9. Horse snatching and slashing
"Ahem... No matter how many times I walk through this place, it's still so annoying!"
Elavin gasped and scrambled over the not-so-high hill in front of him, then hid in a place where the scorching sun couldn't reach him, lifted the corners of his clothes miserably, and kept fanning his face. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
The Rattle next to him was not well yet, this stout semi-barbarian was too tired to speak, he was lying on the only piece of grass in a large shape, breathing in a big gulp of slightly cool air, and Roman sitting next to him was the best of the three, but because he had opened the summoning ceremony twice in a row, and the spiritual power of the Abyss Lord had not been shaken once in the middle, his pain was not shown on the outside, and he knew that he was actually not so much better than if he pinched his forehead from time to time.
The place where they are now is already the hinterland of the gray plain, these three guys were hiding in the closest place to the city wall of Sam City, Rattle set up several surveillance posts outside, almost the whole time saw the abyss lord exerting his might, sneaking up on Pitts, and how it was sealed by Pollit, seeing that the faceless man picked up two sound transmission stones in a row, the three of them were immediately overjoyed, and then quickly cleaned up, and followed the panicked civilian nobles who wanted to escape from Sam City, pouring out of the city gate。
I thought that I would be able to reach the sky here, but I didn't expect to encounter a group of mages who were also retreating, including four or five mages and two great mages, but some people recognized Rattle and proposed to go together, which suddenly made the heads of the three people bigger.
But fortunately, because the group of mages had been hit too hard before, no one had any interest in talking along the way, and while they were resting in the middle, they finally found an opportunity for the three of them to break away from the large army in the name of pathfinding, and the three of them fled in a frenzy and almost panicked.
But this frenzied escape for almost half an hour brought them a problem, that is, when the three of them were tired and couldn't stop, they didn't know where they had run, although Elevenn was leading the way with a self-made compass, but he could only ensure that the three of them were in the right direction, but he couldn't know where they were, and they were depressed, but since it was certain that Grylls had lifted the blockade of the border of the Gray Plains, the time of the three people was not so short, so they decided to stop and rest。
"It's a pity that the second summoning didn't succeed, otherwise you can directly kill three or even four Arcanists in one go!
Laterle rested enough, so he made a joke, but Elevenn looked at him angrily while beating his legs,
"That's so good, we don't always have the good luck to be able to make a super-level legend like the Abyss Lord, and almost perfectly restrain the terrible guy of the mage, this time it was purely Roman's good luck that saved us, if we get a mana side demon who specializes in spells like the Void Lord, we estimate that none of them will be able to escape! But don't underestimate the combat power of these legends of the Nine Towers, this place in the Gray Plains is almost snatched out by them with a knife and a gun, but this time their luck is too bad. ”
Rattle didn't refute, he still stood up happily and looked in the direction of Sam City, although he couldn't see the specific situation anymore, but the invincible posture of the Abyss Lord at that time still deeply shocked him, if he could have that kind of power, he wouldn't have to escape as pathetic as a mouse.
Roman has regained his breezy appearance when he first met since he escaped from Sam City, he looked at everything around him curiously, even under the merciless scorching sun, he still had the leisure to assign Priss to pick a handful of sweet dates to eat, and then accidentally was seen by the two people who were resting, and the result was that a few minutes later, the three of them with a timid imp, around a small pile of wild sand dates, began to eat with taste.
However, as soon as Ellevin threw a piece of cinnamon bread wrapped in spices into his mouth, Rattle suddenly stopped gobbling up, and then stretched out his hand to signal the others to be quiet, while he himself put down the bacon sandwich in his hand, flipped his nose like a hound, sniffed vigorously in the air, and then said to the two men with a blank face,
"Hmm... I smell, well, the smell of barbecue!"
"Neurotic!"
Roman glanced at Rattle, picked up his pie again and took a big bite, but Elivan was about to twist the date but paused abruptly, he glanced at the thoughtful Rattle, then threw a plump date into his mouth, and said to Roman,
"Let your Prius take a look!"
"See what?"
Roman was still a little stunned, but he reacted immediately, shrugged his shoulders, and then looked at the little imp who was holding a huge sand date and gnawing happily, this guy can understand the lingua franca, but most of the time he is pretending to be stupid, you should never expect the devil's discipline to be high, even if it is just a little imp who looks inconspicuous.
