Four balls of light the size of a human head surrounded it, illuminating the underground hall as if it were a plaza in the open air at noon. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoStephanie is sitting cross-legged in the light, closing her eyes and meditating.

The place she was in now was no longer a tunnel, but a vast underground space, large enough for a small group of golems to charge. Building such an underground structure in a humid swamp is an unthinkable feat in the ordinary sense of the word, but it wasn't a difficult task in the Imperial Age, at the height of arcane civilization.

The subterranean space was littered with old alchemy equipment, decades of soaking in this steamy place without maintenance, even the arcane items were almost destroyed, and some of the oddly shaped corpse remains showed that these things were similar to the stone containers that used them before. The corpses of some fresh lizardmen twitched on the ground from time to time, the last group of lizardmen to retreat into the tunnel, and had only recently been transformed into corpses by the mage's arcane magic.

A hazy shadow slowly emerged from the crack in the wall, and then suddenly accelerated towards Stephanie, who was sitting on a stone platform not far away, as if attracted by something. However, the floating ball of light brightened up instantly, and the shadow twisted in mid-air, revealing a distorted human face before quickly dissipating.

After a moment, Stephanie opened her eyes and stood up from the ground. After meditating for a while, her mental strength had recovered to a fairly full level, and she should be able to cope with most situations. She didn't even notice what had just happened, the mage's meditation was an unsuspecting state of distraction, but since she dared to meditate here to recover, of course she relied on it.

Floating above her was no longer just the lowest-level Zero Ring Spell Light Technique, but the 'secondary light element' of the Five Rings, and its purpose was not just to illuminate, the highly condensed light also had a considerable killing effect, and for many undead it was something more lethal than any weapon. You must know that this is a sub-elemental life created by simulating the Sun Divine Technique, even if it is still very weak compared to the real Solar Divine Magic, but it can be used unhindered in this completely lightless underground, and it can also play a very huge role in the undead. All she had encountered before was a few barely walking corpses, and a few ghosts, all of which were undoubtedly products of the laboratory, scattered and wandering in the abandoned tunnels. The lowest of these undead, with only a few basic instincts for flesh and blood, as fragile as slugs in the arcane simulated sunlight, allowed Stephanie to meditate on the spot so boldly.

In the silence, there was a faint sound of digging in the tunnel behind, and it should be that the remaining mercenaries outside were trying to dig through the tunnel that had been collapsed by the earthquake and wanted to enter. Stephanie sneered, it seemed that the detonation circle on the logistics golem really didn't kill those guys much, but only angered them. But it doesn't matter, that's part of the plan. These self-righteous fools will probably never guess the point of their presence here.

Walking to a large door at the end of the hall, Stephanie took a closer look at the arcane runes on it. The configuration of this hall was a template for a standard Arcane Lab from the Imperial period, and several other rooms had already been opened by her, and it was about the same as she expected, so this should be the most important core lab. The crappy sorcerer who was hidden and the altar he couldn't control should be right behind, and maybe there were the core secrets and arcane materials of the lab from years ago. This may be a windfall of the operation, as long as it is enough to get it in the pocket as soon as possible before those people do.

With a flick of her hand, the heavy stone door slowly turned to both sides, but the sight in front of her stunned Stephanie, she didn't see any magicians, no altars, no arcane research equipment, just a sunny beach.

Is it illusion? Of course, this derelict arcane laboratory underneath can't really lead to a beach. But why is there an illusion? is it the work of the crappy magician, or is it one of the remaining defense mechanisms in this arcane lab? But illusions in magic are extremely rare and extremely rare, and it is unlikely that it was the work of the magician who couldn't even control the water mist. And if it's a defense mechanism, why is it an illusion? and all the other arcane equipment is decaying and ineffective, why is it only an illusion defense that can still work.

