Pillars of Ita

Chapter 983 Chapter 310 Survival Guide for the Sea of ​​Trees in the Fourth Act
Surrounded by whispers in the forest, there are birds humming, green shoots sprouting from under the soil, and vitality bursting out from dry tree trunks; a pair of eyes, a pricked ear, a sounding arrow, and the sound of hooves gradually fade away.

In the dark place, the mushroom grass exudes faint fluorescence, and the vigilant eyes under the bushes are watching the uninvited guests entering this secluded forest.

The narrow-browed red tit flapped its wings, flew from the low geranium bushes, passed through the forest canopy, and flew high into the sky.It flew farther and farther, and finally merged into the long wind, and disappeared between the clouds and blue together with a few strands of leaves.

It is a species unique to the sea off Hanruina.

It got its name because of its long and narrow eye pattern. It has no kinship with the long-tailed tit on the earth, but the two are indeed very similar. The taxonomic classification of Altaria borrowed the naming method on the earth. The earliest It's just a tradition, and there are many fallacies, but it is still used today in informal settings.

Xiaoyao put down the crossbow in his hand, and looked at the gray deer that was drifting away with some disappointment. It looked like an elf in the forest, leaping left and right, and disappeared into the dark forest.

Shui Wuming was looking at him speechlessly, with the crossbow in his hand, "Where did you bring this thing?"

"In the front hall," Xiaoyao said, "Aren't you there? Anyway, there are so many materials there. I assembled them with leftover materials. How can I make it work?"

"Scrap iron," Shui Wuming commented mercilessly, "Those things that threaten us can't hurt a hair, and it's almost enough to scare the deer in the forest."

"Hey, I was originally used for hunting," Xiaoyao argued, "We're going to stay here for a month, don't you guys eat?"

"So did you hit it?"

"It was just a mistake just now, hehe..."

"If we rely on you, I'm afraid we'll starve to death."

The dark forest here is somewhat like the frontier sea of ​​trees they have seen before.

But it is more pure and natural. This world is a bit like a green dream, with the sky, the earth and the wilderness, as far as the eye can see, there are only endless canopies.

A sea of ​​green.

The square plover is standing in the forest, its coat is dotted with golden spots, and the sunlight passes through the gaps between the branches and leaves, casting beams of warm light in the dark forest.

But his field of vision is still far above the canopy, and at this moment he is looking at the tall white tower standing in the sky.

Those white towers grew out of the sea of ​​trees, and three of them connected to the sky.Their bases are wide, and they become thinner as they go up, until finally they look like a pure white cable, straight into the sky.

Disappeared out of sight.

The tower is full of scientific and technological beauty, and there are almost no superfluous decorations on the outside, only diamond-shaped patterns at intervals, and it looks like a giant snake.

The body of the giant tower shone brightly in the sun, and a group of birds were flying far above the forest in that direction, making crisp chirping sounds. The wildness of nature and the beauty of artificial buildings complemented each other at this moment.

The unique and spectacular scene captured Fang Plover's heart and soul.

He silently retracted his vision from the tree canopy, and there was their goal - the White Tower, and the three towers contained the customs clearance item for this level - the soul of the fairy.

and mechanical artifacts.

He raised his hand quickly, and a clockwork goblin flew back to his hand. It twirled a few times and retracted its thin-winged chain wings from the brass casing with a clicking sound.

Luo Wei looked over at this moment.The senior is holding a wind-up doll in her hand.The puppet girl was wearing a long emerald green dress, her eyes were quietly closed, her long curly ponytails hung down her arms.

Then she said to the Plover: "We should be one step ahead now, but we should not be able to deal with the three main towers if we go directly to them. Even the mechanical guards of the auxiliary towers are difficult for us to deal with. The fairy souls with the highest serial numbers, and it is said that some of them are extremely powerful, and only the main tower has mechanical artifacts—"

"Let's start by establishing an advantage," Weiyu said on the side. "The nearest mechanical tower is less than four miles away from us, which is about 8000 meters away. This is good news for us, but we must also beware of mechanical towers." Guard raids, we need the tools to set up an forward base and connect with others."

