Traveling always seems to start between anticipation and anxiety. When you are unprepared, you are in between.
The Ta people have a proverb, "The hardship of hiking can obliterate all lofty ambitions." This tribe who loves wandering and is rich in businessmen and adventurers has a deep insight into travel.
In a blink of an eye, Brando and his team have entered the Black Forest for a week—
Although Kuran suggested that Brando camp out of the forest and set off overnight; Brando believed that they had no time to delay. Besides, he was more experienced in the Black Forest than Kuran, and it was unnecessary to waste time.
The depths of the Black Forest are like layers of emerald-colored clouds, supported by black tree trunks far and near, densely shrouded above the head.
The light leaked from the gaps between the clouds, dyeing the surrounding area into fresh green, and the backlight was almost black. In the darkness, there were beams of light, the dust undulated under the light, and the light spot fell on the roots of the Qiu Knot—
Under the roots of the trees, the emerald green water pool in the forest has no waves. Occasionally, a water spider darts across it before it ripples.
Light and darkness intertwined, creating a quiet and bizarre scene, but the time was actually close to evening. Brando took a notebook, and it recorded something in various fluorescent inks:
Black Mage, Yuejian, Four-leaf Clover, the suffering of the witch...
The black mage symbolizes the meaning of mystery in the witch's secret language. It is used to extract the mind of meditation. Using level 3 alchemy, you can obtain calm breath, which is the main material of meditation incense.
The incense of meditation is a hot commodity in the sword of amber. It allows the practice of the mysterious profession to achieve a multiplier effect with half the effort. Under the clouds and mist in the quiet room, it is easier to realize the mysterious existence in those meditations.
This is better reflected in psychic spells.
In the game, it is to increase the speed of experience gain by 5%.
And the seventh-level alchemy can extract the lowest-level second-level material in the amber sword, a product called the mysterious essence. This thing can be taken directly to increase blood pressure, but it can only take effect once.
Yuejian is the flower of the mage, which nurtures magic power, and it can be used to restore about 1 point of mana directly by chewing. However, after level 5 alchemy extraction, pure water of magic power can be obtained-plus the bottle is the primary mana potion.
Four-leaf clover represents luck and is rare in the wild, but not rare in the Black Forest. This plant can be used in almost all potions to increase the success rate.
But Brando knows a unique technique that can be extracted into the essence of luck with 8th-level alchemy. That thing can be used in all alchemy, even forging and magic circle making.
And witch suffering is probably the material of a certain kind of poison, the toxin of suffering, this kind of obvious poison is inferior in the eyes of nobles who are good at conspiracy and tricks, and is worthless.
But this is not the real way to use it. Cultists use this thing as the dual element of "suffering and poison" to summon the creatures from the lower world.
The suffering lord of the scorched demon, or the vicious queen.
Witch’s suffering is strictly prohibited in the Temple of Flame regulations, but these clauses and clauses cannot stop those who really know the value of this plant-Black Fire Cultists, Sheep Head Cultists, they are happy to use high prices or murder. Come to grab this thing from others.
Of course Brando wasn't necessarily scared, so he put it away.
These things are the results of the more than forty young people under his hand this week. In fact, these young men got nothing and complained about three days before entering the Black Forest, but Brando naturally did not let them come for an outing-as long as someone Laziness, or passive slackness, naturally mercenaries sternly and ruthlessly drove them forward with whips.
Every day in the dark, young people are about to be awakened by mercenaries—some of them are tossing and turning in the cold and humid environment of the forest, it is difficult to fall asleep, and they may have just fallen asleep. But the training schedule does not matter so much, even if you drag your tired body, you must complete the daily'homework'.
The content of the training is actually not complicated. In addition to the necessary hurrying, there are group confrontations, plus some swordsmanship and fighting skills.
Then, before camping every evening, collect materials for Tamar—of course, cooperation and survival training are also very important parts.
After a week, the amount of materials recorded in the notebook has been increasing, and the level of cherishment has obviously begun to rise, which shows that they are leaving the border of the Black Forest and entering the wild outlying areas.
Brando finished recording the gains of the second team and hit a dot on the parchment with a quill to indicate the end of the recording. Sixty young people were divided into six groups. Each group was appointed a leader. The leader of the second group was a young man named Mars. This guy came from Fern’s mercenary group, Black Iron. Downstream strength, serious work, and strong organizational skills.
It's just a bit more rigid.
