Volume III: Turbulent Beginnings (Remastered) Chapter 19: Psychic Academy (3)
This is the first boss that players need to face when challenging the Psychic Academy, the Gargoyle Herald Kirtunos. An obsidian gargoylee with a high level of intelligence. Kirtunos is the triumph of the lich Kel'thugad, and it is said that the soul within him comes from a heroic being.
"We've come to find Lady Farina, and we've brought her news about her childhood friend!" As the leader of the team, Yu Bin stood up and answered.
He didn't want to fight this gargoyle, in his previous life, in order to eliminate this guy, the players in the Order camp organized 5 teams composed of high-level players, with a total number of nearly 1,000 people, and finally eliminated this obsidian gargoyle when the death rate exceeded 80%.
After the players die here, they may be captured by an instructor and transformed into a puppet, or even the soul is directly imprisoned here, changing the camp and becoming an undead creature. Therefore, many players who do not have self-confidence are reluctant to come here to challenge in their previous lives.
"Farina?" Kirtunos rubbed his chin with one paw, such a humane movement made Yu Bin and them feel this guy's intelligence again, "I've heard this name, but as the herald of the master of Kel'thugad, I can't let you go so easily." ”
With that, Kirtunos made a gurgling sound of grinding his teeth coming out of his throat, and in a few moments, several gargoyles one year younger than him flew out of the dark corners of the hall.
"These obsidian gargoyles are the latest batch of finished products, so let's try them out with you!" With that, Kirtunos flapped his wings and flew back to the ceiling of the hall, where he hung upside down, ready to watch the play.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, a total of 5!" The past counted the smaller gargoyles with the wind, "One more than there is at the door." ”
"Alan!"
"Two of me!" It doesn't mean that after Bin finished speaking, Ailan immediately understood what he meant.
With a scream from Kirtunos, five obsidian gargoyles swooped down head-on, each finding a target.
In the face of these obsidian gargoyles who were all superior to the previous elite gargoyle guards except for their low blood volume, Yu Bin couldn't pull three monsters at the same time.
Taking advantage of the moment when the gargoyles that pounced on him were about to touch him, Yu Bin rolled back, and then quickly got up with a body, seizing the opportunity of the gargoyle flapping his wings in order to slow down his body, and a [charge], the black-winged blade held in both hands accurately hit the head of the gargoyle.
The gargoyle as a constructor is naturally immune to vertigo, but because in order to slow down the speed of the forward rush, the wings of the fluttering fan have already given him a backward pull, and then Yu Bin came up like this, and as expected, he was knocked to the ground.
This is also thanks to the fact that the size of these obsidian gargoyles is not large, the height is only the height of an ordinary person, and there is no stability bonus brought by the large size, which caused him to be easily knocked down by Yu Bin and temporarily lost the threat, after all, the gargoyles' claws and the pair of winged wings are connected together, and it will take at least a few seconds to get up from the state of falling to the ground.
Seizing this opportunity, Yu Bin quickly rushed to Keldilla's side and pulled the gargoyle that was attacking him over.
And on the other side, by the hand that launched first. Crossbow, Alan also successfully attracted the attack of the two gargoyles, and relying on his agility as a thief, he began to bring the two monsters to the corner of the hall, so as not to disturb Yu Bin and them.
The last remaining one was taken over by the wind of the past, and with the full output of Thunderlight and the help of Keldilla, it was quickly killed.
These obsidian gargoyles only have less than 8,000 HP, and although their physical defense is very good, in the face of the main output of thunder, the HP drops quickly. If it weren't for the fact that Obsidian has some of its own magic resistances, it would have taken much less time to kill.
After destroying an enemy, Yu Bin and the others repeated their old tricks and killed these obsidian gargoyles one by one.
The level of these obsidian gargoyles is level 2 90, which is not very high technically, and the experience points they can provide are only slightly more than those at the door, but in terms of challenge difficulty, they are actually not low, and the higher physical defense ability allows them to pose a greater threat in the face of melee classes, and the magic resistance provided by obsidian allows them to gain an advantage over low-level spellcasters. Yu Bin and they were able to kill as easily as they are now, on the one hand, because Yu Bin and Ailan's skills were enough for them to crush this almost intelligent constructor creature, and on the other hand, because the two spellcasters, Lei Guang and Keldilla, already had good strength under Yu Bin's training.
Many players who choose the caster profession always think that the most important thing for a mage is to have strong skills, and a magic release must not only be powerful, but also effective, and it is best to put down a piece of it with one move. But that's a very wrong idea! They were misled by the various games invented by humans themselves, believing that the magic of the world of Entagri was no different.
However, in the world of Entagre, magic needs to be chanted, spell casting, mana needs to be mobilized, and mental concentration is required, and there is no automatic guidance, no ability to distinguish between friend and foe, which means that a spellcaster must not only maintain full attention in battle, but also skillfully control his own magic while constantly moving, chanting, and waving his staff, and guide the spell to hit the target.
Therefore, it can be said that it is extremely difficult to become a qualified Dharma Master in this world!
Especially in combat, any spell that is channeled for more than two seconds will look like rubbish to the player, as there are very few opportunities on the battlefield where you can stand there and make a spell turret. Therefore, Yu Bin has been training Lei Guang and Keldila by letting them master some spells in actual combat that have a short chant time, simple control, and low consumption, while also ensuring a high enough success rate of casting.
Under this kind of training, even if Lei Guang has less than one hand of spells to meet Yu Bin's requirements, but in terms of actual combat ability, he can crush at least five players of the same level who can only stupidly stand in place and cast magic.
