Xiao Fen walked to the edge of the platform and looked down - there was no bottom under the platform. The floor of the platform and the four walls were covered with intricate carvings: abstract clouds, stars and moons, and some monster faces.
These artistic sculptures continue downwards and eventually disappear into the darkness.
He took out a silver coin from his arms and threw it down. It took a while before the faint sound of tinkling came back. The sound seemed so small and empty in the vast darkness.
Miss Griffin was observing the other side: a stone bridge less than a foot wide, half suspended in the air, connected the platform to the top of a steeple - a Gothic-style black tower built with square bricks.
Minaret - upward is the spire, and the lower part is hidden in the black mist...
"This seems to be a castle," Miss Elf whispered. She gestured and said: "Ahem... Our position is like entering a castle from directly above. This platform is an observatory, and together with the spire,
A lookout system - but unlike ordinary lookout towers, this one is designed for military commanders."
Architecture and engineering knowledge! The mage was once again surprised. He and Yun Na’s knowledge and skills were among the best in Canaan, especially the female mage, Bo Wen Qiang Ji, who was simply a mobile encyclopedia. But even so, that
Women only have a little understanding of such unpopular things as architecture and engineering knowledge.
He glanced at the elf lady, nodded and replied: "Yes, this is a spire fortress. "Minaret Fortress?" The halfling druid widened his black and round eyes curiously.
"Well," Griffin explained: "Five to six centuries ago, the powerful nobles in the south were keen to build such a fortress. These people were not the later Oras nobles, but the legacy of the ancient magic kings.
Some of them are mages themselves, and some have powerful mages who are loyal to them... Ahem, in short, they built one tower after another for this purpose. Those powerful mages live in these towering buildings.
At the tip of the cloud tower, use crystal balls and prophetic spells to monitor the vast land..."
"Did you see the top of the tower?... Ahem. That is the living place of the owner of this tower, and it is also the center of the demon hub of the observation system. A Heart of Canaan is usually placed there. Just like a mage... cough
Well, it’s like the Tower of Arcane Magic of the Mage Association.”
"Heart of Canaan?" the dwarf paladin became excited: "I know that is a kind of gem, and that thing is very valuable!" He rubbed his fat palms impatiently, looking eager to try it.
As soon as he finished speaking, the mage felt a gust of wind blowing past him. He hurriedly fished forward and pulled back the hot-headed halfling druid. "You have to have a life to get the money -" he said viciously
After giving him a lesson, he turned back and told the dwarf: "You start the fight!"
For such an order, the dwarf was more than happy. He put a heavy warhammer on his shoulder and strode forward. The narrow stone bridge hung naked in the air. If a person stood on it, it would be as light as a leaf, and a gust of wind could blow it.
Falling under the abyss; but there is nothing to worry about, especially when the dwarves, halflings, and elf ladies know that there is a fortune waiting for them to claim it.
The group of people quickly came to the protruding semicircular platform of the tower. As mentioned before, there was a closed, arched wooden door - the door was painted with wood paint, but it had almost fallen off and looked mottled;
The iron sheet was also badly rusted, and only the heavy brass door knocker still reflected a glimmer of light under the firelight.
"Can you pick locks?" The dwarf turned back and asked the halfling druid.
The answer I got was big eyes and small eyes...
"Okay, I shouldn't ask you... How about I try?" the dwarf asked the others, taking off the stainless steel war hammer, holding it in his hand, and weighed it.
"Why don't you shout loudly and tell everyone to pay attention, we are coming!" the halfling druid said with a smile.
"What should we do?" The dwarf was in trouble.
"Maybe it's unlocked?" the halfling suggested.
The dwarf had an expression on how this was possible, and stepped forward and pushed it - then the wooden door let out a whine. After a series of snapping and snapping sounds of metal - the entire door fell backwards, with a terrifying loud bang.
Noise, smoke and dust flying.
"Ahem..."
"Ahem, damn..."
A group of people choked so hard that Griffin almost died from coughing.
"That's it...ahem," Miss Elf's face turned pale: "If...ahem, this can be considered a way of knocking on the door, I guess we will be kicked out by the owner..."
This remark caused a burst of laughter.
The dwarf blushed and said angrily: "If I had known that the door would open like this... I would never push it like this. I swear in the name of Omodin... sneeze!"
"No, we should be lucky." Xiao Fen also laughed and shook his head: "...you chose to push, not pull."
There was another burst of snickering.
In fact, the encounters in the dungeon often become more difficult as you go deeper, but at the beginning, it seems acceptable for such a team; in short, there is no threat to the mages here, but it is used for
It's just right to temper these reckless little guys.
Level 4 and 5 are a special season for players, which means that this group of people will gradually move away from the town, explore further areas, and enter more dangerous dungeons to hunt for treasures - just like the Shining Gold Coin Team back then.
It is at this level that the adventure begins.
