Chapter 423: The Hunt Begins
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It was the right thing to bring with Finney, the Demon Fortress was exactly as I had imagined, and the road was very complicated, like a straight cobweb. Why do you say it's straight? Because I found a very interesting sight, the roads here are the same as the buildings with strong lines around them, they are all straight to the ground, and the corners of each fork in the road are also clearly angled, which looks like a sharp sense of oppression, as if it were a strong military fortress.
In broad daylight, there was no one on the wide gray hardstone road, and the huge castle was empty, except for the sharp gray-brown buildings that stood up to the sky, looking like a historic ghost town.
But the footsteps of "pedaling" sounded, and then a group of heavily armed adventurers rushed out of the criss-crossed alleys and forks in the road, joined the ranks of running, converged into a small stream, and then gradually turned into a large river, and the originally empty avenue became like a parade avenue in an instant, surrounded by adventurers.
There are savages carrying giant axes the size of wheels, making the floor vibrate with every step; There are paladins who hold the scepter of majesty in one hand and a simple shield in the other, and the smooth lines of armor worn on them are synonymous with majesty and magnificence; Assassins who walked like ghosts, their cats hunched over the gaps in the crowd that even children couldn't fit into, some of them with suckers on their feet, swept over the walls that hung straight to the ground, the haughty and sexy Amazons, the wizards who symbolized mystery and wisdom, the druids who walked the "dogs", and even the very rare necromancer who was shrouded in a chilling fog of death.
Although these people have different professions, whether they are warlike barbarians, mild druids, or rational and wise wizards, they all have a common characteristic, that is, their faces are full of hungry wolf-like aura.
These adventurers who joined the running ranks all greeted Oscar who was running in the middle of the road enthusiastically, and their demeanor and tone more or less had the meaning of him as the leader, it seems that this big man said that he was the first barbarian warrior of the demon fortress, and he was not completely bragging, at least in terms of popularity.
At the same time, they also set their eyes on the three of us adventurers, Linya's beauty attracted their attention, and Finnie's subconscious changeable temperament also attracted the attention of many people, but compared to women, adventurers value strength more, so they finally fell on me.
"This is Brother Wu Fan, an adventurer who has just come to the Demon Fortress, you have to take care of it."
"Oh, that's nature!!"
The adventurers around me boiled, and their eyes turned green, which made me feel a glitch, and Fini, who was surrounded in the center, trembled even more, and her dark eyes flashed with tears of remorse, probably because she knew that even if she was thrown into Harlogas, she should never come to this ghost place.
"Boy. You and your fellow landers are too tender. It's not a bit ruthless. You'll have to work out with us later. A skinny wizard said with a grin on my shoulder.
“……”
It's completely inconceivable that this wizard behaves. It's like a weak scholar patting the bandit on the shoulder and saying "Boy, you don't have enough murderous energy."
"Brother. Be careful. In the Fortress of the Demons. You only have two options. You're either going to turn into a wolf. Either or die. ”
"Dog" is the old home. One with a wolf's head on top of his head. His eyes were as sharp as a wolf's. Leaned forward and kindly reminded.
"Don't worry. Even if you can't become a wolf. I'm a dragon too. Can't die. "I added my tongue. The blood also slowly became more excited with the momentum of this blood boiling.
"I hope so."
Probably didn't expect my tone to be so big, this druid was slightly stunned, then laughed, gave a thumbs up and said, In the fortress of demons, I am not afraid that you are cross, I am afraid that you do not have that strength, and the battle will wash a dusty stone, whether it is a stubborn stone or gold, and it will naturally be clear at a glance at that time.
The one we are running on is probably the main road leading to the city gate, so more and more adventurers have joined in, some of them seem to have just jumped off the bed of the hotel, not to mention the equipment, even the clothes are not worn, wearing jumping shorts, ** with a sturdy upper body running out while getting dressed, more than ten meters wide on the stone road, the adventurers in front and behind are no longer in sight, roughly so, there are at least five or six hundred.
The huge gate of the fortress, which was dozens of meters wide and more than ten meters high, had opened its huge steel mouth to us, and following the crowd, we rushed out, and the towering gray buildings on both sides with a heavy sense of oppression suddenly unfolded, and the line of sight became wider, but I could not sigh at this magnificent scene of the vast sky, but almost horrified.
Walking out of the solemn gray castle, what appeared before us was an endless gray plain, and the height I was at now, like a goshawk hovering thousands of meters above, was shocked by this vast plain.
