"Let's take it one step at a time. Climb the mountain first. If there are enemies... they probably won't be able to plot against me." Bai Xiaowen glanced at the bad luck bracelet on his left wrist. The smiley face on it, which meant there was no danger, was very reassuring.
Perhaps to facilitate the pilgrimage of the residents of Beijun, there are sections of artificially built stone steps on the top of the mountain leading to the monastery. The mountain road is not too steep, and with the physical fitness of civilians in the spirit world, it is no problem to climb up.
Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi have no problem.
Along the way up the mountain, the wind and snow became heavier and heavier.
"Wait a minute."
After climbing for a while, Bai Xiaowen called out to Li Shuyi. He squatted down and carefully explored the stone steps in front.
"Um?"
"The stone road here...seems like a lot of people have walked on it."
"How did you tell?" Li Shuyi squatted down with interest, "The snow is so heavy and you can't see the footprints."
"The snow on the steps is uneven, and it is a few millimeters or even centimeters thin in many places." Bai Xiaowen stretched out his hand and gently brushed the loose snow on the stone steps, brushing off the loose snow on the surface. "The snow that has been stepped on will be stronger...
…Remove the loose snow and you can see more clearly.”
"There are so many traces on the first step!" Li Shuyi was a little surprised, and even more surprised by Bai Xiaowen's perverted observation skills. She thought for a moment and said, "Xiaowen, do you think it could be the escaped great lord Gelandi?"
Si, and her escorts? There may also be a group of civilians who came for pilgrimage."
"The traces are messy and there are many places that have been stepped on repeatedly, which shows that there are a lot of people. Gladys escaped from the secret passage, and she should have only a few confidants with her, not that many. As for the civilians, in this season, I don't know
I think there will be so many civilians making pilgrimages to a remote monastery located on the top of a mountain." Bai Xiaowen said with squinted eyes.
Li Shuyi nodded thoughtfully.
"Let's go! As of now, the reminders from the bad luck bracelet are that there is no danger... Huh?"
Bai Xiaowen glanced at his left wrist in passing, only to find that the pattern of the bad luck bracelet changed into a calm and expressionless face, which meant that the level of danger had changed from no danger to mild danger.
Under mental scanning, Bai Xiaowen pointed in a direction: "Over there."
Along the snow-covered slope, Li Shuyi ran out. With her agility, she would not leave any trace in the snow, at least she would not fall easily in the snow. Bai Xiaowen also followed behind.
"It's two snow wolves."
Across a cliff, in the snow on the opposite side, two gray-white wolves were tearing at an animal carcass.
Seeing Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi approaching, the two snow wolves let out demonstrative growls.
Bai Xiaowen's sharp eyes saw the beast corpse. He immediately raised his hand to summon the soul-catching banshee Delifa: "Drive away those two wolves and bring the beast corpse over."
"As commanded."
Delifa flapped her pale wings, and at some point a slightly illusory spear appeared in her hand, the tip of which shone with a pale light.
Leaping over the cliff nimbly, Delifa's spear thrust out like lightning, and the attack speed was faster than Bai Xiaowen imagined.
A snow wolf had no time to dodge and was pierced into the eyes by a spear, killing him instantly. Then Delifa drew her spear, flapped her wings and moved a few feet sideways to get past the attack of the second snow wolf, and the shaft of the spear followed the trend.
Knocking, the second snow wolf was knocked deep into the cliff.
Seeing Delifa lifting up the beast corpse and slowly flying back, Bai Xiaowen couldn't help but praise: "Delifa's pole weapon specialty must be advanced to level 8 or 9. It seems that I will have a long-handled weapon in the future.
A teacher who specializes in weapons."
"After your skeleton warrior is strengthened, can't it also fuse with the soul of a strong person? If you fuse it with someone who has advanced two-handed sword specialties, won't you be able to quickly increase the two-handed sword specialties?" Li Shuyi said.
"Well, I'm still thinking about which one to match it with... There are several knight leaders whose souls don't want to be fused," Bai Xiaowen said. After all, there is only one chance for fusion.
Delifa has flown back.
"Pollar weapons are known for their slow attack speed and long attack intervals. Your agility is not high, so why do you attack so fast?" Li Shuyi asked curiously.
Delifa heard Li Shuyi's question and explained with a smile: "Mistress, my ectoplasmic spear is actually an extension of the body of the soul-catching banshee. It is not a weapon in the true sense and has no weight. It is equivalent to Melee combat. Correspondingly, I use the ectoplasm spear, and there is no additional attack power on the weapon."
