8. Master Huang's Abyss
Eight years later, the ninth grade students of the United Intermediate Academy are preparing for their graduation assessment, and this year's assessment content is the same as the previous year, completing a one-year adventure group internship, as long as they get the certification signature of the adventure group leader above C, they can get the college's graduation certificate. The adventure group will send someone to select students, and generally most of the students will be selected at this stage, and the rest of the students can only rely on their own ability to find the adventure group to complete the internship. There will be a whole team of teachers who will oversee the entire internship process, and if you don't get a signature through a year's hard work, but through money or other means, you will not only be expelled from the school, but you will also be put on the academy's blacklist: first of all, most countries will not hire you, the adventure party will not dare to ask you, and the most terrible thing is that you will not even be able to deposit money in the magic bank, and there are all kinds of obstacles. All in all, the future is broken.
Nicholas has been quite miserable in the past few years, but nothing can only have simple advantages or disadvantages, it can be said that he can only put his anger on his own strength improvement. In the next few years, everyone will no longer pay attention to this wall grass Nicholas, and everyone doesn't know that Nicholas, who was once only in the middle of the stream, has quietly been promoted to an intermediate magician, and according to everyone's surface strength, he is at the level of the top fifty in the grade. Because from the junior college to the intermediate college, the number of students in the Nicholas grade soared from four hundred to eight hundred today. Not to mention the top 50, the probability of attending the United Senior College is not 90 percent but 80 percent, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is nine out of ten.
Regardless of your reputation in the grade, the representatives of the adventurous group have their own way of judging when selecting people, but no matter which adventurous group, strength is a hard indicator for them to choose people.
At Nicholas's level, he was selected by a number of adventure groups at the same time without even fully demonstrating it, and Nicholas finally picked the highest-rated adventure group: the S-class adventure group Abyss Adventure Group. This adventure party is named after the Abyss, and its main mission is to explore the Abyss. The abyss is the product of the ancient rival of the Angel Clan, the Demon Clan, and is the city where the Demon Clan lives, because the Demon Clan is extremely disgusted with sunlight, so the Abyss is usually about a thousand meters underground.
The Demon Clan has long been broken up by the Angel Clan and other races, and now except for the Angel Clan, the rest of the races do not reject the Demon Clan. However, because they were encircled and suppressed too fiercely, the number of existing demon clans is estimated to be less than 10,000.
"Boy, your name is Nicholas Young, right? There are many rules for our adventuring party in the Abyss, but as a rookie, you only need to remember one: obey the orders of your superiors and seniors. "Nicholas was taken to the Adventure Regiment's headquarters that day, and is now being lectured alone by a bearded middle-aged man. "I see. Nicholas knew that although he could rank first in the grade as an intermediate mage, he couldn't even do miscellaneous work in the S-level adventure group, because the lower level recruited by the Abyss Adventure Group was an intermediate mage, and only a few people were recruited every year. There are not many people, but there are hundreds of magicians who sign up every year. Intermediate magicians are already considered the backbone, but the elimination rate is still frighteningly high.
"Get out of the way, and the next rookie will call in. The bearded man waved impatiently. Nicholas was not the only one who came to the abyss for an internship, there were two other students from the same academy, and five students from other colleges were also selected.
After waiting for less than half an hour, the bearded man followed the last student out: "Okay, the nonsense is over, the abyss has no habit of raising idlers, now arrange work." According to the intelligence of the Explorer Brigade, an abyss was confirmed to have been born in the Luoxia Mountain Range, which borders the Dragon Empire in the south of Luoshan. This abyss is suspected to be the abyss where Master Huang, the last fifth earl of the demon clan, lives. Your mission is to explore the edge of the abyss, don't even enter the outer layer, identify the original owner of the abyss and then use the means at your disposal to record the situation of the abyss, even if the mission is complete, simple and straightforward. ”
Belch... It's simple and straightforward, the whole rookie lineup goes to explore the abyss, is this a death squad mission? Nicholas remembered the life of cannon fodder eight years ago. The abyss is also guarded by immortal and immortal soul beasts, and those who can be transformed into soul beasts are all high-level magicians or high-level magicians before their deaths, and most of them are title-level, which may be a few points stronger than ordinary high-level magicians. You must know that in ancient times, those who could obtain titles were fierce men who had experienced wars, but it was not the era when low-level magicians had the opportunity to obtain titles.
"When you came to the internship, you all brought your legal suits, and the rest of the preparations were done on the way, let's go, the mission period is fifteen days. "The bearded man doesn't have time to continue with the kids. He's also up and down a few thousand magic coins per hour, but he's busy.
The eight of them were calm, and they got to know each other briefly and went on the road together. Fifteen days, three days on the road alone. The magician's brain is good, three days is enough to get to know each other, and as for the combat cooperation, there is only a chance to run in when you get to the place.
