Shadow Covenant

Chapter 95 "Entering Concentration"

In Woody's view, the underground lake outside the waterfall is like a spring in a deep well, surrounded by towering rock walls on three sides, leaving only a deep hole to go down. If there is no accident, there is a diary underneath The "Black Talin" among them.

Woody searched for a while, and found an artificially dug path upwards on the left, but he didn't choose to go up.

He has already obtained what he should take on this trip, and if he continues to explore, in addition to increasing risks, it is still unclear whether there will be any gains.

He has not forgotten that the current owner of this area is the drow elves.

So, in the end, he just took a deep look at the direction of the Black Talin, and whispered the spell engraved on the "Ring of Thor", and with a flash of earthy yellow luster, his body quickly merged into the wet In the black mud.

He turned back the same way, experienced the closed ground that claustrophobia was most afraid of, and returned to the original entrance after a while.

Woody manipulated his body to ascend, and as he got closer to the surface, he found that apart from the group of piglets who were bound by ropes and kept humming, he didn't even find Angelina's location in his perception.

"Maybe out of range?"

Subconsciously in Woody's mind, she felt that she might have gone to another place in the shark lizard's lair.

However, when his head was completely exposed to the ground and his eyesight was restored again.

Then I saw Angelina sitting cross-legged on a clean ground in the lair, her eyes closed.

Obviously, she is doing the necessary training among monks at the moment.

——"Meditation Practice"

But it was precisely because of this that Woody's eyes flashed with shock.

Because he found that his telepathy could not detect the monk girl in front of him at all, Angelina's body disappeared in his perception world.

And there are many kinds of situations that cause this.

Either his perception is very low and he can't detect things around him, just like normal people, closing his eyes means that his five senses are weak, and he can't detect people nearby if he is not close.

Or her body is surrounded by a layer of "protective will barrier", this spell can shield all kinds of perception detection, the sound, smell and even the vibration of the body will disappear without a trace, except for your eyes Except for being able to see, the others are equivalent to advanced invisibility, as if completely erased from this world.

But his perception attribute is not low, a full 17 points, more than enough for a druid or a priest.

And it is impossible for Angelina to have a magical protection of up to five rings at all times, and there is no magical wonder.

Then there is only the last factor.

While meditating, Angelina entered the realm of detachment.

In the professional terminology of monks, it is called "entering concentration".

Converted into the player's mouth, the system has already prompted.

You have mastered part of the information of a certain specialty, and you only need to practice for a while to obtain and master this new specialty.

As for what this specialty is, one can draw a conclusion from Angelina's sad and happy face at this time.

——"The heart is like still water."

Not to mention that Woody was shocked, if he didn't shout out, he would be restrained.

You must know that in his previous life, it took him two full weeks to master the specialty information of "Heart Like Still Water" in order to pass through the Forest of Dryads, which is famous for its charm spell, and this is still under the blessing of his experience.

And the monk girl in front of her just entered the state of "sedation" just after a meditation after exhaustion of physical strength.

What a horror, even Angelina's initial extraordinary perception didn't shock him so much.

He couldn't help muttering in his heart: "Could it be that she has other specialties that I don't know about, such as the pre-specialty "Natural Six Senses" of "Six Senses Clarity".

This is the talent feat that all low-level monks dream of. It not only allows monks to get a +2 perception check when learning any skill, but also gets a +2 saving throw bonus when detecting and facing charm spells, especially When meditating, it can greatly increase the probability of entering concentration.

But thinking about it this way, Woody immediately understood why a legendary monk in the Shenlong temple on the main material plane would choose to accept a disciple in an unknown remote plane and teach him skills.

Without this kind of talent, can you do it?
On the land in the far east of the Terra plane, there are not a few aborigines who were born with keen perception, but it is rare for them to successfully enter the Shenlong Temple and become a Shenlong monk.

……

Although trance completely seals off the meditator's six senses, it still allows the meditator to break free from the trance state when faced with a crisis.

