Ma Yun shook her head and said to her with a solemn face: "Estna, I dare to swear to the gods that what I tell you is the truth. It's up to you to believe it or not."
Istna stared into her eyes, unable to see any sign of hypocrisy, and the anger in her heart gradually turned into frustration...
"Treacherous little village girl! I am unlucky today because I fell into your trap!"
Istna knew in her heart that Ma Yun did not lie to her, but in order to save her face, she could not admit this fact.
"I've written down this account, let's see!"
With a cry and a fierce threat, the little hag turned and ran away, disappearing into the depths of the night in the blink of an eye.
Ma Yun looked at her retreating back, recalling the scene of fighting side by side before, her heart was heavy and she felt very uncomfortable.
Gao Fei noticed that Xiao Ma was depressed, so he patted her on the shoulder and comforted her softly.
"The relationship between you and Istna is not just a simple misunderstanding. The seeds of conflict were planted as early as the prologue of the game. You are destined to become a pair of old enemies."
"You have nothing wrong with Istna, and Istna has done nothing wrong. If you have to blame someone, you can only blame the evil game screenwriter for designing such a bloody plot."
"That's right! It's all the fault of deadbeat planners and stupid screenwriters!" Jiang Feng nodded in agreement, "It can't be the player's fault anyway."
Ma Yunqiang cheered up and smiled: "Brother Fei! Sister Feng! We have killed the old witch Theodora, why haven't we received the reminder to complete the milestone of the main plot?"
"Not receiving the prompt only means that the main plot of this chapter has not been completed yet." Gao Fei thought for a moment and then said, "In fact, we do still have a lot to do."
"For example, go to the gold mine and rescue the Scarecrow and Tin Man who are trapped in the mine and working hard."
"The other thing is to eliminate the old witch's gang and liberate the enslaved residents of Wenji Township."
"Before that, we have to search the old witch's castle, maybe we can get something valuable."
"Oh! By the way! Valuable things!" Jiang Feng was reminded by her boyfriend's words and immediately beamed, "The old witch is very coquettish. The utensils in the room are made of pure gold. Even the cages for raising hamsters are made of gold.
It’s worth a lot of money!”
"Okay! Let's go find the gold!"
Xiao Ma was worried about not having enough money to make a sand golem. He thought of the lot of gold hidden in the castle, and his mood became high.
As soon as the old witch died, all the tengu and wargs under her command fled without a trace.
Gao Fei, Jiang Feng and Ma Yun started from the attic and searched down floor after floor.
Wenji Township is rich in gold.
Over the years, the gold mine has been monopolized by Theodora, and he has indeed accumulated a lot of wealth.
All the gold vessels in the room were packed away by the three of them.
Finally, Gao Fei, Jiang Feng and Ma Yun arrived at the underground warehouse where the mechanical corner stones were originally stored.
After a thorough search, a secret door was discovered.
Ma Yun received a system prompt that only characters with "Skill" skill of no less than 9 and proficiency in "Thieves' Tools" could open this secret door.
This means that, without resorting to external aid, players must choose the "Trickster" profession in order to open this secret door with their own hands and obtain the old witch's treasure.
In the prologue of this module, players can choose from four mage archetypes.
Comparing these four paradigms, it is not difficult to find that in the middle and early stages of the game, due to the restrictions of the magic school, the trickster's spellcasting ability is the weakest among the four paradigms.
It is precisely to make up for the inherent shortcomings of the Trickster that the game designers left a secret door here to provide additional loot for Trickster players.
According to the normal game flow, even if Ma Yun rescues the scarecrow Vita trapped in the mine, Vita's level as a trickster would not be able to open the secret door and help Ma Yun get the treasure.
After all, the mage type Artificer is already too strong. The game designers don't want her to become stronger, which will cause the subsequent game process and combat to become less challenging.
It's a pity that God's calculations are not as good as those of man.
There happen to be two "Master Thief" and "Rogue" beside Classmate Xiao Ma!
Gao Fei's Spell Thief and Jiang Feng's Templar Soldier both have professional levels of 8 and a proficiency modifier of 3.
The agility attribute of both of them is 18 points, and the skills based on the agility attribute are 4.
Adding the two together, the "Skillful Hands" skill is 7.
What should I do if it’s still 2 o’clock?
"This problem is easy to solve." Jiang Feng said with a smile, "I blessed myself with the 'Cat's Elegance' and increased my agility attribute by four points, which just meets the requirements for opening the door."
"No need." Gao Fei smiled faintly and went directly to open the door.
He has the "Skilled Hands" specialty, and the "Skilled Hands" skill counts as a double proficiency modifier, so he can easily open secret doors without adding additional buffs.
The moment the secret door opened, everyone was dazzled by the golden light.
There are large gold bricks stacked in the secret room.
The three of them suppressed their excitement and counted the gold bricks. The total value of the gold bricks was equivalent to 60,000 gold coins!
In addition, Gao Fei also found a small box made of gold in the secret room.
When you pry open the lock and lift the lid, you will see a beautiful blue luster!
There is a pile of blue gems in the box, each one is the size of a sugar cube, neatly stacked.
"Oh my God!"
When she saw the gold bricks all over the floor, Ma Yun could barely keep calm. Now when she saw these blue gems, she couldn't help but exclaimed in excitement.
"Magic crystals! They are all top-grade magic crystals! Am I dreaming?!"
The magic crystals in the small box weigh a total of 3 pounds, which is converted into 30,000 gold coins.
If we only look at value, a large pile of gold bricks is obviously more valuable.
But in the eyes of the mage, magic crystal is definitely a more valuable resource than gold!
The most indispensable material for all enchanting crafts in the world, including the creation of constructs, is magic crystal.
"With this windfall, Xiaoyun is not far away from realizing her dream of making a sand golem." Jiang Feng smiled happily.
"Sister Feng! You and Brother Fei also have a share of these treasures!"
"Brother Fei and I are not short of money now, so you don't need to be polite to us."
"Well... let's do this. I'll keep the gold bricks for myself, and how about sharing the magic crystals equally between the three of us?"
"Okay, I'll do as you say."
Xiao Ma got this treasure worth 60,000 gold coins. If he tries to earn 5,000 gold coins in the future, he will have the capital to make a sand golem.
Of course, she had to raise her spellcasting level to level 11 first.
In addition to this windfall, Ma Yun also found a large number of spell scrolls in the secret room, all of which were the spells that the old witch Theodora was good at during her lifetime.
Ma Yun looked through all these scrolls and picked out the ones she had not copied yet. There were 14 in total:
Ring 0 - secondary phantom, dry water spell;
Level 1 - Disguise, Burning Hands;
2nd level - foggy vision, foggy step;
Level 4 - Stoneskin, Detection, Charm Monster;
Level 5 - Control of wind direction, mirage, teleportation, malicious transformation, object activation.
