Chapter 197 Tracking

() The black elves only had a conflict with the white elves, and were not hostile to all races in the world. Therefore, apart from the tense confrontation with the white elves, they still maintained normal communication with other races.

Thanks to the attitude of the black elves, Kristina and Persephone and I easily slipped into the underground world, or walked in swaggeringly. Anyway, except for the white elves, The black elves do not deliberately target any outsiders.

After entering the underground world, I found a place to summon Bailang, and then started scent tracking. However, things are far from as simple as imagined. ..

The entrance to the underground world here is the main entrance, which is equivalent to a main road. Because this is the main entrance, the flow of people coming and going is particularly large. When there are more people, the smell becomes chaotic. Even if Bai Lang's sense of smell is very developed, it is not an easy task to find the correct smell among such mixed smells.

"Can you smell it?" Kristina asked anxiously following Bailang.

Bailang sniffed hard, and then said: "I'm not sure now. The smell around here is really messy!"

Persephone said: "If it doesn't work, let's go to a little more trouble and search all the smells in all nearby branch passages. The hostages who were kidnapped must have gone through a certain passage. As long as they leave the main passage, the smell will be reduced a lot. You should be able to tell the difference.”

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"This is the only thing we can do now." I helplessly took Bailanghe Kristina and started to search for the side roads. After discovering that there was indeed no target for us to track on the first side road, I had to go back to the main trunk. The search continued, but the search speed one by one was really slow. We were so anxious behind but couldn't help at all.

After spending more than two hours, Kristina finally couldn't help but said: "I don't think we can do this!"

Persephone also agreed and said: "I don't think this will work either. The confrontation between the white elves and the black elves cannot last forever. Their war is about to break out. It doesn't matter if we find it slowly now, they are over there. Once the war starts, our mission will completely lose its meaning, so..."

I nodded and said, "I understand what you said, but what else can we do now besides this?"

"Don't you know how to summon the undead? See if there are any ghosts nearby. How about asking one of them?" Kristina suddenly asked.

I shook my head helplessly and said, "I've thought of your method a long time ago. I've seen it all along the way, and there are no sleeping undead at all."

"Then how about we try using prophecy?" Persephone suddenly asked.

"Do you still know prophecy?" Kristina looked at Persephone in surprise.

"Are you sure you heard what I said?" Persephone asked, "It's just a prophecy, not a great prophecy."

Although there is only one word difference between the names of prophecy and great prophecy, they are two completely different magics. Many people think that great prophecy is an advanced magic of prophecy, similar to fireball and big fireball. However, in fact, these are two completely unrelated magics.

Divination is a kind of time and space magic that allows you to know what happened in the future, present and past. Don't use prophecy just to predict the future. In fact, in the past, it could also be read using prophecy. Moreover, compared to the future, prophecy is actually better at reading what is happening in the past or now. After all, the future is something that has not yet been determined, and the past and present are already determined, so the future is not that good. predicted. And even if it is predicted, it is only a possible future, not a guarantee that it will happen.

If we exclude the principles and only look at the results, we can basically regard prophecy as a kind of magic for obtaining information. Use it to know something you didn't know before, whether it happened in the past or will happen in the future.

Compared with prophecy, great prophecy is a complete law-based ability. Although the Great Prophecy is a magic skill, this skill is a law-based ability that uses a large number of laws.

It's the exact opposite of divination, which detects things and passes the information to the caster. The Greater Divination spell is a message to the caster. The magic then makes things appear as they appear in the message.

Give a simple example. If you use prophecy on the color of underwear that a classmate will wear tomorrow, then you will know what color underwear he or she will wear tomorrow. And if you use the great prophecy technique, the other party will wear underwear of the color you specified tomorrow. This is the difference between the two. The effect is completely different, and the function is completely reversed. It is precisely because of the huge difference in power between the two that Persephone wanted to ask Kristina whether she interpreted her words as a great prophecy. After all, the great prophecy is a skill that requires a certain price for the gods to complete. spells, while prophecy is relatively simple.

