Chapter 014: Human-faced Monkey
Inside the underground hall of the Murd Museum.
A group of three people kept moving along the rough and dark stone passageway, and at the top of the wall was a circle of frost-colored torches placed there, and the faint light reflected the small corners around them, and some kittens who usually liked to squeak lived in the unilluminated places.
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
There was a dull sound in the air, and the sound of footsteps on the move.
"Is this the underground area of the Mage Alliance's mission? It's the first time I've been to such a place, and there are traces of violent fluctuations in the elements, and there must be quite a few mages there choosing a mission. ”
The silver-haired girl in the wide white robe showed a delicate and beautiful face, her blue eyes were like the purest and most flawless gems under the starry sky, she opened her mouth gently, with a hint of curiosity, and her devilish figure also made her add a lot of points overall, and she was about to compete with the stars outside.
She's none other than Tefier.
"It's okay, let's go."
The black robe next to him lifted his hood, revealing Grant's appearance.
After Grant had taught all the lessons, several days had passed. They walked a few blocks from the Shadow Academy to the museum's underground passage to the fairhouse, which was once built by ancient mages to shelter from elemental tidal storms, and was later converted into a fairhouse by some of the city's most powerful mages.
"Grant, may I ask you a question?" Taylor asked, turning his head and asking with a slight hesitation.
"What's the problem?"
A hint of doubt crossed Grant's eyes and slowed his pace.
"Why haven't I seen anyone walking around together until now, it stands to reason that the entire city has a huge number of mages. Seems like it's a desolate place? ”
Grant laughed twice and explained, "There are seventy or eighty passages into the fairhouse throughout the city. As long as you follow these passages, you can reach the central hall, and as for this road, there are relatively few people who usually enter. So that's what you see, let's move on slowly. ”
"Oh." Both Tiffel and Taylor know something.
After a long passage, you can easily enter an empty hall.
Surrounded by smooth stone brick walls, at the top of the hall are seven intricately carved dark red crystal lamps that depict self-balancing elemental runes. And in order to keep it strong, there are also some black metal iron blocks to erect the pillars.
In the center of the hall were seven or eight long stone tables with some food and crystals, and from north to left there were several candlesticks in the shape of a gable.
More than thirty mages sat there and chatted in a circle, or stood on the north side to look at what looked like an oil painting. But in the flying spinning walls, countless information slowly disappears from top to bottom, and then refreshes some new tasks. The group of mages occasionally swept their eyes over the task, erupting in whispers.
Grant entered the hall without attracting anyone's attention.
"That's where the quest is collected, let's go and have a look."
"That's right, go find those good quests."
Tiffel and Taylor looked a little excited, and couldn't wait to walk over to the stone walls and browse them one by one. And take a closer look at the better ones.
Grant walked to the front, but there was a thoughtful look in his eyes.
What he needs now is to be promoted to level eleven, because he needs to get the Demon Pet slot to increase his strength. The most square monsters are some monsters with weak defense and attack power that can be within the range of his acceptance. There are even more such monsters. And it is gathered together, so that it is convenient for him to farm energy.
"Grant, what do those missions look like. Both have C, B on the front. Taylor asked, confused.
"That represents the difficulty level of the mission, and this hall is mainly for the tasks received by mages below the first rank. That A mission represents a first-order top-level mage, and B mission is a relatively strong mage. C is also an elite-level mage, and D is just an ordinary first-order mage, of course, some collection tasks depend on the scarcity of materials. ”
Grant explained a little and slowly skimmed through it.
"Hunt in the Northlands: Hunt down a group of ghouls, including a berserk ghoul, in the small town of Northern Rand, reward: 12 magic stones, difficulty level: C, number limit: none."
"Collect Blood Orchids: Collect the stamens of ten Blood Orchids and develop them into a bottle of powder, reward: 4 Demon Stones, difficulty level: D, number limit: none."
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Grant quickly read most of them and found a few nice quests to claim.
"Grant, how was that mission? Looking for the Devil Vine, as long as there are two plants, there are eighteen Devil Pattern Stones, and as long as you get one more, there are nine Devil Pattern Stones to take. ”
Tiffel pointed to a quest message marked in the top left.
Grant shook his head, he didn't really need this kind of task that only relied on gathering, after all, his top priority now was to improve his strength, and then go hunt down a well-preserved ghost, which was a bit troublesome with his current strength.
"I choose this task, if you don't have an opinion, you can agree together."
"Kill the Human-Faced Monkey: A kind of magical beast that periodically troubles the woods in the southeast, there are about dozens of them, they will devour the farmland and some magic herbs, you need to bring more than thirty pairs of monkey ears, reward: fifteen magic stones, difficulty level: C."
Grant looked at it twice and was very satisfied, he knew that the attack power of this kind of demonic beast was very good, but the defense ability was relatively small, and it was common to gather together. The average human-faced monkey is at level nine, and the human-faced monkey warrior is also level ten, and only the human-faced monkey Si Lord reaches level twelve.
The information and the difficulty were just right for him.
"Yes, yes, it's just a little difficult and troublesome." Teffel frowned slightly.
"It's okay, my abilities are right for these monsters."
"Okay then."
Grant's leading ability undoubtedly made the two of them lack some assertiveness, and after a little certainty, he stamped the magic sigil on the front counter to receive the task, and was responsible for picking up the task.
The duration of the mission is seven days. If you don't come back for seven days, the mission will automatically restart.
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Half a day later.
A rugged gravel path. Because no one has cleaned it up for a long time, many weeds grow everywhere. Some black flying insects kept flying around.
Grant, Tenfil and the others rode their horses to the front.
"Two kilometers further ahead, we will reach the target we need, everyone must be ready to fight, the human-faced monkey is more violent, as long as it finds a human being, it will attack."
