Chapter 25 Pre-war reconnaissance
Black and white envelope the whole world
Rhode looked up and could see the sky covered by darkness not far away. Black and white were clearly isolated, as if there was an invisible barrier in front of him that was isolated from the light. It was obviously just a line of separation, but the scenery in front of him was completely different.
At this moment, Rhode heard the sound of stomping on the snow. When he turned around, he happened to see Selestina turning from behind the tree in dissatisfaction and walking towards him. The devil lady changed into a relatively light costume today, but it was still as luxurious and gorgeous as ever. In addition, Rhode also saw a thick cloak covered with plush stripes behind Selestina. Under the whistling of the wind and snow, the girl's face was a little pale. When he noticed Rhode's eyes, Selestina was not willing to be outdone and glared back fiercely. However, in Rhode's eyes, this was more like a bluff. He shrugged his shoulders, looked away, looked forward again, and lightly beat the devil lady. Gripped her teeth and snorted in dissatisfaction. Of course, Rhode thought that she had not heard this.
After discussion, the consensus reached by everyone was that no matter what, the scouts always had to be sent, but there were some disputes in the selection. In the end, when Rhodes stood up and said that he was responsible, it aroused many opposition. In any case, Rhodes was also the commander and lord of the fortress. The lords and commanders of the place went to investigate the enemy situation in person, which was considered a good story, but in everyone's opinion, this was too risky. If they failed, the consequences would be considered a good story.
It is unthinkable that not only Marlene, Lijie and others expressed opposition, and even Sir Baier believed that Rhodes' idea was too bold and risky, and he was betting on the fate of the entire fortress. Once he was discovered and then killed, everything would be completely finished. Of course, not everyone expressed opposition to this. For example, Anne kept echoing loudly, but Rhodes certainly understood that this little guy's mind was nothing more than trying to take the opportunity to go with him.
Lando and Joey naturally disagree with Rhode's proposal. They were both scouts, and naturally understood how dangerous this was. The two also put forward some opinions, such as sending some scouts who are not familiar with the situation of the fortress, or carrying some magic props with self-destructive functions. If something is wrong, it will explode directly, and blow up the corpse and then nothing will happen. Some of them also promised that they would never be discovered. They would be very, very careful. Once they found out that things were wrong, they would just teleport back to the fortress. Anyway, they had a "return ring" in their hands.
Rhodes did not object to these opinions one by one. On the contrary, he hugged his arms with both hands. After everyone had expressed his opinions, he spoke leisurely and leisurely.
"I will not underestimate your ambitions and loyalty. I also think you have enough strength, but I still have to do this because there is one thing that none of you can do."
"What's the matter? Lord Lord?"
Hearing this, Joey asked with some curiosity and dissatisfaction. Hearing the dissatisfaction in Joey's tone, Rhode just glanced at him lightly, and then he said
"Even if you see it, do you know what kind of soldiers those undead creatures belong to?"
“……………………………”
Hearing this sentence, everyone who was eager to refute it just now turned off the fire. They looked at each other and couldn't say a word. Because Rhode's words hit their weakness. Indeed, just as the experience of the undead creatures was, Rhode was enough to get them ten streets. In fact, until now, everyone's knowledge of the Immortal Legion came from Rhode's narration. In addition, they were completely blind and didn't know anything. This is a taboo for scouts. Even between humans, even if there are only subtle differences in the arms, it will affect the commander's judgment of the entire battle situation. This is why most scouts are experienced veterans. They are knowledgeable and will not confuse the Flame Knight and the Crimson Infantry. This is the most important thing
Although Marlene and Serena have learned a certain knowledge of undead creatures, the picture books and living creatures are different after all. Even if they memorize the undead creatures, they will not be able to tell the difference between skeleton soldiers and bone guards.
