Volume 16 Chapter 104 Investigation

Chapter 104 Investigation

"I'm afraid this is a bit difficult!" Ashford's answer completely exceeded my expectations.

"A bit difficult? What's the difficulty?"

"This...!" After hesitating for a while, Ashford continued: "She suddenly disappeared after you were killed by Venus."

"disappear?"

"Yes. After those guys who you said were some high-level gods showed up by borrowing the bodies of you and your demon pet, then Venus was surrounded by them, and then disappeared without knowing why, leaving only The blue light and shadow outside was taken away by those guys. I don’t know what’s behind it yet, so don’t be too nervous. Maybe she just died, maybe she has been resurrected and returned. Maybe among the British and French coalition forces."

"I understand." Although Venus is the most beautiful woman in Europe, she is not very attractive to people like Ashford. In this kind of battle, it is naturally impossible for Ashford to call in spies. Follow her whereabouts online. "Now I have helped you raise the city, and I have also reinforced the perimeter. You should be able to deal with the British and French forces outside, right?"

"There should be no problem. What? Are you leaving again?"

I nodded. "That's right. But I need you to help me check the whereabouts of Venus. If you have any news, tell Rose and ask her to contact me at any time using the ring of love."

"no problem."

"Then I'll leave first. Please work harder here!"

After restoring various attributes in Iron Cross City, I flew directly over the battlefield. With the help of flying birds, I didn't have to worry about being intercepted. As long as I don't stop, no one can catch me. Ashford just spent a short period of time asking those spies mixed in the British and French forces to help check the whereabouts of Venus. According to the intelligence, Venus has not appeared on the battlefield since that disappearance, but in addition A message indicates that she is probably in a place called the Loire Gorge in France. In addition, from the feedback from Ashford's spies, we learned that the state that Venus used to attack me was not her personal skill, but a combined spell that needed to be activated with the help of a magic circle, and it seemed to be activated once The consumption is still very large. Later, the news that Venus might be in the Lure Canyon was because the magic circle to summon the high-level god of worship requires a special product of the Lure Canyon, so Venus is now taking people there to collect this kind of thing. .

After the news was confirmed, I flew directly out of Iron Cross City and left the teleportation suppression area, then teleported to Tianyu City and then transferred to France. After arriving here, I first chose to teleport to Paris, then used camouflage to hide my equipment and appearance and sneaked into the city library. The purpose of coming here is to find the Lure Canyon. Although the maps in the game are roughly based on the real world, they are still very different in topography, and except for a few historical cities, most of the place names have been changed, so the Lure Canyon The name is almost impossible to find on the real map of France. The only way to determine this kind of place name is the in-game map, and the Paris Library is the only place where you can find a detailed map of France.

As a top player in the game, I not only have combat prowess, but I am also outstanding in completing tasks. If most people knew the name of such a place, they would probably have to spend a long time looking around for the place, and then find it bit by bit, but I know that there is actually ready-made information in the library. What? Do you think other people would not be so stupid as not to go to the library to find a map? Then let me tell you, it’s not that others are stupid, it’s that others can’t find it. Do you think the library in the game is open to everyone? Even if it is open, can you, an ordinary person, access all the information including hidden skills? That's dreaming. If you want to find these things that others can't find, you have to use some extraordinary means, and this extraordinary means is...

"Be careful when you go in. Don't talk to anyone. If you can't hide, just say it's my relative. I'm sick, so you'll take over. The thing you're looking for is... pay attention to these things, do you understand? "An NPC manager in the library explained the precautions while exchanging clothes with me. We didn't know each other a few minutes ago. The reason why we entered the current state so quickly is because of three reasons: Silver Moon The demonic charm of the trumpet, a high priest certificate from the Temple of Light and... a heavy bag of crystal coins. Of course, the most important thing is the last one.

I didn’t come to Paris to fight, so I changed to the trumpet Silver Moon in advance to take care of things. With Silver Moon's monster-level charm value, almost all intelligent creatures with intelligence reaching more than half of the human average and no serious mental illness are immune to my charm. Although they may not necessarily obey my words, at least they will be very convenient to communicate with. In addition, due to my "good relationship" with the two current goddesses of light, it was easy for me to obtain a high priest certificate. Although players don't care about this thing at all, it is almost impossible for NPCs in the light camp to ignore the existence of this thing. As for the last bag of crystal coins, although it was the most important thing to the administrator, it was the easiest to solve for me.

Wearing the clothes of the administrator just now, I walked to the inventory area of ​​the library. Large libraries generally do not have only one set of books. One set will be placed in the reading area outside for everyone to borrow, while the other set will be stored in a warehouse-like area at the back specifically for backup use, and some are very special. Treasured and important unique copies or confidential information will only appear in the inventory area instead of the reading area.

Contrary to what the administrator told me, I didn't walk back pretending to be a thief. Instead, I looked around like a bumpkin from the country, and sighed from time to time. Due to my outstanding performance, of course people passing by would notice me, but most people did not take the initiative to communicate with me. Of course, no one came to stop me from going deeper, because ordinary people's habitual thinking would consider such a blatant thing. People are definitely not people with nefarious intentions. Although the idiom "Being a thief with a guilty conscience" is an idiom invented by the Chinese, it is also the consistent thought of most people in Europe. But I just want to be a thief with a guilty conscience.

