Chapter Fifty-Three, Chapter Fifty-Four: Adventure Mission
Hao is training the newly arrived 100 tribesmen army formation, he also stood on the playground with them, it is summer now, the red sun shines down, the whole playground looks hot, everyone is covered in sweat, like water, including Hao, but he stands straight, these days often the hundred people who are often hung and beaten are also standing straight, and they dare not move.
Daily drills, punishments, leading by example, and enough food, in just five days, Hao has packed up these clansmen into obedience, and only practices every day, although it is only a few days, but there is already a feeling of prohibition in the order.
Suddenly, at this moment, Noldor ran from the courtyard, and before he could get close, he said loudly to Hao: "God, God, as you expected, that mission appeared!!
Hao glanced at Noldo, Noldor was suddenly awe-struck, and stood next to him in the shadows and waited, and then he waited for at least half an hour, and when many humans were already trembling with their feet, Hao Cai said: "Okay, disband, the non-commissioned officer will take the members of his squad to get herbal tea, a bowl per person, and then go to eat after resting for half an hour, above." β
After the Terrans had entered their dormitory, Hao walked to Noldor and led him to his room, and as soon as he entered the room, Noldor immediately said, "Listen, as you expected, that mission appeared!"
Hao smiled and poured a cup of herbal tea for Noldor, who was also hot, took the herbal tea and drank a large cup in a big gulp, and then Noldor said excitedly: "God, you are so powerful, how did you know that the Adventurer's Guild would send this mission?"
Hao smiled and said: "Actually, it's not difficult, it's nothing more than to deduce from the recent grain prices of the Plant Alliance, the fluctuation of food prices often means changes in finance in peacetime, or disasters and the like, but if it is in wartime, it means changes in the war situation, and then think of the nearest enemy that the Plant Alliance needs to fight against at present, there is no doubt that it must be the underworld camp, or at least the lower plane forces related to the underworld camp." β
Speaking of this, Noldor understood, and he suddenly said: "I see, if the camp of the lower plane wants to break through to the Flood Desolate Continent, it is either by ritual, by summoning, or by blood sacrifice, unless it is to break the passage from the underground world, but this is too difficult, or it is similar to the burning of the World Tree at the beginning, directly opening a huge hell gate, which is almost impossible to reproduce, so just in case, the government of the Plant Alliance will assign such a task to the adventurer union, I understand." β
Hao smiled and took the mission briefing report from Noldor's hand, his face gradually calmed, this mission report was the same as he expected, the only difference was the reward, which was nearly twice the value he expected, which essentially meant that the official of the Plant Alliance seemed to be a little anxious.
It's time to be anxious...... But this also means that the strength of the underworld camp is likely to be much stronger than he expected.
This is the task issued by the adventurer's union.,But the prefix of this task has the word law.,This is not a regular task.,Generally speaking,The tasks issued by the adventurer's union are divided into three categories.,The first category is ordinary.,Most of the tasks are marked.,It's related to the content of the task itself.,This kind of task will be based on the amount or items given by the employer.,The adventurer's union will evaluate whether to take it.,And then take a cut from it.,Finally, it's the amount that adventurers can get after completing the task.γ
The second category of tasks will have a mandatory word prefix, which is the level of adventurer tasks that must be completed every year according to the level of your adventurer, of course, there will also be a reward, and the reward is the same as that of ordinary tasks, but you have no room to refuse, usually you can only choose one of several required tasks.
The third category, is the type of task that Hao has seen at present, adventurers usually call it an elite task, or a transcendent career task, usually can only be received by a certain category of occupation, of which the most required occupations are often the law system, because the law system is really a bit of a sense of omnipotence, and this type of task often requires at least a second-order and above adventurer of a certain career path to be able to receive, the law system is slightly lower, but at least a first-order magician, generally speaking, the reward of this type of task is the most generous, not only the adventurer's union will not take a cut from the remuneration, on the contrary, the Adventurer's Guild will also offer an additional bounty to adventurers who complete this quest.
The brief description of the task that Hao got said that the bonus for completing the task, a second-order magic artifact, and an additional bonus of five hundred spirit stones, the price of a second-order magic artifact is usually two thousand to three thousand spirit stones, or even an upper limit, the key is to see what the attributes of this magical artifact are, and five hundred spirit stones are obviously an additional bounty given by the adventurer's union, which is already very rich.
The content of the task is to have at least one second-order magician, or three first-order magicians, to investigate a total of eight areas around Sulan City, to find out where there is a sacrificial magic array, summoning magic array, or the leakage of magic power in the lower plane, etc., which needs to be confirmed with magic marks.
