Chapter 13: The Valley of the Sacred Peak
A day after the attack, Arthur and the others saw the second Terran village on the Necronomical Heights, Windless.
Choosing such a name in a highland that is constantly cold and windy all year round is really just a good wish. The entire village was built at the foot of a leeward hill, and most of the houses were built in interconnected caves, except for the village's crumbling walls and watchtowers.
This is supposed to be the place where the gang that attacked Arthur and them yesterday came from, and everyone in the village should know that Arthur and the others are wanted by the Blood Cave Regiment.
According to Arthur's intentions, he naturally did not enter the village, bypassed the village and went straight to the Sacred Peak Valley, where the gold essence was produced. However, the dwarf Toren said that he had to go to the village, and that the gold essence did not exist in the form of a single piece of ore, but needed to be refined from the ore containing the gold essence, so the dwarf needed to enter the village and buy a simple refining furnace that relied on magic crystals to provide flames.
Arthur was a little difficult, and entering the village at this time was equivalent to taking the initiative to jump into the tiger's mouth, "Do you have to refine it on the spot?" You can put the ore in my space bracelet first, and then refine it after you go back." ”
The dwarf had no objection to this, but said, "If you count the failure rate, the gold essence refined from almost seven or eight tons of ore is enough to meet my forging needs." ”
Arthur's gaze looked at Joan.
"You don't have to look at me, if there was still space in my space ring, I wouldn't have thrown away so many goods before. ”
Seeing Arthur's embarrassment, Torren took the initiative to suggest, "I'll go into the village myself, so that the goal won't be too obvious." ”
Arthur glared at the dwarf angrily, "Your target is not obvious, are there many dwarves who have come to the Terran side?"
Spence took the initiative to take over, "I'd better go, after all, I wasn't there when there was a conflict at the bar, and if there was any accident, with my warrior's background, I could still run." ”
It can only be so, letting Spence into the village is the safest plan that can be thought of at the moment.
After all, Spence was a figure who had been the deputy commander of the city guard, and things went very smoothly, and he carried a second-hand copper stove half a person high after entering the village for a short time.
A few people set off again, and the next afternoon, Arthur saw two round steamed bun-shaped peaks in the distance.
"I'm sure there's the Sacred Peak Valley ahead, right?"
The dwarf looked at Arthur with adoration, "That's right, Brother Arthur, how did you guess?"
"What the fuck is that bastard's name, and it's the Sacred Peak Valley, and it's a woman's breasts!" Arthur scolded angrily.
Joan's next sentence completely stunned Arthur, "As if you've seen it?"
Spence laughed, and the dwarf blinked as if he didn't understand the joke.
The inside of the Shengfeng Valley is very open, except for the two relatively high Mantou Mountains at the entrance of the valley, the valley is flanked by continuous, high and low undulating hills, and there are mine caves scattered among these hills.
When Arthur and the others entered the valley, they found that there were suddenly more people inside, they had never seen so many people on the high ground these days, and many of the mines were guarded outside.
The Shengfeng Valley is an area rich in minerals, and many people will come here to mine for several unique minerals, and it took a long time to have a windless village that provides supplies for miners.
They can't enter the Torun mine that has already entered the people's mines, otherwise it will cause disputes.
Arthur didn't want to cause any more trouble, and the dwarves didn't know what gold was going to be in the mine, so they had to go all the way into the valley to find the ownerless mine.
They wandered the valley for three days before the dwarves found a cave that produced gold essence, and thus began a period of life as a miner.
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Inside the cave, Arnold was staring at the war spirit he had summoned, but the opponent's eyes were beating with two fires, and no matter how Arnold stared, there was no fluctuation.
Arnold can only rely on consciousness to control and communicate with the war spirits, in fact, the mage does not need to communicate with the necromancy under his control, because they are only left with the instinct to devour and fight. But the one summoned by Arnold was an exception, after condensing its body, its consciousness became clearer, it actually had a name, it said that its name was Ah Yi.
Arnold smiled in his consciousness, then the two of us will be "a promise and a daughter" after they cooperate together.
But the war spirit Ah Yi was unwilling to cooperate with Arnold, and he kept begging Arnold to let it go.
There is no way for the necromancer to resist the magician who summoned it, not to mention that after Arnold summoned it, he used the spirit binding technique inherited by the Zenaia family to brand its soul flame, and Arnold could erase its autonomous consciousness or even let it dissipate at any time.
But Arnold didn't do this, he thought this little war spirit named Ah Yi was very interesting, so he discussed with it, "After you begged me to let you go, where are you going, are you still wandering aimlessly?"
Ah Yi doesn't remember where he's going, what are you going to do?
"Then you can stay with me for the time being, I can make you stronger, and your consciousness will be more awake when you become stronger, and when you remember where you are going one day, I will definitely let you go." ”
Perhaps because Ah Yi's consciousness was very incomplete, he was agreed by Arnold, who was not good at words.
Arnold is very happy, with Ah Yi, a war spirit with independent consciousness, by his side, he will never be lonely in the future.
When Arnold's consciousness was immersed in the excitement of communicating with Ah Yi, a rapid bell suddenly sounded outside the cave.
Arnold knew that this was a signal for the family to convene an urgent meeting of the clan, and the black mist immediately put away Ah Yi. Because it has been branded in Ah Yi's soul, there is no need to use complicated magic circles in the future, and Ah Yi can be summoned at any time.
When Arnold arrived at the cave where the patriarch was, nearly two hundred people had gathered in the cave, and some were coming one after another. Arnold didn't know how many people there were, but there were nearly three hundred people gathered in this valley.
The patriarch suddenly spoke: "The clansmen above the fourth level of dark magic power stay, and the rest of the people don't need to attend today's meeting, go back and wait for the notice." ”
Many people turned around and left the cave, and there were still seventy or eighty people left, most of them were middle-aged and elderly, there were not a few young people like Arnold, and the cultivation path of the dark mage was even more difficult than that of other mages!
A person like Arnold who can cultivate dark magic to the fifth level at the age of twenty is definitely a genius, which is also an important reason why the patriarch tried his best to recruit Arnold before.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, the patriarch said directly: "I have just received information that the Blood Skull Regiment has organized a team of more than a hundred people and is rushing towards the valley where we are, and after them, a large group of punishment knights are also coming in the direction of the valley. ”
As soon as the patriarch's words fell, there was a burst of discussion below.
"We haven't had any friction with the Blood Skull lately, huh?"
"How could the Punishment Knight find out where we are so quickly?"
"Has the Blood Skull completely thrown itself into the Church of Light?"
The patriarch coughed lightly, "You don't have to guess, it's not clear whether the punishment knight is coming to us, but the target of the Blood Skeleton is not us, I heard that they are looking for a dwarf and a man named Arthur, they should have found his traces, don't forget that next to us is the Holy Peak Valley!"
"Arthur! Arthur has come to Necro Heights!" Arnold's eyes flashed with excitement, and he didn't listen to a word of what the patriarch said later.