545.Chapter 543 542 Report, we caught a mummy
Chapter 543 542.Report, we caught a mummy! It’s still a female!
Murphy originally didn’t care about the news brought by Hedonism.
As a “local” .
Although he had only just arrived in the Barren Mountain region, he had learned from his conversation with Tris and Villanther that the goatmen of Baphomet Canyon did not do much good, they would go around plundering the other races of the land and kidnapping those poor people to enter the underground palace as sacrifices to the evil gods.
The vampire lord had just sensed the presence of quite a few poor fellows in the labyrinth when he entered the dungeon himself.
They had been left by the goatmen in the upper labyrinth, and had become like walking corpses, but at the same time, they had to fight with the goatmen thugs and dangerous beasts roaming around in the labyrinth to please the evil god and collect despair and pain.
This is a “hidden tradition” in Baffant Canyon.
It’s evil, of course, and it’s the kind of assholery that no righteous person can afford to ignore, and it’s the perfect environment for righteous mainline NPCs to carry out their “righteous sanctions”.
In fact, Murphy is going to release a random quest is asking the players here to rush into the labyrinth, to save those poor people by the way to lead to the exploration of the underground palace and the search for the civilization of the goatman initial quest it.
But this plan can’t be changed.
Especially when Hedong Lion’s Roar said the words “civilization tablet”, the originally careless Murphy immediately narrowed his eyes.
Civilization Slate?
In this hellhole?
Then there are only two possibilities.
Murphy, who caught the keyword, cleared his thoughts in a flash.
The Black Flame Pass side that entered the Dark Mountain Range was defended by the second lord of the Blood Alliance Clan, that Heather Lord could be sure that no one else had crossed the defense line in recent times, and there was a high probability that Torn Flesh and the civilization tablet it took away were still in this area.
Therefore, either the Soldier Strike Slugger group had encountered NPCs related to the Goatman Civilization Slate in the underground palace, or they had accidentally helped Murphy find clues to the Jackalman Slate once again.
Think about it, tearing the meat to escape when the posture has been very lousy, the old jackal can not pass through the vampires guarded position, and fear of pursuers can only take the tablet fled into the Baphomet dungeon this speculation is also very reasonable well.
“Ahem, Transylvanian warriors!”
Murphy this will quickly complete the quest text editing, in the Hedonism rest and other players into the dungeon to save their own brothers in preparation, he opened his arms and shouted:
“Our brave warriors are about to set foot on the battlefield of Desolation Mountain through the swamps under your guidance, but Baffent’s Canyon with its tyrannical goatmen is a great safety hazard.
These evil creatures, who worship evil gods, have killed countless lives here over the past countless years, and the righteous Transylvanians cannot allow them to continue their evil ways!
This is a land without order, but I believe that a new order will be realized by your own hands here.
This will also be a small step towards the realization of that ‘Supreme Grand Plan’ of ours.
The Black Plague is the great evil, but we cannot ignore the evil that lies beneath those shadows, follow me! Enter the dungeon, bring back our brothers, and by the way, take those innocents out of the hell of death as well, and consider this a small kindness from the generous Transylvanians to this chaotic world.”
“Ding ding ding ding.”
A series of quest triggering sounds filled the players’ spirits, although this random quest only gave a meager amount of money, but now even the second dog kept at home by the relieving parties on the forums knew that of all the NPCs, it was Lord Murphy’s goodwill that was the hardest to brush.
The main reason is because Lord Murphy is a ghost all day long, seldom give new players the opportunity to contact him, and this mainline NPC is a very “old-fashioned” person, he almost only play with the old players, which makes the newcomers not to mention brush the reputation, even open Murphy’s personal reputation is very difficult.
Now the Governor General is not easy to brush out to give everyone a task, this time to choose to refuse is a little too outrageous.
“Ow! For the honor of Lord Murphy! For the order of Transylvania! Charge charge charge! Kill them all!”
