautiously. At this time, only five senior Dragon Vein Warlocks remained in his team, while the remaining 45 members—warriors, thieves, rangers, flying knights, and other professions—were scattered around.
If anything happened, the five senior Dragon Vein Warlocks could deal with it immediately.
"According to the map, we are now less than three kilometers away from the green-skinned monster village."
Brian took out the map and squinted in thought.
The map was drawn by the dragon servant at the beginning, but it was only a simple map covering a dozen kilometers.
Within this range, the only discovered location was the green-skinned monster village, which was also the target of Brian's team this time.
Roy's team headed east, away from the green-skinned monster village, to see if they could find other creatures.
There were two main orders given by the master this time.
One was to find out the upper limit of the powerful beings in this world, and the other was to determine the specific races that existed in this world.
The hundred or so of them were just the vanguard. Once the details of this world became clearer, the Black Wing Legion would arrive.
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Time passed, and soon, news came from the team members ahead.
A senior Dragon Vein Warlock waved his staff, and the fourth-tier Any Door appeared in front of everyone. Brian and five senior Dragon Vein Warlocks stepped through it.
In another forest, a white light gate several meters high appeared in the air. Under the gaze of several monster warriors, Brian and the Dragon Vein Warlocks emerged.
"Commander, where are the prisoners?" The monster warrior didn't waste time and pointed directly to the left.
Brian looked in the direction it pointed.
The five creatures were about one meter tall, their appearances a combination of pointed ears, evil goldfish-like eyes, sharp teeth, and emerald green skin.
"Isn't this a goblin?" Brian frowned slightly.
These green-skinned monsters were at least 70% similar to the goblins without void blood under Black Wing Lair.
However, these green-skinned monsters looked more evil and cruel.
"Commander, there is something different. These green-skinned monsters possess spell-like abilities. Although they are still very weak, they are much stronger than ordinary goblins in the Tal plane. Moreover, their body structures are also a bit strange."
A senior jackal warrior spoke seriously.
To verify the truth of his words, he walked directly to the green-skinned monster captives and kicked one of them hard.
The immense force directly tore open the belly of the short green-skinned monster, and green fluid splattered everywhere, exposing its 'internal organs.'
They looked more like plant roots than actual organs.
Tiny green plant roots formed internal organs that pulsed with vigor.
Under Brian's and the others' gaze, the severely injured short green-skinned monster screamed, its wound emitting a faint green light, and the massive wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
However, as the injury recovered, the short green-skinned monster's already skinny body became even more shriveled, looking as if it had been starved for months.
Brian, who had observed the entire scene, remained silent for a moment, his expression solemn.
The self-healing ability of this creature alone completely outclassed the goblins in the Tal plane.
"If their heads are gone, will they recover?" Brian asked in a deep voice.
"Yes, watch this."
The jackal warrior stretched out his massive paw, which was twice the size of the green-skinned monster's head, and directly ripped its head off.
A large amount of green liquid gushed out, yet instead of a foul stench, it exuded a refreshing, vegetative fragrance.
The headless green-skinned monster writhed in pain. A mass of plant-like buds sprouted and grew over the wound on its neck. A quarter of an hour later, a brand-new head had formed.
However, like the previous green-skinned monster that recovered from injury, after its head regenerated, its body became even more shriveled, barely distinguishable from a mummy.
"The recovery ability is similar to that of a troll, but slightly worse," Brian muttered to himself.
Suddenly, he turned around and asked the Dragon Vein Warlock, "How strong are these monsters?"
The Dragon Vein Warlock unleashed a group identification spell on the five green-skinned monsters and then answered without hesitation,
"In the information fed back by the spell, these five creatures are all First Order, primary and intermediate levels. That's it."
The goblin level of an ordinary individual was level zero, the same as ordinary humans.
In other words, these creatures in front of them had superior bloodlines compared to ordinary humans.
"The reproductive ability of this creature shouldn't be bad, right?" Brian seemed to be asking everyone, though he had already come to his own conclusion.
