Witcher starts with Get Inspiration Panel

But the scenes just now seemed to say something very important, and that was about the path to breakthrough after level three.

Although it is a bit far away for Richard.

But people always have to prepare for a rainy day.

It seems that because he took Richard to see many scenes, the light red light on the surface of the Nightmare Stone suddenly dimmed, just like it was sealed before, becoming dark and ordinary.

Richard felt it and found that although he had just been distracted, the actual time that had passed should only be a few seconds.

At this moment, the familiar man in black robe was slowly retreating into the shadows.

"Want to run away again? I let you slip away last time, but this time it brought me a big trouble and almost overturned my car!" Richard glanced at the nearly dead octopus giant on the ground and thought to himself.

"This time, I must keep you!"

Suddenly, under Richard's instructions, the three thick iron hooks hated by the resentful spirit suddenly "clattered" and swept towards the man in black robe.

Matisse had already been wary of Richard.

He stretched out his right hand, with his palm perpendicular to the ground and his fingertips pointing upward. As a rapid spell sounded, a strong transparent wave suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Clang clang clang!"

The three sharp iron hooks seemed to have encountered an invisible wall, and were blocked by Matisse without hurting him at all.

At this time, Richard had already placed Stephana, Fana, and Angeles in a safe rear area to avoid the subsequent battle that might affect the other party.

Just when Richard was about to join the resentful spirits and besiege the man in black robe, suddenly, Richard was shocked!

Because he suddenly found a prompt message in the inspiration panel:

[Acquire 95677 points of energy. 】

Richard glanced sideways at the octopus-headed swamp giant that had just held its head and was struggling in pain. At this moment, it was lying motionless on the ground, and its body still smelled of burnt food from time to time.

Obviously, there is no doubt that he is the one who has contributed so many energy points to Richard.

Richard thought for a moment, "It seems like, if the guess is correct, this guy should also be a cultist."

"Because based on my last experience, only cultists who believe in evil gods will provide themselves with energy points."

At this time, the situation on the field suddenly changed.

The man in black robe took out a white glass bottle from his arms and smashed it to the ground with a "pop!"

Suddenly, a pool of transparent liquid exuding a trace of mist appeared on the ground.

The resentful spirit Abomination that rushed towards the opponent noticed something was wrong at the right time, and was about to lift its legs to step over the strange liquid, but within a second, it staggered.

I saw two big white ice crystal hands suddenly stretching out from the liquid and grabbing the hateful calf of the resentful spirit.

In an instant, strands of ice crystals began to spread from the calf where the resentful spirit hated being caught.

The big hand of ice crystal pressed hard on the edge of the liquid. After a while, a humanoid-looking elemental creature with a height of more than three meters, which was made of ice crystals, appeared in front of the resentful spirit and hated it, and confronted it.

"Roar!!"

The resentful spirit was obviously very angry at the monster that suddenly blocked its attack. He yelled at the opponent and rushed forward brandishing a giant iron ax.

The ice crystal giant also roared angrily, raised his hand and unleashed an ice storm on the resentful spirit.

In an instant, frost mixed with strong wind blew towards the Wraith Abomination, greatly reducing its speed.

Looking at the two monsters fighting each other, the man in black robe showed a smile of relief, but immediately his smile froze.

Because Richard had already taken out several bombs from his arms and threw them at the ice crystal giant.

The resentful spirit Abomination, who had already received Richard's order, had already wrapped the ice crystal giant with iron chains, but he took a few steps back. His narrow eyes showed a smile of success, and he looked at the ice crystal giant leisurely.

"Boom boom boom!!"

Continuous explosions mixed with the roar of the ice crystal giant immediately drowned it out!

After the smoke and dust dissipated again, only the upper half of the ice giant's body and one right hand were left, still struggling in place.

At this time, Matisse looked shocked, and at the same time, he immediately realized why the opponent was able to defeat Lord Mobutu. Perhaps, the opponent's sharp alchemy bomb attack was a key part.

