Chapter 237: Blackwater Swamp
Seiya didn’t mind Dongfang’s teasing. He had been through this all the way here and had long become immune to the little girl’s somewhat mean words. Besides, Seiya was shameless enough to sit directly on Chen Ran’s small flying saucer.
Seeing that the white knight was also a guy with decent combat power, and his strength seemed not far from the eighth tier, Chen Ran didn’t deliberately object. He just reminded him, “I’m not responsible if you die, kid.”
“Crow’s mouth. Do I look like someone who will die young?” Seiya said boldly, “A great shaman once told me that I can live to be at least a hundred years old.”
“Superstition.”
Since another person had come, Chen Ran didn’t object. The capacity of the magic flying saucer was enough to carry four people without being crowded, not to mention that one of them was a little girl. So the group of four set off, fully equipped.
Leaving the Holy City and facing the cool breeze, Chen Ran asked Seiya curiously, “Didn’t you come to the Holy City to find experts? Why does it look like you haven’t experienced anything?”
“Don’t mention it. It’s depressing,” Seiya turned his head and said helplessly. “I asked around. Among the most outstanding young people in the Holy City, one is a woman, a discipline priest. But after fighting with Cheryl, I found that I really don’t have much interest in fighting women. I might be accused of sexual harassment. The other is a Templar Knight. He seems to be about my age, but he has reached the ability of an eighth-tier knight. The problem is, he’s not in the Holy City…”
Needless to say about that woman. In the Holy Church, Nicole was undoubtedly one of the top experts among the younger generation. As for that Templar Knight…
Nicole explained, “That Templar Knight is Othello. At the same age, he reached the eighth tier earlier than me. His talent is astonishingly high. He is the adopted son of Cardinal Damas of the Holy Department. Everyone calls him the Perfect Knight, a guy who lives a very tiring life. And this time, he is one of the guards escorting His Highness the Holy Child.”
“Oh, so that’s how it is,” Seiya suddenly realized. “Since that’s the case, I have to go to the Blackwater Swamp this time. I’ve been in the Holy City for a few days, and I feel the environment is good. I’ve had a few days of peaceful sleep, so it wasn’t a wasted trip. The girls here are also quite nice, unlike the love-struck girls in the Imperial Capital. If I can’t find a good girl in the future, finding one here seems not bad…”
Nicole said in a deep voice, “Don’t you dare ruin the girls in our Holy City. If I find out, I won’t be polite to you.”
Seiya couldn’t help but shiver and exclaimed, “So fierce…”
The Deadwater Swamp was far from the Holy City, located at a remote junction between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Turin Empire. Chen Ran and the others spent half a week traveling as fast as they could to reach the outskirts of the Blackwater Swamp.
The Blackwater Swamp got its name because its environment was extremely dark. The deeper you went, the darker the trees became. There were even ghost trees and man-eating trees. In such a place where chaotic power was relatively complex, it was also the place where the Witch Clan was most willing to appear, because there were too many meaningful experimental subjects here.
The motive of the Witch Clan taking the initiative to attack the Holy Church team was unclear. But seeing that they had been tracking them, it was naturally impossible that they just wanted to fight with the people of the Holy Church on a whim. It seemed there was a deeper motive. But after barely reaching the outskirts of the swamp, Chen Ran and the others could no longer continue to travel with the convenient transportation tool of the flying saucer. Because the various keen-smelling anti-air magical beasts and wyverns here were enough to cause a fatal blow to Chen Ran and the others. They were forced to land and search by moving slowly on the ground.
This was a high-level magical beast area. The creatures here were more or less poisonous and resistant to poison. The air was filled with a miasma that made people weak.
Fortunately, Chen Ran’s support ability played a huge role here. There was no need for Nicole’s complicated methods, and the journey was quite convenient.
Along the way, there were too many aggressive swamp forest creatures that actively sought them out. Chen Ran’s system positioning could not avoid the dangerous creatures that could be seen everywhere. So he did not dodge, but moved straight in the direction indicated by Nicole, killing any living creature that dared to attack without mercy.
What surprised Chen Ran a little was that many creatures here had dark attributes. Chen Ran’s blood essence value seemed to have a certain bonus for dark creatures, barely making up for a little bit of the kidney-deficient experience loss in the Netherworld. If the blood essence recovery in the Netherworld was calculated normally, Chen Ran estimated that he would have reached level fifty-two or three.
With two not-weak combat forces, Nicole and Dongfang, and Seiya, the free laborer noob, the group of small monsters were killed casually. Various Demon Shadow Leopards, Fanged King Kong Beasts, and Demon Bees, rarely below the fifth or sixth tier, appeared. This also proved the terror of the Black Swamp. Moreover, these were just some ordinary magical beasts on the outskirts.
Seiya was a little depressed. Although he killed very happily under Chen Ran’s powerful support, he couldn’t help but think of the scene when he was blackmailed by that kid Colin.
With such powerful support, plus Chen Ran was also present that day, Seiya, although straightforward in speech, was not stupid. He immediately figured out that Chen Ran had united with Colin to trick him at that time. He looked resentful. Chen Ran just laughed it off, praised and comforted the kid a little, and barely eliminated some of Seiya’s unhappiness.
But at the same time, he gradually discovered something…
As the battle deepened, Seiya found that his invincible precious sword had chipped when facing a steel-armored rhino. He couldn’t help but notice Nicole’s Demon’s Defiance and Dongfang’s Word Spirit Staff. None of them were not exquisite sharp weapons, cutting monsters like cutting vegetables. Compared to the sharp sword in his hand, they were simply several grades higher.
Seiya suddenly remembered that Cheryl also seemed to have a peerless Phoenix Staff…
Seiya squinted his eyes.
“Make me a longsword too when we get back, of the same grade as theirs… Don’t play dumb. Don’t think I don’t know. The weapons of those guys with divine weapons were all made by you. If you have the guts, swear that you didn’t make them, or your JJ will be two inches shorter.”
Faced with such a vicious curse, Chen Ran said gloomily, “What do you want? You also know the market value of this thing. It’s not something that can be made just by saying it, or given just by saying it…”
“Brother, I beg you. Consider it as me owing you a favor…”
“Can your favor be eaten as food? You have to know that the market value of a good thing is at least a million gold coins…”
“That’s a problem. But my pocket money is only more than a hundred thousand gold coins. It seems the difference is not just double or triple. How about I owe you first, and I’ll definitely make it up then. I guarantee with the character of my cousin, the commander of the First Legion…”
“My titanium alloy dog eyes are blinded…”
