Chapter 13: The Magician Nanaroku
The team finally moved on. There are still skeletal lich attacks along the way, but they are more than comfortable for teams that have already been through a battle. Ryan didn't go out to hunt the lich and pick up the staff again. After all, for Ryan, gold is enough. He didn't expect to make a fortune by picking up a staff. However, the news of Ryan hunting the lich and snatching the staff quickly spread throughout the team, and although a few dozen gold coins were not much, it was enough to make some mercenaries stop, after all, everyone entered the dungeon for the gold coins. For this reason, in order not to interfere with the itinerary, Jack had to order that the regiments could send representatives to hunt down the missing lich along the way. But the speed of the team's march cannot be slowed down, in other words, whether the people who left the team can come back or not depends on their strength, and he, Jack, is not responsible.
It was getting darker, which meant that it was almost night. The deeper you go into the Plaguelands, the fewer skeletons and lichs you have.
Jack kept an eye on the direction of the compass, moving towards 20°C west-north as agreed with the empty sky. Along the way, there are markers left at regular intervals. Now it seems that the decision to let Kongque explore the way was right in the first place. Along the way, relying on the information left by the empty que, Jack and his team have avoided several waves of dense undead.
"It doesn't seem to be long before we can join up with Kongque. Yinfeng and Jack walked at the head of the team together, and this was obviously what Jack said to Yinfeng.
The Plague Land is centered on the dungeon, and for some reason, the terrain gradually extends downward from the middle belly, but there is no natural sign to be seen.
"It's here. Jack said. The vision was downward, and there was still a gray miasma in front of him, but there seemed to be countless dark green ghost fires slowly beating in the miasma.
"Arthur, flares. ”
"Okay, Commander. Hearing this, Arthur pulled out a tan tube from his bag, with a guide rope at the end. Zheng He pulled down the guide rope, and with a "boom", a purple-red dazzling light rose from the ground, and soon rushed into the sky.
After the flare was fired, Jack waited in place, and according to the agreement, at this moment, the empty que should be on the way to arrive.
"Why don't you move?" said Fitch in the group. He was leisurely holding a piece of jerky in his hand and gnawing on it, the jerky was begged for from Mo Yan, and Fei Qimei said that he was coming to eat for Ryan. When Mo Yan heard this, Engong wanted to eat, so he hurriedly tore a large piece for Feiqi, but Feiqi turned around and only tore off a small piece from the large piece and gave it to Ryan. I gnawed it shamelessly.
"It's waiting for the space to converge. Ryan said.
At this time, I saw a white light rising into the sky in the hinterland.
"No, it's a rescue bomb. The head of the empty regiment is in danger. Jack shouted, all ready, follow me to the rescue.
With that, Jack leaped forward and swooped down first towards the location where the signal was emitted. Behind Jack, the mercenaries followed one after the other.
"Floating Card" - Wind Level 1 Magic [Levitation].
A levitation spell can support an adult man to float in the air for a quarter of an hour, but can only float at a height of two meters, of course, as the caster itself, the mage can float to a higher height through the levitation spell, and even fly with the spell, provided that you have enough mental power and mana support.
Mages are not like warriors, they don't have a strong physique. The gray-robed magicians shouted a spell, and with the buoyancy of the levitation technique, they jumped from the flat ground into the hinterland. Except for our beloved Lord Feiqi!
"Ryan, it's too high here, you can carry me down. ”
Carla was speechless. "Waste, you don't even know how to levitate?"
"You know, I'm saving mana. There may be some kind of fierce battle ahead! These fools are disgraced to the magician to use a levitation technique as a pedal. Feige was unashamed.
"People want dignity, how can you be shameless, and people want to carry you down. Kara said angrily.
Ryan didn't care, let alone got used to it. With one sword in his hand, he slung Feige on his back and leapt to follow the group in front of him.
Now the elites who have joined the team are worthy of being selected from the four major teams, and after adapting to the environment and atmosphere in the plague land, these mercenaries have exerted their due strength, and their running speed is very fast. This made it hard for the magicians who followed behind, all of them panting. It's Feige, who can't get off Ryan's back. In the midst of Feige and Kara's fight, the whole team quickly disappeared into a gray miasma.
"Wow, look, what's that? It can't be a corpse witch, right?" suddenly appeared in front of him a scene of a mercenary fighting a humanoid monster covered in gray-white fluff. The monster was covered with only a few rags, and a pair of clawed nails were unusually long and curved, intersecting with the mercenary's long sword, and it made a golden sound. Fortunately, this corpse witch was slow to move, and after a few encounters, he was killed by the mercenary.
