Cataclysm King

Chapter 463: Are you a polymath so brave?

"Did you find any important clues?"

Seri said he was asking David, but actually everyone's eyes were on Ji Xun.

Everyone in Team Langdon 16 knows that this teammate "Su Lun" always has some unique ideas to solve difficult problems.

In this kind of exploration mode of space, wisdom is often more important than force.

The wise eyes of the [Polyologist] will find those hidden clues more easily than others.

David didn't know how to explain the series of events that had just happened, and he stammered, unable to utter a single word.

Ji Xun looked at the expectant eyes of his teammates and did not intend to hide anything. He said in a relaxed tone: "Yes. A hidden plot was triggered."

Hidden plot?

When they spoke, the expressions of the other three, Seri, all showed a strange look.

You know, just now they and another team were knocking on doors all over the village looking for story missions.

It does trigger several C and D-level side plots such as "hunting monsters", "cutting down trees" and "searching for medicinal herbs".

But that is something that only ordinary trial students would take the trouble to do.

They look down upon such an elite team.

But now?

Just when they thought that the best tasks were monopolized by those in Duke Simon's family, two people here actually discovered the hidden tasks quietly?
As if they had sharpened their knives long ago and were waiting for the right prey, strong anticipation suddenly appeared in the eyes of the four people.

All four knew what the hidden mission meant.

That means super generous rewards and super high trial rankings.

Serri quickly asked again: "What's the difficulty?"

"I don't know yet. But it should be above B level."

Ji Xun pondered for a moment, and then added: "Well, the probability is higher."

He didn't say it was too dead.

Because the S-level plot is not so easy to trigger.

This plot is currently just a pre-task, and there are many areas that need to be explored in depth. There is nothing bad to say.

Also, this is a team mode.

It is impossible for Ji Xun's clone to complete the A-level plot with his strength. If the guy behind the scenes really causes something unexpected, his teammates are still very powerful helpers.

"B-level hidden story? Hiss. Then maybe the rewards are not worse than the A-level main story."

"Hahaha, those guys in Simon's family probably never expected that there are hidden plots in the village, right?"

"Su Lun, did you discover something earlier that prompted you to suggest that we stay in the village? Is there anything you need us to do?"

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It was the first time for the four of them to explore an alien dimension, and they had not yet realized the true meaning of Ji Xun’s “more difficult”.

There was only excitement and anticipation for the difficult task in their eyes.

Of course, they also knew that all this was because of "Su Lun".

However, before everyone could talk more, a sudden enlightenment interrupted everyone's thoughts.

"Congratulations to the Red Dragon Royal Family's Thirteenth Team for successfully killing Viper Borg, the deputy leader of the Red Smoke Gun Mountain Bandits. The additional reward for the first kill of the key plot leader is +20%."

"B-level plot triggered: Bandits' revenge. The deputy leader of the bandits, Bog, was killed. The bounty hunters' behavior angered the vicious bandits, who will launch a retaliatory attack on the nearby villages. The mission has changed. You need to survive in the space for three days. In the survival mode, the reward is an additional +10%, and you can get corresponding points by killing bandits."

This is a collective drama.

Everyone was enlightened at the same time.

Gang Duoduo muttered, "What's going on? Why are those guys from the Red Dragon Royal Family so quick?"

While they were still looking for clues, someone had already killed the commander-level plot target.

Ceri seemed to understand something and guessed, "Princess Sophia of the Red Dragon Royal Family sent out a signal to assemble. It's likely that they encountered a strong enemy. Now it seems that they killed the deputy leader of the bandits."

Hearing this, Gang Duoduo's eyes were filled with envy: "Ah, that bandit deputy leader is at least a B-level plot. Those guys from the Red Dragon Royal Family are really lucky. They ran into the bandit leader right after they came in. We are still in the village..."

In fact, they also encountered it.

It's just that the vampire ran away.

Being able to complete a B-level plot mission was considered “elite” in previous assessment trials.

Not only him, everyone in the team felt the same way.

They haven't realized the seriousness of the matter yet.

However, a hint of thought flashed across Ji Xun's eyes, and he thought, "Is that so?"

To others, this is just an ordinary encounter mission, but in fact, the D-level killing mission has become a B-level survival mode, which is more like an act of "locking space".

The person behind the scenes will not let the students of the trial go out so easily until he achieves his goal.

When Ji Xun thought of this, he glanced at the owl perched near the arrow tower at the entrance of the village, wondering in his heart: "Did he use the authority of the tutor in the academy to do this? It seems that the guy who made trouble in the Royal Academy must have a very high status."

Able to control the difficulty of the trial of [Tower of Babel], trigger a specific space, and select a specific team. This is a privilege that only people at the vice-president level have.

