Arcane Journey

Chapter 166 Green hag

The kitchen smelled of damp.

Brian entered the room, a kitchen with long counters and many shelves filled with pots and pans, one of which was filled with various vegetables and odd cuts of meat, and herbs hung from metal hooks hanging from the ceiling. , flowers, fruits and vegetables.

A wood stove burns brightly on the far wall, and in a corner stands a statue of a Winged Elf with a grin carved into its face.

According to the intelligence investigated by the Harper, he learned that during the day, Aunt Greenbone, the hag, usually stays here, and Green Song, the wood elf who pretends to be blind, stays with her loyal dog Morty.

Her main task is to prepare delicious-looking meals for the temple's guests, but they are tainted, often with rotting ingredients or traces of poison.

Guests who are affected by contaminated food are told that it is because of the healthy living provided by the temple, that toxins and impurities are leaving their bodies.

Brian knew that Auntie Hag's loyal dog was actually a hellhound with a very sensitive sense of smell and vigilance.

In order to prevent accidents, he finally decided to step into the kitchen swaggeringly.

The moment he entered the room, he heard a low voice singing to himself. The melodious lullaby originally sung by a crisp voice made him feel a creepy chill.

It feels like a simple nursery rhyme with a horror story:
Behold the mother reaping the ears of wheat,

She forgot her husband was sleeping nearby,

The scythe fell high and cut off the feet,

How can cutting off two ears come from carelessness.

What is the shadow behind this?

Reshiram, Reshiram.

……

Look at the stupid dogs chasing people in the yard,
Not obeying orders and ignoring requests,

Mom carefully prepares delicious meals,

And the dog ate her left hand in one bite.

What is the shadow behind this?

Reshiram, Reshiram.

……

See that son busy with chores and household chores,

Help the townspeople wash their clothes,

Stumbled into the roaring river,
Drowning at the bottom of the water is still not enough to scream.

What is the shadow behind this?

Reshiram, Reshiram.

……

See the daughter grinding the grain,

Pray that all the disasters at home are over,

She set millstone traps for shadows,

End this bloody game.

……

Centuries ago, a family living in a remote watermill experienced a series of disasters when an evil spirit named Reshiram possessed the family and caused corresponding 'accidents'.

The mother chopped off her husband's leg and ear with a sickle, the family pet dog bit off the mother's hand, and the son drowned in the river while washing clothes.

The daughter of the family eventually destroyed Reshiram by crushing it under a millstone once blessed by a halfling priest of Chauntia, the Mother Earth.

Later, the story became a local legend, a cautionary tale for people to focus on household chores.

A traveling gnome bard was so captivated by this story that he created the book Reshiram's Lullaby.

After listening to this song, Brian recalled some information that was picked up by the players. Obviously, this so-called daughter should be the hag in front of him.

So, he didn't dodge deliberately, and walked over directly.

"Your songs are so beautiful, Ms. Green Song." Brian walked over as if nothing had happened, and said to her with a smile against his conscience.

A delightful, rosy-cheeked wood elf, she wears a delicate white veil and is inseparable from her guard dog, Morty.

This camouflaged Cerberus looks like a mastiff with bloodshot eyes.

The wood elf was startled, and put down the fresh-looking vegetables in his hands. The mastiff who closed his eyes and rested his mind suddenly opened his blood-red eyes, watching the unexpected guest, Brian, vigilantly.

"Really? Thank you for your compliment, dear guest." The wood elf giggled, his voice as melodious as a song.

She said with regret again, "It's a pity that my eyes can't see. Otherwise, I really want to know what kind of person is standing in front of me who can say such comfortable words."

"Of course he is a good person." Brian praised himself, and chatted with her: "I heard that blind people can usually feel whether a person's heart is pure, so I'm curious, is this really the case?"

"No!"

The wood elf's voice suddenly turned cold, as if he had been stabbed in some pain by Brian's words, and said in a shrill voice:

"Purity of heart literally makes me sick. Exactly! I mean, I can't help but have a stomach churn in the presence of this kind of person."

"So that's how it is." Bryan showed a look of surprise, and then changed the subject and mocked abruptly:
"It's no wonder that people like you have to go through a disguise before they dare to face the world. Because both your heart and appearance are so stomach-churning. Am I right, green hag?"

"I've seen that you have a problem a long time ago." Being seen through his identity, the wood elf's face changed, and he yelled out of embarrassment.

