civilwarnovels Chapter 579: Evil Path Speed Flow
Chapter 579: Evil Path Speed Flow
Chapter 579: Evil Path Speed Flow
As imagined.
The task of trapping Argo was a chain task. As soon as they came down, the exclamation mark on the scarecrow's head turned into a question mark, which meant that the next task had been started.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time!"
The Scarecrow spoke first.
It is no different from the scarecrow in the fields used to scare away crows, except that it can talk.
Aqua was surprised and asked, "You said you were waiting for us?"
"Correct."
The Scarecrow nodded.
"We set out on a journey to become human, but halfway through, our companion girl was kidnapped by the Witch of the West. We wanted to save our companion, but the witch took away my brain, the jewel that replaced the Tin Man's heart, and the golden mane that gave the lion courage, so we couldn't fight. In order to summon a swordsman who could fight the witch together, we cast a tornado spell on Toto, the girl's dog, and sent him out."
It spoke for a long time, as if introducing the background of the mission. Xiaolin seemed to understand it, but also seemed not to understand it.
Sudden--
Aqua clapped her hands, "I understand what this mission is!"
"I figured it out too. That's why the house is flying." Argo followed closely.
Eh?
Their brains are actually faster than mine? Argo doesn't matter, but how come Aqua is so fast?
"So, what's going on?"
"What? Xiaolin, didn't you read it when you were a kid? The origin of this quest is The Wizard of Oz!"
"That's it, that's it!"
Xiao Lin suddenly realized.
The Wizard of Oz, also known as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is the greatest children's literature work in the United States and is known as the Journey to the West of the United States. This is a long fairy tale, but Xiaolin has only read the first story, but it happened to be The Wizard of Oz, so he had some impression of it.
Argo sighed and said, "In this case, the mission will be quite long."
"Why?" Aqua was confused.
Kobayashi explained: "From the development, we have to retrieve the things that the witch took away in order. Didn't I just say that - brain, heart, mane, etc. In other words, this is a serial mission, and it will take a lot of time on the road."
"Then let's not collect the key items."
"Eh?"
"Aqua is right. Let's skip this part and go directly to the witch's castle."
"Eh eh eh?"
Xiaolin's eyes widened.
Why don't you play by the rules?
But thinking about it carefully, it didn't seem to be a bad thing. Although not getting the item might make the enemy stronger, for them who had already conquered the 40th floor, the monsters on the 22nd floor could no longer cause them any harm.
Forget it, as long as they are happy.
Aqua took the lead and walked forward, not caring whether she was heading in the right direction or not, while Krillin and Argo followed behind her.
"Argo, how did you find this mission?"
"I discovered it by chance. I guessed it would be a hidden mission, so I came here alone."
"You are also quite stubborn."
You know, Argo is afraid of dogs, but even so, she would rather sacrifice herself than give up. This shows how persistent she is in the mission.
"I remember that three days after I finished conquering the 22nd floor, I cleared the 23rd floor, right?"
"Yes. At that time, the boss was so powerful that he pushed the floor up five or six floors in one go, which made the players at the bottom exclaim in amazement."
"It's not just my contribution. Everyone in the strategy team contributed."
At that time, everyone cooperated better and better, and the members of the strategy team put aside their grudges and worked together. In the blink of an eye, they had conquered from the 20th floor to the 25th floor. It was precisely because of the incredible speed of the strategy that PoH finally couldn't sit still and secretly planned to kill the members of the Kibo guild, which slowed down the strategy team again.
"By the way, this should be an interesting task, right?"
"That's probably right."
Kayaba Akihiko has set up many interesting tasks in SAO. Regardless of what can be learned or understood from them, the sheer fun has already made players yearn for it... Of course, the premise is that SAO is not a death game.
"But there is indeed room for excavation in the lower level."
No matter what type of game it is, as long as it is an online game, there is one absolute thing - that is the number.
Strength, speed, agility, resistance.
The level of these values determines the strength of the character. Therefore, in the pursuit of values, most players - especially members of the strategy group - bury their heads in the maze area to gain experience and increase their levels, and few people do these tasks.
fair enough.
