Chapter 57: The Seven-Headed Lizard and the Treasure Chest
In the following days, Li Qing familiarized himself with the runes while disassembling the various runes in the magic circle in the magic tower.
Then while reading, I would ask the many teachers on the tutor's side for advice on various relevant knowledge from time to time.
There are a total of fifty-one complex disciplines, including world system, plane biology, plane botany, plane geography, mathematics, composition, material science, plane geometry, space geometry, alien creature analysis, alien plane alchemy, main world alchemy, blood science, mutation science, etc.
Of course, even if all the mentor’s apprentices were added together, they would not be able to provide teachers for so many subjects. For many of them, he could only borrow relevant books and do research and experiments on his own.
There was a lot of content in it that he didn't understand, so he could only write it down first and then ask other instructors when he returned to the War College during the holidays one year later.
Anyway, he didn't expect to become a magic pattern constructor within a year. This was unrealistic. Now he should lay a solid foundation and become an excellent wizard who was familiar with many basic magic arrays.
Time passed unknowingly as he was learning. About a month later, Li Qing, who had learned more than a dozen second-ring spells, more than twenty commonly used first-ring spells, and all zero-ring tricks, finally ended his retreat and walked out of the divine realm.
"Gather everyone and get ready to go!"
There is still more than half a month left, enough time for him to go out and do another job.
Everyone was excited when they received the news.
"After a month of idleness, my bones are going to rust."
An Erqiu rubbed his hands excitedly and asked:
"Boss, where are we going this time?"
Li Qing was looking at a map in front of him at this time, pointing to a point on it and said:
"Just go here and take a look."
He had just bought this map from Chu Zaizhong. More than a month was enough time for some stealth heroes to sneak into the depths of the plane and explore. They drew the map and sold it for money. This detailed map cost him 100,000 yuan.
It provides a detailed introduction to the situation within about one-third of the plane fragment, and details the mountains, forests, rivers, cities, castles, towns and villages, as well as alien tribes in different places.
The place he pointed to was more than 50 kilometers downstream from the valley next to them, where two rivers of similar size met.
At the confluence of these two rivers, there is a snake-man city.
Yes, a city, not a town.
It was clearly marked on the map that this was the territory of a great snakeman noble who ruled over several nearby towns.
Of course, his target is not this city, he cannot defeat it.
The map clearly indicated that there was a real mage tower in the city, which contained a very powerful snakeman mage and many low-level snakeman mages, and they definitely couldn't defeat them.
His target was another one. He followed another river valley flowing from the east and went east into the mountains. About ten kilometers into the mountains there was a large basin with a large swamp in it. A large tribe of lizardmen lived there, and they worshipped a transcendent seven-headed snake lizard.
The reason why he chose this target was mainly because the map indicated that in this swamp, the seven-headed lizard was guarding a treasure chest, and he wanted to go and take a look.
This chest is different from the loot chest.
The loot chest will only appear after defeating the opponent. The treasure chest guarded by this monster is usually condensed from the origin of the plane. It contains a large amount of source material and some treasures condensed from the origin of the plane. There is a high probability that there will be relics, or heroic treasures, high-star hero transformation cards, advanced troop promotion cards, etc., which are extremely rare.
There was chaos at the outpost, and the troops gathered and headed north again.
When I passed by Chu Zhong’s base again, I saw that the river valley wasteland around the divine domain had been reclaimed and ditches had been dug. It would probably not be long before rice could be planted there.
However, the murloc tribe in the lower reaches of the river is still there, but the alliance of the seven war lord apprentices had long since disbanded, and now they have all left here and entered the depths of the plane.
Without allies, Chu Zhong would definitely not be able to defeat the merman tribe with his strength alone.
The original plan to farm by the river also failed. Now he could only rely on the base to slowly eliminate some lone fish groups and use the cannibalization method to slowly wear down the fish tribe.
It would probably take a year before the enemy was destroyed enough to be eliminated, which meant that Chu Zhong had to stay here for the whole year and couldn't leave.
“Tsk tsk!”
It's hard to say whether this is good or bad, but Li Qing definitely doesn't want to be trapped here for a year or two, which means that other opportunities in the plane have basically nothing to do with Chu Zhong.
Going north along the river valley, we soon arrived at the other side of the snakeman town. At this time, there was only a small lake formed by a large meteorite crater at the location of the original town. The surrounding fields seemed deserted and there was no one in sight.