The eight sets of Jie who were just circling around Ms. Villanther perfectly demonstrated the players’ “scum nature”, and without hesitation, they left behind the wide-eyed weaving maiden and instantly transformed themselves into Lord Murphy’s loyal lickspittles, and together with the other lickspittles, they rushed into the dark and sunless underground palace with a wail.
The clamor of the scene is like a herd of beasts charging, the sinister and evil underground palace as lively as the New Year’s fair.
“You three stay here and take care of Transylvania’s honored guests for me.”
Murphy turned back to Lady Bernice, who was riding on her horse, and instructed her:
“Wake up some undead here and form a temporary camp nearby for our warriors to use as a resting place, and by the way, tell Adele to wait for me in the Valley of Shadows first, I’ll go over after I’ve dealt with the problems here.”
“As you wish, Lord Governor.”
Lady Bernice obediently accepted the task.
As she watched Murphy turn and rush into the dungeon, the spiritual fire burning in her eyes beneath her battle helmet pulsed, and Lady Berenice, though she had been dead for many years, the sanity of the dead still allowed her to grasp the point.
Adele was Murphy’s heir, and if it was just a matter of passing on a message then there was no need to go through a third party at all, the connection between the bloodsucking Noble Elder and her heir was the best means of encryption.
However, now, Lord Murphy was asking her to convey it on his behalf, which meant that Adele’s poor child had finally made up her mind and had broken the blood contract with Governor Murphy.
This is a really good thing for Lady Berenice who considers Adele as her daughter, but she will not be so loud-mouthed as to spread this secret everywhere, she will only pray silently for her poor Adele in her heart.
“Is that the wise and honorable Lord Murphy that Adele speaks of?”
Beside Bernice, Lisa whispered to her mother:
“Handsome indeed, even by elven eyes the vampire governor is considered handsome, however I don’t see much of the manifestation of valor, a ruler who actually enters a dangerous place with his warriors.
This does not fit my perception of the cunning wisdom that belongs to a vampire or the judiciousness that should be expected of a lord.”
“Shut up! Lisa, that is also your lord.”
Lady Berenice, unhappy with her own daughter’s growth over the years, chided:
“You must relearn how to dedicate your loyalty to your chief, Lord Murphy has single-handedly led Transylvania, which was on the verge of collapse, to this point. It is still far from strong, but he possesses alpha wisdom that you cannot imagine!
Know-it-all Adele has no intention of taking your alpha throne away from you, but if you want to truly lead your people, you must learn from Lord Murphy.
Put away your arrogance, Lisa.
Lord Murphy Transylvania’s one and only Divine Master, and all the warriors of this land follow him faithfully and bravely, they even dare to draw their swords on the gods for Lord Murphy’s orders!
I’ve seen it with my own eyes.
It is also the first lesson your poor mother will teach you!
I will oversee your learning and growth, I missed that time when you were growing up, but you will have your father and I watching and guiding you for the rest of your life.
Well, from that point of view, death may not really be torture, and we’ll have plenty of time to be with you afterward and make up for all the care you’ve missed.”
“Oh.”
Lisa deflated and nodded.
She wanted to retort that she hadn’t grown crooked and had read books on ruling, she just lacked a little bit of hands-on experience, but unfortunately, her lost and found mother didn’t seem to think so and she wasn’t about to give herself a chance to retort.
As for Ms. Villanther.
The life-weaving maiden was very sad at the moment.
Her “charisma” in her second form had been ruthlessly crushed by Lord Murphy, and her heart had been broken by the shenanigans of those bastard warriors, and this was the first time she had been so ruthlessly discarded as if she had been thrown away like an insignificant object.
The weaver girl was in desperate need of a mental adjustment, and by the way, she had begun to really learn the ways and means of dealing with the warriors.
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“Can’t hold it.”
