Mithril Throne of Forgotten Realms

Jian Dang Tian Tian was not in a hurry, but just stood in the distance quietly, sizing up the beauty on the opposite side.

When I got closer, I realized that the big sword in the female swordsman's hand was densely covered with magical engravings, and the spine of the sword was inlaid with at least a dozen crystal clear gem fragments, light blue, bright yellow, dark red, etc. There are many colors, and the silver-white sword body complements each other, which is really beautiful and eye-catching.

There are many players in the Trinity Alliance who have advanced to the level of Juggernaut, and Jiandang Tianxia himself has contacted many high-level npc blacksmiths, so he knows very well that the blacksmith's skills must be extraordinary to be able to inlay so many gems on the sword.

You must know that all weapons in "Miracle" can only be inlaid with one gem at most. If you are too greedy, the attributes of the gems will overlap each other and do useless work.

This kind of forging process of inlaying several gem fragments on the sword body is much worse than inlaying a complete gem, but because of this, players can choose to inlay different types of gem fragments to obtain mixed effects, It is of great benefit to mixed professions such as magic swordsman and arcane knight.

But this kind of forging skill is not something ordinary people can learn... Is there a master blacksmith among the lizard people?shouldn't...

But Jiandang Tianxia was thinking about it here, when he heard a rush of footsteps behind him, the thief player who had left before rushed back.

Jian Dangtianxia nodded to himself, and the thief player reached into his backpack, found a bunch of sticky things, raised his hand and threw it on the ground.There was a crisp "dong dong" sound.

The female sword master was full of vigilance. Although the thief's action didn't look like an attack, she still cautiously placed the big sword horizontally in front of her body. When she looked at the ground, the pupils of the beautiful lizard man shrank slightly.

On the ground were seven black balls, with a few tentacles hanging from them. They were stained with a lot of dust and black-red liquid, but their true colors could still be discerned—the heads of the seven mind flayers. class!

In the previous battle at the City Lord's Mansion in the center of the city, the Trinity Alliance lost a lot of manpower, but it was not without gains.Except that two mind flayers were blasted to pieces by the player's magic.The remaining seven were all collected by Jian Dang Tian Xia.

But even so, Jiandangtiantian was still suffocated—the vanguard group of nearly 200 people lost dozens of elite players, but only killed nine mind flayers!In the past, when players fought against monsters.Except for boss fights.When has there been such a battle loss ratio?

At that time, everyone just thought that monsters like mind flayers were rare monsters.The number is very small, and there is no guarantee that there are any useful materials on the body, so the whole body of these octopus heads was left.It was only after Jian Dang Tian Tian discovered this lizard beauty.Only then did he come up with the idea of ​​"presenting his head".

"This is the enemy we encountered near the City Lord's Mansion. We had a fierce battle with them ten minutes ago, and I lost dozens of brothers." Jian Dangtianxia swept his eyes at the octopus heads on the ground, He said to the female sword master with a serious face, "Can you trust us now?"

"...You said that you came here for Mithril,"

The beautiful lizardman blinked her eyes, tentatively pulled her head on the ground with her big sword, and confirmed that it was undoubtedly a real mind flayer, the expression on her face immediately relaxed a lot, and the eyes that looked at the sword swinging the world were no longer so strange And be vigilant, "If you occupy this mine vein, do you still plan to occupy this city?"

Jian Dang Tian Tian raised his brows slightly, his brain started to spin rapidly:

Could this mysterious city be home to the lizardfolk, only to be taken over by mind flayers?Judging from the previous situation, there are quite a few lizardman warriors controlled by mind flayers, and they still maintain free will. At present, I have only seen the powerful and scary undead sword master before, and this lizardman girl in front of me. ...

Will it be a plot mission here?

Thinking of this, Jiandang Tianxia had already thought up his speech.

"Mind flayers are our common enemy. I am very happy to help you and your people regain their homeland, but..." Jian Dangtianxia said while watching the other party's expression, his words were very cautious, "You know, we Adventurers have worked so hard to come here, in fact, it is for Mithril and treasures, we have no intention of invading your homeland, but the treasures here..."

To Jiandang Tianxia's surprise, upon hearing this, the lizard beauty, who had been looking up at everyone, lowered her head, as if she was frowning and thinking about something.It's just that everyone didn't notice that the moment the female Sword Saint lowered her head, her eyes suddenly lit up.

"It turns out they didn't know this was..."

The lips of the lizard beauty moved slightly, and no one heard her mumble something. Immediately afterwards, this lady raised her head, and at the same time poked the big sword in her hand to the ground.

Seeing this, Jian Dang Tian Tian was overjoyed: This is the signal to end the fighting state...

"The things here are ownerless, you can take whatever you want, you just need to agree to one condition, and I can share a piece of information with you..."

The female Sword Saint's eyes were already lit up with excitement, and she smiled slightly towards Jiandang Tianxia: "A piece of information about the mind flayer in this city!"

***

The building in front of me is tall and majestic, and the whole body is made of bright gray granite. The length of each piece of granite exceeds Fang Yi's height, and the height is nearly three feet.The four pillars standing in front of the building are all six feet in diameter, and the surface is covered with rough stone carvings. The vivid carving techniques are amazing.

