"Brother Wu, I don't know what the two of you are here for? What about the other team members? ”

After feeling the warmth of the campfire and gradually stretching out, Charlie, the paladin who was sitting across from me, asked aloud.

"Well, it's a bit of a mission, and I'd like to come to the spider's lair to investigate a little bit."

I replied vaguely, and took the hot water from Jeluka, and only at this time did she look like a handmaiden who kept to herself.

It's just that...... Why do you want to sit behind me? Isn't there a place next to me, wouldn't it be warmer to get closer to the campfire? I still can't figure this out, is this yellow maid even afraid of the fire so she hides behind me? It's impossible, but it's a very creative idea, and most of this guy's words and actions can't be answered with common sense.

"I see."

Charlie nodded in understanding: "Could it be related to the recent changes?" ”

"Oh, you know that too?"

Taking a sip of hot water, I looked up at Charlie, although Akara said that the danger of crystal shards is too wide to be solved in the case of blocking the news, in order to prevent adventurers from encountering danger, the alliance has passed on some news, but how much these adventurers know, I am still interested to know.

"Well, I received a notice a few days ago, and the situation seems to be very strict, and even the team that is still training outside has been called back to inform me, I heard that it is because of the mutation caused by the chain of monster attacks on Rogge's camp and Lu Gaoyin a few months ago, and there will be some monsters in the third world who are occasionally teleported over."

Paladin Charlie explained unhurriedly, and when he said it with a calm and cold expression, it would make people feel as if this originally terrifying mutation event would definitely be able to overcome it as long as they worked together, which was probably his personality charm as a paladin and as a captain.

"Oh, it looks like everyone knows about the same thing."

I nodded, and said that Akara wasn't hiding much information, other than some of the antecedents and consequences of the incident.

"Could it be that Brother Wu came here to find out if there are any monsters from the third world that have been teleported over?"

"That's true, there's nothing to hide about this matter, according to our analysis......"

"I see, I didn't expect it to be like this."

The six of them looked stunned, although it was only some trivial judgment, but it was undoubtedly a considerable amount of information for them who had never encountered the outbreak of crystal shards, and therefore were still confused by the notice sent by the Alliance.

In addition, there is also what happened this morning, the effect caused by the explosion of crystal fragments is not only to teleport the monsters of the third world, but now there is a second possibility, that is, the monsters of the second world absorb the energy inside and cause the mutation.

This discovery also has to be reported to Akara as much as possible.,In a certain way,In fact, there is a second possibility.,The threat to adventurers is greater.,If it's just a monster teleported.,Maybe an adventure team can protect itself even if it can't be solved.,But if a group of monsters mutate.,These mutated monsters attract more monsters.,Then an adventure team encounters.,It's basically going to be wiped out.。

After these situations are reported, Akara will definitely quickly report back to all adventurers in the second world, so they should be more careful, so I don't mind letting the Strasto team know some time in advance here, so that they can be prepared.

"By the way, Brother Charlie, it doesn't look like the first day you came to the spider's lair."

I looked at this hideout, and there were some obvious traces that proved that this team had been living here for more than a day or two.

"That's right, we've been here for almost half a month, this damn cave terrain, I can't see my fingers, I can't see a ray of sunlight at all, I'm afraid that if I continue like this, I may become a cave man."

The barbarian warrior Arbuck shouted loudly, and it could be seen that the big man did not like the dark and damp environment of the cave, and it should be said that not many people did.

Hearing Arbuckle's nagging, everyone couldn't help but laugh, in fact, which team hasn't been in the cave environment? It's normal to stay for a few months, it takes a lot of willpower, and I can't help but think of my first year in the dark.

I remember that in the first year, I spent most of my time in cave environments, such as the evil cave of the Blood Wilderness, the first and second floors of the cave of the Icy Plains, and how strong my willpower was at that time to endure the dark environment of the cave, but how to say it? When I first came to the dark world, I was really hesitant and didn't adapt to this strange world at all, so compared to staying outside where I didn't fit in everywhere, my dark and decadent otaku psychology may have subconsciously had the idea of preferring to wander around the cave alone.

To put it simply, other people's houses are called squatting at home, that's because there is a home, I didn't have a home at that time, so I became a cave squatting, speaking of which I still have to thank Sarah Baby, if it weren't for her angelic warm and pure heart, let me gradually adapt to and accept this world, maybe this dark continent will soon have a famous cave survival expert.

