The Record of Initiation - Legacy of Nightmares Chapter 13 Thinking Without Your Brain
"I saw it, it's really huge. There are insect patrols on the streets and in the sky above the city, but the movements and action logic look as rigid as a golem with set commands, holding a giant spear in its hand." Alexander scratched.
He scratched his head and continued: "Is this a race that can negotiate? They won't see us and attack directly, right? There are no less than twenty insect-men that I can see."
"Also, what is the attitude of these insectoids towards humans?" Kino asked carefully.
"This... I'm not sure about that either." Sophia looked at the city. After all, the information she got from the information flow was just a few words.
"Even so, we can only move forward." Brandon said and put the sword on his back, obviously planning to go down.
"We have no choice but to move forward." Alexander looked at the suitable path and asked, "But do we need to meet and negotiate with these insectoids?"
"We have no choice but to go down, otherwise our actions will be in vain. Aren't they guarding the lower level? They won't rush over as soon as they see us, right?" Fageni felt that he couldn't return like this after coming here.
"I think this is the key to the problem... They do protect the lower levels. Because of this, the probability of taking action when they see us is not small." Alexander patted Brandon's shoulder after confirming that there was no danger on the way down.
He stepped aside and climbed down first.
"We came down from above, not up from below. Besides, the road we are taking is called the inheritance road. We won't be killed by friendly forces before we reach the inheritance." Brandon also went down and changed the law.
Nigeria is ranked third.
"Don't tell me this, ask them." Alexander's voice came from the rain.
Sofia followed, and Kino cut off the rear. The route Alexander chose was very clever. The flying insect knights patrolling in the air did not seem to notice the five people, and were still patrolling in their own area. But the outer part of the last foothold of this ladder is very
It is empty. If you want to walk towards the city, you will definitely encounter at least one heavy beetle knight, guarding every intersection.
"Miss Sophia, do you really have no more clues about these insectoids?" Alexander was a little unwilling to give up and asked after reaching the ground.
"No, I can't explore the inside of the city. The passage to go down is in the center of the city. Now we can only go in." Sophia shook her head, but the magic she sensed before did not directly pass through the city. It seems that the interior must be explored.
We don't know, but at least the passage to the next level is in the center of this city where the rain keeps falling.
"I think, to be cautious, we should try to go around it first." Based on what he had seen before, Alexander tried to bypass the city by taking a route that could pass through the insect patrols or there were no insect patrols at all.
Fageni also looked around to see if there was any path that could not be seen above that could bypass the city's guards and enter. He determined that there were no roads left and right that could pass through, so he said helplessly: "We can only enter the city directly, there seems to be no other way.
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"Can we only fight? This..." Alexander frowned.
"Miss Sophia, just stay behind us. Your energy is exhausted and you are already tired. Please rest first." Kino held the guard in his hand to express concern.
After calculation, Brandon came up with the safest path that could pass through major intersections, but it would also involve at least two battles.
"The safest route is to encounter bugs twice." Alexander thought for a while and came to the conclusion: "If this is the case, we can only act like this. Keep a distance and talk to each other to see if there will be a fight.
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"We have no choice but to leave. There is nothing useful around us. Let's go." Fageni took the knife on his back and waited for the paladin who looked very resistant to beating to clear the way, and Alexander usually followed him.
Behind him, Fageni was still third—almost the safest position in the team.
"Yeah, but I just took a rest. It's okay now, and I can support you a few times." Although Miss Mage's recovery magic power is not much, at least she can still use magic spells that hardly consume magic power to fight.
The lowest buildings in the city are mainly oval in shape, but the buildings on the outside have a long burr roof, which seems to increase the defensive effect. In addition, from this angle, you can find at least four buildings that are at least one hundred feet high.
Located in different locations in the city, they should be major buildings.
Some of them can go up from the outside of the ellipse along the spiral stairs. The exterior walls of these four suspected main buildings have the same pattern as the slate layer, and the walls of other ordinary-looking lower-level buildings are all smooth.
