"Are you the magician?"
Some time later, in the early morning, in the open space at the southern gate of Carlo Village, one of several players who had gathered to prepare for an adventure walked out of the crowd of simple teams and faced a certain gray man who had just walked out of the village. The magician asked in a low voice: "Come to participate in the trial of the flame dragon beast?"
"Ah, yes." He nodded lazily, and the magician who walked slowly wiped his sleepy eyes: "I was driven out of bed by the thief, so..."
"Where is the thief?" The player's eyes lit up after hearing this, and his eyes fell behind the magician: "Is he coming?"
"He's back." The magician named Linyuan Duanshui waved his hand: "I drove him away, who asked him to disturb my sleep... Well, I mean, he still has He has to be busy with other things, and his teammates are still waiting for him at The Thebilis Castle."
"...Come on, Comrade Lazy Cat, it's just that we're missing a full-level queen."
After patting the shoulder of the player whose body began to tremble, a player named Crystal Baozi standing on the other side smiled and said: "If that person really comes, it will be difficult for us to handle it. After all, we rely on the large It’s not a good thing to have a copy with you…”
"At least we can get some equipment." The player named Lazy Cat shook his head: "With our current strength, it is really difficult to pass that dungeon safely. If we can arm ourselves first If so, we might be able to kill the No. 1 BOSS on our own in the future... eh."
Looking at the smiling face of the magician in front of him with some embarrassment, he then retracted this seemingly inappropriate topic: "Ahem... In short, our mission this time is to pass the dungeon trial. As long as we can get Once the BOSS proves it in the end, we can come back and join forces and become a member of the Flame Thunder Beast... Do you understand?"
"Yeah, yeah." Linyuan Duanshui, who was stared at by the other party, nodded his chin hastily: "I listen to you, I will do whatever you ask me to do."
"I'm not asking you to—forget it."
With a look of helplessness, he retracted his attitude of wanting to attack again, and Lazy Mao finally put on a patient look again: "Compared to joining that flame thunder beast, I am more concerned about passing the dungeon. This requires our team to cooperate sincerely and give full play to each other's strengths and specialties. I hope you can understand this and don't follow us with a dawdling attitude. Crystal Rider and I...Brothers Crystal Bun are not nothing. A powerful master can’t help you at the critical moment.”
"This trial is not a welfare event, you have to use this opportunity to prove yourself." He stared at the magician's eyes, and then his eyes gradually moved to the top of the other person's head: "This... Linyuan Duanshui, right? Weird name...forget it, what kind of magician are you?"
"What... what magician?"
"Attributes, attributes!"
Somewhat unbearably, he raised his voice. Lazy Mao finally calmed down his sudden urge to go crazy with a few deep breaths: "Isn't every magician a magician because of the awakening of elements? ?Have you never had a mage appraisal?"
"...I have indeed never done a mage appraisal, because there seems to be no place in this village that can do it." Linyuan Duanshui shrugged helplessly: "But...if the attribute you mentioned is an elemental attribute, I It should be of earth attribute.”
"You didn't go for a lawyer's appraisal?"
Looking at the other party with a strange look, Crystal Baozi, who had been standing beside him without speaking, finally spoke his voice again: "Speaking of which... you are indeed a player who has not left the Novice Village."
"How did you become a magician?" Lazy Mao, who also noticed the abnormality, asked in a low voice: "Doesn't becoming a magician need to be appraised and certified by the Council of Mages?"
"...Is such a step still needed?" The expression on Linyuan Duanshui's face seemed to become even more strange: "I knew how to do magic when I created an account. Later, an old man in the village pointed at me and said My profession is a magician, so I...what, do I need certification from the Mages Council to become a magician?"
"……unnecessary."
They looked away at each other, but Lazy Mao was the first to make his own judgment: "But looking at it this way..."
"A magician who can cast magic without identification...you may have good qualifications." He held his chin and looked at the newcomer from the novice village, and the light in his eyes became more and more powerful: " I just don’t know how to operate it, and I’m still an earth-type person..."
"What happened to the earth element?"
"The four categories of elements, earth, fire, water, and wind, are elemental attributes that have been recognized by players since the establishment of the free world."
Putting on a kind smile again, Crystal Baozi on the side took on the explanation work this time: "Although later, with the change of game versions and the discovery of game events, elements such as healing magic and void magic also appeared one after another among players. In the field of vision, but in the traditional understanding, the four elements of earth, fire, water and wind are still the mainstream choice of magician players today. The last League Cup and the subsequent rise of Wizard have led to another trend. The trend of wave magicians, but among the new magician players, the majority are players of the three series of water, fire and wind, because judging from the existing magic systems of these three series, their attack, defense, survival and auxiliary functions are sufficient powerful."
"Unlike earth magic... the partiality is too serious." His voice gradually became hesitant, and his eyes looking at the gray-robed magician also became regretful: "Although the defense is generally It appears to be powerful enough, but the magic is very cumbersome to release, and the offensive methods are pitiful..."
"Okay, stop talking."
Interrupting the other party's words lightly, the expressionless Lazy Mao then turned around and said, "If we can get a magician to help us in Novice Village, we have already gained a huge advantage. The only thing left is Let’s form the team and let’s get familiar with each other...Who is that? Isn’t the last person here yet?”
"Wait a moment, it will be here soon."
As if in response to his shouting back, another player in simple civilian clothes who was mixed in with the crowd at the entrance of the village crawled out screaming: "That person said before that he would definitely arrive today... Just wait a little longer!"
