Chapter 12: The Wind Rises Arathi-III
The sky has darkened, and the galaxy that used to be dotted with stars is rare and disappearing tonight, even the moon palace of the moon god Elune is just a pretty little bend showing slenderness.
By the time the night fell, Arathi had fallen into complete darkness.
Dressed in pitch-black armor, the stars and holy light that originally leaked out from time to time also converged without a trace, Marseilleu's whole person perfectly blended into the darkness around him, and a large group of people who followed silently behind him, either the same black armor or dark robes, the whole team walked on this mountain road, and where they passed, there was hardly a trace and sound.
When the team reached a small fork in the mountain, the leader of the group, Marseilleu, was about to turn and was suddenly stunned, and turned to look at the other end of the fork, where a group of people were already standing quietly. The leader of the other party also seemed to notice Marseillo at the same time, and his white hands slowly lifted his hood in the dark, and looked at the paladin not far away with a smile.
"Terenus!"
Looking at the other party's pretty face in a daze, Marseillo suddenly roared in a low voice.
"Ariel!"
After seeing a group of people who suddenly appeared, Terenus, who was originally following closely behind Marseilleu, dodged and hid in the team as if he remembered something, trying his best to reduce his presence, until he heard his lord's low shout, he slowly moved out with a toothache, and said through gritted teeth as he looked at the female mage not far away.
"Why, we Governor of the Far East don't want to see me?"
Behind him, a group of mages all dressed in dark blue robes, the noble female mage walked up to Marseilleu, pursed her mouth, and said softly.
"Ariel, I'm not going to bring too many mages with me this time!"
Glaring back at his chief advisor and the King of the Big Mouth, Marseilleu said to the noble mage with some helplessness.
"Heh, are you still counting on these third-rate mages to bless you with the Stealth Enchantment?"
The noble mage skipped over Marseilleu, stretched out her finger and pointed at Terenus, who was trying to hide back in the group, and said sarcastically.
"Two high-level mages, sixteen middle-level mages, ready to obey your orders, my lord!"
A moment ago, he was still taunting the mage behind Marseilleu, and Ariel turned pale in the next second, and after making a mage salute respectfully to the paladin in front of him, he said softly.
"You idiot, look at the good things you did!"
No sooner had he taken rein in the group than Mustein came over and whispered at Terenus.
"Hehe, I originally just wanted to persuade the adults through her, who knew that this would happen, but the two high-level mages, the sixteen mid-level mages with the lowest five rings, and most of the strength of the Dabi Lei mage group are here, so it can be regarded as letting the adults enjoy the dowry in advance!"
Terenus, who had been smiling bitterly, suddenly smiled and whispered to the Scarface Warrior. It's just that there was silence at this moment, and everyone was at least a mid-level and high-level professional, so they naturally heard it clearly, and the other people in the team in Muya Town all smiled tacitly after looking at each other, and the small group of mages who had just been added to the team only chuckled and consciously interspersed into the team.
Walking ahead, Ariel, who was next to Marseilleu, naturally heard it clearly, even in the darkness, there was a small face that could be seen red slightly crawling, and after turning his head and glaring at Terenus, who was still chirping with Mustein, he didn't say anything, but followed closer.
"Quiet!"
Marseilleu, who had been leading the team, did not look back, but after whispering a word, the whole team fell silent again.
Speeding all the way, before the crescent moon ran overhead, the towering walls of Riptide Fort vaguely came into view, and then faintly moonlight, and only human figures could be seen walking around the city, but all of them were humans, and there were no trolls and ogres.
"Barely controlling the group of beasts to defend the city wall during the day with food, naturally there is no discipline and order at all, and the defense at night is completely supported by the Syndicate, but with the cover of the night, this group of bandits and thieves has a big advantage!"
Spotting Marseilleu squinting at the head of the city wall not far away, Terenus walked up to him in a few small steps and whispered. In fact, it was also explained to Ariel on the other side that although Marseillo was not personally involved in the formulation of the whole plan, he already knew everything about it, and only this noble female mage who suddenly appeared almost didn't know anything except for a goal.
"You bought off the vigil squad?"
The noble mage, who was also observing the city, glanced at Terenus and said.
"The vigil team is divided into three shifts, from six o'clock in the afternoon to six o'clock in the morning the next day, each shift is about four hours, during which there are many shadows hidden in various dark posts, theoretically the defense is very tight, but in fact, the military discipline of the entire syndicate is very loose, many times a night, a certain section of the city wall may only have one shift to guard the night and no one will change, tonight this section of the city wall vigil team is like this!"
Taking out a crystal in his hand, Terenus said as he threw the crystal into the air, and the transparent crystal ball suddenly exploded silently and dissipated in mid-air after flying to a height of seven or eight meters, and then, three torches suddenly threw out from the city wall in front of everyone, and suddenly fell on the foot of the city wall.