Fang Plover nodded, agreeing with the judgment of the two. "We now have three magic furnaces, which is also an advantage," he said, "Others should not be able to do this. Alpha crystals have very low requirements for elemental suitability, and the utilization rate of materials is far from ordinary magic furnaces." Furnaces are comparable.”

He is quite confident in the technology left by Hayne, "The next step is to find the crystal veins, and we will first establish the production capacity of the magic furnace and the magic storage crystal."

"I just saw that there is an ether-infested terrain in the south, which happens to be in the direction of the mechanical tower," Weiyu said immediately, "There shouldn't be any high-level crystal veins in the second level, but as long as you find any kind of magic power We can establish a production system with square crystals. Especially Ed’s alpha crystals have very low requirements for the abundance of the crystal’s attributes.”

"This is our third advantage." Luo Wei also praised.

Fang Yan turned his head and looked at the other party, "Brother Weiyu, I will leave the search work in that direction to you first."

Wei Yu only nodded, "Just don't worry."

He released the wind-up fairies, and the goblin dolls in Luo Wei's hands rose up into the air automatically without any wind, and under its invisible traction, the wind-up fairies flew into the mid-air one by one with golden light shining.

Weiyu gently pulled down the goggles.

At this moment, there was a murmur behind him.

Fang Plover looked in that direction, and found that Wuexist was making a plug-in there, and metal sheets, crystals, and branches were automatically formed in his hands, forming a palm-sized device.

The other party put the device on a magic sword, and MTT picked up the magic sword, and golden flames immediately ignited on it.The latter waved his hand casually, and the flame on the sword immediately formed a fire bird and flew out.

The fire arrow passed through the forest at a speed that exceeded the vision of everyone, and hit an ancient tree. The withered trunk collapsed with a loud cracking sound, and ignited a raging flame.

"It's done," MTT handed the magic sword in his hand to Mu Lan, "Mu Lan, you use it."

He threw the sword over, and Mu Lan quickly took it with both hands, but the sword was a bit heavy, and she barely caught it.

"Take it easy." MTT smiled rarely.

Mu Lan glared at him angrily.

And Wucun was looking at his magic gloves unexpectedly - obviously he was a little unfamiliar with the feeling of creating something out of thin air just now, but he was still impressed.

"How about it?"

Wucun raised his head, only to realize that it was Fang Plover who was asking himself.

His multiple parallel skills are naturally far inferior to the opponent's, but they are also good enough to use, "It's okay," Wucun nodded, he has never been good at words, but he is good at doing things, "What am I going to do next? "

"Create a batch of wooden magic devices and plug-ins first, and some crystals should be found," Fang Plover ordered, "We need to further expand the search range, but before that everyone needs to have the ability to protect themselves— —”

Wucun nodded.

He was the third person in the team to get the magic furnace.

It was his duty, of course—

The process of the second level is the longest level among the levels in the Spire Trial.

But it is also from here that the time flow speed inside and outside the tower will start to differ.

During the week-long competition in the outside world, one month will be spent in the sea of ​​trees, but also because of the difference between internal and external time, the live broadcast method of the competition from here begins to become more detailed and complicated.

Differences appeared in different screens, and the live broadcast turned into a large number of replays and slices. There are more than 100 professional directors and post-production teams here to record and process the process of the game.

And finally present the most exciting and critical parts in the field of vision of outside audiences.

Due to the protracted game process, the discussion in the live broadcast room became more rational. Everyone knew that this would be a long and protracted battle, even in the outside world, it would last for a week.

Many people said that they had already ordered takeaway, as if they were going to fight a protracted war.

Most people are also making jokes, which is no surprise.Among the many super events in the second world, such long-term competitions abound.

Of course, more people are still discussing the brilliance just now. After experiencing the previous sharp drop, the live stream ushered in a rebound after a short while, and reached a considerable peak.

The competition party is keenly aware of the rapid increase in attention, and while investing more real-time publicity on the real-world network, it has also opened up more lines and resources for communication between the two worlds.

