Chapter 405 Rusty Iron Mercenary Group, Treasure Map (6600)
On the way back to the territory, Cao Xing also began to count the harvest this time.
"This time, coming to Melind City can be said to be a fruitful experience."
"Not only did I successfully exchange all the bills, but I also bought a legendary weapon spearhead, a master-level energy core, and the Flower of Keda on the black market."
"The most important thing is to get the tools to tame the gryphon."
Thinking of this, Cao Xing felt very satisfied.
"In addition to these gains, I also took on two tasks."
"One is a task entrusted by the Duke to find the inherited sword in the griffin's nest."
"The other is a B-level difficulty task for a master animal trainer, to climb a mountain and bring back his brother's body."
These two tasks are actually continuous.
Because according to the beast trainer, even master-level experts cannot climb the Skavi mountain.
Only by successfully taming the Griffin King can it be possible to fly to such a high mountaintop.
In other words, he needs to find the griffin's nest first before he can complete the next two tasks.
Thinking of this, Cao Xing decided to wait for the centaur to finish exploring the grotto before carrying out this task.
It is worth mentioning.
Kandar sent himself a message yesterday. After several days of exploration, the grotto was finally coming to an end.
At the same time, Cao Xing sent a message to Liu Muxue and told her that he was coming back today.
Liu Muxue was also very happy after hearing this.
And replied that everything is fine in Cao Xing's territory.
In the past few days, she and Assam led the team to gain a lot of points, and won the first place in the Dolma Behemoth Challenge several times in a row.
After hearing this, Cao Xing also opened the ranking list and took a look.
【Points ranking list of four major regions】
[First place: Cao Xing (accumulated points 682352)]
[Second place: Angelica dahurica (accumulated points 53217)]
[Third place: Borco (accumulated points 51823)]
[Fourth place: Wei Jianyi (accumulated points 50382)]
【Fifth place...】
…
Seeing the numbers above, a look of relief appeared on Cao Xing's face.
"I remember that when I came out of the territory, I had 380,000 points, and now it has soared to 680,000!"
"In other words, in these two days, Muxue earned 300,000 points for me?"
Cao Xing suddenly became excited.
Because before that, he only used 250,000 points to exchange for two hundred advanced military recruitment scrolls and draw a prize.
In other words, he still has 430,000 points to spend!
It’s self-evident what a terrifying number this is.
More than 400 high-level military recruitment scrolls can be redeemed!
If you replace it with an ordinary imperial soldier, you can exchange it for more than 40,000 pieces.
With a sufficient population, he can already raise an army of ten thousand people!
"Not bad, not bad..."
"Muxue and the others are becoming more and more efficient."
The corners of Cao Xing's mouth curved.
Then he ordered: "Everyone, move forward at full speed, we will return to the territory as soon as possible."
He is now eager to return home, and he can't wait to go back and digest this harvest!
"Boom! Boom!"
After hearing the order, Dabai moved his four hooves and ran forward quickly.
The soldiers behind also quickened their pace and followed Cao Xing.
In the blink of an eye, they came to a plain area surrounded by huge rocks rolling down from the mountains.
This is a passing point from Melind City back to the territory.
Cao Xing and others were walking through the pile of rocks as before.
while passing through a narrow road.
Dabai seemed to have stepped on something.
"Click!"
There was a cracking sound, and the ground beneath his feet suddenly collapsed.
Everyone felt their center of gravity was unstable and began to fall rapidly!
Rhaenys quickly warned, "Lord, we have stepped on a trap!"
Cao Xing also reacted in an instant.
However, there was no panic in my heart.
Instead, look downward.
They were about to fall into this deep trap.
At the bottom, there are various spike traps, explosion traps, etc.!
Cao Xing quickly said: "Everyone, don't panic, you have a holy shield on you, these traps won't cause much damage."
"After landing for a while, just destroy these spike traps."
Hearing this, the dozen or so people on the scene suddenly came to their senses.
Then he adjusted the angle to land.
"Click! Click!"
"Boom!"
There were bursts of explosions, and the explosion trap at the bottom of the pit was triggered.