Li Shuyi suddenly realized that the attack speed of unarmed fighting was the fastest, and even daggers were ranked behind boxing.
"But Delifa is still very powerful. She has the ectoplasmic weapon passive, and her normal attacks add shadow damage. Her melee skills are so strong, it would be nice if her strength and agility were higher." Li Shuyi said.
Bai Xiaowen smiled and shook his head. After all, Delifa only used the body of the Soul-Destroying Banshee as a carrier, and it had limitations in terms of attributes.
Bai Xiaowen recalled that Delifa hit the second snow wolf and struck it with the spear shaft. It was not actually a standard attack action. It was just based on the action of retracting the spear of the first strike and the speed of the attack (the length of the interval between shots). It doesn't matter.
This is the power of your combat skills when you reach advanced levels. You can master the rhythm of combat and be a melee expert even with low agility.
[Hmm... Delifa's ball-swinging skills in fights are very good. This time she faced a snow wolf. Next time she faces a humanoid creature, especially a male... it seems that she will have an advantage?] Bai Xiaowen's super brain is not correct. 0.1 seconds passed.
With a pop, the beast corpse fell in front of Bai Xiaowen, interrupting Bai Xiaowen's free thinking. He lowered his head to check.
This is a snow saber-toothed tiger.
It was not without reason that Bai Xiaowen asked Delifa to drive away the snow wolves and bring the body of the saber-toothed tiger. Because the saber-toothed tiger is the leader creature, even if it is underage, it is an elite level, much more powerful than two ordinary snow wolves, which is impossible. Died by wolves.
In other words, the saber-toothed tiger was killed by other creatures.
Bai Xiaowen turned over the body of the saber-toothed tiger and found a blood hole as big as a bowl in its abdomen, which had been frozen by ice and snow.
"Penetrating injuries, even the intestines and stomach were torn," Bai Xiaowen stood up and exhaled. "The time of death cannot be accurately determined, but judging from the food residue in the stomach, it should be within the last few hours."
"This kind of wound should be man-made... like some kind of weapon throwing a spear. The wound is scorched black, and there should be energy such as flames attached when throwing it." Li Shuyi also expressed her judgment. .
Bai Xiaowen nodded slightly, took Delifa back, and continued to move forward with Li Shuyi.
However, when he climbed near the top of the mountain and approached the monastery, Bai Xiaowen's expression changed slightly and he signaled Li Shuyi to stop.
"There's someone ahead."
Bai Xiaowen warned Li Shuyi in a low voice through the team channel, and repeated, "There are many people. I will send a shadow assassin to investigate first."
The two of them squatted half-crouched and hid in a secluded place. Bai Xiaowen controlled the invisible assassin and quietly touched it.
The shadow assassin is Bai Xiaowen's extended eyes. Under the shared vision, Bai Xiaowen clearly saw the rows of battlefield tents in front of the monastery, as well as the lion's mark.
"It's actually the Imperial Army!"
Bai Xiaowen opened his eyes and whispered: "There are about five to six hundred people... Judging from the fluctuations of psychic particles, most of them are ordinary templates, but there are also a large number of elites."
"Why did the Imperial Army come here suddenly?" Li Shuyi asked.
"I don't know. But looking at the actions of these imperial soldiers, they are not protecting, but monitoring the monastery." Bai Xiaowen controlled the shadow assassin to peek and softly shared the intelligence he discovered with Li Shuyi.
"Aren't the North County Monastery and the Imperial Army on the same side? Could it be that they are fighting among themselves..." Li Shuyi rubbed her forehead and tried to open her mind.
After a while, Li Shuyi took a long breath.
Use your brain and fail.
"Xiaowen, let's go straight in, shall we? This isn't the first time we've broken into a camp..."
"Calm down, the situation is unclear now," Bai Xiaowen shook his head, "Don't forget, this mission is an elite branch of S+, and it only requires 'investigating the monastery'! What does this mean? The secrets hidden in the monastery are more dangerous than S+ levels.
, if we fight head-on, the difficulty might rise to SS level."
"Okay... Then can we ask Delifa? The Black Soul Stone flows out from the North County Monastery, and Delifa is the steward of the Black Soul Stone..."
Bai Xiaowen shook his head: "I already asked this question when the S+ elite branch was opened. A large part of Delifa's memory has been sealed. Not to mention the monastery, she can't even remember the origin of the soul stone.
.”
