The Truth of Magic

Chapter 173 Enemy in the Forest (13)

Hearing Eswig's words, several players around couldn't help but glanced at the situation of the entire station.

"Don't be stupid, will it be so easy for us to find someone who can be sent to follow and observe us?" Eswig said.

Although Mystra has many portals to Arthur's towns and even many planes.

But for ordinary Arthur residents, apart from walking on their feet, the carriage rental service at the post station can be regarded as a relatively comfortable way to travel.

This time, Wang Ningwei and her group of 20 people were going to Shuangshu Town, a border town in Mystra, and then contacted the town sheriff there. After getting information about the bandit gang, they slowly started planning.

It was just a group of them who encountered a problem on how to get to Shuangshu Town in the first step. Floating Void City didn't arrange any guides for them, at best it just told them where to go and who to connect with.

The whole process is left to these players to figure out their own solutions.

So the group of them, after a discussion, decided to come to the post station first, hire a few carriages, and want to rely on the coachman who knows the way to take them to the destination.

There are too many legends about the wild on the forum.

At this time, Zhao Xu was standing beside a load-bearing pine pillar, watching the twenty people in front of him from the corner of the shadow.

The magic tome in his hand was about a ceremony to go to Joseph Garden, the Heroic Domain of the Outer Plane.

Zhao Xu was quite curious about this ceremony, because anyone who was injured and died in the Joseph Garden plane could be resurrected at dawn the next day, as if enjoying the effect of the ninth-level resurrection magic "Complete Resurrection".

Of course, Zhao Xu immediately remembered how to abuse the effect of this plane.

But after listening to Aswig's words, Zhao Xu remained honest and leaned his body behind the load-bearing pine pillar.

At the same time, he was also examining the environment in a corner of the station, guessing the information of another "guardian".

If it's just a group of ordinary players, then Floating Void City might really only use stocking methods to let the players fend for themselves, otherwise it wouldn't be called a mission.

But considering that Wang Ningwei was among them, and the possibility of assessing himself, Zhao Xu speculated that there must be a twenty-first person in this team.

As for whether the other party is tracking invisible like him, or hiding in the spirit world, or even simply using the effects of eagle eye spells to monitor the situation in this area from a distance.

At this time, Jiang Shan, who had gone to deal with the post station, came back dejectedly, and said to the players: "The post station said that all the vacant carriages today have been requisitioned, and the regular carriages to Shuangshu Town will not be able to leave until tomorrow afternoon."

After hearing this, the few players who were close couldn't help but frown, which meant that their next journey would be a bit troublesome.

And Jiang Shan also frowned. He didn't expect that his first step in trying to win over this group of players would be so frustrated. He failed to take the initiative to undertake everyone's travel and transportation links. Next, it will not be easy for him to take the lead again. .

At this time, he couldn't help but glanced at Wang Ningwei and his daughter who were sitting on the wooden chair. He had given up on the idea of ​​obtaining those magic items from Wang Ningwei after several setbacks.

It's just that facing the opponent who is quite popular, he has to think of a way to wrest the faint dominance of the team from the opponent.

After Zhao Xu listened to everyone's conversation, several possibilities flashed through his mind.

He took out the stack of parchment that the middle-aged woman handed over to him and took a closer look. One of them was a rough map from Mystra to Frosttree Town.

Originally, Zhao Xu thought that he would start worrying about the safety of the team only after he got Dashuangshu town.

Thinking about it now, I am afraid that there is a faint hand behind it that is already manipulating all this.

Without extra carriages, this kind of nonsense can only deceive people like Jiang Shan who have no common sense in life.

The entire Mystra is the most central town around, so it is impossible that there are no extra carriages in the post station, and the carriage to Frosttree Town just happens to be available the next day.

This clearly shows that there is a mastermind behind the scenes, forcing this group of players to reach Frosttree Town at a slower speed.

Zhao Xu looked at the ruler on the map, measured the distance with his fingers, and did some calculations.

