Chapter 473: 473

Chapter 473: Chapter 13

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

It was getting dark . The castle was located on the edge of the sparse woods . In the distance, the moon rose slowly from the horizon . The villages could be faintly seen during the day, but now they disappeared into the darkness . It was silent all around .

“Something is wrong here,” the trainee paladin said . “In this season, it shouldn’t be so quiet in the wild . ”

“The Departed Soul monsters can emit negative energy, so no creatures like them as a result . In addition to a few variant monsters in the Ashes Woods in the northwest, common demon beasts deliberately avoid the range of negative energy,” the trainee priest said . He was very clear about these things . “But… when we come here during the day, there are many beasts here . ”

“Yeah, I planned to catch some beasts to barbecue at night,” the trainee paladin said, sighing . “We can only eat solid food . ”

“Probably during the day, negative energy is suppressed by the sun,” the trainee priest guessed . “At night, negative energy is strengthened . Therefore, it is said that in the Ashes Woods, a large number of Departed Soul monsters come out at night, so it is extremely dangerous . ”

“Departed Souls? If they are skeletons, they won’t be horrible,” the bold trainee warrior said, laughing . “Just find a thick wooden stick and knock them down . ”

“One or two skeletons are certainly not horrible . Even ordinary farmers can deal with them,” Yue said, smiling . “But it is said that the skeletons in Ashes Woods don’t appear in a small number . If they appear, there will be at least hundreds of them . On every full moon night, there may even be tens of thousands of skeletons . Do you think that you can defeat that many skeletons?”

The trainee warrior shook his head directly without thinking .

Of course, some heroes in the world could defeat hundreds of skeletons, but he certainly was not one of them . Let alone hundreds, just eight to ten skeletons at a time could kill him .

After all, although one skeleton had weak combat ability, it wasn’t afraid of pain and death . When the number of skeletons was large, their threat immediately rose .

Moreover, once a person’s legs and head were caught by five or six skeletons, he could do nothing but die . If that person was a hero born with superhuman strength, he might have a chance to escape . However, as long as he was an ordinary person, even if he had good combat ability, he would also die .

The trainee warrior was counted as a good fighter . If he used all his skills, he could drive a dozen farmers away . However, in the face of a dozen skeletons, he would be the one to run away .

“It is strange that I can’t feel negative energy . Why?” The trainee priest sensed for a while carefully . He said, confused, “I can’t feel it at all . ”

“Go out of this magic array, and you may feel it,” Yue said indifferently . “But it also means that you may be attacked by evil spirits . ”

The trainee priest said, shrinking his neck, “I don’t want to take that risk . It is okay that I can’t feel it . ”

Everyone laughed kindly . For those rookie adventurers, safety-first was the undisputed golden rule . Most people who didn’t respect this rule would die in an adventure and had no chance to enjoy a bright future .

“Well, it’s late . Everyone, eat some solid food and go to bed early . We three will take turns to keep watch at night . ” After laughing, the trainee knight began to arrange the night watch .

During adventures, the night watch was an essential and important task . At night, most monsters were active . If they didn’t arrange a night watch, once they were attacked by monsters, everyone would die without knowing why .

There was a common practice among adventurers . Spellcasters didn’t keep watch at night . The reason was that others wanted to take care of the spellcasters . Spellcasters’ bodies were relatively weak, so they needed sufficient rest . Moreover, other adventurers had to ensure that the conditions of the spellcasters during the day weren’t affected, so the success rate of spells didn’t decrease due to lack of sleep .

Enough sleep could help spellcasters recover magic power, and it could also help them maintain a good mental state . Unless there were enough spellcasters in the team that they didn’t need to care about those things, everyone would obey this rule “Spellcasters don’t keep watch at night . ”

In other words, in an adventurer team, if spellcasters kept watch at night, they would definitely be rookies!

Of course, there were exceptions . For example, for some priests who believed in the God of Night or the God of Shadow and some necromancers, nighttime was their home court . During the daytime, they were sluggish instead .

However, such spellcasters would certainly not move with ordinary adventurers, so strictly speaking, they were not really special cases .

Yue and that trainee priest were naturally not special cases . Both of them needed to rest to ensure that they could have sufficient magic power and good conditions tomorrow . Different from Yue who slept very well, the trainee priest obviously didn’t sleep well . He turned again and again and woke up several times during the night .

