Heavy 33.4-A: Hunt the Evil Caster
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You hold the [Evil Destruction Greatsword] in your hand, and the synchronization value is 5 initially.
Annette accepted the staff with a bewildered face:
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"Arcanon Spreading Staff"
Once upon a time, a good god gifted this staff and arcane knowledge to a mortal sage who wanted him to spread arcane knowledge and power to the world. Most successive holders have only done the latter.
Pleasure: On the basis of satisfaction, it costs -2 points, as long as it can be successfully identified, no matter what the principle of the spell is, you can spend the corresponding charge to countercast the spell, and spend the same charge to copy the spell once in six seconds, with 20 levels of power;
Satisfied: On a normal basis, all costs are -2 points (the minimum is reduced to 0), [Strong Acid Orb] is 5 points, [Dissociation] is 6 points, [Deep Freeze" is 7 points, the spells of this staff are no longer friendly, and the power is level 17;
Normal: This staff has 7 charges, and the wielder can spend the corresponding charges to cast spells: 0 points for "Mage's Hand", 1 point for "Field Wave", 2 points for "Stone Blast", 3 points for "Fireball", 4 points for "Thunder Spear", which automatically refills every day, with 15 levels of power.
Dissatisfied: On a normal basis, spell resistance is reduced, and the power is level 10;
Anger: On the basis of dissatisfaction, cost +2, weak constitution.
Synchronization conditions: Mage +2, Cast +1 (up to once per day), Holder imparts Arcane knowledge to others +1 (per person), Holder uses military weapons -2, Bearer or ally does heavy work -2 (per person), Holder IQ downline -2 (every 8 hours, such as drunk or under a curse),
+1 for each wielder while in the vicinity of the wielder of the [Demonic Destruction Greatsword] wielder (every 8 hours)
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You ask the Arcane Knights, how do these two artifacts complement each other?
"That greatsword was originally intended for mortal warriors, isn't it common for warriors to give mages and guards to cooperate with each other? "It's a pity that he holds two artifacts at the same time, and he won't have +1 synchronization value every 8 hours, otherwise he wouldn't be disgusted by the artifact now.
...... I always feel ......
...... Annette's artifact is better, so you reach for your staff, and you get burned.
The president instructed, "Be careful that the artifact is stolen by thieves. ”
Is the fire free of thieves?
"If the synchronization value is lower than normal, there are all kinds of possibilities to change hands - stolen, snatched, given away like me or, pop! The guild turned to warn Annette, "Don't listen to the artifact. Is it urging you to cast spells as soon as possible? In the royal city, it is not allowed to show weapons and cast spells. ”
The President is admonishing Annette about the precautions of holding the artifact, and the greatsword sends a powerful voice into your head: "Hello new wielders, please hunt down as many evil casters as you can, mages, warlocks, priests, evil warriors, druids, etc. You can easily search for a target through the ring at the end of the hilt. 」
So you put your greatsword upside down in front of you, and the hilt of the sword does have a ring that looks like it can be tied to the tassel of the rope.
It's just an ordinary ring, and nothing changes when you see through it.
Annette suddenly asked, "Elder, did you hear the staff just now?" or is it just me who can hear it?"
"Only you can hear it. By the way, girl, how many levels are you, and how much is synchronization worth now?", as he spoke, the Arcane Knight President grabbed Annette's hand and pressed it against the identification crystal.
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Level 10,
Artifact Satisfaction (14): Initial 7, wielder upgrade +7.
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The president stared at her blankly, and she stared at you blankly, and then made a beautiful little ball of light on her fingertips, dangling ~ dangling - the synchronization value rose to 15.
Annette suddenly covered her mouth and laughed, and then immediately stopped her face: "Yes, I'm sorry! It just told a joke......
You also put your hand on the identification crystal, the first time the sync value is 5, the third time it is still 5, and the tenth time it is still the same.
Chop people and go!
Where is the evil spellcaster?
Neither the teleportation array nor the gates of the royal city allow creatures from the evil camp to enter, unless a big man like Swanai or a special permission from a superior, for example, you can bring your companions from the evil camp when you enter the city this time. In other words, unless you're lucky, you won't be able to bump into an evil spellcaster on the streets of the royal city. You can't always look at everyone through the hilt ring.