But this guy didn't pretend to be stupid this time, but stretched out three fingers towards Roman with a big grin--- this guy only has three fingers in one palm except for his thumb, the former immediately covered his face and lowered his head, while Elavin and Rattle laughed wildly and pointed at him.
This is also what Elivan later learned that when Roman summoned Prius for the first time, he actually used a soul equality contract, instead of the servant contract used by warlocks to summon low-level followers, which resulted in Prius and Roman being equal at the soul level, although in a critical moment, Roman could forcibly order Prius to do something it was unwilling to do, but this was allowed by the contract, after all, the existence of the servant was to ensure that the host lived better, and in a sense, as long as he did not die in the plane of Prius's origin, this imp could always rely on Roman's soul to resurrect。
But in normal times, Roman can't force the imp to do what he doesn't want to do, which is why Rattle and Elevenn have long laughed at Roman, at least they have never seen a leader who still asks his followers to do things.
And Priss stretched out three fingers to mean that if you want Lao Tzu to help you work, you have to give benefits first, three secondary soul crystals, otherwise don't even think about it.
Soul crystals should be familiar to everyone, Roman They summoned this thing used by the Abyss Lord, but generally speaking, soul crystals are mostly used as alchemy or enchanted rare materials in the El Continent, but in the lower realm, these things can be used as valuable currency, especially the crystals that seal the souls of pure innocents and powerful people, and they are the top grade among them, which can be exchanged for countless green horns, and if you are lucky enough, you can also change a succubus to raise your eyes, and most of the soul crystals flowing in the El Continent are also from the lower realm, but when Roman studied the book that Elivan gave him, he has actually mastered the steps of making soul crystals, which is actually not difficult to say at all, but because the protection of this secret knowledge in the lower realm is too strict, the alchemists of the El Continent have not been able to learn it.
In Elivan's eyes, the current Roman is a beginner warlock apprentice, he still has a long way to go, and the knowledge to learn is still very lacking, but at least in terms of soul crystal production, Roman has indeed already started, when he was hidden in Rattle's safe house, Roman tried to collect the explosion in Sam City and the free souls on the battlefield of this great war, probably because of the understanding of the nature of the shadow element, his efficiency is much higher than Elivan, and after several failures, he can use ordinary magic crystals to pinch out pieces of hexagonsThe interior is filled with secondary soul crystals like gray mist.
And this point was somehow discovered by the elusive Prius, the elite imp is different from those production versions of cannon fodder, this guy has an amazing IQ, and he also knows what to do to squeeze the best interests of his master, so since then, almost every time Prius needs to appear, one to three secondary soul crystals are inevitable.
As for why he didn't ask for a higher level, first of all, because Roman was limited to strength, and he couldn't make crystals above the intermediate level, and secondly, no matter how elite the imp was, it was still a ghost, and its current low strength had determined that it couldn't absorb the powerful souls stored in the high-grade goods at all, and if it was forcibly absorbed, it would be defeated and it would not be able to draw it.
Fortunately, Roman made a lot of things like secondary soul crystals, and he was not afraid of wasting them, but he was not wronged, so he casually played two pieces to Priss and then the old god continued to eat his own things, and the little ghost saw Roman's appearance and realized that these two pieces were estimated to be the limit, so he suddenly appeared in front of Roman, startled him, and then smiled cheaply and disappeared into the void again, and went to explore the way.
Watching Priss disappear in place, Eliven seemed to remember something, he scratched his head, and then suddenly realized, with a not very skillful movement, depicted a simple magic circle, and then entered the magic power,
"Bang"
With a soft sound, a small round green thing lay on his head, and Elivan suddenly felt a burst of coolness.
"I almost forgot about this little water elemental in my childhood, and I still hope to cultivate it into an elemental lord's existence!"
Elivan reached out and grabbed the small thing, while trying to communicate with it mentally, but the reply he received was always some meaningless muttering, Elevenn smiled dumbly, he was really anxious, the life cycle of elemental creatures is too long, which caused them to have a complete consciousness when they were in their infancy, so they could not communicate at all, and the only reason for it to stay with Elivan was the sense of belonging that came with the soul contract.