When I was about to reach the important information area, I finally found a few guards here. In a real fight, these NPCs were no match for me. The guards at level 1,200 can only deal with ordinary players with one sword. If they don't deal with me, there won't be 1 or 200 people who are probably strong enough. But I'm here to look up information, and I don't want to alarm the forces here. Why is it that the Anglo-French alliance is still at war with the Germans? To the French, I, the number one ally of the Iron Crusaders, am a friend of the enemy, so I am also their enemy. Although I have a good relationship with the temple, it is not something that can be brought to the table, so I can't blatantly use their power to enter here. Besides, it's not worth the effort. I have already checked out the information when I have time to go to the temple for help.

Those guards are obviously guarding here every day, and there are not many people in the back-step inventory area, so they all know each other. When they see me, a stranger, walking over looking around, their eyes naturally start to follow me from a distance. I moved. Of course I had noticed their gazes a long time ago, but I was not afraid. I completely pretended that they didn't exist, and still kept looking around and swaying forward. Suddenly I saw one of the knights move. It was obvious that he was planning to come up and question me. After all, they were guards, not staff. Even if they didn't think I was a bad guy, they couldn't turn a blind eye to me. However, I moved before him. Just before he was about to come up and question me, I stopped in front of him at a faster speed. The knight was a little confused about me taking the initiative to come up to him. Of course, this made him think that I was not a bad person, because usually when people with evil intentions saw them, they would either dodge immediately or start fighting or try to hide them, but this behavior of taking the initiative to come up to me It is obviously inconsistent with those three situations.

"Um..." I asked in a low voice: "Excuse me, where is the map room? I am Uncle Figo's nephew. My uncle was a little unwell today, so he went back first. He asked me to stay here for him for a day. But just now Someone broke the map book, and the administrator asked me to take a copy of the damaged page of the map to the reading area, but I don’t know the road behind it. Can you help me?” After asking the question, I Immediately locking his eyes with the knight's eyes, the guy immediately entered the "good guy" mode, very enthusiastically helped me point out the direction, and specially sent me through the first corner before returning to his post, dragging this guy's luck Not only did I find the map storage place quickly, but I even passed the gatekeeper easily because they saw this knight talking to me at the first turn. If you were a security guard in a company, and you just saw an unknown person having a warm conversation with your security captain, and then this person walked past you, would you want to go up and check on him? Obviously not! Although not everyone can enter the library, it is not a super confidential unit. The so-called door guards are just a decoration to guard against gentlemen and villains. Naturally, they themselves are not too serious.

After successfully blending into the map area, I started looking for maps. Because there was a detailed catalog to check, I quickly found the map I needed. After marking the destination on my player map, I restored the entire map, but when I played back the map, I unexpectedly discovered something very interesting.

"Oh? There is such a thing? Hehe, it seems I have time to go and take a look." He made a copy of the 'insert' page sandwiched in the side of a very old map, and then put the original copy He put it back in place and carefully left the map area. When I came out, I passed by the knight who helped me show the way. I thanked him again. This guy also responded to me enthusiastically. If he knew that the guy in front of him had just peeked at something he shouldn't have seen, he wouldn't know. What will you think in your heart?

After changing back into my clothes at the administrator who I bribed, I left the library smoothly. Now that you have the map, the rest is easy. Teleport directly to a small city closest to the Lure Canyon. After leaving the city limits, he quickly changed back to the large character Ziri and rode Yeying towards the canyon.

Before, I really didn’t expect that this so-called Lure Canyon was actually a gathering place for the undead. From a distance, I noticed that the sky began to gradually darken. Finally, by the time I actually reached the entrance of the canyon, the sky had turned as dark as night. Now the brightness here can only be compared with that of a night with strong moonlight, but unlike the silver moonlight, the light here is a dark diffuse light that has been refracted many times and will not cast any The shadows just feel like they are equally dark in all directions.

After passing through the outer forest area, the mouth of the canyon appeared in front of me, but this place is the swamp area that I hate the most. It's impossible to tell which is the puddle and which is the road on the dark green ground. Anyway, you will fall if you are not careful. Fortunately, shadows can fly at night, and the road is not a problem for me, mainly in this kind of place. Once there is a fight with monsters, there will definitely be mud flying all over the place, and I really don’t like getting myself covered in mud.

I summoned Rose Vine and Pioneer and let them sneak into the mud to help me detect the threats under the mud, while I rode Night Shadow suspended an inch above the ground to search forward. The flowing characteristics of the swamp mean that there are no traces at the scene for me to refer to. Even if someone walks through here, the mud will quickly smooth out the footprints and other things. Even if someone drops something to mark the ground, there will be no trace in the end. It will sink into the mire and disappear completely.

"Rose Vine. Can you sense an enemy nearby?"

"No." Rose Vine's answer during the telepathic contact was very simple.

"Then continue the search."

Since the vibration of the rose vine cannot sense the presence of the enemy, it means that the enemy should not be in a relatively close place, but this cannot be completely guaranteed. Mud, a special medium, has worse vibration absorption properties than hard soil and soft water. This semi-dry and semi-dry thing can consume vibration energy within a short distance, so rely on vibration Induction can only detect relatively close targets. As for visual reconnaissance... do you think the swamp is really a flat plain? Weeds as tall as a person and various weird plants grow together here. Except for some places that look like roads but are actually mud puddles, there is almost no open space.

