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"What's behind the arcane?"

After a brief and vague conversation, silence returned to the hallway. Except for the slight sound of the dirt being squeezed under her feet, her own breathing, her heartbeat, Stephanie could no longer hear any sound, as if walking in a silent and dark abyss.

She didn't want to bother with the unpredictable forest ranger behind her - this orc had unstable kindness to her, and from his mother's role it could be inferred that he might have a certain sense of substitution for herself, but that wasn't enough to be a companion for herself, and that was still a difficult character to distinguish between friend and foe. And she now faces a danger that can be fatal at any moment.

She couldn't hear any of the lizardmen, and she couldn't see anything unusual in the tunnels, which reassured her a little. 'Extreme Insight' can raise the five senses of the human body to the theoretical limit, that is, it is close to the state exerted after deep hypnosis, which is no longer inferior to the keen perception of some animals. In this case, the general stealth technique can be detected, and it seems that these lizardmen have really given up guarding the tunnel.

That layer of divine mist had fallen far behind him. In fact, it is difficult to call this layer of water mist with a high level of law as divine art, it is just a kind of diffuse without order and purpose, more like the dissipation of the origin of divine power that the forest patrol soldiers said before. If it is an arcane art, such a chaotic and disorderly existence will completely collapse in an instant, seriously damaging the caster or the node connected to the magic web, such as the item scroll, but the same will not be the case with magic or divine power. Because fundamentally speaking, all divine power is the embodiment of the tributary of the origin of the world, and divine magic only plays a role of weaving and guiding, and the failure of weaving and guiding only allows divine power to return to the world.

In other words, behind this mist filled with the aura of divine magic, it is very likely that a lame magician is controlling something far beyond his original ability to control such as an ancient altar, and he can barely use some magic before, but now he has completely fallen into a situation of losing control, at most he can only rely on the law of the divine power itself to weaken the arcane and scare people.

A somewhat unexpected discovery, but unfortunately it's of little value right now. In the Imperial Age, dismantling the ancient altars of some elemental gods to trace the nature of the origin of divine power was an interesting project, but it was expensive and time-consuming, and more research and scholarship than practical. And now, no one has the energy and time to do this under the pressure of churches and temples.

The glimmer of light at the entrance of the cave had reached its limit, and the tunnel in front of it suddenly widened, and there were some more pillars and other things on both sides, and even the arcane vision was strengthened to the limit, and there was nothing to see anymore. However, there was a faint sound of heartbeat and breathing in the silence and darkness of the corridor.

It was an extremely faint sound, not even louder than the sound of ants crawling out of the soil on the ground, but it still didn't escape the senses that had been stimulated to the limit by the arcane. Stephanie slowed slightly, and just by relying on the faint sounds, she deduced what was ahead. There must have been more than ten lizardmen, standing behind the stone pillars on both sides of this darkest part, waiting like snakes in the shadows to come within their own range.

Stephanie sneered slightly, and with a wave of her hands in the air, a two-ring arcane 'extremely foul cloud' was completed, and the air in front of her quickly changed its composition under the power of the arcane, precipitating a yellow-green mist. Although no one noticed the change in the dark tunnel, the effect was obvious, and the lizardmen in front of them jumped out of their hiding places one after another, making desperate noises as they rushed towards this direction. The olfactory senses of these reptiles are actually very different from those of humans and other mammals, but any arcane that has been handed down to the present day has been perfected and modified by countless archmages of all kinds in the hundred years of the Imperial Age, and even the lower the ring, the more basic the more so, and there are ingenious geeks at all times. This compound gas mutated by the arcane is not very lethal, but its disgusting effect covers almost all biological olfactory systems, and these lizardmen do not faint or flee despite extreme discomfort, and they can know that they insist on attacking the caster, which is already considered determined.

But they don't know that the way Arcane fights is always interlocking, and simply making enemies sick and disgusting is not a solution to the battle, but a more deadly prelude. At the same time as these lizardmen rushed out, Stephanie had already taken out a scroll and held it in her hand, and used her spiritual power to stimulate it, and the arcane formula was instantly constructed in the magic net and caused a physical level of abnormality again, and a cold storm suddenly rushed in her hand and rolled into the entire tunnel, countless water vapor in the air instantly condensed into snowflakes, and the surrounding rock walls and earth walls also quickly condensed white frost, and in the blink of an eye, this place was transformed into an environment like polar ice and snow.

'Amora's Cold Wind Blows', a relatively unpopular four-ring arcane art, uses the fire elemental mutation caused by the magic net to instantly extract a large amount of heat from the surrounding environment, which is enough to reduce the temperature within a radius of tens of meters to an extremely low temperature below minus twenty degrees. Generally speaking, this is not an effective offensive arcane, the cold and heat dissipate quickly, and it is difficult for even naked ordinary people to freeze to death in a short period of time by this level of hypothermia, not to mention strong warriors and beasts with thick fur, even if they feel unwell, they can easily get out of the range of influence of this arcane, so few mages will learn this arcane to use in battle.

