Chapter 19: The Free Man

In the earth-destroying "divine punishment" three days ago, Mu Yan did a total of two things.

The first one, at the moment when Mr. Zha's disappearance, he went to the cave where Smaug was hiding, and activated the defensive barrier that had been arranged before he walked - it turned out that his power was simply an egg in front of the gods, not to mention his own defense, it was as fragile as paper, and even if the barrier was carefully constructed, it was just a paper folded in half.

The second piece is to borrow the power of Smaug to collect the scattered souls of the teacher and store them in a crystal ball. The massive fluctuations caused by the legendary mage's self-detonation obscured the process, and Ikali was in a fit of rage to be unaware. After that, Smaug, who had exhausted his strength, turned into a pocket dragon.

In this way, as a legendary mage, Mr. Zha has already "died", and the new life has become a "non-existent person", that is, a free person like Mu Yan: with the authority of a legendary mage, he can freely control the elements, but he has no identity. As long as they don't show the power to shock the gods, they will never be discovered.

Just like Xia Mu's plan of "Li Dai Taozhuang", only this time the target was not sent to Heru, and there were no victims.

This was a preconceived countermeasure during his time at Heru, and the details of the whole process were shuffled up by him in small pieces, and the order was confirmed by Alduin, who of course did not realize what he was going to do.

The Destroyer of Worlds spoke of the dangers that Mr. Za might face after he was taken away from the River Styx, and then kept silent. Mu Yan knew that the other party was waiting for him to beg, so he simply pretended to be confused, and also didn't say a word. The tacit understanding of one person and one dragon lasted until Mu Yan left.

When the dragon was created by the Soul Shaper, it had a trace of his power in its body, and it was this power that made the dragon a natural soul master, and it was from this that the coercion it came from. Therefore, unlike necromancers, or humans, their bodies can store soul power, and the huge body like Smaug carries soul energy is quite amazing.

What Mu Yan did was to borrow the power in Smaug's body to create a soul force field, like a magnet, attracting scattered souls.

The reason why Heru is the home of the soul is that Niverheim is the sea of souls, and the sky above Heru is filled with abundant soul energy, just like the most primitive life stock. The man-made soul field is like the difference between a small magnet and a natural magnetic field.

But fortunately, this magnet occupies the advantage of distance, and Heru and Lokan are separated by a plane after all, so Mr. Zha's soul will not return to Heru.

As the price of success, Smaug ran out of strength and shrunk into a pocket dragon lying on Mu Yan's chest.

Fortunately, this shrinking process was gradual, and at first he used his body to protect Mu Yan and resist Ikali's magic impact for him. Later, when the flames from the Elemental Throne burned, his body had shrunk to the size of a normal dragon, and then it became smaller and smaller, and it was Mu Yan's turn to maintain the barrier to isolate the flames.

This maintenance was three full days and three nights, and for Mu Yan, the mental pressure was no less than the time when he tampered with the control of the magic pattern on the Nagfar.

After all, it was against the divine arts, and its elemental concentration reached the limit, completely crushing him in terms of quantity, and it could even be said that the small ball of flame thrown by Ikali would be a pocket version of Garden in time if the right soul was added to open the mind. But now it's just a one-time consumable, and its power can be imagined.

It's no wonder that Isu and Ral are going to jump out to prevent Gardenton from cutting off halfway, and Duke Ash won't miss a chance to increase his strength.

Even now that Mu Yan is exhausted and asleep, he is subconsciously maintaining the enchantment, and dust is constantly falling on it, outlining the outline of the originally invisible enchantment.

The stupid bird crouched aside, tilted its head and watched, but it did not receive the command, it did not move. After a long time, a spherical shape, a bird-shaped, a total of two black "snowmen" appeared, standing on the charred black earth.

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Two days later in the Ash Valley, near the Imotru Crater.

After experiencing an unknown number of explosions, this land has finally squeezed out the last bit of nutrients, from the previous green pit and green water, birds and flowers to the current dead land.

The soil in the pit is so salinized that it has attracted saprophytes and vultures, and the once quiet and peaceful natural land has disappeared into an eerie, rancid quagmire.

