Chapter 13: The Manticore's Phantom Egg

Karina showed the ability that a professional treasure hunter should have, and after seeing the treasure mountain, she did not rush into it, but drew a simple mountain map and explained to Li Mo and Malka: "Judging from the current situation, this mountain, let's call it Archibald Mountain, has not been excavated, so it is very likely that we will find a legendary equipment in this expedition." But finding and taking away are two different things. As is customary in the Legendary Fallen Lands, the best treasures tend to be at the top, guarded by powerful creatures. And our strength - I am a fourth-level thief, Marka is a sixth-level warrior, although the uncle's body has strengthened strength and speed, but the combat experience is lacking, and he barely has a first-level warrior - at most, we can force ourselves halfway up the mountain, and then in the future, if we want to get a better treasure, we need the uncle's immortal body to explore the way. ”

Li Mo thought for a while and asked, "Since our strength is not enough, why don't we look for helpers?"

Karina gave him a blank look and said, "Uncle, the competition in our industry is also very fierce. A lot of times, you give someone a step up, and they have the possibility, humming, to trample you under their feet. ”

"You can't be sure if the person you're looking for is a trustworthy partner or a sinister white-eyed wolf. Marka added.

Li Mo's heart moved, and he asked, "What about me?"

Karina's big eyes flickered, and she said innocently: "Uncle is a good person." ”

Li Mo Khan, he didn't think he was a good person, the good people of Black Mist City died when they were born. He's just an ordinary person who follows his own bottom line and principles.

But the taciturn Marka suddenly said: "If you help us, you also help yourself, and we will guide you into the world of treasure hunters and change your life." If you betray us, you will be avenged by us. ”

After hearing this, Li Mo was not annoyed, but smiled slightly: "Thank you for telling the truth." ”

"Uncle, you-"

Karina stared at Li Mo for a long time like a monster.

"What's wrong with me?" Li Mo was stunned.

"You laughed once just now, but Uncle's smile is so ugly, he must rarely smile. ”

Li Mo's smile immediately froze, not laughing, not laughing.

Seeing Li Mo's embarrassed appearance, Kailina clapped her hands and comforted: "Uncle, don't mind, I'm just joking with you." You should get used to smiling. To your friends, you have to smile, your smile can make your friends happy, to your family, you have to smile, your smile can make your family not worry about the stress and difficulties you are undergoing outside. To your partner, you have to smile, and your smile allows you to blend in with the group without being isolated. To your superiors, you have to smile, and your smile can make your superiors think that you are respectful and obedient to him. You also have to smile at your enemies, and your smile will make your enemies let their guard down, so that you can more easily put them to death if they inadvertently put them to death. You have to smile more at your lover, and your smile can let your loved ones know that this world is beautiful. A real man, no matter how bitter he is, must face pressure and challenges with a smile. Eon: Huh?"

Karina continued to vent her chatter heartily, and a huge shadow enveloped her with a strong smell of blood.

Karina was startled, and hurriedly jumped back a step before she saw that it was Malka, who was not good-looking, and wrinkled her upturned nose and snorted: "Malka, do you think what Miss Ben said is wrong, hey, where did the blood on your body come from?"

Li Mo: "Ahem, a couple of strange beasts suddenly appeared just now, and Marka has solved them - while you talk about smiling. ”

"Haha, yes, Malka did a good job. Let's go. Karina immediately said with a smile.

She kicked off the sketch on the ground, took the lead, and when she walked past Li Mo, she blinked her eyes and said, "See, it's like this." ”

Smile?

Li Mo looked at the backs of Karina and Malka, thoughtful.

"Uncle, this is for you. Karina suddenly stopped in front of the corpse of a beast, took out a dagger, bent down and slashed at the beast's head, and then threw a stone at it.

Li Mo caught it with his hand, and saw that it was an irregular multi-faceted crystal, with a green body, a smooth and delicate surface, and a faint green light.

"The beasts that Marka killed are the Wind Demon Wolf, which is its crystal nucleus, containing a small amount of energy, no matter where it is, the magic crystal is always hard currency, and it can be exchanged for a certain amount of local currency from the adventure guild. ”

Li Mo put away the magic crystal, glanced at the corpses of the other demon wolves, remembered the appearance of the demon wolf, and asked, "Don't the other demon wolves have magic crystals?"

Kailina patiently explained: "Yes, these demon wolves are just first-order demonic beasts, the purity of the magic crystal is not high, the value is not great, and it is not worth wasting time." ”

Li Mo immediately understood that Karina meant to tell him that the strange beast was called the Demon Wolf, and the Demon Wolf had a magic crystal in its head and could sell it for money.

But Li Mo didn't say much, and his eyes were always calm.

The inhabitants of Black Mist City never seemed to know what it meant to be grateful.

