Chapter 45: The Necromancer
Things went smoothly beyond my expectations, and it took almost no effort to kill the two people in the Ice Wind Chimes Elite Squad, especially killing one of the Seven Stars and Six Kills, which is very important, you must know that the Seven Stars and Six Kills can only exert infinite power when they are together. The current Seven Stars and Six Kills are like a car with one less wheel, and it is even more stupid and impossible to run fast. It seems that Ah Guang should be the mage who specializes in light magic in the Seven Stars and Six Kills, get rid of her, then the only one among them who has the ability to resurrect will not exist, and if the battle continues, one less person for them is one less person, and the combat effectiveness of the entire team cannot be replenished quickly. Leaving Ah Guang alone to resurrect the remnant snow can be said to be the most unsuccessful place for the Ice Wind Chime. I guess he was also dizzy by me, according to his usual life, he is definitely not so stupid. It's one against six, but it's not completely at a disadvantage, and as long as I continue to resolutely implement the strategy of dividing and eating, it's only a matter of time before I eat them one by one. However, the key now is that Ice Wind Chime has suffered such a loss once, and he is not so easy to be fooled again. If he had been careful to keep the remaining six of them together, I would have gained nothing. Perhaps, I should have taken it when I saw it.
"Ruthless enough and spicy, if you don't make a move, you will have a win, beautiful lady, I appreciate you." I was squatting beside the corpses of Rean Xue and Ah Guang, thinking about what I should do below, when suddenly a dry and cold voice sounded behind me, which was in the middle of the night, which really scared me. I immediately rolled forward, then turned around, my eyes wide open to see who was talking behind my back. It's empty! Am I the hell? Or some invisible creature? I hurriedly reached into the small backpack around my waist, trying to pull out a little bit of visible powder and sprinkle it there. Unexpectedly, just as I was about to pull my hand out of my bag, a cold and abnormal thing was placed on the wrist of my hand, and at the same time, the yin and yang strange voice sounded behind me: "Don't do such meaningless things." It's okay for a low-level thing like a manifestation powder to play with children, but it doesn't help me at all. ”
It's so fast! What the hell is it, and why did it run behind my back again? I was shocked and turned my head to look behind me. Oh my god, an ugly white face was smiling at me less than two centimeters from my face, and I sat down on the ground and screamed, "Oh the hell! ”
"Hehe, I'm sorry to scare you, ma'am." The monster grinned and said sorry to me. I looked at it a few more times before I could barely make up my mind that it was not a monster crouching across from me, but a person, or rather a humanoid creature. Of course, I use the definition of a human title. He was so ugly, so ugly that he didn't look like a normal human being. He was dressed in a shabby monk's robe, and his exposed skin was grayish-white with very severe chapping, and even worse on his face, like an old crocodile skin that had been exposed to the sun for dozens of days. His whole face was distorted, the hair on the top of his head was almost gone, only a few were sparse, and his eyebrows were thick and long, and the white flowers hung down softly to the corners of his mouth. The shriveled mouth was stretched open by a few long fangs, like the belly of a fish that had been shaved open. In addition, there was another place that caught my attention, and one of his hands was a dark green like strawberry. As I observed him, he was staring at me with a pair of cloudy, dead fish eyes.
"Who are you?" I asked, clutching the Nightmare Twin Blades with both hands, looking warily at the uninvited guest.
