dark moon

Chapter 8 The road to nowhere

It was different from the previous mobile defense formation outside the projection world. It was marching in the forest, and the field of vision was severely limited. Therefore, it was necessary to maintain a compact formation and not leave any opportunity for enemies who might be hiding in the dark to defeat them.

However, now we are in an open field with no objects blocking our line of sight. Using a dense formation has no meaning other than limiting one's reaction space. The best option at this time is a loose defensive formation. That's what Shuer's team looks like now.

Shuur ran in front this time, and the copy of the Dark Moon Holy Scripture was floating beside him, moving forward with him. The holy white light continued to radiate outward from the Holy Scripture, forming a cone-shaped light curtain in front of Shuer. .

This is of course not a simple holy light, but one of the priest's universal divine arts, purification, which can effectively dispel toxic elements in the surrounding air and protect creatures within the purification range from harm.Most of the toxins in the environment can be purified by this method, but unfortunately, the effect is not great in this alien projection, because the most deadly attacks of plants have nothing to do with toxins. The role of purification technology can play Very limited.

"Bang, bang, bang," the sound of armor clashing came from behind Xiuer, and the dwarf Mobak chased closely behind him.

Now Moback didn't do anything extra. He just concentrated on running and trying to increase his speed.

There is nothing you can do about it. Unless you plan to abandon your teammates, the team's speed will be based on the slowest person, which is the so-called short board effect.Therefore, the biggest contribution that Moback can make to the team now is to increase his speed as much as possible, so he only needs to concentrate on moving forward, and other people will be responsible for the extra things.

For example, two skeleton horses and two mages.

The two mage ladies are the most laid-back. They don't need to run by themselves. They only need to control the skeleton horse and sandwich the dwarves on the left and right.

Of course, a four-legged skeleton horse can run faster than a two-legged person, but under Soul's command, Meridi significantly slowed down the speed of the summoned object to keep pace with Morbuck.This makes the two mages more relaxed and frees up more time to be alert to possible crises around them.

The mages are easy, and so are Saff and Macajron.As lightly armored combat professionals, their load-bearing capacity is much lower than that of dwarves, and their movements are more flexible. Each of them follows the two mages, which not only protects the safety of the mages, but also protects the two wings of the entire team.

In contrast, Moria, who should have been able to deal with it easily, was not so lucky because she was now in elf form, or humanoid form.

After all, Shuer's order was to wrap her whole body tightly and not expose it to the air, and no one knew how to dress and wrap a deer, so she had no choice but to transform into an elf form.

As a result, Lin Jing, who was used to running on four legs, could only maintain his human form and move forward. It was extremely awkward to run. He was already very good at keeping up with the speed of the team. A little hard work was inevitable.

No one spoke, and the team moved forward at high speed in silence.

Forty kilometers is not too long for a combat professional, but if you want to complete the distance in less than an hour, it is not easy even for gold-level professionals.

What's more, for these shadow chasers, this hour or so may not be just a simple run. In this strange environment, anything can happen.

Fortunately, they are not just relying on their own strength, but the kindness of the dark moon is taking care of them.

Well, Shuuer is actually looking after them.

The single-target magic of Quick Action lasts very short, only 30 seconds to 1 minute. It is often used by priests to increase their speed in times of crisis to escape from the enemy's attack range. If you really want to use it to speed up long-distance movement, you must Continuously casting spells consumes a lot of mental energy, and not many priests can bear it.

But Shuer is special. The soul that has been repaired by divine power has super mental power and a unique divine affinity constitution, which makes him particularly effective when releasing universal magic and dark moon magic.Therefore, even while running, he can continuously supplement everyone's agility, which increases everyone's speed a lot.

In addition to Xiure, what helps the shadow chasers is the ubiquitous wind.

Since the skeleton horse is actually controlled by Meridi, Mia, who is riding on the skeleton horse, does not need to be distracted from control and has enough energy to control wind magic to help everyone get out of trouble.

Outside of Shuer's holy light purification layer, there is actually a wind wall composed of invisible wind. The streamlined wind wall can not only minimize the resistance encountered by the team as it advances, but also blow away most of the particles in the air. , making the plants' offensive lose most of its effect.

It can be said that the current shadow-chasing team has done its best to fight against the hostile plants and minimize the contact with the plants. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for the team's safety to make any mistakes.

However, when you are in the projection of another world, you can never consider problems in normal situations. Everything that happens here is unknown and not so normal.

"Dang", the sound of weapons colliding suddenly sounded within the team, and the two figures each took a step back. It was obvious that there was no winner in the battle of strength, and the rapidly advancing team immediately stopped.

When Shuur turned his head, he saw Safu hiding behind the skeleton horse under Mia, looking at the dwarf Moback with a strange look in his eyes, holding a giant sword in his hands.

As for Moback, he looked a little depressed, staring at the ground in a daze, mumbling something that he didn't know what he was talking about.

