As she walked through the Eye of Ashes portal, Durex felt as if her body had been stretched for a while, and then a wave of vertigo hit her mind, causing her to be confused and have an unreal sense of what had happened last night.

Soon, though, the dizziness faded, and Durex touched the delicate leather armor that smelled of flowers, and an irrepressible smile appeared on his face.

It was a real piece of enchanted leather armor, part of the generous employer's advance payment, which could be purchased at the end of the mission period with the amount she should have been paid for. This was a great thing, and Durex decided to buy the leather armor even if he broke his fortune. Because such an opportunity is a rare opportunity in ten years. To see such fine leather armor in the hands of those private merchants, it takes a great deal of luck.

Durex estimated that the leather armor would be worth a lot of money, at least not to lose to the gray heavy armor of Fat Rogge. This is because compared to the armor, this leather armor has a more refined appearance, and it has two more practical spells. One is the agility that can make the wearer as light as a swallow, and the other is the strength that can increase the durability of the equipment. This gives a piece of leather armor more defense than scales, but only one-fifth the weight.

What made Durex even more curious and surprised was the sweet floral fragrance that always emanated from the leather armor. When she was the first to grab this leather armor, the other sisters in the group were envious and wanted to die.

Unbeknownst to Durex, of course, this leather armor was actually a spare leather armor in the Golden Leaf Meishan package, which was a piece of equipment that she often wore until she was fifteen years old. Although it's not too high-end, it's also a rare good product on the market. In particular, the fragrance that is always emitted is purely the golden leaf of a girl's heart, and Meishan spent a lot of time attaching it to this leather armor little by little.

Durex only knew that the employment contract was too lucrative. In addition to the leather armor on her body, the dagger on her waist was also replaced by an alchemy short sword, and there were forty alchemy arrows of various kinds in the quiver, and in her backpack, there were sixty alchemy arrows.

She is not the only one, now everyone in the Dragon and Beauty Mercenary Group is wearing all kinds of high-level equipment, and the overall combat effectiveness must have quadrupled compared to before last night, so that the entire mercenary group is filled with a kind of blind optimism, thinking that there will be no more difficulties in this mission to stop them.

Durex has a different view on this. As Rogge's closest person, she could see that after talking alone with Mr. East, who could turn into a terrifying monster, Rogge seemed a little preoccupied. Apparently, he knew something that the rest of the team didn't know about, and it made him feel dangerous.

Out of trust in his lover's character, Durex did not deliberately ask Rogge for news, but strengthened his vigilance during the operation in case anything unexpected happened.

However, both last night's rest and this morning's departure were very peaceful and smooth. The entire team successfully passed the Eye of Ashes portal and entered the Labyrinth Proving Grounds.

The half-plane name called the Labyrinth Proving Ground had only just been heard from the witty old man (Reynoldsam). In her opinion, this old man obviously knew a lot about the situation inside the White Tower, and was a very qualified guide.

She looked around and saw that her companions who had passed through the portal before her were resting in place, while the old man, Mr. Reynoldsson, had gathered with his original employer, Mr. Richard, and Mr. East, to whom she was somewhat grateful, and was discussing something in a whisper not far away.

Esther looked at the monotonous and dead environment around him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The Labyrinth Half-Plane, as the name suggests, is a Half-Plane built in a labyrinth, similar to the Four Seasons Half-Plane, a half-plane that has been greatly transformed by the Alchemist's Guild. However, unlike the Four Seasons Half-Plane that uses economic means to attract people to participate in the Climbing White Tower Competition, the role of the Labyrinth Half-Plane is to eliminate the participating teams that are not suitable for entering the deeper level.

As the name suggests, the labyrinth half-plane is a huge labyrinth. Each team that passes through the Eye of Ashes portal will be transported to various locations in the labyrinth's half-plane. Only by passing through the maze and finding the exit can you continue the rest of the journey and complete the White Pagoda Climbing Competition.

The terrain in the labyrinth is complex, and there is a rare magic maze. Without enough knowledge and skills, you will not be able to find the right path, and you will be trapped in a maze until the end of the game time and you will be teleported out of the White Tower.

The Alchemists' Guild has specially created a batch of arcane golems, which do not have lethal weapons on their bodies, but carry a large number of capture tools, and gather in groups to capture the participants. Once caught, the contestants are judged losers and sent to the central area of the labyrinth's half-plane. There, there is a special portal in the stronghold of the Alchemists' Guild, which will teleport these losers back to the Four Seasons Half-Plane every day.