It took more than 6 minutes before and after, and the 5 obsidian gargoyles turned into gravel in one place, Yu Bin and they found some obsidian fragments from these gravels, this kind of stone can be used as a raw material, and it can also be used as a third-order building material, but Yu Bin They don't have much spare weight, so they don't bother to pick up these dead things.
When they ended the battle and began to rest, Yu Bin found that Kirtunos, who had been hanging upside down on the zenith just now, was gone.
With such a huge body, he left without making any sound, and Yu Bin had to admit that the strength of these high-level NPCs was not something he could understand now.
"What's next?" Although he defeated the enemy, Lei Guang was not happy at all, because he knew that it was only because the other party did not take them seriously at all.
He could clearly see what Kirtunos meant, which was nothing more than that even if he didn't have Kirtunos's help, Yu Bin and the others would not have succeeded in entering the Psychic Academy and finding the ghost lady Farina.
"Keep going!" Yu Bin led the team and walked towards a porch exit in the corner of the hall.
Destroying all the low-level undead monsters that stood in their way along the way, Yu Bin and the others passed through this porch and arrived at the central garden of the castle.
Like the castle square before it, what was supposed to be a lush, flower-filled garden has been transformed into a paradise for the undead, where all kinds of undead monsters roam around as if holding an exhibition of the dead.
In addition to the monsters that Yu Bin and the others had encountered before, there were also some skeletons in the castle garden with full body armor and a good-looking one-handed knife, patrolling back and forth in pairs along a fixed route.
Once loyal guards of the Barov family, these skeletal guards were killed by their lord Jandis Barov after he defected to Kel'thugad, and they were resurrected as skeleton guards to continue the battle to protect the castle.
Ignoring these skeleton guards, known as the [Resurrected Guards], Yu Bin led the team straight to another corridor on the side of the garden.
After passing through this corridor, you enter the second half of the castle, where there are kitchens, storage rooms, weapons stores, and dungeons for prisoners.
If players come here in a group to take on the challenge, they will choose to clean them all in order to reap the rewards, but if they are not lucky, they may run into Victorus wandering around the entire psychic academy and castle.
Viktus is an undead warrior, the most loyal captain of the Barov family, who renounced his human identity when his master, Jandis Barov, chose to become an undead, followed his master, and threw himself into the arms of death.
Through the transformation ceremony presided over by the dark dean Gardin, the former great knight Victorus has become the current undead warrior Victorus.
Wearing his favorite set of knight's armor and wielding a two-handed greatsword, he roamed the above-ground and underground parts of the castle day and night, as if he were still guarding the castle.
Because Victorus had hero-level strength during his lifetime, after being transformed into an undead, not only did he not lead to a downgrade, but he also had a lot of improvement in strength, coupled with a high level of intelligence, which made Victorus very difficult to deal with.
Only a large team of players can get a little benefit from this undead warrior, whether it is the equipment on his body or the weapon in his hand, it is all purple legendary-level equipment, I don't know how many great guilds in the previous life deliberately organized a powerful team to try to kill him, but in the end they all hated this castle.
In the previous life, Victorus was killed almost a month after the killing of Kirtunos in the previous life. It can be seen that the strength of this undead warrior is probably higher than that of the gargoyle herald.
However, Yu Bin now hopes that his luck will not be so bad. Unlike Kirtunos, Viktus was a dead brain, and any intruder into Barov's castle was his mortal enemy unless he was invited by his master, Jandis Barov.
Fortunately, the goddess of bad luck, Bembasha, did not set her sights on these humble existences, and under the leadership of Yu Bin, several people went all the way to the dungeon located at the back of the castle.
The castle has two floors, the first of which is still the same, and is used to imprison ordinary people who break into the castle for various reasons. These ordinary people are usually used by the apprentices as materials for experiments and exercises, turning them into all kinds of strange undead monsters.
When Yu Bin led the team into the dungeon, he saw such a scene. Most of the cells are filled with prisoners, and these NPCs, who look like ordinary farmers, are obviously the unlucky ones who have somehow broken into the place.
When these prisoners saw Yu Bin and them, many of them threw themselves on the iron fence of the cell, begging Yu Bin to be kind and let them go home, but when they saw that Yu Bin and they were also undead, they immediately curled up in the corner of the cell, and silent sobs and wails filled Yu Bin's ears again.
Ignoring the tragic sight of these natives, the reason why the apprentices imprisoned them in their cells, rather than turning them into the undead who roamed the castle, was to destroy the sanity of these ordinary people so that they could better experiment. Players who changed the orderly camp might consider rescuing them, but Yu Bin didn't have the time to spare, so he took Alan and them directly down to the second floor of the dungeon.
The second floor of the dungeon was completely emptied and turned into the real entrance to the psychic academy. As long as you open the mechanism on the ground, a staircase will appear down, and if you follow the staircase, you will enter the real psychic academy.
Other than that, there is hardly any other way to enter and exit the psychic academy freely.
Archmages who have an in-depth study of spatial power may be able to directly enter the Psychic Academy through spatial teleportation, but Yu Bin finds it hard to believe that under the control of the lich Kel'thugad, there will be such an obvious loophole in the Psychic Academy. Don't forget, the former Kel'thugad himself was a genius of Dalaran, whether it was elemental magic or spatial magic, in the eyes of this former Kenrito Councilor, it belonged to shallow magical knowledge.
Of course, it is not so easy to enter the Psychic Academy through this only passage.
A giant skeleton puppet is guarding the place.