"Half Moon." With a thought, the two Half Moons immediately separated from the ring of commandments and flew to my left and right sides respectively. Under my control, Ban Yue first landed less than an inch above the ground, and then the blade moved outward and rotated at high speed with me as the center. The two half-moons were spinning around me like a lawn mower, cutting off all the plants blocking the road. This made the area around me completely empty, and at least it would be much more convenient when I came out.

Not too far forward, the rose vine reported the discovery of undead creatures, and then I saw a green furry zombie appearing not far away. This kind of disgusting things are very common in the swamp, and what's more disgusting is that these things are not necessarily generated by the system. Now "Zero" has a new feature, that is, if the player dies in a dark place, his body will not gradually sink into the ground and be refreshed like in other places, but will turn into a zombie according to the damage. Or skeletons, or even become high-level undead such as ghosts, and there is another very interesting thing here, that is, if you hang up in such a place once and explode a certain piece of equipment and it happens not to be picked up by anyone, then Your equipment will be used by the zombies or skeletons that your corpse turns into. If you can run back quickly after resurrection to find the undead you turned into and kill him, then your exploded equipment will There is a 100% chance of falling out of this zombie or skeleton.

In fact, this interesting situation was not discovered by me, but by a very lucky Dutch player. The lucky guy casually killed a wandering low-level zombie on the edge of an undead gathering area, but the zombie revealed more than ten high-level equipment. It turns out that this zombie was a famous player. After hanging up here, most of his equipment exploded. Then this guy's body was resurrected as a zombie, and he brought a set of top-notch equipment. As a result, he was killed by a very low-level player. Players took advantage. Later, this player posted this matter on the forum with the title of exploding a bunch of high-quality equipment with low-level equipment, but at the time, no one believed that such a thing happened. After all, even if you were lucky enough to encounter low-level monsters and exploding high-end equipment, you shouldn't do it in sets. However, since this kind of thing happened one after another around the world, some people gradually discovered the truth and reported it. Later, after some good people publicized it, it became an interesting setting that most people know.

I was just thinking about this when I saw the zombie in front of me being tied up with more than a dozen rattan sticks sticking out from the mud. Then with a bang, the rattans spread out one after another, and the zombie was torn into more than a dozen pieces and scattered in a big place. in an area. This is my request. Because I didn’t want to get stuck in the mud, I asked Rose Vine and Pioneer to kill all the monsters they might encounter at a certain distance from me, so that I didn’t have to take action myself. But what surprised me was that as the zombies in front of me were torn apart, a piece of equipment actually fell in front of me. Could it be that this was also changed by a certain player?

"Rose Vine." I just shouted Rose Vine and the thing rolled up in front of me with understanding. He also shook off all the mud from a distance before handing it over to me.

I took the thing and checked it, and it turned out exactly as I thought. This is a pretty good piece of equipment, definitely not something that this low-level zombie can explode, so this zombie must have been an unlucky player before. Holding this equipment, I suddenly found that this thing seemed a bit familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere before. After carefully recalling the acting, I suddenly remembered it. Isn't this the equipment of a guy in Venus' personal guard? Due to the beauty of Venus, there is always a group of male players with strong secretion of hormones gathered around him. Although these people are not an organized group of people, it is customary for everyone to regard them as Venus's bodyguards. , and in fact they can play some role. The main reason why these guys didn't show their faces in previous interactions with me was because they were blown away by the air current caused by my fight with the crow as soon as they appeared. These people are ordinary people in Europe. The real masters either directly pursue Venus like the Holy Fire and the Crow, or they have little interest in Venus and cannot be reduced to acting as personal guards. At that time, Crow and I were fighting. Both sides knew the level of the other side, so they were naturally firing at full strength during the battle. The damage output looked like a normal burst of strength to both of us, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it was like a storm. However, although those people were blown away by my battle with the crow as soon as they appeared, I still left some impression on this equipment, because the shape of this thing is so unique. This is a large golden ring, about one meter in diameter and about an inch wide. The ring was carried on the back of one of the guys. Because of its bright color and the rarity of this thing, it left some impression on me.

Now it seems that if that guy hadn't been blown away as soon as he came up, he would have been able to defeat me a few times with this thing, because this ring is called: Ring of Power. The attribute of this thing is that it allows the user to temporarily copy the entire strength of an opponent. Of course, this strength does not include summons and clones, but only the entire strength of the opponent's body. In other words, if that guy used this thing on me at that time, he could at least maintain the combat effectiveness when I was not summoning the summons before the magic power was exhausted. However, all he can copy are the attributes recognized by the game. Considering that I have received professional training and know some combat skills, even if he has the same attributes as me, he is still no match for me.

Now that this guy's identity has been confirmed, it means that Venus and the others should be nearby. At least they passed through here. Although the undead creature resurrected from the player's corpse will wander around, it will not leave the place of death too far, so it should die nearby. However, corpse resurrection usually does not take effect immediately. There is about an hour's interval during this period, so this guy has been dead for at least more than an hour. It seems that when I was summoned by Pangu and the others for questioning, this guy should have already been searching for that special item here.

