Chapter 41: The Whisperer
The wind element of Wind Week is very active, and Rhodes can sense the fluctuations of the wind element's cheers when he walks in the wilderness.
In this case, atmospheric and wind-based spells can increase magic damage by at least 10%, and even some special elemental spells will have special effects amplified during the Elemental Week.
Rhodes their destination is located in a basin, the Silent Basin.
It was a basin not far from the gathering places of Black Rock, Three Towers, and Dark Fire.
Like an oasis in the desert, most of the wilderness of the Shadowlands is barren and rarely full of plants, and the Silent Basin is such an oasis.
The basin is fertile, with a rare number of tall plants, and many dangerous creatures from the Shadowlands also appear here from time to time.
A basin where you can grow food!
The Silent Basin is a rare resource for poorly populated and undersupplied settlements, where several settlements have set up strongholds and hunting teams conduct weekly hunting sessions.
On the one hand, it cleans up dangerous creatures, and on the other hand, it also prepares for future development.
Exploring the wilderness is not so simple to clear the monsters of an area, the follow-up personnel life is a big problem, the Silent Basin is a perfect development place, Black Rock, Three Towers, Dark Fire and other forces have long coveted it.
Not long ago, a medium-sized tribe of gnolls invaded the basin without warning.
None of the personnel in the nearby stronghold survived, and the subsequent gathering places sent people to inspect them, and the only news was that a high-level thief escaped with the treasure at the bottom of the box.
He brought back the bad news that there were sacrifices in the tribe of medium gnolls!
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In the desolate wilderness, tenacious weeds and shrubs began to appear in large areas, and Rhodes and several members of the hunting group walked quietly.
Rhodes: They and the big army have separated.
It's not that they have to act alone, it's that the blue-robed mage, as a person sent by Stormwind, has to coordinate the combat issues of several gathering places in the overall situation. Since Rhodes took out the best scout in the vicinity, Maren, the Shadowman, the Blue had to send his men to serve as scouts.
Rhodes was arranged by Azure to protect their scouts.
"Wait!"
The scout named Thorpe suddenly interrupted the march of several men, and he crouched down slightly, as if listening to something, and then he judged the direction and said in a deep voice, "There are traces of gnolls!" ”
There was unmistakable certainty in his words, and none of the members of the hunting group objected.
"Can you figure out how many of them there are? Where is the location? A hunter with a mechanical compound crossbow on his back asked in a low voice.
Thorpe shook his head, "I can only figure out a general direction, and determine the exact range to further confirm, so far I only know that the gnolls should have some other monsters." ”
Rod glanced up at Thorpe, it looked like this guy was not simple.
Rod took a closer look, and there were almost no traces of the gnolls in the surrounding weeds and bushes, although Rod did not have the expertise of [Tracking Mastery] like Druids or Rangers, and he could not tell his prey by smell or certain marks.
But he has a lot of experience, and in this case, he can't even detect any traces, and this Thorpe can actually come to such a relatively reliable conclusion, no wonder Canglan asked Rhodes to protect this scout.
"Whisperer......
Rhodes looked at the scout, he was about thirty years old, there was a kind of vicissitudes that belonged to middle-aged people between his eyebrows, his temperament was not like those who were full of violence and gloom in the Shadow Domain, in him, Rod found something familiar, which was something that many oriental schools had to cultivate.
That kind of unique thing is called "faith".
This Thorpe had gray-gray hair, and the facial contours had some characteristics of the Ground Nation Glennes, and Rhodes judged that he should be from the ground.
A Whisperer from Glen.
Looking at the vicissitudes of his face, as well as the silent character, this Thorpe should be a man with a story.
Anyone who comes to the Shadowlands may have a sad story behind them, in fact, it is not only the wicked who are banished here, justice and truth are never easy to practice.
Rod appreciates a quote.
"People don't always live in the open, I want to move forward with my head held high, but I don't know when I will get covered in mud."
This is the life motto summed up by an old adventurer whom Rhodes knew when he was on a mission before.
Just like this Thorpe, his profession, if Rod is not mistaken, should be a whisperer.
- Whisperers: Descendants of humans of a special bloodline, who possess mystical powers to communicate with the earth and nature, and who are friends and dependents of nature. The druids and elves have always maintained friendly relations with the Whisperers.
They can hear the voice of nature, and some of the higher-level whisperers can feel the will of nature.
When some Whisperers die, their souls will not return to the Styx that runs through the multiverse, but will be linked to nature, and they will become a special kind of being, which is rumored to involve some kind of mystery of the Whisperer's inheritance.
Such a friendly professional has high requirements for the mind.
And Thorpe doesn't look like a scheming whisperer at all. There must be some story behind his arrival in the Shadow Realm.
"Found it!"
By the time Rhodes was running through the information about the Whisperers, Thorpe had already found information about the gnolls.
- Listen to the whispers.
The Whisperer can listen to the whispers of nature, discover certain information from them, and as the Whisperer level up, he can unravel effects similar to the "Prophecy System" spells, and listening to the voice of fate is its ultimate meaning.
The basic listening to secret words is almost equivalent to "clever words" or "animal and plant communication", etc., and the effect is the same as that of elven rangers communicating with plants.
Soon after.
Rhodes: They have quietly touched it.
As they got closer, Thorpe got more and more clues, and the Whisperers could get more information as their natural environment changed, and soon they saw the gnolls.
There were about a dozen gnolls, and among them there were actually a few wolf tamers, and their toothed wolf companions with a glow in their eyes put a lot of pressure on the team.
It looks like Rhodes and they're getting closer to the Silent Basin.
The Gnolls are a race that believes in "forcible over farming", most of the gnolls belong to the chaotic camp, and it is difficult for them to maintain a tribe in an orderly manner, so when there are too many of them, some gnolls will always choose to leave the colony to forage for food.
It hadn't been long since the Gnoll tribe migrated from outside.
Therefore, the scattered range of activities of these jackals is not large, especially this kind of wolf tamers, who are generally special professionals in the tribe, and they often do not leave the tribe too far.
A gang of gnolls like this one will probably be wandering around here for a while.
"Leave them behind!"
A cold glint flashed in the crossbow's eyes.
Their mission is to exterminate the gnolls in the area, scattered or tribal, anyway, and the scouts themselves have the responsibility to clear the barricades.