Chapter Seventy-One: The Whereabouts of the Survivors
It may be that the place where the fence was destroyed chosen by Ain is relatively remote, and although he saw a corner of the village that was basically indistinguishable from the ruins, he found no trace of the undead.
"Obviously, drive directly from Warneburg to White Mountain City along the main road, why spend this time cleaning up the White Mountain Range......" Ain was full of doubts about the command of the Drew army, at least according to his understanding, in this kind of external environment, there is no way for Riesel's counterattack force to ambush in the White Mountain Range.
Think of giving an army a magic item to protect them from the cold - this magic item may also be left on the battlefield because of a battle death and cannot be recovered. This is an expense that no kingdom on the main plane can afford.
As for having a team of mages ambush? First of all, let's not talk about the question of whether there is still a team of mages with enough strength in the Resel Kingdom, even if they can get together, most of those mages are not willing to work for the Rether Kingdom. Except for those spellcasters whose arcane talent is not inherently excellent, it is estimated that there is not enough profit, and no mage will be willing to work so hard for a certain country or organization.
While this may sound like a snobbish statement, it is the reality. Even in Ain's previous life, there were no high quest rewards, and few people would be willing to do extremely difficult tasks - of course, if it comes to faith, it's probably a different story. However, there is one thing that can be considered common sense: the more powerful the mage, the more he believes in his own power.
Because of the interference of the magic energy in the snow, the detection spell set on Ain's body did not work very well at all. So he had to use the same series of spells that he had discarded in his previous game.
After a little fumbling, I found a spell material that could be used for this spell. Fearing being discovered, Ain combined with the Oak Staff's Spell Silent Specialty.
As the little spell material in his hand disappeared from his hand, Ain's body became transparent.
Invisible. The only spells that Ain wouldn't have chosen to use in his previous life were invisibility - except when he had to retreat.
Because of invisible spells, except for invisible spells that can't be moved, as long as there is an intent to attack or cast spells, the body will be directly exposed. Although it can still have the effect of a surprise attack, this kind of spell is really not very useful in an era when everyone has constant arcane vision and detects invisibility.
And now the situation seems to be a little different. Even if there may be a corpse witch in the skeleton here, they will not give themselves such a constant spell - in this kind of march, even if there are invisible people lurking on the side, they will not be able to act, as for the White Mountain Range, where will they encounter mages again?
Under the cover of invisibility, Ain used his unwielding flying technique to move slowly against the ground. On this snow-covered ground, one step at a time is really one step at a time. Even the lowest level of skeleton with low intelligence will probably feel a little inappropriate.
After quietly searching half of the village, Ain found no trace of the skeleton, and the original traces on the ground were covered by the snow that came later, and there was no way to find a clue. But at this time, Ain's own invisibility has basically come to an end.
In a flash, Ain took advantage of the last bit of invisibility to find a wooden house with less damage, closed the door, and then lifted the invisibility.
After a short break and a sip of water, Ain thought for a moment, then took out a small piece of baked leaf from the inner pocket of his mage robe.
This leaf is called crow grass in this world, and it is a unique thing in this world. Crow grass is a bit similar to the opium poppy, which has a relatively strong hallucinogenic and anesthetic effect. In the game of the previous life, there was no drug.
Ain uses the Zero Ring Trick Light Dance to light a torch that floats in the air, then ignites the Raven Grass on it, and then disperses the torch into the most basic magical energy.
Using a magic trick to limit the smoke caused by the burning of the crow grass to the range of his own breath, Ain used the smoke as a spell to cast a spell of the Three-Ring School of Prophecy - Flash of Knowledge.
As the appearance of a djinn slowly emerged from the smoke of the raven, Aine thought for a moment and said, "Where are the survivors in this town?" If it's in the mountains, answer yes, otherwise answer no. ”
The djinn in the smoke fluctuated slightly, then fell into thought.
True Sense Flash: This spell is a little different from normal spells. Even if you have tens of thousands of spell slots, you can only cast them once, and it is used to summon a clone of an unknown evil djinn and ask him a question. The djinn can only answer yes or no to this question, or it will not answer the question. Djinn's answer is three out of four times correct.
After a moment's thought, the clone of the unknown evil djinn nodded, answered in the affirmative, and vanished along with the grass and smoke.
"And the djinn also answered......" Aine was also a little apprehensive, if the djinn could not answer, it would indicate that there must be no survivors in this village - three-quarters of the correct time only valid for the answer given, if there is no way to answer this question at all, the clone of the unknown evil djinn will not answer at all but will simply disappear.
Ain's question just now was the location of the survivors in the town, if there were no survivors, there would naturally be no such thing as a location, and the djinn had no way to answer and disappeared directly.
There was nothing else to worry about, and although the djinn answered correctly three quarters of the time, Ain had yet to encounter a situation where the djinn answered incorrectly.
Relieved of the flying spell that had little time left on his body, Ain blessed himself with a flying spell again. Then, with the invisibility effect that had been blessed on him again, Ain felt his way up the hillside where the fence was least damaged.
Before he had taken a few steps into the woods on the hillside, Aine could clearly feel the aura of the undead intensifying.
"It turns out that these skeletons are searching for survivors...... Aine saw a few fresh skeletons that were still a little crooked when he walked behind, even if he had dealt with Drew in his previous life, he naturally knew the combat habits of Drew's army - try to search for escapees, and try to transform all the living creatures that died in battle into undead.
Finding a hidden place a little, Ain slowly lifted the invisibility, and then consumed the magic energy in the four-ring magic energy pool to re-bless himself with a high-level invisibility.
Now Ain still doesn't know what the maximum combat power of this small team of bones is, so it is better to use the high stealth as a cover for a short time, and then use his magic missile to turn around the skill to test it.