Chapter 0016: Omens

It was still the same fixed process, the same familiar route, Grimm once again set out on the road of inspection.

But today was obviously different.

As soon as he stepped into the gravel path, Grimm noticed something strange. Today... these monsters seemed to be unusually excited, and their behavior was very unusual.

The first stop of the inspection was the Killer Woods.

Before he even approached the Killer Woods, Grimm was frightened by the battle today.

The skinny and wrinkled Killer Trees were densely packed with scavenging crows. They stared at Grimm with scarlet eyes, constantly tilting their heads to look at him, but they were strangely silent, which was not like their usual behavior.

To be honest, being stared at by hundreds of scavenging crows at the same time would make even the most courageous wizard apprentice feel creepy. However, what surprised Grimm even more was the silence of these scavenging crows. If it were any other day, the noisy and harsh voices of a dozen carrion crows would be enough to disturb the whole area within a mile.

But today...

Looking at their posture, they looked like they were waiting for a feast.

The knowledge in Grimm's mind told him that these carrion crows would only be so quiet and patient when they were waiting for food. It is said that in the wilderness, these guys can follow the dying travelers for days and nights without sleep, just waiting for the moment when they collapse.

Grimm walked slowly on the gravel path under the "welcome" of hundreds of carrion crows, and his side was surrounded by evil people with bad intentions.

"Chip, can you scan the surrounding environment changes? I want to know what happened here!" Unable to bear this low and depressing almost solidified atmosphere, Grimm finally secretly gave the chip an order.

"Beep, instant scanning task begins... Establish dynamic monitoring of the surrounding environment... Beep beep beep... Found the source of an unknown smell... Southeast direction... 500 meters away..."

Unknown smell?

Grimm was reminded, took a deep breath and savored it slowly, and finally distinguished a trace of blood in the stale and humid water mist. No wonder the monsters today look so excited! Even I can detect the bloody smell, and they are ten times or a hundred times more sensitive than me. Of course, they are more agitated and restless.

Counting the days, today is not the "open day" once a month! Could it be that an outsider sneaked in?

With a lot of questions in his mind, Grimm raised his neck and swallowed a bottle of Alan water, pulled up his hood and hurried to the southeast.

Alan water, a special witchcraft made from Alan grass, can effectively close the pores of the whole body and eliminate the leakage of one's own breath. However, the time limit is only a short 2 quarters of an hour.

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Whispering Garden.

The abandoned garden that was once dead and peaceful has now become a terrifying battlefield.

Before he got close to here, the terrible screams of the baby monsters and the piercing screams of the dead, as well as the loud curses of the human mercenaries, had already reached Grimm's ears from afar. Of course, what attracted him more was the strong and pungent smell of blood. Grimm approached the battlefield little by little under the cover of trees and weeds. Soon, he found a position with an excellent view to see everything in the field up close.

Two teams were fighting in the field.

The attacking side was of course the terrible baby monsters and dead spirits gathered here, while the defending side was a team of 17 mercenaries.

This was a tough and capable mercenary team, and each member was agile and strong. Their equipment was also pretty good, with both thick shields made of hardwood, small arm shields and round shields, and almost everyone had a pair of bows and arrows, so hunting ordinary monsters was certainly no problem.

Unfortunately, what surrounded them today was the most terrifying monster in the Whispering Garden - the baby monster.

The baby monsters have no feet. They crawl on the ground with a pair of sharp claws, and drag a long umbilical cord-like thing behind them. They are evil and twisted. Although their bodies resemble human babies, their faces are full of piled up wrinkled dead skin, and their facial features are squeezed together, making their appearances ugly.

In the knee-high weeds and bushes, these short monsters keep drilling around, and the harsh curses and screams are heard one after another. And every cry of the baby will cause the human mercenaries to scream in fear.

Although these baby monsters are short, each of them has a strength of no less than 5 points, which is equivalent to the strength of an adult man. And their sharp claws are even more terrible. Every time they fly in the air and are blocked by the shield, they will leave deep claw marks on it.

But the most deadly thing is their baby cry curse.

When Grimm arrived, the baby monsters were trying to use their bodies to break through the shield defense of the human mercenaries.

The baby monsters used their claws to crawl quickly in the grass, and then took advantage of the momentum to swoop into the shield formation surrounded by the mercenaries, but each time they were blocked by the arm shields of the mercenaries who were on high alert. There was even a baby monster that couldn't escape in time and was nailed to the ground by the sharp arrows shot by the archers.

The baby monster with its chest and abdomen nailed to the ground was still fierce and frantically dug the soil with its claws, and half-raised its body and made a shrill baby cry towards the nearest human mercenary.

