The forest of the Gray Shadow Forest is a bit cold and gray, and most of the time there is no way to see the sun, and only in the middle of the day when the sun is the most intense for one or two hours, can you see a pale golden hazy light in this forest. But because the humidity in the forest is too heavy, usually at this time the whole forest will also appear some thin and light mist, under the background of these fog, the shadows of the trees in the whole forest turn gray, and the shadows are a little more weird.

It is precisely because of this that this forest is called the Forest of Gray Shadows.

And most of the other time, even if there is no sunlight, the forest is not as dark as it is seen from the outside.

At this time, a team was moving through the forest.

The leader of the group was a middle-aged man, he was wearing a suit of leather armor, and a wide short knife hung from his waist, this kind of knife was more versatile, not only for attacking but also for opening the way, and many adventurers liked to equip one of these short knives.

Obviously, the current road did not need to be opened with a short knife, so the middle-aged man did not pull out the knife from its sheath.

He walked at the forefront, not very fast, but if you look closely, you can see that his way of moving is to make a circle in the inner eight style, and his body is slightly bowed, and his right hand has been kept about a few centimeters away from the short knife.

Be cautious and careful.

Obviously, this middle-aged man has lived in some dangerous places for a long time, and he has a lot of adventure experience.

Having such a person as the leader of an adventurous team can indeed increase the chances of survival of the entire team a lot.

And not only that, next to this leader, there is another middle-aged man.

He was about the same age as the leader, and he didn't wear any protective gear like leather armor, but he did carry two large bags. The pack was stuffed to the brim, and it was clear that it contained a lot of stuff. Although he had no weapons, he had a thick shield about half a man high on his left hand, which was basically modeled after the scale of the tower shield except that the height was not comparable to the tower shield.

Small tower shield.

This is the official scientific name of the shield held by the middle-aged man in front of him. The height of the small tower shield is about the same as the half-body shield, but it does not belong to the large shield, but it belongs to the same heavy shield as the tower shield, but this kind of shield has smaller requirements for the user than the tower shield, so there are more people who can wear and use it. However, the small tower shield also has many flaws: the defense surface is not as wide as the tower shield, and the weight is greater than that of the half-body shield.

Therefore, the small tower shield can actually be regarded as a failure.

However, this refers only to military achievements. If it's for adventure, the small tower shield is quite popular with some defenders.

Because they usually deal with Warcraft or hostile humans, the thickness of the half-body shield is not enough to resist the full force of the fifth-level Warcraft, and although the tower shield can resist, it is because of the excessive weight and area. This results in a lack of speed and makes it difficult to make maneuverability transitions. Therefore, the birth of the small tower shield solves this problem.

But it's only for adventurers.

These two people. It's Jerry and Bannock.

Sean didn't expect that Bannock was actually a defender, and when he heard Jerry introduce Bannock that he was good at tracking, he thought he was a human hunter.

Defender, also known as tanks and meat shields in the game. Although this profession is not as rare as that of a mage, it can also be regarded as relatively rare in the Miracle Continent. It's not that this profession is as difficult to form as a magician. On the contrary, the speed of the formation of a defender is very high, and generally if you cultivate it with all your might, you can train a defender in two or three years, but the cost of cultivating a defender is not much lower than that of cultivating a magician.

Truly for rare reasons. It's that the mortality rate of this class is too high, especially when facing high-level magical beasts, whether it is attacking or retreating, the defender is always the warrior at the forefront of the front. However, it is precisely because of this risk of high mortality that the treatment of defenders has always been the highest in any team, especially those who have experienced countless front-line battles, and are older and more experienced, and their reputation is almost not inferior to that of the leader of any well-known mercenary group.

Regardless of whether Bannock is a real defender or not, even if it is just a cameo as the defender's deputy T, and even his potential has been completely exploited to the limit, but in Sean's eyes, his value is far greater than Jerry's.

Because Bannock is very experienced, that alone is enough to double his value.