Although low-level players cannot occupy high-level maze areas, they can also rely on these interesting tasks to gain experience and rewards. Many players have obtained high-quality weapons and props through these tasks.
Soon, the group arrived at a castle. It was located deep in the forest and covered a large area, almost like a royal city.
"Since this is a mission that even I don't know about, there should be a lot of treasure chests that have never been opened, right?"
"Yes, the rewards must be great!"
The two women were rubbing their hands together at the gate.
Kobayashi still felt a little uneasy. It wasn't that he was scared or anything like that, but based on Aqua's past character, the methods she proposed were all unreliable, and over time he became a little scared.
"Is it really okay to skip the process of finding things for these three people? We haven't entered the castle yet..."
"It's fine."
Aqua couldn't wait to push open the castle door.
“It’s really open…”
"Right?"
In general, if you don't get the stage props, you can't advance to the next round of the task. But Aqua pushed open the castle gate, which means that this task can indeed skip the previous task and fight the boss directly.
This is undoubtedly an evil way to pass the level.
Walking into the castle, I found that there was no dark and gloomy atmosphere here, but instead a bright and comfortable color. The group walked forward in the corridor of the castle. Aqua's familiar was protecting them, and Argo ran to explore the way ahead. She had the search skill to find treasure chests and hidden roads, and she was most suitable to be a scout.
Argo found a lot of treasure chests along the way, and from the smile on her face, I knew she had made a lot of money. I really wanted to tell her not to forget that there were two of us here, but in the end I held back and didn't ruin her smile.
Afterwards they encountered a lot of monsters, but the monsters on the 22nd floor couldn't even break their defenses and killed them easily.
They repeated the process of looking for treasure chests, finding hidden paths, and killing the monsters that attacked them several times. Finally, an hour later, they arrived at the BOSS room.
"Is it over so soon?"
"Because Argo found a shortcut."
Even Aqua could easily defeat monsters at the bottom level, so the stupid goddess fell in love with the feeling of mowing down monsters in just one hour.
Xiaolin also understood.
It’s not that she doesn’t like killing monsters and leveling up, it’s that she doesn’t like encountering danger.
This time, the experience of mowing down enemies seemed to have turned on the switch of the stupid goddess. I hope that the lower-level monsters will not be slaughtered in large numbers in the days to come.
"You better be careful."
The scarecrow came up and said worriedly. Not only him, but the tin man and the lion man also had the same expression. The three of them had just been watching from behind.
Xiaolin doesn't blame them.
The general process of the quest is to find what they are missing, and then when you find one, one of them will cheer up and become your companion to defeat the monster together. However, Aqua chose the evil speed pass flow, so the scarecrows can only follow behind and do nothing.
However, the mission process still needs to be completed.
The scarecrow seemed to be reminding: "The Witch of the West uses all kinds of horrible spells. If my head wasn't hollowed out, I could recall the types of spells..."
"It's ok."
Aqua held its shoulder (wooden pole) and said, "As long as the three of you work together, you will definitely be able to rescue the girl who is your friend."
The little girl who was taken away by the witch was named Dorothy, of course her name is also translated as Dorothy.
Since the scarecrows never mentioned the names of their companions who were swept away during the mission (they might have explained it while collecting items), Aqua still respected their settings and used a friend to represent the little girl.
Pushing open the door of the room, unlike the floor boss, the room is not filled with an oppressive feeling, and the venue is not as big as a football field.
Having said that, this room in the castle is quite spacious.
As soon as he entered, he saw the old and ugly witch and the little girl in the room. One of them was boiling medicine in front of the gurgling and steaming stove, and the other was imprisoned in a cage and unconscious.
This witch is quite stylish.
The Scarecrow suddenly stepped forward: "Oh! Miss Dorothy! At this rate, Miss Dorothy will be made into soup!"
"Dorothy is in danger! Save her!"
"Wait Dorothy, now we'll just... we'll just..."
The three people without brains, hearts and manes became listless at this moment. It turned out that they still had to rely on Kobayashi and the others.
