Saint Laurent Prison Warden

Chapter 131: The End of the Swamp Snake Man

Buzz!

The silver party of the swamp snake people is huge and complicated, and the entire tribe basically has a snake entangled with someone and everyone has a snake.

But even so, there will still be a few unlucky ones among the swamp snake people who did not receive an invitation to the silver party.

They will be rejected by the tribe and tasked with keeping watch.

Originally this was a very easy task. They only needed to wander around the tribe until dawn, and they would be able to become the center of the silver party tomorrow and enjoy the highest quality fellow tribesmen located in the center of the snake ball.

But tonight is destined to be different.

In the dimness, green vegetation floats on the water, forming a thick green carpet. However, under this beautiful green carpet, there is a bottomless muddy area. These quagmires are like greedy mouths, ready to devour any life that accidentally steps into them. Once trapped, the sticky muddy water will tightly wrap around like shackles, making it difficult to extricate oneself. The more you struggle, the deeper you will sink.

The stench of the swamp is also a major feature. The water here is turbid and filled with rotting plants and animal carcasses. After decomposition by microorganisms, a large amount of toxic gases such as hydrogen sulfide and ammonia are produced. These gases form an invisible "stink mask" above the swamp, which makes people want to vomit. Moreover, this stench is not constant. It will become stronger and weaker with the change of weather and time, as if playing with people's sense of smell.

In the swamp, countless parasites and poisonous flies are invisible killers that can kill people if you are not careful.

In the swamp, the fire element in the air is absorbed by the earth element and the water element and pressed deeply into the mud. Therefore, the effect of releasing fire magic in the swamp is halved. Conversely, releasing earth magic and water magic will have different degrees of bonuses.

However, such a dangerous swamp could not limit the advance of the skeleton soldiers.

Skeletons were too light, they could step on the floating grass and would not sink into the mud. At the same time, they were undead and would not be affected by the poisonous gas in the air. Poisonous insects and parasites were also helpless against the fleshless skeletons.

If you must say, skeleton soldiers are more adapted to swamps than swamp creatures!

Buzz...

The two snakemen in charge of the guard looked into the distance vigilantly. Outside the dark swamp, orange and yellow spots of light appeared.

These light spots were initially very far away and only the size of a finger.

At first the snake people didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just a common phenomenon like swamp fireflies or will-o'-the-wisp.

But only twenty minutes later, the light spot in the distance grew to the size of a head, and the scattered light even made it difficult for the swamp snake man to open his eyes.

Closer and closer!

Swamp snake people are nocturnal animals, so their eyes are not suitable for working during the day. They need to keep their eyes moist at all times to work properly, and they can't look directly at the overly strong sunlight.

After being loaded with lightning balls, the light from the skeleton soldiers was no less brilliant than the sun at noon, and was very irritating to the eyes of the swamp snakemen.

The frightened swamp snakeman immediately returned to its nest, hissing.

The ball of swamp snakemen suddenly dispersed, and a large group of snakemen spit out their tongues and looked at the thunder ball skeleton in the distance.

Although lightning balls are quite effective against swamp snakemen, they will not give up so easily.

The swamp snakemen certainly have their own unique features to dominate the swamp. They are a rare long-range soldier in this swamp!

"Haas!"

The swamp snake man coiled up his body and used his long hands to support his upper body so that his upper body was lifted high.

They opened their mouths and spewed black venom at the skeleton soldiers through the air!

The venom is deadly, and a small amount of it can easily kill an adult swamp hippopotamus. But the opponents of the swamp snake people are the skeleton soldiers without flesh and blood.

Among so many powerful creatures in the swamp, Richard chose the swamp snakemen as his target. Of course, it was not a random choice. The most powerful weapon of the swamp snakemen was completely restrained by the skeleton soldiers!

Boom! Boom!
When the venom in the air entered the plasma field around the skeleton soldiers, it was immediately weakened by the lightning force field generated by the lightning ball.

The physical impact of the venom was gradually dissipated in the lightning force field, and when it landed on the skeleton soldiers, it didn't even knock off the skeleton soldiers' bone powder. The toxin, which was the main killing force, was completely immune to the skeleton soldiers.

The biggest advantage of ranged troops is that they can reduce or even destroy the enemy before they arrive. Once they lose the ability to reduce the enemy and fall into close combat, the advantages of ranged troops will disappear.

Swamp snakemen are the most typical ranged soldiers. Because of their venom and ranged attack capabilities, their melee capabilities are highly degraded.

Finally, the skeleton soldiers approached the swamp snake man with the power of thunder.

