Volume III: The Beginning of Turmoil (Remastered) Chapter 45: Shadowfang Castle (5)
11:47 a.m., Silver Pine Forest, Shadowfang Castle, 1st Floor of the Mage Tower!
Perhaps because Arugao used all the magic of the Mage Tower to fight against Melganis, Yu Bin and the others easily opened the door of the Mage Tower, and what appeared in front of them was a corridor hundreds of meters long, with rooms on both sides of the corridor, and the doors of some rooms were open, and even the beasts and villagers who were locked in cages could be seen inside.
From the outside, the Mage Tower appears to be a slender tower of less than 100 square meters, but from the inside, it is clear that Arugao has put a lot of effort into transforming the tower and extending the space inside, thus creating this seemingly irrational internal structure.
"Do you really believe that guy?" Alan asked as he searched around for the magic traps with the cryolite, and the past followed him with the wind to destroy the magic traps that were discovered, while alerting the magic puppets that could appear at any time.
"We have no choice but to do it!" At the moment when Les Frost appeared, Yu Bin knew that he was being used as a pawn again this time, and Kel'thugad had obviously arranged all this a long time ago, and even secretly sent a "bodyguard", which made him very unhappy, because chess pieces often did not end well, especially for a lich as a pawn.
Alan was just complaining, in fact, it wasn't an unacceptable order for them to follow Les Frost's request to invade the Mage Tower, and for the natives, it might be a life-or-death adventure, but for the player, the worst outcome would be just one death!
The aborigines have a hard time understanding the player's adventurous spirit of not being afraid of death, and in their opinion, life is only once, and no gain is more important than their own life. But for players, as long as the benefits are big enough, they don't care about death, and even cause the character to be completely destroyed, anyway, as long as the soul can not be damaged, it is not difficult to re-establish a character, and Dingtian is just losing some rewards!
There are four floors of the Arugao Mage Tower, the first floor is where the archmage studies the Shadow Werewolf and the summoning circle, and the rooms on both sides of the corridor are mostly laboratories and prisons, and the remaining ones are storage rooms for food and supplies, as well as alchemy rooms for dispensing potions.
The second floor is the magic golem's manufacturing factory and resting room, and Arugao does not need to teach apprentices like those Dalaran mages, otherwise there will be additional classrooms and apprentice rooms on this level.
The third floor is the core area of the Mage Tower, where the Mage Tower's mana pool that draws from the surrounding magic and the mana transmission system that maintains the operation of the Mage Tower, which can be said to be the engine of the entire Mage Tower, where Arugo arranges a large number of magic traps and puppets.
The fourth floor, the top of the tower where Arugao is now located, is the control center of the entire Mage Tower.
These are the information that players in the previous life obtained by attacking the Shadow Fang Castle and paying a lot of casualties, and now, Yu Bin naturally unceremoniously enjoyed this valuable information.
Yu Bin did not rush to attack the upper layer of the mage tower, unless he could destroy the magic pool and magic power transmission mechanism located on the third floor, the entire mage talk would not be affected too much, and at this time, Arugao was busy falling in love with Melganis and killing each other, before the two were decided, Yu Bin didn't want to attract Arugao's attention to him so early.
"There's a diary here!" After Lei Guang and the past cleared the magic trap in a laboratory, he pointed to a parchment manual on the alchemy table and said, "It looks like an experiment log, and I don't recognize the words on it." ”
Yu Bin picked up the diary and looked at it, the text on it was a secret word mixed with the alchemist and the Dalaran mage symbols, for Lei Guang and other players who had not been in contact with the world of Entagre for a short time, it may be regarded as a book from heaven, but for a veteran like Yu Bin, it is not difficult to roughly understand the content, many high-level players in the previous life will put some energy into this, because many books and records are recorded in some kind of special text, without this knowledge, it is very difficult to deduce information from it.