The mountain of Archibald Mountain was not steep, and Li Mo followed Karina and Marka to find a remote and narrow path to slowly move forward, and after his injuries were demobilized, his speed and strength were once again qualitatively improved, and Marka believed that his strength was at the level of a second-class warrior, and all he lacked was combat experience. The rugged mountain roads were no problem for him.

Karina pulled out a small silver hammer from her travel bag, like a skilled stonemason hammering some of the more exotic stones along the way. When the hammer head struck a stone, the silver light was sheng, and the two big furry hands wrapped in fiery red fighting spirit grinded the stone like a grinding disc, only to see the stone skin and stone chips flying, and Marka had one or two more rare ores in his hand.

"This is the Ice Mineral Essence, which is the main ingredient for making ice-type magic weapons. ”

"This is the Earth Fire Crystal, which contains powerful fire energy and can add additional attributes to equipment. ”

"Wow, good luck, this is Spirit Emperor Zhu Yu, with a little processing, it can become an ornament that amplifies spiritual spells. The money from the Cone of Boundaries has been earned. ”

Like a sponge absorbing knowledge, Li Mo wrote down all the appearance and uses of the ore excavated by Kailina, and he had a feeling that he would definitely be able to use this knowledge in the future.

Two hours later, the trio had explored nearly 400 meters upward. Karina decided to rest where she was, then chanted a spell and summoned an earthy pangolin, which slipped into the cracks of the rocks and disappeared.

"Hehe, this is a primary summoning technique, which can summon a contract pet. As a young and promising female adventurer, Miss Ben is erudite and talented, and she can't go wrong with several cross-professional skills. Karina explained triumphantly.

"So you'll always be a low-level thief. Marka snorted and said sharply.

"Fool, I'm accumulating. Like a cat with its tail stepped on, Karina glared at Malka in displeasure, seemingly very concerned about the word low-level thief.

Through the contact in the past few days, Li Mo has a preliminary understanding of the strength standard of the world he is in, that is, the earth plane.

This plane has a complex number of professions and a myriad of power systems, each of which can be divided into several professional branches, and each profession has a different title according to the skills practiced by the incumbent.

Karina, for example, is a thief by profession, specializing in lockpicking, disguise, stealth, and assassination, and is a shadow thief because she has awakened her bloodline ability, the Shadow Corridor. Even though he loves adventure and treasure hunting, and with his excellent mental talent, he barely learned the skill of the summoner profession - primary summoning as a secondary skill, but her profession is still a thief.

There are many professions on the Earth plane, but the mainstream professions are none other than warriors, knights, thieves, magicians, illusionists, shamans, and supernatural beings. In order to facilitate the evaluation of strength, three hundred years ago, led by the mercenary guild, adventurer's guild, mage guild and other strength organizations, drawing on the strength rules before the big bang, all professions were divided into three levels: fourteen levels, sanctuary, and legendary.

Taking the warrior profession as an example, the necessary requirement to become a first-level warrior is to have the strength to independently kill a first-order demonic beast, and after becoming a first-level warrior, you must defeat three first-level warriors at the same time in order to be promoted to a second-level warrior, and this promotion rule continues to the fourth-level warrior. If a fourth-level warrior wants to be promoted to a fifth-level warrior, he must release his energy, that is, stimulate his fighting spirit. Promotion after level five is linked to the strength of the Dou Qi, because after the Dou Qi Altar is condensed, it can also evolve nine times. For each level of the Dou Qi Altar, the Warrior class also increases by one level. Therefore, the Warrior class can be upgraded up to level 14.

Above the fourteenth level, you must break through the shackles of the rules between heaven and earth and become a powerhouse in the holy realm.

The easiest way to judge if you have a realm that breaks the rules of heaven and earth. There are three stages in the Sanctuary, Intermediate and Advanced, and above there is a level of power that is difficult for even a genius to reach - a legendary powerhouse who controls and uses the rules of the plane.

The strength of the legendary powerhouse depends on how much he masters the rules of the plane.

Malka had stimulated the flame fighting spirit the year before last, and this year he was officially promoted to a sixth-level warrior in the Adventurer's Guild, and Kailina stopped at the fourth-level thief, commonly known as a low-level thief, because she had not yet cultivated to the fourth-level thief to be promoted to the fifth-level thief. If she is promoted to a level 5 thief, she will be a mid-level thief.

The reason why Li Mo had the strength of a second-level warrior but was recognized by Kailina as a first-level warrior was that he lacked combat experience and could not defeat three first-level fighters at the same time.

But Karina's judgment of Li Mo was only based on Li Mo's strength when he fought Wayne, but she didn't know that after Li Mo's injury recovered, his physical strength was twice as strong as before the injury.

Such a growth rate of power is extremely rare.

And Li Mo's ability to never forget has never been mentioned to anyone.

After the three of them rested in place for half an hour, the pangolin summoned by Kailina brought back good news: on the other side of the mountain, there was a deep cave inhabited by a phantom beast. Under the pressure of the phantom beast, the pangolin only circled around Shandong and returned, and it was not clear what kind of phantom beast was inside.

