"During the war, the Bart family did not actively participate in the Imperial Army's extermination of the alien race to support Oroyosta, nor did they compromise with the Temple Church, but only kept a low profile and stubbornly stuck to their family territory. But no one or family was left untouched by the tide of purge after the battle www.biquge.info and since they refused to compromise with the temple and handed over most of the arcane items and books to destroy, they were only expelled and exterminated under the siege of the aliens. Without the Empire's army to maintain order, the Guardian Hand ignored them, the people all migrated out, even if they had money and could not even hire mercenaries, dwarves and orcs smashed all the valuables they could find and destroyed them into metal and gems, all the arcanists who resisted were killed, and the family disappeared and the territory was desolate. ”

"This is just one of the countless noble families that were destroyed by that turmoil. But the Bart family is a famous nobleman on the West Coast, an ancient family inherited from the kingdom of Totia, and it is not comparable to those shallow nobles who only began to hastily divide the feudal feuds in the imperial era. Such a family with a long heritage and deep accumulation finally disappeared in such a strange and aggrieved way, which cannot be said to be normal in any case. It's just that no one paid attention to this in the chaotic situation at the time. A colleague of mine noticed and mentioned it to me while researching the history of the demise of the nobility on the West Coast. After a thorough investigation, we can be sure that they must have hidden a great secret, and in order to keep or monopolize this secret, the whole family secretly established a secret stronghold in the inaccessible swamp during the imperial era. It's just that the war came so suddenly that the entire family was caught off guard and didn't have time to react. And in the end, the war ended too quickly, and the aftermath was too great, directly destroying the entire family. So the secret was buried in the swamp. ”

"And what is presented to us now is undoubtedly the secret of the Bart family. As you've seen along the way, these guys are secretly studying the technology of undead transformation here. According to records, this Earl Bart was already one hundred and forty-two years old before the outbreak of the war, and he was not talented enough, and he was not able to step through the wall of law to become an archmage by all means, so even in terms of the Empire's biological technology, it would only extend his lifespan for a few decades at most, this rich and powerful old earl obviously did not want to give up everything about him so quickly, and hoped to transform into an undead to continue to exist. Unfortunately, the transformation of the mage's undead was not allowed in the Imperial Age, at least on the surface, and the creation of undead could only be used as a tool. He had to secretly build a laboratory in the swamp to do so. ”

"But from now on, the old earl's luck was not very good. His undead transformation should have only succeeded at the beginning, but the sudden war caused him to interrupt the manpower and resources for subsequent transformation, and even because of the collapse of his family, he couldn't find anyone to continue to help him complete the next arcane work...... Looking at his pitiful appearance now, it should be some kind of means to manipulate the lizardman tribe outside, so that the lizardmen secretly go to capture humans to maintain his state. I don't know if it's the shortage of arcane equipment, or if it's his own academic level, or if those lizardmen are too stupid, and he's in terrible shape and state right now. ”

"And the worst part for him is that he can't control the huge amount of energy here. This strange elemental sub-plane appears to be the cutting-edge arcane product of the Imperial Age, and it certainly can't be controlled by the undead Earl Bart alone. Therefore, he can only think of a way to simulate the magic of the gods, and all the magic needs is direct spiritual communication with the elemental territory, and there is no need to go to the magic web to build arcane circuits, and there is no need to analyze the arcane formulas in real time. So he can barely use only a small part of the power in this elemental plane, and I think it's a big burden for him. You see that he's still talking nonsense over there instead of continuing to summon the elementals against us, you should understand. ”

Stephanie spoke quickly and spoke clearly, quickly explaining the situation even with a deafening rumble in the distance.

"You're not lying, but you're not telling the truth either. The orc ranger just nodded, and summed up the most important point with a faint sentence. "So let's talk about the point now, how can we get out of here?"

"Actually, it's very simple, just send this Earl Bart back to his true death, or disconnect him from this space. I can't use the arcane here, and that's where you come in. ”

"It's really simple. Then please get rid of that elemental vortex first, it should be a very simple matter. ”

Stephanie looked into the distance, took a deep breath, and was silent. The crystal container containing Count Bart was already floating in the air, the boiling and vaporized seawater, the ground that was constantly fogging, and the sun in the sky that was gradually pulled into a line of fire were constantly attracted by it, gradually evolving into a cloud of colorful mist around the crystal container.

