I am the Scourge
Chapter 143 The Permanent Covenant
Chapter 143 The Permanent Covenant
The loud bell sounded throughout every corner of the ruins, and the players on both sides noticed it immediately. They first thought that it was Li Wei himself who triggered some special device while exploring the core area of the ruins.
Soon, the grass spirit guard Li Wei'an placed at the entrance of the core area caught the player's trace.
To his surprise, the two sides actually came together.
teamed up?
Li Wei was suspicious for a while, the note he left was obviously not found yet.
And this undoubtedly shows that the two parties have reached a cooperative relationship long before entering the ruins.
What prompted Baihutang to cooperate with Song of Iron and Blood?
Li Wei was lost in thought.
Although Baihutang is a rising star, since they can achieve this position, their senior management will definitely not be a group of arrogant people, thinking that the newcomers they have just trained can compete with veteran players like Zhan Linglong.
Therefore, if they signed a cooperative exploration agreement, then the Baihutang team would obviously not have the advantage.
Even a sharing agreement that benefits them is unrealistic.
In that way, Baihutang will at least find a few guild forces to cooperate with, not just the Song of Iron and Blood family.
According to this train of thought.
Can only illustrate.
Song of Iron and Blood has made great concessions in this cooperation, and may even be a part-time job...
Did they pay such a price just to find themselves?
I'm afraid it's not that simple.
Song of Iron and Blood seems to be sure, once they find themselves, they will be able to make up for some losses in some way.
And the only thing that made them willing to give up the goal of gaining benefits from this ancient relic was the city building order.
But Li Wei has already stored the building order in Soul Soil's warehouse, so even if they kill him 100 million times, they won't be able to reveal it. Moreover, how can they guarantee that after killing him, [-]% of what they want will be revealed?
Li Wei would definitely not think that their trip was purely to kill himself to vent his anger.
Will the Grand Duke do such a naive behavior.
That also means that they are absolutely sure that they can get a specific drop after killing themselves...
even.
It can directly explode all the items he is carrying.
Having seen Soul Thorn before, Li Wei certainly understands that there are many props and equipment with special effects in this game, and he has no shortage of plans for the worst. They just mastered a special prop.
Li Wei couldn't help but glanced at his backpack.
Counting the equipment he wears, his rarest items are two pieces of perfect equipment, the pupil of the moon, and the wing of the elf.
In addition, there are some production materials, potions, and a few rare blood buds, oh, and more than 1 gold coins. This is indeed a rich fortune, but the most important thing Li Wei lacks now is gold coins.
And his most precious magic ring of general knowledge is a bound item and cannot be dropped.
But it cannot be ruled out that their stripping method can be higher than the system's unfallible judgment.
Although this was all Li Wei's own guess, it undoubtedly made him alert.
He originally planned to go for a stroll, so he simply hid in place near the crystal energy tower. With Moon Eyes' ability to control the mechanism in the tower, no matter how many professional players came, he could easily solve it.
boom……
A burst of explosion soon reached Levi's ears.
Probably the player fought against the Moon Guard.
Judging from the distance of the sound, it was only a few hundred meters away from me, and the actual area of the core area was not large, mainly because the ubiquitous gray fog blocked the line of sight, otherwise, both sides could already see each other's existence at this time.
Li Wei called out Xiong Da, Mier and Hades Wolf, and asked them to protect themselves, so that no more assassins would approach quietly.
He himself emptied his mana, ready to enter the crystal energy tower at any time.
soon.
He heard footsteps running towards him.
"Here……"
He faintly heard an ethereal voice.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a white light came through the sky, it was a short spear with condensed fighting spirit, wrapped in unparalleled momentum, cut through the surrounding fog, like a lightning bolt, and flew directly towards Li Wei's position.
"Roar!"
The bear roared loudly and stepped forward.
boom!
The white light exploded, blood and flesh splattered immediately, and a hole as thick as a bowl was blown out of Xiong Da's chest, but this kind of injury was only a skin trauma to it, and the blood buds took effect, and its wound began to heal immediately.
-
12093!
"Reminder: Your servant is maliciously attacked by the player Zhan Linglong, you can freely counterattack it, including its team members, within three to 10 minutes!"
