The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

: Entering Hailiya for the first time

The little girl sat on Lothar’s shoulders, and Lothar sat on the branch of the big tree. After the two parties agreed on the deal, Lothar also learned the name of the big tree—Maokai, not in Ou Chen’s language. The name should come from the ancient language of the Blessed Island.

As a tree, Maokai’s speed is astonishingly fast. Maokai crossed the strait that took several hours for the giant octopus Blackwater Bane to cross in half an hour. The sea water corroded by the black mist seemed to have no effect on him. .

Maokai protected the sapling in his own tree knot, he almost ran wildly on the ground, none of the island’s mountains, ruins, and undead could stop him, this big tree eager to save his son was unstoppable.

Sitting on Maokai, Lothar knew where Maokai’s terrifying vitality came from – there was a lot of water of life in his body, although it no longer flowed, it was completely integrated with Maokai’s body, Let this big tree become the same as Lothar’s physical body, with a nearly immortal physique.

The black mist did erode Maokai, but it only affected his thick bark, and Zhimu was in the same situation. The thick bark blocked the life force in their bodies, so Lothar saw Zhim for the first time. Tom was unaware of his presence.

The little girl’s long hair was blown sideways by the howling wind, her mouth was turning outwards, and she shouted tremblingly: “Can you~ run slower~ a little bit!”

Maokai ignored the little girl at all. It smashed a wandering headless horseman away with one punch, and stepped on the heads of all the dead souls to the center of Shadow Isle.

It seemed that because Lothar was not counted as the deceased, although Maokai reluctantly accepted him, his hostility towards the little girl remained undiminished.

“Big smelly tree!” The little girl slid behind Lothar, not wanting to be blown in the face by the strong wind, she whispered sinisterly, “How dare you ignore me, let me find a chance to strangle that precious seedling of yours… Jie Jie Jie Jie…”

Hearing the pervasive and weird smile of the little girl behind him, Lothar silently decided that he must keep an eye on him for a while.

But now Lothar is more worried about another thing.

They are now heading to Helia, the capital of the Blessed Islands in the past, Yorick used to be a monk on the Blessed Islands, and his order would go to the holy spring of Helia every year to get some water of life, although the life of the entire archipelago is now The water veins are all dried up by the black mist, but Yorick says that if there is any living water on the island, it must be the holy spring.

The pure white hunting bow can only be used to find people, not objects, otherwise Lothar can determine the specific location of the water of life.

But Lothar discovered that Hylia’s direction was exactly where the pure white hunting bow was pointing, the direction where the female spider and the nightmare demon were.

“I hope they’re just in that direction…” Lothar decided that this possibility is quite high. Hylia is the place where the black mist is thickest. Neither the female spider nor the nightmare demon are undead, so there is no reason to stay there.

Maokai’s speed was very fast. He ignored any terrain and obstacles, and moved forward almost in a straight line. Lothar estimated that he might be gone in a few days.has arrived.

The ruins of Hylia are not much different from the ruins in other places, and they are still too dilapidated to be recognizable. However, the black mist here is as thick as ink submerged in water, and the visibility is almost as long as an arm’s length.

“Double eyes that can see through endless time and space.” As soon as Lothar’s Ou Chen spell came out, a small ghost appeared in front of his eyes, and the eyes of the ghost replaced his eyes, allowing him to be able to survive in a place that is harder than thick smoke. Normal vision in the black mist that sees through.

Lothar asked Maokai: “Can you see it? Do you need my help…”

“No need.” Maokai’s response to Lothar was all cold.

“Hey, get me one…” The little girl couldn’t see through such a thick black fog, so she tugged on Lothar’s ears.

“You don’t need it, just stay on my back.”

“Why! I want to watch it too! It’s not interesting at all to be black or not!”

“I don’t know what will happen next. It’s safer to stay by my side and don’t run around. Haven’t you never been to Hailiya before?”

“Really, when did you treat me so kindly?”

“I just want to restrain you from thinking about that seedling.” Of course, it was impossible for Lothar to tell the truth.

