Chapter 147: The Earth Burning with Blood and Fire (3)
The dark red magma slowly eroded from the cracks in the ground to the surrounding area, and at the same time, the corpses of several players were lying on the ground around the lava, and the valuable things on the whole body had been completely removed. A bloodied arm was submerged in magma, and a wisp of flame was scorching the arm from a charred palm.
Scarlet blood continued to flow out of the dead player's body, and the moisture in the blood gradually evaporated under the heat of the ground, leaving only the same charred black color as the ground. Of course, if you open the corpses of these players, you will find that the dirt under their bodies is different from the dirt around them, and when the surrounding magma completely engulfs the corpses of these players, all that remains of the original crime scene is the black-brown magma rock.
The charred black magma rock emits a hot gas, and by the time the magma meteor fell again in the sky, there was no sign of any player activity in the area. It's just that a fiery red glow of magic crystal in the magma is soaking in the bubbling magma, and this fire element magic crystal that exudes a deadly attraction is floating quietly on the magma like a meat bun that attracts vicious dogs.
Not far from this magma area, dozens of players formed a team to hide in a scorched rock area, if Chen Kai was here at this moment, he might be able to find that the place where these players were hiding was the location of the magic array they had set up a few days ago. Although the entire magic array was mostly destroyed, these players still found something to use, such as the phantom array that was running. Although the entire magic array was almost broken, and those archmages had already discovered this place, they just didn't take advantage of it.
Until a group of players appear who follow Barbat's army into the wasteland, there is no doubt that players in the game world are actually playing the same role as real people, and what they see and think will affect their behavior. There are players who give up their discipline for money and other things and throw themselves into the dark camp. There are also players who stick to their own ideas and fight these players who have thrown themselves into the dark camp. However, even the latter, if they have the opportunity, will directly choose to turn the money of the dark camp players into their own.
At this moment, it is none other than the player of the Scarlet Crusaders who left the town of Burkner, Chen Kai's guy who calls himself Mograini in his own game, who is sitting in the middle of the tent at the moment. In fact, Mograini and the Scarlet Crusaders originally wanted to infiltrate Candorhat to see if they could make a fortune, but they found that they couldn't get in at all. Tens of thousands of dark Ones players control the whole of Candorhat, and they don't give the Scarlet Crusaders who are still in the good camp a chance. The most important thing is that Mograini does not have many people to bring to Cando Hart, although his personnel are definitely several times more than Chen Kai, the lord of Berkner Town in the past, but in the face of the more terrifying number of players in the dark camp, the hundreds of people he brought to Cando Hart are not enough to see.
Although Mograine led the core combat power of his entire Scarlet Crusader, the Scarlet Knights were composed of all seventh-order players. But even the seventh-order combat power was not able to fight against tens of thousands of players, as well as a number of evil spirit creatures with even more terrifying combat power. Of course, in the face of such a strength of the enemy. Mograini did not choose to run away, but hid around Candorhat until Barbat left Candorhat with a large army, and Mograini did not dare to enter the city with his men. It's just that at this time, Candorhat has been completely turned into ruins, although a group of people still found some gold coins and scattered supplies at the end of the day, but there is no doubt that most of the materials have been taken away.
Seeing this, after some deliberation, Mograini decided to take the risk of following Barbat into the wasteland, although the result was that the Knights, who had originally numbered a few hundred, now had less than two hundred left. They were also divided into several groups, but they also gained a lot from Mograini. Along the way, they used various methods to sneak attack. In fact, it wasn't the players who really caused casualties to Mograini, but the monsters in the wasteland.
Shortly after entering the wasteland, they were scarred by a band of wasteland hyenas. Unfortunately, several of the hyenas in this group had attacked Chen Kai and them, so they gathered nearly three hundred hyenas in their first attack after they were attached to Mograini and his party. A huge herd of hyenas took advantage of the night to attack the Scarlet Knights, who did not dare to light the torches, and the number of players killed in the battle broke 100 in just a few minutes. In the end, Mograini had to choose to flee with the wolf Bèi, leaving a dozen players behind.
But this unfortunate act of qiē made sense in the end, and when they entered the area, there was no doubt that luck had finally returned to them. Although they were far behind Barbat's troops in the previous move, they were later when Barbat gathered the player for a march. The players of the Scarlet Knights are ahead of the curve. When they found the remains of the magic circle, Mograini immediately sensed through the several large footprints on the ground that this might be the place where some acquaintance had been. So after spending some price, Mograini got a blueprint for the activation of the Illusion Magic Array from Chen Kai.
