Chapter 143 The Origin of the Mission
The ghost centaur raised its front hooves high and stepped on Odd, the thief mentor.
Mentor Odd retreated slightly, and a backhand backstab shot, dodging the ghost centatri's attack, and the dagger in his right hand stabbed into the back of the ghost centatri, and a damage value of more than three thousand five hundred floated up from the ghost centaur's head.
The ghost centaur lost its target, and its raised front hooves stomped heavily on the ground, and the ground exploded with a bang, and a large chunk of the rocky ground was trampled to pieces, and a powerful shockwave swept in, and the ground cracked, quickly spreading around an area of about three yards.
Attacked by this powerful shockwave, the Rogue Mentor snorted and dizzy, and in less than two seconds, the ghost centaur turned around and gave the Rogue Mentor Odd an arrow, and the silver feathered arrow pierced the right shoulder of the Rogue Mentor Odd.
The thief mentor Odd did not show weakness, his left hand was clenched into a fist, and he slammed into the body of the ghost centaur, the ghost centaur whimpered, and the huge body flew upside down to a height of about three or four yards, fell out of a distance of more than ten yards, and crashed into the wall of the temple.
Mentor Odd pulls an oversized vial of blood from his backpack, drains it, and lunges at the ghost centaur.
The ghost centaur stumbled to its feet, terrified, the power of the thief mentor Odd's left hand was too strong, and there was a power that terrified it.
Xiao Yu saw that the thief mentor Odd was not at the same level as this ghost centaur, and he was able to defeat the ghost centaur by his left hand, Xiao Yu couldn't help but have some doubts about this task, this ghost centaur is estimated to be just a small boss in the temple, and the thief mentor Odd fought so hard, what should he do with the next task?
Mentor Odd crushed the head of the ghost centaur with his left hand, killing the ghost centatri.
"I'm old, and I'm struggling to even deal with a ghost centaur." The thief mentor Odd sighed, and there was a heroic sadness in his tone, if it weren't for the curse devouring his power, his combat power would definitely be more than that, and now, he could only fight with the power of the curse, which had to be said to be an irony.
"No matter what the fight is, keep a distance of more than twenty yards and don't come closer, until someone is coming." Thief Mentor Odd glanced at Xiao Yu behind him and said.
Of course, Xiao Yu understands that every elite monster in this temple is not something that Xiao Yu can deal with, Xiao Yu can only watch from the side, just watching the battle of the thief mentor Aode, Xiao Yu also benefits a lot.
Someone is coming? What does the phrase Mentor of Thieves Odd mean?
The thief mentor Odd took something out of his backpack with his right hand, drew a few circular geometric patterns on the ground, and didn't know what they were for, pointed his finger at the circular pattern, muttering something in his mouth.
A dazzling flash of light flashed, and an old mage in gray robes and holding a silver staff appeared out of thin air, with a large white beard, looking a little scruffy, about the same age as the thief mentor Ode, presumably teleported from somewhere.
"Hey, Odd, how did you get here? It seems that you are really old, and you can't be hollowed out by Chrissy. The mage teased with a smile.
"Redona, shut your foul mouth, I don't mind teaching you a lesson here if you talk so much more nonsense." Mentor Elder glanced coldly at the mage named Redona.
Redona was so frightened that he quickly retreated to the side, the fire on the silver staff in his right hand jumped, made a defensive posture, and laughed wryly: "Don't be so serious, just kidding." ”
Mentor of the Thieves, Odd, ignored Redona and kept his head down and went on to work.
Redona muttered boredly: "Fa doesn't fight thieves, mage is a very noble profession." ”
The thief mentor Ao Dequan didn't hear it, and after a while, the circle lit up again, and a female archer in her thirties appeared in the circle.
"Hey, Chrissy, long time no see." Redona looked at the fiery figure of the female archer and smashed her mouth, this old goblin in his sixties was really well maintained, making him look like a thirty-year-old girl.
The female archer ignored Redona, looked around to determine where it was, and her eyes fell on the thief mentor Odd: "Old ghost, I knew that it was absolutely no good for you to bring me here, I still want to live a few more years, and you got me to this hellish place again." ”
"Come on, you can only live for two or three years at most, and when we all become that guy's men, you will have no effect." Redona struck mercilessly.
"You!" The female archer could not refute, her face flushed, and she stood aside in a sullen manner.
Redona glanced at Xiao Yu behind him and asked, "That's the one you were looking for?" ”
"Hmm." Mentor Odd replied casually.
