The sky is getting dark. The castle is located on the edge of the sparse woods. Looking into the distance, you can see that the moon has slowly risen from the horizon. Some villages that can be vaguely seen during the day have disappeared into the night. The surrounding areas There was silence.
"There is indeed a problem here." The trainee ranger said, "In this season, the wild should not be so quiet."
"Undead monsters emit negative energy, and no living thing likes it. Except for a very small number of mutated monsters in the ash forest in the northwest, even ordinary monsters will deliberately avoid the influence of negative energy." The trainee priest said. These things are still very clear, "It's just... when we came here during the day, there were obviously many wild beasts here."
"Yes, I originally planned to catch two of them for barbecue at night." The trainee ranger couldn't help but sigh, "Now I have to eat dry food."
"Probably during the day, the negative energy is suppressed by the sunlight." The trainee priest guessed, "At night, the negative energy will be strengthened. So it is said that in the Ash Forest, there are often a large number of undead monsters at night, which is dangerous. Incomparable.”
"Undead? If it's a skeleton or something, there's nothing to be afraid of." The rough trainee warrior chuckled, "It's just a thick wooden stick, just smash it down and that's it."
"Of course one or two skeletons are not scary. Even ordinary farmers can deal with them." Yu Yi smiled slightly and said, "However, it is said that the skeletons in the Ash Forest either do not appear, or if they do appear, they will at least be counted as 'hundred'." Unit. Every night, tens of thousands of skeletons may appear. Do you think you can defeat hundreds of skeletons?"
The trainee soldier shook his head without even thinking about it.
Of course there are heroes in the world who can defeat hundreds of skeletons, but he is definitely not one of them. Not to mention hundreds, dealing with ten or eight skeletons at once would be enough to kill him.
After all, although skeletons are not very powerful individually, they are better because they are not afraid of pain or death. When the number increases, the threat immediately rises.
Not to mention anything else, once you are hugged by five or six skeletons, unless you are a hero with natural supernatural powers, ordinary people will not be able to use their kung fu no matter how good they are, and they will definitely die.
He was barely skilled in martial arts. If he used all his skills, he might be able to drive a dozen farmers away in panic, but when faced with a dozen skeletons, he would be the one running away.
"The strange thing is, why can't I feel the negative energy?" The trainee pastor sensed it carefully for a while and said in confusion, "I can't feel it at all."
"You can probably feel it when you step out of this magic circle." Yui said lightly, "But that also means that you may be attacked by evil spirits."
The trainee pastor's head shrank: "I don't want to take that kind of risk. If you can't feel it, then you can't feel it."
Everyone smiled kindly. For these rookie adventurers, safety first is undoubtedly the golden rule. Anyone who doesn't respect this rule will most likely die in an adventure and have no chance to enjoy a bright future.
"Okay, it's getting late. Let's eat some solid food and go to bed early. The three of us will take turns to keep vigil." After laughing, the trainee knight began to arrange the vigil work.
When adventuring, keeping vigil is an essential and important task. Night is the time when most monsters are active. If no vigil is arranged, once attacked by monsters, everyone may die in confusion.
There is a custom among adventurers that spellcasters do not keep vigil. This is not only to take care of the spell casters who are relatively weak and need adequate rest, but also to ensure that their lack of sleep will not affect their state during the day and reduce the success rate of spell casting.
Adequate sleep can allow spellcasters to better recover their magic power and maintain a good mental state. Unless there are so many spellcasters in the team that you don't need to care about such trivial matters, everyone will abide by the rule of "casters don't keep vigil".
In other words, if anyone sees a group of adventurers actually asking spellcasters to keep vigil, then they are probably novices!
Of course, there are exceptions. For example, some priests who believe in the God of Night or the God of Shadow, or Necromancers... Night is their home field, and during the day they will be sluggish.
However, this type of spellcaster will definitely not act with ordinary adventurers, so strictly speaking, it is not really a special case.
Naturally, Yui and the trainee priest are not special cases. Both of them need sufficient rest to ensure that they have sufficient magic power and good condition tomorrow. But unlike Yui, who slept peacefully, the trainee priest obviously didn't sleep well. He tossed and turned during the night and woke up several times.
