Chapter 56：Chance and coincidence

I didn't expect that centaur woman to be a second-order healing shaman priest, the two male centaurs were also fourth-order warriors, but they still didn't have any effect, after all, the human side's level and numbers were crushing.

The so-called shaman priest is the orc's proprietary spell casting unit, divided into healing, enhancement, elemental three categories, corresponding to the human priest, paladin and mage.

The advantage of shaman priests over human spell casting units is that training is simple and purely depends on talent, young orcs may be inspired to become shaman priests when they pray to the beast god, and as they advance in rank they will automatically comprehend spells, which is the same as human priests, that's why they are called shaman priests.

The disadvantage is also obvious, although the number of spells is the same as human mages, but all spells are fixed and there are few types of spells, for example, receiving enlightenment to become a lightning elemental.

For example, after receiving enlightenment and becoming a Lightning Elemental Shaman, one can comprehend up to eight levels of spells, but there are only three spells per level, one of which is Lightning and two of which are common to all Shamans, and then there are no more.

Enlightenment after becoming a healing shaman can also realize a total of up to eight levels of spells, but also three per level, one of which is the healing system and two of which are common to all shamans, and then it is also gone.

As for the enhancement shaman, in addition to the two universal spells per level and the warrior is the same, wearing armor and fighting with weapons.

Human priests master about ten divine spells per level, mages have more and more widely applicable spells. However, for the orcs, a healing shaman can provide the same healing as a priest, and an elemental shaman can use offensive spells like a mage, which is enough, after all, many human mages can't play with many of their spells for a straight person like them.

Seeing that they couldn't support themselves under the siege of humans, the centauress suddenly took out a metal token.

“No good!”

Christine saw the token and recognized it as a magic item, immediately consumed two spell slots to instantly launch a level one spell “Trance”, which could cause the target creature to fall into a trance, appearing frozen and unable to cast spells or use magic power to open magic items. Although there was a certain chance that it would be resisted, it would basically succeed if the caster's level was higher than the opponent's.

The reason why we don't use offensive spells is because even the fast ones like “Magic Missile” have a ballistic flight time, while activating a magic item only requires a preset password.

The good news is that the spell worked, and the centaur went into a trance. The bad news was that the magic item was triggered anyway, so a magical glow flashed and everyone in the cave was transported to a hall.

It looked like the centauress had no idea what the effect of triggering the token would be, and froze for a moment when she suddenly realized she was in a strange place. But Christine had already reacted, and with a flash, she came to the centaur woman's side and snatched the metal token from her hand.

“Ah!”

Centauress was shocked to see the token taken from her hand, however, the next second she was knocked out by Christine, along with the two male centaurs.

“Tie them all up.” Christine ordered.

Although the others were also a bit confused because they were suddenly teleported here, but now that they heard the order, they immediately complied and tied up the three centaurs.

It was only then that Christine had time to look around.

This hall was very tall, so many people in it only took up a third of the space. There were teleportation spell formations engraved on the floor, after all, the teleportation spell formations used by modern mages were inherited from the period of the Ancient Nethersole Magic Empire, so it was easy to recognize them. Directly opposite had a five-meter wide by four-meter high passageway, and the illuminating magic stones at the top of the hall and the passageway emitted a light no less than that of the outside.

Looking at the metal token in his hand again, it was only the size of a palm, the emblem engraved on the front Christine knew that it was representing a certain Arcane Artist, but who exactly was unclear, the back was engraved with a number and instructions on how to use it in Nethersolean magical script.

At this point, Christian knew why the other party still triggered the effect of the token even after his own “Trance” had taken effect, because all he had to do was to press the small emblem on the top when using it.

Typical of the ancient Netherrealm magic empire, there were many elf assistants under the Arcane Masters at that time, and these little things couldn't use spells, so a pressing “remote control” solved the problem of their entry and exit.

According to the description, as long as you enter the effective range of the teleportation spell, pressing the emblem on it can teleport the user and the people and objects around them in a diameter of ten meters. Kristen guessed that the metal token was specifically for the elves to use to transport supplies.

It looked like this was the magic lab Christian was looking for, but somehow this metal token was in the hands of the centaurs. But it doesn't matter, it's not like we caught three alive.

Not long after, the centaur woman woke up.

Christine took out the metal token and asked, “This Centaur Lady, please tell me why you came here and where did you get this metal token from?”

The centaur lady gave her a look and didn't say anything, it looked like she didn't want to answer.

Kristin cast a zero level spell, Magic Trick, to make her hands appear to be tinged with lightning.

“As you can see, I'm a mage, so if you don't want to suffer unnecessarily you'd better tell the truth.”

The orcs that could move around here naturally knew the power of human mages, the centauress saw the lightning bolt on Kristin's hand and the emblem of a third-ranked mage she wore and knew that the other party was telling the truth, and that her own stiff upper lip would have no effect under the power of magic.

“My name is Theria, and this metal token has been passed down from our tribe 。。。。”

Centauress, except the healing shaman wore cloth.

According to Terea's explanation, she was in a large centaur tribe, and she was the daughter of the chief. After the chief died the position was passed on to Terea's brother, but her prestige in the tribe was very high because she was a healing shaman.

One day, Terea's brother gave her a metal token, saying that it was passed down from the tribe, and that it was found by her ancestors on Roskilde Island, and that it might be related to the secret of the ancient Nethersole magic empire, because Terea is a shaman with a wealth of knowledge, and she hopes that she will go to crack the secret and bring the treasure for the tribe.

About the ancient Nethereal magic empire thing orcs naturally also have research, after all, they also hope to dig out something from the relics and then swept the continent to do back to their own, so the high-ranking shaman priests are also on the ancient Nethereal magic text has research.

Treya deciphered the writing on the metal token after consulting the information, and then brought people to the island to start the treasure hunt.

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