Master of Thermodynamics

Chapter 17 Hot Air Shield

The next moment, the creatures disguised as “short branches” suddenly moved, and they bounced quickly on the thick branches.

In the dim light, Renault couldn’t see their specific appearance, and could only see the shadowy black shadows moving in the canopy of the surrounding giant trees, and there were many sounds of waving wings from the canopy. There are a lot of crying.

After hearing these voices, he immediately understood what the shadow was.

They turned out to be some kind of bird!

It turns out that those “broken” branches were actually disguised by these strange birds. Their feather colors and standing posture are very much like branches. In addition, they can remain motionless for a long time, which is extremely deceptive. .

Before these weird birds took action, Renault moved first!

In his soul space, the “Book of Thermodynamics” emerged in an instant, and the first page of the book opened automatically. The rune array representing [Reverse Heat Conduction] was suspended on the page, and a faint golden light began to flow.

Then Renault looked at a strange bird more than 20 meters away, a large amount of mana jumped to its vicinity, and the air became extremely hot in the blink of an eye.

Under the control of Renault’s mental power, the magic energy jumped to nearly half a meter in front of the strange bird, only then encountered an inexplicable resistance and could no longer move forward.

The strange bird bounced on the branch a few times, and slammed its head into the hot air area without knowing it. After the hot air touched its feathers, it instantly burned.

The strange bird screamed in panic and waved its wings to try to escape from the hot air area. However, after the wings were opened, the contact surface with the hot air became larger, and its behavior increased the intensity of the fire. It’s going to be more violent!

In the blink of an eye, this strange bird turned into a ball of fire, illuminating the nearby area.

Only then did Renault see clearly what these birds looked like.

Their body length is close to 1 meter, which is not too big in this world. Their feathers are yellow-brown, which is exactly the same color as the bark. Their legs are unusually strong and their wings are short. Obviously, their flying ability is weak.

It is especially worth noting that their sharp beaks, although also yellowish-brown, have a certain brilliance flowing on the surface under the light of the fire.

Due to the existence of magic energy, most organisms also have magic energy in their bodies. Many organisms have adapted to the magic environment during the long evolutionary process, and certain parts of their bodies have also undergone mutations.

The beak of this strange bird obviously belongs to this situation.

The burning strange bird only struggled for a while before it planted from the branch, and the fireball fell to the ground, still burning, and a kind of fleshy fragrance spread.

After Renault smelled the scent, his mouth began to secrete a lot of saliva uncontrollably, and the feeling of hunger became stronger and stronger.

Moose looked at the strange bird with a trace of confusion in his eyes, as if he was reminiscing about something, then his face changed drastically, and he roared: “Damn it, this is the rock owl! You guys get out now! I’ll cover…”

After hearing the words “Cracking Stone Owl”, Angela instantly remembered something, and a look of fear appeared on her face.

The rock owl is a relatively rare social bird in this world. The number of bird groups is often as high as over one hundred, and a few large flocks even exceed three hundred.

Its beak is extremely hard and harder than steel. When they peck with the bird’s beak with all their strength, they can even pierce through rocks. This is also the source of the word “cracked rock” in their name.

A single rock owl is not too strong, but once they gather in a group, they are quite powerful when they peck at the same time. They can instantly kill huge prey, so in the forest, even many powerful beasts dare not provoke. they.

But the most frightening thing about them is not the beak, but their super camouflage ability.

Rock owl has a magical ability. They can change the color of their feathers to simulate the bark of trees. With the increase of age, their simulation ability will become stronger and stronger. The mature rock owl can simulate more than 10 types of trees at most. Bark!

They like to stand on the branches of trees, imitating the shape of the branches, and look almost integrated with the trees, which makes them extremely difficult to distinguish.

Camouflage is also their most important means of hunting. Birds will choose a place in the forest and collectively camouflage them as branches, waiting for their prey to cast their nets. Once the prey breaks into the trap, they will gather and attack with sharp beaks. Kill the prey!

Stonecrackers are also quite cunning. They tend to only attack single or small number of prey. If there are more targets, they will only continue to camouflage and will not launch attacks.

Therefore, if a large group of humans encounter a flock of rock owls in the forest, there is no need to worry at all, but if the number of people is small, the underworld will undoubtedly die, and the death is extremely miserable, the body is poked out countless blood holes, and finally reduced to a flock of birds. food.

However, the number of bird flocks is not large. They usually live in the deep forests and are almost not close to human gathering places. There are relatively few murders. Therefore, there are not many humans who know this kind of bird.

Suddenly, there was a very high-pitched cry in the distance. All the rock owls were quiet for a moment, and suddenly they screamed frantically. The frequency of jumping on the branches increased significantly, and the forest immediately became noisy.

Moose’s face became extremely ugly, and he knew that this group of rock owls was about to launch an attack.

Some rock owls closer to them suddenly spread their wings, jumped high from the branches, quickly flapped their wings, and swooped down at the three of them.

During the dive, they retract their wings, straighten their feet, keep their bodies streamlined, and rush towards them quickly, with their sharp beaks facing the three of them.

If these fallen stone crackers are extra-large darts, then the beak is the sharp spike on the dart, or the super spike strengthened by magic!

It is conceivable that once the “darts” hit them, these sharp “spikes” will definitely poke big holes in them.

At this time, more stone-cracking owls flew from a distance, successively launched a fatal dive, and “darts” flew quickly in the air.

When the first batch of rock owls dived more than ten meters away from them, the feathers on their body suddenly burned, and seven or eight bright fire clusters appeared in the air in the blink of an eye.

It turned out that Renault had quietly arranged a large area of ​​hot air around, forming a shield of scorching hot air, surrounding them.

After his magic power surged, he could do this effortlessly.

At this moment, the original “prey” finally showed hideous minions!

And this group of menacing rock-splitting owls became prey!