Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 194 Dead Branch Monster

The two cultists' remarks were not an excuse for themselves. After all, they had already pleaded guilty and were willing to be punished, and they were also deeply afraid of the devil's methods.

It's just that in this world, sometimes there is such a situation: it is better to ask God than to ask yourself, and it is better to ask the devil than to ask God. After encountering various unexpected events, seeking help from higher-level forces is often more reliable and effective.

But no matter what they thought in the past, at least they probably don't want to have anything to do with evil anymore.

"The ground is littered with broken limbs and bones..."

The next day, when they were heading in the direction indicated by the Filthworm Demon, everyone couldn't help but be shocked by the scenes along the way.

They walked on the long-abandoned road, pushing aside the dense bushes and thorns. The leafless branches of the trees on both sides swayed in the wind towards them, making a whistling sound from time to time. On the treetops and on the ground, there were shriveled rotten limbs and decayed bones everywhere.

They were far from being close to the sealed location at this moment.

"The remains of undead creatures," Hag Polly licked her lips. "I suspect Orcus is involved. Would Graz'zt really like to use zombie skeletons as his subordinates?"

“Or you can think of it this way: they dumped the undead creatures here because they don’t like them,” Yelena shrugged. “We’d better be nervous. It looks like there are more than just undead creatures haunting this place!”

"What else could there be?" Sera looked around. "There are only stumps and trees here, what else could there be..."

"Kara, Kara"

Before Sera finished her words, some plants behind her that were as dry as the other trees suddenly moved!

Just now, they only appeared as a bush, and even when Ron and his team opened the way and hurt them, they did not show any aggression. However, at this moment, they pulled their roots out of the ground, and countless branches gathered to form a humanoid shape with a head and limbs, and stretched out their claw-like branches and went straight to the back of Sera, who seemed to be the largest!

"Scorching ray!" Ron raised the gem and turned around immediately after hearing the sound, but compared to these mimicry creatures waiting for their turn, his movements were obviously slower.

Sera groaned, and when she turned around, she saw that her back had been cut to pieces, with four scratches deep enough to see the bone.

According to the low intelligence and hunting instinct of these creatures, they would first injure the largest prey by sneak attack, and then surround and eat the others. But this trick might be very useful for ordinary beasts, but not necessarily for barbarians.

"Ahhhhh!" Sera's eyes suddenly turned red due to the inexplicable injury. She grasped the Canglan's Grip in her hand, and faced the overlapping sharp branches without dodging, and plunged into the encirclement of the ambushers!
"Sera, come back here! Damn it!" Ron himself didn't know who to scold, but he couldn't care less at the moment. He could only control the scorching rays to ignite the monsters around the barbarians as accurately as possible. Under the saturation arcane attack, a sea of ​​fire suddenly ignited in the jungle that had not been walked for hundreds of years.

These moving plants were not enchanted by the green dragon, so being ignited by the flames was fatal to them. At the same time, the others began to fight back. The ambush of these monsters not only failed to give them a good meal, but also put them in a desperate situation. In the flames, the plants screamed like burning charcoal. One or two tried to escape from the flames, but their roots were burned after running for two steps. Sera caught up with them and chopped them into firewood with two or three swords.

"You really should have worn armor," Victoria treated Sera's wounds while sitting beside a bonfire made of the corpses of dead branches. "And why did you suddenly run in? Ron called you from behind but you didn't come back!"

"Next time, let's put a bridle and halter on her," Ivy said half-jokingly, "Let Ron tie her up and let her out when necessary."

"You don't need to risk your life against a monster like this with obvious weaknesses, understand? It can be burned to ashes with just a fire."

"I can't stop her even with the reins," Ron smiled, "She can use me like a meteor hammer!"

"Oh! We were suddenly attacked!" Sera scratched her head in embarrassment. "What the hell are these things? I have never seen these things in my hometown!"

"If I knew them, and knew what was the most effective way to deal with them, I wouldn't be like this."

"Withered monsters, if you specifically refer to the things that attacked us, they are dead branch monsters," Yelena glanced at everyone, "I was worried about these guys just now, but I didn't expect them to hide so deep and so close to us."

"When I chopped them with my sword just now, they didn't react at all," Ivy picked up a branch and showed the fresh cuts on it, "and they look almost the same as the surrounding plants."

"The wither monsters are enlightened plants that are endowed with intelligence and mobility, but they are also a plague that spreads the dark infection. Their spread will crowd out and poison other healthy plants, and then replace them with thorns, poisonous weeds and the like." The witch came over. She had just calmly taken some seeds from the surrounding woods.

She thought she had done it secretly, but everyone saw it all.

"Just don't let them run around. I have no objection to using them to guard the house," Ron glanced at the witch's hand meaningfully. "If I receive news that villagers are attacked by withered monsters, I will hold you accountable."

"Don't worry about that," the witch laughed. "What bad intentions could old Polly have?"

"You'd better pray that there is no Gantias tree nearby," Shadow Spirit warned, "The cursed tree may affect the behavior of these plants. If you are not careful, you may become the first hag to be strangled to death by the plants you raise."

"Old woman, I'm not that incompetent." Polly rolled her eyes, seemingly not taking Shadow Spirit's warning seriously.

Shadow Spirit certainly has more opportunities to come into contact with these messy creatures, but how can others guess at the methods of the witch? It's just raising some living wood, what's the big deal!
"Ah, I feel refreshed!" After the wound healed itself under Victoria's spell, Sera stood up suddenly and stretched her arms and spine. "Damn, I've fought so many behemoths, but I didn't expect that I would almost capsize in the gutter today!"

(End of this chapter)