But this is not the real fog, but the four elements of earth, water, fire, and wind that have been torn apart and confused. Everything in this subspace is a pure representation of the four elements, the ground is the earth element, the ocean is the pure water element, and the sun in the sky is not the real sun, but the natural convergence of the fire element. The pure elements that appear in a stable and natural way are not so dangerous, but when torn apart and mixed together, they reveal the terrifying power of the Primordial Laws, and everything below their existential essence is annihilated. In fact, the rainbow light spells in the eight-ring arcane are distorted and shattered from the law level, causing all kinds of unbelievable effects. And the current layer of colorful mist is something like this, maybe it can't be compared to the mysterious magic of the eight-ring arcane, but with only the endless four elements around it, this mist-like elemental vortex can be compared to a nine-ring arcane.

It is extremely superficial to comment on the arcane simply by the number of ring spells, in fact, the role of the nine-ring magic net is basically reflected in the distortion and manipulation of time and space, which is essentially different from the eight rings that manipulate the elements, but this elemental vortex is indeed enough to be worthy of ten rainbow-based arcane superimposed together. You must know that this is a sub-space that leans on the outer side of the elemental territory, supported purely by the power of the elements, and the power of the elements is almost endless. It is almost impossible to break through this barrier by force.

"Hahahaha......" a shriveled and cold laugh came from afar. Count Bart in the crystal vessel continued his foul sound of dry wood rubbing against it. "See, surrender is your only option now, or else there is only one way to destruction. Can you feel the stirring elements here? It's as thick as the chicken soup that Mom has been boiling all day. You are nothing but a lowly clergyman, a little mage. Even if I don't do anything, you won't even be able to get out of here on your own. So surrender, like Hansen did by making a white flag out of his own underwear. Bring people, bring people alive, it doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman. I only need part of their brain and internal organs, excluding genitals. I'm going to teach you how to peel off the transplant on me. Then I will share the power of this place with you, just like the honey cake that Grandma made for me, and I will give you two small pieces......."

No one would be surprised by these strange and somewhat hilarious words. The Empire's ban on the conversion of the nobles' undead was not a moral one - there was no morality in the face of arcane quests and the temptation of theoretically eternal life. However, it is impossible to avoid the distortion and loss of emotions after undeadness, and no matter how the arcane of the undead system is studied, this result cannot be avoided, and the best case is that it can only delay this process. Every undead mage eventually goes insane, or uses a high-ring arcane to reduce himself or his town to ashes, or vanishes in the light of the law enforcement team or the Fallen or the Priest of the Sun. The old earl's terrible transformation must have accelerated the process, and the side effects of attaching so many organs to his own body and transplanting other people's brain tissue must have been more than just ugly and disgusting.

Madness is madness, but to what extent madness and how much sanity is still retained is a very important question. Since this earl did not continue to use magic to mobilize the elemental power here, he still remembered to ask them to surrender and ask them to bring someone to help him transplant his organs, and the situation did not seem to be very bad.

"Count Bart, you said you know that the empire is gone, you know the outcome of the war. Stephanie asked, looking up. For opponents who are still rational, communication is the first option that should be tried. "Then I'll tell you, the empire didn't die. Perhaps Orogreen's surname has been lost in the years for a while, but as long as everyone remembers the glory of Offa, the empire will always exist......"

"Get out of here. Damn the Oyoro Empire, the surname Oroglin should have rolled into the pigsty a long time ago. If it weren't for them, sooner or later, the kingdom of Totia would have fallen into the hands of our Bart family, and that regent Ilia would be as stupid as the old sow raised by Aunt Maya...... Okay, hurry up and surrender, surrender, I just want you to surrender......"

"It seems that your persuasion has not worked. Ranger Phil sneered with some schadenfreude. "But luckily, he showed no signs of doing anything. ”

"That's what he didn't dare. The confusion of brain transplants had left him with a messy memory, and sometimes he didn't even know who he was, but he clearly had a basic sense of reason and instinctive fear. Stephanie replied coldly. "He is not a priest, it is only by virtue of the years he has been here that he has gained a little affinity for the elements, and with the arcane instrument in his hand, he can use the power here in a divine way. But this is still a kind of consumption, the magic relies on the resonance of the spirit to release, but look at the way he looks, how much spiritual power may be left? Since we were outside, he has been using the magic to help his lizardman slaves, and later he can only simply leak the elements to interfere with the arcane, and he may save a lot of effort when he gets here, but the fire element just now should be his limit. If he didn't want to lose even the last bit of sanity, he wouldn't be using magic again for a short time. ”

