Volume 4: The Cataclysm Chapter 40: Logging the Forest
In fact, ever since he discovered signs of Ambella's activities, Marvin had no intention of letting go of the first servant of the God of Dreams.
His attitude towards the gods is very clear. It may be due to his camp in his previous life, or it may be that he is dissatisfied with their decision to attack the Cosmic Magic Pool. In short, it is unlikely that he will cooperate with the gods in the short term.
Besides, the perception value provided by the servant of God is what Marvin urgently needs.
Although he has been promoted to Legend, and with his skills as the Lord of Darkness, he is not invincible in the world, but at least a hero. But he is still not good enough in front of the real gods.
So he still needs to improve himself quickly.
Hunting God's servants is a shortcut!
So when he was close enough to Anbella, he attacked without hesitation!
Qingye was like thunder, and he chopped off Anbella's head without mercy.
However, the next second, Marvin's face darkened.
He finally realized what was wrong.
There was no information about the servant of God being killed on the data panel at all!
At the same time, An Bella's figure suddenly disappeared.
"It's just a [Folded Shadow]!"
Marvin's face looked a little ugly.
He actually didn't think of that.
Has Anbella's strength reached this level?
No wonder she was so close to me. Although she was cautious, she was not very nervous.
After all, he was the man who killed Ming Feng, so it was inevitable that she was being a little arrogant by doing this.
At that time, Marvin thought it was an opportunity, but he didn't expect to be deceived.
"No wonder she doesn't exist in my perception."
Marvin smiled bitterly.
[Folding Shadow] is somewhat similar to the [Projection] of gods. Both use some special crystallized objects to refract/project one's own body into another world or plane.
The difference is that projection uses the barrier crystal system between planes, while folding uses the power of one's own cultivation. Of course, it may also be the effect of some treasures.
Unlike the clone, the loss of the shadow has no effect on the original body.
"It seems that she is not only around the Steel City. She did come to negotiate with me before."
"This is a huge loss. The next time we meet, it will be much more difficult to hunt her down easily again."
Ma Wen looked at Senma's body on the ground and shook his head secretly.
Before the gods officially arrive, Umbera will undoubtedly become a big trouble.
We don’t know where her real body is right now, but now that she has entered Fenan, she is bound to gather some forces.
The Dream Scorpion failed due to Marvin's obstruction, and she will definitely look for other forces again.
No matter what, in this long war between gods and mortals, and even among gods themselves, the God of Dreams seems to have taken the lead.
Marvin couldn't determine where Anbella was, so he could only shake his head and leave.
…
Arctic glacier.
Beneath the huge crack is eternal darkness.
A woman in green clothes has her eyes tightly closed.
Suddenly, she opened her eyes.
A ray of light appeared in the darkness, as if someone had opened a door.
Behind the door, a bloody head was thrown in.
It was the head of a barbarian, with a hint of anger on his face.
Die with eyes wide open.
Behind the light gate, a graceful woman walked over quietly: "I brought you a gift."
"It looks like you're having a hard time here, at least worse than the last time I saw you."
If Marvin were here, he would recognize the woman who was speaking at a glance. She was the first servant of the God of Dreams, Ambella.
Her true self is here.
The woman in green who opened her eyes in the darkness was obviously the Shepherd Chief Tianqing.
"If you are watched by the Northern Guardian day and night, and you have to fight a crazy psychopath, you won't be much better."
Patriarch Tianqing's response was cold: "Did you kill that barbarian tribe?"
Anbella said indifferently: "They refused to accept God's grace and refused to listen to teachings. I had to purify them."
"very good."
Patriarch Tianqing said calmly: "What do you want?"
An Bella smiled slightly: "The information of one person."
Tianqing Patriarch frowned: "It looks like someone has stumped you."
An Bella actually nodded and said with emotion: "The world has changed."
"I have a vague feeling that the current Fenan is different from what was predicted."
"Even the most common farmer picked up a hoe and protested. Are they the most cowardly people I know?"
The Azure Patriarch sneered, "Whether you are weak or strong, it doesn't matter. They will be destroyed in the end."
