After the group entered the forest, the blue light curtain slowly closed behind everyone, as if it had life. They soon found that there were two worlds inside and outside the light curtain, and it was still after noon, but inside the light curtain it was already twilight, and there seemed to be a blue curtain hanging in the sky, and there were a few stars hanging in the distance, like the scenery after dusk.

A hundred paces away, the woodland is gloomy.

The contrast was so great that everyone was alarmed, and Nimesis and Freya gently drew their swords and looked around. There seemed to be some kind of uneasiness lurking in the air, which made people's vests chill.

Brando looked at the shadowy woodland, which was already in a valley, and the overlapping hills in the distance were submerged in the night. In the north, the sky is as deep purple as the silent night. This hill is referred to as the 'Hill of Twilight' in Amber Sword, and is supposed to be the southwest corner of Milos' Breath in his memory.

At the entrance to this area, there is supposed to be a den of the Dusk Dog, an ancient subspecies of canine dinosaurs. It has long been extinct in Vajnde, but there are still small distributions in some Black Forests.

"As you say, which way should we go now, Lord Earl?" Laurena interrupted his thoughts and asked.

"The guide mentions that there should be a path leading to the 'Atrium'," Brando silently recalled the text in the guide: 'The Hill of Twilight is the best entrance to the direction of Milos, the lair guarding the gate is the Twilight Dogs of the Dinosaurs, and the passage through the Twilight Dogs' lair leads north to the 'Atrium', and there are treasure hiding locations at Points A and B, which were explored by the 'Crimson Brigades' and 'Crystal Apples' guilds in 385 and 387 respectively. If this is the first time that anyone has explored this dungeon, then it is possible that the treasure spot mentioned in the guide still exists. His eyes searched the forest, and suddenly he realized that this endless valley was not just a passageway. Brando's gaze stretched forward. Dark green hills stretch north on either side. This is also in line with the description on the guide.

After confirming this, Brando had a plan: "Let's go along this valley, beware of the spirits swimming along the way. Try not to use magic and not to activate magic items. The lighting uses an open flame, and the lighting crystal is forbidden to be used. ”

Demons aren't tough creatures to deal with, though. But once the war starts, the magic that escapes will attract more monsters. Some players have said that the Demon Spirit is the siren in the copy of Breath of Milos, and this is not unfounded.

"Do you understand?"

"Understood." Everyone nodded.

Brando was somewhat satisfied, though his knowledge of this dungeon was limited to the strategy. But he knows that in the unknown, people are always willing to trust people who seem to have confidence. And as the most experienced person in the team, he deserves to take on this responsibility.

He continued to order, "Akane, Métisa, you two get out of the way. Ms. Laurenna, I'm sorry for you to break off. ”

"Yes, my lord." Medissa nodded in place of Akane.

"No problem." Lorena also raised her sheathed saber and placed it on her chest. It's a Cruz chivalric etiquette - a sign of willingness to take orders.

Since there was no objection from everyone, the team was quickly divided. Akane and Métisha were at the forefront of the group, both spears in their spears as they navigated through the dense taiga. Soon they noticed as the line went deeper. The sky as seen through the gaps between the layers of branches was getting darker and darker.

From the light red of the evening at the beginning, it becomes light blue. Then there is the deep blue, which gradually hangs with stars, and becomes a scene of silent night. It was as if I had only been walking in the woods for ten minutes, and the sky had changed from late evening to late night.

In fact, this is the characteristic of the Hill of Dusk, which is the transition zone of the Eternal Night Forest, and it is not until you go deep into this area that you truly enter the heart of the forest. It was getting dark, but Akane lit the torches, and the light of the fire spread in all directions, dragging the dense cedar trunks around them into long shadows in the woodland, but where the light could not shine, the darkness seemed deeper and deeper.

As the group progressed for about half an hour, Medisa suddenly noticed a sparkling light beginning to emerge in the deep darkness, and she immediately recognized it as the demon spirit floating among the woods.

She grabbed Akane and raised her finger to her with a 'careful' gesture.

"What's that?" Akane also noticed the light spot in the forest and asked in a low voice.

"It could be a demon."

"So many!" Akane was startled. In her opinion, the number was indeed too much, at least hundreds. She looked at the floating spirits, and for a moment she looked a little nervous.

