The long night is like day to the wood elves, but to Akasha, it represents endless fear.
The moment she fell into the abyss, she clearly saw orange flames emanating from the giant snake's mouth, and the scorching air waves even made her hair curl slightly—fortunately, it only took about two seconds for her to fall. It touched the ground.
"sip"
The muffled rumble echoed in my ears, my body seemed to be falling apart, but it wasn't as terrible as the pain into the bone marrow. Akasha stretched out her hand to touch it, and found that there were pieces of broken...paper beneath her body.
Looking up, the giant snake's head was trying to get into the gap, but after several failures, it finally gave up trying, and turned to swim elsewhere—when its huge body twisted, the stone slabs shook again, and the gap The dust and gravel that fell in the air caused Akasha to raise her hand to cover her head, and it took a long time before she dared to put it down.
And after the other party left completely, somehow, the gaps in those stone slabs returned to their original state, almost completely blocking the faint starlight.
Gradually, the surroundings fell into silence, all the sounds in her ears seemed to be blocked, and boundless darkness enveloped her.
Although she escaped with her life from the jaws of this terrifying monster, Akasha couldn't feel any comfort at all at this time, because she couldn't be sure whether she was safe. Released a healing technique to eliminate the pain. Akasha stood up and tried to widen her eyes, but she couldn't see anything.
Raising her hand tentatively, she released a weak "Holy Light" for illumination—after seeing the surroundings clearly, Akasha opened her mouth in shock from everything in front of her.
The first thing that came into view was the half-meter-thick paper scraps under the feet, which had decayed like mud because of years of rainwater.
Raising his head, with the help of the weak light, there are more than a hundred dead bodies lying around in the stone room, making Akasha feel cold all over his body...
The hall with an area of more than 500 square meters is like a palace. The walls are smooth and there is no exit at all. The ground is full of collapsed bookshelves, shredded papers and all kinds of fallen corpses.
A closed stone chamber was displayed in front of Akasha, the first intruder in 71 years.
There were a total of 130 corpses on the ground, and the corpses that completely surrounded Akasha had decayed and turned gray-black, but some skin remained on the skull for unknown reasons, and the ferocious expression remained after hundreds of years. with. Looking at the faces of those corpses, Akasha seemed to be able to vaguely hear the sound of fighting hundreds of years ago echoing in the stone room...
Her lips were trembling, and she wanted to look for the exit like crazy, but when she spent half an hour confirming that the walls around her had no way out, and the gap above her head could not be climbed up, the original hope in her heart was being wiped out before her eyes. The desperation is bit by bit eating away at the net...
Although she has experienced life-and-death battles, she is not afraid of those miserable corpses, but this does not mean that Akasha can bear the fear of despair...
A space so silent that it suffocated her, monsters waiting in the darkness, and nearly a hundred corpses on display—Akasha, who was only 23 years old, stared blankly at everything in front of her. As if the air was gradually being emptied, she shook her head and murmured: "Why do you want to do this...why do you want to do this
The strong will that originally supported her to "walk out of the forest" was finally completely destroyed by a series of blows. The fright, exhaustion, hunger, mana overdraft and anemia caused Akasha to be unable to hold on any longer. After that, Akasha's will to survive finally completely collapsed...
When the lighting effect of the "Holy Light Technique" slowly disappeared, Akasha sat down on the ground slumped.
"Who...who will help me..."
Amid the sobs, Akasha closed her eyes like a helpless little girl, and the faint cry for help echoed in the stone room, which was extremely desolate.
the next day.
The sky above the Silent Whispering Forest was covered by overcast clouds. Without sunlight, the air became gloomy and bitter.
The "Blood Shield Mercenary Group" divided into two groups was ready for the mission at this time. The head of the group, Kevin, leisurely led nearly forty people towards Elsa Village, while the remaining ten mercenaries At this time, the soldiers had come to the edge of the "Wagla Ruins".
The route has been surveyed and cleaned up. The ten mercenaries, led by the deputy head, are all holding the horses prepared in advance, looking at the still silent ruins a hundred meters away.
"Is everything ready? Then get ready—"
The deputy head stuffed the magic communication scroll used to inform Kevin, got up and was about to give an order, but the words stuck in his throat, frowning and looking at both sides.
It seems a little too quiet around here...
Some doubts flashed quietly in his heart, but then he remembered that the giant snake was an existence that could cause a wave of beasts—the tranquility of the forest at this time was probably due to the coercive existence maintained by the other party after waking up.
The last trace of doubt dissipated, the deputy head gave the order to start "inducing", everyone got on their horses, and then everyone took out a delicate metal box from their bodies, and uniformly inlaid a magic crystal the size of a thumb in the box groove on the top.
The reason why the Snake King Sakya was awakened from a deep sleep and released a strong coercion is entirely because of this "Viper Cross" device specially used to search for high-level monsters... The magic circle depicted inside the box will cast unbearable magic power for monsters Fluctuation, once within a range of 100 meters, any monster will chase after it because it is provoked
At this time, the deputy head led the team gradually approaching the ruins. The horses hesitated because of the coercion of the snake king Sakya in front, but they had to move forward under the urging of the mercenaries. The tense atmosphere made the air stagnate. Although everyone looked calm, the hands of the mercenaries holding the reins were already soaked in sweat.
One hundred meters, eighty meters, seventy meters...