Grant stuck to the white horse's back, he squinted his eyes so that the oncoming wind did not blow in his eyes, in this environment, he also wanted to try to keep his eyes accurate, otherwise as long as the eyes were cloudy and the slightest failure would affect their success and failure this time.
The low sound of horses sounded one by one. The six horses were also tired to death.
On this mission, Tefir brought all his servants with him, and as official knights, they were still useful, and they happened to be the protectors of spellcasting.
In a hurry, Grant and the others crossed several paths to grow farmland and came to a wooded field under a protruding mountain, at the end of which was a cliff that seemed to have been cut by a knife, and the smooth and flat cliff and some nests made by birds would chirp slowly at this time of day.
The lush woods are filled with a delicate scent of emerald green. A group of gray bark, strangely shaped trees grow at the roots, and the dense black leaves of the branches of the trees block them tightly, leaving only a quiet path to walk. There was also a striking trail of blood on the edge of the border, suggesting that the road was not as safe as it had been imagined.
"Be careful, you have to go into this wood, this is where they live. I estimate that there are about forty or so of them, but they are not quite combative. So it's in charge of breaking down one by one, and slowly hunting from the edges. If possible, I'll take care of the last resort. ”
Grant dismounted, grabbed the black reins, and said with a serious face.
"Mage Grant, is there any important reason?"
The three knights did not understand the inquiry, and in their eyes this request seemed inexplicable, and all of them wanted to inquire about this matter clearly.
"I don't want to explain." Grande headed.
"Okay."
Several knights shrugged their shoulders in frustration.
"Everyone listen to Grant's words first, and if it is not too excessive, try to comply with it unconditionally, all for the sake of everyone to complete this mission as much as possible."
Tefiel took a deep breath and cleared her throat.
"Wow! Wow! ”
After a few people dismounted and tied them to the side of the tree pole, they also carefully held the cross sword one by one, and the one-handed giant sword and other weapons entered the woods, they all knew that the danger contained in it was not pressed on the side of the misty woods, and the lowest human-faced monkey level was the peak of ordinary knights, and the relatively high level was also the level of the middle and late stages of the official knight level, if you were not careful, you would be unlucky, it would be really unlucky.
There are many pitch-black leaves in the woods, so that the bright golden sunlight cannot be transmitted from the overlapping leaves, these conditions make the light dark, and some frightened bats fly out of the dark environment from time to time, they continue to fly out with a strange scream, and then quickly disappear into the eyes of Grant and others.
Hundreds of meters away, the light around me became even dimmer.
"Woo woo woo ......"
A burst of voices rang out, and in the dark woods in the distance, there were several monkeys dressed in rudimentary animal skins, holding stones or polished swords in their hands, they had a face with half human expression of sorrow and joy, and their whole bodies were black and rich, and they looked closer to savages, but they had to feel a little strange.
Several human-faced monkey monsters screamed and rushed over with vines, and their flexible skills made them jump over several branches quickly, coming to a range of a few hundred meters of Grant, and the stones they held were also thrown over one by one, and the strong arm strength made the sprinting speed of the stones change qualitatively.
As if piercing the air, the stone rushed and when it hit the body of a tree, the entire branch fell to the ground with a bang, and billowing smoke and dust rose to cover everything on the ground.
"Ahem......"
Grant covered his nose and coughed twice, and the dust became uncomfortable when it entered his lungs. With half-squinted eyes, he summoned the White Frost Wolf and Refy into battle, while he himself stood in the middle of the knights, his eyes immediately locked on the approaching human-faced monkeys, called Reffe immediately.
"Get rid of them all, and remember not to let any of them go."
Grant commanded and stood in place, he knew that the number of human-faced monkeys in this area in front of him was not too many, and it was not too difficult to deal with them with the strength of the two demon pets now, not to mention that Tefier and Taylor were using electric spells to enter the auxiliary attack and knock down the approaching demonic beasts.
After a while, six or seven human-faced monkeys fell down in front of no resistance, for which Grant harvested a batch of energy, storing a lot of liquid in his invisible energy pool, but unfortunately, just with such a number of human-faced monkeys, it still needs a lot of energy.
"Whew~~"
A pungent scent of blood blew in the air, and the crimson mist slowly shifted its position, approaching the neighborhood where they were staying.
"We've got to cut off their ears quickly, or the other monkeys will be here soon, so hurry up."
Grant stood there directing the people around him and said slowly.
"We know, let's cut it now."
"Wait, I'll get them all down right now."
The three knights took up their silver swords, and then rushed to one corner of the woods on their tiptoes, and cut off all the ears of the human-faced monkeys lying still on the ground, leaving not a single ear.
In the distance, on a tree branch, eight human-faced monkeys were entrenched together, constantly playing with the pests on each other's bodies, and a small area of white bones was piled up under the tree. The horrible-looking human bones had not yet been eaten perfectly, and a trace of scarlet muscular flesh remained on them.
A stout human-faced monkey with a shabby silver leather armor on its body was suddenly stunned, its face was undoubtedly more humane than other human-faced monkeys, but at this time, it turned its head in confusion and felt a little strange.
It didn't know why there was always a hint of danger approaching there.
His companions urged him to take a look. As the team leader of these human-faced monkeys, he also reluctantly summoned them to follow slowly, jumped out of a distance of dozens of meters with both hands, and quickly left the place.
At the same time as he shouted loudly, a black stray arrow suddenly flew in his ears, and the blood slowly dripped down with the trembling in his ears, and a pitch-black steel arrow pierced into his chest on the surface of his body, and the blood with the tip of the sword slowly flowed down, and fell to the ground with a click.
"Poof!"
Without noticing, another voice appeared. (To be continued.) )