As we continued forward, the canyon suddenly became wider. The canyons in "Zero" seem to be similar. They all have narrow exits and large interiors, and this one is no exception. Inside the canyon there is not only a large swamp but also a large dark forest. This kind of jungle is composed of very strange trees. This kind of tree looks black on the outside, and feels like a severely rotten dead wood. But in fact, this tree is not rotten at all, but is just the way it is naturally. In addition, this kind of tree generally does not grow straight upward. Instead, it likes to twist and grow in various directions and at various angles. In the end, it always grows into some very scary shapes. It does not look like some kind of monster. Its claws look like an open mouth, and the shape is extremely scary. Of course, trees are trees, that hasn't changed, and they don't do any actual harm other than being scary. However, this kind of forest is still not a good place for ordinary players, because this kind of forest is often a gathering place for advanced dark creatures. In addition to the greatly increased probability of the appearance of various strange skeletons and zombies, you can also encounter undead knights. Or something like a ghost, it wouldn't be surprising if you were lucky enough to encounter a big lich.

"Master, found the target."

The pioneer who had been wandering far away suddenly sent an enemy signal. I immediately ordered him not to disturb the enemy, but to carefully lurk near the enemy and observe. After the Pioneer confirmed the order, I immediately directed Rose Vine and Night Shadow to move towards the Pioneer's location. It wasn't until I arrived at the location of the pioneers that I realized that we were actually not that far away from Venus and the others. It was just that there happened to be a large swamp pond between us, so we had to go around in a big circle to reach them.

The weeds that I had always considered a nuisance brought me great benefits at this time, because it was so easy to hide myself in this kind of place, but the only thing that made me very dissatisfied was that I finally I had to step into a mud puddle! There is no way. Ye Ying, who usually looks very tall and handsome, is really not suitable for lurking missions. Riding on him is too high. The enemy only needs to turn his head slightly to see me, who is taller than a weed. So It was so far away that I had to come down and walk. After walking in and out of the mud to get close to them, I found a decent place to get my hands on and squatted there. Through the long weeds, I could see Venus carrying dozens of people. A player and hundreds of NPCs are cutting down trees there. Yes, they were cutting down a tree, and it was a very strange tree. This kind of tree looks similar to the strange tree in the dark forest, but if you look closely, you will find that the trunk of this tree is relatively thicker, and the trunk is darker than that kind of strange tree.

After a while, I watched several of them chop down one of these trees. Then, instead of collecting the wood, they went up and completely split the trees, and dug out a blood-red color from inside the trunk. It looks like briquettes. I guess this blood-red "briquette" is the specialty they talk about, but I really don't know what the use of this thing is. Have you never heard that the products from this strange tree can be used to summon high-level attendant gods? Anyway I decided to continue tracking. Although it is not a troublesome thing to kill these people, I don't want to kill them, but I want to know their method of summoning the high-level god of worship and permanently solve this problem. Just killing them once or twice is not a permanent solution.

Venus was currently sitting on a shelf carried by eight people. Apparently she also hated falling into the mud puddle. After all, not many beauties like to make themselves look like a mud monkey. Except for the person carrying her, the people standing nearby were all players, and they seemed to be the personal guards with excessive hormone levels. The people on the outside are all ordinary players, and it seems that most of them are auxiliary professions, and they should be practicing gathering skills and the like. Those who chop down trees are basically NPCs. It seems that they are not professional workers but part-time combat NPCs. After all, it is not easy for ordinary people to survive in this kind of place except for people like me who have higher dark attributes than undead. Therefore, if we don’t bring more combat personnel, we will definitely not be able to get here with just the guards. At least they couldn't make low-level skeletons and zombies completely ignore my existence like I did.

In fact, apart from causing me a lot of trouble, my dark attribute is not completely useless. At least in this place, the dark attribute is still very advantageous. Since my dark attribute is very strong, the undead creatures that should be actively attacking will become passive aggressive when around me. That is to say, unless those undead are responsible for guarding something, usually I will attack them from the side. Whenever I walk by the undead, they act as if they don't see me and are busy with their own business. As long as I don't attack them, they won't show any interest in me.

It seemed that Venus and the others needed a lot of this kind of stuff, because I had been squatting there for at least half an hour and they actually had no intention of leaving and were still frantically collecting that kind of "briquettes."

"No, guarding like this is not an option!" I thought for a while and summoned the second generation and the king to come out. Most female characters are afraid of getting dirty, so it's better not to ask for their help in a place full of mud. The two male familiars did not react at all to the mud environment. They just looked down and stopped talking. I whispered to them: "Did you see what those people collected?"

The king and the second nodded together. "I saw it."

"You two go around to a farther place and help me collect some. It doesn't need to be too much, just a few. I just use it to study what it is, so don't want too many. Be careful with your movements and try not to let them Discover your existence."

"Understood." The two people nodded and then quickly made a big detour from behind to 'touch' the other side of the woodland. Due to the obstruction of the grass, I soon lost sight of them, but at their level, they were in this kind of situation. The area shouldn't be too much of a problem.

