Gao Wen said that he wanted to take a look at the Great Wall, of course he did not go to the Sentinel Tower on the border of the Gondor wasteland.
The nearest sentinel tower is also at the end of the banded plain at the southern foot of the Dark Mountain Range. To get there, you have to not only climb over this mountain range, but also pass through the barren wasteland tens of kilometers wide, which is not something that can be considered now.
But if you just look at it from a distance, it will be much simpler. Just like its name, the magnificent wall is a giant barrier that can be described as a "miracle". Those sentinel towers that are nearly a thousand meters high are just the "anchor" of the wall. The wall itself is a layer of magic barrier connected to the clouds. As long as you stand on a higher place in the dark mountain range, you can clearly see the top of the barrier, and Gawain can determine the approximate status of the sentinel towers.
With Amber and his foot strength, it is not difficult to reach the nearest commanding heights in a short time, but it is not easy to bring two serfs who belong to ordinary people, so the two guides must be sent back to the camp first. .
And I have to go back first, to calm my mind.
Gawain looked down at the wreckage of the deformed body that was emitting faint black smoke: the flesh and blood mud on the wreckage had been wiped out, but the remaining blood-red bones dissipated slowly, and it took about two or three days to completely "evaporate". Before the wreckage dissipates completely, they should be put to some use.
Gawain raised the pioneer sword, slashed hard at the bones that were harder than steel, and quickly chopped off their ugly heads. Amber next to him looked terrified and said, "Oh, why are you still taking this with me?" Corpse whip... oh my god, you're so twisted..."
"Bringing this thing home has a miraculous effect on calming people's hearts." Gao Wen looked up at Amber, and threw the freshly severed skull into the opponent's arms, then bent down to chop off one, "Then I'll get another one."
"Hey woo woo!" Amber exclaimed in shock from the monster head suddenly thrown by Gawain, and continued to yell, "You're sick! Bringing this thing back is sure to calm your heart, isn't it?" Scaring people out of their wits?!"
"For the Cecilians who have just been ruined by mutants, seeing the corpses of these monsters who have been killed is the fastest way to increase their confidence and fighting spirit. Although it may be a little mentally stimulating, the effect is the best. OK."
Gawain chopped off a new head as he spoke, and then he ignored the other two monsters who fell a little further away. Instead, he carried his head in one hand and the long sword in the other and walked towards the corner where he was hiding before. Those two led the way to this point. The serfs still hid in it obediently according to the order.
In fact, they didn't even dare to poke their heads out of their hiding places to take a look outside. They only heard the sound of short but intense battles. Although it sounded like their lord had won, the two of them didn't have the courage to come out. Take a look at the results.
It wasn't until Gao Wen appeared with a huge blood-red skull that they came to their senses, and when they saw that hideous and terrifying head, both of them gasped in unison: "God! My God! "
"God will not help you deal with these monsters," Gawain said casually, "All the mutants have been killed, let's go back to the camp first."
He intentionally showed his ease, and added seemingly casually: "But having said that, these things are still as weak as they were seven hundred years ago, and they can threaten the camp with just a single sword strike. Safety?"
The two serfs looked at each other in astonishment, and then one of them reacted and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes! Lord Lord, you are so powerful, these monsters are really vulnerable to you, vulnerable !"
Another serf muttered blankly: "But just now I heard Miss Amber calling for help..."
"Ahem!" Gao Wen coughed twice and interrupted the other party, and looked at Amber calmly, "She's a battle cry!"
Amber also reacted, with a serious face: "That's right, I was a battle cry! No matter what you hear other than that, you have heard it wrong!"
"Understood? These monsters are not as strong as you imagined," Gawain looked at the two in front of him, "Keep this in mind, and then go back to the camp."
The two serfs nodded repeatedly: At this time, as long as they can return to the camp as soon as possible, they can talk about anything, not to mention they have already seen clearly that the monster's head was chopped off by their lord!
With two deformed heads emitting black smoke, Gawain and his party quickly returned from the mountain and returned to the camp.
When approaching the camp, Gawain deliberately handed over the two heads to the two serfs, and asked them to walk ahead with the two skulls swaggeringly.
At first, the two serfs were so frightened that they almost lost their wits, and only took the skull tremblingly under the command of the lord, but soon they realized that the bone was already a dead thing, and it was a dissipating thing. Dead things, they finally mustered up their courage, and after mustering up their courage, the hatred for those monsters that destroyed their former homeland finally permeated from their stagnant hearts.