Okay, let's stop complaining about my behavior, in short, everyone ignores Arbuck's shouting, everyone knows that the barbarian's big mouth is the most powerful bragging.

"I'm sorry, it's all because of me."

Sure enough, no, Arbuckle's unobstructed mouth obviously made the necromancer Mike feel guilty, and his whole face, which was already gloomy, seemed to turn into a black shadow at this time.

"Mike, I didn't mean that."

Receiving the reproach from the other teammates, Arbuck scratched his pigtails and giggled embarrassedly.

"Don't listen to Arbuckle's big mouth, it's for you, not for the whole team."

Charlie slammed the fire stick on top of Arbuck's head, casting a warm and trusting look at the necromancer.

"Speaking of which, I also want to ask, with your strength, a place like a spider's nest is no longer suitable, why did you come here?"

Seeing the conversation between the Strasto team, my heart moved and I asked.

The strength level of Charlie and a few people is obviously much higher than that of the Spider Forest, and I think that he can go to Cui Vanke, and even hate the cage, how can he still come to this kind of place.

Sure enough, Charlie's answer made me suddenly realize.

It turns out that this adventure team, as I expected, has broken through to the deepest part of the third layer of the Hate Cage, but the six people are not sure about the next Demon God clone - Mephistopheles, this half-real and half-imaginary guy is not easy to mess with, and the experience of the first world in dealing with it must not be put here.

Mephisto's magic is particularly sharp, especially lightning magic, unpredictable lightning damage can often pose a huge threat to mages with thin skin and short blood, Charlie, as the captain, thought about it, no, or insurance, courage is important, but complete grasp is the way to survive, and then, they listened to some rumors that are not very reliable, it is said that the spider forest, especially in the spider nest, is suitable for the equipment used by mages has a large explosion rate, and they came here for half a month.

The most important thing for adventurers is time, sometimes in order to hunt an elite monster, they can prepare for this for a month or two, not to mention the demon god doppelganger Mephisto in front of him, Charlie's caution is not surprising at all, this is not a game that can use SL**, once it fails, the six people don't know how many will go back alive.

"The result?"

After listening to their explanations, I couldn't help but have huge doubts about that rumor, I guess...... Well, it's probably Arbuckle, the barbarian, who got "very reliable information" from his barbarian brethren.

Sure enough, as soon as my question came up, Arbuck's eyes became evasive, and he lowered his head, looking like he wanted to bury his bare head in the campfire.

"What should I say?"

Glancing at Arbuckle, Charlie's gaze was slightly confused.

"Although the original purpose of coming here has not been achieved, the harvest is indeed not small, not to mention anything else, just kicking spider eggs, in fact, this is a very good place to farm equipment."

was comforted by Charlie's complaint, and Arbuckle immediately became angry as if he had made a great achievement, what a good guy.

"So you're going to stay here any longer?"

"Haha, no way, who made us weak and not very sure? I had no choice but to do so. ”

Charlie didn't mind complaining about his team at all, and laughed heartily.

In fact, in my opinion, with the combination of paladin and necromancer, plus the strength of the other four teammates is also very good, the strength of this team is already very strong, as for why they ended up at this point, the answer is actually very simple, because they took less time than other Kurast adventure teams to reach this kind of journey, and the result was that they had to stop a little because the equipment could not keep up, this situation is very common, often happens to the elite adventure team, and is jokingly called the elite bottleneck by many adventurersThe way to break through this shackle is very simple, as long as you guard against arrogance and rashness, and spend a little time to keep up with the equipment and skills.

"Have you sensed anything strange happening in the spider's nest these days?"

"No, it's normal, but we're just moving and fighting in a fixed place, and even if something happens, we don't necessarily know."

"Uh, that's ......"

I looked down for a moment, then looked up as if I remembered something.

"By the way, aren't you going to get mage gear? I just have one here, you can see if it's appropriate. ”

As I spoke, I took out the shrunken skulls of necromancers that I had managed to loot from the stingy group of mutant elite monsters not long ago.

Although I have already complained, I still have to complain again, good boy, don't go out with such a [shield], you will be arrested as a perverted murderer.

"Atrophied head?"

As soon as he took it out, the necromancer on the other side reacted, and the face that seemed to have been hidden in the darkness all his life was raised, revealing a pale and delicate middle-aged face that was not as ugly as he imagined, staring at the shrunken head and not letting go, his eyes were as hot as if he had seen his long-lost wife.

