Chapter 633 - A Small Competition (1/2)
Chapter 633 A Small Competition
Roland kept the two spiders lurking under the rock.
Because they were made of magic, they were very elastic and would not disappear as long as their main components were not destroyed.
Once all the sounds around them had faded, Roland directed the two remaining magic spiders to carefully crawl out of the stone fragments before darting inside the shadows of a nearby mound.
Something that was almost transparent in itself, covered by shadows and hiding in a pit, would be impossible for anyone but the gods to find.
Shortly after, three dark-skinned orcs appeared and cleared the rocks near the magic gate.
After waiting a little longer for the three orcs to leave, the two spiders crawled out and began to head north.
As they crawled, they sent images of the nearby environment to Roland.
The portal in the Realm of Devils looked the same as the one in the main plane, and it was under a large ring-shaped depression.
The elevation the magic spiders were at was too low to see beyond the depression.
So, Roland made them crawl outward. They were pretty fast, and within two minutes, they had climbed to the top of the left and right sides of the depression, respectively. Then, a circle of densely-packed stone tents in the distance was transmitted to Roland’s mind.
So the teleportation magic array is surrounded.
Roland muttered in his mind.
The two magic spiders then looked for gaps between the stones to hide in this area.
The magic spiders were effective for over twenty hours, and Roland continued to receive the images they sent back while sitting near the portal
After a day and a night of surveillance, when the two magic spiders disappeared naturally, Roland got up and teleported back to Delpon under everyone’s gazes.
Then after about half an hour, a new post by Roland appeared on the forums.
Because the image transmitted back by the magic spider appeared directly in Roland’s mind and couldn’t be captured by the video recording system, Roland could only express it in words.
“Outside the magic portal to the Realm of Devils, there are about thirty thousand soldiers on standby, all above Elite plus a large number of Masters, as well as a small number of Legends. There are some strange, gray, translucent soul-like devils wandering above the magic portal that are hard to notice, and the magic spiders only discovered their presence in the last hour. They may be the reason for the scouts’ inexplicable deaths.
“There are many races in the Realm of Devils’ army. There are legendary succubi, fear demons, fiery imps, and even dark-skinned orcs, as well as dark-skinned multi-armed Naga. Also, among the Legendary demons, most of them are monsters with a human upper body, a dragon’s lower body, and wings on their backs. I didn’t find any descriptions of them in the books related to the devils, so I personally gave them a name, walking winged devils.
“Also, the demon army is gathering… over the twenty-four hours of surveillance, their numbers have risen by another three or four thousand or so.
“The Realm of Devils is very desolate and dry, the ground is cracked. If we are to make a campaign against the Realm of Devils then logistics must certainly keep up, and the assurance of water resources is a top priority. It’s recommended that all Mages learn the endless water-making spell that I invented.”
There weren’t many words in Roland’s post, but it was quite insightful.
All the players now knew that the fiend army was lying in ambush near the portal, so they were in even less of a hurry to get in. Since the Realm of Devils was desolate, they would have a lot of logistical problems, so it’d be a competition of who had more food.
While the fiend army was assembling, the players were also assembling.
In just twenty-four hours, two thousand more people had arrived in Sisilia.
The city guards were under even more pressure.
Many players had left comments under Roland’s post.
“Many thanks for the information, Almighty, I hope you continue to update.” “It’s better to rely on yourself. You guys should also learn from Roland and create some magic spiders to go in and scout for information.”
“Yeah, yeah, don’t keep relying on others. Hundreds of thousands of people relying on a single Mage to grant vision, isn’t that embarrassing.”
“It’s not that I don’t want to learn it, it’s that Roland didn’t publish the spell model of the magic spider.”
“It’s all excuses. He could create it, but none of you can create a magic spider-like spell?”
“People and their abilities are different, and all of us spellcasters acknowledge that there are three types of Mages: Roland, talented Mages, and sh*tty ordinary Mages. The number of sh*tty ordinary Mages makes up 95% of the number of all Mages.”
“According to the livestream, Roland has slipped away and doesn’t seem to want to poke around for information anymore… Begging for Almighty Roland to continue to help us scout the situation over there, preferably in the real-time subbed feed.”
“So many demands, does he owe you?”
“It’s an official event quest, contribute what you can, pay what you can. We’re not kidnapping Roland, but right now, he’s the only one with a way to see what’s going on over there, and if he doesn’t help, who can do the same as he does?”
“To put it bluntly, you guys are still noobs, that’s why you pin your hopes on one person.” As usual, the idiotic netizens discussed to a certain point and then quarreled. Once Roland returned to the city of Delpon, he went to the forging room to start a fire.
To fight against the devils, he had to have specific equipment.
According to the knight and hero novels, as well as some experiences recorded by former Mages, all devils were extremely afraid of the light.
The next best things were lightning and fire.
Roland didn’t know light attribute enchantments, but fire attribute enchantment recipes, he still knew two or three of them.
In addition to the attack-type enchantment recipes, there were also some defensive enchantments.
For example, armor could have “resist evil attacks for X points of damage” attached to it, or darkness resistance and other enchantments that could be useful.
If it was possible, Roland wanted all of his equipment to be enchanted with fire elemental attacks.
But it wasn’t practical; for one thing, the Magic Tower didn’t have so much of the magic material needed for the fire elemental attack enchantment.
Even if he bought in large quantities now, he wouldn’t be able to get much, and the profiteers would take advantage of this to raise the price.
So… a balance of offense and defense was the way to save money.
Saving is earning! It just so happened that Cornucopia had sent over the black dragon’s dragon skin and dragon bones, so Roland took the opportunity to start forging a lot of magical equipment. All of this dragon-type equipment had the extremely rare enchantment Auto-Repair added to it.
After all, it was dragon-type equipment, a rarely seen top-tier equipment, worthy of Auto-Repair, an extremely magic material consuming enchantment.