Amidst the soft sound of the "buzzing buzzing" magic circle, the Zhan Xiao airship traveled through the dense clouds at a height of more than 5,000 meters, and flew towards Delonga at a high speed of 500 kilometers per hour.
It took less than an hour to take off from the field wilderness to enter the depths of the Dronga border. After that, the airship slowed down and began to search for the specific location of the undead fortress.
The information brought back by Fankenos mentioned the existence of a Necromancer Fortress, but the specific location is not clear, only known to be in the central area of the Dronga Kingdom. As for the news of the 30,000 undead warriors he got, it was speculated from the answers of the undead warriors captured on the battlefield, and it was only a conservative estimate.
It's not clear what the real situation is.
Finding a place for this kind of work will not be a problem for the Job people.
"Start the detection magic circle... start searching for dark fluctuations." The airship commander Maureen ordered with a serious face, which was completely different from the smiling look before.
With a soft sound of '嗡~', a clear light and shadow appeared in the air in the middle of the airship. The light and shadow recorded the specific conditions of the ground below the airship, such as forests, roads, bridges, villages, pedestrians on the road, and even pedestrians. The expression on the face can be seen clearly.
'Drip~drip~drip~' Every 2 seconds, a blue ripple will sweep across the entire image, and all the beings in the image will show a specific halo.
The halo on the body of ordinary people is very light. According to different physical attributes, various basic elemental radiances, such as blue, blue, white, etc., are normal.
About two minutes later, a group of knights exuding thin black air suddenly appeared in the video. There were about 13 knights wearing battle armor. If you look at them, you can see that their eyes are gray and their skin is dull. The armor on their bodies is the standard armor of the Dronga Kingdom, but the runes on the armor are all evil and dark runes.
"It's the Necromancer Knights. They used special methods to cover up their aura, and even disguised their appearance. This is a war zone, and they appeared here... Oh, they are capturing ordinary people!"
These knights ran directly to a village, and when they were about to arrive, they dispersed to block the exits of the village. Then a few knights walked into the village and said something. They were all gathered together, and were driven away from the village by these powerful necromancer knights.
These villagers are old and young. They don't know their fate, but this does not prevent them from feeling fear. Some women cry out, and some young people try to escape.
But these were all in vain. A young man who escaped was caught by the Necromancer Knight, cut off his hands and feet, and then threw him on the ground without killing him.
This move frightened all the villagers, and the cries became louder, but no one tried to escape.
"These ordinary people were either sacrificed or transformed into undead warriors. Are we going to save them?" Mo Lin asked.
The Templar Knight Joseph said without hesitation: "Of course we have to save them, and we need to capture a few ghost knights to ask for directions."
Princess Mirda stopped immediately: "I think it's best not to do anything. These ghost knights have a spiritual connection with Vivier. If something happens to them, Vivier will immediately sense it. Then our sneak attack plan will be exposed in advance."
They are raiding this time, the more sudden and faster they are, the higher the success rate.
Joseph opened his mouth to retort, but finally he sighed and stopped speaking.
Saving people now is indeed a small loss, but just watching these villagers step into the abyss of darkness and despair is violating the teachings of the temple.
Link comforted: "Don't worry too much, as long as we defeat Vivier before these Necromancer Knights return to the Necromancer Fortress, these villagers will naturally be saved."
Everyone in the church nodded, but everyone looked very serious.
Link said to Molin again: "We have to speed up, Vivier's power is growing rapidly!"
Mo Lin nodded, and ordered the airship pilot beside him: "Expand the detection range to 50 kilometers, and use the fuzzy detection magic!"
The image suddenly began to expand, and no longer showed the specific appearance, but only showed the general direction of the breath. These breaths are colorful and constantly flowing, which look a bit like the weather cloud map on the ground.
Flying forward for more than 100 kilometers, Mo Lin pointed to a large dark light spot in the image and said: "Look at this forest, the concentration of their dark breath is about 5% higher than that of the surrounding area, there must be something inside!"
After speaking, he gestured to the driver, and the little driver operated the magic circle in front of his lower body, and the image suddenly changed from blurred to clear, revealing a dense southern forest.
After only one glance, Templar Joseph said, "This forest is abnormal, it's too dark, and there are very few birds and beasts!"
The images kept changing, and after a while, Link suddenly said, "Stop, look at this area!"
The image stopped immediately, and a thick cloud of mist appeared in the picture. The mist drifted over the entire forest, covering at least ten thousand acres of woodland, making it impossible to see what was inside.
This is the poisonous mist forest of Dronga. The forest is full of miasma, and it is normal for white mist to appear. In fact, several streams of mist have been shown in the image just now, but the white mist in front of me is extremely dense, exceeding the limit of natural formation.
"Can you scan the breath in this area?" Link asked Molin.
"Of course." Mo Lin snapped his fingers, and the whole area suddenly became the previous breath flow map.
But the strange thing is that in this picture, this area of white mist does not show any abnormal breath fluctuations, it seems to be perfectly integrated with the entire surrounding forest.
"Nothing unusual." Romussen said softly.
"No, no abnormality is the biggest abnormality. As we have seen just now, this white fog area and its surrounding areas are much denser. The breath of these surrounding foggy areas is full of dense life toxins. The same is true for this foggy area. But according to common sense, the fog is thicker, and the concentration of life toxin should be higher, but now it is exactly the same!"
