Chapter 183 King Pudding
This battle has no flags, no trumpets blowing, and no drums rumble.
As hordes of ferocious rats roared in and squeaked into King Pudding's territory, the battle began instantly.
In an instant, countless scalp-numbing black puddings, gelatin cubes, plaster monsters, and ocher monsters, as if receiving orders at the same time, squirmed on the ground, walls, and ceiling, turning into a A disgusting torrent, leaving countless sticky traces, slipped under various corners of doors or between narrow gaps, chasing and devouring prey.
According to the Records of the Demons of Igvir and other sources, the mud monsters are the scattered fragments or descendants of the demon lord Jubilex.
Whether or not this is true, the Faceless Lords are one of the few beings in the world who can control the oozes and imbue them with a modicum of wisdom.
Most of the time, mud monsters have no concept of tactics and self-protection.
They are direct and predictable creatures, attacking and feeding without much skill.
But under the control of the demon lord Jubilex, the mud monster will show weak intelligence and evil tendencies.
Faced with the invading ferocious rat swarm, the mud monsters' counterattack was particularly fierce.
In just a moment, this maze-like complex street turned into a chaotic scene of everyone fighting.
A black pudding the size of a parasol is clinging to the wall. Its shape is similar to a thick and sticky black mud. On the dim wall, it looks no different from a shadow.
I saw it jumping down with the help of the rebound from the wall. A large piece of sticky black mud instantly covered five large dire rats, and quickly secreted highly corrosive acid.
Along with the creepy sounds of chewing and devouring, the five ferocious rats that were squirming and struggling wildly inside the black pudding suddenly twitched under the corrosion of strong acid, and finally lost their resistance.
However, before Black Pudding, who had scored five kills, could finish digesting his enemies and tried to target the next group of enemies, he was overwhelmed by another group of ferocious rats with fierce looks.
These ferocious rats use their sharp incisors to tear apart the sticky mud of black pudding.
Even so, the mud scattered on the ground was still slowly squirming, all converging towards the largest piece of torn mud.
At this moment, another mortar monster appeared. It looked like a chaotic mass of liquefied stone, and then slithered into the dire rats like a snake.
More than a dozen ferocious rats with scarlet rays of light flashing in their pupils rushed forward with their teeth bared.
——"Psychic crushing!"
An invisible psychic field suddenly spread from the gray mud monster's body.
All enemies within 3 meters around it, including a few gelatin cubes and squirming ooze monster fragments, were all crushed to death by this nearly invisible force.
The translucent gelatin cube was like jelly that fell on the ground, shattering into pieces. The two mice swallowed by it struggled to escape from the sticky jelly, and the black pudding fragments that had not yet been fully integrated were Completely turned into a pile of foul-smelling mud.
As for the dozen or so ferocious rats that attacked the gray mud monster, all of them had bleeding from their mouths and noses. They lay on the ground and twitched a few times before dying.
At the same time, three ocher jelly monsters slid out of the narrow cracks in the wall like liquid and chased after another group of ferocious rats that were running wildly.
The ocher monsters looked like a ball of indescribable yellow objects. When they caught up with the dire rats, they instantly sprayed out balls of green acid.
The dire rats that were hit by strong acid were dissolved into a pool of blood at a speed visible to the naked eye while screaming in terror.
In this battle, although the number of ferocious rats kept in captivity by the rat men was very large, there were thousands of them, and they came out of various hidden holes to fight with the army of ooze monsters.
However, King Pudding, who lives in the center of the city, has already used the ability given by the faceless Lord Jupicles to summon and control all the mud monsters in the entire area.
This also means that the coalition composed of rat people and underground dwarfs has no numerical advantage at all.
Besides, the challenge level of Dire Rat is only about level 1.
They are all ferocious animals that mutated from ordinary rats by absorbing some terrible violent energy. Apart from their instinctive wildness, they have no other effective means of attack.
The average challenge level of these ooze monsters is at least level 3. In addition to their natural acid spitting, a few mutated ooze monsters also master psychic spells.
