Chapter 9 [Blood-sucking Eternal Life Sprout]!

Shadow City. The novel "" netizens hit it by hand

This is a very special city, because half of the city is hidden in its own shadow. The ruler of this city is a wizard in the realm of the demigods. No one has seen her true face. People all call her [Shadow Queen]. According to legend, she has the power that is almost like a god and has been wandering outside this world.

The actual controller of Shadow City is a group of Shadow Magisters, who formed the Shadow Council, which was an independent organization outside secular power during the period of the Human Empire. It is said that the powerful Shadow Queen used her mysterious spell to open up a hidden shadow plane. This semi-plane relied on Shadow City and became a space outside the material plane. If it weren't for the invasion of the abyss that threatened the entire world, I'm afraid these Shadow Magisters might not have been willing to accept other races into Shadow City.

While chatting with the rest of the caravan, Murphy learned that the Shadow Mages were all existences with strange tempers and very strange personalities.

Several people who had been able to talk to him along the way told him that it would be better not to have conflicts with those mages in Shadow City, they were all very revengeful people. In addition to Shadow Magi, there were a large number of lichs in the city. Because in the battle in the capital of the Empire, tens of thousands of arcane magisters outside the city broke together to summon the meteorite rain. Many imperial magisters died in battle, but a very small number of lucky people survived. In order to avenge and pursue stronger power, these surviving people began to study some taboo magic, not only the arcane of the necromancer faction, but also some demonic summons, and the spells of demon slavery were also included in the research topic.

In the process of studying these taboo spells, a large number of mages transformed themselves into lichs.

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The invasion of the abyss will occur every ten years, because the fluctuations of elemental tides are based on ten years as the ups and downs. Within ten years, the elemental tides of a plane will have a small ups and downs. At the moment when the elemental oscillation peaks, the high-level demons in the abyss will work together to break the plane channel and send a large number of abyss demons and mutant monsters to this world.

The passage connecting the abyss is the twelve detonated active volcanoes.

When the gate of the abyss was opened, a large number of demons and monsters would emerge from the lava land, and many mages who had originally escaped from the world would gather together. At other times, these mages would practice on their own territory. Although there were not many gods on this plane, there were some spellcasters close to the demigods, and there were even more heroes entering the legendary realm.

Just like the Ice Girl in the caravan, Murphy pointed out that she was a spellcaster in the legendary realm, only one step away from the realm of the demigod!

It is precisely because of the existence of these legendary heroes that this plane has been struggling to survive for so long under the invasion of the abyss demon.

All the way south.

Murphy discovered that the towns and villages along the way were mixed.

Races such as humans, dwarfs, orcs, half-elves, mixed-blood elves, etc. all live together.

However, among the towns passed by, Murphy did not see any trace of pure-blooded elves. As for the higher elves who inherited higher bloodlines, they did not see any. It seems that those pure-blooded elves are not used to living with other races. At noon, the caravan reached a large town, Murphy actually saw the figure of a descendant of a giant.

In the world where the Kingdom of Athens is located, there are also giant descendants who inherit a trace of the tiny blood of Titan giants.

However, because the Yunzhong Mountains are too far away from the southern plains, Murphy has only heard of them, but has never seen them with his own eyes.

This time, he saw a new species.

What he saw was a hilly giant with light gray skin, about four meters and two meters tall, full of muscles, extremely majestic and majestic, wearing simple leather armor, sewn with the skin of some kind of sub-dragon creature. The weapon was a giant sword, with a length of three meters and a width of about fifty centimeters. The weight was conservatively estimated to be more than half a ton!

This is no longer a place for heavy weapons, and siege equipment is nothing more than that.

Not to mention the giant sword in his hand, if it is caught, ordinary creatures may be smashed into a pool of meat mud on the spot. Many descendants of giants have the talent of petrified skin, so they rarely wear armor. Hilly giants are a race with specialized petrified skin, so they are completely a human-shaped tank when fighting, and they are crushing on the battlefield!

Most of the giants have honest personalities and are easy to get along with without getting angry.

This hilly giant looks very good-tempered. Many people in the town are not afraid of him, and people say hello to him from time to time.

