Slime Immortal.

Chapter 43 The First Talisman

"Castle Guards Assemble!"

Chen Yu jumped under the oak tree and conveyed the order to assemble through the queen bee.

"Buzz-!"

The noisy buzzing sound echoed throughout the oak territory, and a black mass of stinging bees in the hive gathered and dispersed like clouds, forming a 20*20 guard team.

All the soldier bees of the stinger hive gathered here. Each of them had a fat black tail. According to war standards, they stored up to five stingers, enough for two rounds of heavy firepower.

Although these soldier bees are only Black Iron-rank monsters, the jackals, who have no resistance to poison, will feel excruciating pain if they are besieged and stung by them, which is basically equivalent to losing their combat effectiveness.

A poisonous wound that is useless in the depths of the swamp is worthy of the word "noble" outside the swamp.

In addition, due to the rare flying properties and extremely terrifying size of the stinger soldier bee, ordinary jackals and wolves cannot even touch it. When they see it, they can only tuck their tails between their legs and run away.

To be honest, it is quite a luxury to use such a luxurious lineup to explore the Death Swamp.

Before Chen Yu mastered the queen bee, the entire hive had only a little over a hundred stinger bees, including the worker bees that raised bryozoans, the guards who guarded the hive, and the idle drones.

With Chen Yu clearing the swamp threat and the bryozoan farms continuing to expand, the number of stinging bees has skyrocketed to its current terrifying level.

Arno stood at the back and saw the dense swarm of poisonous bees. Even though he knew they were all teammates, he still felt his scalp tingling.

He swallowed hard, "Boss, there are so many stinging bees...are you planning to attack Iron Boots Town?"

Chen Yu turned around and walked up to the same height as Arno using the tree roots, communicating through physical contact.

"Iron Boot Town? I'm not interested in those humans. Each one is poorer than the other. What good would it do me to beat them up?"

"Forehead……"

Arno couldn't refute this. Compared to the demons who lived in the swamp, the adventurers in Iron Boots Town were indeed extremely poor.

"Ano!"

When Arno heard the voice that suddenly rang in his mind, it was as if he was back in the knight training camp when the knight instructor called his name in the same way.

He couldn't help but stand at attention.

"Yes...yes! Boss, please give me your orders."

"Very good, very impressive."

"Next, you will lead the team to open up a forest road to the south and lead the stinging bees into the Death Swamp to gather intelligence."

"Ah? Yes!"

After accepting the mission, Arno came to his senses and found that he seemed to have become the captain of the Monster Guard.

While a strange feeling arose in his heart, he was also excited about the devil's use of him.

But he was still a little worried.

"Boss, these stinging bees don't seem to understand what I'm saying."

"Don't worry. The guards will follow the route designated by the queen bee. Just follow them. If you find something wrong, just whistle and they will retreat with you."

"So are these beetles on the ground also part of the guard?"

Arno looked at the dozens of digging beetles on the ground that were undergoing training.

He was familiar with this kind of beetle. Apart from its shell being as hard as stone, it had almost no offensive power and was the toy that adventurers kicked around on the roadside for fun.

"You said these shields will be useful in the future."

"Shield?"

Arno reluctantly accepted his boss's strange way of thinking. Under Chen Yu's gaze, he led the Bee Guards out of the castle and headed south.

The Death Swamp in the south is not far from the Oak Territory, and in the absence of rain, the stinging bees can march quickly. It is estimated that Arno will be able to return in less than half a day.

Chen Yu took advantage of this free time to climb the oak steps and enter the slime tree house he built.

This tree house is about eight cubic meters in size, which is a very spacious space for Slime. It is enough to store the materials and tools he needs to practice drawing talismans and some common language books brought by Arno.

He originally planned to dig a basement in a hidden underground place to store these things.

But the swamp is very wet and water can be dug out with just a little digging.