More than once, he clearly felt that an evil force was gazing at him, so he woke up in his sleep . However, when he looked around, he didn’t see anything . Soon after he fell asleep, he felt that the evil force was gazing at him again, and he was awakened again . It repeated several times, so he couldn’t sleep well that night . The next morning, his whole person languished, and he was apparently in poor condition .

His companions naturally noticed his condition, and they asked him about it with concern . When he told them that he had been awakened several times during the night, the three who had kept watch were confused .

The warrior and the knight had relatively weak perceptual ability, so they hadn’t felt anything . However, the paladin had better perceptual ability . He hadn’t felt any evil gaze, either .

“Don’t think about it . This is the usual means of evil spirits,” Yue said, sighing . After a good sleep, she was full of energy . “They spy on you from the spiritual world . They know that spellcasters are their archenemies, so they try hard to disturb your spirit . It may be something good because it proves that this evil spirit is not very strong . Otherwise, it wouldn’t need to use such means . ”

After analyzing it like that, everyone was relieved . The curious warrior thought of something . He asked, “What about you? You are also a spellcaster . ”

Yue said, smiling, “Probably, it can only disturb one person’s spirit, and that is already its limit . In any case, a priest is definitely more threatening to it than me, a mage . ”

What she said was, of course, a lie . Although she was using the body of that trainee mage, the soul in that body was a genius young mage as well as the child of two legendary strong people . According to some scholars, her soul was inherently stronger than that of an average person . That evil spirit had tried to attack her at night . As a result, it had failed to disturb her spirit . Instead, it had been countered and had suffered a serious injury .

However, she naturally couldn’t explain those things to her companions . Anyway, that evil spirit was mentally injured, so its strength definitely declined . Although her previous analysis was wrong, at least the result was correct .

In contrast, she was somewhat curious about another thing .

During this night, she had clearly felt that a kind soul was watching her . It had wanted to convey friendly news . It was a pity that she was a mage instead of a priest . She was not good at soul communication, so she couldn’t hear it clearly . It was truly a pity .

“How many days is our solid food enough for?” the captain asked .

The paladin, who was responsible for managing the supplies, checked it . He replied, “If we save up, it will be enough for three days . If we don’t, we will have to hunt after tomorrow’s lunch . ”

“Then we rest this morning,” the captain said . “The priest must get enough rest . We can’t take risks . ”

No one disagreed, and the paladin even said that he could use this morning to hunt and catch a few rabbits for lunch .

So they ate roasted rabbit at noon, along with a little solid food .

The barbecue skills of these rookie adventures were not very good, but at least the food was cooked . Yue was not satisfied with the food, but she still ate it . She was safe and full .

This morning, she wasn’t idle . While checking the purification array, she made some temporary items . She used some materials she collected at the scene and used up almost all the gems reserved by this trainee mage . She made a few roughly-crafted pendants, strung them with thin strings and gave them to her companions .

“Mental protection pendant,” she said . “It can slightly improve your ability to defend against mental attacks . ”

Her companions were very happy to wear these pendants, but Yue knew that the pendants couldn’t help much .

The characterization of the mental protection array was correct, and the matching of materials was strictly in accordance with the rules . The problem was that the material level was too low, and she didn’t have enough magic power to infiltrate these materials to enhance their effects .

This was called enchantment . It had the necessary requirements for the magic power of the spellcasters . The trainee mage only had so much magic power . Considering that she might need to fight in the afternoon or the evening, the only magic power she could use was just this much .

If they were safe tonight, she would be able to rework these pendants tomorrow morning to enhance their effects . Although she couldn’t improve them much, at least she wouldn’t waste those gems .

Yue thought so, putting scrolls and wands in a place where she could reach at any time . Then she hung two daggers made from a Chinese scholar tree at her waist .

The two daggers were made by a knight at her request this morning . Chinese scholar trees could blend well with negative energy . As an essential, the two daggers could also be used to harm evil spirits .

Of course, she still needed another kind of essential, but if it was not necessary, she wouldn’t want to use it .

Even though it was just a game, Yue never intended to risk her own life .

However, if it was really necessary, she wouldn’t hesitate .

In a battle, the most useless emotion was hesitation . No matter what choice a person made, it was better than not choosing .

After lunch, the priest finally rested well and recovered his spirit . Therefore, the team set up the formation that was most suitable for battles and stepped into the castle again .

This time, they were much more serious and nervous than yesterday .

Looking at them from the sky, Sui Xiong couldn’t help but smile .

“This kid, Yue, seems to be very talented as a commander . ”

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