Arcane Lord

In the evening, Xia Duo went to bed early. There was only one last mission left. He didn't dare to relax at all. It would be stupid to die because of his relaxation at the last moment.

It's just that Xia Duo seemed different tonight than usual. After falling asleep, he didn't sleep without thinking as usual until the next day.

Xia Duo had a strange dream.

In dreams, he sometimes transforms into a long river, rushing out from the snow-capped mountains; sometimes he transforms into lightning, extending from the clouds to the earth; sometimes he transforms into a strong wind, rolling up wisps of green smoke above the altar.

As the dream came to an end, Xia Duo had turned into an invisible existence, entrusted in the spirit of civilization, and grew stronger with the development of civilization.

The next day, Xia Duo woke up from his sleep. After waking up, he fell into deep thought. Although the dream was fantastic and magnificent, it gave him a very real feeling.

Even after waking up from the dream, the memory in the dream is very clear, which is completely different from the past situation where the memory quickly blurred after waking up from the dream.

For a moment, Xia Duo couldn't determine the cause of the dream, but he was almost certain that the dream was not harmful to him, and even had considerable benefits.

After Xia Duo woke up, he had already discovered that he had been in a state of depression for almost a year in the other world.

Even though he had joined the Mage Tower, and even though he was only one step away from becoming an official mage, he always felt out of tune with this world, which to a certain extent even affected his temperament.

When he was on Earth, he was not as calculating and fearful as he is now.

But after the dream, Xia Duo felt that his whole body and mind were much more relaxed.

In addition, he also discovered a very subtle change - his strength had increased. If he hadn't habitually picked up the hand crossbow, he would not have been able to detect it by himself.

The hand crossbow that was originally a little heavy in the hand has now become very light.

Of course, these changes alone were not enough for Sha Duo to think that the dream was beneficial and harmless to him. What really made him sure was the content of the dream.

Long rivers, lightning, strong winds, and later the invisible spirit, Shado experienced the evolution history of the Yanhuang Dragon in his dream. This is something that is absolutely impossible to appear in Netheril.

Not to mention, in the dream, he also saw the epitome of Chinese civilization from ancient times to modern times. All of this was the real reason why he was sure that the dream was harmless.

Furthermore, Xia Duo was extremely curious about this dream. Just one dream gave him an increase in strength. If it happened several more times, would there be other changes?

But at the moment, he has no clue about the reason for this dream, and for the time being he can only regard it as a belated time-travel benefit.

After having breakfast at the camp, Shado took the team members and left the town with the Sami team.

…

Although the heavy snow has not yet fallen, the very fine snowflakes have not stopped. However, these snowflakes melted into water before they fell to the ground.

Xia Duo and others set off in the occasional light rain.

Before heading to the Green Pearl Forest, Xia Duo and others stopped by a few villages with people and made sure they didn't find any orcs before continuing into the forest.

As Xia Duo expected, such weather was quite difficult for the orcs. It wasn't until they went seven or eight miles into the forest that they only encountered one orc who was going crazy with hunger.

During this period, not even a few goblins were encountered.

But just when Sha Duo thought that the orcs would not appear again, Ava, who was exploring the way ahead, suddenly turned back and said, "Master Sha Duo, there is a problem that requires you to make a decision immediately."

"What?"

"There are many sounds of orcs coming from the southwest, and they seem to be coming here. Are you going to fight, or are you trying to avoid them temporarily?"

After hearing the news, Xia Duo's first reaction was to avoid, but the problem was that the orcs were traveling faster than them. If the distance was too short, running away would not be a good idea.

"How far do you think it is?"

"Less than 300 meters."

"So close?!"

Xia Duo was shocked. Fortunately, he was in the forest now. Distance was not the only criterion for judging the field of vision. The gap between the trees in the forest was. When he was not sure how much a lot was, he gave the order decisively.

"Everyone should take shelter to the east."

With the previous experience, the more than 20 people on Xia Duo's side have long been accustomed to Xia Duo's orders, and they took action as soon as they heard the order.

At the same time, just to be on the safe side, Shado also summoned Sami and asked him to take care of him.

At this time, Sami's team was about the same distance into the forest as Shado and others, and the straight-line distance was probably less than 200 meters.

When turning in, Shado asked Ava to pay attention to the location of the orcs. At such a long distance, Ava was probably the only one among them who had such a keen judgment.

And when Shado turned eastward and could already see Sami and others, Ava came over to report, "The direction of the orcs' movement has changed and they are coming towards us, and they seem to be chasing someone."

"Chasing someone? Coming towards us?"

Xia Duo seemed to understand something. How could such a coincidence happen? He immediately sent a message to Sami, "Someone has lured the orcs over. You should quickly set up a temporary position. We will be there soon."

After that, he called Ava aside and whispered: "Can you get closer to see who is leading the orcs, if it is convenient -"

Xia Duo made a motion of slitting his throat. Such a random way of attracting monsters was simply too hateful. If he could kill the person who led the monsters, maybe the orcs would retreat.

Of course, it is also possible that the orcs will continue to chase them. Although the orcs are relatively stupid compared to humans, they are still intelligent creatures after all.

Ava hesitated for a moment, but agreed.

…

Green Pearl Forest, Area 12.

Apprentice Bol rode a forest horse with a somewhat clumsy hind leg and ran for his life in Area 12. Just now in Area 11, his team was ambushed by a group of elite orc warriors.

After judging that the team had no chance of winning, Bol decisively activated the 1st level [Summoning Mount] scroll and escaped before all the team members died.

At that time, he was relatively close to Area 12, so he subconsciously came towards this direction. He needed someone to help him hold the orcs back so that he could escape smoothly.

It's just that he doesn't know where the person in charge of Area 12 is. For this reason, he also consumed a precious guidance talisman. This talisman cannot accurately search for targets, but it can roughly guide the location of living creatures.

Except for the orcs who have been following closely, the nearest living creature should be the people in area 12, he guessed.

And when he discovered that the location of the living creature suddenly moved to the east, Bol immediately determined that it was the target he was looking for.