Kristina really heard the name wrongly. When she heard Persephone say this, she suddenly realized: "It turns out I heard wrongly. I was shocked! But prophecy is not a simple spell. Although you are a god, you can It’s a cross-regional event now, so it seems like you can’t fully unleash your magical power, right?”

Although Persephone was able to leave the guild territory this time because she obtained the guild action order, due to the system's consistent restrictions on the movement of the gods out of their place of residence, Persephone's abilities were still limited. Partly, of course, compared to the local gods, Persephone, who is a guild god, is subject to much smaller restrictions. Moreover, it is a big deal for the local protoss to come out. Relatively speaking, for the guild protoss to leave the guild station, all it takes is the main god of the protoss to issue a passage order. The procedures are really simple.

Persephone said to us: "Don't worry. Although the ability is partially suppressed, the proportion is very low, and I am only predicting what has happened, not predicting the future, so the difficulty is much lower."

I thought for a while and said: "In this way, the success rate will indeed be much higher, but we don't need to work so hard this time. You can lower the difficulty a little more. Don't directly predict where the other party is now, just predict which direction there will be small white stocks." It’s enough for the elves to gather together.”

Although prophecy and great prophecy are two completely unrelated spells, these two spells do have one thing in common, that is, the more vague the information involved and the larger the scope, the less difficult it is to complete the spell. On the contrary, your requirements The more precise it is, the more difficult the spell is and the easier it is to fail.

If you directly predict the location of the target person, it is definitely more difficult than predicting the general direction of the elves, so I decided to let Persephone just predict the direction.

Persephone finally listened to our suggestions and made a simple prediction. Since the prediction was based on what had already happened, and the requirements were not precise, the difficulty was reduced a lot, and it only took more than ten seconds of magic to complete it. , and the results are quite good.

The information given by the prophecy shows that there are two groups of white elves nearby, with different directions, but one of them is fixed, while the other one is moving at high speed.

According to the information we have received before, Princess Bai Jingling and the other captured Bai Jingling have been hidden somewhere, which means that they cannot be moving, and the signal that the other one is moving is probably a team of Jingling. Spirit Rescue Team.

Although the Elf leader told us before that the Black Elf have strengthened their entanglement to prevent them from rescuing people, she only said that the local area has strengthened its defenses, and did not say that they did not continue to send people, so there is the possibility of another rescue team here. Very high. As for the possibility that it was just a group of unrelated white elves, I don't think it exists. After all, the atmosphere between the two sides is so tense now. It should be impossible for any stupid Elf to roam around in the territory of the Dark Elf at this time, right?

"It seems that the one who doesn't move should be our target." Persephone said.

"But you only know the direction, not the distance, right?" Kristina asked.

Bai Lang suddenly interrupted us and said: "As long as there is a direction. If we chase in this direction, then the smell of other people around us will become less and less, so I can gradually determine the target's location."

"Then let's hurry over."

The direction just predicted is to our left front, but now we are on the main road, so we can't go in that direction. The underground world is not like the above-ground world. On the ground, if you have strong athletic ability, you can theoretically move forward in a straight line. Even if there are mountains or rivers blocking the way, there is still a way to get past it. But underground, unless you plan to dig your own holes, you'll have to follow the underground passages that have already been formed. Only in a particularly large underground cavity can you proceed in a straight line for a short distance like on the ground, and then you still have to take the natural passage.

I could summon the pioneers to dig a hole and move forward, but we are in a hurry, so we can only take the existing passage.

After running along the main road for a while, a lateral passage to the left appeared in front of us, but because the angle of this passage was too large, we decisively gave up on this passage. We continued forward until we encountered the second passage to the left before we turned up. After walking less than fifty steps along this passage, Bailang suddenly started shouting. "Target found."

"Did you find it? Are you sure it's the person we're looking for?"

"Definitely. There don't seem to be many people walking on this road, and the smell information is very clear. I can smell the tree sap on those white elves."

"It seems there is hope for our mission. Everyone speeds up."

I had just finished shouting, but Bailang actually shouted again: "Wait a minute. There's something going on!"

"What's the matter?" (To be continued.)