Chapter 420: The Forsaken Realm (9) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
The next morning, Yun Guang woke up and learned that the gift prepared by the villagers was a refined golden sword made by the best craftsmen in the village using the purest and most precious minerals. He had no idea that he might be missing out on an extremely shocking gift.
The villager who came to deliver gifts had a big bump on his head. When Yun Guang pushed open the door and blurted out, "Are you okay?", the villager avoided his sight guiltily.
“It’s okay, it’s okay…” He waved his hands repeatedly, “Adventurers, this is the reward our village pays you.”
He pulled out an extremely exquisite sword from behind him.
The blade was matte black, but it shone with tiny flashes in the sunlight. Its shape was probably closer to the medieval rapier that Yun Guang knew, with a complex guard structure and a slender blade.
However, compared to the luxurious rapiers he often saw that were inlaid with various gemstones, this rapier was much more low-key. Apart from some floral patterns on the guard and the hilt to increase friction, there were no redundant gemstones inlaid on the sword body, nor were there any decorative structures that would affect combat.
In layman's terms, this is a fighting sword, a one-handed sword suitable for use in combat.
——Rather than those decorations that are mainly exquisite and luxurious, highlighting the owner's noble status.
Even Yun Guang, who had been to many worlds and seen many good things, couldn't help but blurt out: "This is a good sword."
This was much more valuable than any reward he had imagined last night, and it didn't even seem like something that someone in this small mountain village could afford.
"As long as you like, adventurer," the villager in front of him cried out in pain and looked behind him, "Where is the wizard from yesterday?"
He must be referring to Dermis.
Delmis rested alone with his partner last night. There was nothing to be ashamed of, after all, the two of them had already revealed their relationship in front of all the villagers in a very explosive way.
"Dermis is in the back room," Yun Guang looked at the wound on the villager's head with some concern, "Is your wound really okay? Did you accidentally bump into something last night?"
To be honest, it's a bit far-fetched to say that the wound was caused by hitting something. After all, no one would hit something dozens of times in a row and leave dozens of lumps.
This mark actually looks more like being beaten...
Did this villager have a fight with someone yesterday?
Villager D admitted guiltily, "Yes, yes, yes. Actually, last night everyone in our village wanted to forge this sword for the adventurer. In the end, we had a fight and decided that the winner would be the one to forge it."
Yun Guang: ...That’s not necessary.
Your village doesn't look like the kind of people who would fight over something like this.
However, the good thing about Yun Guang is that he will not get to the bottom of the matter. Since the other party does not want to explain the reason and just makes up an excuse, he will not expose it. He just takes the rapier and indicates that they will say goodbye soon. Next, they will start preparing to leave.
After the villagers who came to deliver the sword left, Yun Guang, who got up the earliest, began to wake people up one by one.
After everyone got up and had a simple breakfast in the village, Dermis and his partner finally arrived.
The two men sat down in their seats with disdain. Delmis stretched out his hand to Yun Guang: "Let me see what price they offered?"
Yun Guang handed over the rapier and said, "It's a good sword, but none of us can use it."
Guan Hongyan and Xu Zichen don't use this kind of weapon, not to mention Lu Changfeng and Zhao Yinglai, and even the new friends Bai E and Su Hao don't use this kind of one-handed sword either.
"I'm more used to the Chinese long sword," Su Hao gestured, "this sword is a bit difficult for me to use."
In battle, an inconvenient weapon is almost fatal. Although this sword looks good, he still prefers to use what he is good at.
"You don't want it?" Bai Jinshu looked at the sword and thought it was really nice. After thinking for a while, he looked at Huai Jiamu and asked, "Do you want it?"
Huai Jiamu shook his head as expected.
"Then take it," Bai Jinshu threw it to Hector, "and practice swordsmanship later."
Anyway, this unlucky hero is also a native of this world. Although this sword is considered a good sword in the eyes of those of them who have seen many good things, it is just so-so. It is not so good that they would be so excited that they would want to get it immediately.
But for people in the original world, this sword is very powerful.
Although Hector had never seen a good sword, he could tell from the reactions of these people that this sword was extraordinary, so he quickly put it away and hung it around his waist.
After breakfast, the adventurers were finally ready to leave the small mountain village.
Under the gaze of the villagers, everyone walked out of everyone's visible range and quickly took out the ghost ship.
Compared to yesterday's trepidation and restlessness, everyone was much more familiar with the route today. After boarding the boat, Guan Hongyan even shouted to the captain at the bow: "Don't take the wrong route today."