"What's going on?" Shuer frowned.

"He, he, he, he..." Being stared at by everyone, the female swordsman was so frightened that she could not even utter a complete sentence.

"Mobark suddenly raised an ax to kill himself by slashing his own neck. Fortunately, Sasa saw it and blocked it in time." Moria, who was at the end, was the only one who saw the whole process.

"Suicide?" Xiure's eyes narrowed and he had already heard Mo Buck's muttering.

"There's no hope, there's no hope. It's better to die. It's too tiring to keep running like this."

"Damn it, chant the holy name of Dark Moon, calm the mind." Shuer said with a straight face, and casually released the magic that could calm the mind. "Eh?" The magic worked immediately. The dwarf shivered, and his dull eyes suddenly regained their clarity. He looked at his battle ax in surprise, "I, I, why do I suddenly want to commit suicide?"

"Keep moving, don't stop." Without answering the question, Xiuer led everyone to start moving again, at a slightly slower speed than before, and focused his energy on asking, "Tell me, how did you feel just now."

"I don't know either." Although the dwarf ran with everyone, he was still a little confused. "I just suddenly wanted to commit suicide. I can't figure out what happened."

"Nonsense, I know you can't figure it out, I'm asking you how you felt at the time." Xiure said irritably.

"Well, I just feel that everything is meaningless. There is nothing left in life except tiredness." The dwarf shrank his neck after being scolded and said cautiously, "I am getting more and more desperate. I don't want to live anymore."

"I, I also feel a bit..." Saff hesitated, looking unsure of what she wanted to say.

"I'm not asking you now, and if you want to say anything, just say it directly, don't waste time." Xiuer's eyes were sinister and his tone was very stern.

"Yes, yes." The female swordsman was so frightened by Xiure's attitude that she almost forgot to move. She lowered her head and had red eyes, "I'm sorry."

"Eh? Shuer, I think you're so funny now." Moria blinked and smiled blankly, "It's like you're a different person. It's so fun."

"No, no, I'm hit by the calming technique."

With these words, Xiure, who was getting more and more irritable in his heart, suddenly understood. With a wave of his hand, the calming spell was also washed away from his body.

"It's not mind control, it's just that the emotions are infected. Fortunately, the calming technique can control it."

Just as Shuer was about to continue speaking, the halfling on the other side suddenly gave way and fell down. Fortunately, he woke up in time, rolled on the ground several times, and stood up again without losing speed.

"In the name of Luna, the Lord of the Dark Moon, I pray for the mercy of the moon." The questions that came up one after another left Shuer no time to explain anything. He raised his hands directly and released a large-scale calm and compassionate light, sending everyone into a panic. Wrapped in it.

"We are very close to the goal." As a captain, he not only has to make decisions, but also mobilize the emotions of his team members. "Just hold on for another 10 minutes. Don't worry. Although I don't know how they do it, it just affects everyone." It's just an emotion, it can be restrained by calming the mind."

"Moback, the mountains are not far away. You can lead the way below."

Indeed, after more than an hour of adventurous trekking, the target mountain range was already in sight. Just as Moback had predicted before, although the top of the mountain was covered with trees, the steep mountain walls were full of exposed rocks, and it could be said that there was no grass growing there. .

"Understood, leave it to me." Although he almost killed himself just now, the dwarf knows that now is not the time to be afraid or apologize. The plants have already begun to find the weakness of the team, and if it continues, the problem will only become more and more serious. A quick fight will do.

"I'm good at finding caves. All caves can't escape my eyes. Let me see, the direction of the mountain is... um, turn right thirteen degrees, ridge, col, col. If it doesn't work that way, keep moving forward."

"The shape of this peak is good. Let's take a closer look. No, the soil quality is wrong. Don't go here."

"There must be a natural cave there. The sign is too obvious. If there is no cave, I will dig out my eyes. Let's go there."

Pointing excitedly to the left, the dwarf took the lead and rushed towards a mountain wall.

Although it looked no different from other locations, with the same steep rock wall, no one would doubt the judgment of a geological expert. Everyone immediately followed the dwarf, protecting him and rushing to the rock wall.

"Here, here, here, and here." The dwarf spent a few seconds tapping on the rock wall, and finally left four marks with the ax handle.

"Mia, it's up to you." Shuer nodded to the elf mage.

Needless to say, four fireballs shot out from Mia's side and hit the designated position directly.

"boom".

Smoke and dust were everywhere, and gravel was peeling off.

Although dust is annoying, it represents hope of escape from danger.

but……

"Damn it, how could this happen?" The dwarf's surprised roar came from the smoke.

Behind the collapsed stone wall, there is still a dead end, and the stone wall has been replaced by a metal wall.

Yes, a metal wall stood in front of everyone, isolating the cave that the dwarves judged was behind it.

(End of this chapter)