Ay is a second-order magician, it is enough to take this task, and Hao can't let Ay complete this task alone, he has been waiting for this task, not only for the task itself, one is to confirm the attitude of the Plant Alliance towards the underworld camp, the second is to confirm the confidence of the Plant Alliance in the next war, and the third is the main purpose of his waiting for this task...... Explore the legendary treasure of the half-blood spirit mage who was killed by the Holy Throne.
As the only second-order magician in Sulan City, Aye's every move since she came to Sulan City has been watched by people with intentions, and so far, everything she has done is actually in line with everyone's understanding, whether it is opening a magic potion workshop, or buying wasteland to build a station, or even buying human and dwarf slaves, training human slaves or something, these are all in line with her status as a second-order magician, which is a manifestation of her desire to use Sulan City as a long-term residence for the adventure group.
Although Sulan City is a town, it is far less attractive to transcendent professionals than big cities, but the environment here is beautiful, there are few legal professionals, and the competition is far less fierce than in big cities, in fact, there are some second-order magicians who will make the same choice as Ey, that is, choose a place with a beautiful environment and less competition as their main place of activity, as long as they become a high-level magician, the local government will often sign some agreements with them, and then the government will provide a large interest-free loan, as well as some bonuses, to share most of the cost of the magic tower, so that the third-order magician has his own magic towerγ
So far, Ae's behavior is normal, but if she suddenly takes her own adventure group to investigate the surrounding area of Sulan City for no reason, then there is something wrong with this behavior, and it is impossible for people with intentions not to suspect it.
Although doubt may not necessarily act, but this will produce variables, and Hao is the most undesirable, unpredictable, maybe in a thought, some people will make some actions that he did not expect, and God knows what will happen when the time comes, so he must avoid this possibility.
Hao carefully checked the brief description of the mission, looked at it for a long time, and then said to Noldor: "Excuse me, Mr. Noldor, you go to the Adventurer's Guild again in the afternoon, and we will take over this task." β
Noldor smiled and nodded in agreement.
After lunch, Hao continued to fiddle with his blueprints, now the dwarven slaves have not been delivered, so the weapon building has not begun, the design of these weapons Hao feels that it can be further optimized, his goal is to produce a portable, moderately powerful, and mass-produced semi-magic weapon, this weapon will make his people the main force on the battlefield, and in sufficient numbers, even against the regular army of the weaker race.
After working on the design for a while, Hao looked at the clock on the wall, and then went to wake up the new arrivals after taking a nap, and at the same time told the original team to train well, and he began to train these new arrivals again.
These are Hao's daily life, regular, rigorous, and no fun at all, and he doesn't need so-called fun.
There was nothing to say all afternoon, until after dinner, the elves habitually gathered in Hao's room, Hao then told his plan, and the elves immediately discussed, Ay asked Hao directly: "Won't it? But I've read from some magic books, it is said that the existence of the underworld camp is different from ours, and they tend to spread at the speed of what we think is a snail, but when we come back to our senses, they are as indispellable as weeds, so now they have hit?"
Hearing Ai Yi directly say the original words in the book, Hao shook his head slightly and said: " The concept of time in the underworld camp is indeed different from those living creatures in our underworld, they belong to the kind of existence that can be studied for tens of thousands of years for a goal, even the lowest-level undead underworld creatures, they can also live for hundreds of thousands of years, and the years of life are slightly equal to nothing for them, but this is not to say that they are really snail-like speeds, the invasion method of the underworld camp is often the erosion of death breath, so that a certain area produces death mutations, the appearance of undead creatures, mutated undead creatures, underworld undead creatures such a process, when the mutated undead appear, the army of the underworld camp will often come, and this is what the higher-ups of the Plant Alliance are afraid of, and our task is to search for magic nodes that may bring about the erosion of the underworld camp, summon magic arrays, sacrifice magic arrays, and so on. β
Many elves began to talk about it again, and the content was probably nothing more than these magic nodes, the origin of summoning magic arrays, and how to eliminate them.
