Chapter Seventy-Nine: Mei'er's Awakening?

Deep in the Pingxi Mountains.

Unlike the mild Luoxia Mountains to the west, which resembles the eerie Forest of Despair, there are dry bones and swamp gas everywhere. Legend has it that this place used to be as sunny as the Luoxia Mountains, but the battle between Bright Blue and Swiss Town completely changed the landscape and made it uninhabitable, which is one of the reasons why Bright Blue and Swiss Town each took a step back.

"Hell, is there an undead dragon here, we've been spinning for a long time"

"I don't know, but the Marquis shouldn't lie to us, I heard that he is a good person among the nobles"

"It's not that I don't believe the Marquis, but I don't believe the mercenary who said that he found the undead dragon"

"It's pretty much the same, but the gas is really annoying"

"Let's just think it's an adventure, we can't kill that undead dragon anyway"

Four ordinary mercenaries were talking to each other in the Pingxi Mountains, and on a large tree not far from them, two pairs of dark eyes were watching their every move.

"Brother, these people want to rob us of our prey, do you want to kill them?"

"No, let them go down the road in front first, and if he dares to grab it when we fight, he will kill him directly"

Cold-blooded and ruthless when necessary, Ayton survived in the Dark Cavern to this day.

"Oh, okay"

"Let's go back first, Iruli and they probably can't wait."

Ayton and Ariel returned to the gathering place to find that the other three were all sitting and resting, and the mages were generally a little worse than the warriors, even Ravel, the half-elf.

"I didn't find the undead dragon in front of me, but I encountered 4 mercenaries," Ayton said lightly.

"Oh," Iluri bowed her head, as a forest elf, she must have hoped to find the undead dragon sooner.

"Ilully, don't you forest elves have the ability to perceive, can you use that to find it," Ariel said. Previously, Iruli was more accurate in perceiving danger than the Assassin, which made her a little unconvinced.

"Okay, I'll try" Iruli closed her eyes and stared, her hands on the tree behind her, the green light magic slowly poured into the tree from her hands, and then flowed into her body, it was very magical.

"Perception?" Ravel looked at Illuri in surprise.

"What's wrong?" Ayton asked in a low voice.

"It's nothing, it's just that I heard that only a very small number of elves in the forest elves have a high degree of nature perception, and those elves basically have royal blood"

"Is it" Ayton was noncommittal, regardless of whether she was some kind of forest elf royal family, there was a veritable princess of the Bright Blue Kingdom next to him.

After a few moments, Illuri's face suddenly turned ugly, as if she had seen something extremely uncomfortable.

"Illus, what's going on?" Ayton hurriedly interrupted her state of perception.

Illuria took a step back, pointed her finger in one direction, and said in a trembling voice, "There...... There is the power of the undead."

"There!?" Ayton said with a frown as he looked in the direction of Illuri's finger, which happened to be the direction the four mercenaries were heading.

"Without further ado, let's go check it out" Ayton said, "Ariel take care to protect Ilully and Blue Coco"

"Do you want me to protect them again," Ariel muttered quietly, but silently leaned closer to the two girls. In the face of the undead dragon whose strength is unknown, Ayton will not let people who have no protection ability around them, and as for Ravel's words, he is a little uneasy.

......

The five of them scurried through the dense forest, and after about 10 minutes, they passed the four mercenaries just now, but Ayton ignored them, if he said that there was an undead dragon in front of them, they would definitely not want to leave.

Walked for a while.

"It's close, just 200 meters ahead, but ...... It's dangerous!" Illuria said in a trembling voice, her reaction clearly stronger than when she encountered the dark wolves and the emerald man-eating python

"It's okay Iluli, we killed two emerald man-eating pythons in a row, are you still afraid of this fifth-order peak undead dragon" Ayton comforted, he hadn't seen a fifth-order peak demonic beast, and he didn't know what the strength was, but for the sake of Iluli, he wouldn't leave without even seeing the shadow of the dragon.

"I'll go to the front first," said Ariel, and rushed forward.

Ayton didn't stop and whispered, "Stay safe." ”

"Two emerald man-eating pythons, both of them are mid-fifth-order demonic beasts?" Lan Keke looked at Ayton in disbelief at this time, and said excitedly: "You two can actually kill two mid-fifth-order demonic beasts"

"It's not just the two of us, but also the help of Iluri and a WingClan"

"But that's also very strong," Lan Coco's eyes lit up, and now she had a new understanding of Ayton's strength.

Through the previous battle, Ravel was also half convinced.

"Uh...... It's just luck, in fact, we almost died at that time" Ayton remembered the final blow of the female Emerald Man-Eating Python, and he still has some lingering palpitations.

And at the last moment, it is likely that Mei'er rescued him, as for why the latter didn't take the initiative to say it, Ayton didn't want to ask more.

At this time, Ariel came back and looked at Ayton suspiciously: "What are you talking about, why are you saying it while I'm not there"

"It's the matter of killing the green man-eating python before, let's talk about the previous situation first"

Ariel didn't continue to investigate: "There is a hole about 20 square meters in front of it, and there seems to be some evil existence in it. ”

"That should be the undead dragon" Lan Keke said with some excitement: "Haha, I, Lan Coco, also want to hunt an undead dragon to prove myself"

"Let's go ahead and have a look."

The five of them walked to the front of the cave entrance, and at this moment a cold wind blew in their faces, mixed with a slight rancid smell.

