Volume 4: People who challenge the light Chapter 1 The Calm Before Dawn
As a result of the lottery, I did not become the first owner of two divine weapons in "Tianxia", but my luck was not too bad. I got a holy weapon "Dark Demon Robe", which has the additional attribute of "increasing the upper limit of mental power by 50%", and also has the function of "damage conversion". Once activated, 30% of the health value reduced by damage can be converted into the same amount of mental power. For a magician whose mental power is far higher than his health, it is tantamount to an additional means of saving his life.
Although my dream was difficult to fulfill and I did not become a lucky person , "Tianxia" still produced the third artifact, and the winner was Long Xing Tianxia. The artifact is called "Poison Dragon Spear", a black spear with a dark green dragon perched on it, which can be used as an ordinary weapon. According to the information revealed privately by Long Xing Tianxia, the attack power of the "Poison Dragon Spear" itself is not very outstanding, but it comes with poisoning attacks. Players with poor poison resistance will suffer more. In addition, by consuming 10% of the physical strength and 5% of the mental strength, you can transform into a dark green poison dragon to attack the enemy. This should be good news for our dark camp, so that he will not suffer any losses when fighting for the highest honor in the future.
At the end of the competition, the audience voted and selected the "Best Team of Tianxia" from the 32 contestants. The eight selected were Light Knight Supreme Honor, Magic Knight Long Xing Tianxia, Light Priest Sheng Tiantang, Thunder Magician Bai Yunjian, Elf Archer Shadow Floating Fragrance, Magic Knight Desert Eagle, Light Knight Angel in the World and me, the Undead Wizard. We were evenly matched with the Western Continent, with three people each selected. The North and South continents divided the remaining two places, which basically corresponded to the rankings achieved by each party.
Although we finally won the championship by defeating the Western Continent with difficulty, this does not mean that Long Xing Tianxia and I have the upper hand in the first official contest between the two major forces of darkness and light. My experience is far inferior to that of the Supreme Honor, and the power of "Touch of Death" in the human world is not as direct and effective as "Holy Cross". Moreover, the priests of light can obviously form a perfect cooperation with the knights of light, and have the ability to supply them, which can maximize the power of the knights of light, and should not be underestimated. As the Supreme Honor described at the end - our war has just begun!
Although I have obtained such a relatively "huge" fortune, what is distressing is that because I have not been doing mercenary tasks, the level of the "World Card" I hold is too low, and the amount of gold coins that can be exchanged has reached the limit. I cannot exchange these in-game gold coins into real money for consumption for the time being , which makes me excited to go to the mercenary guild to exchange money for nothing. As a last resort, I can only temporarily put aside the "Dead Soul Space" promotion plan and devote myself to the work of upgrading the "World Card" level. It feels a bit strange to have money in my hand but not be able to spend it. In any case, virtual things are not so real. I still have to exchange it into real money to feel at ease. Not only do I need money for my own life, but I should also show some filial piety to my parents who are far away from home and worry about me all day long.
My current "World Card" level is Silver 3 and Copper 2, which I got by upgrading my professional level. I haven't done many mercenary tasks. Fortunately, it's not difficult to complete silver-level tasks with my current strength. It just takes some time. Occasionally, if I'm lucky, I can complete two tasks in one day. Unfortunately, such good things are too rare. Most of the time, it's good to complete one task a day. What's more, a silver four-star terrain survey task actually took two days. I slaughtered countless wild wolves and wild boars along the way. There was no danger, but the time wasted really made me feel distressed. This delayed my promotion. In the end, I only got a reward of a piece of Tiancan silk (a raw material for making robes, shoes and socks and other equipment). The effort and the income are not proportional at all. But there is no way. As the saying goes, there are too many monks relatively easy and well-paid jobs have long been snatched up by others. Most of the time, it is difficult to get them. The remaining tasks are all "chicken ribs" of this nature. There is no choice.
It took me twelve days to upgrade my World Card to the Gold 1-star level, which means I can redeem up to 50,000 gold coins. This is enough for me now. The difficulty of the Gold-star level mercenary mission is much higher than that of the Silver-star level. It is time-consuming and laborious to complete. With the low reward, I am not interested in it. Many players are working hard to improve their qualifications and strive to advance to the fifth-level profession as soon as possible. I have been delayed for so many days and cannot be left behind.
