Chapter 1253: Doomsday Volcano (1)
Even in reality, volcanic eruptions are natural disasters with considerable impact.
It is not only the volcano that is affected, large amounts of ash are blown into the atmosphere, and the surrounding environment continues to be shrouded in mud rain for months, and the impact on the natural environment is devastating.
At the same time, volcanic ash can even affect the global climate, and the volcanic ash in the atmosphere will reflect the sun's rays, causing the global temperature to cool, and in severe cases, the temperature will drop by more than 10 degrees.
This has been recorded many times in human history, and the Doomsday Volcano of the Wizarding World lives up to its name.
Scattered volcanic ash has a special power that can temporarily interrupt or erase magical effects, which is equivalent to a large 'anti-magic stance' floating in the sky, and can even make it more difficult for mages to cast spells.
Especially for magically powered machines, flying ships will have to be grounded, and magically powered ships will have to be careful to cause the reactor to shut down.
Some permanent locks or surveillance spells may also be interfered with and ineffective, and prophecy spells to obtain future information will become very unreliable, long-distance communication will be interrupted for a long time, and interdimensional communication will be absolutely impossible.
The impact is huge, and there may be some serious incidents.
So when Ann pointed out that the Doomsday Volcano was about to erupt, Greif's first reaction was that this grandson should be shaking me, right?
Headaches followed.
The Three Towers Alliance had just settled the turmoil caused by the destruction of the Arcane Trial, and now that it was just in time for the Doomsday Volcano to erupt, they would have to deal with it for at least the next few months.
Greif naturally asked, the imminent eruption of Mount Doom was not even discovered by the prophets of the Three Towers Alliance, where did An Yizhi get the information.
Later, with John's cooperation, the two of them roughly talked about how to find the ghost woman and how to torture the information, except for concealing the CG of the cutscene, they all told Greif.
The latter believed a little, after all, the mysterious ritual of the ghost woman is still one of the mysteries of the world that the mages have not been able to solve, but although they don't know the principle, the accuracy of the ghost woman's ritual is so high that it is embarrassing.
Greif immediately activated the teleportation technique to send a message to his boss, that is, Jascord.
Jescord had just gotten up at this time, and was drinking coffee and sorting out his papers, and casually connected to the summons:
"Greif? How's it going to get you to gather the members of the Alliance? The Blue Castle shouldn't have been captured by the orcs, right? ”
"Boss, compared to this, something big has happened again."
Jescord glanced at the coffee in his hand, carefully placed it on the table, and asked in a deep voice:
"What's the big deal?"
"Ann got the news from the ghost woman that the Doomsday Volcano is about to erupt."
Jaskode couldn't help but hold his forehead after hearing this, although it shouldn't matter much about this, but every time this thing appears, the cause and effect relationship that will follow a big incident does make people can't help but shout loudly!
However, the imminent eruption of the Doomsday Volcano also explains why the animals and orcs of the Endless Wasteland are heading south en masse, and they must have had a premonition of something.
"Did An Yizhi say anything else?"
"Others?"
Greif thought for a moment and said:
"No, no other news."
The prophecy of the ancient elves brought by An Yizhi, after repeated verification and inference by the bigwigs, confirmed that the prophecy was indeed related to An Yizhi, or that what was written in the prophecy was that An Yizhi and their family were concerned.
As long as this is perceived, it is not difficult to see that An Yizhi is a key in the prophecy, which is why Nikolai repeatedly looked for An Yizhi and gave some warnings and reminders.
Jescord also wanted to ask if An Yizhi had gotten any information recently, but since he hadn't said it, he probably hadn't.
After all, An Yizhi is a rather lazy and troublesome guy, so it's better to leave the matter of saving the world to someone who is awesome and shiny.
"Where is he now?"
"An Yi pointed to the Endless Wasteland, looking in the direction of going to the Doomsday Volcano."
Jascord thought about it for a moment, and knew that Ann was planning to pick up the pages of the Book of the Dead, which was said to have been placed on Mount Doom.
There are many people who know about this, but not many dare to take it.
Even a big guy like Jeskord is very dangerous once he enters the Endless Wasteland, and it is accompanied by intense pain, even Nikolai has tried to enter the Endless Wasteland before, but after several attempts to no avail.
Some people may ask, if the mage can't go in, wouldn't it be better to change to a powerful melee fighter to go in and take out the pages.
It's true, where the melee fighters are suppressed very little, and there is enough strength to deal with the monsters and orcs along the way, the problem is that the place where the pages are placed is inside the volcano, and it is surrounded by magma, although I don't know how Vaolek put it back then, but it is almost impossible to take it out.
"How did Ann Yizhi come up with Doom Volcano?"
"I don't know."
Greif didn't know that Ann was looking for the page, and then said:
"John and the two apprentices from the Academy of Magic, who accompanied him before, said that when they were dealing with the ghost woman, they heard Ann Yizhi muttering 'Shadow Order', maybe it has something to do with them?"
