Chapter 3: Serial Quests, The Chosen One

The Hanhai, the lonely peak, and the sky dome condensed and swirled with heavy black clouds, and the torrential rain poured down.

The raging waves and winds on the surface of the sea were howling endlessly, and between the friction between the clouds, there were dark purple thunderbolts smashing down on the sea, and the electricity spread, like the horror of the end of the world.

Sunless, moonless, lightless, endless darkness and furious energy dominate and ravage the world, but it is not completely devoid of light, at the very top of the towering lonely peak, a large library sits on it, from which a warm glow spreads out into the chaos of the world.

Porcelain cup, containing most of the cup of very warm black tea, a slender hand grasped the handle, and then moved it to the mouth to sip gently, feeling the extremely beautiful taste and taste entangled taste buds, but the young man in the red robe sitting on the chaise longue during the whole process, his eyes never left the thick book on his lap, and every text, graphic, and formula recorded in the book was memorized and analyzed by him.

It wasn't until he felt very tired that the man closed the book after clipping the bookmark, he stood up and looked at the rainstorm and wind outside the window, the disaster scene, and muttered to himself: "Sure enough, in rainy and stormy weather, with a good cup of tea, it is easier to get into the state of reading." ”

As he spoke, Zhu Peng tapped the floor-to-ceiling window in front of him with two fingers, and the next moment, as if pressing the pause button for the whole world, the violent scene of dark clouds and lightning and thunder outside the window was instantly frozen.

A moment later, the golden sunlight tore through the thick dark clouds, and the fury of the sea was gradually calmed down, and within a minute or two, the previous apocalyptic scene had all faded, and now the window was a beautiful sunshine, really facing the sea, and the spring flowers were blooming.

Under the lonely peak where the library is located, there is actually a large thick golden beach, and a group of beauties in bikinis wantonly show their fresh and beautiful flesh, they are happily playing or sunbathing, so white thighs, delicate faces, happy looks...... It's a pity that it's just some background pictures, and in this mental image world, Zhu Peng can only move freely at the moment, and all that is the library on the lonely peak and the laboratory established by it later.

Build a memory palace in the depths of your own brain consciousness, a virtual library, fill it little by little, accumulate it, perfect it, and finally the day when the memory palace is completed, the wizard who owns it will become one of the polymath in the wizarding world.

Moreover, through this method of memory, you can exercise your own mental strength, transform your mind and even strengthen your soul.

Zhu Peng's mental image world at the moment was slowly established by the legacy of an old necromantic wizard and his own bricks and tiles over the years, and some time ago, the academy opened up the demigod true body research materials to him, which greatly accelerated the completion of this memory palace.

Standing in front of the window for a moment, after resting for a while, Zhu Peng turned back to the library, the tall bookshelves around him moved with his will, and when Zhu Peng sat back in his recliner again, the books he most wanted to read had been moved to the wizard's hand with the automatic displacement of the mahogany bookshelves.

Reading, thinking, resting, this process was repeated and repeated, until Zhu Peng felt that his spiritual power had declined, and then he closed the books in his hand and walked out of this library, in the depths of this building, at the bottom of the spiral staircase, there was a large laboratory that was hollowed out of the belly of the mountain.

Zhu Peng can even do some simple experiments here, but the results of the experiment are controlled by his cognition and subconscious, that is, if Zhu Peng thinks that one plus one and so on, then the result of the verification after the experiment is also one plus one equals six, but this is not meaningless, the biggest role of this virtual laboratory is to mobilize the subconscious in the depths of the host's consciousness, make the most consistent judgment with self-awareness, and then Zhu Peng will decide whether to accept it or not.

For example, at this moment, in the underground laboratory, there is a crimson dragon like a hill crawling soundly, when Zhu Peng slowly walked in, the dragon gently opened an eyelid, the purple and gold entangled beast pupils, revealing a majesty, dignity, and strength like a god looking down.

His eyes gradually opened, as if he was entering the inner world of the red-robed man, and Ying Long, who had the dual attributes of earth and fire, suddenly went berserk and roared angrily in the sky!

(Mortal, you are choosing to fall.) οΌ‰

"My noble ancestors, I may not be able to reach your strength and realm in my lifetime, but the path you have traveled is not what I want...... I don't think you want your juniors to always follow in your footsteps. As Zhu Peng touched his chest with his hand and bowed, he said politely but firmly.