After all, now Sean has only Anno who can barely be considered a defender. However, even if it is Anno, he is not a real defender, at most he makes a cameo appearance in the position of deputy T. But there are still a lot of gaps between him and Bannock: the first point is that Anno currently only has the lower silver, which is always a hard injury; Secondly, although Anno is smart, his experience is also gained through countless actual battles, and he is far less experienced than Bannock.

And there is the most important point.

Anno is the chief of the Northland barbarians, the head of the Iron Wings, and it is impossible for Anno to step down from this position until a new successor is found, which means that Anno cannot take on the important position of defender.

So after learning about Bannock's true profession, Sean has changed his mind and would like to recruit Bannock if he can.

After all, as soon as the two-year appointment arrives, Bess and the others will leave, and who will be responsible for William's safety at that time? And in addition to William, Neil's safety is also a headache for Sean, after all, if you want to continue to develop the territory, the problem of the Kiraff Territory is an unavoidable threshold, and with the current chaos in the Kiraf Territory, it is simply a natural assassination holy land.

If Bannock really is that valuable, it's not impossible for Sean to help him break through the limits with a little effort.

So it's been two days since the trip, but Sean still hasn't complained, but has been watching Bannock to see if he's really worth his investment.

It's been three days since this observation.

In other words, Sean and the others have been in the Forest of Gray Shadows for four days.

The team is positioned with Jerry in front, Bannock in the back half of Jerry's left, and Cecilia behind Bannock. Bannock's distant relative was about two steps to Cecilia's right, while Sean was at the back of the line.

This is an uncommon tactical protective formation.

In the game, players jokingly refer to them as two security locks.

In the formation, although it seems that Bannock's distant relative is in the core, in fact, this position is a secondary defensive position, so the professionals who usually hold this position are deputy T. But Sean knew that this young man was not a deputy T, he was a melee exporter, and putting such an exporter in this position was equivalent to letting the other party protect the core with his life - the player in the game can be resurrected at any time if he dies, but in this real world. Death is real death.

When Jerry put the young man in this position, Sean could clearly see the young man's face change slightly, and it was clear that he knew the importance of this position. And Bannock didn't raise any objections to this, so of course Sean also saw that the young man gritted his teeth and agreed after hesitating for a second, originally Sean thought that this young man would be passive and slacking off. didn't expect that he knew that he was likely to end up in the future, but he didn't relax in the slightest.

As for the targets of his protection. Cecilia, of course.

She is the heart of this "two safety locks".

Although it looks like Bannock is protecting Jerry. However, if it is actually an attack on Jerry, then Bannock will need at least one to two seconds of reaction time to block the damage for Jerry. However, if it was an attack against Cecilia, then Bannock could react in an instant, because Cecilia's position was Bannock's real protective circle.

Originally, Jerry's position was given to Sean, because this was the second safe position in the entire formation. But Sean refused.

He was in charge of the Queen.

In fact, Sean's position was the most dangerous in the entire formation. Because to break the "two safety locks", it is to attack from the position of the last person, so the pressure on Sean's position is the greatest.

But he has the confidence and the strength.

on this. Of course, Jerry couldn't say anything more, he could only walk at the front.

Through the observation of the past few days, Sean has discovered that Bannock may really be a pure defender, not a cameo deputy T. Because of the continuous trip for several days, in addition to checking the terrain from time to time to determine the escape direction of the Sombra Demon Leopard, he has also maintained a high level of attention to prevent possible surprise attacks, which is not as simple as it seems on the surface for Bannock's physical and mental exertion.

At the very least, Sean is also a veteran adventurer.

However, from this, Sean also dared to judge that Bannock was indeed a veritable defender, and it should be in the barrier paladin system that was extremely rare for defenders.

The most important attributes in this class system are stamina and will, while the weakest of the five attributes is agility.

The formation period of the Barrier Paladin is the seventh order, that is, the stage of the lower gold, they can still move freely in hundreds of kilograms of equipment, and the attribute of innate high will also allows them to resist a lot of soul energy magic - of course, in the game, the magic resistance is extremely high, but in reality, a lot of magic is with physical damage, so unless magic is immune, no one dares to say that they can be safe and sound under the bombardment of magic.