The cry was sharp and piercing, and it might just be an unpleasant noise in the ears of others, but it immediately made the mercenary holding the big shield fall into the terrifying "word curse" effect.

The sturdy mercenary suddenly threw away his shield, covered his ears with his hands, and shouted in fear: "Come and save me... I can't see anything..."

As he roared, his tightly closed eyes suddenly left two lines of blood and tears, which made people feel terrified.

There was a rustling sound in the bushes, and two more baby monsters emerged. Their ugly meatball faces were full of hideous smiles. They opened their wrinkled and broken mouths and screamed at the "blind" mercenary.

Blindness + madness + confusion!

Even formal wizard apprentices could hardly resist the curse of baby monsters, let alone these human mercenaries of mortal origin. Before the mercenary's companions could knock him unconscious, he had already knocked over everything in front of him crazily and stumbled out of the shield wall.

"No... Bazal, come back soon..."

A middle-aged man dressed like a mercenary captain shouted from behind, but it was too late.

If someone looked down from a high altitude, they could clearly see the grass around the mercenary team trembling rapidly, and the rapidly falling grass lines were aimed directly at the mercenary who was running away in a daze.

"Bazar!" A rough-looking strong man threw away the big shield in his hand, picked up the battle axe and was about to rush to rescue, but was stopped by the captain.

"Don't go, Tucker! It's too late..." The captain grabbed the strong man's arm with one hand, looking at Bazar's figure in the distance, his face full of sorrow and helplessness.

Without his reminder, soon, in the grass in the distance, Bazar, who was running around, was knocked to the ground by the baby monsters that kept rushing over. The shrill and painful screams only lasted for more than a dozen fingers before they stopped abruptly, leaving only the horrible sound of the baby monsters biting flesh and blood frantically.

Although the mercenaries could not see the baby monsters eating because of the weeds, the swaying dry grass and the terrible sound were enough to make them imagine a more terrifying scene. Therefore, the determination and fighting spirit to fight the monsters to the death began to fall inevitably.

Woo...

Suddenly, a white fireball the size of a human head shot out from the center of the mercenary team, dragging a long black smoke tail, and fell like a cannonball in the area where the baby monsters were eating.

The next second, accompanied by a deafening explosion, the terrifying elemental flames swelled and engulfed the surrounding space of about ten meters, drowning everything in the surging waves of flames.

With just this one blow, the defenseless baby monsters lost nearly twenty of them. The 14 baby monsters at the center of the elemental fireball explosion were instantly reduced to ashes, and those at the edge of the explosion area were more or less burned by the flames. For a while, the screams of the baby monsters resounded through the sky!

Fire witchcraft? !

Grimm, who was hiding in the dark and observing silently, was stunned for a moment. His eyes quickly roamed around and soon he found three suspicious targets in the middle of the mercenary team who looked similar to himself.

The black hooded cloaks covered their bodies tightly, without an inch of skin exposed, but judging from their body shapes and skeletons, they should be 2 men and 1 woman.

Three wizard apprentices who went out to explore?

Since he couldn't see the other party, he couldn't estimate their specific strength. Grimm didn't dare to act rashly. He secretly took out the witchcraft amulet and reported the situation here to the wizard tower.

And in this moment, the baby monsters who suffered a great loss actually called out the undead spirits that accompanied them.

The undead spirits that can live with monsters are certainly not low-end goods like mummies and skeletons, but some consciousness bodies condensed by strong resentment and terrifying malice. They still retain a humanoid appearance, but do not have a real body. Their innate ability to transform between reality and illusion allows them to ignore most physical attacks and defenses.

From the appearance, they are just a hazy shadow. The head is relatively clear, and the human facial contour can be clearly seen. The arms are a pair of sharp ghost claws, as if they are real, while the lower body is a blur, and from a distance it looks like the legs have merged into the void.

As soon as these guys rushed out of the jungle, the sky was filled with soul-stirring and piercing ghost howls, and the temperature in the field suddenly became a bit colder.

With these dozens of terrifying undead spirits that almost covered the sky, the defense circle that was able to hold on just now collapsed in an instant.

The undead spirits with virtual bodies rushed into the crowd recklessly, ignoring the swords, shields and spears in their hands, and scratched them with cold ghost claws, leaving horrible blood marks on their bodies. Some terrifying undead spirits rushed directly into the mercenaries' bodies, occupied their bodies alive, and turned around to attack their companions.

With the gaps they opened, the evil baby monsters continued to break into the battle circle, destroying the mercenaries' will with their terrible words and spells, and then dragged them into the weeds one by one to eat.

The scene became more and more chaotic and bloody.

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