Chapter 107: The Trial of the Duke of Erathia
It takes about an hour to travel from Babel City to the Misty Forest, which is calculated based on Zeng Jun's current speed of action, and it may take about an hour and a half if another player comes over.
After passing through one leveling map after another, Zeng Jun became more and more frightened, originally thought that the Misty Forest was only a map of level 70 at most, but he didn't expect that the level of the monster had reached level 75 before he arrived in the Misty Forest, and the level of the monster would definitely get higher and higher, that is to say, the monster level of the Misty Forest had reached at least level 80.
The place where Zeng Jun was now was a hilly area, and some of the dilapidated slopes were densely packed with some tall corroded earth dragons. Earth dragons are the lowest level of dragons in the world, and although those dragons who consider themselves noble never admit the existence of such a branch of dragons, they do have dragon blood flowing in their bodies.
However, what Zeng Jun saw now were not ordinary earth dragons, and the rotten flesh exposed from the scale armor that fell off in many places on their bodies proved that they were undead creatures who were resurrected by those necromancers after death, and they were puppets of the Hell Legion.
Looking at the rolling hills of the entire hilly area, there was not even a single player, Zeng Jun casually threw a reconnaissance on one of the corroded earth dragons-
【Corrupted Dragon】(Enhanced Monster)
Qi and blood: 50000
Attack: 1650-2180
Defense: 750
Grade: 75
Skills: Tear, Slam, Brute Force Charge
It's just some level 75 enhancement creatures, but the whole family name is about 30% higher than the level 80 enhancement monsters they dealt with before, and such a group of monsters can't mix here even if their team comes over, let alone those ordinary player squads, if you rashly provoke these ferocious corrosive earth dragons, it is tantamount to looking for death.
Zeng Jun began to realize that the launch of the version of the world will definitely seriously slow down the player's leveling speed, and the kind of thing that often calls three or five friends to find trouble with monsters that exceed his level by more than 20 levels seems to be really gone.
Thinking of this, Zeng Jun couldn't help but want to retreat, the 75-level monster is so strong, is it suitable to do the task of [Strange Stranger] now, if something goes wrong in the process of the mission, he will be killed by the monster, if the NPC is also killed, it will be troublesome, and Zeng Jun is still a little afraid of the unknown punishment after the mission fails.
What Zeng Jun didn't know was that he was just unlucky to do the task and was sent to this map full of enhancement monsters, in fact, those ordinary monsters of level seventy or eighty on other maps were not so difficult to deal with.
However, since he has already come here, it is not Zeng Jun's style to go back to his house now, he still decided to go to the misty forest first to see the situation, and if the situation is not right, it is not too late to terminate the task in time.
Through the hills, there was finally a misty forest in front of me, I don't know if it was because of the perennial fog, the trees here are seriously yellow, and they look like they are going to die, there are no trees and flowers and other plants in the forest land, and only some withered yellow fallen leaves on the black land barely cover their shame so as not to expose their entire bodies.
Visibility in the forest was very low in the fog, but thanks to Zeng's eagle eye, he was able to barely see within 50 yards.
The Misty Forest is full of lizardmen marksmen, and among all the archers of all races, the lizardmen archers are the only ones who can compete with the archers of the elven race, and the archers of the other races are barely all floating clouds.
Lizardmen are a branch of the orc race, the population base of the entire Merlot continent is not large, but it is the only race that is not very friendly to humans, originally these lizardmen marksmen should have lived in various orc tribes, and now I don't know who transplanted them into this misty forest.
Zeng Jun threw a reconnaissance to one of the lizardman marksmen—
Lizardman Marksman (Enhanced Monster)
Qi and blood: 28000
Attack: 1200-1550
Defense: 550
Grade: 80
Skills: Precision Arrows, Burst Arrows, Multiple Shots
Description: These lizardmen marksmen were originally the elite of the Zamar tribe, but they lost consciousness after being suddenly overwhelmed by a cloud of black mist during a mission, only to wake up and find themselves in this white mist forest with no way home. Unlike the elven marksmans, who excelled at maneuvering, the lizardmen did not have as good reflexes and speed, but they were better at shooting with their bows than the elven marksmen, and were often able to find the enemy's weak spot in battle.
Originally, the attack power of these lizardmen marksmen was high, and with such a weak attack, Zeng Jun would not dare to provoke him, but in the misty forest, due to the obstruction of vision, as long as he was more careful, it should not be easy to be found by these lizardmen.
