Chapter 52: Swamp of Despair

To the north of the grassland is a swampy land that stretches for thousands of kilometers, and this area is called the Swamp of Despair by the local residents, not only because of its harsh environment, but also because of the ferocious magical beasts that inhabit the swamp.

Of course, where there are Warcraft, there will be adventurers, and the crystal nucleus of Warcraft is always the most attractive, and in the eastern part of this swamp, there is a city of no small size called Landiga.

It took Gaia two days to follow the map instructions on the parchment scroll to reach Landiga City, the swamp of despair was just north of Landigar City, and Gaia had already prepared enough adventurer necessities with the help of Tida, and since there was still no suitable weapon, Gaia simply returned to her original profession as a mage.

Now Gaia's magical strength has also reached the level of a magister, with the improvement of his magic cultivation, the disadvantages caused by no contract seem to have gradually disappeared, and now from the perspective of the mage realm alone, his cultivation far exceeds that of his peers, after all, in the forbidden land of the gods, the time of confusion created two years of cultivation for Gaiado.

Fezzer's flame bird had already conveyed the news of Selene, and Gaia was also helpless about Celine's stubborn attitude, Gaia had planned to find her, but the little phoenix did not convey back to Celine's location at all, so Gaia had no choice but to give up, and put his mind on the ruins of the elven race, and try to find the source of life as quickly as possible, otherwise his cultivation would probably stop.

Although Charlotbin's half of the parchment indicates that the swamp ruins are in this area, there is no specific route indication at all, and it is not easy to find the ruins in this vast swamp land, and Gaia must not get a trip to the adventurer's guild, otherwise he will not know where to start.

Randiga's Adventurer's Guild is quite magnificent, there are also many adventurers waiting for companions and commissions in this time period, the monsters in the Swamp of Despair are more fierce, and the average strength of adventurers here will not be so low, Gaia roughly scanned, and it can be judged that most of the people here are above the level of high-level swordsmen.

Gaia, who is dressed in a magic robe, soon attracted the attention of adventurers, magicians have always been a popular target for nobles, mercenaries, adventure teams, etc., because magicians have always occupied the absolute main position in team battles, and their large-scale magic and long-range attacks can also be the most effective to suppress the enemy, and in the ranks of adventurers, it is often the most in need of magicians but the most lacking in magicians, so Gaia, who is not too shabby in magic costumes, will certainly make the eyes of adventurers who are eager for magicians to join.

When Gaia walked from the adventurer's hall to the commission hall, there were already more than a dozen adventurers asking Gaia if he wanted to join their team, and of course Gaia, the adventure team without a purpose, would not join, and after simply refusing, Gaia looked up if there was any information about exploring the ruins in the commission.

The legend of the swamp ruins is actually very popular in Randiga City, and some great nobles can often be seen in the commission hall in order to obtain the rich ancient treasures in the ruins entrusted adventurers to find them, but although the people of this swamp ruins in Landiga have their legends, there are very few people who actually find this ruins.

There are often adventurers in Landiga who boast that they have seen ancient ruins in the swamp, but they become hesitant to tell them where they are, they just say that they accidentally stepped into the area when they were lost, but quickly walked out inexplicably, these rumors are generally the drunken topic of those adventurers in the tavern, it is difficult and difficult to know whether it is true or not, in short, no adventurer can guarantee that he can find the ruins when he steps into the swamp of despair.

There are indeed many commissions to find the ruins of the swamp, and there are even some royal families of the principality of Charobin, and it is obvious that the royal family has coveted the treasures of these ancient ruins for a long time.

"Are you interested in that ruin, too?" a man's voice sounded behind Gaia, apparently the words of some adventurer.

"It's not about being interested, it's about having to find it. Gaia didn't look back either, continuing to look for a more satisfying commission in the list.

