Chapter 232: The Great Task of Self-Directed and Self-Acting
Sure enough, only one day later, Klanwo took the Midnight Lady to the Prancing Horse Tavern, and after Yako looked at the woman with aqua blue hair and a proud figure but an average face, he casually tested a few basic spells on the other side, even if she passed......
There are many legends about this woman who will become the goddess of magic, and there is a lot of speculation about her origins. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Among them, the most mainstream is the belief that Midnight is the incarnation of Mistra, and many people believe that the goddess of magic knew that her limit was approaching, so she descended to the main plane in advance and transformed into Midnight, and all that was left in the kingdom of God was just a wisp of her doppelganger......
The argument for this theory is simple, because Mirath was successfully reborn at the first death of her own, and although she changed her name to Mistra in the second life, they were essentially the same person.
So the believers of the goddess of magic took it for granted that they were the main sacred cow, and since they were so powerful, they were successfully reborn for the first time, and the second time was not also a matter of being caught?
It's just that people who really know the inside story scoff at this slightly ridiculous and naïve statement......
The current goddess of magic is indeed not in the kingdom of God, and her true body at the moment is indeed on the main plane, but she did not respond because she expected it in advance, but because she was aware of the conspiracy of the three gods of death, so she was caught by the god of tyranny Bane and forcibly detained on the main plane, and the place of detention was in Acoste, where they were going to the next stop, Arabel City.
According to the original trajectory of history, Cranvo and Midnight will meet Shirek and Ayton in the city of Arabel, and the four of them will encounter the handmaiden of the Goddess of Magic for help, and then the four of them will rescue Mirast, who is trapped by Bane.
The first thing that came to mind after regaining her freedom was to return to the divine realm to report the conspiracy of the three gods of death to AO, but she was stopped by Heim, the god of duty who guarded the steps of the Temple of the Gods.
It stands to reason that Heim, who only has medium divine power, could not have been an opponent of the goddess of magic with great divine power, but if the goddess of magic is in the incomplete form of a sage, and the god of duty is in the state of a god in its heyday, then the two are not an order of magnitude contest.
In the end, AO descended to the pinnacle of Waterdeep City, and after directly turning Ciric, who contributed three tablets of destiny, into a god, he also made an exception to turn Midnight into the goddess of magic, and a few years later, he turned Cranvo, who was supposed to die, into the god of death, and the priest Ayton still exists as the chief believer of the goddess of magic, and the four people in this team can be regarded as all outstanding..........
Therefore, in the end, the goddess of magic Mystra is not the woman standing in front of her at the moment, even if she changed her name to Mistra after taking office at midnight, but after all, it is already two different people.
"Alright, now that our members have arrived, let's go......" Acoste glanced around at everyone, in order to act realistically, the mission that the half-elf swordmaster said to Kranvo at the beginning was naturally not empty words, he himself had already been involved in a mission link, the content was to investigate a secret stronghold of the most dangerous and notorious Night Mask in the famous and dragon coast, as for the mysterious employer, of course, it was himself.
So, a well-planned, self-directed and self-directed stealth mission was successfully launched, a group of adventure teams with an average strength of only mid-level professionals secretly infiltrated Ximen City, spent three days running separately, and finally found a clue about the mysterious stronghold of the Night Mask in a secluded tavern, in that tavern, everyone also encountered the sneak attack of the Night Mask assassins, Kranvo and Midnight, the two new members of the [Night King] team, were fine, but Sally and Aryan were seriously injured, He was stabbed in the stomach with a poisonous dagger by the assassins and nearly died!
In order to heal their teammates, a group of people then went to the Temple of Fortune for help, and at the cost of spending hundreds of gold coins, they used the holy water they traded to recover from their dying state in a timely manner.
Underneath this casino is naturally a secret stronghold where everyone wants to go..........
After a series of battles and battles, everyone finally broke through to the secret hall of the stronghold, met the final Boos, and then when almost all nine people were seriously injured, they finally killed a high-ranking assassin leader named Calaft and the two steel golems beside him, and finally the group came to the treasure vault and obtained the items specified in the employer's mission and the treasures collected in the treasure room!
Acoste unceremoniously divided the gains from this mission equally, basically everyone got a magic item or two and some extra props, no one else said, but Kranwo and Midnight were happy.
It's not that they've never cooperated with others, but they're usually petty fights, most of them are crusading against beasts that harass human strongholds or going into the mountains and deep forests to collect materials that are in demand in the market, and they usually don't even have the opportunity to sweep up a bandit, let alone make a big deal all at once like today!
However, I have to mention that there is a certain reason why the two people of Cranvo and Midnight were favored by fate in the end, their combat talent is very high, their strength is still a little, and their basic skills are also solid......
The professional level is a problem for all professionals, because if they don't have an anti-heaven system like Acoste, then they have to rely on their own understanding every time they upgrade, a breakthrough between life and death, or the accumulation of knowledge, and then they will get explosive growth at a certain moment, pushing the door to another new world!
Although in this process, 6 or 7 out of 10 people will die in the so-called life and death perception, but the professional level is not the most difficult thing for a professional, generally speaking, as long as you have talent, the professional level can be sharpened sooner or later, which is not the ultimate embodiment of a professional's combat effectiveness.
And combat talent is what determines the upper limit of a professional's combat power!
It's like two different people, giving them the same attributes, the same skills, and the same weapons and equipment, the combat ability they can exert is definitely not the same!
