Chapter 34: The First Arrival on the Surface
The 12 commandos, along with the instructor and the priest accompanying the team, a total of 14 members, marched with gentle steps through the intricate tunnels or huge caverns that suddenly opened up. The Dark Elf Boots absorb our footsteps, and the Dark Elf Cloak conceals our form, making our movements more secretive. We all talked with only hand gestures along the way. Most of the time, the terrain changes only faintly, but sometimes we have to climb steep rock faces. It makes me miss the lizard rider who stayed in Demon Blade City.
We kept a stealthy and vigilant posture at all times, and traveled through the territory of many monsters and other races without any hindrance. In the Dark Regions, not many creatures dare to intercept the Dark Elves' commandos.
After a few days, all the team members could feel the change in their surroundings.
A breeze swept across our cheeks, but it wasn't the sulphur-smelling hot wind coming out of the extremely hot magma at the center of the earth, but the cool, moist air.
The Spider Priest Priest, who was acting with the Commandos, approached a rock wall and pressed his cheek against every crack he found. "Right here." Soon after, she announced.
The instructor took out a piece of bat fur and used the "Arcane Eye" spell, and after casting spells and gestures for 10 minutes, the bat fur turned to ashes. I could detect a magic eye in front of the instructor, piercing through a small crack in the rock wall. The instructor looked intently in the direction of the rock wall for a few minutes, then nodded in agreement.
"It's daytime," said the priest, "and we'll rest here until evening." ”
The instructor had no objections.
I called up the analog intelligence to take over the character, and set it to connect to my personal personal communicator in reality as soon as there was a change in the action during the break. Leave the game for yourself and take a break.
Although the characters in the game are resting, the player can also ease the ups and downs of the brain waves as if they were sleeping in reality, and achieve the same resting effect. Because in the game, the player can control the brain waves, enter the slow wave sleep, which is commonly referred to as deep sleep, and during the slow wave sleep, the fatigue of the brain is restored, the blood pressure and pulse count are reduced, growth hormone is secreted, and the cells are regenerated. To put it simply, players can sleep in the same game, and the effect is even better than sleep in reality, which is the gospel for insomnia people in reality.
The above is not a new feature unique to "Magic World", the use of instruments to control brain waves to achieve a perfect sleep effect has been scientific research for a long time. Of course, this feature is also only available to users of the safety pod using the brainwave receiver.
It's a pity that no matter how perfect sleep is, it can't solve the problem of lying quietly in the safety cabin for a long time in reality, and the blood and qi in the human body are not smooth, even if the ergonomics of the recliner in the safety cabin are good. So I chose to leave the safety cabin anyway.
I was woken up in my sleep by the communicator and re-entered the game.
I just saw the instructor spill a pinch of sesame seeds and cast the "Wall Piercing Technique" spell, opening a magic passage on the rock wall that was 1.5 meters wide and 2 and a half meters high.
We came out of the blue. After leaving the magic passage, I found ourselves standing in a cavern, facing the only exit from the cave.
We're on the surface, and all the commandos are nervously checking the equipment.
"I'll stay here," the priest told us, "and I wish you all the best in your hunt, the Spider God Queen is watching over you." ”
The instructor once again warns the team about the dangers on the ground, "For the prestige of the Spider God!" He announced. Lead the commandos out of the cave and into the open sky.
It was a moonless night, but even the twinkling stars were bright for us dark elves.
The instructor observed the forest in the valley in the distance, as if he had made a discovery. He motioned for the assault team to move on.
"They're like a colony of mushrooms back home," the instructor assured the rest of the team members who were cautiously approaching the forest, "they don't have intelligence and won't attack." "Then I realized that among the dark elves standing on the surface, everyone else was NPC except me.
With the instructor's assurance, my teammates gave up their scruples about the trees and went into the woods. But as they marched through the forest, they were still nervous from the running of squirrels, the calls of night birds in the distance, and even the low chirping of insects, and they almost drew their knives.
The surface is very different, compared to the Dark Regions, which are much quieter, and where almost all creatures will attack any enemy who dares to invade their lair. It's no wonder that NPC team members who haven't been on the surface have a hard time adapting.
Singing in a language we didn't understand, but equally beautiful, was heard, and the campfire between the trees in the distance became very visible. We moved more cautiously, moving closer in the direction of the campfire. Magical equipment also helped us very well, and the Dark Elf Boots were silent even when they stepped on dry dead leaves; The Cloak of the Dark Elves allows us to hide completely in the mottled shadows beneath the trees.
The teammate who was exploring the path in front suddenly stopped and sent a message in sign language: "Stop, there are sentinels." Two on the ground, and a big bird in the tree. ”
All the commandos carefully concealed themselves and peeked forward cautiously.
Sentinels are surface elves, fair-skinned, dark-haired, with swords at their waists, longbows, and gray-green coats that blend in with the background colors of the surrounding woods, and should be difficult to spot at night. But for us Dark Elves, the starlight is too bright.
The big bird in the tree was an eagle, but it wasn't an ordinary eagle, it was a giant brown eagle the size of a horse, with its wings spread out and 6 meters long. Maybe it's a guard or mount of the surface elves. The eagle is a bird of prey known for its sharp eyes, and if it is during the day, all creatures that sneak in will not go away from it. However, it was night, and the eagle's keen gaze could not be used, and it was also the time when its spirit was at its most decadent.
Level 0 spells, which are the introductory spells of all mages, are usually ineffective and powerful, so much so that the mages themselves laugh at what they call tricks. However, a small zero-level spell, "Illusion Technique", caused the sentry to hear a slight unknown sound coming from a certain direction. As their attention was drawn away, the Rogue Commando who had sneaked up behind them plunged the dagger deep into their backs. The sentries were about to scream in pain when one hand covered their mouths and another short sword slit their throats.
The sentinels didn't have a chance to warn, and when they were killed, there was a sound of bowstrings flicking, but at the same time, several poison arrows appeared on the drowsy eagle. In addition to the 4 thieves who coordinated with the assassination sentry, the other team members coincidentally chose to attack the giant eagle who did not know the details. The giant eagle's body was crooked, and when it was about to fall, its outstretched wings were stuck by the staggered branches, and it died on the tree without saying a word.
I retracted my compound bow satisfied, and the arrow stuck in the eagle's neck was exactly what I had shot. Although I was aiming for the chest...... However, as the first archery in the game, the results are okay.