The holy shields on everyone's bodies were also shattered layer by layer.
But as Cao Xing said, it didn't cause any harm.
Seeing this scene, those wild boar warriors said excitedly: "Wow! How dare you dig a hole to harm my wild boar warriors!"
"Kick them to death!"
The next moment, they raised their swords and slashed the surrounding spike traps one by one.
Next to them, Rhaenys and Elissa were also constantly pulling out their bowstrings to destroy the traps.
The most exaggerated one is Dabai.
It directly relied on its powerful armor and recovery ability to run rampant at the bottom of the pit and burst every trap!
In the blink of an eye, the traps at the bottom of the pit were basically cleared away.
At this moment, there seemed to be several voices coming from the ground.
"The target has fallen into the trap, go over quickly and surround them!"
Cao Xing raised his head.
I saw dozens of figures appearing on the edge of the pothole.
It was a group of humans, both male and female.
Everyone was wearing a piece or two of low-quality gear.
Looking at Cao Xing who landed at the bottom of the pit, excitement appeared on their faces!
"Hahaha! These guys have all fallen into the pit."
"The trap we dug for two days was not in vain. Now let's see where you run!"
Cao Xing below frowned, and then asked: "I don't seem to know you, do I?"
Hearing this, the eyes of the dozens of people above
"Boy, you really don't know us."
"But soon, you will know our name."
Cao Xing looked at the person who spoke.
It was a middle-aged man about forty years old, wearing a white scale armor and holding a scimitar.
He is also the most powerful being among this group of people, with the strength of a fifth-level leader.
Cao Xing asked: "What do you want to do?"
The middle-aged man with the strength of a fifth-level leader said with a gloomy expression: "Hand over all the crowns you have!"
"Don't try to deceive us. We know that you have at least tens of millions of crowns in your hands."
"If you know better, you might be able to save a life."
A look of surprise appeared in Cao Xing's eyes, "So that's it, are you here to rob?"
Although I don’t know where these people got the news.
But obviously, it was the huge sum of money owned by Cao Xing that aroused the greed of these people.
At this moment, a woman next to him said.
"Captain, stop talking nonsense to him, just arrest them and take them all away!"
"These guys are so strong that they can be sold to slave traders for a lot of money."
Hearing this, the middle-aged man also nodded.
"Start throwing nets and trap these people!"
After hearing the order, the people around them each had a bundle of fishing nets in their hands and threw them directly into the pit.
Seeing this scene, Cao Xing said calmly.
"Sarah, go ahead."
"Whoosh!"
In an instant, an arc of light flashed and rushed straight into the air.
Then, a shadow rushed directly into the group of figures, and the moon dance form instantly opened.
Like a ghost, he came behind a man holding a musket.
The [Flowing Fire Blade] in his hand was cut off mercilessly!
"Pfft!"
【-21472! 】
With one strike, the man's blood volume was cut in half.
His back was suddenly severely injured, and the man suddenly felt a biting chill and a sense of danger of death!
"Save..."
Before he could say anything, Sarah's second knife had already been slashed.
"Pfft!"
【-22752! 】
The man's body fell limply.
In less than a second after meeting, Sarah had already killed one person.
Only then did others react.
When they saw the body of their companion falling, a look of horror appeared in their eyes!
[Members of your territory: Sarah Blade Dance killed a lv35 member of the Rust Mercenary Group, a fourth-level ordinary creature, and gained experience points: 1220]
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Seeing the system prompt, Cao Xing casually opened the net on himself, and then thought.
"Rust Mercenary Group?"
"I thought they were those bandits."
Shaking his head, Cao Xing didn't think much about it.
After all, the strength of this rust mercenary group is obviously not very strong.
Sarah alone can kill them all.
At the same time, after killing one person, the dark elf assassin seemed to have activated his unparalleled posture.
Rush directly into the crowd and start killing!
"Pfft!"
【-22732! 】
【-23923! 】
【-25823! 】
【-336521! 】
The gift of liberation!
As Sarah slashed down, each slash dealt critical damage.
None of the mercenaries on the ground could withstand Sarah's two blows.
