Under the leadership of Doakes, Angel and others walked in the cave for about half a minute, and finally saw a man sitting against the wall, breathing heavily.
He wore a white mask, and the exposed skin was wrapped in white gauze.
This person is exactly the wizard apprentice who was integrated into the bloodline of the Earth Fire Salamander as Doakes said.
He calls himself Benson and is a member of the Bilos family.
"Zombie?" Kael looked at Benson in confusion. Is this a nickname? A very strange nickname...rigid corpse? frozen corpse?
Benson nodded: "Yes, zombie."
As he spoke, Benson took off the white mask on his face, revealing his true face.
His appearance is very ordinary. At first glance, he looks like an ordinary person, but if you look closely, you will find that his skin has a stony dullness, and it does not have the oily sheen of normal skin, just like
It looks like hardened dead skin.
Kael didn't know what happened to Benson's skin, but he secretly guessed that maybe it was some kind of monster skin transplanted, or maybe it was Benson's unique talent after integrating into the bloodline of the Earth Fire Salamander?
Just when Kael was thinking wildly, Doakes suddenly said: "This should be a disease, right?"
Benson glanced at Doakes in surprise. Unexpectedly, Doakes could tell his condition at a glance. But after thinking about it, he thought it was normal. He saw Doakes in the family collection of pictures.
We know that Doakes is a bloodline wizard active in the Principality of Laxum.
Most importantly, Doakes is a wandering wizard.
Although wandering wizards are not organized and have family as their background, wandering wizards often have the most contact with the people at the bottom and know the real situation of the people at the bottom best. On the contrary, organized wizards are more metaphysical.
Benson did not deny it, nodded and said: "Yes, I am a scleroderma patient."
Scleroderma is a rare disease, even among low-income people. Its pathogenesis is still unclear. Its most obvious external symptom is that the skin loses its flexibility and elasticity, and becomes
Hardened and thick.
From the perspective of an extraordinary person, the hardening of the skin caused by scleroderma is more like a benign symptom that can enhance resistance to blows. But for ordinary people, scleroderma is an almost incurable disease.
In terminal illness, as the skin slowly hardens, the blood vessel lumen will also become narrow. Because it is compressive, the organs will also be damaged. As time goes by, it will eventually lead to organ failure and death from the disease.
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Benson was unfortunate. When he suffered from scleroderma, he was just an ordinary person. He tried various methods to survive for five years, but that was it. His life was full of setbacks and there was no hope at all.
Benson was lucky again. When he was about to face the pain of death, he met a wizard. The wizard who called himself Elder Moon told Benson that he had the blood of his descendants. In a sense,
Benson can be regarded as the exiled son of the Bilos family.
Generally speaking, these scattered children are basically mortal descendants, and the chance of becoming a gifted person is not high. Therefore, the Bilos family is too lazy to look for these descendants.
It was a kind of luck for Benson to meet Elder Yue. And his mental power value reached 11 points, which means he has the background to become a gifted person, which is also a manifestation of luck.
After being brought back to the Bilos family, Benson began to practice unremittingly.
After becoming a wizard's apprentice, the strength of his internal organs was increased, allowing him to finally get rid of the adverse effects of scleroderma.
Moreover, the tough hard skin is still preserved, which has become his heritage, giving him stronger defense capabilities and resistance.
Under the guidance of Elder Yue, Benson fused the bloodline of the Earth Fire Salamander to further enhance the strength of his skin. It can be said that from the perspective of resistance to beatings, Benson can already compete with the bloodline apprentices of the same level.
Compared.
But the price...is that his skin is harder than that of an ordinary person, which makes his whole body seem to be frozen. Except when he talks and moves his eyes, he is completely like a puppet or a dead person at other times.
For this reason, Benson put on a mask and wrapped himself in white gauze to avoid other people's strange eyes. In this way, although he did not look like a zombie, he looked like another kind of zombie.
Species...Mummy.
