Chapter 332: The Depths of the Swampy Woodland
Pushing back the time a little, just this morning, the Coco Sister team and the Star Hall Elite Group set off from the town, and at the same time as the NPC Dragoon Team headed to the Dragon King Holy City, the Rococo body had already gone through a day and a night of exploration and depth, and came to the deepest part of the swamp forest alone.
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Strictly speaking, although the swampy forest is a large source of pollution in the Strange Domain, the overall area is not really very large. However, it is true that in a place where there are many swamps and dense forests, and there is often fog, it is easy to lose your sense of direction. Although Rococo didn't really get lost on the way deep into the dense forest, it was inevitable to make unintentional detours on the way, which somewhat slowed down her hurry. Of course, in addition to the detour, there are many raids from fallen monsters such as fallen frog crocodile beasts along the way, which can be regarded as a reason to slow down the speed that cannot be ignored.
Although after the Battle of the Desperate Desert, the killing of the Lord of the Chaos Demon Vine and the necklace of Godhead Fragments in the hands of the Flash Bubble under the "Black" made the number of Godhead Fragments collected in Rococo's hands two more, and now the opening of the original fairy mode can maintain the level of 130 in battle for a long time, but in the ordinary NPC state, due to the fact that the personal story mission in the second stage has not been pushed to complete, Rococo is still only at level 80 strength. That's not enough to scare off the Chaos monsters lurking in the swamp and fallen by the Chaos Contamination.
Considering that after finding the location of the light and dark two-headed dragon Gribal, he might encounter a super Chaos Lord-level enemy, so Rococo did not easily open the primordial fairy mode that is limited by time and "CD", but relied on the ordinary NPC mode in the swamp woodland with flying ability and flexible skill to deal with those chaos monsters who always come together uninterestingly.
In this way, after spending a day and a night, Rococo finally reached the depths of the swamp woodland, and began to find traces of the two-headed dragon Gribal and the dragon guard he led in the forest.
At first, only sporadically found some corpses of fallen demonic beasts and traces of battles in the forest, but as he went deeper a little, Rococo soon found a main battlefield area in the forest where the army of the two-headed dragon Gribal and the dark dragon fought against a large group of chaos monsters in the depths of the swamp. Almost all the trees that originally stood there in the swamp were broken by external forces, and the swamp was littered with the corpses of fallen demonic beasts that had mostly sunk in the swamp mud, including a small number of dragon warriors such as dragoons. And at the very center of the battlefield was an empty place without any corpses of demonic beasts and dragon warriors, and judging from the remaining magical fluctuations and intertwined chaotic power aura, it was obvious that it was the place where Gribal fought one-on-one with a certain Super Chaos Lord-level being.
Through the information of the game forum in his previous life, Rococo already knew that in the main plot of the Strange Domain, there was actually an unknown Super Chaos Lord hidden in the swamp jungle that trapped Gribal, so when he found traces of the fierce battle between Gribal and the unknown Chaos Existence, Rococo was not surprised at first, but soon, Rococo began to notice that something was not quite right.
From the various traces and signs left at the battle scene, Rococo found that it seemed that Gribal had the overall upper hand in this battle, and the final result seemed that in the end, the strong man of the Chaos side was defeated, fled from one side of the battlefield and triggered Gribard's pursuit.
Considering that Gribal is also trapped in the depths of the swamp in the current plot of this world, the next thing that should happen is that Gribal, who was chasing the past, was turned back by the escaped Super Chaos Lord, and was defeated and trapped in the second encounter. In other words, the first time the Super Chaos Lord fought Gribal here and fled defeated, it was most likely an illusion that it had pretended.
It is not uncommon in ordinary combat to show the enemy to lure the enemy deep and then use trap tactics or special stunts to defeat the enemy. And although the ordinary NPCs on the continent of Elossia after gamification lack self-intelligence, considering that this is a battle that takes place within the main plot arrangement, it is acceptable that the NPC Super Chaos Lord will show such combat wisdom only in this battle, but there is only one thing that Rococo has always cared about - why did the Super Chaos Lord do this?
The reason why Rococo has such a question is that she once speculated about the strength of this Super Chaos Lord who played an important role in the main plot of the Strange Domain, based on the relevant records of the plot materials about the Strange Domain in her previous life.