This is also a watershed, and the difficulty of the game has improved dramatically here: players are freed from one-sided battles with goblins, skeletons, jackals and kobolds, and begin to learn some more advanced combat skills - this is also
This means that they have to face more complex situations, and attacks often no longer stay in one direction or method.
This is an era of paying tuition.
A group of people stepped on the wooden door and walked into the dusty room - it was a small space twenty feet square, empty. On the wall directly in front were a decorative shield and two crossed long swords. On the right side was
A spiral staircase leads to the top of the tower or the lower level.
The dwarf trotted to the side of the spiral staircase, patted the handrail, and made a hollow sound. "The copper ground is still usable!" he said loudly.
Miss Griffin walked in from behind. She raised her head and looked at a constellation map on the ceiling made of silver cast on obsidian - and then there was the halfling. This guy looked left and right curiously, but he didn't see it.
Xiao Fen was the last one to enter the room. He just glanced at the shield hanging on the wall and immediately walked over and took it down with a click.
Everyone looked at him doubtfully——
"What do you do?" asked the dwarf.
Xiao Fen took a hard breath and threw the shield directly: "Take it!"
Unprepared for the moment, the dwarf paladin took several steps back before catching such a heavy and heavy guy. "...What are you doing?" He looked at the large eagle-shaped shield in his hand - the surface of the shield was
Light blue, with a emblem of two snakes wrapped around a cane. There are some wavy lines on the outside - but it is covered with a layer of gray again, looking old and ordinary. Attention has turned. Miss Griffith revealed this time
With a surprised expression, "Is this -?" She let out a low breath, then stretched out her right hand and chanted: "Detect magic!" Gray light shot out from her palm, and this light was projected onto the shield.
On the shield, a layer of deep red light immediately appeared.
The paladin's eyes almost popped out of his head. Now he understood. "Magic item!?" he asked excitedly.
"It's a fake..." Miss Elf sighed: "I thought it was authentic. That legendary shield has been missing for centuries..."
"What do you mean?" The halfling druid was extremely envious. He looked at the shield in the dwarf's hand and asked the mage lady: "What fake... genuine product? Aren't they all magic items?"
"The Shield of the Medical Knights... It is said that it is one of the best among legendary items... Ahem, what a pity, I haven't seen legendary equipment yet!" Griffin explained: "But this side is also
Not bad, at least it’s a high-level magic item.”
Shield of the Knights of the Hospital - Not many players in Canaan have heard of such a name, but its other name is a household name: Altaïr's Forgiveness, Shield of the Grand Crusader! Legend. Legend.
The paladin Artel Degar once used this shield to fight against the Secret Star Priest and the Black Robe Mage, and crushed the evil again and again. In that era, just speaking his name could make those beings in the shadows tremble.
Later, in the battle where the Olas Dynasty unified the Quiet Gulf region, he led his knights to defeat the famous Necromancer sequence in one fell swoop, laying the foundation for the sect of the goddess of life Delusie in Austria.
Dominance of the South of Lars.
However, as the first leader of the Medical Knights, Arteldegar himself also died in this war. His shield also disappeared. No one saw it again in the following hundreds of years.
Later, his former nemesis Thesgort was resurrected as a lich, and when he walked on the earth again, some people speculated that this terrible mage had taken away the legendary shield - but the Eleven Sages
After completely killing the most powerful mage lord since the Age of Magic, Altaïr's shield was not found among the trophies...
According to legend, the shield of the Knights of the Hospital is a light blue eagle shield with the holy emblem of the goddess of life and medicine, Duluth, on it. It can defend against all attacks from evil, filth and the undead. Its shield has the goddess on it.
Blessed by the earth, it will never be broken.
The dwarf's eyes turned red: "Big... Big Crusader Shield?"
"Look at the attributes!" The halfling druid rushed over, almost pressing his entire body against the shield.
"Wow, defense: 8, magic resistance +1o%, cure light injuries 5 times/day, cure moderate injuries 1 time/day! Daylight spell - 3 times/day, wow, fakes are so powerful!" The halfling made a fuss.
The sound kept coming.
"Damn it, go away... Damn it, please be careful and don't break it!" This was the dwarf's yelling voice, almost changing its tone.
"...It's just a fake!"
Miss Griffin glanced at Xiao Fen, and the meaning in her eyes was clear - how did you recognize it at a glance?
The mage smiled slightly and didn't mind imparting some experience at all: "Look at the indoor adventure habits, especially some of the furnishings. Also, we are lucky, this is a dungeon that no one has explored."
"How to say?"
"The rewards for the dungeon are most generous during the first adventure. From now on, it all depends on luck; take this shield as an example, it may just be an exquisite item when it is refreshed next time, or it may be an ordinary decoration." Xiao
Fen explained: "To put it simply, we may have a bumper harvest this time - of course, it depends on how far we can go."
Hearing these words, the dwarf paladin and the halfling druid high-fived their hands excitedly: "Long live!" They almost jumped up. The fear of monsters before turned into the driving force for the pursuit of treasures, making them whole
Everyone will be set on fire.
