[You accepted the task of 'Absorbing Troll Corpses'. 】
[You have obtained the 'Troll Shrine'. 】
Mu You clicked on the text of 'Shrine', took it out and took a look.
The so-called 'troll niche' is actually an urn made of metal. The surface is engraved with a large number of mysterious patterns, and there are two rows of top and bottom reliefs of a total of twenty troll skulls.
At this moment, the eyes of all the skeletons are dim, which means that there are no troll ashes in the niche. Judging from the quantity, for every troll corpse absorbed, a skeleton should light up.
When all the skulls light up, it means they have been filled with ashes.
As soon as he took possession of the tomb, an extremely cold aura immediately emitted, covering Mu You's whole body.
Mu You estimated that this was the aura of the troll. As long as he held this thing in his hand, he would not be attacked by the ghosts inside when he entered the cave.
Mu You immediately controlled the character to return to Xiaoya's tree house, and rode a donkey to the previous troll cave.
Mu You has tried it before. If he puts down the dark teleportation array elsewhere in the Elf Forest, it will be dismantled by the passing elves. The elves really don't like this kind of dark atmosphere.
There was no other way, so Mu You had no choice but to transit through Xiaoya every time.
While on the road, he opened the world channel of the forum and posted two trading posts on the trading interface: one was to collect more than 200 sunflowers, and then he took the sophisticated 'iron crystal mace' and ' The Muck Boots were put up as a reward, with a 'negotiable price' attached.
Sunflowers themselves are not expensive. The value of one plant will not exceed one year's lifespan. Two high-quality props should be enough to exchange for them.
But the problem is that this thing is a specialty of the cities in the Protoss World in Africa, and there are only a few closed beta players in Africa, and their levels are generally low. What's more, it is now during the "Arcane Tower" server-wide mission, and the Fool is generally unable to enter the city. It becomes even more difficult to obtain this kind of material that only grows in a specific city.
Mu You didn't expect to conclude a deal soon, so he just hung up and tried his luck.
As for the other task of capturing the "Abyss Flying Dragon" alive, this one is even more difficult. A single player may not be able to handle it no matter what. Only a team of skilled players who work together can have a chance.
Mu You did his best to put up a post about this task, but he didn't dare to mention the specific reward. He only said that he would like to discuss it in private.
After the game character arrived at the entrance of the cave, Mu You sent the shrine into the game and then clicked 'Enter the Cave'.
[You have entered the cold and damp troll cave. This is the place where the trolls have buried their corpses since ancient times. Countless beast bones are piled up at your feet. 】
[With the ability of night vision, you can see clearly in the cave where you can't see your fingers. You saw countless troll ghosts hovering around you, looking at you unkindly. 】
[Fortunately, the shrine in your hand makes you exude the aura of similar trolls. Those resentful spirits did not attack you in the end, and passed by you one after another before disappearing. You are safe. 】
It seems that invisibility is ineffective against these evil spirits. He is wearing an invisibility cloak, but these evil spirits can still see him clearly.
Fortunately, as long as the shrine is in hand, the ghost will not attack.
After passing the first hurdle, it was much easier to handle. A large number of resentful spirits were concentrated at the entrance of the cave, like a gatekeeper god, and there were much fewer resentful spirits inside.
Mu You continued to explore the depths of the cave, but soon he realized that he had underestimated the strength of the troll's defense of the tomb.
[After walking along the narrow dirt path for thirty meters, you enter a wide underground tunnel area. 】
[The tunnel is made of smooth moss-covered boulders nested together. It is seven or eight meters wide. The stone walls on both sides are covered with extinguished torches. Every fifty meters or so in the tunnel, there are troll graves. Countless tunnels wind and connect underground, forming a complex and intertwined underground maze. 】
[A three-way intersection appears in front of you. A faint tomb can be seen in the three directions of left, center and right. You decide to go there first...]
"left!"
At the familiar three-way intersection, Mu You randomly chose one to take a look at.
[You go to the tunnel on the left. 】
[You felt like you bumped into an invisible figure, and the green skin appeared in front of you. It turned out to be a stalking troll assassin! 】
[The Troll Assassin immediately saw through your disguise, roared angrily, and attacked you with a dagger in his hand. 】
[You easily killed the troll assassin, but your actions also disturbed other ghosts and patrolling trolls in the cave. 】
[Countless ghosts rush towards you, and you are quickly killed on the spot...]
"Backtrack, backtrack!"
Mu You pressed the pocket watch decisively. It turns out that there are not only ghost guards in the cave, but also a large number of living trolls patrolling the cave. The troll niche can deceive ghosts, but it has no effect on living bodies.
