The great sage is very tired

Chapter 28 Ant Colony

The water source was not far from them. When they arrived, they took out a portable temporary house and built it quickly with their full cooperation. They even had time to set up a fire and barbecue before dark.

As an elf, Ace had little interest in eating meat, so he just sat aside and ate some fruit and bread for dinner.

After eating, the four of them lay side by side on the grass, looking up at the stars above their heads, chatting with each other.

When Oldfield was young, he also joined the Mercenary Corps.Materials were scarce in the Dark Night Age, and many noble mages relied on purchasing materials from mercenary groups.At that time, the members of the mercenary group were composed of knights, bards, thieves, and assassins, and few mages joined the mercenary group.

Offield was one of the few magicians who joined the mercenary group.When he was a teenager, he was still displaced with his mother. If he wanted to obtain materials and money, joining the mercenary group was the most convenient way.

Of course, he also met many friends in the mercenary group, such as Olivier of the Dragon Clan and Esthers of the Elf Clan.

Back then, they traveled the mainland together, overcame many dangers, and experienced many hardships.Later, Olivier's brother and sister-in-law were assassinated, and he entrusted his nephew who was still in the egg to Offield and then returned to the Dragon Clan; Offield's king father found him back and granted him the title of duke.Esthers returned to the elves to succeed the high priest.

No one expected that there would be a dragon emperor, an elf high priest and a human sage in a little-known small mercenary group.

At that time, when they were lying on the grass looking at the stars, they only felt that the night sky was extremely magnificent and full of beauty, imagining that it was the gift of the night left by the gods, but now all he heard in his ears were the following conversations.

"S-05, Desolate Star, surrounded by an asteroid belt, is very beautiful, and it is a must-see attraction for interstellar tourism. But there are only deserts on the planet, and there is no development value."

"S-13, third-class star, the hometown of Conway, a famous writer in the last century, now relies on the former residence of celebrities as a selling point to stimulate tourism."

"S-08, Plant Star, discovered hundreds of new plant species when it was first developed 70 years ago, and now there are dozens of botanical research institutes and agricultural colleges built on it."

Anser is very professional as a star thief, and he knows the surrounding planets clearly.

Oldfield: "..." There is no sense of beauty, goodbye.

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In the early morning of the next day, several people packed up their things and officially started this wild star trial.

During the day, the temperature on the surface of the planet is relatively high. Before departure, Luluni swiftly mixed several bottles of quick-frozen potions, each with a bottle. Several people stepped on the map all morning, and took out the small glass bottles when it was hot. It will automatically emit air-conditioning after shaking, which is equivalent to a small refrigeration equipment, which is very practical.

"I've been walking all morning, and I haven't gained anything at all." Luluni thumped her leg, "Although there are three months, but if luck is always so bad, it's really hard to say whether you can complete the task."

What Luluni said was right, they didn't even meet a rabbit, not to mention level [-] monsters all morning.Moreover, the fourth-level monsters are not the type that you can go up to when you see them. You must find out the lairs of the monsters in advance, the attack methods of the monsters, and maybe set a trap in advance.

It is still quite difficult to have three or more fourth-level monsters in three months.

"The direction we are coming from is still grass, but now there is less and less grass, and there are more and more exposed gravel surfaces in front of us," Ace felt a little strange: "But this location is very cold in terms of temperature and humidity. How can something suitable for plant growth turn into a desert for no reason.”

It's not normal.Offield frowned. Not only was the vegetation getting less and less, they hardly encountered any living things along the way.

Except for the birds flying overhead.

"I think there may be danger ahead." Anser also sensed something was wrong, "This situation is not normal, in order to ensure safety, we'd better go back first. This kind of situation where there are no living things in a large area is very likely to be the habitat in the front." Holding a very high level monster."

"No, high-level monsters also need hunting, and its existence will not disrupt the ecological balance." Ace denied this situation, "If it is a high-level monster, at least there will be herbivores."

Offield agreed with Ace's words, and what disturbed him most was that he didn't feel any abnormality within the scope of his mental power.

He closed his eyes, concentrated his energy, and the majestic spiritual power of the great sage swayed around, quietly skipped over his companions, and explored the unknown land ahead, searching almost inch by inch. examine.

He didn't see that Anser, who had been staring at the optical brain monitoring the situation in front of him, suddenly opened his eyes wide in shock, and almost lost his composure for a moment.Of course, he quickly restrained his expression, and his gaffe at that moment was not noticed by Luluni and Ace who were also studying the terrain.

Since Anser doubted Offield's identity, he would naturally not do nothing. Of course, Anser's optical brain was connected to other monitoring equipment.

The mage's spellcasting will inevitably mobilize his mental power. In order to find out the bottom of Offield, he brought a miniature mental power monitoring device with him, which can monitor the strength of his mental power.Of course, what he wanted was to capture the state of Offield's mental power at any time, so as to infer his strength.