After continuing to observe the situation for a while, the king and the second came back, but it was completely different from the clean situation when they left. Now these two guys are almost like mud monkeys. "This is what you want." The king stretched out his hand and handed over two "briquettes."

I carefully took the thing and used my expert identification skills to identify it, and the properties displayed exceeded my expectations. This is actually a kind of feed. "Dark rotten wood core: The product of the mutation of the internal tissue of dark rotten wood. It is a very high-end Warcraft feed, which is helpful for the recovery speed of Warcraft's magic power. (It is not effective for higher intelligent creatures)" This is all about this kind of thing The attributes were introduced, but I didn't understand the relationship between this thing and the summoning array at all.

Seeing Venus and the others collecting this "briquette" with gusto, I really don't know if I should interrupt them. If I didn't interrupt, I don't know how long they would collect it, but my experience points would be dropping every minute! But if I interrupt their process and don't collect enough materials, they will have to do it again before they can start preparing for that ritual. Wouldn't I be even more at a loss?

While I was hesitating, everyone on the Venus side suddenly turned around, making me think I was exposed! But I soon realized that the problem was not with me, because the other person's gaze was obviously much higher than mine. I suddenly realized that they were actually looking behind me. I quickly turned around, only to see nine huge heads standing not far behind me, staring at me.

"Damn, Swamp Hydra!" This thing is a specialty of the swamp. There are a lot of them, and its strength is not low. In addition to not being able to fly or amplify large magic, it can basically fight against giant dragons, and this thing is also There is a very annoying characteristic - mental retardation! Hydra has no brains and cannot distinguish the scent of its prey at all. Although it has nine heads, their intelligence has been reduced to the point where they only have a stress response, which has caused the collapse of many people who do not want to encounter it. Bad luck, because as long as Hydra is smart enough, it will not attack a powerful enemy like us, but this guy is an idiot.

In fact, the nine heads of Hydra are not low in intelligence, but their overall behavior is very stupid. This may be just like human society. Everyone's intelligence is indeed high, but once you rise to the level of a country, many seemingly simple things will become very complicated. This is the situation of Hydra. Because the opinions and ideas of the nine heads are not unified, and no one head has an absolute dominant position, the actions are very restricted. Otherwise, with the strength of this guy, he will never be reduced to nothing. Enter the monster area.

Now the action of this Hydra obviously regarded me as its target, but Venus and the others did not see me, but because the size of the Hydra was so big, they discovered the Hydra first, But in this case, I will definitely be exposed once I start fighting. Really, this happened! I reluctantly pulled down the helmet visor and activated the fully enclosed mode of the Magic Dragon Suit. Since this equipment can be used as a diving suit in the sea, it should also be suitable for use in the mud. After completing the sealing work, I immediately hugged myself into a ball. The surrounding mud suddenly exploded upwards. The pioneer's big mouth came out from under the ground and enveloped me completely in his big mouth, and then quickly disappeared. In the mud. This is the strategy I came up with. Let the Trailblazer take me in his mouth and scurry away beneath the ground. If Hydra catches up, then I just need to wait until I'm far enough away and then come out and kill Hydra. If Hydra doesn't chase me but looks for trouble with Venus and the others, then I can circle back. Just watch the excitement, anyway, both of these situations are much better than exposing my own whereabouts.

The intelligence of the Hydra in front of me is definitely not very high. After seeing me suddenly being swallowed by the pioneers, he naturally thought that I was eaten by another monster. Under other circumstances, he would have chased this person who robbed him of food. But today's situation is that there is still a lot of food, so Hydra did not chase us but directly crossed the grass where I was hiding and crawled towards Venus and the others.

"Disperse!" Venus's shout immediately reminded the players of the auxiliary professions, and they all hid in the woods behind them, while the combat NPCs who were cutting down the trees all ran back to block everyone. and between Hydra.

Hydra was not nervous about the ants in front of him changing positions. The eyes on one of his heads suddenly lit up, and everyone around Venus felt their feet sink, and then began to sink.

"It's a quagmire spell. Don't move everyone. Cast the spell quickly to dispel it." As a character who often brings a group of followers, Venus naturally becomes the commanding force in this situation. Moreover, she has With eight people carrying her, even if everyone fell into the mud, she would be the last one to sink, so she was the calmest in comparison.

The light of dispelling magic quickly lit up in the team, but another magic light also lit up on Hydra's side, and then everyone just felt as if someone suddenly appeared in their bodies and sank involuntarily.

"Damn, it's gravity. We won the lottery today!"

Generally speaking, Hydra will master ten kinds of magic, of which each head has a single magic, and then the nine heads can unite to use a compound magic. Of course, the prerequisite for the release of this magic is that all nine heads have it. Still hanging around his neck. Fortunately, Hydras usually lose a head or two in battles with normal humans, so very few Hydras get the chance to use that tenth magic. The single-series spells carried on the nine heads of Hydra are generally non-direct attack types, and these spells are very random. Very few two Hydras have exactly the same spells, so even if they are the same Hydra, At the same level, their combat capabilities are also vastly different. Venus and the others were extremely unlucky today, and they happened to meet a Hydra whose talents and magic matched each other. Mire spell is not a powerful spell in the first place, but in this place which is a swamp itself, its power will naturally increase significantly. In addition, he can also use gravity spell, which makes it even more depressing. Originally, a person standing alone in a mire would sink slowly. After being hit by the quagmire spell, the sinking would naturally be faster. Now that there is a gravity spell, the sinking would be even faster as the weight increases.