We continued walking down the river for more than ten kilometers before we saw another snakeman village and fields that were not abandoned.
There was a river between them, and he did not walk along the riverside, so the snake people village built along the river did not notice the passing army.
After going down for about twenty kilometers, Li Qing's troops were stopped on the other side of another town downstream.
In the jungle not far from the shore, Li Qing saw a large camp, where he met Mo Wenxi and two other classmates.
As soon as they met, Mo Wenxi said to Li Qing:
"You've come at the right time. A few of us would like to join forces to attack this town. Are you interested in joining?"
The total strength of the three of them added up to about 600 people, plus the three of them had more than ten heroes, so their strength was pretty good.
However, Li Qing took a look at the magic tower in the town, smiled and shook his head:
"Forget it. The risk is too great. I'm not interested."
At this time, Nalankang, one of the three, said:
"Are you concerned about the magic tower in the town?"
Li Qing nodded honestly.
"Then you don't have to worry. That magic tower can fire magic lightning. Although it is powerful, the firing rate is too slow. It takes 15 minutes to fire one. If you join our team, we will have enough advantages over the town's defenders in terms of manpower. As long as we can enter the city within an hour, this magic tower will be useless."
At this time, another Zhang Xiyi also said:
"Did you see the ruins of the town upstream when you came here? It was just like this one, and was also attacked. This one must work too."
Li Qing glanced at Zhang Xiyi and suddenly asked:
"Did you capture the town above?"
Zhang Xiyi looked at Mo Wenxi secretly, smiled and shook his head:
"No, they were two apprentices from another mentor, but we watched the entire battle. They were stronger than the three of us, but definitely not as strong as the four of us. They only suffered less than a hundred casualties in total to capture the town."
"Such a large town was captured. Not to mention the spoils, just the looting of all the people and materials in the town would be a huge income even if it was divided equally."
Li Qing's eyebrows twitched slightly, and he looked at the three of them deeply, then shook his head and said:
"Sorry, I'm not interested. Please find someone else."
"Mr. Li Qing, we can say that the cannon fodder is evenly distributed, so that the losses will not be..."
Li Qing didn't give them a chance to explain and just turned and left.
"Tsk, what are you pulling for!"
"Forget it, let's wait for the next one."
"I guess there's no one left. Most of the others have gone somewhere else."
"Wait a little longer. If no one comes, we can go on our own and share the losses among ourselves."
"It can only be this way."
The team left and continued down the river. Li Qing looked back at the camp in the jungle and sneered.
He was sure that the power of the magic tower was definitely not as good as they said. If it was really that simple, the magic tower would not be as effective as imagined. There was no need to build it so large in the center of the town.
However, he didn't know how powerful this thing was. The tall tower in the town before was completely destroyed by a meteorite and he had no chance to see it.
But he didn't want to see it either, because to see it would cost the lives of a lot of his subordinates.
Continuing northward along the original plan, about eight or nine hours later, he arrived in the wilderness two kilometers away from the junction of the two rivers.
Didn't dare to go forward.
From afar, you can see a magic tower surrounded by magical light in the center of the city. The surging magic fluctuations can be clearly felt two kilometers away.
As a war lord's apprentice, he certainly knew what a wizard tower and a magic tower were.
The Magic Tower is just a building imitating the Mage Tower, which can fire a few fixed powerful spells.
The Mage Tower can only be built by a sixth-level extraordinary wizard or above. It is an integrated offensive and defensive structure. The energy pool contains energy that is no less than that of a legendary wizard to provide energy for the owner of the Mage Tower. At the same time, the Mage Tower can also greatly amplify all spell effects of the Mage Tower owner.
It is equivalent to amplifying all the spells of the owner of the wizard tower into heroic spells, which is very heroic.
Ordinary magic towers can be blasted open by meteorites. The owner of the wizard tower can cast meteorite spells himself. The meteorite can amplify the wizard tower more than his, not to mention many other defensive spells, unless Li Qing can get a meteorite with a diameter of several hundred meters or even thousands of meters to drop from a height of tens of thousands of meters.
It may not be possible to break it open.
Unless Li Qing can be promoted to a formal war lord, and build the core tower of the divine domain into a mage tower, and his own strength can reach above level six, then he will be able to attack a mage tower head-on.
