Witcher starts with Get Inspiration Panel

After a moment of spinning, Richard felt that he had arrived in an area that was completely unsuitable for human survival.

The ground around him was made up of exposed and uneven rocks, and the whole body was black. Nearly a hundred meters ahead, there were many gaps in the ground. From time to time, with a "chi" sound, a jet of water would erupt. Hot sulfide gases.

The ground also gradually turns dark red from near to far. This should be a sign that the ground is being roasted by high temperatures.

Wherever he could see, Richard could even see a red magma pool area with a faint sense of liquid flow, and there seemed to be traces of elemental creatures in the distance.

"Bo!"

As the water film Gorkan applied to the surface of his body disappeared without a trace.

Richard immediately felt the heat wave hitting his face, reaching at least sixty or seventy degrees, which was even hotter than the core of the Sahara Desert during the hottest period. Every breath he took brought a burning sensation in his nasal cavity.

"Hiss! This temperature! Fortunately, I was prepared."

Although Richard had long been mentally prepared for the harsh environment in the Scorched Earth Secret Territory, he did not expect it to be so bad.

Moreover, he was obviously on the edge of the Scorched Earth Secret Realm, Richard concluded after casually looking around.

Immediately, Richard took out the primary flame protection potion from his arms. After drinking it, a thin film of flame appeared on the surface of his body, immediately absorbing a lot of heat from the hot air surging around him.

This immediately made Richard feel much more comfortable.

With the trace of soul mark that Gorkan gave him, Richard was basically sure that Gorkan was not far from him.

From this point of view, I am lucky, and the two of them should be able to get together soon.

In this case, there is no need to use the positioning device prepared before. Richard plans to try to communicate directly using the communication mark.

The closer the communication mark between wizards, the stronger the anti-interference ability.

Richard stretched out his hand and quickly drew a simple symbol similar to a fish head in the air. Injecting a ray of spiritual power, Richard began to try to contact Gorkan.

"Gorkan, how is the situation over there? Can you sense my position?" Richard asked in a deep voice.

"Master, I can sense that you should be on the east side of me, not too far away. The situation on my side is not bad, but I encountered some small rolling stone elements, and they are chasing me now. I need to deal with them first."

"Oh~ damn thing!!"

Gorkan's scream suddenly came from the mark!

This immediately made Richard frown. It seemed that the situation was not as easy to handle as Gorkan said. It seemed that it was best for him to take care of it.

Small rolling stone elements?

It seems that he is just an elemental creature at the apprentice level. Gorkan is not so useless, right? Can't handle this!

Recalling the description of the small rolling stone elements, Richard couldn't help but shake his head.

"Gorkan, stay safe. I will move towards your location. We should be able to meet each other soon."

When Richard withdrew the output of this ray of mental power, the communication mark immediately dissipated into the air.

After briefly sensing the direction, Richard immediately headed towards Gorkan's current location.

but

After walking for a short distance, Richard felt a vague sense of voyeurism.

It seemed like there was some kind of creature watching him secretly.

Immediately, Richard stopped.

"Whoosh!" A black line suddenly shot towards Richard's face from the ground on the left.

"Cang!" In an instant, the mimicry wristband transformed into a silver arm shield, blocking the attack.

Richard took a closer look and realized that what he had just blocked was actually a small dark red snake with eyes as bright as two small red obsidian.

At this moment, the little snake was spitting out red letters at him, looking very angry.

"Lava snake." Richard immediately identified the other party's species.

But he didn't expect that a lava snake would appear so far away from the magma pool.

"Whoosh!" The opponent launched another attack.

"Cang!" Richard stopped holding back this time and hit the lava snake's head hard with his arm shield with his left hand. In an instant, the lava snake was knocked unconscious to the ground by this blow.

The next second, the silver arm shield quickly transformed into a sharp sword, stabbing straight!

"Ding!"

The lava snake was nailed to the hard ground. The severe pain caused it to wake up from its dizziness. At this moment, its slender body was twisting continuously.