"You don't need to remind me," the captain said angrily, "It wasn't my fault that I took the wrong path yesterday."
It was clearly not his fault, but the evil necromancer still added three hundred years of his working time. After working hard for half a day, the two hundred years he had to work for were suddenly shortened to fifty. He now felt that the next few hundred years of his life as a ghost would be bleak under the oppression of the other party.
"I'm just reminding you," Guan Hongyan said happily, "Do you have anything to eat on this ghost ship? I didn't eat enough just now, hurry up."
The ordinary food in the small village is completely different from the barbecue last night. Because of its special production process, barbecue has a strange attraction to all those who are close to the element of fire, making them feel that it is a delicacy. Because the person who cooked it in real time was Delmis, even these alien visitors who supposedly have no magic cells would find it extremely delicious.
But this morning's breakfast...
Guan Hongyan could only say, at least it’s edible.
It can be seen that life in this small village is very difficult.
"If you eat something on the ghost ship, you can only stay on the ship and can't return to the human world," the captain said in a dark voice. "Have you heard that you can't just step into the water of the Styx? You can't just eat anything here."
Guan Hongyan: “Is it true?”
She just asked because the ghost ship looked like a very impressive ship. If she couldn't go back after eating it, she would just continue to buy melon seeds from the foundation store.
"That's fake," the captain was about to exaggerate his revenge when he heard the voice of Dermis, the last person to board the ship, from behind the crowd. "I can wade in the water of the Styx and eat whatever is here. Do you think he dares to hold you aboard?"
Of course I wouldn’t dare to do that.
When the captain saw that his intimidation failed, he quickly ran away to sail the boat.
"The restaurant is downstairs," Yun Guang, who had already toured the entire ship, came up and said, "If anyone didn't have enough breakfast, they can come down and eat more."
Everyone actively decided to go for the extra meal.
The ghost ship moved forward according to the map everyone got in the village, and this time it finally did not go wrong. After a few hours, a magnificent complex of buildings appeared in front of them.
The ghost ship also stopped here and slowly fell to the ground.
With yesterday’s experience in mind, Bai Jinshu did not intend to drive the ghost ship into the city in a swaggering manner this time.
Even if he did so, it would not have any impact on him as a necromancer of his rank, but causing unrest in the city would somewhat affect their exploration.
The ghost ship landed silently on an open space. After some bargaining and reducing the captain's working hours by five years, the exploration team finally set foot on this land.
"I feel that the environment here is much better than that of Rossburg and that small mountain village?" Zhao Yinglai looked around.
The place where they landed should be considered a forest outside the city. Compared with the slightly sparse vegetation in Rossburg and the relatively cold climate, the climate here can be said to be suitable and the vegetation is lush.
There are more kinds of wild animals around than outside Rossburg.
And I don’t know if it’s because this is the suburbs of a big city, but these animals scattered in the forest look exceptionally docile, unlike the monsters outside Rossburg and the small mountain village that appear to have great lethality.
"Look, a rabbit!" Guan Hongyan quickly picked up a white rabbit from the ground, "There are actually wild rabbits here?"
The white rabbit did not struggle or attack at all when she picked it up. Instead, it lay on her arm very familiarly and did not seem to be afraid of people at all.
It was obvious that he was often carried around by passing adventurers. He even found a comfortable position in Guan Hongyan's arms. After waiting for a long time without being fed, he looked up at her curiously.
Guan Hongyan: ...
She let the rabbit go and patted the hair off her hands: "It seems that this forest is not dangerous."
These wild beasts... or should we call them animals, are as docile as if they were domesticated. They are not afraid of people and will even actively ask for food.
"Indeed," the shadow puppet from Zhaoying came back after running around quickly, "There are no wild animals around here. There are a few sentry posts ahead. They should be where the rangers of this forest live."
Further ahead, through the forest area, is one of the famous cities on this continent, the city of Besser.
One of their destinations was the first prosperous city they would see after crossing the Erso Mountains, the longest mountain range that divided the continent.
"Then let's go?" Xu Zichen looked ahead and estimated the distance. "It will take more than an hour to walk this distance."
"Dermis?" The White Moth looked at the Dermis around him thoughtfully after he got off the ghost ship, then stopped and asked, "Did you find anything?"
"I guess so," Bai Jinshu nodded ambiguously, his eyes returning to the distant forest, "All the vegetation here has been affected by some magic."
"Is it good or bad?" Su Hao asked.
