Chapter 1310 The White Test

Three more small holes were dug in the simple ice cave. After briefly clarifying the direction of tomorrow's trip, the three of us went back to our own small holes to rest.

Originally, he and Arturia were husband and wife, so it was completely reasonable for him to share the same cave and bed, but with the pornographic lady beside him, he felt a little guilty for some reason. After thinking about it for a moment, he dug one himself.

I originally thought that this move of mine would make Artoria, who was gradually becoming more aware of his wife, feel sleepy. Unexpectedly, she didn't seem to care, but after thinking about it, I clapped my hands. [bsp; Because Artoria is a stupid king. Although she usually looks majestic and inviolable, people who are familiar with her know that she lacks more than one muscle. It is because she is busy training herself and lacks some necessary skills. Common sense, especially when it comes to relationships, is 100% pure nature.

This is best.

I secretly apologized to Arturia's back, and quickly slipped into my own den, sealing the door with ice, and summoned Xiaoxue, a big bed that was countless times better than Simmons. Curling up in the warm and soft wolf fur, he lay down and happily counted the harvest of the past few days.

Dark gold drops... none.

It's normal. The explosion rate in the second world is much lower than that in the first world. Even if I go to clear Balkan now, it may not necessarily give me a piece of dark gold equipment (and even if it does, I definitely won't be able to wear it). Not to mention in the frozen tundra.

Two days in the storm and five sunny days, a total of seven days of travel, we only encountered one dark gold monster, and it was a nameless passerby dark gold monster. Speaking of which, there seems to be no big dark gold monster with a name in the frozen tundra. Strange.

What pisses me off even more is that it's actually a skeleton archer.

The explosion rate is lower than the miscellaneous monsters such as the Sinking Demon, the Dwarf, and Baal's Servant, and the explosion rate is comparable to those mass-produced small and shrunken versions of monsters such as Blood Eagle, Pain Worm, Demon Minion, etc. This is the best interpretation of the skeleton monster.

If the adventurers see them, they will turn around and leave without any interest in cleaning up.

Fortunately, with an explosion rate several times that of ordinary adventurers, I still managed to get a golden glove from the dark gold skeleton archer, the little devil's control-battlefield glove.

For some reason, when I recognized this name, I felt a sense of sourness and poverty. Could the thing controlled by the little devil be a good thing?

Little Devil's Control-Battlefield Gloves

Defense: 99

Durability: 24-24

Strength points required: 88

Required level: 64

91% defense enhancement

+20 points of defense against flying missiles

+28 mana

+20 life

Fire resistance +25%

I:"……"

As expected, all attributes were very poor.

91% defense enhancement... It seems like a pretty big value, but compared to ordinary equipment in the first world, in the second world, the defense enhancement of blue equipment can sometimes reach 100%, as a gold-level expansion Equipment, and the extended-level gloves are ranked second. They are only battlefield gloves below the top-level giant battle gloves. 91% of them are not shabby. What else is shabby?

However, no matter how high the defense enhancement is, placed on the glove parts whose basic defense value is not very high in the first place, the effect may not be very great. I admit this.

20 points of remote defense...well, it's better than nothing. The problem is that 28 points of mana and 20 points of life increase are already in the second world. The adventurer has almost reached the pseudo-realm. Isn't it too little? With 28 points of mana, you can't even release half a magic bean, and with 20 points of life, you can't even withstand a monster's attack.

If it were replaced with +28 energy and +20 constitution, then this golden glove would still be very interesting, but it's a pity.

As for the fire resistance +25%, I won't describe it. Anyway, this golden glove is barely better than the blue glove. If you encounter the best blue glove, it may not be comparable.

You can still make some money by selling it to a blacksmith and breaking it down into materials. With a sigh, I took back the only piece of golden equipment I had acquired in the past seven days to my inventory.

Even my explosion rate, which is ten times higher than that of ordinary adventurers, I only managed to explode one golden piece of equipment. You can imagine how low the explosion rate is in the second world. Compared to Harrogath in the first world, it is even lower. More than twice as low.

