Volume III: Tumultuous Beginnings (Remastered) Chapter 42: Shadowfang Castle (2)

Yu Bin really wanted to kill the butcher Lazoclaw here, these shadow werewolves from the shadow plane had brought a great threat to the world of Ntagre in their previous lives, and in a few years, they would be bewitched by demons from the bottomless abyss and invade the world of Ntagre together.

Unfortunately, even if they killed Lazoclaw's body, they still couldn't completely destroy the powerful shadow werewolf. Shadow creatures are essentially energy bodies similar to elemental beings, they are based on the power of shadows, and unless they are completely cut off from the shadow plane, it will not be long before they are resurrected in the shadow plane.

Fortunately, this kill was enough for Lazoclaw to spend years slowly regaining his strength in the shadow plane, and even if Archmage Arugao wanted to re-summon him, the newborn Lazoclaw would probably not be able to cross the barriers of the two planes and come to the world of Ntagre.

With the vanishing of the Shadow Werewolves, the shadow power that envelops the entire prison is fading at a rate visible to the naked eye. Under Yu Bin's soul vision, transparent ghosts could be seen emerging from all corners of the prison, wandering in the air, as if celebrating that he had finally been freed from his shackles.

A figure that was noticeably more solid than the other ghosts appeared in a cell, the glowing bluish ghost looked like a human warrior, his resolute face full of exhaustion, but his eyes revealed unflinching tenacity.

"Undead, why are you here?"

Dawn Wall: Oath of Death! The ghost was once a powerful heroic warrior, and his father, Castlel Dawnwall, was a close friend of Baron Sivalen, and when he learned that Baron Sivalene was preparing to lead his family to the Silverpine Forest, the nobleman of the Oberline Kingdom asked his son, who served in the kingdom's army, to protect the Sivalenne family in his place.

But Archmage Arugao killed him by despicable means, and the dead little Daunwall became a ghost warrior, performing his duty to continue to protect Shadowfang Castle while looking for every opportunity to take revenge on the culprit. If Yu Bin and the others don't come here tonight, the mighty ghost warrior will continue to wait until the players begin to attack Shadowfang Castle and free it from the watchful eye of the Butcher Razoclaw.

"For the same purpose, Lord Daunwall!" Yu Bin will not be naïve and arrogant to think that he can fight against an archmage with the strength of his own people, in order to summon the Shadow Werewolf, but also to ensure his own safety, Archmage Arugao has long transformed the main castle of Shadow Fang Castle into his own mage tower, how difficult it is for a mage with a mage tower to deal with, players in the previous life have already proved this with countless lives.

"Evil cannot be trusted!" Daunwall Oath of Death took a step forward and slashed out a sword light with the ghost blade in his hand, but unfortunately, being bound by the shadow power for a long time made the strength of this heroic warrior significantly reduced, and the dagger in Alan's hand was spiritualized with the blessing of soul power, blocking the slash of the Oath of Death.

Yu Bin raised his hand to stop Lei Guang and Keldilla's spell casting: "It seems that there is not enough foundation for trust between us, then, Lord Daunwall, I wish your revenge can be successfully completed!" ”

"Are you sure that guy can help us?" After leaving the prison, Yu Bin led the others towards the main castle, cleaning up the ghosts wandering around the castle along the way, most of these ghosts were servants who lived in the Shadow Fang Castle before their deaths, and they didn't have much strength themselves, so they were easy to deal with after becoming ghosts.

"Who knows! At least it's a little better than we have to deal with Arugao ourselves. ”

Just as Bin was cleaning up the ghosts that were wandering in the Shadowfang Castle, seventy-three kilometers away in the city of Seberchel, a human mage was arranging a magic circle in a freshly cleaned room, and an apprentice in a rudimentary robe was working on it, placing various spell casting materials in the corresponding positions while adjusting the flow of magic power.

Since the collapse of the Griffin Empire, the city has prospered, and the population has gradually depopulated, leaving the city empty, and by now, most of the wooden buildings have decayed and collapsed, and only the main stone facilities are barely intact.

"Time is truly the most powerful magic in the world!" Melganis stood by the window, looking out the window at the city, the empty streets and the darkness of the night made the city look like a ghost town, in fact, it was indeed a ghost town, at least Melganis could only perceive a handful of human civilians wandering around the ruins of the city, searching for supplies that could still be used.

"Lord Melganis, the circle has been arranged!" After checking the integrity of the magic array to make sure that there were no problems, the magic apprentice said to Melganis, who was sighing by the window, that he was just a magic apprentice in Dalaran, and that he had no status in front of Melganis at all, and that this mage was known as the best mage in the last hundred years, and had entered the realm of heroes at the age of thirty-four.

"Hmm." Melganis nodded, the deference and restraint of the magic apprentice did not surprise him, although Dalaran was known as the magical capital of mankind, it was not a charity. In fact, the class gap in Dalaran is far more severe than in those human kingdoms, and everything here is judged by the only criterion, and that is whether you are qualified enough in the way of magic.

The better the talent, the stronger the caster will be able to obtain more resources, while those with average talent and average strength can only live on mediocre resources, or become the subordinates of other powerful spellcasters, exchanging their power for resources for their own research magic. And those magic apprentices who had just entered Dalaran to study magic were clearly at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Melganis is glad that he has enough talent and luck at the same time, his teacher is the ruler of Dalaran, the speaker of the Kenrito Council, and the legendary archmage Antonidas, which allows Melganis to have more resources for him to study magic and improve his strength.

But while enjoying these benefits, he must also pay the corresponding price!

