Mercenary Wars

Chapter 59 Shark Lizard

"Forget Moss!"

I saw two pieces of moss growing in the place pointed by the strong medicine expert, one yellow and one red. They looked ordinary, but anyone with common sense of herbal medicine would realize what they were.

The essential material for making the mixture is the Forget Moss, one of the Forget Plants!

No more than four pieces of Forget-Me-Not moss often grow in clusters, which is one of the few features that makes it easy to distinguish with the naked eye.

To some extent, the plants of the Forget-Me-Not series are the strongest plants. They can grow in any harsh environment and have a strong texture. Even the Forget-Me-Not moss, which looks the lightest and most delicate, is no less strong than ash wood - the bow of Gorgon is made of ash wood.

Some people even dreamed of using advanced forgetfulness plants to make bows, but obviously, the exorbitant cost made this idea doomed to be difficult to implement.

At the same time, Forget plants are the most fragile plants. Once they are sensed by intelligent creatures in any form, they will immediately stop growing and dissolve in the place where they grow within a day and can never be found again.

The disappearance time of the Forget Plants is almost irregular. If you are lucky, they can last for a day. In the worst case, they will disappear with just one look.

In order to avoid this most unfortunate situation, anyone who realizes that they have discovered a plant of the Forgetfulness type will collect it as soon as possible.

The black market team was no exception, so they immediately ran over and prepared to peel off the two pieces of Forget-Me-Not moss.

But at this moment, the ground nearby suddenly shook slightly.

"Rumble..."

"Shark Lizard!" The medicine expert was the first to realize what was happening and quickly threw out two small bottles.

She threw the two small bottles far to the left and right, where they hit the rocks and shattered into pieces. Two strange smells immediately emerged.

Immediately afterwards, at the place where one of the bottles broke, the ground suddenly cracked.

"Roar--" accompanied by a heavy roar and the sound of rocks tearing, a beast more than two meters long suddenly jumped out from the ground, shaking its head and tail in search of a scent.

This beast has sharp claws and a back covered with smooth, reflective blue-gray scales. It looks like a crocodile, a lizard, and an armadillo. It is the underground predator known as the "land shark" - the shark lizard.

"This is a male shark lizard. I used the 'female shark lizard body fluid preparation' to attract its attention. Be careful." The strong medicine expert said and threw out another bottle.

The bottle shattered in the distance.

The shark lizard smelled the scent and immediately rushed over, roaring excitedly.

At the same time, the six of them briefly discussed tactics and took their positions.

Orange Merchant cast spells one after another, first adding a "Power Word: Fortitude" to Gao Jianuo.

[Achieved Status: Power Word: Fortitude]

[Level: First Ring]

[Effect: Constitution +2]

[Time remaining: 2 minutes]

The priest's Power Word Blessing has an effect similar to combat potions such as Rage Potion, but has the advantage of no side effects.

Orange Merchant originally wanted to give Gao Jianuo the "Power Word·Strength", but Gao Jianuo knew that his strength was much higher than his physique, and adding more strength would not make much sense, so he changed it to "Power Word·Tenacity".

With his physical condition improved, he can use his strength more confidently without having to worry about hurting himself.

Gao Jianuo stood behind the grocer, bow and arrow drawn.

Enchanted steel arrows, blood arrowheads, six clusters of swift breezes, and the power word, an unprecedentedly powerful arrow shot out from his bowstring.

"Crack!" With a crisp sound, the sharp arrow pierced through the shark lizard's scales. "Roar!" The shark lizard roared in pain, immediately giving up the search for the female shark lizard, who was hiding somewhere, and turned to rush towards Gao Jianuo.

Gao Jianuo's expression remained unchanged, and he drew his bow and arrow again.

At the same time, the Forbidden Books Merchant completed the spell and waved his staff. A stone pillar quickly rose from the ground, pushing up the shark lizard's hind half.

The grocer, with the help of the Mantra, sent out a shock wave.

"Boom!" Under the impact of the shock wave, the shark lizard beast smashed the stone pillar with one head, and then its whole body was overturned and fell heavily to the ground.

The grocer rushed forward and stabbed the shark lizard's exposed belly with his sword.

But at this moment, the shark lizard beast opened its mouth and spit out a ball of dark green mucus.

The grocer quickly held his shield in front of him.

"Sizzle, sizzle..." The mucus splashed on the shield, accompanied by a pungent smell and the sound of corrosion, and the steel shield became bumpy in an instant.

Fortunately, the grocer was wearing armor, otherwise his bones would have been exposed if he had been sprayed like that.

The shark lizard beast was about to turn over.

Gao Jianuo shot another arrow in time.

The arrow hit the shark lizard beast's abdomen. Compared with its back protected by scales, its abdomen was obviously much more fragile. The arrow went straight into its abdomen, and the blood arrowhead immediately tore open a terrible wound, and blood gushed out for a while.

"Ah--" The shark lizard beast howled, then twisted its body and drilled into the ground beside it.

"Boom." The ground was dug up at an alarming speed, and the shark lizard beast was obviously trying to escape.

The grocer immediately dropped his sword and shield, roared and pounced forward, grabbing the shark lizard's tail tightly with both hands.

The cave explorers also came to help.

But the shark lizard beast still slowly drilled towards the ground.

Just as it was about to escape, Gao Jianuo took a step forward, stuffed an inferior wind magic ball into the wound in the shark lizard's abdomen, and then stabbed it with his sword.

"Boom!" The inferior wind magic ball exploded in the shark lizard's belly, finally killing the thick-skinned beast.

Kill Level 4 Shark Lizard, Experience +100

[Experience: 1268/1200 (upgradeable)]

Gao Jianuo felt a surge of anticipation, but now was clearly not the time to consider upgrading.

The grocer pulled the dead shark lizard out. "The last shark lizard I encountered did the same thing. It damaged my shield and tried to escape. I'm glad I didn't do the same thing this time... I'll give this monster's scales to me as compensation for the damage to my shield. Is that okay with you all?"

Apart from the crystal core, the most valuable part of the shark lizard beast is its scales. However, as a warrior who charged into battle, the grocer also lost a shield, so it is understandable that the scales belong to him.

After everyone nodded, the grocer took out a dagger and laboriously cut open the shark lizard's body, and fumbled out a yellowish-brown tetrahedron crystal.

"Level 4."

For monsters below level four, judging their level is usually based on experience, and mistakes are common, but judging high-level monsters is never wrong.

High-level Warcraft all have crystal cores in their bodies. The crystal core of a level 4 Warcraft is a tetrahedron, the crystal core of a level 5 Warcraft is a pentahedron, and so on. Even someone who knows nothing about Warcraft can accurately judge the level of a Warcraft.

(End of this chapter)