But having said that, the time that ordinary adventurers usually spend on training is more than ten times as long as mine, so on average, you can still see a lot of excellent equipment from them. The adventurers who can reach here, each of them has or There are more or less multiple sets of equipment to cope with battles with different situations and enemies. Even in an ordinary adventurer team, it is very normal to have several dark gold and green equipment.

The rest are all blue-level equipment. I am too lazy to waste identification scrolls to identify them. Even if there are really top-quality ones in them, the level requirements are not enough for me, a little druid who is only level 52, to wear them. It just makes me sad. .

They have to be sold anyway, so why not wait until she returns to the first world and sell it to Qiaxi, which can be regarded as providing her with some continuous strength for her blacksmith journey.

After putting away a small pile of equipment, I took out the remaining loot. For the sake of distinction, I specially placed the harvest of the past few days in a corner of the inventory for easy counting.

There are several gold coins, I'm too lazy to count them, there are probably thousands of them, more than thirty broken gems, eight cracked gems, three complete gems, flawless gems... zero.

Well.

Let's just make do with it. The reason why there are so many broken gems is mostly contributed by those poor and stingy monsters, skeleton soldiers, demon minions and Baal servants. Although the explosion rate is low, the advantage is the large number, an average of one thousand. You can still contribute one, and it only drops the lowest level broken gems.

The cracked gems and intact gems were all dropped from middle-class monsters like the Blood King, while the three intact gems were donated by elite monsters.

In addition, there are two bottles of rejuvenation potions. With the mass production of copycat Horadric cubes, although they must be given priority to the seniors of the third world, the adventurers of the second world are not yet available, but the wizards The guild's shop has begun to sell these potions in small quantities. Therefore, not only for me, but also for other adventurers, rejuvenation potions are not as tight as before. A bottle of rejuvenation potion can be exchanged for a piece of golden equipment. Hu Ciji’s transaction will never be seen again.

What I'm thinking about now is how to use the rejuvenation potions I have in my body that can be used for bathing to make a comprehensive rejuvenation potion. I remember the formula in the game is that three bottles of rejuvenation potions can be combined into one comprehensive rejuvenation potion, but in fact After wasting a lot of precious time and dozens of bottles of rejuvenation potions, this synthesis formula didn't work at all.

There are also perfect gems, which can be synthesized from three identical flawless gems in the game. It doesn't work now. I guess there is something wrong. This is also the biggest motivation for me to go to the Horadric clan. Others Needless to say, if these two formulas can be solved, then the perfect gem and the comprehensive rejuvenation potion will no longer be something that I look up to.

Not to mention the comprehensive rejuvenation potion, if the rejuvenation potion is a life-saving medicine, this thing is definitely a super version of the life-saving medicine, which is extremely important for any adventurer.

And perfect gems... Although I don't have a good piece of equipment on hand right now that is worthy of inlaid with such noble and glamorous gems, I can at least see a hint of Akara's "hundreds of perfect diamonds to create sparkling gems." A glimmer of hope for the "Diamond Ghost" project.

You have to rely on the explosion of perfect diamonds from monsters. Not to mention that perfect gems can only be found in the third world, at least in small areas.

It can only be exploded from super monsters. Let’s talk about the explosion rate. Maybe when my beard turns gray, I will be able to hand the hundredth perfect diamond to the little ghost’s hands with a slight trembling on crutches and tears.

There are also some miscellaneous potions. It is worth mentioning the super brand potions, which are super healing (mana) potions that can restore 800 points of health. This is the first time I have seen this kind of potion. I originally thought it was only It can only be broken down in the third world. Could it be that there are potions above super healing potions in the third world? What a puzzling, innocuous little question.

I shook my head and stuffed a lot of messy things back into the inventory. To be honest, the harvest of these seven days was not worth counting at all. It was just that I had been immersed in the birthday of God for too long, and the nouveau riche feeling in my heart was already raging. Burning, out of control, even these petty profits will be considered with gusto, as if he had found the treasure box buried under the tree when he was a child.

"Xiaoxue, are you happy?"