Gaia checked the list of commissions naturally not to accept commissions, but to find a team of adventurers who might help him find the ruins, this desperate swamp will be shrouded in some swamp from time to time, Gaia wants to rely on flying to find it is impossible, and in the case of the parchment scroll does not specify the specific location, he can only rely on those adventurers who are familiar with the terrain and experienced.

"Would you believe that I had seen that ruin before?" the man continued.

Gaia only turned around at this time, looked at the adventurer in front of him seriously, and then said to the burly man who was about thirty years old: "It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, I need a team that is familiar with the Swamp of Despair." ”

"Then joining our Essen adventure team is your best bet. The man said with a smile, as he deliberately took out a map scroll that he had drawn from his armor, opened it with one hand, and then placed it in front of Gaia, and continued, "This map has taken me nearly five years to draw, and although I dare not say that it has covered the entire Swamp of Despair, there are some obvious topographical generalizations on the outside, in the middle, and even in the untouched interior. ”

Gaia didn't expect this person to be so professional, and he took the map scroll at the moment, and compared it with some rough drawings on the parchment scroll with his memory, and found that the hand-drawn map in the man's hand was indeed much more detailed.

"How many of you are there, and what is the average strength?" asked Gaia. Gaia also believed this man a little bit on this handmade map alone, and before coming to the Adventurers' Guild, he also bought some crude Despair Swamp maps that circulated among adventurers, and those maps obviously didn't have much effect on him, and the map in this man's hand was really fine.

"There are a total of six people, including you and me, I am a second-order great swordsman, and the others are also up and down the first and second orders, our team intends to accept the commission of the Royal Family of Laike, this commission can get a very good reward as long as we provide enough clues, of course, if we can really find that place, the Duchy of Lake may invite our team to enter their royal family, and maybe we can also get a knighthood. The man said.

"Yes. Gaia nodded, if the average strength of this team is around the Great Swordsman, it should barely have the ability to protect itself, as long as he doesn't take him off and retreat.

If you reach a high level of strength, you can serve the nobles, and if you want to enter the royal family, it is impossible to have no great swordsman level, but even if the great swordsman does not have a title, his status is not high, at most he can be a guard who has no worries about food and clothing, many people still don't like this kind of restrained and low status, so they still choose to be an adventurer.

Although adventurers are more common with low strength, the average strength of some adventure teams that accept huge commissions is also quite amazing, and there is even an adventure team composed of saint-level powerhouses in the Eden Adventure Guild, this adventure royal team is some strong people who like to live unrestrained, and the adventure places they choose are also some such as the S area of the Warcraft Mountain Range, the depths of the Death Canyon, and the center of the terrible forest. Dragon Abyss, etc., and those high-level magic tools were also brought out by saint-level adventurers from these places where they might have hidden heavy treasures.

"My name is Essen, the captain of this adventure party, and you are welcome to join us. Essen shook Gaia's hand amicably.

"Lauren. Gaia said the name lightly. The word 'Gaia' is definitely not used, and the first of the three sinful youths, although it is not certain whether the news reached the city of Randiga, but in order to avoid some trouble, he still uses a fake name. Of course, this is not actually a fake name, it should be regarded as Gaia's real surname.

"Then what else do you need to prepare, the five of us are already ready to go, if it weren't for that guy's sudden emergency, we would already be in the middle of the Swamp of Despair at this time. Essen said.

"Tomorrow morning, if you can. Gaia said. It's getting dark now, and after two days of continuous flight, Gaia also needs to rest for a night to adjust.

"Great, let's leave early tomorrow morning, oh, if you don't have any plans now, I can take you to the inn to meet our other companions. ”

"Yes. ”

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Said to meet the others, Gaia probably said hello to them and then went back to his room to meditate, the decline of the breath of life made the mana in his body consume very quickly, and no matter how he cultivated during this time, the magic cyclone would not have any expansion, and even the secondary cyclone that had reached the standard of a second-order great mage showed signs of extremely slow recovery of mana.

