Chapter 504: True and False Gaode
In the thick twilight, on the northwest edge of Ember Island.
The sea breeze passed through the cracks in the rocks and made a low whine, covering up all the subtle sounds around it.
Just at this moment, under a cliff somewhere, a wave of ripples was seen flickering up, and then a dozen black figures emerged quietly as if they were peeled off from the shadows.
They all wore tight-fitting leather armor for ease of movement, with composite runes for silencers engraved on it.
The leader was tall and thin. He scanned the surroundings with vigilant eyes, while lowering his voice and saying quickly and urgently: "The bounty hunter changing the guard will be in place soon. Time is limited, so I won't talk nonsense. Everything will proceed as planned."
"Understood*N!"
Immediately, these dozen figures scattered in all directions. Each one chose a different direction, but the same thing was that their movements were extremely fast and concealed, and they made no sound at all.
They are all pirate mages of the Bloodsail Pirates.
During the past three days, they used [Eagle Eye Technique] to remotely monitor the bounty hunters in charge of sentries on Ember Island, detecting their specific locations, patrol routes, and guard changing times.
It was only then that such a loophole, which was not considered a loophole, was found in the tight defense network.
They know extremely well that landing on the island for reconnaissance is an extremely dangerous matter, which is actually equivalent to exchanging life for information.
But they came without hesitation.
They have long been accustomed to not being treated as human beings.
In other words, this is the way to survive for all the pirate mages in the Bloodsail Pirates except Davy Jones.
Either resist Davy Jones's orders, become his bone sculpture, and be tortured to death.
Either you have to obey Davy Jones and work for him through life and death.
If it succeeds, he will receive an astonishingly generous reward from Davy Jones—at this point, Davy Jones is more generous than most people.
With horrific punishments and astonishing rewards, as well as the strength of his own wizard who is proud of the Blue Flame Islands, Davy Jones can always firmly control the Blood Sail Pirates, a group of unruly "bad guys".
Bain is the leading mage in this island reconnaissance operation.
His right eye does not have a pupil, but is embedded with a prosthetic eye with a lavender halo, so he is also called One-Eyed Bane.
At this time, he was kneeling behind a black stone, with a layer of spell flow flowing on his body, which was the effect of the petrification spell.
Using the cover of the black stone and spells, Bain minimized his breath and carefully looked at the blue flame area ahead.
Through the layers of jumping blue flames, a figure came into view.
He was walking through the blue flames, his movements as natural as if he were strolling, walking towards the safe area here.
As the other party got closer and closer, an extremely familiar face appeared in front of Bain.
Bain had already memorized this face before landing on the island.
It was the key figure that Davy Jones asked them to go to the island to investigate: Gothe, the mage from the Plantagenet Dynasty.
A moment later, "Gothe" had walked out of the blue flame area and arrived at the safe zone.
He raised his head and looked around, revealing his skin that was slightly blued by the blue flames, and the robe on his body was stained with some dust.
At this moment, another figure flew from a distance and landed slowly in front of "Gothe".
The person who came was tall and tall, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle, and he had the unique vigilance of a bounty hunter.
"How is the situation? Is there any harvest?" He looked at "Gaode" and asked.
"No, I only found these." "Gothe" shook his head helplessly, took out a worn-out dagger from his arms and handed it to the other party.
"This is the mark of the Black Wing Gang, and it seems to be a relic of the elite mage of the Black Wing Gang."
The other party took the dagger and looked at it carefully for a while. He found that the blade of the dagger was covered with rust, but he could clearly see the Black Wing emblem engraved near the hand guard, and made a judgment.
"It's okay, you don't have to worry, take your time," he put the dagger into the leather bag on his waist, patted "Gothe" on the shoulder and made a banging sound, and comforted "Gothe" and said: "Since you can find these, that thing must not be a problem. As long as you search the entire Ash Island, I don't believe you can't find it."
"Gothe" nodded in agreement, and looked up towards the direction of the richest blue flame in the depths of the island. A trace of "firmness" flashed in his eyes: "I understand. Next, I will try to go deep into the core area. The concentration of blue flame there is higher, and I may be able to find something more valuable."
Given the distance between him and the two of them, he could not actually hear the content of their conversation.
But he could see the lips of the two people moving - for a person like him who licks blood from a knife, lip reading is just a basic skill.
