Later, Scar Jack found a group of teammates, which seemed to be some kind of mercenary group.
Shao Ci originally thought that so many people could not be needed, but Scar Jack insisted very much, and said that having so many people can increase the chance of success, so Shao Ci nodded.
After roughly figuring out what the task was, everyone set out on the road. After all, Shao Ci had no intention of staying here for a few more days.
The underground ruins are quite large, and there is an entrance not far from the village, hidden under the rocks.
After entering the ruins, Shao Ci felt that the temperature had dropped instantly, and the surrounding area was pitch black, and could only be illuminated by people using oil lamps.
It can be seen that there are buildings around, but most of the buildings are still buried by sand.
After all, there used to be a country under the desert, and this is probably the outer city of the original king's capital. The monsters are relatively weak, but the valuable things in the buildings are almost robbed.
It is said that the deeper the ruins, the stronger the monsters, and the more treasures inside.
Everyone knew that Shao Ci was the patron and a powerful magician, and his attitude was respectful.
Of course, there are also some people who secretly look down on Shao Ci, and they don't believe that any magician will come here. It is estimated that someone with a few small magics will claim to be a magician or something like an upstart.
After that, all the monsters encountered along the way were solved by everyone. After encountering a few powerful monsters, everyone panicked. In the past, it was impossible to meet such monsters without killing a few people. If it was more serious, it would even lead to the destruction of the group.
Unexpectedly, after everyone was ready to sacrifice, these monsters were all dealt with by Shao Ci's quick magic.
After such a thing, no one questioned Shao Ci's level anymore. Everyone looked at Shao Ci with eyes like gods. No matter what such a powerful person wanted to do in the desert of death, in short, with Powerful magicians, they absolutely don't have to worry about group destruction.
Because of Shao Ci's extremely fast journey, everyone arrived at the entrance of the underground palace in just one day.
Because the surrounding monsters are very powerful, almost no one has been here, and the tall walls of the palace are still covered with dark vines, full of a gloomy and strange atmosphere.
It was the first time for everyone to come here, and they were both excited and nervous at the same time. They couldn't help but look at Scar Jack, the only one who had entered it.
Scar Jack's expression became serious, "The last time I came here, I found a shortcut to the palace nearby. There will be a lot fewer monsters there, but it's not easy to deal with."
Of course, even though they knew that the monsters were not easy to deal with, they didn't intend to back down. On the contrary, they became more excited. Everyone came here with the possibility of dying here.
They accepted Shao Ci's employment not only for the few gold coins, but also because they wanted to enter the palace where countless treasures were hidden in the legend.
Scar Jack led the crowd through a cave. It is said that this was once the sewer of the ancient palace. After drilling out of the dark passage, everyone's eyes suddenly brightened.
Completely different from the dim ruins outside, the interior of the palace has not been damaged at all. All the buildings are intact, and there are even small flowers growing on the grass that was originally a garden.
A light came from nowhere, illuminating the palace very brightly.
Everyone froze in place, looking at the scene in front of them, even if they were told that there were still people living in the palace, they wouldn't be surprised.
"Everyone be careful." Only Scar Jack, who had seen such a scene before, was very calm, "This is the most dangerous place. Because it is the best preserved, the ancient magic circle inside is still functioning. Compared with monsters more threatening."
Everyone became vigilant, but the excitement still did not dissipate.
The palace is so well preserved, it is conceivable that the treasures inside must have never been touched.
Shao Ci also became nervous, looking at the palace in front of him, he actually felt a little familiar.
And Shao Ci hasn't seen many palaces since he traveled to this world, and he remembered it after a little recollection. Isn't this the palace he saw in Ewings' dream
He never believed it was a coincidence, and immediately wanted to ask Ewings what was going on, maybe he could make this mission complete faster.
But the connection between the two seemed to be blocked by something, no matter how hard Shao Ci tried, he couldn't feel the breath of Ewings.
"It's troublesome." Shao Ci's face changed, because Ewings hadn't appeared since entering the city, and he didn't know when he couldn't contact Ewings... Looking at it now, it should be related to this underground palace There are relationships.
