Act 69 Wizard Tower

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After a group of people entered the forest, the blue light curtain slowly closed behind them, as if it was alive. "+Chess+Zi+Small+Shuo+Website www.qii Dedication" They soon discovered that the inside and outside of the light curtain were completely two worlds. It was still after noon outside, but inside the light curtain it was already dusk, and there seemed to be hanging stars in the sky. There is a blue curtain with a few stars hanging in the distance, like a scene after dusk.

But a hundred steps away, there was darkness in the forest.

The huge contrast made everyone alert. Nymesis and Freya gently pulled out their swords and looked around. There seemed to be some kind of uneasiness lurking in the air that made one feel chills in his chest.

Brando looked at the forest filled with strange shadows. This place was already in a valley, and the overlapping hills in the distance were immersed in the night. In the north, the sky is as dark purple as the dead night. This hill was called the 'Twilight Hill' in "The Amber Sword", and in his memory it should be the southwest corner of Breath of Milos.

At the entrance to this area, there should be a lair of the Dusk Dog, an ancient subspecies of canid terror. It has long been extinct in Warnd, but is still found in small numbers in some black forests.

"My Lord Earl, as you said, which direction should we go now?" Laurenna interrupted his thoughts and asked.

"The guide mentioned that there should be a path leading to the 'Atrium' here," Brando silently recalled the words in the guide: "Twilight Hill is the best entrance to Milos, and the gatekeeper's lair is the most dangerous place in the world." The passage through the Dusk Dog's lair extends northward, leading to the 'Atrium'. There is a treasure location at point A and point B. These two locations were explored by the "Crimson Wings Brigade" and "Crystal Apple" guilds in 385 and 387 respectively. ’ If this dungeon is explored for the first time, then the treasure locations mentioned in the guide may still exist. His eyes searched the forest and suddenly realized that this endless valley was just a passage? Brando's gaze extended forward, and the dark green hills on both sides stretched toward the north, which was also consistent with the description on the guide.

After confirming this, Brando made a plan: "We are moving along this valley. Be careful of the demons swimming on the road, and try not to use magic or activate magic props. Use open flames for lighting. Illuminating crystals are prohibited at all times use."

Although demon spirits are not difficult creatures to deal with, once a battle begins, the escaped magic will attract more monsters. Some players once said that the demon spirit is the siren in the Breath of Milos dungeon, and this statement is not groundless.

"Do you understand?"

"Understood." Everyone nodded.

Brando was somewhat satisfied. Although his understanding of this copy only limited to the strategy. But he knows that in an unknown environment, people are always willing to trust those who seem to have a good idea. As the most experienced person in the team, he has no choice but to shoulder this responsibility.

He continued to order: "Qian, Medissa, you two open the way. Ms. Laurenna, please stop the rear."

"Okay, Lord Lord." Medisa nodded on Akane's behalf.

"No problem." Laurenna also raised her sheathed sword and put it on her chest. This was Cruz's knightly etiquette - representing her willingness to take orders.

Since no one had any objections, the team quickly divided the work. Akane and Medisa walked at the front as the eyes of the team, both holding spears and walking through the dense coniferous forest. Soon they noticed that as the team went deeper, the sky they saw through the gaps between the layers of branches was getting darker and darker.

From the light red in the early evening, it turned into light blue, then dark blue, and gradually became filled with stars. Become a scene of silent night. It was as if after just ten minutes of walking in the woods, the sky turned from evening to late night.

In fact, this is exactly the characteristic of Dusk Hill, which is the transition area of ​​Evernight Forest.

It's not until you get deep into this area that you truly enter the center of the forest. The surroundings gradually became dark, but Akane lit the torch. The firelight extended in all directions, dragging long shadows on the densely packed cedar trunks in the forest, but where the light did not shine, the darkness seemed to grow deeper.

The team advanced for about half an hour, when Medissa suddenly noticed that dots of light began to appear in the deep darkness, and she immediately recognized that it was the demon spirit floating in the forest.

She grabbed Akane and raised her finger to make a 'careful' gesture to her.

"What is that?" Akane also noticed the light spots in the forest and asked softly.

"Maybe it's a demon."

"So many!" Qian was startled. In her opinion, the number is indeed too much. If you count it carefully, there are at least hundreds. She looked at the floating spirits and seemed a little nervous for a moment.