Turning his gaze away from the magnificent plain and looking at his feet, he found that the plain and the periphery of the castle gate where we are now are connected by a curved and steep staircase with a cut wall that is no more than ten meters wide, and below the path is a deep canyon with no bottom visible.
Kane said in the book that the Demon Fortress was built on a huge platform raised from the flat ground on the Plains of Despair, and from a distance, it looked like a lone pillar erected on the flat ground, after decades of construction by human beings, including the participation of the dwarf race, finally opened up a steep staircase leading to the platform at the top of the column on this smooth side and extremely hard "stone pillar", and then it took hundreds of years to gradually form the scale of the current Demon Fortress, which can be said to be a collection of sweat and crystallization of the two races.
The reason why the castle was built on this was because the mages found that the material of the entire stone pillar was a good carrier of magic, so after it was built, the stone pillar was blessed by countless mages with solid magic, I don't know how many magic were blessed, and it pointed to the overflow of strong magic elements, until the stone pillar penetrated, it can be said with great confidence that even if the true body of the three demon gods came, it may not be able to shake the foundation of the demon fortress.
Seeing my stunned appearance, Oscar beside me didn't care, the boundless magnificent plain under my feet, and the even the most daring adventurer in front of me was terrified to death at the first sight
, It has become a baptism ritual for almost every new adventurer, even in this Oscar, every time I see it, I have to sigh for a while.
To be able to open a path and build a castle in such a Jedi, how powerful is the power of mankind.
"Let's go, the monster is coming."
Oscar pointed to the countless dots on the plain below, and with a gaze sharper than an eagle's eye, I could barely see that it was a huge monster army composed of at least ten thousand monsters of all kinds.
In the direction they pounced, around the plain centered on the stone pillars of the demon fortress, there was a blood-red wall made of stones, bones, and flesh, and even from a distance, the smell of blood emanating from the wall seemed to irritate my nostrils, and inside the wall, there were already hundreds of adventurers waiting for the monster to come.
Looking at the steep staircase in front of me, I held Linya's hand slightly tightened, and looked at her, Linya was calmer than I expected, although her face was a little unnaturally pale, but the smile in return was still firm.
Stepping on the steep stairs that are void on both sides, the cold wind in the sky seems to be blowing head-on with the void, and a small stone is inadvertently kicked under his feet, and he rolls out of the stairs with a grunt, and is swallowed up by the bottomless dark abyss.
"Don't look down, you'll get used to it soon."
Oscar on the side reminded with a smile, indeed, if you can ignore the bottomless abyss canyon below, this steep staircase, not to mention adventurers, is not even for ordinary people, after all, no matter how narrow it is, the narrowest place is more than three or four meters wide.
At our speed, in just a moment, this peerless path to heaven that has been recited by countless novels has reached the lowest end, and after guessing on the thick flat ground, Linya and I exhaled in unison, and couldn't help but look at each other and smile.
The afterglow fell on Finney on the other side, good fellow, this beautiful pseudo-girl's skirt fluttered, and her face did not change from beginning to end, as if she had just walked through a sheep's intestine path, worthy of a traveler who had traveled all over the small half of the continent before.
At this moment, Oscar patted us on the shoulder, and we turned back, and a stone pillar several kilometers high and smooth as a flat mirror on the side, towering behind us like an optimus sword, reaching into the clouds, the top of which was coiled by gray clouds, and only the high tip of the castle could be faintly seen.
"It's spectacular, it's spectacular."
It took a long time for me to exhale and shout loudly, not roaring was not enough to vent the pride in my heart at the moment.
"Hahaha, yes, when I first saw it, it took me a few minutes to calm down when I yelled at the plains." Oscar laughed.
I can't imagine the terrifying scene of this big man yelling at the plains, and the usual voice is already challenging the upper limit of my eardrums, this roar, I'm afraid even monsters can scare their guts.
I smiled and shook my head, and walked in the direction of the defense line with the others, looking at the bloodthirsty battle intent on the faces of the adventurers around me, after experiencing the shock of the demon fortress, I think I can probably guess why this is happening.
The desperate plain where the demon fortress is located is claimed to be the closest place to hell, therefore, under the influence of the evil breath, the sky here is gray, and the buildings of the demon fortress are also gray tones, and it seems that the whole world is gray when you look at it, and after staying in this harsh environment for a long time, the mood is naturally depressed and needs to be vented, and the architectural style of the demon fortress reveals a strong smell of iron and blood, which can stimulate people's fighting spirit to the greatest extent, and the depressed mood is also liberated, therefore, Stay here for two years and not die, I am afraid that even sheep can become hungry wolves, as they say.
