Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 424: Li Wei's Rhythm

In any case, only after night fell did Li Wei finally finish his investigation. At this moment, he still wasn't in a hurry to set out. Instead, he ducked into a warehouse corner near the city wall, ate some food, replenished his water, and fell into a deep sleep.

His Stamina was currently abundant, but his Spiritual Power consumption was immense. After half a day of investigation, his original 45 points of Spiritual Power had directly depleted to 30 points.

Of course, because of this wave of investigation, his Scout Destiny had upgraded to 46.

Around three in the morning, Li Wei leisurely woke up. His Spiritual Power had only recovered to 37 points, but that was also enough.

Subsequently, without another word, he took out food and had another bout of hearty eating and chewing. After eating and drinking his fill, only then did he take out a Three-Star Defense Card and activate it, adding 4 points of Normal Defense, thereby bringing it to 51. This consequently caused Stamina +10 and Strength +1 once again.

Thus, he had no choice but to have another hearty meal again. By the time his condition had almost fully recovered, it was already close to five in the morning.

At this point, Li Wei first activated a Five-Star Heaven-Veiling Item Card for himself. Inside the Windbreath Central City, the Targeted Marking effect of Neanderthal Spellcasters would be interfered with until it was practically nonexistent, but that wasn't necessarily true once he left the city.

Therefore, this special Item Card that could be used in family meetings had a massive effect at this moment. A single card could effectively maintain its effect for 10 to 30 days. In short, it would weaken as time passed.

But it was best to use another one after ten days.

[You have used a Five-Star Special Item Card—the Heaven-Veiling Card. Explanation: This is actually a special Mana structure. Its effect will conceal some magic waves sent by those with ulterior motives to pry, but at the same time, it will also affect your own faction's confirmation of your battle records!][Friendly reminder: During the first three days when this Item Card's power is at its strongest, the All-Heavens Mercenary Alliance will be unable to confirm your combat gains and unable to calculate your Mercenary points. The further the distance, the worse the effect. Perhaps you can also appeal to the principal of the mission in the mission main city after the battle concludes.]

Appeal my ass!

This was the exact effect he wanted! Otherwise, what did he buy Heaven-Veiling Cards that cost ten thousand gold coins a piece for?

Li Wei laughed inwardly. Under the cover of night, he unhurriedly left Windbreath Central City. According to the map, Gale Fortress was east of Windbreath City, at a distance exceeding four hundred li. Half the journey was plains, and half was mountains.

Normally speaking, this road wasn't considered too rugged; it could even be called quite flat and wide. But the Neanderthal Scouts were clearly superior in strength. During this recent period, they had practically blanketed this area.

Send a large army to sweep them out? They couldn't be found.

They wouldn't be able to find them even if they exhausted themselves to death.

Send out small groups of Scouts? Currently, five Scouts had already died. This was the most disgusting kind of situation.

So right now, the road traffic between Windbreath City and Gale Fortress was completely cut off.

All material support and troop reinforcements entirely relied on another barony. This barony and Windbreath City were connected by an Arbitrary Door.

And this barony was less than 150 li away from Gale Fortress.

However, this barony was coincidentally garrisoned and jointly defended by the Royal Capital's legion.

The subtle nuances in this were quite interesting.

Therefore, this was also why Windbreath Viscount was so anxious to clear the traffic between Windbreath City and Gale Fortress.

While pondering this, Li Wei traveled rapidly all the way. As per convention, he didn't walk on the main roads, nor did he walk on the small paths. Instead, he pulled away from the main road, running twenty to thirty li out, only walking along the highest points and the places where vegetation flourished the most. The more rugged the terrain, the more he liked walking there.

His main focus was safety, speed, and convenience. The most important thing was that it consumed less Stamina!

He set out at five in the morning. By around seven o'clock, when the sun rose, he had already arrived about thirty li near Gale Fortress, able to gaze at it from afar.

And all along this journey, he hadn't discovered many clues or traces. He could only say that the opposing Neanderthal squad was quite professional and elite.

Li Wei felt that unless he got incredibly lucky like a blind cat running into a dead mouse, he shouldn't even think about bumping into them.

But he also didn't want to deliberately search for them. There was no need.

Therefore, after the somewhat hazy sun rose, Li Wei once again submerged himself into the somewhat withered and decaying vegetation. It was late autumn now.

However, this temporarily didn't affect Li Wei's movements.

He was like a wild horse that had slipped its reins. He didn't go to Gale Fortress at all, let alone search for the Neanderthal Scout squad he needed to kill for his mission. Instead, he didn't even have a specific goal. He mainly just let his horse go where it pleased and ran around joyfully.

He himself didn't know where he was running to...

Just like that, running in one breath until night fell on the second day, Li Wei had already run for nearly three thousand li. It was truly satisfying. And midway, he hadn't even stopped for a long time.

Because his Stamina consumption only required the normal 25%. This point was truly too important, too willful, and too awesome.

Exhilarating.

Of course, after running three thousand li, his Stamina value had indeed finally dropped from 840 points to 750 points.

Conversely, his previously un-replenished Spiritual Power was now fully charged.

Comfortable.

Li Wei acted as if he had forgotten his original purpose. He casually found a grassy hollow to duck into, ate food, drank water, and recovered his Stamina. One hour later, he continued on his way. This time, he finally took out the map and compared it. Not bad, he wasn't too far off. He seemed to have perhaps arrived at the Neanderthals' deep rear—not that Bridgehead, but rather near one of Windbreath Viscount's fortresses that had been captured previously.