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First, the five of them arrived at the first intersection outside the city that they had to pass through. When they were three hundred feet away, two heavy beetle knights rushed towards them without saying a word.
"Miss Sophia, are you going to try negotiating?" Alexander said, already putting his hand on the bow behind his back, and the others also drew their weapons.
"I'll give it a try, but this performance doesn't feel right." Sofia observed the heavy beetle knight's demeanor, slightly raised her voice and shouted to the other side: "We are here to maintain the seal and suppress the evil god, not enemies." But across species.
Observing facial expressions is such a thing...
The two heavy beetle knights each approached the five of them at a distance of 150 feet, with a distance of less than 30 feet. They did not pause even when they heard the voice in Common that was clear enough in the rain.
"Miss Sophia, please use the enhancement magic first. It seems that there is no possibility of negotiation." Alexander put the arrow he had drawn earlier on his bow.
"Hmm." Sophia waved her staff, projecting a divine sword to Brandon at the front, quickly casting a spiritual wind shield, and finally releasing a lightning ray modified from the fire attribute spell Scorching Ray to try.
depth.
But in the rain, not only the power of fire-attribute spells became weaker, but also the thunder-attribute spells were deflected. Three of the three lightning bolts containing powerful power, two deflected to the sky, and another one barely hit but hit the ground.
The armor dissipated.
"Well...my spells have no effect." As an academic mage, it is normal for such mistakes to occur. After all, Sofia had never thought about fighting in the rain. She only thought that it was normal for people not to be able to use fire-attribute spells.
Intelligence category.
"I can see it. It looks like this armor is different from the one above. It's probably resistant to lightning. Let me try it." Alexander's words were either comforting or sincere. Anyway, she shot out the enchanted fine gold.
The arrow was also equipped with lightning... She would not add other attributes, but this arrow at least shot through the gap between the armor and staggered the insect man.
Fageni walked three feet behind Brandon, raising his sword horizontally as a second human shield without any intention of rushing over to attack.
Kino saw that the insect man was injured, and tried hard to make the lavender eyes slowly turn blood red. "The blood of the enemy..." Different from the general barbarian rage, her unique blood-thirsty rage made the aura around her become
He became violent. Then with a flash of sword light in the rain, he charged in front of the insect man. The weapon called the Forester also raised his sword and slashed at the insect man.
But the armor of the heavy beetle knight absorbed most of the impact, so it was just another step.
Brandon felt helpless when he saw Kino rushing forward without any plan, so he had to get as close as possible, but her speed was really not that fast. Then the first heavy beetle knight launched an attack on Kino, before the heavy gun
Thorny Kino couldn't completely dodge, his shoulder was stained with blood, but it wasn't a big problem.
Immediately afterwards, the heavy beetle knight who was a little further away also rushed over. Fortunately, because the first knight blocked his position, he could only attack Brandon. The paladin was hit in the abdomen by this heavy gun sweep, which already injured his internal organs and sprayed him.
Spit out a mouthful of blood.
"Brandon, please cut back and retreat, don't resist." Seeing this, Alexander shouted anxiously.
"Please come on, Miss Alexander." Sophia gritted her teeth, pointed her index finger at Alexander, projected the new divine sword on Alexander, and then ran behind Alexander.
"Next time, you should add the gain to me first." The second arrow Alexander had already drawn was filled with electricity again and shot out. The first heavy beetle knight hit in front of Kino leaned back and his body changed.
It disappeared into a puff of purple smoke. With a snap, the unsupported armor fell down and scattered on the ground.
Fageni stretched forward as soon as he saw the battle line, and decided to throw the knife and run forward. But his speed was slower than Brandon.
Kino pulled out the canon and turned around to rush towards the second heavy beetle knight. He still used the forest guard to slash at the insect man, but perhaps because the enemy was not injured this time, the effect was weakened a lot. However, after the second heavy beetle knight, the effect was weakened.
After two sword strikes, it is more threatening than a flat slash.