"Alright, Your Highness, the people have already branched out, but only for an hour and a half!"
Observing the direction and location of the torch's fall, Terenus turned to Marseillo and smiled.
"Why don't you just cross over through them to get in!"
Raising an eyebrow and glancing at the extinguished torch, Ariel said suspiciously.
"This shadow, I'm still useful!"
Glancing at Marseilleu, Terenus bowed his head back.
"Mage Ariel, everyone's invisibility enchantment depends on you!"
"Hmph, you don't have to worry about this!"
With a light snort, between the waving of the staff in the hand of the noble female mage, three transparent enchantments wrapped themselves, Marseilleu, and Mu Sitan into it, this kind of five-ring spell-intermediate stealth spell is the highest level of the stealth type in the conventional blessable spell, and the high-level stealth technique up to the top is a genuine high-level spell, and this kind of spell can only bless himself even if it is a six-ring mage, and only a high-level mage has the ability to bless others.
Just as Ariel began to bless spells, the mages in the team behind him also began to bless themselves with intermediate stealth spells, and a bald old mage in the front row began to bless the warriors in the team with spells just like Ariel.
In just a few minutes, the team of nearly thirty people completely disappeared into the darkness, and some footsteps also turned into traces in the breeze...
"Are you sure! That secret granary is underneath it! Do you believe such a ridiculous location?"
With a cold face, Ariel glanced at the three-story building not far away, and then stared back at Terenus behind him.
"The Syndicate's greatest strength is this Shadow Legion, but it's not so much a legion as a group of bandits, and it's the most troublesome thing to let a group of bandits stay in one place for a long time, so this kind of thing will emerge on this ruin, and this one is just one of them!"
The corners of his mouth twitched, and Terenus nodded at the building opposite, patiently explaining.
After the destruction of Fort Riptide, mixed with trolls, ogres, and robbers, wherever the soldiers went, it was a brutal and bloody killing, the only remaining treasure of the ancient Arachi Empire, and the royal city of Fort Riptide was also reduced to ruins in this military disaster, and few people survived the entire city after the war. And the Syndicate who killed a pain and robbed a cool one naturally had all kinds of problems in the subsequent garrison process, from the robbers who were accustomed to wandering and robbing to sitting in a royal city, the biggest problem for the Syndicate bandit leader was that if he pacified the group of bandits under him, let them transform into a regular army with peace of mind, at least they could garrison the city with peace of mind, in addition to sufficient provisions, various entertainment facilities also appeared strangely in the ruins, the most of which was naturally the restaurant in front of him that was dedicated to the leather and meat business.
In fact, in the human realm of the Northern Continent, the bar is the most common entertainment, and more or less there will be a little secret business, selling sex is a relatively common one, all kinds of wine girls are either part-time or full-time, anyway, as soon as you enter the bar, the old driver can find a few cooked goods with a nod, and even some full-time restaurants that do leather and meat business are just like this one, and you can see it without entering the door.
"This one looks no different from other bars, but in fact, the entire defense system is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, except for the hall outside, the inside has always been heavily guarded, especially the underground warehouse, the garrison is the core of the syndicate, my people have tried to find several opportunities to get in, but I can be sure that a large amount of food can be seen moving out of here every Monday night. There's no doubt that this is a secret warehouse!"
Watching Marseillo silently look at the building, Terenus continued to explain.
"The three high-level should all be Shadowman classes, and there are no less than thirty mid-level!
Looking ahead, Marseillo suddenly spoke, and at the moment of Tyrenus's explanation, he had roughly sensed the general deployment of troops in the opposite building, but this was only for physics professionals, many law professionals would habitually put on a layer of spell armor on their daily lives, which would enhance their defense and reduce their perceptibility. Of course, to deal with the mage, it is natural to let the mage come.
"There are no high-level mages!
It had long been discovered that Marseillo was perceiving the situation on the other side, and Ariel had already taken out his staff, but he didn't move, and it wasn't until Marseilleu's summoning that he began to close his eyes and perceive. As the most talented and high-level mage of Arathi's generation, Ariel is also the legendary mage seed of Kel'thugad in the entire contemporary human kingdom, second only to Dalaran, this kind of close-up perception of the battlefield situation, even without casting spells, the fluctuation of mental power is more hidden, and the god unknowingly checked the situation on the other side again, and when he was about to draw a conclusion, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Terenus with some doubts.
"Stinky boy, I remember when you were a child, you once participated in the defense of the Saldo Bridge with Uncle Turanmul!"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
Suddenly asked by the noble mage, Terenus's face froze, and he asked rhetorically with some doubts. Although the war was anticlimactic, it was a sign that the Kingdom of Riptide Castle officially joined World War II, and at that time, only the mage apprentice was mixed with his father's squire in the Royal Mage Legion to indirectly add this war, even after more than ten years now, I still remember it deeply.
"There's a high-level warlock inside!"