Hence, Bain can also "see" the specific conversation between the two people with great accuracy.
At this moment, his heart was beating wildly. This was the information Davy Jones wanted to get most!
As long as you bring this news back, you can get generous rewards.
However, with many years of adventure experience, Bain does not easily believe what he sees before him.
Because seeing is not necessarily believing, it may also be a well-designed trap.
If nothing else, the most common illusion spell can completely create a false illusion to hide the illusion.
Bain controls the focus of the prosthetic eye in his right eye.
There are runes emerging from the surface of the prosthetic eye, flowing quickly.
This is not only a prosthetic eye, but also an extraordinary piece of equipment with [Advanced Detection of Magic], which has extremely strong ability to detect magic aura.
Bain's vision became different.
He saw a layer of blue magic aura around Gothe.
This is a strong protective spell aura. Is it possible that this person can walk freely in the blue flames? What kind of protective spell does he rely on?
Bain frowned slightly and made quick calculations in his mind.
impossible, all the known spells of five levels and below so far are useless in front of the blue flame.
Unless there is another explanation for this person's protection spell, such as a bonus from some kind of expertise, or is it a special protection spell directly derived from expertise?
Just as Bain was thinking quickly, an extremely sudden gunshot exploded like thunder over the silent island!
The sharp roar of the magic gun bullet tearing through the air was particularly harsh, followed closely by the roar of the spell explosion.
This seems to have triggered a chain reaction.
In a short period of time, the sound of gunfire became intense, with dense gunfire and spell explosions coming and going.
At the moment when the gunshot sounded, "Gothe" and the sturdy mage looked at each other and immediately flew towards the direction of the gunshot.
"Discovered!" Here, Bain's heart suddenly tightened, and he immediately realized what had happened.
This is the situation he expected.
Because the safe area on Ash Island is really limited, it is very inconvenient to move or hide.
The bounty hunters arranged by Sarah are familiar with the terrain. No matter how careful they are, there is a high probability that they will be discovered.
"We must evacuate immediately!" He made a decisive decision at that moment and could not care about anything else.
As soon as Sarah's people discover an intruder, they will immediately block all exits on the island, creating a situation of closing the door and beating the dog.
However, there is still a short window of time from the time the alarm is issued to the formation of the encirclement. This is his only chance to escape.
If we do not seize this time gap to evacuate quickly and wait until the encirclement is completely formed, it will be really difficult to escape.
As a person who can climb to the leader position in the Bloodsail Pirates, Bain's scheming and planning far exceed that of ordinary mages.
Him he instantly judged the situation, and ran out of his hiding place like a civet cat, escaping in the direction of the northwest cliff opposite to the sound of gunfire.
He did not choose to fly because flying would be too conspicuous on the bare Ash Island.
· Among the remaining Bloodsail Pirates mages on the island, there are also many clever ones who reacted to the sound of gunshots and spell explosions.
They may react a little slower than Bain, but they still make the right judgment and choose to evacuate as soon as possible.
However, their reaction speed and escape speed are obviously much slower than Bain.
Bain ran away with all his strength for less than three minutes, when he suddenly heard the sound of breaking through the air behind him.
At the corner of his eye, he saw two bounty hunters flying in the sky, flying towards the direction where he was escaping.
Bain's face changed slightly, knowing that the situation was becoming serious.
However, there is still a chance. At least the people chasing her are only Sarah's bounty hunters, not Sarah.
In the safe zone of Ashes Island, Gaode was completely unaware of everything that happened in the safe zone outside the island.
One is that he has now penetrated deep into the hinterland of Ash Island, far away from the outer battlefield, and it is difficult for the fierce battle sounds to reach here.
The second is that he is enduring pain from the depths of his soul. Under this extreme pain, his perception of the outside world has already dropped to the extreme.
· Facts have proved that for anything, even pain, as long as there is clear and timely positive feedback, people's tolerance will increase to a level that is difficult to predict.
As for this, Gaode has a deeper understanding than anyone else.
His [Adaptive] essence is a "masochistic" talent. He breaks his own limits by enduring all kinds of pain, and then achieves all-round improvement.
Is there anyone in the world who is born a masochist?
Gothe is by no means such a "psychopath", but being abused can make him stronger, which indeed makes him happy to be abused, and he has begun to get used to this feeling.