Of course, the so-called blueprints are only the routes in and out of the magic array, as well as the runes that need to be built for the repair of certain nodes. But this alone has completely exceeded Mograini's expectations. As long as Balbat didn't go to the location of the magic circle here, then ordinary players would not be able to find out that this place, which looked like scorched earth on the outside, actually contained more than two hundred people. Of course, there are only a few dozen people here such as Mograini, and the rest are either moving around or going offline to rest.
"Captain! What a good harvest today! Those money-hungry guys are really the same as you expected, and they don't even want their lives for money! It is estimated that they never thought that someone would sneak attack them behind their backs, but these guys have a lot of money in their pockets, even if only 30% of the money is exposed, it is the boss! "One of the players sitting under Mograini looks loyal and honest, but his smile is a bit obscene, and what is even more depressing is that he actually uses Tirio? The name Ferdin. There is no doubt that there are many famous people in the entire Scarlet Knights, of course, some people are indeed very strong, but there are also some who are not outstanding.
Although this player used to have the same name as the famous Paladin in the Blizzard games, his combat power is not as fierce as that of Old Fordin. But it's not as fierce as Old Ferding in the real game. However, the player is also one of Mograini's right-hand men, although Mograini might be happier if his smile wasn't so obscene.
"That's it! Old Ding, stop laughing! If you laugh again, I guess I don't have to do it, everyone else will want to beat you up! "The player whose name in the game is Lao Fuding is actually surnamed Ding, and his name is Ding Fu, a very common name that can even be said to be vulgar. Of course, his name becomes the name used in the game when it is reversed, and if he can't preemptively register this name in other games, but in this game even if there are hundreds of systems with the same name, they will agree. So if Chen Kai saw someone with the same name as his game, he wouldn't be surprised. Similarly, if it weren't for the familiar face, Mograine would never have believed that this guy who laughed so obscenely would be the loyal and honest paladin they had experienced in the games they had experienced in the past.
“OK! OK! Can you blame me for laughing lewdly? I look so loyal and honest, how can I be called the wolf of Quang Nam if I don't laugh at the lewd point! Eventually, though, his voice was gone. But that was lost under the contemptuous gaze of many companions.
"That's it! Ark! Lift the sand table up! Mograine beckoned to one of the mage players beside him, and then everyone quickly cleared the teacups and plates on the tent table, and several player warriors slowly walked over with a little heavy sand table.
"Now this area is within the range we can control, and there will be danger if it is far away! Of course, the union troops are moving here, but I don't think there will be much to do when they get here! "Mograini was a little frustrated. There is no doubt that the lack of manpower at the moment is definitely the most frustrating thing for them, compared to Barbat, who has tens of thousands of players as fighters. There were only about two hundred people around Mograini.
"The Ark! Add new stuff to the sandbox! As Mograine's words fell. The mage standing on the edge of the sand table quickly put the prepared things and text notes on the sand table. Ore Shards are replaced with small gems or stones, and detected dark Forces players are marked with black banners.
"There's a Fire Elemental Crystal here, and we just ambushed a few players here not long ago, so it's going to be dangerous in a short period of time!" The player called the Ark points a wooden stick to a place on the sandbox marked as a magma pool, and in the middle of the lava pool, a red stone has the words fire element crystal written on it. Several of the fire elemental spellcasters who stayed in the tent looked at the marker with obvious heat, but they knew that it was a trap that had been set up, and they were absolutely not allowed to move around for a short time.
"There's a fire rock here. It's just that they haven't been discovered by those guys for the time being! Neil was wandering there with twenty men, and the news just came that they had retreated, because a force of about a hundred men had appeared! As the Ark's words fell, a black flag marked 100 was planted over the area. Mograini sighed at the sight of the flag, there was no doubt that the trap had now been abandoned.
"Sue Sù Neil be careful, don't be exposed!" For the information just passed on, Mograini also received, for them now the most important thing is to save themselves, if they encounter a small scale of dark forces players then can sneak attack, they will definitely not come hard.
"He's been informed!" The mage called the Ark didn't have much expression, and his whole face looked extremely cold. Then he began to show everyone the situation in the sand table again, it can be said that Mograini and they have firmly grasped the terrain within nearly two kilometers of the surrounding area, of course, they do not mean that they are absolutely safe. After all, this is the place where the demigods fell, and it was not far from the center of the fall, in fact, after seeing those footprints, Mograini guessed that Chen Kai and they should have gained some benefits from the demigods. It's just that he didn't know that Chen Kai and the others definitely got more things than he imagined, but this kind of getting was not Chen Kai and other players, but those elven mages.