Similarly, after using the artifact, Gaia's body was overloaded, and there was also an obvious obstacle to the condensation and release of the fighting spirit, and there was always a feeling of depression that could not exert all his strength

After flying for two days, it consumed Gaia's fifth-layer mana and third-layer Dou Qi, if it was in the past, one night's meditation could restore these five layers of mana to about eight layers, but now it has only recovered to six layers, and the Dou Qi has not fully recovered.

As soon as the sun rose, Gaia entered the basic two lost sleep periods, and when he woke up, the rest of the team began to pack up their things and plan to go.

Gaia has a space ring, so he doesn't need to bring anything, and even he, a magician, doesn't even like to use a magic wand, just like that, he wears a magic robe, and he doesn't need to take anything and follow the team slowly.

The captain of this adventure team, Essen, was also a swordsman, and Midira, who wielded a large sword, was a man who was more than two meters tall, and the large sword was nearly two meters long. Omar, who holds a short sword, himself boasts that he once had been a killer and specialized in accepting some assassination commissions, and Chuli, who uses a sword, is a nobleman who has come out to practice, and the whole person looks polite, more in line with the size of a magician.

The last one is a female swordsman, named Fei Man, this female swordsman is about twenty-five years old, and her appearance is not bad, but she can't be called a beauty, of course, the most noteworthy thing is the moving figure, it seems that most of the women who cultivate fighting spirit are very good in figure, especially under the modification of a close-fitting short armor, the plump buttocks and thin waist always make these adventurers who have been in the bloody slaughter for a long time want to be in trouble.

The swordswoman Fei Man is the sister of Captain Essen, and from the jokes of others, it is clear that if anyone dares to attack Fei Man's idea, Captain Essen will break his leg.

"Essen, you don't even know what level of magician he is, why did you let him join us?" the female swordsman Fei Man didn't seem to have a habit of calling Essen her brother, she glanced back at Gaia, who was following the group, and whispered.

"Don't you believe my vision, have you seen those rings on his hands, I'm sure they are all B-level or above appliances, such a person, do you think the strength may be low?" Esen never asked about Gaia's strength, the reason why he was so relieved to let him join was naturally to see him wearing, although this young man's magic robe was not gorgeous, but the necklace and ring were all things that these adventurers had never seen, and they dared to break into the swamp of despair alone with such a heavy treasure, how could the strength be low.

In fact, Essen had been paying attention to this young man's expression when he was talking to Gaia before, especially when Essen said that he was a great swordsman, Essen could accurately judge that this young man's eyes did not show much dismay, it seemed that the great swordsman was nothing to him at all, which also made Essen more sure that this young man's strength was extraordinary.

"But this magician is too arrogant to take anything with him, and I see how he would have left this swampy land without us. "The female swordsman Fei Man mainly didn't like the pride of this magician, after all, the other swordsmen, including her, were carrying heavy packages, but that guy was so laid-back.

"Don't worry about that, he is a magician after all, and his physical strength is definitely not as good as ours. "Ethan didn't have much disgust with Gaia, in his opinion, this magician was not that impetuous, but very urban, and he should not be the kind of student who was just starting out in the magic academy.

The exterior of the Swamp of Despair was already muddy, and the dark green moss and gray algae covered the entire land, and the rotten and broken branches floated on some of the mud pools, and as far as the eye could see, it was a desolate sight, with the occasional swamp creature wriggling in the mud, and some vultures hovering the always oppressive canopy, looking for some rotting corpses, and occasionally making an unpleasant high-pitched chirping.

There aren't many creatures in the swamp, but there are quite a few of them, and this hard-to-reach place for humans is already a paradise for these creatures who prefer dark and damp life, and if other aliens break in, they will not hesitate to attack.

The creatures outside the Swamp of Despair were not much of a threat to their team, but even with their boots in them, it was very troublesome to walk on such a land, and it only took about a day for several swordsmen's shoes to be covered in a thick layer of mud and had to be dragged down and washed in a pond.