Chapter 33: The Dilemma
As Lenia's glimmering finger clicked at the center of the blood-colored magic symbol.
Visible ripples spread from the center of the symbol to the entire wall.
The surface of the originally hard stone wall floats like a curtain with ripples, and finally becomes more and more unreal.
"What kind of spell is this? How do you know how to break it?"
Duke looked at the scene in amazement, and strangely enough, Lenia, the great knight, knew how to break the magic circle better than his entire real magician.
Lenia took a half step back, and said as she moved her wrist: "It's just a simple trick, my family is also an ancient family that has been inherited for more than seven hundred years, and there are always some inheritances." ”
Duke thought that his family was as old as Lenia's Gard, and that it was bigger than hers, but in the end he didn't learn anything, and he was a little embarrassed.
However, at this time, the original stone wall disintegrated into pieces like a mirror, revealing the deep and dark space behind it.
Both he and Lenia were drawn to their gaze, but with their current eyes, they couldn't see what was inside.
Lenia took a deep breath and shook the magic lamp she was holding on the road ahead, realizing that there was no threat around.
There was no reaction in the distance to the sudden light.
So she began to step cautiously into the darkness, Duke following closely behind her, one hand already groping for the rope hidden in his bosom.
He didn't dare to use any probing magic this time, he didn't want to disturb the monsters that might exist, and even other auxiliary magic didn't dare to bless himself and Lenia.
But they had been cautious and had nothing to gain along the way, and the dark space seemed to be just another empty cellar.
After probing, Duke's nervous expression relaxed slightly, but then he was startled.
As soon as he relaxed, his mind was suddenly filled with endless murmurs, accompanied by the sound of [gurgling] blisters that hit his not strong nerves.
But when he tensed his nerves again, the voices disappeared without a trace.
"You, did you hear any voices like the ones I told you last night? ”
Duke kept his voice to a low level, but it still reverberated in the empty claustrophobic space.
Lenia glared at Duke fiercely, then shook her head to indicate that she hadn't heard any sound.
But the more Duke thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and the strange blister sounds he was sure to have momentary auditory hallucinations from time to time, and as he went deeper and deeper, the sounds and murmurs became clearer and clearer.
He felt that he and Lenia were indeed close to the evil being, and that they were probably already in danger.
Thinking of the consequences of falling into passivity, he gritted his teeth and turned his heart sideways, and immediately began to urge the magic power.
Then, under Lenia's stunned gaze, he unleashed a large illumination spell towards the top of the basement.
His illumination was like a great sun rising in this dark space.
Take a picture of the monsters that surround him and Lenia!
Countless strange-shaped monsters made up of various bones surrounded him and Lenia.
These boneless monsters range from human bones with wolf heads to bizarre spider-like creatures with eight leg bones, and more monsters are more like bones put together in a haphazard manner, and it is impossible to tell what shape they are.
They were hiding in the dark environment and playing hide-and-seek with Duke and the others, and wherever the light shone, they retreated out of the radiance.
Duke and Lenia were guided step by step into the depths of space by the path they let go, and when they turned around, they could no longer see the entrance when they came.
Looking at the various skeletons surrounding him on the inner and outer three floors, Duke felt that his heart was half a beat slower, and the illumination technique he released was about to fail.
He could have imagined what a miserable situation it would be for himself and Lenia to be in the dark again.
However, at this time, Lenia, who was back to back with him, decisively threw the lantern in her left hand upward, and with a single stabbing blow, she shattered the magic device that had been handed down at an unknown time.
Then a cylindrical crystal-like object that emitted a dazzling light fell to the ground and swayed.
Its glow was only slightly weaker than Duke's illumination, but it was enough to illuminate most of the space.
The surrounding monsters also seemed to get a signal, and as the pillar of light landed, all of them opened their mouths and let out a silent howl, rushing towards the two outsiders in the center who exuded vigorous blood.
"These monsters are immune to most elemental magic, so please don't get too far away from me. ”
Lenia hurriedly confessed, and before she could finish her words, she slashed a sword light and slashed a horse-shaped skeleton with a human skull close to Duke.
Then she took a step forward, instantly activating the "Sword Storm Blade", a combat skill that only a great knight could master, and swept most of the skeleton monsters in her field of vision into a raging whirlwind composed entirely of fighting energy and sword energy.
Duke felt like his vision was empty of the infinite whiteness, but in an instant he was filled with new skeletons.
Faced with skeleton monsters that are immune to most elemental magic, he can only use the Fire Explosion technique to bombard the ground, relying on the aftermath of the explosion to shatter or knock the surrounding skeletons into the air.
However, this effect was not significant, and some of the skeletons that had been knocked out of the air lay down for a moment before staggering to their feet, staggering back to their feet, staggering back towards them.
Duke's mind raced, and he quickly thought of a way to escape, the Fire Explosion was a relatively advanced magic for him, and it could not be used uninterrupted for a long time.
And although Lenia is powerful, it is impossible to wipe out all the monsters.
This number of skeletons can kill them just by sheer numbers.
With the passage of time, the number of skeleton monsters in the entire space has not decreased much.
And Lenia's blade storm was still sharp, but it was much less than it had been at the beginning, no longer like a whirlwind that was endlessly devouring the monsters around her, and some of the fish that had slipped through the net were already attacking Duke from the side of her defense.
And the frequency of Duke's magical bombardment is also decreasing, and a wave of despair slowly begins to take over his heart.
Even though he had little magic left, he squeezed every possibility out of himself like crazy.
He tried many ways to solve the dilemma in front of him, and it seemed that he and Lenia would soon die here.
Thinking that he had traveled here, obtained the system, and was about to die before he could properly experience the corrupt life of the lord, made Duke feel a little ironic.
Huh?
Capturing the sparkle of thought in his mind, Duke felt as if he had grasped some forgotten key message.