A hoarse cry of alarm rang out from the twisting shadows of Baphomet’s great dungeon, and along with it came pale bone fire shooting out in rays in all directions, repelling the wailing mob of goatmen who pounced on them.
However, this is the middle level of the palace, and the goat people here are the true elite of the “Baphomet Worshippers” or “Baphomet Cult”.
They have received the gift of power from the yet to be awakened god, not only allowing them to master the psychic powers of nightmare and corrosion, but also allowing their bodies to become distorted due to excessive exposure to subspace myths. The golems here were taller, with ugly scales growing out of their skin underneath their manes, and a pair of grotesque eyes that shone dimly in the darkness, the twisted runes of the evil god carved out of their bodies making them even more resistant to psychic energy.
The hot pale bone fire could hardly hurt them, but the good news was that there were more corpses abandoned in the middle level of the dungeon, giving the “damsel in distress” more means to use to resist the siege of these bastard goatmen.
As she continued to recite the Underworld incantations, a set of grotesquely mutilated corpses were awakened, and driven by the will of the Underworld, they screamed and pounced on the goatmen, buying time for their temporary masters to escape.
Cat and his three brothers are now protecting the “damsel in distress” who is constantly casting spells.
It was only by accident that Hedong Lion’s Roar was able to run back to report the news.
The strange girl they were escorting had used the psychic items she was carrying to perform a short-range teleportation, but she was unable to leave the labyrinth in this way.
It was because she was injured.
A very serious injury.
If it wasn’t for Cat’s group of five intruding into this place by mistake, this young girl wouldn’t have had any chance at all of being able to escape.
Even now, both her hands hands were tied with heavy shackles, and it was unknown where the goatman had gotten the binding shackles from, in short, it was difficult for this young girl to truly utilize her power as a high level spell caster under the pressure of the shackles.
Cat made a fatal decapitation under the cover of Dogplow and Wolfwalk, the goatman nightmare priest who rushed in front of them was cut over by the ranger’s greatsword, and then stabbed through the eye socket and brain with a lion spear by Tigersnake, but the guy actually threw out a curse after his death, which made the group of people’s brains faint, and even their strength became weak.
“Where to next?”
Cat, who was panting on his heavy sword, asked back, and the strange young girl they were shielding in the center blinked and said:
“Huh? I can’t, I was kidnapped in here, the bastards blindfolded me, took my treasures, and dispersed my cute dog.
I hate them!
But it’s not me or you that’s the problem now, it’s the others!
Those pirate wretches are under siege and we still have to save them!”
“Fuck.”
Cat cursed.
He felt like he had saved a fool, obviously this Unique Modeling was an important NPC at first glance, but why did the development team give her such a strange AI?
“Cat, it can’t be topped!”
Gladiator Shan Nan Hu Xiao, who was carrying a shield and a lion spear, shouted bitterly to his brothers:
“The ‘Nightmare’ status on our bodies has iterated to 30 levels, and the strength and endurance attributes of our brothers have been reduced by more than a third, if we continue like this, we’ll all die here! You guys take that stupid NPC and hurry up, give me all the explosives.
I’m going to blow up this passageway to buy you some time to escape, and then we’ll come back to brush this field copy after we’ve shaken the people.
Treadmill!
This is definitely a group-sized hellhole, the dev team is getting lazy now, they don’t even give hints anymore, isn’t this sending the brothers blindfolded?”
“Barking dog, we’re already out of the novice village, understand?”
Carrying two cool dwarven hand axes to slash and kill, Lin Bei dog planer twisted his head and chided:
“What copy hints, what quest hints those are all rules that only exist in the novice village, I asked Fat on the forums a few days ago, and Fat told me that once we leave the novice village after that, all of these benefits will be weakened.
The farther away from the Novice Village, the fewer hints we can get.
Apparently, this hellhole is a ‘downer’ for the players from the development team to get us to ditch those ‘pampered’ habits we’ve developed in the Transylvanian Novice Village and really get used to the adventure and life in a real world.