This is actually the player's damage!
Li Wei was a little shocked.
Even if it was him, with the attribute bonus of the Lord of the Rings, he couldn't deal damage that exceeded [-] in an instant.
She has passed an ancient trial! ?
Most likely!
Li Wei has long heard that some players have discovered the ruins of the ancient trials. It seems that the top players have already passed.
Now is not the time for emotion.
The second after Xiong Da was attacked, Li Wei retreated decisively, left the protective circle of the three, and ran towards the crystal energy tower.
At this moment, a cold light suddenly appeared. There was no sign of it before, and the sharp dagger filled with two kinds of energy light, emerald green and scarlet, had appeared only one meter away from him.
assassin!
Li Wei's heart froze.
He had raised his vigilance to the highest level, but he still didn't notice anyone approaching. The other party's concealment skills had obviously reached the level of perfection.
Fortunately, he took precautions in advance and let the three summoned creatures protect him, otherwise he would have been assassinated already.
Do not……
He may also be waiting for other teammates to arrive if he does not attack.
Li Wei suddenly realized that his previous guess was probably correct, they really prepared targeted props!
Hiss!
A scroll that Li Wei had grasped earlier was torn into pieces, a dim light centered on him, and quickly spread around, and the attacking dagger seemed to be frozen, and the speed was countless times slower.
Time stands still!
The value of this scroll is about the same as the previous Inner Light.
But the influence range of time stillness is only three meters, and the duration is only three seconds, in exchange for absolute control, this skill can even affect the target's thinking, making it impossible to perceive the passage of time.
Like this moment.
Ye Xiao, who was able to release the control through the equipment stunt, was completely stilled and lost the ability to think. In his own opinion, the time seemed to have passed only for a moment, but in fact it had already passed for 3 seconds.
Shadow Arrow!
Whoosh!
Li Wei consumed the last of his mana and threw an energy arrow at him, exploding nearly one-third of his blood.
Mingyue stabs!
A black light immediately penetrated his body.
-
20982!
Pfft!
Ye Xiao, who was still in a static state, was directly emptied of blood, and his body fell to the ground.
And because Zhan Linglong attacked Li Wei first, dragging Ye Xiao into the red name, the purple dagger in his hand fell out immediately.
Li Wei scooped it up, ignored the attack from behind, immediately took away the three servants, and plunged into the range of the crystal energy tower.
"Want to run!?"
Zhan Linglong shouted coquettishly, a dazzling white light quickly condensed in her hand, and as she made a throwing motion, a short spear of light immediately flew towards Li Wei again.
boom!
The moment the short spear entered the area around the crystal energy tower, it detonated into a ball of colorful light. The ball of light expanded for a while until it reached a diameter of five meters before gradually shrinking and redispersing into free elements.
"Damn!"
Zhan Linglong watched Li Wei run into the crystal energy tower with sparks and lightning all the way, and clenched her fists angrily.
"Don't go in...don't go in...it's scary inside..."
The angel spirit whispered inside her armor.
Without being reminded by the elves, Zhan Linglong could also discover the danger radiating from the front area, the chaotic and manic energy flow, which made her with strong perception faintly feel a tingling pain from the energy in her body.
Holy wake up!
Swish!
A white-robed priest following her waved a golden scepter, scattering holy light on Ye Xiao's body.
"Whoosh..."
Ye Xiao suddenly took a deep breath of air and sat up straight.
"What happened?!"
He looked blank.
The period of his memory affected by the stillness of time is completely blank.
"Obviously, he managed to escape again."
one said.
Ye Xiao's face darkened, and then he realized that his weapon was gone, so one can imagine what happened just now.
For this operation, he took the initiative to invite Ying to make up for the mistakes he made before. Who would have thought that he would still miss the target even though he was fully prepared.
"I……"
Ye Xiao opened his mouth to make amends.
Zhan Linglong raised her palm, interrupted him, and said, "It's the magic scroll of time. He is also fully prepared. He must have prepared a lot of trump cards for daring to face us alone, but he will definitely not be able to escape this time!"
Say it.