In order to prevent the trance state from being disrupted, after Woody came out of the mud, he chose to guard the position ten meters away from Angelina.

Just taking advantage of this time, he can review the recent events and plans for the future, and before the effect of the scroll disappears, he can look through the gray dwarf diary to see if there are any omissions.

After about two hours like this, Angelina's amber eyes opened again, looking at Woody who was ten meters away, she subconsciously exclaimed.

"Woody, when did you come back? I fell asleep, can you wake me up?"

Angelina was a little embarrassed. In her perception, she was just tired and wanted to rest against the wall. She subconsciously made a posture with her heart turned upside down. She never thought of making Woody wait for her to wake up. In her view, this is very shameless behavior.

Not only are you being lazy, but you are also wasting other people's time.

But what she didn't expect was that Woody's expression became extremely complicated.

"Why are you looking at me, is there something on my face?"

"It's nothing, how do you feel now, the body still has perception."

Woody felt a little helpless looking at the monk girl who had entered into a state of trance without knowing it, but he could still shoulder the responsibility of guiding newcomers.

"I feel...it feels good! Hey, it's strange, my feet were sore before, but now I'll be fine after a night's sleep, and I don't yearn for the sea anymore, or I don't really yearn for it..."

Only then did Angelina notice the changes in her body, and she was a little surprised.

"Because you're in a state of trance," Woody explained.

"A state of concentration, what is a state of concentration."

The more Angelina listened, the more confused she became, but after Woody's 3-minute explanation, she understood what trance was.

"You mean I'm about to master "The Mind Like Still Water"? " Angelina couldn't hide the joy on her face.

In her opinion, what Woody said meant that she was not far away from taking full control of herself.

"Well, according to common sense, it is indeed the case."

Woody's eyes were a little inexplicable, and in the end he could only sigh that he was indeed the one selected by the legendary monk of Shenlong Temple.

"Thank you!"

Faced with Angelina's thanks, Woody suddenly understood the mentality of the aborigines looking at the player.

Contradictory and complex.

……

When Woody walked out of the dark and deep cave under the double baptism of the chilly sea breeze and the faint sunlight hanging from the sky, he subconsciously looked at the brass ring on his right thumb, as if it had been a lifetime ago.

The monk girl had already left just now, and it took him a while to come out because he brought those young pigs out of the ruins.

Angelina has already settled down, and the specialty of "Heart Like Still Water" is already a certainty.

When the training was over, she planned to go to the city to find the rescued Lin and the others and tell them the good news.

Woody, on the other hand, intends to drive the piglet back to the sales office, after completing a "return".

Then he returned to the wine estate, continued to make potions, and polished the unformed shrine.

However, not long after Woody entered the dock area, when he passed the street, he saw the adventurers who should have gone out of the city to look for traces of the drow, and saw the adventurers in the secret shop.

They seemed to be chatting on a daily basis on the side of the road, and Woody subconsciously stepped forward and walked out from the flow of people passing by.

Came under the eaves of an inconspicuous street, like an ordinary passerby who wanted to avoid the pretty cold sea breeze blowing from the sea.

……

"Boss, that idiot Vermeer canceled the commission, and he said it well when we met yesterday, what should we do now, don't we go?"

The one who spoke was the big man I saw in the secret shop before, and the female ranger who pulled him was also there. His expression was extremely helpless at this moment, like watching a salted fish whose dream was broken.

"Miss Carmina, what do you mean?"

The middle-aged man suspected to be the team leader did not answer Gruul's inquiry, but looked at a spell caster covered in a gray robe. She was not tall, but her voice was clear.

"Don't be sad, Gruel, this is actually a good thing. In the morning, I made a fortune telling whether our trip would be smooth, and the result was not too good."

"At first, I wanted to persuade you."

She said lightly, a spiral witch's hat firmly covered the speaker's face, but the silver hair exposed from under the hat, as well as the light and beautiful voice, were enough to show that the caster was very young.