And their various attacks were launched, but Sarah nimbly dodged them.
Even if it couldn't be avoided, it would only cause pitiful three-digit injuries if it fell on her.
When they reacted, Sarah had already killed five of them!
The other mercenaries shouted in horror.
"Captain! This assassin is so strong!"
"We can't trap her!"
At this moment, the mercenary captain with fifth-level leader-level strength had a look of horror in his eyes.
Before, the auras of Cao Xing and others were very restrained, and they did not know their specific strength.
And now, with Sarah's action, they felt a wave of fear!
The mercenary leader said in horror: "Master... this is a master assassin..."
"It's over..."
When they heard about the master assassin, these mercenaries also showed a look of horror!
The Rusty Mercenary Group is just a third-rate mercenary group, and they usually have no access to strong men of this level.
Occasionally, I met master-level mercenaries in some mercenary stations, and they were also respectful.
And now, they actually provoked a master!
A fear of death came over me.
All the mercenaries could not help but feel fear in their hearts.
"What...what should I do? Leader?"
"If this continues, we will all be killed..."
There was already great fear in his tone!
And the captain's expression was as gloomy as water.
His heart skipped a beat and he ordered directly: "Quick! Concentrate your firepower and take down the lord from another world below."
"This is the assassin's lord. As long as he is controlled, this master-level strongman will not dare to attack us."
The survivors have been in contact with the aboriginal people of this world for some time, so they also know that Cao Xing among the crowd is the key.
However, before everyone started to take action, they saw a pair of invisible wind wings growing out of the lord of the other world from his back, leading him to fly out of the pit.
Then, Cao Xing had a faint smile on his lips.
"Take me down?"
"Are you a little fanciful?"
In the horrified eyes of this group of mercenaries.
Suddenly I saw the lord from another world raising his staff.
Then, a huge six-pointed star formation with a diameter of more than one hundred meters appeared.
The already extremely cold temperature dropped sharply again.
"Yin——"
As a loud dragon roar sounded, two huge ice dragons rushed out of the magic circle!
"Crash!"
The two ice dragons rotated at high speed, and in an instant, the mercenaries felt as if they had suffered a severe blow, and their health volume dropped sharply.
When the ice dragon rotates for the second second. The mercenary captain took a sharp breath of air.
He quickly warned: "Quick, get out of here! Don't enter the attack range of this lord from another world!"
In an instant, other remaining survivors also reacted.
They wanted to retreat in a panic.
However, as an epic skill.
[Ice Tornado Storm] not only has a large-scale group attack, but also has a powerful slowing effect.
Everyone seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, unable to move forward.
When the rotation of the two ice dragons ends.
A large number of corpses that had been strangled to pieces appeared around.
Their blood splattered on the ground and froze visibly.
[This battle: You have killed a total of 32 members of the Rusty Iron Mercenary Group, and gained 54720 experience points]
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When the ice dragon disappeared, there were only a dozen people left in the Rusty Iron Mercenary Group, which originally numbered forty or fifty people.
Sarah on the other side was still killing their other members like chopping melons and vegetables.
Seeing this scene, the rest of the mercenary group suddenly felt a terrifying chill behind them!
The mercenary leader asked in horror: "How is this possible!"
"Aren't all the lords of other worlds very weak? Why do you have such a powerful power!"
Cao Xing did not answer, but asked with strange eyes.
"You, the Rusty Iron Mercenary Group, with so little strength, can you imitate others and come out to rob?"
However, it's not that they are too weak, but that Cao Xing's strength is already considered a strong one in the stormy snowfield.
Powerful mercenary groups like those are basically not in places with relatively poor resources like the blizzard snowfield.
Most of them are gathered in the main city of Yongshuang and those ruins.
At this time, the group leader finally realized that he had provoked a difficult situation!
Seeing that Cao Xing was about to raise his staff again, the leader quickly said: "Wait a minute!"
"It's our blindness that offends you!"
"I want to use something to ask for your forgiveness!"
"You must be interested in this thing!"
When he heard this, Cao Xing's mouth curved.
"Oh? What is it that interests me?"