Melganis walked up to the circle and handed out a handful of hair to the center of the circle. The hairs come from a shadow werewolf that Melganis hopes to use to find the place where the shadow werewolves have been summoned to the world of Ntagre.

Dalaran has never given up on finding the Book of your, which was stolen by Archmage Arugao, and for Dalaran, this ancient book is equivalent to the status of the Shining Orb in the Holy See of Light. Most of the ancient books that have been handed down from ancient times were lost when the Elven Empire collapsed, and less than one percent of them were collected by Dalaran with all his efforts, and each ancient book was a vital treasure for Dalaran.

No one knows how the archmage Arugao stole this ancient book from Dalaran's treasury in the first place, and in order to avoid attracting the prying eyes of the outside world, Dalaran has always claimed that the Book of your is still kept in Dalaran's violet treasury, and has specially made a fake for this purpose. But the search for the Book of your has been going on in the shadows.

Shortly after the Kingdom of Ashwood discovered that werewolves were attacking the human settlement in the Silverpine Forest, Dalaran learned about it from his own channels and immediately realized that the werewolves were most likely related to the Book of your. Antonidas sent his protégé Melganis in the hope that he would be able to reclaim the Book of your for Dalaran.

The return of the Radiant Orb has given the Holy See of Light a chance to breathe, and the Holy See of Light, which has regained its orthodox identity, is taking advantage of this opportunity to continue to expand its influence and quickly recover its strength.

But before he can do that, Antonidas must first reclaim the Book of your, which not only contains a wealth of knowledge about the Ancient Era, but is also a powerful magic item in its own right, and if left unchecked, it could be used as an excuse for others to attack Dalaran.

Melganis checked the function of the magic circle again, and reached out to infuse his magic power into the circle, and the search circle, which had been improved by Antonidas, began to spread the magic fluctuations throughout the city of Thirberchel by detecting the characteristics of the handful of hairs.

Nearly two hours later, Melganis was disappointed to stop the magic circle, and the handful of hair was burned by the powerful magic, and it was clear that the same magical characteristics as the handful of hair from the Shadow Werewolf could not be found in the entire city of Seberchel.

"The shadow plane is often connected to the main plane for a short period of time, could these shadow werewolves enter the main plane through those naturally generated shadow channels?" The disappointed expression on Melganis's face could be seen even by the magic apprentice, although he knew that the magical knowledge he had was insignificant to Melganis, but this magic apprentice still said his guess, maybe this master Antonidas would make an exception to take him as a disciple because of this operation?

Melganis shook his head: "You're right, but in that case, the shadow creatures that enter the main plane through the shadow passage can't all be shadow werewolves, and those shadow werewolves are not even the main race of the shadow plane, shadow monsters, shadow lurkers, and dark star spiders, all of which are more numerous than shadow werewolves!" But we haven't found even the weakest Shadow Bee so far, the Shadow Werewolf werewolf we've found! This is not normal! The only explanation is that someone summoned these shadow werewolves to the main plane! ”

The apprentice opened his mouth, but found himself unable to come up with any other reason to refute Melganis, so he began to collect the magical materials that could be reused.

"Your basic knowledge is very solid, don't be too ambitious, learn to use this knowledge!" As a pioneer in the path of magic, Melganis is still very optimistic about this magic apprentice, otherwise he would not be able to bring the other party out to carry out this mission together, "So far, we have searched most of the Silver Pine Forest, but we still haven't found the place where these shadow werewolves were summoned to the main plane. Where do you think we should go next? ”

The Magic Apprentice pulled out a map from his bosom, which divided the entire Silver Pine Forest into several areas with different colored circles, most of which were marked, meaning that they had searched the areas with the magic circle.

"There are only two places left, one is Shadowfang Castle and Burning Wood Village, and the other is Ambermere Mountain. Personally, I'm leaning towards Shadowfang Castle, if your guess is correct, then the mastermind behind the summoning of these Shadow Werewolves will inevitably require a lot of materials and a suitable location to set up the summoning circle, and compared to the Ambermere Mountains in the deep forest, Shadowfang Castle fits this requirement better. "This is also the reason why they came to the city of Seberchel, although the city has been reduced to a relic, there are still a lot of materials left here, and there are many human civilians living around, so it is easier to obtain various materials for setting up the summoning circle.

"Let's go, then!" Melganis didn't care if it was the middle of the night or noon, for an archmage, studying magic all night was as normal as eating and drinking, staying up late was already commonplace, he couldn't wait to complete this mission, return to Dalaran to continue his research, as long as he completed the relevant research and papers on the three-state change of magic, he could become a member of the Kenrito Council, and truly enter the top circle of Dalaran.

After Melganis left Thurbchel City with his apprentice magician, Les Frostwhisper also walked through the gates of the city, he was attracted by the apparently artificial wave of magic from before, the lich had thought that the fool hiding in Shadowfang Castle had changed the location of the summoning to Thurberchel City, but it was clear that the magic left in the air was obviously different from the magic that permeated the Shadowfang Castle.

"Dalaran's little one!" Les Frost reached out and condensed a trace of magic from the air, and carefully sensed it, "Since the end of the last faction war, these guys have not made much progress. Antonidas seems to have improved the circle, doubling the search range, but the fine discrimination of mana is even worse! ”

For a lich like Les Frost, who has lived for tens of thousands of years, human mages are just beginners who are just beginning to explore the way of magic, and even Antonidas, the most powerful mage in Dalaran, is not as good as Les Frost in terms of accumulating magical knowledge.

"But that little guy seems to know something, and he didn't hesitate to go to Shadowfang Castle, my teacher really found a nice toy!"