However, the caster cannot define age by voice and face.

But Woody was still a little surprised, because out of the corner of his eye, he saw the indistinct but very exquisite card on her finger. With his past knowledge, he keenly realized that it was a magic miracle. thing.

And it is used for prophecy.

"Is this... a divination card?"

"A spellcaster who specializes in prophecy?" Woody only dared to capture the picture when his peripheral vision flickered, and at the same time his mind was spinning wildly.

Do prophecy mages do this?Just kidding.

You must know that the divination department is one of the eight schools of mages, although it is not uncommon.

But most mages who specialize in divination will choose to live in a certain place instead of taking risks like wandering mercenaries.

After all, finding something for some nobles in the city, or being a private detective, can get a good salary, which is faster than taking risks.

An advanced mage of the prophecy department joined a team, so there must be a reason.

But this is not the information that Woody wants to know, his eyes narrowed slightly, just now he has been using the corner of his eyes to glance, most of the time staring at the weather-beaten bricks and tiles on the roof not far away, did not cause any trouble. With their attention, Woody continued to listen to information that actually didn't have much insider information.

"So what should we do now?" Gruul asked.

"Maybe 'wait' is a good option, and there's a storm coming in two days and we're not going anywhere."

The spellcaster named Kamina's answer was still clear and organized, and it was hard to refuse.

"Okay!" The strong man's discouraged voice was accompanied by someone's proposal to go to the tavern for a drink, and the team left the place immediately.

And Woody just shook his head slightly. The stay just now gave him little information, but he just stopped at will. If he really wanted to hear some important secret, he would feel something was wrong.

After returning the piglets, he quickly left the dock area in a carriage and returned to the wine estate.

But after returning to the manor, he was stunned by the information Cromwell told him when he sent the potion ingredients.

Not long ago, the Temple of Dawn found the entrance to the Underdark region 2000 meters away from Palermo by tracking the location of the escaped drow, and joined forces with the other two temples and noble private soldiers in the city to set up an underground crusade team. It is to target the drow elves who invaded Palermo.

After all, the three temples went out together, not to mention the drow tribe, even if a giant dragon nestled in Palermo, it could be easily driven away.

The second is that a large number of nobles in the city were purged with the appearance of the drow elves. If the situation was still in a state of panic yesterday, then the situation today is completely cleaned up.

When Woody heard the news, he was shocked by Palermo's resolute actions.

But thinking about it, Drow almost climbed onto the bed of the city lord, obviously enough to influence those nobles who thought they could watch the fire from the other side to do it.

But to Woody's slight surprise, the name Vermeer among the nobles who were cleared was somewhat familiar to him, as if he had heard it not long ago.

That's right, the client whose adventurer team's commission was cancelled, seems to be called Vermeer, seems to have been liquidated, no wonder the adventurer's union will cancel his commission.

But it had nothing to do with him, and Woody soon forgot about it again, devoting all his time to making potions and carving shrines.

The time passed quickly by one minute and one second, with the arrival of the morning of the second day.

When Woody left the wine estate again, intending to go to the beach, he continued to supervise the progress of Angelina's expertise.

When he was leaving the aristocratic district, his carriage was stopped by Vele Tahan a few days ago.

"What's matter?"

Woody looked at the captain of the guard who suddenly stopped his carriage, and asked with some doubts.

"It's like this. Yesterday we caught a girl related to Drow. She said she knew you. Just to be on the safe side, I want to ask you."

Gatekeeper Vele Tahan had a low profile.

"What's her name?" Woody replied casually. He was thinking about whether he had to bring Angelina to the city for training today. As for the sandpit, the wine estate also had it.

"Master Woody, her name is Angelina..."

Vele Tahan's voice was as respectful as ever, but it sounded like thunder to Woody's ears.

"???"

　Finally back on track, the transition is really hard to write.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)