"But we can't just be here all the time listening to his. The ranger looked at the growing cloud of multicolored mist. "What if that chaotic elemental vortex continues to expand? I seem to hear the whispers of the wind growing clearer. ”

"That's when we're moving closer to the Elemental Realm...... The increase in the elemental vortex is only a symptom. If we continue like this, we will eventually be pulled into the Elemental Realm. ”

"Maybe that's not a bad thing. The ranger's eyes lit up. "Listening directly to the winds of the world, feeling the blowing of the Wind Spirit Origin, is not the wish of every child of the wind element. ”

"Believe me, that's not the way you clergy want it to be. Stephanie sighed. After the clergy chose their own path, it became an instinct to improve the affinity of the laws of that realm, and the followers of the elemental god regarded the return of the last soul and body to the realm of the elemental realm and the presence of the elemental god as the ultimate goal of life. Of course, this impulse is stupid to the point of being an arcanalist, but it is still valuable academically. "Believers in the god of the elements have to go through a series of long processes such as prayer and perception in order to gradually improve their spiritual and physical affinity with the elements, resonate with the elements, and return to the realm of the elements is only the last step. If we don't have enough elemental affinity, the moment we are pulled into the elemental realm, we will be assimilated into a mass of unconscious elements by the power of the root law - that is, dead. There is no difference between being stabbed to death with a sword, having his head cut off by an axe, and dying of being smashed into meat sauce, maybe it will be worse, there will not be even a trace of spiritual incarnation, the opportunity to become undead. Nothing can be resisted in the face of the power of the root law. ”

"Arcanists are always so narrow-minded. The orc squeezed out a mocking smile. "But this is not the time to argue about this, maybe you're right. This shortcut to arcane arts is not something we should take. Doesn't the mad earl, then, know him about it, and that's how he will die with us?"

"I don't know if he knows, but maybe his strength is exhausted, and there is no other way to force us to surrender than to use this means of all to force us to surrender. Maybe he knows, but he doesn't care, undead inevitably brings a loss of reason. No one knows how much normal judgment he has left in the way he is now. ”

"There are so many 'maybes' in your words that I don't know whether to believe you or not. ”

"It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. Stephanie shrugged. "Now I have a way to press the bottom of the box, maybe I can break through the protection of that elemental vortex, but for a short time, maybe a few seconds, maybe only a fleeting blink of an eye. Do you still have the same wind elemental exploding arrow that you used before, and can it still be used in this situation?"

"Here, the call sign of the wind is unparalleled clear, and I pray with the wind forest wood that the roaring arrows made by the elemental elves will only be more powerful. ”

"Then take the opportunity to shoot the earl. He was only half-alive and half-undead now, extremely fragile, and could definitely destroy him. Without him in control of the arcane circuit, the elemental balance here will be restored, and we can get out. ”

"But why should I trust you? I can feel that you are hiding something important. ”

"That's because there's something very important that I can't say. Stephanie shook her head. "Trust me. If I'm alone, the chances of success are only two layers at most. If you make a shot, at least half of them will be more. ”

"Really?" the orc was unmoved, still standing there and looking at the female mage coldly.

Stephanie also looked at the orc coldly. In the distance, the four elements continued to be extracted into the colorful mist, and the rumbling sound of the air flow was mixed with the dry cries of Count Bart who seemed to surrender endlessly. That vortex of mist was getting bigger and bigger, as if it was about to tear the whole world apart.

"Forget it. Finally Stephanie sighed and held out her hand. "Give me the arrows, I'll do it myself. ”

"Yes, as long as you can hit the target, the magic on the arrow will automatically activate. The ranger didn't say much, and directly pulled one out of the quiver behind his back and threw it to the female mage. Stephanie took the arrow, turned and walked towards the crystal container wrapped in a swirl of colorful mist in the distance.

"We surrender, we surrender. As you wished, we surrendered. Stephanie walked with her hands above her head, but one of them held the arrow and the other a scroll.