Judging from the various traits these green-skinned creatures displayed, they were probably as capable as goblins.
"You should communicate with these creatures and see if you can get any other useful information," Brian ordered several Dragon Vein Warlocks.
Two of the five senior Dragon Vein Warlocks stepped forward and began chanting spells.
[Second Tier: Language Proficiency]
The effect of this spell was that, after use, one could understand the language spoken by the other party.
By casting it both on themselves and on these creatures, both sides could communicate smoothly.
What followed was a bizarre exchange that resembled a chicken talking to a duck, yet both sides could understand each other.
A Dragon Vein Warlock also cast a language comprehension spell on Brian, allowing him to understand as well.
As he listened to the chattering voices of the green-skinned creatures, Brian frowned.
First of all, these green-skinned creatures called themselves 'imps' or 'green imps.'
Secondly, the intelligence of these creatures was not very high. They were estimated to have the IQ of human children a few years old and could not engage in normal conversation.
As a result, many of the questions asked led to incorrect answers.
"Fine." Seeing that he couldn't extract any more useful information, Brian stopped the Dragon Vein Warlocks from continuing. He took a deep breath and said calmly,
"Kill them and take down the imp village."
The jackal, who was nearly three meters tall, stepped forward. With a sinister smile, he drew out a two-meter-long machete and chopped off the heads of five imps at the same time with one blow. Then, before they could work hard to recover, he followed up with several more blows. The light flashed, and the five green-skinned imps turned into a pile of strange minced meat that looked like plant roots.
These pieces of flesh twitched and struggled to gather together and heal but stopped completely after a few seconds and lost their lives.
If they want to kill these green-skinned imps, there are currently two conventional methods. One is to drain the opponent's body of energy so that it cannot heal itself.
The other is to cut them into small pieces so that they cannot heal themselves even if they have enough energy.
After ending the life of the green-skinned imp, Brian summoned all the team members and headed towards the imp village as quickly as possible.
On the way, they killed the little imps they met who were alone. Soon, the village appeared in their line of sight.
"Remember, if you encounter unusual individuals, don't kill them individually, and kill everyone else!" Brian ordered in a low voice.
The fifty subordinates nodded.
Soon, this village with hundreds of green-skinned imps fell into screaming massacres.
No matter how tenacious their vitality was, it was useless when the gap in individual strength was too huge.
At most, it was just a waste of some of the physical strength of these high-order monster warriors, that's all.
After a while, the battle came to an end, and the little ghost village was filled with corpses and pieces of flesh, and there was silence.
In the house in the center of the village, a troll warrior more than six meters tall dragged a green-skinned monster two meters tall and walked in.
The green-skinned monster had double horns on both sides of its forehead, and large and small green spikes protruded from its limbs, making it look quite ferocious.
"Commander." The troll warrior threw the green-skinned spiked monster at Brian's feet.
The Dragon Vein Warlock added a language proficiency to Brian and the monster.
"You foreigners from other worlds, kill me if you want, you won't get any information from me!" the green-skinned spiked monster growled.
"Foreigners from other worlds?" Brian was delighted to see that this guy could communicate, but after hearing its words, his brows suddenly jumped.
Could it be that this plane has been invaded by outsiders?
This was not good news.
"What do those foreigners look like? Are they at war with your world now?" Brian asked nervously.
This question stunned the green-skinned spiked monster for a moment, and then he realized that the foreigner in front of him should not be the same as the foreigner who invaded his world.
But foreigners were foreigners. The green-skinned spiked monster snorted coldly and stopped talking.
Brian motioned to the Dragon Vein Warlock beside him to teach it a lesson.
When they slaughtered those green-skinned goblins just now, Brian and the others discovered that these green-skinned goblins were very afraid of the power of fire and acid. Fire and acid could make them suffer intense pain, and their recovery power would be disabled. They were different from the Tal plane. Their troll characteristics were very similar.
So.
The Dragon Vein Warlock smiled, condensed several streams of acid, and then drilled them towards the ears, lower body, and other parts of the green-skinned spiked monster.
