The sky was dark grey. Dark grey clouds rolled and flowed quickly, gathering into a ball and then dissipating.
The earth was shaking. On the green grassland, black sarcomas protruded from the ground, like tumors on the earth. They beat like hearts, like living organs.
Hum …
Several giant platinum eagles flew across the sky. On the backs of the eagles were several silver-armored knights. They held huge, long, sharp spears, and their bodies were covered in dried blood.
A gray-feathered eagle spread its wings and flew below a giant eagle.
The gray-feathered eagle's vision was faintly glowing with silver light. Everything that was happening below was clearly reflected in its eyes.
On the grassland below, the black sarcomas began to wriggle. They opened four mouths on the sides, their serrated mouths constantly opening and closing, spitting out a black, single-horned creature.
This creature was like a giant lizard lying on the ground. It had a black, fang-like horn on top of its head and a pair of huge black wings on its back.
They spread their wings and let out strange cries. They rushed into the sky, shaking off the mucus on their bodies and heading straight for the giant platinum eagle in the sky.
The gray-feathered eagle quietly flew away from the sky and swooped down, heading for the ground below.
Over a dark green forest, looking down from above, a large number of wild beasts were fighting against this giant lizard. Brown bears and wolves roared as they were torn to pieces by the single-horned lizard.
After passing through the forest, the gray-feathered eagle let out a soft cry and flew lightly to the gray-white horse path on the other side of the forest.
On the path, a group of gray-robed knights were riding their horses forward quickly. The bald man at the front raised his hand and allowed the gray-feathered eagle to descend from the sky and land on his arm.
Caw!!
There was a faint, strange cry in the distant sky. It seemed to be the cry of some creature before it died.
"It's like a crow or a bat. Disgusting." The gray-robed female knight behind the bald man frowned. "Garon, should we go back to the War Guild?"
The bald man shook his head.
"It's too late. We can't go back now. We'll be recruited into the defense force and it'll be inconvenient for us to move freely. Let's go to my place. The defense force won't be able to hold on for long. "
"What about these three little fellows?" Angel turned around and looked at the girl on the white horse behind her. There was also a gorgeous carriage following closely behind them. The curtains on the carriage were lifted, revealing the faces of two young girls.
"Let them be. We have no obligation to protect them." Garon said indifferently.
The two black horses galloped quickly on the road, and the white horse and carriage behind them did not fall behind, easily keeping up with the two of them.
Wu!!
Another long horn sound came from afar.
Garon's expression changed slightly. He suddenly slowed down and looked into the distance.
"It's the city defense bugle horn! This way! "
He pulled the reins to the right. Angel followed closely behind, while the other girl on the white horse looked into the distance in the direction of the sound. A worried and hesitant expression appeared on his face.
Garon rode on horseback, too lazy to pay attention to the two followers behind him. He bent over the horse's back, vigilant of the surrounding movements at all times.
Suddenly, there was a slight darkness above his head. A dark shadow leaped over him and landed with a jerk in front of the carriageway.
Bam!
A one-horned lizard more than three meters long suddenly fell to the ground, its two black bat wings flapping. It opened its mouth and roared at Garon, making a rustling sound.
The horse was so frightened that it raised its front hooves high, making ear-piercing neigh sounds.
"What kind of monster is this …!!?" Angel tried to stabilize the horse as much as she could. She clamped the horse's belly in vain, making sounds to calm the horse.
Before he finished speaking, Garon leaped from the horse's back into the air and pounced directly at the one-horned lizard.
His right hand instantly turned into a translucent red jade-like texture. It was light and seemed slow, but in fact, it was swift. He pressed his palm on the one-horned lizard's forehead.
Bam!
Garon flipped over and landed back on the horse.
"Go!" He pulled the reins, bypassed the lizard, and continued to rush forward.
Angel hesitated for a moment, then continued to follow. The white horse and carriage behind them were hesitant at first, but now they did not dare to be too far away from Garon and Angel. They bypassed the lizard and sped up to catch up.
The one-horned lizard lay in the middle of the road, its body slightly blue. It was obviously poisoned and could not move.
*****
Outskirts of the city, at the edge of the outer city.
In the deserted residential area, a few one-horned lizards swept across the sky, heading straight for the place with the most people in the distance, leaving streaks of black shadows on the ground.
Several riders galloped over from outside the residential area. They slowed down and comforted the frightened horses.
Soon, the knights stopped in front of a courtyard in the middle of the residential area.
A bald man in the lead dismounted from his horse.
"Angel, wait for a moment, I'll go back and get something. Then we'll clean up the surrounding one-horned lizards together. "
"I'll wait for you outside." Angel nodded. She put on two black rings on her hands again. Those were the two black panther totems she had just taken out. The previous ones were directly destroyed by Garon. These two were her spares.
Garon glanced at the girl on the white horse and the carriage behind them.
