Darkness and silence extend infinitely in the underground passage. Although the howling wind and snow are blocked at the rear entrance just a few dozen meters away, the cold air reminds everyone that this place is no longer the warm and humid north.
Kingdom of Man.
Brakada, the legendary "Land of Wizards" built at the southern end of the Entagri continent, is backed by endless snowy areas. It is said in the countryside that it is a magical place where knowledge and mysterious power were born above the high sky and white clouds.
ancestral land...
But only those who have actually been to Bracada know what a dangerous living environment the cold wind and thin air here create all year round.
Even Liu Yifei doesn't know why the former great wizards established their kingdom in such a barren land...
But today's Brakada, through generations of spellcasters' perseverance in developing, constructing, and strengthening, has long been transformed into a real dreamland - of course, this is limited to the sphere of influence of the mages... and you.
You must have the minimum civilian status and sufficient wealth~
Contrary to the expectations of all players, the country of mages, which has the most complete knowledge system and the most advanced magic inheritance in the world of Entagri, actually implements the most bloody and cruel "slavery"!
That's right, compared to the barbarians, half-orcs, and mages who are savage and cannibalistic, they are the largest slave-owning force on this continent!!
The establishment of the entire Brakada is indispensable to the hard work and wisdom of generations of great mages, but at the same time, it also contains the blood and sweat of hundreds of thousands of slaves who were suppressed and controlled by the mages.
Among other things, the well-known first-order soldier of Brakada's regular army - "Leprechaun" - is a "work" that was separated, tamed and transformed from the goblin group by mages countless years ago.
Then the leprechaun family was enslaved and transformed by mages for generations, and even gradually became a kind of magical creature. The best among the group can even awaken their bloodline spell casting talent and become a more powerful [Leprechaun Warlock], and they are also famous.
The entire bottom-level first-order troops of Zhen Entagre...
From various angles, Brakada is a very magical country. It has the most advanced and complete "magic technology" on Entagri, and has the most magical wonders of arcana created by the power of individuals.
The towering mysterious mage tower seems to reach into the sky, but it also contains the largest slave market on the mainland, the most cruel and ruthless sweatshop, and other terrifying and dark places...
Brakada can be said to be one of the camps with the most "polarized" player experience in normal mode and campaign mode - in normal mode, Brakada players enjoy the same experience as players in other racial camps.
God-level service, as long as you have cute little money, NPC will get whatever you want~
But in campaign mode...
If a player is accidentally labeled as a "slave" due to poor performance or simply being unlucky, then the subsequent game experience will be really "hard to describe"... In short, the pursuit of high fidelity in the campaign mode
In such an environment, the feeling is said to be more terrifying than being caught in the dark room of a prison in reality!
Perhaps only the legendary "black coal kiln" in history can compare with it...
It is precisely for this reason that the players in Brakada are uncharacteristically ranked at the bottom among the major camps in terms of their openness to the campaign mode - because everyone had similar choices in the early stages, many players failed to take the "right path" and integrate little by little.
Enter the NPC world.
The result of all kinds of chaos is that players whose identities were originally relatively safe are gradually turned into "fugees", "refugees" and even "slaves"... At this time, it is better to die completely and give up completely.
Character identity, the effect is better if you start over~
But there are always some people who are the chosen ones who are favored by the goddess of luck, just like the initiator of this mission, a member of the Jiangshan Guild whose ID is "The Great Demon King of Explosion"——
After entering the campaign mode in the early stage, he was quite honest at first. He joined Brakada's official "school" and received the most basic common sense education, which included the study of mages' writing and the primary culture of Brakada.
Even though Liu Yifei and Jiang Ruoyi learned these things very quickly, they were experienced in gaming for nearly ten years in their "previous life". Many basic things were already as common sense as "11=2".
You already know it without studying hard. And the other one is a high-quality academic master who can't help himself in "learning"...
The "common sense education" that the two of them completed easily seems to most players to be boring and ignorant - just playing a game. Is it so serious?
The Great Demon King of Oblast is one of such ordinary people~
So in less than a day, all his patience was exhausted by studying, and he ran out of the local school without saying hello, intending to start his own vigorous gaming adventure life!
Among the one hundred ordinary players, ninety who thought this way ended up being average, and the other nine ended up in a miserable situation and were in a difficult situation - the great devil of Arcana was unparalleled in luck, and he was actually overtaken in a corner, which was really a trick.
A little trick...
After leaving the academy, the Great Demon King of Arcana quickly discovered the strange situation that despite his arrogant name, he couldn't even use the most elementary tricks.
Fortunately, he didn't struggle too much in this aspect, and instead joined a gang in the town as a "thug" in the campaign mode. It should be noted here that due to Bracada's unique external environment,
, so the lowest gathering place unit here is the town. Small villages dotted like Erathia cannot survive in the endless snow of Bracada.
After infiltrating the gang, the Great Demon King Aubo soon came into contact with the gang's real "core" business - slave smuggling!
The slave trade, which is extremely repulsive to most players, as well as the bloody scenes, and the shrill and horrifying wailing did not scare the Great Demon King of Arcana, but instead gave him a kind of experience that is absolutely impossible to experience in reality.
"Wonderful experience"!
Some people play games just to have fun and think about it all day long, but Arcana is the kind of "experience player". For him, the special virtual experience in the campaign mode has undoubtedly given him a great deal.
His enthusiasm for gaming even made him gradually regard himself as a ruthless "slave trader" and began to devote himself to the dark life of the virtual world with great enthusiasm...
This high-involvement, high-enjoyment mentality also gave him good rewards - in a few months of game time, he actually triggered several plot missions, and became a "famous" person in Jiangshan Guild.
Well-known player~
And the plot this time is about the information he overheard from the top bosses of both parties through a slave transaction - a "trial place" for "mage apprentices"!