This is not a money-grubbing thug.

But the real senior members of the academy.

"It's strange. What is the purpose of such a big shot doing this?"

When Young Master Sak was assassinated before, Ji Xun actually knew that there were problems within the academy.

But I still can't figure it out. Doesn't this Royal Academy serve the Holy See? How could there be a traitor?
Could it be that besides the Rebel Dragon Army, there are other opposition forces in the Southern Continent?

The difficulty of the plot suddenly increases, and for the weak, it is a dilemma that could lead to death.

But for strong teams, level B difficulty is just right for training.

Not long after Qidi appeared, Young Master Sak sent someone to call Ji Xun's team to discuss tactical arrangements.

A few minutes later, in a small room.

Young Master Sak sat in a chair and listened to everyone report their exploration results.

"We triggered a C-level mission at the blacksmith shop and need to go to the forest to find some special ores."

"Master, we just triggered a side quest that can be shared. Investigate the footprints in the dense forest behind the mountain."

"There is another D-level mission, hunting down the Warcraft boar."

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I have to say that although no valuable plot was found, there were a dozen or so fancy side quests.

Ji Xun didn't know whether to laugh or cry after listening to this.

The combat effectiveness of these guards of the Langdon family is considered to be outstanding among their peers, but when it comes to exploring the plot, they are really... lame.

They simply knock on the door, ask, and trigger.

This most crude way of exploring the plot is certainly not likely to uncover any valuable plot.

The will of space encourages adventurers to explore, rather than foolishly explore.

Listening to other people's reports, Ji Xun suddenly thought of his past self.

When you saw the mushroom-headed Jia Yu's ability to control everything, weren't you also struck by how powerful he was?
Now that I have come to my senses and reached a higher level, I realized that my super-active thinking ability, which I have long been accustomed to, has far exceeded that of ordinary people.

The truth of the world has always been there, and from a logical point of view, there is nothing hidden.

It’s just that ordinary people “can’t see” it.

Ji Xun suddenly had an inexplicable feeling in his heart.

He felt more and more clearly the gap between "personality" and "demigod".

Just thinking about it.

Young Master Sak also noticed that everyone in Team 16 had their eyes flickering, and they almost had the words "We have something to say" written on their faces.

Young Master Sak noticed this and asked with a hint of expectation, "Seri, did your team 16 find anything?"

Serri did not take credit for it. He said bluntly: "Su Lun and David had triggered a 'hidden mission' of unknown difficulty before."

Hidden mission!

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone, including Young Master Sak, was shocked, and then delighted.

At this time, Ji Xun took out the cloth bag he got from the herb shop.

His explanation was not as detailed as before with David, he just said a few simple words.

Everyone else thought that Ji Xun and his friend had just hit lucky and accidentally triggered the hidden plot.

But they don’t actually care about the triggering process.

What they really care about is what the hidden mission is!
When he opened the cloth bag, he saw an old monster skin booklet inside.

However, as soon as these task props were taken out, it was like pouring a bucket of cold water, and everyone frowned.

Because the text in these books are all ancient characters that we don’t recognize.

"Seri, can you understand what's written here?"

"I'm sorry, Master. This is an ancient script from the Alterac period. The academy hasn't deciphered much yet, so I can't understand it either."

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The air froze for a few breaths.

I thought it was a mission-critical item, but it looks like it has no effect.

Moreover, enlightenment shows that it is still impossible to bring out the plot items in the trial space.

The normal way to deal with it is to throw it away.

If you want extra rewards from the College of Archaeology, you can try to copy a copy and take it with you.

But Young Master Sak would definitely not look down upon the academy rewards.

What he cared more about was, what does this have to do with the hidden mission?
Even Serri of the Lizard Clan didn't recognize this ancient writing, let alone others.

However, at this moment, Serri set his sights on his teammate Ji Xun.

Sack also knew that among his reserve knights, this "Suren" was the only card master in the polymath sequence.

He held on to the last glimmer of hope and asked, "Can you decipher the contents of these ancient characters?"

However, Ji Xun showed a regretful expression: "Sorry, Master, I don't know him either."

He also told the truth.

He had indeed read a lot of incomplete documents about the Alterac civilization in the library before.

But the ancient Chinese experts in the academy have not been able to decipher it, and he is not so omnipotent that he can understand it.

Now that I have encountered a complete book in another dimension, I can decipher it with some time.

However, this book is full of professional magical terms, and it is estimated that it will take at least several days to decipher it.

As soon as Ji Xun said this, everyone could not hide their disappointment.

It seemed to announce that this hidden plot had reached a dead end.