Ariel pinched her nose and said, "It smells so bad."

"It's here, the aura is very powerful, much more powerful than those two man-eating pythons," said Iruli covering her nose, the forest elves are very sensitive in terms of facial features.

"Dragon-like monsters, it's normal," Ravel said, and took the lead in the front, intending to take on this pathfinding mission, which had been explored by Ayton and Ariel before, and this time it was his turn.

Ravel had just taken a step before he was stopped by Ayton: "You're a magician, leave the pathfinder to me, Ariel, guard the entrance to the cave"

"Brother, I'd better go," Ariel stepped forward and said worriedly.

Ayton tapped her on the head and patted her chest: "If you want to be beautiful, leave it to me, I'll leave a mark in it"

After saying that, he ran straight into the cave.

Ariel looked at the back of Ayton disappearing into the hole, a fear and worry surged up from the bottom of her heart, and she wanted to rush in several times, and then glanced at Lan Coco and Eluli, gritted her teeth, but still stopped, stood next to Eluli, looked at Lan Coco, and said in a very unfriendly tone: "Hey, when will you become a magician who doesn't want to be protected?"

“......”

......

The caves in the Pingxi Mountains are full of methane and corpse gas, but there is no feces left by animals, and there are still faint footprints on the ground.

Around the corner, Ayton was shocked to find an unlit magic lamp.

There's someone inside, a necromancer!?

This made Ayton more cautious, there is a slight chance that undead creatures will form naturally, but more of them are artificially created, and the magicians who create undead creatures are collectively called necromancers, and necromantic magic is the same magic as dark magic, which is forbidden by the Holy See, but to a more serious extent.

The dark mage didn't do anything hurtful, and there was still a little room for triumph. Once the necromancer is discovered by the Church, he will directly face judgment or purification.

This made Ayton more cautious, and he didn't know if the necromancer was in there, and it was very likely that he had heard the news that the Marquis of Thorns had released the undead dragon bounty, and then moved away overnight.

The cave was relatively long, and Ayton walked for about 10 minutes when suddenly an intersection appeared in front of him.

'Go back the way you came, or keep going,' Ayton pondered. If you go back the way you came, it would be safer and more efficient to let them come in and explore.

But the defense of the entrance to the cave is also very important, in case someone seals the entrance of the cave at that time, and then they also encounter the undead dragon inside, then they will lose a lot.

After thinking for a while, Ayton decided to explore the cave on his own, hoping that Ariel would be a little more patient and not come in for him.

Ayton carved an 'X' mark on the right wall, and after Ayton attracted the bats to flee to the depths of the trial ground, causing Ariel to complain for a while, and then they agreed on various codes to find them even if they accidentally got separated.

The air in the cave became colder and colder, and the air seemed to be mixed with a woman's cry, like a ghost in the abyss. Ayton couldn't help but feel a chill behind him.

But he didn't want to stop there, and he had to see for himself what was hidden in the depths.

'Hidden'

Ayton's right hand was attached to the dark orb on his chest, and magic was injected into it through his clothes, and a transparent membrane attached to Ayton's body, causing his figure to disappear into some dark cavern.

'Concealment' is different from 'disguise', which severely slows his movement speed, and even his breathing is a little sluggish.

In addition, when facing an enemy, Ayton will immediately activate once he touches it, and when he activates 'Hide' again, he will have a cast time that is enough for the enemy to kill him, so he must not keep 'Hide' to fight others.

After walking for about five minutes, a large magic array suddenly appeared in front of me, flashing with all kinds of light, and there were a large number of bottles and cans of unknown liquids and books around, but fortunately there was no one.

Ayton didn't make the slightest sound, he was now 'invisible', and it would be difficult to spot him unless there was nearby detection magic.

'Seals, resentments, there's someone experimenting here' Ayton recognized a bit of a magical inscription next to the magic circle.

Suddenly, a light blue ghost appeared in the magic array, her face was pale, her lower body was a void, her upper body was floating on the ground an inch or so, and her face was a woman about 25 years old, her eyes were full of violent red light at this time, and she actually found Ayton, an intruder.

"Die!" the ghost let out a terrifying scream and rushed towards Ayton, threatening to tear Ayton to shreds, startling Ayton to quickly fade away from his 'invisible' magic.

With a "bang", the female ghost seemed to have hit a barrier, and her figure immediately stopped, but she still held on to the barrier, and the barrier only glowed with a faint halo and did not move.

Seeing this, Ayton suddenly relaxed, he had only heard of ghosts, but he had never fought head-on, and he didn't know how many pounds and taels the other party had.

"Hey, can you talk" Ayton called out to the ghost, trying to communicate with her, but the latter didn't respond in the slightest, still clutching at the barrier.

'She's supposed to be the necromancer's test subject, and she seems to have been tortured by him to the point of losing her mind.'

Ayton sighed and walked to the desk, where there were many books and notes scattered around, and it looked like the handwriting was written by the same person, presumably the necromancer.

After thinking about it for a while, Ayton still put all the books into the Dark Orb, Ayton didn't care if necromancy was forbidden by the church, anyway, he, the dark elf, would not be recognized by the church, so what was the harm in learning it secretly.

After glancing at the irrational ghost, Ayton headed out of the cave, since the necromancer hadn't fled, he was probably at another fork in the road, or outside, and he was a little worried about what would happen to Ariel.

'Master, master' suddenly a crisp and eager voice came into Ayton's mind.