He brought a large amount of goods, most of which were animal fur. When Murphy saw him, he was shaking his fingers with a gecko. While shaking the accounts, he waved his hand to signal that the goblin merchant who was not yet taller than his knees to give him a bag of food. Many giants had bad brains. They were like children before they were 100 years old and had low IQs. Only those giants who lived over three hundred years old would learn like personal spirits in a long time. The giant's body developed in the first 150 years, and the nutrition was concentrated on the muscles, so the giant's early growth was very fast, and in the next 150 years, it gradually changed to IQ. At that time, the giant's height difference was almost fixed.

The relationship between the hill giant and the dwarf is good, and there seems to be some similar blood relationship between the two.

In the end, the hill giant convinced the cunning goblin merchant because after he could not calculate the goblin merchant, he thumped the ground with his fist in anger, and then heard a loud "bang bang". As the earth shook, a big pit was hammered out of the street. Everyone around was scared, and the goblin merchant fell to the ground.

It struggled for a moment, but in the end it gritted its teeth and gave the hill giant an extra bag of food with a heartache and blood.

The high-quality fur of a carriage, including the fur of a monster, finally changed the food of a carriage from the treacherous goblin merchant. After the hill giant brought the bag of grain he had received onto the carriage, he happily pulled the food of the carriage away. Before leaving, the hill giant stopped in the passing tavern. He stood at the door of the tavern, he hesitated for a long time, muttering something with his fingers.

Because his physique was almost a floor high, he couldn't get into the tavern, and half of his body blocked the door. However, it was broad daylight and there seemed to be no one in the tavern, so it didn't bother him standing there.

Murphy was very curious and couldn't help but walk over to hear what he was saying.

"If you exchange the red stone for wine, Tima will be very angry. Hammer has nothing to please Tima and make her happy." The hilly giant squatted on the ground and muttered, holding a ruby ​​the size of a pebbled stone in his hand, as if he wanted to exchange the gem for wine. However, although he was muttering to himself, his voice was still very heavy when he spoke, and Murphy could hear it clearly between more than ten meters.

"Drinking with gems?" Murphy was a little amused and crying.

Although Murphy did not know how expensive the world's food price was, there was no doubt that such a large piece of gem was incalculable. If it were in the Kingdom of Athens, its value could almost be bought in a tavern. Although Murphy had limited knowledge of the world, he could also estimate its amazing value.

Hesitated for a while.

The hilly giant finally patted his butt and stood up, reluctantly leaving the tavern.

"Although Hammer really wants to drink, he also wants to marry Tima back to warm up the bed. Let's keep it to please Tima." The hill giant seemed to have found a reason to convince him, so he left with a happy smile.

This is a living treasure!

It has been eight days since I arrived in this plane.

Murphy was always in a heavy mood, and it was difficult for him to really relax everything he saw along the way.

However, after seeing this hill giant, Murphy smiled very rarely, and she was very happy. This was the first time he came to this broken plane to laugh, so he decided to invite the hill giant to drink.

but.

Murphy had no money either.

"Wait a minute." Murphy called out to the hill giant in front of him.

The huge body of the hill giant turned around, looked at Murphy in confusion, and said, "Human? What are you calling Hanmo for? Hanmo has no fur. If you want, come back next month."

The giant's voice is very thick, very thick.

"Wait a moment, I'll invite you to drink!" Murphy smiled and said slowly.

drink wine?

As soon as he heard of drinking, the hill giant suddenly became interested. He walked to Murphy a few steps and said excitedly: "Really?"

"Really." Murphy nodded and continued, "You are waiting for me here."

After saying that, Murphy turned around and walked into the tavern.

There were only a few people in the tavern, and a wooden sign was erected in the middle with the names of several kinds of wines written on it. The text was the dwarf language used in this world, and Murphy didn't know any of them. Because of the relationship between [Reading] and [Memory], Murphy could understand the higher elves and human languages ​​of this world, but he knew nothing about many languages ​​unless he had enough time to learn and use the ability of arcane to remember.

The owner of the tavern was a red-bearded dwarf who was lying bored on the counter.

As soon as he entered the tavern, Murphy found that the surroundings were quiet, and then he realized the fluctuations in the elements inside the tavern.

"Soundproof barrier?" Murphy was stunned and then slowly walked forward.