Suddenly, there was a sound of fighting outside the door of the Knights of the Arcanes.
You rush out the door and find two high-ranking strong men dismantling the terrifying armor, which is almost finished.
"Presumptuous, looking for death!" "The Knights of the Arcane Knights drew his sword and roared.
The strong men laughed evilly, and did not intend to stop in the slightest.
The crowds on the street have unconsciously divided into the sides of the road, cheering and scattering flowers. In the distance, Duke Swanai sat on a heavily armored elephant, swaying around, hugging both soldiers and bandits, and the fierce gods seemed to be at least 10 or more.
The president of the Arcane Knight froze in place,
Swanai looked down at him with one hand on his cheek, and nodded his tail finger: "I said it a long time ago, don't put a pure gold puppet at the door, see it once, smash it once." ”
"I'm willing! I'll put six tomorrow!"
"Don't worry, hehe...... When I kill all those gnolls, I'll raze your shabby house to the ground. ”
The king finally approved Swanai's expedition. The mighty army was expected to make an expedition to the northwest, and he and his dark raiding forces were very exaggerated in combat effectiveness, and they were never defeated.
As the team moved away, the Arcane Knight Leader trembled with anger. Swanai had already smashed all the guilds of all professions, at least once...... He doesn't seem to remember you and Annette anymore. There are too many people he beats every day for no reason, and if the spirit lizard is in front of him, he may still be able to have a little impression. If you had made a pure gold hero, you might have become a thorn in Swane's side, but gold is not only in your territory.
You grab your greatsword and look through the ring at Svane's team, all of whom don't look like good people but don't seem to have a caster. The moment you turn your head, there's a red glow in the crowd – a man with a red glow all over his body. Of course, this is only the case when viewed through the ring.
I don't know how he managed to get into the royal city, but he was a spellcaster from the evil camp, and looking at his thin physique, he was either a mage or a warlock.
I wanted to learn some skills in the Arcane Knight Guild, but I saw that the president was not in the mood now, and he was blown up on the spot.
You say goodbye to him, tell Lucia to tell Hathaway about the situation and go back to the hotel first, and then you take Annette into the crowd and follow the spellcaster.
Who is he? Does he have a wife and children? Does he have friends who will cry for him after death? If you kill him, you can get 1 synchronization point, why not? You are now doing harm to the people.
You take off Annette's guild badge and give it to Leia, who will secretly pin the badge to the evil spellcaster. Annette is responsible for using the "object positioning technique" of the 2nd ring to grasp the location of prey in the sea of people.
Unless you want to go to jail and want to go crazy, you will draw a sword and cut people in the royal city, but you have a hunch that this guy is planning to leave.
After tracking for a while,
One person made up three. You confirm through the artifact that all three are spellcasters from the evil camp, walking together into an alley where there are fewer and fewer people. It's hard to find a corner of a metropolis like Wangcheng where it's completely empty, but they're in a dead alley, and by the time you chase them, there's no one to be found.
"I'm not sure, but my badge has a momentary feeling of going down, like lying on the ground, and now I can't position it. Annette crouched at the end of the alley, constantly touching the stone bricks with her hands, trying to find any traps.
If the spell can't be located, it means that eighty percent of the prey has entered the other world.
You release the sub-elf lizard on your shoulder. After this guy landed, he didn't hesitate to wave his tail and throw the stone bricks on the ground, creating a small dimensional gap.
"It seems that they left with the 4-ring "Well of Shadows". ”
Annette also used the same spell on the gap in the plane, temporarily making the shadow of the wall into a passage connecting the main matter plane to the shadow underworld. Suddenly, a few guards came running up to the alley and shouted, "Who! Why do you cast spells at will!" and you both jumped into the shadows. It is impossible for the royal city to shroud the entire city in the forbidden magic force field, at most, it can detect the spell casting behavior and immediately run over to arrest it, although it can effectively prevent teleportation into the city, but it is not easy to prevent teleportation out of the city.
jet-black
The overcast sky and the dark night shrouded the earth, everywhere the scenery is crooked. The heavens and the earth are reversed, you enter the shadow and call out from the shadow, turning over and landing like a world in a mirror. At first glance, this is still the same alley, but in the cracks of the bricks there are disturbingly small dark objects, the dirt of the walls is like a screaming human face, and a few crows pass in the sky.