She stepped forward, reaching out her hand into the chaotic energy, and the shining arc of light wrapped her palm in an instant.
"Energy backlash..."
The experienced Zhan Linglong instantly analyzed the characteristics of this place.
"The use of magic is prohibited in this area. All legal units stay outside, block the exit, and melee units empty their mana. Come in with me and catch him out!"
She commanded immediately.
A blue mist rose from Zhan Linglong's body, and her mana was consumed by her in a strange way. She stepped closer to the area, and a strange thing happened, there was no energy arc flickering around her.
"Chirp..."
Only the angel elf uttered a cry of fear and disappeared in a flash.And several melee players behind her also emptied their mana in the same way, and hurriedly followed her.
"Energy control?"
Li Wei, who was guarding the gate of the Crystal Energy Tower, couldn't help but look strange when he saw this scene.
He was able to clear his mana quickly because he mastered the magic of Shadow Arrow (Change), which has no cooldown, and the consumption of ordinary active skills is limited, so it is difficult to completely consume all mana in a short time.
But these players in front of them obviously have a special skill.
Or.
It is the technique of controlling the energy in the body.
Manipulating energy...?
Li Wei seemed to be pushed open the door of a new world.
He only thinks that magic power is an extraordinary power given to him by the system, which can only be used in a fixed way, but he has never thought about why magic power condenses into magic, and he has never tried to perceive and control the energy in his body.
However, he suddenly figured it out.
Actually.
The magic power and his death power are fundamentally the same kind of power.
Since he can freely control the divine power of death, why can't he control the magic power?
Li Wei vaguely felt that if he could understand this problem, maybe even the training and improvement could be solved together...
When Zhan Linglong and others entered the crystal energy tower, Li Wei had already retreated to the other end of the trap corridor. His leisurely attitude immediately made several people realize that there was a problem with the corridor in front of them, and they did not act rashly at the first time.
Zhan Linglong squinted her eyes, and there was a chill in her fair and pretty face. She stretched out her right hand and gently moved her index finger, "If you are still a man, don't run away anymore, and fight with me dignifiedly!"
"team leader……"
A man beside her looked a little embarrassed, called softly, and then took a step forward.
Nan Feng had a calm expression, with a hint of a smile, and said, "Lord Shepherd, I have known you for a long time. In fact, we are here this time mainly to make a deal with you, not to be your enemy."
"You should be able to understand the importance of the city building token to our guild. I don't want to talk nonsense. We can buy the city building token back with money. The price is absolutely satisfactory to you. As long as you agree, we can leave here directly, no Then meddle in any disputes between you and Baihutang."
He said politely and kindly.
"If I want to sell it, I'm sure it will be several times higher than your price in the public auction on the platform."
Li Wei chuckled lightly.
Nan Feng's face remained unchanged, and he said, "It's true, but you will also lose a loyal ally. As long as you can hand over the city building order to us, we can form a permanent alliance with you."
"You should know what that means. If you encounter any danger in the future, we will all come forward as soon as possible. The eternal alliance, one prosperity and one loss, this is our greatest sincerity."
"..."
Li Wei raised his eyebrows in surprise.
He really did not expect that Song of Iron and Blood could make such a huge concession.
The permanent alliance is the strictest type of alliance contract. Just to mention one point, if one party of the eternal alliance is eliminated, the other forces that are allies will directly bear 50% of the economic loss.
It can be said.
This is completely tying yourself to the Song of Iron and Blood.
When the Nether map is opened in the future, he will no longer be fighting alone, at least he can pull Song of Iron and Blood to his same front.
But the problem is...
Does he need it?
Li Wei shook his head calmly.
Among other things, just based on his current resource output, the biggest beneficiary after forming a permanent alliance is Song of Iron and Blood.
Whether it is the advanced technology they have mastered or the output of the abyss secret realm, they can bring them great benefits.And what I can get is only a protection promise that will come into effect after one and a half years.
"Don't talk nonsense with him, let me catch him!"
Zhan Linglong said angrily.
Seeing Li Wei shaking his head and rejecting, Nan Feng's face quickly turned cold. He said coldly, "It seems that you are determined to choose to be our enemy. I hope you will not regret the decision you made now."