After all, this place is not the original world. The civilization progress of this plane is much higher. However, it still surprised Murphy when a soundproof barrier is set up in a small tavern. It is indeed a plane with a brilliant arcane civilization. Murphy has seen too many novel things along the way. Although this plane has become very broken under the invasion of the abyss, he still sees many arcane traces that have been integrated into life in the safe rear.

There are not many guests in the tavern.

Most of them sat in the dark corner, and then Murphy realized that most of the people inside were mages!

That's right.

Almost all the guests in the tavern were wearing long robes, and three or four people looked like they were dressed as mages. Hearing the heavy footsteps when Murphy entered the door, several mages looked up at him, and then did their own things indifferently. An ordinary swordsman, wearing dusty old outfits, such a person is not worthy of their attention.

However, there was a mage in a corner who looked at him with interest.

Due to the invasion of the abyss, this world has led to plane-based grain production reduction. What follows is that the price of grain remains high, and naturally wine has become a luxury that ordinary people cannot access. This is why there are only a few guests in a tavern, and they are all mages. The fundamental thing is that ordinary people, even adventurers may not have so much money to consume luxury goods such as wine.

The tavern that the adventurer went to was on the other side of the town, where only the lowest-grade ale was served, and the price was as high as a silver coin per cup. To be precise, it should be said to be a big cup. For those adventurers, the amount of a big cup could already offset the dissatisfaction of the tavern.

Murphy was not a rich man at first glance.

"What a plane with brilliant arcane skills. You can see so many mages when you enter a tavern." Murphy also glanced at them a few times, wisely not disturbing these mages.

Along the way, he had seen too many mages, not one or two thousand, but also seven or eight hundred.

Although there are not many high-level mages, those first-level and second-level mages can be said to be a large number of them, and almost every town has a large number of low-level mages. The elemental tides of this plane have stabilized, and it can be said that they have entered the era of vigorous development of arcane civilization. What follows is a large number of intelligent creatures awakening arcane talents, and batch after batch of low-level mages appear.

The two planes with outstanding talent may be equally rare, but different environments determine that there is a huge gap in the number of low-level mages at the grassroots level!

"How much does a barrel of wine cost?" Murphy asked at the counter.

The red-bearded dwarf boss looked at him lazily, with a hint of disdain in his eyes, and hummed, "What kind?"

In order to avoid trouble, Murphy no longer used the High Elves language, because he now found that there are quite a few people who understand the High Elves language in this plane, and most of them are concentrated in the middle-level and above mage class and the aristocratic class in various places. So what he just asked was the human language that he had just learned for a while. The gold medal thugs in Athens are no longer around him. Murphy wisely chose to be a low-key person.

"The most ordinary." Murphy said slowly without being angry.

He is now covered in dust and his clothes are a little broken, and he looks more like a down-and-out mercenary.

"Fifteen gold coins." The red-bearded dwarf still looked cold and hummed.

Fifteen gold coins?

Murphy was shocked at once. The best spirits can be bought in Athens at this price.

Thinking about it, he pulled out the knight sword at his waist, placed it on the counter, and said in a deep voice: "Can this sword be exchanged for a bucket of good wine?"

The cold light flashes!

When the knight sword was placed on the counter, not only the cold-hearted dwarf of the red-bearded dwarf widened his eyes, but even the mages present were attracted in an instant and looked at each other.

A cold light flowed from the sword. Even though hundreds of years have passed, the arcane runes on it still have no trace of weakness, and a faint elemental fluctuation has come from it. Just a glance, everyone could see its extraordinaryness. This is not an ordinary knight sword, but a weapon attached to the arcane runes! This extremely high enchanting craft can only be seen in the most glorious period of the human empire!

Dwarves are all species that like to make iron.

Naturally, he had a talented specialization in weapon forging. A glimmer of light flashed in the red-bearded dwarf's eyes, and he immediately picked up the sword with excitement. He stroked the sword body with his rough palms, revealing a greedy expression, and said incredibly: "This is the forging craft of the Empire era!"

The dwarf touched the inscription on the sword with his fingers and slowly recited it.

——"Faith and strength, fight with unyielding will!"

Sharp!

A dagger forged by fine iron was inserted into the counter, and the dagger was thrown out, accurately hitting the dwarf's hand touching the hilt of the sword, and knocking it down on the counter.

Not far away in the corner.
To be continued...