0130 True Faces and Behemoths
"Not human" is not a derogatory term, not only humans are intelligent races in this world, elves, dwarves, giants, orcs, wingmen, halflings, gnomes, goblins, scales, sea tribes... There are also numerous sub-species and half-humans, humanoids, as well as their subspecies, branches, close relatives...
These huge intelligent races together constitute the world and civilization under the firmament, and human beings are not even an elite race, just a mediocre "short-lived" race.
After the apocalypse shattered, a large number of "long-lived species" groups were unable to adapt to the drastic changes in the space environment, so a large number of extinctions or degradation occurred, but some "short-lived species" groups with fast reproduction and rapid population renewal and replacement survived.
For example, goblins, a race that was once glorious in ancient times, are described as rat-like uncivilized "primitives" in most pre-civilization texts, associated with words such as barbarism, primitiveness, greed, and rudeness.
However, after the apocalypse was shattered, they ushered in the spring of the race, with a large population, strong reproductive ability, super environmental adaptability, and short life (average lifespan of 20 years, up to 40 years), which gave the goblin group a high-speed evolutionary ability.
In terms of adapting to the new era, the goblin race even surpassed that of humans, and in a very short period of time, they returned to the throne of the "intelligent species", and they became one of the mainstream civilized races.
Therefore, being said to be "not human" in the Star Continent may not be a swear word, but may be a compliment, such as "handsome as an elf", "strong as a giant", "stubborn as a dwarf", "as smart as a dwarf", "as cunning as a goblin", etc., all of which can be regarded as a compliment.
The various demonic abilities displayed by Jialan are in the eyes of the magicians of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group. It is true that it is not like the talent possessed by "humans", but they believe that Jialan's youthful appearance is just an old magician who has changed his appearance by magical means.
After all, Captain Kenmet had no reason to deceive them at all, as the leader of a large mercenary group, he still had good vision and knowledge, plus there were a group of resident magicians in the team, and they were not like those low-level mercenaries who had no understanding of magic at all.
So. He judged that this young magician had the magical ability of the "Great Magician" realm, even if it was exaggerated, it would not be too different...... They all know very well what happened at the Storm Wolf Mercenary Regiment's station. Some people even went to see it in person.
It couldn't be the magical ability that a young magician could have, and I heard that. This Jialan mage seems to be a multi-lineage mage. Just the magic ability that is exposed has three types: fire, water, and wind.
In addition, according to reliable gossip from the Sabertooth Tiger Mercenary Regiment, the Jialan Mage once appeared as an old man at the Hammer of Eternity auction house, although it seemed like a means of concealing his identity. But the magicians believe that the image of the old man is the true face of the Jialan magician!
Because only in this way can it be explained that he is able to possess the abilities of a potion master, an alchemy master, an enchantment master, an appraisal master, and so on, at a "young age", across multiple fields. It also has the magic ability of fire, water, wind and other departments.
Just judging from his superficial age, don't you think that his knowledge is a little too much?
Well, I have to say that the speculation of the magicians, and the reasons for their own brains, from a certain point of view, did hit the truth with a trace of the truth, and in terms of Jialan's actual age, he was considered a "very old" old monster pretending to be tender......
He was 20 years old when the pre-civilization "Dawning Calendar: 2014", and now it is "Apocalypse Calendar: 1715", if you count the more than 1,700 years that have been frozen in ice, he should be 1735 years old this year!
"What is this? Mr. Jialan, are you making magic items?"
The suspicions of the magicians and the troubles of the cat-like curious head Kenmet did not affect Jialan's work, and he was busy with the work at hand while casually answering the questions of the head Kenmet.
"These are just simple enchanted items that can be used to help us through this labyrinth!"
Jialan picked up pieces of silver badges enchanted with multiple spell effects such as "Seal of Exploration", "Pointer", and "Ultrasonic Signaling": "This 'Exploration Badge' can help thieves find their way through the labyrinth." ”
As she spoke, Jialan picked up the one-time consumable badges that had been rushed out and said to Captain Kenmet, "Now I need a group of thieves to complete the mapping of the entire labyrinth!"
