Chapter 556: The Opening of Ulduar (11)
Thinking of this, Asher pulled out his staff and began to bless himself with the flame protection enchantment.
Ashur continued to walk, the angle of the passage began to become steeper, and Ashur had to hold on to the slightly heated rock wall all the way down, deep into the ground, and as Ashur continued to go deeper, the visible heat began to rise. A fiery red glow gradually shone through the rocks.
"These guys probably fled here in a panic with the obsidian mine in order to get rid of the monsters, but they didn't expect the environment here to be more dangerous." Asher silently guessed.
If all the adventurers of the Dark Awakening Guild died at the hands of the Fire Demon, Asher would not be happy to see it. The adventurers who died in the hands of the fire demon didn't even have bones left, not to mention the things that fell, in fact, he had been dragging on for a long time, even if he killed those adventurers at this time. Ore will no longer fall out entirely.
Asher was going to go forward a little longer, and if there was any danger, he would go back the way he came.
Just when Asher had just had this thought. He turned a corner, took a few steps forward, and suddenly stepped out of the passage, and a fierce scorching heat rushed over his face, almost forming a substantial flame, hitting his protective flame barrier, causing a ripple, and the dazzling fiery red light made Asher's eyes narrow.
He looked up and was completely stunned by what he saw!
"Whew-"
Artoria carried a heavy tower shield and a greatsword, and gripped the rock wall with both hands to climb upwards, towards the platform, Vivien had not replied until now, and the deafening sounds of battle were still coming from inside the platform, Vivien must be in trouble.
The weight of the Sword of the Gods and the Titan Aegis is extremely staggering in itself, and warriors who can't reach the epic level will even be unable to equip it because of their lack of strength, plus a full set of plate armor, it is extremely laborious to climb high in this situation, Artoria gritted his teeth and moved little by little on the rock wall.
At this moment, the roaring vibrations above gradually began to die down, and finally disappeared completely.
Artoria listened to the sound disappearing completely, and hurriedly opened the communication crystal to take a look, and was relieved to see that Vivian's name was still lit, proving that it had not been hung up.
She quickly climbed the last part of the distance, reached the top of the platform and jumped on it, and as soon as she landed, Artoria immediately ran to the mouth of the cave, and jumped into it without hesitation.
Darkness was the hue that could be seen everywhere in the mine, and Artoria entered the room suspended in the air, and all around him was pitch black, and he immediately activated his perceptual skills.
"Vivien?" He beckoned tentatively.
"I'm here." Vivien's calm voice came from the darkness.
Artoria breathed a sigh of relief, followed the sound to look at the corner, took out the prepared miner's lamp from his backpack, and turned it on, and suddenly Vivien's figure clearly emerged from the darkness.
Vivien was sitting wearily against the wall, his leather armor was tattered and mottled with blood, Vivien clutched her bleeding lower abdomen and began to remove the bandage with one hand, and Van Cleef's Vengeance Thorn twin swords were placed casually on the ground next to him.
It was clear that he had just gone through an extremely treacherous battle.
"There's an ambush here?" Artoria stepped forward and took in Vivien's condition. found that he was also in a state of serious injury and weakness, "What about the enemy, killed by you?" β
Vivien gestured to the opposite corner.
Artoria turned her head and looked at the corner behind her.
The chamber was empty, except for Vivien, who was injured and fell to the ground, not only no trace of any ore, but no one else, only the corner behind Artoria. There was a pile of iron scattered all over the place, which had clearly been connected before, only to be artificially broken by Vivien.
"What's that?" Artoria was at a loss.
He had never seen anything like this in Kadolin, he had seen mechanical monsters, but the one in front of him was very different, and it gave him a very special feeling.
The pieces of iron resembled a scattered pile of plate armor that Artoria could make out resembling helmets and cuirass, glowing purple-black as if they were hardened blades. It can be seen that when they are combined, they are a set of humanoid armor or a puppet or something.
"That's what the elegy wanted, he must have known about it in the mines." Vivien let out a sigh. While bandaging himself, he said, "I've seen this thing in the information, but I didn't expect it." Will meet here. β
Vivien barely got up from the ground, drank a bottle of healing potion, and staggered over to the pile of iron.
"This is the Shadow Armor." Vivien crouched down. Stroking the iron pieces on the ground, a trace of excitement that could not be concealed appeared in his eyes, "I have found a treasure, I'm afraid I'm looking for this thing everywhere but can't find it, I didn't expect it to be found here." β
"What is the Shadow Warframe?" Artoria was confused and asked, "You mean these are pieces of equipment that can be picked up?" But I see them like plate armor, what does the elegy want it to do? β
"Anyway, let's take it first, and we'll explain to you later, this is not a warehouse for stacking ore, and we'll continue to look for it." Vivien said, putting away the iron pieces on the ground one by one.
