Chapter 218 It’s Finally Out

"There are so many guards here. It's certainly not easy to get out, but these guards shouldn't stay here forever, right?" I said to Ives: "No matter how many guards there are in the royal court, they can only be screened in separate areas. It shouldn’t be to the point where every inch of land is filled with people, right?”

Avis nodded and said: "That's right. There aren't that many guards in the royal court. They must be just searching. They will change places when they can't find anyone."

"So we just have to wait here."

Avis calmed down after I finished speaking, and then we used my Phantom Fu Feng to start camouflaging in place. It is still early in the morning, and it is raining heavily. There is no light in the sky. Everyone can only rely on the bright light of the windproof magic lamp. But in such a heavy rain, even the light of the magic lamp can only be barely enough. Illuminating the surrounding space within a radius of three meters, no matter how far away you are, nothing can be seen. With such visibility, one can only imagine what level our arrest efforts can reach.

After Avis and I waited patiently for more than ten minutes, the team that searched the garden completed their search of the garden, and then they began to search inside the royal court little by little along the outer wall of the garden. Obviously, the search method used by the elves starts from the outermost periphery. The advantage of this is that it can ensure that the fleeing people are trapped inside the royal court as much as possible. If the search is from the inside out, it is likely that people will escape.

Watching the guards gradually search over me, I quickly pulled Avis and hid on the shoulder of a statue. This sculpture is not particularly tall, and there are no other obstacles around it, but because of this, it is the most overlooked part. Because this sculpture stands almost in the middle of the road at the exit of the garden, it has a wide range of sight around it, which in turn means it is under surveillance from many locations. Because of this, the guards would ignore this sculpture. After all, normal people would not want to hide it in such an obvious place.

Although no one would consider that sculpture during pregnancy, I, Elvis, did so. With the help of the phantom cloak, we quickly ran to the shoulders of the sculpture and sat on it, if the visibility was relatively high at this time. Some people may have noticed that there are two human-shaped water circles on the shoulders of the sculpture. In fact, this water circle is the water film formed after the rain hits us. Although we can become invisible, we cannot make ourselves disappear, so there is nothing we can do about this water film. However, although this thing is very conspicuous under normal circumstances, because it is early in the morning, the surroundings are pitch black, and the rain is too heavy. So we are very safe here. You must know that no matter what kind of creature it is, the eyes are very fragile. Now this heavy rain can feel obvious pressure even when it hits us. You can imagine what it feels like to have raindrops hitting your eyeballs.

Precisely because the rain hitting the eyeballs is very painful, no one will look up at the top of the sculpture in this situation, and even if they look up, their eyes will definitely glance over, and it is impossible for anyone to stare here. Look, because that is basically tantamount to self-abuse, and a hasty glance cannot see us at all.

Things were just as I thought. After arriving on the road here, the guards who searched all the way from the garden just glanced at the sculpture from a distance and then began to separate into the flowers on both sides of the road to search. In any case, the middle of the road is really empty, and there is nothing except this sculpture. There are ornamental plants over one meter high planted in the flower beds on both sides of the road. That was obviously a more suitable place to hide than this bare road. When normal people see this environment, they will of course search behind the flowers first. No one would have thought that we were in the middle of the road.

Because we were actually on top of this sculpture, the search team was of course unable to find us among the flowers, so the guards who searched to no avail had no choice but to continue searching inside the royal court. They could not find us until all the search teams gathered together again. Determining whether we have crossed the search range, this is the disadvantage of searching from the outside in. Of course, if you search from the inside out. That has more disadvantages. Now, we need to go through the search team at least once, and if we search from inside and outside, then as long as we move quickly, we can leave the royal court without contacting the search team at all.

After waiting for all the search teams near us to pass, Avis and I immediately jumped off the statue and rushed into the garden. After accurately finding the entrance, Avis and I jumped in together, and we had just entered. The two guards below suddenly shouted.

"who?"

