Chapter 367: Distress in the River

"Hey! Panda! Wait a minute, I still have many questions to ask you!"

However, the dream was broken. The girl suddenly woke up and found her companions surrounding her, with concern in their eyes.

"Miss Mage, you must be having a nightmare, right?" Dimitri the Lion said sympathetically, "No one knows better than me how terrible nightmares are."

"It's not a nightmare, more like...a dream."

Ma Yun stood up from the grass, straightened her messy hair, and told her story about meeting Panda in her dream.

"That monster called Panda, can its words be trusted?"

Tin Man Nick asked coldly.

"Intuition tells me that Panda can be trusted. Besides, it is always better to believe in something like this than something that doesn't exist. You can't go wrong by being more careful." Ma Yun said cautiously.

The Scarecrow and the Lion nodded in agreement with her.

The Tin Woodman raised no objection, picked up the ax, and turned towards the woods by the river.

"I'm going to chop some wood to make a raft to cross the big river on the other side. The Emerald City is not far away."

At this time, Gao Fei and Jiang Feng also came to the center of the camp and comforted Ma Yun through the astrolabe chat channel.

"The levels set up in the game cannot make it difficult for players to die. Let's hurry up and get on our way, and we still have a chance to escape Istna's pursuit."

"I hope so." Ma Yun said uneasily.

The big river opposite the camp seems to have a gentle flow, but in fact there is a hidden undercurrent, and the river is a thousand feet wide. Except for Gao Fei, who can transform into a bird and fly across, there is no way for anyone else.

It is too dangerous to use cables to set up a sling across the river, especially when the cable suddenly broke during the last time we crossed the river, leaving a psychological shadow on the Cowardly Lion, who would rather die than do it again.

Then the only way to cross the river is to build a raft strong enough.

Tin Man Nick wielded his sharp ax and quickly chopped down three big trees.

Jiang Feng's berserkers also helped chop branches and process wood for making rafts.

After working all morning, everyone finally built a large and strong raft.

Ma Yun was worried that the raft would be destroyed by the rapids, so she used her professional ability as an artificer to cast spells to strengthen the vehicle.

Crossing the river on a raft requires paddles and a pole.

Oars are easy to make, but poles are a bit more difficult to make.

There was no bamboo in the nearby forest, and the branches were neither long nor strong enough.

Fortunately, Xiao Ma has a solution.

Using the "Repair Technique" one after another, four thick wooden sticks were quickly connected into a long pole.

Everyone boarded the raft, Gao Fei and Jiang Feng paddled, and Tin Woodman Nick stood on the bow, responsible for holding the pole and steering the boat.

The raft slid on the gentle river surface and gradually approached the middle of the river.

At this moment, the calm river surface suddenly stirred up a whirlpool!

The raft was sucked by the sudden turbulence and swirled around the whirlpool, almost throwing the lightest scarecrow out. The timid lion was also frightened and screamed strangely.

Gao Fei quickly put down the oar, grabbed the scarecrow who was about to fall into the water, and dragged him back to the raft.

At the same time, bubbles appeared on the river surface, and five strong crocodiles surfaced one after another, swimming towards the raft with malicious intentions.

"What the heck! It looks like these crocodiles are planning to knock over the raft and feast on fresh human flesh...and lion meat!"

Ma Yun glanced at the Cowardly Lion intentionally or unintentionally, showed her "Color Spray Wand" and prepared to cast a spell.

"Oh my God! Our situation couldn't be worse!" Dimitri the Lion was trembling with fear. "Say it first! I can't swim, what about you?"

"Neither can I." Tin Man Nick held onto the boat pole tightly, "So I can't tolerate those crocodiles acting recklessly. If they dare to come close, I will beat them on the head with this long pole!"

"Oh, my poor friend the Tin Woodman, look at the crocodile's big mouth and its sharp teeth. It can bite your boat pole in one bite." The lion shook his head in despair, "The luckiest among us is Vita. He's light enough to float in a river, and I guess crocodiles don't like straw - especially when there's human and lion flesh to eat."

"If you can't help, at least you can shut up, stay quiet, and stop causing trouble!"

Jiang Feng scolded the lion angrily, and at the same time raised his right hand, intending to activate the magic power of the "Fire Giant Arm Armor" and aim at the crocodile to release the "scorching ray".

Gao Fei raised his hand to stop her and said softly: "Don't rush to take action. Let me negotiate with these crocodiles first."

Goofy stood on the raft and observed the group of crocodiles, and found that to tame any crocodile, you need to pass a DC13 Taming check.

He has put on the "Druid Mask" and automatically gains the beast-taming skill and "Wild Identity". The beast-taming check has advantage, the better of the two dice, and double the proficiency modifier +4 is counted.

Add in the Wisdom modifier +4, for a total of +8.

After two test rolls, as long as the point of any twenty-sided die is greater than 4, the test can be passed and the probability of taming a crocodile is about 80%.

Goofy rolled the test dice ten times in one breath, and the results perfectly met the mathematical expectations. He successfully tamed four of the five crocodiles and turned enemies into friends.

The last crocodile that slipped through the net and refused to be tamed was left to Ma Yun to deal with.

Xiao Ma was already prepared, holding a wand and pointing at the crocodile near the raft, reciting a spell representing "brilliance".

"Alcar!"

In response to the owner's spell, the wand stimulates a burst of energy, transforming into a colorful cone of light that sprays towards the water.

The crocodile only had 5 life dice. When it was hit by the "colorful spray", it failed to pass the will save. It was blinded first, and then fell into a coma, like a rotten wooden stake floating on the river.

Ma Yun put away the "color spray magic wand" and took out the refined long sword seized from the "living armor" from the storage space of the star disk. He spent 5 points of magic power to bless the long sword with "secondary activation" and temporarily transformed it into a "flying sword".

The long sword endowed with vitality flew into the air, following the mistress's mental remote control, dragging a ray of cold light to stab the crocodile!

Puff!

The flying sword poked a hole in the crocodile's milky white belly, causing 10 points of damage, and blood immediately gushed out.

The crocodile was awakened by the severe pain from the abdomen, but it was still superimposed with two negative states of "blindness" and "shock", floating on the water and unable to move.

Ma Yun continued to remotely control the flying sword to attack the crocodile, and at the same time made a series of spell gestures, shooting "flame arrows" at the crocodile.

The "Flame Arrow" does not need to be maintained with concentration, and it does not conflict with the flying sword. Ma Yun can shoot a "Flame Arrow" first and then remotely control the flying sword to cut it in the same round.

The strong crocodile could not last more than three rounds before being killed by her, and drifted away with a stream of blood.

At the same time, Gao Fei used the druid mask to drive the four tamed crocodiles to gather behind the raft, and pushed forward together, so that the raft escaped the attraction of the whirlpool and arrived at the river bank safely.