Chapter 312: The Missing Mage Tower
After the initial shock, it wasn't until Zhao Xu interjected to explain that everyone understood that they had been connected by Zhao Xu with spells.
It's not the "spiritual link" of the four or five rings, but just the "ally conversation technique" of the second ring.
It's a group version of the Zero Ring spell "Communication", and it avoids moving your lips to be deciphered.
For a while, after Zhao Xu's spell encryption method, the entire Warden Guild was excitedly discussed, and everyone pointed to their own goals to speak.
Finally, the frost sword reorganized the discipline, and it was not so chaotic for a while.
And considering that there may be a strong enemy on the side, it is even more impossible for them to flee after this step.
Therefore, Frost Sword continued to arrange for people to go down according to the previous deduction, but compared to before, he deliberately focused on the personnel stationed on the lake.
Gradually, when the senior management of the trade union continued to speak, the arrangement meeting became an exchange meeting.
In the end, it wasn't until Zhao Xu's spell lasted for a full 70 minutes that everyone finished talking.
According to the initial arrangement, a total of eight people were launched in the first batch, including the warrior Frost Sword, the barbarian giant dun, the ranger Xuexue, the wanderer thief, the poet Ke Lu, the priest Clear Sky, the mage Chen Nuo, and Zhao Xu.
After Zhao Xu took the Level 5 Caster Level "Underwater Breathing" scroll handed over by the Frost Sword, he directly spread out the parchment paper that was almost 30 centimeters long, looked at the arcane text on it, and guided the spell to cast.
Gradually, a ball of blue light began to appear in Zhao Xu's palm, like a clear spring floating.
He then walked over to each person who was about to enter the water, lightly touched each other, and transitioned the energy of the light cluster.
Originally, the duration of "breathing in water" was 2 hours per level for a total of 10 hours, and on average, everyone was given a full 1 hour and 15 minutes of breathing time.
After completing this, everyone took an alchemy illumination rod worth 2 gold coins in turn, and then jumped into the water with a stone tied to it.
There was no way to light a fuel lamp at the bottom of the lake, so Frostsword prepared a large number of lighting rods at the beginning.
The surface of Jingyue Lake is very clear, but after entering the sinking distance for a while, Zhao Xu's vision and senses have been greatly suppressed.
At the same time, the water pressure also squeezed his body, especially after deep diving, which made him slightly uncomfortable.
According to what was written in the notebook, the mage tower crashed directly into the silt at the bottom of the lake. As a group of them, they must first explore the bottom before they have the possibility of finding the mage tower.
So in the first wave, everyone dispersed first, in groups of twos and twos, according to their own abilities, and began to look for the entrance to their mage tower at the bottom of the lake here.
It's just that Jingyue Lake itself is extremely wide, and the area alone is equal to more than two or three football fields combined.
However, when Zhao Xu reached the bottom of the lake, he found that most of the bottom structure of Jingyue Lake was hard rock, but the top was just covered with a layer of silt over time.
If the mage tower was smashed down, it would probably smash the rocks at the bottom of the lake in place, which should be very abruptly revealed, but he didn't see anything, some raised gray things, Zhao Xu knocked it down with the scepter in his hand, it was basically the sediment at the bottom of the lake, and the spire of the non-master tower.
It wasn't until an hour had passed that everyone had agreed at the beginning that they would automatically float back to the surface when the time was up.
In the end, when Zhao Xu and his Soul Prisoner Demon retinue came up together, they all looked at each other with the other seven people.
Everyone shook their heads, indicating that they hadn't found anything suspicious of the existence of the Mage Tower.
After listening to this, the face of the elder frost sword also became a little gloomy.
Searching for the ruins of the Mage Tower was indeed a problem for him, and no one dared to ensure that no one had raised the Mage Tower in a hundred years.
But later, seeing that the notebook was recorded in such detail, Frost Sword was basically sure that the mage tower still existed, and had not been excavated.
"What should I do?" The poet Kolu was also a little depressed.
Originally, according to Frost Sword's plan, the next time they used "Breathing in Water", it was their entire team that entered the tower in a neat manner.
Who would have thought it would be this situation.
"What do you think, Mr. Tempest?" Frost Sword was also a little upset at this time, and hurriedly asked Zhao Xu for advice.
Zhao Xu didn't expect the ball to be kicked at his feet, but his thinking was very clear, "Go on, try to expand the scale." I really can't do it, so I'll wait for tomorrow to try again. ”
Looking at Zhao Xu's serious expression, Frost Sword also nodded heavily.
Next, Zhao Xu did not go down again, but consumed his spell position to cast the "Water Breathing Method" twice in a row.
This time he divided the time evenly among 20 people, so that each person could allocate just over an hour's breath volume.
It's just that an hour later, when everyone surfaced one after another, they all shook their heads, indicating that they had not gained anything.
For a while, the members of the entire union looked at each other, and the dripping water stains on their bodies did not have time to wipe them clean.
It was as if the heavens had played a huge joke on them.
