Volume 9: Follower Chapter 9: The followers are always so similar
Recently, our respected Guild Master Miss Feiyin has fallen in love with a place called "Latuduo Wilderness". This is a barren land in the north of Falvi Continent. The bare Gobi Desert and desolate sand dunes form a vast and wild northern landscape. Only the most tenacious creatures can survive in this wilderness surrounded by strong sunlight and rolling sand, such as orcs.
In the middle of the wilderness, there is an orc city called "Latuduo City" - for this group of irritable and rough green-skinned aliens, the so-called "city" is nothing more than a huge fortress wrapped in layers of rocks, wooden fences, huge animal bones and animal skins. This city is the hometown of more than a dozen orc tribes with a long history, and it is also the last relay station that travelers can find to the cold and bitter land in the north.
Miss Feiyin has been staying here, obviously not because she has suddenly fallen in love with the rugged and vast northern scenery here, nor because she has been infected by the unrestrained , but because there are often wanted criminals by the Continental Alliance who try to escape to the north from here, and the local orc government often issues wanted missions to arrest these dangerous elements.
"The social security situation here is really bad. There are wanted criminals wandering around the streets everywhere. Even the owner of a roadside bakery may jump out with a kitchen knife and chop people at any time. I have been so busy lately. I am either chasing criminals or on my way to chase criminals." Feiyin wrote this in the magic message she sent to us.
Based on our understanding of Feiyin, she is not a good citizen who is brave enough to protect social order. Catching a wanted criminal will get a considerable reward - this is probably the only reason why Feiyin is willing to stay here for a long time.
"So what are you doing now?" I asked curiously.
"...on the way to be chased by criminals..." After reading Feiyin's reply, I felt cold sweat on my back.
Feiyin's information played a very important guiding role for us - mainly the last piece of information - Fuxiao and I changed into a set of armor that could greatly increase our defense and agility, and filled our bags with the largest dose of life potions we could find on the market. After we were sure that our survival ability was enough to put camels and cockroaches to shame, Fuxiao and I raised our proud heads and embarked on a journey to the Latudo Wilderness.
The worse the environment, the more ferocious and powerful beasts and monsters will be nurtured, and the more dangerous the place will be. There are more than ten brutal species of about level 50 living in the Latuduo Wasteland. The huge wind and sand have made most of them grind into a thick shell, which greatly enhances their resistance to all physical attacks. Moreover, social creatures such as "bone-eating giant ants" and "sand gravel floating lizards" wander in groups on the wasteland. Once they find traces of pedestrians, they will attack you in groups. Even experienced adventurers with superb combat skills sometimes have to flee in the face of such large-scale beast sea tactics. And many of them were unlucky enough to leave their bones in this wasteland...
We found Feiyin on a sand dune. When we met her, she was not alone. A female tauren named "Nurse in Candlelight" - or should I say "mother" - druid was following her, holding a shield in her left hand and wielding a huge meteor hammer in her right hand.
The level of the nurse in the candlelight was not high, only level 33. If I remember correctly, she should be one of the seven new members who signed up to join the guild, just like the bearded monk "I am your father". Frankly speaking, it is not easy to accurately identify whether this minotaur is male or female. Her physique is much stronger than that of most men of other races. Her black and white skin forms a variety of patterns, her mane is strong and hard, and on the left side of her nose, according to the rough customs of many minotaur, there are two huge brass nose rings hanging - only when these two rings are hanging on her nose like now, can I tell you for sure that they are "nose rings". If you take them off and put them in my hands, I might think they are a pair of simple bracelets .
On her big face, there was only one thing that showed her obvious feminine features, and that was her lips. They were a pair of plump, full lips, with a bright and charming pink hue around the edges, like a blood moon under the night sky, giving people many crimson and hazy illusions about them...
For example: A hippopotamus with a nose ring and lipstick on is running wildly across the Gobi Desert?
Yes, we all know that due to racial differences, most of the minotaurs have protruding and wide mouths, but even among them, it is difficult to find a second mouth as big as this woman's. Seeing her screaming desperately behind Feiyin, we almost thought she wanted to swallow our president in one gulp.