The resentful spirit hated seeing his opponent meet such a miserable end. He couldn't help grinning, showing his yellow teeth, and laughed happily. At the same time, the movements of his hands were not slow at all, waving the hammer and preparing to kill him. The opponent's remaining body was completely shattered!

But the next second, the situation suddenly changed!

The ice crystal giant chanted a short syllable, and his whole body suddenly exploded, forming a large cloud of mist and ice crystals that struck in all directions. Richard and the Wraith Abomination immediately dodged this huge shock wave.

After the shock wave passed, the entire place was in a mess, and the figure of the man in black robe was nowhere to be seen.

Richard couldn't help but feel a little regretful that he still couldn't keep the other party this time.

After confirming that the other party had indeed escaped, Richard treated Stephana and the three of them respectively.

Fortunately, the three of them seemed to have fallen into a coma after suffering mental trauma and woke up one after another soon.

The first one to wake up was Fana. After she groaned, she rubbed her head and looked around.

"Richard, you saved us, right?"

"I didn't expect that the other party's attack would be so weird, and it could actually pull us into the dream space. This method is like the method of the nightmare cult. I have only heard of it before, but this is the first time I encountered it."

"I was lucky, otherwise, I'm afraid we would all be in trouble this time."

Then Stephana and Angeles both woke up.

When Angeles woke up, he rubbed his eyebrows in pain while observing his surroundings. When he saw the tall octopus-headed swamp giant lying aside, his eyes widened and he was shocked and said:

"Mobutu, the Priest of the Nightmare Cult!"

"It turns out that he attacked us secretly. No wonder we were pulled into the dream space even if we were prepared."

"Richard, you are so powerful. Mobutu was once a top-level wizard and a priest of the Nightmare Cult. After being killed by a level-two wizard and escaping, there has been no news. I didn't expect this time. You killed me."

Richard immediately raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect that the other party had such a background. He originally thought that the other party was a master in the night elf assassin's organization, but he didn't expect that the other party was actually a priest of the Nightmare Cult.

But this made Richard even more wary.

Could it be that the night elves' assassin organization is colluding with the cult?

It seemed that he had to return to the surface as soon as possible and hide for a while.

After all, in the Underdark, whether it is the gray dwarf area or other places, the night elves are all-pervasive, not to mention that this time the other party seems to have hooked up with a cult.

For him, the risk is getting higher and higher, and he doesn't want to drag Fana into the water again because of this matter.

"By the way, it seems that Tuge City officials have a bounty on Mobutu, and the bounty is quite large." Angeles patted his head and added.

"Hey, is there such a good thing?" This did not surprise Richard.

At least the Fana guards don’t have to pay for their pensions out of their own pockets!

After a few people discussed it, they quickly got up and returned to Tuge City to avoid a long night and many dreams.

It didn't take long before a large number of Tuge City Guards surrounded the farm.

Sure enough, as Angelis said, the Tuge City Lord's Palace had an extremely generous bounty for Mobutu. After offsetting the compensation for the death of the Fana guards, there was still a lot of magic stones left.

These magic stones were used by Richard to purchase some materials unique to the Gray Dwarf region.

For two consecutive days, Richard was actively preparing for various matters before leaving.

The original villa has been repaired. Richard thought about it and decided to sell it.

After he and Stephana leave, Fingart will continue to stay with Fana in Tuge City. At the same time, he will also leave a sum of magic stones to Fingart, so that Fingart can use it to place the people he originally worked in the dark. The people of Shuihu.

Most of the remaining magic stones were used by Richard to set up the teleportation array.

As for the teleportation array, Richard had already made rubbings of it before, so it was not too difficult to set it up again. It was just a matter of preparing several high-level magic stones.

Because Tuge City is further away from the teleportation point on the surface than the original blind murloc tribe in Darkwater Lake, this causes the energy consumed by the teleportation array to increase geometrically.

As for the fact that he was about to leave Tuge City and return to the surface, Richard did not mention it to anyone else except for a brief chat with Fana.

As for the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood, Richard left a letter. After he left, Fana would hand it over to Hawkins, the vice-president of the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood.