"Don't worry," Medissa said softly: "Although demons are scary, they are notoriously blind. As long as they don't use magic, light is invisible to them. As long as we pay attention, it shouldn't be There will be problems.”

Akane nodded doubtfully. In fact, Brando let Medisa be the team's eyeliner because he actually wanted to use her rich combat experience and the elf's natural acumen. Brando's intention of arranging Qian as his partner was actually to protect the former; Medisa was in his After advancing to the formal planeswalker position, their levels were shuffled to level one together with Charles. Although they can now upgrade by gaining experience like him, they have only experienced less than a month, and their current strength has only just returned to the level. It's just the first level of silver.

Since the planeswalker creature has the flaw of being unable to be resurrected, Brando has to tread carefully.

Akane glanced in that direction again, and when she looked back there was some confusion in her eyes, which seemed to be saying - "What should we do now, Medissa?"

The little silver elf princess understood and reminded in a low voice: "Qian, see if you can go around on both sides."

Akane was slightly startled and looked at her suspiciously. Theoretically speaking, although Medisa is inferior to her in terms of strength, she can't even see clearly from such a long distance. But as if she sensed the suspicion of the mountain girl, Medisa quickly explained: "This place seems to have some restrictions on us heroic spirits——"

After saying that, her face turned red. If it weren't for the fact that her 'level' had been wiped out, it was too difficult to explain, and she was really not good at lying. But to be honest, even she herself still hasn't figured out what this level is and why it is closely related to her own strength.

Fortunately, under the firelight, Akane didn't notice the slightest blush. She nodded and turned back, but her eyes swept across the valley and found that the demon spirits in the forest seemed to have blocked all the paths ahead.

After she looked at it carefully for a while. He shook his head slightly.

"Isn't it possible?" Medisa pondered for a moment, and she immediately opened the spiritual connection and sent a message to Brando behind her. It didn't take long. The bushes behind the two girls were separated with a crash, and Brando and his party had already walked out from there.

"Medissa, Akane."

After Brando got the news from Medisha. You can probably guess what's going on. He parted the bushes and walked out of the woods behind. When he looked up, he saw those little stars of light in the darkness.

The Evernight Forest is a huge area, and the distribution of monsters in this area is very random. However, through exploration by players, many of the rules have been found. Before that, the path he guided Medissa and Akane was actually a very remote path. According to the guide, most unnecessary battles could be avoided.

Since he wasted a lot of time in Anlaser Forest before, Brando had to choose this path. But the road is not safe. There are also two monster nodes that cannot be bypassed on its only way. One of them is a place called the Pond of Demonic Spirits, and the other is stuck at the last pass before leading to the atrium, where they have to face the Dusk Hounds and the Hick Demon.

Brando took a look at the astonishing number of demon spirits in the forest, and roughly determined the location here - the pool of demon spirits, although it was not the lair of the demon spirits. But in some ways it's actually better than a nest.

Demon spirits are genuine gold-level monsters in "Amber Sword". Normally, players who don't have two groups would not even think about killing so many of them. But Brando happens to know an abnormal way to deal with these monsters. In this kind of dungeon that has been thoroughly explored by players in the later stages of the game, there really aren't too many weird strategies.

But he glanced over there and then looked away. Before he was ready to pass here. He still had two things to do.

Brando judged the direction and glanced somewhere in the darkness, where he saw a huge cedar that needed two or three people to surround it.

"Medissa, how tall are you?" he whispered.

The Silver Elf Princess was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect that her lord would ask this strange question. She hesitated for a moment, and then told Brando the answer in a spiritual connection with some embarrassment.

Even so, she still heard Charles laughing. Brando glared at that side, and then he said: "It's almost right, come next to me."

"Huh?" Medisa was a little confused, but she still followed her words. Everyone had no idea what Brando was doing, and could only watch in confusion as the little Silver Elf princess walked up to Brando with some curiosity, "Lord, do you have any orders?"

"You're facing me now." Brando said, looking at the cedar.

"Brando, what are you doing?" Freya was a little strange. In fact, everyone was as strange as him. If she hadn't asked, Feras, who was eager to give it a try, would have already spoken.

"You'll find out later." Brando replied.

Medissa hesitated for a moment before taking a step closer. She was now almost face to face with Brando, and could even feel the faint breath coming from the lord. She blushed. Ever since she was summoned by Brando, she had never been so close to her master at such an ambiguous distance.