"Have you decided to surrender? Very good, the first thing to do is to use the sequencing technique on yourself. Count Barth's dry voice did not change, neither joy nor anger, but the sudden trembling whirlpool of colorful mist still explained his attitude. "Otherwise, you won't be able to get closer to here. If you get closer, I'll let these Chaos Elements escape and destroy you from the physical plane. ”

"Alright, alright, you see, we're going to do what you said, using the sequencing technique and that implosion technique on ourselves. Stephanie immediately stood still, put the arrows and scrolls in her hand on the ground, took out the three scrolls she had picked up earlier, and shook them slightly, one of which instantly evolved into a curtain of light in mid-air.

"Once I reveal to anyone everything I've seen here, everything I've experienced. Stephanie uttered the words word by word, and the words appeared on the light curtain, and then turned into a streamer and poured into another 'living implosion' scroll, and after a few breaths, the implosion scroll also turned into a streamer and submerged into her own body. "How's that? You've seen it. I did as you commanded me to detonate this living body explosion into myself. And then we're going to help you find enough people, can you now explain what we're going to do when we get them?"

With that done, Stephanie wasted no time, picking up the scroll and arrows on the ground and continuing to stride forward. The rainbow-colored mist that had just fluctuated a moment ago returned, as if her actions had indeed earned the trust of the twisted undead in the crystal container.

The eyes of the orc rangers watching from a distance jumped, but they remained silent.

"Oh, very good, very good. You finally get the idea. Your minds are as clear as frozen nuts at this moment. Count Barth's voice was still dry, "Listen, you must first paralyze them when you find them, but you don't have to kill them, and you can't really hurt them." Vivisection is necessary to keep the internal organs alive, and you have to use the outermost stone container to mix their bodily fluids, and the recipe is ......."

The surface of the sea formed by the water element has long been scattered and collapsed by the elemental vortex above, and even the sand below is undulating like a mire, and this world seems to be transforming into a pot of boiling colorful porridge. Stephanie walked like a tiny ant at the bottom of a huge cauldron, but she walked extremely fast and resolutely, and it didn't take long for her to reach the bottom of the elemental vortex. Then she held the scroll in her hand, and the arcane aura slowly swirled over it.

"You've got the wrong scroll, it's not sequence. You're mistaken, stop. Using the wrong Arcane Scroll is very dangerous, and it becomes as hilarious as a drunken Daddy Hank pouring melted molten iron into a soup bowl......"

Count Bart's dry words didn't stop Stephanie, the ring of this arcane scroll was obviously very high, and it was quite difficult for her to activate it. But without substantial interference, a few seconds later she fully activated it, turning it into an arcane aura that exploded. The colorful vortex, which was already so huge that it almost filled the heavens and the earth, suddenly stopped, as if it was forcibly pulled by some inexplicable force, and the originally spherical vortex suddenly became flattened and became a colorful background that blocked the heavens and the earth.

This scroll is sealed with the eight-ring arcane 'Rainbow Light Wall'. Under the pull and planning of the magic network loop, the four basic elements that were originally chaotic and disorderly were forcibly summarized into a fixed path.

At the same time as the scroll was activated, Stephanie also picked up the arrow she had received from the orc ranger and aimed it at the crystal container exposed in mid-air. The elemental vortex affected by the eight-ring arcane has disappeared from its original position, exposing Count Barth, whose torn body is floating on the solution, and the top of the container resembling a giant test tube is also open, and it looks like a large and brittle target, even if the arrow is thrown by hand, she can easily hit it with the training she received in the Revival Society.

But compared to the infinite power of the Elemental Realm, the power of the Eight Rings Arcane was still too small, and in less than a second, the flattened elemental vortex bounced back to its original form. The arrows containing the power of the wind elemental were enveloped in a seemingly gentle rainbow mist, like the tiniest foam, and were annihilated without making any sound.

Still, an arrow landed squarely in Earl Bart's huge misshapen head. Just as the elemental vortex was pulled open, the orc ranger in the distance instantly opened his bow and shot an arrow, although the distance was ten times greater, that arrow was still long before the arrow thrown by the female mage, as if it had traveled through space, and it hit the target before the elemental vortex returned.

After the hazy mist of colorful mist, the twisted head and body of Count Bart could be seen violently torn into countless pieces, mixed with which solution was mixed into a thick porridge that did not distinguish each other, and then sprayed out of the container, and then the crystal container was also split apart and scattered in all directions under the impact of the explosion. It's just that whether it is a solution corpse or a crystal fragment, as soon as it comes into contact with the surrounding colorful mist, it is silently devoured and dissipated, and even the sound cannot be heard.