Then the person next to him asked Shao Ci where he was going, Shao Ci settled down, thinking about his goal, the crown inside the underground palace should be placed in the treasure house, and said: "Let's find out where the treasure house is. where?"
The people around suddenly burst into cheers, and it was obvious that everyone couldn't wait to go to the place where the treasure house was.
Scar Jack's expression became more and more tense, "As for the underground treasure house, there is an extremely powerful monster guarding it."
Someone next to him disdainfully said: "We have a powerful mage, no matter how strong the monster is, it is nothing at all."
Shao Ci: "!" Although it's a good thing to be praised by others, he actually doesn't have much confidence!
"That monster can turn into a human to deceive others, so everyone should be careful, if you encounter any strangers, never show mercy." Scarred Jack said.
The others naturally nodded, not to mention that the stranger might be a monster, even if it was really a human being, they would kill them directly in order to have one less person to share the treasure.
"I have been here last time, so I still have some understanding of the terrain." Scar Jack said: "We are now in the outermost garden of the palace, but the treasure house is in the center of the palace, and we have to go through it." Four or five halls, there are not many monsters here, everyone be careful."
The words of instruction were almost finished, and everyone tidied themselves up and continued to walk forward.
Shao Ci cautiously stood in the middle. In the original text, Wendell rescued a local girl, and then learned that the girl was a royal descendant of the underground palace, and then got some map and a necklace from her.
Relying on the map, Wendell successfully entered the underground palace, and the necklace also blocked all the magic circles and monsters. In the end, he easily defeated a few monsters that were in the way and completed the task.
But Shao Ci has long forgotten the girl's name, and there are countless villages in this desert... How could he encounter such a thing that completely needs the aura of the protagonist? Hey!
So now Shao Ci can only do it by himself, and the worry about the unknown still makes him a little uneasy.
The light that came from nowhere illuminated all places clearly, and when everyone stepped on the shiny floor tiles of the palace, Shao Ci suddenly felt a chill creeping up from the soles of his feet.
When he looked down, he saw his own shadow reflected by the floor tiles, and suddenly he seemed to see those dark eyes looking at him.
Shao Ci was frightened into a cold sweat, and then he looked at it again and felt that it was just an ordinary reflection, "Did I see it wrong just now..."
It would be fine if it was in another place, Shao Ci became uneasy in this kind of underground palace where countless people had died.
Suddenly there was a scream in front, and the people around suddenly moved away. Shao Ci quickly looked up, and saw that half of a person's body was sunk into the floor. He was full of panic, and the people around him tried to pull him out, but it was useless.
"Oops!" Jack the Scar said, "This is the defensive magic circle of the palace. Only by closing it can the man be rescued!"
Everyone panicked immediately. Shao Ci used his mental strength to investigate, and quickly noticed something was wrong. When he looked down, he could even see the ground began to undulate.
"Get out of the way!" Shao Ci pushed away Scar Jack next to him, and threw a light spell directly from the staff in his hand to the ground where Scar Jack was standing.
In an instant, something like a mirror shattered on the ground, and the originally shiny floor instantly lost its original luster and turned into ordinary stones.
"Huh..." Shao Ci heaved a sigh of relief, raised his head, and saw that only the head of the first person who fell into it was left outside, and that head had turned into a stone, obviously dead The can no longer die.
"It seems that he is hopeless." Scar Jack looked at Shao Ci gratefully, and said, "Thank you for saving my life, sir."
Although one person died, everyone felt lucky. In fact, it was quite lucky that only one person died after all this time.
In the following journey, everyone became more vigilant, and soon came to the first hall.
The hall was full of gorgeous decorations, and the floor was even covered with soft carpets. Seeing that Shao Ci had no instructions, everyone rushed in and put away the valuable things.
Shao Ci found a place to sit aside, he felt that he also needed to take a break after being so exciting along the way.
"Not good!" Scarred Jack next to him suddenly realized something, "There is danger here!"
"What?" Shao Ci stood up abruptly, looking around nervously.
After experiencing what happened in the corridor before, he was already as frightened as a bird.
"When we came last time, our group of people obviously searched almost everything here, but now it's still exactly the same as before..." Scarred Jack's expression was a little terrified.