The leader said: "It is the inheritance of a legendary mage!"
Cao Xing narrowed his eyes for a moment.
"If you don't use the inheritance of the legendary mage yourself, why do you only have this little strength?"
A wry smile flashed across the leader's face and he said: "The mage's inheritance is hidden in a dangerous place."
"With my strength, I can't get inside at all, I can only explore on the outside."
"However, even though it is only peripheral, I have also gained a lot of magic items!"
"If you can enter it, you will definitely get the inheritance of that legendary mage."
"As long as you are willing to let us go, I can tell you this location!"
Cao Xing smiled and said: "Why should I believe you?"
"What if you give me a fake location and trick me into coming there?"
After hearing this, the leader suddenly said excitedly: "I guarantee it with my life!"
"If it's a fake location, you can kill me at any time!"
Cao Xing shook his head, "Your life is worthless. Besides, I was ready to kill you."
By the time he finished speaking, he had already raised his staff again.
A high-speed rotating ice and snow spear magnified in front of you at a speed visible to the naked eye!
"Puff! Puff!"
Four damage numbers exceeding 10,000 appeared above his head, and his blood volume dropped a lot again!
"Stop!" the mercenary captain exclaimed.
However, Cao Xing didn't want to pay attention to him at all.
As he watched, Cao Xing raised his staff again, and the terrifying ice element condensed.
The sense of crisis of death comes.
The mercenary captain took out a scroll from his backpack, with a look of pain in his eyes.
"Damn it, you forced me to do it!"
Instantly, he began to inject power into the scroll in his hand.
At the same time, a powerful wave of magic power appeared!
Then, Cao Xing saw a burst of intense holy light appear in front of him.
This holy light was so strong that it even interfered with the vision of everyone on the field, causing Cao Xing to lose his target.
Then, all the holy light converged towards the same position.
A humanoid creature nearly three meters tall and made of pure light elements appeared!
It exudes strong holy light, holds a golden sword in its hand, and the light elements on its body like a knife and an ax fluctuate like flowing water.
Cao Xing glanced over.
[Temple Guardian: Summon Creatures]
[Level: Level 67 (Level 7 leader creature)]
【HP: 3128923/3128923】
【Attack power: 11923~12232】
[Armor: 2892~3126]
[Skills: Master Sword Mastery, Divine Punishment, Dark Nemesis, Fluctuating Light, Honorable Sacrifice]
[Talent: Body of light element (when receiving light attribute attack, reduce the damage received by 50%)]
[Remaining summon time: 177 seconds]
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Cao Xing was instantly shocked when he saw the attributes of this creature.
"Good guy, he is actually a seventh-level leader-level creature."
"And it seems that this was the mercenary captain summoned through the magic scroll."
He now somewhat believes that this guy may have really been to the inheritance place of the great mage.
After all, such a precious scroll is not something that ordinary people can get.
At this moment, after summoning the temple guardian, the mercenary leader seemed to feel confident again.
With a crazy smile on his face, he said: "Damn guy, I see how arrogant you are."
"Guardians, kill them all!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the temple guardian turned into a ray of light and shadow and rushed towards Cao Xing at high speed.
And just then.
Rhaenys, Elisa, and the wild boar warriors have all jumped up from the pit.
Cao Xing said calmly: "Sarah, come here and deal with this temple guardian."
"Others, go deal with other mercenaries."
As soon as he finished speaking, a black shadow rushed towards the glowing figure at high speed!
And when the temple guardian saw Sarah appearing in front of him, he directly raised the sword in his hand and stabbed her instantly!
This sword explodes like the sun, blazing brightly!
However, the next moment, it lost its opponent.
At some point, Sarah appeared behind it.
And directly used the explosive skill-Dance of Death!
"Shua! Poof!"
【-17236! 】
【-18235! 】
【-19246! 】
【-21527! 】
…
As horrific injury figures appear one after another.
The blood volume of this temple guardian began to pour out like running water!
The guardian turned around instantly and wanted to deal with Sarah.
"Click!"
The long sword of light kept sweeping across, and the surrounding boulders exploded the moment they came into contact with this sword energy!
boom! Boom!
