Chapter 688 689. Hunting
The sea breeze gradually blew away the morning fog
Jie Zena stood on the reef and looked towards the outlet of Sun Island Bay, where a three-masted sailboat formed The fleet was taking advantage of the moment when the fog lifted in the morning to rush out of the bay and sail at full speed along the west coast.
A group of mixed-blood elf warriors stood on the deck, and there were a large number of gryphon cavalry hovering above the sailing ship.
Jie Zeina sighed softly. When Tiffany came to visit her yesterday, she had already made it so straightforward. Unexpectedly, she still could not make Captain Roy give up this exploration. action.
Seeing the fleet moving along the west coast in a mighty way, Zhezena plunged into the sea, preparing to have a good sleep at the bottom of the sea.
Since this kind of thing can't be stopped, let them experience it. If Commander Roy's fleet is really destroyed in the western sea, then she will take her group of murlocs with her. Returning to life on the Island of the Sun...
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Miss Tiffany did not take a boat, but turned into a Naga mermaid and swam forward with the fleet in the sea. When she gets tired, she climbs down the ladder back to the boat to rest. This kind of life at sea makes Miss Tiffany feel very novel.
The fleet of nine three-masted sailing ships was arranged in a line, and Captain Keller, the most experienced sailor, drove the No. 6 magic airship at the front of the group...
The busiest thing on the ship is not the crew manipulating the sails, but the gryphon cavalry wandering in the sky. They are responsible for the vigilance of the entire fleet and always fly in circles over the fleet.
According to Boss Roy's instructions, these griffin cavalry also had to explore the surrounding sea and land. They became very busy from the moment they left Sun Island Bay.
Actually, Roy just wanted to take a boat to explore outside, and had no intention of leading the mixed-blood elf guard warriors to continue to develop territory and expand the territory of the elves.
Because the areas of Padstow Forest, Padstow Plateau and Sun Island Bay are enough for the mixed elves to live in. Currently, the half-blood elves are constantly developing the black water swamp, so he does not Plan to continue to develop the Partington plane.
Leading the fleet to the west this time, Roy wanted to know what kind of danger there was on the west side of Sun Island Bay, whether it was plane natives like plateau headhunters, or blackwater swamp dragonflies. Such a high-level monster...
Miss Tiffany met with the sea monster Zezena last night. When she came back, she told Roy that the western sea area was divided into countless power territories by the sea monster priests...
If the fleet rashly breaks into the western sea area, It is very likely that he will suffer a ruthless attack from the sea beast priests.
So this time Roy planned the fleet route to be close to the coastline. In fact, there are some disadvantages to sailing on the sea like this...
The biggest trouble is the area close to the coastline. The fleet will There will be countless reefs, and issues such as tides and strandings must also be considered. In order to prevent the fleet from stranding when sailing close to the coastline, Roy asked the gryphon cavalry to fly around the fleet as much as possible to provide advance warning of the reefs on the waterway. .
Of course, the Griffin Cavalry can only look down at the sea from above. Some reefs are hidden under the sea surface, and it is difficult for the Griffin Cavalry to find them.
This kind of reef group relies on Miss Tiffany to give some early warning.
And this fleet will only sail during the day. Once it gets dark, the fleet will anchor close to the coast.
In this way, the fleet sailed for seven days after leaving Sun Island Bay. This is the edge of the area explored by the Griffin Cavalry. The landforms in front of it have changed greatly. There are countless circular stone pillars hundreds of meters high. Rising from the ground, these stone pillars are not straight upward. Each stone pillar is like countless huge pancakes stacked on top of each other.
The diameter of these stone pillars can be hundreds of meters, and the diameter of small stone pillars is also tens of meters, and the height is about the same...
The sea breeze blows into this stone forest, and it will continue to wail. Sound...
This piece of stone pillars extends far west along the coastline.
Currently, the gryphon cavalry have not been able to explore the end of the stone forest area. They only know that behind this stone forest is a virgin forest. When the gryphons fly to the edge of the stone pillar, they do not dare to fly forward. This virgin forest has never been explored.
The main reason is that there is a group of third-level monsters living in the canyon here. They are wind snakes that live in groups...
For a long time, the wind snakes in Shizhu Canyon have been from the barrier mountain group. The gryphon's old enemy.
