So after the night, the Thorns Squad spent the next day all day making all the preparations for the current journey.

The magic scrolls provided by Victor could theoretically kill the old thief's revenge target in an instant without incident, and the virtual monsters in the ruins of that dungeon would still be restrained by Thea's powerful priest magic due to the biological characteristics of the undead race, and the 12 bottles of intermediate resistance energy potion that the Adventurers' Guild awarded to the team through the Cave of Bones quest were not in vain.

Void undead monsters have the ability to draw life energy from the body of the living, such as the ghost mage boss named Flosothos in the Bone Cave can convert the player's class level into temporary health and suck it away, and the phantom, which is more tricky than ordinary ghost monsters, can absorb the victim's power attribute through the virtual body contact attack, once your power is sucked into zero, your heart will even quickly infarct because you don't have enough strength to beat.

This type of damage that does not reduce the target's health is somewhat similar to the psychic monster in the dark region, the difference is that the octopus tentacles on the face of the psionic monster are sucking the intelligence attributes of living creatures, while creatures with zero intelligence will not really die, but will stop thinking forever because of the loss of thinking ability, and life is better than death.

That's why, Castaño's players sometimes joke at their fellow mages on their team, saying that the caster's slot won't be useless even if it runs out before the night's break—after all, when it comes to psionic monsters, smart mages can't run fast enough, but they can always hold off the dark purple octopus tentacles and stick them in his head for a few more seconds, right?

Well, in fact, it's just a bit of dark humor, because a mage who is trusted by his peers is always protected by the warriors on his team until he has to.

Noble mages are worthy of the strongest class without a prefix in the late game, but such a powerful one still needs the assistance of kitchen knives before they officially step into the realm of legends - just like the red-robed mage is often accompanied by several servant knights, ready to give them protection measures for the spellcasting environment, and even become the material for spell casting and be sacrificed on the spot, although the latter is unlikely to be the last thing that the evil knights want to happen to them.

Good mages trust their companions, neutral mages choose their allies carefully, and evil mages are adept at using their tools and don't mind treating their subordinates as a tool, as this will presumably make their ambitions for magic and power more successful.

Urs sometimes wonders if the path he chooses is also a journey to explore magic, rather than a melee fight with a kitchen knife and chopping meat, then his faction tendencies will eventually be on the horizontal axis of goodness of the nine-square grid coordinates?

Speaking of which, as a warrior player who can go all the way to the legendary realm in the game, he has seen a lot of mages in his previous life, whether it is a player or an NPC, a friend or an enemy, but in summary, it is mostly neutral or evil, and only a small part of the good camp.

Could it be the prejudiced saying that "magic keeps people away from grace" or is there some truth in it?

Urs didn't know much about the changes that the power of magic brought to mortals, but he knew that the alchemy potions that the Adventurers' Guild had awarded to him were very useful in the battle against the Void Monsters, and they were evenly distributed according to the number of men in his team, which was just two bottles per person.

In addition to these, the young man also took the remaining four mortal enchantment scrolls in his hand to the secret magic shop in the city's commercial district during the preparation of the next day, and gave the necessary amount of gold coins to a reliable mage craftsman to enchant his own and Thea's chain mail, as well as Koto's warhammer and tower shield.

As long as you have money, the +1 enchantment process for tabula rasa equipment is not too difficult for skilled mage craftsmen, but such enchantment enhancements will immediately become very difficult from +2 level, and the fee standard will also increase exponentially compared to +1, and even high-level mage craftsmen who have completed the professional advancement often do not dare to guarantee that their success rate can reach more than ninety-percent, and +3 will test your wallet and bloodline in addition to the enchantment skills of the mage craftsman...... Oh no, it should be luck.

Urs has seen the kind of player whose skin is darker than that of the drow elf in the game, and in order to increase the success rate of enchantment enhancement, he specially paid a priest who believes in the goddess of luck to pray to the lively and playful goddess on his side, but he still loses his precious weapon in the ghostly expression of the mage craftsman.

As a result, he could not help but believe in the theory that "luck is also part of strength".

On the third day, the sky in the Okazawa area was cloudy, which may be considered a sign of some kind of good luck.

The adventurers of the Thorn Squad were well prepared to set off from the city early in the morning, passing through the logging village on the outskirts of the Spotted Axe Forest and heading north.

Located in the northern part of the Gonzawa region, the Russ Gorge splits the southern foothills of the Chain Mountains in a north-south longitudinal direction, and looks down from a bird's-eye view like a gateway to the city walls, and the path behind this gateway follows a winding curve through the Gorta Basin in the mountains, leading to the cold moon plateau as the great snowfields of the northland.

The geographical name of the Chain Mountains was thus given, meaning that this horizontal mountain range acts like a wire to seal the boundaries of the northern part of Okazawa.

As for the Mooncold Plateau, which is actually Koto's hometown, it is said that the moon in the night sky will also exude an icy cold, but it cannot effectively prevent the dwarves of the surface world from establishing a clan government kingdom and a sacrificial temple dedicated to the dwarven god Oladin on the snow-covered soil all year round, and rely on the united nature to compete for the territory of the plateau with powerful enemy monsters such as frost giants, frost insects, and even white dragons.

The nobles and scholars of the Golden Warbler Empire sometimes argued in their academic papers about which side of the climate was colder, the northern frontier of the empire and the Mooncold Plateau, the bards of the Emerald Bay felt that Castaño's warmest furnace might be placed in the sacrificial temple of the dwarven clan, and the elves of the Far South Forest did not like to be joked about inviting them to the Mooncold Plateau, just as they sneered at the collective glory of the dwarves who admired freedom and romance, and the slightest contradiction between the camps of chaos and order. In addition, the elves from the south are generally afraid of the cold.

However, all they need to do is reach somewhere a little west on the southern outskirts of the Ras Gorge, and there is no need to go through the "gates" of the Chain Mountains and spend extra time and energy traveling to visit the homeland of the dwarven warriors.

Because in the evening of that day, the entrance to the dungeon dungeon of the shadow ruins had already appeared in everyone's field of vision.

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