The rock walls of the Demon Mountains are steep.

It's not like it's a natural formation.

It's more like being split in two by some extracognitive force, forming this almost ninety-degree straight cliff.

Most of the places on the rock wall do not even have a foothold for mountain antelopes, and there is no vegetation, let alone a place to hide.

Ji Xun changed into a werewolf form, wearing a cloak, relying on his claws to grasp the rock wall, climbing all the way to the north.

He had looked at the map before, and the distance from Thunder Fortress to Ringwind Fortress was about a hundred kilometers.

The mana consumed by simply using it as a werewolf form to rush is not too much, but even so, Ji Xun also stopped and stopped all the way, recovering his physical mana from time to time.

Fortunately, after killing the five members of the beast legion before, they got a lot of recovery potions, and it was not too distressing to use them to hurry.

Also, the [Relic Demon Compass] also helped a lot.

This allowed Ji Xun to avoid too many dangers.

Some of the rock walls obviously have no abnormalities at all with the naked eye, but the fluctuations in the value of demonic aura are terrifying.

I don't know if it's the will of space that doesn't allow people to take shortcuts, or if the demon legion already has hidden sentinels.

Although he also killed several waves of demon minions on the way, Ji Xun also relied on this compass to avoid those high-risk areas, and there was no danger along the way.

It took him hours before he saw a war fortress standing on a cliff.

The white stones are stacked, majestic and magnificent.

This is the "Meteoric Eagle Fortress".

This fortress is the northernmost point of the Demon Mountains.

Further north, there is the black line marked on the strip - the Wailing Abyss.

Ji Xun looked down at the huge ravine in front of him, which was nearly a thousand meters wide and I don't know how many kilometers long, and thought in his heart: "There is actually such a crack in the alien dimensional space."

Although it is not as exaggerated as the endless rift in the world on the edge of Innocence City.

But the wailing abyss in front of you is also a huge crack with no end in sight and is extremely shocking.

The space is dimly lit, and you can barely see the silhouette with night vision.

And the crack was as black as ink, like a road to hell, I don't know how deep.

This is the natural barrier against the invasion of the demons of the North.

"How does this world feel like it's been shattered to pieces by the gods?"

Ji Xun looked at the crack in front of him, as well as the smooth rock wall of the Demon Mountain Range before, and a picture always appeared in his mind: two indescribable huge creatures were fighting, and then using some incomprehensible means to crack the earth.

These fissures are the wounds of the earth.

And human beings are like the invisible on the wound. Microbe?

Every time I see this kind of "giant", I will always give people a shock from the bottom of my heart.

A moment later.

Ji Xun condescendingly observed the wailing abyss, and didn't find anything special, so he climbed towards the fortress.

The Meteoric Eagle Fortress is brightly lit.

Ji Xun sneaked in the dark and walked all the way.

There were originally thousands of soldiers stationed in the fortress, patrols that should be patrolled, drills that should be drilled, and there were also people in the arrow tower sentry.

Everything looks normal.

"It's strange that nothing happened?"

Ji Xun looked at the peaceful fortress in front of him, and always felt that something was wrong.

The key places that lead directly to the hinterland of the kingdom such as the Thunder Fortress have been invaded by internal ghosts, so it is not a problem to be on the front line of the handover with the demon territory all year round, right?

Thinking of something, Ji Xun took out the [Demon Compass] and tried it.

This time, I was even more confused.

The hands were spinning around as if the magnetic field was in a mess.

"The pointer is broken?"

Ji Xun looked at the pointer that was moving around and frequently displaying the fluctuation value of demonic aura, and his thoughts were stunned for a moment.

I looked around the fortress in the direction of the pointer, but found no sign of the demon.

Just when he thought that this relic was too close to the demon territory in the north, it was affected by some special magnetic field.

suddenly

A group of patrolling soldiers walked in front of them.

Ji Xun looked at the pointer in his hand, pointing to someone in the patrol team, showing a demonic aura fluctuation number 10 similar to that of the "Great Demon".

Because of the proximity, the needle kept pointing at the man.

"Could it be.?"

Seeing this, Ji Xun no longer felt that there was a problem with the pointer.

Instead, he came to another astonishing conclusion: this soldier was simply a demon in disguise!

And the reason why the pointer is spinning

It's because the camp is full of demons!

When Ji Xun thought of this, he also felt his eyelids jump inexplicably.

Really.

It's not without accident.

Rather, it was not discovered for the time being.

The demons have invaded the fortress by unknown means.

I'm diving headlong into a monster pile.

"It's worse than expected."

Ji Xun observed for a while, and then confirmed his thoughts.

But instead of feeling the danger, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Without these demons, he wouldn't know how to trigger a difficult plot.

It is now confirmed that the demons have invaded the fortress and not completely captured it.

This is obviously an excellent entry point for adventurers in the extradimensional space.

Ji Xun is sure that there must be key points in this fortress that can dig deep into the difficult plot!

Thinking of this, he continued to sneak around the camp again.

He observed all over the fortress along the way, and also found that the soldiers in some key posts basically had demonic aura fluctuations.

