Chapter 84 - Day and Night Switch (2/2)

After walking for a while, the group dispersed into multiple groups and went off to find their own entertainment.

Meanwhile, Bard and the other young n.o.ble mage walked to a tavern and booked a room for a private discussion.

“Last night, John told me some very interesting things.”

Bard paraphrased to the young man opposite him what he had heard the night before, and then said, “How much of what John said do you think is true?”

“It’s all true. There is no need to lie to us since all of these things can be confirmed with a simple investigation.” The young man sneered. “However, his intentions are impure. He seems to be pitting us against Roland and the other Golden Sons—this is quite interesting. The waters in the Capital are ten times deeper than the waters here, and we’ve lived in a hubrous way up till now. Does he really think we’re all fools?”

“Then what are your thoughts?” Bard reclined in his chair, took a sip of wine, and asked, “How do you want to get to Roland?”

“Continue to act harshly. We’re the sons of great n.o.bles and the people of the headquarters, we have no need to yield to him.” The young man laughed mischievously and said, “But remember, we fight without breaking—we can have a bad relations.h.i.+p, but we can’t be mortal enemies. I wonder why John would want to pit us against the Golden Sons. I think there is something to be gained in this.”

Bard sneered. “I also think so.”

At this moment, Roland’s five-people party departed.

Betta shared the quest with the others, and then the five of them followed the quest’s instructions to leave the city, heading north of the suburbs, pa.s.sing through mountains—overcoming all sorts of obstacles on the way—and entering a valley surrounded by mountains, where they finally found the entrance to the tomb.

The entrance was completely covered with dense weeds.

If not for the system notification, they would not have believed this place was the entrance.

Even so, it took Hawk and Link nearly ten minutes to clear the weeds near the entrance with their long swords.

In the darkness, a considerably deep entrance presented itself to the five of them.

They looked at each other and immediately arranged themselves into an array. Hawk led the way with his s.h.i.+eld in hand, Betta followed second, Roland and Jett were third, and Link, according to the plan, came last.

The moment the five of them entered the cave, they stopped.

They all simultaneously received a system notification: Dungeon quest detected, would you like to unlock the dungeon?

They looked at each other and then immediately clicked Confirm.

After they confirmed, the surrounding s.p.a.ce suddenly distorted, the sun whooshed below the mountains, the moon rose, and the stars shone brightly in the sky.

Day and night switched places in a matter of seconds.

“A forced plot environment?”

Roland muttered to himself.

Hawk took out a torch from his Backpack and was about to light it up, but Roland was one step faster—four bright light b.a.l.l.s appeared out of thin air, suspended around them, brightly illuminating the vicinity.

“How truly convenient.” Hawk stored his torch and exclaimed in admiration, and then he asked Jett, “Can priests do that?”

“Illumination is the most basic of spells, it has no attack power.” Jett shrugged. “This evaluation alone made us completely abandon it. Priests have limited spell slots. Only mages will learn such things—they don’t have limited spell slots.”

Betta interrupted them at this moment. “I reckon that there aren’t many people amongst mages who’d want to learn it. They aren’t like us warlocks and priests who can learn a spell with a ding. They have to a.n.a.lyze magic models on their own. It’s quite a waste of time. Brother Roland is a rare case.”

“There are now fewer and fewer mages.” Hawk sighed. “About half of the mages in our guild forum have already deleted their accounts and started anew. There are many who are still barely holding on. They say that this cla.s.s is really boring, calculating data and conducting experiments all day. I suppose the game’s developing team deliberately used this method to limit the number of mages.”

Upon hearing this, Roland was also somewhat disappointed. He then sent a light ball into the cave and said coolly, “Let’s go through the dungeon first and talk about other things later.”

Hawk nodded, took out his longsword and s.h.i.+eld from his Backpack, and then walked forward carefully at the front.