Thieves are a very important profession among mercenaries, and there is naturally no shortage of golden two-headed dragon mercenary groups, and Captain Kenmet soon recruited a group of thieves led by the golden thief Hugo and the silver thief old Jimmy.
Even if most of this group of thieves can't reach the silver level, but the bronze level is enough, after all, it is only to explore the way and not break the trap, the traps in the dragon maze have basically completely failed, as long as they are not stupid enough to drill into those scrapped traps, the safety can still be guaranteed.
Since Jialan only had twelve one-time exploration badges out of a temporary hurry, it was far from reaching the weight of carrying out crowd tactics.
However, Jialan did not intend to rely on manpower to map the labyrinth, so after selecting twelve experienced thieves from among the thieves, including Hugo and Jimmy Sr., Jialan distributed the Seal of Exploration to them.
"This badge temporarily doubles your sense of direction and judgment, so that you can find the right direction in the labyrinth. In addition, the half-foot-long white cone of light shot from the badge will always point in the direction of the maze exit. ”
Jia Lan demonstrated the silver badge in her hand, although it looked very rough, but it did not affect its function: "Have you seen this sonic imprint on this? Press your finger on it, and enter a trace of your fighting energy, you can activate its function and release a silent sound wave..."
"I need you to activate the Sonic Mark at every fork in the road and at the intersection!
Handing the badge in his hand to Hugo, who was looking at him with a probe beside him, Jialan took out twelve strange gray thin stone pages, on which he applied the "Secret Seal" for positioning.
"On this 'Record Stone Page', the maze map recorded by the 'Positioning Gem' will be displayed immediately after you have explored it and passed it back to me, and I will update the map information on the 'Record Stone Page' in your hand at any time. ”
After distributing the record stone pages to the twelve thieves, Jia Lan took out twelve more crystal mirrors and said seriously: "These are the twelve 'communication mirrors', I will contact you through them and guide you at the same time!"
Not only the thieves, but even the magicians who were watching on the sidelines were stunned by the endless strange magic props in Jialan's hands, after being mercenaries for so many years, it was the first time they knew that exploring the labyrinth in the underground ruins could be so simple.
Compared to the mercenaries who just thought these magic props were very strange, the magicians were even more shocked!
Whether it is the "Positioning Gem" that can project a phantom map, or the "Record Stone Page" that can record information, or the "Communication Mirror" that can communicate over long distances, they are sure that this is definitely a magical relic left over from the "Age of Dawn", and it is a complete set of "Dawning Relics"!
The magicians looked at Jialan's eyes, as if they were looking at a humanoid treasure house, if they didn't guess wrong, this Jialan magician, I am afraid that there are more than a few Dawn Relics, and he has at least one space equipment on his body!
No matter how envious and jealous the magicians were, the thieves immediately set off into the dragon worship labyrinth as soon as they got their new equipment, only this time, they didn't have to be as careful as before.
With the help of the Seal of Exploration and the Pointer Technique, the thieves move extremely fast, and whenever they encounter an intersection, the "Ultrasonic Signaling Technique" activated will "bombard" a large clear map area on the phantom map projected by the location gem, and it will be recorded by the location gem in real time.
Jialan stared at the phantom map, and at the same time, through the communication mirror, remotely commanded the thieves to avoid the dead ends and circuitous routes in those mazes, and the twelve thieves, almost in a straight line, were passing through this complex three-story twelve-chain maze.
The route that had not been discovered for most of the day, this time it took less than two hours to present it in front of everyone!
And when the progress of the thieves' exploration was only half completed, Jialan and the captain of Kenmet led the magicians and silver warriors to set off, the danger of this ruin is quite high, and the thieves' combat power alone may not be enough to deal with the subsequent battle.
The facts show that Jialan's foresight is still very accurate, and when the main battle team is about to catch up with the thief team, the thieves who have gradually gathered at the entrance of the maze encounter a fierce battle!
At the entrance to the labyrinth there is also a secret door, and behind the broken secret door is a large and strange "cell", where a large number of dark demon rats have gathered, and the total number is even more than the total number of rats they have eliminated in the rat nest!
This is not the most surprising, the most surprising thing is that in this "cell", there is still a terrible beast imprisoned...... (To be continued......)