"You seem to know a lot?...Ahem." Griffith looked at Xiao Fen carefully, as if he was sizing him up again: "Isn't this your first role?"
"It's not a good thing to be too curious." The mage shrugged: "Okay, let's move on - go to the top of the tower first; the shield paladin will take it first. As for the final distribution, we will talk about it later." He chose to change the topic.
.
"Long live the mage!" the dwarf shouted in agreement.
So the group of people continued to advance towards the top of the tower, and did not encounter any expected attacks on the way; in fact, they just kept moving along the spiral staircase, and the firelight extended forward little by little amid the chaotic footsteps. The atmosphere was a bit depressing.
Everyone consciously kept quiet - even the noisy halflings.
But at this time, Xiao Fen thought of a problem.
Why are there those mysterious words at the entrance? Why would a mage hang a shield of the Knights Hospitaller in his steeple as a decoration? Why does this underground castle have a watchtower and a star tower?
As if a blessing had reached his soul, Xiao Fen turned around and asked, "Kidney Fighter, have you ever heard of anyone around here talking about such an underground city?"
"Dungeon?" The dwarf paladin shook his head simply: "Didn't you say it yourself? We are probably the first visitors here..." As he said that, he immediately became excited and his eyes became bright.
The elephant is full of golden money.
"What did you think of?" The mage turned back and asked Griffith.
"Huh?" Miss Elf was staring blankly at the fire. She was obviously stunned for a moment.
"Let me ask a question. Do you think someone would build a watchtower and... a star platform in an underground fortress?" Xiao Fen licked his lips and asked in a low voice.
The halfling finally found a chance to speak, "Of course..." However, he was stuck on the second half of his sentence. After a long while, he stammered and replied: "Probably... no."
"Mr. Wizard, do you mean that external forces caused this fortress to sink into the ground?" Griffin finally reacted: "Impossible!"
"...In the turbulent years, during the wars of the Age of Gods or the end of the Age of Magic, some cities did sink into the ground forever. But...cough, cough, cough!" Miss Elf said excitedly.
She coughed violently. It took her a while to recover and said: "However, there has been almost no such record since then... Since the establishment of the Medical Knights, Olas has almost never had any large-scale turmoil.
.”
"There should be records of things like a nobleman's castle sinking into the ground, right?"
Xiao Fen narrowed his eyes and shook his head: "You are right, there are indeed records."
"Ah?" Even the dwarf paladin was surprised this time.
"That was a special battle between the Eleven Sages and Tesgor." The mage smiled mysteriously: "If I remember correctly, he was born in this area."
When he said this, he almost laughed out loud. At this moment, Xiao Fen could swear that this dungeon was definitely related to the blood-stained doomsday page. Maybe, the old lich's doomsday page was also found here——
Then the secret of his rebirth as a lich must also be hidden underground here.
This time, it’s bigger!
The mage felt ecstatic in his heart.
A player stumbled and tried to break into the Noble Administration Hall on Central Street, but before that he was beaten by a team of bsp: "Let me in, damn it!" This was a soldier. He was furious and almost put his mouth to the guard captain.
He shouted in his ear: "I have information about the Hand of Despair!"
"You?" The guard captain was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Do you think I will believe it?"
"What I said is true!" The warrior almost drew out his sword, but before that, two halberds were placed on his neck to calm him down.
"You heard clearly - the morning's news, the hand of despair is still far away in the clover fields!" A soldier said disdainfully: "Besides, the earl is currently receiving guests in his castle."
When the soldier heard this, his eyes turned red.
"In the Field of Clover? Damn you, just now all three towns near Thornburg fell! In less than forty-eight hours, the hands of despair will come here!" He looked at this like an idiot.
Team soldiers.
The guard captain's expression changed, and he asked hesitantly: "Where did you get the news?"
"The news from me?" The player laughed angrily: "Ha, I just came back from the dead in Marsh Forest Village... Is this news true enough? In addition, let me tell you, it has spread on the forum, and it has almost reached the other two towns.
Suffering a devastating blow at the same time!”
"Come back from the dead? Forum?" A group of soldiers looked at him like a madman: "What are you talking about in your sleep?"
The soldier was speechless for a while and sighed: "Forget it, let the player with the highest position come and tell me..."
"You mean adventurers, right? There are no adventurers serving under the earl." A soldier replied.
"Why don't you, Lord Earl, die..." the soldier muttered in a voice that only he could hear, and then he asked: "Well, when will I have the chance to see Lord Weiss... By the way,
I am the deputy captain of the Marsh Forest Village Security Guards." As he said this, he took out a silver badge to prove it.
With such an identity, the soldiers finally showed a more cautious expression.
"Well... Your Excellency may come here at this time tomorrow. As I said just now, His Excellency the Earl is currently receiving guests in his castle." One of the soldiers said.
"Tomorrow?" The soldier almost squeezed out these two words through his teeth.
"Well... I hope it's not too late, I curse you bsp;...