The sky was getting dark. The castle was located on the edge of the sparse woods. Looking into the distance, one could see that the moon had slowly risen from the horizon. The village that could be vaguely seen during the day had disappeared into the night. It was quiet all around.
"There is indeed a problem here." The trainee ranger said, "In this season, the wild shouldn't be so quiet."
"Undead monsters emit negative energy, and no creature likes it. Except for a few mutated monsters in the Ashes Woods in the northwest, even ordinary monsters will deliberately avoid the negative energy's range of influence. " The trainee priest was very clear about these things. "But … when we came here during the day, there were a lot of beasts here."
"Yes, I was going to catch two to barbecue at night." The trainee ranger could not help but sigh. "Now we have to eat dry food."
"Probably during the day, the negative energy is suppressed by the sun." The trainee priest guessed. "At night, the negative energy will be strengthened. So it is said that in the Ashes Woods, there are often a large number of undead monsters at night. It is extremely dangerous. "
"Undead? If it is skeletons, there is nothing to be afraid of. " The forthright apprentice warrior chuckled. "It's nothing more than finding a thick wooden stick and smashing it down. That's it."
"Of course, one or two skeletons are not scary. Even ordinary farmers can deal with them." Yue Yi smiled and said, "But it is said that the skeletons in the Ashes Woods either don't appear, or if they do, they will appear in at least 'hundreds'. Every night of the extreme cold, there may even be an army of tens of thousands of skeletons. Do you think you can defeat hundreds of skeletons? "
The trainee warrior did not even think about it and directly shook his head.
Of course, there were heroes in the world who could defeat hundreds of skeletons, but he was certainly not one of them. Not to mention hundreds, dealing with ten or eight skeletons at a time was enough to kill him.
After all, although the individual strength of skeletons was not strong, they were not afraid of pain and death. Once there were a lot of them, the threat would immediately skyrocket.
Not to mention other things, once five or six skeletons grabbed his head and feet, unless he was born with divine strength, otherwise, ordinary people would not be able to use their martial arts, and would definitely die.
He could barely be considered skilled in martial arts. If he used all of his abilities, he might be able to force a dozen farmers to flee in panic. However, when faced with a dozen skeletons, he would have to be the one running away.
"The strange thing is, why can't I feel any negative energy?" The trainee priest carefully sensed for a while and said in confusion, "I can't feel any."
"You'll probably be able to sense it when you walk out of this magic array," Yue Yi said calmly. "But that also means that you might be attacked by evil spirits."
"I don't want to take that risk. If I can't feel it, then I can't feel it."
Everyone smiled kindly. For rookie adventurers like them, safety first was undoubtedly the golden rule. Those who did not respect this rule would mostly die in one of their adventures, never having the chance to enjoy a bright future.
"Alright, it's getting late. Everyone, eat some dry rations and go to bed early. The three of us will take turns to keep watch." After laughing, the apprentice knight began to arrange the night watch.
When adventuring, the night watch is an essential and important job. Most of the monsters were active at night. If they did not arrange for night watch, once they were attacked by monsters, it was very likely that everyone would die without knowing what was going on.
And among the adventurers, there was a rule that spellcasters did not keep watch. This was to take care of the spellcasters who were relatively weak and needed sufficient rest. It was also to ensure that they would not be affected by lack of sleep during the day and reduce the success rate of casting spells.
Adequate sleep could help the spellcasters recover their magic power better, and it could also help them maintain a good state of mind. Unless there were so many spellcasters in the team that they did not need to care about such trivial matters, otherwise, everyone would abide by the rule of "spellcasters do not keep watch."
In other words, if anyone saw a team of adventurers actually letting spellcasters keep watch, they were most likely rookies!
Of course, there were exceptions. For example, some priests who believed in the God of Night or the God of Shadows, or some necromancers … The night was their home field, and they would be dispirited and listless during the day.
However, such spellcasters would definitely not act together with ordinary adventurers, so strictly speaking, they were not really special.
Naturally, Yue Yi and the apprentice priest were not special. Both of them needed sufficient rest to ensure that they would be full of magic power and in good condition the next day. But unlike Yue Yi, who slept peacefully, the apprentice priest obviously did not sleep well. He tossed and turned at night and woke up a few times.
More than once, he clearly felt that there was an evil force peeping at him, so he woke up in shock. But when he looked around, he did not see anything. Not long after he fell asleep in a daze, he once again felt the evil force peeping at him, so he woke up with a start … This repeated a few times, and he could not sleep well that night. The next morning, he was completely dispirited and listless, obviously not in good condition.