"You're in a weakened state now, don't you wait to recover?" Artoria said hurriedly.
"Time is running out, I'm a thief, I can't fight now, but it's okay to move." Vivien waved her hand, "Let's get down there, I'm starting to wonder what is hidden here." β
Vivien came here with Ashur with a lot of questions, because he had been through the Death Mine expedition with Asher, and he also had some puzzles that even Asher didn't realize.
And the Shadow War Armor is not to be picked up after defeat, you can get and use it, this kind of thing generally has an original owner, and according to the age, most of them have died early.
Vivien needs to do something else to actually have it.
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The picture in front of Ashur's eyes gradually became clearer, the dense steam gradually dispersed, and suddenly a large area of dazzling fiery red came into view, Ashur looked around in a daze, the dazzling scorching light covered everything in an instant, this is a fiery magma world, everything is emitting a rising red light, and the roaring heat almost forms a substantial flame in the air, making this place a flaming hell, in the sky, the scorching light is as hot and dazzling as the sun.
This hellish scene of flames is almost reminiscent of the mythical fire elemental plane.
In the air distorted by the high temperature, Asher could see the roaring magma under his feet, which was boiling and jumping, flowing and jumping in the lake to his heart's content, and the bubbles were rising denser and denser between the crazy spins, forming a huge whirlpool, which was extremely spectacular.
"It's ...... Passage? Asher involuntarily stepped forward, staring at the crazily swirling magma beneath his feet, bubbling with dense bubbles.
Ashur remembered a news he had read before, about the fire elemental plane that no one had ever been to, but there were countless flame mages flocking to, and the mythical place was full of fire treasures, and picking up a gem at random was enough to use it as the core of the mythical staff, and there were countless adventurers who wanted to find a way to get there.
In that post, a flame mage swears that the four elemental planes are connected to the map they are on, and that anyone can enter the elemental plane as long as they find the passage, but he has not yet found the entrance.
Later, the mage visited many famous volcano maps, but found no clues, and even Ivrea, the only adventurer who had ever been to the fire elemental plane, was only teleported in while doing an epic advanced mission, and he could not enter and leave it at will.
But Asher saw the scene in front of him. The boiling magma seemed to be gushing out from some source in the earth and flowing into the ground, giving him the feeling that there was a passage underneath.
Ashur looked at it for a while, and then began to look around, looking for the adventurers of the Dark Awakening Guild who ran in a panic, and there was magma outside the tunnel, and there was no extra way to go, but Ashur didn't see them, presumably most of them had hung up.
Asher had little interest in the fire elemental plane. The magma below is so violent, and he is not a flame immune physique, so he can't go down to explore, he can write it down and go back and ask Ivrea to come over and take a look, but it's better to leave first, the target is dead, and it doesn't make sense for Asher to stay any longer.
Asher took one last glance at the scorching world of magma and was about to turn away. Suddenly, he was stunned, then turned his head sharply and stared at a rock in the distance.
The rock towers above the roaring lava vortex, at the mercy of the flames and baptism. Neither melted nor broken, on this rock, something was shining with a blinding light, making Ashur's eyes narrow.
He immediately turned on his flying spell. Flying towards the rock, Asher was draped with mana shields, mage armor, and flame protection enchantments. Against the scorching heat, a path flew straight to the rock, Ashur didn't dare to stand up, the rock was already burning red, and he hung in the air and looked down.
On this rock, there was an object burning with a bright flame, emitting a blinding light, and Asher looked at it, and reached out to take itβ
Mage's Hand!
The dazzling dark blue light condensed into a huge palm and slowly grabbed downward, however, the moment the mage's hand touched the rock, it dissipated directly.
Asher was not discouraged and continued to cast spells, he tried a variety of spells such as position absorption, spell absorption, and item ingestion, and this thing was also firmly lying on the rock, but it just didn't come up.
And at this time, the mana shield around Ashur gradually began to tremble, the destructive power of the magma here was unexpectedly high, with Ashur's attributes just getting closer, he almost couldn't hold on, if the mana shield was broken, Ashur in a weak state was afraid that he would be burned by the flames immediately.
But he felt that this showed that the object that emitted red light below was not a mortal thing, and Ya Xiu was also stubborn at this time, he must get this thing and see what it was.
The mana shield and flame protection enchantment around Ashur became weaker and weaker, and the shield value was passing at an extremely fast speed, Ashur glanced at the shield that was on the verge of shattering, gritted his teeth suddenly, and suddenly flew towards the bottom at great speed, the roaring high temperature directly engulfed Ashur's shield, and the protective enchantment collapsed instantly!
Just before the heat was about to melt Ashur to the ground, Ashur slammed down on top of the rock, and grabbed the thing in his hand with the palm of his mythical glove, his palm instantly blurred with hot flesh and blood.