The moment after his words fell, countless pitch-black vines suddenly drilled out from the gap and attacked everyone.
There is still a lot of magic energy on this vine, once it is wrapped around a person, it will absorb a lot of vitality from the human body, it can be said that if it is wrapped around, it will be death.
Everyone's complexion changed, and they fled towards the exit as if fleeing for their lives, and a vine suddenly appeared under Shao Ci's feet, and when it was about to wrap around his body, Scarred Jack next to him suddenly threw him aside , the vines wrapped themselves around Scar Jack's body.
The power of this vine was astonishing, but Scar Jack's face became extremely pale in a moment.
"You..." Shao Ci looked at him in astonishment, "Why did you save me?"
"My lord magician... you must not die..." Scar Jack gritted his teeth: "Only you can avenge me and my companions!"
"You wait." Shao Ci quickly squatted down, holding the hand of Scar Jack, and continuously passed the healing ability into his body.
Scar Jack looked at Shao Ci in surprise, "You can still recover..."
"Now is not the time to talk about this!" Shao Ci saw that Scar Jack didn't seem to be in danger of dying for the time being, so he threw a few fireballs to burn the vines, and pulled Scar Jack to stand up.
After all this delay, the number of vines in the palace was already extremely terrifying, and it was obviously unrealistic to save people. Shao Ci and Scar Jack escaped in a hurry, and the others had long since disappeared.
"It seems that we have to go by ourselves." Shao Ci said, "If we are lucky, maybe other people can see each other again..."
The two continued to walk forward, and the journey was unexpectedly smooth. In addition, after entering the main hall, the two of them would not go to get anything, and they arrived at the gate of the treasure house where the destination was located very quickly.
... This is too fast!
Standing at the entrance of the underground treasure house, Shao Ci couldn't help feeling a bit tangled up. He always felt that if things went too smoothly, there would definitely be a conspiracy. He subconsciously asked, "Speaking of which, where did you meet that terrifying monster last time?"
"Last time?" Scar Jack seemed to be thinking about something, and lowered his head.
Shao Ci suddenly realized something was wrong.
Scar Jack said that he and his companions were deceived by a monster, and in the end he was the only one who survived... Why is this routine familiar, and why what is happening now is somewhat similar.
Would that group of people really trust a random person they met in the underground ruins so casually? And if that monster can deceive so many people, will it still be able to change into someone else's appearance
And speaking of it, why on earth did he invite so many people to come together? It's useless now, it's like he's here to die, and Scar Jack was the one who brought up this matter in the first place...
Thinking about it this way, it feels like Scar Jack has too many problems along the way!
"It seems that you have discovered something?" The voice sounded from behind, Shao Ci suddenly turned his head, only to see a green glow, and the next moment he was pushed directly from the entrance of the passage.
Damn it! !
Shao Ci rolled down the steps directly, and quickly added some defensive magic to himself, so as not to fall into a fool.
After Shao Ci rolled to the bottom, he didn't even have time to look at what was in the treasure house. He stood up nervously, picked up the staff, looked up at the red-haired man who was slowly walking down in front of him, and his face became ugly, "You , Are you the monster guarding this palace?"
How could he have been fooled by a monster for so long? !
But he walked all the way with this person, but he didn't notice anything, and even the system didn't prompt, what's going on... If it's a monster, it's impossible not to show any magic energy.
"You can understand it like this." Scar Jack with a strange pattern on his face laughed, his eyes glowed with green light in the dark hall, and he didn't look like a human at all at this time. "Anyone who has been to this palace will be cursed. Even if they leave here, they will not be able to get rid of the curse here for the rest of their lives, and will only become my puppets."
"Is that so..." So all the people who came into this palace are already enemies? !
Shao Ci took a few steps back subconsciously. In the original text, Wendell has never encountered such a terrifying monster. Hey!
The reason why the system does not prompt is that it can only be classified as the fact that the other party has not even released the main body, so it is not considered a formal relationship...
"But you are really strange." 'Scar Jack' looked over, and said coldly, "I just wanted to deceive more people, but I didn't expect that you are the only one in this group who cannot be cursed, and even Knowing how to use the healing technique of the temple, you are definitely not just a magician."