This time the dispelling spell appeared without Venus' reminder. Everyone felt light, but then everyone turned green. There is no need to shout this time, everyone knows that everyone is poisoned. The third innate magic of this Hydra is Poison Nova, and it is also a quick-acting spell. No one present can dodge it. Following this poison nova, the remaining spells of Hydra also arrived one after another. Light of Weakness, Aging, Fatigue, Halo of Slowness, Pale Sight, and Hammer of Vertigo, six consecutive spells hit everyone in less than a second, and then those people felt as if they were about to die.

Needless to say, the spell "Light of Weakness" will cause those who are affected by it to feel weak in their limbs. Physical combat professionals will be the most severely affected by it. The effect of aging is similar to that of weakness, but it will not only reduce your physical attributes, but also significantly reduce your health, magic and endurance. Moreover, this spell has a serious impact on speed, and will randomly temporarily make you Forget two spells or spell-like skills. Of course, players will not really forget these skills, you just can't use them temporarily. Since this random attribute is not very stable, it’s okay if you forget a useless skill that is not often used. If you draw a necessary skill, you can play it! The fatigue spell is similar to the previous two. It is also an attribute of the auxiliary weakening type. People who are hit by it will feel like they want to sleep. This will affect your movements to a certain extent, and the most troublesome thing is that this state will Seriously affects the spell user's spell casting success rate. The slow halo is relatively simple. Its attributes are just like its name. Anyone who is hit by it will become very slow. Of course, mages don't care much about this, but soldiers will be miserable. The spell Pale Sight is relatively unorthodox. The world seen by the victim will become the negative effect of a black and white film. In other words, the world you see after being struck is not only black and white but also inversely processed. In this state, people will feel very uncomfortable. Whether it is searching for targets or positioning in space, it will become very troublesome. It is better when fighting monsters. If you fight with people, you will probably mistake your own person due to line of sight problems. and enemies. The last dizzy hammer is more disgusting, it is a rather funny skill. It will generate a small hammer made of pure energy above the target, and then the hammer will move as you move and hit you every once in a while. This interval is a completely irregular random number. It may hit you sixty times in a minute, or it may not hit you once for an hour or two, and the effect after knocking is unstable. A more common situation is that after the hit, you will be dizzy for one to five seconds. During this process, you will feel that the whole world is spinning. Although you can still move, it is very difficult to even stand because your sense of direction is completely disabled. to things. In addition, if you are unlucky, it may also trigger another attribute of this dizzy hammer - shock. The probability of this effect occurring is about one in a thousand, but if it takes effect, the target will faint immediately. The recovery time will be more than ten minutes, during which he can only lie motionless.

So many strange skills hit individuals like raindrops, and as a result, even the dispersion spells of mages were interrupted. Only due to the interference of these negative attributes, all the dispersion spells of mages could not be released. Venus was about to take action herself, when she suddenly saw a shadow falling towards her. It turns out that Hydra's low intelligence is limited to normal times, but its fighting instincts are not much worse. When he dropped a string of spells just now, only Venus was fine, so he immediately made Venus his first target. When Venus saw the black shadow smashing down, she no longer cared about her image, and quickly jumped from the seat beneath her. The eight people carrying her and the shelf were all smashed to pieces by their heads.

After Venus got up and was covered in mud, she first looked at the black mud on her body with disgust, then angrily pulled out the long sword from her waist and rushed forward. Unlike what most people imagine, Venus is an all-around character who can do both melee and long range attacks. Like me, she also has more than one profession.

"Go to hell." Before the snake's head that smashed the seat could be raised, Venus jumped into the air and used the power of the fall to slash the Hydra's neck with a sword. However, the power of this sword was obvious. Not enough. Although the Hydra screamed and opened a huge wound, it was far from threatening the life of the Hydra. If I were to complete the same action, the Hydra would lose at least one head. .

Ouch... Along with the roar caused by pain, the Hydra suddenly flicked its neck. Venus lightly touched the snake's head, turned over in mid-air, and landed steadily on a large tree in the distance. On the tree, but before she could stand still, she saw the Hydra rushing up like crazy. She quickly jumped to another tree in the distance, and the Hydra jumped less than a second after she left. Time instantly shattered the big tree she was standing on just now.

"Dispel." While Hydra was chasing Venus, someone in the team behind finally used Dispel. As the white light exploded, many people felt a lightness on their bodies, and then the people who recovered began to arrive one after another. Use dispel to help others recover.

Venus jumped in the forest to dodge the violent attacks of Hydra, while Hydra rampaged through the forest like a main battle tank, carving out a passage made of broken wood and mud in the forest along the way.

"Go and help." Some of the recovered personnel reacted quickly and immediately organized everyone to chase after them. These people are known as Venus's personal guards, but in the end they asked Venus to attract the enemy to buy them time. This is really It's embarrassing enough. But they all know that they can take revenge this time, because although Hydra's innate skills are group attacks, they cannot be used continuously. As long as they survive the first round, they don't have to worry about being hit again. They would not be completely suppressed by Hydra in hand-to-hand combat alone.