Suddenly his heart sank.

A bit too much of a coincidence.

According to the speed of the carriage, they and their group can reach Shuangshu Town before the night falls today.

Now, just relying on everyone's legs to move forward, they must have to temporarily stay in the wild.

Sure enough, after hearing what Jiang Shan said, both Aisweixi and Wang Ningwei showed deep thoughts.

They, who had been exposed to the details of the entire itinerary earlier than Zhao Xu, instantly realized the situation they would face today.

Night attack has always been a form that players hate the most.

Even if they resist the wave of attacks, the spell slots used that night will be included in the next day's spell slots.

With one spell, one less spell the next day.

At this time, Zhao Xu could only hope that this group of players could honestly go offline to keep safe at night, otherwise he would have a big head.

He even couldn't help but want to cast a "see through invisibility" spell on himself to see if there is a mage from the floating city who is looking at these players with a sneer.

"Then we won't be able to reach Shuangshu Town tonight. Why don't we all agree on the time to go online and offline tonight and tomorrow so that we can start together?" Wang Ningwei suggested at this time.

"Huh? Can't make it today?"

"It's okay, let's coordinate with each other. Basically, those who can come to this task have to coordinate well."

Jiang Shan watched everyone discussing, and quickly said, "Don't worry, everyone, I will take you to the nearby Adventurer's Home later to purchase some tent sleeping bag supplies. If there is not enough, I can pay in advance. Let's just have a bonfire party tonight." .”

As he said that, he still looked at Wang Ningwei proudly.

There's nothing like exchanging feelings over a campfire after an adventure in the wild.

And Wang Ningwei watched everyone accept Jiangshan's suggestion, but she didn't make a sound, just smiled silently and sat down again. "

After Zhao Xu left the city with the large army, he found a corner and used the "summon mount" spell to summon a light horse for himself.

Now Zhao Xu has a level 6 spellcasting level, and the duration of his mount has become 12 hours, which is basically enough to last until nightfall.

Under the effect of invisibility, Zhao Xu's mount was also invisible, including the Ain stone floating above his head.

Compared with Wang Ningwei and other mages who have learned "summoning mounts", the more than ten players present all walked honestly with their own legs.

They could only cast envious glances at Wang Ningwei and Eswig, thinking that one day they would have to save enough money to learn this spell.

For things like mounts, only by walking by yourself can you experience the convenience of them.

For the sake of comfort, Jiang Shan chose "Summon Mount" as his free learnable spell from the beginning.

But later, he found that the player's spell slots were very difficult, so in order to be able to show off in front of everyone at the critical moment, he still suppressed the use of spells.

The main road from Mystra to Frosttree Town is the kind of tree-lined path, and the most common ones along the way are those low barren bushes.

Although the entire mage team is composed of scattered players, everyone is also from Mystra, so they can still arrange the formation tacitly, and the personnel are divided into three sections to advance.

"Do you think there will be risks tonight?" Aswig gently controlled the pony under him, and whispered after approaching Wang Ningwei.

"We will be more vigilant at that time. After the bonfire party, we will persuade them to go offline. After all, the wild is also very risky." Wang Ningwei said in relief.

Eswig looked at the enthusiastic novice mages around him with a look of disgust, "I really thought they were out for an outing, but I haven't read the "One Hundred and One Ways to Die in the Wild" on the forum." Is it a post?"

"Everyone has never been out before." Wang Ningwei said with a smile.

However, she looked at the few mages who were still chatting in the front, and she couldn't help worrying about her brows. She analyzed in her heart how this adventure would test them.

After a discussion just now, everyone's mainstream opinion is to choose another remote road, rather take some risks and save a quarter of the journey.

Zhao Xu, on the other hand, sat silently on the mount, examining his spell slot.

His focus was on tonight's night attack, thinking about his next spell arrangement.

"ah--"

Suddenly, a mage player at the front screamed and fell to the ground.

On his chest was a half arrow feather.