However, rigidity is not necessarily a bad thing, thinking of this, Brando raised his head and glanced at Cargris not far away. This young man is leaning against a tree and wiping his long sword—this sword is a bit like the Command Sword in 377 years before the November War. The guard has a wavy cage handle, and the style of the whole sword is light and agile. -Brando likes this style very much, so the swords uniformly distributed to these young people also use this design.
The sword is the work of Master Bailu, without regard to quality issues.
Brando's design is obviously a success, and young people, whether they have used a sword before or not, are all fond of this sword.
This was far beyond the young man’s expectations, but he reacted quickly and immediately took the opportunity to upgrade the sword to an honor—telling these young people that this sword is a symbol of the White Lion Guard, as long as he stays in the White Lion Guard for one day. , Then you must be with this symbol of honor for life, and with the faith represented by this sword.
Young people asked Brando privately what kind of belief this sword symbolized. Brando thought for a while and replied:
"Brave, pioneering and unyielding, symbolize the sword of integrity."
This statement has been widely recognized among young people who admire knights and romance.
Brando thought for a moment, and came back to his senses from this memory. He turned a page, and with a light movement of the quill in his hand, he wrote in the upper right corner of the next page:
'The 16th day of the sleeping month, sunny—
The black forest began to grow densely, and sometimes we passed by without a trace of light even in daylight. The canopy is full of huge spider webs and fist-sized cocoons, moths and multi-legged insects, densely clinging to the trunk in the dark.
Some peculiar thorns began to appear in the forest, such as the suffering of witches.
This shows that the team is gradually leaving the forest border area. We observed the traces of the monster for the first time throughout the day. From the figure and the traces it left, it should be a black wolf. '
When writing here, the young man’s pen point stopped, and the tip of the quill gently moved away from the surface of the paper; monsters are a reflection of magical distortions in the world of the main matter. They are actually divided into several categories, including ferocious animals, erosive creatures, and magical creatures. , Shadow Beast, Abomination, Divine Demon State, or Nightmare.
The black wolf is a kind of shadow beast, and the shadow beast is quite low-level in monsters, but even this low-level monster has a biological level as high as twenty-five.
The black wolf has a pitch-black body, blood-red pupils, and white dagger-like fangs. It is difficult to effectively kill it with physical damage in battle—because the wounds of shadow creatures heal quickly—but its fangs can easily pierce. Wear any type of armor with an armor level lower than 2.
That is to say, there is no armor below the plate armor that can withstand this kind of monster attack, even the plate armor can only rely on the chest and back with the highest defense to barely resist.
However, Brando did not announce the news, and the guardians were silent in unison.
They want to see how young people react when they encounter a surprise attack after a week of training, especially after training in combat.
As for the danger, it is negligible. In the presence of any golden realm, these black wolves are almost the same as the most docile puppies.
'This is the seventh day into the forest, Brando—'
He continued to write this paragraph, and then looked around—the forest was not a tranquil scene. In the distance, young people were divided into six groups to fight against the stone leopards produced by the twelve earth swords, and six obsidian leopards. Or they squatted or lie down and watched all this lazily, covering their noses with their paws, or squinting their eyes-they didn't seem to be interested in the fighting of their own kind.
They don’t even understand why these humans are playing so happily, their own kind obviously didn’t do their best; they aim left and aim at the right, wanting to bite someone off if they are on the court. neck.
Of course, young people obviously didn't realize that these docile cats were interested in their necks, otherwise they might really have to fight a cold war. But at this moment, what made them feel more like Akane, Kuran and Ulliel standing aside.
The captain of the security cavalry is the commander of the mercenaries accompanying the team this time. It can be said that these mercenaries have the most arduous tasks. In addition to supervision, they sometimes also serve as protectors.
At least when they entered the forest, the mercenaries saw these young men want to sleep on the damp ground more than once. They are responsible for patrolling the night, kicking those sleeping on the ground with their leather boots, and then raising their blankets to show them the centipedes and snakes curled up with the thickness of arms.
I have to say that this hand is very useful, many people were scared to death, and since then they followed the mercenaries' words.
But now Ulliel has another job, which is to score the performance of these young people in combat. The team with the lowest score will be driven to do a three-mile turnback cross-country.
Three miles is not a big deal on the plains, but in the Black Forest it may kill people. If you leave in the evening, sometimes you may not get back until midnight. As for dinner, you can count on your companions to save you something. .
Of course it is usually hopeless.