The flamingo mercenary team had already served, and when the archer Gridan woke up from his coma, the group started to move.
Yake and others have already done the preliminary investigation work, and their destination is Echo Valley in the northwest of Gwent Forest.
"Taniguchi has been guarded by members of the Dark Brotherhood from the beginning. Walking more than a hundred meters inside, there is a cave. According to the information we got, Werther hid in it most of the time. There are also many guards in the cave, and they are all from the Brotherhood. Elite members with strong fighting power."
Along the way, Yake softly introduced the situation he had detected.
"Do you know how many of them there are?" Link asked.
"There are at least 60 people in the valley. It's not clear in the cave, but the number will not be less than 30. We only have four people, and the possibility of a storm is unlikely. Our original plan was that we waited in ambush at the mouth of the valley. Werther is the Dark Brotherhood. Leader, he is a busy man, he can't stay in the cave all the time. After he comes out, we will intercept him halfway." Yake said.
"Come on, it's useless at all. We've been in ambush for two weeks." Gridan spread his hands and looked helpless.
Link was a little confused, and looked at Lucy, who was the most expressive among the three: "Sister, what's going on?"
Lucy talked blandly, and as soon as the call ended, Link had a clear understanding of the whole incident.
It turned out that the flamingo mercenary team had been active in the north, but after the Greenstone incident, Yake, the captain, felt that the north was no longer safe. They were very likely to encounter the regular army of dark elves, and those blood-eyed bastards never Humans talk about affection, and when they meet, they will fight to the end, and they don't have to talk about affection at all.
This matter was too terrible, so after discussing it with a few people, they moved to the south.
More than 20 days ago, they arrived in Gwent Forest and received a reward from the River Valley Town Hall. After investigating all the way, they found out the basic situation and finally set up an ambush in Echo Valley.
As a result, the ambush lasted for two weeks, and we didn't even see Werther's shadow.
The wand in Link's hand tapped his forehead lightly, thinking seriously, and soon came up with a general idea: "Werther can't be hiding all the time, but he hasn't appeared, either, he is not in the valley at all, or there is another place in the valley." an exit."
"Impossible, he must be in the valley, that's his lair! We captured a few peripheral members of the Dark Brotherhood, and every member said so." Yake denied Link's first conjecture.
"Then there is only the second possibility." Link spread his hands: "I heard that cunning rabbits will dig a lot of exits for their own nests, and a person as cunning as Werther should not be trapped in the valley Middle. If you guess correctly, the other exit is in the cave in the valley.”
In fact, in the previous game, the cave in Echo Valley is a copy, called 'Silent Mine'. The passages inside the cave are intricate, like a maze. There are at least three exits. Many players will get lost when they enter the instance for the first time. After walking around for a long time, they just couldn't find Werther.
Because of this, this dungeon is also called the Labyrinth of Silence.
Now this is the real world, and the situation in the cave will only be more complicated.
Link's statement made sense, and the mercenaries were all convinced. Lucy frowned and said, "The other exits are used by Werther to save his life. They must be very hidden. If you are not a core member, you must not know. I can't find it."
"This damned tortoise is as timid as a mouse!" The archer Gridan shook the arrow in his hand resentfully. He thought that he would have been stalking the valley mouth for two weeks, eating wind and drinking dew every day. , I hate it so much.
Yake looked at Link: "What can you do?"
He has already used the honorific title for Link, one is because of the opponent's strength, and the other is the opponent's mind.
Link already has a secret case, he said with a smile: "Let's attack by force."
As soon as the words were finished, the three mercenaries all stared at him, Jacques frowned, and Gridan looked dazed, if it hadn't been for the loss before, it is estimated that the words of cynicism would be exported at this moment, Lucy Then he smiled bitterly: "Link, there are only four of us. The opponent has thirty times as many people as us."
Link smiled, he didn't answer right away, but allocated his own free points first.
He now has 105 free points.
According to the exchange rules of free points, 1 free point can be exchanged for 10 points of the upper limit of mana, but now he is in a state of magic weakness, so the effect is temporarily reduced by 90%, and 1 free point can be exchanged for 1 point of upper limit of mana. I can't help but have a lot of freedom points.