"But no matter what, great ambitions are still there, so I decided to give you a good name. ”
Elivan thought about it, and said happily to the little water element that had been spitting bubbles at him,
"Nepturon, this is your name in the future, this is a great name, in another star field, the name of the powerful water elemental lord!"
But no matter what Elivan called, the low intelligence of this little thing in front of him still made it unable to understand the meaning of the master at all, after playing for a while, Elivan simply put it back into the water element plane, only there, it can grow rapidly, once it enters the growth period, a water element entourage can do a lot of things, and Elivan can vaguely perceive that it is probably due to the fact that he originally fused part of the power of the ancient water element god, even a little bit, it will cause unpredictable interference to the future growth of Nepturon, whether this interference is good or bad is still unknown, but the only thing that is certain is that this little guy will never be ordinary in the future.
Ratel on the side turned around and saw the scene of Elivan disbanding the water element, and immediately ran over to him with a smile and asked questions, although Elivan had already copied a copy of the elemental contract obtained from the Titan Vault and handed it to Rattle, but this guy still didn't dare to experiment with this new spell on such a nervous escape, and Elivan could also understand, because communicating with the elemental world requires all the attention to be successful, and this is only the first step, and more importantly, a mage can only sign a contract with one elemental creature in his life, so whether to choose the fire element he likes very much or the wind element that prefers support, Rattle has not been determined until now.
It's not just a matter of picking a random minion, when the elemental creatures turn on their sanity, most of them have mastered a special teleportation spell, and can enter the elemental realm to which they belong with their hosts, although each entry time is very short, but it is enough for mages to do a lot of things, for example, Elivan once heard Sass say that as long as a mage has the opportunity to enter the fire elemental realm, meet the First Flame Safras and offer his real name, there is a certain chance that he will be blessed with the First Flame, and there are lucky mages in the history of the Third Age who have won the favor of Safras and were given the Flame Crown forged by the Safron Flame, gained the authority to control the world's fire, walked the earth as the messenger of the god of fire, and finally returned to the realm of the supreme fire source, becoming the attendant of the ancient god of fire elemental Safras, which is simply the supreme glory.
Elivan didn't want those so-called glory, he just wanted to cultivate Nepturon, he wanted to see how far he and this little water elemental could go?
"It's all here!
Roman, who had just eaten his stomach and looked a little lazy, beckoned the two of them over, and his little ghost stood on top of Roman's head with a look of great spirits, and it seemed that this reconnaissance was not a piece of cake for this little thing that could walk in phase.
Roman first muttered a lot in spiritual language and Prius, then turned his head to the lingua franca, frowned and said to the two people,
"Prise said that not far north of us, there is a group of people resting there, there are nine of them, a carriage, but there are six horses and two horses, listening to Prise's description, I guess it is the best Nord war horse that can be bought on the market, but there are four of them wearing clothes similar to yours, they should be from the Council of the Nine Towers! Oh, by the way, Prise also said that there may be another guy in the carriage, but the breath is very weak, it seems to be injured"
Roman said and pointed at Rattle, who scratched his head, and then said with a somewhat solemn face,
"If Prius is right, it's about the same as my costume, then it means that there are at least four Magi in the valley, and the other five should be their guards! Tut-tut, four Magisters were actually dispatched to escort them together, and I don't know who the big man in the carriage is! But the strength of this group is a little stronger, and we don't think we can eat it!"
Eliven shook his head, his fingers sliding back and forth in the air, as if thinking, but finally gritted his teeth, carefully took out the innermost box from his completely empty ring, and then opened it for the other two to see, and said in a muffled voice,
"I originally planned to leave this thing to my enemies, but I didn't expect it to be useless in the end, this time I simply used it directly, we robbed the six horses, and rode them in turn, it is estimated that we will be able to escape from the gray plain in half a day at most, and it is worth it!"
Rattle and Roman glanced at each other, then stretched out two fingers and twisted out the vial in the box, put it in front of his eyes and shook it, it was indeed a very small bottle, it was estimated that there were some ladies' usual makeup pen thickness, a small black tube with the length of a little thumb, there was some melancholy liquid flowing in it, Rattle frowned and looked at it for a long time without figuring out what it was, and finally simply carefully pulled out the cap of the vial, sniffed it gently, and then showed a look of extreme enjoyment.