But in this case, it's completely different. These lizardman warriors may be as strong as strong warriors and beasts, but the fundamental constitution of cold-blooded reptiles dooms them to be fatal to their injuries. In the breath of the cold wind, a layer of frost quickly condensed on the bodies of these brave warriors who charged out, and their movements were completely stiffened, but in one or two breaths, they turned into immobile ice and snow sculptures.

A little light rose from the darkness, illuminating the tunnel, which had been transformed into a world of ice and snow. Stephanie glanced at the more than twenty lizardman sculptures around her, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately unlocked the 'Extreme Insight'. This secondary arcane is extremely applicable and effective, with the only drawback being that it is constantly required to consume mental energy to maintain the arcane equation circuit that buffers the impact of excess information on the mind. Basically, no high-level mage will maintain this five-ring arcane for long.

These twenty or so lizardman warriors are basically all the combat strength of retreating to the tunnel, and there are probably some old and weak people left, so there is no need to worry. It seems that these cold-blooded orcs plan to do everything in their power to snipe the invaders in this darkness, but unfortunately they are only ushering in a range of arcane arts that have been prepared for them for a long time. Before planning to enter the swamp, the female mage had already prepared various targeted plans and arcane items, and this scroll was just one of them.

"Are you really going to just watch from the sidelines?" the question echoed through the empty tunnels behind him, and he didn't get a single response. Stephanie didn't mind, and pulled out the short sword at her waist and stabbed into the body of the nearest stiff lizardman. The frost-covered skin was torn open, and then dark brown blood poured out slowly but surely like mud. Although these cold-blooded animals are highly susceptible to low temperatures, it is not easy to be lethal as their circulatory systems automatically enter a dormant state with anti-coagulation protection. But for Stephanie now, it's just one more thing.

Whether it is the education of the Arcane Academy, or the necessary training in the Revival Society, it is not only the arcane aspect, even if it is hand-to-hand combat, two or three thieves and robbers are far from being the opponent of female mages. Coupled with knowledge of the anatomy of the creeping sub-humans' body structure, Stephanie accurately sent each knife into the heart of the stiff lizardmen, ensuring that the cold-blooded creatures never recovered.

After completely eliminating the lizardmen, Stephanie wiped the dagger into her arms before focusing on her surroundings. Under the reflection of the light technique, the true original appearance of this tunnel is also completely revealed. It turned out that the narrow hole that was only for two or three people to walk in parallel suddenly opened up here, expanding into a deep avenue with a width of seven or eight meters and a height of four or five meters, and the thing that was suspected to be a stone pillar for those lizardmen to hide before was actually a hollow coffin-like container, and some objects like dried corpses were bound with chains inside.

"Looks like your sense of smell is correct, Phil Ranger. Stephanie smiled. Although the exact type of effect was still unclear, she could tell at a glance that the containers were the arcane props that created the undead. The base that the Bart family secretly built here was actually used to make undead spirits, or to study undead arcane technology.

In the Age of Empires, undead arcane was not such a popular discipline, at least seventy percent of the conflicts between the empire and the major temples were due to this, and even in the eyes of many arcanists, this branch that always likes to work on corpses is disgusting. As for now, once this ruin is exposed to the eyes of any temple, the shrines and high priests of the Temple of the Sun and the Church of the Fallen will raze it to the ground in a matter of days, even if the tribe of lizardmen that inhabit it is a hundred times larger.

Still without any answer, Stephanie couldn't help but look back, but there was nothing in the empty tunnels except a patch of frost, and the orc rangers who were supposed to be following her all this time were gone.

I don't know if the cold soaked through the leather armor on her body and the mage robe lined inside, and a chill rose from the female mage's back, making her feel her hair and goosebumps rise together. But for the female mage, this little delusion was not enough to be an obstacle to stop her steps. After carefully checking the situation behind her, and after confirming that she did not find any traces of the forest patrol soldiers following, she pondered silently for a long time, and suddenly gestured to the way she came, as if she had activated an invisible switch, and then walked quickly towards the depths of the tunnel.

At the entrance of the cave, the mercenaries gathered were discussing their next move. Although there were still a few thieves who were confident in their eyesight, the mood and atmosphere of these people were very warm and good, as if they were booking a sumptuous loot division plan.

“...... Listen, that woman must die. Even if you don't die at the hands of the lizardmen, you must die at our hands....but before you die, you can still make everyone happy, such a beautiful blonde woman is not common, and she is a mage... It's suffocating me these days. ”

“... But what if someone finds something from the traces of the corpse in the future? This woman can get a golem, and she is still a high-level mage, so she must have quite a background behind it...... I've heard that there are high-level arcane arts that can restore signs of murderers from some corpses..."