The huge body of Ying Long in front of him burned into a huge distorted cluster of crimson light in the roar, and after a few moments, standing again in front of the red-robed wizard was a giant with a human form as the main body, and the body of the abyssal demon and the characteristics of the ancient dragon clan existed at the same time.

"The Trinity True Body, the Dragon Bloodline, the Dark Light, and the True Body may not be the best, but this is the most suitable form for me in my understanding, a true form that has infinite self-reinforcement and continues to grow stronger with the choice of my own will, and my heart is directed. "The Taoist principle is eternal, free, and constantly pursuing a better and stronger self.

The red-robed wizard standing on the high platform whispered, he stretched out a hand downward, and at the same time, the giant who was like heaven and earth also slowly stretched out his giant pillar-like fingers covered by dragon scales and the black light was revealed, and the two fingers of the two touched lightly. At that moment, Zhu Peng suddenly opened his eyes, but his spiritual power was exhausted to a critical point, and he was directly ejected from the mental image world.

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There was a bonfire, bone scraps of food on the ground, and a red-haired girl lying soundly asleep by the fire, covered with iron-studded armor.

However, the leather boots rubbed against the stone, slowly drew out the weapon, and the killing intent that gradually diffused in the air, had already awakened Zhu Peng, who was originally meditating, and he suddenly held the double sword that was placed beside him, and at the same time pounced on the red-haired girl, in the process, the sharp arrow cut through the air and shot through the shadow of the fire, but was slashed down by the sword of the young man who suddenly pounced on him a moment before hitting the target.

"Ding!"

With the arrows being chopped down, the footsteps that were intensifying the approach around suddenly stopped, and the man beside the fire who was holding two swords had already opened his posture, the fierceness and killing intent revealed by him was like a fierce beast, coupled with the agility and superb swordsmanship that had just been shown, the agility and superb swordsmanship that had just struck the arrows, so that the robbers who were originally surrounded around chose to retreat slowly after gesturing to each other.

By this time, the red-haired girl had woken up, and the wilderness was not a very safe environment, and if she could sleep very well as a young girl, it would seem very abnormal.

Looking at the black-haired boy standing beside her, holding a sword in both hands, the girl quickly reacted and looked around, but it was dark all around and she couldn't see anything.

"Wait here, be careful not to be taken away by the wolves. After speaking, Zhu Peng raised his sword and threw himself into the grass, he would have scared it away, he had just come to this world when it was the time for obscene development not to wave, but when the robber retreated, a pale light suddenly flashed in front of his eyes, and rows of subtitles appeared:

"Trigger the serial quest Ximu Town Treasure, there is only eight percent of essentia energy left, does it consume one percent of the energy reserves?" "Directly filling the body with essentia energy is the fastest and most extravagant and wasteful way to use energy, and the more ideal method is to combine some of the local plane events of the descending plane, and after completing the mixed filling, you can quickly recover your own strength.

As for the essentia energy to attract the origin power of the heterogeneous plane, the knowledge in this involves the entanglement and hedging effect between the forces of fate, just like a huge dense spider web, and it is also extremely huge when it moves the whole body, even if Zhu Peng has the fate card, he only has a vague understanding, because this knowledge is really not something that a legendary wizard can touch and control.

If it is simply a task triggered by a group of robbers, Zhu Peng, who has little essentia energy left, has no interest in triggering it, but if it is a serial task, there will be more rewards for doing it round after round, and what he has paid for this is only the essentia consumption at the beginning, and the cost performance of the task is still relatively high.

At this time, the three thieves who were moving away were blaming each other, although the leader was a strong man with a shield sword and a bull's helmet on his head, but his two companions, a female archer and a strong black man with a heavy sword in both hands, were questioning the choice that the leader had just asked to retreat.

"Being able to slash the arrows shot by Azoya with a sword in such an environment when he has just been awakened, we can't kill such a person, this kind of performance I have only seen in the elite mercenaries of the Snowman City Comrades Group, he doesn't need to fight us head-on, as long as he escapes first, we will all become one by one" Before the words were finished, the three of them suddenly heard the footsteps rushing behind them.