"That mercenary doesn't seem to be part of our team. Ryan said.
"It looks like we're not the only ones who have reached this hinterland. Carla had been following Ryan closely.
The further forward they went, the more and more people were fighting, and everywhere there were dead trees and shrubs set ablaze by the flames.
"Well, that, I said, Ryan. I wanted to say it before. Are you running in the wrong direction?" said Feige suddenly.
Ryan paused. Looking at the faces of the battle around him, he scratched his head and said, "Is it wrong? I saw that there were people all the way, so I ran in the direction of the crowds, thinking that I couldn't go wrong. ”
"Dead Feiqi, I know that Ryan has a bad sense of direction, and I don't look at it, if you hadn't been lying on Ryan's back and refusing to come down, would we have lost it?" Kara said.
"Nonsense, if you weren't busy kicking me, let Ryan go crookedly. How could it be that you are going off the rails?" said Feich, indignantly.
"What now?"
Feige stepped off Ryan's back. "Don't worry, I remember the direction, I can't lose it. Wait for me to think about it. Feige said as he pulled out the compass in his arms. Shine with a torch and turn the direction to observe.
"Well, let's go east. Feiqi said.
"Dong, are you reliable?" said Kara, incredulous. Carla has always trusted Ryan 100 percent. In other words, Miss Elf is the real road idiot. It's always been Ryan, and she goes wherever she goes. As for Feige, no matter what Feige says, Kara is suspicious.
"Can't be wrong. When the white rescue bomb was launched, I noticed that it was northeast, and our current place was northwest, so we could go east. ”
"Okay, let's go. Feige jumped back onto Ryan's back and gave orders. The three of them headed east.
【The north-easterly corner of the middle belly of the plaguelands】
"Miss Nana. "In an overgrown wasteland, a shield swordsman dressed in the garb of a national guard shouted loudly, desperately standing in front of the magician named Nana. A little demon tore open its sharp fangs and bit down on the swordsman's neck.
"Diere. The sorceress exclaimed. In grief, he raised the staff in his hand, and an arc of lightning shot out from the purple crystal at the top of the staff, hitting the little devil's head accurately. The high-energy heat contained in the arc evaporates the little devil's head directly into the air.
"Teacher. The sorceress called out to an old man beside her.
"Don't be distracted, it's his glory. ”
"The others quickly approached Miss, and the little devil must not touch Miss in the slightest. The old man in the white robe said as he spoke, the purple electric light of the staff in his hand continued, and every ray of lightning shot out would definitely take away the life of a little demon.
"Ryan, there seems to be someone in front of you. "Kara Dao.
"Yes, yes, I'll see. Fitch looked over and could only see the flames constantly changing positions.
"Oops, it looks like it's intense. Let's take a detour. Feiqi said.
Before, the people around them were all rushing north, but the three of them changed their route to the east, away from the crowd, and this was the first team they encountered along the way.
Feige said this, but Ryan didn't move. Kara stood by and watched Ryan. Waiting for his decision. Ryan is not a saint, but he has never been a saint to death. Otherwise, when Ryan met Kara, it would have been a different ending.
"Support them. Ryan made a decision. One left Feige behind, and rushed to the battlefield with his big sword in hand.
Carla followed.
"Hey, you two slow down, you guys are running so fast, who will protect me. Seeing that Ryan was in the lead, Feige quickly spread his legs and chased forward desperately.
"Hold on a little longer, the number of little devils has decreased. The white-robed old man danced wildly with his staff full of thunder and lightning. At the same time, with a loud shout, a difficult spell was shouted, centered on the white-robed old man, and a blue light curtain appeared to instantly envelop everyone.
This is the fourth-level magic - [Magic Shield]. The only spell in the arcane system that all magicians must practice. [Mana Shield] is easy to consume mana, the larger the range, the more mana is consumed. The old man did not use this magic at the beginning because he was afraid that if the number of little demons continued to increase, and his premature exhaustion, it would inevitably lead to the destruction of the entire army. This is not allowed. In any case, he had to keep enough strength to protect the sorceress named Nana. Now, the dawn of victory is at hand, and the old man finally stops saving mana.
"Woohoo!"
Three cold rays of light pierced the sky. It was the "arrows"! As she ran at great speed, Kara followed closely behind Ryan, but the nature of the archers prevented the Kara men from taking the arrows before they arrived. Even so, this didn't affect Kara's speed in the slightest.
