Goddess Wanhua Mirror

Without beginning or end, Nid Hogg passed out after saying this, lying on the ground motionless.Seeing this, Lu De's face seemed very solemn, but he couldn't help snickering in his heart.

"The acting skills are indeed much better than at the rehearsal."

A week ago, Luther secretly found Ned Hogg and decided to jointly perform a big show called "Planting", diverting the attention of adventurers from the dragon to other ruthless characters in the Void Forest.

Lude first conceived a script. He asked Ned Hogg, who was familiar with the distribution of the local "black and evil forces", to make a list for himself, and he tried to introduce the situation of these powerful people in detail, and then used it as material. Created a very domineering plot.

And the "first scene" at the beginning of this script is the black dragon Nidhogg who came out of the serious injury and reported to the human friends.

After Ned Hogg "fainted", Lude hurried forward to check the other party's injuries, his expression became more serious as he looked at it, Denzel and the others standing aside and the villagers all subconsciously thought that the injuries on the black dragon were very serious. serious.

But in fact, Nidhogg, who seemed to be torn apart and drenched in blood, had all the horrible wounds on his body with deep bone visible, all of which were illusions made by high-level illusions, and the blood was wild boar blood.

It was only recently that Lude found out that Ned Hogg's wife Tawawa was very good at dragon illusions, and the illusions she constructed were false and real.In contrast, Nidhogg, who was raised by humans, is rather embarrassing, simply because he is stronger than the average dragon, and his spells can only be a dragon's breath and a passive wind control.

So in front of hundreds of onlookers present, Luther pretended to cast "advanced lay on hands" on Ned Hogg, and the horrific injuries on the black dragon's body were visible to the naked eye under the soft holy light. The speed is recovering rapidly, and soon everything will be intact.

And Ned Hogg also opened his eyes slightly after recovering from his injuries, tried hard to squeeze out the word "thank you" from between his teeth, and then fell asleep again.

The villagers present already knew that their priest was the God-chosen one with boundless magic power, so although they were amazed, they were not too surprised. On the contrary, several adventurers were so surprised that they couldn't close their jaws. They didn't expect Lu Dehui is such a high-level priest that he can even heal the wounds of giant dragons.

But after a brief surprise, several adventurers quickly realized that something was wrong... Why did this old priest heal a dragon! ?

You must know that although the relationship between the human race and the dragon race is not exactly like fire and water, it is by no means very harmonious.The huge difference in individual strength between the two sides has caused many dragons to regard ordinary humans as ants, and always hold a kind of superior contempt.

Although human beings recognize the power of the dragon clan, they often only regard the dragon clan as a kind of "wisdom beast". It is not difficult to judge the public's view of the dragon clan from the stories of many bards who use the dragon as the villain.

Therefore, in the eyes of several adventurers, Lu De did not take the opportunity to kill the seriously injured dragon, but also used divine magic to heal his injuries, which is obviously a "politically incorrect" act of supporting the enemy.

"Mr. Priest, you...why did you save this dragon? It is rumored that this guy attacked border villages everywhere. Now that you have cured him, what should you do when he wakes up and hurts the villagers?"

"My child, some giant dragons know how to be more grateful than humans. I was a witness to what happened last winter, and I know the truth better than you who only heard the rumors. Besides... this giant dragon is the guardian. He was just now Send us an important piece of information despite serious injuries!"

"Heavy, important information?"

Lu De's words made several young people confused. Although they didn't understand clearly, they gave people a faint feeling of ignorance.

However, before they asked what happened, Lu De turned around and walked quickly into the temple. Just as they were about to follow, they were stopped by fallen leaves with a height of "1.2+1" meters.

Back inside the temple, Lude knew that the first step of his plan had been successful. He implanted "doubts" into the minds of adventurers, and then they would be driven by curiosity to do what they expected them to do. out of action.

That night, many people in Pine Tree Village couldn't sleep all night. They may not have heard Lu De's mysterious words, but they all saw the seriously injured dragon, so they couldn't help guessing in their hearts, how terrible it must be to bring Such a powerful dragon was injured like this.

