Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Arcanist's Second Chamber of Secret

Set up a simple camp, Shepard had decided to stay here for a long time.

Not only beasts, but also some of the big guys who used to have a lot of ruins or missing in the Broken Tooth Mountains, although most of them have not been discovered by the player, but at least a few of the more well-known ones still have some impressions, the only thing that binds him in front of him is that the griffin that is still a juvenile is too weak.

"Huh!"

The griffin let out a low cry and opened its mouth to catch Shepard's prey, feasting on it.

Shepard stood by with a longbow and sword on his back and looked at the griffin with a smile, although the Revenant class is not very advantageous in the mountain forest, but the combination of the dual hunter classes is enough to make him the best hunter.

The growth period of the steel-feathered griffin is very long, but like Taichong, the growth rate of this young griffon Taihe has obviously changed after becoming Shepard's contract pet, although it is not sure whether it is because of the system or because of the peculiarity of the gods, but after only a few months, the rapid growth of the griffin is a fact.

Although it can't fly at will, there is no problem with gliding and running wild, the steel-feathered griffin that is less than a year old is almost as tall as Shepard, and its wings are spread out and it is more than half the length of its body, with its current strength, it can already hunt on its own, at least there is no problem in tearing ordinary tigers and leopards alive.

"Go ahead, as long as you avoid a few magical beasts, you can already crisscross this mountain range."

Touching the griffin's thick eagle back, the griffin, who had eaten the last bite of fresh meat, turned his head to look at his master, his spiritual eyes were a little reluctant, but the fierce creature at the top of the food chain had its own pride, so it let out a few low screams, and when Shepard got out of the way, it waved its wings and flew into the depths of the mountains.

"Stay safe!"

Shepard waved at the flying pet on the ground, and while he could convey instructions in a psychic connection, he would feel more at ease when put into practice, and the griffon's emotions in the telepathic connection were clearly the same.

The strength of the monsters comes not only from talent and blood, but also from their experience of fighting from childhood to adulthood, Shepard let it go to forage for food on its own, and the purpose is this, the fragile juvenile period has been spent under his protection, and the next growth period will naturally have to be faced, and when the steel-feathered griffin evolves into an adult, it will fly back to his side.

Carrying the packed package and picking up the hoe and other digging items prepared on the side, the griffon faced its challenge, and Shepard had his own plans.

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The Shattertooth Mountains are located in the south of the Kingdom of Am, with the Sea of Swords in the west, and hundreds of miles of plains between the east and the foothills of the mountain ranges, and the tributaries of Lake Esmeer to the south flow through here, and at the end of the tributaries stands the largest free city in the south of the Kingdom of Am, [Brest], a commercial city without lords and controlled by the council of the city-state composed of nobles and merchants.

Remnants of the Magic Empire's era have been found on more than one occasion in the Shattertooth Mountains, near the western part of the plains, and some have even dug up the Lich in the ruins of the Magic Tower and the Floating City, only to either disappear after heavy casualties or be besieged and fallen by the priests of the Good God who rushed to hear the news.

The largest ruin is the ruins of Sky City, which is confirmed to be the Arcanist of the Magic Empire [Soul Painter - Pienor], a legendary mage, and is also the first to dig up the ruins of a lich.

However, after confirming that the lich was not transformed by Piano and was purified by the Church of Justice, the adventurers almost turned the huge ruins upside down, until it was confirmed that there was nothing of value left, and the place gradually became inaccessible, until now it is overgrown with weeds and no more adventurers come to visit.

However, the fanatical spirit of the players is beyond imagination, so much so that in the unremitting efforts of tens of thousands of players in the previous life, someone dug up the relics of Pieno......

The ruins of a city, even if it is not a densely populated city, even if less than a third of the area remains, are a concept so large that one or two people looking for it feel hopeless.

Fortunately, Shepard still remembers the location of the lucky man in his previous life when he showed off, and it is always easier to follow the picture than to imagine it with words.

He was standing at the entrance to the ruins, and the weeds and shrubs in front of him had buried most of the space as far as the eye could see, and only tall enough buildings or large ones could be clearly recognized.

"This entrance is the south gate of the Floating City...... The entire sky above the Floating City was sealed by a magic array, and it was only possible to enter and exit through the entrance, but now there was naturally no ...... That's the central tower. ”

Standing on the ruins of the collapsed boulder pillars, most of the area is clear at a glance, and even if most of it has collapsed, it still has a striking building foundation more than ten meters high, which is where the magic tower in the center of the mages control the floating city is located, but it is not Shepard's goal.

