Chapter 333: The Burrow VII
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The Wolfspider Burrow was unbelievably vast.
Obviously, the creatures at the top of the food chain in this independent ecosystem were the Wolfspiders.
Along the way, the bodies of tarantulas, large and small, were all over the place, they all died in many different ways.
The Wolfspiders lived as a group in the burrow system. As their numbers were just too many, Grimm couldn’t help but wonder whether the Wolfspiders would kill each other if there were a lack of food in their burrow.
Or would they invade other burrows in groups to hunt for food in order to reduce the number of their own population?
Meanwhile, as Alxa stayed cautious at the space around her, she said, “There are no burrows as huge as the Wolfspider Burrow after this all the way until the Snowthread Burrow. I think it’s the Wolfspiders here that caused the sharp decrease in the number of Snowthreads, eventually causing the Snowthread to no longer able to open a larger burrow.”
Grimm was also holding his crystal ball and pondering.
This route opened by Black Isotta would go through dozens of big and large burrows before reaching its core.
The largest burrow would be the Wolfspider Burrow. If they go deeper, only the Snowthread Burrow would be comparable.
Nevertheless, in terms of threat, there were still several burrows underneath the Wolfspider Burrow with powerful creatures.
However, compared with the Wolfspider Burrow, the space area of the other burrows were relatively smaller, so the overall population would be far less than the ones in Wolfspider Burrow.
After being attacked by Black Isotta’s pioneer Demon-Hunter army, the number of remnant creatures left was relatively small, which can no longer pose a great threat to the Dark Sorcerers after them.
Whoosh, whoosh…
Raging snow and howling wind surrounded them.
In the dark and cold burrow, the sorcerer’s weak element lights were covered by the snowstorm, causing them to not being able to shine too far away at all. Grimm and the other Demon-Hunters moved forward cautiously.
In such an environment, even Grimm’s Canine Olfactory Sorcery and Ultrasound Positioning Sorcery were greatly disturbed.
With the Canine Olfactory Sorcery, Grimm could clearly smell the stench of the Wolfspiders’ body fluid, occasionally mixed with a variety of strange smells of slave monsters killed by the Wolfspiders.
Grimm’s Ultrasonic Positioning Sorcery was disturbed by the flying snowflakes. In Grimm’s perception, it seemed that countless dancing rice grains were running in front of his eyes.
As for his Mystic Eye that perceived his surrounding by temperature, Grimm could only see a piece of dark green.
The occasionally little red lights were only the element light on the wizard’s magic wand a few meters away. The effect of using the Mystic Eye was not even as good as the normal human visual perception.
And just like that, Grimm could only move forward carefully like an ordinary human in such a dark and cold burrow.
In the dark, Grimm was extremely wary. It seemed that they could be suddenly attacked by unknown creatures.
Grimm turned around and looked at Myna—which has shrunk into a ball to keep warm—and asked: “How do you feel?”
Myna was extremely sensitive to any creature that was hostile to it, which was the key to its survival.
Often when the hostility of the other party was just emerging, or when a large number of hostile creatures gathered in a distance, Myna would be able to sense it clearly.
“Ever since I came to this barren Burrow World, I haven’t felt anything threatening except for the location with the Ice Bats.”
“Caw caw caw caw! They seem to be in fear. Is it because of my arrival? Caw caw caw caw!”
Feeling hopeless, Grimm ignored Myna and turned to the other Demon-Hunters.
After looking around for a while, Grimm realized that none of the Demon-Hunters’ Perception Sorcery could effectively cope with the snowstorm.
He couldn’t help but missed the cooperative combat mode of the Bright Sorcerer army.
Basically, in order to ensure their own survival rate, the Perception Sorcery of Dark Sorcerers were generally the conventional Eagle Eye Technique or other sorcery adapted to their own combat ability.
No Dark Sorcerers would waste their time learning a rare Perception Sorcery like one that could adapt to snowstorm environment.
