Demon Hunter: I have a red gourd

Chapter 62 Little Mist Demon

At the critical moment, Ivan successfully released the Quen Seal.

The monster's sharp claws slammed into the orange-yellow shield, causing ripples to appear.

Ivan was forced to take a few steps back by the impact, and with a grim expression he drew out the silver sword behind him.

It's a little fog monster.

【Little Mist Monster↓】

This monster lives in thick fog and can also create thick fog itself.

They are about 1.2 to 1.5 meters tall, with thin bodies. They can be found anywhere there is thick fog: swamps, mountain passes, forests, and coasts.

Experienced hunters and guides know that if darkness falls and you are still in the swamp, it is best to stay where you are and wait for sunrise, even if it means standing in waist-deep water to feed leeches.

More importantly, if you see fog around you and light coming out of the fog, then absolutely, absolutely do not walk towards the light.

This is the experience that the lower-class people living in this world have summed up time and time again with their lives, and the purpose of their doing so is to avoid the little fog monster.

The little fog demon can completely hide its body in the thick fog, and can also create and manipulate the flow of the fog.

In the wild, they use this ability to confuse lone travelers, preventing them from seeing the road ahead and hearing nearby sounds.

Then, they will use their bodies to emit faint light like fireflies, attracting lost travelers to walk into their claws.

However, if that were all, the little mist demons wouldn't be that difficult for demon hunters to deal with. The tricky part is that they have two special abilities.

First, they can become invisible in the thick fog like ghosts. Then, even silver weapons cannot harm them.

The little mist monsters are not evil spirits, and the Yerden Sign cannot make them appear, but the Alder Sign can.

As long as you use the Alder Seal and release a shock wave to the location of the little fog monsters, you can separate them from the fog and turn them into entities again.

The second is that they can create illusions, just like the one Ivan is facing now.

Although they cannot understand human thoughts, the illusions they create will automatically show the victim what they want to see or what they worry about based on their brain, which is somewhat similar to the mirage beast in Chinese mythology.

Of course, not every little fog demon possesses this strange ability. Only a few individuals can skillfully use the ability to create illusions. Otherwise, they wouldn't need to disguise themselves as light sources in the thick fog to lure prey into the trap.

Ivan was not so lucky. The little fog monster he met in the underground palace happened to have the ability to create illusions.

Fortunately, Ivan saw through the illusion in advance, so it didn't cause him much damage. However, if a demon hunter was well prepared, the little mist demon would not be able to gain any advantage in a one-on-one fight.

Seeing that his attack did not take the human's life as expected, the little fog demon let out a sharp scream, and thick fog instantly emerged from its body, covering Ivan in the blink of an eye.

In such a dense fog, Ivan's vision was completely blocked and the transmission of sound was also affected.

However, Ivan did not feel panicked at this time, because as a demon hunter, he had other ways to sense monsters.

The griffin emblem on his chest suddenly began to vibrate, and a slight gust of wind sounded on his left. Ivan reacted quickly, wielding his silver sword to block the attack.

With a clang, the sound of metal colliding echoed in the mist, sending up a string of sparks. As the little mist demon emerged, Ivan swung his sword again, slicing directly through its chest, drawing out crimson blood.

The little fog demon jumped back in pain, squeaked, and instantly, the surrounding fog became even more turbulent, as if stirred by an invisible giant hand.

The little fog monster hid in the thick fog again, but this time it seemed to be aware of Ivan's power. It did not emerge from the fog for a long time and attacked Ivan.

Seeing that it had been motionless for a long time, Ivan took a deep breath, slowly closed his eyes, concentrated his mind, and felt the beating of the badge on his chest with his heart.

"There." Ivan suddenly opened his eyes and made a hand seal with his left hand at an extremely fast speed.

"Alder!"

A shock wave visible to the naked eye rushed forward like a surging wave. Wherever it went, the thick fog was instantly dispersed. The little fog monster hiding in the thick fog was also blown away by the shock wave and hit the rock wall behind it.

Ivan's body was as fast as lightning, and he rushed forward. The silver sword in his hand flashed with a cold light and stabbed straight into the chest of the little fog monster.

Just when the silver sword was about to pierce its body, the monster regained consciousness in time and rolled to the right with an almost weird agility.

Ivan adjusted his stance in time and switched to a horizontal chop, cutting off the little fog monster's thin right leg.

The little fog demon let out a shrill scream, this time it was truly frightened. A strong light flashed, illuminating the entire corridor. The little fog demon in front of him suddenly split into two, running in two different directions.

It was the illusion ability again, but under the torture of severe pain, creating an illusion identical to itself was already the limit of what this monster could create.

Ivan couldn't help laughing out loud. The little fog demon seemed to have lost its mind and the illusion it created was actually two-legged.

At this moment, one of the two little fog monsters was running quickly with its legs, while the other was standing on one leg, trying to jump in another direction.

And driven by its strong desire to survive, it jumps faster on one leg than on two legs.

Ivan quickly stepped forward and slashed at the head of the little fog monster jumping on one leg with his sword, but the sword blade passed through the air fiercely without encountering any resistance, as if it hit nothingness.

Ivan was surprised when the one-legged little mist demon's body dissipated like foam.

This one-legged one is actually an illusion?
I didn't expect this fog monster to be so clever that it could create the illusion of having only one leg to confuse me. At the same time, it also conjured another leg in the place of its own broken leg, pretending to have made a mistake and escaping in the other direction.

Fortunately, Ivan was very fast, and even if the little fog demon successfully confused him, it only had one leg and could not run far.

Soon after.

[Little Mist Fairy Soul*5 has been collected, Spiritual Essence +200]

Ivan wiped the silver sword clean and put it back into the scabbard behind him.

This little fog monster was truly extraordinary. Although its spiritual essence was only equivalent to that of two ordinary monsters, it possessed five spirit essences. Only twenty little fog monsters of this level were needed to unlock the incarnation.

This ability to create illusions is quite practical.

Ivan felt that after leaving the elf ruins, he would deliberately look for some commissions related to the little fog monster.

(End of this chapter)