When I went up from here, I had already asked the princess to seduce and control the two guards here, which means that the guards here should now turn a blind eye to us like the guards we met before. When we entered the royal court, we used this method for all sentries that could not be bypassed. We first used charm to control the guards, and then hypnotized them so that they would subconsciously ignore us. Because just giving such a hint does not conflict with the normal habits and spiritual beliefs of the elves. So the effect of this kind of hypnosis is quite good.

Hypnosis actually has many weaknesses. Even the hypnotized person will retain part of his basic thinking ability in a deep sleep state. For example, if you ask a hypnotized person to pick up a glass of water and drink it, he will do it without hesitation, because this is not a big deal in the first place and will not cause any mental resistance. On the contrary, if you directly order a first Once someone commits suicide under hypnosis, the person will most likely wake up immediately from the hypnotic state. This is the person's will to resist taking effect.

Precisely because of the existence of the will to resist, we use simple thinking rewriting on these guards instead of changing their own values. The princess just asked these guards to subconsciously block this part of the signal after seeing us, which means that although their eyes see us, we still do not exist in their consciousness. This is basically It is equivalent to making us invisible in the sight of these people, and this is a method of invisibility that cannot be counter-detected.

This simple modification does not conflict with the inherent consciousness of those guards, so it encounters little resistance, and hypnosis can be completed easily. Moreover, because we have not touched other memories of these guards, these people's thinking is very normal, so others will not find that their consciousness has been modified.

Normally, since these people have been hypnotized, the guards here should have been unresponsive after we came down. However, when we came down just now, we heard very clear questioning sounds.

This sudden sound also startled us. Because we thought that the guards here couldn't see us, but who knew they still found us.

Even though I was shocked, my reaction speed was still amazing. While scolding someone over there, I rushed out of the vertical shaft. As soon as I left the vertical shaft leading to the top, I immediately discovered that the people standing opposite were not the two guards before, but five. personal.

There are four elf guards among these five people, and one has obviously different clothes. It seems that he may be some kind of high-level profession of the elves. These five guards are now standing where the two guards were standing when we came up. But now the two guards are obviously not here, and these five are the ones we have never seen before.

I knew it as soon as I saw these five people. There must be a change of defense here. The guards who were hypnotized by us must have been transferred at this time, and the remaining people are all newly transferred, and because of the alarm, two posts have been added here, and a senior professional has been added. as a high-end combat force just in case.

However, although the elves' positioning strategy is still correct, there is obviously something wrong with this power level. Only one of the five newly transferred personnel is a high-level professional, and this person is just an elf swordsman, with a maximum level of one thousand three. The level gap between him and me is really too big.

The first time I rushed forward, I pinched the swordsman's neck. Then a blue halo flashed, and a layer of frost instantly appeared on the people around him, including the guy I pinched. They also stayed in place together. I quickly tapped each of their necks with my fingers, and then said: "I'm here to participate in the gambling game. You are considered dead now. Don't run around when the ice melts. Just stay here honestly." Pretend to be a corpse."

Although the guards wanted to say something. But now it's all frozen, so I can't open my mouth at all. I can only watch as I take Avis through here and disappear.

In fact a large group of people arrived less than two minutes after we left.

The elves are rich in magicians, and because they live long enough, they have a thorough research on magic. This understanding of magic knowledge makes the elves' magic application ability very powerful. after the siren is activated. The magic monitor in the Elven Capital was activated immediately. Although this energy-consuming device is not very cost-effective, it is perfect in terms of purpose. This thing can accurately detect whether someone is using magic in the nearby environment, and as long as someone is using it, it can know the location where the spell occurs and the approximate magic intensity.

Precisely because there are such perverted things in the Elven Court, the Frost Nova I just cast immediately attracted a large number of guards. This level of magic burst is like a beacon in the dark night, not to mention that the elves have special equipment to detect magic fluctuations, even if they don't. Those more advanced elf mages can also detect someone using magic by relying on their own induction, but they will not be as accurate and fast as the device's positioning.

