Chapter 115: The Splinter Factor
A cemetery washed away by heavy rains.
A figure dressed in a priest's white robe flashed into an open stone door of the tomb and vanished.
"Tyro, wait!"
The wanderers in the ranks stopped the paladin who was about to storm the tomb and said in a deep voice, "Let me go ahead, he attracted us over, there must be a trap hidden inside." β
The wanderer's words were full of affirmation, and the corners of his mouth were full of ridicule.
He has seen this kind of trick a lot, and since level ten, he and his team have never suffered the loss of a trap. Neither ordinary mechanical traps nor magic traps can escape his search and demolition.
"Good!"
"Night Moon, you're scouting ahead!"
Tylor's eyes had regained some clarity, but they were still full of anxiety and longing. He can't afford to miss this opportunity again!
Nightmoon is a human wanderer, neutralized by the evil camp, and believes in Baal, the god of killing. The god of slaughter had actually fallen in the turbulent years near the Bariskell Bridge in the winding river, where it is said to be still filthy and poisonous.
Paladins, druids, barbarians, mages, and arch-and-arrow battle rangers followed the wanderers into the tomb.
The priest was strangely gone.
Tyro and the others followed the night moon and gradually explored the depths of the passage, but they didn't find any traps along the way.
"It's weird......"
Holding a single dagger, Night Moon whispered to Taylor beside him, "It's too quiet, and there is no trace of a trap at all." Tyro, are you sure you're looking at a player, not an imaginary creature like a ghost? β
He didn't explicitly say that Tyro might have been under the influence of illusion. But there was a hint of flavor in the words. Tylo and the rest of the team could hear it. The Fallen Paladin immediately said in a deep voice, "It can't be an illusion. No one can let me unknowingly fall for the Confuse Control spell! β
"That's the priest!"
Night Moon and the other team members looked at each other, then nodded, "Then listen to you, Tyro, let's continue inside." β
The advance of the six members of the team was not too slow, and after about half an hour, they were standing at the entrance of the passage.
Then, all six of them, including the fallen Paladin Tyro, stared out at the dark and gloomy underworld. Silent for a long time.
After a while, the master of the team suppressed his excited voice and said: "The Tifanton tragedy must be related to this world, quickly, let's return to the surface and report to Longsa!" β
The Master turned around to leave, but pulled Tyro by the hand.
"Are you crazy?" Tylor's eyes widened, and he glared at the mage like a beast and whispered, "If you go back to report it, it will be equivalent to the aborigines completing the investigation task, and we can only get the credit for assisting the investigation in the end." β
"The priority must be clearly distinguished, and the task rewards are one in the sky and one in the ground!"
The atmosphere of the team was a little silent for a while.
The mage player also apparently had a reputation no less than that of Tyro. The archers, rangers, and barbarians move toward the mage. Nightmoon the Wanderer and Druid stood behind Tylor.
The six-man squad split into two opposing groups. In fact, this team was improvised, because of a cross-border mission. Although Waterdeep City has a large population and a large number of players, the players who are above level 10 and can receive cross-border missions are none other than those acquaintances.
Rangers, Barbarians, and Mages are more familiar, and Wanderers, Druids, and Paladins are more familiar. After more than half a month, the team has also formed a tacit understanding a little, and everyone usually listens to Taylor, as a whole, but at the critical moment, there are differences of opinion, and there is still a phenomenon of standing in line.
"Nishizawa, you have to listen to me this time." Tyro stared at the mage tightly, a hint of pleading in his eyes, "Trust me, catch that priest first, and then explore this world, and you will definitely get a reward from Ronsa that is far beyond your imagination!" β
In fact, Tyro still found it quickest and easiest to catch the priest. At that time, even if he couldn't investigate the inside story of the Tifanton tragedy, he kept the opportunity to advance.
Mage Nishizawa frowned and thought for a while, then nodded and said in a deep voice, "Yes." We'll keep exploring, but if something unexpected happens, or an invincible monster, I'll have the right to take the team's second command back to the surface. β
The Wizard player compromised, apparently not wanting the team to collapse before completing the investigation.
The six-man team finally walked out of the aisle.
On the left and right sides of the exit of the passage stands a huge stone statue of a knight that has been overlooked. In the shadows, a small poisonous snake curled up silently, swallowing a crimson snake hyacinth, listening to all the conversation of the group.
"Interesting."
"Teams with split factors are easier to deal with."
The Viper Triangular narrowed slightly, and instead of following Taylor, he waited at the entrance of the passage.
If Balasa goes according to plan, it will be almost time to guide the skeleton generals to this side. He had asked him last night, and the time it took for the paladin to run at full speed on a lizard from the depths of the underworld, between half an hour and an hour.
β¦β¦
"Bang"
Tyro swung his two-handed heavy sword and slashed a swooping corpse into the air.