At this time, Frost Sword finally panicked, and he directly took out the remaining three "Breath in Water" scrolls and gave them to Zhao Xu, and took out all the shares that their core team had used to enter the tower.
"Mr. Tempest, please cast a spell and let everyone go down." Frost Sword gasped at this time, and even his neck was already bulging with green tendons.
"30 people?" Zhao Xu looked at the three "Breath in Water" scrolls with 350 gold coins each, and frowned.
Originally, he suggested that he try again, but they couldn't find it after 30 times and an hour of searching, which already shows that this method is not very reliable.
He already felt that if he went any further, he would find nothing, but in this way, the frost sword was not reconciled at all, even if he consumed another thousand gold coins and materials, he had to check again.
Zhao Xu, as the party accepting the commission at this time, naturally would not persuade the other party to give up.
Frostsword agreed, but neither did the group of players behind him with red-eyed eyes.
And after Zhao Xu took the scroll and performed the "Breathing in Water" method three times in a row, this time the watchman union of 30 people was allocated a share, and everyone lined up around the entire Jingyue Lake, jumped down and sank to the bottom of the lake in turn, and then set off towards the center of the lake at the same time.
The frost sword also sank to the bottom of the water together, while Zhao Xu continued to sit by the lake.
At this time, the night breeze was slightly cool, and the three moons in the sky had slowly risen, and the soft moonlight also poured on the surface of the lake, suddenly creating a hazy sense of unreality.
This time, the frost sword broke through, and Zhao Xu also asked his Soul Prisoner Demon retinue to act with the other party, replenishing him with the effect of the True Knowledge Technique at any time.
However, less than 50 minutes had just passed, and when there was still free time left, Zhao Xu saw that players who were not usually involved poured out of the lake.
"It's all gone." Frost Sword's whole body was already soaked, and he didn't have the strength to wipe himself clean as the lake water continued to drip on his sideburns.
"How so? Why is this happening? And the wanderer on the side kept muttering to himself, as if he couldn't believe the difference in all this.
His sister had just gone down with her, and she looked at her brother nervously.
She knew that for the sake of the ruins of the Mage Tower this time, their entire union had basically been hollowed out.
"Maybe at the beginning, this mage tower itself was just a mirror." Frost Sword said lonely.
The entire six "breathing in the water", adding up to no less than 60 hours of searching at the bottom of the lake, could not find the mage tower under the lake.
Either they are out of reach of their current manpower, or they simply don't exist.
And even if it exists, there are mysterious forces in the vicinity that are closely watching, ready to intervene at any time, and this adventure has been overshadowed from the very beginning.
just rashly asked everyone to go home, but he was really unwilling.
"President, don't forget it."
"But we have withdrawn too many resources this time, and I'm afraid the union won't be able to operate if we go back empty-handed."
"It's better than wasting time here."
And the elder frost sword sighed, walked directly in front of Zhao Xu, and said helplessly: "I'm sorry, Tempest Mage, we may have to have a meeting first." ”
After Zhao Xu nodded, he consciously walked to the lake far away from the large army, and stared at the night of Xifeng Valley in front of him, which had become extremely quiet.
In the faint moonlight, you can only barely see the outline of the day, but it is also more mysterious.
Suddenly, Zhao Xu noticed that a green phosphorescence came from the frost sword, and although it was far away, Zhao Xu still barely recognized the big word "fierce".
His heart suddenly tightened, and he understood that it was the effect of the priest's second ring's unique magic "divination".
I'm afraid it's the other party's priest who is holding the "divination" scroll of the second ring to cast a spell. Divination can only determine the future within half an hour, so it is only possible to cast spells at such close moments.
Needless to say, the other party must have asked if it would be useful to find the mage tower after searching.
And the gods and even the servants of the gods give very direct answers, which are "fierce" that will bring bad results.
Not even a neutral "flat".
Zhao Xu is very calm in his heart, I'm afraid he is the only one who has gained among all the people present, as long as he can get the notebook next.
As for how to get this notebook from Frost Sword's hand, I still have to think about it carefully.
And the target of this trip, the Mage Tower, how can he participate in any mission, he will definitely be able to get what he wanted at the beginning.
In the end, after the meeting, Frost Sword led the union members over.
To his surprise, Frost Sword immediately told Zhao Xu the results of his divination just now, and at the same time told Zhao Xu about their idea of giving up.
"Mr. Tempest, now all we want to do is stop loss, so I want to ask you if you would like to buy the information about the ruins of this mage tower."
As he spoke, Frost Sword handed the "lead box" containing the notebook to Zhao Xu.
Zhao Xu also found out for the first time that he actually encountered the dilemma of buying and returning pearls.
He just wanted the notebook.
It's just that Frost Sword and the others didn't hide the results of the divination to tell him at all, and the information of this mage tower also attracted the attention of outsiders, so Frost Sword and the others didn't have too high expectations.
And Zhao Xu paid the gold coins, then the frost sword and they would quit, which can be said to be one of the best ways for them to stop the bleeding at the moment.
After all, they just didn't find the Mage Tower.
"Promise them." Suddenly, Antinoya's voice sounded in Zhao Xu's ears.