"Don't worry," said Medisa softly, "the demon spirit is terrifying, but it is notoriously blind. As long as they don't use their magic, light is invisible to them. As long as we pay attention to it, there should be no problem. ”

Akane nodded suspiciously. In fact, Brando used Medisa as the team's eyeliner to use her rich combat experience and elves' natural acumen, and Brando's practical intention in arranging Akane as a partner was to protect the former; Medisa was shuffled to level 1 along with Charles after he advanced to the official position of Brigade Mage, and although they can now gain experience and upgrade through Guò like him, it has only been less than a month of experience, and their strength has only just recovered to the Silver Beginner Rank.

Since the traveling mage creatures have a non-resurrectable flaw, Brando had to tread carefully.

Akane glanced in that direction again, and looked back with some confusion in her eyes, as if to say—"What now, Métisa?" ”

The little princess of the silver elf understood and reminded in a low voice: "Akane, see if you can go around the left and right sides." ”

Akane was slightly stunned and looked at her with some suspicion. Theoretically, although Mediza's strength is inferior to her, she can't even see clearly from such a distance. But as if sensing the suspicions of the mountain maiden, Medisa hurriedly explained, "This place seems to have some kind of restriction on our heroic spirits-"

After saying that, her own face also turned red, if it weren't for the fact that her 'rank' was washed away was too difficult to explain, she was really not good at lying. But to be honest, even she hasn't figured out what this level is and why it's closely related to her own strength.

Fortunately, under the light of the fire. I didn't see it at all. She nodded and turned back. But her gaze swept across the valley and saw that the spirits of the forest seemed to be blocking all paths ahead.

She looked at it carefully for a moment, then shook her head slightly.

"Isn't it possible?" Métissa groaned. She immediately opened the telepathic connection, sending a message to Brando in the back. Not long after, the bushes behind the two girls were separated with a 'clatter'. Brando's party had already walked out of there.

"Metissa, Akane."

When Brando got the news from Metisa, he probably guessed what was going on. He parted the bushes and walked out of the forest behind him, and when he looked up, he saw the sparkling light in the darkness.

The Forest of Eternal Night is a huge area, and the distribution of monsters in this area is very random, but after the player's exploration, many of them have been found. Until then, the path he had shown Medisa and Akane had been a very remote path. According to the strategy above, most unnecessary battles can be avoided.

Since he had been delayed in the Forest of Elasser before, Brando had to choose this path. But the road is not safe either. There are also two monster nodes that cannot be bypassed. One of them is a place called the Pool of Demons. The other is stuck at the last pass before leading to the atrium, where they have to face the Duskhounds and Hickmo.

Brando glanced at the staggering number of spirits in the forest. The location of this place has been determined - the Demon Spirit Pool, although it is not a lair of demon spirits, but in some ways it is more like a lair.

The Demon Spirit is a real gold-level monster in Amber Sword, and normally to kill so many of these things, players without two regiments don't even think about it. However, Brando happens to know an abnormal way to deal with these demons, and in this kind of dungeon that has been thoroughly understood by players in the later stages of the game, there are really not too many strange strategies.

But he glanced over there, then withdrew his gaze. He has two more things to do before he prepares to pass guò here.

Brando judged the direction and glanced somewhere in the darkness, where he saw a huge cedar that would take two or three people to wrap around.

"Metisa, how tall are you?" He whispered.

The silver elf princess was slightly stunned, she didn't expect her lord to ask this strange question, she hesitated for a moment, and then she was a little embarrassed to tell Brando the answer in the psychic connection.

Rao was so, she still heard Charles laughing on the side. Brando glared at him fiercely, and then he said, "It's almost right now, you came to me." ”

"Huh?" Métisa was a little puzzled, but she did as she was told. Everyone didn't understand what Brando was doing at all, so they could only watch the little princess of the silver elf walk up to Brando with some curiosity, "Lord Lord, do you have any orders?" ”

"Now you're right on me." Brando said, looking at the cedar.

"Brando, what are you doing?" Freya was a little strange, but everyone was just as strange as he was. If she hadn't asked, Filas, who was eager to try it later, would have been going to speak.

"You'll find out later." Brando replied.

Medisa hesitated slightly before continuing to take a step closer, she was almost face-to-face with Brando now, and she could even feel the faint aura coming from the lord's body. She blushed, she hadn't been so close to her master since she had been summoned by Brando.

But Brando was not satisfied, and he grabbed her shoulder and reoriented her. Medisa was startled, and on several occasions the tip of her nose touched Brando's chest.

