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When Darko regained consciousness and found himself half-buried in a leeward place, he remembered that he had been blown away in a sandstorm, and he couldn't help but feel a little scared. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info spit out the sand in his mouth, and Dacko found that there was no place in his body that did not hurt, as if the skeleton had been dismantled and reassembled by joints.

Humming and chirping, Darko saw a small forest in front of him, and looked back strangely at the back, and there were snowy sand dunes. Only then did he realize that after the sandstorm, he had been unknowingly taken out of the desert. After taking a sip of water and resting for a while, Darko ran in the direction of the woods, not knowing if he was frightened by the previous sandstorm, and the road was unusually calm. Due to the heavy psychological shadow left by the Wailing Desert on Darko, Dakko ran in the direction of the desert for a full six hours before tearing open a random teleportation scroll and moving away.

Darko kept running on the ground of the Mercury plane, and every few hours after running, he pulled out a random teleportation scroll and tore it open, and with a wave of spatial fluctuations, he would appear in another place hundreds of kilometers away, and then run close to the limit. Dakko ran back and forth like this, and before he knew it, he had been running like this for ten days and ten nights without stopping. During these ten days and ten nights of desperate escape, Darko gradually incorporated the situation of the entire Mercury plane into his own perception.

On the ninth teleportation, Darko was on the top of a wilderness. This wilderness was once a battlefield, a battlefield like the Land of Twilight. The blazing sun struggled to penetrate the thick gray clouds and sprinkle them on the black and yellow earth. Occasionally, a strong wind blows a small gray cloud, allowing the sunlight to shine through unhindered. All kinds of strange monsters on the ground run around where there is a water source from time to time, and more hide in underground caves. There was a tall plant growing in the wilderness, and its pale stems were covered with spikes half a meter long. Whenever the sun shines, it twists its branches and stems, receives as much light as possible, and grows wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Darko ran across the battlefield, occasionally jumping over the bones of the forest or the rusted armor that appeared under his feet. Looking at this boundless ancient battlefield, Darko couldn't help but think that if the master arrived here, he would be able to create more undead creatures. When Darko realizes that he is missing Phyllis again, he hurriedly retracts his thoughts.

The discovery of the Mercury plane came much later than both Armas and Venus, and by that time the number of churches of the gods in Amesia had grown to a peak of eighteen. At that time, although the various churches had not yet been able to develop their own technology to establish an interdimensional teleportation channel, the space church had opened the portal to Mercury, so all major forces flocked to this secondary plane.

Perhaps because of the harsh climate, Mercury is a plane without aborigines, but it is extremely rich in mineral resources. The major forces that came here had no enemies to deal with together, so they naturally directly began to enclose and hostile each other, and war broke out.

In the Mercury plane, the power limit is only four levels, and only those below the advanced level can enter. For the major churches, no matter how many people below the senior level died, they would not break their bones, so they indulged in the battle even more, and reached a tacit understanding that no matter how fierce the fight was in Mercury, the return to Amesia would still maintain a superficial peace. And several hostile churches that have been fighting for many years have used Mercury as another battlefield, no longer to simply occupy territory and resources, but to continue the war on the main plane.

At the end of the war, the enclosure of the major powers gradually became fixed, and they began to send coolies and prisoners to this place for mining. From the beginning to the end, the Space Church did not participate in the war, only collected tolls, but it was still the Space Church that made the most profits. This made the Space Church the richest and most powerful church before the Magic Revolution. Of course, the loss of power of the major churches during the Mercury Plane War was also one of the many factors that indirectly led to the clerical vacuum before the Magic Revolution.

Darko ran for more than ten minutes, stopped and looked at the place of conquest around him, sighed deeply, and didn't know whether to sigh the heaviness of history or regret the humility of life.

He sat casually on a half-rusted tomahawk and rested for a moment, calming his breathing before teleporting away again.

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Daktronics was transported between mines on the fifteenth teleport. The terrain of the Mercury Plane is uneven, with mountains and hills of all sizes scattered in a messy manner, and there are abundant resources in them, even in treacherous places.

Most of the mines Dakko saw had been abandoned, and there were still tools and bones left in them, and there were even whimpering cries from the mines, which were zombies that had been soaked in dead breath. If it weren't for the occasional scavenging vulture flying in the sky, Darko would have almost thought he was back in the undead hell.

Although Mercury is a resource-rich plane, most of the minerals it contains are cheap minerals such as iron and copper, and the tolls charged by the Space Church do not actually make the price of minerals much profitable. As the wars on the Mercury Plane consumed the number of low-ranking soldiers in the major churches, the number of weapons needed was greatly reduced, and these cheap metals quickly saturated the market and stabilized at new prices.

When the Magical Revolution broke out, the Church moved a large number of troops away from Mercury. In this way, Mercury became a farce, which lasted only twelve years from opening to closing. Twelve years, compared to other plane wars that often cost hundreds of years, it does seem like a farce.