Several adventurers who had originally dreamed of "dragon slaying" were also a little at a loss at the moment, thinking over and over again about the mystery behind Lude's words.

What is a guardian?What did the dragon say woke up?

The five members of the team seem to have accidentally glimpsed the "face of truth", but they don't know that they have unknowingly fallen into Lude's routine.And they will also become the seeds that Lude planted, and they will have an impression on other adventurers who will arrive soon.

The next morning, Ned Hogg, who had been "comatose" all night, woke up. He stood up and uttered a high-pitched dragon cry, which instantly awakened everyone in the village.

A few adventurers who hadn't slept well all night hurriedly opened the window and looked out, and saw the revived giant dragon seemed to have said something to the priest before it flapped its wings and headed towards the depths of the forest in the north. fly away.

So a few people hurried to the temple, and when they came, they saw the old priest sitting on the stone steps at the door, looking at the forest in the north with a melancholy face, like an NPC who was about to send a mission to the brave!

"You are here."

"Mr. Priest, what happened?"

"You guys, do you know this forest?"

Without answering Denzel's question, Lude asked how much they knew about the Void Forest.Several adventurers looked at each other for a while. In the Void Forest, human beings were unable to fully explore its entire territory at its peak 300 years ago. However, the subsequent battle of the gods destroyed almost all northern countries. A lot of information and Documents were lost and damaged because of that incident, so that humans who have just recovered now have to start all over again.

Seeing that some people hesitated and couldn't answer, Lu De turned to look at them and said in a meaningful tone.

"Sometimes, ignorance is a kind of happiness!"

"Mr. Priest, we really don't know what you are talking about."

"Children, I have a task that I want to entrust to your team. I wonder if you are interested in it? I can't leave the village for the time being. The only people I can entrust to you are professionals like you."

"What mission?"

"I have a copy of the map here. I need you to go to this place on the map. There are ruins of an ancient city there. After you get there, don't try to go in and explore. Just bring back what you saw from outside the city and tell Immediately."

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Handing a hand-drawn map to Denzel, Lude pointed to several places marked with different symbols on it.

"Here is where our village is located. Over the five mountains to the northwest, there is a deserted ancient city ruin. You can find a high point outside the ruins, and you should be able to see the square in the center of the ruins. I need you Make sure the stone pillar in the center of the square is still there."

"Is the task that simple?"

"Yes, that's the short answer. If the pillar is destroyed, don't hesitate to come back and report to me immediately, understand?"

Denzel nodded, but the doubts in his heart became heavier and heavier. The more the old priest didn't understand the words, the more he couldn't bear to be curious.

At this time, Lude asked Denzel and others to come to the temple with him. In order to ensure their safe return, he wanted to give them some life-saving things.

Several people followed Lu De into the temple, and saw three young and beautiful nuns standing in the hall, each holding a wooden box in their hands.Lude stepped forward, opened the three wooden boxes one by one, and introduced the contents to the adventurer.

"These five vials contain the holy medicine 'Evelina's Tears', which has full healing power. As long as you drink your last breath, you will be resurrected with full blood on the spot. These sachets are called the guardian of the medicine god. It can prevent poisonous things like snakes and scorpions from approaching. Finally, this scarecrow is called a virtual idol. If you can’t beat it, you can take off the red rope around the scarecrow’s neck and throw it out. It will turn into a human form and run away while singing. , to help you attract the enemy's attention. That's all I can give you now, and some are still in the development stage, let's talk about it when you come back."

After receiving a few props from Lude, Denzel and his companions couldn't help feeling a little bit more fond of Lude.But they didn't know that the things Lude gave them were products he had developed for sale to the outside world, and he gave them a few for free, purely for testing and advertising.

With the props given by Lu De, the group set off on the same day and headed for the location marked on the map.Before leaving, Lu De solemnly reminded them that if they saw something incomprehensible in the forest, they must not easily believe their eyes.

After entering the forest, the group went smoothly for the first few days.The straight-line distance between them and the target is about [-] to [-] kilometers, but considering that there are five mountains and two rivers in the middle, Denzel estimates that they may have to walk for about a week to reach the ruins.

