Roland was woken up by the pain.

There was a tearing pain in the left side of the abdomen. The feeling of churning his internal organs turned pale.

…… What happened?

He opened his eyes blankly, and the smell of incense around him cleared his groggy brain a little.

By the way, he was supposed to lead the Crystal Fire Guild's comrades on the Daron Snowfer Territory against a wave of players infected by Dusk. This group of players is part of the Peace Council, and they have been fighting on the front lines of the Twilight Species and the demonic invasion, so the chances of being infected after the character's death are far greater than those who rush to help.

While Roland's profession wasn't anything to be a bright one, he had to admit that those people were undoubtedly respectable, and that the player's characters would not be able to resurrect in the Well of Order without incinerating their bodies infected by the twilight. Even if it is for the sake of the overall situation, even if the whole guild dies three or four times, their bodies must be burned.

It turns out that they really underestimated the high-level players of the Peace Council. Even if it's just the system AI imitating their fighting style, it's not something that second-tier guilds like Crystal Fire can resist. There were a total of seven infected people, and he and the chief wizard of the guild each grabbed one, and then the remaining five directly penetrated the elite group of nearly 100 people in the crystal fire in just thirty seconds. Roland was also distracted by the shining hand on the opposite side somehow in front of him, and then directly knocked his plate armor profession to the ground with a dignified frontal kidney blow in front of his face.

Just as he was hit by the kidney blow sanctified by the Radiant Hand, and the screen became pitch black, as if he had been knocked unconscious directly by a dull stick, Roland himself lost consciousness.

What's going on? Is there a burglar in the house?

This was Roland's first reaction.

Barely opening his eyes, he felt like he was lying somewhere dirty and hard. It feels a bit like a horse-drawn carriage, very cramped. Looking out the window, it was pitch black. The reflective side of the glass faintly reflected his own face, weak from the pale stool of blood loss and pain for some reason.

However, even if he was really knocked unconscious by someone and brought here, why does his head not hurt at all now, and his stomach keeps coming from a sharp pain like being stabbed?

Just as Roland could barely support his body, a cry of surprise and clarity came from the opposite side of the dark carriage.

"Wait, you're awake?"

Roland was immediately taken aback when he realized that the voice was neither English nor Chinese, and that it was not even any language commonly used on earth, but he could understand it without hindrance.

It is the lingua franca of the surface races of the Land of the Gods. As a completely original language, at first, players can only use the translated subtitles brought by the [Lingua Franca] skill to understand the meaning of the aborigines. But three years after the game's release, players were able to understand and speak fluently in lingua franca without subtitles, and in version 3.3.0, after seven years of gameplay, most players were able to write WordArt in lingua franca.

However, no matter how familiar you are with this language, unless you are a patient with severe secondary disease, you will definitely not choose this language as a way of conversation in daily communication.

"May the Lord give me light."

A low prayer made Roland's eyebrows furrow.

This is the astral language, or the language of the gods. Before 2.2.3, it existed as a language that circulated among priests.

But the next scene made Roland's eyes widen in surprise.

The golden light retracted, turning into an illusory rune like "It's gone", suspended on a pair of white and slender hands, constantly rotating and blooming with clear light. The white-robed girl opposite with beautiful platinum-blond hair and eyes as blue and pure as a lake was reflected.

Illumination?

I'm not dreaming, am I?

"What's wrong? Are you feeling okay? ”

The girl did not pay attention to Roland's expression, but walked over from the opposite side and leaned down to carefully examine the wound on his left abdomen.

At this time, Roland noticed that he was still wearing special peripheral pajamas sent by the official.

This pajama is an official out-of-print souvenir from Roland as the first player to take up the Casket Bearer's job, and was lucky enough to participate in the main quest of Chapter 3 with some real high-level players, such as those of the Peace Council, and received high praise from the system. Among the more than 20 souvenirs to choose from, Roland, a pragmatist, did not hesitate to choose this comfortable and breathable pajamas made of high-quality materials.

It's not just that he basically doesn't go out unless he has to, and stays in the office to play games. And he valued the style of this pajama in more sense.

This set of pajamas mimics the style of T1's druid suit Black Vine Grudge in the Land of the Gods, while ensuring a light and close fit. The reason why Roland didn't play the druid's big trumpet and turned away from the trumpet at the beginning, in addition to business reasons, another reason was because he couldn't brush the T1 set even if he was at the full level, so he thought that he was unlucky to be a druid. The grudge of the black vine can be said to be one of Roland's biggest grievances, so after seeing the introduction of this pajamas, he directly selected it, and he didn't even look at the souvenirs in the back.

However, at the bottom of his beloved pajamas, a two-finger-long knife cut off one of the lines. And unlike usual, the whole set of pajamas exudes a quiet fragrance, and the lines that have not been cut off are still faintly emitting a faint light.

…… Slowly, belly?

Thinking of the battle before he fell unconscious, Roland had a vague thought that surprised him.

But he didn't dare to confirm it. So Roland just calmly watched the priest who didn't know which god it was leaning down in front of him, his right hand close to his abdomen faintly glowing with golden light.

"May I ask, what is the condition of my wound?"

Roland thought for a moment and asked.