"Do you also want to drink the soup made with this child? One sip can make you look younger, and two sips can make you full of strength. This is an extremely delicious soup, hehehe——"
The witch stirred the black potion in the stove and laughed strangely.
"Not at all!"
Aqua stepped forward, "We're here to save this girl!"
"Is that so? Is that so? That's a pity. So..."
The witch stopped stirring and glanced at Kobayashi and the others, then jumped up with an agility that was inconsistent with her age.
"I'll just throw you in and make the soup!"
"—?!"
Before they could react, the witch started waving the spoon in her hand continuously, and then the inky black soup spilled all over everyone. Then Kobayashi felt his legs go weak and he fell to the ground.
Is it a paralyzed state?
Xiaolin looked at his own window. Behind his name and health value, there was a small lightning symbol, which was a sign of paralysis.
I didn't expect that even though I'm already over level 50, I would still be knocked down by the paralysis of the BOSS on the 22nd floor. This should be the mechanism, right?
Hee hee hee--
“Who should we start stewing next?”
Aqua's Flying Feather Dragon activated its skill in mid-air. The witch saw it but did nothing. Instead, she said smugly, "It's useless. The only thing that can break this spell is the roar of a lion. Nothing else can do it."
The roar of a lion?
Kobayashi turned his head with difficulty and looked behind him who had fallen to the ground.
I see. The only thing that didn't have a negative status mark on the lion's head was that it should be able to remove the paralysis if it roared. But the problem was that he was still in a state where the witch had taken away his courage, and he was lying on the ground trembling.
Sure enough, skipping the branch mission was a bad choice!
“Woof woof! Woof woof! Woof woof!”
At this moment, Toto roared. No one knew what was going on, but the lion-man seemed to have regained his courage. He got up from the ground, exuding an inexplicable aura.
"I came to rescue Dorothy..."
The brave roar emitted a light wave, and the paralysis effect on Xiaolin and others was immediately removed. The witch did not choose to sit and wait for death, and she rushed over again with a wooden spoon.
"boss!"
"I see!"
Krillin cooperated with Argo and used chains to try to stop the witch, but she was able to escape from the attack range with incredible agility.
"Argo, swap!"
"Roger that!"
Argo dodged behind the witch and hit her back with the claws in his hand, deforming her movements.
"Ms. Aqua, swap!"
"Emperor Juer, come on!"
Aqua commanded her familiar to use the headbutt attack skill to knock the witch down from mid-air. The witch knew she was no match for her, so she got up from the ground and quickly ran towards the stove.
"Oh no, she's planning to use the decoction again!"
"Wang Wang Wang-"
"what!"
Toto shouted and rushed forward, biting the witch's shoe. The witch lost her balance and fell into the medicine she had brewed.
——Quest Clear
mission completed!
Such a dramatic scene stunned Kobayashi and others.
Sure enough, this is a fairy tale.
After rescuing the little girl Dorothy, the group left the castle. After receiving the mission reward and saying goodbye to them, Kobayashi and the other two returned to the cabin.
“——The Scarecrow’s brain, the Tin Man’s heart, the Lion’s courage… In the original version of The Wizard of Oz, they didn’t find what they were looking for in the end. Instead, in the process of rescuing Dorothy who was kidnapped by the witch, the Scarecrow racked his brains, the Tin Man showed his emotions, and the Lion showed his courage. So you actually already have what you want to find… At the end of the story, the great wizard Oz said this.”
"That's it."
Xiaolin sighed, "So you already knew that you didn't have to complete the side quests to get Lion and the others to stand up?"
"correct!"
Aqua raised her head proudly.
After all, it was because of his lack of education. But Xiaolin was not very familiar with foreign fairy tales, not to mention that he had only read "The Wizard of Oz" when he was a child, so his memory was already fuzzy.
"Let's not mention this yet."
Xiaolin grabbed Argo who was trying to sneak away.
"Let's talk about compensation, Argo."
"boss……"
"It's no use pretending to be pitiful. I've sacrificed a lot to save you. Pay the labor fee and the lost wages!"
"why is it like this----"
In the end, Xiaolin got two-thirds of the reward for this mission from the crying Argo.
(End of this chapter)