The white light emitted by Brandon's hands was injected into the one-handed sword he was holding, and the one-handed sword also began to emit white light. The paladin vigorously wielded the evil-breaking ability unique to this extraordinary profession, pulling out an arc belt and slashing heavily.
In front of the enemy, this blow was much more powerful than the two wounds caused by Kino. Immediately afterwards, some purple smoke rose upwards.
"This is an unclean creature." Brandon coughed and put on a defensive posture.
"These ghosts. I'm afraid the insect-human race has been contaminated by the evil gods below." At this time, Fageni finally ran over and slashed with a knife or a stick, but it was just as painless and innocuous as Kino's result.
"I hope they are just sick, just hope." Alexander went to draw a second arrow.
[It seems that the bugs here are indeed contaminated by the evil god.] Sophia sighed in her heart, but what can she do?
"Brando, you are seriously injured, do you need any medicine?" Kino asked, she could remain rational enough even in the rage caused by rage.
"It's okay, let's deal with this monster first."
The heavy beetle knight fired another shot at Brandon. The paladin tried his best, but vomited a mouthful of blood and knelt down on one knee, barely supporting his body with his sword.
Alexander had a headache, but the second arrow surging with lightning still penetrated the circle surrounded by the three people in the front row and accurately hit the head of the heavy beetle knight.
As the purple smoke rose again, the armor of the second insect man fell to the ground. Brandon coughed and pressed the white light on his hand to his abdomen, using the healing power of the Holy Guide's hand to repair the damage to his internal organs.
Fageni put away the "knife" and looked at Kino, who had recovered from his rage and was trying to calm down: "Why did you suddenly run out just now?"
"I just ran fast...well, there is indeed something wrong." Chino simply admitted his tactical mistakes.
"Brandon ran next to you and took a shot in vain. I almost fell down when I followed you. Isn't it better to wait for the work and then fight back? Is your injury okay?" Fageni saw that Brandon seemed to be fine, so he asked
Look at the wound on Kino's shoulder.
"Mr. Brandon, it's gone, are you okay?" Sophia trotted over, took out the rejuvenation staff and asked: "Miss Kino, does it need to be repaired? This equipment of mine can slightly heal injuries that are not particularly serious."
Fageni turned his head. Hearing these words and hearing that it was only a minor injury, he gave up the idea of taking out the healing potion.
"Okay, Miss Kino, you can hold it for a while to recover. Mild wounds are still fine." Sophia handed the short staff to Kino.
"Thank you, Miss Sophia." Kino took the short staff naturally.
"Are you feeling okay? Is that purple smoke poisonous?" Alexander put away her bow and was the last one to come over to see Brandon's condition. After all, she had experienced many dangerous battles with Brandon before and knew that his healing ability was
How strong.
"It's not poisonous, but this guy is really strong." Brandon stood up, maintaining the most basic respect for these undead creatures who were once heroic warriors.
"Next time you feel like you can't hold it anymore, just retreat quickly. What if those two guys hit you just now? Don't resist." Alexander saw that Brandon's condition had improved so much, so he walked over and kicked the insect man away.
I checked the helmet to see if there was anything inside. But there were only some what looked like burnt ashes left inside.
"Next time, I'll be at the front. I find that I seem to be the one who can take the most beatings." Fageni looked to the left and right, fearing that the surrounding insect-men would hear the sound of fighting and come over.
But fortunately, no bugs came towards us, and since the wounds had been healed, they would not be infected. The rain quickly washed away the blood on the two men.
"Maybe the problem is that you're running too slow," Alexander joked.
"There was no need to run just now. When you shoot one of them to death with two arrows, the rest are still fighting steadily." Fageni's words made sense.
"Then let's adjust the order." Sophia said, and then she gathered her wet long hair according to the reflection of the armor on the ground.
"It seems like something has been burned here." Alexander shook his head and said, "Don't stop here for too long, keep moving forward." After that, he walked first.
"It must have been purified because of the pollution. Let's go." Sophia also followed. Brandon didn't want his employer to be second, so he quickly passed her.