Two minutes is not a long time. The guards can be said to have come relatively quickly, but the problem is that we are not slow either. In the past, we had to hide from the guards in the dark in the royal court, but there are not so many problems among the ancient branches of life here. Even though the alarm bell in the Royal Court woke up many people, it was still early in the morning here, and most people had not gotten up yet, so the passage still seemed very empty. What's more important is that because of the unequal intelligence, the elves always thought that we were still within the royal court. Therefore, not only did no additional manpower be deployed in these passages, but the original only guards were strengthened to block the tunnel exit areas. .

It is precisely because of this mobilization of the elves that we have simply entered a no man's land in these passages. How could we not make good use of this environment? Of course we would run at full speed. Therefore, although the large group of pursuing troops behind quickly found the tunnel entrance, we were already almost in the middle of the passage.

Of course, among the guards who chased them to the tunnel entrance were professionals who were good at surveying the scene. After briefly looking at the scene, he stood up and said, "They went inside."

"Chase." The person leading the team simply said one word and rushed out. As for the five guards who were originally in charge here, they were temporarily allowed to go back to rest after being rescued.

Now the elves who are chasing us already know that the people we are chasing this time are not the real intruders, but the members of the tribe who came to participate in the bet. Because I know this reason, the tension in the team is not very strong. Although those who were "rescued" did not actually suffer any harm, according to the rules, they are now considered "dead people", so they can only be allowed to go back. rest. and. According to the rules, they cannot ask for any information from these "dead people" who have fought with us.

When the elves chased into the tunnel, Ives and I had already rushed to the exit on the other side, and then the two of us rushed out of the tunnel exit on the other side together.

In fact, the place we came out of is not the same place we entered. This exit is also the route that Avis has planned long ago. The reason for this arrangement is that this exit is relatively close to the previous tunnel entrance, which allows us to quickly escape from the narrow internal pipeline of the Ancient Tree of Life.

The main reason why she had to quickly escape from the channel of the Ancient Tree of Life was that the Ancient Tree of Life was a living creature. Rather than just a tree. In fact, some of the characteristics of the Ancient Tree of Life are more similar to treants than trees, and they are actually mobile. It's just that the response is slower. According to the normal process, the Ancient Tree of Life will be awakened the moment the magic alarm sounds, but the Ancient Tree of Life will not jump up like a human being, but will be like a child lying in bed, and it will take a long time to wake up. Fully awake.

For example, the passages in the Ancient Tree of Life that we are running through now are actually within the control of the Ancient Tree of Life. In other words, once the Ancient Tree of Life fully awakens, he can block the passage by shrinking the pipes at two places in the passage. Then we can't run anymore.

Although we are just here to participate in the gambling game, even if we are caught by the Ancient Tree of Life, our lives will not be in danger, but we must not be caught if we want to complete the task, so the sooner we leave this passage that may become a prison cell at any time, the better.

When I ran out of the pre-designed passage here, the person who rushed in front was neither me nor Ives, but Shuangxue who I had just released. The passage here is not the one we came from, it is a passage in use. Even though it's early in the morning, there are guards here. Fortunately, it's raining heavily outside. So I just released Shuangxue.

As soon as the frost and snow came out, it was like a snap of fingers. There was no sequence at all. We felt that the surroundings suddenly turned into a vast expanse of white. The few guards standing at the door were all frozen in the ice in an instant. Judging from the thickness and temperature of this ice, even the temperature here is high. Don't expect them to come out within half an hour. Although Shuangxue is my magic pet, she specializes in freezing spells, so she is obviously much better than me in ice spells.

Although freezing the guard solved the exit problem, it also exposed our position again. The sensing range of that magic detector is actually very bright. Not only the royal city, but also a large area outside the canyon outside is actually within the sensing range of this device. In other words, even if I ran out of the city wall, I would not be able to detect it. Useless. What's more, let alone the city wall, it can almost be regarded as the city center.

