Chapter 12: The Old Deadwood Staff
It's finally out.
After cutting off the heads of the first skeletons, the vision widened in front of him, and Ryan and Kara followed the great swordsman Kim Puwanka out of the thorny woods.
In an open wasteland, mercenaries and thieves from various regiments led by Jack are forming a large circle to defend themselves against the attacks of skeletons and lichs. Ryan Kara followed Kim Puwanka into the encirclement. In the middle of the encirclement, except for the head of the [Eagle Sky Thieves Regiment] who set off to explore the path last night, the remaining three regiment commanders were sitting in a circle discussing the next countermeasures, counting the number of people by the way, and taking a break.
"Is there anyone else in the back?" asked Jack.
"No more. Kim Puwangka said, "I and my brother Ryan are the last of them. "By the way, is the little brother of the silver phoenix back? In order to help the back team retreat better, he went to hunt the lich with his phantom beast alone. ”
"What! This little rabbit cub is really messing around, who does he think he is, the god of war?" the eldest brother is like a father, Yinfeng scolded eagerly when he heard this. Originally, his subordinates came to report that Yinhuang and Ryan had retreated together to support the tail of the team, and with the presence of the great swordsman Jin Puwangka, Yinfeng was naturally a hundred relieved, who would have thought that this kid would dare to hunt the lich alone. What nonsense.
"Brother Yinfeng, don't worry, Brother Ling has the cooperation of the phantom beast, and he will definitely be safe and sound. In this way, our discussion is over, and if Brother Ling has not returned, I will immediately organize a team of mercenaries to go back to the woods to meet him. Jack could see the significance of the silver phoenix to the [Silver Knight Mercenary Group], and hurriedly said.
Jack then asked one of the mercenaries next to him, "The last team has arrived, how are the casualties?"
"Eleven people died, more than 20 were slightly injured, and three were seriously injured. ”
"The injured arranger takes good care of it, don't save medicine. In the unfortunate event of death, their names will be noted and their families will be given a pension after the mission is completed. It seems that he has long been accustomed to it, and there is not too much sadness in Jack's words.
"It's strange how there are so many skeletons and lichs, but there is not a word on the mark left by the empty gate along the way. "The head of the [Sea Lion Mercenary Group] is Hyperrell.
"Is it possible that they are sparsely manned, and the team is full of high-ranking warriors, marching quickly, and the skeletons and lichs are slow to keep up with their speed at all, so Your Excellency Kong Que doesn't care. We were numerous, and we didn't deliberately speed up our pace as we marched, so we got to their way. Yinfeng analyzed.
"Nothing is yet known. Jack said with a solemn face: "It's just two thousand meters away, and it's too strange that you've already encountered so many undead creatures." And these lichs even know how to climb trees, as if they had anticipated our route. It's so elusive. ”
Everyone deliberated for a while, but they couldn't come up with a reason, when a mercenary from the Silver Knights came to report that the Silver Phoenix had returned. And he brought back a lich's corpse.
A mercenary led the silver phoenix riding on the demon wolf into the encirclement, and just as he got off the mount, the silver phoenix came with a slap and slapped it heavily on the back of the silver phoenix's head.
"Stinky boy, call you a hero. ”
"Okay, okay, it's not safe to come back. Brother Yinfeng, don't blame him. Jack laughed.
The ice-plain wolf, named Silver, lowered the lich corpse in its mouth to the ground. The silver-white contract circle lit up, and the figure of the Ice Plain Demon Wolf gradually faded in the circle and returned to the Phantom Beast Realm.
Everyone's eyes couldn't help but be attracted by the corpse of the lich on the ground, although they had seen it many times from a distance of tens of meters, but this was the first time they could see the whole picture at such a close distance.
The lich was shrouded in a black and red wizard's robe, and the bare head and palms of the wizard's robe were disgusting, like a charred corpse, the corpse was grayish-black, and the whole corpse was severely dehydrated, as if a black human skin had been glued to the bones. There were several large holes in the corpse, but fortunately, the charred subcutaneous tissue was still connected, so that the corpse would not fall apart.