"Don't be so nervous, I don't mean anything." The man said with a smile, in a broad sense, of course, and it seemed to me that the expression was worse than crying. Seeing that I was still clutching my twin knives and not letting go of my disbelieving expression, the man went on to explain: "I'm just a passerby, and I usually don't have any interest in visitors from another world like you, it's just ...... It's just that you're a little different, and your looks remind me of someone, so I'm making an exception to follow you for a short time today. Then, I saw a wonderful scene. After that, I was even more curious, although the strength of you and that person is 108,000 miles apart, the way of acting is so similar. So, in the end, I couldn't bear to show up. As I said before, I have no ill intentions, I just want to get to know you, beautiful lady. ”
The person who looked like me in his mouth was referring to Arya? Could it be that this is another bull who knows my boss? Thinking of this, I relaxed a little: "Is the person you said to be similar to me called Arya?" ”
A hint of surprise crossed the man's face: "So you know Arya?" ”
"Cut!" I snorted, and then said truthfully, "Of course I do, and I won't tell you that she's my mentor." My name is Ikaruga and I am her descendant disciple, and you can see that this set of Arya's deception suit on me was given to me by her personally. ”
"I see, I'll just say why you're wearing something so familiar, it turns out to be one of Arya's early fame suits, I said." The man shook his head a little self-deprecatingly, then looked at me again, "It's like, you two, it's just carved out of the same mold, and even the dark energy in your body seems to be the same." Arya is indeed the best fit for you to be your mentor. But, on the other hand, it's also Arya's luck to find a successor like you. Like I have been walking on the mainland for so many years, I just can't find a suitable person to teach me the craft, which is really more human than human, and it is infuriating. ”
Listening to his tone, could it be that I met a divine envoy again? I asked curiously, "You haven't told me your name yet." What is your relationship with Arya? ”
"Oh, I'm so sorry, I forgot to say it, what a faux pas." The man bowed for a moment, said sorry, and began to introduce himself, "My name is Ed-Phoenix, a seventy-three level necromancer. My mentor is Ai Xiu, the spirit of the bones of the Seventeen Divine Messengers. Like you, we are all focused on dark spells, so my mentor and yours will meet regularly to discuss the results of research on dark spells. In the past, when I was an apprentice, I served with my mentor, the great Bone Spirit Ai Xiu, so I met your mentor several times. Your mentor Arya is very unique in her words and deeds, so I am quite impressed. ”
"Hehe, I see." I laughed dryly. I said that your mentor is long and the tutor is short, is it a senior and ready to hand in your graduation thesis, it is really full of literary language, you are an ancient Chinese Confucian student, but you are a necromancer, I think it is strange no matter how I hear it. I'm thinking about how to deal with this ugly guy who came out halfway. The phoenix's face suddenly became solemn, and he turned to me and said, "Those people who are looking for trouble with you seem to have turned back, and they will probably be there soon." ”
Hey, the Ice Wind Chimes really don't know whether to live or die, just now I picked eight by myself and I killed two of my subordinates, and now I have risen two levels out of thin air, and there are super NPCs by my side, aren't you pushing yourself into the fire pit? I sneered a few times, then threw a harmless wink at Phoenix, "Since our mentors are good friends, then we should be good friends as well." Now that my friends are in trouble, you can do me a favor and fix them all for me, how about it? ”
"Huh." Phoenix's shriveled mouth grinned again, "Forget about killing, there is no end to retribution." Besides, it is inconvenient for us to intervene in your own disputes from other worlds. ”
Damn, the front is still close to me, and now I want to be a wall-to-wall watcher, where will I just let it go. I deliberately pretended to be pitiful and said with a sad face: "Alas, there are six of them, I am going to die this time, you will not die without help." ”
Phoenix was defeated by me, froze slightly, and then smiled again: "Hehe." I can't help it. You are much more cunning than your mentor. Well, I'll put a dark canopy so they can't find us, and we'll get out of the way. If we can't beat it, can we afford to hide? With that, he took out a snow-white skeleton from his wide sleeve, this skeleton was very well maintained, white and shiny, without a single crack, and the skeleton's forehead was inlaid with a huge octagonal purple square diamond. Phoenix sat cross-legged on the ground, placed the skeleton flat in the socket of his legs, and then stretched out the index finger of his right hand and gently stroked the skeleton's celestial spirit cover, and began to chant words in his mouth. Then I saw two thick puffs of black smoke emerge from the skeleton's two hollow eye sockets, soaring into the sky, and finally vanishing. I vaguely felt that the world around me had changed, although from the appearance it was still the sand of the past, and the bushes were still the bushes of the past, but I felt that everything around me was no longer the same world as before.
Phoenix slowly tucked the skeleton into his sleeve and stood up, "Alright, the dark canopy has covered all the nearby areas, and no one will be able to see us unless I disarm the spell." He patted the sand on his ass and thighs, then smiled at me, "You should be going to the city of Karsecot too." That's good, we might as well walk together, and have a companion on the road. It's been a long time since I've been in a company, and now that I think about it, I really miss it. ”
It's best to have a strong NPC with you, and although his appearance is really sorry for the audience, it's still cost-effective to have him to avoid being harassed by bed bugs like the Ice Wind Chimes. I nodded.
