Volume III: The Beginning of Turmoil (Remastered) Chapter 17: Psychic Academy (1)

Jumping into the river is also particular, without investigating anything clearly, just find a place with deep water and plunge headlong, that is called suicide. There are not many places on both sides of the Sheen River that can meet Yu Bin's requirements, when the river passes through the ice wind gang, the banks on both sides will change from soil layer to rock layer, and the height of the river bank is high, which is not conducive to the attitude control after the water.

"Let's go into the water from here, take care to control our body posture and not get washed ashore!" It took more than an hour to find a more suitable entry point, Yu Bin jumped off his mount, lifted the summons, and walked towards the river.

"You follow me, I'll take you!" Alan motioned for the past not to worry about the wind, just jump with him.

As Yu Bin jumped into the turbulent river first, Lei Guang and Keldila jumped without hesitation, and they had already tied some stones to their robes with improvised pieces of cloth as weights. The last Alan waited for the past to jump down with the wind, and immediately jumped down.

As soon as he entered the water, he felt that his body was uncontrollable with the wind, and under the impact of the turbulent water, his body was like a small sampan, constantly being slapped around, and the equipment he was wearing kept dragging him underwater.

Just as the past was about to give up with the wind, ready to hand everything over to the river, a pair of strong hands grabbed the belt of his leather armor from behind.

"Relax, you're too nervous, pay attention to feel the buoyancy of the river, don't force your waist, use your legs, the upper body is more difficult to control, so mainly use the lower body to control your posture."

Alan's voice rang in his ears.

I have to say that the past events in his past life can become famous with the wind, not all by his special ghost form, this German young man's learning ability is very good, and his talent is not low, with Alan's teaching, it only took half an hour, and he has basically mastered the method of controlling posture.

"Because we thieves wear leather armor, the buoyancy in the water will be relatively large, and the impact and resistance will be relatively large, and it will be more difficult to adapt to the first time, so you can try a few more times in the future." Ailan saw that the past was already under his own control, so he let go of the hand that was holding him, but he was not far away, "Ice language is the most difficult, the set of plate armor on his body, just to ensure that he does not sink to the bottom of the river, is already the greatest success." ”

"You don't speak, no one treats you as a mute!" Yu Bin was not far away, and his rich experience in his previous life made him still have the strength to laugh.

"That's it, the one we wear cloth armor is the cheapest, I said Alan, you have the ability to peel off your skin to try." Lei Guang was not willing to be lonely, looking at the scenery on both sides of the river with ups and downs, while making fun of Chen Tao.

The speed of the rushing water of the Sheen River is not suitable for most fish, let alone those dangerous piranhas or freshwater crocodiles, so it took more than three hours to make dispensable jokes all the way, and Yu Bin and the others finally felt that the speed of the water had slowed down. This means that they have already gone through one of the most dangerous journeys.

Through the towering cliffs on both sides, Yu Bin roughly determined the location: "It's almost to the Eagle's Nest Mountain, follow me to swim forward, pay attention to the top of your head, and say it immediately when you see a situation." And don't swim in the wrong direction, if you swim in the wrong direction, I won't save you when you get to the Regret Ridge, you can only rely on yourself to find a way. ”

Fortunately, everyone is not a rookie, after such a long time of game experience, it is no problem to recognize the direction, as for the past with the wind, anyway, follow Ailan to travel, and there is no danger of getting lost. On the way, I encountered the dwarven griffin cavalry who patrolled twice, but fortunately, I found it in advance, and because the undead did not need to breathe, I got under the water and avoided it.

After swimming for nearly an hour, Yu Bin and the others saw a huge island vaguely appear in front of them, and there seemed to be something very tall on the island, and a black hole stood there. As everyone swam closer and closer, the tall presence on the island became clearer and clearer.

When they saw it clearly, they couldn't help but let out an exclamation. It was a huge spire building with a huge footprint, with a towering wall and watchtower.