Although the rumbling sound on the ground became stronger and stronger, as if the monsters on the opposite side would appear in front of us at any time, the experienced Oscar was not in a hurry, and there were still more than ten minutes before they really rushed to the defensive line.
Unhurriedly rushing towards the defensive line, he pointed to the ruined buildings around him and told me that the land at the foot of the demon fortress is not the scope of the plain of despair, this is also called the suburban prairie, and it was once prosperous before the invasion of hell, but then the attack of the hell clan was too fierce, and everyone had to abandon the city under their feet and move to the castle.
Some people may ask, why is the environment of the Demon Fortress so harsh, and ordinary civilians still live here? That's because, just as the foundation stone pillars of the Demon Fortress are made of magic carrier materials, there are many magic materials and ores needed by mages here, and the ancestors who live in the Demon Fortress have made a living from this for generations, they can't leave here, and they don't want to leave here, and they live in a harsh environment all year round, which makes the folk customs of the Demon Fortress particularly strong, so it has produced a large number of resolute and resolute adventurers, and it is one of the main export talent places of the camp training camp.
If you want to say that you are fierce to the top Cheng dù, just look at the front of you, there is no shortage of places for the demon fortress, but there are still many civilians who choose to live in the suburban prairie at their feet, they seem to ignore that once the adventurer is defeated, their own life has to be played, and even those civilian children, during the hunting operation, dare to stand on the defensive line, throw stones at the terrifying monsters less than 100 meters away from them or cheer for the adventurers loudly, and the adults do not stop it, in the demon fortress, there are no boys who have been on the defensive line during hunting activities, It will be ridiculed and isolated by everyone.
On the defensive line, thousands of transfers and soldiers have stood together, and then they have been separated, mages and Amazons and other professions that are good at long-range attacks stand on the defensive line, while melee combat such as paladins and barbarians is to resist the impact of monsters in front, and edge killers like assassins are free to play, anyway, those who can go to the fortress of demons are not waste, not to mention that they can have the same tacit understanding as their teammates, but simple cooperation is not easy?
Linya and Fini were naturally on the defensive line, and were assigned to the back position in order to take care of their strength, Fini seemed to have already been familiar with this model, and quietly led Linya to the rear, making Oscar, who had just wanted to make a big show, glare, and couldn't figure out how this new little girl looked like a familiar veteran.
Hundreds of melee adventurers lined up in a goose formation, probably thinking that I was a newcomer, so they assigned me to a position at the back of the right flank edge, where the intensity of the battle was naturally relatively low.
The roar of the ground gradually became violent, and it was no less than an earthquake of magnitude three or four, and the figure of the enemy who was galloping like ten thousand horses in the distance also clearly came into view, and the disgusting faces were enlarged in our pupils.
At the forefront of the line was the enemy I knew well, the Dark Wanderer at the time of Operation Kurast's support
The flesh beasts that have become are just these ordinary-level flesh beasts, naturally not compared to T7 Ying, their status in the eyes of the demon fortress-level adventurers cannot even be compared with the dwarfs of Kurast.
"Oooh-"
At a distance of about a thousand meters from the monster legion, the paladin turned on the aura, and the huge colorful aura enveloped the entire goose-shaped team, and the spirit of the druid also dropped one at a distance, leaving no adventurer behind.
Regarding several amplification skills - the aura of the paladin, the spirit of the druid, and the cry of the barbarian, the amplification effect of the three major systems, theoretically speaking, although the same amplification skill cannot be superimposed, but different amplification skills can be blessed with countless ones, but due to the restrictions of the rules, if it is not the aura carried by itself, then the amplification skills that an adventurer can enjoy are actually limited, mercenaries can only bear one at most, ordinary transfers can withstand two, and particularly qualified transferees can withstand three, I've never heard of an adventurer who can withstand more than three kick-up skills from others.
Unfortunately, I, the protagonist, did not break the rules, and fortunately, I, a transferee with not outstanding qualifications, reached the upper limit of blessings and could withstand three.
Faced with many choices, I hesitated, my defense and life are high enough, and ordinary monsters can't break the defense at all, so the skills of adding defense and life can be ignored, after ruling out, I chose the following three.