Mage Nishizawa threw a [Magic Missile] almost instantaneously, and a total of five missiles hit another corpse demon in succession, knocking the undead to the point of residual blood.
The Barbarians swung their axes and walked around the pile of more than a dozen skeleton soldiers, and the Wanderers, Rangers, and Druids also helped to deal with the skeletons.
This is the third time the team has encountered a monster.
After the battle, Tyro frowned, put away his greatsword in both hands, sighed, and muttered, "All of them are undead monsters...... If my dispel ability is still ....... β
Now the Fallen Paladin is somewhat nostalgic for the power he has lost.
"Boom"
After a pause, the team prepared to continue exploring. But at this moment, a loud sound that was different from the rushing of the earth river came from afar.
Dark clouds soon appeared in the sky above, and the shadow of a ghost appeared inside. On the ground level, a holy warrior riding a large lizard jumped out first, and more than ten meters behind him, there was a skeleton warrior riding a skeleton war horse with a bright fire in his eyes!
"There are other players here!"
ββ¦β¦ Is that...... Lord's Monster! β
", what does he want to do?"
Tyro and the others were shocked, and then they realized that something was wrong. When the paladin on the lizard saw them, it was as if he had encountered an enemy, and his eyes flashed with the fire of rage, and he raised his shield and led the skeleton warrior straight to this side.
"Retreat!!"
Seeing that the situation was not good, the mage was yelling. He didn't try to throw a spell to stop Balasar, because the Dragonborn was riding a lizard and was running too fast, and the spell would definitely not be able to lock onto the target, and throwing it out would only miss.
"Retreatβ"
His face was cloudy, and Telo gritted his teeth and ordered. In fact, after exploring this world, he realized how difficult it was to find someone.
The first and second commanders all spoke, and the team naturally turned around and ran wildly.
The six members of the team knew that the undead lord was difficult to deal with, and a team without a priest could not eat it at all. Moreover, the lizard-riding paladin was hostile to them, and there was a high probability that there were his accomplices nearby!
In short, retreating at this moment is the most correct choice.
But Tyro and they explored a little farther, and Charles had been in the Underworld for almost a week, which was about the same time as their exploration. Barraza manipulated the big lizard, nimbly dodging the bone javelin thrown by the bone warrior behind him, while gradually approaching Tyro and the others.
"Huh"
Balasa rode a large lizard, flashed past Tyro, and whispered, "Fallen, I hope you can survive under the hands of the Bone Warlord, and let me kill you with my own hands!" β
With that, the Dragonborn Holy Warrior left and ran straight to the passage.
Tyro knew he couldn't run away, and since entering the underworld, the character has been in a 'combat mode', and if forcibly disconnected, the player will stay in place for ten minutes. This is equivalent to abandoning oneself and leaving unconscious characters behind to be ravaged by monsters.
In that case, you might as well give it a try.
"Boom"
With a thought, the giant sword in his hand was replaced by a set of long swords and heavy shields, and Tyro's legs were like tree stumps, digging deep into the dirt, and suddenly he turned around, and the whole person was against the shield.
The skeletal warrior scurryed his broken blade and slammed it into the shield, and a loud sound spread out. At the same time, the Fallen Paladin was as if he had been hit head-on by a war giant elephant, blood oozing from his mouth and nose, and he flew upside down more than ten meters away.
"Tylor, eat the big blood vial!"
"Barbarian, go up to the monster!"
Master Nishizawa took over the command of the team, and his hair was full of sweat, but the tenth-level master couldn't care so much, waving the staff with sapphire inlaid at the top of his hand, and muttering a spell in his mouth.
"[Fireball Technique]!"
A crackling fireball shot out in the direction of Nishizawa's staff, and exploded on the skeleton general's body in an instant.
The fireball exploded and spread flames, eroding a 20-foot area around it.
The skeleton warrior roared in the flames, and was finally stopped. The barbarian, who was more than two meters tall, carried a huge axe, strode quickly, and smashed the forelimbs of the skeleton war horse with an axe.
"Bell"
Sparks splash. It was like smashing on a boulder, and the limbs of the skeleton warhorse were hard beyond imagination. The barbarians were stunned.
Bang!
The Skeleton Warlord swept away with a swing of his broadsword, and the unsuspecting barbarian staggered backwards as he grabbed a bottle of 'Medium Life Restoring Potion' and poured it into his mouth.
Strings of green recovery stats popped up above the barbarian's head, and the bloody wounds healed quickly.
Using the 'Wild Transformation', the druid transforms into a medium-sized lion and pounces on the skeleton on his horse with his muscular limbs.
At the same time, the Wanderer and Ranger also launched their own attacks.
"If that paladin hadn't fallen and there was an extra cleric in the ranks, maybe this skeleton warrior would have been taken down by them......"
Charles and Barrazar stood on a slope far from the battlefield, barely able to see the details of the battle thanks to the light created by the 'Fireball Technique'. (To be continued......)