"It looks like a castle." Lei Guang took a closer look and said.

"This is a castle!" Yu Bin slowly waded ashore and walked up to the island, "This is the location of the Psychic Academy, the private castle of the former Lord of Kelderon, Jandis Barov. ”

"A private castle?"

"That's right, this island, and the surrounding Keldaron region, including Regret Ridge, the Sodoril River, and the Poison Mist Canyon, belong to the Barov family, who, at its most glory, ruled over the small half of the Hillsbrad Hills, Lake Lordamere, the Eagle's Nest, and thousands of square kilometers of land centered on Lake Kelderon."

"Capitalists, big landlords!" That's how Lei Guang understands it.

"With the catastrophe brought by the evil god Haka, the Barov family, who have lost everything, are instantly thrown into the abyss, and they are no longer the noble lords of the human world, but a group of beggars who have lost their homes." Yu Bin waited for the equipment on his body to dry out and introduced it to several people. Later, the lich Kel'thugad arrived, and the destitute Barov family, in revenge for the human nobles who had abandoned them, gave the castle, as well as the huge underground area beneath the castle, to Kel'thugad as a gift for them to join the Cursed Cult. After that, Kel'thugad used this place as his base, established the Psychic Academy, began to secretly recruit civilians of other races as apprentices, and developed the Cursed God Cult in human society. ”

"Sounds like a cult!"

"From a human point of view, it is!" Yu Bin completely agrees with Alan.

"So what do we do next? You can't just walk in and knock on the door and say we're here to talk to Lady Farina about her childhood friend, Lady Manas, right? ”

"If you do, I'll prepare a coffin for you!" Yu Bin glanced at Lei Guang.

Unlike the undead living in the three empires, the undead in the psychic academy are mainly undead who have been resurrected through necromancy, and some of them have voluntarily transformed into undead in pursuit of eternal life. The most famous of these is the Lich Kel'thugad.

This powerful lich was once an archmage in the magical capital of Dalaran, and after the collapse of the Elven Empire, some of the elves chose to cooperate with the humans who had just escaped from slavery at that time, and obtained protection by imparting magical knowledge, and these elves trained the first human mages and founded Dalaran on this basis.

In order to lead the human race to survive better in the world of Entagre, the mages of Dalaran established an organization called Kenrito to lead the revival of humanity, under the leadership of Kenrito, human kingdoms were established, and those gifted children were selected to be sent to Dalaran to be educated and become a magic apprentice.

Kel'thugad was one of them, and at a very young age, he had already become the pride of Dalaran, and even set a record of becoming a Kenrito councillor at the age of twenty-three, which no one has been able to break so far.

As he continued to refine his magic, Kel'thugad became more and more obsessed with studying all kinds of new magical knowledge, and after thousands of years of continuous collection and excavation, Dalaran also mastered a large number of magical texts that had been scattered after the collapse of the Elven Empire, and the study of these texts soon became Kel's greatest pleasure. Even necromancy and shadow magic that are clearly labeled as forbidden knowledge.

Eventually, Dalaran discovered Kel'thugad's dangerous research and attempted to destroy his research. Believing that Dalaran had traveled further and further down the stubborn and closed roads, Kel'thugad fled the city and transformed into a lich according to the rituals he had studied, in order to better study his beloved knowledge of magic.

For tens of thousands of years, the lich had been conducting various studies while sheltering the undead who were in a similar situation to him, and these undead creatures who were not tolerated by the original undead were also satisfied with their lives in the psychic academy, but this did not mean that they had given up their hatred of the enemies who had persecuted them.

Those who venture into psychic academies are either used as test subjects for the cursed cultists, or as teaching tools for the terrible undead to assert their power and majesty.

"Sneaking in?" As a thief, he naturally wants to use the thief's method to solve the problem.

