Chapter 117: Veronica's Metamorphosis
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Veronica brought the flint and steel close to the kerosene-soaked cloth and tried to light the torch again. However, the fire flickered, and the underworld returned to darkness.
"Not here!" The female ninja shook her head, a look of disappointment on her face, "It seems that we will only be able to nibble on cold dry food today." ”
Perhaps for the purpose of facilitating access, the stone-blind barbarians destroyed all the obstacles separating the Blue Dragon Area from the Black Dragon Area, so that Roland and his party passed through the "Black Dragon Gate" with only the door frame left without much effort and successfully entered the Black Dragon District.
However, they soon discovered that the Stoneblind Barbarians didn't need any magic traps at all, and that the entire Black Dragon District was shrouded in an absolutely dim magical barrier, where no natural light source could take effect.
Nikita had also considered using magical lighting, but cold arrows and javelins from dark corners forced her to abandon the idea, not to mention the fact that illumination-based spells did not generate heat and could not be used to boil water or heat food.
Veronica could tolerate nibbling on cold bread, but as a scout on the team's pathfinder and trap detection, she couldn't carry out her mission in a dark-eyed environment.
Roland agrees: "In such an environment, it is impossible to move without 'dark vision', and now we have to solve this problem." ”
Bloom shrugged indifferently. Both he and Roland were born with 60-foot dark vision, and the special environment of the Black Dragon District was nothing to him.
Lyudmila and Nikita do not have the talent of dark vision, but Nikita can cast spells to bless herself with dark vision, and Lyudmila has a stronger blind vision than dark vision, and there is only one Veronica in the team who is really trapped by darkness.
"I didn't prepare any extra 'Dark Vision' today, and the quota for summoning spell slots has been used up, so if there is no other way, I have to camp here and prepare a spell for Ronidor after I rest for eight hours." Nikita proposed.
Lyudmila shook her head slightly, "I've been tracking the traces left by Nero and the others along the way, they are walking very fast, they are likely to have entered the Red Dragon District at this time, if we delay here for too long, I am afraid it will be too late to prevent them from entering the Central District to hold a blood sacrifice, and then all our past efforts will be meaningless." ”
Bloom nodded in agreement: "Mila is right! The longer it drags on, the more trouble it gets, we can't afford to waste time here, or let Ronnie stay, and the four of us move on!" ”
When the poor half-vampire girl heard that he was going to kick herself out of the group, she shook her head in a hurry, and there were two tears in her eyes.
Roland sighed: "This can't be done, we need Ronnie, and it's not safe to leave her alone, in case there are any three strengths and two weaknesses, how can I explain to Vlad?" As he spoke, he took out a vial of brown liquid from the dimensional pouch and handed it to Veronica.
The beetle potion was worth 1,350 gold coins, and he had originally wanted to bring it back to the town of the Big Rabbit's Nest and sell it to the dwarf alchemist Duvalin, but now he had no choice but to get Veronica to drink the expensive potion.
Veronica pulled out the cork and sniffed, looking a little hesitant. In fact, she didn't want to drink this suspicious-tasting potion, but the situation was stronger than people, and she couldn't object, so Lyudmila pinched her neck and poured it.
The potion quickly took effect, and Miss Ninja not only gained dark vision as she wished, but also had some unexpected changes - her skin became extraordinarily hard, showing a delicate chitin luster, and two slightly quivering tentacles appeared on her forehead, adding a bit of silly and cute temperament.
Nikita touched the trembling tentacles above her head, and couldn't help but laugh: "No wonder this thing is called 'beetle potion', look at your current appearance, it doesn't look like a big beetle that has grown into a sperm." ”
"You're the beetle!" Miss Ninja was annoyed, "Don't touch me! Otherwise, I'll prick your hand with my tentacles! ”
The flexible antennae cannot be used as a weapon, but it can feel the subtle flow of air and distinguish odor particles that ordinary people cannot detect, making Veronica's perception extremely acute, and the efficiency of pathfinding has been significantly improved.
The crowd walked in the dark, all the way without danger, through the continuous caves, the terrain in front of them was suddenly open, the stream flowed around the stalactite forest, and the outlines of the houses were hidden on both sides of the stream.
Roland guessed that this was the base camp of the Stone Blind Barbarians, and asked the female ninja who was exploring the path ahead through the "communication technique": "Ronnie, what's the situation ahead?" ”
He was answered with an exclamation.
Immediately afterward, there was a clattering sound of footsteps quickly from far to near, and it was Veronica who turned around and ran back.
"Ronnie, what's going on?"
Nikita tries to stop Veronica. The other party didn't say a word, there was no trace of blood on her pretty face, her eyes were full of horror, she pushed her away and ran wildly, ignoring everyone's calls, and her back quickly disappeared into the depths of darkness......
"What's wrong with her, it's like she's seen a ghost...... Bloom scratched his head blankly, and inadvertently glanced back, only to see a face appear in the darkness, and he was immediately frightened and exclaimed: "What the hell!?" ”
It was a face covered with colorful green tattoos, like a terrible ghost, terrifying. Even more terrifying than this strange man was the magic beast beside him, its loose skin was like a pile of red and swollen fat, and when this monster raised its head and barked its teeth and roared at Roland and the others, its face was immediately thrown to the back of its head, revealing its white and bony head, which was really more terrifying than a ghost, and everyone who witnessed it gasped.
In fact, this monster is not only ugly, but its face also has strange supernatural powers, and the witnesses are affected by the "crowd panic technique", and if the will test fails, they will be like poor Veronica, who is frightened to the point of losing her mind, and only has one thought: to escape from the monster as soon as possible, and escape as far away as possible.
"Don't panic, everyone, this monster is called the Bone-Faced Spotted Beast, although it has a scary face, in fact, its combat power can't catch up with a bear, so there's nothing to be afraid of." Roland reassured his teammates in a deep voice.
The Paladin's "aura of courage" makes him immune to fear and grants an additional immunity of +4 against fear to his companions within ten feet of him. Affected by the aura of courage, everyone regained their composure after the initial panic, but poor Veronica did not have time to obtain the protection of the aura of courage, and fell into panic and ran away without a trace......
"Don't worry about Ronnie, she's just scared silly, she'll come back to consciousness soon, let's solve the immediate trouble first."
Seeing that the flower-faced leader led a large group of stone-blind barbarians to besiege him, Nikita showed murderous anger and waved her hand to scatter a handful of stinky leaves, and her magic turned into a rolling stinky cloud and swept over.
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