——

The last night before leaving.

In Fana Villa, Tuge City, in Richard's bedroom.

As Richard fell into a deep sleep, after a while, an inexplicable light red light flashed on his body, and his whole body became strangely transparent. Gradually, he disappeared into the bed out of thin air.

Um, my head hurts!

Richard suddenly felt that his mouth was dry and he wanted to drink water.

But when he opened his eyes, he keenly discovered that his surroundings seemed a little different from before.

Although he was still in the bedroom, the scene was clearly different from the scene before he fell asleep.

There was already a thin layer of dust on the coffee table not far from him, and further away, a large cobweb was formed in the corner of the room.

"But how is this possible! Not only does a servant come to clean my room every day, but I walked around the room before going to sleep, so I was very impressed. There is absolutely no way there are large cobwebs."

"Could it be that I slept for a long time?

That's even more impossible. If I sleep for a few days, there's no way Stephana and the others won't call me! "

This strange change immediately made Richard's pupils shrink, and he lost all sleep.

However, Richard did not get up immediately. Instead, he sat on the bed and looked around the room carefully again, and then touched the quilt on his own bed.

Strangely, the surface of his quilt was very clean. He looked down at his fingers that had rubbed the quilt twice, but there was no trace of dust on them. It was strange that there was a thin layer of dust on the coffee table a few meters away from the bed. , even on the chairs!

But my bed is actually so clean.

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed through Richard's mind. It seemed that the further away from his bed, the more he felt like he had been alone for a long time. Ancient?

After confirming this, Richard stood up slowly, put on his clothes and equipment, and began to pace around the room to further observe his surroundings.

Several potted plants in the room had turned black and withered, as if they had been dead for several years.

There is a thick layer of dust on the bookshelf.

Suddenly, Richard frowned, as if he had discovered something.

I saw him casually pulling out a hard-cover book from the bookshelf and dusting off the cover.

The next second, Richard was stunned on the spot as if he was struck by lightning.

Because it was extremely strange that he had never seen the cover of this book in the study before, and the words on the surface were all twisted and intertwined lines, which were not any kind of words he knew at all.

Richard's heart palpitated suddenly!

After putting the book back in his hand, Richard took out the second and third books from the bookshelf very quickly.

But there was no text in the book that he could understand.

The cover and content of each book are composed of these irregular lines.

This made Richard feel inexplicably worried.

Things seemed beyond his imagination.

If this is an illusion, it is definitely not an ordinary illusion.

Could it be that he was targeted by the cult again, and this time he was pulled into that mysterious dream space?

If this is the case, then you have to find the core of the illusion and destroy it like last time before you can leave the illusion. Otherwise, you will be trapped in the illusion alive.

After thinking for a moment, Richard made his decision.

Obviously, there is nothing left to check in the room. Now the only option is to open the door and go out to take a look.

"Crunch!"

Richard unlocked the slightly rusty door lock and walked out of the room. He saw the milky white mist filling the surrounding area, and various trees and flowers were vague in the distance. He couldn't see clearly, but he could roughly tell that there should be a garden ahead.

Richard took two steps forward and then suddenly stopped.

Because he discovered that although this was also a garden, the strange thing was that the shape of this garden was completely different from the garden at Fana Villa.

Facing the unknown environment, Richard did not dare to take it lightly, and immediately used the magic armor technique. Suddenly, a suit of black ferocious bone armor covered Richard's body, which made him feel at ease.

Richard seemed to be the only one in the entire garden.

Richard walked slowly, the soft grass absorbing the sound of his footsteps, and the surrounding environment was so quiet that Richard could almost hear his own heartbeat.

Suddenly, there was a slight sound from the front.

This soft sound was particularly clear in this quiet environment, and the direction it came from seemed to be to the left side of the garden.

Richard narrowed his eyes, and the mimic bracer on his left hand turned into an arm shield, while the one on his right hand turned into a knight's sword.

At the same time, he increased his vigilance, raised his arm shield to his chest, and slowly walked forward.