Looking back, I rubbed Xiaoxue's furry head affectionately and asked.

"Ouch~~~~"

This snow-white and beautiful behemoth brought its head up and rubbed against me as much as possible. Yang Yi was very happy.

With the current strength of the five ghost wolves, monsters of the Harrogas level are suitable for training. They are neither too weak to be boring to torture nor too strong to be dangerous.

The next level up is the third world. In that kind of place, all members of the adventure team must be pseudo-domain level or above to survive, and the IQ of the physical monsters is rising sharply. It may be too reluctant for Xiaoxue and the others to go. .

"When you level up, Xiaoer and the others will also level up, and the third world is no longer a problem."

I felt that Xiaoxue's pure and majestic eyes were full of burning fighting spirit. It seemed that even Harrogas was gradually unable to satisfy him. I couldn't help but chuckle and kept rubbing its neck.

Xiao Er, Xiao San, Xiao Si and Xiao Wu are the five ghost wolves that have evolved into the Snow Wolf King. I am very much looking forward to their ability to be upgraded to Elite Level 2, learn how to break through with light and fury, and have their attributes greatly improved. They are elites. Level one is just a transitional period, while level two is a stable period, which symbolizes that the strength at this stage has fully matured.

Moreover, Xiaoer and the others have accumulated much more knowledge than Xiaoxue at the Ghost Wolf stage, and their mutation level was once raised to level nine. This is just because Xiaoxue has never transcended the stage of Snow Wolf King. According to the rules of the wolf group, Xiaoer They also cannot evolve and can only remain in the mutation stage.

Now, Xiaoxue has evolved, and Xiaoer and the others have also evolved from mutated ghost wolves to snow wolf kings in one go. Their previous patience has not been in vain. With the huge accumulation in the mutation stage, they have been promoted from elite level one to elite level two. They will be better than Xiaoxue is much more relaxed. I can clearly feel it now. After only seven days, Xiaoer and the others are already on the verge of a breakthrough. Maybe they will be able to steadily improve after this trip to the artifact fragments is over. Go to Elite Level 2 and become a highly mobile blood hunter and mobile killing turret.

In the same way, Xiaoxue's current Cangxue Holy Wolf should correspond to the lord level. It is now the lord level one. Can I expect that the lord level one is also the transition period of this stage. When it is promoted to the second level, there will be How about a substantial increase in strength and learning exclusive new skills at the lord level?

By the way, whether it is mutation level, elite level, or lord level, I just follow the instructions on the skills to call them, but it can be easily seen that these stages of Ghost Wolf correspond to the monster stage one by one. The divisions, that is to say, are the boss level, elite level, and lord level corresponding to the monsters.

Going on further, according to God's lazy behavior, Xiaoxue's next stage should be the Demon King level. Although I don't want to divide the ghost wolf into stages and equate them with monsters, but the skill description says this, I have no choice but to secretly curse God, that bastard, and keep me locked up in the Space-Time Management Bureau until I die! Don't come out to harm the Dark Continent again!

The lord-level Xiaoxue is now a pseudo-domain level, but if it is really divided according to monster level stages, the lord-level monsters in the third world are all pseudo-domain level at the lowest level, and the highest ones, such as the reborn demon Selson, are the peak strength of the domain. , Therefore, Xiaoxue should also be able to reach the domain realm at the stage of lord.

Above that, there is the Demon King level, which is the realm of world power. Speaking of which, the Alliance also has certain errors in dividing monsters into stages. When the adventurer called, it seems that among the monsters, there are only four demon kings, Andari and the Demon King level. Hey, those Durel goods.

But in fact, many named dark gold monsters have transcended the lord level, are also demon king level monsters, and are at the world power level. I don’t know much about other things, just the regeneration demon Selson, whose boss has a violent appearance. , according to Selson, he is already at the Demon King level.

Probably the four demon kings were too impressive. After classifying them into the demon king level, other monsters that had already reached the demon king level were not worthy of being equal to them in terms of titles, so they ended up with a dark gold level with a name. Monster (actually someone named it this without permission), such a half-baked name.