Like the operator of the gondola elevator, the arrow tower sentry or something.

According to a rough estimate, about one-fifth of the soldiers have been invaded by demons.

"Skinning, or some occult control?"

Ji Xun thought as he walked, he didn't dare to be careless, the clown mask was already on his face.

Walking and walking, I suddenly came to the quartermaster's office.

There are already nearly 10,000 battle merits on the battle merit card.

I was going to save up and exchange it for something better when I left the space.

Now that the war fortresses have become demon strongholds, it is imperative to exchange a little prize to increase their combat power.

Ji Xun thought of something, took off his cloak, and walked in directly.

Probably because they don't think there is a need to invade a logistics department like the Quartermaster Department, and several of the soldiers here are normal humans.

There is also a battle merit redemption screen here.

Ji Xun took out his battle merit card and four demon horns, and said directly: "Lord Duwei, I am a reconnaissance scout sent by the kingdom, and I have completed some reconnaissance tasks, and now I want to exchange for war merit items. ”

The things that were originally exchanged for battle merits were definitely not what the hunters saw.

But this patch of the will of the extradimensional space.

Adventurers are encouraged to kill monsters and redeem their favorite prizes.

Ji Xun is not afraid of exposing anything.

The quartermaster checked the battle merit card, and only sighed that there were a lot of war achievements, so he didn't ask much: "What do you want to exchange?" ”

9000 Battle Exploits + Four Demons = [Kagura-ryu Ancient Martial Arts Fighting Skills (Silver)]

If you want to improve your combat effectiveness as soon as possible, there is no better way to do it than a skill card.

Ji Xun had already thought about it before, waved the name of the martial arts on the catalog, and said, "Please help me redeem this fighting cheats." ”

Quartermaster: "Good! ”

The battle exploits were emptied, and Ji Xun got a fighting cheats book full of moves.

This kind of cheat is completely okay if he wants to cultivate it himself.

The moves explained on the intensive are very detailed, and it takes about a few years of hard work to master the fighting techniques of this ancient school of martial arts.

But Ji Xun obviously doesn't have that much time.

He saw the enlightening hint under the cheats: "You can downgrade and replace it with 'Skill: Advanced Combat Mastery'"

"Sure enough."

Ji Xun breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

This is still some of the trivia of the alien space he saw in the card master encyclopedia.

Martial arts mastery is a basic skill, and in the final analysis, it is a variety of basic techniques such as kicking, hitting, throwing, and holding.

Although there are different fighting genres, after the cheats are downgraded, there is a high probability that they will be "advanced fighting specializations".

He now urgently needs to improve some actual combat abilities that can save his life, although it is a bit of a waste to downgrade the Silver Cheats to a Black Iron Skill Card.

But skill cards are what he needs right now.

Because the learning threshold of the Silver Fist Skill [Technique Level 2 Collapse] that he had harvested in the Greedy Mine before was to specialize in advanced martial arts.

I couldn't find a way to buy a skill card outside.

I wanted to fight and pile up proficiency by myself.

But it's too late.

As soon as the two cards are used, there will be an additional display of [Polar Collapse Lv0 (1/200)] on the board.

Ji Xun tried his newly mastered skills, and it felt very mysterious.

The mana surges in the meridians converge on the fist, condensing a special qi. A punch on the floor tiles, the strength can not hurt the floor tiles, but directly penetrate the force down, directly breaking the soil layer under the floor tiles.

The greater the power, the more mana is infused, the more damage is done, and the thicker the obstacles that can be penetrated.

After Ji Xun tried it, he immediately became more confident: "This skill is amazing." ”

Although [Second Skill Collapse] has a certain amount of energy storage time, it consumes a lot of mana.

But the completion of this secret method-level silver boxing technique can be regarded as another real killer feature.

It's like a rough-skinned monster like the previous giant demon, except for the relic scalpel, he really can't do anything.

Now there is.

This punch can completely penetrate the skin and directly injure the internal organs, causing "real damage".

Although skill proficiency is currently not enough to kill a D-class calamity with a single punch.

But a few more punches will always kill the monster.

His super high agility and physical attributes are matched with this skill, just like a good sword with a blade, and the attributes burst out at once.

And then there is a heavy armor card master like a black knight or something, and now he finally has a lethal means.

As for the miscellaneous high-level martial arts expertise in his mind, Ji Xun also felt that it didn't matter.

Elementary, Medium, and Advanced specializations, he advanced three times, using three different genre skill cards.

He now feels like he knows a little bit about any martial arts skills, but he is not proficient.

But it's good to be able to use it right now.

He has a high level of perceptiveness, and his mastery of skills is also very exaggerated.

After more actual combat, these skills will gradually be integrated into muscle memory and slowly become his own thing.

Strength is really confidence.

Ji Xun spent all his combat exploits, digested the two fighting skill cards at once, and his close-range combat effectiveness increased by several percent to the naked eye.

Walking in the fortress, you don't have to be as cautious as before.

The extradimensional space is a special world that is almost indistinguishable from the real world.