"This pure cassava aroma, no, no, it should be the aroma of anchovy, the smell of the earth, ah, I feel like my whole soul is at peace!"
Rattle reveled for a moment, then twisted the little lid up, and while playing with it in his hand, he asked Eleven, who was looking at him with a very strange eye,
"What the hell is this? It tastes so good!"
"Are you really sure it tastes good?"
Elivan held back a smile and said to him with a serious face,
"This thing has a good name! It is said that in the Council of the Nine Towers, some people call it "Satan's Blood", and some people call it "Abyss Elixir", but I spent a lot of money to buy the formula from the Stalker Guild, and it took three years to get such a little bit, tsk, it's priceless, but then again, you really haven't touched this thing in a place like the Mage Inquisition?"
Rattle's hand playing with the vial froze in place, and he stared at the vial in his hand with a look of disbelief, but there was a hint of horror in his gaze, as if it was not a potion but some kind of beast that was trying to choose a man.
"Damn! Mana Dissipation Potion !!"
Roman, who was lazily playing with Priss with one hand, was also shocked, and the original external staff of the Demon Hunting Department had obviously heard of the name.
"This stuff is good, but how do we get those battle mages to drink it?"
Rattle scratched his chin and thought about this question, but when he followed Elivan's meaningful gaze, he suddenly understood, and Prius, who was playing with his inverted triangular tail, immediately felt a chill, it raised its head tremblingly, and saw three people looking at it with burning eyes, which made the somewhat timid Priss jump into the phase, but when it showed a head from the phase again, it saw Roman, Rattle and Elivin each holding two soul fragments in their hands and flicking them, and the small eyes suddenly widened。
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"Mars, pack up the fire, and we're on our way! We must reach Sam City this evening! Mistress Trisleman is waiting for us there!"
An old mage who was sitting on a stone with his eyes closed opened his eyes and instructed the middle-aged man standing beside him, this old man's robe looks like the standard robe of the Nine Towers Council, but if you look closely, you can see that the texture of this robe is simply exquisite, with the finest silk produced in the eastern mountains as the base, and dozens of gorgeous magic patterns are built on it with magic pattern lines, and every time the fire not far away is extinguished, it can shine a colorful dazzling light and shadow on this robe.
And the status of this old mage is obviously very high, the middle-aged man standing next to him is a senior mage, but in the face of the old man's orders, the senior master named Mars saluted respectfully like a servant, and quickly went to pack up his things, and the two magic masters who had been on guard on the periphery also received the news, and quickly extinguished the fire and carried the rest of the things into the carriage, during which the voice of another person in the carriage could be faintly heard, but it was faintly melancholy and a little inaudible.
"Master Aiwen, this is the tea you wanted!"
After a few people sat in the carriage and the entourage also rode on the horses, Mars respectfully handed a cup of steaming teacup to the old mage, who nodded with a smile, he took the teacup and sniffed it gently, feeling that the aroma of today's tea was particularly strong, and the fragrance of the plant even made him can't help but take a deep breath, ah, refreshed.
Several other magistors sitting in the carriage were also attracted by the unusually strong aroma of tea, and they who had never liked tea very much also started to pour themselves a cup, and for a while, the whole wide carriage was full of aroma.
However, watching these powerful mages drinking happily, the mysterious man with his face curled up and sitting in the innermost part of the carriage had a hint of discoloration in his weak eyes, and he muttered and wanted to say something, but when he thought of what he had encountered before, he suddenly became lazy, leaning lazily on the carriage, and a smile of unknown meaning appeared on the corner of his mouth, he became more and more interested in what was about to happen next.
The bells hanging on the carriage shook gently, and a pleasant jingle continued to reach the ears of several mages who were talking and laughing, although they already knew the terrible things that happened in Sam City, but these actually had nothing to do with the battle mage troops they were in, and the dirt between the new mage alliance formed by Lord Saruman and the old-fashioned and decaying Council of the Nine Towers had long been known, to be honest, seeing that Sam City, the base camp of the Nine Towers, had been destroyed, these battle mages who had been stationed in the war-torn land all year round didn't know how happy they were。
But that was the end of the joy, when the not ornate but comfortable carriage and the retinue on horses had just come out of the hill where they were hiding, an unexpected attack appeared.