"Scleroderma? It's really rare." Doakes muttered in a low voice, and then looked at Benson carefully: "Hey, you merged into the fire salamander bloodline to cooperate with the scleroderma, right? This is a very genius idea.
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Benson's scleroderma was not cured. He was beaten with hard skin arbitrarily. Although it strengthened his resistance, it also made his skin harder and harder.
Although no disadvantages can be seen at the moment, in the long run, if the hardness of the skin exceeds the upper limit of the load capacity of Benson's internal organs, the consequences of scleroderma will come again.
Benson's choice to merge with the bloodline of the Earth Fire Salamander is a two-pronged strategy that can not only strengthen the hard skin, but also solve the troubles of the hard skin.
The Earth Fire Salamander has strengthened its hard skin. At the same time, the Earth Fire Salamander has specially developed its tolerance to internal organs, which is comparable to the bloodline of some high-level monsters.
Strengthening the bloodline of the Fire Salamander is equivalent to strengthening the hard skin and organs. It can be said that this is Benson's best solution to scleroderma.
If it were Doakes, he would probably choose Benson to integrate into the Earthfire Salamander bloodline.
Benson said with some surprise: "This is actually the advice given to me by Elder Yue."
Doakes, who originally focused on Benson, was stunned for a moment when he heard the name "Elder Moon": "Elder Moon? Is he the elder Yue of the three elders of the Bilos family, sun and moon?"
Benson nodded: "Yes, my ancestor was once the younger brother of Elder Yue, so Elder Yue took good care of me. I can come to the Paradise to practice because of Elder Yue's favor."
Benson's words gave a lot of information, and he did so deliberately.
Although he knew Doakes and knew that Doakes had no relationship with the Bilos family in the past. But who can be sure that there will be no enmity in the near future?
For the sake of his own life, all Benson can do now is to reveal his relationship with Elder Yue, and then point out that Elder Yue is nearby to build up his courage.
Doakes also heard what Benson meant, but he didn't care. He even secretly remembered this method of "deflecting conflicts and pretending to be powerful" in his heart, so that he could use it in the future.
If he really encounters someone who cannot be beaten, he can say in the future that he has a very good relationship with Angel, and is irreconcilable with Sanders. The three ancestral spirits of the Savage Cave are all his backers... This method is very good, in South
Domain, it should be feasible.
Anyway, he wants to follow Angel in a short period of time, so he can gain some verbal benefits first, so he can’t say anything to him, right?
Putting aside his wandering thoughts, Doakes focused his attention on Benson again: "You mean, Elder Yue is in the Paradise? Then the person who said he wanted to play games before actually dared to do it here?"
Benson: "Are you talking about... the masked man?"
Doakes: "The Masked Man? Who is the Masked Man?"
Benson looked puzzled: "Your Majesty, you don't know about the Masked Man? Then why are you in the 'Clay Maze'?"
"I came in from outside." Doakes didn't hide anything and said directly.
Benson's eyes lit up: "Outside? Has the space seal outside the paradise been broken?"
Doakes shook his head: "It was not destroyed. I got in by other means."
Doakes did not say why he came, but instead said: "Do you mind telling me what happened to you tonight? Masked man, clay puppet maze, what are these?"
When he learned that the space seal of Paradise had not been broken, Benson's eyes flashed with disappointment. But in the face of Doakes' inquiry, he still did not hesitate and nodded.
These are not secrets. There are many people in the paradise. Even without him, Doakes can find other people to ask. Therefore, Benson did not intend to hide it and told the experience of this period in detail.
Just over half an hour ago, Benson was following Elder Yue, meditating silently in the moonlight on the top of the mountain.
But at this moment, a masked man in a cloak suddenly smiled strangely and flashed past the paradise.
Every area in the paradise is protected, especially areas with people. After outsiders see it, they will not choose to step in.
And this masked man not only came in, but also laughed loudly and weirdly, showing his presence and looking very weird.
Elder Yue noticed something was wrong and chased after him.
Benson didn't know what happened after that, because he stayed at the top of the mountain and did not catch up.
