Volume 1 The Beginning of the Magic Sword Chapter 22, Pre-War Planning
The team of adventurers returning from the underground labyrinth of the palace kept bringing back all kinds of news, and the soldier regiment had stabilized the battle line and advanced to the eighth layer, and the battle had reached the final decisive confrontation stage.
The reason for the delay in the next move is because the leader of the maze monster, that is, the "shadow" in the mouth of the adventurer, is too cunning, and the soldiers have failed to kill it after many encirclements and suppressions.
The routine patrol of the labyrinth under the palace usually lasts about seven days, but this time, the soldiers' regiment has been in for more than forty days, during which the supply has been broken several times, and the war-weariness among the soldiers has gradually accumulated, and it has reached a dangerous point.
If it weren't for the monster crisis pressing on every soldier all the time, once the shadow escaped from the ninth layer, it would be even more difficult to find and kill, and it is estimated that the soldiers would have already exited the labyrinth, and it would be difficult to continue to do useless work here.
In the end, all the news is focused on one object, a special prism, this prism, can fix the position of the shadow, so that it cannot escape, in order to completely solve the maze crisis.
The Cuisine Association organized its members to prepare a variety of dishes to support the front.
As a veteran chef of the Culinary Association, Wang Chengjing is also among the responders, making a large number of honey bread, popular omelet rice, and unique shredded pork with green peppers, which are being packed and sent to the Culinary Association, where they will be sent into the maze by the professional union.
When I went out, I met Miao Xiaodao.
"Why, you still have to go to the underground labyrinth?" Listening to Miao Xiaodao's intentions, Wang Chengjing said: "It just so happened that I drove out a batch of dishes, so I will hand them over to you, and you will take them to the labyrinth and hand them over to the front-line soldiers." ”
"Okay, that's no problem!" Miao Xiaodao agreed, and asked again, "How's the physical training?"
"It's equivalent to a low-level ......warrior apprentice," Cheng Jing replied, after all, he was not a warrior, and being able to reach this level could already be regarded as ruthless and torturing himself.
"Okay, keep going!" Miao Xiaodao encouraged him, "As long as you have the physical fitness of the mid-level trainee, we can take you to take on a combat department promotion mission." ”
"Okay, please rest assured, at most three months, I will definitely be able to reach the intermediate level of physical fitness!" Wang Chengjing said.
"Okay, you're busy with your ...... I'll go back. Miao Xiaodao said goodbye.
"Goodbye!" Wang Chengjing sent Miao Xiaodao away, picked up a basket from the corner of the room, and picked up two large bamboo baskets with a flat pole, ready to pick cooking ingredients and exercise his physical fitness by the way.
There is never an easy way to train a physical condition, it is all about squeezing the body's potential.
Now, Wulian's home has become a gathering place for the magic sword team, Miao Xiaodao returned here, and saw that Luo Sheng was working hard to press his hands on both sides of the raptor's neck, and the raptor's hind limbs dug up a large area of loess on the grass, and one person and one pet were playing their own games.
"Is Wulian back?" Miao Xiaodao carried a large bag of food, easily climbed over the fence, and walked to Luo Sheng's side.
"No!" Luo Sheng gasped, and the urn responded, and the raptor took this opportunity to suddenly add force, overturning Luo Sheng, pressing on Luo Sheng, stretching out his long tongue and licking Luo Sheng's face.
"Raptors! Luo Sheng finally picked up the Raptor, which was nearly 300 pounds, "Don't [lick] my face......"
Ling Ling stood on the other side of the courtyard, and Min Zhen stood on the fence not far from Ling Ling, facing off against the knife in the middle of the grass, but it seemed that Min Zhen had the advantage, but he was not in a hurry to attack.
Lingling was aiming his bow at the eaves, where a small round board of pine wood was already filled with dense arrow feathers, some of which even pierced through the palm-thick plank, leaking half an arrow.
After the "whoosh", there was a dull "ding" sound in an instant, and the newly shot arrow feathers squeezed the original few arrow feathers in the center of the plank and fixed them in the center.