"Someone deliberately pretended!" Mirdad said.
"Can you see through the fog, Maureen?" Link asked again.
Mo Lin shrugged his shoulders: "This is impossible, you know, we are 30 kilometers away from them, showing specific images is already the limit."
"Then we can only go down and check it ourselves. The fog in the forest is full of natural toxins, and the intermediate antidote can resist it. Alright, Maureen, find a place to let us down, don't get too close, just wait for us outside. "
"no problem."
The combat airship began to drop in height, and when it reached a height of more than 300 meters, it hovered. The hatch opened, and the people in the cabin began to jump down one by one. A levitation, and then it was Romsen's turn.
This kid really has a fear of heights, trembling while climbing on the eaves of the airship, but dare not go down.
"Your Highness, Link, you two jump first, I'll brew up my emotions."
"Coward!" Mirda was very dissatisfied, she walked behind him and kicked his ass savagely, causing Romussen to fall screaming.
Link released a levitation spell for him in time, otherwise, with his current state of mind, he might become the first magician in history to fall to his death.
After the kick, Mirdad smiled at Link: "He can brew for a lifetime, so someone has to give him a push."
After finishing speaking, she also jumped out of the airship, leaving Link in the end.
The two high priests were responsible for treating the injuries, so they did not participate in the battle, but stayed in the airship as backup.
At this time, a priest came over and handed a palm-sized white statue to Link: "Master Link, this is the statue of Saint Raphael, which has been enshrined in the Cosmin Cathedral in Hot Springs for more than 200 years. History, Archbishop Trolto, I gave it to you, and it contains holy power up to level 9. You keep it just in case, but I hope not to use it."
Link took the sacred sculpture: "I understand, thank you!"
This is equivalent to one more life-saving hole card.
After carefully putting away the sacred eagle, Link also jumped off the airship.
In order to maintain the concealment of the airship, everyone landed at the outskirts of the forest. After Link and everyone landed, the airship immediately raised its altitude and quickly returned to hide in the clouds at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters.
"Okay, continue to monitor the forest and be ready to support at any time!" Mo Lin ordered.
ground.
Link and others landed one after another, including Nana, a total of 14 people gathered together quickly.
Link looked around and saw tall giant beech trees all around. The huge canopy blocked the sunlight, and the ground was covered with thick fallen leaves. Puddles and swamps could be seen everywhere, exuding a rotten smell. The mist drifted around, and the entire forest was filled with a dark, damp, and rotten atmosphere.
"Oh, what a damned mosquito!" Luo Musen suddenly slapped himself hard, and when he took his hand away, everyone saw a huge Aedes mosquito corpse on his face, and then his handsome face was covered with naked eyes. A red, swollen bump the size of a thumb appeared at a visible speed.
It was very itchy and painful, and he stretched out his hand to scratch it, but he didn't dare to use force, Romussen almost cried out.
Afterwards, other people in the team were also attacked by insects in the forest one after another, and the team became a little chaotic at the beginning.
This situation was a bit unexpected. What's worse, here are all northerners, who have absolutely no experience in fighting in the southern forest, so they are very poorly prepared.
At this time, Nana was the most unrestrained one. No insects could bite through her metal shell. She was very surprised by everyone's distressed appearance, so she turned to Link and asked, "Master, do you want to include insects in the removal plan?"
"...No, no, no." Link was speechless, Nana is such a militant, she won't let go of even bugs.
A few minutes later, Mirda was also bitten by a mosquito on her neck. She quickly took out the fairy flower water and drank it. Using this holy medicine to treat mosquito bites was really a cannonball for mosquitoes.
After walking for a while, Link suddenly made a move, a whistle was issued, and a black-striped snake was knocked out from the fallen leaves with a 'bang'.
Link walked up, skinned and cramped very skillfully, and then pulled out the snake gall.
"What's the use of that?" Romulsen asked.
"This kind of snake is usually left to catch insects for food. It is the natural enemy of these mosquitoes. The smell emitted by the snake gall can effectively repel insects." It blew into a cloud of mist, and this cloud of mist lightly brushed past everyone.
This knowledge came from a book of natural history that Link read, which introduced the survival experience in the southern jungle in detail, and it came in handy at this time.
Sure enough, after covering the smell of the black-striped snake, the frequency of insect bites was greatly reduced, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, otherwise, there would be mosquitoes buzzing around all day long, which would have killed them in battle.
Afterwards, the Templar Knight Joseph walked in the front all the way, and Link followed him to guide the way. After walking for more than a kilometer, the fog ahead suddenly thickened, and a slightly acrid stench appeared in the air.
"When we arrived in the miasma area, we all drank the intermediate antidote." Link took out a bottle of emerald green potion and drank it, which was brought from Glenci, and the effect was very good.
Everyone also started to drink. As the strongest warrior, Joseph was still vigilant when drinking the potion. His eyes were looking around, alert to everything around him.
Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a black shadow flashing past at high speed. He was startled, took a mouthful of the dulling potion, and pulled out the Holy Cross Sword with a clang.
"Be careful, everyone, we are afraid that we are being targeted by the undead!"
At the same time, information began to flash in Link's vision.
The mission starts: Vivier's Necromancer Fortress
The first step of the task: find out the exact location of the Necromancer Fortress.
Task reward: Level 8 magic book "The Essence of Flame"
Link took a deep breath and chose to accept.