Stephanie slowly stepped into the illusionary beach. It seems like a dangerous move, but in fact, Stephanie is not too worried, illusions are just illusions after all, except for a few legal illusions, they are just small tricks that blind the senses, and it may be difficult to deal with other lethal arcane, but as long as you know that this is an illusion, it will have no effect.

With the hand in command, Stephanie prepares to construct a four-ring 'disarming arcane' to dispel the illusion. But she soon sensed that something was wrong, and the sensation of the magic net became very unstable, and if there was, the dismantling of the arcane had failed. Almost at the same time, the four light elements floating in mid-air also extinguished silently like burnt candles.

Stephanie's mind was dizzy for a while, not only the brain dizziness caused by the mental impact that was back, she was so surprised that her mind was temporarily blank. She had almost forgotten when the last spell had failed, and she had never experienced such a feeling, that the ubiquitous magic net, as if it had become completely one with the world, was so fleeting, like a smell that spread for dozens of miles in the wind.

And then she realized that something had only surprised her even more. It looks like ordinary sand under her feet, but the feeling of stepping on it seems to be muddy, slightly sunken and slightly sticky to her feet, and then a closer look is that some sand is actually crushed by her stepping on and immediately condensed into mud. Although the sea not far away is blue and endless, there is no wave, it is like a huge crystal mirror. Stephanie pulled a dried knuckle from her waist pocket and threw it out, which she had snapped off before, and the knuckle fell unhindered into the water, causing a splash and vapor. Looking up at the sun in the sky, it didn't look dazzling, just a huge red fireball, but it emitted real heat.

This is not an illusion, at least not an ordinary illusion. The arcane of the illusion system is nothing more than a copy and mapping of the scene, so it can simulate a scene that is indistinguishable from the real scene, but it cannot create such a specious and strange scene out of nothing, and it will not make the touch of the magic web seem to be nothing. As an arcane artist, Stephanie instinctively sensed a deeper sense of dissonance, but for a moment she didn't understand what was wrong.

She took two steps back, and then realized that something was wrong. For she had not exited the strange room, the strangely tactile sand still under her feet, and the scorching but undazzling sun above her head. She looked back and saw that the gate she had walked through was gone, and behind her was only a desert of sand, and the blue sea could be faintly seen in the distance.

"Arcanist, hello. A dry, awkward voice suddenly sounded, unable to determine the source and direction of the sound, as if the scene itself was speaking.

"Who are you?" replied Stephanie coldly. Although the scene seemed very strange now, and the arcane didn't seem to work, she hadn't lost the composure of a mage.

"Arcanist, what are you doing here?" the voice didn't answer, just continued.

Stephanie was silent. The voice was dry and cold, and even though she had been specially trained by the Revival Society, she could not analyze the slightest inclination and emotion from it. To be sure, though, such a sound could not have come from the mouth of a reptile like a lizardman. If it's a human, then things are interesting.

"Arcanist, what are you doing here, what do you want?" the voice sounded again, still dry and cold. "But whatever you want, you have to trade it for something. I urgently need some people now, and if you bring them to me, I will pay you enough. As Thomas Sr. said, everything is paid. You help me bring someone, and I'll give you what you want. ”

"People, who do you need?" asked Stephanie.

"It doesn't matter if you're alive, you're healthy, you're a man or a woman. Whether it's at the wine table or in bed, it's the same for both men and women. The answer from the voice was still dry and cold, but there seemed to be something inexplicable in the sentence.

Stephanie didn't answer right away. She bowed her head and groaned, her eyes gleaming, and after a long time she spoke, "Is it just someone? Is there anything else?"

"Of course. But first of all, you have to bring people. There's a series of jobs to do after bringing it, the same as plucking chicken feathers, but it should be easy for an Arcanist. It's as simple as cutting butter with that knife I treasure. ”

"Okay, I promise you. Stephanie smiled and nodded. "So how do I get out of here?"

