Chapter 69: The Corpse Witch
Although it is a black coffin, it is actually a huge rectangle with a height of 10 meters and a width of 20 meters, so it is perfectly fine to say that it is a black stone house.
Knock knock!!
"It's obsidian." Kyle tapped his fingers lightly and basically confirmed the material of the black sarcophagus.
This is not a surprise.
Obsidian is extremely hard (8 Moguel) and has a certain storage and nourishing effect on soul energy, so it is widely used by soul shamans and necromancers to make magical artifacts, and the Church of the Eternal Eye, which serves Hades, is used to make holy objects.
Kyle stared solemnly at the black stone coffin.
The sarcophagus's energy fluctuates widely, but its aura of energy is completely divergent, and Kyle does not notice a regular appearance of magical runes.
"Since there is no rune involved, it is definitely not a protective measure, nor is it a seal, it can only be a simple coffin! I really don't know how big the sleeping undead inside will be, looking at the energy intensity emitted from its body, it should be a huge super-level ............ But now that I have the Twilight Bringer in hand, I'm not a big deal. β
"It's a pity that the obsidian coffin is too thick for elemental vision to pass through, otherwise there would be no knowledge of the inside of the coffin like now."
There must be a way out of the underground hall, Kyle can be sure.
However, unlike the ground, the underground is not only horizontal.
- You can go down and up too!
On the walls and floors of the hall, Kyle did not find any ornamentation, bulges, or anomalous crevices that could be mechanisms......... Except for the obsidian sarcophagus.
Since there are defenses at the entrance to this hall, the other roads must also be defenses, and the sleeping large-sized undead creatures in the Black Yao sarcophagus may be the guards of this passage.
All Kyle has to do now is find a way to enter the Black Coffin.
"Is it on the lid of the sarcophagus?"
But when he climbed to the top of the sarcophagus to check, he found that the lid of the sarcophagus was also smooth.
"How could it not be? These black-robed people can't lift the lid before entering and exiting every time, it will be a lot of trouble! Kyle wondered.
"Big... My lord! You see. β
Bevis shuddered due to the high density of death energy, but pointed in one direction to Kyle.
"Huh?"
Kyle looked in the direction he was pointing and saw a black-robed man holding a young child.
"Dead?"
"There are no life fluctuations, the human child is dead." Hearing Kyle's question, Dick answers in the affirmative.
There wasn't a single corpse of a young child in this place, there must have been some other place to dispose of the corpse, and Kyle led Bevis to the side of the black-robed man.
Thousands of green flames floated in the hall.
Kyle knew that it was an unquenchable phosphorous fire, a necromancy (level zero magic) that was useful for lighting.
Without the influence of external forces, phosphorus fires can exist for more than a year.
The downside is that the brightness is too low.
But it was enough for Kyle to see the black-robed man's movements.
The black-robed man held the child's corpse and walked thirty meters away from the obsidian sarcophagus and stopped, Kyle could see clearly that there was a circular magic array at his feet.
It's just graphics.
There is not the slightest elemental/soul energy at all.
"The runes and energy channels are very well drawn, but there are no energy guiding materials, and there is no initial energy source, so they are just talking on paper." Kyle pouted disdainfully.
The magic array, no matter how complex and profound.
The principle is the aggregation effect of energy runes, and in order to produce an effect, the first thing you need is that the pattern of the circle is a channeling material (mythril, magic plant remains, crystals, etc.) that can pass through elemental/soul energy.
The second is the initial energy source that allows the runes to work.
The second point can be energy sources such as energy crystals, mechanical energy storage tanks, and mage tower elemental furnaces; It can also be the caster itself that makes the initial power.
But now!
The circle figure under the feet of the black-robed man does not have either of these points.
"What are you going to do?" Kyle looked at the black-robed man two meters away, completely unaware of his presence, and was very curious.
A bottle was taken out of the dimensional bag by the black-robed man.
"Humph! The magic kingdom is rich, and any little minions of a peripheral organization are equipped with dimensional bags...... Forget it, it'll be mine for a while, and I don't have to sour them who give up themselves for power. β
These black-robed people were originally ordinary civilians of the empire who did not have extraordinary strength talents, and most of them were at the bottom of society and were oppressed.
For power, they joined the Throne of Bones.
But it can only be exchanged for a road of no return that is destined to have no freedom.
In the magical realm, the mages are the ruling class. There is no talent for mages, and there is no possibility of becoming a strong person through the cultivation of other transcendent powers, and no matter where you are, you will not be given preferential treatment.
"What a pitiful and pathetic man!"
Kyle shook his head, it's human nature and instinct to be kind to children, except for those who are psychopathic, normal people don't act like black-robed people, even if they don't like these children or are impatient with their behavior.
"A bunch of fanatical believers!"
Looking at the black-robed man's wooden, dead expression, Kyle had nothing to say to the black-robed man.
The Black-robed man's movements don't stop as Kyle thinks.