"See that?" Yu Bin pointed to the towering spire in the center of the castle, although it was midnight, there were no dense clouds in the sky, and the bright moonlight allowed them to clearly see a few strings of things floating near the spire of the castle, with the wind blowing. "Those are the thieves and thieves who want to sneak in, and when they are discovered, they will be pierced through the anus with a rope alive, and hung on that spire, to decorate the castle."

After Yu Bin finished speaking, not only the past followed the wind, but even Lei Guang and they all shivered together.

"What then?" This doesn't work, that doesn't work, Lei Fatzi directly threw this question to Yu Bin.

Yu Bin only said one sentence, but scared several people to the ground.

"Let's get in!"

"Do you really want to get in?" Following Yu Bin towards the gate of the castle, Lei Guang kept repeating this question, although he usually made all kinds of mistakes, but at least he knew that this kind of place was definitely not something that these rookies who had not even reached the second order could run amok.

"Or else? I don't think the lich will entertain us with good food and wine. Yu Bin was full of confidence, "Don't worry, whether it is Kel'thugad or those instructors, they don't have the interest and time to deal with us little ants, at most a few students who are about to graduate will come out to deal with us." ”

The Psychic Academy is theoretically mainly used to train followers of the Cursed Sect, where those who come from all over the world learn necromancy and all kinds of magical knowledge, and they only have two endings, either they succeed in graduation and become the minions of Kel'thugad, spreading the influence of the Psychic Academy to every corner of the world, or they can become a teaching material in the hands of those instructors for new apprentices to experiment.

As a result, the enemies that players encounter at the Psychic Academy are mainly the apprentices and the various strange creations they have created, including but not limited to flesh golems, ghouls, and various constructs.

This kind of intrusion is undoubtedly a very appropriate graduation assessment in the eyes of those instructors, and the loser will face the punishment of death, there is no restudy, no retake, and no make-up exam!

In Yu Bin's memory, the best result of the players in the previous life was only to advance to the basement level, while the ghost lady Farina mainly operated in the basement floor.

The group walked to the gate of the castle and saw four gargoyles squatting on the wall of the castle gate.

This monster, which looks like a stone sculpture, is not strictly an undead, but a construct, and is actually of the same kind as the catapult and ballista. As long as you have mastered the skills of carving, you can make this kind of thing.

However, after the undead craftsmen carved these hideous monsters, the necromancers would extract the fresh souls of the living and bind them to the carved gargoyles, so as to create undead gargoyles with a certain amount of wisdom.

Depending on the amount of soul energy infused and the quality of the materials that make up their bodies, the strength of these gargoyles is also strong or weak.

However, these four gargoyles guarding the door are not the kind of people that can often be seen in undead territory. They are the hands of Gardin, the head of the Psychic Academy, and are used to stop ordinary people who have no intention of breaking into the place, or to test the strength of enemies who want to challenge the Psychic Academy.

Yu Bin drew out the rune sword, assumed a standard defensive posture, and at the same time, without hesitation, poured the potions that could increase attributes and various resistances as quickly as possible.

Seeing Yu Bin's appearance as if he was facing a great enemy, several other people also entered a combat state in an instant, and all kinds of medicines were consumed as quickly as drinking water, and they didn't feel distressed at all.

Just when Yu Bin slowly entered within 10 meters in front of the castle gate, four gargoyles that were originally squatting on the wall, with a pair of skin-like bat wings half spread out, immediately woke up from the stone statue state, quickly flew down from the wall, and pounced on Yu Bin and the others.

"Watch for dodge!" After Yu Bin finished speaking, he met a gargoyle, blocked it with the long sword in his hand, and after blocking the two sharp claws of this gargoyle, he immediately jumped sideways, blocking the other gargoyle who wanted to cross Bin and attack Keldila directly.

On the other side, Alan relied on the two daggers in his hand to block a gargoyle, and the last one was barely blocked by the Thunder Fat Man with a just right bone shield, and then took over by the wind.