The screams echoed for a full quarter of an hour before the green-skinned spiked monster surrendered with a weak expression.
The so-called strong will was nothing more than torture that was not in place.
If physical pain could be ignored, then there was torture of the soul.
Next, Brian asked what he was talking about, and the green-skinned spiked monster responded as if he were pouring out beans.
First, the world was currently being invaded.
Based on its description, Brian quickly recognized the race of the invaders—demons.
For this answer, Brian had already guessed but was just not sure. After all, the master told him that the demon given power by him came to this plane from the Abyss. There were generally only two possibilities for this situation.
One was an invasion, and the other was native creatures using summoning rituals to summon demons.
Looking at it now, it was undoubtedly an invasion.
"This is really bad news," Brian thought silently.
He naturally knew what the master wanted—to occupy this plane and use it as the base camp of the Black Wing Lair.
"But it also depends on the energy level of this plane. If the energy level of this plane is not high, then it is possible to snatch it from the demon's mouth with the master's strength," Brian narrowed his eyes.
He looked down at the green-skinned spiked monster kneeling on the ground. To be precise, this was the evolved form of those green-skinned imps—the big ghost.
Further up, there was a higher level of evolution—the ghost.
The little ghost tribe, the big ghost tribe, and the ghost tribe.
Among them, the ghost people were undoubtedly the upper-class rulers. Except for the ghost horns on their foreheads, their appearance and height were almost the same as humans.
In addition, there were several varieties of ghosts.
The green ghost had a powerful self-healing ability. The big ghost and ghost man, who were the evolved forms of the green-skinned imp, had advanced self-healing abilities and even mutated into even more powerful abilities.
A blue-skinned frost ghost who mastered the power of frost.
A purple-skinned ghost with spiritual powers and outstanding intelligence.
There was also the red ghost, who had a powerful physique.
The white ghost had a huge body.
From what the big green-skinned ghost in front of him said, Brian had some general impressions of the world.
This world had been unified by the ghost race, and only sporadic intelligent races were still struggling in some corners.
And each type of Ghost's clan had a king, and each king had the power of a natural disaster. According to Brian's guess, these kings should have reached the legendary level. The specific legendary level was unknown.
Got it.
After all, this big green-skinned imp was only a high-level player and could not touch the core of the ghost clan at all.
"The little green-skinned ghost has low-level strength, while the evolved green-skinned big ghost jumps directly to high-level strength. Doesn't the evolved form of the big ghost, the ghost man, start at the master level?"
Brian frowned deeply.
He didn't know how many ghosts there were in this world, how many ghosts had reached the level of legend, and most importantly, what was the upper limit of the strength level that could be accommodated?
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While Brian was initially gathering information, on the other side, the team led by Roy encountered a strong enemy.
"Foreigners, suffer death!"
The two-meter-tall ghost man, who was almost the same as a human except for his green skin and two ghost horns on his forehead, spoke in a cold tone.
He stretched out one palm, and in the dazzling green light, countless thick vines grew out, attacking Roy on the opposite side.
Around the ghosts and Roy, a large number of green-skinned goblins and big green-skinned goblins were fighting fiercely with the monster warriors of Black Wing Lair.
Facing the ghost man's vine attack, Roy looked calm. The top magic core on the right staff shone slightly, and five six-sided prismatic water shields instantly condensed and floated around his body.
The large number of thorns and vines that came from the attack frantically bombarded these prismatic water shields, which only caused cracks in these seemingly fragile prismatic water shields but did not break them.
The ghost's eyes narrowed, and he controlled the vines to divide into smaller vines, trying to insert them into the gaps in the prismatic water shield defense and give the alien a fatal blow.
"Hmph." Roy sneered, and all the prismatic water shields extended outward and united into a whole in an instant.
Now, the idea of thorns and vines taking advantage of the loophole was shattered.
With a single thought, the ghost stepped with his left foot, and a large number of vines rose from the ground under Roy's feet, wrapping him into a huge sepak takraw ball with a diameter of five or six meters.
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