This is somewhat unexpected.

No one expected that the Imperials and the Colinites would bring surprises this year, and no matter what the two magical furnaces were or which one was better, it had obviously ignited topics and heat on a larger scale.

More traffic started flowing into this match.

Geros hasn't noticed the change in flow, but the increase in the number of people in the live broadcast room is visible to the naked eye. As the main commentator of this game, he has to try to control the field:

"Player Ed is so fast. The Colins really came prepared this time, and this dragon alchemist has been famous for a long time in previous competitions."

"They obviously gained a lot of advantage, even one step ahead of the Imperials. They were the first to enter the sea of ​​trees, but Gemini is also very experienced in the Imperial Workshop, only one step behind."

"Kawlin's main group was the first to enter the second level. It took three Aitaria ticks, no more, no less, five and a half minutes faster than the second place Empire Workshop. And I want to remind everyone that , Colin's main group won three magic furnaces in the first round of the competition, one more than all other teams, it's really unbelievable—"

"Jack, this is not a small advantage—" his deputy added.

Geros nodded in agreement, "As for the five and a half points, it's nothing in the next month's competition process, but the team that enters the second level first can also draw the first Fairy Soul and choose it before the other teams. The topic—"

He cut the background data.

Jelos muttered and said, "Let me see what fairy soul the Colin got, number 71. Ha, they are not very lucky, although number 71 is also among the fourteen fairy souls in the first level." It’s at the top of the list, but it’s not the best number 68, not even the top three.”

"Let me see, it was the Sanshak delegation that got the number 68." Geros was a little surprised, "The main group of the Hill of Giant Trees has also entered the second level, and it took an hour, slower than the Imperials An Atalia tick, but they don't seem to be very worried..."

Soon 69 and No. 70, the souls of the fairies also belonged to their respective owners, respectively obtained by the Einbrok Craftsman Association and the Imperial Workshop delegation.

The luck of the Empire Double Star is not too good, but at least it is better than Fang Plover and others.

Geros focused on No.60 No. [-] Fairy Soul.

He said: "Ms. Quilina, the first prize of the first round is our old acquaintance. Last time it was won by the Collins led by Loofah, but they obviously didn't have such luck this year. The main prize of the Fairy Soul The ability is in the control of complex constructs, and it is also the only one among the fourteen fairy souls in the first round that can control constructs above the second level."

"The people from the Sanshak Craftsman Association got her the master control of the fairy doll, which is a good start. They are already quite accomplished in the construction of the work, and the third player Schmidt is still in control of this kind of construction. A different body structure production method, now the players in the hill of giant trees may be able to build a forward base first..."

"But wait," he suddenly couldn't help interrupting himself, "I almost forgot, we said earlier that the main group of the Colin people is the only one with three magic furnaces to start the game, everyone should remember."

"They gave this magic furnace to Wucun, the plug-in craftsman in the regiment..." Geros sighed, "This is a great advantage, the plug-in craftsman is second only to the goblin envoy and The top priority of crystal artisans, because under this rule, artisans can also use those magic tools and plug-ins that can only be used by combat professions."

In the live broadcast room of the wandering horse at the moment.

The latter is also trying to explain to the audience: "...magic tools and war equipment are difficult to establish a comprehensive production line at the beginning due to the materials, but the plug-ins are different. Some basic plug-ins don't use much material, but they are not small. .”

"Entering the second level of the sea of ​​trees, the contestants are always under various threats, just like the newly born mortal empire in the wilderness. They must use everything at hand to build defense facilities as quickly as possible. How to survive the sea of ​​trees? The first day in the forest is the top priority, especially after nightfall, when all kinds of threats in the forest will increase sharply."

"Although the main group of the Hill of Giant Trees got the No. 68 Fairy Soul, this is a big advantage for them. With the second-level working structure, they can quickly establish a forward base."

"However, Ed and the others have three magic furnaces, which is also great news. With this step, they should be able to gain a firm foothold. There should be no premature reduction of staff, or someone being injured will affect the follow-up progress."