Let's go back, I'm scared—Leia shuddered in your collar, with her arms folded.
"With all due respect, master, does it really make sense for us to do this?" Annette's eyes became cold and hollow, "Maybe none of us can kill ......"
Mortals leave the Elven Wilderness with memory curses and time flow differences, and the Shadow Underworld, which is very similar to the Elven Wilds, also has the negative effects of the plane that mortals need to endure. It doesn't work when you leave, but when you enter, at least once a day - Leia goes into a state of fear, and Annette becomes apathetic and unmotivated.
Strictly speaking, you also kind of want to go back.
Probably you've also been under the influence of the Otherworldly Universe of indifference. You have to leave as soon as possible, after a long time, people will go crazy.
You've only walked a few steps and you'll find that the crowds on streets similar to Intramuros are almost all shadow demons and zombies, and they're crowded...... Then he immediately quietly retreated.
Thinking about it calmly, those three mages shouldn't have the strength to wander around the Shadow Underworld - eighty percent, use the shadow passage curve to leave the royal city, after all, spell casting is not allowed in the royal city.
The sub-elf lizard pumped its tail into the air again, tearing at a new dimensional rift.
If you look inside, it is a very strange room, the walls are pure white and smooth, and there is very little furniture inside, it seems to be a very narrow temporary room. Three evil spellcasters were there, one sitting in the corner, the other two leaning against a small wooden table, pointing to a pamphlet discussing something but couldn't hear clearly, and a half-asleep warrior lying on the floor, scratching his waist, and a wanderer with his hands behind his head and yawning.
Five enemies.
It's probably a half-plane made of the 2-ring "Magic Rope" or the 7-ring "Magic Mansion", but there is neither a rope nor a transparent servant. Speculating and summing up, the three evil spellcasters cast spells to disguise their own camp or forge passes, infiltrated the royal city, and then dived into the Shadow Underworld and dug a half-dimensional space to hide, and it was clear that they had not yet reached the time when they should evacuate the royal city. It is very risky to wander around the royal city for a long time, and if you dig half a dimensional space directly in the royal city, you will be caught by the guards who rushed to hear the news.
Just five people can't actually make any waves, and it's definitely not a plan to destroy the kingdom or seize power and usurp the throne or anything like that, the royal city can be called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
I wanted to see it first,
But under the influence of the effect of apathy, you changed your mind.
Kill all.
No matter how they dug up the half-plane, it was very easy to dig through the entrance. Annette took out a rope and performed the "magic rope technique" on the gap in the plane cut by the quilt spirit lizard, and the temporary space created by Annette was joined with the space where the five people were hiding.
“...... Huh?"
Due to the angle of the discussion, one of the evil spellcasters at the wooden table, a mage, looked up in surprise to find you two casting spells on the room above your head!
He was probably about to shout an enemy attack, but as soon as his mouth opened, he kept his index finger high above and was engulfed by two fireballs that exploded at the same time!
Strictly speaking, the "Fireball Technique" does not have the wind pressure when it explodes, but the temperature is definitely high enough, and the five of them ate two fireballs in an instant, screaming and jumping and jumping! The warrior threw away the hot helmet, and the skin of his whole body was burned; the wanderer made two magical rolls in a row, which minimized the burns, and one breath remained; all three mages were only left with a trace of blood to resist, and they were embarrassed, after all, the professional reason for the law resistance is relatively high.
You and the lizard jump down from the entrance, swinging your sword to split the anti-mage who was about to cast the spell in half from head to toe! The half-plane is also "other otherworldly", and the lizard's power is regarded as +4 Adamantite, and the warrior's long sword and neck are cut off in unison with one tail. Annette swung her staff and threw down a fireball spell again, the space was so narrow that no one could escape, and all the enemies were instantly burned into black coal, curled up on the floor and convulsed. It's a magical story, the fireball from the staff is really not friendly, and you and the child spirit lizard are bathed in the flames at all.
Ah, it's so much better—Leia finally breathed a sigh of relief and flew out.