"What a tenacious vitality! He was stabbed seven inches, but he didn't die. The skin was tough, and it was like stabbing rubber when it penetrated." Richard murmured to himself.

"If a wizard apprentice comes in, unless he has the strength and agility of a senior knight or above, he might lose his life just from that sudden attack!"

"This is just the outermost part of the Scorched Earth Secret Realm!"

I don't know how many dangerous creatures are waiting for me as I explore.

"And my first-level sorcerer's aura can't make the lava snake feel afraid. The other party dares to take the initiative to attack, which is really rare among creatures."

"The point is, after killing me, there are no energy points!!"

Richard has checked it twice.

Yes, after the lava snake was killed, there were no energy points!

This made Richard feel quite surprised, and he also had some suspicions in his heart.

Could it be said that this is because the other party is not a monster, but an elemental creature?

In addition, this lava snake is obviously a relatively low-level existence among lava snakes.

According to descriptions in ancient books, lava snakes like to live close to magma, absorb the energy contained in the magma and thrive. Their size and strength are directly proportional. The redder the color of the body, the stronger the strength.

The surface of this lava snake is dim and black, and its length is only more than one meter. It is obviously a weak one among the lava snakes, otherwise it would not be squeezed out of the magma area to this edge zone.

After thinking for a while, in order to avoid capsizing in the gutter, Richard decided not to hide his strength anymore and immediately recited the spell silently.

I saw an inverse pentagram witch formation quickly appearing on the ground.

The next second, a three-meter-tall skeletal creature appeared on the witch formation.

It's the Blood and Bone Puppet!

Richard asked the blood and bone puppet to open the way ahead, and he followed closely, heading towards Gorkan's direction.

It seemed that he was frightened by the breath of the blood and bone puppet. After walking for more than ten minutes, Richard never encountered the attack of the lava snake again.

From this point of view, it is very likely that it is not that the lava snake is not afraid of the strong, but that his first-level wizard aura is not strong enough!

Not enough to scare the lava snake.

After a while, Richard saw a familiar figure rushing towards him quickly. No, to be precise, it should be rushing towards him in a panic.

A water shield was seen behind Gorkan. The water shield was under constant attack, causing multiple ripples all the time.

Behind him were several round stones the size of basins. What was surprising was that there seemed to be a male face on the surface of the stone, grinning and shouting something.

At the same time, behind Gorkan, Richard could also see a faintly flickering black line, which seemed to be a lava snake, which was also attacking the water shield behind Gorkan.

This sight immediately left Richard speechless. He didn't expect Gorkan's combat effectiveness to be so weak!

"Go!" Richard pointed.

The blood and bone puppet quickly rushed forward.

When Gorkan saw the blood and bone puppet, he couldn't help but be overjoyed and shouted: "Master, I am here!"

"Whoosh!" Several more black lines attacked Gorkan from the side.

"Ouch!" Gorkan's protection was finally overwhelmed and was instantly broken by a lava snake, which bit him hard on the arm.

Fortunately, the Blood and Bone Puppet had also arrived at this time.

"Swish!!"

The sharp bone blade on the forearm of the blood-bone puppet instantly cut several lava snakes chasing Gorkan into two pieces.

Half of the lava snake's body fell to the ground, still twisting and turning, and no blood could be seen flowing out.

The blood-bone puppet did not stop, and continued to swing its bone blade towards the surrounding washbasin-sized stones, basically one at a time.

"Crack!!"

The small rolling stone elements were all torn apart one by one. The surface of these stones showed a sense of fear, and the remaining stones immediately scattered like birds and beasts.

But how can their speed compare to the blood and bone puppets.

The blood-bone puppet took big strides, catching up in a few steps and smashing all these stone elements into pieces!

There are also no energy points!

Richard knew clearly that it seemed that the creatures in the Scorched Earth Secret Realm would most likely not provide him with energy points.

"Master!" Gorkan shouted in pain, covering the wound on his right arm.