Sara is very familiar with this, but Rhodes dare not let her go. Although he took Sarah's soul and was not afraid that this corpse slave would betray him, Rhodes also knew that most of the slaves around the lich had magic marks on them. Although the corpse slaves would not have the intention to betray, it was not surprising that they were caught or accidents in places like Night Country. In order to prevent the slaves around the corpse witch would have such magic marks on them in the fortress. The destruction barrier of the Saint Girl statue is
Using magic detection to isolate the opponent, once you leave this door, haha, wait for the lich to follow the GPS location to come to the door. Rhodes has no choice but to find the magic emblem of the corpse slave and then wipe it off. However, the trouble is that the location of the magic emblem of the corpse slave itself does not know the location of the magic emblem, and to find this magic emblem, a major inspection is required. At least Rhodes does not have the time to give Sarah a physical examination, so he can only give up.
In the end, Rhode decided to go alone, and he had enough confidence in himself. Now Rhode has entered the legendary realm. In addition, he has four Holy Sword Cards in his hand, a total of five powerful people in the legendary realm. With the current strength of the Immortal Legion, it is simply a delusion to keep him. Rhode doesn't need to risk his own risk of slipping into the camp of the Immortal Legion. He just needs to find a suitable place and summon Gray Hill and Madallas. It is enough. Can Carles Duying's "vagueness" be a good meal?
But Rhodes is not a fool, just like he has a fog of war on his map. Rhodes is also very familiar with the Immortal Army. Those bones also have strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities. In the early stage of the game, players have suffered too much in this regard. Because the difference between the living and the dead is too great, they are as dazzling as shining gems on the "radar" of the Necromancer and the Lich
This also makes players in the early stage intercepted by the Immortal Army from time to time, and even divided and surrounded it is common. At that time, many players were almost miserable. They cursed the game designers loudly and were simply crazy, but they still gritted their teeth for the generous rewards. The so-called methods are always thought of by people. After being tortured by the Immortal Army, the players are not fools. They quickly came up with various ways to avoid the exploration of the Immortal Army. After that, exploring the military power of the Immortal creatures is basically like an outing for players.
The reason why Rhode brought Selestina with him was also one of them. As a player who was ungrateful to kill, Rhode naturally knew that the detection spell of the undead was basically either life exploration or kindness. He didn't think he was considered kind, but in order to avoid it, he would let Selestina come out to help him push the tank. Anyway, this pure devil lady is 100% pure evil camp from the bottom of her bones. This is still guaranteed by pedigree.
But Rhode knew that this was just an insurance, so he made another preparation for this.
“What a great tower”
Following the white stairs, Serena couldn't help but sigh subconsciously at everything in front of her. Marin was by her side. Although she didn't say anything, it was obvious from Marin's expression that she agreed with Serena's opinion. It's no wonder that having a mage tower of her own is almost every mage's lifelong wish and ideal, even if it's Marin and Serena are like this. They all dreamed that one day they could have their mage tower. This is not just the condensation of power. A mage tower represents the glory and destiny of the mage, and even everything.
Soon, the two walked up the stairs and soon arrived at the hall at the top of the tower. From here, they could see the beautiful scenery around them. The cold wind mixed with snowflakes whistled by, but it disappeared immediately after hitting the magic barrier. Looking up, you could see the semicircular dome representing the pattern of the wind and fire elemental world. The entire hall looked a little deserted. It was no wonder that the money in Rhodes's hand was only enough to make a simple look at the Tour de France Tower.
If you really want to completely renovate it, Rhodes probably won't even have any remaining money left. If the construction price of the Saint Girl statue ranks among the top three in Rhodes' territory, then the decoration price of the entire Tour de France tower is definitely the first. In fact, it doesn't cost much money for a simple tower body and exquisite decoration. However, those magical botanical gardens, various alchemy and magical devices, plus the guardian array, Mithrilian's library of all kinds of magical methods... that is the real consumption big thing.
"You're here"
The Canary, who was standing in the middle, heard the footsteps and looked at the two of them. She smiled slightly and nodded to the Canary with a smile. Serena stood up nervously and gave a grand mage ceremony to the Canary almost panic.
"Hello, dear Master Canary, I... I am so honored that I was invited to your wizard tower. I am Serena Kander, the elemental wizard of the turret tower. I......"