The three robbers turned around almost at the same time, and in the eyes of the leader wearing the helmet of the ox, the shadow of the crossed double swords that came out of the darkness became huge in an instant, and the next moment, when the four of them staggered, the double swords in the young man's hands had already broken through the shield and cut the throat of the most knowledgeable bandit leader.

"The mind is good, but such a person will be a robber and unlucky ordinary person will inevitably be more...... Well, actually, I just wanted to kill you all, and that was the reason I thought of casually on the road, doesn't that make sense?"

"You give me death!!" As Zhu Peng chuckled and whispered, the black man among the two surviving robbers had already swung his two-handed heavy sword and pounced, while the other female archer pulled the string while retreating, a very standard melee long-range combat method.

But if the leader of the shield and sword bandits is still alive, they may still have a chance to live, and when he is dead, the destruction of the group is the inevitable end of the remaining two robbers.

Zhu Peng just held a double sword and fought with the heavy sword robber with flexible footwork, he has avoided many bullets over the years, the arrow shot by a wooden inferior bow is too low-level, if it is not for the fear that the other party will not shoot accurately, Zhu Peng does not even need to scan with his peripheral vision, and it is completely too late to dodge at the moment when the bowstring rings, the other party does not have enough level to shoot a supersonic arrow.

It was very tiring to wield most of the opponent's physical strength in a few rounds of advance and retreat with his pace, and it was very tiring to swing his two-handed sword with all his might, especially when the way of force was wrong and the sense of rhythm was relatively poor, the black bear-like bandit was already very tired after just a few swings of the sword with all his strength, and then Zhu Peng walked over and swung his sword quickly, cutting his carotid artery and ending his pain.

The female robber archer, knowing that she had no chance of winning, was finally able to understand why her man had let him retreat, even though she wished she didn't have to do so for the rest of her life.

turned around and ran quickly, Zhu Peng followed behind, he did not forcibly burst out of physical strength to catch up with the other party for a short time, but followed the other party to run a few steps, one was flustered, fierce gasps, one was indifferent, breathing slowly, and soon the female robber in leather armor found that she couldn't run away at all, and finally she pulled out a dagger with a crazy face and turned back to face it.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Peng's sword pierced through his throat, and when the refined iron sword that originally belonged to the imperial captain was pulled out, black-red blood gushed out.

Holding two swords, standing in place for a moment to recover his physical strength, at this time Zhu Peng was somewhat surprised to see the red-haired girl through the grass with some difficulty, and then she looked at herself with her blue eyes, and then carried the sack that had been deflated to the three robbers' bodies on the ground.

"You...... Aren't you afraid?" "Along the way, although she was used to seeing blood, it was the first time that she was left alone in an environment like tonight, so even Zhu Peng was a little surprised by the performance of this country girl.

"I'm scared, but I don't think I'm so scared with you, and I'm going to do something, and they're worth more than apples and cabbage, and I've seen grocers take them. As he spoke, he did not shy away from picking up the belongings of the three robbers.

If all of them had to be taken away, just the heavy iron sword girl in the hands of the black bear-like robber would not be able to drag it, although this thing was quite valuable even if it was sold for scrap metal, but this little guy did not get entangled in this, but found out the small and valuable items on the three of them.

"Speaking of which, I don't know your name yet. Mind telling me?" said the young man, who had already put away his swords, as he looked at the busy red-haired girl with an interest in the moonlight.

"Amira, my name is Amira Celia, if you want, call me Amira or Celia. Standing up, her hands gently tugging at the corners of her skirt, and her body squatting slightly, the girl replied with a rudimentary and rather jerky manner.

The next day, because last night was the preliminary part of completing the serial tasks, Zhu Peng's physique improved a little, so he helped Amira get something that would not hinder the battle, and the two of them had a faster journey. Zhu Peng has always admired people who are willing to work hard, are willing to endure hardships, have an accurate positioning of themselves and are willing to bear the price, so in his spare time walking, he casually pointed out some knowledge about the girl, about self-protection, about the technique of lightening the foot, about how to adjust the breathing rhythm to endure the battle.