Since Lude only provided very limited information, the adventurers didn't know what they were about to face, and they inevitably felt a little uneasy.And as they got closer and closer to their target, some strange phenomena began to appear around them.

On the fourth day after departure, the team had already traveled half of the distance, and the team finally encountered the first river marked on the map.The people walked west along the river for a while, and soon found a shoal suitable for crossing the river, so they made some preparations and decided to wade across.

But at this moment, the archer girl in the team suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something in the forest on the other side, and hurriedly reminded her companions to pay attention. Everyone looked in the direction of her finger and could vaguely see a tall man There are three to four meters of humanoid objects, standing there motionless.

Denzel observed for a while, and faintly realized that it might not be a living thing, so he asked the archer girl to shoot an arrow at the thing, but the opponent still didn't move at all, so everyone crossed the river, and only found out when they got close, it was a very strange creature thing.

"Has any of you seen anything like this before?"

Faced with Denzel's inquiry, everyone shook their heads. The thing they found had a torso made of twisted vines and obvious limbs, while the head was a huge stag skull attached to it. It seems to be some kind of mutated monster.

The most surprising thing is that the posture presented by this thing is very arrogant. Standing with legs spread apart, the left hand is pinched on the waist as if it is in a pocket, and the right hand is pointing forward with the index finger, which is quite provocative.

A few people didn't know what it was, so they could only keep going. As a result, they would find a similar thing at a certain distance along the way, with various postures, and occasionally they would meet a group of two, entangled together and concave shape.

And on the night when they encountered the strange wooden statue, everyone had the same strange dream while camping and resting.

In their sleep, a few adventurers entered a strange ruined town. The dilapidated buildings around them were already covered with vines. In the silent urban area, even the chirping of birds and insects could not be heard, but they could be seen along the way. Many strange vine figures, as if they are the residents of this city, are looking at them, the foreign invaders, with unfriendly eyes.

A group of people walked to the square in the center of the ruins like this. There were three stone pillars engraved with strange characters in the center of the square. Several people looked at them, and they seemed to hear a strange whisper in their ears.

However, before they could get closer to observe, the three stone pillars collapsed without warning, and the stones were scattered all over the ground. At the moment when the stone pillars collapsed, a strange and sharp wail suddenly sounded in the city.

Immediately afterwards, they were surprised to see that those strange wooden statues in the ruins suddenly came to life collectively, and rushed towards them with their teeth and claws...

When the dream came here, the Denzel people woke up with fright.When they stood up and looked at their companions, the other four looked as if they had just woken up, even Brother Da Dun, who was supposed to be in charge of the night watch, was no exception.

Realizing that something might not be right, Denzel asks his companions if they just had a strange dream in which they were besieged by a group of living wooden statues in the ruins of a town.Everyone followed after listening.

"Captain, something is wrong with this dream!"

"Isn't this nonsense! How can five people have the same dream!"

"I said, shall we continue with this task?"

Seeing that several companions seemed a little scared, although Denzel himself felt that this dream was very strange, he still cheered everyone up and encouraged everyone to persevere.If they can't even complete such a simple reconnaissance mission, how can they become famous in the future!

With Denzel's encouragement, everyone's emotions stabilized a lot. They continued on the road the next day and accelerated their pace of progress. Finally, on the seventh day after leaving Pine Tree Village, they arrived at The ruins of the city marked on the map.

However, when they stood on the hillside and looked at the ruins from a distance, they all felt a sense of déjà vu that sent chills down their spines.

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"Captain, why does this place look familiar to me?"

Xiao looked at the ruins not far away, and the five people in the team looked at each other. Just looking at this place from a distance made them unconsciously think of the strange dream that had troubled them for several days.

According to the entrustment of the priest, they only need to stand here and look at the ruins of the city from a distance, and confirm whether the stone pillars on the central square are still safe.

But at this moment, an abnormal situation happened suddenly. Everyone only felt a gust of wind blowing, and then saw the mountain mist billowing from the east, quickly covering up the ruins in the valley.