But that doesn't mean no one is coming.

Ever since he left Jialan half a year ago, Lorov has been wandering around the Ash Valley, sometimes coming around Imotru, and for months he has never been able to find the so-called "Wind Firmament", or its entrance.

First of all, the scenery here has nothing to do with the "quiet and peaceful" written in the book.

Secondly, he didn't find any of the "natural races that are active in the Grey Valley, such as forest spirits, bear monsters, and rock golems," but he found a lot of decaying villages.

The most important thing is that he didn't see any of the "natural spellcaster tribes who live in Imotru and behave strangely" mentioned in the book, but he found one instead of "monsters with strange behavior".

It was a Rotten Blood, and the first reaction to seeing him was to run away instead of attacking.

"Is it because I stink?"

Lorov's first reaction was this, because he was poor and lazy, he hadn't taken a shower for a month, and it was unimaginable that this kind of thing could happen to a mage.

But this is understandable, after all, a representative of a civilian mage.

"But a carrion that eats everything and lives in a swamp thinks I stink?"

That was his second instinct, and the mage followed the carrion.

But Lorov clearly underestimated the level of security here, or rather he overestimated his own strength. As a fifth-level demonic beast that was good at disguise, the environment in which the rotting blood raccoon lived was much more dangerous than he imagined, and it didn't take long for Lorov to fall into the trap of a sixth-level demonic beast human-faced tarantula because of his curiosity.

This spider has a human-like upper body and is naked - but it is male, so the upper body is also male.

(Isn't it disappointing)

This is a very house-keeping male monster, they will bite off their heads after catching their prey, store them, and wait until the day of mating with the female spider to hang on the net, expecting the female spider to notice the food after the mating is completed, so as to let them go, it can be said that it is quite witty.

But this is not good news for Lorov, because he has been cornered by two male spiders.

"Hey two, I mean two- oh my god," Lorov said as two bolts of venom shot up and down, forcing him to raise a wall of dirt to defend himself.

The venom carved a deep pit in the wall, and as it was about to break through, the wall suddenly softened and mixed with the venom, and the brown and green mixture was blown away by the breeze from the tip of the Rorov staff.

"How about trying this trick! Praise Mia! As soon as Lorov's wand was raised, the mixture resembling the feces of the monster flew out in reverse, heading straight for the two monsters.

Lorov thought that he would be able to force them to dodge and expose a gap so that they could dodge out, but the two male spiders did not hide from their venom at all, and spit out a cloud of white slime from their mouths to stretch out in the wind, and actually wrapped the thing to avoid being topped.

"Oh man, your net turned out to be solid, it's amazing...... What about this trick? Praise Mia! Lorov muttered as several wind blades blew into the cobwebs overhead, trying to cut through the encirclement.

"Bell"

The wind blade seemed to cut into metal, and it didn't hurt or even burst out of sparks.

Lorov was dumbfounded, he saw the two male spiders in front of him approaching little by little, and the corners of his mouth were salivating with joy.

"You ...... Why don't you fight first and decide who will eat me? ”

His advice was ignored, and the "hissing" inhalation was so close that he couldn't help but close his eyes in despair.

"Mia is on top! Help me! ”

β€œFus-Ro-Dah!”

A childish but majestic cry sounded in his ears, and Lorov was stabbed all over, and opened his eyes violently, to see a fist-sized golden creature flying in front of him, roaring at the two human-faced tarantulas at the top of his throat.

At first, the sound of the voice really frightened the two monsters, and they even trembled on their knees, but then they realized that something was wrong.

β€œRo-Dah——”

β€œDah——”

The mosquito-like thing was still screaming, but the males were already crawling up, and they found nothing threatening except for the terrible smell of their calls.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Kid me, huh? "Lorov wanted to cry without tears.

Lorov in the White Robe: [Volume 1, Chapters 3 & 9] Appears. The mage born from Beloka and the owner of the Golden Apple, who received the Mangaza legacy, understood that the elements took two forms and helped Idril detect it, before leaving Jialan. The famous NPC in the game, the object of Mu Yan's longing, died under siege by the followers of the new gods. Rotting Blood: [Volume 3, Chapter 57] appeared.