Mithril Throne of Forgotten Realms

To the north of the center of the City Lord's Mansion, there is a small hill that is slightly higher than the surrounding area.There are some scattered buildings on the top of the hill, including a blacksmith shop and a lumberyard, and a square stone palace in the middle.

It can be seen that this should be a workshop for making something, but now there are neither miners nor loggers around, and it is a desolate scene.

The scale of the stone palace is small, and the structure is very simple - like a large regular hexagonal box, surrounded by six thick stone pillars, without walls.

On the south side of the stone hall, there is a stone bridge built with simple stone strips, which spans the river ditch around the hill and connects to the other side, but the bridge deck is only six feet wide. not many.

In the middle of the palace is a small room twenty feet square. The six walls are all directly carved from a single huge stone, and the seams are tightly connected to each other. The surface is covered with various stone carvings.If you look carefully, these stone carvings are all about the deeds of some ancient dwarf heroes. Slaying dragons and demons is all-encompassing.

But in front of the only stone door in this room, there were two figures squatting in front of the door, whispering something to each other.A few feet behind them, the mutilated corpses of two mind flayers were lying quietly on the stone slab, and the blood on the ground flowed far along the cracks in the stone slab.

"Hurry up! Haven't opened it yet?"

Atona squatted beside her, looking at the frowning assassin who was fiddling with the door lock, and anxiously urged: "I can hear the voices of those adventurers!"

"calm down!"

Fang Yi's movements were slow and orderly. Several tools specially used for unlocking the lock were skillfully inserted into the keyhole and pulled out again. Without even looking at the female sword master, he said calmly: "There is time."

Fang Yi is not fooling Atona, but the door lock in front of him is advanced, but it has not exceeded the upper limit of Fang Yi's own lockpicking skills. It is only a matter of time before it is opened.

In fact, Fang Yi is more nervous than Atona right now—there is a room for placing the core cornerstone hidden behind this!As long as you open this door, the unique private territory in this game is yours!So now Fang Yi just forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart, and tried his best to make his unlocking action more accurate.Be more precise.

Two 10 minutes ago.

From the mouth of the shapeshifter, Fang Yi learned that the core cornerstone room was actually in the city lord's mansion at the back, and the shapeshifter didn't know the exact location, but Fang Yi keenly captured the key information from the clues described by the other party.

Such an ordinary small workshop.It is an area of ​​more than 100 feet, why does the shapeshifter say that the mind flayer elder sent two mind flayers to guard this place?And without a slave?

So Fang Yi made a judgment almost immediately - when the battle situation is so tense now, sending two mind flayers to guard here is undoubtedly very important for this small stone palace; Others noticed here.

A place that satisfies these two conditions is about to emerge...the core cornerstone room!

So after leaving the dead shallow water crocodile in a hurry, Fang Yi and Atona didn't waste time thinking about such frightening questions as "what killed the crocodile boss", but bypassed the city lord's mansion Those large and small buildings rushed straight to this small hill.

Then the mind flayers saw the two guards, or "smelled" them.

Although the silver dragon is temporarily useless.But now Ji Feng is Fang Yishi's right-hand man.

With Atona's mind-shielding ability, Fang Yi doesn't have to worry about being discovered by the mind flayer.You only need to walk slowly around the stone palace twice with the female sword master and Ji Feng, and you can easily spot the stealthy mind flayer.

(Some children's shoes ask why mind flayers are mage-type monsters and can also sneak. Here, Feidan wants to explain that any profession in the game can learn stealth. Because stealth is a general skill, and it is similar to assassin's deadly assassination and sword master. The surging power of the berserker, the slut storm of the berserker, etc. are exclusive skills, which can only be learned by the corresponding profession.

However, the effect of stealth skills for non-sensitive occupations is very poor, because the corresponding key attribute of stealth is "sensitivity".When sneaking, they often make some very dissonant noises, which can be heard from far away.

However, because mages are mostly long-range attackers, this kind of second-hand stealth is sometimes enough to allow them to get close enough to the range of the spell without causing the target to notice, which is a matter of opinion.

This can lead to many tactics. For example, mages specially match some + sensitive advanced equipment to achieve certain special purposes; thieves can also gather some + attractive advanced equipment.Use camouflage and disguise skills to go to npc forces and even the city lord's mansion to cheat openly, and so on.

