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Gavin found that the further down the road, the more serious the destruction became, and the vampire vine of a hundred years ago really came from below.

Gavin saw some alchemy utensils that were in good condition, but they were not of high quality and did not fit the status of the blood mage Elysos as a "legendary mage/legendary alchemist".

It was about the dark elf mage who left it behind.

I don't have time to collect it for the time being, so I'm not in a hurry, but I will have time later.

Then Gavin made his way to the fourth floor.

The Darkblood Fortress is an inverted pyramid type, the first floor is the largest, and the further down it goes, the smaller it gets, and the fourth floor already has only a few rooms.

After dealing with a few traps, Gavin looked through the previous rooms and made his way to the deepest last room.

After a cursory look at the layout and sensing the aura that had not yet dissipated, Gavin was sure that this was the core of the entire Darkblood Fortress, and that some powerful creature had stayed here not long ago.

"There are footprints on the ground."

Gavin looked closely, and found very shallow footprints on the ground, footprints on a thin layer of dust, disappearing in front of a wall.

"Hidden portal?"

Gavin chuckled, and the Pegasus Juggernaut pierced the wall with a sword, brute-forcing it, destroying the spell runes hidden on it, and a door that fused metal and wood appeared in front of him.

Pegasus Juggernaut is another sword, destroying the keyhole and opening the door.

"What a powerful wave of arcane energy! Is that...... Archmage-level, right? ”

Gavin was slightly moved, but a stone in his heart finally landed.

It's just the level of an archmage, not the blood mage Elisos, it's someone else.

Hundreds of ferocious rats rushed directly down the staircase passage, and then soon there was a roar from inside, and there was a flash of black light and dark blue dim light, dazzling, which was the magic aura when casting the spell.

Gavin can even determine what kind of spell it is based on the color and intensity of the spell's aura, as well as the state of the wave!

1st tier spells, and 2nd tier spells, there are no higher tier spells.

Gavin heard the screams of the ferocious rats, and the sound was very dense, and many ferocious rats were killed, no less than twenty of them.

Then the roar turned into a groan of pain, and Gavin heard the sound of a ferocious rat gnawing, and the moans of pain grew weaker and weaker until they were gone, and so was the aura of the spell.

"It's over."

Gavin made it to the fifth floor.

He saw a dark elf mage lying in a pool of blood, a dozen ferocious rats were scrambling to eat his corpse, which was beyond recognition, and the corpses of about thirty ferocious rats were piled up, and no matter how large the room was, there were so many ferocious rats.

Gavin frowned, unleashing the terrifying aura that the vampires possessed, and the ferocious rats sensed the aura of the powerful undead, panicked, and then retreated at the squeaky command.

The dark elf mage has been gnawed to the bone, and even the bones are not complete, some of the bones have been reduced to pieces, and even a magic robe is in tatters.

Gavin took a closer look at the room, first looking at the door in the middle.

"It's ...... Portals? Gavin was amazed.

This is a portal made of special materials, a permanent portal, which only needs to provide enough arcane energy to open the portal and go to a specific place through the portal.

The portal was inlaid with twenty-one fist-sized arcane crystals, which were worth no less than 30,000 gold coins, and could store the total amount of arcane energy of a senior archmage.

With so much energy supply, the distance teleported by this portal must be very far, but it should still be in the Continent of the Gods, not other planes, otherwise it is far more than that.

"Portal...... Sabotage? ”

Gavin noticed that the portal was somewhat damaged, but the damage was not large, it should not affect the use, and it would not be a problem to open, but the position of the teleportation may be deviated, and then every time it is opened, and every second of continuation, the energy consumed must increase significantly.

Gavin also had a guess as to where the portal would lead.

It should have something to do with the half-plane destroyed by the blood mage Elysos!

Gavin saw the replaced Arcane Crystal on the ground and understood everything.

"The Dark Elf mage injected a large amount of arcane energy to open the portal and leave, but in the end, it fell short. Because the energy in his body was almost exhausted, his strength was greatly weakened, and it was likely that he was not even as good as a high-level mage, so he was killed by hundreds of ferocious rats? ”

Gavin shook his head, this kind of death was too humiliating for an archmage.

"Huh? It's ......"

Gavin saw a dead vine protruding from the portal, breaking at its place.

It's a vampire vine the size of a water tank!

Such a thick withered vine must be more than 100 meters in its complete state, maybe 200 meters, or even longer!

"A hundred years ago, the vampire vine that destroyed the Dark Blood Fortress and finally died with the Pegasus Sword Saint came from the other side of the portal?"

Back then, the vampire vine stretched out from the portal, and at the critical moment, the energy was exhausted, and the vampire vine broke from somewhere, and then destroyed the portal and came to the Dark Blood Castle.

It was quickly hit hard by the Bloodkeep's defenses, such as those in the Golem Factory, which destroyed some of the vines of the Vampire Vine.

The vampire demon vine was hit hard, and the last remaining part was probably less than 100 meters, and then destroyed the Dark Blood Fortress, and killed the original dark elf mage, and then attracted the attention of the Pegasus Sword Saint, and dozens of kilometers away, and the Pegasus Sword Saint died together.

As for why the Dark Elf Mage is alive again......

Gavin's gaze rested on the clenched staff in the dark elf mage's right hand.

It was a strange staff, the handle of which was carved from some kind of branch unknown to Gavin, somewhat similar to ebony, but denser, heavier, and covered in runes.

Gavin's focus is not here.

He looked at the head of the staff, the broken blood-red hedron that was inlaid with it.

This hedron is more attractive than the Dragon's Blood Crystal, more eye-catching, full of magic, and full of ...... Life energy and death energy.

It was a strange stone, and it looked like there was a blood-red liquid flowing through it.

Gavin had never seen such a hedron before, and it actually possessed an ability similar to the life and death core, which could possess both life energy and death energy, and could freely convert between the two.

"Is this the Blood Essence Stone? The masterpiece of the blood mage Elysos? Really...... That's amazing! Gavin sighed.

He now believes that Elysos is likely to be a blood mage, because this blood essence stone can really replace the life and death core and become the core of the blood mage's transformation ritual.

However, it can't be completely replaced, at least the blood mage transformed in this way has a much lower ability limit than Gavin.

Because the Life and Death Core is an artifact, and the Blood Essence Stone is a legendary item, there is a lot of difference between the two.

Gavin chuckled, picked up the staff, and then directly removed the blood essence stone and put the staff handle away.

He gripped the Blood Essence Stone tightly, feeling the slightest trace of blood qi entering his palm, nourishing his body, and was sure that this Blood Essence Stone was indeed a legendary gem specially made for the Blood Mage, which was extraordinary.

I didn't know how to use it for the time being, so I had to put it away.

Gavin's gaze was drawn to the second hedron:

The black, football-sized crystal ball.