Of course, these losers will be able to enter the labyrinth half-plane again through the Eye of Ashes, but they will be at least a day behind the other teams before them.

According to Reynoldson, the Alchemists' Guild seems to have gone to great lengths to keep all the participating teams out of the way, but it was actually well-intentioned.

Because the team that will be blocked by the labyrinth half-plane will either be full of fools and fools in the team, unable to find the rules of the maze and unable to pass, or weak chickens, unable to even fight against the arcane puppets, and will be captured alive.

Neither of these teams is what the Alchemist Guild wants to see, because in the following journey, as the Alchemist Guild's control over the half-plane plummets, the strength requirements for the team will increase dramatically. If a team with insufficient strength rashly enters the lower half plane, it is likely that not only will it not be beneficial to explore the White Tower, but it will suffer great casualties, which will seriously affect the reputation of the White Tower Competition.

As for the original intention of the establishment of this labyrinth half-plane, East expressed his strong agreement. This shows the Alchemists' Guild's unwillingness to hurt the innocent humanity, and Easter's evaluation of the organization is further enhanced.

As for the so-called labyrinth, it is really nothing to the East team with Reynoldson in the team. Together with Reynoldsen and Cripple Richard, he was actually discussing a plan to destroy the five Kiksen brothers.

Help Reynolds clean up the five Kixon brothers first, this is the consensus reached by East and Reynolds.

Persimmon should be picked soft and pinched first. This is also common knowledge in Coronia. Compared to the large and powerful team of the Pervas family, a small team like the five Kidson brothers is undoubtedly easier to deal with. Moreover, Cripple Richard also worked as an observer at the Eye of Ashes portal for a day, paying great attention to the team that Reynoldson kept him paying attention to.

In Richard the Cripple's description, the Pervas family ranks a staggering three hundred or more. Carrying more than a dozen tall banners embroidered with the family crest of the Pervas family in the finest white silk, they passed through the Eye of Ashes portal in a majestic manner.

After implanting the strong breeding armor of the Zerg technology, Cripple Richard has increased many perception abilities that humans will not have, in addition to the aforementioned infrared vision, vibration perception, etc., there is also a pheromone collection ability similar to insect creatures. Although human beings themselves do not use pheromones to convey messages, everyone's body is actually constantly emitting pheromones.

And Richard the Cripple uses these pheromones to determine the identity and strength of the people in the team. In his observations, the leader of the Pervas family was undoubtedly Prague Pervas himself. Around him, there were twenty or thirty beings with extremely strange breaths. Although there is nothing unusual on the outside, Richard the Cripple believes that none of them are Coronians, and may not even be pure-bloods. Reminiscent of the legend of the Pervas family opening up a new plane, it is highly likely that these guys are from an alien plane and are the private soldiers of the Pervas family, an indigenous race conquered by the Pervas family. Each of these privates left a feeling of unsheathed blades for Richard the Crippled, and the strongest of them felt like they had been stabbed by a sword at the slightest sight of them.

In addition to these eccentric guys, Cripple Richard also felt that there were at least twenty people in the team who were not below him, and there were five people, giving him the same sense of oppression as a legendary powerhouse. However, none of these people have the power to open the realm, so they can't really be sure if they are legendary powerhouses or not.

These fifty or sixty strong men constitute the core and main force of the Pervas family's team, and most of the rest are ordinary soldiers of the Pervas family, although they are very well-equipped and their level should be good, but in the eyes of the lame man, they are just a group of recruits, and there is no threat. On the contrary, there were a few very odd guys in the team who caught his attention. It was a team of five people, and it was clear that it was an elderly master and his four disciples. All five of them carried a large metal box on their backs, and from inside the box came a pair of intimidating, hideous robotic arms. The difference was that a pair of golden mechanical arms protruded from the box on the back of the older gray-haired master, while silver and blue-gray mechanical arms protruded from the box behind the other four people.

At the tip of each arm are four or five smaller branches, which end in a variety of odd-shaped instruments. In the cripple's view, many of these tools resembled those of the carpenter, but there were also some things that he did not recognize, but instinctively gave him a sense of danger.

The lame man could see that the old man with the box on his back had a high status in the group, and even Prague Pervas himself had great respect for him, inviting him to pass through the Eye of Ashes portal in the middle of the group.

This position is only available to the highest-ranking members of the team who should be protected. So although I don't know what these guys with the boxes are doing, but because of the enemy's support, we want to oppose it, but Richard the Cripple still puts a lot of attention into this group, and eventually discovers the anomaly.

That is, all the boxes are not carried on the backs of those people, but are directly mounted, or rather grown on the backs.