"Brando!" Freya glared at Brando, and if it weren't for the fact that the enemy was nearby, she would have stabbed her with a sword.

But Brando didn't hear it, and only for a moment, he felt as if he was back in the game, and he was in the middle of the game again, and he was working with a trusted companion to open up a dungeon. He stared at the great cedar and whispered to Métisa:

"You start with me now, take ten steps back, and tell me what you feel."

Brando's words sounded a bit like a riddle, but Metisa's trust in him had already reached the point where she could do something without asking why, and she was only slightly stunned. He nodded and slowly retreated.

Everyone saw her withdraw ten steps. Then stopped.

"Sue me, what do you feel under your feet?" Brando asked.

Metisa's eyes lit up slightly, looking very strange: "...... I felt a faint magic. It's like a magic mark. Your Lord, how do you know there's something here? ”

But Brando was clearly not going to answer her question for the time being, and he took the torch from Akane next to him. Shine the torch at Metisa. The firelight immediately imprinted the shadow of the Silver Elf Princess to the ground, and the others followed Brando's gaze and were stunned.

Because they saw the shadow behind Metisa, there was clearly a pair of wings that seemed to be translucent.

"...... this?" Firas couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded.

But Brando's heart secretly screamed, 'Sure enough'. Of all the people, only Lorenna was keenly aware of the change in his expression, and the female knight immediately asked, "Monsieur Count, do you know anything?" ”

Brando breathed a sigh of relief, then nodded and replied, "Demon spirits don't gather in a certain place for no reason, and the origin of this place is actually a little related to Karasu's Black Tower Wizard. ”

"Wizard of the Black Tower?" Even Charles was slightly stunned at this moment. You know, he used to be a member of the Wizards of the Black Tower.

Brando smiled, this time he wasn't lying. This can only be described as a coincidence. The background of this place in the game is indeed from the Wizard of the Black Tower. "The Wizards of the Black Tower are the most powerful mage organization in Eruin, like many wizards elsewhere. Their curiosity about secrets and knowledge is also unparalleled. Like the Buga Wizards, in order to discover the lost secrets, the Wizards of the Black Tower have also made their footprints in every vestige of the kingdom. This mysterious forest is no exception. ”

"My lord, are you saying that the Wizard of the Black Tower once sent a team into this forest, and this is ......," Laurena reacted.

"It's pretty much the same as you guessed, but it's a little different." Brando, recalling the account of this place in the guide, replied, "The wizards of the Blacktower have entered this forest more than once in their hundreds of years of history, and they can be said to have known this area for a long time, except for the danger zone in the center. ”

He looked at Lorena and added, "You don't think that Anlek guy would rush into this forest recklessly, he must have someone around him who is familiar with this forest like me, maybe that guy is also a wizard of the Black Tower." ”

"But aren't the Wizards of the Black Tower and the Highland Knights allies, Brando, you ......," Freya asked, somewhat incomprehensible.

"The forest is big, but there are all kinds of birds, and not all Black Tower wizards abide by the Tower Agreement." Charles immediately explained.

"Exactly," Brando continued, "but that's not the main topic of our discussion. The Wizards of the Black Tower must have come here to destroy a very powerful demonic item, and they hoped to use a certain magic circle here to completely destroy the demonic object from Jogandigang-"

He paused: "But there were traitors in the ranks at that time, and there were wizards who were tempted by the power of the demons, and in the end, the whole operation fell short. It is said that the demonic items exploded violently on the magic circle, blowing up the nearly 100 Black Tower wizards and apprentices who accompanied them into flying ashes, and the souls of these people were eroded in the dark magic, gradually forming demon spirits that wandered here. ”

"Nearly a hundred wizards?" Lorenna took a breath of cold air in disbelief, she could have imagined what a tragic scene it was.

The others also had some solemn expressions on their faces.

But Brando just smiled, the whole incident was actually not as terrifying as they imagined, if the Wizard of the Black Tower hung up nearly a hundred official wizards at once, this organization was probably not far from falling apart. There were actually only twelve official wizards that day, including the traitor, and most of the others were apprentices.

