Chapter 34 One person... is missing
Halfling Yad's death didn't even send a ripple through Raven's heart.
That's the price of risk.
Everyone has the right to stay at home and be an obedient citizen, entrusting their fate to others.
They also have the right to go out of the house and give it a go to see if they can become strong masters of their own destiny.
In this cruel world, some people succeed, some people fail, that's all.
Raven never intended to save everyone, and if he had, then he was a paladin not an assassin.
All he can do is to keep getting stronger until he ignites the divine fire and has a floating continent of his own, no longer needing to look at anyone's face.
Enter the fifth hour of the Shadow Plane.
The surrounding situation has changed again, the sense of taste has failed, and the whole person seems to be in an ink and wash landscape painting.
In fact, from now on, it can be regarded as really entering the shadow plane, and before that, it can be regarded as the outer cracks of the shadow plane at most. No, it is a bit inaccurate to say that it is true, because the Absolute Shadow Plain belongs to a smaller branch plane of the Shadow Plane, and it is impossible to support the entry of strong people above the Golden Rank here. Even if you suppress your strength, it won't work.
Taking out the discolored [Red Knight Strategy Chessboard], Raven found that his prediction had taken effect, and even the two small white chessboards representing Ellison's reinforcements collapsed.
That meant Ellison would have no more reinforcements.
Even so, Ellison still has a lot of chess pieces: one king and one queen, two bishops, two chariots, and five Janissaries.
On the other hand, the black chess representing Lei Wen has only two chess pieces, one king and one chariot.
The king is naturally Lei Wen, and Sheng Yi naturally represents the chariot.
The power balance is still very different!
The Plane of Shadow repells any creature not associated with shadow. A strangler golem isn't a living thing, it's just a construct with a soul. In the eyes of shadow creatures, it is either of the same kind, or it is equivalent to stones and the like.
In fact, shortly after the large group of adventurers entered the shadow plane, Shengyi also entered, and followed Raven's team about a kilometer behind.
Now that outsiders have cleared the field, Sheng Yi naturally returned to Lei Wen's side.
Lei Wen said to the strategy board: Okay. Now that the actors are all here, let's start the show. I only have two predictions: One is that Ellison is a person who pays great attention to long-term effects, and he will be like a loser. The gambler, continue the plan; the second is that his team will fight inside. As for the final prediction, we will wait until you are willing to give me the third stage.
On the other side, Ellison's face was extremely dark. Of course it can't be seen in the shadow plane.
He's at a loss.
All the temporary helpers he hired at a large price were killed, and there were two teams of silver-rank adventurers.
In the end, it was his immediate subordinates who made it through the first five hours.
However, under the attacks of various shadow creatures in turn, his subordinates also suffered heavy losses.
There are now only five bronze-level shadow thieves of Amn, two silver-level black guards, the old thief Van der Far, a silver-level trickster, and Ellison's cronies in the forty-strong army. Catrick, who hasn't shot yet.
It's not that none of them have been to the Shadow Plane, but the only one who has been to the Shadowless Plain is the old thief. But the old thief is not very familiar with this place. Together with the old thief, all the rogues here took office in the temple to open the shadow energy slot.
Now Ellison can't care about Raven anymore, he just wants to get the Shadow Orb and leave this ghost place as soon as possible.
The old thief, like Lei Wen, once proposed that he could have a chance to exit after entering the shadow plane for five hours. Ellison gave up.
The Shadow Orb is essential to him. Because it is too important to Ellison's future development.
In Raven's previous game, when Ellison first appeared on the stage, his perception was only 14 points.
As a businessman, his basic perception is not low, but it is only based on the standard of ordinary people. He knew that those priests who stepped into the sanctuary seldom had a basic perception lower than 20 points when they first debuted. Those people were all so-called innate supernatural perception.
There seems to be a single-digit difference between 14 points and 20 points. But the further back the gap widens.