(End of this chapter)
The loud bell sounded throughout every corner of the ruins, and the players on both sides noticed it immediately. They first thought that it was Li Wei himself who triggered some special device while exploring the core area of the ruins.
Soon, the grass spirit guard Li Wei'an placed at the entrance of the core area caught the player's trace.
To his surprise, the two sides actually came together.
teamed up?
Li Wei was suspicious for a while, the note he left was obviously not found yet.
And this undoubtedly shows that the two parties have reached a cooperative relationship long before entering the ruins.
What prompted Baihutang to cooperate with Song of Iron and Blood?
Li Wei was lost in thought.
Although Baihutang is a rising star, since they can achieve this position, their senior management will definitely not be a group of arrogant people, thinking that the newcomers they have just trained can compete with veteran players like Zhan Linglong.
Therefore, if they signed a cooperative exploration agreement, then the Baihutang team would obviously not have the advantage.
Even a sharing agreement that benefits them is unrealistic.
In that way, Baihutang will at least find a few guild forces to cooperate with, not just the Song of Iron and Blood family.
According to this train of thought.
Can only illustrate.
Song of Iron and Blood has made great concessions in this cooperation, and may even be a part-time job...
Did they pay such a price just to find themselves?
I'm afraid it's not that simple.
Song of Iron and Blood seems to be sure, once they find themselves, they will be able to make up for some losses in some way.
And the only thing that made them willing to give up the goal of gaining benefits from this ancient relic was the city building order.
But Li Wei has already stored the building order in Soul Soil's warehouse, so even if they kill him 100 million times, they won't be able to reveal it. Moreover, how can they guarantee that after killing him, [-]% of what they want will be revealed?
Li Wei would definitely not think that their trip was purely to kill himself to vent his anger.
Will the Grand Duke do such a naive behavior.
That also means that they are absolutely sure that they can get a specific drop after killing themselves...
even.
It can directly explode all the items he is carrying.
Having seen Soul Thorn before, Li Wei certainly understands that there are many props and equipment with special effects in this game, and he has no shortage of plans for the worst. They just mastered a special prop.
Li Wei couldn't help but glanced at his backpack.
Counting the equipment he wears, his rarest items are two pieces of perfect equipment, the pupil of the moon, and the wing of the elf.
In addition, there are some production materials, potions, and a few rare blood buds, oh, and more than 1 gold coins. This is indeed a rich fortune, but the most important thing Li Wei lacks now is gold coins.
And his most precious magic ring of general knowledge is a bound item and cannot be dropped.
But it cannot be ruled out that their stripping method can be higher than the system's unfallible judgment.
Although this was all Li Wei's own guess, it undoubtedly made him alert.
He originally planned to go for a stroll, so he simply hid in place near the crystal energy tower. With Moon Eyes' ability to control the mechanism in the tower, no matter how many professional players came, he could easily solve it.
boom……
A burst of explosion soon reached Levi's ears.
Probably the player fought against the Moon Guard.
Judging from the distance of the sound, it was only a few hundred meters away from me, and the actual area of the core area was not large, mainly because the ubiquitous gray fog blocked the line of sight, otherwise, both sides could already see each other's existence at this time.
Li Wei called out Xiong Da, Mier and Hades Wolf, and asked them to protect themselves, so that no more assassins would approach quietly.
He himself emptied his mana, ready to enter the crystal energy tower at any time.
soon.
He heard footsteps running towards him.
"Here……"
He faintly heard an ethereal voice.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a white light came through the sky, it was a short spear with condensed fighting spirit, wrapped in unparalleled momentum, cut through the surrounding fog, like a lightning bolt, and flew directly towards Li Wei's position.
"Roar!"
The bear roared loudly and stepped forward.
boom!
The white light exploded, blood and flesh splattered immediately, and a hole as thick as a bowl was blown out of Xiong Da's chest, but this kind of injury was only a skin trauma to it, and the blood buds took effect, and its wound began to heal immediately.
-
12093!
"Reminder: Your servant is maliciously attacked by the player Zhan Linglong, you can freely counterattack it, including its team members, within three to 10 minutes!"
