White Tree Highland.
The cold wind was biting cold, and the earth was wrapped in a thick layer of silver.
White trees that were twenty to thirty meters tall stood tall on the vast snowy ground like huge pillars.
High hardness, strong toughness, light weight, high source energy conductivity, and many other advantages. White tree was destined to be an excellent material. It was used on bows, wooden shields, sticks, and other weapons. It was more suitable for ships.
White tree was just a general term. In this area, there were Ancient Silver White Tree, Star Earth White Tree, Bright White Tree, and other species. Each species had some differences. They all mutated after the doomsday.
The Eternal Peace Shelter had long discovered this treasure land. In the early days before the rune equipment came out, the official hunters of the Eternal Peace Shelter could gain the upper hand in the battle against the demonic beasts by relying on the wooden armor and weapons made of white tree.
Even today, the war weapons made from the White Tree and inscribed with runes had not fallen behind the mainstream.
The white tree business allowed the Eternal Peace Shelter to exchange a lot of rare materials from some of the large shelters around it.
A corner of the White Tree Highland.
It was a lumberyard that occupied an area of more than ten to twenty acres. There were many small buildings with three to four stories. There was also a small wall made of white trees and steel surrounding the perimeter. The wall was more than three meters tall, and there were machine guns installed on it. There were also many watchtowers that were more than ten meters tall …
The lumberyard was usually garrisoned with a 200-man Eternal Peace City Defense Force. The captain was an Eighth Awakening Hunter, fully equipped with a full set of rune equipment. Their strength was also ranked among the top in the shelter. They hired unofficial hunters in batches to patrol the White Tree Highland. Even recently, when the patrol frequency was reduced a lot, there were more than 500 hunters in the White Tree Highland at the same time.
Relying on the lumberyard, they could even resist a level-3 demonic wave. Not to mention, the lumberyard had only encountered a level-2 demonic wave five times since it was opened.
But today.
Severed limbs, heads that were wide open, and the snow that was dyed red …
The smell of blood permeated the lumberyard. Even in this cold season, it was still pungent, as if ghosts lingered in the sky for a long time.
"The shelter of the Great Xia Kingdom is so weak. None of them can fight."
An old man with a skinny face and sparse hair, who seemed to be left with only a layer of skin and bones, said in a disdainful tone.
The surrounding Heavenly Wolf Hall warriors voiced their agreement.
In fact, the Great Xia Kingdom still had some experts. The garrison commander that was stationed at the sawmill and the team that came later had some experts that were almost on par with them.
Unfortunately, this level of strength was indeed not worth mentioning in front of that lord.
The Celestial Wolf Hall warrior looked at the bald man with awe.
Behind the man, countless corpses with twisted faces slowly stood up!
Skywolf Temple's cadre, Bone Shadow Kawada Seiichi!
…
Something happened in the White Tree Highland. This matter was posted on the front page of the Adventurer's Guild, and it immediately caused quite a stir.
On the mission home page, every mission was extremely valuable. Many of them were high-difficulty missions that had been hanging in the Tree Shade headquarters for a month or two without being completed.
For example,
[Shadow of the Alien Race]: Discover or kill an Elite Alien Race or above. Depending on the level of the Alien Race killed, you can receive different rewards.
But only those who had entered the Condensing Source Realm were qualified to be called Alien Race Elites. They were strong and more cunning than demonic beasts. It was difficult to find traces of them, let alone kill them.
At this stage, it was difficult for adventurers to do so. Tang Yu's purpose of posting the mission was to let adventurers know about the Alien Race in advance and promote the evil deeds of the Alien Race to achieve the purpose of ideological mobilization. With the example of other shelters, although the Alien Race couldn't infiltrate the territory, Tang Yu didn't want the leeks that he had painstakingly cultivated to be taken away by the Alien Race.
Other missions such as [Looking for the Distant Elves], [Exploring the Shennongjia] and so on were all difficult and time-span missions.
[Investigate the White Tree Highland Enemy Situation] mission, although it was only at the back of the front page, it also attracted the attention of a large number of adventurers.
"No wonder the reward is so high. It turns out that even the Ancestral Dragon Legion of Yong An City couldn't defeat that mysterious group of enemies!"
"RBQRBQ, I'd better be an honest person."
"It's just to investigate the enemy situation and it's already a five-star mission. Amazing, amazing. I'm envious of the merit reward this time, but damn it, my star rank isn't enough!"
Suddenly, a different voice rang out.