Flash!
In the next moment, Ashur appeared directly in the sky, quickly moving away from the magma below, and Ashur didn't have time to take a breath, because he found that a huge damage figure was still floating on his body!
Ashur looked at what he had grabbed in shock, and after leaving the rock, the bright red light suddenly dissipated, revealing one of the soft feathers that emitted a pale red light, and Ashur's hand holding the feather had been burned to a bloody blur, and the gloves of soul energy were scorched with black smoke.
Asher seemed to realize something, and instantly refreshed the shield for himself, and in the next second, it was another injury, directly shattering the shield.
"What the hell?"
He hurriedly threw the feather out, his eyes full of horror, watching the feather slowly fall downward, Asher gritted his teeth, if he didn't lose the feather, he would soon be burned alive.
He wanted the treasure, but he had to have his life.
The feather left his hand, the flames on Ashur's body gradually subsided, he took out a bottle of recovery potion and drank it, looking at the slowly falling feathers, Ashur flew down, and the moment he got close to the feather, he grabbed it, and then stuffed it into the space ring.
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No matter how powerful the thing is, as long as it enters the space ring, it is a bunch of things that are blocked by the space, and it is no longer destructive, Yashu hurriedly flew back to the passage, looking around vigilantly.
He knew that the elegy was following him, and that scene just now was probably already seen by him, but Asher didn't care anymore, what he wanted to know most about this feather was now.
Asher opened the inventory and found the feather inside, and just opened the detailed attributes, and in an instant, a dazzling orange light came into view.
The feathers of the Phoenix God
Those who pick it up will be scorched by the flames of the Phoenix God, and they will die below the legend. Ignores Fire Immunity and Resistance skills.
Ya Xiu looked at the introduction of this attribute, and suddenly felt palpitations, no wonder Ya Xiu is so strong, he will be burned by a feather, it turns out that the effect of this thing is like this.
When Asher first saw the red light, he thought it was some kind of equipment, like Bill Dix. The mythical ring of the Phoenix Heart was found by Milin Kiki in the magma, but after seeing that it was a feather, Asher thought it was some kind of treasure-level fire-type material.
However, this thing is neither equipment nor material, and seems to be a combat item.
It's just that it hurts itself.
Ashur looked at it for a while, but closed the inventory, the feather he found, although the effect was very violent, but Ashur had already tried it just now, it was immune to all telepathic traction spells, Ashur couldn't use it to fight, if he went to get it himself, even he would be burned.
At least for the time being, he couldn't figure out how to use it.
Closing the inventory, Asher took one last palpitating glance at the boiling lava, silently jotted down the coordinates of the place, and then burrowed into the tunnel and left the place.
In his humanoid biodetection, the elegy has been gone for a long time.
Where you are, I will go to you. Asher asked Artoria in the magic crystal as he weaved through the tunnel.
"We found the location you said, but there was no ore on the list, so we found something...... Warframe. Artoria replied. I'm still looking for it. β
"Warframe?" Ashur was stunned, what kind of armor could there be in this pit, and then a term suddenly flashed in his mind, and he immediately blurted out, "Shadow armor?" β
"yes, wait, how do you know?" Artoria said with a bit of a smile, "Is this thing famous, I don't know why." β
"That's very famous." Asher was speechless.
He was speechless not because Artoria didn't know about the Shadow Armor, but because he didn't expect that Vivien would be able to find such a treasure as the Shadow Armor in this place, and it can be said that this harvest alone was enough for Asher and them to make the trip worthwhile, and this Shadow Armor was definitely a thief's treasure.
"Report your coordinates to me, wait for me there, and I'll go there soon." Asher said as he quickened his pace and walked in the direction he had come.
Asher quickly left the tunnel and returned to the mine, where he had the ability to fly and moved with ease, and following the signs they gave, Asher quickly caught up with Artoria and Vivien, who were already deep underground.
As Asher descended from the sky, the two of them were sitting on a raised rock, and Vivien was fiddling with the Shadow Armor back and forth, placing the entire set of armor that had been reconnected back and forth, as if thinking about how to use it.
"Don't look at it, this thing has an owner."
Vivien raised her head when she heard this, and saw Ashur landing on the rock, Ashur stepped forward, squatted down and touched the shadow armor, and said in amazement: "I really didn't expect that we could find this kind of treasure on this trip." β
"Do you know a lot?" Vivien asked, somewhat surprised.
"I'm a mage. I have so much information hidden in my knowledge retrieval skills, how can I not know it. Asher laughed, "The Shadow Armor that has been handed down from before the Scourge is the possession of its owner, but its thief owner may have died long ago, and if you want to use and possess it, you need to find the emblem of its previous owner." β
"Emblem?" Vivien was stunned, "Isn't that kind of thing just symbolic?" β