As an aborigine of Ultron World, Ellison certainly didn't know the so-called data, but he could clearly feel the talent gap between himself and other priests who murdered the church. If the path of the priest is continued at this pace, then when he enters the legendary realm, he will have a lot less divine spells than priests of the same level.
This is absolutely unacceptable to Ellison.
When he was most distressed, the news that the old thief brought the shadow orb came out.
As long as he works in a shadow-related profession, such as being promoted from a priest to a shadow priest, and then a shadow master, the shadow orb can bring Ellison a huge perception bonus along the way. And the subsequent snowball effect can perfectly bridge the gap between him and those talented priests.
That's why he knew that Raven lured him to Shadow Valley, but he had to come.
This is Yangmou!
But after he came, he found that he still underestimated the shadow plane too much. He didn't have any high-level professionals who had used shadow orbs, and this was his biggest mistake.
He had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk all the way. If he went back with his tail between his legs, his loss would really be a loss.
Mighty dark sun! Bless me! After saying this, Ellison also smiled wryly. Shadow is the priesthood of Mask, the god of thieves, and the priest of the murder god should not expect to be blessed here.
Fan der Far, how do we go now?
The old thief recalled: The Shadow Valley is in the southeast of the Absolute Shadow Plain, so we have to find the way to the lower right.
Bottom right?
In the second stage, the Jueying Plain is not a flat space. It seems that we are walking on the plain, but in fact we are walking inside a hanging painting. It is meaningless to move forward and backward. In line with the above The map principle of going north, going south, left, east, right and west, when we come to a place and see a passage to the right, it is right to go down.
What? Sorry, I don't understand.
Then just take someone with me. The old thief didn't explain much.
Ellison just wanted to scold his mother at this time. This situation beyond his imagination makes him very uncomfortable. But he can only rely on the old god thief.
At this time, Ellison's two dark guards suddenly said: Master, we are a little uncomfortable, and it feels like life is slowly passing by.
Ellison immediately turned to look at the old thief.
The old thief shrugged: You asked me, 'I just sense the existence of shadow energy, can I come?' I said yes. I never said that creatures that have nothing to do with shadow can stay here for so long.
Ellison's hand trembled for a while, but in the end he didn't have an attack.
These two dark guards are indeed his most loyal bodyguards.
On the other hand, he also knows that shadow and darkness are not the same thing. It is Mask who controls the shadow, and Shar, the lady of the night, who controls the priesthood of darkness.
Can you hold on?
The two dark guards looked at each other and said solemnly: Master, I'm afraid we can hold on for three hours at most.
We can reach the destination in an hour and a half at most. If everything goes well, we can leave the shadow plane in two hours. The old thief added.
It's not going well?
Then we will all die here. The old thief's words made Ellison feel uneasy for the first time.
But then Ellison dismissed this in his heart: Will such a luxurious lineup of mine be wiped out here?
If another person came over, maybe Ellison really couldn't do anything about it.
But who is Raven?
The former Level 118 God Fang!
He memorizes every rule of the Shadow Plane fluently.
After meeting with the rope, Lei Wen no longer had any scruples, and he didn't need to wait any longer, and went straight to his destination.
It was a downhill road into the valley of shadows.
The black ramp is no different than anywhere else in the Plane of Shadow.
Gray, gloomy, lifeless.
However, Raven told Ellison that he was wrong!
As long as the shadow here is big enough, it can hide people, and even hide all kinds of huge monsters.
It was a straight downhill slope. If there is anything special, there is a black boulder on the side of the mountain road. After the black moonlight above the head shone through, it was separated by the black stone and turned into two sections of light that were not so dark on the left and right.
When Ellison and his party passed the boulder, the situation suddenly changed. They felt as if they were being violently pulled by some mysterious force, as if the thick darkness was swallowing them.
Then as they began to prepare for battle, the light reappeared, albeit dimly, and when their eyes again saw the dark light of various shades of black, they found themselves in a different position, as if going straight downhill. Dao suddenly turned 180 degrees.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The next moment, a questioning voice made everyone suddenly tense.
Where's Martin?
People... one less!