Richard shook his head slightly. Gorkan, the fishman prophet, had been a prophet for a long time, and he was usually busy making potions. He might have been neglected for fighting for a long time.

"Let me take a look at your arms."

I saw two small red dots on Gorkan's arm, with blood gushing out. The red dots should be left by the fangs of the lava snake. The surrounding area was beginning to gradually turn dark red, and small blisters appeared.

"Master, this must be poisonous."

Richard nodded and agreed with Gorkan's judgment: "Yes, have you brought the antidote?"

"Bring it."

"Then drink it!"

"Gudong, gudong!"

"By the way, Gorkan, the person who was chasing you just now was a small rolling stone elemental, an earth elemental creature with the strength of an apprentice. It is not very strong. How could you..." Richard couldn't help but ask.

Gorkan's face turned red and hesitantly explained:

"Master, if there are just one or two, I can easily deal with them, but there are a few lava snakes mixed in, and I panic when I feel..."

At this time, Gorkan was also frightened. In fact, if he had played steadily and killed them one by one at the beginning, he would not have been so embarrassed.

But he adopted the wrong response strategy, thinking that he could get rid of the small rolling stone elements and lava snakes. Unexpectedly, he attracted more and more elemental creatures while running.

In the end, it resulted in no fear of stopping to fight.

After hearing this, Richard was speechless for a while, shook his head, and after a slight adjustment, the two of them pushed all the way inside.

After all, killing such a small elemental creature that doesn't even have crystals is worthless.

As we go deeper, the surrounding sulfur smell becomes more and more pungent. Fortunately, Gorkan's water film technique is there.

After a thin film surrounds the body, the air will be cooled and filtered when inhaled again, making the two of them breathe much more comfortably.

Richard glanced at Gorkan and thought to himself, it seems like it's not all bad, just like bringing an air conditioner!

It's just about fighting and stuff, only you come here.

After passing through a tunnel, a pool of boiling magma with bubbles not far away caught their eyes.

Dozens of bright red lava snakes were seen, erecting their bodies high at the moment, spitting out red snakes and leisurely soaking in the lava. From a distance, this scene seemed like a field of red sorghum.

These lava snakes are much larger than the ones we just encountered.

Originally, what Richard encountered was only as thick as two fingers, but now each of these lava snakes was at least as thick as a thigh, and they were much stronger.

Moreover, their body surface is also bright red, indicating that the strength of these lava snakes is close to the limit of wizard apprentices.

"Shh!"

Richard made a silent gesture to Gorkan and pointed in the direction of the lava pool.

Gorkan turned his head slightly and looked, and was immediately startled!

"Hiss! So many lava snakes!" Gorkan said in horror.

If you are attracted to so many lava snakes, I'm afraid it won't be.

The two quickly bypassed the group of lava snakes, turned a corner, and continued forward.

Suddenly, there was a dull rolling sound next to a huge black rock, which seemed to be the sound of friction between rough stones.

"not good!"

Just when Richard was about to retreat, the creature behind the black boulder seemed to sense something and suddenly sped out.

I saw a large boulder over two meters tall with a human-shaped upper body rolling out from behind the giant black rock. The top of this elemental creature was a boulder the size of a washbasin, and a middle figure was faintly revealed on the surface of the boulder. young male face.

A large boulder with a diameter of two meters is the body, and there are a pair of thick humanoid arms on both sides made purely of irregular rocks.

The round stones that make up its body are not polished smooth stones, but rough stones with irregular polygonal surfaces.

Especially the arms, the irregular protruding stones seem to be strong stretched muscles, and the arms look extremely thick, strong and powerful.

The entire body is made of stone, except for the lower body.

However, the other party really "got out"!

Because there is a group of small round stones at the bottom of the large round stone, each about the size of a human head. The rolling principle is used to quickly move the heavy large round stone to the designated position. Therefore, even though the other party is large and heavy, it moves very fast.

"Intruder, die!" A strange wave of mental power came.