He poured out a lot of silver liquid from the bottle, filled the entire circle shape, and then dipped his fingers in the liquid to continue drawing.
"Isn't this mercury! No wonder. β
Mercury can also be used as an energy conduction material, and its performance is very good. It's just that there is a little bit ββββ that is easy to volatile, even if it is an ice attribute magic array, mercury will still sublimate.
If mercury is used as an energy transfer material, it is likely that the magic will suddenly fail halfway through.
Or because of a lot of volatilization, the energy transmission ability gradually decreases with volatilization, and the magic effect will continue to weaken at the same time............ In short, it's not practical!
In addition to making some skeleton undead, the bone marrow is filled with mercury.
Only some large runic machines are sealed.
The black-robed man draws a magic circle with mercury, and it volatilizes when it is used up, and it is difficult to find this magic circle if he doesn't know it in advance.
Kyle continued to watch the black-robed man's movements...... "These runes seem to be a coordinate!" Let me see...... The change in altitude is zero, the curvature of the planet is negligible, and the horizontal direction is thirty-five meters ahead. β
At first glance, it is exactly inside the obsidian sarcophagus.
"Is this going to teleport in?"
After thinking about it, Kyle rejected this idea: "The rune dimension of this circle is only one level, it is only a plane structure, it is not enough to describe the real spatial coordinates, it should be a position marker." β
And that's exactly what happened.
When the rune was completed and the black-robed man entered the energy, the magic circle also slowly activated.
Then, an indifferent voice came from it: "Who is it?" Why disturb my rest. β
Hearing this, Kyle took a look, only to find that the energy fluctuations of the undead in the obsidian sarcophagus had not changed, and it was obvious that they were still asleep. Xin said: "It doesn't seem to be it!" There should be others inside. β
Even though he knew that he couldn't see the other side, the black-robed man still quickly bowed down...... Obviously habitual movements.
"Lord Trisuan, I'm your subordinate Xp-Skeleton 262, and I've been ordered to collect the 'Grey Blood' outside."
"Well, what's the matter with me?"
Although Trisuan's voice was still cold, as long as it was human, he could hear a trace of impatience contained in it.
Hearing this tone, the black-robed man hurriedly said, "Your Excellency, please allow me to solemnly inform you that there is another Holy Child who has dedicated himself to the birth of the throne, and his fire of life has been burned............ In order not to let his sacrifice be in vain, I hereby ask you to entrust me with everything he has, and I am willing to bear his will with my life! β
"Yes!"
After the sound, the coordinate runes on the circle began to flicker, and it was obvious that someone had used it to locate and teleport.
Seeing this, Kyle hurriedly pulled Bevis along, and the two of them stood in front of the black-robed manββββ doing so, the person who came teleported over, and Kyle would be behind the person.
Soon, the silver light flashed - it was a flash.
This spell, ranked No.1 in the common magic of high-level mages, is very useful, has the fastest casting speed of all spatial displacement magic, and has very few spells that can restrain it.
It's a must-have to save your life.
Mages above the archmage are even called 'flash dogs' by the barbarian profession of the warrior department.
In order to vent their helplessness towards the high-level mage.
For example, Reut, as a powerful warrior at the top of the epic, has fought and won many archmages, but has never killed any of them......... It's hard to slash it.
The other party flashed!
Some of them simply flashed hundreds of meters away when they saw him, and then they directly drove the teleportation and ran away.
There are archmages who die of old age, but few die in battle, and even the demigods dare not guarantee that they will be able to kill an archmage, which shows the strength of the high-level mage's ability to save their lives. And those who died in battle were basically self-inflicted, wanting to cast high-level magic, but were devoured by spells and died.
Well... Far from it.
Although the flash is powerful, it only has one limitation, that is, it needs to be locked by the gaze, otherwise it is easy to make a mistake and lose part of the body.
Therefore, this mage named Trisuan needs coordinate positioning assistance.
Kyle looked at Terry Suan...... of the back.
Although it is only the back, many things can already be seen.
Trisuan was also dressed in a black robe, with only his hands and head exposed. Moreover, the flesh and skin of the hands and head were withered.
- A corpse witch!
In order to prolong their lifespan, mages have created many kinds of undead transformation rituals, which can transform mages into different types of undead creatures.
The most famous of these is the Lich!
Powerful immortality, a semi-spiritual body, unlimited energy and physical strength, plus not much intelligence lost during transformation.
This has made many super-level mages eager for Lich Transformation.
It's a pity! The high cost of rituals and the extremely high probability of failure also discourage most high-level mages.
And the corpse witch is much easier.
This is the archetypal magic of the Lich's transformation.
It's called a corpse, but it's just a dried corpse, and it doesn't have the advantage of a lich at all............ But there is no chance of failure, and that is enough.
Trisuan's mage is a corpse witch.
'Wuji, check the value of Trisuan's soul force field. Since the soul field needs to be released, even without physical contact, as long as Kyle is within the range of the opponent's soul field, Wuji can detect the opponent's soul field value.