After Fang Yi left his hiding place, he headed all the way to the center of the city, and found this temple not far from the City Lord's Mansion and the Administration Hall - Moradin Temple.

The form of the temple is very similar to the one in Cantor City, but the scale is several times smaller, but even so, the natural majesty of the dwarf building still amazes Fang Yi, a player from another dimension.

Right now, Xia Yi had already entered the temple, looking at the mottled and messy footprints on the floor around him, he showed an expression of interest.

Fang Yi's stay here is naturally not for sightseeing.

Going forward is the core area of ​​the city, and the players of the Trinity Alliance have all retreated to the periphery.Seal the surrounding roads tightly.

The city lord's mansion and the city administrative center are next to each other. If they don't occupy the most valuable place as soon as possible, what are they doing outside?

Could it be made by an octopus head?

Thinking of this, Fang Yi gloated.Originally, these hundreds of players from the Trinity Alliance were a great threat to Fang Yi—just kill the monsters directly, even if they couldn’t be killed, there must be a way to deal with them in the mission plot.

Players are different, everyone is in a competitive relationship, either you die or I live, there is no room for maneuver.

These octopus heads can force out the elite teams of the Trinity Alliance, there must be a lot of them, and there may be one or two small bosses.So Fang Yi didn't rush to cross the player's blockade.Instead, I plan to observe from the outside to see if I can find a way to eavesdrop on some news from these players.

It was because of this that Fang Yi, who was wandering around, discovered this "extraordinary" temple by accident.

Due to the lack of management for a long time, the city in the center of the lake is almost covered with dust.There are only a lot of footprints and traces of walking on the route leading to the stone bridges around the island.Presumably it was left behind by the various monsters controlled by the mind flayers.

But not this temple.

Not only are there a large number of recently left footprints on the ground.Even the corners of the temple have traces of being turned over by people, and the stone walls in many places have been chiseled, exposing stone sections with gray spots.The originally grand and magnificent hall was made into a hole.There is a gap in the west, which is very unpleasant.

This phenomenon is too abnormal... Who is this city?Except for Octopus Head, who is Octopus Head's younger brother, then they must be the ones who wreak havoc here. What are they looking for here?

So Fang Yi sent Ji Feng out, hid in a corner and secretly observed the movement of those players, while he sneaked into the temple on tiptoe.

……

The interior layout of this temple is more delicate than that of Kantor. In addition to the middle hall, there are four small halls around it. The light from all kinds of ores in the cave is scattered in this hall, and it looks faint. There is quite a feeling of decorative lamps in reality.

However, everything in the house has already been destroyed. Needless to say, the wooden tables and chairs, even those stone tables, stone chairs and statues were smashed to pieces, and they all turned into broken stones all over the place. Fang Yi was inside. After wandering around for a long time, I didn't see a single intact thing.

Fuck, do these octopus heads have a grudge against the dwarves?

Fang Yi held a fragment of Moradin's statue in his hand, which was very puzzling.But after thinking about it, the octopus monster is evil and evil, but it is not boring, and if the mind flayer really has enmity with the residents here, it would be fine to just destroy the city. Why are you angry at this temple?

While thinking hard, Fang Yi followed the corridor to the innermost room.

This is a rectangular hall. There are no load-bearing pillars in the room, and the broken statue at the other end of the room can be seen directly from this end.

Compared with the previous places, there are much fewer stone fragments here, but there are many more rotten and deformed pieces of wood. Fang Yi carefully avoids the sundries on the ground, trying not to let himself make a sound, tiptoeing walked in.

Hmm... This should be a small prayer room... Fang Yi looked around and thought so.

In the game, everyone has to pray to the gods they believe in regularly, so that they can have the ability to use the corresponding magic.For npcs, this is an essential and solemn process, but it is much simpler for players. The system has minimized this ritual, otherwise it will really cause public outrage.

Looking at the room in front of him that has gone through hundreds of years, Fang Yi could imagine the scene where many dwarf priests prayed devoutly to Moradin. Among them were father and son, mother and daughter, and friends and brothers. Everyone was immersed in the ecstasy of discovering the mithril vein, and was full of gratitude to the Father God. They didn't know that not long after, this mithril vein became the culprit for everyone to lose their homes...

Fang Yi walked around the house and found that it was as empty as the previous place, except for debris and wreckage on the ground, there was nothing.

Sighing lightly, Fang Yi was not too disappointed.This is the way to do tasks. 90.00% of the efforts in the process may be in vain, only the one percent of the clues are found correctly.Have a chance to touch the final answer.

Just like when he came, Fang Yi dexterously stepped over the obstacle, and walked towards the door quickly and steadily, but when he reached a place more than ten steps away from the door, Fang Yi, who was stooping, suddenly stopped, as if He froze on the spot like a statue, and slowly lowered his right foot that had been raised.

A bead of sweat trickled down from his forehead, across his temples and down his cheeks, but Fang Yi didn't bother to wipe it off.Because at this time Fang Yi was staring at a broken stone slab in the front left without blinking.