"You're right, it's lab notes! Arugao is researching how to fuse the shadow werewolves summoned to the main plane with those villagers, so that these shadow creatures can directly seize the bodies of those human civilians, and avoid the loss of strength caused by condensing their bodies! Yu Bin quickly deduced the general content from this notebook, it is obvious that in the previous life, Arugao had already completed this research, so those shadow werewolves who were summoned to the main plane could quickly develop into a huge group, which eventually led to the emergence of the werewolf disaster, and in this life, because of Yu Bin's chaotic incursion, this archmage has obviously not completed this research.
Speaking of which, although Arugao is not very accomplished in magic, this archmage can definitely be regarded as a research-oriented talent. Relying on a book of your, the archmage who Dalaran considered to be lacking in talent actually found a way to communicate with the shadow plane steadily, not only summoning a large number of shadow werewolves to the main plane, but even the terrifying shadow creature Fenrus the Devourer was successfully summoned by him. If Arugao were a player, I'm afraid the big guilds would rush to recruit him.
Therefore, science and technology are the primary productive forces! A mage studies magic, and the top of the sky is only a strong individual strength, and a scientific research talent like Arugao, as long as there is a small opportunity, can make a big news in minutes!
"Kill the shadow werewolves who have been locked up, and the villagers!" Yu Bin closed his notes, Arugao is not a scientist who follows the spirit of humanism, his research is full of all kinds of forbidden knowledge and evil methods, Yu Bin is sure that even if they liberate the villagers who were locked up, there is no way to bring them back to their senses. In order for these human civilians to be able to accommodate the power of the Shadow Werewolves, Arugo had already used the Shadow Power to destroy their minds and turn them into puppets like vegetative people.
They did not object to Yu Bin's order, on the one hand, because they knew that it was impossible for these villagers to return to their normal lives, and on the other hand, because it would provide them with experience points. Truth be told, except for some people who are particularly obsessed with the distinction between good and evil, the vast majority of players don't care whether they are a monster or a civilian who provide them with experience points, of course, the premise of all this is not affecting their interests.
"Keldilla, how much time does it take for your magic to recover?"
"As soon as midnight passes, most of the magic spells can be reused!" Keldila looked at the time, priests and priests use magic professions, most of the skills come from gods, these magic skills generally follow a fixed time to refresh the number of uses, like the light of the magic refresh time is mostly at noon, so the light priest is the most powerful near noon, they can use all the magic they can use in one go, and then wait for noon to pass, and then break out again.
"Alan, you and I go to the second floor together, and help the thunder light and them clear the traps and enemies on the first floor as soon as possible!" The puppets that Arugao placed in the mage tower are mainly stone statues, because of the lack of helpers, most of these stone statues are very crudely made, and they can be used after a simple infusion of the mana pool, and they are not very high in strength or intelligence. However, there were still a small number of golems specially made by Arugao, and Yu Bin believed that this archmage did not lack souls to drive those golems during his research, so this small number of golems was the target they needed to pay attention to.
The spiral staircase between the second and first floors is located at the end of the corridor, and it is also the best place to deal with those golems, it is difficult for large golems to move freely in that kind of narrow space, compared to the large puppet factory on the second floor, the staircase and room on the back floor are obviously the wisest choice to reduce the number of those puppet guards as much as possible.
"Twelve o'clock has arrived! What magic should I choose? ”
There are many types of divine arts that the gods can provide to believers, and many of them have only some slight differences in effectiveness and lethality, but they can cause different results in different environments, so each priest will reassign their own list of divine arts after the divine magic is refreshed to ensure that the divine magic they can use meets the requirements of the battle situation.
"What's the limit?"
"Second-order divine skills twice, first-order divine skills six times, and zero-order divine skills eighteen times!"
"It's great that you believe in Jegob, the god of death, if it's Visharon, then we'll have to fight for character!" Yu Bin made a rare joke, "The second-order selection summons the undead, the first-order selection demonization weapon and protection chaos, the zero-order selection of stone bone techniques, the undead enhancement technique, the negative energy resistance and the shadow protection enchantment!" ”
Keldila quickly arranged his list of magic skills according to Yu Bin's request, and then raised his staff to use all the two summoning undead in one go, and the two blue-skinned zombie axemen stood up based on the corpses of those villagers.