After taking care of the guards and taking back Shuangxue, I directly summoned Ye Ying, then grabbed Avis and threw it up, and then jumped up after me. While urging Ye Ying to run quickly, he notified Xiao Longnu to increase the rainfall to disrupt the pursuers.

Although it was open-air at the Royal Court before, there was actually a canopy of living ancient trees covering the top of our heads. The rainwater below leaked a little and was not obvious. But now that we have left the passage here, we can truly see it. Feel the feeling of heavy rain. Although it is still under the crown of the Ancient Tree of Life, it is close to the edge after all, and the crown of the tree is too high, so there is not much rain down here.

There is no doubt about Yeying's speed, and Nightmare has a hidden ability that can use biological waves to detect roads, which means that even if you cover your eyes, Yeying can run fast without hitting anything. However, just because the speed is too fast, we feel quite bad now. It’s not that I don’t want to run faster, but it’s just that the rain hitting me in front of me is really painful. Even though he was wearing armor, the dense raindrops hitting the armor still had a huge impact. The tinkling sound didn't sound like it was raining, but like I was being shot with a shotgun.

In fact, I'm fine with this. The most unlucky one is Ives. He only has a rather simple winged helmet on his head. The protective area of ​​this thing is not as large as that of Wei's helmet, so now he not only feels that the helmet is numb from the shock, but it is even more terrible. His face hurt from the rain.

Because I had already exposed my position once when I used Frost Nova, so when we used the spell for the second time, the elves were already gathering here, and as a result, we only moved forward. They're on the back foot. After seeing the frozen guards, they immediately understood what was going on, and immediately began to pursue them again. However, just like us, they encountered Xiao Longnu's suddenly intensified rainstorm attack as soon as they came out. This heavy rain can no longer be described in a secret book. It is simply like a large waterfall appearing above the Elf King's Court. The dense rain almost formed a whole piece and hit it downwards, let alone raindrops. Even rainballs are not enough to act in the current state.

Seeing such a dense rainstorm, the elf guard leading the team also frowned. But they could only bite the bullet and lead the team to continue chasing. Of course, even after rushing out in the rain, their speed dropped extremely sharply. You know, when I came here before, even I, who had night vision, was almost ready to get a cane to explore the way, let alone these elves. Since they couldn't see the road, they didn't dare to run at all. They could only move forward based on rough guesses. What's even more terrible is that because the Royal Court is higher than the surrounding area, there was nothing there before. But when they got here, they found that knee-deep rainwater had accumulated on the ground. Now they felt that they were not in the city. On the road inside, it seemed like I was wading in a river.

Although the elves were unable to move due to the terrifying heavy rain. But our speed barely dropped. Yeying has the ability to walk in the void. No matter how deep the water is, it has no effect on him. Anyway, he is running on the water now, and there is no resistance for him. The only thing that affects our speed is that it is a little difficult to identify the direction now, so we don't dare to let go of the top speed. Besides, with the amount of rain now, we really want to run at full speed. I was afraid that I would be washed off Yeying's back by the rain.

"Little Dragon Girl."

"Master." I quickly ran to the place where I was separated from Xiao Longnu. I called directly using telepathy, and Xiao Longnu immediately ran out of a room next to me. Although the rain on the ground is deep, most of the elves' houses are tree houses, and the buildings on the ground are functional buildings, such as shops. People lived in tree houses, so no one noticed Xiao Longnu even when she was hiding in the house that was soaked in water. In fact, at night, these human buildings are basically empty, and the elves have returned to the tree houses to sleep. The human buildings outside are naturally empty.

When I saw Xiao Longnu coming back, I immediately said to her: "Follow me and let's get out of here. You control the rain clouds to move with us. I'm worried that the pursuers behind us will catch up. Let the rain clouds cover us."

"This is just a joke, but are you sure you need such a heavy rainfall?" Xiao Longnu asked.

"What? Can't you maintain such a heavy rainfall?"