"...Okay," Bai Jinshu made a judgment, "The magic cast on the vegetation allows them to remain lush and green forever despite the heavy rain, wind, frost and severe cold. They can also regenerate quickly after being cut down, ensuring that this forest will always look like this."
"The magic cast on animals makes them more docile. They will not attack humans, steal their belongings, or damage their houses."
"Maintaining such a large area of magic requires a huge consumption of magic power and a high level of magical attainments," he concluded, "There should be at least one wizard of the Grand Mage level living in Besser City."
Large-scale magic, even if the casting process is not cumbersome and the effect of the spell is not difficult to achieve, still requires a huge consumption of magic power and extremely high magical attainments.
A spell is an exquisite whole. From the beginning to the end of a spell, it is an interconnected whole. If any part of this whole has an accident, the magic will fail.
This is also the reason why the larger the casting range of a spell, the more difficult it is to control.
There is such a large forest outside the city of Besse that is affected by magic. The person who cast this spell should be at least a grand mage.
"That's great." Bai Jinshu said from the bottom of his heart.
"What's good?" Guan Hongyan touched his chin, "So he can't beat you, right?"
She asked what everyone else was thinking about.
Dermis looks very powerful, it shouldn't be that he can't defeat a great magician, right?
"No," Bai Jinshu glanced at everyone coolly, "I said yes because now we don't have to worry about grabbing a bunch of garbage."
"Ordinary wizard towers are too shabby," said the necromancer who probably possessed countless treasures. "The tower of the Grand Mage... is barely worth robbing."
Just barely enough to be acceptable to Dermis.
Moreover, the Mage Tower is not actually a "tower". It is just a term passed down among mages. The relationship between each mage and their apprentices is more like that between master and doctoral tutors and their students, to put it in a more modern way. Before the apprentices become apprentices and enter the Mage Tower, most of them have already gone through a long period of study and accumulated basic knowledge, but in different ways.
Compared with the laboratories of master and doctoral supervisors, the teaching place of mages is generally a tower that is much taller than ordinary buildings.
This is because some magic requires observing the direction of the stars in the sky to find a suitable place or time to cast the spell. At this time, the wizard tower closer to the sky has more advantages.
Of course, there is also a saying that the masters live high up in the tower, free from the troubles of ordinary human life.
However, these are traditions from a long time ago. Most of the wizards now have their own houses or research institutions or even special colleges or manors. It’s just that because everyone has called it that since ancient times, the name "Mage Tower" has been used.
Bai Jinshu really wanted to rob a wizard tower for Hector.
Otherwise, according to Delmis' memory, it would be strange if he could teach a student with no basic knowledge.
Moreover, in the world of mages, it is normal for mage towers to be looted, and the barrage has already popularized it:
[Is it really okay to just loot the Mage Tower casually...]
[Friend in front, are you a mage? It is normal for a mage tower to be looted. ]
[Only those who are confident in their own abilities will build a Mage Tower. ]
[Yes, the Mage Tower is like a target. Those who erect this target must have been mentally prepared. Only the strong are qualified to protect their assets, while the weak will only be bullied. This is the magical world where the strong prey on the weak.]
[If you are just here to learn about magic, don't enter the world of magicians if you are not prepared. ]
Just as the comments said, it is normal for these things to happen. After all, the moral standards of a group of wizards are different from those of normal humans... and Delmis is a necromancer.
He is a villain.
Does the villain need a reason to loot someone else's wizard tower?
Bai Jinshu is confident in what he does.
As long as he has no morals, no one can morally blackmail him.
Everyone else: ...
"Wait a minute," Yun Guang interrupted quickly, "Why are you going to rob the Mage Tower?"
Did they miss something? Why did Delmis suddenly want to rob someone else's wizard tower?
"For...for me..." Hector said weakly.
Now everyone's eyes were looking over there again.
Hector felt his back tingle under everyone's stares, and he spoke quickly: "The teacher said that ordinary mages with ordinary qualifications need weapons, tools, media and spells to cast spells, but he doesn't need these, so he didn't remember them or do them. If you want to teach me, you have to rob a wizard tower to get the relevant spells."
Everyone:……
This trough feels so empty.
Delmis, Hector is only an apprentice!
Isn't it a bit too advanced to rob the Grand Mage's Tower just for an apprentice?
This is as weird as robbing Tsinghua University Library just to teach a kindergarten kid!
Unfortunately, no one could change Dermis's plan.
Everyone was hesitant to speak, and could only follow him and continue walking towards the city of Besser.
Just as they passed several sentry posts and were finally about to reach the city of Besser, they suddenly heard the sound of fighting coming from not far away.