"Let's go, let's go. They don't seem to have heard the sound of fighting, and neither of them called for reinforcements. Have the brains of unclean creatures reversed development?" Fageni walked forward and chatted with Kino, but in fact, they were generally unclean.
Living things actually have no intelligence.
"Do unclean creatures think with their brains?" Alexander had much more common sense than this villager, and Kino also looked at him with contempt.
Soon the five of them approached the city. When they arrived, they discovered that if they used the spiral staircase of the main building in front of them, they might be able to avoid the second group of insect knights. "I don't know about this. I have never learned this kind of thing."
Fageni looked around and asked, "By the way, can you avoid the second battle?"
Alexander went up the spiral staircase to see the situation of the insect-men in the sky. If the timing was right, it would not be a problem to use the cover of the building to avoid the patrols in the air.
Sophia stood aside, wondering whether throwing the detection series of spells would attract the attention of surrounding unclean creatures. According to what she learned in the book, low-level unclean creatures can only detect nearby life energy.
Not necessarily for advanced ones.
"Hmm... It seems that if we move quickly enough, we can avoid the second group of bugmen on the way from the building. Do you want to try?" Alexander turned to look at Sophia.
"I think it's feasible. It's better to do less than to do more." Fageni replied immediately.
"You can try. Then Alexander, can you see any unclean creatures moving nearby? If we properly control the distance from unclean creatures, we may be able to avoid our vitality being detected." Unconsciously, Sophia was no longer there.
Add the suffix Ms.
"Then let's try it." Alexander straightened his wet clothes and said, "Yes, of course there is. Aren't they everywhere around here? Follow me and be careful." As predicted before, in the city,
There are other patrol groups invisible above and to the side.
"Alexander is still reliable. Compared with Fagenius, he is really useful." Kino said sarcastically next to Fagenius.
On the road behind, the five people cautiously and silently climbed up the stairs that were not suitable for human walking. As the height climbed, the view gradually broadened. When they reached the top of the spiral staircase outside the building, Alexander slowly turned around and looked down at the
A bug city that is not as large as Lamesa City but is still spectacular enough.
The rainwater seeping from the bottom of the lake is always washing the top and outer walls of the building, and the water flow finally converges into a system similar to a drainage channel. Such a shocking landscape made Alexander feel that these insect people must have intelligence no less than human beings to allow them to complete this kind of thing.
great deeds.
"If these buildings were not built by humans to help bugs, then they should have had very high intelligence. There are also sewers here, so it seems that the daily living conditions of these bugs should not be much different from humans." After a brief shock.
Alexander always paid attention to the insect patrol tracks in the sky and underground, and led the team to continue to advance cautiously towards the center of the city.
"I wonder if any uninfected insect-men have escaped from here." Fageni rubbed his wrist.
Next, the five people helped each other and moved forward with the help of the flat top part of the connecting passage between the buildings. They relied on rules to avoid the patrols of the flying insect knights, and finally walked down the spiral staircase until they found the entrance to another elevator device.
.The heavy beetle knight patrolling in front of this place can also enter with about five seconds of space. Sofia feels that this place is just like the public steam lift station described in the book.
"Perhaps it's just like what Mr. Fageni said... But this is really like what I have seen in books." Sofia sighed, then pointed to the elevator behind the entrance and said: "We should continue here.
decline."
"What's in the book?" Alexander didn't quite understand what Sophia was talking about and continued: "In short, find an opportunity to sneak in. Miss Sophia, you don't seem to be running fast enough to pass through the gap. Can I carry you?"
"Sorry to trouble you." Sophia said and stood next to Alexander, obediently preparing to let her carry her on her back.
Alexander handed the bow to Brandon, who was wiping the rain off his face, then carried Sophia on his back and stared at the bugmen patrolling in front, preparing to rush over during a gap in the patrol.
Sophia also tried her best to cooperate with Alexander's movements on her back to avoid affecting her sprint.
The moment the opportunity came, the five people put away their weapons and rushed into the semi-enclosed facility as quickly as possible. This chapter has been completed!