Chapter 564: The Invisible Land
"I mean, can't you get off me?"
Walking in the lush forest, Sivi sighed helplessly and said to Helo, who was lying on his back.
This is a forest bordering the new green grassland, and from the system map, this forest called the 'Fairy Courtyard' is very large, although it is not as large as the ancient forest sea where the forest elves live, but in terms of area alone, it is almost a third of its size.
When things were all stable in Morag, and the higher-ups of Edric were in full swing to organize the Twenty-One School Friendship Exchange Meeting, Sivi, as the proposer, was idle, and it was precisely because of this that he returned there through the magical coordinates left on the new green grassland earlier, and was ready to continue exploring Middle-earth.
And anyway, there is no rush to explore Middle-earth, he simply treats this task as a tour, and moves forward gracefully, occasionally discovering some unexpected surprises - for example, the dwarven tribe a few days ago, Xiwei exchanged a few large barrels of high-quality ale wine for a lot of Yaojing, equipment made by dwarven craftsmen, and the friendship of dwarves, and those things in front of him can be sold by the trading houses under the academy to make a lot of money, and the friendship of the dwarves also makes Xiwei see the opportunity to maintain long-term cooperation with them. So when he left, he made a magic coordinate next to the dwarven tribe.
More leisurely than Sivi is Helo.
Originally, Sivi didn't plan to bring the oil bottle of Helo. But leaving Harrow in the academy would have been more troublesome.
For example, when Theo saw that Harrow was always nestled in Sivi's arms, he also came in with a slightly angry expression. Sivi had to do his best not to be disturbed by their two little heads, and at the same time, bear the scumbag-like gaze from other people.
Xiwei, who couldn't stand it the most, could only let Helo follow the other one to run out of Lu to travel...... Anyway, the original purpose of Cerberus was to see the current world with his own eyes. Traveling out of the city is also a way to fulfill its dreams.
"You are the source of the power of the concubine's body, and in order to continue to accumulate the magic power of hell, it must be close to you. If you don't mind, mucosal contact and fluid exchange can also speed up the process. β
Lying behind Xiwei, who looked like an orc girl, Helo said leisurely.
What the hell is mucosal contact and fluid exchange! Why is this guy able to say such shameless words with an innocent little Lori's face and an angelic and pure expression......
Xiwei wanted to complain, but he couldn't say anything, so he could only say stupidly: "It's been sticking for so long, haven't you accumulated enough?" β
"So to speak. Mucosal contact and fluid exchange can accelerate ......"
"Enough! I was wrong. Let's change the subject......" Sivi wanted to cry without tears.
If Helo's outward form was a little bigger, maybe he would have been sexually interesting, but the problem is that Helo looks too young now, even a little smaller than Theo, who has grown up recently. Petite and cute like a doll. If you have a reaction to this little guy. No need to be condemned. Sivi himself would have been crushed by the guilt in his heart.
It's just that Sivi doesn't think he's a nanny, so it's impossible to always carry Helo on her back...... Especially when the other person's breasts are not developed at all like a washboard, and there is no soft touch at all......
So after the last moment, Xiwei still dragged her off her back.
It didn't take long for their eyes to suddenly open up. The forest has come to an end.
"Strange ......," but Sivi frowned.
He pulled out the system map and reconfirmed that they had indeed made their way through the jungle, not through a fork in the road.
"Is there something wrong?" Harrow asked Sivi with some annoyance as she ripped off her princess dress, which was hanging from a tree branch.
She was not dressed for walking in the forest, and was always caught in the branches after a few steps.
If it weren't for the fact that the long skirt on her body was completely woven from the hair of the three-headed dog of hell, I am afraid that it would have become tattered and leaked out of spring.
"We're going too fast."
Since Harrow couldn't see the system map, Sivi took out a map from his storage box and showed her the forest where they were now.
"This forest looks like a recumbent lolo (a plant with edible tuberous roots that resemble potatoes), and our starting point is here, and the route is like a straight line that cuts the loin into two pieces, going straight from one side to the other ......."
"You mean, we're on the wrong track? So where are we now? Harrow leaned over to Sivi and stared at the map, but unfortunately she was not familiar with Hughmon and could not read the notes on the map.
"No, we're not wrong, we're here now." Sivi pointed to the opposite side of the starting point.
"Isn't that normal, what's wrong?" Harrow furrowed her little eyebrows, looking extremely cute. It's a pity that Xiwei doesn't have the leisure to appreciate it now.
"It's too fast." Xiwei frowned: "According to my estimates, this route is at least nearly two hundred kilometers, but we only took less than three days to complete it, you must know that this is not a business road, but in the jungle!" β
The speed of travel in this dense jungle is much lower than in other terrains, and the various plants take up most of the space, and sometimes they can't even find a place to put their feet, so they can only rely on magic to clear their way.
