Volume 4: The Swan Song (Remastered) Chapter 37: The Journey
Under the influence of the comb, Manas unsurprisingly agreed to Yu Bin's request and followed them through the underground world to the psychic academy where the ghost lady Farina was. But for Yu Bin and them, this is just the beginning, and the next journey is the most arduous, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is full of dangers.
One of the things that worries Yu Bin the most is the safety of Manas. Don't look at Manas has been wandering for thousands of years since she became a ghost, but strictly speaking, she still belongs to the civilian class, without the slightest combat power, and even a newly resurrected skeleton can press her to the ground and rub it.
Situations like this are very rare among the undead. Generally speaking, when women become ghosts after death, the breath of death will completely erase their own consciousness, turning them into a blank slate. Only a small percentage of them retain a small amount of self-consciousness in the process, and this self-awareness is often imbued with hatred for the living under the influence of the forces of death, thus elevating them from ghosts to banshees. The banshee's soul fire is full of mania, and when this mania accumulates to a certain extent, it will spread out in the soul fluctuations, causing fatal damage to all the life around it, which is the banshee's howl.
Manas's condition was completely different, as she was immersed in her own soul world, and there was not the slightest impurity in the soul fire of this ghost, which allowed her to retain her full consciousness while also losing the ability to fight. Therefore, how to protect the safety of Manas during the journey of the underground world has become the first problem that Yu Bin and they need to face.
Fortunately, as a ghost, Manas also has a high immunity to physical damage, which allows her to ignore the attacks of most underground creatures. In contrast, of course, its resistance to magical attacks has become lower. The nature of the underworld gives many underground creatures the ability to wield the power of shadow.
In order to solve this problem, Yu Bin's chosen method was to have Keldila exchange all the magic he held for an option with a shadow protection effect before leaving. Keldila now has more than 30 divine spells a day, including three third-order divine spells, which is enough to keep Manas safe most of the time.
At the same time, it takes not a day or two to travel through the underworld, but even weeks, so Yu Bin must bring as many companions as possible to ensure that there is someone to stay by the side of this fragile ghost 24 hours a day.
In the end, in addition to Yu Bin himself, Alan, Thunder Light and Keldila all had to go along the journey, Alan needed to serve as a scout along the way, Thunder Light was the main magic output point, and Keldila became Manas's nanny completely.
The past follows the wind, and this German guy had to miss this trip because of his strength. He must immediately go to Ratchet City in the Barrens, on the one hand, to collect information for Yu Bin and them, especially about Dalaran, on the other hand, as the number of clansmen of the Fireblade Clan migrating to the Sweetwater Oasis continues to increase, the Minotaur in Mogaolei obviously will not just sit back and watch the strength of the orcs in the Barren Land continue to increase, the past must pay close attention to this information, Yu Bin does not want the Fireblade Clan to be wiped out by those calves who have finally been connected.
After they came out of the underground world, the past would immediately go to the Psychic Academy to join them. After all, this is the opportunity he brought, and presumably Manas will be grateful to this young man.
After preparing to stop, Yu Bin led the team through the teleportation array to Bulawayo, a small town located in the Felta Empire.
Due to its location in the heart of the province of Fairman, this small town is more of a market town, and is off the beaten track as there are no special products or monsters around. However, it won't be long before players discover portals to the Underworld, with the entrance to the Underworld near Bulawayo being the closest to Cordila, so in the previous life, it quickly became a transit point for players from the Chaos faction to Cordila, and the small market town quickly developed into a medium-sized city.
After coming out of the teleportation array, Yu Bin led the team out of the town of Bulawayo, walked along a path outside the town for almost five kilometers, and then turned east, crossing a grove and a small river, and arrived at their destination: a small grotto on the bank of the river.
This is the entrance to the underworld.
In the world of Entagre, the so-called underground world is not actually a world that is really underground.
Strictly speaking, the relationship between the Entagri Continent and the underground world is actually the relationship between two different planes, and the entrance to the underground world in front of Yu Bin is not so much a passage as a solidified spatial rift.
After crossing this spatial rift, the player can truly leave the main plane of the Entagri Continent and enter the plane of the underground world.
There is no natural light at all, only the light created by the creatures living in the underworld, so the vast majority of players rarely enter the underworld for this reason.
The passage entrance of the underground world does not correspond to the specific geographical location on the Entagri continent, and it is possible that the two entrances in the underground world are only a few kilometers apart, but they are thousands of kilometers apart on the Entagri continent.
This is also the reason why Yu Bin chose to go to the underground world, if you go from the ground, to escort Manas to the Psychic Academy, you need to go through many areas all the way, not only the distance is long, but also the danger is great, and if you go to the underground world, you only need a short distance to directly cross to the area around the Psychic Academy.
"Have you brought everything with you?" Yu Bin switched to the spirit world and asked while spraying a certain potion on his body.
Alan, they are doing the same thing: "Bring it, don't worry." ”
"Well, be careful when you go in, those underground creatures aren't friendly, especially for those of us who come from the ground." After Yu Bin finished speaking, he took the lead in entering the grotto, Chen Tao and the others followed in, and finally the ghost Manas.
Just a few meters away from entering the grotto, the light coming in from outside the grotto completely disappeared, and with a slight feeling of dizziness, when Yu Bin looked around again, he could only see the pitch-black stone wall.
Yu Bin raised his head and found that the stone wall above his head was at least twenty meters high from the ground, which was definitely not the grotto before.
Ailan and the others also appeared beside Yu Bin one by one, and after the dizziness disappeared, they immediately noticed the changes in the surrounding environment.
