Chapter 159: The Cursed Castle
"She just let you go to the ancient castle?" Tu Mad asked strangely when he saw Xiao Hua walking back like this. He also got the Assassin Badge through the test of the castle, under normal circumstances, Leah will not take the initiative to tell the player that there is a way to test the castle, the reason why he knows this way, is still doing a task to listen to a certain NPC mention, and then take the initiative to ask Leah, Leah will tell.
Now he told Xiao Hua the news, Xiao Hua mentioned to Leah, Leah naturally will not hide it, but Leah's NPC likes to watch other people's games very much, and before agreeing to let the player go to the castle to participate in the test, he must win a game in front of her, otherwise even if it is the past castle, the NPCs in the castle will not take you seriously, and the test is naturally impossible to talk about.
"Oh, I've seen her sister. Xiao Hua smiled embarrassedly, then thought about it, and asked Tu Mania, "What is the test in the ancient castle?" Since Tu Mania knows this way, he must know the general situation of the test.
"Generally speaking, it's to kill monsters, but the specific test content is completely random, and the monsters that need to be killed will not be the same for different professions and castes. As far as I know, even for the same class and caste, the monsters that need to be killed will be different. But the slaughter shook his head.
"But everyone's quest flow is the same! Roughly the process goes like this: after finding the NPC in the castle, she will let you go to three rooms, and one or more monsters will refresh in each room, kill all the monsters in the room, and even if you pass, as long as you pass three rooms in a row, the test will be passed.
But there's one thing you have to know, and I think it will be useful to you. If you find that you can't beat the monster in the room, you can exit the room first, and the monster won't follow out of the room, so you don't have to resist. It's just that if you go in again, the monster will be full again. Tu Maniac then added.
"What kind of caste is that assassin badge?" Xiao Hua was actually more concerned about the assassin badge, a mysterious item with an unknown surname.
"Hehe, this is to be kept secret, if you can get it, you will know it, if you can't get it, it's better not to know. However, I can tell you that the badges you get from passing the Castle NPC test will be a little different from those obtained through the Ring Match, and in terms of surnames, there are a little more castes than ordinary badges. Surnames are not much, but they are useful, especially for Assassins and thieves. Tu Mad laughed.
............ The entrance of Black Mist City is facing east, Xiao Hua has always farmed monsters in the east of Black Mist City, and the endless sea is also in the eastern area. As for the west, Xiao Hua has never explored, the map is too big, and running to the leveling point has to be calculated in hours, and he is not interested in exploring in this vast land at all. It's not that he doesn't like adventures, it's that expeditions without efficiency and goals are mostly a waste of time.
To find an ancient castle in such a direction, if it were not for the guidance of the slaughterman, I am afraid that it would take a lot of time. And Leah said that the distance of the castle was not far, in fact, Xiao Hua sat on the chocobo according to the coordinates given by the slaughter, and it took almost two hours to arrive. This chocobo has been raised for almost a month, and after Xiao Hua lost a lot of high-grade feed and fed, coupled with the fact that he does not use much time every day, his loyalty has risen extremely quickly, and he will soon be promoted to a level 2 mount, but it is still far from a level 4 mount that can fly. If you want to raise a mount to level 4, it will take about half a year.
After walking through the plains to the west of Black Mist City and walking in a sparse dark green forest for nearly half an hour, a huge domed ancient castle appeared in front of Xiao Hua's eyes, which was just the conclusion that his eyes could see the dome above the ancient castle and the four tall spired mage towers around it through the tall side wall in front of him.
The castle seems to have been around for a long time, with layers of blue-black asphalt stacked at the foot of the gray wall, and tiny rattan sticks climbing up and growing along the wall, with some colorful flowers blooming in between.
Walk along the wall to the gate of the castle wall, the gate is inward, and connected to the gate of the castle, is a white cobblestone paved road, the cobblestones are carefully arranged, and there is no unstable feeling when you walk on it.
Xiao Hua had seen a lot of fine buildings in the Second World, but he was still a little surprised when he entered this ancient castle that was very similar to the place where Western vampires lived in his impression.
All the way forward, into the ancient castle, in the hall on the first floor of the ancient castle, just as Tu Mad said, Xiao Hua saw a young and beautiful aristocratic young woman sitting at a small wooden round table, sipping a cup of black tea in her mouth.
This aristocratic young woman is Hassan, the NPC in charge of the test.