After thinking about it, Link directly added 75 free points to the upper limit of mana, so his upper limit of mana became 99.1, plus he also brought a bottle of low-level mana potion, which can gain 100 points in a short time Mana, drinking one bottle can replenish his mana, so the amount of mana he can control today is 198 points.
His glass bead magic, one energy consumption is 1 point, he can launch 198 glass beads, plus three helpers, it is not difficult for one glass bead to deal with a robber, and with some auxiliary magic and tactics, storm Getting into the valley is not difficult.
Of course, Link didn't add this point purely for this temporary mission, but he really needed to do it.
Think about it, a level 4 Pyroblast requires 320 points of mana, and his upper limit of mana is only 241 points, and he can't release a single Pyroblast. Now add 75 points, and wait for the magic weakening effect to pass , he already has 991 points of mana. At that time, he will definitely have more free points, which can be used to buy level 4 or even level 5 magic, and can be used directly, instead of being left alone due to insufficient mana limit. .
Even if he doesn't have enough free points, he still has a Pyroblast.
Besides, saving free points is not a problem, and storming Echo Valley is still a bit dangerous. If it is over due to insufficient mana, and there are still free points that have not been used up by then, then fuck it.
Now, he has 30 free points left, which are used to deal with the unexpected.
All these adding points happened in Link's mind, and it was completed in an instant. Then, Link said with a smile: "Of course it's impossible with the three of you, but with me, it's not a problem."
"..."
The three of Yake looked at each other. These words hurt people's self-esteem too much, but when they thought of the strength shown by the other party before, the three of them had nothing to say. This young magician just used the fireball technique before. Who knew he Will there be other magic? It might even be possible.
But that fact is kind of crazy.
Seeing that the three were still hesitating, Link waved his wand and urged: "It's getting late, make a decision sooner, I only have one life, and it's impossible to die, don't you think so?"
This seems to make sense.
Yake reacted. He believed that such a young man with terrifying spellcasting ability would never joke with him, so he asked, "Then what should we do?"
Link already had a plan in mind, he bought a magic first: a real double.
real stand-in
1st level earth elemental magic
Effect: Create a magical phantom that can make footsteps, talk, and smell, almost indistinguishable from a real person.
(Note: It can't swim, and don't let it get wet if you don't want to get exposed.)
This magic has little effect on magicians, but it can fool those robbers and gangsters who don't know magic.
After preparing the magic, Link began to arrange tactics as he walked.
The members of the flamingo mercenary team listened, their eyes became brighter and brighter. In the end, when Link used the real double magic to successfully duplicate an indistinguishable Yake, the three mercenaries had already turned to Lin Ke. K had no doubts.
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Just when Link and the others had finished rushing to Echo Valley, Werther was receiving a special guest in the silent mine. Some information is a sapphire wand in his hand.
On the table in front of the two, there was a money bag and a crystal emitting purple-black light. Because of this gemstone, although many candles were lit in the cave, there was still an unspeakable sense of gloom .
"Witt, the purse is full of top-quality gemstones, worth more than 500 gold coins, this is a reward. What you need to do is to find a way to give this crystal to a certain magician from East Valley Magic Academy, a certain pair of black Magicians interested in magic."
"Understood, my lord." Werther stared at the money bag tightly, his eyes full of greed. One of his hobbies in life is to make money, and he saves it when he earns it. Every time he saves money, he feels great satisfaction.
In fact, he doesn't even mind selling his relatives if someone can pay enough, hehe.
"Don't let me down, and don't let the master down!" The black-robed man's voice was hoarse, like a broken bellows. If Link was here, he would be able to tell that the man had used magic to change his voice.
"I will do my best." Werther half-kneeled on the ground to express his loyalty. When he looked up, the man in black had disappeared, just as suddenly as when he appeared.
Werther was in awe and admiration in his heart: "It's really a terrifying method."
He took the money bag on the table, opened it, and under the light of the candle, the gemstones in it shone with dazzling brilliance.
"Tsk tsk, opals, sapphires, and fire diamonds are really beautiful. Your lord is really generous to give 500 gold coins for a mission." Werther carefully admired each gemstone, only feeling satisfied.