There are many professional viewers in the live broadcast room, but there are also many ordinary people. Due to the long process of the event, they can't see anything in a short period of time through the slices of each team broadcast by the organizer.

However, when the stray horse said that Ed had an advantage, almost the same news came back from the main stage, and the barrage in the live broadcast room became active again.

Most of them were cheering and encouraging voices for Colin's main group.

But there are also some who are discussing professional topics. Although the fourteen teams came out of the craftsman's hall almost one after another, they appeared in the sea of ​​trees almost at random.

Fourteen teams were randomly scattered in a wide range of hundreds of miles around the three white towers. The contestants could not perceive each other, but the competition party had already obtained first-hand information.

Fang Plover and the others were actually not very lucky. The Guta people and Kapuka's team were far away from them, almost on the other side of the center of the circle.

Relatively speaking, the Imperials were much luckier. The distance between the main regiment and the second regiment was very close, except that the Ravendur Artisan Association was farther away.But the only good news is that the Imperials are not close to Fang Plover and his party, and there is a Luotao team in between.

On the other side of Fang Plover and the others were two teams from the outer sea area.They were also the latest to enter the second pass, almost three hours had passed in the tower before they would arrive.

At this moment, the time in the sea of ​​trees is two o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still seven hours before nightfall.

Of course the stray horse saw these discussions, but it was obviously not the time to worry about conflicts between teams, so he frowned and didn't say much, just cut the picture——

At this moment, the organizer just gave the main screen to Fang Yan and the others.

In the picture is Wucun who is finishing his work. He marked out a work area in the forest, then turned around, took a deep breath, and then stretched out his magic gloves and spread his five fingers.

The magic furnace behind him emits a soft white light, and the soil and rocks are automatically formed under his magic gloves, building walls, and the trees are automatically separated, forming logs and falling to the ground.

The forest floor was flattened by him in the blink of an eye.

In past games, such work would take at least half a day to complete.But if it is in the real world, the craftsman will at least bring a team of people and a few bulky magic furnaces.

Not to mention those huge working constructs.

This spectacle is obviously much more attractive than the boring commentary just now, and many spectators who don't understand the artisan game also let out bursts of exclamation, especially those who are watching the mainland league for the first time.

Jelos is also amazed, the situation in the past is obviously not like this, the development and advancement of multiple parallel skills has greatly changed the schedule of the continental league - in the earlier sessions, such work would have taken at least half a day or even a day .

But it can be done in a blink of an eye, and the overall enjoyment of the game has more than doubled.

Although the previous contestants also used the same multi-parallel skills, but in this session a few years later, the level of the contestants has obviously improved again.

As a professional, what he saw was the great progress of alchemy. "The level of this competition is obviously the highest among the previous ones. The audience who came to watch the competition are blessed."

He commented first.

Then he immediately added a more professional evaluation, "The players in charge of the overall planning of the Colin people's main team are very professional. He obviously knows their advantages. In the case of plug-in craftsmen on the first day, it is obvious that they have to complete the terrain. Exploring and finding forward bases is much safer than other teams, so the expansion of the Collins is very aggressive now-"

"But it's nothing, the key is their choice of plug-ins. In theory, many people may think that they choose Iron Guard or Guard Knight-related plug-ins, because under such conditions, defense is prioritized over offense. But Colin People didn’t choose that way, they chose lighter add-ons that favor Nightingale or even Spellblade, the reason is actually very simple.”

Geros cleared his throat, "The equipment of Iron Guards and Guard Knights is too cumbersome. Although the rules allow craftsmen to use their plug-ins, don't forget that the contestants are not combat personnel in nature, they are not suitable for them. Physical attributes. Too bulky equipment will actually affect their actions, but the gains outweigh the losses.”

While commenting, he looked at the non-existent work on the screen. Although the audience watched with gusto, Geros lost interest after watching it for a while.

The plug-in craftsman of the Colin people is not low, but it is not up to the level that makes him feel bright. It can only be said to be quite satisfactory.He's seen those higher-level games, and it's nothing compared to that.