Nima... I saw it clearly when I came in just now.Absolutely no footprints on this corner!Then what is this! ?

Fang Yi's eyes almost narrowed into a line.Staring at the long and narrow footprint with three toes on the slate, my nervous heart was pounding, and my back was drenched with sweat in an instant.

You bastard... there are other people in this room...

Thinking of this, Fang Yi subconsciously relaxed his breathing a lot.Then very slowly crouched on the ground.Turned his head and looked around.The palms holding the handle of the knife were already full of sweat.

No wonder Fang Yi was so nervous, the footprints that suddenly appeared in front of him were obviously not players, but belonged to some kind of beast or some kind of npc!The stealth skills of this mysterious man are superb.Fang Yi has listening skills on his body, but he didn't notice it at all...

Assassin-type npcs are undoubtedly the most annoying...

However, Fang Yi was no longer a baby, and quickly adjusted his mentality, and his mood changed from extreme nervousness to a state of excitement and nervousness.

There is an npc here, which means that there is a clue, no matter what he does, first catch him and interrogate him!

Fang Yi leaned down on the ground, carefully looked at the surrounding ground, and recalled the whole process of coming in, and made sure that he did not leave any traces. At that moment, he felt relieved and tiptoed out of the door , cat up in the corner of the door.

Since the other party arrived later than him, he is probably still in this room now, and he just needs to sit on the sidelines and wait for the rabbit—Fang Yi thought so while slowly drawing out the scimitar and dagger.

……

The duel between the two stalkers is an interweaving of silence and blood, a competition of speed and reaction.The quietness and silence at the beginning were just paving the way for the subsequent hand-to-hand confrontation. The basic quality of every master who is used to hiding in the dark is the basic quality of every master who is used to hiding in the dark.

Fang Yi knew this very well.

So when the time passed by and there was no movement at the door after 3 minutes, Fang Yi was still very patient.This is like two snipers killing each other. Whoever runs out of patience first means that he has already lost half.

The air here is actually not very good. The air in the room smells of dust, which is a little pungent. Fortunately, Fang Yi has Altaïr's mask, so he is not affected much.

suddenly!

An extremely slight cough came from Fang Yi's right front, and the hairs on Fang Yi's body were blown up in shock!

You must know that Fang Yi is now on the left side of the door, and the left half of his body is tightly leaning against the wall. It stands to reason that if someone comes out of the room, Fang Yi should be on the left side first to notice the change.

But the sound came from the right side, which meant that the visitor had already walked out of the room, and passed by less than a foot in front of Fang Yi!

How high is this stealth technology?

But now Fang Yi has no time to think about these issues. Right now, everything in this city in the middle of the lake is a cloud of fog. He urgently needs to find a breakthrough to cut in. Now that he has seen an npc, how can he let it go?

So Fang Yi reacted as soon as he heard the sound, the iridescent jet scroll in Jenna's ring was activated instantly, and a small rainbow suddenly lit up in the slightly dim corridor!

At the same time, Fang Yi's figure has already passed the afterimage brought out by the magic light and went straight to the target!Because within the scope of the iridescent spray, a thin figure has emerged from the air.

Fang Yi could feel that the opponent was hit by a spell.Although the other party was in a daze for a short time, even though the other party seemed to "hesitantly" for a while before turning around, Fang Yi, whose reaction speed was beyond ordinary people, still discovered the abnormality in less than [-] seconds.

That's why Fang Yi's sneak attack didn't stop. The sharp scimitar with electric glow went straight to the opponent's right arm, while the elf dagger pointed at the opponent's chrysanthemum very sinisterly—this kind of attack would not cause fatal damage to the opponent. The damage is enough to make the opponent lose combat power temporarily.

The slender figure's skill is much faster than Fang Yi expected!Although the movement was delayed by the iridescent spray, the forward vertical + turning movement was as elegant as a breeze. One moment ago, his back was facing Fang Yi, and the next moment he had already turned around in the air, allowing Fang Yi to open the blade. At the same time, the weapon in his hand has already greeted him.

The next moment, Fang Yi burst into tears.

"Damn shit!..."

Fang Yi cursed badly, because what the other party pulled out was a two-handed sword!With just a slight sway, Fang Yi was shot back with the knife, and hit the stone wall firmly, making a loud "bang!"

Cheating... I rely on...

Fang Yi never thought that the other party would be holding a heavy weapon!Such a powerful stealth skill meant that it was at least a high-level part-time thief, so in order to maximize the combat attributes of the thief, it was impossible to use heavy weapons.

But the facts before him proved that Fang Yi was wrong.

Fang Yi, who was shot flying, did not twist himself up again, but took a quick step to the left, and stood still with his back to the exit of the corridor—only once, Fang Yi knew that the person in front of him was too strong, and he was too strong. You may not be able to fight hard... or convince others with virtue...

The mysterious man didn't pursue him either. The whole body was covered in a long gray cloak, and he was holding a big sword on his shoulder. He was looking at Fang Yi with his head tilted. There seemed to be two spots under the cap. flash! (to be continued..)