Well, it's hard to imagine staring at a shriveled skull shield with such a look, necromancers are really not a group of guys who can understand lightly.

"This shrunken head was just obtained today, can you see if it's appropriate?"

"I'll just say it!!"

As a result, before Mike could get excited, everyone was startled by Arbuck's loud voice after slapping his thigh, and the barbarian man seemed even more excited than Mike.

"I'll just say that the news is not fake, you see, didn't Brother Wu explode this thing? We can only say that we have had bad luck these days. ”

Arbuckle grinned with a mouthful of shiny teeth, and said triumphantly.

“……”

If Arbuckle had known that I had scavenged such a piece of equipment from hundreds of mutated elite-level monsters, he would definitely not have said this.

"It's right, it couldn't be better."

Mike, the necromancer, took the shrunken head, looked at the familiarity, and immediately fell in love with it, and looked at him, as if he wanted to rub his face against it to show satisfaction.

Uh, cherish life and stay away from necromancers.

Seeing Mike's crazy actions, these big words floated through my mind.

Charlie also came up a few times, glanced at the attributes of the shrunken head, and nodded with satisfaction, it can't be said to be the best, but it is definitely the top grade, plus it is the exclusive equipment of the necromancer, this value is extremely high.

Speaking of value...... Charlie's brow, which was still stretched just now, slowly wrinkled.

The higher the practical value of this atrophied head, the more expensive it means that it will have to pay a higher price to get it, which cannot be ignored.

The shrunken head must be replaced, this is a priceless thing, so Charlie gathered five members of the team and discussed it in a whisper.

"Ahem, that ...... Brother Wu, do you know if you have any equipment that you would like to change? ”

After a few moments, Charlie asked me with a blushing face.

Asking this kind of question made him feel a little ashamed as a paladin, he should have exchanged something of equivalent value anyway, and if he asked this question, wouldn't it be equivalent to trying to seize the needs of others and get cheap?

"Well, just shoes, or belts, or gloves."

I thought about it carefully, I really have a little bit of no desire and no desire now, if I have to say that there are any equipment parts on my body that can be changed and used often, that's it, and the rest of the places, such as weapons, I don't believe that Charlie can come up with a weapon that is sharper than the base sword, of course, even if they take it out, I don't have enough items on me to exchange, a guy who is more powerful than a pseudo-artifact, is this kind of thing really valuable? Gee~~

The group had a few more discussions, and finally, Charlie handed over a golden sharkskin boot and a golden iron fist.

"I'm sorry, we can only make up these two pieces of equipment, it doesn't seem to be worth the price of the shrunken head, although I know that Brother Wu, you will definitely not lack gems, but ...... That one...... Can we take a little loss, and let's make up for the remaining deficiencies with gems? ”

After saying these words, Charlie's old face turned red, when it comes to our kind of Cheng Dù, how can a rare piece of equipment be exchanged for the common currency of adventurers such as gems?

Except, of course, for Perfect gemstones.

"Well, no problem, but I only accept diamonds."

Looking at the two pieces of golden equipment handed over by Charlie, I replied casually, did you hear it, the little ghost classmate who is far away in the first world, give me honest gratitude and thank me for my great kindness, where can I find a hard-working owner like me.

The two pieces of equipment that Charlie handed over were:

The roaring iron fist of the beast

Defense: 56

Durability: 23/50

Required Strength Points: 80

Required Level: 43

70 Defense Strengthened

+50 Flying Defense

+15 Strength

+4 Agility

+7 maximum damage

Hardiness +24

Restores equipment durability 1 in one day

The golden sharkskin boots have the following attributes:

The cry of the soul Boots of Sharkskin

Defense: 74

Durability: 18/40

Strength Required: 50

Agility Required: 40

Required Level: 54

56 Defense Strengthened

+3 high-speed running/walking speed

+12 Agility

+25 mana

Lightning Resistance +25

Hardiness +13

When attacked, has 1 chance to cast a Level 3 Lightning Arc

Well, both of them are pretty good golden equipment, especially the Sharkskin Boots, and there is a rare attribute, although only the residual number of 3 is added, but it's also a rare attribute, isn't it?

Honestly, if Charlie is a treacherous businessman, then these two pieces of gold gear are enough to replace the shrunken head, and maybe even fool me into making some amends for these two pieces of gold equipment.