While Venus and his gang were fighting with Hydra, I was sitting on a nearby big tree leisurely watching them working there. After the Trailblazer took me for a while, I found that Hydra had not caught up and immediately turned back. Now I am using the ability of the Phantom Cloak to remain invisible. Anyway, Hydra is busy with Weiner at the moment. They were fighting, and the people on the Venus side had no time to pay attention to their surroundings. Sitting here invisible like me didn't have to worry about being discovered.

Hydra saw an opportunity and grabbed a player of the Venus Guards in one bite. Then he was hit on the head and forced to spit out the player. However, the bite just now was not light. Although he was hit by He vomited it out, but the guy was obviously dying. The two NPCs quickly dragged the dying guy out, while the others quickly stepped on him. After finding an opportunity, Venus stretched a distance and threw out a powerful single-target magic, but was blocked by Hydra. This guy claims to be able to fight a giant dragon in hand-to-hand combat, so his magic defense cannot be lowered. Otherwise, why wouldn't he be beaten to death by the dragon's magic?

Seeing that the spell was ineffective, Venus quickly changed her strategy. She suddenly drew a long sword with red light from her back, and then rushed towards the Hydra. When the speed increased, she suddenly jumped up, and her whole body formed a ball in the air and spun continuously for more than n times. Then she suddenly stretched out and landed steadily on one of the heads of the Hydra in a beautiful posture like a goddess descending. superior. This perfect move made her bodyguards scream, but they were quickly interrupted by the furious Hydra. However, Venus was not just good at posing. As soon as she touched the Hydra's head, she immediately thrust her sword into the Hydra's forehead. I don’t know if there’s something weird about the sword or if the position of the Hydra is a weakness. The Hydra, which originally had a high defense, didn’t show any advantage in this attack. Venus pierced the head with the sword, and the entire sword was destroyed. The red long sword actually reached the hilt, and the entire blade was inserted into it. The sudden pain caused the Hydra to go into a frenzy. It roared angrily and shook its head wildly, but Venus had already calculated that he would definitely become violent, so he jumped out immediately after succeeding in the blow.

Although the head is the key point, Hydra has nine heads. Although the sudden blow caused extreme pain, it did not kill it. Except for the head that was hit by the sword, the entire Hydra drooped. The main body was not significantly affected. On the contrary, the pain stimulated Hydra's combat effectiveness. In just a few rounds, more than half of the people brought by Venus were reduced. However, their deaths were not in vain, at least now Nine-headed Snake. The head snake only has three heads left that can still move. But looking at the current situation, if nothing else happens, Hydra will win the final victory.

Originally, I was enjoying myself watching the excitement, but now I have to stop. "Really, a bunch of idiots, a Hydra was almost wiped out!" I shook my head helplessly, and then summoned Victoria. no way. I can't watch Venus and the others die here. I also hope to follow them to see how they summon the high-level gods. If they all die here, I will have to look for them everywhere, and there is no way. Well, their plans will be delayed. Maybe they don't care, but I'm more anxious than they are! My experience points have been lost...it's really heartbreaking! Now I have to help kill that Hydra, but it would be troublesome to expose my identity directly, so I can't come forward, so I need a long-range attacker, and preferably an auxiliary type.

"Master." Victoria stepped on the golden light magic circle and appeared next to me. However, due to the distance and the obstruction of the trees, Venus and the others could not see us.

I pointed at the huge Hydra in the distance. This guy was big enough for us to spot him from a long distance away. "see it?"

Victoria nodded. "Is that the goal?"

"Well, use your Wheel of Fortune to help them. It's best to weaken the Hydra and let them kill the Hydra."

"Understood." Victoria slowly raised the golden bow in her hand, and a golden arrow made of energy condensed quickly appeared in her hand. The huge ornate compass I had seen before appeared in front of Victoria again. Victoria's cold voice came: "The attributes of health and joy are cancelled. If you choose negative attributes, it may be improved. Go ahead, Arrow of Destiny." After speaking, Victoria's fingers loosened, and the golden arrow quickly hit the spinning arrow. In the center of the golden compass, the entire compass suddenly flashed, and a thicker beam of light directly hit the Hydra's body. Then, Hydra suddenly fell down with a wailing sound, and the huge body hit the ground with mud splashing, covering everyone in Venus' team.

Although they all turned into clay monkeys, Venus and the others did not have much energy to pay attention to their appearance at this time. What they were more concerned about now was the beam of light that had just knocked down the Hydra. The Hydra, which so many of them had paid more than half of their losses to severely damage, was actually killed by someone else in one blow. What kind of terrifying attack power was this? How could they not be nervous? But contrary to them, I took Victoria and talked about her while running. "Is there any mistake? I asked you to weaken Hydra. How come you were shot to death with one arrow?"

Victoria explained with an aggrieved look: "I didn't mean it! The Wheel of Fortune can't determine the attributes. I just excluded the two most unnecessary attributes, and there are four negative attributes. I didn't know that I would directly draw the death attribute! Once the death attribute takes effect, as long as the enemy's strength does not exceed five times my comprehensive strength, it will be directly obliterated. Although I am not a main combat type The personnel, but the overall strength is not low! That Hydra is not that strong, and it will not reach five times my strength. Is it normal to be directly wiped out!"