As you can imagine, this battle was extremely disparate in strength. In just ten minutes, the army of ferocious rats was defeated by the counterattacking ooze monsters. Most of the rats were swallowed into their bodies and became the prey of the ooze monsters. rations.
“It’s time to go!” Duobao, the leader of the underground dwarfs, listened carefully to the gradually weakening screams of the ferocious rats in the darkness, and said solemnly:
"Almost all Pudding King's slime monsters have been attracted by the dire rats. While they are digesting the dire rats, we are preparing to attack."
"You are not talking nonsense, come to me! Kill them all!" These are disgusting things." Copper, the leader of the rat men, held up a short wand and gave orders to his subordinates.
With an order, hundreds of Skaven cavalry riding dire rats, wielding anointed scimitars or long swords, rushed towards the ooze army.
The underground gnome cave keepers followed closely behind.
A stream of disgusting slime splattered crazily.
Every black pudding, ocher jelly monster, or gray mud monster that was struck by a sharp blade, their sticky body surfaces, under the influence of the oil, all made a sizzling sound like raw meat thrown into a frying pan. .
At the same time, with the charge of the rat cavalry, khaki magic circles emerged around the ooze monster that was digesting the ferocious rats.
In an instant, a large group of tall earth elements and gray stone people appeared from the magic circle.
Under the command of a group of spellcasters in Stone Heart Xianting, this group of earth elements and gray stone people took heavy steps and rushed towards the direction where the mud monsters were densest.
When these creatures from the earth elemental plane face the ooze monsters, they don’t need any fancy skills at all. They just need to run wildly on the path of the ooze monsters and kill them one by one. They were trampled to pieces.
In front of earth elemental creatures, ooze monsters are no different from rotten fruits thrown on the ground, making bursts of crackling and popping sounds.
At the same time, the strong acid that the ooze monsters are proud of cannot cause effective damage.
Seeing the forcibly reversed situation, the underground dwarf spellcasters also found their respective positions one after another, chanting spells quickly, attacking spells and divine spells visible to the naked eye, and the various radiances bloomed in the soft The army of mud monsters flickered.
On the other side, under the leadership of the goblin Copper Block, Brian and Helister came to the center of Bullingdon Stone City through a secret tunnel, which is the palace of King Pudding.
"Okay, I'll take you here." Copper Nugget said to Brian, "Going further inside is the palace of King Pudding. I can't help much even if I go there." No problem." Brian nodded slightly, "Go back and be careful."
The goblin copper block waved his hand gracefully, jumped into the shadow of the tunnel, and disappeared.
Brian retracted his gaze, looked at Heliste beside him, and continued walking deeper.
The palace of King Pudding was once the political center of Bullingdon Stone City. The huge stone dome in the center of the cave was the seat of the political institutions. The hollowed-out dome worked within the royal palace appointed by the old king and queen. Parliamentarian group.
All of this changed completely with the arrival of the Pudding King.
When the two stepped into this huge palace, they immediately discovered that the walls of the cave were covered with disgusting ooze, and small lumps of green ooze were still dripping.
The soft mud squirmed on the wet ground and climbed up the wall.
The sound of dripping water echoed in the cave, lingering around a huge dome building in the center supported from the ground by several stone pillars.
Dozens of mud monsters squirmed around the pillar group, constantly extending their pseudopods and sliding forward.
The surface of the dome is covered with ooze just like the cave wall. Countless black oozes are stirring in the yellow and gray ooze. The disgusting and weird scene like thick soup stimulates the eyes of the two people, tearing them apart. with their consciousness.
From the corner of his eye, Brian noticed that even a woman as calm as Heliste could not help but frown her slender eyebrows.
Seeing this, he suddenly felt that compared with the palace of King Pudding, the palace of Fungus Queen Zugmoy was simply a beautiful back garden.
After all, no matter how disgusting the fungi are, at least the surfaces of these plants that emit a sickly shimmer are still visible.
But the ooze monster is different, it is simply unimaginable.
At this moment, Brian really admired the team of players who had taken on this task. He couldn't even imagine how they endured it.
