The brave man opened the coffin and rose

Chapter 278 Dream and the Last Journey

Although the rune book is not suitable for a beginner.

But the birth of the rune book was enough reason for Abes to carry Sauron with him.

Once the relevant research and technology are more complete, there is no doubt that Abes will be able to easily guide Soran to use his talent to become a time mage, just like he guided Philip to become a transcendent.

On the one hand, Abes wanted to appease Crimson, the dragon who followed him in the hope of learning and advancing.

One of the reasons why he followed him was that he could help Philip from an ordinary person to an extraordinary person.

If I can successfully give him guidance in front of him again, then this red dragon will not cause me trouble in the short term.

On the other hand, Abes does hope to develop a few new extraordinary teammates.

Although the series of products under the magic industry system have gradually narrowed the gap in combat power between extraordinary people and ordinary people, if they want to fight against the power of the other half of the country, they are still short of manpower with the Silver Moon Farm, the refugees from the Southern Fertile Land, the slaves rescued from the Lizardman Camp, and the old team brought out from Sweet Leaf Town.

And in this world of magic and supernatural powers, what favor could surpass the one that propelled them to the position of supernatural beings?

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King's capital.

After Kronos discovered that it was impossible to make a breakthrough in his research and development of runes in a short period of time, he began to focus on other things that could help Lord Abes.

First of all, the layout and arrangements on the Lizardmen's side are being carried out in an orderly manner.

A group of loyal, morally upright and disciplined people affiliated with the Gaviling will go to the fertile land of the south as instructors to take over the Lizardmen who are willing to participate in Lord Abes's cause, and try to assimilate that Lizardmen into an excellent, glorious and great volunteer army that is unique to them.

Their goal is arduous, and the difficulties are not only external, but also some difficulties come from within them.

When it comes to communicating with the Lizard People, racial differences are a huge external barrier.

But fortunately, these barriers can be lubricated and buffered by the leading lizardmen, who once surrendered to Abes and have studied and lived in the royal capital for a certain period of time.

But the more serious problem is that a few months ago, the Lizardmen were engaged in a fierce war of land seizure with the small kingdom of Wommza.

Due to the great battle royale that the one-eyed god Gruumsh staged in Ravenhold, almost all of General Paddy's soldiers were killed, resulting in the need for Abes's troops to recruit soldiers from scratch, and they have been unable to obtain sufficient reinforcements.

The shortage of soldiers forced Gaviling and Kronos to pick and choose. Even though they tried their best to avoid conflicts, they were unable to ensure that the candidates they selected had no grudges against the Lizardmen.

After all, it was necessary to go deep into the areas that had not yet been controlled, to command and lead a group of combat forces that needed to be run-in, and to launch a tentative attack on the other half of the territory of the small kingdom of Wommza, in order to cooperate with Lord Abes' actions.

Therefore, ability and virtue are indispensable.

At this point, the conditions for background checks can only be relaxed.

Needless to say, those who came from Silver Moon Farm would have died long ago if Lord Abes had not come back to life and opened the coffin.

As for the captives who were rescued by Lord Abes, it is even more unlikely that they would be easily forgiven.

The only ones who were slightly better off were the members recruited from Sweet Leaf Town and the Royal Capital. Thanks to the arrival of Abes, they were not harmed in the war of aggression and were more emotionally stable.

However, Abes took control of these territories and started recruiting soldiers very late, and the number of vacancies offered was not large.

It is unlikely that all of these people who have little grudge against each other will grow up to be qualified enough to participate in and pass the selection and become capable of being delegated command in such a short period of time.

Therefore, in the end, the proportion of the first two categories is larger.

Hatred? I can only ask you to restrain yourself.

"You must restrain yourself!" This became the point that Kronos and Gaviling repeatedly emphasized to them before they set off.

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Another current focus of Kronos' work in the royal capital is the affairs of the Breland family.

Lord Abes is about to go to Breland's house.

Although during the previous analysis, from the data that could be found in the royal capital, there was indeed nothing abnormal about the Breland family.

Not to mention making money or becoming prosperous enough to support six extraordinary people, there is not even a sign that the family business is showing the slightest improvement.

Previously, the herbal medicine business of the branch of the Breland family seemed to be just barely doing well, but looking at the data later, it may not be able to compete with the several families in the south.

Whether it is the population size, the assessment of territorial assets, or a simple comparison of tax levels.

No matter how you look at it, the Breland family doesn't seem to have enough ambition or the scale to support great achievements.

Since the data doesn't indicate any trouble, perhaps we can only try to start with the five surviving prisoners?

Kronos had no intention of conducting an interrogation.

Lord Abes, who had spells to control humans, failed. And Anivia, who was good at using some incredible means to "persuade" people to be sensible and consider the overall situation, did not achieve any results on this group of people. She knew her own weight and did not intend to use interrogation.

Besides, the condition of these people has not been very good.

If we say that old Winston's condition was not good enough, it was because before Shangshang Tianren left, he was afraid that his origins and traces would be discovered by old Winston, the great wizard, and then revealed to Abes and the others, so he suppressed his consciousness and thinking to the level of a child;

General Paddy's condition was not good enough because Abes had exposed his selfishness and guilt with evidence and laid it before him, making it impossible for him to continue to maintain the so-called justice in his heart;

Then if these five "stupid thieves" are in a bad state, they will be in another situation.

Ever since their failed jailbreak attempt that day, they have been staring blankly at the ground in front of them with dull eyes.

At first, Kronos thought that someone disobeyed the organization's arrangements and arbitrarily used harsh torture on them.

However, after a careful investigation, it was discovered that the people who had the power to interrogate these five people had never been there.