"I'm glad you accepted me so quickly...... of looks. "The two of us, under the shelter of the dark canopy, began to make our way towards our destination, the city of Chalsecot. That Phoenix didn't seem to have spoken to anyone for N years, and now that I had it, I immediately opened the conversation, "We necromancers are generally not good-looking, probably because of our perennial experience with death, and we face Bai Sensen's bones and rotting corpses all day long. You see, I have these hands, which are the result of years of developing all kinds of poisons. Now I have to drink the antidote in time if I don't eat with gloves on, otherwise I may be like my mentor and still be poisoned and unconscious. ”
And this kind of thing, poisoning yourself yourself? It's the first time I've heard of it. I asked curiously, "Do you mean Ai Xiu, the spirit of bones?" He was poisoned by himself and fell unconscious? ”
Phoenix nodded, then sighed, "That's the Herron poison, a super poison with an extremely complex formula. That day, because the tutor had just finished studying the poison, he was accidentally pierced through the skin of his gloves and fingers by a fish bone while eating, and unfortunately he got a little bit of it. After lying down, he remained unconscious. I have been traveling around the corners of my brother on the mainland all these years, firstly to find someone suitable for the cultivation of necromancer's dark magic to teach him our great necromancy and fulfill his old man's greatest wish, and on the other hand, I also want to find the antidote to Herron's poison and awaken my mentor from his endless sleep. ”
"Did you find the antidote?" I asked, glancing at him. I really didn't expect that there was still a poison in this world that could make the divine envoy fall at the touch of it, and if I could get some of it on my body, it would be developed.
Phoenix shook his head: "No. The Helon poison can be said to be the best of the poisons that my mentor Ai Xiu has developed all his life, and even he himself has not yet researched the antidote before he falls into a coma. All I can do now is follow the path of my mentor based on the results of his previous research, and I don't know how far I can go or if I have taken the wrong path. ”
"Where there's a will, there's a way." I patted him on the shoulder comfortingly, "If you have this heart, you will definitely be able to find an antidote and wake up your mentor smoothly." ”
"Hmm." Phoenix was greatly encouraged by my words and nodded firmly. Suddenly, he stopped and pricked up his ears to the back. I also stopped: "What's wrong?" Phoenix, is there something wrong? ”
"Looks like something is coming up from behind." Phoenix frowned.
As soon as I heard this, I immediately pulled out the Nightmare Twin Blades: "Is it the Ice Wind Chimes?" ”
Phoenix didn't answer me right away, but continued to listen with his ears pricked up for a while, and then a wry smile crept up his face, and he turned his head to me and said, "It's not looking for you, it's looking for me." Beautiful lady, I'm afraid we'll have to part ways. ”
"Looking for you?" I looked into the chaotic night sky behind him, but I didn't find anything. Could it be that some of his enemies have come to trouble him?
"Hmm." Phoenix said willingly, then pulled a book out of his sleeve and handed it to me, "It was a pleasure to talk to you, and I had the opportunity to take me to say hello to Arya, and tell her that the necromancer is always on the same side as her, that we are both practitioners of dark spells, and that we should help each other in trouble." This book is "Iseline Poison Development Encyclopedia" I have already mastered the poison development methods, so it is no longer of any use to me, but it is different for you, as an assassin It is very important to master the development methods and attributes of various poisons, so I will give it to you as a meeting gift. ”
It's so handsome, and I got good things by chatting with NPCs. It didn't take long for me to understand that the NPCs in "The Divine Realm" like to nag in addition to being greedy for money, either throwing out a lot of gold coins, or patiently matching them to the mountains, making them happy, and this high-level treasure will naturally arrive. I hurriedly took the book and put it in my backpack, for fear that he would regret it.
Phoenix looked at me and put away the Itherine Poison Development Compendium, and then pointed ahead, "The city of Karsecet is not far ahead. Those who are looking for trouble with you should have been thrown off by me, and as long as you enter the city, they can't do anything to you. I won't go with you, so let's go our separate ways. ”
It seems that he did come to trouble him, and in order not to implicate me, he persuaded me to go into the city alone, after all, they were at that level, and I only had cannon fodder when I was returned to the city in seconds by stray bullets, and forcibly staying was just a burden on him. Thinking of this, I said goodbye to him, and went alone to the city of Khalsecet. Phoenix stood straight in the middle of the desert, looking up at the darkness behind him. Walking, walking, Phoenix's lonely figure gradually disappeared from my vision. But the doubts in my heart are getting stronger and stronger, who is coming to his trouble? Didn't he just tell me that he couldn't beat me, but he could afford to hide? In just a few minutes, the principles of being a man have changed. Could it be that a fateful duel is about to be staged in that barren desert? No, we can miss such a good show?
After much deliberation, I made a bold decision: sneak back and see what happened.