The lightning ball was launched the moment it was released, and the radial lightning that had been unable to find the enemy suddenly had a target and hit the swamp snakemen around it.

A crackling sound was heard, and several swamp snakemen closest to the skeleton soldiers were struck by lightning, causing their movements to temporarily slow down.

The skeleton soldier stepped on thunder, walked up to the snake man, raised the skeleton axe in his hand, and chopped it down!
With a swish sound, the skeleton axe cut through the swamp snake man like cutting spicy strips, cutting the swamp snake man into two pieces.

Warm, crimson blood gushed out from the snake man's wounds, dyeing the swamp red.

Wherever the skeletons passed, the snake men fell like wheat.

Richard watched this scene quietly. A faint blood energy flowed out of the snake man's bright red blood and sank into Richard's body.

Suddenly, the moment a stream of blood entered Richard's body, Richard felt his muscles tighten, and a force surged out from deep within his heart, flowing around him!
Upgraded!
"Hmm?" Richard was pleasantly surprised to find that after the upgrade, there was actually a blue air current reverberating in his soul. The air current was pure and mysterious, causing his mind to tremble.

In addition to the regular attack power +1, this upgrade also provides a few more skill points!

"Using skill points can improve the auxiliary skills I have already learned." Richard thought about it.

Now my auxiliary skills are only [Ultimate Balance] and [Elementary Necromancer].

Ultimate Balance allows me to cast spells while I'm moving. Necromancer allows me to summon skeletons. Both of these can benefit me a lot.

But at this stage, necromancy is undoubtedly the most magical skill among all magical skills for me.

Richard gave his precious skill points to [Basic Necromancer] without hesitation!
At that moment, a stream of clear water washed through the depths of Richard's soul, and the [Basic Necromancer] was upgraded to [Intermediate Necromancer]!
【Intermediate Necromancer:

After a battle is won, part of the dead troops will be automatically converted into skeletons. The objects of the conversion must be living combat units. The type of the conversion depends on the type of soldiers killed.

Intermediate necromancy can transform melee soldiers into level 1, 2nd stage [Skeleton Warriors]/range soldiers into level 1, 2nd stage [Skeleton Archers].

20% of the enemies killed in battle can be converted into skeleton soldiers. 】

The moment Richard's necromancy was successfully upgraded, the skeleton soldiers born from the body of the swamp snake demon suddenly changed from skeleton soldiers holding bone axes to [skeleton archers] holding bone bows!
"Ga gaga gaga!" The moment the skeleton archer was born, he instinctively raised the bow without a bowstring in his hand!
Use bones as bow and hatred as arrows!
The skeleton archer condensed his hatred in his lifetime into a soul arrow, but this soul arrow was not shot at the murderer who killed it, but at its fellow snakeman!
As soon as the skeleton troops came into contact with the snake army, the snake army melted like butter touching fire, and was no match at all. Compared with the skeleton soldiers, the value of the skeleton archers was not much improved, but because of their long-range attack ability, the value of the skeleton archers was five times that of the skeleton soldiers!
The snakemen, who were out of reach of the skeleton soldiers even if they ran their legs off, fell one after another under the shooting of the skeleton archers.

Husbands and wives are birds of the same forest, and when disaster strikes, they fly separately.

Seeing this, the remaining snake people abandoned their fellow tribesmen who were being slaughtered without hesitation and fled in all directions.

Richard saw this and shrugged without any surprise.

Today, he came here not to defeat this group of snake people, but to destroy them all!

In the distant swamp wasteland, streams of light appeared.

Another group of skeleton soldiers who had already gone around formed an encirclement under Richard's command and forced the snake people back.

Under normal circumstances, they should surround the snakemen on three sides and leave one of them open, so as to reduce their will to resist and reduce the casualties. But none of the skeleton soldiers could die, and there would be no casualties, so Richard naturally chose the most cruel method.

For monsters like the swamp snakemen whose bestiality far outweighs humanity, iron and blood are more effective than any civilization.

As the encirclement gradually shrank, the screams of the snake people gradually subsided. The snake people who dared to resist had no other fate except death. Only a group of guys were left huddled in the encirclement, trembling in fear.

"That's enough, stop." Richard raised one hand and clenched his fist towards the sky. All the skeleton soldiers immediately stopped attacking and stood still.

Richard rode on the gargoyle and landed in front of the snake people, looking down at them.

He had the gargoyle pick up a skinned river deer in one hand and a sharp stone sword in the other, and smash both to the ground.