"This is the underworld?" Lei Guang looked around curiously and asked, "I didn't see the exit to go back, are you sure this is not a dead end?" ”
"The exit is not here, this is just a one-way passage!" Yu Bin replied angrily, "Keldila, protect Ms. Manas, we have a guest!" ”
As soon as Yu Bin's words fell, there were bursts of noisy sounds from the darkness in the distance, sounding as if there were many small animals running on the ground.
"What's that?" Alan asked, "I'll go check it out!" ”
"You don't have to go, you'll know right away!" Yu Bin stopped his actions and said as he pulled out his long sword.
The habits and tacit understanding that have been cultivated for a long time have made the others immediately fully armed.
It didn't take long for the appearance of the "guest" to finally appear in the vision of their souls in Alan.
It was a mouse about the size of a cat!
"Be careful, the blood of these dark devouring rats is poisonous, don't get too much on it!" Yu Bin said as he stood at the front of the team, as the person with the most blood and the highest defense among several people, he took it upon himself to start a tank.
The unique environment of the Underworld has created a food chain that is very different from that of the Ntagre, and due to the lack of sunlight, it is rare to see tall plants in the Underworld, replaced by mosses everywhere and some low ferns that do not need sunlight to survive. The daily diet of the creature is mainly those mosses.
This does not mean that they are as harmless as the herbivores of the Entagri world, on the contrary, because mosses do not provide enough energy, these rodents often migrate from place to place, gnawing everything they can eat in their path like locusts, and even attacking the carnivores when they are hungry. In addition, the fertility of dark phagophagoal rats is no different from that of ordinary mice, so they tend to form large groups.
Under normal circumstances, most Underworld monsters will not attack the Dark Eater unless it is necessary. These rodents, which are about the size of night cats, are particularly fringe-prone in addition to having a pair of front teeth that are large enough to bite stones. The blood and corpses of their own kind after death will cause them to go into a frenzy, desperately attacking their enemies.
This trait also limits the number of Dark Eaters to a certain extent, and when they are short of food, these low-IQ creatures will even attack their own kind, eventually turning into a cannibalism until the corpses of their dead species feed the surviving Dark Eaters.
The individual strength of the Dark Devouring Rat is very low, not even the first order, but their front teeth are enough to cause obvious damage to the third and fourth order creatures, plus the saliva and blood of these guys contain shadow elements, for Yu Bin and others from the world of Entagre, it is easy to cause various negative effects such as corrosion and poisoning, so they are still dangerous.
But it's a pity that these Dark Devouring Rats are running into Yu Bin and them, regardless of their strength, just the undead are immune to most of the poisoning effects, and the high resistance to the Shadow Power, which is enough to make the danger of these Dark Devouring Rats drop by several notches.
Relying on the geographical advantage (dead end, don't worry about being outflanked in the back), coupled with Yu Bin taking the lead in blocking the attacks of these dark devouring rats, although there are a lot of rats that make people's scalps numb, they were killed by Yu Bin and them in less than an hour.
"Hurry up, leave those things that fall, go!" Yu Bin stopped Lei Guang's behavior of wanting to collect loot, and quickly left here with the team, the blood of the Dark Devourer is one of the materials for the preparation of some shadow potions, but this is obviously not a good time to collect loot.
Shortly after Yu Bin and the others left, a group of shadow wolves with four pairs of eyes arrived and began to devour the corpses of the Dark Eaters on the ground. If Yu Bin and the others didn't leave quickly, they would definitely encounter these third-order monsters, and when the time came, it would not be as easy as dealing with the Dark Devouring Rat.
This is one of the reasons why it is difficult for players in the Entagri continent to survive in the underworld.
Among the races that have been open to the world so far, only the dungeon lives in the underground world, and the other races, even the dwarves who like to drill caves, also live in the main plane of the Entagri continent. Players living on the main plane who want to go to the underground world first have to face visual difficulties.
Although the underground world is not completely lightless, strictly speaking, this is a shimmer world, but for the vast majority of players, it is very inconvenient to be in the underground world without [dark vision] or [soul vision], and the former is a racial specialty of vampires and dark elves, and the latter is only available to the undead.
Other players can only rely on the torches in their hands to barely ensure a few meters of vision in the underground world. In this case, relying on one hand alone will undoubtedly cut off a lot of the player's combat power. Coupled with the fact that they don't understand the characteristics of the monsters in the underworld, and don't know how to transfer as soon as possible to avoid the predators that follow, in the early stage, it is very difficult for players in the world of Entagri to enter the underground world to explore.
In addition to the difficulty of vision, players will have to face another problem when entering the underworld, and that is the monsters that live in the underworld.
Due to the unique environment of the underworld, the monsters here generally have a large perception range, and players who are unaware of this tend to bring their old habits here, so it is not uncommon for too many monsters to lead to death.
Even if the player is lucky not to attract many monsters, but the corpses of monsters in the underground world after they die will also become the reason for attracting other monsters, the root of which is actually because the underground world is not like the main plane, there are a large number of plains, hills, mountains, etc., there are only dark deep passages here, and rugged and difficult rock paths, and the lack of effective space has led to the creatures living here trying every means to find food in order to survive.
And Yu Bin, who had entered the underground world many times in his previous life, naturally had already prepared for these difficulties, and the special potions he bought from the store before departure could cover his breath for a certain period of time, so as to avoid irritating those sensitive underground creatures, and quickly solve the enemy and change positions, also in order not to be besieged by those ferocious underground creatures.