Chapter 529 Tracker

"Brother Joan, come and judge. Is Culkin boring?"

"If everyone is as narrow-minded as Culkin, the artist's life is still in danger, so how can we talk about creative freedom!"

The more Casio said, the more excited he was, his face full of indignation, and he raised his arms to condemn the orc chief.

"Culkin, he's not trying to kill me, he's trying to murder art!"

Joan forced a smile, but didn't make a sound, but felt that Casio's joke was too much, and he deserved to be hated by others for writing a poem to satirize the orc chief.

In fact, Casio was not afraid of offending Culkin, since he was already a deadly enemy anyway, but he also heard that Culkin had a close relationship with the "Conquering Cult", and offending this group of cultists would be fruitless.

Unfortunately his warning came too late.

In fact, Joan and Clark were involved in the dispute between the "Conqueror Order" and the centaurs as early as in House Town, and deeply angered the two high-level officials of the cult group in the Yalfheim area, Isaac General Hooker and Sharman the Snake Hand.

Clark and Joan glanced at each other, and then embarrassedly told the whole story of their feud with the "Conquer Order".

Shrek didn't know Clark's good deeds in House Town until now, so he slapped his thigh angrily, pointed at the frost giant's nose and cursed: "Damn big man! Every time Shrek meets you, you will be in bad luck, this time I was cheated by you again!"

Scolding is scolding, but Shrek is helpless.

The Ogre King is a man who regards "words must be done" as his life creed. Since he has promised to help Clark find treasure, knowing that the future is difficult and dangerous, he can only bite the bullet and accompany him to the end.

After the orc robbers left, the river beach returned to calm, and Clark, Shrek and Cassio fell asleep one after another.

Before going to sleep, Joan performed another "Magic Rope Technique", prolonging the lifespan of the half-plane where she and her companions lived, by 3 hours, and then slipped into a sleeping bag and fell asleep.

As usual, Joan woke up after only two hours of sleep. The night outside the window had not yet faded. It was around four o'clock in the morning, and the companion beside him was still sleeping soundly.

Joan first spent an hour meditating, preparing the 1st and 2nd level spells that might come in handy today, and then used a "magic trick" instead of washing, so as not to disturb his sleeping companions.

When dawn broke, Casio and Clark woke up one after another. Joan had quietly left the demiplane, and set up a campfire on the river beach. The teapot hanging above the fire was sizzling, and the boiling water vapor dispelled the chill of the late autumn morning.

Clark sat up and stretched a lot, snoring loudly in his ears, turned his head and saw that Shrek was sleeping soundly, with saliva flowing down the corner of his mouth.

The frost giant sneered and kicked him: "Fatty, wake up, what delicious food did you dream about?"

"Huh?" The ogre king jumped up and stared at Clark in a daze, not fully awake yet.

"I guess the king didn't dream about some delicious food, but he was dating my sister in his dream. It's really wicked of you to wake up our king and disturb his dream!" Casio half-jokingly said to Clark.

The ogre king blushed and yelled a little guilty: "Don't talk nonsense, Shrek is not having a good dream!"

The three of them laughed and teased each other, and then climbed out of the demiplane window one after another, and slid down the rope hanging to the ground.

Joan got up to say good morning to them, returned to the rope, and chanted a spell to cancel the demiplane created by the "magic rope technique".

As the magic dissipated, the dangling rope also fell down by itself.

Joan put up the rope and returned to the fire.

The tea was already boiling, and the four of them ate dry food with the hot black tea, then packed their bags and continued on their way.

Joan can fly in the air after transforming into "Jotunheim Eagle". Although there is no horse to travel, it will not delay the trip.

Casio can also fly, and Clark can run fast with long legs, but Shrek is the most affected after losing his mount. It is difficult to catch up with his companions by walking alone.

Fortunately, Casio has a way to cast a spell to bless Shrek with the 1st-level spell "Stride Run". In the next three hours, Shrek's running speed will be increased by as much as 30%, which is basically the same as Clark, so there is no need to worry about falling behind.

After everything was ready, the four of them left the camp, went deep into the dense forest along the Mijiu River, and continued northward.

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On the deserted river beach, time passed quietly. In the blink of an eye, it was noon, and there were noisy footsteps in the nearby forest, and a large group of green-skinned orcs came out.

The orc headed by him is very tall and strong, almost comparable in size to an ogre, wearing a shiny enchanted chain mail, a pair of muscular long arms that are so muscular that they swing back and forth as they walk, and their fingertips can easily touch themselves knees, like a gibbon standing upright!

The orc leader's palms were particularly wide, and he wore a pair of glaring red iron gloves, which were inlaid with dense spikes, shining coldly in the midday sun, exuding a creepy and evil aura.

The orc leader stopped on the river beach and looked down at the burnt marks and food residues on the grass, his gloomy eyes flickering.

His left ear was torn off by the root, and the wound extended from the root of the ear to the corner of the mouth, forming a purple scar.

This shocking scar made his already ugly face even more ferocious.

"Lord Culkin, we found traces of camping near here last night, but we didn't find any campers, only two horses tied to tree stumps."

An orc warrior reported to "The Ripper" Culkin respectfully.

Culkin nodded slightly, clenched his fists, and the barbed iron gauntlet made a sound of metal rubbing.

"You guys stay here. I'll talk to Master Shaman. Maybe his 'Yesh Hound' can help us find more valuable clues."

After explaining, Culkin turned around and returned to the forest. The cold air blowing in front of him made him aware of the breath of "negative energy", so he stopped quickly and instinctively got goosebumps all over his body.

Not far from Culkin, a man in black robes stood in the middle of a dense bush, holding an obsidian staff engraved with red patterns, and suddenly lowered the staff to the ground under his feet.

boom!

A circle of negative energy shock waves erupted from the black-robed man's feet, and quickly spread outward. The shrubs affected by this cold magic power were all sucked dry by the black-robed man in an instant, and quickly withered and withered.

The left arm of the man in black moved slightly, and a live snake protruded from the cuff, holding a strange tree root in its mouth.

The roots of the tree emitted a strange red light, covering all the withered and blackened bushes around them, infusing them with evil magic power, and activated them into a group of "withered monsters".