Zeng Jun noticed a lone lizardman marksman, so he quietly touched it in that direction, before starting the mission, he must first master the hatred distance of these lizardman marksmen, otherwise the mission will be difficult to unfold. With only one lizardman marksman, even if he was targeted by the other party, Zeng Jun was sure to escape with the cover of the woods.
Zeng Jun was getting closer and closer to those lizardman marksmen, 40 yards, 30 yards, 20 yards, Zeng Jun immediately breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that these lizardmen marksmen were short-sighted, if in normal circumstances, their effective vision range was only about 40 yards, and in the misty forest, their vision range was even less than 20 yards. Zeng Jun didn't need to keep any closer, it was enough for Zeng Jun to keep a distance of 20 yards and not be detected, as long as there were no accidents, he would be able to come and go freely in this jungle with his vision advantage.
There is even an illusion that this mission is specially prepared for him alone, and doing such a task is indeed the most demanding for the player's vision, of course, he seems to have forgotten that if it is an assassin who receives this task, he will not have such troubles at all.
Zeng Jun was about to bypass the nearby lizardman marksman and continue deep into the interior of the misty forest, but when he inadvertently turned around, he suddenly found a vague figure about 50 yards behind him, Zeng Jun thought that it was Nina he was looking for, and couldn't help but be happy, but he didn't think that Nina had already walked to the edge of the forest by herself, and this task was too easy.
After approaching, he realized that it was not Nina but a human NPC wearing a robe, and an NPC suddenly appeared in this wilderness place, and ten people could think that it should be an NPC that specialized in issuing tasks.
"The Duke of Erathia needs a warrior to help him complete a dangerous thing, but he must undergo some rigorous tests to prove his strength before accepting the mission, young adventurer, are you willing to accept the Duke's test?" In the course of the conversation, the NPC mage said to Zeng Jun.
"Ding~!"
System Hint: Whether you are willing to accept the quest [Trial of the Duke of Erathia].
I remember that a successful person once said such a sentence: If you want to quickly open the door to wealth and nobility, you must first find a way to get acquainted with some powerful people (this is actually in a certain work of a great god who writes officialdom, the original words may not be like this, Xiaoyan doesn't remember it very clearly). If he can get in touch with the Duke of the Kingdom of Klan through this mission, it will definitely be of great help to his future development in Tongtian City, how can Zeng Jun let go of such an opportunity?
"Ding~!"
System Prompt: You accept the quest [Trial of the Duke of Erathia], one of the trial tasks: Please kill 1000 lizardmen marksmen to prove your strength.
Zeng Jun does not have the strength to complete this task for the time being, but there is no time limit for the task, so Zeng Jun does not need to be in a hurry, the first task now is to find Nina as soon as possible and return to hand in the task, Zeng Jun has wasted nearly two hours of time for this task.
Zeng Jun carefully avoided the lizardmen and marksmen all the way, slowly searching through the forest, marking every place he passed on the map, so as not to turn back due to the fog.
After nearly an hour of non-stop searching, Zeng Jun finally found the figure of the elven archer Nina somewhere in the forest, and at this time Nina was muttering to the surrounding scenery with a blank face: "Strange, I obviously keep moving in one direction, why do I return to this place every time?" ”
Zeng Jun immediately walked over to Nina and said, "Beautiful Miss Nina, I finally found you." ”
When Nina saw a human adventurer suddenly appear in front of her, with the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Klan on her shoulder, she immediately showed a charming smile and said with some excitement: "Brave adventurer, why did you come here alone, did Jenny entrust you to come to me?" ”
Zeng Jun nodded and said, "That's right, I accepted the commission of your friend Jenny to come here to look for you." ”
"That's great, it's so uncomfortable to stay in this hellish place all the time, it's a little hard to breathe, let's go back quickly, please show me the way." Nina instantly showed a girl's unique expression. The elf woman's appearance is very beautiful, and her figure is also superb, but Zeng Jun obviously has no interest in a bunch of data.
Zeng Jun took Nina around from about 25 yards away from several lizardman marksmen, and nothing would have happened at this distance, but Nina suddenly pulled out an arrow and put it on the bowstring and shot at one of the lizardman marksmen.
The elven kingdom has a good relationship with humans, and it is also very unfriendly to the people of the orc tribe, which Zeng Jun knows, but he didn't expect that the Nina in front of him, who was still a little woman just now, turned out to be so hot, and when he saw these lizardmen marksmen, he didn't say a word and killed them directly.
Nima, if you want to fight, you don't have to look at the difference in strength between the two sides, the other party obviously has five people who still dare to take the initiative to attack, this time it is really going to be killed by this NPC, Zeng Jun thought desperately.