Act Sixty-Eight: The Breath of Milos

Despite the fact that time was pressing, Brando's team ended up being delayed for another day on the banks of the Nuga River. Fortunately, the hunter girl Peiya's body was very good, the fever quickly subsided, and the wound recovered at an astonishing speed.

Brando didn't know if this was a hunter's special talent, but on the morning of the third day, the party had to set off anyway at his behest. He summoned a black wolf as a mount for the Hunter Maiden, who had recovered from a serious illness, and the others had to go down on foot. Both the wagons and horses were left in the makeshift camp on the banks of the Nuga River, as the journey below was no longer suitable for these things.

After a day in the forest, the taiga quickly becomes dense, and the layers of snow-covered branches sometimes even block out the sun, making the forest floor eerie and cold. The team creaked and stepped on the snow and broken dead branches, and soon some white rocks in the shape of minarets appeared between the woodlands, and then a light blue light curtain came into everyone's field of vision, like a thin wall of light, this translucent wall of light towered into the sky, enveloping the entire forest, and connecting with the white rock minarets not far away.

Everyone couldn't help but stop and watch the spectacle. But only Brando knew that this pale blue curtain of light was the entrance to this precursor copy, the Final Breath of Milos. In the game, this light curtain is referred to as the 'Mana Bond', and is the symbol of the level 80 quest (character level).

Behind this curtain wall is the famous giant dungeon group.

Speaking of which, apart from the Golden Demon Tree, this is the first time that Brando has seriously challenged this copy of the Vaynd world. In Amber Sword, the way dungeons work is actually very different from most games of the same era, and it is just a convention for players to use this name.

A copy in Amber Sword. It's more of a scene area than a copy. Because only this word can define it accurately.

Copies that Brando is familiar with have several ways to operate. The first is a one-time quest quest, where only the player who challenges it first will have a chance to get the quest. For example, the Forbidden Orchard of the Golden Demon Tree is such a model, although the latecomer can repeatedly kill the boss through the fragment of time. But it is destined to have nothing to do with the plot.

The second is the typical scene area of the giant dungeon group they are facing now. The way such a giant dungeon group works is very classic, and it can be said that it created a precedent in the gaming industry at that time. Although there are still only one or several fixed main lines in the dungeon, in other front-end areas, it is not the single-line advancement mode of 'monster-boss in the road-monster-boss' that most players are familiar with.

Instead, a copy like Milos' Final Breath is in fact divided into two zones. Each region is made up of points and polygons. The dots are the monster lairs in the area, and the faces are the special areas in the dungeon. In these areas, the lair will bring one or more fixed combinations of monsters, plus randomly generated leader-level monsters and random special events - the player's mission is to challenge these monsters in the specific terrain of different areas.

This way, as long as the main story in the center of the Frost Labyrinth is not activated. So every time you enter the pre-dungeon, you actually have to face a completely real area. The difficulties they encounter in this area depend entirely on the calculations of the system and the changes their actions bring to the area.

Such a game mode can be said to have opened an era and is the real reason why Amber Sword beats other games. A world that is infinitely closer to the real world. In fact, since the first version of Level 70. Every instance that appears in the game since then has used a similar philosophy. The Amber Sword also began to reach its peak step by step from that time.

For this pioneering copy of the era, Brando himself was naturally impressed.

But fortunately, the storage in the copy is over time. Change, but at least there are traces to follow. Especially before entering for the first time, the monster's lair will not disappear out of thin air, and the terrain in the dungeon is unlikely to change much, and there are some small secrets that only he knows, which can also help him a lot.

Because of this, he can be confident.

The only variable is probably only Enlek's men who entered the dungeon first. Brando looked back and saw that most of the people who followed him were stunned - the Mana Binding was truly spectacular. It is said that most of the reasons for the generation of such light curtains come from ancient seals, which is the same as the accuracy of time.

The magic wall on the outskirts of the Frost Forest is said to have been a self-sealing seal placed by the god of giants in his final moments to protect his body and divine fire. However, for thousands of years, it has been eroded by the magic of darkness.

"Mr. Brando, what the hell is that!" Firas looked up at the curtain of light that reached the sky, and couldn't help but sigh a little.