"boom"
When approaching 60 meters, there was a muffled sound from the ruins in the distance, and then a large cloud of smoke and dust suddenly appeared in the middle—
"run"
In order not to make any mistakes in this induction task, the deputy head personally led the action, so the mercenaries did not dare to slack off, turned their horses and started running towards the pre-planned route, and set it up in the shortest possible time. formation...
Among the ruins behind, the body of the Snake King Sakya suddenly rushed out of the dust, its huge head was raised slightly, without any hesitation at this moment, it stared directly at those big gray eyes and chased after the mercenaries. Go, the sound of "hissing" came from the smelly mouth, and the anger was undisguised
When its body broke away from the ruins, it can be seen that it has an astonishing length of more than 30 meters - but the body weighing several tons is not slow at all under the full pursuit, and it jumps tens of meters in the blink of an eye , Approaching the mercenaries who have not yet run at full speed.
However, when the deputy head led the mercenaries through the initial acceleration stage, the giant snake that was chasing wildly behind him could no longer get any closer. Although he still pursued closely, his speed slowed down a lot.
"It's just a stupid beast, nothing to be afraid of"
A mercenary next to the deputy head shouted, and the nervous companions laughed, and the reins seemed to be flowing in their hands.
"At the end of this vote, the head of the group will reward everyone for being unrelenting—fuck it and hide!"
The deputy captain looked back while talking, but when he saw Sakya raised his head suddenly, his face changed drastically, and he shouted to make the mercenaries avoid...
"boom-"
The flames suddenly lit up the gloomy forest. Sakya, as a high-level fire-attributed monster, could blow out nearly 30 meters away with just the simplest breath. The flames shrouded, and in an instant even people and horses became galloping torches, screaming and falling to the ground...
Then it was crushed into meat paste by Sakya directly with his body.
Such an accident made the spines of the mercenaries who had just run far away feel chills, and the original pride was instantly as if cold water had been poured on their heads, and all of them ran forward with tense faces—once they accelerated, the Snake King Sakya His flame breath was useless, but it still chased after him angrily.
"It's just a snake after all..."
The deputy head breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but just when he thought that all the plans would go smoothly, a muffled sound came from his ear, which made him turn his head in doubt...
"puff"
The mercenary who was still yelling that Sakya was a beast just fell straight off his horse, with an arrow stuck in his chest
Why are there arrows here? Who will attack us
Before he could figure out such a problem in his head, he only felt something shaking in front of his eyes, and immediately leaned over to dodge, narrowly dodging a long arrow.
"Someone attacked"
"Enemy attacks beware of hidden arrows"
The remaining mercenaries yelled, but just as soon as they were distracted, Sakya, the snake king who was chasing after him, directly used flame breath to turn another unlucky ghost into a torch.
The deputy head was terrified and raised his head, but he couldn't find anyone who shot the arrow at all.
was plotted against
He gritted his teeth and looked back at the Snake King Sakya, but he reached out and took out the magic scroll used to notify Kevin, and tore the seal on it fiercely...
Let the time go back to a few minutes ago.
When the mercenaries of the "Blood Shield Mercenary Group" were just about to march towards the ruins, Rody silently watched everything in front of him.
After using the "Concealment Technique", standing on the tree, he almost merged with the bark and dead leaves next to him. From early morning to now, he has been waiting here for three hours.
Luo Di's plan is actually very simple: since the group of mercenaries are willing to lure the snake king Sakya away, he is completely happy to see it happen-this is definitely a great help to him, and he doesn't have to deal with the snake himself, he just needs to take the opportunity Entering the ruins to look for the heritage of the "Demon Hunter" is... and as for those mercenaries running to the distance, there are "surprises" prepared by the wood elves waiting for them.
There was a rumbling sound, and the Snake King Sakya rushed out of the ruins without accident. Because of the distance, Rody had a more intuitive understanding of the size of this guy, but the gray eyes of the other party and the slight hesitation when running The action also let Roddy understand the fact that the opponent is a blind snake.
But these things have little to do with him. According to his plan with Village Chief Brody, it will take at least ten minutes for the snake to go back and forth after being lured out. If he wants to complete the task, he must find clues within ten minutes.
Rody was not fully sure about these things, but the opportunity was in front of him, and he had no reason to back down—seeing the ten mercenaries and the Snake King Sakya leaving the ruins and entering the forest, he jumped down from the tree, carrying a Ice Crystal Thorn] ran towards the ruins...
Remember to be a hero]During the advanced mission, the goal set by Instructor Nata for him was to kill a beast that reached level 15 by himself within the specified time. The Lone Walker] did not give specific hints for this kind of mission, and Rody felt a little uneasy, after all, he didn't know whether the advanced mission of the INAK industry would be so difficult that he couldn't handle it.
It's just that he didn't take a few steps, and he stepped into the ruins of Wagra with one foot, and suddenly found that... everything in front of him had changed.
In front of him was a dilapidated stone road, overgrown with weeds, and the surrounding buildings were decayed and exuded the vicissitudes of life. Occasionally, there were solid walls, which were also covered with mottled cracks and creepers.
But at this time, pictures that he had never seen before suddenly appeared in Luo Di's head, and they overlapped with the ruins in front of him. He tried to blink, but felt that the "memory" suddenly appeared It was like an illusion that completely changed the ruins in front of him...