"What exactly do you want to do?" Shao Ci grasped the staff that he bought to pretend to be a magician, and his expression became more and more tense. "If I do it, you, a puppet, will not be able to resist me."
"Compared to that, you are starting to feel dizzy now."'Scar Jack' said with a smile, as if he was sure that he would not lose.
"What?" Shao Ci took a step back, really feeling dizzy, but the picture in front of him had turned into a double image in a moment, and he couldn't help but staggered, "You, what did you do to me?"
"I just poisoned you a little bit." The other party said: "I thought it would not work, but now it seems that this healing technique has no effect on this poison. You have no way to resist. Give up." Struggle."
"Oops..." Shao Ci fell to the ground uncontrollably, and the staff in his hand rolled to the side, but he had no strength at all.
If this continues, he will really be killed by this monster!
"Don't worry." Shao Ci felt a cold hand gently caressing his cheek in a daze, "I won't kill you."
"Because I happen to be short of a partner."
It was before Shao Ci fell into a coma that he finally remembered that he seemed to have used a healing technique on Scar Jack...as long as the opponent is a non-human creature, he can gain some favor.
Didn't expect this behavior to save his life!
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Shao Ci woke up in a daze, feeling extremely heavy and unable to move at all.
He opened his eyes, only to find that his hands and feet were locked by chains, and only one piece of clothes remained, and his body was placed in a soft seat.
He seemed to be in a bedroom in this palace, and the surrounding furniture and decorations were quite gorgeous.
... Now, you should be able to see the prototype of that monster, right
As Shao Ci thought about it, he suddenly hugged his neck from behind with both hands. Shao Ci's body froze in fright. He turned his head with difficulty and saw a brown-haired boy who seemed a little embarrassed. He smiled shyly.
[Beep beep... A new monster has been detected... According to the rules of the system, the attack target has been replaced... After the replacement, the current attack target is An Laise (Poisonous Scorpion).]
[This is the fifth monster that the host wants to purify, and half of the goal has been reached, please come on, host.]
Shao Ci: "... ??" Wait, isn't this, this monster's race a bit scary? Hey!
Shao Ci, like spiders and scorpions, is also very helpless, although he won't be so frightened that his legs go limp. But for him, this kind of existence is also the kind of terrifying existence that would make his whole body go numb when he saw it, and he would look away quickly without even wanting to look at it, and would never go up and touch it unless it was absolutely necessary!
At the beginning of this world, Shao Ci also thought about whether there would be such a monster... But such a serious thing never appeared in the original work (or it would be quickly turned into scum), he Also relieved.
As a result, what is going on now? Hey!
"System, can I give up the target of this attack..." Even the experienced Shao Ci couldn't help asking the system tremblingly.
[Of course not, what are you talking about, host.]The system ruthlessly replied, [Look at the current situation, is this something you can refuse.]
Ahhh he knew it would be like this!
Shao Ci had no choice but to cheer up, enduring his fear, and seriously looked at the young man behind him.
Poisonous scorpions are obviously extremely powerful and terrifying monsters, but their human form is only about fifteen or sixteen years old.
He has brown hair and a pair of light green eyes. He has a very clean appearance and looks extremely shy. After meeting Shao Ci's eyes, he even lowered his head in embarrassment.
If he didn't know that this is actually the poisonous scorpion, Shao Ci would have thought he was just an ordinary harmless boy, hey!
And when he was possessing a body, his tone was so mediocre, but when he used his original body, he turned out to be such an introverted character
"You're awake." An Laise whispered, and walked in front of Shao Ci from behind.
From Shao Ci's point of view, An Laise's appearance was no different from that of a human being. Just thinking about the prototype of the other party, Shao Ci felt like his whole body was terrified... This, this is already an instinctive fear, and there is nothing he can do about it!
"It seems that the poison I used was a bit too much before. Do you feel okay now?" An Laise leaned over, reached out to stroke Shao Ci's cheek, and stared at him worriedly.
Shao Ci couldn't help trembling, "It's, it's okay..."
It would be more perfect if you can let go of your hands.
Shao Ci suddenly felt dizzy when he thought that he would spend an unknown amount of time with such a terrifying monster.