The girl in white got down from the horse's back and walked together with the two people who got down from the carriage. Their faces were a combination of confusion, doubt, worry, and fear. The only old carriage driver was standing at the side, comforting them.
"This is Hill. Let them enter the city on their own. We don't have the energy to protect them."
"Leave it to me. I'll talk to them properly." Angel nodded lightly.
Garon nodded and turned to enter his own courtyard.
He opened the door with the key. Everything was still the same as when he left. The three blue-back lizards were lying lazily on the counter, pretending to be sculptures.
Closing the door behind him, Garon sighed softly.
"I have to improve myself as soon as possible."
He stood at the door and watched the three blue-back lizards slowly crawl towards him.
"Let's try it out first. Let's try to evolve this thing." He was different from other totem users. Others relied on external stimuli to evolve their totems, but he relied directly on his ability's potential points, using this special energy to evolve his totems.
He did not know the difference between these two types of evolution, but his intuition told him. Potential points were very different from the general direction of evolution.
He looked at the attribute pane at the bottom of his vision.
The short-tailed crocodile and the blue-back lizard both required 3 potential points to evolve, but the short-tailed crocodile had a lower chance, while the blue-back lizard had a higher chance.
He still had 15 potential points left.
"I have to form a usable strength as soon as possible. I'll start with the short-tailed crocodile."
He looked at the skill pane and found the short-tailed crocodile's icon among the many totem icons.
'Short-tailed crocodile: First form living totem, can be upgraded. Success rate of evolution: 54% (The weaker the body, the higher the success rate). Potential point consumption: 300%.
Ability: Bite, Camouflage. '
"54%. That's still acceptable." Garon thought in his heart. Suddenly, a crocodile covered in black armor crawled out from the bedroom. At first glance, it looked like a long piece of black charred wood.
His gaze fell on the short-tailed crocodile's icon for three seconds.
Suddenly, the short-tailed crocodile's icon slowly blurred, turning into a red halo. Even the explanatory symbols behind it were all blurred.
In the attribute pane, the potential points jumped from 1522% to 1222%.
Just as the potential points jumped, the short-tailed crocodile's body suddenly trembled.
Its body quickly expanded, lengthened, and became bigger.
From a length of two to three meters, it expanded to more than five meters. It almost filled up the entire hall on the first floor.
The armor on the crocodile's back became even darker. A black sawtooth-like horn gradually rose from the center axis.
The giant crocodile opened its mouth and spat out a sour smell.
In less than ten seconds, its body expanded from two to three meters to more than five meters. Other than that, there were no major changes in its appearance.
Suddenly, Garon noticed something special. The giant crocodile's mouth opened, as if it wanted to show him something.
He saw that in the crocodile's mouth, there was a scarlet tongue like a snake's. At the tip of the tongue, there was a needle-like fleshy organ.
"What is this?"
Garon muttered softly. He looked directly at the skill pane, where the totem icon was.
'Deep swamp crocodile: Second form evolution of the short-tailed crocodile, second form living totem. Can be upgraded, Success rate of evolution: 24%. Potential point consumption: 500%.
Ability: Explosive Attack, Steel Armor Talent, Parasitism. '
"Parasitism?" Garon noticed the last ability. As he stared at it, an explanation symbol gradually appeared behind the parasitism.
'Parasitism: The deep swamp crocodiles of ancient times had a large number of parasitic eggs in their bodies. When they bite the enemy, they can inject the eggs into the enemy's body. In a short period of time, the enemy will suffer unbearable pain and torture. When they finally die, the corpse will breed a deep swamp parasite to fight for the crocodiles. Note: Each deep swamp crocodile can only breed three parasites per day. '
Garon was instantly delighted. This type of parasite was like buying one to get three free. A crocodile that had evolved to this stage was already a very powerful existence. Just by looking at its body size. Without the obstruction of totem light, totem creatures mostly depended on their body size. To a large extent, body size itself determined power, speed, and lethality.
Of course, this was without taking into account the totem's special abilities. Just like the most popular black wolf, after evolving into a second form fire wolf, it would produce powerful and hot flames.
"I didn't expect to succeed on the first try even with a 50% success rate." Garon looked at the five meter long deep swamp crocodile in front of him, and relaxed a little. The crocodile's defense was already strong, and now that it had evolved into a second form deep swamp crocodile, its defense had greatly increased.
He could feel that the totem light covering his body seemed to have become much thicker.
He took out the red crystal ball from his pocket, and looked inside with the ball's red light.
The crystal ball derivator's evaluation of the totem light on his body had changed from a second form normal to a second form elite.
Garon resisted the urge to evolve the blue-backed lizard and the grey-feathered eagle as well. He had to save the potential points for the evolution of his core totem.
"Go out, kill the unihorn lizards around, and parasitize three parasites for me to see." Garon gave the deep swamp crocodile an order. This silver totem was still a living creature. Other than being able to be controlled like a programmed program, it also had a bit of low-level intelligence. Garon wanted to test if he could get it to leave his range and execute some simple orders on its own.
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