In addition, Helo was hooked by branches from time to time, and the time it took to cross this jungle should be much longer - in fact, the fight was done from the beginning, and when he was not interested in continuing to play the jungle to survive, he directly used his flying skills to fly out of the jungle at once......
"And what do you think is going on?"
Helo was also interested, comparing the map repeatedly and asking Sivi at the same time.
"I don't know...... But when I'm in the forest, I have a very strange feeling...... It's like we've taken a long way off. β
Sivi rubbed his temples and began to recall the incongruity he had noticed in the forest.
"Isn't it good to walk a little less?" Helo closed the map.
"That's not the point...... It's not so much a little less traveled. Rather, it seems that the center of this forest is cut off by something, and there is a chaotic connection of space around it. β
Sivi took the map, took out another quill, and drew an irregular circle in the area that represented the forest, and then he drew an arrow towards the circle on one side of the circle.
"For example, we are walking this way," he then drew an arrow on the outside of the circle opposite the arrow, but this time the arrow was pointing out of the circle: "As a result, we didn't go into the circle at all, but walked out of the other side, so there was a phenomenon of 'walking a little less.'" β
"Oh, I see." Harrow wagged her tail like a puppy. A look of clarity.
"Anyway, you're also a clone of the three-headed dogs of hell. Don't you even feel it at all? β
Looking at Helo's appearance, Sivi couldn't help but feel a little detached. The clone created by Cerberus does not seem to be very reliable...... Although it itself is not very reliable.
"Because the magic of hell has not been accumulated, it is natural that you can't detect it!"
After putting all the blame on Sivi, Helo was ready to pounce. However, he was hit on the forehead by a hand knife from Sivi. I could only squat next to the root of the tree with my forehead covered with an 'ah-woo'.
Now that I have judged that there is something strange in the center of this forest. The next option is simple, try to go to the uncharted territory, or ignore it. Leave the forest for a while?
The system helped Sivi make the choice.
"Side Quest: Intruder - Gate"
"Mission content: As a brave man, how can you not go to someone else's house to rummage through the cabinets!"
"Requirements: Please find the 'door' to enter the central zone as soon as possible, and complete the evaluation as S within three hours, the evaluation as A within one day, the evaluation as B within three days, and the subsequent evaluation as C. Rewards are based on evaluations."
[Duration: 000:00:01]
"Notes: 'It's indeed illegal to take other people's things at will!'" β¦β¦ Unless you're in a labyrinth, a dungeon, or a demon city. In addition, as a brave man, he should be able to ignore this law. βThe former brave man who advocated 'I didn't commit a crime' in prison."
"As an adventurer, how could you be indifferent when you encounter something like this!"
Xiwei's eyes lit up, and he said awe-inspiring to Helo, who was full of grievances: "Explore all the unknowns, this is where the fun of adventure lies!" β
Helo: "Obviously I looked bored just now......"
Just do it, sufficient action is one of the few advantages of Xiwei, not to mention that this task is a timing task, and the timing has already started as soon as the task panel is opened.
Merely......
"What's a slime for?"
Helo looked at the blue jelly-like creatures on the ground, the expression on her face twitched, and asked Sivi.
"Of course, it's because the amount of mana consumed to summon slimes is small, and there is no individual repetition limit, as long as you can afford to pay for mana, you can summon it infinitely."
Sylvie spread his hands at her, "There are so many slimes now, enough for us to do something." β
With that, he picked up the map again and began to write and draw on it.
According to the prompt of the mission, what he is looking for is the 'door'. It's most likely a metaphor for a door that doesn't stand out in the middle of the forest.
The meaning of the so-called door door is probably that this barrier is different from the general continuous barrier, and you can set a door on it to make it easy to enter and exit, and what he is looking for is the location of the door.
Of course, he didn't expect the Slime Sea to be able to find such an important task - if it was that simple, it would be too easy to talk about getting in and out of the plane.
So these poor slimes were completely used by Sivi as an enchantment detection device, and it took about an hour to barely give Sivi the original appearance of the 'disappeared' piece of land.
"Looks like a hibernating toad." On the way, because of boredom, he beat up several toothed wolf leaders in the forest one by one, and now he is regarded as an idol worship by hundreds of wolves, and he almost became the head of the eldest sister of the wolves, and looked at the dense map drawn by Syvina, and quipped with some dissatisfaction: "What are you going to do now?" Do you touch it little by little according to this general outline? β
"How is that possible?"
Sivi shook his head.
Touch little by little, although with your own observation ability, if you are lucky. It shouldn't take long to find a door, but it doesn't take long to see how it compares.
