Only a short while after the mission was issued, many adventurers took it up. The mission was relatively simple, and most importantly, the reward was relatively high. A day later, there were several more adventure groups outside the Albis Mountains. These adventure groups actually didn't know why they were there, they just accepted employment from others and wandered around in the wilderness.
They didn't really understand what was going on in this wilderness, but their employer asked them to do so, so they just did it. As long as they got enough money, it was fine.
Because Ducheng is far away from Watsonburg, its defense is weak. In addition, there are few troops and mercenaries in the city, so basically no one comes out to open up the wilderness outside. More than 100 kilometers away from the city is a deserted wilderness.
In the wilderness, there are many creatures such as wolves, foxes, tigers, snakes, etc. Many of them have evolved into magical beasts and dominate one side. Ordinary people basically dare not come here. Only adventurers dare to come here to collect medicinal herbs and kill magical beasts to obtain materials.
The monsters in the wasteland are not very powerful, at most they are only level one or two. Those above level three have basically gone to the Albis Mountains and the distant Beiyuan Mountains. In fact, this place is not that rich.
These adventure groups came here for the sake of money. With their strength, there is no need for them to hang around here. The Albis Mountains in the distance are where they should go.
The Albis Mountains are huge, and the surrounding wilderness is also very large, so it is not easy to travel around the entire area.
In the wilderness, a standard adventure group was walking. They had been walking for a day. Suddenly, one of them said impatiently, "Brother, what are we looking for here? We must have a goal."
The eldest brother was walking in front, carrying a sword, cutting down the bushes that blocked the road. When he heard this, he looked back and said, "How would I know? The employer wants us to see if there is anything different from usual. If we can find it, we can go back and report it."
"When will it be found?"
"Who cares when it happens? As long as the money is enough, it's fine." Some people don't care about this.
Just then, he saw a medicinal herb and hurried over to pick it.
At this moment, the archer behind shouted, "Be careful," then raised his bow and arrow, and a sharp light shot out from his hand and shot towards the man.
A black shadow leaped out from the bushes and pounced towards the man's face at an extremely fast speed. At this moment, a light flashed in the air and a sharp arrow shot down the black shadow.
The black shadow was knocked to the side, but once it landed in the grass, it quickly disappeared.
The arrow fell to the ground at this time, the tip of the arrow reflected the luster of metal, and there was no blood stain on it.
When everyone saw this, their faces changed. "What kind of snake is that? Its skin is so hard?"
The leader shouted coldly, "Be careful, this is already very deep, there are level 2 monsters around, the little snake just now should be level 2."
The people around were no longer bored. They slowed down their pace, concentrated their minds, and looked at the bushes vigilantly.
When faced with life and death, no one will be careless.
"Damn, if only there was a wizard, we wouldn't have to go through so much trouble."
"It's not that easy to recruit wizards, especially for such a boring job. If they have the time, wouldn't it be better for them to do alchemy and medicine in the city?"
"There are also people who know nothing. Look at the Erxue Adventure Group."
"Qi, the Erxue Adventure Group has two beauties, do we have them?"
The adventurers were walking in the woods. Without even noticing, they had changed direction and were heading towards another place.
There were small white dots on every tree around. They were watching these people. Wherever these people went, these small white dots followed.
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Ashe stood above the valley and looked around.
Starting from the past few days, a large number of adventure groups came out of Ducheng and the nearby small counties and went deep into the surrounding wasteland. On the surface, they seemed to be looking for something, but in fact, they were hired by some people to look for them.
Ashe had discovered this a long time ago when she used the Skyfrost Worm, so when Dolai was concentrating on refining the wizard tower, he was the one who was in charge of the wizard formation these days.
Whenever those people approached, he would use his spirit to mislead them and make them move away from this area.
At this time, Dolai had already refined five wizard towers, leaving only the three simplest ones of wind, thunder and fire.
Dolai is practicing wind, and his experience with wind is much higher than Ashe. It is easy for him to refine the wind wizard tower, so it is placed at the end. The same goes for Lei. As for Lei, what he is refining now is fire.
However, Ashe knew that sooner or later these adventure groups would find out what was wrong with what he did, and then inform the people behind it. He only hoped that they would find out a little later.
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Soon another three days passed.
Ducheng.
As the information came back one after another, the man in black continued to analyze the intelligence and the data brought back by the adventurers, analyzing them over and over again.
When he put all the information together, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had discovered something.
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Ashe manipulated the magic circle and scanned the surroundings. He suddenly discovered a team with slightly stronger strength heading straight towards them.
There were warriors and even powerful wizards in the team. They did not come over directly, but approached and compared the things carefully.
They discovered themselves.
Ashe reported the matter to Dolai immediately.
The Fire Wizard Tower has been completed, a level six wizard tower.
Dolai had his eyes closed, but when he opened them, his gaze penetrated the wizard's formation and looked at the vast wasteland.
He saw the team, which was about twenty kilometers away from him.
He saw that the other party was holding a map and seemed to be comparing the terrain here. Because he wanted to hide, there was originally a huge ravine here, which he dug up and made it consistent with the surrounding sorghum, but now it has been discovered.
This unknown force really cares about his own affairs. This only means one thing: the other party is about to appear in the world, and wants to use him to establish his authority in preparation for the appearance.
But now that the Empire and Northwest intelligence organizations have taken action, this organization should be in a state of panic. By trying so hard to cause trouble for itself, isn't this giving the intelligence organizations a handle?
He couldn't understand why the other party's base was not in the northwest, or even in the Glory Empire. Why was they so actively targeting him?
In fact, what Dolai didn't know was that he was just a stumbling block in the eyes of the big shot. The other party just wanted to remove him and ordered his men to do this, that's all.
As he thought of this, the fire-attribute wizard tower that he had just refined suddenly flew into the air and flew away into the distance.
At the same time, the materials on the ground quickly took shape, and the wind attributes and thunder attributes quickly took shape together.
Now that he has been discovered, there is no need for him to hide anymore.
The wizard tower quickly flew out of the range of the magic circle, and the powerful magic fluctuations immediately attracted the attention of the adventure team.
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The man in black was also in the team of adventurers at this time, but he was not with them. Instead, he was observing from a distance.
This is a branch of the Sand Scorpion Adventure Group. It is called another name externally, but it is the main group of the Sand Scorpion Adventure Group in the true sense.
He looked at the ridge in front of him and felt a little excited. Originally there was a ravine here, but now the ravine disappeared and a ridge appeared. That was 100% the effect of the wizard's formation. That guy was really here. If he guessed correctly, Dolai should be preparing something here.
Of course, we also have to be on guard against whether there are other wizards stationed here. After all, there are actually quite a few dark wizards in the wilderness. If we encounter an unreasonable one, we will be finished.