The meaning contained in the fluctuations of mental power instantly made Richard and Gorkan understand that the other party was about to launch an attack.

"Master! It's a large rolling stone element!" Gorkan quickly reminded him and quickly cast a prismatic transparent shield formed by water flow to block himself.

Richard quickly dodged and hid behind the tall blood and bone puppet.

At the same time, he silently recited the magic armor technique in his mind, and a black bone armor with spikes instantly covered Richard's body.

However, perhaps due to the influence of the surrounding environment, Richard felt that the water shield technique performed by Gorkan was much less powerful than usual. In the past, the water shield technique performed by Gorkan was much larger and thicker than now.

Just when Gorkan was about to use a water shield technique on Richard, the large rolling stone element on the opposite side raised his hands above his head. The next second, a stone the size of a washbasin suddenly condensed in the middle of his thick hands.

I saw his thick arms holding up the stone, like a sling, and kept leaning back. Suddenly, he threw it heavily towards Gorkan who was performing the technique!

"Whoosh!" A sound broke through the air.

The rocks flew so fast that they left only a gray line in the air!

Just when Richard wanted to remind Gorkan, but the words were still in his throat, Gorkan was hit by a stone.

"Snapped!"

Gorkan's whole body was like a straw. In an instant, he was doubled up by the blow, flew several meters, and fell heavily to the ground.

The water shield in front of it broke apart the moment it came into contact with the rocks coming at high speed.

This attack power!

This "stone throwing" of the large rolling stone element immediately made Richard's eyes freeze and his face became serious!

Richard locked eyes with the other party and helped Gorkan up again and again.

Fortunately, Gorkan was protected by a water shield, so he was not seriously injured, but his face was pale, and he might have had a few broken ribs.

Obviously, the opponent's attack just now was so fast, it must be its innate ability.

It is an innate ability similar to earth magic - boulder magic. The process of condensing stones is almost instantaneous, but the opponent has a process of leaning back to accumulate power, which takes about one second.

"Hoola!!"

When I saw the stone thrown at me just now, the surface of the boulder at the top of the large rolling stone element actually showed a very humane smile.

At the same time, it waved its thick arm, and a bunch of small rolling stones suddenly appeared behind it and rushed towards Richard.

Obviously, the other party has a certain level of intelligence, but since the other party started fighting as soon as they met, Richard did not intend to try to communicate again.

It just so happened that Richard also wanted to test the combat effectiveness of the newly made blood and bone puppet.

Therefore, Richard also waved his hand, and the blood and bone puppet rushed towards him with long strides.

At this time, the group of small rolling stone elements also "rolled" towards Richard.

"Execute Spiral Slash!" Richard gave the order to the blood and bone puppet.

"Swish!"

The sharp bone blades on the elbows, knees and other joints of the blood-bone puppet were like cat claws, and they were ejected instantly.

The blood-bone puppet immediately began to stretch out its arms, pushing the bone blade to the outermost side. Its entire body was like a top, spinning rapidly, forming a storm of bone blades that directly hit the small rolling stone element.

"Crack!"

The outermost bone blade of the Blood Bone Puppet is sharp and extremely hard. As long as it touches a small rolling stone element, it will immediately break the stone.

In just a few seconds, the ground was in a mess, with more than a dozen small rolling stone elements shattered.

This caused the large rolling stone element to send out a violent mental wave: "My children! Damn your enemies, you have to pay the price!"

I saw the large rolling stone element raising its arms again as if to throw. In an instant, a round stone condensed between its hands, just as it was about to throw it at the blood and bone puppet!

But he was stunned on the spot.

It was Richard from behind who used "mental shock!"

Taking this opportunity, the Blood and Bone Puppet quickly approached the large rolling stone element.

"Bah bang bang!"

The bone blades slashed at the rock surface of the large rolling stone element one after another, and sparks suddenly flew out!

And the large rolling stone element couldn't withstand seven or eight slashes per second!

Although it struggled to block with its thick rock arms, it only lasted for a few seconds before dozens of half-finger-deep scratches were made on the rock surface of its arms and body!