He shifted his gaze to the right, looking about two hundred meters to the right of the central tower, where the remnants of a building with a high dome wall could still be seen, and the adventurers had found a lot of ordinary materials in it, which was confirmed to be just a warehouse.

"Hide your second chamber under the warehouse...... How protective is this legendary mage! However, he did do so. ”

Shepard jumped from the rubble with ease, past the bushes and building remnants in front of him, and came like a gust of wind to the warehouse where the secret room was hidden.

The magically made walls were still largely intact, and even the fall from the sky did not completely damage the place, but the adventurers' perseverance had dug up most of the wall skin, and the ground was full of traces of excavation, only to give up because the ground was too strong to find any traces of the secret room.

Standing in the center of the room, Shepard took out a scroll and tore it open, the light of the divine power shield on his body shone, and the space in the room was instantly filled with erupting flames!

[Burst Fireball], Five Rings Spell!

The value of this scroll is equivalent to the output of a knight's manor for a year, otherwise the lord is a money-burning business, and ordinary barons can't afford to raise an intermediate mage.

If players in the previous life hadn't been attacked here, they wouldn't have found out that the condition for activating the key was to release a five-ring spell, and it had to be a plastic-based [Burst Fireball].

The blazing waves of fire licked the air and the shield in front of Shepard, although the individual divine power shield is the weakest one in the category of transcendent divine power shields, but it can also block at least seven rings of spells, and any defensive transcendent divine power is the god's hole card to save his life, and no one is exempt.

The heat of the heat not only heated the ground and air, but also scorched the four roughly intact walls, and as the temperature rose, the lines of the magic array lit up in the flames and distorted air waves, first a point, then extended lines, then divided into space, and finally the divided space was combined together, covering the wall and the ground, and blue magic light extended from the air, and the three-dimensional magic array appeared in front of Shepard and enveloped him.

And the next moment, the blue magical light skyrocketed, enveloping the entire house, and when the light disappeared, the house had already returned to its original state, and even Shepard disappeared......

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"It's worthy of being a legendary mage, has the three-dimensional magic array been played so slippery...... And it seems to be more than three-dimensional? ”

The blue light was dazzling, and although it did not affect his vision, he still subconsciously closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he admired the magic skills of the arcane master Pierno while looking at the space in front of him.

Standing at the top of the Magic Empire, the bigwigs naturally don't use any underground building as a secret room, in front of them is a half-plane with the size of a football field, and from the farthest point of sight, the blocked void storm, the structure of this half-plane is very stable, extremely stable, it can be said that except for those who have the means to enter, no existence can break into here with normal methods.

"It's a pity ......"

However, Shepard sighed, and the ontology of the Far New World received the news of the past transmitted by the clone, and also said a word of pity.

The pursuits of gods and mages are very different, and the same is true in the use of the half-plane, mages like stable half-planes, as large as the unstable half-plane of a continent, and not as popular as a stable half-plane the size of a kingdom, because mages don't like variables, they crave knowledge and control.

But this is not the case with the gods, who are the stewards and participants of the world, the children and employees of the world, although they often think of rebellion or running independently.

Except for the Old World, gods of other worlds with weak divine power can leave the main plane, but few gods do this, not because they can't, but they don't dare, the gods can break through the main plane and reach the associated outer plane by relying on the connection of the gods, but they can't return to the main plane after that.

For the gods who still lack the ability to protect themselves, this kind of behavior is too risky, except for the unlucky children in the Old World who were forcibly driven out by the gods, few gods dare to do so, unless they have strong divine power or have the protection of the medium divine power of the divine kingdom.

But once they enter the kingdom of other gods, not to mention being slaughtered, they also have at least a certain degree of connection between superiors and subordinates, and the only choice for the gods who are unable to protect themselves and do not want to be driven by others is to start creating their own kingdom of gods, but the extraordinary divine power created by the void can only be possessed by at least medium divine power, and the weaker divine powers are simply crying without tears.

Therefore, the best choice is to find an ownerless, clean and unstable half-plane, because it is unstable, there is room for growth, and the half-plane is naturally attached to the main plane, which is simply the prototype of the God's kingdom sent by God, and the ownerless and clean, the gods can occupy it with peace of mind, and erode it with divine power little by little, and then transform it into their own kingdom of God.