"Big sister, help me... they are catching up with me..." The Tauren Druid screamed at the top of his lungs. With her unique oral resonance, it was a great loss to the entertainment industry that she failed to become a bard.
Approaching her step by step behind her was a large group of ferocious "boneless wild spirits".
When certain creatures died tragically in the wilderness, they were likely to be infected by magic and turned into these incorporeal level 48 monsters. The attack power of these things was not high, but their resistance to magic was much stronger than that of wild beasts of the same level. Even in a one-on-one situation, Feiyin would have to work hard to destroy her opponent, and a level 33 druid would not even think about it. What's more, there were no less than ten boneless wild spirits chasing after them.
In this situation where the ratio of enemy and our forces was extremely unbalanced, Fei Yin resolutely made the only correct choice that only a wise and experienced adventurer could make, which was:
Escape is the most important thing!
Seeing the group of wild spirits getting closer and closer, Feiyin suddenly turned around, silently chanted a spell, waved her hands backwards, and an upgraded "Ice Sealing Spell" was immediately ejected from in front of her. The few "boneless wild spirits" in the front were immediately frozen in a huge block of ice, unable to move.
"Idiot, don't you know how to transform?" After doing all this, Fei Yin didn't stop for a second, and immediately ran back again, cursing at the Tauren Druid while running, with a painful expression on her face, "...I've told you so many times, transforming into a cheetah can increase your movement speed!"
"But..." The nurse in the candlelight looked aggrieved and anxious, "...There are so many skills in the skill list, which one is the right one..."
"Select the 'Transformation' selection bar! 'Transform'! There will be fewer items after filtering out!" Fei Yin's eyes were full of cruelty at this moment. I believe that before long, the Boneless Wild Spirit will not have to take action - the magician in a violent state will inevitably stab her stupid companion to death with his own hands.
"There are so many skills, which one is the right one..." The nurse in the candlelight spoke with a crying voice, obviously she had no idea how to choose.
"Try one by one!" Fei Yin roared angrily. I now began to worry whether she would swallow this sturdy and burly female minotaur alive.
After yelling this, Fei Yin used "teleportation" out of anger and left the nanny in the candlelight behind her. It seemed that she had made up her mind not to bother with this companion who was good for nothing except being a burden.
"Big sister, come and save me... I'm going to die..." Unexpectedly, just as she moved out, she heard the heart-wrenching cry for help behind her again.
No matter how tough and tenacious Feiyin's psychological endurance had been trained, no matter how determined she was to no longer pay attention to that maddening bull-headed stupid woman no matter what happened, when she turned around, the scene in front of her still stimulated her to the point that she almost vomited blood.
In the vast wilderness, a fat black turtle with a hard shell stretched its neck and tried its best to use its four short claws to slowly crawl forward on the sand. Thank God, its speed is faster than that of a snail - if there is any snail that can survive in the desert.
Transforming into a turtle is also one of the transformation skills that the Druids are good at, but they only do this when diving. On land, only people with serious suicidal tendencies and brain cramps will appear in battle as such slow, clumsy, extremely low-attack, and completely useless reptiles.
It seems that the nanny in the candlelight has an extremely eager desire for life, so we have every reason to believe that she can only be the latter.
For the boneless wild spirits that were chasing after it, the turtle that the Tauren Druid had transformed into was undoubtedly a conspicuous and high-quality meat target - and it was a fixed target! In the blink of an eye, the big turtle was surrounded by a group of wild spirits and beaten up.
Fei Yin had no choice but to turn around and rush back into the battle, casting powerful magic in her hand on the heads of the group of wild spirits one after another, trying to disperse them and rescue the minotaur who had turned into a turtle.
"You idiot, why did you turn into a turtle!" Fei Yin cursed at her comrades while ruthlessly casting her most powerful destructive magic. It seemed as if she wanted to vent all her resentment towards the female minotaur on this group of wild spirits.
"But..." The turtle cried out in grievance, "...Big sister, you asked me to try the skills one by one. This is the first skill..."