Fuck!
You alone can’t stop these elite monsters, their attacks are too fierce, every kill will give a layer of nightmare status to the body, we don’t have a priest to dispel them, we can only go on like this.
I don’t even want to think about what the hell will happen once the status reaches 99 levels.
Quit it, Cat.
You take the NPC and go, the three of us will stay here to break your back! There’s definitely an important quest on this stupid NPC!
This is a quest triggered by our team, so we can’t let others pick the peach.”
“Right! Hurry up and go!”
Kawanishi Wolfwalk pushed Cat, who was still hesitant, and he himself flipped out a few bombs spiked with gold-burning powder and threw them out towards the front of his eyes, and in the midst of the fire and light, several more layers of nightmare statuses were iterated on the three of them, making each other even weaker.
Cat saw that his brothers were determined to die, and it would be impolite to push back any further.
Without saying a word he turned around with his heavy sword and slung the fool NPC, who was still trying to cut his handcuffs with a broken saw blade, over his shoulder, and then dashed off towards the back road as the latter screamed.
“Ah! You left your brothers behind, you coward! The Death Moon will curse you, and you’ll be on the road to Hades, assigned to the hell of pariahs and cowards and have your left leg bitten off by three vicious dogs!”
The strange young girl screamed, yelling and cursing in an odd language that didn’t belong to Transylvania or even the continent at all, and the ever-reliable arithmetic beads felt like they were stuck in a shell, translating at a very slow pace.
Considering that this thing was made by a halfling, it was safe to assume that the weird language the young girl was using wasn’t even well understood by halflings.
This strange young girl was crazy, but Cat didn’t have time to think about her weird situation this time.
He carried her forward, but when he crossed a certain dark place, he was knocked to the ground by three shadow dogs that lunged out from the shadows, Cat himself rolled up and was ready to fight, but the crazy girl he was carrying screamed and flew out with a thud and crashed into the wall next to him.
That crisp bone cracking sound made Cat’s heart startled.
Hell!
He had dropped the NPC he had fought so hard to save to death?
Shit!
This is a big loss.
Seeing the hideous Shadow Dogs wailing as they surrounded him, Cat took a deep breath and threw these distracting thoughts to the back of his mind, he was ready to fight to the death, but in the moment when the two sides were engaged in battle, a few blood-red seeds were thrown over from the back, and instantly transformed into Bloodwood Tree People to help Cat block the Shadow Dogs’ pounce.
The battle cry of “Avalon is the greatest” sounded from the back of the room, making Cat finally sigh in relief and sit down on the ground with his butt on the ground.
The fastest players rushed from the back and began to attack the strange shadow dog that the evil goatman had summoned from the other dimension, and Lord Murphy also quietly appeared.
As Cat watched oddly, his own main NPC reached down and pulled the strange young girl, who had broken her neck, up from the ground.
The latter wasn’t dead.
Uh, the latter never lived!
She grunted and cursed in a rude voice as she braced her hands on her neck, which was crooked into an L-shape, and reattached the broken spine with a click in the midst of her exertion.
“Ah, your warriors are so unprofessional, Governor Murphy! They almost buried my second life here.”
The strange girl moved her clicking neck as she looked over at the subtly scowling Murphy in front of her, and she extended her hand graciously, introducing herself as the mummified cloth swayed:
“Greetings, Your Excellency Murphy, Governor of Transia, true lord of the Blood Vulture Clan, and Jackal Nemesis, my name is Nefertari, I come from the Holy City of the Moon, and I have come to help you by the order of Priest Leader Bajek with the request of Venerable Lord Paying.
May the Moon of Death bless you and your domain.”
“Uh, thank you for coming, ma’am, but before we start talking, could you put your left eyeball back? It looks kind of creepy in that stance”
“Oh, it keeps falling out, old problem, could you get me some glue? I’ll take my time with it when I get to your palace.”
(End of chapter)