Chapter 229: Different
"Now we should be able to focus on finding the last artifact, right? Huo Ran?Wen ??? ??? .?r?a?n ?e?n?a'c?o?m" Seeing that the girl was still in a trance, His Excellency the future super-mage had to remind.
"Oh, do you have any suggestions?" Speaking of business, Luo Luo could only temporarily suppress the doubts in his heart.
"I'd like to take a look at the place where you placed the last artifact. Rob said this to the little golem in the corner.
However, the little golem seemed a little hesitant, and it seemed a little relieved to leave Claire here alone.
As a result, Simon suddenly spoke, "I can stay and take care of her instead of you." β
Gage was surprised when he heard this, "Eh, wasn't you the most active person in the crusade against that monster before, even if there really was someone left, it should be me, after all, I was the weakest in the squad." The fat man sighed.
Simon pointed to his feet, "But you can't use these magic arrays. β
The little golem tilted its head and thought about it, and felt that Simon was the most suitable person compared to Gage, so it ran upstairs to say goodbye to the old man, and then stuffed all the magic circles it had made in the past two days into the former's arms.
Because of the limited materials, most of them are low-level magic arrays, and there are only two mid-level magic arrays, one is the reflection magic array that almost made Simon hit before, and the other is a fourth-order defensive magic array with a very good effect.
Simon was surprised, "Did you do all this, in this environment?"
The little golem nodded, looking a little proud, but then it seemed to remember something again, and immediately pretended to be dazed and ignorant.
Luo Luo was angry and funny, knowing that this guy was worried that he would be remembered, in fact, most people had already discovered the abnormality on this little golem during their time together.
Unlike its dull companions, this creature seems to be so full of emotion and expression that one can't help but wonder if it has a life of its own, and Simon seems to be interested in it right now.
The little golem didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly left the puppet workshop with Rob and the others.
Their goal was a theater ten miles away, and the little golem remembered very well that it had placed the last artifact under the floor of the thirteen columns in the seven rows from the left of the theater stage, but by the time it had passed away, there was no sign of the artifact.
After the team walked a distance, Rob suddenly offered to go to the convenience, he found a building on the side of the road and got in, and walked out of it five minutes later, for some reason Luo Luo felt that he had changed a little from before, but he couldn't say what the difference was, plus everyone was in a hurry, this doubt only flashed in her heart.
After a magical moment, everyone rushed to the theater, and Gage lifted the floor again, and there was nothing underneath, because it was uncertain if the golem would suffer from memory loss like humans, and everyone worked together to lift the floor around it, but it still turned out that nothing was found.
The search environment was then expanded, and Rob eventually found several strange paw prints on the west wall, which were supposed to have been left not long ago, and there were some blood stains on them.
"Is it a ghoul?" Gage guessed.
The quasi-magister shook his head and said, "Ghouls generally only operate on the first and second floors of dungeons, and this dungeon in Buntum Town is close to being completely cleared, and the ghouls inside have basically been cleaned up by the early adventurers. β
"Could it be who took the last artifact, Xavier, or the monster?"
This time it was the little golem's turn to shake its head, and it was in place for a long time, judging by the fact that Xavier and the monster had never been here.
Rob took out the referee's version of the map again, and found their current location on it, "The closest monster to here is a petrified sawtooth crocodile, but it is about two miles away, and as far as I know, this creature rarely leaves its lair, and it has no habit of collecting collections except for food. β
"And who took the rest of the artifact?"
The quasi-magister didn't speak, crouched down and rechecked those paw prints, and after a moment raised his head, he hesitated, "These scratches look a bit like the ones left by the grayback jackal, is there such a monster in the freshman arena?"
The gray-backed jackal and the black-peaked camel are the same as the first-order demonic beasts are more aggressive existences, and the black-peaked camel likes to stay in one place, the gray-backed jackal has no fixed stronghold, likes to wander around, and prefers group action, generally the number of gray-backed jackals encountered in the wild is more than two, it is very unfriendly to rookie adventurers, and was once known as a rookie killer, so this time Siamers's freshman competition did not introduce this kind of dangerous monster.
On the other side, Ginny seemed to stop talking, and Rob saw the expression on her face and asked, "Do you have anything you want to add?" β
Ginny hesitated, "We've met the new students of the Silver Tower in Bantham before, and I think I've heard them talk about hunting grayback jackals or something. β
The Silver Tower is one of the top ten magic academies in the south, even if they are freshmen, their combat power is much stronger than that of Siamus, so ordinary magical beasts have a limited training effect on them, and it is indeed possible for the school to use a novice killing weapon like the grayback jackal.
"But after the Silver Tower Academy finishes the competition, someone will specifically count and recycle these magical beasts in the freshman competition field to ensure that the number is accurate, how did this gray-backed jackal get mixed into the next competition?"
"It's true that there are people counting and recovering monsters after each game, but the way they count them is by subtracting the number of monsters hunted in the game from the total number of monsters of each type of monster, and the rest is finally recovered, and what if the gray-backed jackal is not among them? What if this is a gray-backed jackal that has been judged dead?"
Luo Luo's eyes lit up as well, " This also explains why the paw prints on the wall are still mixed with those blood stains, this gray-backed jackal is very badly injured, and it is probably even fatal, it only has one breath left, and it can no longer live, so it is classified into the death sequence, or the guy who hunted it thinks it is dead, so no one comes to retrieve it after the game, and it happens that Heclito's badly injured gray-backed jackal is near here when he places the last hallows artifact, and it sees the location of the holy artifact, and finds that the divine power on the holy weapon has a stabilizing effect on its injuries, so after Heckles left, it crawled here with the last of its strength and stole the holy artifactγ β
Gage was dumbfounded, "This ......... It's amazing, isn't it possible that some gray-backed jackal died right here, leaving behind these bloody paw prints?"
"You're talking about the most likely scenario, but given that we don't have any more clues at the moment, it's worth trying either one right now. β