After reading Nettie’s diary, Lu Yu and his party were speechless all night.
They tacitly gathered the bones of Nettie and others together, buried them shallowly, and prepared to take them away from this tragic place that had bound them all their lives when they were ready to return.
If they still have souls floating in this land, they would definitely want to see Lu Yu and the others do this.
After leaving the cave, Lu Yu once again looked at the place that he couldn't get a full view of due to darkness.
There are drooping vines, weeds as tall as a person, and large trees that compete for sunlight and extend their branches to the sky. The strong roots of the trees protrude from the ground, like the exposed ribs of a skinny patient.
The wasteland reclaimed by Nettie and the others did not leave any traces in the passage of time. If the mist demon Xian Ji was bored and used wooden sticks to pull the ground, no one would know about them and what happened on this land.
After gathering their spirits and setting off again, Lu Yu and his party took out the magic meter in their hands after looking over a hill.
The value is already three, which means that the magic power here has been reduced by half compared to the outside world.
Lu Yu, Lulutis, who need to use magic power, and the fog demon who is a magic life form can all feel discomfort obviously.
The mist demon's reaction was the most obvious. She had completely turned into a scarf and hung it around Lu Yu's neck.
"The suppression effect of the forbidden demons is becoming more and more obvious. The monsters in this area should have the power to carry the curse."
After catching several beasts and low-level monsters in the periphery, Sayer's curse power was not detected. After entering a new area, Lulutis couldn't wait to verify her conjecture.
What you want is nothing.
Lu Yu wandered around for a long time. Not to mention monsters, not even a single ferocious beast was seen, but he saw a lot of harmless little animals.
At this moment, Lu Yu and his team were like trainers who were ready to step into the grass and wait for the monster to throw the ball and conquer the Pokémon.
Normally, when you step on the grass and jump to a monster on the road, it only takes a second. When you really want to hit a monster, it will be dead or alive.
This kind of thing happens to everyone. For example, the Sanctuary Elf Brigade who followed Lu Yu into the Silent Mountains encountered a little trouble at this moment.
The Sanctuary Elf Brigade almost completely copied Lu Yu's preparation list for entering the Silent Mountains. The leader was none other than the sixth-level magician, Old Moore.
Many high-level magicians in Thoresen were shocked by Old Moore's decision. The Silent Mountains suppressed magicians extremely well. Old Moore, who was unable to use magic smoothly, might not be as powerful as a group of Baimu-class people who had just started.
Adventurers, at least they wield their weapons more powerfully.
Many uninformed people advised the old Moore, who "loved his son very much", that there was no need to go into battle personally and that he could just wait for the good news.
But how could these people know that in Old Moore's heart, lifting the curse on his son was only a secondary purpose. During this trip to the Silent Mountains, he hoped to find the source of the curse that could contaminate and spread it.
Understanding and using this power will not only greatly increase your strength, but also make breakthroughs in rank no longer a vision.
This is the common wish of all magicians who pursue high-level magic.
Old Moore didn't dare to violate the elf king's prohibition, and he didn't dare to touch Lu Yu's bad luck. After all, he was a seventh-level magician.
Following Lu Yu into the Silent Mountains, the sixty-man team formed by Old Moore only went in the same direction as Lu Yu in the initial stage.
After resting last night, Old Moore chose a road overgrown with weeds alone to continue looking for the cursed creature.
The plans of Lao Moore and Lu Yu were exactly the same, but in terms of operational efficiency, Lao Moore obviously had the advantage.
After being cautious in the early stage, the old Moore team found that they would not be attacked by monsters. They started to speed up. From the area with a magic concentration of five to an area with a concentration of three, it only took Moore one afternoon.
As the saying goes, hard work always pays off. Perhaps seeing Old Moore being so active, Lu Yu received the unexpected surprise that he couldn't wait for.
"Why don't we arrange for people to sit on flying mounts to survey the entire Silent Mountains?"
Someone who did not understand the situation once asked this classic question at a conference about the Silent Mountains.
If he could see the monster that the old Moore team was facing at this moment, he would definitely keep his mouth shut.
This is a dragonfly-like monster that is twice the size of a human.
Two huge crimson eyes took up half of the space on its head. Moore and others saw themselves in the compound eyes of these monsters that flew with almost transparent wings and hovered in the air.
into millions of selves.
Looking directly at these flying monsters made many well-trained warriors present feel palpitations.
The fine hairs on the dragonfly's feet are like steel needles. When they fly past and rub against the warrior, they will cause a bloody wound.
Because of its huge size, the two sharp teeth that make up the chewing mouthparts are like guillotines.
Such a body structure destined them not to be vegetarians, but to be completely carnivorous monsters.