Although they are all very basic things, but Zhu Peng is a person like this, if he is in the Chinese Warriors Association, I don't know how many people are crying and rushing to ask him to dial the foundation, the more basic things are practiced, the more the future has not changed, Amira does not know what kind of opportunity she got by chance, but she is willing to learn, and listen attentively, although the comprehension is poor, but the foundation of martial arts is the unity of body and mind, and apply what you have learned, as long as you are not as stupid as a pig...... No, even if it's a pig, as long as you are willing to work hard, it's no problem to learn some basic martial arts. Thinking of Li Yuehua, Zhu Peng touched his chin, feeling that he shouldn't look down on the intelligence of pigs, although that head was somewhat of a refinement.

Last night, a map was searched on the bodies of the three robbers, and Amira recognized it as the map of Ximu Town, which was the target of the two, but not far from Ximu Town, was deeply drawn an X-shape on the animal skin with stone coal, because of the serial mission, and because of some passing paths, so Zhu Peng decided to go here to take a look before arriving in Ximu Town.

In the conversation with the red-haired girl Amira, Zhu Peng also has a general understanding of the world he has descended in, this is a vast continent, but also a huge empire, his current place is called Skyrim Province, which is a huge and long-term turmoil province of the empire, especially after the leader of the Storm Cloak, Ufrijk, killed the original king with a roar, this turmoil and strife reached the extreme.

Amira can heal spells, she is actually still educated, not a simple country girl as Zhu Peng originally thought, but there are some questions that Zhu Peng is not easy to ask after all, it seems that she is too "white", she can only knock on the side, and some things are inevitably not asked in detail.

(In any case, this world is very magical, with dragons, elves, dwarves and other fantasy life, and the scenery is excellent, and even the wilderness is full of various herbs, it is a plane world with great development value...... After earning it, after locking the coordinates of this world, the profit dividends obtained after completion will probably be ten times higher than that of the Collapsed World, which is already in a state of semi-destruction. It's a very rich world to be explored.

Walking forward in the mountains and forests, the two of them actually encountered the attack of five black wolves again during the half-day journey, and did not draw their swords, but held a shield in front of Amira's body to attack with a burning hand, the wolf's will to die is strong and the sense of self-protection is far weaker than that of humans, so when there are many of them, even with Zhu Peng's swordsmanship, they dare not guarantee that they will be able to kill without injury.

Therefore, one hand protects himself and the girl behind him with an iron shield, and the other hand presses between, igniting the black and red wolves around him one by one, the flames still have a certain restraining effect on the wild wolves, when the body is engulfed by the flames, even with the bloodthirsty madness of the hungry wolf, it is impossible to endure it, and the momentum of the combined attack is only a one-sided slaughter.

Because in the battle with the wolves, it is necessary to constantly choose relatively favorable terrain while fighting and retreating, so when the battle is over, Zhu Peng and Amira accidentally find a stone altar hidden in the dense forest.

"Well, this can't be the Stone Altar of the Three Holy Spirits, right?" Amira, who was extremely surprised for the first time, strode to the stone altar and reached out to touch the three stone pillars that had been erected, on which were depicted flowing thieves, fierce warriors, and wizards who controlled ice, fire, and electricity.

"The Stone Altar of the Three Holy Spirits?"

"In the ancient legends of the sky, you can't deliberately look for it, only the chosen ones can touch the holy place, after choosing a holy spirit stone to worship here, the activated spirit stone will always bless the worshipper to move forward quickly on the path he has chosen. Amira touched the stone pillar in front of her with excitement, or the indigenous people who had lived in this world for a long time, and suddenly saw this kind of legendary holy place, most of them would be like her.

"Mr. Citsi, you must be the chosen one, choose a Holy Spirit Stone to worship, so that you will be blessed by the Holy Spirit Stone and become more powerful at a faster speed. When Amira said this, she seemed more excited than she was to get the benefit herself, and she was a lovely child.

In this world, the original owner of this body is called Cidis, when Zhu Peng came, he had already died more thoroughly, the main consciousness dissipated, Zhu Peng except knew that he was originally called Cidis, no other memories were inherited, and even basic abilities such as language and writing were forcibly revived by consuming a little essentia energy, after all, it occupied people's bodies, at least in this world, Zhu Peng chose to use his name.