"The six-star Warhammer Adventurer Team is recruiting temporary teammates for the [White Tree Highland] mission. You can join the adventurer team to share the mission. The requirement is strength above the Seventh Awakening Stage, combat power increase of at least 5 +. Mages and assassins are preferred! The quota is limited, first come, first served! "
While the others were still discussing, the person in charge of the Warhammer Adventurer Team's branch in Luoxia, who had been single for 30 years, placed half of the mission quota. It was just to investigate the enemy situation. The mission limit was 30 people, and they could also share the reward together. Yong An City planned to wait for the enemy situation to be clear, and then hire some adventurers to cooperate with their own troops to destroy the enemy in one fell swoop.
As soon as the person in charge of the Warhammer Adventurer Team opened his mouth, the hunters' eyes in the hall immediately lit up. Some people who thought they were strong but suffered from the short time of registration and didn't have enough adventurer stars immediately squeezed forward to participate in the Warhammer Adventurer Team's screening.
If they performed well in the [White Tree Highland] mission, they might really be able to join the Warhammer Adventurer Team.
And this was also good for the Warhammer Adventurer Team itself. Rewards were distributed to everyone according to the agreement, but it could allow the adventurer team to accumulate more points to reach the seven-star rank.
Warhammer only recruited six temporary teammates, but it attracted at least a dozen hunters above the Seventh Awakening Stage.
This scene made some of the adventurers from other places who had just registered their identity confused. "What combat power increase? Mages, assassins, what's that?! "
Didn't they agree that only hunters and ability users would be allowed to enter?
Why do I feel like we're in a different world?
It wasn't just one person who had questions. The old salted fish adventurer next to him, who had no place to show off, his eyes lit up and came forward.
"The Adventurer's Guild is not only a place to register an adventurer's identity, but also a place to participate in profession certification. Now we have a total of six basic professions, warrior, mage, assassin, priest, gunner, archer … Mages are generally ability users, but the difference is that ability users can only be certified as a mage if they have mastered enough spells and knowledge.
The same goes for other professions. I'll give you the most common warrior profession. First, you need to pass the warrior's strength and speed test, as well as the actual combat test, and master more than two warrior profession combat skills in order to bask in the glory of the warrior profession.
Don't look at the fact that the Warhammer Adventurer's first words are mages and assassins. In fact, at this stage of the profession certification, even if it's the easiest warrior profession, all of them are strong. Combat skills are expensive and difficult to learn. For people like us, I'm afraid we won't be able to become a professional for the rest of our lives.
But I heard that in the Tree Shade, there's a complete profession inheritance process. Even if you're just a newbie hunter, as long as you accept the inheritance, you can immediately become a battle-hardened and powerful professional. "
The old salted fish adventurer was very envious, but he couldn't work hard. He could only show off in front of other newbies to maintain his current life.
…
Soon, the 30 places for the [White Tree Highland] mission were snatched up.
Among them, the Warhammer Adventurer Group dispatched nine core members, plus six external members. As for the other fifteen people, there were solo players and members of large adventurer groups. However, apart from Warhammer, the Purple Mountain Mercenary Group, which had the most members, only had four. Thus, Warhammer seemed to be the leader of this operation.
The Warhammer Adventurer Group was famous. Including Warhammer's vice leader, there were three six-star adventurers, and the rest were five-star adventurers. No one was dissatisfied.
The 30 people replenished their supplies in the "Trading House" next door. After making enough preparations, they rushed to the "Eternal Peace Shelter" in the north.
The north wind was blowing.
The Warhammer Adventurer Group's branch leader, Xiao Qingsheng, and 29 other experts arrived at the designated meeting place.
Eternal Peace Shelter's temporary stronghold in the wild.
They were here to meet the person who commissioned the mission.
As soon as he entered the door, the heat wave from the fireplace came. Xiao Qingsheng saw the client, the second-in-command of the Eternal Peace Mercenary Mission Center, a young man who looked kind.
In addition, in the small house, there were more than a dozen hunters with aura above the Seventh Awakening Realm. When they saw them, they all looked over with scrutiny or indifference.
Xiao Qingsheng knew in his heart that these … were probably the local mercenaries of Eternal Peace Shelter.
After all, the distance from Luoxia Shelter was not close. Not everyone had the courage to abandon their family and career to seek development in a new place.
"… The situation in the White Tree Highland appeared two days ago. After the Ancestral Dragon Battle Group risked their lives to get here, that mysterious group of enemies, although they also speak the Great Xia language, most of them speak the Sakura language. We suspect that it's a group of Sakura people who stayed in the Great Xia Kingdom before the doomsday.
As for the voyage from the Sakura Kingdom to here, the second-in-command of the mission center and the other higher-ups of Eternal Peace Shelter never had this idea.
