Miners who were mumbling vaguely and silently passed by and entered the main mine tunnel.
"Your Excellency, everyone is here." Nunes did not say the name to avoid having walls with ears.
The words to introduce each other will be discussed later. They don't have much time. The Bloodline Family Alliance will find that half of the people in the mining area are missing at any time.
Lu Li, who was holding a miner's lamp, led the way into an abandoned mine tunnel far away from the miners and local residents.
The dull team gradually changed its formation, and Heinz Ellis fell behind everyone, covering up the traces they left. Knight Pasha Rivas and the companions he recruited from the Knights of Glory chased after Lu Li and guarded him.
The metallic luster of the armor reflected by the oil lamp made it hard for them to ignore the glare.
As he walked along the mine tunnel guided by Will Ken, Lu Li thought: "You know the cursed title of the swamp, right?"
"Yes. It originated from a coincidence a few years ago... Several strangers like Ida passed by not far from the backpack. I could have called them to stop, but I didn't know why I hesitated..."
Those students who may have come from the lower colleges were heading north, unaware of Will Ken's backpack hiding in the mud a few hundred meters away.
They marched towards the location of the cursed title with certainty of victory until they were far away. Will Ken, who returned to deathly silence, regretted the hesitation and waited for the return of these students.
This expectation lasted for more than ten days and gradually faded away.
I don’t know if they finally chose another way to return or failed to get out of the swamp.
What we know is that a few years ago the swamp was still called a forbidden land, which was not as unworthy of the name as it is now.
"What is the cursed title here called?"
"I don't know, I can only remember their direction: towards the stone pillars that rely on each other."
"Nunez saw you somewhere."
"In a swamp. The land on the left looks like undulating sand dunes. Above it is a dense forest that has never been cut down. In the distance, there is a collapsed stone pillar with the remaining tip standing."
Lu Li recalled the scenery around the mining area, but there was no landform like what Will Ken described.
"Nunez, where did you find the parchment."
Lu Li's calm words attracted the attention of everyone who was walking dully, but only Nunes knew what he was talking about.
"Excavate the east side of the mining area."
The location where Nunes appeared was separated from the mining area by Lu Li. No wonder Lu Li had no impression of describing the landform.
"I still remember those strangers who have never returned...the depths are very dangerous." Will Ken said. He also saw many distant silhouettes entering the depths of the swamp, and most of those silhouettes never came back.
Nunes had the same view: "Sir Lu Li, the swamp is full of dangers. The cursed titles located in the depths are difficult to obtain, and they may not be as good as the cursed titles awarded in the tournament."
"Aren't they the same cursed title?"
"Of course not. Each forbidden area has its own unique cursed title."
Lu Li knew nothing about the rewards for ranking in the tournament.
The rewards for this year’s March Contest are still simple: the top three players with the highest score will directly receive the Cursed Title, and the top ten will be sent to the Cursed Title Trial Area, where they only have to face the test itself.
According to the normal process, you need to accumulate enough credits, apply for and receive permission, and then set off through the dangerous forbidden land to face the test of the weakened cursed title.
The license itself is extremely important. Without the license certificate, even if you arrive at the cursed title trial area, you will not be able to pass the test without weakening."
"Although the cursed title trial is not a trouble for you, the time lost will make it difficult for you to achieve the top ten results in the competition."
Although Nunes used the cursed title to attract Lu Li to join, he did not want Lu Li to give up the competition: "So you can win the top ten in the competition, and then get the cursed title of the swamp."
One plus one is greater than one.
Lu Li was thinking quietly. Gu
The scattered thoughts seemed to affect the people around him. Ida, who felt a certain emotion, once again swore what he had said before: "Everything your sword points to is the road."
"If you want to strive for the top ten, I will help you." The sound of armor friction disappeared, and Pasha Rivas stopped.
"So will we."
More allies around him echoed.
Heinz Ellis, who walked at the end, said at the end: "Perhaps putting the Exorcist on the throne is more honorable than getting a ranking in the competition."
"Then, go back and defeat those old nobles?" Bud Lincoln, the new ally from the Council of Nobles, whispered.
"The attack from outside caught them even more off guard." Nunes pointedly looked at Lu Li in a subtle way.
This is also the best opportunity to test Will Ken.
"On the right, follow five hundred meters and you will reach the exit leading to the outside world."
Will Ken's guidance sounded for the last time before the fork in the abandoned mine tunnel.
Five hundred meters ahead along the right side of the mine tunnel, they were blocked by a water curtain formed by a flowing swamp.
The flowing mire looks like a solid body, strangely not like a diffuse flow around it.
"Is this what you meant?"
But it still blocks their way.
"This kind of strange quagmire is as special as me... They don't change their properties due to weight, and they seem to be isolated from the world. I can see... the road is right above it."
"This is mud, and it should lead to the surface." Pasha Rivas began to take off his heavy armor. "I will go up first, and the monitoring and guardianship power will be exerted on me."
Bud Lincoln applied a layer of blessing to Pasha Rivas. Lu Li gave him a bottle of guardian potion and gill potion. Tovani split his eyeballs, took out the slightly smaller eyeballs and handed them to Pasha Rivas.
After he took it, the adhering blood vessels moved like tentacles, climbed up the neck and penetrated the superficial skin to become parasitic.
After taking the potion and wearing inner lining, Pasha Rivas approached the mud and raised his arm to touch it.
The mud flowed like too much coffee, gradually swallowing the arms and shoulders, and then the outline.
After continuing to wait quietly, Will Ken suddenly whispered: "He's out."
Tovani's words immediately followed: "Pasha Rivas is on the surface, and the surroundings are safe."
Pasha Rivas' companions helped him put away his armor. They took breath-holding or gill potions and stepped into the mire one after another.
"I'll take the lead." Heinz Ellis said to Lu Li, who was still in the mine tunnel.
Lu Li nodded gently and took out the medicine from his stomach bag.
Vice President Chris gave many unexpected and wonderful potions. They are not qualified to be included in the ranks of sequential potions, but they are usually more effective in terms of specificity and pertinence.
After taking the dessert-flavored inhalation-blocking potion that does not require breathing and the fruit-flavored blocking potion that blocks pollution, Lu Li stepped into the quagmire.
…
Stay away from swamps in mining areas.
The terrifying muddy arms stretched out from the mud, and the mud slid down, revealing figures one after another.
The dirty silt does not stay on the body; as it climbs out of the sludge, it slides back into the mire unless it is caught or swallowed.
Grasping Ida's outstretched forelimbs, Lu Li stood on the shore and looked back at the mud that blended in with the surrounding swamp.
Time passed slowly, and the mud was still calm and unruffled.