Richard's meaning is very simple, those who follow me will prosper, those who go against me will perish. Food and death, you can only choose one.

Even the not very intelligent swamp snake people understood Richard's meaning at this time. They pulled each other and rushed to surround the river deer, and kowtowed to the gargoyle.

However, the group of snake people's eyes were obviously not focused on Richard, but were staring at the obsidian gargoyle under Richard.

Richard couldn't help but be speechless.

This group of snake people obviously misunderstood the target of their worship and mistook the giant obsidian gargoyle as the boss of all skeletons.

They met Laozi, but kowtowed to Qingniu repeatedly. They deserved their failure.

Richard took a look and saw that after a round of slaughter, only twenty-six of the huge swamp snake population were left, including males and females, old and young.

Richard was quite satisfied with this number. It would not cause the snake people to die out spontaneously due to too few people, nor would it cause trouble due to too many people.

He ordered the other skeleton soldiers to disperse and guard the surrounding areas, and then ordered two skeleton soldiers to act as supervisors to drive the snakemen back to their lair.

These swamp snakemen were obviously frightened by the skeleton soldiers. Even though there were only two skeleton soldiers driving them away, they did not dare to resist at all and were obediently driven back home by the skeleton soldiers.

After arriving at the snakemen's lair, Richard continued to let the skeleton soldiers raise the bone axes in their hands to scare the snakemen.

The swamp snake people were indeed frightened. They returned to their respective nests, dug out the smelly sulfur from their nests, and held it in their hands to present to the skeleton soldiers.

"Sure enough!" Richard was overjoyed.

“The Atlas of Swamp Creatures records that the ancestors of the swamp snake people actually lived in the ocean, so their scales are not resistant to many parasites in the swamp.

Swamp snakemen infested by parasites will die from skin ulcers, which is an extremely painful death.

Despite this, the ancestors of the swamp snake people still found a way to survive in the swamp and have survived to this day, that is, they have the ability to find sulfur veins. The swamps in the Yasha world can precipitate fire elements and suppress the fire elements in the air into the soil. Therefore, the swamps are rich in sulfur mines.

The snake-folk can find sulfur veins buried deep within the swamps and can expel the parasites by placing sulfur in their rooms.

Finding the snake people's colony is like finding a sulfur vein."

Richard blew the whistle excitedly, and a group of skeleton soldiers immediately crawled into the snake man's cave.

The skeleton soldiers were not smart enough to understand complicated commands, but they could still understand the instructions to go into the cave, make a circle and then come out.

Richard carefully examined the sulfur powder on the skeleton soldiers and laughed excitedly:

"This reserve is a rich mine, so the output will not be too small."

Under normal circumstances, digging sulfur ore is a rather troublesome matter. As a companion to the element of fire, sulfur is naturally highly corrosive. Ordinary creatures who want to dig sulfur have to wear a lot of complicated protective equipment, otherwise they will be harmed by sulfur.

You don't have to worry about this problem when using skeleton soldiers as miners. It's not that skeleton soldiers are immune to the damage of sulfur, but that skeleton soldiers are worthless and will die if they die.

It is not easy to obtain skeleton soldiers who can mine - they are exclusive to the necromancers of the Island of the Dead, and Richard can't get them.

Fortunately, Richard was prepared.

After confirming that there were sulfur veins underground in the nearby swamp, Richard immediately returned to the prison and brought all the living brain worms over.

Under the control of the living brain worm, the stupid skeleton soldier threw away the axe in his hand, picked up the pickaxe instead and walked into the mining area.

Ten minutes later, the skeleton soldiers staggered out under the control of the living brain worm. There were many signs of corrosion on the skeletons' bodies, and they held a piece of dug sulfur in their hands.

"Living brain worms are constructs that can ignore the damage of sulfur in the mines. They attach themselves to skeleton soldiers and control them to mine.

If a Skeleton Soldier is corroded and consumed, the living brain worm can also leave the Skeleton Soldier's body and control another Skeleton Soldier to take over the job.

What I have the most right now is skeleton soldiers. There are other skeleton soldiers who can do the work that this skeleton soldier cannot do.

With the Skeleton Miner, I can develop the resources in the Great Swamp. In this way, in the early stages of building Saint Laurent Prison, I don't have to worry about resources and can build underground mazes and various laboratories.

Swamps provide resources to develop prison buildings, and prisoners provide rules to raise the prison ceiling.

In this way, the strategy of Saint Laurent Prison has basically taken shape. What remains is to build a team of prison guards who are suitable for you.”

Richard tapped his palm lightly: "The matter of the magic school must be implemented as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)