I returned to the "Dead Soul Space" after a long absence. I hadn't been in it for more than ten days, and I felt a little nostalgic. I reorganized the team and continued to devote myself to the endless "conquest". On the one hand, I commanded Black One and others to subdue more dark knights to add to my undead army to strengthen the team. I could also sign a "soul contract" with them to increase my mental power limit. On the other hand, I let Black Star hunt black warriors with the assistance of several dark knights and absorb their soul power to accelerate growth. Black Star felt that he was about to evolve, which was one of the reasons why he chose to surrender so easily at the beginning. He was reluctant to give up the upcoming breakthrough. I naturally welcomed the good news that my subordinates evolved automatically to improve their strength. I tried my best to nourish them to see what level of horror knight they could evolve into. Although according to the convention, most dark knights can only evolve into horror giant bear knights first, and then gradually evolve to higher levels, but occasionally there are exceptions that can surpass one or two levels of evolution. I think this should be related to innate qualities and acquired nutrition. Innate qualities are fixed, and I have no way of knowing or being able to change them. However, acquired nutrition can be enhanced artificially. I will do what I can and leave the rest to fate. Let's see if Black Star has this good fortune.
I once tried to attack the Horror Giant Bear Knight. Now that I have the 50% increase in mental power from the "Dark Demon Robe", although it is not enough to summon two Dark Knights at a time, I should be able to summon a Horror Giant Bear Knight that is one level higher than them. I originally thought of relying on the Dark Knights' numerical advantage to besiege and subdue them, but several consecutive encirclement and suppression operations ended in failure. It's not that the Dark Knights' combat effectiveness is not good. There are more than ten against one. The Horror Giant Bear Knight is only one level higher than the Dark Knight. In a head-on conflict, it will not be an opponent anyway. But when the situation is not right, the Horror Giant Bear Knight will immediately choose to escape, and will never entangle with the Dark Knights who have an absolute advantage in numbers. No one can stop the Horror Giant Bear Knight who is intact from breaking through. In the area of advanced undead creatures surrounded by enemies, I certainly can't lead a dozen Dark Knights to pursue recklessly, which may attract interference from other Horror Knights at any time. One time, I could no longer endure it and couldn't suppress my anger after another failed encirclement, so I led them to chase after a terrifying giant bear knight who had broken through the encirclement. In the end, we did catch up with the target, but attracted a dozen terrifying knights who "saw the injustice" to "draw their swords to help". Among them was even an extremely advanced ground dragon knight. So we staged another "Jedi Escape". We failed to steal the chicken and lost the rice. On the contrary, we lost three dark knights before we were able to escape. I felt so distressed. I had worked so hard to earn such a small fortune. Was it easy for me to get it?
After this battle, I temporarily gave up the idea of subduing the Terror Knights, and devoted all my efforts to managing the Dark Knight Legion. Although they would flee when they saw the situation was not good, I would set up ambushes all around before taking action to prevent them from breaking out. Under the interception of opponents of the same level, the breakout actions were rarely successful. After a fierce battle, they would generally become my prisoners, and most of them chose to surrender. I was too lazy to waste my breath on some of the guys with particularly strong wills, and I sent them all to Black Star for supplements. Anyway, it is relatively easy to get them now. What holds me back is still the upper limit of my own mental summoning, and there is no way to convert more into actual combat power.
While wandering around the high-level undead creature area, I did not forget what I promised Skynet. I paid attention to searching for the elf witch who liked to wear red clothes. I originally thought that she might show up at this "Four Continents Elite Challenge". As a result, there were no undead wizards in the Northern Continent on the list published by "Sky Media", which disappointed Skynet. I also took the opportunity at the award ceremony to ask those elves about the undead wizards in the Northern Continent, but there was no result. I was not even sure whether there were undead wizards in the Northern Continent, because they had never appeared in public, let alone participated in the "World Hero Conference" held in the Northern Continent. It makes sense to think about it. Dwarves are born with low mental strength, and choosing the undead wizard profession will definitely not have much future. Elves are all girls. How many of them like to deal with ugly and disgusting undead all day long? Even if the opportunity is in front of them, I am afraid that there are very few dwarf or elf players who will really choose to become undead wizards. If Skynet had not sworn that it did know a red elf witch, and that they had had several contacts and conversations with her, confirming that she was also a player, even if I did not question her existence, I would have suspected that she was a character like an NPC.