The team paused here for a while and then turned directly to march eastward.
The east side of the river has not been developed. It is all wilderness and jungle, full of poisonous insects, various beasts and monsters. Occasionally, there will be some foolish people who dare to attack the team.
At the same time, the terrain on both sides of the river is steep, the river begins to narrow slowly, the water becomes faster, and some black shadows appear in the water from time to time.
There are small hills on both sides, most of which are only a few dozen meters high, and the highest are only a hundred meters high.
The road became difficult to walk on here and the marching speed began to slow down.
After walking for a while, he realized that there was almost no place to go on this side. There was a road on the other side, but it was not easy to walk on. In addition, Li Qing used the starlight in the sky to find traces of a team passing by on the other side. A path was cut out in the weeds by the river, which meant that other teams must have passed by.
Li Qing thought for a moment, ordered the team to stop, then opened the gate to the divine realm and took all the troops back to the divine realm. Only himself and Long Shou were left. They took off on the Black Hawk and flew eastward along the river.
Although according to the map, the swamp is only about ten kilometers away from here, it is not far.
But judging from the traces left behind, someone had already passed by, and I didn't know if he was an apprentice of another mentor. If we met head-on, there would be a high probability that we would have to fight. It would be very disadvantageous to fight in this kind of terrain.
The Black Hawk took off into the sky and flew towards the east, as fast as lightning.
In less than ten minutes, Li Qing saw a checkpoint made of a wooden wall suddenly appear along the river five kilometers away from him. Two wooden arrow towers stood behind the checkpoint, with guards on them.
Further back, the grass and trees in the open area between the two hills had been cut down, and an army slightly smaller than theirs was staying here.
Continue forward for about two kilometers, and the riverside begins to flatten out. Going a little further, you will see a huge plain with a large camp built on it. It is surrounded by wooden fences and is filled with arrow towers, guards, and patrolling troops.
Outside the fence, by the river, there were quite a few corpses of lizardmen. It seemed that the army had begun to clear out the lizardmen in the swamp.
"It looks like someone wants to form a team to raid this treasure chest!"
Judging from the size of the military camp, there are thousands of people, probably three or four war lord apprentices joining together, and it is unknown which mentor they belong to.
Li Qing didn't stay too long and continued forward.
Several heroes were surrounded by a group of subordinates and stood by the river, looking at the swamp in the distance, gesturing and discussing. Suddenly, one of them seemed to sense something and looked up, shook his head for a while, and continued to discuss with his teammates.
The black eagle glided through the air, and soon the view in front of us suddenly became clear. A huge basin appeared at the end of the river. The stars shone in the night, and the basin was sparkling.
The entire swamp was shrouded in darkness, but there was a ball of light in the center of the swamp, which was probably more than ten kilometers long and wide. The giant eagle slowly approached and vaguely felt a faint pressure.
"Seven-headed lizard!"
When Black Hawk flew above the bright light, he could see a gigantic creature with multiple heads underneath.
The outline alone was more than 20 meters long, with multiple heads lying entangled, their surfaces covered with thick brown scales as big as basins, appearing to be sleeping.
The light was a ball of light. Even if one was hundreds of meters away, one could still see a faint stream of light rotating inside the ball. Even though it was the first time he saw it, Li Qing instantly knew that this was the legendary treasure chest.
If you take the treasure chest and open it, you can obtain a large amount of source essence and precious treasures, including some treasures that are very valuable to the War Lord Apprentice.
But the problem came. After circling in the air for several rounds, Li Qing discovered a problem that made him feel very upset.
It seems that this treasure chest light ball is not protected by the seven-headed lizard, but is growing in one of the heads of the seven-headed lizard, embedded in the head like a crown.
Perhaps it is because of the fusion of this thing that this lizard has such strength.
In other words, if you want to get this treasure chest, you have to get around the seven-headed lizard, and you have to kill this extraordinary monster before you can get the treasure.
Now another problem arises. He doesn't know if the treasure chest will still exist if he drops the man-made meteorite to kill the seven giant lizards as he did last time.
He had never encountered this before. Although the instructor had told him some experiences related to treasure chests, he had no experience in this area.
The main reason is that the wizards who can summon meteorites usually have plenty of ways to use other spells to deal with the seven-headed lizards without affecting the treasure chest, and they have never tried to use meteorites to hit moving monsters.
So now I'm stuck.