The damp environment suited the slime well, but his precious creatures couldn't stand it, so he had to build the library/spellbook room on a sunny, high place. The view from up there was indeed quite nice; through the small windows, one could overlook the vibrant Oak Territory and the lush green swamp beyond the castle.

Chen Yu always felt that if he drew talismans in a place like this, the success rate might be higher.

"With Level 2 talisman drawing skills, I should be able to successfully draw talismans in Zeyarilla."

Chen Yu swallowed the tools stored in the corner, and then spit them out onto the ground where the talisman was drawn. He used his soft body to "click and click" to flatten the leaf talisman paper, covered the talisman head with a mud brick, opened the ink cap, and dipped the stinger pen in ink... This set of actions consumed a lot of his energy.

The preparation work alone for drawing slime talismans is very troublesome.

Chen Yu clamped the stinger pen, inhaled air to produce bubbles, and decisively moved the gel to write, and the rune was drawn in one go.

You know what, compared to the scribbles I drew when I first started learning, this one at least looks pretty good. You can barely make out the word "敕".

It’s just that the spiritual power wasn’t flowing smoothly enough, so it still failed.

Fortunately, he had seen hope. When he thought about drawing the first talisman of Zeyarila, Chen Yu suddenly felt excited and changed the talisman paper and started writing again.

After failing four times in a row, he just drew his brush, and the Taoist pattern originally drawn on the leaf talisman paper suddenly emitted a faint spiritual light and merged perfectly with the leaf.

When you hold it up and look at it through the sunlight, the Taoist pattern appears natural, as if it had grown on the leaves.

"It finally worked."

Chen Yu was so happy that he was bubbling with joy. He carefully put away the talisman that he had worked so hard to obtain, and then continued to draw the talisman.

In the end, he used up the forty pieces of leaf talisman paper in stock and successfully drew five rock talismans.

Chen Yu swallowed a total of six talismans into his stomach, went down to tear the rock talismans into pieces to condense the rock spiritual barrier. He tried it and found that the defensive power was quite amazing. It could easily withstand the longer stinger attack of the bee guard.

Even his little archery skill could only create cracks in the spiritual barrier, requiring a second shot to penetrate it.

The effect is unexpectedly good.

If slimes had hands, Chen Yu would have been rubbing them together. (fly rubbing hands.jpg)

"Hey, monsters of Ze'arilla, are you ready for the talisman cleansing?"

As long as he has enough talisman paper and talisman ink, he can easily equip the entire guard with talismans.

By then, even Black Iron-level monsters would be able to display extraordinary combat power.

While he was drawing the talisman, Arno's forest trail development and swamp exploration were also going extremely smoothly. After easily driving away a group of cunning hyenas, he had a preliminary understanding of the situation in the Death Swamp.

So he rushed back to the castle and reported to his boss.

"You mean the Death Swamp is in chaos right now?"

Arno nodded quickly. "There are quite a few corrupted jackals and hyenas roaming the Death Swamp. They are almost the most powerful monsters there."

"Besides that, I also saw those corrupted... lizardmen."

He was obviously still angry, and he spoke through gritted teeth when he mentioned the corrupted lizardmen.

"It seems a strange monster with fire magic has broken in, causing all the monsters living there to leave their territory and roam around."

"I didn't see the monster, I only saw the charred tracks of its running on the grass."

"Flame monster?"

Chen Yu collapsed on his limp body, not knowing what he was thinking.

After chatting with Arno for a few more words and reminding him again to pay attention to the magic paper and magic ink, he gave him four talismans.

"Boss, what is this?"

A leaf with strange words painted on it?

Could it be some kind of cursed thing?

"The talisman, if you tear it up at a critical moment, it can save your life."

"Please take the other two to Sergash. She is with the Rot Moss Tribe."

"Can you save your life?"

Arno was startled. Although he didn't know what talismans were, he carefully folded the four leaves and treasured them by placing them inside the lining of his leather armor.

(End of this chapter)