Chapter 121: Special Attack Against The Holy Order?

“If they are all sick, then these elves and familiars won’t sell for a good price?”

Seeing the figures of Mark’s three-person team disappear into the gray-green miasma, One-Eyed Pabi had an inexplicable thought.

With high-rank attack scrolls in hand, Mark’s three-person team was already seen as toys to be manipulated.

The reason he didn’t make a move on Mark’s three-person team upon entering the Monster Beast Mountain Range was twofold: first, he worried that killing a Holy Order member of the Holy Light Church outside the range would attract an investigation from the Holy Light Church.

Second, he wanted to reap the benefits, waiting until Mark’s three-person team completed their quest before dealing with them.

After all, the Adventurer’s Guild only cared about quest scrolls, not people. Once the three of them completed the quest, he could sell the quest items and scrolls on the black market and make a nice profit.

However, by tracking the three-person team for these few days, he had also discovered some of their secrets!

The female archer from the former Beta Adventurer Group was actually an elf, and the slime that the fiery female assassin had been holding was actually a mutating familiar!

The entire team, except for one damned Holy Order member.

The others seemed to be worth a lot of money!

Perhaps it was this discovery that quietly changed One-Eyed Pabi’s mind from wanting to kill all three of them.

He changed his initial target from killing all three to killing the Holy Order member, and selling the others and the familiar to the Mountain Tiger Bandit Gang.

Estimating that Mark’s three-person team had been in the Rotten Bone Swamp for about half an hour, One-Eyed Pabi cautiously emerged from his hiding place.

Putting on a gas mask, he followed their footprints into the miasma.

Meanwhile, for Mark’s three-person team.

As soon as they entered the poisonous miasma area, Monica whispered to the other two:

“I didn’t tell you guys earlier, but we’ve been tracked by magic.”

In fact, since entering the Monster Beast Mountain Range, Monica had not stopped practicing her Appraiser profession skills.

However, because she was worried about consuming too much magic power when appraising Mark’s panel, she still only used Xiao Mu to gain experience daily. Thus, she didn’t initially notice that they had been marked by tracking magic.

It wasn’t until she was appraising the poisonous miasma in the swamp area outside the Rotten Bone Swamp that she glanced at Mark’s clothes and discovered the trace of the tracking magic mark on them.

When she then comprehensively checked herself and Anna, she also found tracking magic marks on their clothes.

“Who would track us?”

In Mark’s mind, there could be many people tracking him.

The people from the Black Gold Gang’s black market, and Aileen from the Adventurer’s Guild, both had motives to track him.

These people might all be tracking him because of that Werewolf Magic Crystal, and the Werewolf Magic Crystal could very well lead to an investigation by the Holy Light Church…

As if sensing Mark’s thoughts, Monica shook her head and said, “It’s Xingyue tracking magic. If it were that woman from the Black Gold Gang, she wouldn’t bother to make a move inside the Monster Beast Mountain Range. If it’s not an enemy provoked by Little Anna, then in the few days we’ve been in Osborn Town, we’ve only had conflict with one group.”

“I’ve had almost no contact with other adventurers in Osborn Town,” Anna said first, ruling out an option for Monica.

“Heh! Then it seems it can only be that One-Eyed Pabi and his team!” Mark sneered. “They haven’t made a move until now, are they planning to attack us in the Rotten Bone Swamp?”

Mark didn’t know that One-Eyed Pabi feared his own adventurer team members would betray him; he had entered the Monster Beast Mountain Range alone.

“It should only be them!” Monica nodded. “So, what do you think? Should we throw away the marked clothes first?”

“No!” Mark narrowed his eyes. “It’s only polite to reciprocate. Since they’ve already decided to kill us, we don’t need to be polite to them either. In a place like the Rotten Bone Swamp, who will be dealing with whom is still uncertain! Just stay vigilant at all times!”

If they were in the outside world, the three of them might not necessarily be able to defeat One-Eyed Pabi’s group.

But in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the current Mark’s Team of three were all able to use their abilities without hiding.

For an ordinary adventurer team with a maximum of third rank, their strength might not be enough to attack them.

After all, Mark was not just a Holy Light Priest who only had healing and support skills.

And One-Eyed Pabi and his group didn’t have any special anti-Holy Order skills!

Even if they did, Mark wasn’t an orthodox Holy Order member!

What’s more, Mark, who had activated the Dream Domain, might be able to see more in this miasma than Monica, who had the Appraiser’s vision!

The miasma of the Rotten Bone Swamp coiled around the Holy Light Shield surrounding the three like a living thing, and Mark could clearly hear the faint sound of bones grinding in the mud beneath his feet.

He didn’t know if these bones were fragments of the legendary corrupted dragon’s bones or remnants of other creatures that had left corpses in the Rotten Bone Swamp.

When they were still about a hundred meters away from the gathering location marked on the quest map, Mark stopped.

Just as he was about to remind Anna to watch out for the withered tree stump in front of them, a mass of dark green mucus suddenly shot out from the mossy pile.

“Corrosive Acid!”

Monica spun around and pushed Anna away. The mass of mucus grazed past the Holy Light Shield surrounding her and actually etched a dark hole in the Holy Light Shield that Mark had set up beforehand around her.

This Holy Light Shield was merely a simple barrier set up by Mark using Holy Light Protection to shield them from the poisonous miasma; its defensive power was not high.

However, the fact that a single glob of venom could destroy the shield proved how strong the corrosive acid’s damage ability was.

After all, everyone on the Holy Dragon Continent knew that poison-attribute damage was generally focused on continuous damage.

After the corrosive acid spray missed its target, five Swamp Poison Lizards emerged from beneath the mud layer, their bumpy, gray-green skin blending perfectly with the environment.

Mark’s Great Shield had just materialized when the lizards’ distended throat sacs unleashed a rain of acid.

At a time like this, Mark couldn’t help but complain about the mysterious being.

What kind of shield skill required its own attack to hit a target before it could be generated? Fortunately, Monica and the others could also resist the erosion of the poisonous miasma with their magic.

Otherwise, if the Holy Light Shield broke and they were infected by the poisonous miasma, very few people would be able to complete quests in the Rotten Bone Swamp.

He wondered when he would find clues about the mysterious being and evolve this troublesome skill.

Amidst the sizzling corrosive sounds, Mark’s Great Cross Shield blocked all the acid for his teammates.

On the other side, Anna’s vine arrows had accurately pierced the mouths of three lizards with three shots. However, Anna quickly discovered that the arrow shafts piercing the lizards’ throats were being rapidly dissolved by secreted mucus.

On the other side, Monica ghosted behind the leading lizard. However, her thrusting dagger was caught by the lizard’s suddenly bent head.

These lizards, living in the Rotten Bone Swamp, could twist their necks 360 degrees!