Furthermore, while the body is gradually adapting to the invasion of blue flames, Gothe's spirit is also gradually adapting to this pain or should I say numbness?
The first time he touched the blue flame deep in the hinterland, his whole body trembled, and his facial features were distorted.
But now, the pain has not become mild, it is even worse than before, but his condition is much better. Not to mention his expression remains unchanged, at least it can no longer be called ferocious.
Every "confrontation game" with Blue Flame can bring about a double improvement in Blue Flame's energy tolerance and mental injury recovery ability.
But the two do not go hand in hand.
The progress of the former is much higher than that of the latter, and the gap is more than double.
When the blue flame energy tolerance has increased by more than 90%, the mental injury recovery ability can only be improved to 40%.
According to Gaode's experience and understanding, this situation should be that the improvement of blue flame energy tolerance belongs to the special branch of [Adaptive], which is only for blue flames.
The final evolution should be like [The Body of Legal Ninja], acquiring some abilities that cannot be used universally due to specific limitations, and there is no room for further improvement.
The ability to recover from mental injuries is a major issue.
The physique that is finally evolved will be like a [primary healing body], with room for continued growth, broad potential, and extremely wide applicability. It can be used to deal with mental damage caused by various reasons, so the improvement will be relatively slow.
The pain of the blue flame burning his soul not only reduced his perception of the outside world to an extreme, but also made him more focused than ever before, leaving only the cycle of pain and growth.
Now, he has entered the core blue flame area.
The blue flames wrapped him around him. The pain was still severe, even stronger than before, but his eyes were unusually calm.
【.Blue flame energy tolerance increased to 90.1% and 90.3% mental injury recovery ability】
Plop!
At dusk, above a sea area, with the sound of water breaking, a figure floated up from the sea.
The waves rolled around him, outlining his body covered with wounds.
That unique right eye glowing purple showed his identity as the one-eyed Bane who escaped from the Ashes Island.
He gasped for air, making a hissing sound of pain.
The salty seawater choked into the throat, triggering a violent cough. The coughed up saliva was mixed with dark red blood streaks.
Bain touched the scar under his chest with lingering fear. The flesh there was torn open by the magic energy bullet, and there were still scorch marks caused by the burning magic energy on the edge.
A little further up, this magic energy bullet was about to hit his heart. His life was really hanging by a thread, and thinking about it still gave him chills down his spine.
Fortunately, he murmured in a low voice, secretly glad that he was decisive enough and chose to evacuate immediately, so he was able to successfully escape from Ash Island before the encirclement was formed.
But the pursuit from the bounty hunter still cost Bain an extremely heavy price.
If it weren’t for the expertise he awakened when he was promoted to the second-level mage [Deep Sea Explorer], which allowed him to dive into the sea to a depth that ordinary people could not reach, and at the same time, he could move in the sea much faster than ordinary people, and could not breathe for a long time, he might not have been able to get rid of the group of bounty hunters.
But even so, Bain almost fainted several times due to his injuries, but he held on with his will to survive.
He was floating on the sea, looking around, not knowing what he saw. He quickly confirmed his location and direction, and dived into the water again.
Another half an hour later.
On the quiet shore of another half-burned island, a hunting boat docked here, with the faint ship's lights flickering.
Hurrah!
Bain's figure rushed out of the sea and floated on the sea.
His lips were purple and his consciousness was blurred.
"It's Bane!" The lookout on the deck of the hunting boat spotted him first and shouted.
A mage immediately flew out from the boat, picked up Bain and brought him back to the hunting boat.
When Bain regained consciousness, he was already lying in a cabin in the hunting boat.
The light in the cabin was dim, with only the magic lamp in the corner emitting an orange glow.
"Are you awake?" A hoarse and deep voice suddenly sounded in the cabin, frightening Bain's whole body.
He turned his neck with difficulty and saw a tall figure sitting on a chair in the shadow of the cabin.
"What's going on?" The voice of the tall figure did not fluctuate at all, but it made Bain feel sincere awe and fear. "Don't leave out a single detail, tell me everything."
"Boss." Bain's heart tightened, and he struggled to sit up, but David raised his hand to stop him.
"Just lie down and talk."
Bain did not dare to disobey David's wishes. He licked his chapped lips, composed himself, and said slowly: "I saw that foreign mage from the Plantagenet Dynasty with my own eyes."
(End of this chapter)