"Hello, Dear Lady Hassan, I was introduced by Miss Leah to the Assassin Test. Xiao Hua said cautiously and politely, according to the experience of the slaughtering madman, the aristocratic young woman in front of her was extremely polite and polite, which might reduce the difficulty of the test.
"Welcome, I've heard from Leah. Hassan put down the delicate teacup in his hand and nodded kindly.
Hassan looked to be thirty years old at most, dressed in a silver-white low-cut aristocratic dress, silver jewels on her wrists and neck, a white and cold cobble-egg face, rosy lips, and a faint light blue eyeshadow above her long black eyebrows. If it were reality, this mature and cold aristocratic young woman would definitely have full lethality to men, but unfortunately it was encountered in the game, and Xiao Hua did not do too much reverie.
"Here's the thing. The underground storage room at the back of the castle's courtyard was cursed by a wizard a long time ago, and if anyone entered it, monsters would come out and attack. These monsters will even run into the castle to scare people sometimes, although after leaving the storage room, these monsters will have no attack power, but suddenly see it, it is inevitable that they will be frightened. For this reason, it was difficult for me to even hire a servant in this castle, and I was all scared away. So as a last resort, I had to ask Leah to find someone to help.
And this curse is very strange, although people have repeatedly come from Leah to help, temporarily killing the monsters that exist in those three rooms, but it is always impossible to completely remove the curse. At this point, I don't think I'll be able to get rid of the curse, as long as you can get rid of the monsters in the three rooms and let this castle temporarily restore peace for a while, I'll be satisfied. As a last descendant of the aristocracy, I still have some power in the Assassins' Guild. As long as you can get rid of those monsters, I only need to give you a letter of evaluation, and the assassin union will naturally recognize your strength and let you get the corresponding assassin position. Hassan explained the matter in detail, and there was a hint of helplessness on Bai Xi's face.
An unbreakable curse? How does this sound like a mission with another hidden meaning?
"Lady Hassan, how can I get rid of the curse once and for all?" Xiao Hua asked. He felt that if he could completely remove the curse from this storage room, he would definitely have an unexpected reward!
But Xiao Hua knew that even if there was this hidden task, it would definitely not be easy, I am afraid it would not even be easy to trigger it, otherwise with the strength of the slaughter, he would definitely have completely removed this curse and completed the task.
"I don't know about this, in fact, I don't even have any detailed information about how the curse came about, but I know from the owner of the previous generation of ancient castles that it was cursed by a wizard. This curse had been in place for many years before I moved to this castle. Hassan shook his head.
This answer was similar to what Xiao Hua thought, and Xiao Hua couldn't help but be a little disappointed.
Then Hassan took Xiao Hua out of the castle, to a small wooden house behind the ancient castle, opened the door of the wooden house, and entered, the wooden house was empty except for a few shelves on the walls, and on the floor of the wooden house, there was a locked rectangular wooden cover.
"The storage room is under this wooden cover, please be careful when you go in, if the monsters are too powerful, be sure to exit, otherwise your surname will be in danger, those monsters have killed a lot of people so far!" Hassan admonished.
Hassan took out the key, opened the wooden lid and lifted it, and a staircase that extended straight down appeared on the ground, Xiao Hua nodded, and then walked in.
The stairs are not very deep, and after about six or seven meters of depth, the stairs reach the bottom. There was a passage in front of Xiao Hua, and Xiao Hua walked straight over. At the end of the passage is a hall with three wooden doors on three walls, which houses the three storage rooms.
The basement of the castle was not very dark, and there was a magic lamp on the surrounding walls every short distance. Xiao Hua stood in the hall, looked around carefully, and found that there was nothing special, so he picked the room on the left and pushed the door in.
Inside the wooden door was a much larger room than the outer hall, and there were several magic lamps on the walls around the room, but because the room was too large, it would feel dim and blurry when you looked a little farther away, and it was difficult to see clearly.
The floor of the room was a mess, with some parchment paper faintly visible, and a number of messy wooden boxes placed on the sides and corners of the walls.
Xiao Hua moved inside carefully, the monster hadn't refreshed yet, so he naturally had to let the monster come out first.
In the dimness, a white shadow silently emerged behind Xiao Hua!
Xiao Hua only felt that the light in the corner of his eyes suddenly changed a little differently, and he was startled, and hurriedly turned around, and at the same time retreated sharply under his feet.
"Ghost?" Xiao Hua saw the appearance of the monster behind him clearly, but found that this monster was actually a white ghost body.
The white ghost floated in the air like a layer of mist, light and weightless. As soon as his body moved, the white ghost gently floated towards Xiao Hua.
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(To be continued)