Then there's the Enchanted Weapon, which turns the Zombie Axeman's weapon into a magic weapon for two hours, dealing a certain amount of magic damage to enemies, and Defensive Chaos, which increases the Zombie Axe's chance of resisting the debuff.
Stone Bone Technique stons the bones of the Zombie Axemen to increase their defense, and the Undead Enhancement gives them a small increase in damage.
"How do you feel that this is completely a summoning stream!" Lei Guang poured magic potion into his mouth while watching the two zombie axemen seal the exit of the spiral staircase, Yu Bin and Ailan had already fought and retreated to lead the stone puppets guarding the second floor to the staircase, and with the help of the height difference, the two directly jumped over the head of the zombie axe man to complete the handover of the defense line.
Yu Bin reminded Lei Guang while replenishing his health with negative energy elixirs: "Your death impact and negative energy touch are useless against the stone statuette, don't waste your magic power, use the bone wall to divide the ladder, and try to make sure that only one stone statue enters the attack range!" ”
The stone statues that can be placed in the mage tower by Arugao are at least the strength of the fifth order, and those golems are even closer to the seventh order, otherwise how could they be used by Arugao to guard the mage tower? In the previous life, in order to eliminate these puppets, the players deliberately organized a group of fourth-order players as the main attackers, even so, they were abused by those golems, and now they have replaced Yu Bin and them, and they can't fight head-on with their own strength alone, they can only rely on this trick.
Fortunately, the IQ of these stone statues is insufficient, and Arugao is also busy playing with Melganis, you have a cold arrow and I have a shadow arrow, and I have a lot of fun, and I don't have the energy to control these stone statues, otherwise these puppets only need to stop at the entrance of the second floor, and they will not want to rush into the upper level of the mage tower.
Although the zombie axe hand summoned by the second-order divine undead summoning belongs to the first-order creatures, it is actually considered a second-order creature in terms of strength, and the only drawback is that it moves slowly and has little effect in field combat, but in this case, it is obviously more suitable than summoning a second-order ghost. The zombies' high HP and defense allow them to have better resistance against the statues, and with the magic weapon magic effect, the attacks of the two zombie axemen can also cause them to deal a lot of damage to the statues.
Coupled with the assistance of Yu Bin and the others, the puppet guards that Arugao had placed in the mage tower quickly turned into rubble and covered the entire corridor on the first floor.
The puppet factory on the second floor is actually a wide carving workshop, where craftsmen carve the stone into the shape of a stone statue, and then send it to the magic pool for demonization, and then add a control core to the stone statue through various means, which can be a magic crystal, or a soul crystal, and then after a certain period of magic channeling, a stone statue guard is considered to be completed.
The production of the golem is slightly more complicated, you need to carve the stone to inlay the magic crystals used to supply energy into a specific part of the stone statue, and then after many magic transformations in the magic pool, and then use the controller's own magic power to activate the control core in the golem's body, a golem is completed, and then you only need to constantly adjust the commands in the control core in the golem's body, so that the golem can automatically complete some specific tasks.
Arugao obviously didn't have much time and energy to make a large number of golems, so the main force guarding the mage tower was still those simple stone statues, which could not pose much of a threat to them under the cleaning of Yu Bin and the others.
From the third floor, you can't go forward like this step by step. The most important source of magic for the Mage Tower, the magic pool, is on the third floor, where Arugao has placed powerful guards, two specially made high-level golems plus a batch of ordinary golems, which is enough to make them return, and the space on the third floor is half smaller than the second floor, and the space constraints combined with the huge size of the golems make it difficult for intruders to keep themselves safe under the attacks of these guards.
In the previous life, players spent several days attacking the third floor, and finally used a large amount of goblin explosives to blow up the entire third and second floors, and finally destroyed the energy supply of the entire mage tower, making the mage tower lose most of its functions.