Next, after traveling for roughly over two hundred li, a pitch-black fortress appeared before him.

The level of this fortress was very high. Even the City Walls were Level 4, with a perimeter of three kilometers. It had built-in Magic Power Mines, so it could be seen that its defensive capabilities were extremely formidable. Yet, it had been breached by the Neanderthals.

This made Li Wei wonder: if it were his own Territory, could it block this ferocious military spearhead of the Neanderthals?

No, first of all, he couldn't give the Neanderthals the opportunity to build a Bridgehead.

Li Wei silently approached and bypassed traps one by one. That's right, the location of this fortress was actually quite important. The material transport in the Neanderthals' rear couldn't be teleported out of thin air either; it also required wide roads for transport. Therefore, it was impossible for them to capture this fortress and then just ignore it.

Therefore, they had to garrison troops here.

He could see that the Magic Power Mine here was emitting a gloomy blue light. At the same time, a magic wave resembling a fan-shaped searchlight was slowly sweeping around the fortress, capable of scanning out up to five kilometers.

This was a Three-Star Mana Mine, and there was also a Spellcaster garrisoned here.

Note that that kind of gloomy blue-lit magic wave was invisible to the naked eye. Li Wei's Perception was just too strong, and coupled with the lack of other radiation light sources at night, he could vaguely see it.

As for how to deal with this sweeping magic wave, Li Wei was quite experienced. He directly took out a Magic Cloak and that solved it. This was standard equipment for Spellcasters. Li Yue had woven it for Hathaway, and after Hathaway deployed Sequence 3 Magic on it, she gave it to him.

With this item, he would not be discovered by this alert magic wave from five hundred meters away.

At the same time, it was the same for other reconnaissance magics.

Li Wei advanced easily along the way. He bypassed at least a triple array of traps on his journey. This was the biggest characteristic of the Neanderthals: they were cunning and rich. These precious traps were placed as densely as if they were free. Moreover, between every few groups of traps, several dog-whistle traps would be deployed. As long as anyone dared to crack them, they would immediately start bellowing to warn everyone.

So Li Wei didn't even dare to dismantle them. Otherwise, these would be excellent materials. They were all f*cking Enchanted Steel! Bringing them back could save his own Territory at least two hundred units of Mana.

Infiltrating silently all the way like this, Li Wei was quite terror-stricken. The deployment of these traps was rather tricky and rather nasty. One look and you could tell they were deployed by a true Trap Master.

Fortunately, Li Wei's skill was a foot higher, barely able to deal with them.

When he arrived five hundred meters outside that fortress, he stopped. At this moment, it was pitch black inside the fortress, as if there was no one there. Ordinary people might really believe it; they would have to believe it even if they didn't want to, because they wouldn't be able to hear or sense the aura of living people at all.

But Li Wei was different. He could even hear the faint breathing sounds of those Neanderthal defenders. This was indeed a group of elites.

Li Wei silently distinguished them and pondered, gradually completing the layout of the situation inside this fortress in his mind.

For this, he wasn't anxious at all. Instead, he continuously moved, determining everything through changes from different directions.

It wasn't until nearly six hours had passed and the sky was about to brighten that he finally completed the internal layout of the entire fortress.

And he determined the Neanderthal defenders inside.

Roughly twenty people.

Maybe twenty-five people.

But that wasn't important anymore either.

At this moment, Li Wei knew his upcoming attack like the back of his hand. He calmly moved to a certain location. Based on the different weights of the footsteps, he slowly drew back the Five-Star Enchanted Resonance Strongbow. On the bowstring was a 5-Star Anti-Magic Arrow, the kind with the greatest power.

At this time, he couldn't see the Neanderthal target at all, and it was a distance of five hundred meters away! However, the blessing brought by the Rare Hunter Card, plus the four-destiny resonance, plus the resonance of the Enchanted Strong Bow itself, directly boosted the damage to 800%!

That was base damage 328 + 328 × 800%. The damage nearly reached the 3000-point threshold.

Moreover, he also had to add the 1200 points of damage from the 5-Star Anti-Magic Arrow itself!

In a split second, barely any sound could be heard. The Neanderthal Spellcaster in the fortress, who had just gotten up and only taken a single step, perfectly exposing himself within Li Wei's firing line, was hit by this arrow.

If time could be slowed down ten times at this moment, one would be able to clearly see rings of colored ripples lighting up on this Spellcaster's body. A full two Sequence 3 Magic Crests, plus five Sequence Two Magic Sigils, plus magic early-warning, and a set of medium armor—were all torn, distorted, penetrated, and shattered at this moment!

A three-second lock could pierce through weak points, creating a magic-piercing sniping effect. As for the 5-Star Anti-Magic Arrow, it could directly tear apart Sequence 3 Magic Crests.

This kind of magic-piercing structure did not care how much damage the Magic Crest itself could block.

Instead, it went straight for the core structure of the Abjuration Magic. You could block ten thousand points, or even a hundred thousand points of damage, but that had nothing to do with it; that was only the operational logic for blocking normal attacks.

Understand?

Therefore, it was useless. In this very instant, the defense of this suspected Tier 2 Neanderthal Spellcaster was blown apart. His head directly transformed into the most dazzling firework of the New Year at this moment.

(End of Chapter)