Roy stood on the deck of the magic airship at the front and looked towards the land at the edge of the coastline. Those hundred-meter-high stone pillars were like stone giants, standing on the coastline.
"Kaka, I heard that there are many wind snakes living in this stone forest?" Roy asked Kaka.
This time we took a boat to explore the west. Kaka and Little Eugene led their respective cavalry squadrons and traveled westward with the fleet...
"Yes, these wind snakes are level three monsters. And there are a lot of them. Little Eugene and I have been here before. We wanted to hunt a few wind snakes and bring them back. Unfortunately, we failed. Little Eugene was bitten by a wind snake. If we hadn't run so fast, we would have been killed very quickly. Just flee back to the village, little Eugene will probably die on the way," Kaka said to Roy with lingering fear.
Little Eugene was chatting with Leah on the roof of the ship at this time.
"Are these wind snakes difficult to hunt?" Roy asked Kaka.
"Yeah!" Kaka responded, and then said:
"These wind snakes like to build their nests on stone pillars. They live in groups in the stone pillar canyons. We have tried many hunting methods. It's a pity that it didn't work."
Kaka looked a little embarrassed.
“The adult wind snake is almost seven or eight meters long, with a pair of wings growing out of its back. It is very good at gliding in the air. They usually don’t fly very fast. When they want to escape, they just need to fold their wings. They can fall like sharp arrows."
"When there is wind, they will also fly with the wind. How high these wind snakes can fly depends on how high the wind can blow them."
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"If it is in an open area, the griffins can easily defeat these wind snakes, but in this stone forest, the griffins are no match for the wind snakes. The wind snakes have flexible bodies and are as strong as black iron. Their strength Infinitely, as long as the wind snake entangles the griffin, the griffin will be entangled to death by the wind snake unless it uses 'Iron Will'..."
"If it were not for flying into the stone pillar forest on a griffin, Ordinary adventure groups can't get involved with wind snakes at all..."
Kaka knows these wind snakes very well and seems to have done a lot of homework.
"Let the fleet anchor in this area tonight. Let everyone be careful and don't let the wind snakes in the Stone Pillar Forest take them as prey." Roy ordered Captain Keller.
Captain Keller quickly agreed and turned around to make arrangements.
"So your exploration ended here because of the wind snake in the valley?" Roy asked Kaka.
"Although it's a bit hard to say, it's true!" Kaka responded a little embarrassed.
"These wind snakes are level three monsters. Are the magic materials on them valuable in the magic market?" Roy turned to ask Claire, who was studying the whaling heavy crossbow.
Claire held the control handle with one hand and answered without thinking:
"The feathers on the wings are the main materials used to make wind-controlling arrows, fangs, and poison sacs. Snake skins are quite valuable.”
He has been helping Roy process a large amount of magic metals and magic herbs in the past few years. Many high-end Warcraft materials are also processed by Claire, so he is also very familiar with these Warcraft materials.
Woods, Moira, and Sabrina were also discussing the whaling heavy crossbow on the bow of the boat at the moment, and heard Roy talking about the wind snake with Kaka and Claire. Woods couldn't help but asked Roy:
"Roy, are you trying to take advantage of those wind snakes?"
Luo Yi nodded and said:
"...Yes, I want to give it a try. These wind snakes are too close to Sun Island Bay. I don't want a large group of wind snakes to rush into Sun Island Bay one day and catch me by surprise."
" They are flying monsters that live in groups, how can we deal with them?" Woods asked with some confusion.
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It didn’t take long for Woods to have an answer to his question.
The flotation devices of the nine magic airships were all activated, and then these magic airships with their sails retracted floated into the air. The magic airship did not fly into the wind layer, but flew higher than Shizhu Mountain. It hovered at a higher position.
Then the propulsion device at the stern of the magic airship started, pushing the magic airship to slowly move over Shizhu Mountain.
At least three hundred mixed-race elves with longbows stood on the sides of each magic airship. They were condescending, holding elven longbows and crowded together. From a distance, every magic airship was full of people. A densely packed black area.
There are a large number of gryphon cavalry lingering around the magic airship...
Such a big movement naturally alarmed the wind snakes hiding in the stone pillar forest. These wind snakes were in the chaos, One after another, they came out through the gaps in the stone pillars. They had already felt the dangerous atmosphere brought by these magic airships.
These wind snakes spread their wings behind them, and their long snake bodies are constantly twisting, and they can actually fly high into the sky.