This is actually the player's damage!
Li Wei was a little shocked.
Even if it was him, with the attribute bonus of the Lord of the Rings, he couldn't deal damage that exceeded [-] in an instant.
She has passed an ancient trial! ?
Most likely!
Li Wei has long heard that some players have discovered the ruins of the ancient trials. It seems that the top players have already passed.
Now is not the time for emotion.
The second after Xiong Da was attacked, Li Wei retreated decisively, left the protective circle of the three, and ran towards the crystal energy tower.
At this moment, a cold light suddenly appeared. There was no sign of it before, and the sharp dagger filled with two kinds of energy light, emerald green and scarlet, had appeared only one meter away from him.
assassin!
Li Wei's heart froze.
He had raised his vigilance to the highest level, but he still didn't notice anyone approaching. The other party's concealment skills had obviously reached the level of perfection.
Fortunately, he took precautions in advance and let the three summoned creatures protect him, otherwise he would have been assassinated already.
Do not……
He may also be waiting for other teammates to arrive if he does not attack.
Li Wei suddenly realized that his previous guess was probably correct, they really prepared targeted props!
Hiss!
A scroll that Li Wei had grasped earlier was torn into pieces, a dim light centered on him, and quickly spread around, and the attacking dagger seemed to be frozen, and the speed was countless times slower.
Time stands still!
The value of this scroll is about the same as the previous Inner Light.
But the influence range of time stillness is only three meters, and the duration is only three seconds, in exchange for absolute control, this skill can even affect the target's thinking, making it impossible to perceive the passage of time.
Like this moment.
Ye Xiao, who was able to release the control through the equipment stunt, was completely stilled and lost the ability to think. In his own opinion, the time seemed to have passed only for a moment, but in fact it had already passed for 3 seconds.
Shadow Arrow!
Whoosh!
Li Wei consumed the last of his mana and threw an energy arrow at him, exploding nearly one-third of his blood.
Mingyue stabs!
A black light immediately penetrated his body.
-
20982!
Pfft!
Ye Xiao, who was still in a static state, was directly emptied of blood, and his body fell to the ground.
And because Zhan Linglong attacked Li Wei first, dragging Ye Xiao into the red name, the purple dagger in his hand fell out immediately.
Li Wei scooped it up, ignored the attack from behind, immediately took away the three servants, and plunged into the range of the crystal energy tower.
"Want to run!?"
Zhan Linglong shouted coquettishly, a dazzling white light quickly condensed in her hand, and as she made a throwing motion, a short spear of light immediately flew towards Li Wei again.
boom!
The moment the short spear entered the area around the crystal energy tower, it detonated into a ball of colorful light. The ball of light expanded for a while until it reached a diameter of five meters before gradually shrinking and redispersing into free elements.
"Damn!"
Zhan Linglong watched Li Wei run into the crystal energy tower with sparks and lightning all the way, and clenched her fists angrily.
"Don't go in...don't go in...it's scary inside..."
The angel spirit whispered inside her armor.
Without being reminded by the elves, Zhan Linglong could also discover the danger radiating from the front area, the chaotic and manic energy flow, which made her with strong perception faintly feel a tingling pain from the energy in her body.
Holy wake up!
Swish!
A white-robed priest following her waved a golden scepter, scattering holy light on Ye Xiao's body.
"Whoosh..."
Ye Xiao suddenly took a deep breath of air and sat up straight.
"What happened?!"
He looked blank.
The period of his memory affected by the stillness of time is completely blank.
"Obviously, he managed to escape again."
one said.
Ye Xiao's face darkened, and then he realized that his weapon was gone, so one can imagine what happened just now.
For this operation, he took the initiative to invite Ying to make up for the mistakes he made before. Who would have thought that he would still miss the target even though he was fully prepared.
"I……"
Ye Xiao opened his mouth to make amends.
Zhan Linglong raised her palm, interrupted him, and said, "It's the magic scroll of time. He is also fully prepared. He must have prepared a lot of trump cards for daring to face us alone, but he will definitely not be able to escape this time!"
Say it.
She stepped forward, reaching out her hand into the chaotic energy, and the shining arc of light wrapped her palm in an instant.