"The final fatal blow was this wound in the chest. As soon as I shot it through the chest with the knight's spear, it immediately lost its ability to move and fell from the tree like a log. I don't know how many lichs I'm going to encounter in the future, so I'm just going to bring this corpse back for everyone to study. "Yinhuang Road.
"Well, you're doing a great job. "Jack praised, with this information, it will be much easier for us to deal with the Lich. As he spoke, he instructed one of his mercenaries, "Spread the word, the lich's heart is in the chest." ”
"It seems that every undead creature has its vital point, and as long as they are found, the combat power of these undead creatures is not enough. "Kim Puwangkadao.
At this time, a high-ranking thief came up to Jack.
"How's it going? ”
"Captain, it has been found out that there are seventeen lichs hidden in the skeleton group, and there is no sign of any further increase, including skeletons. ”
"Good. Jack said: "Don't worry about all the skeletons, you go down and assemble five thieves and kill all seventeen lichs, it's always a trouble to have lichs." Then we continued to advance with our original team, and the high-level thieves scattered around to investigate the situation, and tried to reach the middle of the dungeon tonight and meet up with the Captain of the Sky Que. ”
"The subordinates receive the order. The thief beat his chest with one hand, bowed, and turned to go on his mission.
Ryan quickly found Feige in the crowd, who was hanging out with a group of mages, his eyebrows fluttering and he didn't know what he was talking about. Speaking of which, all the mages of the four regiments (including an A-class mercenary group) together are actually the guys in front of them. There wasn't even a white-robed mage. It can be seen that the status of high-level mages in the pan-continent is respected. And from beginning to end, this group of mages, including Feiqi, from entering the Plague Lands to the present, they haven't even let go of a fireball technique. It's no wonder that countless people have squeezed their heads and want to become even one trainee mage.
"Oh, Ryan, you're back, I was worried about you. "That being said, there is not the slightest trace of concern on the face of our esteemed Master Feiqi.
Only Kara kicked Feige angrily.
"By the way, Ryan, do you remember how many gold coins the Deadwood Staff you bought me?"
"Ten gold coins. What's wrong?" Ryan was puzzled.
"I discovered a secret. As if afraid of being heard, Feige pulled Ryan and Kara and quietly stepped aside.
"What a secret. ”
"It's those lichs, you don't find them, although not every lich has them, but when I retreated, I found a lich huddled in a pile of skeletons with a deadwood staff in his hand. And I saw that staff, it's not an ordinary dead wood, it's an old dead wood, you think, an old dead wood, it's so scarce now, it's worth fifty or sixty gold coins, maybe a hundred gold coins will be bought, if we get a few more, we won't have to worry about the money for eating in the future. ”
After that, Kara kicked Feige again. "You bastard, the dead man's fortune is also made, I think you rush out and die early, and when you die for hundreds of years, the deadwood staff in your hand will become an old deadwood. Just with your heart. ”
said to Ryan: "Ryan, don't listen to his nonsense, we don't want that bit of dead money." When the task is completed, we will have money in no time. "Kara is genuinely worried that Ryan will listen to Feige, and rushes out to find the Lich Hunt right now. Because the three people present knew very well that Ryan had even lost the only short blade, and no one in the hundred-man team was poorer than them.
Ryan frowned, "That's a good idea. Besides, it is not certain whether these double S-class tasks can be completed in the end. It's good to be able to send a sum now. So wait for me here, and I'll go and return. ”
With that, Ryan glanced around and walked in one direction. As soon as Ryan left, Kara couldn't help but jump up and look at Feige with a pair of resentful eyes, and pulled out the longbow behind her back to give Feige a blow.
Ryan walked to the encirclement and said to one of the warriors, "Excuse me, I'm going out." ”
"Get out?"
