Chapter XVII: Ancient Rituals
With an extra token, the effect was immediate, and even the speed at which the black mist extracted magic power stabilized. Everyone didn't see Shadow Seven's methods, but they all understood that it was him who made the move. They did not let their guard down, but held their breath one by one.
The black shadow in the sign of Shadow Eight slowly appeared, but it was much thinner than when the five strands were condensed before. When the token dropped on the stone table, the central vortex had completely absorbed the power within.
The next moment, the mutation is reborn!
Each of the five black mist orbs gave birth to a tentacle, which plunged directly into the magical storm at an unrecognizable speed to connect with the illusory shadow.
Rumble! The black mist jumped again, but this time it was completely different. Shadow Four only felt that his entire chest was filled with a huge force, fluctuating with the leap of the black mist.
Worst!
Shadow Four instantly collected his mind, and there were still a few wisps of spirit that were always paying attention to Shadow Seven's movements, but now he couldn't take care of it. Because he found that the magic power in his body had poured out, different from the previous extraction, it was actually his body that actively cooperated, and the speed skyrocketed, exceeding the limit of what he could bear in an instant.
"Boom!" The loud explosion was directed at his brain, a secret method to instantly increase mana control, and one of his hole cards. Now he does not hesitate to use it directly, even if it will cause huge sequelae, he must get out of the control of the black mist, and Shadow Seven absolutely conceals the truth.
Shadow Four tried his best to suppress the rebound of his body, and his mind was highly concentrated. One second! The magic equipment in his hand had been turned on, and it only took a second to teleport a short distance to ignore the magic circle, and he believed that no matter what this black mist was, he would be able to get out of it. As long as he leaves the coverage, he has a way.
But at the same time as the teleportation was turned on, a roar erupted in his body again, this time from the strange black mist, and the magic power transmitted into the teleportation props was instantly disordered, and a mouthful of sweet blood rushed straight to his throat under the magic backlash, and he suffered internal injuries. But what is more serious is that he once again lost control of his body. Countless tiny turbulences caused by the collision of black mist in the body were raging, causing tremendous damage in just a few seconds.
Burst!
This time, he couldn't control it anymore, and a bloody arrow hit the black mist. As this mouthful of blood came out, his body felt better, but his body was still uncontrollable, and he couldn't even speak. The other people were naturally in a similar state, but because Shadow Four directly used their hole cards, they were more seriously injured.
Suddenly, Shadow Four's eyes exploded, as if shooting light, and his entire body tensed to the extreme. Not only was his heart shocked, but his eyes were clearly full of fear. Because what the black mist extracts is no longer exactly magic, but still has his life force!
"Ahh
Ying Si burst into a shout in his heart, but he couldn't make a single real sound, and his tense body began to twitch, which was the result of his desperate resistance, but no matter what he thought of, he couldn't move the slightest, and the magic in his body suddenly became extremely unfamiliar, and he was not at all at ease. Like a prey that has fallen into a spider's web, it can only watch the hunter walk towards it step by step and be powerless. Fell here silently, so how could he be willing!
Ying Qi was quietly relieved at this time, the ritual that seemed to be unchanged had actually gone through three stages by now. The summoning of the Ancient Token is only the first step, and it requires at least five Shadow Guard Tokens. The space for storing tokens is very special, and even if Shadow Seven is strong and completely subdues one of the other nine guards, he is not absolutely sure that he will be able to get it. Therefore, it can only be agitated by the life and death of the family. The seemingly simple dialogue is actually repeated according to each person's personality. And the second step, blood is the guide, and he needs to take charge of the Shadow Guard's precepts to take action personally, which seems to be not much blood, but it condenses at least half of his flesh and blood power. As for the third step of magic casting, it is the black mist that envelops them, this step is very rarely recorded in the literature, so it is also the stage he is most unsure of, but fortunately, he has left a back hand, and he has already prepared an extra token. By now, he had entered the final stage, and from the time he felt his life force draining, he understood that the ritual had come to an end.
As the initiator, Shadow Seven is naturally fully prepared, and if he wants to, he can not consume a trace of life force at all. It was only in order to prepare for the progress of the ceremony that a gap was released. But compared to the other four, his consumption was almost negligible, and he was completely uncontrolled in the black mist, and he could still carry out the next stage of arrangement with ease. At this point, he had actually completed most of the time, and he had only separated a few wisps of his mind, secretly calculating the speed at which the other four black mist absorbed life force. He didn't want to suck the other people to death, because each of them had their own role in the arrangement behind him.
"Almost."
Kageqi thought to himself, carefully stretching out the tentacles of his consciousness and observing the black mist that was constantly staring at in the broken flow of mana, he made a decision. Then he stretched out a hand, and the black mist seemed to be in front of him, and it easily pierced through it. And what he is looking for in the palm of his hand is the shadow twenty-four who has been ignored by everyone.
Ying Twenty-Four has experienced too many changes this night, and he thought that he would definitely be interrogated when he returned to the family, but this specification still exceeded his expectations, not to mention the scenes that happened in this underground space. He hated himself for not choosing to back down in the first place, and that he had too many opportunities to escape after the ceremony began, but after much hesitation, he finally gave up on the idea. He is not low ranked among the shadow guards, and he has a full understanding of this dungeon, even if he excludes the five in front of him, there are too many means to destroy him in this place. So he silently cowered in a corner of the darkness, hoping that everyone would ignore his presence and become one of them, a dead man. But at this moment, he clearly saw that in the black mist belonging to Shadow Seven, a white palm stretched out, facing him. The shadow of unprecedented death enveloped his heart, and a shudder from the depths of his soul woke him up.
Run! Without thinking about it, Twenty-Four burst out of the speed of the limit and flashed towards the spiral staircase. But after only a breath, he was forcibly stopped, and then swept backwards at a rapid speed.
"No!"
With a scream, Twenty-Four descended directly into the turbulence of magic on the stone table, and the eye-catching was shattered and turned into a thick blood mist. And Ying Qi, who dominated all this, was unmoved, and two words sounded silently in his heart:
"Sacrifice!"