"Good. Very good. You promised. Speaking words that seemed inspiring, the voice still sounded joyless and sad. "So, here are two 'sequencing techniques', and one 'living implosion' arcane scroll. You set them up for yourself, and the conditions for the order are 'once you reveal to anyone everything you have seen here, everything you have experienced' and 'not twenty healthy people have been brought here for fifteen days'. Once you've sequenced those two conditions on the implosion scroll, I'll get you out of here. Be assured that these are only minor precautions, and once you do them, the rewards will be enormous, just as I once traded fifty copper coins for an ebony stick, and then sold it to a mage in Oss for four hundred gold coins. ”

The sand on the ground swelled, lifting the three arcane scrolls out of the ground like a fountain. Although it has not yet been revealed, you can see the preciousness of this scroll just by looking at the intricate patterns that emerge from the edges. Stephanie leaned over to pick it up and looked at it, easily discerning two of them, which were the two sequencer scrolls as the voice had spoken. This is one of the most commonly used arcane scrolls in the Revival Society, and it can be used in conjunction with other lethal arcane arts, which will activate instantly once the pre-set conditions are met, and it is extremely convenient to use it for blackmail or assassination.

Of course, this kind of six-ring arcane is not simple, including most of the middle and lower members of the revival society in her are not enough to master this kind of arcane with up to six rings, and only use scrolls made by a few archmages and high-level mages in the organization. So even for this underground mage organization, which is known for its extraordinary arcane prowess, this thing is not a consumable item to be wasted. Now these are the two scrolls that emerge from the ground, and the other 'living detonation' next to it is actually a law arcane scroll, she can't tell what this arcane is for the time being, but even if it is only the most basic seven-ring arcane, the value of these three scrolls alone can be regarded as the entire property of some minor nobles.

This precious high-level arcane scroll, this strange scene that seems to be an illusion but is not an illusion, this strange sound, and the crappy magician who still doesn't know where to hide. It's so much fun to put it all together. Stephanie picked up the three scrolls and asked, "But there seems to be a considerable amount of interference with the arcane here, can these three scrolls work properly?"

"What is disturbed is your perception of the magic web, or the extension of the magic web here is interfered with by the elements, which is slightly different from the normal material world, so it is difficult for the arcanist who studies the arcane in the material world to communicate with the magic web stably. However, the essence of the magic net itself has not changed, the arcane scroll is an arcane that has been completed, and as long as it can touch the magic web, it can be automatically cast, and it will definitely not be disturbed. The dry, cold voice answered clearly, and it was simply a verbal expression of urging and dissatisfaction. "Hurry up, there's a limit to my patience. It's like the last time I was hungry for three days and three nights, and I finally couldn't help but kill the one-legged woman next door, and it was so great to use that woman for barbecue, I ate it for three days. ”

"Is that so...... Stephanie muttered for a moment, and finally couldn't help but smile slightly. "Thank you for your explanation, Count Bart. But instead of manipulating these lizardmen to capture civilians and transplant other people's organs and brain marrow to survive, wouldn't it be better to dedicate what you have hidden here to the Empire? ”

"Wrong answer, abominable thief, abominable liar. It's as hateful as Uncle Marcus who stole my panties on New Year's Day. Do you think I don't know? ”

The dry voice continued to say this without any emotion, and then a gust of wind suddenly appeared in this strange scene, blowing and melting the sand on the ground, and the sea in the distance was also steaming rapidly while making waves, and even the strange sun overhead seemed to be shaking in the wind.

With a pop, a figure was 'blown' out of the sky by the gust of wind and fell straight to the sand. However, this did not cause any harm to this person, he jumped on the spot with great agility and stood up straight, turned to look at the female mage not far away, a rough and angular face with deep eyebrows with orc characteristics with obvious vigilance, it was actually the half-orc forest patrol Phil who had disappeared strangely before.