"Energy backlash..."
The experienced Zhan Linglong instantly analyzed the characteristics of this place.
"The use of magic is prohibited in this area. All legal units stay outside, block the exit, and melee units empty their mana. Come in with me and catch him out!"
She commanded immediately.
A blue mist rose from Zhan Linglong's body, and her mana was consumed by her in a strange way. She stepped closer to the area, and a strange thing happened, there was no energy arc flickering around her.
"Chirp..."
Only the angel elf uttered a cry of fear and disappeared in a flash.And several melee players behind her also emptied their mana in the same way, and hurriedly followed her.
"Energy control?"
Li Wei, who was guarding the gate of the Crystal Energy Tower, couldn't help but look strange when he saw this scene.
He was able to clear his mana quickly because he mastered the magic of Shadow Arrow (Change), which has no cooldown, and the consumption of ordinary active skills is limited, so it is difficult to completely consume all mana in a short time.
But these players in front of them obviously have a special skill.
Or.
It is the technique of controlling the energy in the body.
Manipulating energy...?
Li Wei seemed to be pushed open the door of a new world.
He only thinks that magic power is an extraordinary power given to him by the system, which can only be used in a fixed way, but he has never thought about why magic power condenses into magic, and he has never tried to perceive and control the energy in his body.
However, he suddenly figured it out.
Actually.
The magic power and his death power are fundamentally the same kind of power.
Since he can freely control the divine power of death, why can't he control the magic power?
Li Wei vaguely felt that if he could understand this problem, maybe even the training and improvement could be solved together...
When Zhan Linglong and others entered the crystal energy tower, Li Wei had already retreated to the other end of the trap corridor. His leisurely attitude immediately made several people realize that there was a problem with the corridor in front of them, and they did not act rashly at the first time.
Zhan Linglong squinted her eyes, and there was a chill in her fair and pretty face. She stretched out her right hand and gently moved her index finger, "If you are still a man, don't run away anymore, and fight with me dignifiedly!"
"team leader……"
A man beside her looked a little embarrassed, called softly, and then took a step forward.
Nan Feng had a calm expression, with a hint of a smile, and said, "Lord Shepherd, I have known you for a long time. In fact, we are here this time mainly to make a deal with you, not to be your enemy."
"You should be able to understand the importance of the city building token to our guild. I don't want to talk nonsense. We can buy the city building token back with money. The price is absolutely satisfactory to you. As long as you agree, we can leave here directly, no Then meddle in any disputes between you and Baihutang."
He said politely and kindly.
"If I want to sell it, I'm sure it will be several times higher than your price in the public auction on the platform."
Li Wei chuckled lightly.
Nan Feng's face remained unchanged, and he said, "It's true, but you will also lose a loyal ally. As long as you can hand over the city building order to us, we can form a permanent alliance with you."
"You should know what that means. If you encounter any danger in the future, we will all come forward as soon as possible. The eternal alliance, one prosperity and one loss, this is our greatest sincerity."
"..."
Li Wei raised his eyebrows in surprise.
He really did not expect that Song of Iron and Blood could make such a huge concession.
The permanent alliance is the strictest type of alliance contract. Just to mention one point, if one party of the eternal alliance is eliminated, the other forces that are allies will directly bear 50% of the economic loss.
It can be said.
This is completely tying yourself to the Song of Iron and Blood.
When the Nether map is opened in the future, he will no longer be fighting alone, at least he can pull Song of Iron and Blood to his same front.
But the problem is...
Does he need it?
Li Wei shook his head calmly.
Among other things, just based on his current resource output, the biggest beneficiary after forming a permanent alliance is Song of Iron and Blood.
Whether it is the advanced technology they have mastered or the output of the abyss secret realm, they can bring them great benefits.And what I can get is only a protection promise that will come into effect after one and a half years.
"Don't talk nonsense with him, let me catch him!"
Zhan Linglong said angrily.
Seeing Li Wei shaking his head and rejecting, Nan Feng's face quickly turned cold. He said coldly, "It seems that you are determined to choose to be our enemy. I hope you will not regret the decision you made now."
(End of this chapter)
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