"Shadow Order ......"
Hearing the name again, Jaskord still felt a pain in his eyes.
The purpose of these guys is unknown, they are like a pack of rats that walk through the dark, or more appropriately cockroaches, they are not only fast, but also extremely vigorous.
It is estimated that Ann is going to grab the pages of the book with the people of the Order.
Jescord made a judgment in his heart, and he also cared too much about this matter, and he should now think carefully about how to deal with the series of consequences after the eruption.
Because of the prophecy brought by An Yizhi, now the big guys in the multiverse have launched a large number of prophecy and detection spells, always monitoring the possibility that 'the world will be chaotic', and Jascord's side is no exception.
But once the Doomsday Volcano erupts, these fragile and sensitive spells will instantly explode on the spot and will never take effect again.
Jeskode had a hunch that the prophesied event would not be prevented, and that the eruption of Mount Doom was just a prelude......
His mind was in a trance, and Jace Kod hurriedly took a sip of coffee to refresh himself, and he had to quickly contact the old fellows to study this.
At this moment, the white light of the telecommunication technique lit up in his ears again, but this time it was the Eye Demon who came to the news.
"Boss, something is wrong!"
Is it a delusion, why do you report to me one by one that something is wrong?
"If you want to talk about the Doomsday eruption, Greif told me about it."
"Doomsday Volcano is going to erupt?"
The Eye Demon was puzzled for a moment, and then said:
"It's not that, it's something else, my mage tower has detected a large number of open portals, and the portals are coming from the lower planes."
Well, it's a big deal.
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On the other side, Ann still didn't know what was going on in the mortal world, and his mind was now full of pages of the Book of the Dead.
That being said, it's rather unwise to casually run into the Endless Wasteland, and Greif doesn't have any good advice for that.
Don't look at him as a barbarian from the Endless Wasteland, but now as long as he steps into it, his magic will still be gradually drained, and he can't even go home to save his family.
After two words of persuasion, seeing that Ann was indifferent, Greif gave him a domino and a name, telling him that if he ran into trouble, he could use these to find the barbarian tribes in the Endless Wasteland, and they should provide some help, by the way, tell them to get out and run away, after all, the volcano is also about to erupt.
In the same way, Ann Yizhi didn't mean to take John and them on an adventure together, the danger of this place comes from the environment, and John's NPC mage entering the Endless Wasteland is basically no different from the old birthday star drinking arsenic and dying for a long time.
By the way, maybe the system did it on purpose, and after Greif and the others entered the Blue Castle, they updated the main quest very simply.
[Cover the retreat of the inhabitants of the Ash Forest to the Silvermoon Federation]
[Break into the Doomsday Volcano and take the pages of the Book of the Dead]
Both missions are mainline, requiring players to choose one of the two.
As for what to choose.......
Look at An's finger now that he is on the edge of the Endless Wasteland.
Using the dragon's wings to speed up his flight, it didn't take long for him to see the edge of the ash forest like a coastline, and even one step further into the endless wasteland.
He first descended and waited for the mana to recover, then summoned the Phantom Pony and sent it flying through the sky, towards the Doomsday Volcano at the end of his vision.
The Phantom Pony is about the same speed as the Dragonwing, which is mainly flexible and convenient for use in combat, but it consumes too much mana when used to hurry.
In contrast, summoning the Phantom Pony is just an E-rank spell, and the cost of maintaining it is also very low, and you won't feel the consumption when you change your fingers.
But in the eerie environment of the Endless Wasteland, the common sense of the past is not very sufficient.
Originally, the Phantom Pony could exist forever as long as it did not cancel the summoning and maintained the continuous supply of mana to maintain its existence, and there was no time limit.
After entering the Endless Wasteland, the system very simply sent a reminder that An Yizhi entered the special area, and all spell skills would be suppressed to a certain extent, and the Phantom Pony also had more time limits.
In addition, because Hela is an alchemy creature, she is equal to -1s in the endless wasteland, which will seriously affect the normal operation and lifespan of the alchemy core in her body, and now she has to shrink into her dimensional pocket, and she can't even show a bird's head to observe it from time to time.
An Yizhi himself was not feeling well, he felt like a salted fish that had been put under the sun and gradually dried, and there was a feeling of tightness on his skin.
Although players are protected by the system and do not feel great pain after entering the Endless Wasteland like NPC mages, this is obviously not very pleasant.
The most important thing is that An Yizhi found that he couldn't recover his magic power, neither the dragon's heart nor the source of magic power could work, even if he took out the big blue and poured it, he wouldn't recover even the slightest bit of magic power.
At the same time, his magic power is also leaking out little by little, although the speed is not fast, but if it continues, there will be no combat power left when An Yizhi reaches the Doomsday Volcano.