"Why are you? Why are you here?" Immediately, their attention was drawn to the scene that appeared on the surface of the sea not far away, where the sea was slowly boiling, parting, vaporizing, and the sun in the sky was also pulled diagonally into a line of fire, and even the ground after the sea was separated turned into a rising mud. And in the center of it all, is a crystal container surrounded by instrument tubes, and inside is a corpse half soaked in blue solution.

It wasn't entirely accurate to say that it was a corpse, as the corpse's eyes were still grunting, staring at the female mage and forest patrol in the distance. But it would be wrong to say that it was a living person, because the corpse had lost its shape since the chest cavity, and it looked like it was just a mess of organs piled together, at least three or four livers, four or five kidneys, and a whole bunch of various intestines connected together, and the head of the corpse was as big as a bucket, and there were stitches everywhere, as if it had been opened countless times and forced into it. And only the facial features of this corpse barely maintained the normal appearance of a person, and it was an old man with a wrinkled face.

"The mournful dead, the dead who cherish life and refuse to return. Ranger Phil stared at the old man in the crystal container in the distance. Any temple and church are disgusted and repulsive towards the undead, relatively speaking, the believers of the elemental god are relatively tolerant, at most they just express their disgust like ordinary people see dog shit on the side of the road, or cockroaches, and it is appropriate to clean it and step on it. And if it is a believer such as the Sunlight Temple and the Returnee, even if you don't want your own life, you will have to fight to destroy these filthy monsters.

"Yes, what a sad fellow. Stephanie looked at the old man in the coffin, her eyes full of sarcasm and a strange sympathy. Also as an Arcanist, she sees more and understands more in her eyes. The old man's appearance was simply the scene of an apprentice-level undead transformation experiment, and I am afraid that even the most lame mage apprentice would not be able to make a corpse look like that.

"This is the Elemental Realm... No, it's an unstable subspace very close to the elemental realm. I could hear the Wind Elves very clearly. But do you see it? There's a twisted earth, water, fire, and wind. What the wind told me was right, there was a great danger hidden here. ”

Looking at the surroundings, and then at the crystal container in the distance, the half-orc ranger's face was very unsightly. As a believer in the god of the wind element, he could feel the distorted power of this scene more clearly. This space was purely supported by the four elements extracted from the Elemental Realm, and at this moment, the boiling sea in the distance, the sun that was withdrawn from it, and the earthy smell rising up, all mixed and fused together to form a mottled and colorful mist surrounding the crystal container. They are the four elements that are close to a state of chaos, possessing power that transcends all matter and mere energy.

"Calm down, maybe things aren't as bad as you think they are. The expression on Stephanie's face was calm, but her eyes were unusually bright. As an Arcanist, as a member of the Revival Society, who knew a lot of secrets, she knew and perceived far more than the orcs next to her. For example, she now knew that the sea that began to twist around her, the earth, and the sun in the sky were not actually around the old man or the crystal container, but around a small glowing object next to the old man. Even this whole weird-looking scene was all made of that.

Although when analyzing the intelligence in the planning department before, it had already been concluded that the Bart family must have hidden secrets, but no one expected that it would be this thing, otherwise one of the two vice presidents would have come here a long time ago. And now this thing is not the right time to appear, at this point in time, Stephanie is not half sure that it will be collected.

Of course, before that, the first thing to consider is how to protect yourself, how to get out of this weird and twisted scene. Fortunately, based on previous speculation, this may not be too much of a problem.

With a bang, a small dot on the distorted sun in mid-air broke free, and then quickly zoomed in and approached here, and by the time they came to the female mage and the orc ranger, they had already turned into a three-meter-tall flame giant and pounced towards the two of them.

"Damn, it's a high-level fire element. Ranger Phil's originally somewhat green face turned black in the light of the flames, and he had little to do against the elemental creatures. Although he is also half a cleric, the divine skills he is proficient in are all to assist him in fighting and infiltrating, and they have little effect on this huge elemental creature. With a flicker, he flew silently like a puff of smoke, leaving the female mage alone to face the flame giant.