"That's not true." Xiao Longnu explained: "Although I can call the wind and rain, the amount of water in the rain clouds is fixed after all. Thanks to the high humidity of the air here, I can extract water from the surrounding air to replenish the rain clouds. Clouds, that's why we can insist on using such heavy rainfall for such a long time. But once we move, I have to control the movement of the clouds to ensure that they are not blown away by the wind, so the work of extracting water vapor will be suspended. If In this case, the cloud may not last long before it will be drained."

"You don't have to worry about this. As long as it can cover us a little distance, it will be fine. As long as we are a few kilometers away from the royal city, we can switch to birds and evacuate at full speed. The elves will definitely not be able to catch up by then."

"Okay, let's leave now."

"OK."

After agreeing to my plan, Xiao Longnu jumped directly into the air from where she was, and then followed Ye Ying and flew up into the air with us. In the past, because Xiao Longnu was far away from us, she couldn't take care of us here, but now that we are with Xiao Longnu, we can enjoy her care. Although the amount of rainfall around us is not decreasing at all, there is a blank area within five meters around us. It's not that it doesn't rain in this small area, but it rains continuously, forming a clear dividing line with the waterfall-like rainfall area outside.

Thanks to the help of this thin rain area, our movement speed immediately increased, but before we could fly over the canyon outside the royal capital, we suddenly felt an extremely strong burst in the center of the royal capital. Get magic wave.

"Ah..." Little Dragon Girl suddenly screamed and then started somersaulting down. I was so frightened that I jumped off Ye Ying's back and hugged Little Dragon Girl. We spread our wings and rose up again, but the little dragon girl kept rubbing her head and screaming that it hurt, and the rain clouds above our heads were disintegrating at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the surrounding heavy rain became thin in the blink of an eye. Raindrops fell, and then the rain stopped completely in less than a minute, the clouds in the sky gradually dissipated, and even the stars came out.

"Little Dragon Girl, what's going on?"

Xiao Longnu rubbed her head and said: "There was a strong mental fluctuation just now that destroyed my magic control. The clouds in the sky had not much water left because of the rain all night. Now they are naturally without my control." It disappeared immediately."

"Do you know who interrupted your spell?"

"I don't know, it just feels very strong, and this mental wave is very mellow. The opponent didn't seem to have used his full strength just now, otherwise I might have suffered some internal injuries."

Hearing what Xiao Longnu said, I also turned around and looked in the direction of the royal capital. It didn't matter if I didn't look, but I was shocked when I looked. "Holy shit, run!"

Because the rain had completely stopped and the clouds were gone, the view in the sky was now very good. I could see at a glance a large number of dense black spots flying out of the ancient tree of life on the other side of the royal city. Although I couldn’t see clearly what it was due to the distance, I figured it must be the Elf Sky Cavalry. Anyway, there are only a few types of flying monsters of the elves. These are either chimeras, hippogriffs or griffins. Anyway, you can't escape these three types.

Avis heard my shouting and asked me worriedly what I saw. Although the visibility in the air after the rain is very good, it is still the darkest time in the early morning. Ives is not an undead creature. No matter how good his eyesight is, he cannot see that far away.

Hearing Avis's question, I quickly replied: "A large group of air cavalry flew out from behind. What did you say in your bet? Do we have to lose the target before our theft is successful or what?"

Avis nodded and said: "That's it. We need to get rid of the pursuers, and we need to make them unable to find out which tribe we belong to. Only in this way can we consider our theft successful."

"Damn, it's really troublesome." I said to Xiao Longnu: "You go back to the training space to practice first."

The little dragon girl obediently returned to the training space, and I picked up Ives from Ye Ying's back, then asked Ye Ying to return to the training space, and then threw the bird out. In the past, it was because the rain was too heavy and it was not suitable for the flying bird, a jet flying unit. Now that the rain clouds that provide cover are gone anyway, wouldn't it be a waste to leave the flying bird unused?

"Bird, full speed. Get rid of the group of flying creatures behind."

"Hurry up. I'm going to speed up." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)