"……well."
Sighing forcefully, the player named Lazy Cat finally slumped his shoulders like a frustrated ball: "You guys, keep working hard and strive to become the worst class I have ever led in my life..."
"Don't be discouraged, Brother Lazy Cat, I'm just late for a while." A player named Crystal Baozi comforted him and said, "Maybe in the future he will be as talented as... uh, Brother Duanshui..."
His words gradually stopped, and the movements of his hands slowly froze in mid-air as he turned his gaze. A little girl who timidly walked towards them holding a wooden stick also appeared later. Within their line of sight, they tentatively asked in the direction where the three people were gathering: "That..."
"Excuse me, are you the Flamedramon adventure team?"
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The Gemenan Jungle is a small jungle close to the southwest of Carlo Village. It is also one of the few terrain environments in the desolate Frey Empire that still maintains a green tone. The lush trees standing here are also It blocks half of the originally vast expanse of open space, and at the same time brings many unspeakable mysteries to this jungle. Like other surrounding villages, Carlo Village is the closest to the west of the Fleur Empire. One of the villages, further west will be an endless desert, and an endless sea that is wider than that desert. Players who have visited there have discovered many unusual ruins in the desert, and have also encountered many fish-like monsters and their groups. Some people even based their knowledge on the fish that have been fighting openly and covertly with the Fleur Empire. The existence of human tribes leads to the conclusion that this desert was once located at the bottom of the Endless Sea. The huge bones of many other mysterious creatures from the depths of the sea have also appeared in the depths of these deserts in incredible ways, decorating the unique history of this desert with fossils as large as several football fields. However, due to its dangerous and harsh environment and almost no use value, the provinces of the empire near the far west have not continued to expand their territory westward even one mile away until now.
Therefore, this jungle that can survive between desert and wasteland has become the object of investigation by many players and scholars.
"To the northwest is the Lebiliru Desert, which is only a few miles away from here."
Walking on the wasteland gradually approaching the jungle, the player named Lazy Cat explained in a low voice: "Although everything inside is secret, no one is willing to go even half a mile in that direction. Considering that we are now The average strength of this team is that of the Novice Village, and I advise you not to continue approaching that direction... Hey! I'm talking about you!"
"Huh? Oh, oh...Sorry, sorry, I accidentally..."
"Would you get lost if we asked you to follow us? How serious is your lost syndrome? Alastor! Take care of this little friend you brought!"
"No problem Captain, sorry Captain!"
"Really..."
Looking at the two players, one big and one small, hiding behind the team, the lazy cat holding his forehead sighed forcefully: "Where did I just say... Oh, by the way, the southwest of this jungle should be close to the sea. , anyway, that’s what people who have been there say, the south direction is adjacent to the province of Santerius, and I heard that it is also a half-dead place..."
"Don't use such ruthless words casually." Crystal Baozi on the side immediately interrupted the other party: "At least the ruins are said to be very rich, although there seems to be some rumors recently..."
"If it weren't for the fact that it's adjacent to the ruins of Santorius, our place wouldn't be as lively as it is now." The lazy cat bit his teeth: "Look at what kind of monsters and snake gods are coming here now..." Already?"
"Can you please be reasonable? These are just novices." Turning around helplessly, Crystal Bun pointed in the direction of the three players behind him: "They... uh."
"They're just not familiar with the game yet."
Ordinary cloth, ordinary dress, ordinary appearance, and wooden sticks that can be picked up casually on the roadside - although the last player member who ran out of Carlo Village is a girl, she has neither image nor temperament. He left half a good impression in front of Lazy Cat and Crystal Bun, not to mention the game experience that was whiter than a blank sheet of paper, and the mysterious physique that easily got lost. Crystal Bun, who once tried to teach her some basic game skills, later gave up on this naive idea and instead asked Alastor, who had introduced the clumsy girl here before, to be responsible for keeping this burden at the back of the team. , but even so, the girl's inexplicable off-line behavior and the sound of falling on the ground from time to time have been hitting the nerves and will of the two leaders: "...it feels like there is no hope this time. ah."
"Don't give up. The distribution this time is good enough. Thinking about those three top teammates from last time... I don't even understand how we came back in the end."
"...I finally know why those people gave me a job that looks like a pension. It turns out they are just trying to make it difficult for me to be lazy. If this continues...I'm afraid I'll be beaten by these people." The newly popular person will lose three years of his life."
"At least we have experimented with this line many times, and at least we have a magician, although this guy doesn't seem to be very good at communication... Uh, you, when did you come here?"
The whispers walking side by side were interrupted by the figure who appeared behind them at some point. The two people who turned around looked at the smiling face of the gray-robed magician in front of them, who then smiled slightly. Di turned his body sideways and pointed to an empty direction behind the team: "Those two people... they disappeared again."
"They disappeared again? Why are they so powerful? This is an endless wasteland! What kind of posture did they use to escape?"
The roaring sound was followed by the lazy cat's almost crazy movements as he moved back in the direction from which the team came. For a moment, the figures of Crystal Baozi and Linyuan Duanshui were left in front, and the man who stopped in place was The magician then swung his sleeves and looked at the dumbfounded face of the player next to him with a faint smile: "Um...you should have almost discussed it, right?"
"……Um?"
"Although I haven't figured out why I came here to do the mission with you, but..."
After scratching his head, Linyuan Duanshui showed a rather troubled expression: "Are you..."
"Would you like to introduce the situation of our mission first?"