"Relax, Serena"
Hearing Serena's nervous tone, Canary smiled and said, her voice was as gentle and peaceful as ever, without any change. "Don't be so nervous, I'm just about the same age as you. Just call my name just like Miss Marlene."
"It's... Miss Canary"
Although she answered this way, Serena still looked nervous and terrified. However, Canary's calm tone made her relax a lot. At this moment, Serena had the opportunity to raise her head and looked at the girl in front of her curiously and carefully. As Canary said, she seemed to be about the same age as herself, but the most obvious difference between the two was that the other party had already stepped into the peak of the inner ring, and the surging magic power like a raging wave.
Serena heard about the canary before she came to the Fortress of Atonement, but at that time Serena disagreed with this. She was a dazzling star of the Tour de France. Although she was not as dazzling as Marlene, she also had the pride and confidence that an outstanding rookie should have. In her opinion, the rumors were mostly exaggerated. She herself was a master with excellent talent, and naturally understood how difficult it was for mortals to break through that barrier and enter the inner ring. Haven’t you seen Marlene’s talent higher than her, but at this age, she is still a Central Ring Mage? If someone really could break through the barrier of the law and step into the inner ring field at this age, how could it be that unknown?
After coming to the Land of Atonement, because the Canary was busy with the construction of the Mage Tower itself, Serena had no chance to meet until today's meeting that she saw the little bubble gum and the canary for the first time at the meeting.
But just this time, it's enough
As a mage, Serena could certainly feel the strong power of the little bubble gum and the canary that almost broke through the sky. Although both of them intentionally put away the line of law, the pressure from the rich magic was enough to make Serena stunned. At this moment, the girl's worldview was almost completely subverted. What surprised her even more was that Canary was actually a wild mage who had not received formal education?! Is there any reason for the holy soul?
For a moment, Serena even felt that the title of genius in the Tour de France was worthless. In front of a real genius, her existence was even worse than that of a beggar on the street who had despised the canary before, and now her longing and awe after seeing the other party's true strength, made Serena very uncomfortable.
Seeing Serena's performance in front of her eyes, Marin couldn't help but smile. She could understand Serena's thoughts. In fact, at the beginning, Marin herself had a similar relationship with Canary. Moreover, the relationship between her and Canary was more complicated because it involved Rhode. However, after a long time, Marin gradually got used to it. She found that as long as she was not so entangled and relaxed to accept the situation in front of her, it was not an unacceptable result.
"Rod has arrived at the border, let's see ours next."
Canary smiled and made a gesture to the two of them. Then Marlene and Serena came up to them at the invitation of Canary. They came here not only to visit the casting tower, but to assist Canary in casting the detection spell together. The mages can use this spell to explore other areas like starting a satellite radar. However, there is no great effect on those places with high magic resistance. In fact, Canary also noticed that the other party had their own explorations several times. However, the detection spell of the undead has its limitations. Under the protection of the barrier of the Saint Girl statue, the Canary easily smashed the other party's exploration. Now, it is not impolite to come but not to be rude. She also planned to give the other party a little color to look at it.
"Next I need the strength of you two, please stand here."
As he said that, the canary reached out and pointed to her side. Until this time, the two of them discovered that at the foot of the canary, a silver magic circle was emitting a slight glory. It was a triangle, and there was a circle that could stand a person in the three focal points. In addition, the most eye sign in the center of the triangle, and the painting was around it. Seeing this rune in the mysterious rune wandering around it. Marlin was fine, and Serena screamed in surprise when she saw these runes.
"This is the secret pattern magic array?"
“Yes”
Canary nodded, without any change on his face, but Serena was waving in her heart at this moment. The holy soul was on it. She knew very well that the secret pattern magic array was a joint casting technique of the mages of ancient times. It could perfectly integrate the power of each mage who jointly casts, and used it to cooperate with a spell. The power of the spell cast under such a technique was much stronger than that of ordinary spells. However, Serena also knew that this magic array had completely disappeared from history after the War of Creation. The three great mages in the Ring of Magic Tower spent hundreds of years, and so far, they had only restored less than one-tenth of them. If Serena had not been fortunate to become a disciple of one of the great mages, and had seen information about the secret pattern magic array in the information. If she knew some runes in it, she would probably never have thought that she would have seen a complete secret pattern magic array here!!
