Chapter 2 Funeral Song
"The plan is successful, nine groups of ten, mend knives and pick up equipment, space is limited, and white clothes below level 5 are not required."
"Six, seven, eight groups, guard the periphery, don't let anyone come over."
"One to five groups are ready, and the main boss is opened."
The dazed Sherlock listened to the strange commands and instantly came to his senses, realizing that he was falling, his subconscious arm slammed into force, grabbed the branch in his hand, twisted his body and sat on it again, holding his breath
"Fortunately, the resurrection was timely." Sherlock watched as several players walked under the trees, finally breathing a sigh of relief and pulling up the adventure journal to check it out.
System Prompt: The player is affected by the funeral song and is in the process of determining skills
System Prompt: Intelligence judgment failed, damage taken increased.
System Prompt: Perception judgment failed, damage taken increased.
System Tip: After taking 227 damage, the player dies.
System Prompt: Zombie insect reincarnation, player resurrection.
"I'll go, it turns out that the fifth-level group spell scroll on the forum was obtained by this group." Seeing the system prompt in the player's log, Sherlock recognized this famous fifth-order group spell scroll at a glance.
Spell Scroll: Funeral Song
Spell Type: Necromancy
Spell Level: Level 5
Spell Effect: Harvest all the life that hears the funeral song within 1000 yards of the surrounding area, and make two judgments on the life affected by the spell effect, Wisdom, Perception, each successful judgment will cause 300+ magic damage of 5% of the unit's maximum health, and two successful judgments will cause an additional 10% of the 500+ unit's maximum health magic.
This spell scroll is said to be an entry reward for choosing an undead master to specialize, and later it is unknown who posted the attributes of this scroll on the forum, which caused a great sensation at the time.
This kind of high-level group spell itself requires a group of mages of no low level to be unleashed, and it takes the best of mages like Silvermoon Lady Arazdra to cast an arcane seal on this kind of group spell. At present, the only way for players to get something of this level is through the Entry Trial.
"Now it seems that it was obtained by the profiteers of Pompeii, I said how he went all the way back to the novice village, but who bought this spell scroll in the end." Sherlock almost understood what was happening.
As for why Sherlock was able to come back to life, it's really thanks to Luna.
Corpse Worm Ring (Excellent): Health Regeneration +1, Charisma +3, Additional Skill: Corpse Worm Resurgence, Usable Times 0-1.
Notes: Luna found it incredible that the Three-Tailed Cats could be resurrected, and she did not believe that the blessings of Chariss (the goddess of cats and dances) could be squandered on these unintelligent creatures, and through her research on the Three-Tailed Cats, she was able to find the reason for their resurrection and make the ring, although it did not meet her requirements.
Thanks to this ring, Sherlock escaped.
Sherlock looked at the corpses all over the ground with great joy, as well as the demonized dryad boss and the mysterious players who were fighting fiercely in front of him, and whispered, "It seems that my plan has gone more smoothly." Then he rearranged his plan.
In fact, speaking of which, the behavior of this group of mysterious players is no different from Sherlock's, they are all robbing the boss, but this group of people is more rude, a funeral song, clearing the mobs in the lair, and clearing the field by the way, and waiting until the dead player is resurrected and then rushes over for at least 6 hours, and it is enough to kill the boss twice.
And although the equipment dropped by the player is not valuable, the base of thousands of people has been added is not a small amount, plus the boss drop, Sherlock roughly calculated, this group of people can make a lot of money by deducting the money to buy scrolls.
Sherlock was ready to give it a go in this game, but he never had a clear idea, for fear that he would lose all his money in the end, so he never really let go.
Today's behavior of this group of mysterious people can be regarded as a lesson for Sherlock, support the bold, starve the cowardly, this principle is as common in the game, every day to take the commission is to earn a hard-earned money, while you are young not to break in, not to take risks, that life does not expect to turn over.
"Hehe, thank you so much for showing me the way, but help people to the end, send the Buddha to the west, and you will also pay for the road." It's always easier to grab a boss from dozens of people than from a few thousand, after all, the more people, the greater the variables.
Sherlock rubbed his hands together and summoned his natural companion
"Bobo, Bobo"
As Sherlock summons, a bobo appears in front of him.
Bobo is Sherlock's only natural companion, and he doesn't bother to name it, so he just calls Bobo.
Bobo (Bobo)
Level: 3
Attack: 2
Skill: Sonic - Bobo is able to unleash unique sound waves, inflict minor damage on enemies, and can detect nearby creatures and terrain.
Bobo is a very common wild monster in the Novice Village, and the only flying pet that Sherlock can catch, and his first-level natural companion can only make a pact with a small animal.
Most of the druids in this area will choose three-tailed cats, green-scaled lizards, etc., either to output, or to resist monsters, his original animal companion is a three-tailed cat, but after level 10, in order to facilitate the search for a wild boss, he released and replaced the current Bobo.
Although Bobo has no attack ability, but in terms of functionality, Bobo is definitely better than other animal companions, and although the skill Sonic has no attack power, it can be perfectly competent whether it is robbing the boss, exploring the way, finding monsters or being vigilant. The God's perspective obtained by sharing the vision is even more like opening a bug, although Sherlock himself is not very good at using it. The only pity is that Bobo is too small to carry people.
"Bobo, it's up to you whether you eat meat or drink the northwest wind this time."