Affected by the fog, several people were unable to confirm the situation inside the ruins from a distance just by standing on the hillside, and no one could be sure whether the thick fog would dissipate in a short time.As a result, differences of opinion within the team were almost inevitable as to whether the mission should continue.

The magician brother is the only rational faction in the team. He thinks that this task should be abandoned now and retreat as quickly as possible.Although there was no magical fluctuation in the fog just now, his intuition told him that it was probably controlled by some kind of mysterious thing, deliberately preventing them from peeking into the ruins.

The Assassins, Archers, and Great Shield didn't want to give up the mission easily. After all, they had walked for seven days before and finally reached the gate of the ruins of the ancient city. They didn't say that they encountered any decent enemies. No face.

Neither side could convince anyone, so the decision was handed over to Denzel as the captain.And Denzel is also struggling at the moment. Rationally, he agrees with the suggestion of the magician brother, but the inherent competitiveness of young people makes him not want to be a coward.

Finally thinking about it, Denzel took out a silver coin from his pocket, looked at his companions and said.

"Old rules! Let it decide for us. If it's a king, we'll keep going. If it's a badge, we'll go back the same way. Just once, no matter what happens, we can't go back on our word."

In front of his companions, Denzel tossed the silver coin high and caught it with the back of his hand.The other four people all stared nervously, only to see Denzel's covered other hand flipped open, and the king's bald head suddenly appeared, and the magician brother slapped his forehead in annoyance.

In this way, everyone decided to move on, but Denzel told his companions that their original mission remained unchanged. After entering the ruins, they must not disperse. They quickly went to the central square to check the condition of the stone pillars, and then exited immediately.

The five members of the team carefully descended to approach the ruins. The surrounding fog seriously affected visibility, and the silence made people feel creepy.

With a distance of more than 1000 meters, everyone walked for almost two hours, and finally reached the broken door of the ruins.The towering city wall is like a crouching monster in the mist, and the city gate is its gaping mouth.

Denzel can easily infer from the size of the city gate that this city should have been a rather grand metropolis before it was reduced to ruins. The permanent population in the city might reach nearly [-] people. For example, Griffin City, the capital of Duran Kingdom, is more prosperous today, but now it has been reduced to such a field.

Several people stopped and watched at the gate for a while, left the horses they brought at the gate, and were about to enter the city. At this time, the female assassin suddenly found that there seemed to be a person lying on the gate of the city, so she hurried forward to check, and it turned out that a person was lying on the ground. A skeleton that has been dead for an unknown amount of time.

From the last movement of the skeleton, it is not difficult to see that he was crawling out from the door, and both legs were seriously injured. Most of the bones below the knees have disappeared, and there are only a few debris left at the scene. It is quite a severe comminuted fracture.

At this moment, the female assassin noticed a very worn leather bag in the skeleton's arms, so she pulled the bag out of the skeleton's arms.Through this unweathered sealed leather bag, several people deduced that the deceased should not have been 300 years ago, otherwise the bag would not be preserved today.

The female assassin carefully opened the bag, and found a few pieces of old bacon jerky that were as hard as rocks, and a blood-stained notebook.

After the assassin girl confirmed that there was no poison in the note, she handed it over to the most educated magician in the team, and then everyone moved on.

After entering the ruined urban area, everyone found that the sense of déjà vu here is really getting stronger and stronger. Except for the absence of those vine monsters, the surrounding building wreckage is almost exactly the same as what they saw in their dreams, and some of them can match the number. The details made them even more nervous.

Everyone walked carefully, but the magician brother couldn't bear his strong curiosity, and opened the notes he just got.The contents of the notes were written in the elven script commonly used by magicians, indicating that the skeleton just now was most likely also a magician, but on the yellowed paper, most of the contents of the notes had been covered by dark brown smudges, leaving only After a few words, the magician brother who watched was at a loss.

"The fire is about to go out, but Wang Ying is nowhere to be found... The disappearance of King Xin... The cursed undead... Be careful of the malice of Heidetaka Miazaki... This name is so weird to spell!"