Violent explosions continued to sound.
This is a master-level battle, and its terrifying power even prevents others from getting close.
However, no matter how powerful the attack it launched, it was easily neutralized by Sarah.
After all, with the current combat power of this dark elf assassin, he can challenge a seventh-level commander alone!
The Guardian of the Holy Code, who only has the strength of a seventh-level leader, is obviously not good enough.
Killings dance, arcs flash, shadows bloom...
As the skills were thrown one after another, the summoned creature's blood volume plummeted, and it had no power to fight back.
The expression on the mercenary captain's face suddenly froze when he saw that the summoned creature he had placed high hopes on was unilaterally ravaged by Sarah.
Before he could react.
There was already fighting on the other side.
Under the siege of the wild boar warriors, other members of the Rusty Mercenary Group also fell one after another.
In the blink of an eye, only the mercenary captain was left standing there blankly.
And when he saw the wild boar warriors surrounding him, he was surrounded.
A feeling of despair appeared in my heart.
With the last glimmer of hope, he asked with a stiff smile: "My lord, can you spare my life?"
However, Cao Xing shook his head and said: "No."
With a wave of the staff, the ice-breaking flying blade was thrown out.
"Bang! Bang bang!"
【-31852】
【-29231】
【-33267】
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After three horrific injury figures.
The leader of the mercenary group's health returned to zero and he collapsed.
[Successfully killed the leader of the Rusty Iron Mercenary Group: Roderick Nixon lv48, a fifth-level leader-level creature, gained experience points: 4800]
At this point, Cao Xing had killed all the dozens of members of the Rusty Iron mercenary group.
Sarah, on the other hand, dragged the temple guardian with her, waiting for the summoning time to end.
Anyway, there is no reward for killing this summoned creature, so there is no need to waste energy.
About a minute later, the guardian of the sacred scripture turned into countless light spots and disappeared.
Sarah shook off the dagger in her hand and disappeared again.
Cao Xing said: "Okay, let's start cleaning the battlefield."
After hearing this, the wild boar warriors took action one after another.
No one paid much attention to this episode.
From the time they fell under the trap to the time the Rusty Iron mercenary group was completely destroyed, it took less than ten minutes in total.
It can't make any waves in their hearts at all.
Cao Xing himself walked straight to the mercenary captain and picked up some of the trophies he had dropped.
[Obtained: Mercenary Captain Moore’s leader-level soul*1]
[Obtain: Expert Power Heart*1]
[Obtain: Skilled Mercenary Scale Armor (gold)*1]
[Obtain: Rune Sword (Purple)]
[Get: Unknown Treasure Map*1]
[Obtain: Expert level element crystal*10]
【Obtained: Coins*275231】
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"A leader's soul and an expert-level heart of power are very good benefits."
Cao Xing felt very satisfied. This was an unexpected surprise on the road.
After all, leader-level souls are also a material that is urgently needed in his territory.
"But what is the other treasure map?"
The next moment, a simple parchment map appeared in his hand.
It has mountains, plains, and rivers painted on it.
Among the high mountains, I saw a red 'X'.
Cao Xing thought: "This red 'X' number should be the location of the treasure."
"But where exactly is this location?"
I looked at the properties.
【Unknown Treasure Map】
[Quality: Unknown]
[Prop effect: At coordinates 85231, 6331, 2321, there may be some treasures or some kind of traps hidden...]
(Note: An unknown treasure map, no one knows what is there before arriving.)
…
A look of surprise suddenly appeared in Cao Xing's eyes.
“The coordinates are actually marked, which is good.”
"Isn't the location recorded above the place where this guy said it has the inheritance of the Archmage?"
The mercenary leader just used a powerful magic scroll to summon a powerful creature like the [Temple Guardian].
This shows that there is a high probability that the other party has really been to the place of inheritance.
This made Cao Xing interested.
Glancing at the coordinates, a look of surprise appeared in his eyes again.
"Good guy, I didn't expect it to be near the main city of Yongshuang!"
"Then next time I go to redeem the legendary dagger, I'll take a look."
……
(End of chapter)