“Rest assured, Sir Green. I will do my best to protect your safety.”
Grimm was surprised with Thousand-eyed Carcinus’s sudden words, and he asked, “Thousand-eyed Carcinus, can you use any perception skills in this environment?”
“Within a certain range, any creature that looks at me with its eyes can be sensed by my thousand eyes.” explained the Carcinus.
Huh?
Being able to sense any creature looking at itself within a certain range?
This is the first time Grimm had heard of such a perception method.
However…
Grimm shook his head in disappointment. As the Burrow was in a completely dark state all year round, the perception method for the creatures here has evolved to the direction of sound wave perception, and degenerated the function of their eyes.
Hence, the magical ability of Thousand-eyed Carcinus was probably not useful in this world.
And just like that, the two teams flew at an extremely slow and steady speed. As the battle traces on the ground got lesser, they could gradually see the emergence of other native small creatures.
Three days later.
After passing through the snowstorm area of the Wolfspider Burrow, they came to a relatively peaceful area of the burrow.
“At this speed, we will reach the entrance leading to the core of the Burrow in another 90 hourglasses. We should be glad that these two passageways are not far away. We don’t have to actually cross the whole Wolfspider Burrow.”
As Alxa spoke in a low tone, a few green leaves kept floating around her Sorcerer Barrier.
“The battle traces here are extremely rare now. It should be an area that has not been cleared by the previous Demon-Hunters. There may be some remaining Wolfspiders. I hope we won’t bump into them later…”
Rustle, rustle, rustle, rustle,rustle…
As Grimm spoke, suddenly the rustle in the woods below made everyone’s expression changed and roared, “Alert!”
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh…
The Demon-Hunters surrounded Thousand-eyed Carcinus, their elemental light brighten towards the limit, illuminating the dark burrow.
Without the snowstorm, the elemental lights provided a clear vision for everyone. Hence everything that happened is within their knowledge.
“Phew…it is just a bunch of Snowthreads.”
A sorceress behind Grimm breathed a sigh of relief. The rustling sounds were caused by the Snowthreads’ sharp claws as they crawled on the ground.
Snowthreads could be seen almost everywhere in the Burrow, it is impossible to kill them all, Grimm and his teammates had been used to them for a long time.
Let alone tens of thousands of Snowthreads, they had even witnessed hundreds of thousands of Snowthreads in recent months. They were shocked at the beginning, but as time went by, they got used to it.
The number of this kind of most basic creature in the Burrow World was endless, just like the flowers and plants in the Sorcerer World, which belonged to the most basic ecological rules of a world.
All of them were relieved. They were probably too nervous because of the suppressing atmosphere of the Wolfspider Burrow for the past few days.
Just as the crowd wanted to fly forward again, Alxa seemed to be the first to sense something and yelled, “Wolfspiders!”
“Huh!?”
The alertness of the Dark Sorcerers was almost instinctive, even without Alxa’s warning, no one would really let down their guard.
Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss….
The Wolfspiders were jumping fast on the ground and among the trees, being extremely flexible and turning into shadows as the moved. They have also noticed the Demon-Hunters’ presence.
Clack, clack, clack…
In the sound of metal chain friction, a black figure that attacked Nairo from the side screeched and exploded.
Although the Wolfspider was extremely fast, it did not pose any threat to Nairo.
Instead, in Nairo’s fierce counterattack, the Wolfspider that was almost two meters long was killed in a second.
However…
“Hmm, this dizzy noise…”
Grimm felt dizzy. He had clearly sensed the group of Wolfspiders, and wanted to fight back, but he couldn’t lift up his spirit at all. His reaction became extremely slow, just like when he was affected by Third Ghostpepper’s sorcery.
Is this the attack of Thought Echo?
So it had an effect similar to psychedelic sorcery on its target…
“Ah! Young Master, I will hide for a while!” Myna screamed on Grimm’s shoulder and disappeared.