Chapter 83: First Encounter with the Murloc (Additional Update on Sunday)
After several people finished telling the story one by one, Richard thought for a while and found that he was still satisfied with the strength of the entire team.
Even the team composition is even stronger than the original plan.
Richard looked at the mission crystal again. His team needs to prioritize the surface caves, underground rivers and caves in Area 132. These are the favorite places for underground races to hide.
Of course, after the team is assigned an area, it does not mean that it cannot go to other areas.
As long as the team cleans up the area they are responsible for, they can go to other areas to search for underground races at any time.
At the same time, if you encounter an enemy that you cannot contend with, just crush the mission crystal, and a device will sense it at the school's station and immediately dispatch a rescue team.
The rescue team is composed of top third-level wizard apprentices and is powerful.
What needs to be noted here is that the crushed mission crystal is the small crystal ball that Richard just received, not the mark crystal that was previously distributed to everyone. The mark crystal is a thumb-sized prismatic crystal.
But Richard knew that if he really encountered a strong enemy, it would be better not to place his hopes on the school's rescue team.
Because the underground rivers are so complex, the map only depicts the main passages, and the branch lines are not marked, so there is a high probability that you will be cold by the time the rescue team arrives.
"Everyone, as the captain, I would like to emphasize again that the division of labor in this clearing mission is as follows. Andrea is responsible for attracting the enemy and blocking the defense, Ophelia is responsible for restricting the enemy's movement, and Ram and Courtney are responsible for shooting. , what I say depends on the situation."
"No problem." Andrea raised the steel shield in his hand.
Andrea was wearing a fine knight's armor, and all of his equipment, including swords, shields, and bows, were of extraordinary quality and should have been made by famous craftsmen in his principality.
It can be said that Andrea is one of the strongest human shields among the new students of Ignis School.
"Yes." Ophelia nodded obediently.
As for Ophelia, Richard believes that her strength, even among second-level wizard apprentices, ranks above the middle level.
One-hand plant control witchcraft, he is extremely skillful in using it, and his control ability is extremely powerful. Richard also feels a headache when facing him!
Richard's eyes finally fell on Ram and Courtney.
He tried hard to think of some strengths, no, advantages between the two of them.
Forget it!
Since they can set off on their own after preparations are complete, many teams may want to harvest the underground races one step ahead and earn points, so they have already set off.
Therefore, Richard and the other five people did not dare to neglect and started to set off immediately.
The team stood with Andrea in front, Ophelia and Richard in the middle, and Ram and Courtney in the back. In this order, they formed a forward formation and went straight to the destination area 132.
Perhaps it was because the school was making too much noise this time, and there were no traces of wild beasts on both sides of the trail.
Half a day later, Richard and the other five arrived at the predetermined location and started searching on the spot.
This is an undulating hilly area, about a hundred miles away from the Spider Trail. It is already on the edge of a mud swamp. The hills are lush with vegetation, trees and shrubs, and caves of various sizes and beasts and monsters are scattered everywhere. As for the underground There are also three entrances to the underground river.
After a brief discussion, a few people decided to go directly to the underground river. After all, the probability of underground races in underground rivers extending in all directions is much higher than the probability of being in a cave somewhere on the ground.
As soon as they entered an entrance to the underground river, Richard summoned four people and said: "The view in the cave is limited, so everyone must be alert and cautious. After all, no one knows what will happen in the cave. Which underground race creatures? We may encounter relatively powerful creatures at the beginning, so if we don't want this to become our cemetery, we should always pay attention to our surroundings." Hearing what Richard said, Andrea's expression immediately became solemn
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As the pioneer of the team, if he is attacked, he will most likely bear the brunt of the attack. And Richard is right, he may directly encounter powerful creatures. If he is not careful, he may be killed.
Amid everyone's surprised expressions, Richard began to recite incantations and perform witchcraft. A huge inverse pentagram array with a diameter of several meters was seen projected on the ground from the crystal ball at the top of Richard's Bone Summoning Staff.
A heavily armed skeleton soldier crawled out from inside.
"Shit! No way, Richard, I haven't seen you use this trick before in qualifying. How come you can do it now? Is it possible that you just learned it?" Ram was stunned and said.
Think about yourself, half a year has passed, and you have not learned a single zero-level witchcraft, but only two tricks. But as for Richard, this is the sixth or seventh witchcraft he has mastered!
Why! The gap between people is sometimes even wider than the gap between people and dogs!
Richard did not summon all four skeleton soldiers, but only one. The reason is also very simple. First, considering that he has not encountered an enemy yet, summoning four skeleton soldiers at the same time is unnecessary and consumes mental energy. Too big.
Secondly, always be cautious in everything so as not to scare your teammates.
After Richard summoned a skeleton soldier to guard him, he suddenly felt much more at ease.
The group of people continued to search forward. Since the cave led directly to the underground river, after walking slowly for several hundred meters, they discovered that the ground was getting damper and covered with various moss plants.
When they reached a fork in the road, Andrea, who was responsible for opening the road, was in trouble. He didn't know which direction to go.
Turning to look at Richard, Richard felt it didn't matter. It didn't matter which side started the search first.
At this time, Ophelia suddenly stopped and stretched out her palm to gently touch the shimmering moss on the cave wall.
When Richard saw this, he also stopped.
Ophelia's eyes were slightly closed, as if she was sensing something.
Richard seemed to be able to feel subtle natural elemental energy surging, but because his natural elemental affinity was only inferior, this feeling was vague.
After a while, Ophelia opened her eyes and said softly: "I just used plant perception, and the plants told me that there are many creatures gathering in this direction."
Hey! It’s great that Ophelia still has this ability!
Richard was overjoyed. After all, he and his team were here to hunt the underground races and gain as many points as possible. If they could find the opponent directly, the efficiency would definitely be greatly improved.
Before, he had vaguely noticed that among his group, he seemed to be missing a teammate who was proficient in tracking skills. However, he did not expect that Ophelia gave him a surprise.
With Ophelia's special ability, the team can basically prepare for battle in advance, which is also very beneficial to the battle.
Sure enough, after walking cautiously for more than a hundred meters along the passage Ophelia chose, everyone noticed that there seemed to be a slight noise in front of them.
Andrea was wearing armor, which made it easy to make noise, making it difficult to check.
Ram was not at ease, so Richard tiptoed forward to check it out in person.
Sure enough, tens of meters ahead, there is an underground river. The dark black water has no obvious depth, but it does not flow very fast.
On one side of the underground river, there is a foreshore, which is not large, about a hundred square meters. There are seven or eight creatures with fish heads and human bodies, resting, and only one is patrolling back and forth.
Additional updates will be added on Sunday. I hope you will read more today and tomorrow! Greatful!
(End of chapter)