Immediately, the male human face on the round stone on his head showed an expression of pain.

"It hurts so much"

Seeing that the opponent was helpless to parry, Richard gave the blood-bone puppet a "jump chop!" command.

"Dang!"

The tall body of the Blood Bone Puppet actually jumped several meters high. The two bone blades on its arms formed a cross and slashed heavily in the center of the large rolling stone element.

"Wow!"

Suddenly, the large rolling stone element could no longer bear it, and the big stone in the center of the body suddenly shattered.

A large piece of gravel was scattered on the dark ground, and one of the light yellow crystals, half the size of a fist, instantly attracted Richard's attention.

"Hey, Master, this is the earth crystal. Although the price is far less than the flame crystal, it is still worth ten thousand magic stones." Gorkan shouted in surprise.

Gorkan quickly stepped forward, picked up the earth crystal, and handed it to Richard's hands.

Putting the earth crystal in his hand, a warm feeling was immediately transmitted from the crystal. Richard could feel the majestic earth energy particles contained in it.

Obviously, this thing should be more useful for wizards who are good at performing earth witchcraft.

However, there are not many wizards in the gray dwarf race who are good at earth witchcraft.

Naturally, the price of earth crystals is much lower than that of flame crystals.

In the battle just now, except for a mental shock, Richard almost didn't make any moves. The whole process was basically a blood and bone puppet, single-handedly challenging a large rolling stone element!

At this time, Richard recalled the blood and bone puppet and took a closer look at the multiple bone blades at its joints. They were as bright as new.

It seems that I have to thank Vice President Hawkins. The strength in front of this ogre must be extraordinary, otherwise the hardness of the skeleton would not be so high.

As a high-level combat puppet, the blood-bone puppet itself has extremely strong combat power, and Richard has transformed it into a dual-energy channel, and its current strength can be said to be extremely powerful.

Judging from the energy fluctuations of the opponent just now, the strength of this large rolling stone element is about the level of a mid-level wizard. But even so, it was defeated by the blood and bone puppet as quickly as it was chopping melons and vegetables after getting close.

In his heart, Richard was very satisfied with the combat effectiveness of the blood and bone puppet.

With the blood and bone puppet by their side, Richard and Gorkan headed all the way towards the depths of the Scorched Earth Secret Realm.

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Three days later.

After these few days of exploration, Richard is relatively familiar with the peripheral conditions of the Scorched Earth Secret Realm.

There are many magma pools scattered around the periphery, as well as passages for large and small magma flows. Some are extremely narrow and can only be passed by one person, while others are relatively spacious.

From time to time, beams of high-temperature steam emerge from the cracks in the rocks on the ground, mixed with sulfide and a small amount of highly toxic chloride, and the visibility is very poor.

And indeed, as Disol said, there are almost no first-order fire elements on the periphery of the secret realm.

Due to the high price of flame crystals, many resource exploration teams have been scouring the periphery for first-order fire elements and herbs for a long time. As a result, this has led to the current situation.

However, although Richard harvested zero flame crystals and herbs, he harvested four earth crystals.

The two of them carefully walked out of a corridor.

"Hey, that's..." Gorkan looked happy.

"Master, look over there!"

Richard turned his head and looked in the direction Gorkan was pointing. Seventy or eighty meters to the left of the two of them, where multiple streams of steam were rising, there was a faint burning flame, suspended in the air, and moving around. Walk.

hiss! First level fire element!

Richard was immediately overjoyed, finally meeting a first-order fire element!

It seems that I am quite lucky and I am not unlucky.

This fire element was like the king of this area, wandering around and patrolling its territory. When the lava snakes saw the fire element, they immediately lowered their heads to show their submission and respect.

Just when Richard was planning to find an open space to avoid the interference of many lava snakes, he tried to kill this fire elemental.

Suddenly, three shadow arrows struck from a distance and hit the fire elemental heavily. Immediately, Richard and Gorkan felt the violent fluctuations of mental power and screams:

"It hurts so much!!"