The Holy Soul is on top, Serena is sure that if she told her teacher about this, she would probably come here to observe and appreciate the formation of this secret pattern magic array even in the face of the end of the world. But...
"But, but Miss Canary, I remember correctly that the secret pattern magic array should require twelve people..."
"At present, we don't need to launch such powerful spells and we don't have enough manpower, so I simplified it, and this three-person version is enough for us to use."
Simplified.........
Hearing Canary's disregarded answer, Serena has been completely petrified
Soon, the three of them stood in the position of an equilateral triangle around the crystal ball in front of them. Serena was a little nervous while Marlene looked serious, and only the canary still maintained a soft smile.
"Don't worry, next I will use my power as my guide. The eyes of the storm are used to explore the secrets, and the power of the flames is used to maintain defense and counterattack Miss Marlene. You are responsible for the protection of the earth. Miss Serena, the cover of ice and snow will be left to you."
"Yes, yes! Miss Canary!"
When Serena heard Canary's words, she was nervous and responded quickly like a student named by the teacher in class. Then she realized that she seemed to be overly nervous. She hurriedly shook her head, and then nodded again.
"Please leave it to me with confidence, Miss Canary."
"So, let's start"
The canary smiled softly, then she raised her hands and stretched forward. At the same time, Marlene and Serena also reached out to her hands quickly. The singing sounded, wandering in the howling snow storm, fusing, and then following the invisible trajectory of magic, spreading forward.
The wind and snow whistling
The canary opened her eyes quickly, and the snow scene in front of her appeared in the void in front of the three of them, just like the scene of an aerial camera. Soon, the snow field flew past their eyes and penetrated into the dark field.
“Um………………”
Serena couldn't help but scream. Although she was only responsible for using the power of ice and snow to cover up the magic breath to prevent the other party's detection, after entering the border of the Kingdom of Night, the girl still felt the magic breath coming from her fingers, full of evil and darkness. It seemed to merge with the cold chill, and even made Serena's fingertips slightly numb.
Soon, white is converted to black
In just a moment, the boundless army of necromancers appeared in front of the three spellcasters. They filled the entire void and almost connected to the sky at first glance, blending with the dark sky top to see the scene in front of you. Canary raised his eyebrows, while Marin and Serena almost held their breath with the power of magic. This was the first time they had seen so many immortal troops so clearly and intuitively. Just standing here and seeing the scene in front of you makes people feel a sense of despair.
However, these scenes were just swept through and continued to push inward, but at this moment, the magical image in front of the three people suddenly began to twist.
"They sensed our peeping!"
Serena was shocked. She could feel the dark magic power running towards the source of magic through her own wind and snow. The power hitting the protection Marin used was obviously very strong. Marin's face turned pale in an instant. She gritted her teeth, and the magic light that appeared on her hands became brighter and brighter. The canary did not give up immediately at this time. On the contrary, her right hand moved slightly. With this movement, the scene in front of her was swirled back and forth by 180 degrees. Then, the dark flame suddenly appeared on it.
"Stop!"
With the canary's order, Marlene and Serena hurriedly retreated, and then they saw a surging wave, and a powerful dark force erupted from the void scene. But at this moment, the canary's right hand suddenly ejected a dazzling and bright fire. In just a moment, the black force was quickly suppressed, and then a flash of light and everything disappeared completely.
"call……………"
Canary slapped his palm and let out a sigh
"The general orientation of the enemy's army has been determined, and it has also destroyed the opponent's detection and protection. Let's look at Rhodes..."
Speaking of this, Canary raised her head, looked at Marlene and Serena, and said with a smile
"Then let's hold a tea party next" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!