Then she stood up suddenly, and her graceful and seductive body turned into a shriveled and haggard green hag with dark green skin covered with bark and fungus at a speed visible to the naked eye.

If you observe carefully, you can find creepy insects crawling around her body, hidden in the white braids coiled around her shoulders like snakes.

Brian just glanced at her suspiciously milky blind eyes, as if he saw his own reflection with age and decay, and he felt a chill.

As a person who had been prepared for a long time, he was naturally ready for everything when the ghost made a sudden attack.

——"Mayoufu Micro Meteor!"

Eleven fist-sized bolides spewed out from the flaming muzzle almost at the same time, submerging the green hag's ugly, disgusting body in the flames of the explosion.

Immediately afterwards, Brian quickly took out a bottle of glowing silver holy water as thick as ointment, and without hesitation smashed it on the green hag's body burned by the flames.

Accompanied by the glass bottle bursting with a 'bang', pouring on the hag's body, it was like the sound of frying pan, and the painful green hag let out a horrifying wail.

Brilliant Silver is the most effective against evil creatures, especially devils, and evil spirit creatures like hags.

Under normal circumstances, most people deal with such evil creatures by using the metal with the characteristic of silver, or by applying the "silver weapon" spell on the weapon.

But Brian's viscous bottle of glowing silver holy water is an alchemy product made of the priest's holy water as the main material, supplemented with glowing silver materials, and blessed with constant spells. The effect is naturally particularly remarkable.

As a spell caster, when he knew what opponent he was going to face next, he was well prepared.

And these holy waters are the big killers prepared for the hags.

Its effect looks like this.

In the blink of an eye, the shriveled and bloody skin of the green hag was quickly penetrated by holy water, like a strong acid with terrible corrosion effect, making it scorched black, and then the inner layers of muscle tissue, blood vessels, and even white bones were exposed .

Layers of grease-like foul-smelling liquid quickly flowed down the ground.

This hag, whose strength was at the exemplary level, died instantly under the double blow of "Mayoufu Micro Meteor" and Shining Silver Holy Water.

"Roar!"

It wasn't until this time that the green hag's pet dog reacted.

It roared, and with the hot flames erupting from its whole body, the body of this vicious dog also suddenly swelled, becoming as big as a calf.

This is hellhound.

A demonic monster with a vicious dog shape and breathing flames, they spread all over the battlefield of Shura Field, and even the entire lower plane.

Cerberus on the Material Plane usually serve demons, fire giants, and other evil creatures as animal guards or companions.

Brian has traveled to the Burning Hell, where there are more hellhounds than wild dogs on the roadside and goblins in the wilderness, and every time they appear in groups, it is annoying.

They are smarter than the average beast, and their lawful nature allows them to obey orders.However, the viciousness of the Cerberus leaves the creature no choice but to be trained as a brutal killer.

——"Fire breath!"

With a roar, the crack-like stripes on the Cerberus's skin suddenly became brighter, and then a group of breath that could rival the juvenile red dragon spewed out, sweeping towards Brian.

Brian stood motionless, letting the flames float past his magic shield like a scorching wind.

He looked at the pounced Cerberus through the barrier, and like a creator, he unhurriedly stretched out his hand towards the Cerberus and swiped towards the void.

——"Five-ring spell: Bigby battering ram!"

In one breath, shimmering purple force field energy created out of thin air a cylindrical battering ram with the head of a ram.

This gigantic monster seemed to be wrapped in a mighty force, and it slammed into the soft belly of the hellhound that just jumped up.

In a burst of ear-piercing bone cracks and mournful cries, the calf-sized body of the Cerberus Hound, like an arrow flying from the string, hit the hard stone wall, slid down the wall, lay on the ground, twitched a few times and died.

At the same time, the eyes of a winged elf sculpture standing in the corner suddenly flashed red, and then spread its wings and flew out of the window.

From the moment Brian entered the room, he had already secretly observed any items in the room, and naturally he would not ignore this constructed creature trying to inform him.

——"Three-ring spell: Smash!"

He quickly chanted a spell, and pointed at the constructed creature that was about to escape and ascend to heaven.

Immediately, this flying sculpture stayed in the air, as if it was controlled by time, and it was worn out at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a few seconds, it was weathered as if it had passed through dozens of centuries, and finally fell on the ground. The ground turned into a pile of ruins.

Seeing the 23500 experience points gained, Brian didn't waste time, and quickly walked towards the next target before the enemy reacted.

(End of this chapter)