Although Li Mo didn't know what kind of creature the phantom beast was, he could see from the extremely excited expressions of Karina and Malka that it must be very precious.

Led by the pangolin, the three spent another half an hour around the other side of the mountainside, and really found a dark cave.

The entrance to the cave is five or six meters high, and the stone walls on both sides are smooth and shiny, which is a good sign that there are creatures who often come and go in the cave.

Li Mo and Marka are not good at stealth, so Karina can only activate her bloodline ability, the Shadow Corridor, and sneak into the cave to investigate the situation, and Li Mo and Marka are outside to respond.

It didn't take long for a stronger beast roar to sound in the cave, and soon, a petite figure flashed out of the cave, it was not Karina.

She also dragged two white flowers in her hand, each the size of a head.

Behind Karina, a mad beast was in hot pursuit, its two large mouths spraying fire and ice in turn.

But it was a two-headed manticore-tailed lion with a length of nearly ten meters.

The beast's bloody jaws opened wide, and it was easy to swallow Karina alive.

"Oh no, it's a mutant manticore-tailed two-headed manticore. Malka's furry lion face couldn't see any expression, but he immediately raised his two-handed broadsword, urging the flames to rush over and answer Karina.

"Uncle, take the egg and run up the mountain, run as far as you can. When Malka's flaming greatsword blocked a bloody mouth of the mutant manticore for Karina, Karina came to Li Mo in a flash, stuffed two eggs into Li Mo's arms, and after dropping a sentence, instantly jumped back to the battle group, using a gray dagger, and harassing the other head of the manticore with her nimble skills.

The two-headed manticore was huge in size and extremely fast, and tried to rush towards Li Mo, but was blocked by the tacit cooperation of Marka and Kailina. Even so, from time to time, a cloud of flame or ice spat out at Li Mo's position.

After Li Mo easily avoided its several attacks, he no longer hesitated, and turned around and ran away with two eggs.

The manticore's angry roar immediately came from behind him, but it was suppressed by the suddenly strong flame fighting qi.

Li Mo stepped on the raised rocks of the mountain peak and jumped forward, running for more than ten minutes, running from the foot of the mountain to the halfway point of the mountain, when he suddenly heard a strange noise behind him, hurriedly turned around, and just saw Karina and Marka jumping out of his shadow.

Karina was fine, but her face was pale and her breathing was a little short.

Malka's situation was much more serious, except that the half-body armor was seriously damaged, there was an extra half-meter-long bloody wound on his waist, and the left half of his body was covered with a thick layer of ice, like a warrior in ice armor.

Li Mo first took out the healing injection from his travel bag and handed it to Malka,

Marka suddenly released a red fighting qi from his body, ablifying the condensed ice armor, and taking the injection and injecting it into his arm. Then, with the assistance of Li Mo, a bandage was tied to the abdomen.

After Kailina relieved herself, she ran to the two manticore eggs for the first time, her little hands gently stroked the white eggshells with brown spots, and muttered to herself with bright eyes: "Rich, rich, my one-horned green snake armor has a play." ”

Seeing that Karina couldn't wake up from her imagination for a short time, Li Mo had to ask Malka, "Where is the beast?"

"Dead. Malka replied, pausing and adding, "That's a mutated seventh-order manticore, with two heads, and the strength of an eighth-order phantom beast. Karina's original plan was for you to leave with the phantom eggs first, and then she cast the Shadow Corridor and sneak away with me. We didn't want the mutated Manticore to have the ability to lock on to the spirit and break through Karina's Shadow Corridor, so we had to fight it to the death. ”

"Fortunately, Marka is not an ordinary level 6 warrior. As she spoke, Karina's gaze did not take off the manticore. also sighed cutely on the eggshell and wiped it vigorously with his sleeve.

It's just an out-and-out little money fan

"Are the manticore's eggs valuable?" Li Mo asked, his eyes also falling on the two eggs.

"The manticored lion is a seventh-order phantom beast, and the mutant manticore's eggs can grow into a dual-attribute ninth-order phantom armor with a little cultivation, and its value is more than 100 crystals. ”

"100 crystals can buy a semi-one-horned green snake armor, with the help of the one-horned green snake armor, I can easily refine into a swift wind step and be promoted to a fifth-level thief. You can receive more and more high-end tasks. Hahahaha" The quaint ring on Karina's right index finger lit up, and the two manticore eggs disappeared into thin air.

"It's a spatial ring, with a separate storage space, usually for valuables. Marka noticed the look of surprise in Li Mo's eyes and explained.

"Don't worry, uncle, I'll give you one when I go back. Kailina puffed up her chest, stood on tiptoe and patted Li Mo's shoulder "boldly", and said in a thick voice.

Li Mo was speechless again, he was more curious about the space ring than what it was divided into.