Of course, you can also explore the environment to see if you can find the "Bat Cave" by luck. The vampire bats summoned by the night bonfire also aroused my interest. They can transform into human form, have strong close combat capabilities, and are not slow; they can also transform into bat form to carry out raids, pursuits, and reconnaissance. If I can capture one, with my sudden increase in mental power, I may be able to summon it at the same time as a dark knight, and cooperate with each other to improve the combat effectiveness of the undead troops. Although I have captured several black warriors, I can also summon them at the same time as a dark knight, but the black warrior is relatively slow and there is no way to form a good cooperation with the dark knight.
It's a pity that my previous luck may have been used up. I worked hard for a long time, but nothing went as I wished. Black Star took so much tonic, but it was a waste of food. There was no change in his body, and he didn't look like he was about to evolve. If he wasn't an undead creature, he wouldn't lie to me. I almost wanted to give up. The Red Witch was also missing. For a frequent visitor like me who has been in the "Dead Space" for a long time, I have visited almost all the accessible areas during this period, but I still can't find her. The biggest possibility is that the Red Witch has not been online recently, or has never entered the "Dead Space". Although other reasons exist, I think they are unlikely, because according to Skynet, she likes adventure very much, and it is impossible for her to go back to the low-level undead creature area now. Then the reason why I didn't meet her is that she went deep into more dangerous areas, such as the sphere of influence of the corpse witch who uses long-range magic attacks, the mysterious and dangerous Dragon Bone Mountain, and the active areas with many ghosts and explosive zombies. The "free territories" of the undead creatures, such as zombies, two-headed skeleton ghosts, etc. I have also explored these areas before, but the creatures inside were very unfriendly and very aggressive. Facing their provocation, I made a little self-defense and was immediately besieged. A large group of enemies swarmed in from all directions. The Dark Knight could still resist, but I was relatively vulnerable, so I had to flee in embarrassment with my men. Before I was strong enough, I dared not go in and seek death again - the undead had to be conquered one by one, and so many of them rushed up at once, and they were not weak like zombies and skeletons. Even if I had a magic weapon in my hand, it would be difficult to cope with it.
After searching for a long time, there was still no news about the Bat Cave. Although I knew it would be difficult to find, the bonfire at night gave me a little hope. However, the reality was cruel. After nearly a month of hard work, not only did I not find the Bat Cave, I didn't even see the shadow of a vampire bat. Alas, once you lose your luck, nothing you do will go smoothly.
Sometimes, he would dream of getting rich, and go to the Dark Forest alone to "hunt", kill level 4 monsters to obtain magic crystal cores. Now level 4 magic crystal cores, especially fire and wind magic crystal cores, are in great demand. After all, the Dark Forest is extremely dangerous, and high-level monsters are everywhere. Large groups are too big to be attacked in it, and it is easy to scare away the target. Therefore, hunting teams are usually composed of 10 to 20 expert players. From finding the target to successfully hunting, if you are lucky, you can only kill one or two level 4 monsters a day. If you are a little careless during the action, the target may escape, and you may also be attacked by high-level monsters, causing large casualties and leading to the failure of the operation. Afeng has also participated in several hunting teams formed privately with teammates from the Tongxin League. He was lucky and made some gains every time. He got nearly a thousand gold coins and finally earned back the living expenses of the past few months.
However, it was not so smooth when I acted alone. A few Dark Knights and Black Warriors could generally deal with level 4 or 5 monsters. However, defeating them did not mean that they could be successfully killed. Preventing monsters from escaping in the jungle was not what the Dark Knights and Black Warriors were good at. They lacked judgment of the situation and had to rely on my command to intercept them. Monsters often escaped, and it was really frustrating that they had powerful combat power but could not translate it into actual results.