But not long after Elder Yue chased the masked man away, he heard a strange laughter that spread throughout the paradise——
"Let's play a game~ If you win, I'll let you go~"
Benson was very sure that this strange laughter came from the masked man from before.
Before he could figure out why the masked man was making such a noise, the entire paradise was enveloped by a huge space seal.
Immediately afterwards, space membranes separated the paradise into multiple different territories.
When Benson and the other extraordinary beings around him realized something was wrong, they were unable to leave here.
They could only search nearby to see if they could find some gaps.
Then, someone discovered a huge stone with a human face on the top of the mountain.
There was this stone before, but it didn't have a human face. Now, the appearance of human facial lines looks very unusual.
The human face on the stone tells them that this is a game in the name of escape and survival in reality. As long as they can clear two games, they can leave the paradise.
Immediately afterwards, the names of various games flashed in the eyes of the human face, asking everyone to enter the game.
At that time, Benson had no intention of entering this so-called game.
After all, Benson is self-aware and knows that he is not strong enough to get involved in such a strange incident.
There were many people who had the same idea as Benson, but in the end... they were forced to participate in the game.
Because some people agree to participate in the game, and facial prints tell us that insufficient number of people will lead to a sharp increase in the death rate of people participating in the game. The more people there are, the higher the survival rate will be.
And the person participating in the game is an official wizard.
He directly ordered that everyone on the top of the mountain must participate in the game.
Benson just entered the game half-heartedly.
However, everyone who participated in the game on the top of the mountain seemed to be involved in different games. Benson came to this game called "Clay Maze", and the number of people participating in the game with him was...zero.
Maybe there were other game participants in the clay puppet maze, but at least there was no one else at the starting point where Benson was.
The starting point of the maze where Benson is located also has a human face pattern, but it is grown on the wall.
This facial pattern seems to exist to explain the rules of the game. It tells Benson that the Clay Doll Maze is a maze that was transformed into a mountain. The way to clear the level is to find the exit of the maze.
In the process of finding the exit, Benson needs to pay attention to two things: First, there will be special mud puppet monsters in the mud puppet maze. These mud puppet monsters will attack players, but the strength of the mud puppets will not exceed level three.
apprentice.
It sounds like the mud puppet monsters are not strong. In fact... they are indeed not strong. But there are so many of them. As long as you go near the swamp, groups of mud puppet monsters will appear.
For this reason, every time Benson saw a swamp in the passage, he would subconsciously stay away.
But as he continued to avoid the swamp, Benson discovered that... he seemed to be spinning in circles and couldn't find a way out at all.
Therefore, it is very likely that the real exit must be followed through the quagmire.
Secondly, there are many poisonous mushroom monsters walking in the mud puppet maze. These mushrooms will emit poisonous mist spores, causing a large number of places in the maze to be shrouded in poisonous mist, so you need to pay attention to protection.
Benson didn't pay much attention to this. His hard skin combined with the fire salamander bloodline prevented large particles of poisonous mist from penetrating into his body.
Generally speaking, what the human face pattern told Benson was only the danger of monsters in the Mud Doll Maze.
But in fact, in addition to the dangers caused by monsters, there are many other dangers in the maze.
For example, wall damage.
Benson tried to destroy the wall, so that he might be able to find the exit faster. However, after several experiments, Benson discovered that there were space traps hidden inside part of the wall. Once destroyed, it would backfire.
Benson was almost split into two parts by a space crack. From then on, he never dared to break through the wall at will again.
In addition, there are many trigger-type traps.
Now Benson is hiding here gasping for air because he triggered a series of traps before, which resulted in the collapse of the entire passage. At the same time, he also encountered a space trap caused by the destruction of the wall.
In order to escape for his life, he braved the pressure and energy bombardment, stimulated the potential in his body, and finally escaped.
Benson found a quiet place to restore the source of magic and repair his wounds, and it was here.
But what I didn't expect was that Doakes would find his location because of the earthfire salamander blood aura in his body.