Sixth Ring Wizard

Chapter 82 Mammoth

The more Herag thought about it, the more convinced he felt that this place belonged to a certain wizard or a certain wizarding organization.

The potion ingredients in these fields, as well as the items in those houses, were likely kept by wizards for long-term acquisition of potion ingredients or spellcasting materials.

"This area is under the jurisdiction of the Aruf Swamp, could it be one of their people..." Herag wondered.

He sighed; thinking about it was pointless. Although the Aluf Swamp had a decent relationship with Moonglade, it had nothing to do with them, the lowly wizard apprentices; they would still be killed if they were meant to.

Herag stood up, glanced at the potion-making materials around him, and began to select and harvest some high-grade potion-making materials.

There are many things he doesn't recognize, but he has his own methods of identification.

Those are energy particles. High-level potion materials generally have more energy particles, which is a small way to identify the level of potion materials.

About half an hour later, Herag heard some noises in the distance.

He squatted in the field, looked up, and quietly observed the movement in the distance.

It was a flat, barren area, without a single blade of grass.

The ground suddenly cracked open, and something bulged out from underneath.

A huge white bone broke out of the ground.

"roar!"

A loud elephant's roar came from underground. The large bone had not yet revealed its complete form and was still pushing towards the ground.

Not long after, Herag finally saw the complete shape of the large bone.

This is a complete mammoth skeleton, as tall as a three-story building.

Inside the head area of ​​the mammoth skeleton, a ball of green fire is burning fiercely.

Herag knew what this was; it was the soul fire of the mammoth, indicating that it was a necromancer.

"I've always found the term 'necromantic creature' rather awkward." Herag felt it was probably a translation issue; in Chinese, "creature" refers to living things, but that's not the case in the local language.

"Does having a soul mean one is a living being?"

Herag had no time to think about the problem, because the mammoth had already turned and was looking at him.

Knowing he had been discovered, he immediately cast a Wind Sprite's Blessing on himself and ran away.

The mammoth then gave chase, and what happened next surprised Herag.

The mammoth was initially very fast, but it stopped when it got close to the field. Then it carefully stepped onto the empty ground where no potion-planting materials were planted, as if it knew it shouldn't step on the field.

However, the paths between the fields were very narrow, too narrow for a mammoth, preventing it from running at full speed and forcing it to proceed cautiously.

This speed was naturally no match for Hrag, and Hrag seized the opportunity to increase his speed.

He observed the distance, chose a direction, and began to run wildly.

"Hopefully we won't encounter the same situation as at the foot of the mountain."

Hrag's only worry now is that he might suddenly find himself in another place while running, and if he happens to end up next to a mammoth, that would be a real mess.

That mammoth had a strength of at least several tens of kilometer markers. At that level of strength, no shield would be of any use; it would be crushed with a single stomp.

After running through the field area, there was another grove of trees ahead, mostly pine trees.

He slowed his pace, being careful in everything he did, especially when entering a new area.

"So many spider webs?"

Herag's expression turned serious as he cast three shields on himself.

This pine forest is covered with a large amount of spider webs, and the ground is almost covered with white spider webs.

The fact that this spider can weave such a large spider web means that it must be a demon-level creature, and these kinds of things are usually very difficult to deal with.

Roar!

The mammoth's call grew closer and closer as it walked along the country path, its gaze fixed intently on Helag.

"No, we can't go into this forest."

Herag ran to the side; he absolutely couldn't go into that pine forest.

Although there are mammoths chasing them, what's inside might be even more troublesome than the mammoths.

Running to the side might allow you to be caught by the mammoth, but running into the forest would definitely result in you being attacked by both the monsters and the mammoth, and you would surely die.

Herag took a deep breath, quickened his pace again, and ran to the right of the pine forest, circling around it.

The mammoth drew closer and closer, and after a while it finally emerged from the field, instantly accelerating and crashing into a large grove of pine trees.

At the same time, a rustling sound came from the pine forest, a very dense sound.

Herag glanced back and saw countless spiders crawling out of the pine forest, each one over a meter long.

He figured it out: there was a swarm of spiders here, and these were just small spiders. Deeper in the spider nest, there was usually a queen spider, which would be larger and stronger.

"The venom and silk of this spider queen seem to be precious potion ingredients, so it must have been raised by some wizard."

Herag felt somewhat relieved when he saw that the spiders weren't coming after him.

"Luckily, I slowed down when I passed by. If I had disturbed these things, I would have been eaten to bits." He looked at so many spiders and felt a little scared.

After the spiders in the pine forest rushed out, they all crawled toward the mammoth.

Mammoths are all bones; one stomp can kill a spider, and with a flick of their two enormous mammoth tusks, they can kill a whole bunch of spiders.

But these spiders seemed endless, constantly emerging from within, more and more of them.

Spiders soon crawled all over the mammoth, which wandered aimlessly through the pine forest like a headless fly.

The ground was covered in spider webs and green spider sap, which came from crushed spiders.

Herag had no time to continue observing their battle and ran forward without looking back.

Suddenly, a loud bang came from behind, followed by the screams of a mammoth.

As he ran, Herag glanced back and saw that the mammoth had fallen to the ground, its body covered in spider silk.

At first, many spider silk threads on his body broke, but once one broke, thousands upon thousands of spider silk threads followed.

These spider silks were incredibly strong, and they quickly wrapped the entire mammoth in them.

Then, the spiders dragged the mammoth deeper into the pine forest.

"Can you even eat bones?" Herag couldn't help but complain. These spiders seemed to be hunting mammoths as food, wrapping them up in their webs as food reserves.

Just as he was complaining, the spiders stopped moving in unison.

They began to sever the spiderwebs connecting the mammoths, then turned in unison to look in the direction of Helag.

"Holy crap, no way!"

Herag felt a strong sense of crisis. These spiders had obviously received some kind of instruction, most likely from the Spider Queen behind them.

He realized that his position had been exposed, and the spider swarm had now targeted him.

(End of this chapter)