Only the small glowing object beside Count Bart was undamaged. What had previously seemed like an inconspicuous part of a crystal vessel was now fundamentally different from anything else. The thing wasn't even affected by the impact of the air, and was still suspended in the air. It was only at this time that it could be seen that the surrounding elemental vortex was not around Count Barth, but was centered on this object.

In the next moment, the surrounding elemental vortex began to converge towards the luminous body, as if the thing had suddenly become a catharsis, and the colorful mist all quickly converged towards it and then disappeared.

Not only the colorful vortex, but also the boiling ocean, the undulating ground, and the sky were almost pulled into a fireball of firelight, and the whole world began to twist, rotate, and be pulled into the little luminous body.

"It's... This is... What's going on?" Standing in the distance, the orc ranger Phil looked at his distorted and deformed body in horror, although he didn't feel anything strange in himself, but this scene and the increasingly clear elemental resonance made him very clear that he had been pulled into this vortex with this twisted elemental world.

"I'm sorry... I knew that in the end, you would be tempted to seize the opportunity, at least eighty percent of the time. In this world that was distorted and rapidly absorbed, only Stephanie, who stood beneath the elemental vortex, remained unaffected, still standing straight in place with a smug and relaxed smile on her face, like a statue of the immovable Goddess of Victory. "Only those who really 'touch' the power core will be judged to be part of this elemental channel, which is the most basic protection program. But without killing Count Barth, who is linked to the power core, he can't stop the power core from running. If you're not here, I don't really know what to do. I really didn't expect that a fragment of the power core of a floating city actually landed here and was picked up by the Bart family. ”

"Whether you're trying to get out of here, or ...... Anything, anyway, thank you very much. Stephanie sighed slightly, no matter what, this orc was the only one in this team of mercenaries who had some kindness to herself, and it was uncertain if there was any kindness in the last arrow. But that doesn't change anything, that's the only way to get out of here.

Suddenly, a hand grabbed the female mage's arm, the hand of the orc ranger. The ranger, who had almost been pulled into a long, thin line, actually reached out and grabbed her.

Stephanie froze. In this whole world has been pulled into a huge elemental vortex, distance and space are actually meaningless, this subspace is originally supported by the huge four elements, the return of the elements makes the concepts of up and down, far and near, front and back, etc., confused, if you calculate according to the distance just now, there are at least hundreds of meters between her and the ranger. But even in this situation, the ranger was able to catch her, which was a little incomprehensible to her.

But the reaction was not slow at all, and Stephanie immediately drew her short knife and swung it at her grabbed arm - there was no point in carrying out a regular physical attack on a being who had been assimilated by this elemental channel, and cutting off the arm was the only option to prevent herself from being pulled into this collapsed channel.

"You know what, you really resemble my mother. A voice suddenly reached Stephanie's ears, froze her, and then the hand on her arm let go and returned to the ranger who had almost become a curve, and then the curve and the whole world were thrown into the glowing body in mid-air, leaving only the faint voice of the orc. "I hope you don't have to regret it one day. ”

The space that had begun to collapse should no longer have a sound, because all the qi elements outside the space in her body were pulled into the vortex together, and Stephanie actually stopped breathing for the time being. But the voice was really not an illusion, and she was in a trance for a while. The short knife in her hand was not able to retract, and it still left a shallow scar on her arm, but she didn't notice it for a while.

Suddenly, the distorted elements and the heavens and the earth were gone. There was a brief shock shock and shock in front of him and the touch of his body, which was a normal buffer reaction of the surrounding elements and himself after the space change, and he didn't need to look at Stephanie to know that he had returned to the core laboratory of the underground space. Or maybe she was there in the first place, but the subspace around her, which had been forcibly held up by the Elemental Territory, had completely disappeared.

But before she could recover from her momentary discomfort, a sharp pain in her hands and feet caused her to fall to the ground. There was a dull cracking sound of two clicks at the same time, and her left hand and right foot were broken under the blunt blow.

"That's it! Break her hands and feet! That's what these arcanists are about, you stinky bitch!"

The cushioned concussion was replaced by a sharp pain, accompanied by the voice of Fat Stanley, who seemed to have lost a long time, and that damn smiling face.