Chapter Eighty-Four: A Battle of Wits and Courage
In the early morning, a magic stone car drove out of the Xishan camp and headed westward, heading towards the mountains in the distance. There were four people sitting in the car, Oster, Perlman, and two other retinues.
The vehicle is powered by magic crystals on the ground and does not require a horse-drawn or driver. In appearance, it looks like a classical car from the earth's steam age.
Previously, in order to speed up the journey, Oster decided to travel lightly and ordered most of the soldiers of the escort team to go to the Dongxiang Support Headquarters with the Xishan Mobile Force. He got on the magic stone cart prepared by the battalion headquarters, and only brought Pullman and three other people with him, and hurried to the secret armory.
The speed of the magic stone cart was much faster than that of the horse-drawn carriage, and there was no need to change horses and rest, and after traveling for less than half a day, it entered the Black Mountain Range. The population density and development level of this world is still much lower than that of the earth, and there are basically few civilized races in such deep mountains and old forests except for hunters and woodcutters, as well as wild tribes such as kobolds.
And the secret armory of Defia was built here, near the main peak of the mountain range. Although the altitude is not high, the surrounding forest area is large. At the entrance to the armory, a mysterious magic was set up, one of the black technologies of Defia's craftsmen, and it is now lost. Only by using a special keystone to open the guide marker can you cross the suspicion and find the hidden valley entrance.
The stone was usually carried by Skar, and was never entrusted to anyone else, and even Keith did not know how to use it; This time, he handed it over to Oster without hesitation, which shows his trust in the deputy gang leader.
It is still a few hours drive to reach the main peak of Montenegro. As long as you enter the coverage area of the Mystery Circle, enter the mana in the correct order, and activate the runes on the keystone, you can open the guide to find the entrance. At the same time, the user and a certain range of people and objects in the vicinity will also be lost in the eyes of the outside world. In other words, with the key, they are safe.
Along the way, Oster was preoccupied and still thinking about harvesting the puppets. According to the newly unlocked content of Sashu, because this thing itself is a replica of the Death Knight, without knowing the original design code of the Brotherhood, forcibly activating the special ability requires a fragment of the cursed code left behind by Gul'dan. There are three shards, corresponding to the anti-magic shield, the chaos energy cannon, and the flying ability. Only by gaining these abilities can a mech truly become a Gundam, not a stupid tank with hands and feet.
And these fragments were lost after the Second World War, with the defeat of the orcs. At present, I only know that the part of the Chaos Energy Cannon was found by the Holy Light Church and kept by the governor-level Great Lord himself, so I don't need to think about it for the time being; The other two pieces are missing. But one of them, called Steinberg, was a fragment of an anti-magic shield that Oster had only recently seen, in the hands of a female killer who was trying to kill herself.
Although I don't know if this is a pure coincidence or some connection, it seems that finding the female killer is more crucial than rushing to the base;
Oster thought it would take a lot of effort to see her again, but after a few more hours, the carriage was ambushed on the eve of entering the range of suspicion.
It has been said before that once they enter the Suspicious Array and open the Keystone, they will enter a different plane and disappear in the eyes of the outside world. Therefore, if someone wants to kill the deputy gang leader of the rebel army, it is the last chance before entering the range of the suspicious formation. The other party was clearly aware of this, and patiently waited until the last stretch of the road before attacking;
And it is prepared to come, and it is bound to win. The self-propelled blasting circle buried in the ground pinpointed the ground of the magic stone cart, and three circles in different directions sucked the wheels from all angles. With a loud bang and a huge fireball, the top half of the car was blown into the sky in an instant.
A short time later, two men in cloaks and large guns appeared from the nearby grass and went to confirm it. They came to the smoke-smoking, dilapidated carriage that had fallen in the other direction, carefully removed the twisted door with the barrel of their guns - and found it empty.
Oster hid in a hidden place, watched with a telescope, wondering if he had been prepared, and used magic projection to drop himself and the other passengers, and it is estimated that by this time they were all in the car with their heads in the car and their butts in the trees;
In fact, he had already discovered that since he escaped from Tar Village, the female law hunter had not stayed away, and had followed him intermittently. Although Sa Shu has detected being followed by magic marks, he suffers from the fact that the other party has a high sense of anti-reconnaissance and is good at using a variety of anti-magic equipment, so he can't catch it, so he can only let her follow quietly.
This kind of behavior of not showing up, not hitting you, but just following you and disgusting you, reminds Oster of the last life when he played the game, those extremely obscene hunters, always hiding 100 yards away and putting a mark on your head, if you chased him, he would get on his horse and run away, and then come back and shoot you when you were alone with someone until you were half blooded. Whether this tactic is good or not is secondary, and the mentality of engaging people is first-class.
It may be that Oster continued to show strong spell casting strength in the follow-up, which made the opponent quite afraid and did not make further moves. But since Oster summoned the Meteorite Technique outside the camp and exhausted all his mana, and Sa Shu turned off the phone and became a blank slate, the other party was worthy of being a law hunter, keenly aware of the weakness of the target, and began to look for opportunities to attack.
And Oster soon discovered that there was more than one female hunter, and that there were at least five or six accomplices disguised as rebel soldiers and civilians in the camp. When sorting out the case files, it was even more certain that these people had frequently sowed discord in the battalion headquarters, expanded the disputes between the two factions in the Guest and Turkish areas, informed the officers and soldiers of the situation at the battalion headquarters, and even killed the former Governor Price;
And now, they want to deal with Oster in the same way. But it was clear that the wrong opponent was chosen. Relying on Sashu's perverted detection and early warning capabilities, Oster is well aware of the attacks he has launched and is about to launch within a certain range. So he had already found out that more than once, someone from a few hundred yards away was targeting him with the Eagle Eye technique.
Although the spies could be disposed of at any time, their leader, the female hunter, was cunningly hiding outside, not in the camp headquarters. Oster wanted to find an opportunity to catch them all in order to put an end to this state of being. This is all the more urgent when he learns that the staff spear in the witch's hand contains a curse code;
That's why he frequently took the initiative to expose himself in open places, dancing and singing awkwardly to seduce the female hunting to attack, and he was also dissatisfied with Keith's unknown situation and mixing his own affairs. After the fight in Tar Village, Oster already had an idea of her strength; That is, the level of an ordinary 5-person elite monster. If the opponent fires, Oster is confident that he can dodge in advance according to the path prompted by Sashu, or cast protective magic and use enchanted armor to avoid damage. Then you can immediately determine the position of the opponent and arrest and subdue them.
Oster was confident in his upgraded abilities and decided to take a certain risk to catch the tail. So he kept quiet, waiting for the other party to show his feet; However, in the end, the other party still did not make a move. It may be that he felt that there were too many troops within the camp, and Oster could be treated immediately if he was shot, and it was difficult for the attacker to escape from the search of many rebel soldiers;
Oster was deeply disappointed, if the other party just didn't take the bait, he really couldn't do anything about her. When leaving the camp and heading to the armory, Oster made a final effort, deliberately exposed the flaws, sent the convoy away, took only three retinues, rode in a magic stone cart with obvious goals, and walked the whole way;
As a result, I waited until the eve of entering the range of suspicions, but there was still no movement. After so many days of wits and courage, Oster was tired, and he was already scolding the other party in his heart, and then the attack was too late.
After the bomb was detonated, Sashu showed that there were a total of six people on the other side, all of whom were hunting with law-breaking guns. In addition to the two people who came to confirm, four people were lurking and covering, just to prevent the target from leaving a backhand. However, what is the use of this small insect carving technique, before the Sashu book, they were almost like fruits.