"How's the material?"
"Not bad."
"Hopefully he'll be able to get the job done, we're running out of chances." Redona said with a light sigh.
"They've grown stronger, and we've got ten days left." Mentor Elder said.
One after another NPCs of various professions appeared in the teleportation array, orc warriors, necromancers, undead knights, elemental mages, dark witches, dark witches, etc., with different looks and dresses, the thief mentor Odd finally stopped being busy, Xiao Yu counted carefully, a total of seventeen people, it was already a complete medium-sized squad.
Thief Mentor Odd had never told Xiao Yu that there would be so many people participating in this mission! Xiao Yu was full of doubts in his heart, this task seemed to be more complicated than Xiao Yu imagined, there were so many professionals, Xiao Yu's eyes fell on the left chest of a necromancer, and the necromancer had a medal pinned to his left chest, which was exquisitely made, with a skeleton pattern carved on it, and the background color was silvery-white.
Xiao Yu was shocked, Xiao Yu still knew this medal, after all, he had been in Night City for so long, how could Xiao Yu not know this medal! This medal is the national medal of the undead country Dia, and anyone with a prominent position in and out of the palace of the Stygian City will wear a similar medal, but most of them have no background, the silver-white background color symbolizes a high position of power, and the highest is golden, which is only available to heroic professionals above the epic level.
Xiao Yu understood that he had inadvertently participated in a very important mission, otherwise Diya would not have been so cautious in sending a person of such high rank to participate in this mission. The reason why the thief mentor Aode didn't tell Xiao Yu that there were so many people attending was because it was to keep it a secret!
These people all looked arrogant, and they didn't like to talk to the people next to them much, but they looked very respectful to the necromancer.
The thief mentor Odd walked towards where Xiao Yu was.
"Do you have a lot of doubts in your mind?" Thief Mentor Odd looked at Xiao Yu and said.
"Yes." Xiao Yu responded, he did have a lot of doubts waiting to be solved in his heart, he didn't understand why Diya sent a person of such a high rank to participate in this mission, this task was not as simple as the thief mentor Odd said before.
"Let me tell you how it all came about, more than ten years ago, my brother and I served in the army, and we got a map while on a mission, and we followed the map to find this place, and found this sacrificial temple of the Gude people, which was occupied by countless ghosts, and we explored to the center of the temple and found that things were not so simple, this temple hides a very powerful soul, he controls all the ghosts, and is constantly developing his power, bringing the souls wandering the continent here, Conduct training. My brother and I tried to destroy the energy crystal in the center of the temple, because it was his brain, but we failed, my brother was controlled by him and turned into a lich, and I was cursed and escaped, this curse will slowly corrode my body, control my soul, and eventually turn me into a lich, I informed Lord Yandit of the information I learned, and the duke, after seeking the consent of Lord Sandru, began a series of extermination operations against this place, but it has not been successful, and more and more people are cursedWe gradually learned how to destroy this place, and only by allowing a professional within level 20 to break through the protection of the altar, pass through the altar, and use the holy word dagger to destroy the energy crystal in the center of the altar, can everything here be destroyed. Then we started looking for suitable professionals across the country, provided that we passed our test first, and there were many people who passed the test before and came here, but they all failed. Hearing the thief mentor Aode's story, Xiao Yu finally understood, Xiao Yu was very depressed, just a task, it was so complicated, and there were so many steps.
Since this is Diya's national task, Xiao Yu can't shirk it, anyway, he doesn't have to think about anything, just do what the task requires.
"Our mission is to bring you to the periphery of the altar, and until then, we may not be able to take care of you, you need to be careful." Mentor Elder said.
Xiao Yu rolled his eyes, he was also the key person in the mission, these guys actually didn't care about themselves, this temple was full of dangers, there were powerful elite creatures everywhere, any one who came out could use his little thumb to press Xiao Yu to death, if he encountered a dangerous situation, with Xiao Yu's little ability, he couldn't escape at all.
"Of course, after you hang up, we will resurrect you, but you only have three chances, and if you hang up three times in a row, we will determine that you are not capable of completing the mission, send you back, and replace the next person." Mentor Aode glanced at Xiao Yu and said.
Xiao Yu was clear, it turned out that the thief mentor Aode let himself go here alone before, and it was a test for himself, to test whether he was capable of completing this task! It's better to have three chances of resurrection than nothing, and for the sake of the task reward, Xiao Yu will do his best.
(To be continued)