The noble female mage turned her head to stare at the building not far away, her eyes flashed with a trace of white light, and the staff in her hand also unconsciously emitted a white faint light, fortunately, there was already a layer of enchantment around everyone, and the outside naturally couldn't see the internal situation clearly.
"How is that possible!"
With his eyes wide, Terenus stared at the three-story building in front of him, but his mental power was very honest and did not stretch over.
Before World War II, the legal professions talked about in the human kingdom of Azeroth were all specifically mages, and priests, as an alternative branch, were generally named as priests, leaving aside the taboo professions such as psychics in history, in fact, the entire human legal profession system was very single, until the orc invasion. Along with this wave of green torrent followed by the terrifying orc warlock legion, under the royal city of the original Azeroth Kingdom, this alien legal profession showed its fangs for the first time, all kinds of weird and powerful magic combined with evil demon summoning, a low-level warlock can often burst out with the power of a middle-level mage, the first battle of the Saldo Bridge was because the Royal Mage Regiment of Fort Torrent was powerless under the beating of the Orc Warlock Legion before it turned from an original battle to a great retreat.
And after World War II, with the complete victory of the human race and the defeat of the orcs, the profession of warlock has finally unraveled the veil of mystery for mankind. For the means that can enhance their own strength, except for the extreme harm to themselves, such as psychics and other pit ratios, most of the human kingdoms are happy to see his promotion, but in the end, in Dalaran took the lead, the mages of the major kingdoms gathered together to study and found that this profession actually has a very strange standard for the requirements of spiritual power, and this entry standard is almost impossible for humans to achieve, such a strange standard suddenly made a group of high-level and even archmages fall into a dead end, until one of the members of the Dalaran Arbitration Council, the elven prince Kael'thas finally came out and informed a group of human monkeys that the profession of warlock originally originated from demonsIn the ancient records of the High Elves, only those who have been polluted by demonic transformation will derive an alternative trait from their spiritual power, and only a mage with this trait can become a warlock full-time.
Moreover, the most unacceptable thing for most human beings is that the basic spell casting material of the warlock profession actually needs the special material of the soul, and the combat power of the warlock without the soul material will be reduced by at least seventy or eighty percent, such a heartbreaking setting is simply an alternative version of the psychic, which has naturally been blocked and banned by most countries. It's just that in the Northern Continent and even the entire human kingdom, even the more evil psychics have not been able to completely ban it, let alone high-level pretenders like Warlocks, who are extremely good at disguise and are no different from normal mages on the surface.
"Hehe! I said how the whole city was slaughtered so cleanly! I see, my lord! I said, Garin's stinky boy is not a good thing! Such important news..."
The surprise on his face disappeared in a blink of an eye, and Terenus immediately looked at his lord with an angry face, and cursed in a low voice.
"Okay! Maybe it will be added later!
Waving his hand to stop Terenus, Marseilleu looked at Ariel with a serious expression.
"This warlock, you can take Master Tulaikab and hold it in a moment, Al!"
The paladin said, pulling out a golden seed the size of a thumb and placing it in the noble mage's hand.
"I was going to give it to you tomorrow, but I crushed it in an emergency!"
"Seed of Light!"
The old mage who was originally standing in the back team also walked over, looked at the golden seed in the noble female mage's hand, said with some surprise, and turned to look at Marseyu with an amazed face.
"Your Highness, you are the youngest Grand Lord of the Holy Knights since Tulayan!"
This kind of seed of light, in fact, is similar to the magic stone of a mage, which can be used to seal the holy light skill, but it is very limited compared to the magic stone. In addition to the fact that the material itself is very scarce, it is a seed of a pro-Holy Light Energy plant, Arashi currently does not have it, and only a few plants are planted in the Holy Light Chapel in the entire Northern Continent, and the yield is very small, and only the Legendary-level Holy Light Spell can be perfectly contained in the seed, in addition, even if the high-level Holy Light Spell is forcibly stuffed in, it can only be kept for a very short time, and it may explode at any time.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, a seed of light contains the unique ultimate skill of a Holy Knight Grand Lord. And the holy light spell in the seed in front of him is very stable, and it is obviously a legendary level holy light spell that is sealed.
"It's just one foot on it, but through this battle, I will be promoted to a legend!"
Seeing the noble mage squeezing the seed in her hand tightly and staring at her in surprise, the corner of Marseilleu's mouth rarely smiled slightly and said. Paladin, a profession born of war, even after years of revision, war and fighting are still the best environment for promotion, just like the first batch of ancestors, in the green torrent, constantly bursting out more brilliant and hot holy light, he, Marseyu Lothar, will also use this war to declare his strength.
"Let's go!"
Glancing at the people behind him who burst out with a strong desire to fight, Marseilleu waved his hand, turned into a golden streak and rushed to the building in front of him, behind him, in the flicker of various energies, the decapitation team finally showed its fangs. (To be continued.) )