It's just that Chen Kai, who was being nagged by Mograini, was driving a carriage to avoid the pursuit of dozens of wasteland cheetahs, and the heavy crossbows on the carriage cooperated with the dwarven musketeers to try to attack those chasing wasteland cheetahs. It's just that the bumpy road surface can barely support the dwarves to kill a cheetah, except for the bullets flying everywhere, and even if they are injured, they are lucky and blind. While Chen Kai and the others were frantically fleeing, Mograini and the others had already rearranged to their respective ambush locations, and slowly walked out of the tent hidden in the illusion. Mograini nodded to the few casters who remained behind.
The most dangerous thing in this dangerous area is that there is nothing other than a magma meteor shower in the sky that I don't know where and where it will fall, and the biggest purpose of a few spellcasters staying here is nothing else, which is to use spells to deflect the magma meteor shower when it falls. There was no doubt that a few wind elemental mages were quite rare, because the wind elemental casters that Chen Kai had encountered so far could be counted in a single slap.
The only task of a few wind elemental spellcasters at the moment was to use a spell to blow it off when the fire elemental meteor fell, which was undoubtedly a very difficult task, but it seemed that they were doing a good job so far. At least the previous few small magma meteors were safely dealt with by them, but if the size of the meteor was too huge, it is estimated that they would be blinded, but fortunately, this situation did not appear.
Walking cautiously on the pungent smell of the wasteland, a large amount of water vapor mixed with the dust formed by the volcanic ash obscures the view. It's this environment that allows Mograini to sneak up on the player, as even the most discerning player can only see 100 meters from this environment. At the same time, the closer you get to the center of the demigod's fall, the thicker the cloud of dust becomes. In the gray environment, even the sunlight could not fall to the ground. Makes the only source of illumination change from the sky to the ground.
The scorching magma had become almost the largest source of light in the area, and of course the daytime was slightly better, at least the brightness around it was acceptable, and it was close to dusk. This environment is definitely a natural barrier for Mograini, who is preparing to ambush the dark forces, and he is looking forward to the arrival of the night, which he is very fortunate to have less than two hours before it is now. In another two hours, maybe the surrounding environment will be out of sight. At that time, Mograini and the others no longer need to cover themselves with foul-smelling blankets as a cover.
"Shh Just as Mograine was about to approach his predetermined ambush spot, he suddenly heard some sounds, so he raised his hand without hesitation, and everyone instantly crouched down at a great speed. Of course, none of them were wearing metal armor. Because the surrounding environment is only dim, it is not enough to block the transmission of sound. Although the defense of leather armor is a little lower. But in order to ensure that the sneak attack was quiet enough, Mograini had to sacrifice a certain amount of defense.
"Looks like we've been caught in the ambush! Ark! Have you contacted Brother Tai? Mograini had a very bad feeling and almost at the same time as he asked, there was news in the team channel that he didn't want to hear.
"Captain! Please get out of there immediately, I just got the news that he was attacked, and there are at least two hundred players of the dark forces in that area! Commander, Commander! Did you hear that? Fangzhou's voice was anxious, for he was too late to receive this message. It was supposed to be them ambushing others. As a result, the players who stayed in the area were accidentally ambushed, and they did not deliver a useful message until they died. It wasn't until after his death that he went offline to inform the Ark that he got the news, and quite a bit of time had passed by now.
"Needless to say! I've seen it! Mograini looked at the dark players who were gradually surrounding him, and there was no doubt that they had been pecked by the geese who had wanted to fight the geese. With less than fifty players facing more than two hundred dark forces. It's impossible to sneak attack, and the only thing you can do is to fight hard.
"Captain! Hold on, I'll bring someone over right away! A squad leader of the Scarlet Knights heard the news and quickly prepared to run to support, but Mograini stopped him directly.
"No, you don't! Lao Tzu is your leader, if you can't even get rid of more than 200 garbage, how will I take you in the future! Don't worry, I'll leave it to you! Isn't it just two hundred crumbs? I will let them know that the gap in strength cannot be filled by numbers! Slowly pulling out the golden greatsword behind him, the huge body of the sword that was one and a half meters long emitted a faint golden light, this greatsword had a name that Mograine liked very much, Divine Glory. Mograine was undoubtedly a Templar, but he did not belong to the Temple of Dawn like Chen Kai, but to another temple, the Temple of Radiance.
There is no doubt that the status of the Hansting Temple of Radiance is definitely not as high as that of the Temple of Dawn, but as one of the most important temples in the game, the combat power of the Templars who came out of the Temple of Radiance is also very amazing. In fact, the Temple of Radiance is far more powerful than the Temple of Dawn when it comes to fighting evil creatures, but he is now facing not evil creatures, but a group of players who have joined the forces of darkness. (To be continued......)