At least Sivi felt that he could try to find the entrance in as little as three hours.
"If I'm not mistaken, there should be more than one peripheral node in this enchantment...... That is, the place where we can get in. And this kind of node itself is a supply and exit, and it is impossible to set up in an empty place, so just look at the edge to see if there are any pits and tree holes or other places, and you may be able to find surprises. β
As he spoke, he poked his head: "Those slimes just now all have coordinates on them, once they find out, we can immediately teleport over and test them directly!" β
"You guy...... Surprisingly capable. β
Harrow couldn't help but sigh.
"I think the word surprise is redundant."
Sivi replied without raising his head.
Scattered by Sivi, the slime is faithfully carrying out his orders, and will interrogate Sivi as soon as they find a suspected entrance...... Of course, there are occasional jokes about these guys' low IQs, such as the yawning dragon's mouth as a cave to enter. Tell Sivi that they come over for the experiment.
And Sivi and Helo also tried it one by one. After about 200 attempts, the first unusual place finally appeared.
It was a tree hole, but from the outside it looked like a tree as thick as two people hugging each other, but inside the hole was so empty that it looked like a small room.
Sivi studied the patterns on the walls. Immediately, with the help of LV5's linguistics, it was discovered that those characters were ancient goblins. It is said to be based on the Runi script. Every word has a wonderful power.
And if they were written by goblins, the words would have a life of their own.
Naturally, Xiwei also studied runes, but after a few ancient goblin words were slightly drawn on the walls. The dense indentulation of the runes turned into a golden color as if gold had suddenly flowed in.
The words then broke away from the trunk wall and floated into the air, assembling themselves until they became a long contract-like scroll.
"What's that? Incantations? "Helo was very interested in the golden words.
"It's an ancient fairy text, and now it's unlocking the access key...... To put it simply, you can enter it by being recognized by that volume. β
With Xiwei's explanation, the ancient goblin text finally stopped turning, leaving only two new lines of empty space.
Sivi took out her wand and lightly wrote her and Harrow's names at the end of the volume.
The golden words scattered, and then a turquoise door carved from jade appeared in the field of vision of the two of them.
That's right, this should be the door mentioned in the mission!
Sivi was so excited that he couldn't control himself, he secretly clenched his fist, and the system task was also shown as a success, which took a total of 2 hours and 47 minutes, S-level evaluation, and a great result.
The quest rewards are indeed quite generous.
First of all, there were two strong certificates, then a lot of resources and achievement points that had rarely been recorded recently, and finally something that made Sivi extremely happy.
"Sky Speculative Wizard's Hat (Finesse)"
Although it was only a piece of blue equipment, and its attributes were only average, the recognition skill appeared on it again, and he had never encountered such a good hat since the last time the wizard hat died.
As soon as Sivi put it on, he noticed that the head of Helo next to him had a yellow name floating on his head, which represented his allies.
Helo. Cerberus.
It's amazing!
"What are you struggling with over there? Why do you suddenly wear a hat? β
Harrow was confused by Sivi's sudden move: "Could it be that this is human etiquette?" Do I need to wear a hat when entering a mysterious realm? β
"No, of course not." Sivi smiled and stroked the rim of his wizard's hat, "It's just my personal hobby. β
With that, he stretched out his hand and opened the emerald green door.
The first thing they were greeted by a breeze mixed with the breath of life.
"Oh, damn it......"
Harrow cursed under his breath.
The little girl's body was as if it had been scalded by an iron, and there was a sizzling sound and white smoke with a slight smell of barbecue.
For a hellish creature, the breath of nature and life can be regarded as the great enemy.
If it was Cerberus's body, it would be fine, at most it would be a little weaker, but Helo was a semi-energy creature based on the magic and internal secretions of the three-headed dog of hell, plus a large amount of magic power.
What is the magic of Cerberus? Of course, it's the alien magic from hell, and when it touches the nemesis-like breath of life, it is immediately deflated......
"You're fine, are you?" Sivi asked with some amusement.
Anyway, Helo is essentially immortal, and even if she is really turned into ashes by the breath of life, she can reappear after a few days of recuperation, so watching her rush to bless herself with various resistances is not worried.
"This place is weird, very strange!" Out of the embarrassment, she gritted her teeth and said, "Where is the main material plane where the breath of life is so strong!" β
"Are you going to go in now?" Sivi asked, holding the doorknob and looking at Helo, who had a cloudy expression on her face.
"Close, of course! How could the glory of Cerberus be lost in such a place! β
The little girl raised her hands in the air, and then rushed straight into the sunny and pleasant door.
It wasn't long before she ran out again with smoke in her body.
It looks like the environment inside is really not suitable for this little guy from hell. (To be continued......)