Moreover, I don’t know why these trolls like to be invisible so much and have to sneak around in their own territory. As a result, the text will not give any prompts at all. You can only know if you bump into it...
[Time goes by and you return to the fork in the road. This time, you choose...]
Mu You chose 'right', but he didn't rush to go directly. Instead, he waited for the character to move to the right for two seconds, then clicked 'Arcane Missile' and explored the way down.
[The missile flew out and followed a curved trajectory, knocking out a troll scout hidden near the wall on the right. 】
"Sure enough!"
Mu You pressed his pocket watch again, retreated the character to the intersection just now, walked towards the final middle road, and released missiles again.
Fortunately, I finally didn't hit anything again this time.
[Arcane missiles wander around you for several times without finding any target, until the energy is exhausted and they disappear automatically. 】
[You walk into the middle tunnel with peace of mind. 】
[You have discovered a tomb of a 'Troll Spear Thrower'. Placing the shrine on the tomb will automatically absorb the remains in the tomb. Do you want to absorb it immediately? 】
"no!"
The mission requires the remains of the 'Higher Troll', which is obviously just an ordinary soldier. Mu You himself is reluctant to part with it. After all, the urn only has twenty pits, so the collected remains must be as high-end as possible.
Next, Mu You began to use his pocket watch and missile's pathfinding ability to push deeper into the cave.
This underground tomb is much larger than expected. The interior is built like a maze with dense tombs. There are tombs every few dozen meters, but most of them are the tombs of ordinary trolls. I have never seen any advanced ones so far.
At this time the map is very important.
While exploring the road, Mu You drew a map on paper, which was somewhat similar to the process of exploring Anning Village. However, this crypt was much larger than Anning Village, so the map he drew was also extremely complicated, like a winding and intricate map. Spider web.
Moreover, not all roads are accessible. The distribution of troll patrols in the cave was irregular at all. Mu You had just been exploring for half an hour when he encountered three roads blocked by trolls.
[Time goes by and you are back at the fork in the road. Now that you have learned that the three roads ahead are guarded by more than two trolls, do you want to go back and choose another path? 】
"no."
Mu You chose to refuse. He had almost explored the path ahead, and he would have to come back sooner or later.
What's more, the defense of this place suddenly became so tight, maybe there is a high-level tomb.
He waited there for a while, and every ten minutes he would go out and throw a missile to test it. If it hit the troll, he would backtrack and continue waiting.
After waiting for nearly forty minutes, the missile finally fired without hitting anything.
Mu You's eyes lit up. Sure enough, these patrols didn't always stay in the same place.
He hurriedly walked in this direction.
[You walked deep into the tunnel and found a tomb that was obviously taller than the other tombs. Judging from the simple epitaph, this should be the tomb of a certain troll tribe chief. 】
The hierarchy within the troll clan is not as clear as that of humans, but the basic common identities of chief, priest, and elder are found in every tribe, and these identities are considered high-level trolls.
And the tomb buried in this tomb is actually a chief, representing the supreme leader of a tribe, so it definitely meets the conditions!
[You place the shrine flat on the top of the grave, and runes spread out automatically from the bottom of the shrine, connecting it to form a magic circle, wrapping the entire tomb. Under the operation of the magic circle, the energy of the remaining corpses inside the tomb is continuously extracted and poured into the interior of the shrine...]
[Absorbing corpses, expected to be completed in 118 seconds...]
Mu You's eyelids twitched. He didn't expect that it would take two minutes to absorb a corpse... During this period, he couldn't move. Could he be discovered by a passing troll?
Mu You waited anxiously.
In the end, whatever I was afraid of came true. When the countdown reached the last twenty seconds, a new text suddenly popped up.
[A patrolling troll scout passed by and noticed the movement here. 】
[The troll scout discovered your evil deeds of stealing corpses and became furious. He attacked you and shouted for help. 】
[You temporarily repelled the troll scout. And started a battle with other trolls who came for reinforcements...]
Mu You knew that he would definitely die again in this fight, and now he just hoped that the countdown would end quickly, so that he could at least get the ashes before he died, so that he wouldn't go all the way in vain.
He hurriedly used all the magic and methods on the panel to delay death as much as possible.
Fortunately, this operation was still effective, and the countdown was successfully delayed until the countdown reached zero.
[The niche absorbed all the energy in the tomb and accommodated a troll corpse. The filling progress was (1/20). 】
[You were strangled by countless undead trolls, and your lifespan was -1. 】
[It is detected that you are bound to a teleportation mark. Will you be resurrected at the teleportation point? 】
"yes."
Of course Mu You chose to teleport back to the cabin. Now that he has been exposed, if he continues to stay in the tomb, he will only be constantly attacked by ghosts.
(End of chapter)