"My Xiaoxue will definitely be promoted to the level of Demon King in the future. Then those four demon kings will all be equal."

Looking at Xiaoxue who looked at me with a docile and dependent look, I smiled and lay down with his curled up warm body. Seeing this, Xiaoxue took the initiative to cover my body with its huge snow-white tail of more than two meters. , warmer than any quilt.

After sleeping until dawn, when the ice door was opened, Artoria and Jeluka had already gotten up, built a bonfire, and cooked breakfast. Seeing me appear, Artoria waved with a smile.

I have to say that Miss Huang Duanzi's cooking skills are very good. She is one of the few outstanding talents that I can't complain about. As for Artoria... she's okay.

Although she has a silly attribute, which makes people a little worried about her cooking, unexpectedly, she can neither make earth-shattering dark dishes like little Jasmine, nor can she compare to Jeluka's superb cooking skills. All in all, it was an unexpectedly normal performance. It was still much better than Sister Sharna who only knew how to grill meat and stew soup, two essential skills for adventurers.

After a quick breakfast, we broke open the snow blocks blocking the entrance to the ice cave and continued towards our destination in the direction designated last night.

Around afternoon, I looked at the map. Our current location is already at the edge of the frozen tundra area. If we leave too far away from the training area stipulated by the alliance, even the return scroll cannot be used. This must be absolutely paid attention to. Do not I thought I didn’t have to worry if I was on the road, I could just go back to the city.

"We have reached the edge of the frozen tundra."

Like a mountain climber, Arturia opened the map with both hands and looked at the distance from a high place. She said this with a touch of excitement.

"did you see it?"

She pointed at a huge snow-white mountain range that was a few feet shorter than Harrogas Mountain, and looked back at us.

"After climbing over the snow mountain, you can see a relatively flat snowfield, and our destination is there."

Following Artoria's hand, Jeluka and I were speechless.

Sure enough, we have to "climb" that snow mountain.

I originally thought that Artoria's heroic move on the map before setting off was far enough, almost half the height of Harrogath Mountain. But now it seems that this distance is not a straight line and must go up and down. Only by climbing over several small snow peaks and reaching the back of the mountains can you "see" the destination.

"Can you fly there?"

I took another look at the mountains opposite, estimated the distance, and kept reciting the words "Looking at the mountains and running to death" several times in my mind, and then asked Artoria cautiously.

"Disaster."

Arturia's delicate nose wrinkled, as if she was remembering some tragic experience. She pointed to the sky between the mountains and shook her head at my hopeful eyes.

"Don't look at it from here. The sky is calm and calm. Calujie and I once tried to fly there, but the result..."

"what's the result?"

Although I know it must be a very painful experience, I still want to know.

"As a result, he was completely swept up by the invisible hurricane, lost his direction, and was blown to the mountain. He was also separated from Caluge."

Arturia's finger crossed ninety degrees, pointing to a mountain road diagonally opposite.

"We'd better walk."

The cold wind was biting, and Artoria's words were very plain, and it didn't seem like it was a big deal, but I still suppressed the cold sweat on my forehead.

Kaluge's strength was also swept away. Even if her Hell Fighting Bear was stronger than her, it wasn't much stronger, let alone the Moon Wolf transformation, so it was better not to try it and just walk more. Just think of it as exercising and earning some experience.

After decisively giving up on flying and teleporting, which were simpler but also faster, we walked slowly along the slopes of the mountains towards the nearby snow-capped mountains.

Although the goal of exercising (?) was achieved, the dream of earning some experience was aborted halfway because the slopes of the mountains are steep, and some are even as high as 70 or 80 degrees. After the snow falls, the slopes are very loose and slippery. , the three of us were careful all the way, even speaking as low as possible, for fear of causing an avalanche.

Although you can't die, you will be swept to the bottom of the mountain and have to climb up again. Who is willing to try?

In such a difficult place to walk, don't expect to see any monsters. Even monsters have the right to choose a more comfortable and flatter place to fight. If you take a few steps, you will slide down, and if you slide, you will slide. Who is willing to come to this ghost place that is tens of thousands of meters away?