Sherlock looked at Bobo on his arm and told again, "Later, you fly over and shoot sound waves at the demonic tree spirit, don't hit the others, understand?" โ
If the monster player in the Forgotten Realm doesn't have a kill contribution, then the explosion has no right to be allocated, so Bobo's sonic skill is a good hand at grabbing monsters, and Sherlock didn't know how many times he robbed the boss with this method in the previous five days, although the number of times he finally succeeded was not much.
In addition to the highest contribution, the final kill, the two first and second priority allocations are 100% dropped for the one hour after the drop is obtained.
Bobo tapped his head twice, and as soon as he spread his wings, he flew over the boss.
"This AI is really high." Sherlock had to sigh again about the AI of the Forgotten Realms NPC. Even a player's animal companion can understand some simple logical commands from the player, let alone other human NPCs.
Horizons are shared! Bobo flew above the Demon Dryad boss, and Sherlock immediately opened up the vision of his natural partner's companion skills.
Field of View Sharing (Level 1)
A druid can share vision with his natural companion, and the player can choose to switch to a partner's vision or have both their own vision and that of their partner.
Vision sharing is a basic skill for druids, and it is also one of the skills that druids must master, especially the latter state, in fact, Sherlock has been practicing since he learned this skill, but he still can't fully master the second state in the combat state, but in the non-combat state, the two perspectives can still be mastered in front of him.
Looking down from above, this group of mysterious players is about fifty people, and the number of people who are fighting the boss is exactly five squads of 25 people, and the team configuration is also very reasonable, 4 warriors, 2 druids, 3 rangers, 2 troubadours, 2 priests, 2 paladins, 1 thief, 2 warrior monks, and 7 mages (mages and warlocks).
And it's unimaginable that Sherlock found that these 25 people all passed the entry trial, not that the number of players who have officially joined now is small, but that most of the players who have joined at this stage are sprinting for level 10 10 copies, especially various unions and studios, and such an organized, disciplined and invested action like this is obviously not something that casual players can organize.
"Toruล, get ready to retreat, Luke, turn bears on top."
"Norman is ready to guard, and the priest keeps the others on the line."
"Mage Warlock controls the output, and Colin reports another amount of health."
"Parker, less than half blood."
I had done a lot of budgeting beforehand, but when I heard the reply from the thieves in the team, I was relieved to learn that the team had survived the boss without any damage, and this was their studio's first operation in the Forgotten Realm, and it was also the first time he commanded a team battle independently, and he would not allow any mistakes in this operation.
"It seems that this Terran warrior named Parker should be the commander, he looks a little handsome, and he has definitely adjusted his appearance, and he has a little white face." At this time, Sherlock obviously forgot that when he created the character, he raised his overall appearance to the upper limit the moment he saw the adjustment of his appearance, and kept hinting that his appearance was also an important factor in receiving orders.
"No, Bobo, hurry up the flight altitude." Sherlock immediately remembered one thing a second after he finished complaining, he was now observing from Bobo's bird's-eye view, and under normal circumstances, he couldn't see the faces of players on the ground, unless they looked up, and it was not very normal to see a Bobo hovering in the sky at this time, after all, the funeral song just now was killed by people and monsters.
In fact, Sherlock was careless, and just now Bobo forgot to let it fly higher after playing the sound wave, but he didn't expect to be almost discovered by the other party.
Sure enough, after a while, Sherlock saw the head of the Terran warrior named Parker raised slightly from the player's perspective, then looked around and lowered it again.
"Nine groups of ten, search around again to see if there are any hidden players."
"What's wrong, is there a problem?" Seeing Parker's order in the team channel, someone next to him immediately asked.
"Nothing, search again just in case."
Without Bobo's surveillance, Sherlock didn't hear the conversation above, but looking at the rangers who were constantly releasing reconnaissance and probing techniques not far away, he roughly guessed that Bobo's actions had aroused the suspicion of the commander.
However, it is obviously impossible for a Ranger to wander aimlessly in the forest to find a stationary druid.
No Trace: Druids leave no footprints on natural terrain and are not traced.
When he first learned this class passive, Sherlock complained about the passive on the forum, but when players gradually understood the setting of the game Forgotten Realm, many skills that were originally complained about by players have been developed into magic skills.
The Forgotten Realms game can no longer be viewed from previous game experiences due to its high realism and artificial intelligence. For example, the skill of Traceless Walking, because it cannot be tracked, the druid will not be detected by the reconnaissance technique when hiding in the forest.
Another example is the passive of the troubadour's ability to negotiate, because the high intelligence of the NPC makes the skill of negotiation get the most play, and you can even discuss the difficulty and reward of the task with the NPC, of course, the charm is too low and people should not try it.
When he realized that these rangers didn't have any special skill items to find themselves, Sherlock refocused his attention on the lair bosses.
It's not particularly difficult for a team of 25 players to fight a lair boss, and these people are obviously well prepared, and after hanging up 2 fighters, 1 druid, 3 tans, and a few crispy outputs, they enter the final stage of gathering fire.
As a result, it was no surprise to everyone, and the remnant blood of the demonized dryad boss finally fell to the ground after a fireball and exploded a bunch of equipment.
Sherlock had been waiting for this moment, the spell scroll in his hand was all sweat left by nervousness, he felt that the hand speed that he had practiced for 25 years had never been so fast, there was only one chance.
"Come and go without a trace"