Obviously, this news should not be a secret in the circle of "mages". After all, "apprentices" are qualified enough to conduct trials.
It's just that information that is not important to mages is still very popular among today's player groups - never mind the first- and second-level professional titles in the normal mode, put aside the additional privileges granted by these systems, and put it in the campaign mode
Next, among the player casters, there are really only two or three big cats and kittens that can reach the level of "apprentice"~
But the Arcana Demon King, who has been a "gangster" for a long time, has never extinguished his inner yearning for the power of magic - especially after experiencing the power, convenience and style of magic in normal mode.
, but further prompted him to pursue that magical and powerful power in the battle~
Although the direction deviation is huge...
But with a trial place right in front of him, how could the Great Demon King of Arcana not explore it?
It's a pity that this "underground palace" type of trial place is quite difficult for him!
Even if they later reported the news to the guild and asked for foreign help, they had already failed three times in a row - if such a plot with unknown difficulty allowed five failures, he would have finished playing this "single copy" long ago, and there would be no way to survive.
Is it Liu Yifei’s turn to intervene?
Therefore, the Arcana Demon King is extremely looking forward to the arrival of "Geralt"!
I was more excited to see each other than to see the idol star of my own guild, "Xue Wuyou"!
Because that hot chick Xue Wuyou has already failed to "harm" him twice!!! Even if the explanation given by the guild is that the plot is too difficult and seriously exceeds the player's strength ceiling at this stage, he still can't stand up to the Arcana Demon King.
Secretly slandering in my heart - Players are basically like this anyway, I am weak and I am justified, you are a well-known player, and you are weak, it can only be because you are rubbish...
His own guild couldn't help him, and the Arcana Demon King also knew that plot missions generally had unclear time limits. The entire plot mission might disappear after a certain point, so he was originally a little anxious.
If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't find more powerful helpers outside, he would even want to try it twice~
The appearance of the "great god" Geralt this time made him so excited that he vomited out all the plot information he knew when they first met... Even though Liu Yifei had already learned about it from the boss of Beibeijia in advance.
They were confused and had to listen to the extremely excited person repeating it again~
All in all, based on the intelligence compiled by all parties, Liu Yifei determined that this should be a "not too difficult" ordinary trial plot - players cannot overcome it for the time being. It can only be said that the wrong player triggered this plot at the wrong time.
If you are a serious mage apprentice player with a "professional" background, you should not be difficult to pass the magic traps and assessment content in the trial land. If you have some rich knowledge and technical depth, this kind of assessment
On the contrary, this place is a kind of reinforcement for them. If they can learn one or two special spell-casting skills here, they may be able to open the spell skill column of the spell-caster profession!
And what about the situation with the Great Demon King Arcana...
It’s hard to describe in one word~
To put it bluntly, isn't this just a player version of a story about a roadside gangster who listened to a few gossips and then sneaked into the information room of the Academy of Sciences in an attempt to "steal treasures"?
The reference room of the Academy of Sciences must have "collections" of certain value, but they must also have an inseparable natural connection with "high-end and sophisticated knowledge."
You are an "illiterate" who doesn't know a few "mage texts". You don't want to study hard and make progress every day, but you come here to explore with the idea of an "adventurer" trying to turn a bicycle into a motorcycle... Even if you use those secret techniques,
I show you the techniques, how much can you understand?
Therefore, players like this who "want to be a mage but can't bear to learn" will almost 100% not become famous in the game. Sooner or later, they will have to change their profession to become a warrior, and they will never come back on the muscular road to heaven.
, even with the help of incredible luck, there is no room for trouble~
The spellcaster profession in "Invincible Heroes: World of War" is really not a trick that ordinary people can play.
Liu Yifei knew that there was something fishy about this, but he had no intention of reminding the other party - anyway, he was here to "help". We are not relatives, but I am ready to help you plan your future development route?
On the contrary, in a "testing place" like this, if you take the technical route, it will be a break. If you keep blasting all the way with brute force, it may not be possible to force a break. For Liu Yifei, who is in urgent need of combat experience, it might not be possible.
It’s still a treasure!
It is not difficult to go around Brakada in the normal mode, but it will take half a year to go deep into the snowy country in the campaign. Now I can go there with the help of the plot, which is very good for Liu Yifei
It is even more nourishing and comfortable than "publicly funded tourism"~
A group of three people rotated down the dark masonry passage, but it was the leader of the Arcana Demon King who lit the torch contained in the supplies prepared in the battle - a player with a mage professional tendency participated in the adventure, but used the torch to illuminate
The performance of Pathfinder has actually revealed a lot of problems. Liu Yifei looked at it and felt that the future of this arcane demon king was worrying, and his strength was probably far inferior to that of the restless master who was born for war~
Since the plot has been played several times before, everyone went smoothly in the beginning. Even the bold and careful Demon King Aubaku took on the responsibility of a "scout" to avoid all the traps encountered along the way.
It's triggered.
The first difficulty of the adventure soon appeared - in an underground cave-like space, ten stone "Leprechaun" statues stood quietly!
The only problem is that these "little leprechauns" are all over two meters tall...
"...these stone statues themselves will not move at will, but as long as they go down the steps and take three steps forward, they will start to attack the intruders.
The attack method is to launch sharp stones from their raised palms. Although a single shot is not fatal if it does not hit the vital point, it is very powerful.
Another thing to note is that once you attack any one of them, the rest of the stone statues will 'dodge' away from their previous positions at an alarming speed, and almost all of them will scatter in a scattered manner, and then continue to attack the intruder.
The way we passed before was that we all calculated the distance and rushed forward together. The three of us were able to greatly divert their firepower density, and then we passed them and continued deep underground through the small door behind them..."