"It's you, right?" a rough male voice that made people feel uncomfortable said, "I'm Dorothea's dog!"
Exploration team members:?
What the hell??
It seems like there is some strange sound floating by???
"What's that sound..." Lu Changfeng couldn't help but took a few steps forward, "What's going on over there?"
The rough male voice continued: "Surround him! I'm Dorothea's dog! Today I'm going to see where you can run to. I'm Dorothea's dog!"
"No, what are you doing..." Zhao Yinglai couldn't help but complain in a low voice, "Is this some kind of fashionable way of speaking for city people?"
Who is Dorothea?
Did she know she had such a rugged dog?
Do you city people always say things like this?
There was a sound of fighting coming from the direction of the voice, mixed with fierce words such as "Look at my fireball! I'm Dorothea's dog!", "Don't hide! I'm Dorothea's dog!", "I'll see where you can go! I'm Dorothea's dog!"
Everyone felt very sympathetic towards the dog farm owner named Dorothea and was curious about what kind of person she was.
Walking into the place where the sound came from, everyone finally saw clearly that the people fighting were a group of people wearing uniform clothes who looked like guards of some big family, and surrounded by them was an adventurer wearing ordinary adventurer clothes and with purple hair.
The people around him surrounded and beat the unfortunate adventurer while shouting "I am Dorothea's dog". In addition to recognizing that this was a gang fight through their body language, one could not help but wonder if this might actually be a shame play.
"I am Dorothea's dog" was heard all around. Guan Hongyan closed her eyes slightly and said, "If you say that this situation is a humiliating ritual to join the Illuminati, I would believe it."
It doesn't look like something a normal person would do.
But even if you join the Illuminati’s ritual of humiliation, you can’t just chase after a hapless adventurer.
The exploration team rolled up their sleeves and stepped forward to help the weak and helpless adventurer fight off a group of perverts who were shouting "I am Dorothea's dog".
Before the perverts left, he threatened: "Just wait! I'm Dorothea's dog!"
"...Pfft." Zhao Yinglai burst out laughing at an inappropriate time.
"Hey? Where did you get them?" The unlucky adventurer who was rescued by everyone picked up the dropped weapon, looked at everyone and whispered, "We didn't have it last time..."
"What last time?" Lu Changfeng's ears pricked up.
"Oh, nothing." The adventurer picked up his weapon and thanked everyone. "Thank you for helping me fight them off. They are Albin's men in Besser City. They chased me because I accepted a commission in the city and let go of the six dancers controlled by him. If it weren't for you, I might have been beaten to death by them outside the city today."
He didn't look like he was about to be beaten to death.
Yun Guang nodded politely: "We are adventurers passing through here from Rossburg."
"Rossburg?" The strange adventurer muttered again, "Isn't this a level 50 map? When did the extra N.P.C.s appear?"
"Map... n.pc?" Guan Hongyan repeated softly, gently poking the white moth, "This world can't be..."
It's not a game, is it?
It sounds like they have entered a small gaming world?
Old 2D White Moth: "Don't make any noise, I'm thinking."
"Then think about it," Guan Hongyan retracted her gaze and looked at Yun Guang, who continued to talk to him as usual as if he didn't hear her muttering. "It's nothing, we just did it casually. By the way, are you the adventurer in Besai City? We are new here and are not familiar with this place. Can we go in with you?"
"Could it be a favor?" The adventurer who looked like a player also whispered, "Can I trigger the favor of the goddess of luck with this?"
"Is this favor mentioned in the forum summary? Or does it only trigger when you are defeated once and drop a weapon while doing the side quest of helping the dancer?"
"Hello, hello?" Yun Guang raised his voice, "Are you the adventurer from Besai City? We are new here and are not familiar with this place. Can we go in with you?"
"Oh, sure." The adventurer looked up and held out his hand cheerfully. "Hello, my name is Dorothea's dog."
Others: …
Okay, case solved.
OK, OK.
It turns out it’s you, kid!
So you are the pervert! !
They were wrong to blame those poor servants who kept shouting "I am Dorothea's dog". I believe that if they had any other choice, they would not want to shout in public that they were someone else's dog.
After all, this really seems like some kind of shame play.
And now this shame play has spread to Yun Guang who was talking to him.
"Hello..." Yun Guang felt that it was the first time he laughed so hard. "I'm Dorothea's dog. My name is Yun Guang."
The author has something to say:
Yun Guang: The players who play MMORPGs and give them weird names are so annoying!
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