It's a matter of one's talent, and there is no doubt that Kranvo and Midnight are the best of the bunch! What they lacked from Feihuang Tengda was just an opportunity, which was originally given to them by God, and what the Half-Elf Sword Master was doing now was just to give them a creation before God. In the eyes of Cranvo and Midnight, a few hundred gold coins is definitely a huge amount of money, with this money, Cranvo can at least add a decent magic armor to himself, and Midnight has this money, you can also buy some spell materials for experiments, or just go to the secret magic shop to buy some spell scrolls to learn and enrich your spell library!
It is really very difficult for professionals who have nothing to rely on at the beginning to become strong on their own, just like a down-and-out warrior will fall into a circle of inextricable death, they are not weak in their own strength, but every adventure is very thrilling, and the reason for the thrill is that they do not have a set of magic equipment that they can handle, and they have no money to buy a good set of magic equipment, and they have no money to buy it, and there is no money to cause them to go on a mission every time they are thrilling......
Kranvo's current situation is very similar to that of Acoste when he first debuted, both of them went through a life-fighting mission to obtain the first pot of gold, and then bought themselves the first magic equipment and embarked on a path to rise, but there are too few people who can go to the end on this road.
The Half-Elf Sword Saint can succeed because he has unparalleled combat experience and insight, and has a strong filthy bloodline, and Kranvo They can succeed in the future because they are the protagonists of this era, and they are the chosen ones, so what about other ordinary people? What can they rely on to get out of their own clear path?
As for the wandering mage, life is also not easy, everyone knows that a successful mage is the richest of all professions, but a few people know that they are the most expensive of all professions before the mage is not successful.
Mage books, spell casting materials, experimental materials, none of them are yellow, orange and orange gold coins, some naïve people think that mages can make their own potions to sell or make their own magic items to sell to maintain their own expenses, but that is simply a point of no return.
If a mage wants to make an item, first of all, a well-equipped workshop needs to be prepared for him, right? In other words, even if he had a studio, the money for the materials needed to make it alone could not be offset by the income from the sale of the finished product.
Because what low-level mage would dare to guarantee that he would succeed in every crafting process? There is no such person in this world, the lower the success rate of the mage's experiment, and those so-called great alchemists. It's not that the great pharmacists are talented, but that they also came through that stage of throwing money, and people get sponsorship and capital accumulation experience, but those wandering mages who only have themselves can only wait for death.......
If there are old mages who are willing to accept them as apprentices, these wandering mages will be grateful, even if they are willing to do anything to make them eat and drink urine, even if they no longer have human rights, they have to fight for the so-called [hope].....
It's not hard to understand why Midnight would go to prostitution, and Cranvo couldn't afford to support each other no matter how hard he worked..........
So when the two of them tasted the sweetness for the first time, Kranvo and Midnight's sense of belonging to Acoste's team immediately exploded, and even if the half-elf swordmaster didn't say anything, the wandering warrior and the wandering warbler mage would take the initiative to come and beg him to join their team.
And all the Half-Elf Sword Saint paid was a stronghold abandoned by the Night Mask and a few lives.
But don't think that the half-elf Juggernaut is cruel here, and he risked a few innocent lives for his own plan.
In fact, the members of the Night Assassins who played the enemy in this farce were all aware of it, and they were willing to sacrifice their lives!
Don't think that human life is worth everywhere, there is a statistic on the continent of Faerun, only 70 of the 100 children can successfully come to this world through October pregnancy, 40 can spend their childhood safely, 20 can grow up healthily, but less than 10 can spend their old age safely........
In this land, death is not uncommon, killing happens every day, Yacoste is quite conscientious, he took the initiative to ask the opinions of those members of the Night Mask, let them choose to join, and promised to give their families a series of benefits including going to the Starry Night Collar to settle, escort to school, arrange work and support the orphaned elderly, those members of the Night Mask almost did not squeeze their heads, and some of them were about to fight for the matter of signing up.
It is true that there are some people in this world who live for themselves, but you can't deny that there are also those people in this world who live for others, in the eyes of the second type of people, since they live for those who cherish in their hearts, and now their lives can be exchanged for a better life for those people than they can't get by their own efforts, why don't they do it?
These people are noble in the eyes of one and stupid in the eyes of another, and the same first group of people is selfish in the eyes of one but wise in the eyes of another.........
Everyone in this world has different values, and no matter which person's own opinion cannot be imposed on others, one thing is possible in this world, and that is that everything will be dominated by the will of the person with a big fist.
And Acoste is now the one with the biggest fist in the Night Mask, so everyone will be based on his standards, and when the half-elf Juggernaut becomes the biggest fist in the multiverse, the entire planet of Torrell will rotate with his will.
Clearly, Acoste is working on this..............
Seeing the eager little eyes of the two, Yacoste naturally nodded and agreed to Cranvo and Midnight's request, which made the two of them, who had so far looked very young and extremely immature, very excited, and almost knelt down and kowtowed to the half-elf sword saint on the spot to express his determination.
After the "big mission" directed and performed by Ximen City came to an end, a group of people rested for a few days, and one day when Acoste suddenly happened at the right time to say that something interesting happened in Arabell City, the Night King team immediately agreed to the plan of the half-elves, and went to Arabel City, far away in the kingdom of Sambia, to try their luck! (To be continued.) )