"Ah, it's so much better......" Annette jumped into the room, grabbing as quickly as you could and dragging it back.
The half-planes of the five of them gradually crumbled as the caster died, disappearing into the endless darkness, but the half-planes made by Annette were unharmed. Due to the slow pace of the collapse, almost all the corpses and belongings of the enemy were salvaged.
Annette took off her badge, wiped it, and put it back on her chest.
Now, why would the president kill these people?—Leia didn't understand.
"Because it's the bad guys. ”
Annette explained this, and Leia understood how easy it was to understand. Fortunately, she didn't continue to ask, because Annette didn't know what bad things these five people had done. The Duke of Mo Fei Swane is not pleasing to the eye, and he will be beaten up, and this set is also infectious?
You look down at the booklet.
"Master, these three mages seem to be from the Hedavir Arcane Society. Annette pulled a few badges from her burnt robes, "Those two are hired mercenaries. ”
Immediately afterward, Annette was surprised to pull out a piece of adamantite ore from the corpse bag.
She handed you the ore and took the booklet, and was even more surprised: "...... Three days later, I thought that Hedawil had fallen out with Polz and then disappeared. ”
How can it be.
Hedawil is also one of the evil forces, establishing order and law, collecting fines and protection money, and being friendly to you as a mage, but that doesn't mean you're good. Their main purpose in coming to Five Lanes Bay has not yet been achieved - the treasure of little Kyle. The president of the association, who used to play chess and cards with you, has no intention of letting his subordinates join the dispute between Porz and you, and only wants to make a fortune. He had been monitoring the guild's every move, especially the treasure map.
Three days later, in the middle of the night, the Hedavir Arcane Society will mislead all of your prophecy spells and launch a surprise attack, killing everyone and taking the treasure map.
Heraran was once the largest arcane society in the kingdom, and the one in the bay of the five lanes was called Hedawil, which was much smaller.
"But, I don't understand, isn't he an ally?" Annette rubbed her brows, "Even if we're not allies, we haven't found all the treasure maps yet!" Why three days later?"
You point to a line on the command book - "Surprising! The last piece of the puzzle is hidden in the fountain statue in the bay of Five Lanes! It was built by little Kyle, and as a perverted admirer of little Kyle, Boltz could never have torn down that statue and made it the safest and most hidden place. If it weren't for the rainbow shadow, the red-haired madwoman who had to rebuild the fountain square that breathed fire oil, this fortune would never have been found. At the end, there was a small line that read: If possible, spare the life of Rainbow Shadow, which is considered to be a thank you to them.
Annette suddenly realized: "What did Octavia say yesterday morning that "there is something big to do" means rebuilding the fountain......?
Within three days, it would be better if the two pieces of the puzzle could be gathered together, even if they couldn't be put together, the Hedavir Arcane Society was confident that they would annihilate those pirates. The night raid also united the surviving High Mages of Herran, who were far more powerful than Hedavir, and the two Arcane Guilds, one small and one large, would work together to destroy the Adventurers' Guild. No foreknowledge can succeed.
A whole bunch of mages is terrifying, and a horde of well-prepared mages is even more terrifying.
The booklet also states the reason why they ventured to the Intracity - to go to the Black Street to resell Adamantite ore. The mage you were following had just come out of the dark streets and found a buyer, but needed to go again after dark to negotiate the price and other matters, so he went back to the half-plane hut to kill time.
Perhaps, the commission of the Ancient City Market is also related to the Arcane Society. After all, it's too non-physical for the entire mine to be filled for no reason, and eighty percent of it is inseparable from large-scale spellcasting.
What are you going to do about it?
A, grab the treasure map in three days and dig up the treasure in order to increase the variables. Attract more mages and annihilate them all in defensive battles!
B, threatened not to attack the pirate group again, and found a way to lure the mages to fight with the pirates, and the two tigers fought each other, one killed and one was injured.
C, take Landon as an article or even bait, after all, Heraran still has a pen to settle with Landun, and deal with the two associations separately.
D, find the hideout of the Hedavir Arcane Association within three days, take the initiative to reduce the number of enemies, and then defend.
E, before solving the mages and the treasure map, solve the problem of Adamantite Ore.