"Those people are very strong. Our Ancestral Dragon team was ambushed and had to retreat. But I need to make one thing clear. Although the Ancestral Dragon team was ambushed, they also had two experts of the ninth stage and several experts of the eighth stage, but they couldn't hold on for long.
That group of people is very strong. Therefore, this mission is mainly to explore the enemy's situation. Don't be impulsive. We will calculate the reward according to the situation. "
The second-in-command didn't hide anything. In addition to the Ancestral Dragon Brigade's fiasco, he told all the other information to all the hunters present.
He also felt the aura of Xiao Qingsheng and the other 30 people. Nearly half of them had an aura above the Eighth Awakening Realm, and four of them had reached the Ninth Awakening Realm.
Compared with the declining mercenary industry in their homeland, there was really a big gap.
However, that group of mysterious people was too strong. In just a few minutes, the Ancestral Dragon team suffered heavy losses. In the end, there were only five or six people left who managed to escape. The two ninth layer captains and vice captains all died in battle.
Such a tragic scene scared the leader, Cui Xinsheng, so he didn't dare to continue to attack, hoping to find out the enemy's details.
However, the Ancestral Dragon Brigade was defeated. The discipline was lax, and it was a joint team. No one obeyed anyone. Could such a team really complete the mission?
The second-in-command was not optimistic at all.
… …
Snowflakes fell.
Snow covered everything.
Xiao Qingsheng and the other adventurers were prepared. They all changed into snow-painted combat suits. The snowy sky became the best camouflage color.
The mercenaries from Eternal Peace Shelter, although they couldn't buy standard combat suits, they also put on white jackets. In terms of survival and camouflage, there were no mediocre people present.
Gradually approaching the White Tree Highland, they could see the silvery white snow trees in the distance and the outline of the lumberyard built on the edge of the woodland.
"What should we do? If we continue to get closer, we will inevitably be noticed by the people inside. "
Someone asked.
A mercenary from Eternal Peace Shelter said, "What else can we do? Let's go our own way, use our own means, and leave it to fate!"
He was very against Luoxia's adventurers and didn't want to act together.
They clearly hired them, but they still entrusted so many adventurers. The Eternal Peace Shelter official made it clear that they weren't enough to complete the mission. Even if it was true.
Xiao Qingsheng, the leader of the Warhammer Division, frowned. He knew that a forced melon wouldn't be sweet.
"We have a perceptive ability in our team. Why don't we let her do a rough exploration first, then we'll talk about the action plan."
"Perceptive ability? What's the use of that! There's a master in that group. If you use your mental power to explore, you will be noticed in minutes. Don't beat the grass and scare the snake! "
Xiao Qingsheng smiled confidently, "We have our own way to not be discovered."
After saying that.
In the team behind him, a female hunter, holding a staff inlaid with a crystal at the top, stood on the ground, closed her eyes, and murmured.
A moment later, her eyes opened, and there seemed to be a flash of light. She raised the staff, and the crystal at the top glowed slightly.
Spell "Eagle Scout"!
Some of the hunters around could feel that something seemed to have shot out at that moment.
In the sky, an illusory figure, shaped like an eagle, soared, looking at the lumberyard below with sharp eyes.
Perception domain exploration was easily detected by people with strong mental power. But it was different through spells. The vision of the "Eagle Scout" could see any energy reaction, and it didn't need mental power to cover it, so it was difficult to be detected.
The spell lasted for more than a minute. The Eternal Peace Shelter mercenaries were surprised and closed their mouths firmly.
After the Scout Eagle dispersed, the female aptitude user said, "The energy response of the people inside is very high, but there are not many of them. There are only 57 people. There are no awakened energy responses in other places in sight. It should be because they are far away …"
Xiao Qingsheng, the commander of the branch, reacted immediately. "The White Tree Highland is a resource area. The enemy has occupied it for the white trees inside. Now that two days have passed, the enemy might be on alert, but it's impossible for all of them to stay in the sawmill …
Since there aren't many enemies now, can we … fight a wave and capture a few captives for questioning? It's much more efficient than exploring slowly. "
Fifty-seven enemies, more than them, and none of them were weak.
But the hunters present, whether adventurers or mercenaries, were the best in the industry. They had enough confidence in themselves.
As long as it wasn't three to five times the number of enemies, it wouldn't be difficult to take them down easily!
Next, the female hunter used the "Eagle Scout" twice to determine that the nearest enemy was three to five kilometers away from the lumberyard.
This meant that as long as they moved quietly and quickly, it was entirely possible for them to escape before the enemy's reinforcements arrived.
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