"Then what should we do?" After Li Shuyi said this, she complained to herself, "I am getting lazy and lazy to use my brain now."
"Use the secondary invisibility potion given by Kevin."
Bai Xiaowen withdrew the shadow assassin and said in a deep voice: "According to my observation, there is no leader among the imperial troops at the entrance of the monastery, let alone a leader with mental expertise. Let's be more cautious, and I will use my mental power to form a barrier.
, should be able to sneak in."
Li Shuyi nodded, and the two of them got busy.
The two of them had already used the secondary invisibility potion and silence scroll once to sneak into the heavily guarded Beijun City. This time they sneaked into the monastery gate without much effort.
The two of them remained invisible and sneaked into the atrium of the monastery. On both sides of the road, there were armored guards standing silently with their swords in hand. Snowflakes fell on them and they did not move at all. It was quite solemn and solemn as a guard of honor for a big shot.
Faint voices sounded from the church.
Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi looked at each other, quietly turned the corner of the corridor, shook off the snowflakes on their bodies, wiped their boots, and followed the voice of the voice.
In the hall.
"Oh my God! So many leaders!"
Bai Xiaowen, who was in the invisible state, couldn't help but exclaimed in a low voice in the team channel when he saw the scene in the church hall.
There are dozens of people in the hall, and judging from the fluctuations of psychic particles... there are close to ten leader-level experts!
Judging from the seats, there were probably three parties to these powerful men. Bai Xiaowen lost a few to gain insight into the past, identify the names of these people, and collect basic intelligence.
First there are the hosts, two nuns wearing nun uniforms.
The old nun sitting in the main seat wears tortoiseshell glasses and her name is Melda. Judging from her position, she should be the abbess of the monastery.
The middle-aged nun standing behind Dean Melda has an unusually strong figure, and her arms are thicker than Bai Xiaowen's thighs! Bai Xiaowen, such a rough aunt, is too lazy to see clearly.
Next are the guests sitting in the VIP seats, headed by a young and handsome man in rich clothes, whose insightful name is Richard Taboron.
"Tiberon?" Bai Xiaowen's heart moved. Isn't the surname of the royal family of the Lionheart Empire Tiberon? This young man is actually the fourth prince of the Lionheart Empire, but he should be engaged in the purge of the nobility in Voltron City.
Bai Xiaowen immediately got a reminder of the rules of the spirit world:
"The target is disguised."
"Unknown factors interfere, you can pay 1,000 power points to see through the opponent's disguise."
"Warning: If you do this, you may be noticed by the other party."
Bai Xiaowen pressed his twitching left eye and chose No. No matter whether the other party was Prince Richard Tiberon or not, there was no need for him to alert the enemy and expose himself. Facing a room full of senior leaders, Bai Xiaowen was hiding in the dark.
The biggest advantage.
Let us assume that this young man is Prince Richard.
Bai Xiaowen's eyes turned to Prince Richard and a noble lady sitting in the same VIP seat as him.
This is a very charming woman. Time has not left many traces on her appearance, but has given her a more mature charm. She is the escaped lord of North County, Gladys Olysipher.
Although Gladys was sitting at the VIP table, she kept a distance from Prince Richard and was considered a third party.
Bai Xiaowen cast his eyes on the leaders standing behind the VIP seats. These leader-level experts, like the rough aunt who was too ugly to have a name, were the master guards around the leader.
"Gloria!" Bai Xiaowen was surprised again. Behind Prince Richard, he actually saw this "old acquaintance".
Compared with two years ago, the leader of the Royal Knights has obviously become stronger.
However, Gloria's position is a bit subtle. She stands between Prince Richard and Lord Gladys.
On Gloria's left hand side, next to Prince Richard's personal bodyguards, there are two other people, both of whom have leader-level psychic particle fluctuations. This means that Gloria can only be ranked third in trust among Prince Richard's faction.
.
To Gloria's right, behind Lord Grandis stood a middle-aged man with a thin face wearing coarse cloth. Against the backdrop of the room full of jewels and bright armor, this man looked so fresh and refined.
Bai Xiaowen also paid more attention to the man and gave him some insights. He was secretly surprised that this man's name was Carlisle. He was a level 8 leader like Gloria, and his profession was... Sword Master! At first glance, he didn't seem to be a bad guy.
Dong Dong, Prince Richard knocked on the table.
"Dean Melda, my patience has its limit. How have you considered it?"
https:
Please remember the domain name of this book:. Mobile version reading URL: m.