When Hao heard this, he continued: "Generally speaking, magic nodes, summoning magic arrays, sacrificing magic arrays, and other ways that can allow the underworld camp to open the passage, except for a very small part of which are directly formed by the erosion of the lower plane where the underworld camp is located, most of them should be drawn by real people, and even the sacrifices are provided by them, and what we want to search for is generally such a node, as long as the magic array is destroyed and the person who draws it is found, it can basically destroy the advent of the underworld camp." β
One of them, a handsome young man named Billy, frowned and asked, "God, although I have seen such people in many races from books and newspapers...... But are they crazy? Summoning creatures from the lower planes, whether it is demons, or devils, or refining demons, or those monsters in the underworld camp, the first thing they summon is to kill the summoner, even more terrible than killing, they will play with their souls, or turn them into monsters, for example, I have heard that the monsters of the underworld camp like to stitch living things into stitching monsters, and they will never be reborn, and their souls are trapped in the flesh and rotten, becoming a part of the stitching monsters, wailing for eternity, are they deceived and controlled? β
Hao was silent for a while, and Noldor said at this time: " Billy, you don't understand this, maybe in our opinion, we will never live enough, and even pursue immortality or something, but in the eyes of some people at the bottom of society, this world is a hell purgatory for living people, they feel extremely miserable every day, they want to destroy this world, destroy the people around them, and even destroy themselves, so they go to summon the next plane creatures, anyway, draw a summoning magic array, draw a sacrificial magic array, etc., and don't even need magic power, as long as there is life, so it's okay not to know, if they know the existence of this thing from some books, they will do it without hesitation, don't even think about it, as for eternity, you can't be reborn...... By the time they had really experienced that horror and regretted it, it was already too late. β
Another elf also said at the same time: " In addition to these desperate people at the bottom of society, or a member of the lower races, they are extremely desperate, and there are also some brain-dead people who are the same, they think those low-plane creatures are simply cool, they want to join it, become one of them, some of them are really peerless villains, their souls are born to belong to the lower plane, but there are more brain-dead to the point of idiocy, think it's cool, think it's handsome, and run to summon it without knowing anything, do you remember the Elfite border town of the Elven Empire more than two hundred years ago? οΌβ
The elves were stunned for a moment, and then they all nodded again and again, and their faces turned pale.
Hao also knew about that incident, because the impact of that incident was so great that the elves also produced constitutional amendments and the like after that incident.
There are nearly a million elves living in that border town, what happened was an elven public high school, and several elven children in it inadvertently found a fragment in the library, and the fragment recorded a picture of a sacrificial magic array, and these young people were the brains that the elf just said, they thought the description of the lower plane was simply too cool, demons, devils, so they really drew their own sacrificial arrays.
Of course, they didn't dare to sacrifice their own compatriots, or their own lives, so they used some kittens and puppies and other things to sacrifice, and then this sacrificial circle actually really communicated with the lower plane, at first only some consciousness and voices appeared, and gave these elves some promises, promising to let them be reincarnated as devils, these young people were overjoyed at once, and under the attack of brain damage and ambition at the same time, they actually kidnapped a few elves to come to sacrifice, and then this sacrifice went wrong, they communicated with a lower plane called obese hell, and the power inside directly shot, hooking up and down, spreading the corrosion of the obsessive hell throughout the town, along with the erosion of the lower latitudes.
When the elven government found out that something was wrong, the whole town was turned into all kinds of pieces of meat, even the ground, even the houses were turned into pieces of meat, like living creatures, and the million elves who lived in it, they all became a part of it, and the most terrifying thing was that they were all still alive, living in the form of some kind of twisted piece of meat, unable to survive, unable to die.
In the end, it was the Elven Ancestor who personally destroyed the town, completely dispersed the erosion of the lower plane and the low latitudes, and also destroyed these poor elves, at least their souls were liberated.
This is the lower plane, although it is not as weird and terrifying as the low latitude, but it is also the most terrifying existence of the creatures in the real world, in many horrors, I dare not mention the low latitude, that is, I use the creatures of the lower plane as the horror protagonists.
Hao said: "It is precisely because of this that the reaction of the Plant Alliance is also a matter of course, our goal is this adventure mission, and while completing the task, we also need to investigate the area of the underground treasure of the half-blood spirit magician, from the clues I know, that area is ...... in this place."
Hao took out the map and pointed to one of them, and everyone looked over, it was a half-hilly and half-canyon area called the Thousand Caves, which was also one of the exploration areas given by the adventurer's union this time.
"With this task given by the Adventurer's Guild, we can investigate this area as a matter of course, of course, we can't go straight to this area at the first time, we put it in the third priority, after the first two areas are investigated, and then go to this area, everyone get ready, this time it's just a reconnaissance, even if we find anything, we won't go deeper, and we are still focusing on building a team. β
Hao looked at the elves, and he said seriously: "This is related to our next actions, you should work hard." β