However, David, who was standing aside, was the only one with a puzzled look in his eyes.

He couldn't understand why the things Ji Xun had spent so much effort to get were completely useless? However, before everyone's disappointed eyes appeared on their faces, Ji Xun said directly: "Well, actually you don't need to understand it. The things recorded in this book can also be used."

"???"

After these words were spoken, the room fell strangely quiet for a moment.

Eleven pairs of eyes looked over at the same time, staring at Ji Xun's face, and then the hope that had just been extinguished, burned up again.

Ji Xun had encountered this situation many times before when exploring different dimensions.

Those ancient characters from broken civilizations are a test of spatial will.

This is a kind of screening.

Only those who can understand it are qualified to get help with the plot in the text.

In the field of low-level card masters, only one in ten thousand can understand it.

But even though he couldn't understand it, Ji Xun's current thinking ability and knowledge provided him with other methods.

Although others were very curious, they were reluctant to speak up.

Young Master Sak asked directly: "How do you say to use it?"

Ji Xun didn't waste any time, he just flipped open the book, pointed at the content with patterns on it and said: "When I was chatting with that plot character before, she told me some content in the book. Like this, this is a magic rune. Like a spell, it is a spell that uses elements to cast."

"Although magic and spells are different in form, the elements they point to are the same. If I'm not mistaken, this magic pattern points to the 'light element'. Judging from the pattern above, this is a kind of auxiliary magic."

"And this is magic. It has the same origin as the ancient spells. I happened to have seen it in some ancient books. If I'm not mistaken, this is a 'dispelling spell'. The Holy See of Light once sent witch doctors to the village to dispel the dark power of the abyss rift. So I guess this should be the magic used to dispel the night fog. We don't actually need to understand the principles of this magic, we just need to follow the instructions engraved on the card. Judging from the magic pattern, this is a first-level light magic, which should not be difficult."

"This is the enchantment formula, it should be engraved directly"

"And this is a potion formula. I don't understand what's written on it, but judging from the pattern, it should be an exorcism item similar to 'holy water'."

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Ji Xun pointed to the classics and talked attentively.

He himself said that he got the information from the NPC.

But in reality, most of it is his own knowledge.

Previously, in order to obtain these key plot props, he played the role of a deacon of the Church of Light. He couldn't tell the NPC that he couldn't understand the manual of the basic priests of the Holy See, right?

He really didn't recognize the ancient characters of Alterac.

But with so much accumulated experience, and his current super strong thinking ability, he has actually guessed most of it by guessing.

Ji Xun tried his best not to stand out too much.

The key contents in the classics that can be used currently are explained in easy-to-understand language.

However, some of the ideas that he thought were very simple, when heard by others, they sounded like "I don't understand, but I am very shocked."

At this moment, the teammates had a deeper understanding of [Polyologist].

For the first time, the polymath "Su Lun" shocked everyone, including Young Master Sak, with his knowledge.

Except for the equally knowledgeable Serri who nodded frequently while listening,

Everyone else was in a state of confusion.

In the academy they learn more practical skills.

The people in both teams are elite.

They are each proficient in many spells of their respective sequences.

But if you ask them what the magic patterns on a certain spell point to, few can answer.

The teammates listened to Ji Xun's entire story.

They also knew that they seemed to have heard a lot of important knowledge.

But the brain didn't remember anything.

The others still had expressions as if they were holding back their shit and trying hard to understand what Ji Xun was saying.

As for Gang Duoduo of the dwarf tribe, there was nothing to hide. His bearded face was full of expressions of "Who am I?", "Where am I?", and "What did I hear?"

At this time, Ji Xun said the last sentence: "I haven't figured out the others yet. But I won't be able to figure them out in a short time."

Everyone in the room felt relieved, as if they had suddenly woken up from sleepwalking.

I don't know how serious it is.

Although no one understood what those complicated magic patterns pointed to, everyone understood one thing: these things were very important!
Young Master Sak was not able to express how he understood it, so he glanced at Serri and asked, "Serri, what do you think?"

After all, Ji Xun used a lot of uncertain words such as "I guess", "I speculate", "maybe", etc. in his previous statement.

Sack also wanted to confirm whether this information was as important as he thought.

Serri felt nothing but admiration at the moment. He did not hide his emotion and said, "Well, I think Su Lun is right! This is something very important!"

Only those who truly understood what Ji Xun just said could appreciate the power of that kind of reasoning.

Then, he expressed his opinion: "The above formulas, enchantments and dispel magic are all very valuable, especially in this trial space. This allows us to walk in the forest at night, and it must be the key to completing the subsequent hidden plot!"

"Really?"