The sound of breaking the air immediately attracted the attention of the old man. After a long period of execution, the old man shuddered, even if it was an enemy attack, he could only accept his fate. This is not an arrow that a normal archer can shoot. The old man wasn't sure if the [Magic Shield] that he had spread so much to the extent that he would have the strength to stop its sharpness.
"Great, the target is the little devil." The arrow was so powerful that it directly exploded the little devil's body.
At this time, Ryan arrived!
Bend your knees, jump, volley, one, two, three....... Ryan kept shifting his sword-swinging position in the air, and wherever his strength went, his body flew in the air. At this time, Ryan was in front of the white-robed old man, and the black iron sword swung faster and faster, and dozens of sword shadows were intertwined in the air like black lightning.
Not far away, more than a dozen little demons opened their bloody mouths and attacked Ryan for unknown reasons. "Ahh
Seeing this, the white-robed old man withdrew the [Magic Shield], and three arcs of lightning shot out at the same time from the staff covered with the power of thunder and lightning, piercing through the three little demons.
Kara also rushed to the battlefield from far and near, shooting green arrows from time to time in his hands. Everyone joined forces to strike. More than half of the little devils in the air were killed and injured in an instant, and the rest were no longer afraid, and they began to collapse in all directions.
"Huhuhu, look at me, [Great Fireball Technique]. "Feige is finally here. A fireball the size of apparently two normal fireballs was thrown out of Feige's hand and smashed into the body of an escaping imp, who was reduced to ashes on the spot.
"Whew, whew. The pant voice kept in my ears, "How's that, it's amazing." I've been saving up this [Great Fireball Technique] all the way. ”
The battle is over. The white-robed old man trembled his staff slightly, and at the top of the staff, the light-based auxiliary magic [Illumination Technique] slowly lit up, and the surroundings became brighter.
The old man stepped forward in two steps, standing his right hand on his chest, which was a pan-continental common salute. "Your Excellency, on behalf of the Campbell family, the white-robed mage Naifa Li would like to thank Your Excellency for your great help. This is my young lady, Nanaro, Campbell and her entourage. ”
Ryan returned the salute and said, "Your Excellency Mage doesn't have to be polite. My name is Ryan Morin, and these two are my companion Kara the archer and Fitch Alex the grey mage. "Saying the last name is a sign of trust in the first acquaintance, but Ryan doesn't intend to say Kara's last name.
"I didn't expect Mr. Ryan to be able to gain the trust of the forest elves. It can be seen that Mr. Lane has a noble character. Old decay admires and admires. The old man's praise and praise continued, which really made Ryan speechless, and Ryan suddenly regretted that he should not have saved them if he knew it.
"Hahaha, where, where. The mage predecessor is the most powerful mana, I noticed that the magic badge on the chest of the predecessor shows that the predecessor is a white-robed mage majoring in the ice system, but just now the predecessor danced the third-level magic [Thunder Light Spell], and the white-robed mage who majored in the ice system can actually master the third-level thunder magic, and the senior's talent is extraordinary. Fei Qi is the best at this kind of mutual boasting, and he is in awe-inspiring interest, and immediately answers.
Once a magician enters the white-robed mage stage, he must choose a series of magic as his major, after all, a person's life is limited, and only by specializing in a certain line of magic can he be expected to become a great magician or even a legendary magician in his life. Of course, there are also gifted people who major in two or even three lines of magic. It's just that no matter what the magician chooses, he must also combine his own [Phase].
"Where, where, it's just that the ice magic is not good at the sky, so I have no choice but to use the thunder magic. Your Excellency's words are serious. ”
Ryan broke out in a cold sweat, and he really couldn't listen to it anymore. Tugging at the corner of Feige's clothes, he beckoned Feige to continue eastward.
"Wait. The sorceress named Nanaroku suddenly stopped Ryan and said, "Thank you for your kindness, I have a reluctant request, I don't know if Your Excellency is willing?"
Ryan then noticed the appearance of the female magician, about twenty-six or seventeen years old, with a gorgeous face, with curly green hair casually draped behind her, and wearing a gray magic robe different from Feige's, showing her status as a gray-robed mage. There was no lack of coldness and nobility in the words of the sorceress. ”
"What's the matter?" Ryan didn't care.
"This dungeon is extremely dangerous, my teacher and I led a team of more than 20 people this time, and now there are only eight people left. Your Excellency is heading east, presumably to join the brigade. Of course, we don't want any quest rewards, and if we find treasure in the dungeon, we won't take any money. Let's just take one thing. ”
"I don't care about this. But it's useless to ask me, you have to ask the head of the regiment. Ryan replied honestly.
"In that case, please bring us with you to meet your leader. ”