through the dark road

Chapter 169 Helpless Status Quo

As the sun was setting, a ragged old man walked out of the teleportation circle in Lu Gaoyin City.

After everyone saw it, they all took several steps back as if they were wary of touching porcelain.The old man's gray robe was not only torn, but also covered with sandworm slime. Although it was covered with another layer of sand, the acrid and pungent smell was still overbearing.

"Do you need any help?" A guard saw that the old man was a bit rickety, and he was really miserable, so he stepped forward and asked.

"Oh, no, no, thank you!" The old man smiled and waved his hands.

He came back from the dark underground cave directly by tearing the teleportation scroll. At this time, following the afterglow of the setting sun, he also noticed his embarrassment, recalled the experience of the past two days, and couldn't help but smiled wryly.

Although the gray robe on his body is unremarkable, it is also an extended-grade cloth armor with special material, and its defensive power is not inferior to those heavy armors.

It was broken like this because the death beetles in the cave were so cruel.

The old man was thin and stooped, but his steps were not slow. After leaving the teleportation station, he crossed the street and went straight to the Mage Guild.

"Huh? You come back...wait! You...can you wash it first..."

Seeing Kane's miserable appearance, Drognan didn't pay much attention to it, as if he was used to it, but when he smelled the scent Kane brought in, he almost jumped up.

"Where did you go this time? You didn't even say hello."

"Some time ago, the old man Lysander used potions to remove some of the filth inside the metal pattern of Horadric's rod, and restored part of the magic circle. Unexpectedly, he reacted to the existence of the rod body. I set off overnight, along the Guided by the head of the stick, I found the oasis all the way."

As Kane spoke, he pulled out a long stick wrapped with various unknown objects. It looked like a crutch that a tribal witch doctor never left, even a little bent.

"This is... the body of Horadric's staff?" Drognan took out a handkerchief, wrapped it around the long stick, and took a look.

It seems that the old man is a bit of a clean freak, no wonder Mo Bei threw the body on his new carpet before, which made him very depressed.

"It used to be, but I don't know what it went through." Kane smiled helplessly, walked to the shelf with the copper basin in the corner, picked up the water jug ​​on the ground, and poured some water into the copper basin. Drognan rubbed his face with water, and Drognan's face was tangled again.

"Where did you find this?" Drognan asked again, for the stick was still sticky and smelly.

"Found inside a giant sandworm mother..."

"Didn't you say that this is not important anymore, why did you find it there?" Drognan curled his lips when he heard this, and directly propped the stick against the wall, not wanting to touch it again.

"I thought I could find some other clues, but I didn't expect to fall directly into the sandworm's lair..."

"..."

In the early morning of the next day, Mo Bei turned over and sat up when the first rays of sunlight fell on his face. Apart from being a little hungry, he felt that his mental strength had almost recovered.

He immediately wanted to take out the Horadric Cube and continue to synthesize it.It's like getting a bag that can keep taking gold coins out, and you can't stop at all.

I had been synthesizing all kinds of gems and equipment in my dream last night, and I laughed out loud.

But after thinking about it, he still forcibly held back, he was so depressed this early in the morning, it might be misunderstood.

We'll wait until night to do this kind of thing.

As soon as he opened the door, he could smell the aroma of food. Miloer had already made breakfast.

When I walked to the dining table, I saw that they were egg pancakes.There are no shallots here, but the pancakes are filled with thyme and sea salt. The smell makes the index finger move, and you sit down and start eating right away.

There was a flash of thunder across the dining table, and Perona appeared out of thin air in her nightgown, sitting on a chair, swinging her legs, rolled up a pancake with a fork, and delivered it to her mouth.

The unsuspecting Mo Bei was taken aback by Perona's sudden appearance, beat his chest, took another sip of water, swallowed the food stuck in his chest, and then said:
"From now on, you are not allowed to use teleportation to float around at home!"

Perona's cheeks were bulging, and she didn't answer, just staring at the pancake left on Mo Bei's plate.

Mo Bei felt bad, and immediately wanted to protect it with his hands, but the pancake disappeared out of thin air, and Perona, who was sitting opposite, had already been teleported to where she and the plate were.

Looking at his empty dinner plate, he felt depressed for a while.

This dwarf, the transmission interval has been shortened a lot. . .

And it can be cast together with telekinesis.

He remembered that when Perona first learned to teleport, even with the fast casting bonus of the equipment, the interval was more than 15 seconds.

Now she is only wearing a nightgown, and the interval between two transmissions is less than eight seconds, and she still doesn't know if it is her limit.

He smacked his lips, feeling that he still had something to say, so he turned his head and looked at Miloer and said:
"You take care of her!"

Miloer pursed his lips and smiled, expressing that there was nothing he could do, so he got up and prepared to go to the kitchen to fry another one for him.

"Hey, don't bother me. I'm almost full. I'll go get the equipment repaired first." Seeing this, Mo Bei waved his hands and got up to leave.

"Can we go to that street together?" Milo looked at him expectantly.

"Well! Of course, then... I'll wait for you in the yard." Mo Bei sweated a lot, and said to take them to the neighborhood with a lot of clothes and snacks, but he really forgot.Xin said that women really can't forget about shopping.

Walking into the yard, he drew out the short sword used for training, held it in his left hand, and held the shield in his right, and began to practice Fengleipao against the wooden stakes.

He felt that if he could practice the left-handed sword handy, maybe there would be a further breakthrough in dual-wielding combat.

After a few attempts, I still feel stumbling and sloppy, and even the sincere slash is not very smooth.

Mo Bei sighed, feeling that he still needs to find a professional dual-wielding barbarian to discuss and discuss, even an assassin. Although they can only dual-wield assassin-specific weapons, they should have a lot of experience.

It would be even better if he could find those senior paladins who had comprehended dual wielding for advice. He felt that there should be no shortage of such masters among the high-level job changers.

It's just that human beings are now facing a very helpless status quo.The job-changers went to Harrogas and the demon fortress one after another, but very few high-level teams had the opportunity to return to their hometowns, and it was even more impossible to stay and guide newcomers.

Even training camp instructors like Renault are always eager to return to Lugain or Kurast and rejoin the battlefield.

Humanity's high-end combat power is stretched, making the more elite the team, the more inseparable from the front line.This leads to the fact that human combat inheritance is too weak, and it is very difficult for newcomers to grow and break through, and the frontline combat power cannot be supplemented in large quantities.

The Mage Guild is already planning to send the fragments of the World Stone from the Rogge camp to Lu Gaoyin, so as to break this desperate cycle as soon as possible. Perhaps, there will be a day when humans will really counterattack hell.

However, there are completely different operating principles between the teleportation circle and the portal, and they vetoed the plan to mobilize a large number of troops to escort the Worldstone fragments across the Aranoq Desert.

At present, we can only study how to overlap the two ultra-long-distance spaces day and night, and directly deploy a portal in the Lugoin and Rog camps, but this research seems to be a bit out of reach at present. . .

(End of this chapter)