After flipping through it roughly, the magician became more and more confused. He knew every word in it, but he couldn't understand it together.

What is Salary King?What is the undead?Doesn't it refer to the undead?Why does that Heid Taka feel like some evil god?

With this kind of doubt, the magician brother quickly followed the team to the central square of the ruins. At this time, the fog seemed to dissipate a little, and the visibility distance increased slightly. Denzel, who was walking in the front, raised his hand to signal The companion stopped, and everyone followed his fingers to find that there was a pile of scattered rubble on the ground not far ahead, which seemed to be the stone pillar they were looking for...the wreckage.

"The pillar has been destroyed, let's withdraw, immediately!"

Seeing that the situation in the central square had been confirmed, Denzel immediately ordered to retreat, because in the previous strange dream, they were also attacked by monsters after the stone pillar collapsed.Although the city is quiet right now, who knows what will come out of which corner next.

And as if to confirm Denzel's worries, they were about to turn around when there was a strange noise in the originally silent city, like the heavy steps of some kind of behemoth, accompanied by the sound of slimy and wriggling.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound, and saw in a building not far away, a monster with a height of nearly six meters and a bloated figure slowly got out of the hole in the wall.Four thick and hoofed fleshy feet supported the weird body, covered with huge octopus-like tentacles.

The few adventurers had never seen such a terrifying monster. The strong sense of fear made them dare not act rashly for a while, because they didn't find that the monster had eyes, and the other party didn't seem to notice them, and was wandering aimlessly in the square. wandering on.

So Denzel signaled his companions not to make any noise, and carefully exited the square.They now have no way of determining the strength of that monster, or even what it is.The fear of the unknown made Denzel, who was once confident that he could overthrow a dragon because of the "Encyclopedia of Dragon Slaying", chose Congxin!

The group of people lifted the soles of their feet as lightly as possible, and stepped back step by step, but the monster seemed to have really not noticed them, and continued to wander in place.As the distance between the two sides gradually widened, the terrifying figure slowly disappeared into the mist, leaving only a continuously distorted black shadow.

Seeing that the group of people had retreated to the edge of the square, Denzel's nervous mood relaxed a little.But the ghost knows if God deliberately made things difficult for them today. At this time, a gust of wind blew by, and the tiles on the roof of a building behind them were so undeadly that they fell off.

The sound of the tiles falling to the ground was so crisp and loud in the silent city ruins, which immediately attracted the attention of the monster not far away. Denzel could clearly hear that guy was moving at an astonishing speed. He rushed towards them, and he was in front of them in a blink of an eye.

"Everyone be careful, get out of the way!"

Under Denzel's reminder, everyone immediately dodged to the sides, narrowly avoiding the monster's impact, but this also exposed their positions. The monster immediately sensed that there were other living creatures in the square, and immediately waved Huge tentacles attack them.

Seeing that it was too late to retreat, Denzel was annoyed and had to draw out his long sword to fight, but the huge tentacle was thicker than his waist, and it knocked away the strongest shield in the team with just one blow.

This big man who is nearly two meters tall and weighs more than [-] kilograms plus the whole province's equipment, flew upside down like a kite with a broken string for seven or eight meters, fell heavily on the ground, and couldn't get up for a long time. The injury was serious.

"Police!"

While dodging the tentacle attack, Denzel called out the name of his companion Big Shield.At this time, the body of the big shield Boris lying on the ground suddenly burst into white light, and then he quickly got up from the ground, picked up his big shield and turned back to join the battle.

When Denzel saw this, he knew that the other party had used the recovery medicine given to them by the priest, but he didn't expect the effect to be so powerful!

You must know that the general recovery potions in this world do not take effect so quickly. They usually speed up recovery. Some potions made by magicians even have obvious side effects. Only the healing magic performed by priests on the spot can have such an immediate effect. Effect.

However, Denzel understands that Luther only gave them five bottles of this powerful holy medicine, and this monster is much stronger than them. Its seemingly huge body can move quickly, and the attack power of its tentacles is even stronger. It should not be underestimated, a slight slump would result in a serious injury, and even instant kills are not out of the question.