Path of light

Chapter 586 587. Hunting

The night sky of the Dark Land is a light red sky, and the Dark Gate Expeditionary Force camp is built in a valley.

There are only slightly gentle earth slopes on both sides of the camp, which can't even be called earth ridges. Roy put on a magic cloak and climbed up to the top of the earth ridge along the not-so-flat path.

Looking from the top of the black earth ridge, under the light red sky, the entire area is basically this kind of undulating ridges.

The light black mist on the slope is ordinary dark creatures. These black mists are big and small, but basically they are only one or two meters in diameter. They keep a certain distance from each other and float in the air about one meter above the ground.

There are also some dark fogs among these black mists. They are basically larger in size. These are considered advanced dark creatures.

They have their own hunting consciousness and will wander around in the air. When they encounter ordinary dark creatures, they will devour them...

Every time they devour an ordinary dark creature, they will be calm for a long time.

These black fogs are everywhere in the mountains and plains, but they are not very dense. Even the dark creatures that are closer will be more than ten meters apart...

Roy carefully observed for a long time and found that they were moving on the ground, as if they were absorbing some dark breath emanating from the black soil.

Standing in the vast mountains and plains, Roy decided to walk outside again and made his first attempt in the dark land.

He performed the "Glimmer Illumination Technique" on a slope, allowing a ball of holy glimmer to slowly float into the air. Under the illumination of this ball of holy glimmer, the floating dark creatures nearby were affected, and the dark breath on them began to evaporate.

Driven by instinct, these ordinary dark creatures gathered towards the holy glimmer.

This ball of holy glimmer is like a magnet, attracting the surrounding dark creatures. Some of the more fragile dark creatures were evaporated completely by the soft holy light halfway.

Only some relatively powerful dark creatures can gather around the holy glimmer, covering it with a layer of black gauze.

Roy, who was waiting under the holy glimmer, was like a hunter, constantly casting the "purification spell" on these dark creatures. Groups of thick dark mists turned into nothingness under the illumination of the holy light.

Not every dark creature will leave soul crystals. Only those high-level dark creatures will have a certain chance of leaving soul crystals the size of a little fingernail after being purified.

Roy is a thirteenth-level high priest. The Holy Light Tree in his body contains a large amount of Holy Light power. After he purified hundreds of high-level dark creatures, Roy picked up more than twenty soul crystals from the ground under his feet.

However, every time a dark creature is dispelled, a wisp of soul breath will enter Roy's body. Roy found that this soul breath has a very obvious nourishing effect on the Holy Light Tree.

Although it is impossible to directly restore Roy's Holy Light power, since it can nourish the Holy Light Tree... that is also very good.

As the day in the Dark Land was approaching, the number of dark creatures in the wilderness increased, and even dark creatures like dark clouds appeared in the distant sky.

The day in the Dark Land was a pitch-black night for the elves.

At this time, the dark creatures became extremely active...

Roy did not dare to stay on this hillside any longer, and quickly extinguished the holy light above his head. Without the burning of the holy light, the dark creatures around him became quiet again.

However, on the hillside where Roy was, the floating dark creatures had become few and far between...

Roy wrapped his body tightly with a magic cloak, then walked down the slope quickly, avoiding the floating dark creatures, and trotted back to the Dark Gate Expeditionary Camp.

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In the Dark Gate Expeditionary Camp, Captain Timothy led a team of Dark Moon Elf warriors to patrol the camp, and before it was completely dark, they saw Roy wrapped in a magic cloak and ran in from outside the valley.

Seeing that Boss Roy came back safely, Captain Timothy breathed a sigh of relief.

The magic cloak could indeed block the perception of dark creatures. He saw Roy walk past dark creatures several times, and those dark creatures seemed to be at a loss.

At this time every day, many half-blood elf warriors would gather by the pool.

During the period of garrisoning in the Dark Expeditionary Force camp, the elf warriors of the mine guards had almost nothing to do except patrolling in the camp every day. Recently, everyone got used to gathering by the pool after dark and practicing the "watching lighting technique" that Roy taught everyone. Currently, three half-blood elf warriors have successfully learned this simple magic.

The elf warriors heard that only by learning the "twilight lighting technique" would they have the opportunity to leave the expeditionary camp in the future. For a time, everyone's enthusiasm for learning magic was high.

Roy walked into the camp from outside the camp, untied the magic cloak on his body, and came to the pool to take a plate of fruit and a glass of life tree juice from an elf warrior.