Hearing the sound, the knife turned its triangular head, and found the owner who was entering the door, the vigilance fell slightly, Min Zhen saw the opportunity and rushed down, easily blocked the forelimbs of the knife with his wings, and then used the side of the wings to quickly fan the head of the knife, in less than two seconds, the triangular head of the knife suffered no less than twenty fan blows, dizzy, and fell down slowly, Min Zhen flew up, looked at him, saw that he did not react for a long time, and used his wings to flick the limbs of the knife.
"Min Zhen, don't bully Dao Dao!" Ling Ling put down his bow, walked to the two pets, separated the two pets, touched the head of Dao Dao, Dao Dao immediately got up, and hid behind Ling Ling, which looks like he was injured, and the emotional Dao Dao is pretending to faint, it is really a pet with the main nature, and Miao Xiaodao loves to act.
After Miao Xiaodao entered the house, he threw the big bag of cooking on the sofa in the living room, Ye Ya had just finished the magician's routine morning class and was eating breakfast.
"How's that?" Ye Ya asked.
"It's okay, he said that he has a low-level physical fitness. Miao Xiaodao pulled out a chair and sat down, "It just so happens that he has made a batch of dishes, we can use some of them, but most of them have to be sent to the maze to be handed over to the soldiers." ”
"Let's wait for the captain to come back and arrange it. Ye Ya continued to eat and see what news Wu Lian could bring back.
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"Meeting~" Wu Lian didn't come back until it was close to lunchtime, and as soon as she returned, she gathered everyone in the living room.
"The news is confirmed, there is indeed a prism can play a key role, now there are three versions of the whereabouts of the prism, the more credible one is in the hands of a certain investigator, but the investigator for special reasons, did not hand over to the soldier regiment, the soldier regiment has issued a task commission, anyone who can find the prism or take out an item with the same effect as the prism, you can get a set of flange soldier regiment standard weapons and equipment. ”
"Then is this investigator out of the maze now?" Ye Ya asked.
As soon as the soldier regiment got the news, they sealed off the labyrinth, and no matter who they were, they were forbidden to leave, after all, if they really wanted to bring out a dead thing unconsciously, there was a way. ”
Wu Lian said: "Now the labyrinth is only allowed to enter, not to exit, unless the shadow is found and killed......"
"Then we ...... "If this matter can't be solved in ten or eight years, wouldn't it be to live in a labyrinth."
"The war will end in the near future, and it will not be easy for the shadows to continue to hide. Wu Lian analyzed, "The soldier regiment is under great pressure, and it is impossible to return it if it does not completely solve the hidden danger of the shadow." When it comes to the military department of the kingdom, Ulian did not elaborate.
"Understood, no matter how cunning the shadow is, the total number of monsters in the maze is getting smaller and smaller, and it will always be found...... Ye Ya said.
"That's right, now it's a lack of vital power to deal a fatal blow to the labyrinth monster. Uren took out a task from her bosom, "So I took this task and assisted the soldiers in killing the labyrinth monsters." ”
"With our strength, I guess it won't make much difference. Miao Xiaodao recalled the experience of the three people and three pets looking at the eight-layer monster, and did not think that the adventure team could wrestle with the regular army.
"That's natural, an adventure team, the role it plays is definitely not as good as a regular soldier regiment team, after all, the number of people is there......" Wu Lian also admitted that the gap between the adventure team and the soldier team, the difference in number is ten times, the adventure team members are powerful, and it is impossible to be ten with one, "When I took on this task, there were already more than twenty adventure teams accepting this task, and the task of the adventure team was not to go head-to-head with the monster team, but to kill the lone monster that was defeated by the soldier group. ”
"That's right, our nails," Luo Sheng gestured to a square, "I guess we can nail such a big board." After thinking about it, he reduced the square by more than half.
"How long it will take to enter the labyrinth, no one ......is sure," Wu Lian said, "To be on the safe side, we will bring as many supplies as possible this time." In terms of ordinary food, I brought easy-to-carry steamed buns, pastries, and dried beef, and in terms of cooking, Miao Xiaodao discussed with Wang Chengjing to make as many honey breads, shredded green pepper meat as possible that can restore combat effectiveness, and roast chicken and parent-child rice bowls, as the most advanced dishes that can be made by a chef in the apprenticeship stage, presumably the production time will also increase exponentially, so we will not consider it for the time being. ”
"What about the price?" Miao Xiaodao asked. The dishes brought back today are to be delivered to the soldiers' regiment as supplies, which Wang Chengjing made in response to the Cuisine Association, and the ingredients for these dishes are all at their own expense, which can not be counted. But there is no reason for Wang Chengjing to unconditionally provide the dishes he made to them for free.
