Chapter 55: The Road
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"Meditation is over."
"Depending on how you perform during the meditation process, your maximum mana has increased by 15 points. Current mana is 27/65. ”
"You can't get special feedback with shallow meditation."
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At the end of the night's meditation, looking at the skimming sky, Rhodes stood up.
Previously, after killing the blue-robed mage and counting the harvest, it was already midnight. Since it was only early in the morning, Rhodes did not meditate for a long time.
Even if he wore the Primary Mana Charm to increase the speed of mana recovery, Rhodes only recovered a small half of his mana at this time.
After getting up, Rod immediately opened the spatial ring in his hand. Thinking of the Revenant Crystal in the Space Ring, watching the mana value in the attribute panel slowly drop, Rod's mood was difficult to calm down.
When the mana reached 17/65, the Spatial Ring stopped absorbing mana, and Rod felt a connection with the Spatial Ring in his hand.
Rhodes probed consciousness into the spatial ring. The space inside the ring is less than two cubic meters, which is much smaller than the space ring that Rhodes got from Elrod.
At this time, Rod's perception immediately locked on the Revenant Crystal in the spatial ring.
Since it was impossible to know the quality of these Revenant Crystals by perception alone, Rhodes took them out.
Holding the Revenant Crystal in his hand, Rhodes roughly counted the number of Revenant Crystals in a total of thirteen, all of which were different in size and quality.
Through the light of the sky, Rhodes began to examine it carefully, while carefully perceiving the Revenant Crystals in his hands.
These Revenant Crystals vary in quality, ranging from broken and defective to intact and pure.
In this batch of revenant crystals, the most inferior is only the size of a gold coin, the inside is extremely turbid, and there is a big gap on the periphery, which can only release a faint death energy, for the necromancer apprentice, this revenant crystal is not of much use, and it is not worth a few dollars at all.
In comparison, the most valuable Revenant Crystal, although only the size of a thumb, has a round exterior and an extremely pure interior, releasing strong death energy outward all the time.
In Rhodes' perception, during the time he checked the Revenant Crystal, the death energy gathered around him exceeded the original tomb, and nearly half of the death energy was released by this purest Revenant Crystal.
The rest of the Revenant Crystals in Rhodes' hand, although the purity was not as pure as this one, except for a few obvious defective products, the overall quality was in the middle and upper range.
Rhodes guessed that Yusher had taken the Revenant Crystal from the spatial ring to his hand many times to check, and it was because of Yusher's behavior that there was still some death energy left in his tent. This is also why, at the beginning, Rhodes could feel the energy of death in the tent.
When the number of Revenant Crystals is stacked, the amount of death energy released will be additionally increased. Even if it is two extremely poor quality Revenant Soul Crystals, after getting closer, the death energy released has increased significantly.
Rhodes understood that when the war began, the Revenant Crystal in his hand would be worth at least tens of thousands of gold coins.
Although the value of this batch of Revenant Crystals was extremely high, Rhodes clearly had no intention of selling them. As for how to use these Revenant Crystals, Rhodes has his own plans.
On the side, the vampire, who was originally in a dormant state, felt the rich death energy on the side, woke up directly from the dormant state, and looked in the direction of Rhodes.
Originally, before conducting deep meditation in the carriage of the merchant group, Rhodes gave the vampire the revenant crystal obtained from the original tomb in order to quickly regain his strength.
After a series of previous battles, the revenant crystal that the vampire had originally put in his pocket fell out at some point, and it was now gone.
Seeing this, Rhodes selected a revenant crystal of acceptable quality and gave it to the vampire to carry with him, so that it could absorb the death energy released by the revenant crystal at all times.
In order to prevent the death energy from continuing to overflow, Rhodes incorporated the rest of the Revenant Crystals into Yusher's spatial ring.
Rod continued to look at the spatial ring. In addition to the Revenant Crystal, there was only one leg of mutton in the spatial ring, which was the one that Yuser had taken in before the battle at the top of the watchtower.
In this spatial ring, there is nothing but the Revenant Crystal and the leg of mutton.
Originally, Uther took out his weapons and shield from this spatial ring, and in addition to the weapons that could be directly accessed, plus these extremely valuable Revenant Crystals, almost filled the entire space inside the ring.
Since the spatial ring didn't contain a lot of space, Yusher apparently didn't fit all of his personal belongings into it. Rhodes estimated that his belongings should have been placed on the rest of the wagons in the caravan.
After inspecting the Spatial Ring, Rhodes replaced the achievement [Quiet Heart], which he wore to enhance the effect of meditation. Seeing that the vampire on the side was almost recovering, Rhodes decided to set off on the road.
Rhodes led the vampire in one direction in the woods. Unclear about the terrain, Rhodes could only move in a rough direction.
In the previous battle, Rod's original horses also fled the battlefield at some point. At this point, Rhodes and the vampire can only move forward on foot.
Previously, Rhodes had climbed the watchtower to observe. Although I don't know how to take the specific path, it is still possible to judge the location of Eli and Diya and roughly choose a direction.
After walking for a while, the surrounding trees began to become thin, and the ground was no longer littered, but replaced by some normal vegetation.
Moving on, due to the reduction of the surrounding trees, there were no longer obstructions blocking the view, and Rod's vision became wider, and he could see far away.
At this point, Rod noticed a road in the distance. One end of the road leads into the woods where Rhodes had walked earlier, and the other leads deeper into the plains.
The road is not wide and overgrown with weeds, but the signs of being run over by horses and chariots are very obvious. Although it is a little farther away, Rhodes with his eagle eye skills can be recognized at a glance.
Rhodes didn't know where the road leads, and if the end is the city of sorrow he has chosen. But Rhodes knew that the path would definitely lead to a definite place. It is certainly more appropriate to walk along this path than to go directionless in the forest.
Rhodes understood that trade existed if there were roads for horse-drawn carriages to travel. As long as you follow this path, you will be able to come to a place where creatures gather. When the time comes, whether it's in exchange for a map to move on, or something else, it can be done.
Rhodes took the vampire and headed for this path.