Chapter 144 The Shock at the Spring

It took a full two hours, and Joan finally walked through the bushes, sweating profusely from exhaustion, and feeling a little depressed. From this section of the road, the vegetation on the river beach has become extremely dense, indicating that there is a lack of large herbivores living in groups in the nearby forest, and this indirectly indicates that there are likely to be beasts and even monsters in the forest, forcing the local herbivores. Escape from this forest and seek life in a safer place. For a solo traveler like Joan, this is not a good sign.

As the vision was obscured by the dense forest, Qiao An had deviated from the river bank at this time, and he could only faintly hear the sound of the waves through the dense branches and leaves. Qiao An barely suppressed his anxiety, led the horse towards the direction of the sound of water, and then walked through a dense forest with difficulty. A mountain ridge rose in front of him, and a clear stream snaked around the valley.

Joan guessed that this stream was a tributary of the Ivene River, and if he followed the stream upstream, it would not be difficult to find the main stream of the Ivene River and get back on the right path. Joan led the rein and walked into the valley, but what appeared in front of his eyes was not the Yifen River, but a clear spring that kept gushing out waves.

Joan was disappointed by his misjudgment, but the black horse beside him snorted happily and ran to the grass next to the spring to eat fresh and delicious wild fennel. Joan shook his head helplessly, so he had to sit on the stone by the spring to rest his breath.

The wild fennel has a strong spicy smell. The black horse has eaten too much strong wild fennel, and seems to be a little thirsty, so he turns his head and walks to the spring to drink water. However, the moment it bowed its head, the spray from the spring suddenly rose three feet high, and then a pair of slender and transparent arms stretched out from the bottom of the pool, quickly wrapped around the horse's neck, and dragged it towards the pool.

The black horse was suddenly strangled tightly by the transparent arms made of spring water, neighing sharply in fright, shaking its head and struggling desperately. However, those strange arms were so powerful that they dragged the black horse's front half into the water in an instant.

The incident happened suddenly, Joan came back to his senses after a short shock, ran over to grab the rein, and dragged back with all his strength, trying to rescue the black horse from the monster hidden in the spring water . However, he tried his best but failed to change the bad luck of the black horse slipping into the pool, even he himself was dragged almost into the water.

Joan had to let go of the reins to protect himself. Seeing the black horse sinking deeper and deeper in the water and screaming mournfully, I was extremely anxious. It was obvious that only his own strength could not help the horse out of trouble. Joan quickly recalled the spells prepared today, and it seemed that there was no applicable magic that could rescue the horse. After thinking about it, Joan had an idea, hurriedly opened the storage bag, and planned to take out the "Branch of Irminsur". After turning into a treant, his strength attribute would increase to 29, stronger than the gray bag beast Gray. It takes a lot of strength, enough to rescue the black horse from trouble!

While rummaging through the "Branches of Irminsur", a small gray cloth bag broke into Joan's vision, prompting him to temporarily change his mind. Immediately, he picked up the gray bag and tore off the rope tied at the mouth, and scattered the brown powder in the bag to the pool.

The gray cloth bag was the trophy that Joan obtained from killing the lizardman shaman Qiud together with Gray in the Great Swamp two months ago. Later, it was identified that the bag contained an alchemy potion called "dry powder", which could absorb a large amount of water and cause great harm to aquatic organisms.

Joan hadn't tested the specific efficacy of the "dry powder" before, and didn't know how effective it would be. In desperation, he sprinkled a bag full of powder into the water, and what happened next surprised him.

When the dry powder touched the water surface, there was a chirping sound immediately. The spring water that had been surging seemed to be frozen in an instant, stopped flowing, and condensed into gelatin. transparent jelly. The black pony was sealed in the jelly, only its head protruding from the jelly, moaning and breathing hard, white foam flowed from the corner of its mouth.

Joan stared blankly at the miraculous scene in front of him, feeling at a loss for a moment. At this time, there was a rustling sound from the bottom of the "Jelly", and a transparent snake-like creature crawled out of it. Its whole body was made of spring water. Its lizard-like head could faintly show its facial features, and deep in its eye sockets was a faint blue condensed by the magic power of water elements. Glossy, a pair of transparent long arms extend from both sides of the slender and round neck, and climb up the shore with both hands, as if eager to get rid of the gelatinous bondage caused by the "dry powder".

Without hesitation, Qiao An urged the "Hand of the Higher Mage" to approach the unknown water elemental monster with the electric light blade tightly, and swung the knife vigorously to slash it down!

puff! The blade pierced the monster's forehead, like piercing a piece of rubber, and a large amount of liquid gushed out. At the same time, the monster's slender body twisted violently and let out a piercing wail. Joan remained unmoved, and continued to poke at it with the magic hand of the remote control, poking many holes in the monster's body, and the water in the body quickly lost.

The monster roared angrily, and tried its best to pounce on the young mage on the opposite side, but its tail was still imprisoned in the "jelly", and the cunning young man on the other side deliberately distanced itself from it, and remotely controlled a dagger that flashed with lightning Stab at it, even if it stretches its arms to the limit, it can't reach the opponent. The monster had to give up attacking Joan directly, and instead rushed to the dagger hanging in mid-air.

"Tinwé!"

Joan chanted the incantation at the right time, and then the lightning blade sprayed out an arc and hit the monster's head. The electric current conducts extremely quickly in the spring water that constitutes the monster's body, instantly flowing through the monster's body, bursting out countless tiny blue-white electric sparks. Accompanied by a crackling sound, the monster twitched and fell to the ground. The transparent film-like skin on the surface of the body that contained the water in the body was destroyed by the electric current, and all the water in the body poured out. Slowly seeps into the soil.

It wasn't until the monster in front of him completely disintegrated that Joan's heart hung in his throat and fell back into his stomach. He bypassed the accumulated water left by the monster and walked to the huge "jelly" formed by the "dry powder" absorbing a large amount of water, and slashed through it with a knife. The jelly has an elastic skin, and the spring water inside gushes out immediately, flushing the black horse out.

The poor horse finally regained its freedom, lying on the grass and spitting water, looking sluggish. Joan was about to call out "Tears of God" to make a potion to heal the horse, when a strong wave of magic power suddenly appeared on the grass in front of him, and a distorted door of light appeared on the ground. Under Joan's nervous gaze, a witch in a long brown dress came slowly from the portal, with a dagger on each side of her slender waist, and a golden halo in her left hand. parchment scroll.