But Brando was not satisfied yet. He held her shoulders and adjusted her direction. Medissa was startled, and the tip of her nose touched Brando's chest several times.

"Brando!" Freya glared at Brando. If she hadn't considered that the enemy was nearby, she would have stabbed him with a sword.

But Brando didn't seem to hear it. Only at this moment, he felt as if he had returned to the game, the era of opening up wasteland dungeons with his trusted companions. He stared at the huge cedar tree and whispered to Medissa:

"You start next to me now. Take ten steps back and tell me what you feel."

Brando's words sounded a bit like a riddle, but Medisa's trust in him had already reached the point where she could do everything without asking the reason. She was just slightly startled, then nodded and backed away slowly.

Everyone saw her retreat ten steps and then stop.

"Tell me, what do you feel under your feet?" Brando asked.

Medisa's eyes lit up slightly. It seemed very strange: "...I feel a weak magic power, like a magic mark. Lord Lord, how do you know there is something here?"

But Brando obviously didn't intend to answer her question for the time being. He took the torch from Akane's hand and pointed it at Medisa. The fire immediately printed the shadow of the Silver Elf Princess to the ground, and others followed Brando's gaze. Immediately stunned.

Because they saw the shadow behind Medisa clearly had a pair of translucent wings.

"This is...?" Ferras couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded.

But Brando secretly screamed "Sure enough". Among all the people, only Laurenna was keenly aware of the change in his expression. The female knight immediately asked: "Mr. Earl, do you know anything?"

Brando breathed a sigh of relief, then nodded and replied: "The demons will not gather in a certain place for no reason. The origin of this place actually has some connection with the black tower wizard of Karasu."

"Black Tower Wizard?" Even Ciel was slightly startled at this time. You must know that he was once a member of the Black Tower Wizard.

Brando smiled slightly, this time he didn't lie. This can only be said to be a coincidence. The background of this place in the game does come from the Black Tower Wizards. "The Black Tower Wizards are the most powerful mage organization in Eruin. Like many wizards in other places, their curiosity for secrets and knowledge is unparalleled. . Like the Buga wizards, in order to explore those lost secrets. The Black Tower wizards have also left their footprints all over every ruin in this kingdom. This mysterious forest is naturally no exception."

"Lord, you are saying that the Black Tower Wizard once sent an investigation team into this forest, and here..." Laurenna responded.

"It's almost as you guessed, but slightly different." Brando recalled the records of this place in the guide and replied: "The wizards of the Black Tower have entered this forest more than once in hundreds of years of history, except The danger zone in the center. They kind of know the area already."

He looked at Laurenna and added: "You don't think that guy Anlek would rush into this forest rashly. Like me, there must be someone familiar with this forest around him. Maybe that guy He is also a black tower wizard."

"But aren't the Black Tower Wizard and the Highland Knight allies? Brando..." Freya asked with some confusion.

"The forest is big, but there are all kinds of birds, and not all black tower wizards abide by the tower agreement." Ciel immediately explained.

"That's right," Brando continued: "But this is not the main topic we want to discuss. Back then, the Black Tower wizards should have come here to destroy a very powerful demonic item. They hoped to use a certain Formation to completely destroy the demonic thing from Jorgendigon——"

He paused for a moment: "However, there were traitors in the team at that time, and a wizard was tempted by the power of the devil. In the end, the entire operation fell short. It is said that the devil's items violently exploded on the magic circle, killing nearly a hundred of the Black Towers who were accompanying them. The wizards and apprentices were blown into ashes, and their souls were eroded by the dark magic, gradually forming demon spirits that lingered here."

"Nearly a hundred wizards?" Laurenna took a breath of air in disbelief. She could fully imagine how tragic the scene was at that time.

Everyone else also had a somewhat solemn expression on their faces.

But Brando just smiled. The whole incident was actually not as terrifying as they imagined. If the Black Tower Wizards were to hang nearly a hundred official wizards at once, the organization would probably not be far from falling apart. There were actually only twelve official wizards that day, including the traitor, and most of the others were apprentices.

But the demon spirit left behind is indeed a fact. He continued: "Of course, the demonic item is said to have been destroyed in the explosion, but the Black Tower Wizard still established an observation post here for insurance purposes. This post is said to have been used for nearly a hundred years. , was abandoned until the last century.”