"Speaking of which, what is the difference between you gods and humans? If humans are parasites of this plane, then you gods... are just bigger blood-sucking leeches."
There was a hint of provocation in her tone.
Ambera didn't care.
The positions of the Twin World-Destroying Snakes and the gods in heaven are naturally contradictory, and she does not expect to be able to reach an agreement with Patriarch Tianqing.
She only needs one person's information.
Although the Twin Snakes Cult was destroyed, there are still flames burning underground.
She had just arrived and needed more accurate information.
"Tell me, whose information do you want? The Archdruid? The Dragon Clan? Or the monastery in the Dead Continent?"
Patriarch Tianqing asked.
An Bella shook her head and said seriously:
"Marvin."
Patriarch Tianqing fell silent.
The next second, she gritted her teeth.
"You've made a killing."
"I don't accept payment for Marvin's information."
…
After leaving the forest where Anbella was, Marvin still went to the place where the bandits gathered.
This group of people is always a trouble.
They were already committing all kinds of evil before the Cataclysm, and now they are even more fearless.
Although their leader is dead, there will always be someone who stands up to gather them together and continue to do evil.
Although Marvin is not the kind of hero who claims to be righteous to the end, he is still happy to do the little thing.
It took him three minutes to wipe out this group of defenseless bandits.
Three-quarters later, he left the land of blood and returned to the Heart of Morrigan.
The people of Morrigan's Heart seemed a little uneasy about Marvin's return.
Marvin was a little surprised.
But I immediately realized that it seemed that they were unwilling to leave here.
Captain Alisi stammered and told the result of everyone's discussion.
Most of them were local residents of the Steel City and family members of the dead soldiers.
They have too much affection for this place.
Now that the threat posed by bandits has disappeared, they are not willing to migrate.
It's just that they were afraid of angering Marvin, the peerless strong man, so they spoke in the most tactful tone possible.
Moreover, Alisi's words also hinted at "If you must let us go, we will have no choice but to leave our homeland and never resist."
After all, in reality, they were powerless to resist.
Marvin hesitated for a moment; the choice of the people from Heart of Morrigan was indeed somewhat beyond his expectations.
It seemed that their attachment to their hometown outweighed their fear of disaster.
But it is obviously unlikely to expect such a group of people to guard such a treasure.
So Marvin took the opportunity to propose another proposal:
The people of Heart of Morrigan do not have to migrate to the White River Valley, and the White River Valley can also send a certain number of troops to protect this place.
The price is that White River Valley must obtain some food and weapons from the Heart of Morrigan.
Marvin's initiative made Alisi feel relieved.
The White River Valley has a good reputation, and they do need defense.
He thought about it and directly accepted Marvin's proposal.
The next step is to discuss some details.
Marvin planned to develop the Heart of Morrigan into an outpost of the White River Valley in the central region. He could see that these soldiers and residents did not have much desire.
They just can't bear to leave their hometown.
He can still accomplish this.
In order to make the cooperation credible, both parties must sign a cooperation agreement.
Marvin did not personally ask about the specific content - if he was responsible for such things, he would not be able to accomplish much every day.
He directly contacted Medivh using the Book of Naaru and asked her to bring Rory and two dark guards to the Heart of Morrigan. It would be better for someone else to be responsible for the specific agreement.
After finishing all this, although Alici wanted to take Marvin to the secondary treasury of the Heart of Morrigan to try his luck in order to show his sincerity, Marvin decided to leave as soon as possible.
The Heart of Morrigan is a huge treasure, and what Alisi and others opened was only the first-level treasure house.
And deep inside, there are at least three more treasure houses. These treasure houses require specific keys from the Southern Wizarding Union. Marvin knows that without the keys, it is meaningless to take chances.
Besides, the treasure house will not run away. As long as you occupy it, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future.
The point is that he has stayed in the Steel City for too long, and in the northern forest, there is a friend under house arrest waiting for his rescue, and he cannot delay too much.
He left the sewer and returned to his previous location.
As a result, Marvin was shocked to find that the butterfly that had promised to wait for him at the same place had disappeared!