Maokai slowed his pace. He reached into his tree hole with one hand and pulled out a bunch of strange little things.

“What are those?” Lothar looked at a bunch of alive and kicking creatures like small tree stumps in Maokai’s hands. They looked like miniature versions of Maokai, but they were much more lively than Maokai. , a few are still making faces at Lothar.

“I don’t need to explain everything to you.” Maokai didn’t answer, he threw the “little Maokai” around with a wave of his hand, and they scattered away on short legs as soon as they landed.

“Hmm…is it magic…” Lothar didn’t feel the fluctuation of magic, and those “little Maokai” seemed to grow from Maokai’s body.

“Where should we go next?” Maokai asked.

Lothar recalled Yorick’s description, and said: “The spring of the holy spring is in the deepest part of Helia’s palace. You can find the largest building complex there. There should still be dense ruins.”

After Maokai heard this, his expression suddenly became ugly.

“What’s wrong?” Lothar asked.

“All my saplings have lost contact with me.” Maokai’s voice was dull, “I wanted them to explore the way, but it doesn’t seem to work.”

“Is it because the black mist is too thick…” Lothar felt the density of the black mist in the air, which was far beyond the reach of other places in Shadow Island. It stands to reason that the black mist would give energy to the soul’s activities, but Lothar’s spirit body was Everyone here feels that there is too much energy, and the feeling of the spirit body has become sluggish instead.

“Karthus said that there are many horrific deaths in Hailiyali.” The little girl climbed onto Lothar’s shoulder again, “Little brother, if you think something is wrong, take me and run away.”

“No need.” Lothar’s spirit body sense is very keen, and he can vaguely feel a few unusually strong breaths through the black fog, which must be those extremely powerful dead, “Let’s go there first, there is no… …”

Lothar’s complexion suddenly changed.

A powerful aura closest to them is approaching at an extremely fast speed.

“Maokai!” Lothar yelled, “A powerful dead man is coming!”

Needless to say Lothar, Maokai could also feel that the big tree was staring in that direction, its thick trunk facing the enemy head-on.

A little light broke out from the darkness.

Maokai’s great arms stretched forward, waiting for the attack to come.

It was a huge ax that broke through the thick fog.

Maokai’s bark has been eroded and mutated by the black mist, and it is stronger than human steel armor. Any dead man’s sword, gun, sword and axe can’t penetrate a single bit. The road proved that none of those dead could hurt Maokai.

But the giant ax smashed into Maokai’s arm, penetrating three points.

Even Maokai himself didn’t expect that the ax could actually smash into his body, but he didn’t hesitate, and his other hand slammed forward, grabbed the handle of the axe, and killed the mighty dead who attacked him. The cover of the black mist was pulled out.

The owner of the giant ax is a giant undead.

His whole body was covered with black scales, and his height was actually a bit taller than Maokai. There were several huge undead faces piled together on his head, obviously a powerful existence gathered by many dead people.

“Resha the Destroyer!” Because the black mist was dispersed, the little girl could also see the appearance of the giant, she exclaimed.

“You know him…” Lothar had already opened the Book of the Dead.

“I know!” The little girl hugged Lothar’s back tightly like an octopus. “Karthus said that in terms of strength alone, he is one of the best undead in Shadow Island.”

Lothar’s heart sank. He didn’t think Karthus would make up an evaluation. From the fact that the giant ax could cut into Maokai’s body, Resha the Destroyer should not be underestimated.

In fact, the head-on wrestling between Maokai and Resha was a little bit overwhelming, and Lothar felt that Dashu’s body was receding.

Just when Lothar was about to chant a spell to aid in the battle, the Book of the Dead suddenly trembled and turned to a blank page.

Lothar was taken aback.

The Book of the Dead wants to subdue Resha.

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There are many undead in the Shadow Isles, and many powerful undead have found it difficult to know who they were before they were alive, and even they themselves may have forgotten.

But this does not prevent them from being invincible.

But maybe that big tree can fight them.

—— Karthus