Three days passed in a flash, and soon the three of them arrived at the entrance of the Luoxia Mountain Range under the guidance of the explorers who stayed in the abyss. "It's still ten kilometers away from the area you're going to explore, and your main task is to determine the extent of the edge, and we need to be as precise as possible. Although you are interns, you have completed this task well, and I believe that you will have a much greater chance of joining the group directly after graduation in the future. "The explorer who led the way seems to have a high status in the adventure group, ordinary explorers will not say the last word of encouragement, and the abyss adventure group is the most taboo lie.
Among the eight people who took the lead was Liang Yue from the United Academy, an elf clan, female, who had been an intermediate magician for more than a year, proficient in natural spells, and had a magic body that had reached the control stage. As for what kind of magic body it is, she didn't disclose it, both are intermediate magicians, and Nicholas doesn't know the difference in strength between them, just looking at the spells she has used recently, the degree of control is not higher than his. The people who can be favored by the Abyss Adventure Group are all intermediate magicians, on the surface, Liang Yue's strength is the highest, and others naturally have no objection to Liang Yue being the captain of the team this time, and it is not an easy thing to be the captain. It can only be said that high returns and high risks, most of the outstanding results must be led by the captain, and if something goes wrong, the captain will naturally take the blame first.
The explorer explained some precautions that had been proved and left, and now there was still plenty of time, although it was close to the abyss, but Liang Yue still decided to rest in place to recover first. "I suggest that you split into two teams of four, so that the progress of exploration will be much faster, although it is to explore the abyss, but I think if it is only on the edge, the team of four should have enough ability to deal with the crisis. "Liang Yue, as the captain of the team, naturally can't be idle, and he can also arrange tasks by the way while he is resting.
"After all, it's the first time we've explored the abyss...""It's not my first time. Another Union College student felt that separation was not a good strategy, and was interrupted by another team member, and the atmosphere became awkward. However, everyone is not very human, Liang Yue naturally changed the topic: "Ji Qingyun, you said that you have been to the abyss, so do you think it is better for us to search separately or explore together?" "According to me, I think it can be divided into three teams, in fact, under normal circumstances, the crisis on the edge of the abyss can be dealt with even by junior magicians, and if you really encounter a big crisis, eight people together will lose even more." Ji Qingyun is also not modest, in such an occasion, where his life is in danger every minute, no one will joke with his life. "There are eight people here, how can they be divided?" Liang Yue frowned and considered the feasibility of Ji Qingyun's plan.
"It's better to use a house to divide it together, so that it will be easier to run in. It just so happened that there were three people in the United Academy, and Liang Yue also thought that this plan was good, and immediately divided the teams according to the ratio of three to three or two after deciding to use the plan, and agreed to use the fireball technique as a distress signal, and the three teams set off at the same time an hour later.
An hour later, the three teams set off to reach the edge of the abyss first, and the temperature here had risen a lot compared to just now, and everyone had to use the Blessed Water Shield Technique to cool down to maintain their physical exertion. Just this magic consumption made everyone realize the horror of the abyss, and the three teams didn't dare to delay time, so they chose a direction to explore and said goodbye to each other and started to explore the work.
On Nicholas's side, Nicholas was responsible for recording the surrounding situation, and the other two were responsible for helping him keep on guard, and he used his magic power to manipulate the three magic balls to record without dead ends. The three of them had barely walked a kilometer before the recording was almost interrupted: the hordes of low-level demon slaves, whose masters had all died, survived with their amazing reproductive abilities, and gradually grew up with the remnants of the abyss. The low-level slaves are classified by identifying the number and shape of their horns, this group is the Sheep's Horn Slave, and the leader is a two-horned Slave. It had already discovered the three of Nicholas, but because there weren't enough little brothers gathered, it didn't come forward to surround and nibble on these small snacks. Demon slaves are timid and cautious, and they don't have enough numbers, so they don't dare to take the initiative to attack even two-on-one, but as long as there are enough of them, saint-level magicians also have the courage to challenge it.
"Nicholas continues to record, and the group of claw demon slaves are handed over to us. Liang Yue saw that it was a demon slave and not a soul beast, and the originally tense nerves were also relaxed a little, and the number was only in the early hundreds, in fact, he could eat them all by himself, but for the sake of safety, it was better for the two of them to go side by side. Not wanting to give the demon slave time to continue summoning his companions, Liang Yue took out the staff from the space ring and began to chant, the space ring intermediate magicians and even high-level magicians are not one person, but the students above the seventh level of the United Academy are basically one each. Another orc schoolboy pulled out two axes, and there was no doubt that he was on a melee approach.