"Of course, that's according to the discount he promised at the beginning!" Luo Sheng interjected, "Otherwise, I'll cut him!"
"That's right!" Wu Lian also smiled, since he could get a low price, why not.
"Three days, I have two thousand gold coins here, you give it to Wang Chengjing first, tell him to do as much as he can, and the rest of the money will be replenished to him when we come back from the labyrinth." ”
"Okay, this should be negotiable. Miao Xiaodao replied, I believe that Wang Chengjing will also agree to such a trivial matter.
"From the previous battle, Luo Sheng, Miao Xiaodao is a defensive point in the team, and your equipment is a bit rudimentary......," Wu Lian continued, "So I plan to use about three thousand gold coins to equip you with basic armor and shields." ”
Luo Sheng and Miao Xiaodao nodded, and Wu Lian turned his head to Ye Ya: "Qingya, in the labyrinth, your speed of gathering magic elves seems to have slowed down?"
"Well, the magic elves in the labyrinth are all berserk, probably due to the effects of floating bombs, and I have to spend a lot of energy to calm their irritability. Ye Ya said.
"I'll have to get you a staff. "With your current abilities, you have two options for the staff, one is the Sage Staff and the other is the Sage Scepter. ”
"What's the difference between the two?" Ye Ya didn't know much about the difference between a staff and a scepter, except that the more advanced the staff was, the more helpful it would be for the release of magic.
"The staff is more suitable for magicians, and can increase the speed at which magicians can gather magic spirits, increasing the power of spells. "In addition to these effects, the scepter also has the effect of increasing attack power, and the magician can use the scepter instead of a melee weapon as a last resort, and the scepter is made of stronger materials, of course, the price will be about two to three hundred gold coins higher than the staff." ”
"The staff...... Ye Ya analyzed the pros and cons, "The scepter takes into account the melee aspect, and it is estimated that it is inferior to the staff in terms of spell amplification." ”
"Okay, then the staff. Wu Lian supported Ye Ya's idea, after all, there were already two melee fighters in the team and Xiao Ya and Raptor, who could protect the mage full-time, no matter what kind of situation it went, it was impossible for Ye Ya to rush directly into hand-to-hand combat.
"Spirit ~ Spirit!" Wu Lian finally dealt with the elf girl, "You haven't learned the archer's most proud skill yet, and you don't have the ability to attack in groups, so increasing the accuracy and lethality of hits is the first thing you should consider, you can try to use the stupid big man's skill Qiankun One Throw, the warrior system is all the same, see if you can apply the effect of Qiankun One Throw to the bow and arrow." ”
"Uh-huh!" Ling Ling nodded, no matter what Wu Lian thought, Ling Ling unconditionally supported, even if one day, Wu Lian wanted to ask her to practice a foundationless spell, I believe she would not hesitate to agree, as for whether it will be successful or not? With the elf's lifespan of about two thousand years, there is really nothing that cannot be done!
"Now the pet members of the team, Xiao Liang and Raptor, are mainly water attributes, supplemented by earth attributes, while Dao Dao and Min Zhen are mainly wind attributes, supplemented by earth attributes and fire attributes, so the magic stones of the four series are very useful to us, and their consumption is ...... About twelve low-level magic stones a day!" Wu Lian wrenched his fingers and pressed six fingers fiercely when he looked at the raptor, and the raptor whimpered and lowered his head, no longer raising his head.
"We don't have a lot of stock...... We must participate in the battle as soon as possible and obtain enough magic stones, otherwise, these four masters will eat us poor!"
In a word, it immediately brought Ye Ya to the fear of being dominated by Min Zhen's appetite...... At that time, I had no money, so I had to add a lot of cheap food to the magic stone powder that could feed Min Zhen's insects, animal offal, etc., as for how these things were obtained, Ye Ya didn't want to remember it anymore, embarrassed...... to the extreme.