As one of the top five systems in the defender class, the disadvantage of the Barrier Paladin is that it is slow to form, and this shortcoming will be magnified many times in reality.

Because of the gap between the Barrier Palazon at the sixth and seventh orders, it can be said that there are two worlds.

If you can't step into the seventh order, then you will never be able to become a powerful defender.

Bannock's potential Sean is estimated to be almost exhausted by Jerry, so he is stuck at the peak of the upper silver, and there is no way to become a real barrier paladin. Moreover, the Barrier Paladin is not as strong as in the game in reality, and if he wants to resist magic damage, he also needs demonized equipment to resist, which means that this class is extremely dependent on equipment - in fact, any defender is extremely dependent on equipment, which is why the cost of training a defender for what is not much less than training a mage.

In addition to this, the Barrier Paladin has another hard flaw: low damage.

This profession is almost incapacitated.

That's why Sean saw that Bannock didn't have any weapons at all, just a shield and two huge backpacks on his back.

Anyway. Sean looked at Bannock as a fact, but the thought of choosing between him and Alfred to invest in someone made him a little difficult. From the perspective of personal emotional factors, of course, he wants to invest in Alfred, after all, this is the first veteran to follow him, and Alfred is also very terrible to grow up, even if he has now changed the direction of his career advancement, but the magic warrior has the nickname of "Iron Man" in the game, once this profession is formed, it is simply omnipotent - by drawing different magic patterns on the equipment, you can easily change the various abilities and attributes of the magic warrior.

The only flaw. It is that the drive of these magic patterns needs to consume the fighting energy of the equipment player, so the more magic patterns you have to draw, the higher the carrying capacity for the professional.

And Sean actually has a way to solve this problem, that is, to constantly collect materials for Alfred. Constantly strengthen his body.

But looking at the big picture, investing in the development of Bannock is the way to go.

Because after the Barrier Holy rode up. It's simply a Xiaoqiang who can't be killed. Even in the face of instant death magic, it has extremely high resistance. And the biggest advantage is that even if a barrier paladin with lower golden strength is bombarded by three high-ranking golden powerhouses, he will definitely not fall easily, and in Sean's current territory, even if it is Xuefanio, it is impossible to face the combination of three high-ranking golden powerhouses at the same time.

At this moment, Sean has long regarded Bannock as his own. It didn't take into account that he hadn't extended an invitation to Bannock yet. Of course, even if Sean sends out an invitation, it is still unknown whether Bannock will accept it.

In this case, another two days passed. The group of five finally came to a place with a sea of blue and red flowers.

When he saw this place, Sean suddenly spoke: "Wait a minute. ”

For a few days, Sean never said anything, but had been silently following behind everyone, and Jerry and Bannock were almost close to treating Sean as a member of their own team, rather than an alien nobleman, because they had never seen a nobleman's physical strength so good, and they didn't even complain at all along the way. And compared to the particularity of Sean, a nobleman, the girl magician surprised them even more, because as a magician, her physical strength is also not weak at all, although she is still the worst endurance in the entire team, but that is also relative to their team.

The magician's well-known weakness of physique seems to be completely unreflected in her.

So when Sean said wait a minute, Jerry and Bannock were surprised. They weren't surprised that Sean was finally going to talk about resting, because they knew that it was impossible, and even if all of them were exhausted, Sean would still be able to maintain his energy, as evidenced by the past few days.

However, Jerry immediately asked, "Lord Sean, what's the problem?" ”

"Sombra Demon Panther really entered here?" Sean frowned and looked at the sea of flowers in front of him.

"Yes." Jerry and Bannock glanced at each other, but it was Bannock who was good at tracking, so it was naturally him who replied, "According to the current clues, we are getting closer and closer to that Sombra Demon Leopard, and I have every reason to believe that the Sombra Demon Leopard must have been seriously injured." …… When a beast is frightened or injured, it will return to its familiar area as soon as possible to avoid and heal. ”

"I know what you're going to say next, Warcraft also evolved from Beasts, so this principle also applies to Warcraft, right?"