Naturally, his companions noticed his situation and asked him about it with concern. But when he told them about the times he woke up in shock during the night, the three people on night watch were at a loss.
Not to mention the Warriors and Knights who had relatively weaker senses, even the rangers with better senses didn't sense any evil spying on them.
"Don't let your imagination run wild. This is the usual method of evil spirits." After a good sleep, Yue Yi who was full of energy sighed and said, "It spied on you from the spiritual world. It knows that spellcasters are its greatest enemies, so it tried to disturb your mind — this might be a good thing, because it indirectly proves that this evil spirit is not very strong. Otherwise, it would not need to use such methods."
After this analysis, everyone's heart was much more at ease. The curious warrior thought of another thing and asked, "What about you? You are also a spellcaster, right? "
Yue Yi smiled and said, "Perhaps it is only able to disturb a person's mind, and that is already its limit. No matter what, compared to a mage like me, the apprentice priest is definitely more of a threat to it. "
Of course, what she said was a lie. Although she was currently using the body of the apprentice mage, the soul in the body was that of a talented young mage, and also the child of two Legendary-level powerhouses. According to some scholars, the status of her soul was innately higher than that of ordinary people. The evil spirit had tried to attack her during the night, but not only did it not disturb her mind, but it also suffered a backlash and was injured quite badly.
However, she naturally could not explain this to her companions. After all, the spirit of the evil spirit was injured, and its power would definitely decrease. Although her previous analysis was wrong, at least the result was right.
In contrast, she was a little curious about another matter.
On this night, she clearly felt that there was a kind soul watching her. It sent a friendly message, as if it wanted to tell her something. Unfortunately, she was after all a mage and not a priest. Soul communication was not her forte, so it was a pity that she could not hear it clearly.
"How many days do we have of dry rations?" The captain asked.
The ranger in charge of logistics looked at it and replied, "If we save a little, we can last for three days. If we go hunting tomorrow after lunch, we will be hunting."
"Then we will rest this morning," the captain said. "We must let the priest get enough rest, we cannot take the risk."
No one objected to this, and the ranger even said that he could take the opportunity to hunt in the morning, and catch a few rabbits for lunch.
So for lunch, they had roasted rabbits and a little dry rations.
The rookie adventurers' barbecue skills were not very good, but at least they were roasted well. Yue Yi was not satisfied with the food, but at least she had eaten her fill.
She did not stay idle this morning. She checked the condition of the Purification Circle and made some temporary tools. She used some materials she had gathered at the last minute, and used up almost all the gems in the apprentice mage's storage. She made a few poorly made pendants, strung them with a thin string, and gave one to each of her companions.
"Spiritual Protection Pendant," she introduced. "It can slightly increase the ability to defend against spiritual attacks. It's better than nothing."
Her companions happily wore the pendant, although Yue Yi knew that it would not be of much help.
The engraving of the Spiritual Protection Circle was correct, and the combination of materials was also strictly in accordance with the rules. The problem was that the materials were too low-level, and she did not have enough magic to soak these materials to improve their effects.
This method, known as "enchantment", had a hard requirement on the strength of the caster's magic. The apprentice mage only had this much magic, and considering that there might be a battle in the afternoon or night, she could only use this much magic.
If she could survive tonight, she could do a second processing on these pendants tomorrow morning to improve their effects. Although it would not improve by much, at least it would not be a waste of those few gems.
Yue Yi thought of this, and prepared the scroll and wand in a place where she could use them at any time, and then hung two short swords carved from locust wood on her waist.
This pair of short swords was made by the knight at her request this morning. Locust wood was a kind of wood that could fuse well with negative energy. Using it as a primer, this pair of short swords could be used to hurt evil spirits.
Of course, another kind of primer was needed. If it was not necessary, she did not want to use that.
Even if this was just a game, Yue Yi did not intend to risk her life.
But, if it was really necessary, she would not hesitate.
In a battle, hesitation was the most important emotion. No matter what choice it was, it was better than not choosing at all.
After lunch, the priest finally had a good rest and recovered his energy.
So the group of people arranged themselves in the most suitable battle formation, and once again stepped into the castle.
This time, they were much more serious and nervous than yesterday.
Sui Xiong watched all this from the sky, and could not help but smile.
"Yue Yi, this child … seems to have the talent to be a commander …"
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