The disappearance of birds from thousands of mountains and the disappearance of all traces of people is probably the best interpretation of the dangerous path we have chosen. Along the way, the footprints of only three people spread far behind us, forming an unforgettable scene. Everything is white as far as the eye can see, and there is no life in sight. The road ahead is endless. It seems that there are only the three of us in the whole world, and it is easy to breed despair.

In my heart, I suddenly remembered what Arturia said before setting off - King Arthur's test has already begun as soon as we arrived in Harrogath, and that's probably what it means now.

Even if you are an adventurer, walking in this dangerous and dangerous land, if you are not careful, you will roll down the 10,000-meter snow slope, and in the vast and endless snow-white world, you will gradually despair, even more powerful monsters. Horrible mental torture, if our group did not have the patience and perseverance to surpass ordinary adventurers, we would not even be qualified to reach the destination.

Strength and skills are no longer so important. The only thing needed is the patience and unswerving will to fight against this endless white nightmare. The first test of King Arthur is the test of the will.

Arturia has walked this road many times, and there is no doubt about her determination.

Jeluka, because she was timid and shy, always stayed in the library and was used to being alone. For her, such a lonely and single scene was at least better than walking in a crowded crowd, especially one full of men. It's much easier to be in a crowd.

My words...I am afraid of being alone. If I were to go alone, I might not be able to bear it, but aren't there Arturia, Zeluka and the others around me? As long as there are important people, people you want to protect, you will think that your life is not just for yourself. No matter how lonely, how sad, how desperate, you can survive it. If you can't stand it, you'll hypnotize yourself, so you'll be a real man with cute and big breasts.

During the five days, except when we rested in the ice cave, the three of us did not speak more than five words on average during the five days along the way.

It was just hands and hands, but I don’t know when they were held together. Artoria was leading the way, and I was walking in the middle, holding her with my right hand, and holding Jeluka who was walking at the back with my left hand, feeling speechless. The tacit understanding and the warm feeling of interdependence generated in loneliness slowly spread between the palms of hands.

In the end, I successfully climbed over a mountain range that was not too long or dangerous, but felt quite long and thrilling. I came to the other side of the mountain range. Looking down, I saw that it was surrounded by snow-capped mountains on all sides. A large, concave snowfield basin appeared in view.

Although it is not a shocking beauty, we were all stunned by it, even Artoria, who has been here several times. This is a kind of joy that comes after all hardships.

Looking at each other, Artoria and I laughed in unison.

"It's strange. When I came here with Carl Jie several times before, I obviously didn't feel this way."

Arturia seemed to be savoring and wondering about the throbbing feeling in her heart that was constantly gushing out and that was difficult to express in words, and she said this.

"This is probably the difference between two people and three people." I replied delicately.

For example, one monk carries water to drink, two monks carry water to drink, and three monks have no water to drink. Another example is that when there are two people, one of them farts. He cannot hide it even if he wants to, but if there are three people, I don’t know who it is.

Facts have proved that sometimes there is a subtler gap between two and three than zero and one.

Well, the above is all nonsense. The real willingness is probably that as Artoria's personal maid, Caluje has already followed her master through thousands of mountains and rivers, sharing the joys and sorrows, and has already become powerful. tacit understanding.

It should be the first time for Jeluka and I to experience such a test with Artoria. After sharing the joys and sorrows, our hearts have become much closer, and there will naturally be a clear feeling of affection.

uA sense of blending.

This feeling, and the spiritual connection between me and Artoria, is another kind of taste, a natural taste, the contact of the soul.

"When you get here, just fly down in one breath." I proudly pointed to the bottom of my feet and said.

Even if there is a hurricane in this sky, it will be our hitchhiker, allowing us to descend to the plains below more quickly.

Of course, it remains to be verified whether it can brake and land safely.

"From here on, the barrier set by His Majesty King Arthur has been covered, making it impossible to fly." Arturia was stunned and looked at me with apologetic eyes.

Jeluka and I fell headfirst on the snow...

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