Kronos classified them as victims of the gods just like old Winston.

However, the soldiers who recently guarded them in the prison cells reported that "they can now answer questions, although they don't know whether they are correct or not, but they can answer almost any question asked by others."

After witnessing it with his own eyes, Kronos finally understood what the soldiers' feedback meant.

The five people in front of him were in a state similar to that of someone who had stayed up for three or four nights in a row, with the smell of coffee powder, the medicinal effect of melatonin, and the smells of various means such as mustard and wind oil that make people sober mixed together and then stuffed into their mouths in one breath.

The performance of being drunk or taking too much drugs.

With his mouth half open, he seemed to be between a dream and reality.

When they hear others asking them questions, they answer slowly and dully in a tone similar to mumbling.

Although we don't know whether it's true or not, the words spoken in this state sound like the result of being interrogated with a truth serum.

After testing him with a few simple mental arithmetic and some logical questions, Kronos was able to confirm that, although the guy in front of him looked completely useless, his basic cognitive and judgment abilities were still there.

You can give it a try!

After recalling the name of the current head of the Breland family according to the records in the royal capital, Kronos leaned forward slightly and sat up straighter.

"So may I ask, Victor Breland, what did he send you to Ooze City for?"

"Looking for... a prescription... but not sending... not sending..."

Ok?

The silver-haired girl frowned.

"Not dispatched, what does that mean?"

"Because our bodies are not willing to do so..." The person being questioned was still in a dazed state when he said the first half of the sentence, but the second half of the sentence suddenly straightened his paralyzed neck a little, and the eyes that were staring at the ground turned with difficulty and stared at Kronos' face, "It was the dream that took over the body, the daughter of the Mels family..."

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As the last step before leaving Carterburg, Abes will go alone to see the etheric gate inside the witch's lair.

After returning to the place where the black vortex was swirling before, Abes discovered that if it were not for the black vortex covering it up, the entrance to the entire nest would actually be located above the blazing flames in the fireplace.

Climb in along the hole, but don't climb up the chimney to cosplay as Santa Claus. Instead, push forward and open the hidden door, and you will come to a place similar to a tunnel or basement.

After entering, the naturally separated stone chambers and caves seemed to have been places where victims had been tortured.

In the center of the basement, there was a big pot that Anivia had not yet packed up and taken away.

Walking through this basement, behind one of the round hole blocking the door is the platform where Abes was once teleported that day.

On the rocky ground, there were still traces of the destruction caused by the witch's various types of powers that had charged towards the center of the platform in one breath.

If Abes had not taken advantage of the other party's mentality of not resisting the transmission at that moment and pulled the other party to the royal capital that he had already notified, then it would still be unknown who would win the final victory.

Standing on the stone platform, you still have to walk down a long and winding downhill road.

According to Anivia, the place was filled with poison gas and explosives at that time; but now, with the death of Aunt Vanna and Anivia having already packed up the spoils and gone through it once, the poison gas has long dissipated and the explosives have also been eliminated.

At the bottom of the ramp, on one of the stone walls, you can see a metal component that is almost identical to the one where the Eldenite mine is located.

After walking to the stone wall, Abes also raised his right arm.

Because, inside the right arm of this full body armor, there is an Eldenite embedded.

Since Anivia doesn't know ether application spells like Phantom Step, and Hyoanagi and the others are not following him around this time, the only way to verify his conjecture is probably with the help of Eldenite.

"go with!"

Anchoring the imagined landing point in his mind at the location of the ether gate, Abes instantly launched the Eldenite-driven ether jump.

only……

boom!

Abes was ejected, and then the same thunderous sound that was heard in the Elden pyroxene mine area that day rang out.

Exactly the same reaction, exactly the same phenomenon. If one were to connect the Mud City and the Baijing Tea House, which were so far apart, it would definitely be a giant network that was completely incompatible with the productivity of the North.

After the method of using Eldenite to view the etheric plane failed, Abes also took out another thing.

That is the black jade stone temporarily borrowed from Soran, called the Heart Stone, which is one of the necessary magic props for Aunt Vanna to transform into the final Night Hag.

hum...

As Abes injected magic power into the heart stone, the breath of ether gradually engulfed everything around it, as if the world was left with only endless silver mist.

Lacking eyes that could see into the etheric and similar material planes, the result was that once he became etheric, Abess actually turned himself into a blind man.

Being blind in the material plane is dangerous enough, let alone doing so in another plane?

Abes walked cautiously in this unknown territory - is this the coastline of the etheric plane?

Every step feels like stepping on an invisible knife edge.

But strangely, I could still hear the whisper of the wind whistling past my ears.

Suddenly, a strong sense of uneasiness came over me.

Abes stopped suddenly and reached out to feel the ground in front of him.

At this moment, the thing under my feet shook slightly.

Before Abes could react, his feet suddenly felt empty and he suddenly lost his balance.

"Ah——!" Before he could even utter a scream, Abes began to fall rapidly.

The surrounding silver mist seemed to have transformed into an entity more terrifying than the endless darkness, mercilessly dragging the falling people towards an unknown abyss.

At this critical moment, Abes' fingers clenched the heart stone.

The input of magic power again made Abes feel the solidity of the earth again.

After this, Abes no longer dared to try the Heart Stone easily.

"Neither the Eldenite nor the Heartstone can approach the core of this so-called Ether Gate."

"That at least proves one thing. This ether gate was not built by Aunt Vanna."

Thinking of this, Abes sighed into his helmet.

This is really getting more and more troublesome.

In other words, for information about the Ether Gate, he also needs to ask the former owner of the Baijing Tea House before Aunt Wanna took over and transformed it.