It was getting dark, and the castle was located at the edge of the sparse woods, and in the distance, the moon could be seen slowly rising over the horizon, and the villages that could be faintly seen during the day had disappeared into the night, and there was silence all around. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"There's a problem here. "This season, the wilderness shouldn't be so quiet. ”

"Undead monsters emit negative energy, and no living creature likes it. Except for the very few mutated monsters in the Northwest Ember Forest, even ordinary demonic beasts would deliberately avoid the influence of negative energy. The probationary pastor is still very clear about these things, "it's just ...... When we came here during the day, there were a lot of wild beasts here. ”

"yes, I was going to grab two for a barbecue in the evening. The trainee ranger couldn't help but sigh, "Now I have to eat dry food." ”

"Probably during the day, the negative energy is suppressed by the sun. The trainee pastor speculated, "As we enter the night, the negative energy will be strengthened." Therefore, it is said that in the ash forest, a large number of necromantic monsters often haunt at night, which is extremely dangerous. ”

"Necromancy, if it's a skeleton or something, there's nothing to be afraid of. The rough apprentice laughed, "It's nothing more than finding a thick wooden stick, and it's all over with a single stick." ”

"One or two skeletons are certainly not scary, even ordinary farmers can deal with them. Yui smiled and said, "However, it is said that the skeletons in the Ash Forest either don't appear, and if they do, they are at least measured in 'hundreds'. On the night of the Pole, there may even be tens of thousands of skeleton armies. Do you think you've been able to fight hundreds of skeletons?"

The trainee soldier didn't even think about it, he just shook his head.

Of course, there are heroes in the world who can win hundreds of skeletons, but he is certainly not among them. Not to mention hundreds, dealing with ten or eight skeletons at a time is enough to kill him.

After all, although the skeleton is not strong in single force, it is better than not being afraid of pain or death, and as soon as there are many of them, the threat immediately rises in a straight line.

Not to mention anything else, once you are hugged by five or six skeletons, unless you are a good man with natural powers, no matter how good your kung fu is, you will definitely die.

He is barely skilled in martial arts, and if he uses all his skills, he may be able to drive a dozen or so farmers to escape in embarrassment, but when faced with a dozen skeletons, he will have to be replaced by himself.

"Strangely, why can't I feel negative energy?" said the Clerk Trainee after a moment of inactivity, wondering, "I don't feel it at all." ”

"When you step out of this magic array, you can probably feel it. Yui said lightly, "But that also means that you may be attacked by evil spirits." ”

The trainee pastor's head shrank: "I don't want to take that risk, I can't feel it if I don't feel it." ”

Everyone smiled good-naturedly, and for their group of rookie adventurers, safety first was undoubtedly the golden rule. Anyone who doesn't respect this rule will mostly die in one adventure and won't have a chance to enjoy a bright future.

"Okay, it's getting late, everyone eats some dry food and goes to bed early, and the three of us take turns keeping vigil. After laughing, the midshipman began to arrange the vigil.

When it comes to adventures, vigils are essential and important. Night is the time when most monsters are active, and if you don't arrange a vigil, if you are attacked by monsters, you are likely to die in confusion.

It is customary among adventurers that spellcasters do not keep vigil. This is not only to take care of casters who are relatively weak and need enough rest, but also to ensure that they will not be affected by lack of sleep during the day, reducing the success rate of spellcasting.

Adequate sleep can allow the caster to recover their mana better, and it can keep them in a good state of mind. Unless there are so many casters in the team that they don't care about such trivial matters, everyone will abide by the rule of "casters don't keep vigil".

In other words, if anyone sees a certain adventurer in a squad of adventurers actually asking a spellcaster to keep vigil, then they are probably rookies!

Of course, there are exceptions. For example, some priest who believes in the god of the night or the god of shadows, or a necromancer, or something...... The night is their home turf, and during the day they will languish.

However, this type of caster will certainly not act with ordinary adventurers, so strictly speaking, it is not a real exception.

Naturally, neither Yoe nor the Priest Trainee are exceptional, and both need plenty of rest to ensure they have plenty of magic and good shape tomorrow. It's just that unlike Yui, who slept peacefully, the probationary priest obviously didn't sleep well, tossing and turning at night, and waking up several times.