“I’ll go!”
"Do you have to be so unreliable?"
Marvin couldn't help scratching his head.
There are no monsters nearby, and there are no signs of fighting. Die is protected by the golden-winged griffin, so there is no way anything can happen to her!
In this case, the only reasonable explanation is that the miraculous messenger stood me up...
To be honest, wood elves are a group of law-abiding people, and Eevee is already an outlier among the outliers.
Obviously, the messenger girl is not an ordinary elf.
At least she could leave Marvin alone and leave leisurely.
…
Marvin searched the spot for a while, becoming more and more frustrated.
Out of courtesy, he didn't touch the butterfly at all along the way, so there was no way to use the night tracking method.
The golden-winged griffin has a special physique, and Marvin never thought of pulling out a hair from it.
I didn't expect to lose track of her just like that.
"Could he have been kidnapped?"
Marvin began to doubt.
Although there were no signs of a fight, this possibility cannot be ruled out.
So he had to expand his search area.
Five minutes later, under a tree, he finally found some clues.
That's a crumb!
"The fruit of the breadfruit tree?"
Ma Wen pondered in his heart.
There is indeed a breadfruit tree in the kingdom of the wood elves, but this kind of breadfruit tree cannot be eaten, but is used as a mark.
Only the Wood Elves and their allies can see the bread crumbs scattered among the trees.
Marvin is a night walker and has a pass to the Thousand Leaves Forest, so he can naturally see the breadcrumbs.
"So, she left on her own initiative?"
Ma Wen's heart moved.
It looks like something happened to Die.
Without hesitation, he followed the breadcrumbs all the way to the north of the Steel City.
I have to say that the breadcrumbs were spread too sparsely, as if the butterfly was moving at high speed when it was spreading the breadcrumbs.
This made Marvin's tracking extremely difficult.
He had to search back and forth, relying on the wide vision of a night walker to forcibly track it.
After going back and forth for a while, when Marvin felt his eyes sore, the bread crumbs finally reached the end.
A forest filled with thick fog appeared ahead.
At the edge of the forest, there are several logging factories, which are built on a river.
This river is called the Norris River. It originates from the Millennium Mountains, flows through the heartland of the Southern Wizarding Union, and finally flows into the sea at Bass Harbor.
The people of the Steel City built their mills on the upper Norris River, where they cut down trees and did some rough processing of the lumber.
Those round logs can float downstream along the Norris River, thus saving a lot of transportation costs.
"Unknowingly, we are approaching the Millennium Mountain Range?"
Ma Wen couldn't help but complain in his heart.
The banks of the Norris River are all forests, which are called logging forests.
Most loggers only dared to work at the edge of the forest, as there were rumors that there were demons living deep in the forest.
This is debatable, but it is said that members of the Southern Wizarding Union attempted to open up the forest for logging several times, but ultimately failed.
You know, if you can get through the logging forest, it will be possible to open up a new route to the north besides [Volcano Pass] and [Wizard's Corner] and other places.
But in the end they all failed.
Apparently, there is something magical about this forest.
As a player in his previous life, Marvin naturally knew the horror of this forest.
This is where the five-colored dragons gather!
It is said that the key copy of the next expansion pack [Wrath of the Dragon God] will take place deep in the logging forest.
Unfortunately, Marvin accidentally traveled through time before he could witness the launch of the expansion pack.
He had no idea what was in this forest.
But when the breadcrumbs reached the forest, they disappeared. It was obvious that the butterfly had entered the forest without permission.
Marvin was suddenly caught in a dilemma.
His original intention was to quickly reach the other end of the Millennium Mountains, but he was tricked by his temporary driver.
At this moment, he finally realized the importance of a flying mount.
It’s a pity that the Black Dragon was seriously injured in the previous battle, otherwise Marvin could have simply ignored this inexplicable messenger and left.
And now it was obvious that he had to enter the forest.
Who knew that just as he was about to step into the forest, someone suddenly shouted sinisterly from behind him:
"Hey, Marvin."
"You're going to die in there."