As for strength-based occupations such as warriors, just like the protagonist at the beginning of the novel, the stealth skills are only used by solo players to show off.better than nothing……)

As professional spellcasters, mind flayers actually have better ambush methods than "stealth", such as invisibility, the concealment effect is much better than ordinary stealth, and there will be absolutely no noise.

But invisibility is a magical effect, which only lasts for a few minutes, so unless a battle is expected soon, no mage will easily use this life-saving spell.

When he was in the Stone Forest Devil's Grotto, Jiandang Tianxia had adopted the same tactic as Fang Yi's now - sneak attack!But at that time, because there were shapeshifters hiding in the dark, those unlucky ghosts of the Trinity Alliance were caught by others.

Fang Yi has no such worries at all.

There's nothing better than sneaking up on an unsuspecting mage.

The elf dagger wiped the mind flayer's throat viciously, and the fragile skin of the mind flayer was cut open by Fang Yi's dagger like a block of tofu, exposing the trachea and the deeper throat.

"Pfft!" "Pfft!"

Atona and Fang Yi started at the same time, two blood mist erupted in the air, and four figures appeared in unison!Mind flayers with their throats cut are obviously incapable of casting spells, but that doesn't stop them from using psionic powers.

When the whistling sound of mind explosion sounded, Fang Yi and Atona didn't move, they just frantically waved the weapons in their hands and poked at the mind flayer!However, when the two were affected by the deterrent effect of Mind Blast, Ji Feng on the other side rushed out, bit the head of one of the mind flayers, and knocked the other to the ground as well.

But when the two recovered from the deterrent effect, Ji Feng was gnawing on the head of one of the mind flayers. The bloody scene even made Fang Yi frown slightly, but Atona next to him had a calm expression on his face. There is still a trace of pleasure in it.

When there is hatred in the heart, no matter how kind people are, they will become cruel. This sentence is absolutely true.

……

Ji Feng was sent out by Fang Yi as a scout, and Atona also went in and out of the stone palace countless times, so she immediately spotted those players who were rushing from a distance and shouting excitedly.

Atona didn't know what those players were excited about, but she was 100% sure that they were coming to the Stone Palace!

If it was Fang Yi who was standing guard outside, with Fang Yi's experience and perception value, he would most likely be able to spot the looming translucent figure flying in the sky.

That was the mind flayer elder who used the "obscurity technique" on himself. (Blur technique: The body of the subject becomes blurred. At the same time, all physical attacks on the subject have an additional 30% miss chance, and the highest miss rate is 50%.)

At this time, the water in the city has become a vast ocean, and the small hill where the stone palace is located has been completely submerged in the water. Fang Yi, who was squatting on the ground and concentrating on unlocking the lock, felt a coolness coming from his feet—the water had already reached Fang Yi's feet. instep.

As for the small mountain bag, the water has reached the player's thigh, making it very difficult to walk.Because there is a circle of river around the hill, the water is rising at this time, and the water depth has long been below the top of people's heads.

Therefore, if the players want to rush to the Stone Palace with the fastest speed, they can only rely on the stone bridge to the south of the Stone Palace.At this time, the group of players in the distance was desperately rushing to this side. If the water hadn't spread too fast, they might have rushed here long ago.

"There are still three or four minutes at most, and those adventurers can rush here!"

Atona didn't know how many times she ran in from outside the stone palace, and shouted at Fang Yi in a hurry.

Fang Yi, who was squatting next to the Shimen here, couldn't help but smiled wryly, his hands kept moving, and he could only say: "Okay, I said Atona, you have to run this way if you are worried, calm down." , it will be fine soon."

Although he has failed three times, Fang Yi has become more confident every time. This complex stone lock will soon "open his heart" to himself!

The water level under the feet rose little by little, and the cold feeling extended from the top of the feet to the ankles, and then to the ankles, but Fang Yi's movements remained the same. If it wasn't for the slight trembling of his hands, the focus would be like a stone sculpture of Hengyuan generally.

"Hmm... Insert it... Left, right, right, back and forth..."

Fang Yi silently recited the key to unlocking the lock that he had just figured out, and the feeling in his heart became more and more obvious. When Fang Yi held his breath and made the last step of groping, Atona beside him suddenly grabbed Fang Yi without warning. Yi's shoulders!

"There are mind flayers!"

Fang Yi's entire energy was concentrated on the door lock in front of him. Atona's tugging scared Fang Yi into a shiver, but he immediately reacted - Mind Flayer?Grass, bitten like that, those two things are still dead?