They held their skulls high and walked ahead like soldiers holding a flag. They deliberately showed the spoils to the trembling and poking people in the camp. Although they were not the ones who eliminated the monsters, they seemed to be in the process Shared the glory in general.
The atmosphere of panic and tension is still entrenched in the camp, but Gawain can imagine that after the two skulls are brought back, the panic and tension in the camp may still be there, but there will be more stability in it
For this world full of monsters and ferocious beasts, and there have been demon tides, what people fear most is not monsters, but being unable to resist when monsters attack. As long as they see a little hope of defeating monsters, they It's enough to muster some courage.
Even if these courage just prevented them from fleeing the camp that day, it was enough.
Amber understood what Gao Wen meant very cleverly. The first thing she did after entering the camp was to follow the two serfs to find someone to brag about, telling how easy it was to defeat these monsters, especially how she herself was in the process. What a pivotal role it played. Anyway, there was no mention of calling for help.
But for Gao Wen who returned to the camp, the things to do had just begun.
He called Hetty: "Hetty, do you know the auxiliary spells for magic concealment?"
"I understand, and I'm very proficient," Hetty replied confidently, "Because I can't break through the intermediate level, I have learned all the spells that can be learned below the intermediate level."
Besides aiming...
"Very good," Gawain suppressed the desire to complain, "you come into the mountain with me again, I need your spells."
"Hasn't the monster been wiped out?" Hetty was a little puzzled, "I saw the spoils you brought back, and thought I was going to clear the alarm..."
"That's temporarily reassuring." Gawain shook his head. "Those aberrations wandered from the wasteland of Gondor and arrived here through the southern belt plain and the entire mountain range. problem and I suspect it's not just the few aberrations wandering around."
Hetty didn't ask any more questions, but went back and arranged the affairs during her departure. After that, she took her staff and changed into a short robe that was convenient for outdoor activities, and was ready to go.
Gao Wen found Amber, who was touring in the camp to brag, and after pulling this half-elf who tried to avoid work on the grounds of "helping with publicity", the group of three entered the mountain again, and quickly returned to the place where they had been with the monster before. Where to fight.
Those huge blood-colored skeletons are still lying quietly on the mountain road, in a state of continuous decomposition.
Amber frowned and looked at the ugly wreckage: "By the way, how do you know there are more monsters? Did you see them?"
"You don't understand aberrations," Gao Wen said in his judgment, "you know that aberrations are a kind of thing that becomes more tenacious when the number is too large, and weaker when the number is small, and will even self-destruct when the number is too small. Is it?"
Not to mention amber, even Hetty didn't know about it: "When the number is too small, it will self-destruct? What's going on?"
"Aberrations and demon tides complement each other, and may even be two manifestations of the same phenomenon," Gao Wen explained. "The number of aberrations has a threshold. After exceeding this threshold, the greater the number, the more pollution from demon tides." The stronger it will be, and the stronger the pollution, the more and stronger the aberrations will be, and the ubiquitous magic in nature is the soil for this process to continue to develop. Therefore, as long as a sufficient number of aberrations gather in Together, new magic wave pollution points can be formed and spread rapidly; but conversely, if it is lower than that value, the magic wave pollution produced by the aberrations will not only fail to proliferate, but will not even be able to maintain itself. They will continue to weaken and gradually disintegrate in the orderly world. This process is very fast, and the aberrations that are separated from the main force will even collapse on their own within three days."
Amber glanced at the wreckage on the ground: "I remember you said that the aberrants will wander blindly or stay in place without sensing the target. In this case, their moving speed is very slow... "
"That's right, if there were only four monsters, they would never have wandered from the wasteland of Gondor to this place. With their speed, they would have dissipated halfway," Gawain didn't hide his worry, "So the four A monster broke away from a large army... Maybe it got lost, maybe the team was too loose, but the large army definitely exists."
Hetty couldn't help holding her staff a little nervously.
Gao Wen concentrated his energy and carefully observed the mountain road where those monsters roamed.
Aberrations are the product of the dark tide, and their chaotic and disordered magic power is as pungent and eye-catching as rancid sludge in this world. Although these chaotic magic power dissipates quickly, these monsters have not been long ago. Appeared, so those traces of magic power are very likely to remain.
Sure enough, after concentrating on discerning carefully, he perceived a subtle incongruity in one direction of the mountain road.
That direction also happened to be one of the roads leading to the southern foot of the Dark Mountains.