"Okay, okay, that's all I'm saying! Hey... your wheel of fortune is real. I usually hope that it will have a death attribute but it won't appear. Today, I want it to retain a little strength and it suddenly suddenly Fa Biao, there is really nothing we can do!”

Since we moved the place in time, Venus and the others were not able to discover who killed Hydra, but they still thought that this place was no longer suitable to stay, so they packed up their things and quickly left the canyon. Because I was afraid of being discovered, I waited until they came out before I dared to continue to follow. Moreover, this time I not only activated the phantom cloak, but also asked Ermenis to help me cover it up with illusions. I believe that anyone who can discover me in this state should not much.

After Venus and the others left the canyon, they did not waste any time on the road. Instead, they quickly ran to the nearest city to resupply some equipment, then sat down and teleported away. I used some small tricks to get their teleportation destination, and then teleported there. This time they arrived in a city I had never heard of before, but their target was obviously not in the city. When I found Venus and the others, they were already outside the city gate, and they had also added a large number of NPC mercenaries. However, the original auxiliary professionals in the team were gone. Obviously, auxiliaries were not needed for this mission. personnel.

I followed them all the way to a hill. This is obviously a leveling area, but since the European population itself is not very large, and many people from Britain and France are fighting with Ashford's Iron Crusaders in Germany, this area looks even more deserted. We only saw a dozen players practicing, and most of them were very low-level characters. We cannot rule out the possibility that they are all small players. I feel very strange that Venus and the others are running here. Normally there wouldn't be anything noteworthy in this low-level leveling area, but what on earth do they want to do after marching all the way here?

After continuing to follow for a while, they took me to a cave on the hill. Then Venus commanded the hired NPCs and his players to start rushing into the cave. I watched them enter the cave together from the outside, and then carefully sneaked to the entrance of the cave. After making sure that they had gone deep into the cave, I followed them in. The space in the cave is quite spacious compared to the narrow entrance, and the roof of the cave is not completely closed. There are small holes leading to the outside in many places, and beams of light shine down from those holes to form on the ground. It illuminated the cave one by one. After walking not far in, I first discovered broken bones on the ground. It seemed that these things should have been a few low-level skeletons before. I instantly thought of the zombie cave where I was leveling when I was very low. This kind of caves are found outside many cities, and are specially provided for low-level players to level up. The monster levels in them range from level 20 to level 500, and are divided into several layers. The lower the level, the higher the level. However, relatively For me now, even the highest level 500 undead here are still scum to me. But why are Venus and the others running here? Obviously they can't be here for leveling.

I couldn't figure out the reason, so I could only continue to follow them deeper into the interior. After advancing for a certain distance, the level of the undead creatures began to gradually increase. However, to Venus and the others, the monsters here were not enough of a threat at all, so their speed did not slow down at all. . After passing through several layers of caves and gradually going downwards, they killed various skeletons, zombies and even low-level undead knights along the way, and finally reached the bottom layer of caves. There is a Skeleton Lord here, but it is only the lowest level Bone Skeleton Lord, just level 500. He was killed by Venus' men after just one encounter.

I hid behind a stalagmite not far away and secretly observed their behavior. Sure enough, they ignored what the Skeleton Lord revealed, and ran deeper into the cave without even bothering to take a look at the treasure chest behind the Undead Lord's throne. To be honest, this cave is a bit strange. When I first came in, I observed this place and thought it was just the most ordinary cave of the dead. What I saw later was the same as I thought, but it was different when I got here. The general undead cave is either five or seven floors. When you reach the last floor, you will encounter an undead monarch. After killing him, you will have passed all the caves, and the last place where the undead monarch stood should be the cave. The deepest part of the cave, but this time the undead monarch also occupies an expanded part of the cave, but there is still a road behind his throne.

After watching Venus and the others enter the cave behind the throne, I did not follow them immediately. In order not to be discovered, I deliberately waited for them to enter for a while before following them, but what happened next made me completely dumbfounded.

"Where are the people?" Amynis, who had been following me to provide illusion cover, couldn't help but asked in a low voice.

After we chased into the passage behind the throne, we found that the passage only went two or three meters deep before suddenly turning a ninety-degree turn to the left, and then two or three meters further forward another ninety-degree turn to the right. After passing these two turns, what appeared in front of you was a cave about five or six square meters, but the problem was - there was no one there.

There are no obstacles in the small cave, and everything here can be scanned at a glance. There is a bed-like thing facing the entrance here, and some broken furniture is scattered around the edge of the cave. It seems that someone has lived in this place, but what I care about is not who lives here. People, but where are the Venus and the others who just came in? There are only a few pieces of furniture in the room. Even if they wanted to hide in the furniture, they wouldn't be able to fit so many people in, right? In the city just now, Venus's bodyguards gathered a group of players, and together with the NPC mercenaries they hired later, the total number has exceeded a hundred. There are so many people, not to mention hiding, they can fill up the cave just by standing in it, so it is impossible to hide. Then the only possibility is... the passage.

"Looking for it." A circle of my magic pets suddenly appeared around me. "Search this place thoroughly for me. There must be a passage hidden here."