"It's like a magical enchantment." Lorenna muttered.

"Not likely, but exactly." Charles also tilted his head and sighed loudly: "This must be a creation from the ancients, after the battle of the Sages, there has been no such spectacular magic." ”

But Brando listened to the words of several people and did not answer, but glanced back at Peya, who was sitting on the back of the black wolf. The Hunter Maiden was in much better spirits that day, but her voice was still a little weak: "Father's notes mention this curtain wall, but it should be harmless, and they also passed through this wall of light at the time - but be careful, the forest behind is the real dangerous area." ”

"What's behind that?"

"Father had mentioned that the forest was immersed in night all day long, and that there were glowing pale people in the night, who would lurk in the trunks of the trees and attack the travelers who passed through it. My father said they were the ghosts of the lost, looking for victims to replace them—" Peya replied in a whisper.

Almost all right, Brando was a little surprised. It seems that the father of the hunter girl has actually entered the forest, and the first area of Milos's final breath is the Forest of Night, as she described, there is only night in the forest, there is no day, and all kinds of dangers lurk under the night.

But that's the easiest area of this front-end copy. There is no specific plot in this area, there are many monster nests and some special random events, and what you can encounter depends on the player's luck.

He knew the forest - from the strategy. But Peya's father's notes can help him understand the forest from another side, and Brando suddenly realizes that his decision seems to have earned it again.

"Can we spot them?" The little prince seemed to be inherently incapable of resisting these mysterious things, and he clenched his saber and asked with a pale face. "I have a gem that can detect the undead in advance."

"Psychic Gem." Lorenna seemed to know quite a bit about magical objects, and immediately realized what Haruzer was talking about. "Your Royal Highness, if you have that, it would be great. Ghosts and ghosts are unpredictable and dangerous, and psychic gems can keep them hidden. ”

"I think the opposite, you'd better put that thing away." Brando interrupted their conversation, and he turned back to Peya and said, "Your father didn't see a ghost, although it looked like it. It was the Demon Spirit, who was sensitive to magical items and had a habit of killing travelers who carried them and robbing them of their equipment. ”

"Demons?" Firas was a little puzzled.

"It's a very cruel monster; You've heard of wizards who have gone crazy in pursuit of the mysteries of magic, some of whom have turned to the study of how to control the magic of darkness, but most of them have failed. The surging dark magic would tear apart their bodies for a moment, but their purest souls remained, becoming one with the magic they loved most in life - of course, at this time, these wizards could no longer be called human, they were only in their minds a love for magic, and other than that, like a beast. ”

Brando explained calmly.

His words sent a chill down the hearts of most of the people present.

Only Charles nodded: "The lord is not talking about the bedside story you have heard, as you can testify to below." There are indeed many such people in the history of wizards, but how can there be so many demons here, is it strange? ”

"It's easy, you'll understand when you get in." Brando replied.

In fact, the group had already approached the light curtain at this moment, and it was only after getting closer that they could see the true face of the light wall. It looks like a flowing wall of water, where the water element is confined to a thin layer of surface, and the waves are swirling. As everyone approached it, the smooth surface reflected their stretched grotesque image.

Brando reached out and touched the wall of light—it was to gain the approval of the Mana Bondage. After all, a seal is a seal, and only the people of order can pass through it safely and without worry, and those monsters will be restrained forever.

The ripples on the curtain flickered, and then the ripples receded in both directions, and the scene was exactly as Brando's previous life had been—and soon a hollow area about two people high and five people wide appeared in the blue wall of light. The hollow area revealed a corner of the Night Forest behind him, and Brando squinted his eyes and looked inward, and the black hole forest was exactly the same as the one he had seen on the Raiders.

But even in the darkness of the forest, there are dots of light floating. It's just that it's not a good thing, because Brando knows that the creatures in this forest don't have good intentions nine times out of ten.

He took a step inward, stepping into the forest that was forever shrouded in silence, then turned and said to the people outside:

"Please come in, welcome to the forest of eternal night—"

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(PS: Today's is here ~ 2 more 7K again.) Damn, your strong baboons are so tired that they want to roll on the ground all day, all kinds of support. )