Chapter 25: Wild Mare
The third task, which seems unremarkable, is OK to unlock the seal of the soul stone and inject energy. However, this is the difficulty rating of S-!
Who set the seal of the Soul Stone?
Falgar, the chief royal alchemist of the Lionheart Empire.
Recalling Margao's diary, Bai Xiaowen could confirm this.
Of course, the Soul Stone used to have seals, which were set up by the nuns of the North County Monastery. After Falgar stole the Soul Stone, he performed a forbidden ritual in the Plague Rat's Den, breaking the original seal, absorbing the Soul Stone's energy, and then sealing it again.
Even if Falgar's main business is alchemy, and his combat effectiveness is a weakness, the seal he set up is definitely not something that can be opened casually by a cat or a dog splashing two basins of black dog blood, and he must find a big man with the same strength as Falgar.
But here comes the problem again. Someone who can break the seal, can't they recognize this as the lost soul stone of the North County Monastery?
If the other party is upright and reports it to the North County Monastery, then Bai Xiaowen will be greeted by a group of fanatical nuns, or a woman in a state of rage. That's right, it's the royal knight Golia-I knew that I would come to Aaron's plane, so I wouldn't be a hooligan-Bai Xiaowen sighed.
If the other party is a little thicker and blacker and swallows the soul stone with his backhand, then what greets Bai Xiaowen is to throw the Huangpu River to feed the fish or pour cement into the sea.
Even if the seal can be broken, how can it inject energy?
"It's a difficult task. ”
Bai Xiaowen muttered, lock the third task, choose, confirm! Where is the yield without guts, S-'s job transfer task, as long as it is successful, a proper hero career! Moreover, this task is obviously based on the soul stone, and this option will not appear at all without the soul stone!
Having a soul stone is equivalent to taking the lead, and you are a fool if you don't choose!
Of course, if you choose, you may be stupid.
"You've chosen a job change. ”
"Career Mission: Black Soul Stone Open. ”
"Objective: Unlock the soul stone seal and fill it with soul energy. Mission limit: 10 days. Scope of Mission: The Lionheart Empire North. ”
"After a mission fails, you can return at any time while not in combat. ”
Within Bai Xiaowen's field of vision, a string of numbers jumped quickly, it was the ten-day countdown of the task limit!
Although the spirit world is more dangerous, if the awakened are careful, the survival rate is still very high. If you find the task too difficult, you can give up. As long as you are in a non-combat state, you can leave the spirit realm.
Of course, this also means that this spiritual expedition will not be fruited. Not to mention the loss caused by the inability of the quasi-awakened to be promoted, even those powerful senior awakened people are also equivalent to wasting a "ticket" to the spiritual world and an opportunity to improve their strength.
So few people are willing to give up the task until they have to.
Bai Xiaowen pushed open the door of the wooden house. The moment he opened the door, his body was swept around by the light of psionic particles.
"Your appearance has been adjusted. Your language is automatically translated into the Aaronic World Language. ”
"Be careful with your words, and if you reveal your identity as a non-Aaronic native, you do so at your own risk. ”
Bai Xiaowen was slightly stunned, and then said, "Show my adjusted appearance." Sure enough, the phrase came out of fluent ancient Latin.
An illusory mirror was spread out, and Bai Xiaowen saw his appearance.
Blonde hair and blue eyes, three-dimensional facial features, a typical image of a handsome Nordic guy.
"Do you want to make me so handsome? I want to be ordinary, please?" Bai Xiaowen secretly screamed.
Prompt information: "Every time you enter the world to adjust your appearance, your original appearance will prevail, and it will not increase or decrease, so as to affect the charm attribute of the awakened." ”
"In other words, my original appearance was 100, no matter how I adjusted it, it was 100?" Bai Xiaowen touched his chin shamelessly, "Handsome is also a kind of trouble." By the way, how can there be charm attributes? Aren't there only four basic attributes?"
Tooltip: "Luck, Charm, and Will are hidden attributes and are not displayed." ”
At this time, the pedestrians had already passed by Bai Xiaowen, and from time to time someone turned their heads to look at Bai Xiaowen.
Bai Xiaowen also put away his relaxed thoughts.
"First of all, find a place where the news is concentrated and figure out the situation in Aaron's world. ”
Only when the intelligence collected is sufficient can Bai Xiaowen give full play to his intellectual advantages and analyze the most promising way to complete the task. Before, in the plague rat den, he took the soul stone from the gap between Golia and Falgar, and it was completely a good intelligence gathering. Otherwise, with his small body, the two bosses will blow away in one breath.
It's a human town, and the place where the gossip is most abundant and cheap, is, of course, the tavern. It didn't take much effort for Bai Xiaowen to find a tavern with a "Wild Mare" banner.
Pushing the door in, a cold wind entered.
Inside the tavern, the fireplace is beating, the bard plays the recorder, and a few drinkers sit on a row of benches. The warmth of the interior is like spring, and the cold outside is like two worlds.
"Welcome, guests from afar. "The tavern owner was a stocky old man with a disheveled beard.
"How do you know I'm not a local?" Bai Xiaowen asked.
"Haha, the whole city of Elu, old Hunter knows everything!" the tavern keeper smirked and pushed a glass of ale, "Ward off the cold - the first drink is free, if you want a second one, please have your gold ready!"
Bai Xiaowen, who was penniless, almost immediately fell in love with this bold old hunter. He sipped his wine slowly and chatted with old Hunter. From the other party, he got a lot of useful information.
The continent of Aaron has been ruled by the Lionheart Empire for more than three hundred years.
This is the northern border of the continent of Aaron, a remote area that is home to the Vikings. Three hundred years ago, the mighty Founding Emperor Tiberon conquered the North and unified the continent of Aaron, but today, the Vikings are dissatisfied with the rule of the Empire, organized a rebellion, and once captured the capital of the North, the Northern County, and killed the Empire's appointed Great Lord of the North.
The empire, which was troubled internally and externally, hurriedly made peace with its external enemy, the High Elves, and freed up its hands to send the great general Arenas into the north to destroy the rebels.
Arenas had a brilliant success, expelling the rebels from the capital of Northshire, restoring the Empire's nominal rule over the North, and being succeeded by Gorantis, the wife of the former High Lord. However, the northern territories that tasted the sweetness of resistance began to help the resistance on their own initiative.
"The Imperial Army and the Resistance Army make up the two camps in the North. If the perspective expands from the northern realm to the entire Aaronic continent, it is the confrontation between the two camps of the Lionheart Empire and the High Elves. I only need to focus on the extent of the North, though. ”
Bai Xiaowen listened to Old Hunter's babbling narration, and gradually gained an understanding of the situation in Aaron's world, and the plan in his heart gradually became clear.