"Observation post?" Feras was stunned and couldn't help but look around: "Why didn't I see it? Has it been demolished?"

"Of course not. The observation posts of wizards will naturally not be the fortress towers you have seen on weekdays." Nymesis, who had been silent at this time, suddenly spoke: "Brando, you were looking for that post before. location?"

Brando nodded.

"That magic mark is a guiding point. The wizards' documents say that the outpost should be next to the cedar, in the direction pointed by the shadow of the wings behind Medissa."

"But I didn't see anything." Feras looked over there and said, "Maybe that thing is in the sky."

Brando stared at this guy speechlessly, and now he began to believe in this guy's shit luck. Unexpectedly, the other party's casual remarks actually hit the mark.

He looked up. He replied: "Yes, the real sentry tower is in the sky. We have to find a way to summon it down."

"Summon it?" Laurenna frowned: "I understand, it can help us deal with these demon spirits, right? Since the wizards built such a sentry tower, its function is to prevent these demon spirits."

"That's right," Brando said with some approval. But he understood that the knight lady from Cruz was not entirely right, in "The Amber Sword". Many plot areas often have more than one way to pass. He still has a way to sneak through the valley without attracting the attention of those demon spirits - but Brando does not intend to give up such a large amount of experience, not to mention if the records on the guide are not false, this copy should be on the sentry tower One of the treasure hiding places.

This mission would have been a bonus.

But naturally he couldn't say these words. He turned around and said: "Char, you should know the spell used by the black tower wizards to summon the mage tower."

Ciel immediately nodded and answered in his mind: "I forgot a lot after changing jobs, but at least I remember one or two. After all, the Black Tower Wizard was originally part of the Buga people."

"That's good," Brando glanced at the demon spirits in the distance and began to give the order: "It takes a certain amount of time to summon the sentry tower, but once we start casting the spell, the demon spirits over there will find us. Therefore, summoning in Shire When he is in the sentry tower, the task of others is to protect him and complete the mission."

As soon as Brando's words fell, it was like a signal for battle. Nymesis, Freya, Laurenna, and the guards immediately drew their swords, and Qian and Medisa also picked up their spears. Everyone subconsciously arranged in a semicircle around the current position of the Silver Elf Princess.

Brando looked satisfied. He also pulled out the Sword of the Earth and reminded at the same time: "The attack method of the demon spirits is very simple. They rarely fight hand-to-hand, but please note that their attacks can penetrate the armor of the entity; also be careful with their spells, Medissa, Qian , you stay to protect the caster and Haruze. Others find ways to get close to them quickly."

"clear."

"Char, start."

The young mage attendant nodded. He stood behind Medisa, felt the location of the magic mark, then raised his staff and began to recite the incantation to summon the wizard tower. This low-pitched spell seemed to be an eye-catching signal in the darkness. Suddenly, everyone saw the dots of light in the forest stop slightly.

Then they suddenly rose into the air, as if looking for the source of the spell, circled around the forest, turned around and rushed towards this side.

"The literature says that although most of the demon spirits were outstanding wizards during their lifetime, they have long forgotten those esoteric knowledge. The spells they are good at are just the use of pure dark magic. These disordered magic powers will not last too long. Distance, they usually launch the first wave of spell attacks a hundred feet away." Medissa looked at the light groups and was the first to warn.

The demon spirit floating in the darkness was extremely fast and was already nearby. Only then did everyone see their image clearly. These groups of light shining in the darkness looked like the image of a human or elf with an upper body. They almost still retained their appearance in life, except for their faces and chests. The front is covered with patterns eroded by dark magic, and there are no eyeballs in the eye sockets, leaving only darkness.

This terrifying appearance left a deep impression on everyone, and His Royal Highness the little prince even screamed in fear.

"To be exact, it's one hundred and forty-one feet." Brando stared in that direction, raised his sword, and "measure the distance yourself."

The demon spirits have stopped at the edge of the forest, the distance is exactly the same as in Brando's memory, which is also the farthest range of their spells. These twisted creatures raised their hands. Their hands were twisted by magic and became ugly and long. Black flames suddenly shot out from the slender fingertips.

These tentacle-like black flames intertwined together, and at that moment it was like a big black net falling from the sky, about to envelop everyone in it.

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(PS: I’m going to have a New Year’s dinner tomorrow and come back to code in the evening. It depends on the situation.) (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. )(Amber Sword)