"Idiot. It's a swamp, and if you leave a corpse here for a day at most, there's no scrap of meat left, and it's useless to do anything! Those who have the guts and the qualifications to take on the things of the Age of Empires are not something we can afford to provoke..."

"My share is all elemental crystals and gemstones. If I can find some more Arcane materials and meditation from the Age of Empires here, maybe I can try the Triple Ring Arcane as well. "Mercenary mage Thompson had been standing beside the water golem all along, glancing at the golden golem with envious and greedy eyes. "If you can use the three-ring arcane art, you can also operate this kind of golem. Then this golem is mine, as long as I kill that woman, I can slowly crack the above command sequence. Look at this pattern, this is ...... Huh? How did this start charging, let me see, this should be..."

The sudden light of several arcane runes on the golem made Thompson stunned, and he hurriedly put his face up to make it carefully, but soon his thin face was occupied by fear, and he turned around and ran: "Run, that's a shock ......"

An earth-shattering loud bang shattered the tranquility of the swamp, and countless birds and beasts were scattered and fled by this huge sound, and the shattered branches and vine fragments blew into the sky with the strong wind, and the smoke, dust and water vapor stirred up a huge ring in the air.

It was a huge explosion that shook the entire swamp for hundreds of miles. On the ground, the original lizardmen's lair had been razed to the ground by the massive impact, and the buildings left by the Bart family from the imperial era had been eroded over decades and were all crumbling and scattered under the impact of the arcane. The amphibious logistics golem where the explosion occurred had long since disappeared, not even a single debris was left, and the ground near it was basically blown flat, and the mercenaries who had gathered together flew hundreds of meters away like confetti in a storm, falling scattered everywhere.

After a long time, Fat Stanley staggered to his feet from the ground, and it took a few more minutes for him to wake up from his confused expression, and immediately became hysterical and yelling: "That damn bitch! That damn bitch mage! She dared to frame us! She dared to use this thing to frame us!"

Until this time, the vines and branch fragments that were blown into the sky were still falling sparsely, like a rain of corpses of plants, the wind and detonation set off by this explosion were very terrifying, but the lethality did not seem to be too great, at least the fat man Stanley relied on his strong body as a warrior and his timely agile reaction, and was thrown hundreds of meters away by the air current, but he was only shocked, and he was not even seriously injured.

Not only him, but there were also remnants of mercenaries in several other positions who staggered to their feet. Fortunately, with the timely reminder of the mercenary mage, they have made some timely blocking or evasion actions, especially the two defensive warriors holding huge shields in front of them played a huge role, and more than half of the mercenaries were just stunned by the shock like their leader, and did not suffer any serious injuries. But this is also a huge explosion after all, it is inevitable that the other small half of the people will break their hands and feet, and two or three guys will be directly shocked to death or break their necks, as for the Thompson mage closest to the exploding golem, he is not so lucky, he doesn't seem to have time to use the right arcane to resist, the thin and shriveled body was directly torn into pieces and I don't know where it flew, not even a trace of blood was left.

"What's going on??what's going on?? "The mage's stuff is so unreliable. Poor Thompson, I just picked up a finger, I don't know if it's his ......"

"It's not an accident, it's certainly not an accident. Fat Stanley's face was hideous and gloomy. He wasn't an arcane, but the intelligence and judgment enough to make him a leader would be able to tell if the explosion was accidental or not. "That woman put this golem here on purpose, she's always on the lookout for us, trying to kill us. ”

"Then we're in luck, haha. Such a huge explosion didn't kill us. But poor little Watson had his neck broken. ”

Fat Stanley's eyes flickered and he didn't speak. This is indeed a very unexpected luck, such a huge explosion did not cause too many casualties to them, Thompson's timely reminder played a certain role, but the most important thing is that the energy release time of this explosion was a little prolonged, although it caused a terrible storm of air currents, but it was not enough to smash everything at close range, just toss them far away.

Was there something wrong with the design of the arcane trap on the golem, or was it an accident when it was operating? Or was it that the cunning female mage was afraid that the explosion would be too powerful and kill herself? Fat Stanley looked gloomily at the entrance of the tunnel that had been collapsed by the earthquake, although the sunken terrain showed that a section of the tunnel should be blocked, but the distance was not very long, and it would not take much time for a dozen or so strong warriors to dig up.

Around the entrance of the collapsed tunnel, those magical mist still surrounded. The existence of advanced laws cannot be changed by ordinary physical means, and the huge air currents just now can blow buildings and mercenaries away, but it has no effect on these water mist. However, for the mercenary who was already furious at the moment, the mist was still not an obstacle, and the female mage and the ranger Phil could enter, and of course they could.

"Dig this hole, let's go in too! That woman must have already dealt with the lizardmen and found a valuable treasure, that's why she wants to kill us!

Zhiqiu said

ps: Some time ago, I was cocooned and bound, and I had to go to a food group to brush the plates for a week, and I was so tired that I couldn't do it, but fortunately, it was finally completed and the update was resumed