On more than one occasion, he clearly felt that an evil force was watching over him, so he woke up in his sleep, but looked left and right, but saw nothing. Soon after he fell asleep, he felt the evil force watching again, and he was awakened again...... This was repeated several times, and he did not sleep well that night, and the next morning he was languishing, apparently not in good shape.

Naturally, his companions noticed his situation and asked with concern, but when he told him how many times he had woken up during the night, the three people who were on the night vigil looked dazed.

Not to mention warriors and knights with relatively weak perception, even rangers with better perception did not feel any evil peeping.

"Don't be cranky, this is the usual method of evil spirits. After a good night's sleep, the energetic Yui sighed and said, "It is spying on you from the spirit realm, and it knows that the caster is its great enemy, so it will try to disturb your spirit - this may be a good thing, because it proves that this evil spirit is not very strong, otherwise it would not have used such means." ”

After analyzing it like this, everyone's hearts are much more steady. The curious warrior thought of one more thing and asked, "What about you? You're also a spellcaster, right?" ”

Yuy smiled and said, "Probably it's the limit just by disturbing a person's mind." In any case, it must be the priest who is more of a threat to it than I am as a mage. ”

Of course, what she said was false, although she was using the body of the apprentice mage, the soul in the body was a genius young mage, and it was the child of two legendary powerhouses. According to some scholars, her soul was inherently higher than the average person, and the evil spirit tried to attack her at night, but instead of disturbing her spirit, she was attacked and injured.

But these naturally can't explain to her companions, anyway, the evil spirit's spirit is injured, and her strength will definitely decline, although her previous analysis is wrong, at least the result is correct.

In contrast, she was a little curious about another thing.

During the night, she clearly felt that a well-meaning soul was watching her, and it was carrying a friendly message, as if it wanted to tell herself something. It's a pity that she is a mage and not a priest after all, and soul communication is not her forte, so it is a pity that she can't hear it clearly.

"How many days do we have enough dry food to eat?" asked the captain.

The ranger in charge of managing logistics took a look at it and replied, "If you save a little, you can eat for three days, and normally you will have to hunt after lunch tomorrow." ”

"Then rest this morning. "We have to give the priest a good rest, we can't take any chances." ”

No one objected to this, and the Ranger even said that he could take advantage of this morning to hunt and catch a few rabbits for lunch.

So they ate roast rabbit and a little dry food for lunch.

The rookie adventurers' barbecue skills are not very good, but at least they are cooked. Yue wasn't happy with the food, but at least he was well fed.

She was not idle this morning, checking the condition of the purification circle, and at the same time making some temporary props—using some improvised materials, and using up almost all of the gem reserves of the trainee mage, she made a few poorly crafted pendants, strung them with thin strings, and gave them to each of her companions.

"Spiritual protection pendant. She introduced, "It's better to be able to improve your ability to defend against psychic attacks a little bit than nothing." ”

The companions happily wore the pendant, though Yui knew it wouldn't help much.

The portrayal of the Spiritual Protection Circle is correct, and the combination of materials is strictly in accordance with the rules, the problem is that the materials are too low-level, and she doesn't have enough magic to infiltrate these materials to improve their effects.

This method of so-called "enchantment" has a hard requirement for the strength of the caster's mana, and the trainee mage has only so much mana, considering that she may have to fight in the afternoon or evening, she can only draw this mana.

If she is safe tonight, she will be able to reprocess these pendants tomorrow morning to improve their effect. It doesn't improve much, but at least it doesn't ruin those gems.

With that in mind, Yui prepared the scroll and wand in a place where they could be used, and then hung two short swords sharpened from locust wood around his waist.

The pair of daggers were made for her this morning at her request, by the knights. Locust wood is a wood that can be well fused with negative energy, and using it as a primer, this pair of swords may also be used to harm evil spirits.

Of course, that requires another kind of introduction. She didn't want to use that if she didn't have to.

Even though it was just a game, Yui never intended to risk his life.

However, she would not hesitate if it was really necessary.

In battle, the most important emotion is hesitation, no matter what you choose, it is better than not at all.

After lunch, the pastor finally rested and refreshed.

So the group put on the most suitable camp for battle and stepped into the castle again.

This time, they are much more serious and nervous than yesterday.

Sui Xiong watched all this in the sky and couldn't help but smile.

"Yoi, this kid...... Seems to have a lot of talent as a commander......" (To be continued.) )