"Well, go hunt the Lich. ”
"But the team of thieves arranged by Captain Jack has already gone. Your Excellency is also a thief?" the warrior said strangely, looking at the great sword on Ryan's back.
"Oh no, I volunteered. Isn't that okay?" Ryan asked.
"Oh, I didn't say I couldn't do it voluntarily, so please. The warrior got out of the way and let Ryan out.
You have to hurry. Otherwise, you won't be able to grab the lich. Ryan took a step, and suddenly accelerated, and the warrior only felt a phantom flash in front of him, and the man had disappeared into the miasma. Ryan didn't bring a torch, as long as it wasn't ingested for a long time, Ryan was confident that this miasma could still be tolerated.
Defeating one of the lichs next to him, Arthur continues to weave his way through the hordes of skeletons with a torch in search of his next target. It is rare for Captain Jack to personally assign the task, and of course Arthur has to perform well. Each time Arthur's figure crossed behind a skeleton, and by the time the skeleton turned around, Arthur had already disappeared. Torches are a visible mark to humans, but they have no vision for these low-end undead. Their actions rely on the perception of the breath of different creatures.
"There you go. Not far away, Arthur spotted another lich. Just as he was about to step forward, suddenly, a figure fell from the sky, and a large black sword plunged straight into the lich's chest, cleanly. ”
That great sword? It seems to be a two-handed great swordsman named Ryan. Why is he here? Wait, the point is, how can he fall from the sky?
"Yes, there we have. Rejoicing, Ryan drew his greatsword and leaned over to pull out the deadwood staff from the lich's hand. This is the third lich that Ryan has killed, and finally there is one. Ryan pulled out his staff, leaped onto the shoulders of a skeleton, and leaped again, quickly disappearing from Arthur's sight.
"I'll go, talent. That's fine. Arthur couldn't stand it. I didn't think of that. This is the height of the station, and you can see far away.
After that, Arthur also jumped onto the shoulder of a skeleton, and was pressed by the sudden weight, and the skeleton leaned shortly, Zheng He did not expect it, and one stumbled and fell off the skeleton's back.
"I'll go, I can't stand this hundred pounds. It's weird, that guy plus his two-handed big sword is less than two hundred catties, why is it okay?"
Thinking about it, Arthur couldn't get on the skeleton's shoulder, so he could only continue to search on the ground.
Arthur divided the area with the other five thieves to search, and after the search, returned to the encirclement to join up. Everyone has a compass on their bodies, so that they will not lose their way.
At the moment, outside the team.
"I'll kill two, what about you?"
"Me too. ”
"I'm just one. ”
The number of six people was 10.
"What about the other seven?" asked one of them.
"Have you seen a two-handed swordsman?" Arthur asked.
"Yes. ”
"Nope. ”
There are those who say yes, and there are those who say no. In short, the entire area was searched. It seems that the remaining 7 must have been killed by the great swordsman. Let's go back.
Inside the team. Now in the middle of the reorganized team, Feiqi held two deadwood staff in his hands, one left and one right, and said with a smile: "Tut-tut, different is the same, this old thing is better than the new one." I feel like my mental power has become pure. ”
"You're nervous. Kara said angrily: "Have you seen enough, why don't you hurry up and clean the staff after seeing enough, the corpse smells good, right?"
"Hey, hey, hey", Feige was still smirking vigorously. Hearing this, he spit out a one-word spell, only to see a blue light on Feiqi's hands, it was a water-based introductory spell, a trainee magic that was not even a first-level magic - [Cleansing Technique], as the name suggests, this spell can clean all stains and odors, and it is perfect for washing clothes.
"Alright. Feige pinned the two old deadwood staff to his new deadwood staff, which was indescribably awkward. At first glance, this is a "three-staff mage"? How weak does this mage have to be to rely on three staff to condense mana. Feige clearly didn't care about his face, and stroked the staff with a happy face.