However, the demon spirit left behind is indeed a fact, he continued, "Of course, the demonic object was also said to have been destroyed in the explosion, but the Wizard of the Black Tower still set up an observation post in this place to be safe. The post is said to have been in use for almost a hundred years and was abandoned only in the last century. ”

"Observation post?" Filas was stunned, and couldn't help but look left and right: "Why didn't I see it, has it been demolished?" ”

"Of course not, the wizards' observation posts are certainly not those fortress watchtowers that you have seen on a daily basis." Nimesis, who had not spoken at this time, suddenly spoke: "Brando, you were looking for the location of that outpost before, right?" ”

Brando nodded.

"That magic marker is a guiding point, and the wizards' literature says that the outpost should be next to that cedar. The direction in which the shadows of the wings behind Medisa were pointing. ”

"But I didn't see anything." Firas looked over there, "Could it be that thing in the sky." ”

Brando glared at the guy a little speechlessly. Now he's starting to believe in this guy's shit luck a little. I didn't expect the other party to say it casually, but it was really right.

He looked up and replied, "That's right." The real watchtower is in the sky. We've got to find a way to summon it. ”

"Summoned?" Lorenna frowned, "I see, it can help us deal with these demons, right?" Since the wizards built such a watchtower, their own purpose was to protect against these demons. ”

"Exactly." Brando had a slight approbation. However, he understands that the knight lady from Cruz is not entirely right, and that in Amber Sword, there is often more than one way to get through many plot areas. There was a way he could sneak through the valley without attracting the attention of the demons - but Brando wasn't going to give up such a large amount of experience, and if the records on the guide were not false, the watchtower should be one of the treasure locations in this dungeon.

This quest would have been an added bonus.

However, these words naturally could not be spoken, and he turned back and said, "Charles, you should know the spell of the wizards of the Black Tower to summon the Mage Tower. ”

Charles nodded immediately, and replied in his mind, "I forgot a lot after the transfer, but at least I remember one or two." After all, the Wizard of the Black Tower was originally part of the Buga people. ”

"That's good." Brando glanced at the demon spirit in the distance and began to give orders: "It takes some time to summon the watchtower, but once you start casting spells. The demons over there will find us. Hence when summoning the tower in the Charr. The task of the others is to protect him to complete the task. ”

Brando's voice fell, like a battle signal. Nimesis, Freya, Laurena and the Guards, and the guards immediately drew their swords, and Akane and Métisa picked up their spears. Everyone subconsciously arranged a semicircle around the current position of the silver elf princess.

Brando's look of satisfaction also drew the sword of the earth, and reminded him: "The attack method of the demon spirits is simple, they rarely fight hand-to-hand, but note that their attacks can penetrate the armor of entities; Also watch out for their spells, Medisha, Akane, you stay to protect the spellcaster and Haruzer, and the others find a way to get close to them quickly. ”

"Understood."

"Charles, you start putting."

The young mage squire nodded, and he stood behind Medisha, feeling the location of the magic sigil, then raised his staff and began to chant the spell that summoned the wizard's tower. The not-so-high-pitched spell seemed to be a striking signal in the darkness, and suddenly, everyone saw the dots of light in the forest pause slightly.

Then they soared into the air, as if searching for the source of the spell, circled over the forest, turned their heads, and swooped in this direction.

"According to the literature, although most of the demons were outstanding shamans during their lifetimes, they have long forgotten those profound knowledge. The spells they excel at are nothing more than the use of pure dark magic. These disordered mana don't last too long, and they usually unleash their first wave of spell attacks from a hundred feet away. Medisa looked at the clusters of light and was the first to remind.

The demon spirit floating in the darkness was extremely fast, and it was already close at this time. Only then did everyone see their images clearly, these glowing clusters of light in the darkness, they looked like the image of a naked human or an elf, they almost still retained their appearance before life, but their faces and chests were covered with patterns eroded by dark magic, and there were no eyeballs in their eye sockets, only a pitch black.

This terrifying appearance left a deep impression on everyone, and His Royal Highness the little prince screamed in fright.

"One hundred and forty-one feet, to be exact." Brando stared in that direction and raised his sword, "Measure the distance yourself." ”

The spirits had stopped at the edge of the forest, as far as Brando could remember, and that was the farthest range of their spells. The twisted creatures raised their hands, their hands gruefully pointed and long from the twisted magic, and from these slender fingertips, black flames erupted.

These tentacle-like black flames were intertwined, and at that moment it was like a huge black net falling from the sky, and it seemed that everyone was about to be enveloped in it.

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(PS: I'm going to have a New Year's dinner tomorrow, and I'll come back in the evening to code words, depending on the situation.) ）