Chapter 013: The Iron Ring of Good Luck
After saying goodbye to Kidd, Su Hao and the apprentice returned to the hotel room and began to rest.
Two hours later, the two woke up on time, and this short sleep was enough for the two to recuperate.
Next, they set out to prepare for an expedition to the Evil Cave.
Judging from the map given by Akara, as long as you walk out of Rog's camp, it is a bloody wasteland. The Blood Wasteland is a hilly plain with undulating terrain, and the depths of the wasteland are dotted with large and small monster settlements, which are extremely loose with each other, and these settlements will never go out of their sphere of influence and come together to act in unison without the orders of Andariel.
If you leave the camp and go 1 kilometer deeper into the Blood Wasteland, you will be out of the radiation range of the Rog camp, and the well-trained Roges will not be able to provide effective protection.
From this point of view, if you want to reach the evil cavern, you will have to walk for several days in the blood wasteland, and you will definitely encounter many dangers along the way. In view of the above situation, the two of them prepared to go to the camp market first to buy some food and warm clothing.
Before going to the camp market, Su Hao and the apprentice did two other things.
First, the Summoning Key (blue) was used. This key was obtained after killing the elite-level Fallen Demon, and now that you are heading to the Evil Cavern, it will come in handy right now.
The apprentice holds the key to summoning (blue), and almost at the same moment, a dirty poplar chest appears in front of the two. This poplar box is extremely simple and crude, as if it was made of several tattered poplar planks, and it is also covered with filthy and foul-smelling stains and handprints, with a very distinct character of the Sinking Demon.
The apprentice pinched the key, then twisted it slightly, and the lid opened, and three items burst out of it:
The first item, a scroll back to the city.
The second item, twenty-three gold coins (approved by the Nightmare Mark, can be taken out of the world and exchanged for the equivalent of universal points).
The third item, a rusty iron ring (unidentified).
When he saw the end affix of "unrecognized", Su Hao thought about it for a while, but still took out his own identification scroll and identified the ring.
After using the Identification Scroll on the ring, the recognition magic of the seal on the scroll was activated, and lines of English letters in the style of Hradim writing appeared on the empty paper, which was the text description of the ring:
γIron Ring of Good Luckγ
[Rarity: Blue.] γ
[Quality: Average.] γ
[Condition: The remaining durability is 87%.] γ
[Equipment use conditions: 12 charm points.] γ
[Equipment Effect: When you wear this ring to open the Summoning Key, you will have a chance to obtain an item with better variables.] γ
Note: The so-called item variable means that the performance of the item will fluctuate in the range. For example, if you open the Summoning Key and get a leather armor, the equipment effect is that the whole body defense will increase by 3-5 points (range floating), if you wear this ring, then after opening the Summoning Key, you will be more likely to get the leather armor with the whole body defense +5.
[Evaluation: If you are a guy with extremely bad luck, then I think you should try to wear it, because it can bring you two good luck.] γ
After browsing the information of this ring, Su Hao immediately gave it to the apprentice and said, "The thing is very good, but I am not attractive enough to wear it, so I will give it to you." In the future, you will be solely responsible for opening the key. β
The apprentice smiled, "Yes, my luck is better than you." β
After opening the key, the two of them were ready to start working on the second thing, which was disguise.
In the defense of Camp Rogge, the two of them certainly made the limelight and won the first ranking on the battlefield, but this may also attract too much troublesome attention, I am afraid that many people have remembered their faces, began to pay attention to their whereabouts, and even prepared to obstruct them under the influence of jealousy.
Su Hao re-combed his hair like dreadlocks, and used a liquid memory metal mask to replace a normal white face. As for the apprentice, he started to put on makeup.
After a simple modification, the apprentice's appearance became extremely sloppy, with a lot of stubble on his chin, and his whole face changed dramatically. This time, except for Su Hao, who could find him with the help of team induction, no one could easily recognize him.
After the disguise was completed, Su Hao and the apprentice returned the room key to the front desk and went to the market.
The market at Camp Rog is also noisy and lively, with quite a few camp residents, Rogge and adventurers shuttling through it, shopping for what they want or need. However, in the face of the evil threat of Andariel, which occupies the Eastern Monastery, a large number of farmlands, lumberyards, mines, quarries and other industries belonging to the former Blind Eye Sisterhood are all entrenched by monsters, and the supply of goods in the bazaar is obviously insufficient, and the goods on the stalls are very limited, basically relying only on the input of foreign caravans, so the prices are extremely high.
Faced with this supply and demand situation, Su Hao and his apprentice had to spend most of the money in their hands to purchase a large amount of food similar to gray bread. These gray breads are baked with flour made from a very easy to survive gray buckwheat, which is not as delicious as white wheat bread, but it is not as hard and difficult to bite as rye baguettes, and it is a relatively mid-range food, so that it is not difficult to swallow, and it is enough to satisfy hunger.
After purchasing food for 6 people for 10 days, Su Hao and his apprentice immediately came to Rogge Tavern.
The Rogue Tavern is the only tavern in the camp with an official background, and the reason for its establishment is naturally because of the need for consumption, and alcohol is the most reasonable and cost-effective narcotic, and there is no one.
At this moment, a large number of camp residents, Rog and adventurers gathered here, drinking and singing folk songs from their hometowns, and even hooking up with each other to vent their inner stress. The moment Su Hao pushed open the oak looseleaf door, a hot smell mixed with various wine aromas came to his face, and he seemed to be hooking the gluttonous worm in his heart in a trance.
The purpose of this trip to this tavern is of course not to drink, but to find some suitable teammates to team up.
Su Hao walked into the tavern, took out a very small gold coin and handed it to the bartender, and then ordered two glasses of whiskey. The bartender smiled and accepted the gold coins, then brought over two mahogany glasses filled with syrup.
After taking the mahogany wine glass, Su Hao just held it gently, shaking the wine in the glass, but he didn't mean to taste the wine, just looked around, looking for a suitable team partner.
At this time, behind Su Hao, a young man with a linen cloth tied to his head whispered:
"You know what? The young man from the barbarian tribe of the Arrett Plateau teamed up with the white paladins of Westmar to go to what is said to be the darkest evil cavern in the Blood Wasteland, only to die in the middle of the way, in a terrible state, and his whole body was gnawed by the bristly rats until only bones remained! Their bodies were found by Rogge's scouts, identified by weapons, and had just been buried in a nearby makeshift cemetery. β
"Really? Are you sure about this? β
"Do you think I'm a rabbit-eared Libert for nothing? That barbarian and paladin fought in the defense of the camp, and fought alongside the two heroes who ranked first on the battlefield! After that, the two of them looked at each other and immediately teamed up to go out to fight, but it was clear that they overestimated their strength. β
When Su Hao heard this, his heart was also solemn. He was still quite impressed by the two guys in the rabbit-eared Lebet's mouth, the barbarian had directly confronted the elite-level Sinking Demon, and he had even enjoyed the attack buff effect of the paladin's "power" aura.
Their strength is indeed far inferior to their own, but these two team up to die directly in the bloody wasteland! You must know that the Blood Wasteland is only the first wilderness area, and the enemies distributed in it are far inferior in strength and number compared to the cold plains, stone wilderness and even the last catacombs behind, but there are still adventurers who die in it, which shows how difficult the entire nightmare world is!
It seems that for the sake of insurance, I must find some adventurers with suitable functions to partner with.