Eleven's outstretched hands hiding on the top of the tall tree have all turned into the crimson of flames, which is a sign of doing his best to flame the surrounding elements, although there is also a risk of promoting elemental erosion, but today, with Eleven's current understanding of the nature of the elements, this level of elementalization is basically unable to harm Elivan's fragile physique.
"Five high-level mages, hehe, come, baby, let me see how powerful you are!"
Eleven's dream-like whisper while manipulating ten fingers to quickly depict the mana model of the Flame Explosion Technique in the air, this model is more than ten times more complex than the model of the Fireball Technique and the Ice Arrow Technique, but Eleven, who has extremely solid basic skills, still completed the construction of it within three seconds, and after the last mana line was outlined, he was already cheering, and the incomparably active fire elements quickly filled the complex mana model, and between Eleven's hands, an orange fireball the size of a human head, but the aura emitted was several times more powerful than the Fireball Technique, no, it would be more appropriate to call it a lava ball。
Then the next moment, a wisp of sweat appeared on his forehead, and Elivan pushed it down steadily, and the lava fireball, which had already been mentally locked on to the target, roared and pounced on the uglier of the two high-level mages walking in front of the carriage, and just before the fireball was released, Rattle and Roman, who had been hiding on the side of the road with stealth techniques, brazenly tore off their disguises, and pounced towards the target they had chosen long ago before the guards around the carriage could react and return.
The pounce of the two people almost immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding guards, but when they just took out their staffs, a scream made the remaining three guards tremble, and some immediately looked back, only to see that the sycophant spirit of Mars who was walking in the front was wrapped in the scorching flames and flowing magma along with the war horse under him, like the lava monster they had seen in the Dragon Canyon, but judging from the screams made by Mars, this guy obviously couldn't survive anymore, and Todd next to him was quite clever, jumping off his horse and rolling to the side the moment the lava fireball hit Mars, which avoids the danger of being caught in the flames.
But the others soon didn't have time to pay attention to the lucky boy anymore, under the combined attack of the Magister Rattle and the High Mage Roman, the resistance of the three High Mages was useless, especially after Prius joined the battlefield, the elusive Roman who wielded the Shadow Arrow made the three guys even more emaciated, and the laughing Rattle used the Shaping Spell to make two flaming swords that flew after him on the battlefield, like a giant bear that pounced on the food, each attack would make the enemy lose his armor, and in the seventeenth second after the battle beganThe last High Mage who tried to escape was swallowed into the stomach by the Three-Eyed Serpent Astrological Phenomenon summoned by Roman who suddenly appeared in front of him, the other one was cut off by the Demon Duncan Flying Sword summoned by Rattle, and the other was smashed into a meatloaf by the rune bear of the barbarians.
As for the lucky Todd, leave him alone, in the face of Elivan who appeared on his escape path, this guy can be regarded as extraordinary, almost instantaneously sending three three-ring burning hands, and then tearing off the scroll and throwing out a four-ring ball lightning, but his good luck also ended here, Elivan relied on the frost armor technique to eat three burning hands, and then threw out the fireball technique and ice arrows to offset the damage of the ball lightning, when Todd's five-ring magic - the thorn of the earth was halfway through the chant, Elivan pierced the ice thorn of the mage enchantment had frozen his heart, I have to say, The application of Titan magic with a very short casting time in actual combat is really much stronger than that of low-level Feren magic, of course, this advantage disappears after mastering the "fast casting" Magister rank, but Elevenn can still proudly claim that at the level of a high-level mage, he has no fear of one-on-one, if he sneaks up with the help of terrain, one-on-two, or even one-on-three is not impossible at all, after all, with the support of the second-order elemental mystery, the damage of the strongest spell in Eleven's hand is really amazing.
The three of them stood at the front of the carriage laughing, it was obvious that those mages had already discovered the problem, otherwise it would be impossible for them to let them kill all their high-level mage guards, but in the face of the mana dissipation potion that was almost lost within the Nine Towers Council, what could they do?
Dressed in a dirty mage's robe, Rattle asked arrogantly as he stroked his rune war bear.
"Hahaha, respected Master El and a few other gentlemen, is today's tea delicious?"