What Richard was more concerned about was where was the person who sent out this wave of concentrated fire and shadow arrow attacks.

I saw three wizards wearing black robes and hoods walking out of the left passage farther than the fire element.

This made Richard narrow his eyes, and with a wave of his hand, he sent the blood and bone puppet back to the world of the dead. He immediately pulled Gorkan and hid in the corridor he came from.

The opponent's attire immediately made Richard feel that the opponent did not look like an ordinary resource search team.

Because at the gate of the Scorched Earth Secret Realm, he saw the first-level high-level wizards waiting for the team members, their faces basically uncovered.

Although the fire element suffered heavy damage, the blazing flames that were originally three meters high have shrunk by a large circle, but they still have the power to strike.

It finally saw the enemy that sneaked up on it appear!

The flame hand waved forward and instantly blasted out a fireball the size of a basin.

I saw a black-robed wizard on the other side raise his hand, and a spear made of condensed dark elements appeared, and it quickly bombarded the fire element.

Just when Richard was surprised that the opponent did not make any defense and started to attack the fire element, the fireball suddenly annihilated a few meters away from the three black robes.

The fire element was instantly penetrated by the dark element's spear.

With a violent fluctuation of the spirit of the fire element, the flames were extinguished instantly, and a pile of ashes appeared on the ground. A burst of air surged, and a crystal stone flashing with red light suddenly appeared.

I saw a short man in black robe among the three people walking forward quickly, bending down to pick up the flame crystal.

"Hehe, yes, this is the fifth one."

"Hurry up, Zlatko, don't waste your time on such things."

"Mohetar, relax. Isn't this a way to collect a flame crystal? If you walk a few hundred meters ahead, you should reach the mission location. By then, as long as we put the things that Nikol sacrificed us to place in place, You can retreat.”

"It's better to be careful. I'm worried that we will encounter resource teams organized by other wizards. Moreover, our speed is already slow. According to the plan, everyone else should have already placed their things. We are likely to be the last one."

"If you don't want to be punished by the Nicole Priest, you'd better hurry up!"

"." The short man in black robe continued to mumble something, but his pace obviously accelerated a lot.

It seems that the Nicole sacrifice mentioned by the other party is very intimidating to them.

The sound is getting farther and farther

Gorkan was originally angry at the three strange black-robed wizards for stealing the fire element, but once he saw the witchcraft performed by the other party, he knew that the other party's strength was far superior to his own.

Although the distance was too far to detect the other party's mental fluctuations, judging from the wizard who used the Shadow Spear, at least one of the other party was a first-level high-level wizard.

Richard was silent at this time.

Obviously, the other party is definitely not a serious resource search team, and the purpose of coming to the Scorched Earth Secret Realm is also doubtful.

More importantly, the word "sacrifice" touched Richard's slightly sensitive nerves.

Could it be that the other party is from the Nightmare Church?

However, weren’t the members of the Nightmare Church in Tuge City uprooted by the city guards?

"Gorkan, have you ever heard of the name Nicole? Think about it carefully." Richard asked.

"Master, a few years ago, I seemed to have heard of a cultist named Nicole!" Gorkan thought for a while and replied.

"The other party seems to be a member of the Jade Fire Cult. When he was sacrificing a gray dwarf town, he was defeated by the gray dwarf wizard Baghdadi who was passing by at the time. However, it is said that more than half of the thousand gray dwarves in that town were killed or injured, and there were only two survivors. Three hundred people.”

"This made the gray dwarf officials furious, and Nicole was immediately put on the wanted list." Gorkan introduced.

"The Jade Fire Cult?" Richard rubbed his chin and muttered to himself, "Also, the name Baghdadi seems a bit familiar!"

Richard had an impression of the Jade Fire Cult. It was one of the five major cult organizations that Gorkan had introduced before.

"Hey, Master, have you forgotten? Baghdadi is the current Lord of Tuge City."