"Yes." Although he didn't know what Sean wanted to say for Lang, Bannock nodded.

"Have you ever entered this sea of flowers?" Seeing Bannock nodding, Sean asked rhetorically.

"Nope." The crowd shook their heads.

"I've been in." Sean said in a deep voice, "This sea of flowers is a cordon in the Gray Shadow Forest. ”

"Cordon?"

"The location we are in now is still the outer edge of the Gray Shadow Forest, and the highest level of demonic beasts encountered here is level three. But this sea of flowers is different, in the depths of this sea of flowers in the Forest of Gray Shadows, there is a small lake, which is where a group of fifth-level demonic beasts live, and with our strength, entering it is simply looking for death. ”

Level 5 Warcraft. That is already equivalent to the strength of the upper silver.

And if it is a fifth-level demonic beast with stronger strength or ferocity, its combat power is almost comparable to the lower gold of human beings. And the fifth-level group demonic beast, no matter what its strength is, that combat power is definitely more than that of the sixth-level demonic beast.

At this time, hearing Sean's words, including Bannock, were stunned.

"This can't be, the trail of the Black Crystal Demon Leopard is obviously pointing here."

Sean's expression was a little uncertain, and his eyes looking at the sea of flowers were also full of hesitation.

The Black Crystal Demon Leopard is a rare special magical beast, although it is only a third-level magical beast in terms of evaluation. However, its strength is comparable to that of a fourth-level demonic beast, and once it is blackcrystallized, it has a combat power comparable to that of a fifth-level demonic beast. However, every time the Black Crystal Demon Leopard transformed, it was an act of burning its vitality, so if it was not in a critical situation, it would be impossible to make such a self-harming move.

So. It is normal for the Sombra Demon Leopard to be active in the area where the fourth-level demonic beasts are active. Sean believed.

Even if it appears in the activity area of a fifth-level demonic beast. It's not impossible.

But there is one place where the exception is absolute.

That's this sea of flowers.

In the Forest of Gray Shadows, the real overlord is not the only sixth-level demonic beast, but those fifth-level demonic beasts located in the depths of this sea of flowers.

Bipedal scorpionwolf.

No matter how strong the combat power of this kind of demonic beast is, it will definitely not be its opponent, because their saliva is very corrosive, which happens to be the nemesis of the Sombra demon leopard. And Warcraft will have an instinctive resistance to natural enemies. So as long as he smells the scent of the bipedal scorpion wolf, it is absolutely impossible for the Black Crystal Demon Leopard to get close, but now it is said that the Black Crystal Demon Leopard ran into the depths of this sea of flowers, isn't this a very suspicious thing?

And Sean. At the beginning, he had killed a lot of Sombra Demon Leopards in the game, so he was actually far above Bannock in terms of his understanding of Sombra Demon Leopards, and even because of the assistance of the True Eye, he could easily find the traces left by those Sombra Demon Leopards.

There was no way the True Eye could deceive Sean, so he knew that these traces were real.

In this way, of course, Sean also knew that the Black Crystal Demon Leopard had indeed fled into the depths of the sea of flowers. So what kind of situation will force the Sombra Demon Leopard, who is afraid of the two-legged scorpion wolf, to run into the sea of flowers and hide?

The idea just went around Sean's mind, and he immediately understood why.

The bipedal scorpion wolf is a monster that even Sean is not very willing to provoke, so its strength and terrifyingness are clear at a glance. The Black Crystal Demon Leopard can smell the scent of the bipedal scorpion wolf, so of course there is a way to avoid the attack of the bipedal scorpion wolf, but other people who try to chase the Black Crystal Demon Leopard do not know the horror of this sea of flowers, nor do they know the horror of the bipedal scorpion wolf, so once they find the trace of the Black Crystal Demon Leopard, and this sea of flowers is in the outer edge of the Gray Shadow Forest, then they will definitely break in without any scruples.