More than once, he clearly felt that an evil force was peering at him, so he woke up from his sleep, but when he looked around, he saw nothing. Not long after he fell asleep, he felt the evil power peeking at him again, so he was woken up again... This repeated several times, and he couldn't sleep well that night, and he felt sluggish the next morning. , obviously in poor condition.
Naturally, his companions noticed his situation and asked with concern. However, when he told him about the several times he woke up during the night, the three people on guard looked blank.
Not to mention the warriors and knights with relatively weak perceptual abilities, even the rangers with better perceptual abilities did not feel any evil prying eyes.
"Stop thinking nonsense, this is a method used by evil spirits." Yui, who was full of energy after a good sleep, sighed and said, "It is spying on you from the spirit world, and it knows that the caster is its biggest enemy. , so trying to disrupt your spirit—this may be a good thing, because it proves from the side that this evil spirit is not very strong, otherwise, it would not have to use this method."
After analyzing it like this, everyone felt much more at ease. The curious warrior thought of another thing and asked, "What about you? Are you also a spell caster?"
Yu Yi smiled and said: "Maybe it can only disturb a person's mind, which is the limit. In any case, compared to me, a mage, the priest must be a greater threat to it."
Of course what she said was a lie. Although she was using the body of the trainee mage now, the soul inside the body was a talented young mage, and the child of two legendary powerful men. According to some scholars, the personality of her soul is inherently higher than that of ordinary people. The evil spirit also tried to attack her at night, but instead of disturbing her spirit, it was counterattacked and she was seriously injured. .
But these naturally cannot be explained to her companions. Anyway, the evil spirit will be mentally damaged and its strength will definitely decrease. Although her previous analysis was wrong, at least the result was correct.
In contrast, she was a little curious about another thing.
During this night, she clearly felt that a kind soul was watching her, sending friendly messages, and seemed to want to tell her something. It's a pity that she is a mage after all, not a priest, and soul communication is not her strong point, so she couldn't hear it clearly, which is a pity.
"How many days will we have enough dry food?" the captain asked.
The ranger in charge of logistics took a look at it and replied: "If you save a little, you can eat it for three days. Normally, we will hunt after lunch tomorrow."
"Then rest this morning." The captain said, "The priest must get enough rest. We can't take risks."
No one had any objection to this, and the ranger even said that he could take advantage of this morning to go hunting and catch a few rabbits for lunch.
So what they had for lunch was roast rabbit and a little dry food.
The novice adventurers' barbecue skills are not very good, but at least they are cooked. Yui was not satisfied with the food, but at least he was safely full.
She was not idle this morning. While checking the situation of the purification circle, she made some temporary props. Using some temporarily collected materials and using up almost all the gem reserves of the trainee mage, she made several crafts. The crude pendants were strung together with thin ropes and given to each of the companions.
"Psychic protection pendant." She introduced, "It can slightly improve the ability to defend against mental attacks, which is better than nothing."
The companions happily wore the pendant, although Yui knew that it would not be of much help.
The characterization of the mental protection circle was correct, and the materials were matched strictly according to the rules. The problem was that the materials were too low-level, and she did not have enough magic power to infiltrate these materials to enhance their effects.
This method, called "enchantment", has strict requirements on the magic power of the caster. The trainee mage only has so much magic power. Considering that she may have to fight in the afternoon or evening, this is the only magic power she can draw out.
If everything goes well tonight, she can perform secondary processing on these pendants tomorrow morning to improve their effects. Although it can't be improved much, at least it won't waste those few gems.
With this thought in mind, Yui kept the scrolls and wands ready for use at any time, and then hung two short swords made of locust wood on his waist.
The pair of daggers had been made for her by the knight this morning at her request. Locust wood is a kind of wood that can be well integrated with negative energy. Using it as a primer, this pair of swords may also be used to harm evil spirits.
Of course, that requires another kind of introduction. She didn't want to use that if she didn't have to.
Even if this is just a game, Yui never intends to risk his life.
However, she would not hesitate if necessary.
In battle, the last emotion you can't have is hesitation. No matter what kind of choice you make, it's better than no choice at all.
After lunch, the pastor finally rested and regained his energy.
So the group of people arranged the most suitable formation for fighting and stepped into the castle again.
This time, they were much more serious and nervous than yesterday.
Sui Xiong watched all this from the sky and couldn't help but smile.
"This kid Yui... seems to have the talent to be a commander..."