But he couldn't imagine how strong a strong man at the level of a great sage could control his mental power. Even if Orfield had been diverting his mental power to observe the environment since he disembarked from the spaceship, his equipment could not capture the Field's subtle and stable mental power.

But just now, at the moment when Orfield's mental power erupted, the monitor that he had been unresponsive for a long time was blown off the meter in an instant, and the value soared all the way to the peak of the monitoring equipment.

This value...is hundreds of times his spiritual power.

Maybe hundreds of times more, after all, the equipment he brought has already displayed the maximum value within the measurable range, and the excess part cannot be counted at all.

Is this thing broken?He couldn't help but ask himself in his heart, could such a high value be human?A strong man at the level of a great sage can't reach this point, can he?

But this equipment is the most advanced monitor in the interstellar, and he has checked it several times before coming, and the possibility of error is very small.

His mind was filled with these two thoughts, and his reason was constantly being pulled, making it a mess.

"Let's go!" Anser hadn't calmed down yet, but Orfield suddenly opened his eyes and quickly explained the situation: "The third-level ant colony has spotted us, let's go!"

Every worker ant in a three-level ant colony is a third-level ant, and the queen may even reach a fourth or fifth level.

The four of them are absolutely not afraid of level three monsters, even if they are level four, although hunting them directly would be dangerous, it is by no means impossible to take them down.

However, an ant colony cannot.

The third-level ant colony can even avoid the seventh-level monsters, and the seventh-level monsters are equivalent to eighth-level or even ninth-level magicians among humans.According to the algorithm of the dark night era, it is a magister or even a great magister.

That is already a strong man close to the legendary level, and there are very few existences among human beings.

"What should I do?" Anser suffered another even bigger blow before he could recover from one blow.

Ace and Luluni are also confused.Not counting Anser, who was licking blood, the two of them were just young adults, and they had never encountered a life-threatening situation in their lives. They had never thought before that they might be in an ordinary semester trial. Throw away your life.

"Keep calm," Orfield quietly cast a calming spell, trying to appease his companions, "Let's retreat to the station last night and cross the river."

Ant colonies naturally avoid water, which is why the place where they camped yesterday was still intact.Fortunately, they haven't collided with the ant colony head-on. If it's just for the purpose of predation, maybe the ant colony won't chase them for too long.

Maybe……

A river, two rivers, three rivers... can always shake them off.

What they need is time, speed, and endurance.

If Oldfield was still the great sage he once was, he would be able to burn this kind of ant colony with a single fire.But he only retained the soul strength and spiritual power of the great sage period, and the magic power reserve was only the standard of an ordinary mid-level mage, which was not enough to support him to complete a forbidden spell.

"Ace sent a message to the people of the First Military Academy for help." Offield decisively took over Anser's command, and gave instructions in an orderly manner: "Mecha can withstand the attack of ant colonies, we just need to support them until they come Anser analyzed the terrain ahead, led the way, and tried to cross the most rivers in the shortest distance."

"Luluni, have you prepared a potion to hide your breath?"

"No... no."

There are very few potions for concealment, and the level is also high, which is beyond Luluni's ability.Offield can use hidden magic, but it's okay to use this kind of magic for himself. If he uses it for others, the consumption of magic power will increase exponentially. Now, Offield must save all his magic power and do his best to deal with the worst. Be prepared to fight your way out of the situation.

"Then prepare the potion that enhances the physical strength." Orfield's mental strength is used to pay attention to the rear, "We save all our physical strength to escape, and be careful not to attack the ant colony, otherwise they may not die with us forever."

"Come on!"

The three of them were infected by Offield's aura, and at the same time his calming magic also played a soothing effect, they quickly calmed down, followed the pace of Offield, and quickly fled towards the opposite direction of the ant colony.

Ant colonies are fast.

When they came, they maintained a normal speed. Although they sprinted all the way when they retreated, they were still chased by the ant colony within sight when they were about to approach the river bank.

The three of them gasped.

The black ant colony looks like a thin black line from a distance, but that black line runs across the sky, letting everyone know that it is not just a line.

The scene behind was fed back in Offield's mind through mental force.He knew that the meadow they passed by in the morning had lost all grass after the ant colony had passed by.

If a person falls into the ant colony, he will be gnawed in the blink of an eye and there will be no bones left.

"This river is not wide, the ant colony may not give up chasing, everyone don't stop after crossing the river." Although they did not provoke the ant colony, but the mage's powerful flesh and blood are not small to them, and the ant colony will not Giving up too easily.

Ace muttered the spell in a low voice, and vines sprouted from his hands, and the other end of the wildly growing vines entangled directly on the tree trunk on the other side of the river.

"Cross the river."