"It's much better now. In fact, being punctured in the kidney is not a very serious injury, but there is a very violent positive energy around your wound, which hinders the work of the healing technique. The blonde girl tilted her head in distress, "To be honest, it's the first time I've seen such pure and violent positive energy...... It's just ......."

At this point, she suddenly stopped talking.

Although she didn't say it, Roland knew in her heart what she wanted to say.

If this world is indeed the world of Faense in the land of the gods, then Roland probably understands the current situation better than her gods.

It is a matter of course that I have never seen such pure positive energy. It's not as normal as this.

Since this priest's divine power has not been deprived, it means that it is still the year of the gods, the Three Saints have not yet returned from the sea of chaos, and the gods who hold the supreme authority themselves do not have such pure power, let alone give it to the believers.

If nothing else, the wound in the abdomen was inflicted by the dagger of the Radiant Hand. To compensate for the loss of stealth and sneak attacks, each attack of the Radiant Hand is treated as a weakness attack, even if their enemies do not have a zài weakness of their own. Hand of Radiance's attacks ignore all defenses against enemies that do not possess Legendary Armor, and each hit has a stackable Flare over time damage. This damage itself is a DOT, but it is neither poisonous nor cursed, so it cannot be dispelled by conventional means.

But, then again. It should be his character who was hurt by that Radiant Hand, not himself, right? He plays the female number, even if it is crossing, either he comes by himself or his character comes. What is it that he himself crossed over with the damage suffered by the character?

The pockets of his pajamas—and now robes—weren't deep. Roland took a cursory look at it, and the only thing he had with him now was a thin notebook and a ballpoint pen, which he had brought with him to keep track of important new events on the forum and some information related to the triggering of special tasks. What a year of accumulation, this is already his fourteenth notepad.

Without missing a trace, Roland pretended to straighten his collar and looked carefully at the notepad in his inner pocket as he slowly sat up. As he expected, the first few pages of the book became blank, but Roland pinched it, and the thickness and the full number of pages of the book were basically the same, indicating that the part with content on it was not torn off by anyone.

Even some traces of Roland's use are still preserved, for example, Roland likes to slowly rub the corners of the book while writing, and at this moment the corners of the pages of the book in Roland's arms are still rolled up, but the content inside is blank.

It's a shame. Roland sighed.

It would be nice if the things recorded in it were still there, and it would not be too much to say that the things recorded in it are priceless.

That's a record from the future.

"By the way, where are we now? The......? ”

Pretending to be inadvertent, Roland suddenly turned to the priest girl and asked with a smile.

"My name is Claudia, Claudia. Crowley. Just call me Claudia. ”

The blonde girl exhaled, stood up and said to Roland with a smile on her face.

"Uncle Cruvine found you in the Obscure Jungle, and now we're about to the Matte Trail." She gestured out the window by the light of her fingertips.

"You see, that's Del Ramos' breath."

Matte trail ......?

Roland frowned slightly.

He has an impression of this.

It was an old version of the level 20 map of the Bansar Kingdom, which was once on the border between Bansar and Carral, and was once on the radar of many stowaways and smugglers. However, the reason why it is famous among players is because in the very center of the map, the ancient monster Del Ramos, which has been sleeping for thousands of years.

Del Ramos is an epic field boss with a challenge level of eighty. In other words, if you want to defeat Del Ramos, you need a squad of at least forty people, and the average level of the squad members is above eighty to have a basic possibility.

Roland remembers that Del Ramos' first kill was done by the Peace Council last month.

At that time, there was a lot of noise on the forum, some blamed them for not fighting the twilight seeds and demons for hanging out, and also strongly supported the peace council, saying that they could not throw all the difficult tasks to others. So it's rare that Roland still has an impression of this.

Of course, Del Ramos only woke up to the version of Lost Christmas. Until then, it had been sleeping in the seals set up by the ancient Druid Oak masters. That's four maps including Sunset Plains, Darkening Jungle, Matte Trail, and Lightless Trace, with dangerous areas ranging from level 25 to level 40.

Here, the magic of Del Ramos' breath demonizes all the creatures here. The rare winged tree in the outside world is everywhere because of the nourishment of magical power, but the color of the winged tree's branches and leaves has changed from pure white to black, so it has completely lost its value.

On top of that, there are a lot of strange shapes, like stitching monsters or synths. Glimpses are assembled from the shape of animals, and it's not surprising that they're made up of anything. The only thing these Glimpses have in common is that all of them are pitch black on the outside, and they have wolf-like green eyes.

Most of the glimpses that appear in the matte trails are Homo erectus glimpses with ape bodies. The bouncing ability is excellent, and it is easy to deal great damage to the Cloth Armor class.

This thing can be regarded as a new generation killer in Bansa, although it is not more famous than the corpses of the Duchy of Carral, but it is also a dangerous species that kills countless people.

The most important thing is that if you have advanced to the matte trail, there will be a glimpse of the elite from the lightless trace.

These glimpses have plundered enough shadows, the whole body has been completely shadowed, the usual detection methods are all ineffective, physical attacks are more than half immune to physical attacks, and at this level, witchcraft and magic do not have enough damage. It can be said that once encountered, it is a crisis of extinction.

Roland sighed in his heart, and decided to remind this team that didn't know if it was a caravan or a mercenary group.

I really can't go any further.

But before that, he wanted to see what he could do.