And that's exactly what happened.

If Sean hadn't stopped him, Bannock would have led them into the sea of flowers a long time ago. In such a situation, it is better that they did not find the Black Crystal Demon Leopard, and it became the belly of the bipedal scorpion wolf.

Warcraft have a certain amount of intelligence, but Sean never thought that Warcraft could have such cunning wisdom and use the terrifying nature of natural enemies to solve those threats to himself.

"What a cunning brute." After understanding Sombra's thoughts, Sean's face became even more unsightly.

There is no doubt that it is definitely a very injured Sombra Demon Leopard, and it is even likely that after escaping the siege of others that day, it must have encountered several waves of attackers on the way, otherwise, with the Sombra Demon Leopard's skin that is so hard that people will almost mistake it for physical immunity, it is absolutely impossible to break into the range of activities of natural enemies.

But if Sean is to give up this Sombra Demon Leopard because of this, he is indeed very unwilling.

After all, there are two materials on the Black Crystal Demon Leopard that he desperately needs at present, as long as he has these two materials, and then he is not too bad luck when he goes to the underground black market in the Gray Shadow Forest, then after he goes back this time, he may be able to make two or three more gold-level demonic equipment, and even the special effect strength is possible, so it is extremely significant for the improvement of the combat power of the entire territory.

At this time, Sean didn't speak, just looked at the sea of flowers uncertainly, although Bannock and Jerry and the others didn't know the situation, they didn't say anything, just waited quietly. They are not fools, seeing that people as powerful as Sean are so scruples about the sea of flowers, and they also said that there are fifth-level demonic beasts living in groups, how could they still enter it rashly.

"Lord Sean......" Jerry hesitated tentatively.

"Whew." Sean exhaled heavily, and his expression regained his serenity, "The depths of the sea of flowers are very dangerous, even I may not be able to survive." …… But I'm still going to go in, because that Sombra leopard is very important to me, what do you say? ”

"This ......" Bannock and Jerry looked at each other, both at a loss for what to say.

They do have a request for Sean, hoping to join forces with Sean to solve the problem of Dianes. But this premise is of course also to live, if you can't live, then is it necessary to solve Dianes? And now, they are very clear about the danger in the sea of flowers, and Sean has to continue to go deeper, which is naturally a little contrary to their original intention, so of course they are very hesitant.

Of course, Sean also knew the concerns of these people, if he had ignored them a long time ago, he would have done what he should do, but now he wants to recruit Bannock, of course he can't be so casual, so he was silent for a moment before he spoke: "If you don't want to go in, then just wait for me here." It's only a day to walk to the depths of the sea of flowers, and if I don't come back in five days, you can leave by yourself. ”

Hearing Sean's words, Bannock and Jerry hesitated slightly, but nodded in agreement.

It's just five days to wait, and it's not how long they want to spend here, anyway, the Black Crystal Demon Leopard can't continue to hunt down, so it doesn't matter.

"I'll go in with you!" And Cecilia heard that Sean was about to enter the sea of flowers, although she was also worried, but she still immediately spoke.

Looking at Cecilia with a serious face, Sean originally wanted to refuse, but when he thought of the purpose of this trip and Cecilia together, he no longer objected, and if it was really impossible at that time, then he would give up chasing the Black Crystal Demon Leopard.

Even if the Sombra Demon Panther was valuable, it would definitely not be comparable to Cecilia in Sean's mind.

And Sean also has enough strength and confidence: if he wants to leave, there is no way to keep him with the bipedal scorpion wolves inside. (To be continued......)

PS: Because of the problem with my hand, I wrote it in the afternoon and now until now...... Originally, I wanted to cut it, but I really didn't need to think about it. Although there is only one change today, there is absolutely no laziness in the number of words, please rest assured. I made an appointment with a doctor to go to the hospital for a check-up the day after tomorrow, so there may be a little problem with the update the day after tomorrow.