Fortunately, just as the fire elemental rushed over, an arcane scroll was already ready in Stephanie's hand, and when the fire elemental's massive body was about to cover them, a cold wind blew out almost against its hot body. The heat-depriving effect of the arcane circuit fell on it, and the massive body of flame rapidly darkened and shrunk before vanishing.

Stephanie let out a soft breath. Fortunately, she had prepared more than one Cold Wind Breath scroll, which happened to be the best fire elemental she could deal with at the moment, otherwise it would have been much more troublesome.

Fortunately, this should not happen again.

"Hahahaha......" A dry and cold laugh came from the corpse of the old man who was supposed to be Count Barth, and the stiff mouth made a dull sound one by one, like two old wooden boxes with poor lubrication. "Do you see? I am the greatest master of this elemental world. The power I wield can turn you to ashes in an instant. As simple as burning my sister's hair, that little blonde bitch thought she could seduce my O'Connor, and she couldn't have been more wrong. Now I can give you one last chance, surrender to me, and serve me. It's like Lilith with enough tips to serve spiced mashed potatoes and her little ass. ”

The cold voice came from afar in the wide voice, although the content was a little strange and made people laugh, but with the four elements rising and tumbling around it, there was still a kind of shocking power that made people shudder.

"I feel... It doesn't seem that the fire elemental just now was distorted by arcane art, but more like it was summoned by divine magic?" Phil, the ranger who was hiding in the distance, floated silently again, squinting at Stephanie. "But it's just an undead, and he must have been a mage nobleman in his lifetime, right? Why was he able to use such a high-level elemental magic? And when he trapped me here before, he actually deprived me of communication with the wind and let the wind control me. Is that what you're looking for here?"

"Don't worry, that's not his power. He also lacks the ability to manipulate this power, otherwise he wouldn't be here talking so much nonsense with us. Stephanie lowered her voice as low as she could, making her voice sound friendly and reliable. "After all, it's just a mad undead. As long as we work together, it's not hard to deal with him. ”

"If you really want to cooperate, then you'd better tell us everything you know, a lady under the pseudonym Motri... Even I suspect that your appearance and even gender may not be the original, and there are many tricks that Arcane can play, I know very well. The orc smiled coldly, and under the towering brow bones were a pair of eyes that glistened coldly, not big but deep enough. "To be clear up front, I don't like liars. And even if I don't cooperate, I'm much more likely to escape alone than you. You're right, that undead doesn't have full control over the sheer power here, and I can feel that he was reluctant to control me before. ”

At this time, in the swamp on the ground, Feng Yinqiu, who was rushing in the direction of the loud explosion, suddenly sighed softly, stopped, and his face moved slightly.

"What's wrong? Brother Feng, what's wrong over there? I just have a vague feeling, but I can't say what it is. The Sword of Benevolence, the invincible king next to him, also stood still and looked at him. Of course, they also heard about the previous giant, so they didn't even ask for the land lazy to travel, and just rushed over like this.

"The aura of the five elements in front of him burst out, and it was much richer. It's where the loud noise comes from. Mu Qinyi, who was standing upright on the head of a water wave, said, and there was a slight light flashing in her eyes. "It feels... It seems like it's like when you returned to the land of China... No, if you talk about the five elements aura, it is much stronger. ”

"It seems that there is a very broad law that is destabilizing in this region. Whatever it is, we'll just go over and see. Gao Wen's feet in the distance did not stop, and in the blink of an eye, he pulled out a distance, and only the sound of words came from afar. The Guardian seemed to be very concerned about the loud explosion.

"That's right, let's go and see. Feng Yinqiu walked forward again. Of course, he wouldn't say that the true talisman in his soul was pulsating faintly in a way he hadn't noticed before.

PS: There are a lot of things at the end of the year, forgive me. Hey. Two days ago, I was invited to do an interview on Zhishu.com, and interested friends can go to Baidu to have a look (to be continued.) )