However, now is not the time for him to sigh.
Because when the two stepped into the palace gate, they were discovered by the owner of the palace, King Pudding, without any surprise.
"Look what this is, look what this is? Visitors? Now? No! We are not ready yet! Let's go, bug!" A hollow voice sounded in the cave.
"The Faceless Lord will choose another suitable time to bring us good news. At that time, I will announce it to you and even the whole Bullingdon Stone City again! Now, get out!"
The so-called faceless lord naturally refers to Jubilex, who is the demon lord of ooze and mud monsters. He is described in ancient grimoires as the faceless lord and the mud-shaped hungry beast.
As a solitary poisonous creature, it exists only to continuously absorb and assimilate other living substances, making everything become a part of itself.
Only a true madman worships Jubilex and its oozes and oozes.
For this demon lord will consume these devotees and turn them into intelligent creatures that are half man, half ooze.
The bodies of these 'former' flesh-and-blood creatures will become extensions of Jubilex's body, and the demon lord will slowly digest whatever has replaced this creature.
The Faceless Lord Jubilex gave King Pudding the ability to summon and control oozes, then sent him back to Bullingdon Stone, where he declared it the Faceless Lord's territory.
King Pudding sneaked back into a closed area of Bullingdon Stone City to build a royal court, summoning various types of mud monsters along the way to portray the ruins of the city as a dangerous area uninhabitable to the outside world.
The Pudding King, completely insane and channeling terrifying power, takes refuge in his throne, summoning more loyal beings day after day.
Once ready, he will send out this army to devour everything, and Bullingdon Stone and its inhabitants will be transformed into a mass of ooze and goo, just like its master, the Faceless Lord. The image is the same.
Obviously, when the time comes, both the Pudding King and the army of ooze monsters will be the nutrients for the Faceless Lord Jupicles to increase his strength.
This is actually a bit similar to the fungus queen Zugmoy holding a ‘putrid wedding’ to marry Matte Woodland.
Brian followed the sound and saw from a distance that at the end of the palace, the Pudding King sitting on the throne was an underground dwarf covered in ooze with a crazy look on his face.
Around him, on the high platform illuminated by phosphorescent moss, there were pools of green slime on the ground.
More green ooze hangs from the ceiling and flattens to the ground, or forms disgusting curtains on the walls.
He sat on a throne covered with ooze and placed in the center of the cave, facing east.
The throne is carved from stone and covered with a sheet of green ooze, carved with many lidless eyes and open mouths.
"Since you don't want to get out, don't blame me for being rude." King Pudding giggled like an old hen, "Swallow them, my darlings! Let your father be proud of you! Fight for your king. Fight, fight for the glory of the Faceless Lord!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a large ball of mud suddenly poured out of the throne behind King Pudding, wrapping him tightly and shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye! , disappeared from the sight of the two people.
At the same time, the soft mud hanging from the ceiling and forming curtains on the wall fell to the ground like rain, flowing towards the location of the two people in a dark form.
Seeing that King Pudding escaped from the battle, Brian couldn't believe his eyes.
Obviously, he never expected that this cunning Pudding King would say a harsh word, turn around and run away.
"Can you trace his location?" Brian immediately said to Herister through telepathy. "We must not let him run away, otherwise, he will soon use the magic weapon given to him by the Lord of the Faceless Men. Ability to summon a new army of ooze monsters."
"No problem, I can track his location," Helist replied without thinking, but looked at him with a hesitant look." It's just you..."
"You don't need to take care of it here, I can handle it by myself," Brian said nonchalantly, guessing what she was thinking.
While he was speaking, he had already taken out his staff and looked at the large lump of black ooze that was about to approach the attack range of his spell, "I leave the Pudding King to you."
Although Herister specializes in the six major psychic fields, he accidentally learned that she is actually specialized in the field of teleportation.
It was easy for her to track down a servant of a demon lord.
"Then be careful, I will be back soon." The moment Herister's eyes were fixed on the throne, she disappeared into a ray of light.
(End of this chapter)