"Warriors, thieves, wizards?" Walking to the stone altar, in Zhu Peng's state at the moment, it is most advantageous to choose to worship the thief Holy Spirit Stone, because if you want physical fitness or not, if you want magic power without magic power, then of course it is most cost-effective to use stealth techniques to fight weak and strong. But the one who can give full play to his own combat power is still a warrior after all, after a slight improvement in the quality of this body, a point of physical fitness Zhu Peng can exert twelve points of combat destructive power, from this point of view, it makes sense to worship the warrior Holy Spirit Stone.

But after hesitating for a moment, Zhu Peng finally chose to worship the Wizard Holy Spirit Stone, for only one reason, he was working hard to study the true body of the demigod, if he was blessed in this area in this world and accelerated the progress of his own research on the true body of the demigod, then in the long run, it was really not comparable to any other benefit.

After a little consideration, Zhu Peng chose to worship the wizard spirit stone according to the ritual that the red-haired girl Amira said, and after completing the ceremony, he did feel that he was a little different, but what became different, Zhu Peng could not say for the time being.

"I've bowed, and so should you, Amira. ”

"Ahh

Zhu Peng is a spy who knows his own affairs, and he is a spy with ill intentions, and he can encounter this holy place that can only be encountered by people on this plane, eighty percent of them are the cauldron on the back of the essentia energy on his body, and the so-called chosen one is forged, in this case, even if Amira is just an ordinary country girl, she is far more qualified than herself to worship the Holy Spirit Stone.

"Yes, let's pay a respect, anyway, there are three spirit stones, although you can only choose one, but there are only two of us here. ”

"Isn't that a blasphemy against the heroes of old?"

However, no matter how reluctant Amira was, in the end, the girl still chose a holy spirit stone to worship at Zhu Peng's insistence, she chose the thief spirit stone, originally based on Amira's foundation, she should have chosen the wizard spirit stone, but since this option has been activated by Zhu Peng's choice, she can no longer repeat the visit, she can't choose the most segmentary choice, she can only choose the sub-optimal choice, then the thief spirit stone is more suitable for Amira than the warrior spirit stone, the girl has no choice, but it also matches the things she is learning during this time, Zhu Peng is teaching her。

(Could it be that my future destiny is to become the first female snitch in Skyrim...... My aunt will kill me for this, right?) Little Face cried and mourned, and in her heart, no matter what, after completing the worship, Zhu Peng and Amira left the Guardian Stone Altar, so that this sacred place, which was said to be able to move and could not be entered by the Chosen One, was shrouded in fog again.

At dusk that day, Zhu Peng and Amira arrived at the place marked on the map of the three thieves last night, in the hidden and rugged mountain road, where there were simple ladders paved with logs for stepping feet.

"Mr. Cidis, this seems to be an abandoned coal and stone mine, this" Before the words could be spoken, Amira was covered by Zhu Peng's mouth, and then pulled to a hidden place in the forest on the side.

The next moment, I saw two strong men dressed in rough animal skin armor coming out of the exit of the mine, because the meaning and inferior equipment on their bodies were so vivid and outstanding, even Amira quickly recognized the identity of these people as robbers.

"It seems that this abandoned mine has been overrun by robbers, let's go back and find a hidden place to eat and drink, and then come back tonight to kill them all, but unfortunately yesterday I didn't know that you would be a little thief, otherwise I would have taken that woman's wooden bow and arrows with us. Covering Amira's mouth, she whispered and left far away, and finally when Zhu Peng let go, Amira's little face was swollen and hot, and it seemed that she had just choked enough.

"West, Mr. Cides, why did you kill them all, let's go directly to Ximu Town, they have nothing to do with us. ”

"Amira, I'm disappointed in you. ”

"Huh!?"

"How can you not have the slightest sense of public welfare? Knowing that there are robbers here but not eradicating them, doesn't that give them time to kill more good people? Not to mention that this is so close to Ximu Town, how can you be sure that this group of vicious guys will not attack the townspeople?" Although I don't understand what it means, but Zhu Peng's general meaning Amira can still understand and comprehend, the girl lowered her head with some moral guilt, but she didn't know that the man in front of her was just looking for a reason for him to complete the task.

Zhu Peng can't tell Amira, kill them all, I can become stronger, right?

It's good that Amira doesn't believe it, if she really believes it, it will be troublesome, there is a legend of the demon lord in this world, and the demon lord lurking in the ashes is not better than the identity of the spy to hear where.