554 You Dont Understand (2/2)
Although Roland's level was higher than all of theirs, it was the players' natural instinct to protect the Mage in their team. They had learned this lesson through fire and blood.
As for the Rogue, he had already disappeared at some point.
In such a dark environment, he was as comfortable as a fish in water.
The illumination balls kept flying forward, but they stopped fifty meters away from Roland.
That was the maximal distance of those balls. Their spiritual connection to Roland would be cut off if they flew any farther.
Without the supply of magic power, the illumination balls would soon die out.
Grains of sand were everywhere on the plain. There were no sun, moon, or stars in the sky, either.
Therefore, it was impossible to tell orient oneself in the usual ways.
”Captain Roland, what should we do now?” asked the Shield Warrior in a low voice while staying on alert. ”This place is quite creepy. There's no sound or anything that can direct us. Also, routes of quests are not displayed here like they are in other games. Do you have any thoughts, boss?”
The Priest also looked at Roland. ”Boss, it's time to show your capabilities.”
Even the Archer looked at Roland with hope in his eyes.
Roland took out a round stick that had a flat bottom from his system Backpack. He then erected it in the middle of the sand.
All his teammates looked at him weirdly.
Roland closed his hands and cast Lesser Benediction, before he said, ”I want to know the target's direction.”
The green light between his hands suddenly vanished.
Half a second later, the erected stick fell to the ground, with its tip pointing in a certain direction.
Roland then pointed in the same direction. ”Our target is right there.”
His teammates looked odd, as if they wanted to laugh but didn't really dare to. They seemed unconvinced.
Even the Rogue had dropped his stealth and was gazing at Roland in surprise.
”Are you serious, Boss Roland?” The Shield Warrior had a bitter face. ”I've never seen anyone telling the way by the fall of a stick except in anime or comedies.”
The other teammates were showing the same subtle expression.
They wanted to laugh, but they didn't really have the courage to.
Roland chuckled and said to them disdainfully, ”You barbarians don't know the first thing about the mysteries of magic.”
Since he was with fellow human players, Roland didn't think that he had to act serious all the time.
They were all playing the game for fun, and it would be boring if he were too serious.
Giving each other a hard time without crossing the line was the real way of communication among players.
As he expected, the moment he made fun of them, his teammates were no longer as awkward as when they were still awed by Roland.
They were a lot closer to each other.
The Shield Warrior chuckled in exactly the same way as Roland did. ”What if you're wrong?”
”What can I do?” Roland raised his eyebrows and said, ”I'll introduce the most expensive escort in Fareins to you. She might also be the worker with the highest hourly pay in the human world.”
The Archer was shocked. ”How do you know that? Have you tried her yourself?”
”No, but one of my friends did. He told me.” Roland began to demean his brother. ”His name is Schuck.”
”I have a friend who would like to be acquaintances with your friend.” The Rogue quickly picked up the meme.
All the rest of them chuckled in mutual understanding of each other.
What Roland didn't know was that the Priest, who had been silent the whole time, secretly turned on the camera function.
In no more than five minutes, more than a hundred thousand netizens flooded into the stream channel entitled ”Best Mage in the Server Takes Me to a Raid.”
At this moment, everybody was posting the same comment in the channel.
”I have a friend who wants to get to know the worker who has the highest hourly pay too.”
It was pretty obvious that all men could get closer quickly as long as they dared to tell dirty jokes to each other, no matter who they were.
Talking and laughing, they moved forward. They didn't encounter any enemy in the first ten minutes.
But starting from the eleventh minute, they met a huge number of weak skeletons.
As they pressed on, the skeletons grew stronger and larger in number.
At first, they were bare skeletons. Starting from the fifteenth minute, armed and armored skeletons showed up.
Twenty minutes later, many skeletons who carried bows appeared.
Thirty minutes later, skeleton knights that rode bone horses joined the battle too.
The enemies were large in number, and they weren't weak at all. Unfortunately, they had to deal with a Priest of Light.
The Priest only used one spell from the beginning to the end, which was Sunlight.
It was a light spell with a super massive range. It wasn't very destructive under normal circumstances, but it was a bane to undead creatures.
The regular skeletons would fall apart when they were hit by Sunlight.
The special skeletons that were strong wouldn't fall apart, but they would be deprived of most of their combat ability.
All Roland and the others needed to do was wave their weapons and cut them apart.
Even the Death Knights were greatly slowed under the suppression of Sunlight.
Roland also provided a series of buffs including Body Fortification and Agility Increase, which enhanced the overall combat ability of the team by at least fifteen percent.
The four Death Knights were soon crushed. In case they were resurrected, the Rogue tore them into parts and stole all their usable equipment.
As a result, even though the Death Knights were revived later, they would be in an awkward position where they had no equipment they could use, and they wouldn't pose any threat.
After the four Death Knights were downed, no more enemies appeared again.
The team went on and saw a small castle made of unique black rock five minutes later.
It was almost impossible to see the building in the dark from a distance.
A black, human-shaped creature seemed to be floating at the top of the castle.
This human-shaped creature obviously had four black wings on his back.