Paladin's fourth-order defense aura [energy]: Increase movement speed and stamina value, and as soon as this aura is shrouded, a steady stream of power suddenly surges up, and the body is lighter.
Paladin's fourth-order attack aura [Focus]: Increases damage, reduces the probability of the attack being interrupted, and is also equivalent to a certain amount of dù to resist negative states, good thing!!
Paladin's third-order attack aura [Blessing Aim]: Increase the accuracy of the attack, this state is applied to the body, it is equivalent to the Eagle Eye technique, if you use it well, the effect is quite good.
It's a pity that there is no fifth-order aura of the paladin, and there are still a few adventurers at the level of the demon fortress who have reached the fifth order, and it is not that there are no fifth-order paladins in the entire team, but a few fifth-order paladins are all assigned to the mage team, that is, the legendary nurse, because the fifth-order paladin's fifth-order defense aura [meditation], the role is to speed up the recovery of mana, and in a large-scale battle, what can be more important than ensuring the continuity of the mage's firepower?
But no, those fifth-order paladins who were mixed in the post-mage team had sad faces one by one, and even began to hate their fifth-order skills [meditation], of course, they didn't just stand, they occasionally threw holy light bullets when they were idle, and it was still okay to help the comrades on the front line replenish their blood, nurse.
Boom Boom
The flesh beasts at the front had reached less than a hundred meters away, but no adventurer had focused their attention on them, and even the magic of the wizards behind had not been consumed on them, because ......
"Bang-bang-"
The sound of magic sounded constantly, and attacks such as fire and snow freeze emerged from these dense flesh beasts, and the paladin's attack aura [Holy Fire] and [Sacred Frozen] made these monsters who dared to attack suffer a loss, and all monsters that entered the range of the aura would be attacked by fire or freezing.
Of course, the attack aura is not omnipotent, first, it continues to consume mana, and secondly, the frequency of attacks is relatively slow, almost every four or five seconds, and it is not a threat to thick-skinned monsters; Third, if there are too many monsters inside the aura, the attack power will be further dispersed.
However, it was enough to deal with these cannon fodder-level flesh beasts and save the wizard's mana, and these large-scale flesh beasts fell one after another before they rushed to the defensive line.
At this moment, a sharp-eyed assassin not far away suddenly shouted to be careful, and from the endless stream of flesh beasts in front of him, he suddenly jumped up into the air and swooped towards us.
After a closer look, I found that these flesh-and-blood beasts in size and with bone spurs on their backs were not flesh beasts, but [wall-cutting stalkers], which were the final form of the desert jumpers on the Lugauin Desert.
As the final body of the desert jumper, their speed is more flexible and swift, and their attack power is stronger, which is not at all comparable to cannon fodder-level flesh and blood beasts, but they are facing experienced adventurers who are already familiar with their attack patterns.
Hundreds of fiery red and blue tails streaked over us, and with the exception of a few crashing cars, almost all of the wall-cutting stalkers who jumped up and attacked were knocked away, and the remaining dozens landed in front of us, and I really couldn't find a more appropriate word to describe it except for sheep in the tiger's mouth.
However, Phineau and Linya in the crowd also launched their own attacks, and they hit accurately, so that the mages around them who originally looked down on their level strength were slightly stunned, and they didn't dare to underestimate it anymore, you must know that the wall-cutting stalkers have always been known for their speed and dexterity, and it is not easy to hit them, at least among these group of demon fortress-level mages, there are also many people who can't guarantee that they can hit 100%.
Although the strength of these two people is low, they still catch up with their own footsteps, doesn't this represent unlimited potential?
Intermittently, thousands more wall-cutting stalkers jumped out of the flesh beasts, but the scale was not as large as the first time, and the mages in the rear were not willing to waste their mana any longer, so they were all handed over to us to deal with.
In the surprised eyes of the barbarian next to him, he casually split a wall-cutting stalker that was automatically sent to the door into two pieces in the air, and before he could even scream, the blood splashed out of his body formed a poignant rose in mid-air.
Fortunately, these monsters have low IQs and have no groupwork to speak of, otherwise it would be a big trouble for these thousands of wall-cutting stalkers to pounce together.
However, now is not the time to rejoice, the flesh beast is nothing but cannon fodder, the wall-cutting stalker is just an appetizer, the real battle is still to come, look at this gradually revealed, the figure of the real main force of the monster army, I pursed my dry lips, the crystal sword in my hand was stained with blood, flashing with a cold hue......
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