Gribal as a descendant of the combination of the Black Dragon King and the White Dragon King,Its strength is one of the strongest among the top masters of the new generation of the order camp (even removing the "one" does not seem to be inappropriate), the game has a level 120 strength at the beginning of the game, in the game of the previous life, after experiencing the main plot of the Strange Domain, he became the new ruler of the Strange Domain, and the light and dark two-headed dragon became a level 130 existence because of the plot promotion mechanism.
In the plot of the previous life, this super chaos lord hidden in the swamp woodland first defeated the level 120 Gribal and trapped him in the depths of the woodland, and then pretended to be Gribal and swaggered into the Dragon King's Holy City and attacked the level 135 Black Dragon King, causing the latter to be seriously injured and run away, and finally the super Chaos Lord fought with the rampaging Black Dragon King and the White Dragon King who arrived in time when trying to escape, and was finally killed by the White Dragon King Marvila. But it is also because Mavira was consumed by the dying struggle of this super chaos lord that Mavela was unable to defeat the rampaging Black Dragon King in the plot of her previous life and was fatally injured in the battle, which led to the plot of the White Dragon King in her previous life summoning players to come to the Dragon King Holy City to assist.
Since this super chaos lord was killed by the White Dragon King before players intervened in the relevant plots in the plot of the previous life, no one has really seen it and found out about it in person, so they can only find out about the existence of such a culprit from mission NPCs such as the White Dragon King. However, judging from this fierce record, the strength of this Super Chaos Lord level should be above level 120, no, strictly speaking, the most reasonable should be between level 125 and level 130.
In any case, if the Black Dragon King who can sneak attack level 135 succeeds and makes the level 133 White Dragon King spend a lot of effort to kill him, such a Super Chaos Lord, even if it is a specialized boss who is good at camouflage and sneak attacks but is weak in frontal combat, it should be able to gain the upper hand in a head-to-head battle with the level 120 Gribal with its level attribute advantage. At least until he carefully probed the traces of battle left on this battlefield, Rococo didn't think much that this Super Chaos Lord actually "calculated" Gribal by showing weakness and luring the enemy...... Why bother so much when you can win by playing normally?
Rococo couldn't figure this out, but after looking around and making sure nothing new had been discovered, she didn't dwell on it any longer. The so-called level strength of about level 125 on her side was just a speculation she had made based on the game materials of her previous life, maybe she was wrong, and this Super Chaos Lord really didn't have the strength to defeat Gribal head-on, or maybe there was some reason why it had to do it...... Only when she actually finds and rescues Gribal can the truth be revealed.
Putting the confusion behind her, Rococo continued to search and advance in the direction where the traces of the battlefield had stretched, and this time it didn't take long for her to finally find what seemed to be her real destination.
Following the traces of the battle, Rococo finally appeared in front of a muddy swamp quagmire, in the middle of which was an empty island, empty of which was empty except for a silver-gray ball floating in thin air.
Seal?
The magic fluctuations emanating from the sphere to the surroundings, Rococo immediately judged the body of the sphere, obviously, it was a seal, and it was the most powerful space sealing technique in the sealing magic, absorbing the sealing target into a subspace that did not belong to the main plane of the world and sealing the exit, and the ball was the node lock that sealed the overlap between the subspace and the main plane space, in other words, as long as the ball was broken, then the overlapping nodes of the subspace and the main plane would be opened, Those who are locked up in subspace will be able to return to the main plane.
Judging from various indications, there is a good chance that this spatial seal is locked up with the two-headed dragon Gribal and his dragon guards, but in such a place full of chaotic atmosphere, there is such a seal that undoubtedly belongs to the magic of order, which is somewhat surprising to Rococo. This kind of space seal is order magic after all, once the surrounding rich chaotic aura has an impact on the magic composition of the seal and even pollutes, the seal is very likely to fail, but I don't know how the person who released this seal did it, and it actually made the surrounding chaotic aura very inefficient for the pollution invasion of this order seal, at least in Rococo's opinion, the time required to make this seal invalid through the natural pollution of chaotic breath is far more than ten times higher than normal.
Being able to skillfully add the power of chaos to the magic skills that originally relied on order and reconcile them to achieve a certain balance is obviously the unique skill of those magicians who came from the chaos people of the Northern Continent, such as the super chaos lord named Conte is a master of this way. Because of this, after seeing this spatial seal that existed in the chaotic environment, the previous guess in Rococo's heart came alive again.
Sure enough, is Conte playing tricks again in this plot change?