Ever since the Mine Guards entered the Dark Land, the juice of the tree of life has become a regular on their menu.

After drinking the diluted juice of the tree of life in one gulp, and feeling the rich breath of life spreading throughout his body, Roy found Captain Timothy by the pool, sat down beside him, and proudly took out a few soul crystals from his magic waist bag and handed them to Captain Timothy.

"Is this all we got from the dark creatures?" Captain Timothy asked Roy, holding a soul crystal in his hand and looking at it again and again.

Roy said while eating dinner: "Well, and this thing is only occasionally found by some high-level dark creatures."

"What is this crystal?" Captain Timothy asked while flipping the soul crystal in his hand.

"I don't know. I haven't seen this thing in the magic market, but it shouldn't be too valuable. After all, high-level dark creatures are everywhere. You can get more than 20 of them just by squatting for a day. It shouldn't be as valuable as magic crystals." Roy shook his head and explained.

Then he added: "I plan to go further away tomorrow."

"Then you have to be careful..."

Captain Timothy actually wanted to follow Roy, but at present the mine guard group only had one magic cloak, and he couldn't leave the camp...

"Don't worry, I will be very careful."

Roy said proudly.

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The repair work of the Dark Gate is still unclear. Several magicians are tired and a little irritable.

They can represent the highest authority of the forbidden magic circle of the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom, but they are still helpless when facing the Dark Gate with countless rare space runes.

But the Dark Gate connects the Elf Continent and the Dark Land, so they naturally cannot ignore this trouble.

Several magicians gathered together, took a short rest, restored their mana through meditation, and took out some mental potions to drink.

The two magicians who led the maintenance work again argued with the magic drawings.

Magician Elaud sat on the steps and charged his staff.

Roy walked over from the camp, and Mage Elaud smiled and asked Roy: "Captain Roy, is there anything I can help you with?"

Roy took out a soul crystal from his magic waist bag and handed it to Elaud, and respectfully asked Mage Elaud:

"Mage Elaud, do you recognize this thing?"

Elaud took a look at it and returned the soul crystal to Roy, smiling and telling him: "This is a soul crystal fragment, the smallest piece of soul crystal. Did you get it from those dark creatures outside the camp?"

"Yes."

Roy nodded in agreement.

Mage Elaud said again:

"This thing is a magical material, but we elf mages rarely use it. On the contrary, those necromancers like it very much, so I can't really say its specific value."

Roy hurriedly thanked Mage Elaud:

"Thank you, Mage Elaud!"

He had never heard of the profession of necromancer, at least not in the Elf Academy in Castletown City...

Roy did not continue to disturb Mage Elaud, but returned to the pool with a tactful look.

A group of half-blood elf warriors sitting by the pool exclaimed in succession. They didn't expect that Roy had only been away for a short while, and six half-blood elf warriors had successfully performed the "Glimmer Illumination Technique" in succession.

As long as you successfully perform a divine spell once and find that subtle feeling, it will become easier later.

Seeing the holy glimmer rising above the pool, a group of half-blood elf warriors immediately exclaimed in envy...

In the next few days, Roy frequently ran out of the expeditionary camp, found an independent hill outside, used the holy glimmer to attract the surrounding dark creatures, and then used purification to disperse them. Almost all of the high-level dark creatures died under the purification.

There were also a few high-level dark creatures that were relatively powerful, and the purification could not purify them. Roy could only cast holy light bullets to completely disperse them...

In just five days, Roy found that his physique had changed a lot, and the holy light tree in his body was also growing rapidly, and many new branches sprouted on the dense crown.

Every day Roy purified the dark creatures on the mountain, and when the holy light power in his body was almost consumed, he would withdraw from the mountain to the expeditionary camp...

As long as he sat by the pool for one night, the holy light power in his body would be quickly replenished.

He had accumulated more than a hundred soul crystals the size of a little fingernail. Roy felt that if he kept hunting high-level dark creatures, he would be able to advance again in no time.

He had almost wiped out the dark creatures around the slopes near the Dark Gate Valley, and new dark creatures would not be replenished so quickly. Roy could only go further away if he wanted to hunt high-level dark creatures.

The magic cloaks requested by the mine guards were not delivered, so Captain Timothy and the elf warriors could not follow Roy.

When he heard him talk about going further away, Captain Timothy was the first to stand up and said that hunting in the dark land was risky and he did not agree with Roy going to a farther place alone to take risks.