When the large number of troops evacuated Mercury, only the prisoners who worked as coolies remained, and the few civilians who had immigrated to the area, who gradually multiplied here.

War destroys an old era and creates a new one. After more than 3,000 years of discovery and evolution, the Mercury Plane gradually became a paradise for the untrustworthy, wanted, and terrorists, and finally became what it is now.

Where there are resources, they are inhabited, even if these abandoned mines are no longer able to dig up valuable ore. Dakko came across a settlement after running for a while. In terms of size, the settlement is two or three hundred people, most of whom are dilapidated tents with a large amount of foul sewage flowing from the ground. Every now and then, a giant rat nearly a meter long will emerge out of nowhere, squeak and scream, rush through the sewage, and disappear into the darkness.

Darko watched the squalid settlement from afar, and after a moment made sure no one noticed him, he teleported away again.

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The space stabilized again, and Darko suddenly felt a foul smell coming, and there seemed to be water droplets dripping around him, and the water droplets fell on the ground but made a sizzling sound, Daktronic was immediately shocked, this turned out to be a strong acid!

Hurriedly raising his head, Darko saw a thick snake-shaped monster facing him overhead. Its head has no eyes or nose, only a large round mouth, in which the teeth grow neatly in circles, and from time to time a few drops of saliva that is highly corrosive. Darko found that he had been teleported into the lair of a sawtooth earthworm, a fourth-order demonic beast capable of swallowing many huge low-level demonic beasts whole. Darko cursed himself for his bad luck and hurriedly tore open a random teleportation scroll again.

That's why it's easy not to use random teleportation, as it's easy to teleport directly to the danger. Fortunately, Darko has a lot of scrolls on his body, and when he encounters danger, he will immediately teleport away again, but it is also dangerous. But Dakko made up his mind that he would not use it easily when there was only one random teleportation scroll left on his body in the future, maybe three was the number of insurance.

When there were only five of Darko's original thirty-odd random teleportation scrolls left, his physical strength was already overloaded, and he had been running for ten days and ten nights in a row, and the rest time in between was less than an hour. According to his plan, two more teleportations would be fine, though he had already completely lost himself by the second random teleport.

At this time, Darko found himself on top of a barren mountain, barren mountain with no grass growing within a radius of several thousand meters. Upon closer inspection, Dakko realized that it was a volcanic magma mass. There are volcanoes in the Mercury plane, many of which are active. Large areas of the hillside are uneven by black-gray volcanic rock, and some of the craters filled with volcanic ash are often sunk into them and never come out. From time to time, steam several meters high erupts from the porous rocks, turning the surrounding air very hot and humid.

Although the environment is treacherous, the conditions for the existence of life are met, and there are also a large number of demonic beasts inhabiting the vicinity of the volcano. They either live in volcanic porous rocks or hide in volcanic ash, and only appear at night. From a distance, Dakko saw a swarm of giant half-meter-long insects crawling in and out of the crater, making it his home. Darko recognized it as a third-order demonic beast, the Fire-breathing Beetle, which was not only capable of spitting out misty fire elementals, but also able to bite rocks with sharp rods.

Normally, this kind of dangerous Jedi would not be suitable for a long stay, but Darko's eyes lit up. There are usually a large number of metal ores near volcanoes, and since there are resources, there may be mines, and because of the strong fire element nearby, it is not easy for dead breath to remain in the depths of caves, and undead creatures such as zombies will not be generated.

Daktron pulled himself together, took a sip of water, and carefully surveyed his surroundings. After more than an hour of searching, he really found a deep hole, this pit obviously has traces of artificial excavation, and the rocks on the surrounding cave walls show an angular and smooth shape, Dakko recognized that this is an iron ore pit, and the scale is not small.

Darko maximized his mental power, and approached the inside of the mine while carefully probing. After the merger of Daktronics' two souls, the strength of the mental power has not changed, but the maneuverability has reached a whole new level. The most obvious improvement is that when conducting mental power exploration, the perception of the details of various things is more refined, and even a small piece on the ground will not be missed at any time.

Dakko found a shallow cavity in the wall of a towering cavern, which he recognized as a depression made by digging down the mine road, which was used to secure the rope and use it to lift the tools. Darko looked at the depression and felt very satisfied, it could not only accommodate himself, but also play a certain role in defending against demonic beasts. Darko sat cross-legged in it, exhausted from ten days and ten nights of running.

Daktronics laid out an improvised trap in the hollow of the rock face and attached a reel of an air hood to it. If triggered by a monster, this defensive magic will be activated first, protecting himself from the hollow, and the magic fluctuations released by the scroll will also awaken him. In this case, no amount of caution can be overstated.

When Darko finally set up a place that he thought was safe, the tight string in his heart suddenly relaxed, and he only felt a wave of fatigue coming from all over his body, drowning him all at once.