$1470 Underworld Creature 1
Because there is no distinction between the north and south poles in the underworld, Raymond set the direction he was heading to as north.
But after leaving the swamp, he could not help scratching his head when he saw a piece of yellow sand in front of him.
According to the topographic map provided by the Siren tribe, although there are only six swamps, there are only two places with deserts outside the swamps!
One of them is the largest one, and it takes more than five days to cross it at the current speed.
The other smaller one is closer to a dangerous place, and it is said that there is an extremely strange and annoying existence in the center: the ghost of the sand.
The map obtained from the Siren tribe was originally a messy and incomplete one. Although it seems that the explored territory is not small, in fact, many areas are blocked by shadows, and it is obvious that no detailed exploration has been carried out.
Moreover, there is no regularity at all in the changes of the topography of the underworld.
Outside the swamp may be a wetland, or a vast desert, or even a mountainous area without any buffer, so that people have no basis for judgment before reaching its edge.
What is most troubling to Raymond is that the deserts in the underworld are almost all very large, and the Sand Ghosts hidden in the desert are also the most troublesome and difficult existence.
The Sand Ghosts are solitary creatures in the underworld. Their bodies are made of countless gravel. Because of the environment they live in, they are almost immortal, and their strong sense of territory will make any outsider who enters their territory suffer from their endless attacks.
The Sand Ghosts do not have the heart core of important artifacts that ordinary sand people have. Its weakness is that it has a special artifact buried in the desert, which is said to be extremely difficult to find!
Raymond, standing on the dividing line between the swamp and the desert, has the absolutely dark swamp behind him. But the desert in front of him has a faint light, allowing Raymond to vaguely see those sparse plants that seem to be dry and fallen, or even buried in the gravel.
It's just that these plants that look like dried and dead plants are actually a kind of netherworld creatures called "Dead Spirit Vines" by the Siren tribe. Their strength is not high, but if they are accidentally entangled by them, they will suffer an attack similar to the "paralysis" effect.
The sand dunes that stretch and have no end are not particularly undulating.
But Raymond, who started to move forward, slowed down. Keeping himself ten meters away from the ground to avoid those dead spirit vines that seem to have been dead for an unknown period of time.
Because of the existence of the chip, Raymond can determine his direction by positioning the spatial coordinates. It saves the time required for the Siren tribe to locate.
It's just that soon after he entered the desert, the sand dunes that were originally not undulating began to rise.
Although most of the dead spirit vines grow at the bottom of the sand dunes, some dead spirit vines that appear on the top of the sand dunes due to the slow change of the position of the sand dunes began to have a certain impact on Raymond.
The dead spirit vines in a static state are no different from ordinary dead plants. But as long as it enters its attack range, the trunk of the dead spirit vine hidden under the gravel will suddenly rise up and appear silently around Raymond.
The dead spirit vine, which was originally dry and even cracked, is like the most agile and tough whip after being waved, and the surprising huge force is completely different from its appearance.
Therefore, when Raymond encountered such an attack while crossing the sand dunes quickly, he had to increase his flying altitude and continue to move towards the depths of the desert in the extremely turbulent airflow in the desert.
Time passed slowly, and the environment gradually became brighter.
The desert of the netherworld originally had a faint light. With the increase of many gravels with strong radiation, the entire environment gradually became visible to people, and the increase in brightness also brought new discoveries.
Most creatures in the netherworld hate light and like darkness.
But there are still some special cases that can survive in various environments.
Therefore, soon after Raymond removed the green crystal piece that had been clamped on his left eye socket, he saw the most special creature in the underworld with the faint light released by the sand: the Phantom Butterfly!
The Phantom Butterfly has beautiful wings like a butterfly and facial features similar to those of a young girl. Although its body is between transparent and opaque, its graceful figure and elegant and graceful dance posture can make people stop and rest after seeing it.
It is one of the very few Phantom Butterflies that do not have active aggressiveness. Because of the toxins contained in it, it has special protective abilities, and because the toxins contained in it cannot be extracted, it will not be attacked or captured.
Phantom Butterflies that do not have intelligence and wander around in the underworld almost by instinct mostly appear in the depths of the desert, because their characteristics make them a symbol of safety.
Therefore, when Raymond saw this Phantom Butterfly, which has a long-standing reputation in the underworld, he relaxed his tense nerves.
But just as he was about to get closer to admire her graceful dance, a sudden warning sign caused Raymond's protective barrier to suddenly expand outward, and his figure flashed away to a distance of more than ten meters!
But Raymond, who was supposed to appear between the two sand dunes, crashed into the sand dune that was not there before, and dozens of dead vines that sprang up from the sand dune surrounded the sand dune like a prison!
There was a faint light flickering between the dry vines as thick as an adult's arm, and thin roots like roots suddenly emerged from these vines and pierced into the sand dune fiercely, like a sharp thorn piercing Raymond!
The attack that was caught off guard surprised Raymond, who was aware of the strange confinement force around him when he crashed into the sand dune.
The squeezed isolation barrier around him forced Raymond to expel a three-meter-diameter gap in the sand dune, and the stabs formed by the roots of the dead vines naturally could not have any effect on him, but instead allowed him to judge the location of those dead vines!
With his body slightly lowered, Raymond, who was then violently charged, rushed out of the sand dunes. The sand and gravel he shot out instantly broke through the prison formed by the Undead Vine, causing the encirclement that had just been formed to collapse.
But Raymond, whose figure suddenly rose, had his pupils shrink as he faced the desert below him.
He had not paid much attention to the sand dunes before, but when he looked down, he found that the sand dunes that looked similar under him were actually strange!
Dozens of sand dunes twisted in a spiral toward the northwest, and actually formed a shape like a snail shell. The phantom butterflies he had seen before were actually imprisoned in the center, unable to escape from them at all. They were waving their gorgeous wings like dancing, struggling in vain.
The sand dune that was just hit by Raymond, which was like a crater on the top, began to heal silently at this moment. The gravel that rolled up from the bottom of the sand dune like mercury quickly restored the sand dune to its original state as if filling a pit, and also buried the vines of the dead spirits that were waving and lashing wildly in it again, completely disappearing.
Raymond, who was hovering in the air, felt his heart sink when he saw this.
But the strange changes here did not end here.
Just under the bodies of those phantom butterflies, the originally rough and undulating surface seemed to be collapsing. As its overall brightness increased, a distorted face quickly condensed and took shape. There was no pupil in the slowly opening eyelids, but two deep holes that were bottomless.
Raymond, who realized that he might have encountered the ghost of the sand, immediately gave up the idea of leaving quickly.
Because if he cannot defeat the Sand Ghost here, unless he immediately returns to the wizard plane to cut off the connection with the underworld, this extremely troublesome underworld creature will always follow him...