Everything here has a complete line of causal logic.

If you look closely, you can always see some clues.

Since he guessed that this fortress could trigger the plot, Ji Xun wandered around the fortress again.

Sure enough, it didn't take long.

Ji Xun heard the news from the mouths of a few chatting soldiers.

"I don't know what's going on with the Commander. He used to be the first to come out every morning for morning exercises. Now not only do I sleep until noon, but I don't even care about everyone's drills. ”

"Hey, doesn't that make us a little more comfortable? What's so strange. And I heard that the commander went to patrol near the Wailing Abyss before, and encountered a demon battle, and it is normal to be injured and recuperate."

"Hey, the deputy commander, Master Ronan, doesn't know what military discipline he violated, and he was imprisoned in a dungeon by the commander, and it's obviously a good person."

“.”

When Ji Xun heard these gossips, he immediately knew that this might be the key to the plot.

The [Demon Compass] has a range of use, and only at a close distance of about three or two hundred meters can it clearly point to the direction of the demon.

Before, because he was afraid of being discovered and exposed, he didn't dare to approach the command post, a place where there were obviously second-order powerhouses.

Now that I look at it, it's a big problem.

Ji Xuncai cautiously approached the commander's barracks.

Sure enough, the compass clattered.

He looked at the exaggerated demonic power fluctuation value displayed on the pointer, and was also shocked for a moment: "Second-order calamity-level demon? Even the kind that is very strong in the second order? ”

This is the strongest one I've ever seen.

It is more than ten times stronger than the previous first-order C-class calamity.

"Interesting. The commanders of the fortress are all demons, and this Meteor Eagle Fortress has actually fallen."

Ji Xun thought of this, and suddenly thought about it again.

Since this commander is a demon, then think about it from another angle, the deputy commander who was imprisoned in the dungeon, Mage Ronan, should be a human?

Ji Xun immediately realized that this was the key to breaking the situation left by the will of space for adventurers.

Second-order demons weren't something he could think about right now.

Ji Xun didn't delay, and found the dungeon directly.

The dungeon of the fortress usually holds some soldiers who violate military discipline, which is probably like a confinement room.

A hundred meters down the road through the rock crevices, there were several cells with water seeping through the walls around them.

The surrounding area is dimly lit, making it ideal for stealth.

Ji Xun didn't take two steps, and the pointer on the compass rotated again.

"First Order C-Class Calamity."

He looked at the fluctuation value on the pointer, and knew that there was a demon with great stealth ability hidden in the darkness.

I have to admit that this relic compass is really useful.

Without this thing, if you sneak in rashly, you really have to take a knife.

Since there are demons hiding, there may also be some warning traps arranged.

Ji Xun didn't expect to go in without being discovered.

It can only be solved quickly.

As soon as the mana power was poured into his body, Ji Xun's body swelled in a blink of an eye, and he directly turned into a werewolf body.

The supernatural perception of the atavistic werewolf is vividly manifested at this moment.

Not only can you see everything in the darkness clearly.

He sniffed the air again.

It was clear that in addition to the smell of wet rocks, there was also a human and a demonic breath in the dungeon.

With the direction pointed out by the compass, Ji Xun accurately located the source of the smell.

In the human sense of smell, demons smell of carrion.

But in the werewolf's sense of smell, it's a variety of different breaths.

"Is it still the half-blood dark elves?"

Ji Xun had killed two dark elves before, and the smell of this demon type was much better than the smell of carrion from other demons.

And he's good at stealth, and that's the only way to do it at the moment.

By identifying the types of demons, many methods can be predicted in advance.

And the dark elves, although they are the darlings of darkness, are not good at perception.

The enemy apparently did not realize that he had been discovered.

Ji Xun guessed that there must be a trap on the stone steps, and he didn't plan to go down the normal path.

Sudden outburst.

As soon as the leg muscles swelled, the werewolf's body leaped onto the rock wall, and the claw wall climbed on the ground as if it were walking on the ground.

In a few breaths, it rushed into 100 meters.

A black shadow flashed across the rock wall, and the demon hiding in the shadows suddenly noticed something abnormal.

However, it was too late.

When I saw it, a black shadow had already appeared in front of me.

She reacted and just wanted to escape, when her figure suddenly collapsed.

"Teleportation again"

Ji Xun has already seen it once, and it is not surprising.

The smell had clearly revealed the location of the dark elf.

He kicked his legs on the rock wall, and changed direction violently, like a hungry wolf pounced on a panicked rabbit, and laid the dark elf on the rock wall.

He didn't give the demon time to react at all, and as soon as he grabbed it, he broke his neck with his claws.

"Kill the C-rank Calamity 'Half-Blood Dark Elf Hunter' and gain +300 Merit"

After the fighting skills became advanced specializations, it was much easier to kill this crispy scourge than before.

Although the movement of the instant kill is not large.

But he didn't dare to guarantee that the demons lurking in the fortress above were alarmed.

Ji Xun killed the dark elf and quickly disposed of the corpse.

And the tightly bound magician in the cell also saw this scene clearly.

(End of chapter)