They were the overlords of the Stone Pillar Forest area and had no fear of the sudden appearance of the magic airship. Hundreds of wind snakes flew towards the magic airship.
Roy stood on the observation deck of the main mast of the first magic airship, holding a flag in his hand. When he saw that these wind snakes had flown into the range of the elf archers, he immediately waved it. Flag in waving hand.
The next second, countless arrows fell from both sides of the magic airship.
The arrows shot by the elves from a high position hit the wind snakes one after another, causing some arrows to be inserted into their bodies...
Of course, the hordes of wind snakes would not stop there. Retreating, they can control the power of the wind. When they flap their wings, the hidden magic patterns on many wind snakes light up one after another. Tornadoes form in front of the wind snakes, and then roll towards the magic airship high in the sky...
The force of the fierce wind shook the magic airship violently and continued to rise high into the sky.
When these magic airships are blown up by more than twenty meters by the strong wind, the power of the strong wind exerted by the wind snake loses any power.
Cyclones flew out of the stone pillar forest, unable to affect the magic airship floating in the sky.
This group of wind snakes desperately rushed towards the magic airship in the face of the densely falling arrows. They were still spraying poisonous arrows in their mouths, but the venom splashed on the bottom of the ship, which had no effect on the people on the magic airship. Half-blood elves do no damage.
Some wind snakes covered in arrows fell from mid-air after their physical strength was exhausted.
There were too many mixed-blood elf guard warriors on the magic airship, and they shot arrows endlessly.
Faced with the rain of falling arrows, the wind snakes simply had no way to escape...
Wind snakes kept falling after being hit by arrows.
Occasionally, some extremely brave wind snakes fly up against the rain of arrows, and are immediately targeted by the gryphon cavalry who have been waiting at high altitude for a long time...
Kaka and little Eugene each He led a squadron of gryphon knights to deal with the wind snakes who broke through the arrow rain defense line.
After receiving a short period of formal training, the gryphon cavalry were able to skillfully wield the elven swords in their hands during aerial combat. Some wind snakes were cut down by the elven swords as soon as they flew up.
The area around the magic airship has become very chaotic...
The griffins and these wind snakes are obviously old enemies. Once the two sides encounter each other, they will almost fight to the death.
This time the gryphon cavalry had the help of the mixed elf archers, and they quickly suppressed these wind snakes...
Some wind snake corpses fell on the top of the Stone Pillar Forest, More wind snake corpses fell to the bottom of the canyon.
In this ambush of the Wind Snake, Roy used the arrows on the ship regardless of the cost.
In the rain of arrows, the fighting will of these wind snakes was finally defeated by the mixed-blood elf guard soldiers.
Some wind snakes in the Stone Pillar Forest began to flee to the northwest...
The mixed-blood elf warriors on the magic airship let out a burst of cheers.
In terms of strength, these mixed-blood elf guard warriors cannot fight against the wind snakes at all, but they stand on the magic airship and shoot arrows at the wind snakes rushing into the sky from a high position. This is another situation. But Roy doesn't care about the consumption of arrows...
After a battle, the mixed-blood elf guard warriors on the magic airship actually won the battle.
The dispersed Wind Snake re-entered the narrow gap in the Stone Pillar Forest...
The Griffin Cavalry began a desperate pursuit into the Stone Pillar Forest. They quickly reached the stone pillar. The wind snake's nest was found, and some wind snake eggs were also found in the nest. Together with the wind snake's corpse, they were taken as trophies and moved to the magic airship.
Wind snake eggs are almost as big as a coconut, with pink spots on the snow-white eggshell and a very strong shell.
The gryphon cavalry packed these wind serpent eggs into a wooden box. Soon one wooden box was full, and then they started loading the second box...
When Claire saw these giant eggs, Roy whispered:
"Roy, we made a profit this time. These wind snake eggs are very valuable and can definitely be sold at the Castletown Magic Market." A good price.”
In just half a day, the mixed-blood elf guard warriors on the magic airship defeated the wind snakes in the Stone Pillar Forest.
As the gryphon cavalry cleans the battlefield non-stop, the magic airship continues to pursue north...
There is a row of wind snakes riddled with holes on the deck. This kind of wind The snake leather is not very valuable, but fortunately, some tail feathers of wind-controlling arrows can be removed from the wings.
(End of this chapter)