It can be seen that the paladin in front of him is really an honest partner worthy of friendship.

I don't really need these two pieces of golden equipment, but if I tell the truth, the other party will definitely think that I just don't want to trade, well, this thought, you can't do it if you don't want it.

I scratched my head in distress and thought for a while, and finally made a decision.

"These two are enough, but Charlie, how about I want to make another deal with you?"

"Well, what deal?"

Charlie was about to say something, but was attracted by my later words and asked.

"This iron glove, I want to exchange it for gemstones, diamonds of any grade."

As I spoke, I pushed the iron glove back, don't think I don't know, it was just taken off Arbuck's hand, this iron glove.

"This ...... How so? In this way, Brother Wu will suffer a big loss. Charlie hurriedly said that the golden equipment was no longer something that could be exchanged for gems.

"There's nothing to eat or lose, just take what you need, I just need gems right now."

After saying this, I secretly wiped a handful of sad tears, what did I do in my previous life to be able to meet such a fool who feeds on diamonds and complains about the black saint.

At my insistence, the Iron Glove was finally replaced with all the diamonds on the Strasto team, I can't see that they are quite wealthy, seven intact diamonds, more than twenty split-level diamonds, hundreds of shatter-level diamonds, and even one flawless diamond, where did they get it? Without the explosion rate bonus of the bug amulet, the explosion rate of a flawless diamond can be lower than that of dark gold equipment.

The diamonds were far more than the Iron Gauntlet was worth, so I returned the Sharkskin Boots, and don't think I didn't know, these boots, which had just been taken off the Assassin Steve, still smelled of his feet.

Being able to do anything to replace the most important equipment on their bodies for the sake of their teammates' equipment is a solidarity that allows people to vaguely see the bright path of the Strasto team, and what they lack now is not strength, or trust, faith, but just some luck.

Paladin Charlie has always been reluctant to go, although the value of these diamonds is not much different from the shrunken head, but some things are not comparable in value can be exchanged, especially exclusive equipment such as valuable things, if sold openly on the trade market, even if the number of diamonds sold more than half or even doubled, it is not impossible.

Seeing that Charlie was restless and looked like he had a needle in his ass because of this [unfair] deal, I suddenly thought of a good idea.

"Otherwise, Brother Charlie, if you really think I'm losing money on this deal, how about doing me a favor?"

"Oh, what's the busy, Brother Wu, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

Hearing me say this, Charlie immediately came to his senses.

"Well, before I do that, do you plan to stay in the spider's nest now?"

Charlie was stunned, as if he didn't understand why I was asking, and then nodded.

"Of course, a shrunken head isn't enough, maybe we'll have to get a more suitable piece or two for Toraki."

"Since that's the case, then my gang wants you to go to Kurast."

With a snap of my fingers, I said happily, if the Strasto team is going back now, then my help is not a help, but just a stopover, then again, why do I have to go around the bush to let others help? It's really tiring to be a good person.

"I want you to convey what I just said to the person in charge of Kurast, is that okay?"

"Of course that's fine, it's too simple."

Charlie is still a little reluctant to go, even if it is a trip back to Curast and then back to the spider's lair, it is only a day's journey, and for adventurers who are not short of time, it is no different from going out for a walk.

"Yes, I don't just want you to convey it to the head of Kurast, it's better to let everyone know soon."

"No problem."

Charlie agreed, but then hesitated.

"But...... On the side of the head of Kurast, it's Lord Dean, we don't know Master Dean that well, if he doesn't believe what we say......"

"Well, no problem, I have a way to make him absolutely believe that you are."

With that, I turned around and looked down in my inventory.

Uh, the Seal of the Elders...... Elder Seal ...... Where is my 10,000-year-old elder seal?

Finally, in a corner where a lot of dust had accumulated, I found the elder seal that I had abandoned for a long time, and stamped it on a piece of paper, like a living thing, the elder seal flowed like a living thing, it was the only one, and there was no other branch.

Okay, do you have to write something more on it? A slippery print on a piece of paper doesn't seem to be good.

So, I wrote some meaningless words on it crookedly, and then folded it to Charlie with satisfaction.

"Without further ado, if you let us know about it earlier, maybe you can let some of your companions be in less danger, Brother Charlie, if there is nothing else important, how about bothering you to set off now?"

"I know, then Brother Wu, there will be a period later."