"You..." Feiyin was speechless for a moment, and kicked the thick tortoise shell hard, "...Why are you still in the shape of a tortoise? Are you waiting to lay eggs? Change back to me quickly!"
"Big sister..." the turtle screamed slowly, "...I want to change back, but my magic power has just run out..."
Feiyin's face turned as pale as pig liver: "You're going to kill me again!"
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Of course, Foxiao and I would not watch our guild leader and comrades die tragically in front of us. Just when they were in a tough fight and saw no hope of escape, our two fresh troops cut in from the right side and instantly broke through the encirclement of the Boneless Wild Spirits.
"Feiyin, hold on, we are here to save you!" I shouted at Feiyin, and repelled a wild spirit with a "shield strike", and then stabbed another one through with a sword.
Although the wild spirit is a monster without a physical body, the damage of swords and knives will also have an effect on it. Although I felt that my hand was light and there was no force when I stabbed it with the sword, it still caused it to lose nearly 200 points of health.
"Jeff, Foxiao, you guys are just in time..." Feiyin was immediately delighted when she saw us. She immediately finished the life potion in her hand and shouted at us: "...Do you have any more life potions? Give me two bottles!"
"We have brought a lot, and we will give it to you right away..." Foxiao answered loudly, his left hand knife and right hand sword flying up and down. In a moment, he chopped a wild spirit in front of him to only a trace of blood. At the same time, he himself was chopped by a group of wild spirits to only a trace of blood...
"Thank you so much, Foxiao..." Seeing Foxiao risking his life to rescue her, even Feiyin, who was known for her hard-heartedness, was moved. She said loudly in a grateful tone:
"... Don't forget, you still owe the guild 124 gold coins for buying a helmet last time. Counting the interest over the past two days, the total is..."
"I suddenly think it's a good idea to let these guys kill the president..." Foxiao whispered to me...
If there is anything exciting about this battle, it is that we finally have the opportunity to fully unleash the attack bonus effect of the boxing gloves. Since we inexplicably brought this thing, this is the first time we have faced an opponent of the same level head-on - you know, the opponents before were all weak low-level monsters, even without the attribute bonus of the boxing gloves, we can easily deal with them.
At this time, the fragile performance of the boneless wild spirits was not like that of monsters of the same level as us. They were like a group of ordinary monsters three or four levels lower than us. They kept wailing under our continuous heavy blows, and their health points dropped at a very fast speed. Soon, they were completely dead and turned into a cloud of black smoke, completely melting into the air.
The damage caused by each attack far exceeded my expectations. Now, even a normal attack can cause more than 200 points of damage to an opponent of the same level as me, and if I use powerful attack skills, sometimes my damage value can even exceed 600. I have never felt so powerful as I do now, and I can completely defeat an opponent who should be evenly matched with me with an overwhelming advantage.
What we have now is a powerful force that is completely beyond our level. I don't know why, but I feel that what we have seen is a hidden mistake that the gods do not allow. It breaks a certain rule that all things in the world must obey, allowing us to obtain power that should not belong to us, giving us the opportunity to surpass everyone else.
This power came too easily and too suddenly, and I didn't feel secretly happy. Instead, I felt uneasy: I didn't know whether obtaining this power meant luck or disaster, but I guessed that if this behavior was discovered by the gods, we would be severely punished, and what we would have to endure at that time might be a devastating disaster.
But no matter what the future holds, at least this power is very helpful to us now.
As we passed each other, one wild spirit was annihilated by my sword, and the other one screamed and stretched out its claws, piercing my left shoulder, but it didn't cause much damage. I stepped back and blocked the attack of the third wild spirit with my shield, and slashed the neck of the second one with my backhand. A large flower of blood burst out from its head - it was really strange that a magical monster without a body could burst into blood - and it was immediately in critical condition.
It didn't take long for me to kill three Boneless Wild Spirits in succession. It looked like it wouldn't be long before we won the battle. Just as I breathed a sigh of relief that the battle was about to end:
"Crack!" A violent impact came from my hand.