The old Moore team encountered not one, but a small group of more than a dozen.
Dragonflies flying all over the sky surrounded Old Moore's team and kept rubbing the "guillotine". The slight sound of flapping wings overlapped and then amplified, making the warriors holding the weapons feel their weapons trembling.
After a brief panic, the archers in the team fired arrows coated with highly toxic phosphorus powder at the group of monsters that were about to attack.
Although they were huge in size, these monsters obviously did not evolve armor that could protect their soft bodies, or their body structure did not allow them to possess such things, so the arrows easily penetrated the dragonfly's body.
Like a horn to launch an attack, the confrontation between Old Moore and a swarm of giant dragonflies started a fierce battle.
Realizing that the arrow would pass through and the poison would take too long to take effect, the archers in the team quickly replaced the phosphorus powder that could ignite the dragonfly's body.
The shield guards formed a circle with their shields raised, protecting the archers who fired their deadly arrows into the sky. Even though this group of dragonflies could move at extremely high speeds, in the face of the fiery touch of a top hunter who had been trained,
It is still difficult to escape the fate of being penetrated.
The archers tried their best to ensure that they could hit the eyes of this group of monsters, because they found that if they hit other places, this guy would not die immediately, and could even continue to fly as if nothing had happened.
Just now, when a companion was performing a last-ditch attack on a fallen dragonfly, the dragonfly that pretended to die was bitten off with its mouth.
Seeing that half of their companion's body was missing, and listening to his cry before death, everyone finally had the real feeling of being in the Silent Mountains.
This is the strange mountain range that can even be swallowed up by crystal-level warriors!
Although it seems that these giant dragonflies have obvious weaknesses and weak defenses, which are easy to deal with, this is only the first one they have seen. What else will appear next?
Will what the two crystal-level warriors saw before they die appear in front of them?
Old Moore only provided some shield magic in this battle. Although he carried a lot of crystals infused with magic power, he did not intend to waste it.
The closer he gets to the core area, the harder it is to maintain his magic power. Whether these magic crystals can support him in a fierce battle, he himself is not sure.
After the battle, the accompanying secretary carried out an inventory of the battle damage as usual, and recorded the information about the monsters so that they could be submitted to His Majesty for inspection after leaving.
"Dead in action, 2. Cause of death, encountered a sudden attack by a giant fly that pretended to be dead while finishing the last hit."
"Severe injury six, visual inspection can be used to restore the injury to a minor injury using healing magic."
"The seriously injured persons have not shown signs of language disorder. It is speculated that the monster does not have the power of a curse to contaminate language."
Old Moore personally cut open the body of the giant fly, and the magic core contained in the taken out magic core was less than half of the average level of fourth- and fifth-level monsters in the outside world. This made Old Moore, who originally focused solely on the power of the curse, feel in his heart
Startled.
The demon cores of these giant flies are extremely small, some are no bigger than a human fist.
"Teacher, you have been staring at the magic core with a frown on your face for a long time. Is there anything wrong with this?"
Old Moore's disciple asked cautiously when he saw his master frowning.
"Something's wrong."
"You mean the magic core?"
Old Moore hesitated for a long time before answering.
"Do you still remember, the monsters that were captured carrying cursed power to attack people outside the Silent Mountains? Their magic cores are about the same size as monsters of the same level outside."
"But this one in our hands..." Old Moore raised a magic core less than half the size of a fist, "In these years of banning the Silent Mountains, no one of us has conducted further research on this place, so we have ignored a thing that should have been discovered earlier.
details."
"If an area is inherently scarce in magic power, the life forms it breeds will change."
In places where there is no magic power, the magic core, an organ used to store magic power and interact with magic power, has zero function. Therefore, the magic core will gradually degenerate over the generations.
When the environment becomes extreme, this degradation will be particularly rapid.
"The group of monsters that broke out of the Silent Mountains more than a hundred years ago still have normal-sized magic cores, but this group of giant flies are so small. Is this an individual difference in life? Is it because of the earth-shaking changes that have occurred in the Silent Mountains over the past hundred years?
Change? Or...is there really a place in the Silent Mountains where magic exists?"
The clerk faithfully recorded Old Moore's words, and after asking for instructions, opened the communication scroll and conveyed the message to the Thoresan magicians who were waiting for the message outside the Silent Mountains.
The magicians were overjoyed and felt that Old Moore made the right decision to enter the mountains.
So many warriors had gone in before, but apart from killing and killing all the way, no useful information was fed back.
Only a knowledgeable magician must venture in to discover the truth hidden behind the Silent Mountains!
Just as this group of magicians cheered, deep in the mountains beyond their sight, among the rolling mountains, purple light was flashing rapidly.
The light was as dazzling as it was more than a hundred years ago.