So after observing for a while, he directly cut to the empire through the backstage. Just like the dragon alchemist, Gemini's strength is worthy of his recognition.

A genius of this level, even in the second world, is the top of the top.

Jellosh only looked at it for a while, and then showed a look of surprise, "Amazing," he couldn't help but say, "The imperials moved very quickly, they didn't choose to find the location of the base, but went directly to Start scaling up construct production with materials at hand."

"They directly made a batch of flexible structures, and it seems that they are going directly to the nearest mechanical tower. This is an extremely bold plan. If it fails, they will lose all the work progress of the first day, and they will still lag behind other There are several magic furnaces in the team, and there may be some loss of manpower. But if it is successful, the benefits are obviously extraordinary, there are a lot of high-level materials in the mechanical tower, and maybe a second fairy soul can be found."

"But can two magic furnaces really support them to capture a mechanical tower?" Geros himself was a little puzzled, "But as expected of the twin stars of the Empire, Juno alone took care of the entire production process of the flexible structure. That’s where the power of a truly well-rounded all-around player lies.”

In fact, without his explanation, after the screen was re-cut to the Empire side, many viewers also saw the gap between Juno and the Wucun of the Corinthians.

Wucun's multiple parallelism seems amazing, but compared with the captain of the Imperial Workshop, the gap is too obvious, whether it is speed or proficiency, it is almost a grade behind in all aspects.

Seeing the way the captain of the empire made the flexible structure, many people almost remembered the scene where Fang Plover made the magic furnace in the gray hall, and couldn't tell which one was faster.

The stray horse's live broadcast room was also full of air-conditioning barrage.

"Is this the Imperial Man?"

"It's broken, will we not be able to beat it?"

"I lost, I lost!"

The voices of defeatist strategists are loud.

But it looked different to the stray horse.After all, he can be considered to have supplemented the relevant basic knowledge, and watched countless similar games of craftsmen, and he finally has a little more vision than ordinary people.

In his opinion, although the production speed of the Imperial Gemini is similar to that of Fang Plover on the surface, there is actually a difference between the two.At least Fang Plover was able to make the magic furnace with ease.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is easy.

And Juno has obviously done his best, even if he has some reservations, it will definitely not be much.

Because the imperial people's plan is so radical, if they really want to lay down a mechanical tower before nightfall, it is obviously impossible to keep many hands at this time.

If the mechanical tower is not knocked down before nightfall, it is no joke.

"The 42 mechanical towers in the sea of ​​trees in the second level, and the three main towers in the center are the most important to pass this level," the wandering horse decided to explain this point to the audience after thinking for a while.

At the same time, Geros on the main stage was almost also bringing up this topic:

"...these towers contain the fairy souls and mechanical artifacts needed to pass this level, but the time left for each team is limited, so the sooner you get the more tower permissions, in the future The greater the advantage you can get in the level."

"But things are not that simple. The minaret has its guards, and they will even produce a steady stream of constructed troops in this month to attack the players who enter this world."

"So the core purpose of this level is how to get enough control of the towers while surviving."

Gerald said: "Everyone, this is not an easy task. There are countless teams that have failed at this level in history, and there are only a few games in history that have a record of capturing the main tower."

He concluded, "Although the bold plan of the Imperials can greatly change the situation of all parties in a round of competition, the risk of failure is very high."

Geros doesn't like dead games.

But even so, such an aggressive situation in the past games was quite rare, so he couldn't help but want to praise him.

It was just at this time that the assistant on the side suddenly let out a slight snort.

Geros stopped, turned his head in that direction, and saw the young man looking at his light screen in surprise and said to him, "The Colins have found crystal veins."

"They're lucky," Gerald said, "but it's not too strange. The No. 71 fairy soul has an advantage in controlling the number, and the production of the clockwork fairy doesn't need to consume too many materials."

"No," the assistant shook his head, "Jack, I didn't mean that."

"You... better come and see..."

Geros sniffled, suddenly aware of the strange silence in the auditorium.

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(End of this chapter)