Chapter 2304 Black Pudding Monster

Qiao An has also learned the "Secret Magic Eye". As far as the detection function is concerned, this spell and the "Peeping Magic Eye" have their own strengths.

The "secret magic eye" is more concealed, and the caster can directly observe the movement in the distance through the "secret magic eye". The "peeping magic eye" is not so convenient. You must wait for the magic eye to return to the caster's hand before you can read it. information obtained from the investigation.

The advantage of "Peeping Magic Eye" is that many detection devices can be created at one time to detect different directions and corners respectively, which is suitable for vast and complex environments.

As for the defect that the "Peeping Eye" cannot share vision, Joan can use the "Myth Link" to make up for it, so he prefers to use the "Peeping Eye" when he usually casts spells for investigation.

The brick kiln where the "Mother of the Plague" is hiding is not that complicated. There are only two tunnels extending sideways. Edward's "secret eye" is enough for investigation.

The "secret eye" floated to the first intersection, Edward frowned, and raised his hand to remind his companions to prepare for battle.

Within a minute, scalp-numbing screams came from the depths of the dark and gloomy cave.

Allen raised his hand and cast the "dancing light technique", and four small balls of light flew into the air, illuminating the tunnel ahead.

In the darkness, many shining light spots can be seen faintly, like fireflies all over the sky, moving rapidly towards this side.

"Wow~ so many big mice!"

Xiao Miao whistled and pulled out the throwing knife, blessed the 3-ring natural magic "summoning rain of arrows", and threw it at the brick kiln.

The flying knife crossed the night sky, splitting into countless cold lights when it was about to hit the ground, accompanied by a dense puffing sound, all the vicious rats within 60 feet in front were splattered with blood and screamed, and fell on the way of charging.

Edward showed a ruby-studded wand and fired a "lightning beam" deep into the tunnel. The roaring lightning shot through a string of dire rats, and the screams were mixed with the pungent smell of burnt fur.

Thomas and his hamster familiar turned into a dire bear, blocking the swarm of rats with their huge bodies.

Allen cast a spell to summon a pack of abyssal wolves to fill the space next to the two dire bears, forming a tight line of defense together.

With this line of defense, Rebecca, Ah Zhi, and teacher Benny in the back row can calmly shoot, throw alchemy bombs, and keep killing the approaching dire rats.

The swarm of rats was intercepted and failed to break through the line of defense after suffering heavy casualties. It seemed that they had received someone's order to leave their dead and wounded companions behind and retreat into the depths of the tunnel like ebbing sea water.

Xiao Miao drew out her rapier, and when she saw the Dire Rat who was still struggling, she added a sword to avoid future troubles.

Rebecca held up the holy emblem, chanted a prayer in praise of the goddess of fate, and guided a circle of positive energy fluctuations to help Allen, Thomas, and the hamster familiar stop bleeding and heal their wounds.

After clearing the battlefield, everyone followed Dire Rat and continued to explore the depths of the brick kiln. Not far away, there was a fork in the road ahead.

Edward remotely controlled the "Secret Eye" and flew into the tunnel extending sideways, and said to himself: "The water here is very deep, there should be nothing... Wait! What is that?!"

Under the vigilant gaze of everyone, sewage gushed out from the side tunnel, and a large black object was still wriggling floating on the surface of the water.

Joan waved his "Illumination Technique" and manipulated the magic ball of light to float above the sewage.

Under the radiance of magic, the monster floating on the water clearly appeared in front of everyone.

At first glance, it looks like a large mass of pitch-black clay, with a smooth hemispherical body, exuding a rotten and fermented sour smell.

"This stinky mess looks like some kind of slime." Conti muttered while stroking her braids.

Joan remembered that Jerry said that besides the worms and dire rats, there were oozes as accomplices beside the "Mother of Plague". However, there are many subtypes of oozes with different characteristics.

If you can't figure out what kind of ooze monster this black monster belongs to, you may suffer a loss if you fight later.

...

Scouting Target: Huge Ooze

Life Level: Level 10

Attributes: Strength 16, Dexterity 1, Constitution 22, Intelligence-, Wisdom 1, Charisma 1

Special abilities: ooze traits, blindsight, immunity to acid, immunity to slashing and piercing attacks, fission, acid corrosion, other (unspecified)

...

According to the information obtained from the investigation of "Advanced Internal Vision", Joan compared the entries and illustrations listed in the slime volume of "Vares Monster Illustrated Handbook" to guess the sour smelling slime in front of him. , is likely to be the so-called "black pudding monster".

This kind of creature has almost no intelligence, and relies entirely on instinct to survive in dark and humid environments such as sewers, sewers, and underground caves.

The black pudding monster is born with the ability of "blind sight". As long as it senses the presence of living things or metal objects nearby, it will squirm straight over, beat the prey with pseudo-legs until the opponent stops resisting, and then wrap it with its soft jelly-like body to lose consciousness Its prey secretes acid to dissolve and absorb it.

In the introduction to the Black Pudding Monster in the Monster Illustrated Book, the detail that impressed Joan most was that this creature could reproduce by dividing itself.

The smaller individuals that split out will not be nurtured by the mother, and must rely on their own strength to hunt prey, continue to grow themselves, until they mature, and split into a new black pudding monster again.

In fact, there is no upper limit to the number of divisions of the black pudding monster. As long as there is sufficient food, this low-level creature at the bottom of the evolutionary chain can continue to divide, expand the population size, and cause devastating damage to the ecological environment of the habitat.

Just as Joan was casting a spell to investigate, the black pudding monster was squirming and approaching.

Ah Zhi raised his gun and fired, the lead bullet bombarded the black pudding monster's body made of mud, causing ripples, and the mucus oozing from the wound exuded a pungent sour smell, and in a blink of an eye the lead bullet was corroded to nothing left.

The kobold alchemist found that the shooting was ineffective, so he took out the bomb with the largest charge from his satchel, reminded his companions to cover their ears, lit the fuse and threw it out with all his strength.

The alchemy bomb landed in front of the black pudding monster, and the fuze squirmed sparks.

The mindless monster seemed to be unaware, wriggling its bloated body and crushing directly towards the bomb.

The moment it suppressed the bomb, a loud bang suddenly came from under it, almost shaking the brick kiln down!

Joan pushed the "Iron Maiden" aside to block the mud and acid splashing from the opposite side, but he had no time to resist the dust falling from his head.

Xiao Miao coughed repeatedly from the choking, shook off the dust from the cat's ears, turned her head and glared at the kobold: "How dare you say that the bomb you made is absolutely safe!"

"It was just a small accident. At least I didn't blow up the brick kiln, and I managed to get rid of that slime... eh? Wait, something seems wrong..."

The kobold alchemist looked into the dusty tunnel with confusion in his eyes.