Sack's expression lit up when he heard that.

The two knights who took the wisdom route in the team both agreed with the same statement, so there was hope for the hidden mission.

Seli also followed Ji Xun's idea and said, "Yes! Whether it will work or not, I think we will know after we try to engrave a few spell cards."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone couldn't help but try it.

Just like an exam, understanding the paper may not guarantee your success, but everyone can copy.

Engraving spell cards is a basic compulsory course at the Royal Academy!

In fact, many spell systems are inherited from ancient magic systems.

It’s just that in the Age of Magic, this kind of magic with a carrier is called a “magic scroll”.

The card system improved many complicated procedures, discarded the magic patterns that pointed to the extraordinary power that could only be guided by gods, and created independent and great card spells.

Of course, it is not possible to just copy the inscription exactly like this.

This is not the ordinary "Holy Light Dispelling", but should be called "Light Dispelling".

The magic runes contain magic patterns that point to the god of light.

There are also some magic patterns that seem to be specially used to restrain certain "special dark energies".

Even with Ji Xun's current knowledge, he cannot fully understand the extraordinary power pointed to by the spells in some low-level spells.

You don't have to fully understand it, just be able to use it.

The accumulation of knowledge and the wisdom of the ancient card masters are once again of important use at this moment.

Ji Xun and Seri, who was proficient in elemental spells, decided to use the spell system's incantations to replace the magic patterns that required divine power.

After failing dozens of times, he successfully created the first [Light Dispelling].

When the spell was cast and the holy light illuminated the entire room, everyone became excited.

"Success!"

"Hahaha, this is different from the usual [Dispel Spell]. I clearly sense a mysterious light element."

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The light illuminated the excited faces, and everyone started to mass-produce these cards.

Ji Xun was extremely confident.

This is the "plot item" left by the will of space for adventurers to challenge those difficult hidden plots.

From discovery to improvement, it is very difficult.

But it’s not impossible to accomplish.

This is not a coincidence, but a glimmer of hope left by the will of space for the trial-taker.

Now that the spell cards have been made, there are two other recipes in the tome, an enchantment recipe, and a holy water recipe. You can start trying them according to the previous ideas.

Even if they don't have the required materials, they can probably be found in the village.

Ji Xun also got a glimpse of the sequel to the hidden plot.

The difficult plots hidden outside the main storyline will inevitably require the use of these plot items to deal with some crises.

For example, [Light Dispel] is used to allow people to walk in the forest at night.

The enchantment formula is to enable people to kill the unknown monsters in the fog;

As for the holy water, Ji Xun doesn't know its use yet.

But it's always a good idea to have some spares.

In this way, a group of people stayed in the house and tinkered with the war supplies.

This is also the reason why Ji Xun shared it.

It would be impossible for him to produce so many plot items in a short period of time by himself.

Several hours passed in a flash.

At this time, special white flames lit up on several watchtowers in Yinshan Village.

Everyone knew that it was night.

At this moment, the black fog in the forest outside the village gradually became thicker.

Because the white flames in the village dissipated, the fog was only far away and no longer invaded the area illuminated by the light.

The entire Yinshan Village is like an isolated island surrounded by sea water.

It was as if there were pairs of terrifying eyes in the black fog staring at everyone in the village, and a gloomy and terrifying atmosphere made the young students feel breathless.

While the Simon family was still paying attention to the white flames on the village watchtower, the Langdon family had already produced a large number of spell cards.

Inside the room, Young Master Sack was also in a good mood.

The depression that had been accumulating because the main storyline on the village chief's side was taken away by Furen completely dissipated at this moment.

But now that I have the plot items, they seem to be of no use?

The situation now is that there are guns but no prey.

The three items recorded in the classics are all plot items for specific environments. If you don't actively trigger the hidden plot, they seem to be completely useless.

It is now night.

Through the window, everyone could see the depressing black fog outside the village.

Since everyone in the village said that there are monsters outside, exploring the forest at night requires great wisdom and courage.

Even if we have those plot items, what if they are not used in the forest?
We are still unsure of what monsters are in the forest, so going out rashly is not a good choice.

Just when everyone was still thinking about how to continue exploring the plot, what no one expected was that Ji Xun stood up again.

He took the initiative to propose a plan that everyone was thinking about but was extremely hesitant about, and said: "Master, the fog in the forest outside the village is a 'taboo', and this is probably also a hidden plot. Now we have a spell that can dispel the fog, so I plan to go to the forest to look for clues. By the way, confirm the risks."

When this was said, everyone was surprised: How can you, a polymath, be so brave?

Faced with the unknown risks in the forest, everyone showed due solemnity and consideration.

(End of this chapter)