146, Ascension, Smuggling
Figures, how can there be figures in the cracks in space?
At first, Talos thought he was hallucinating, but when he cast his gaze into the depths of the dungeon for the second time, the figure was still there.
Not only that, but this time, a terrifying ball of bright lightning appeared on the opposite side of the originally black spatial crack, and a dull rumbling sound was transmitted through the sea water and hit his eardrums, and that figure descended to the underground palace through the spatial crack in such a background!
"What did you see?" the human bishop couldn't help but ask, noticing the shocked expressions on the faces of the three sea tribes.
- Although there is a spell to help, in the sea, especially when the current is turbulent and chaotic, the human eyesight is far less distant and clear than that of the Sea Clan, and the three Death Temple clergy can only sense the light and sound constantly coming from the dungeon behind them.
Talos quickly described what he saw, including lightning and thunder across the spatial rift and figures descending into the dungeon.
"My lord, it turns out that it is real. ”
The human bishop let out a night-like sigh, and was so surprised that he was almost swept away by a current, but fortunately the Templar next to him grabbed him and saved him from being swept into the whirlpool.
"What?" Talos asked curiously.
Could it be that the figure has something to do with the Mother Tree of the Dead or the Spider Cult?
At this moment, all movement in the dungeon disappeared, including the light and loud noises that had been coming through, the maelstrom born from the spatial rift, and the turbulent sea.
Everything was quiet, and the ocean was as calm as it should be.
Talos stood beside Dolores, vigilantly holding a third-order spell scroll in his hand.
"He's coming!" Dolores reminded.
Then, with his excellent eyesight, Talos finally saw the figure that appeared in the dungeon through the spatial rift.
It was a human, about forty years old, wearing a special costume that Talos had never seen before, somewhat similar to a mage's robe, but very different from the style of the Council of the Nine Rings.
The human's face was full of joy when he saw Talos and his party, but it turned to surprise and curiosity when their eyes fell on Talos and the mermaid.
That kind of gaze was all too familiar for Talos, who usually gave a similar look when he saw something new.
Talos didn't know what it was like to be stared at like that before, and it was certain that the feeling of being treated like cargo or prey made him very uncomfortable.
If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't determine the identity and strength of the other party, and the way he appeared made Talos feel a little shocked, he would have activated the high-level spell scroll frozen blood spell in his hand a long time ago.
The humans stopped when they were still 100 yards away from the group and shouted two words to them in a strange language.
The six people in the passage, whether human, Naga or mermaid, did not understand each other's words.
Humans sensed this and changed several languages in succession, but none of them were among the five languages that Talos had learned.
About half a minute later, when a series of awkward words popped out of the human's mouth, Talos finally understood, it was dragon language!
The content of the other party's sentence is very simple, divided into three parts, hello, self-introduction and question: "Hello, I'm Harvey, where is this place?"
Talos and Dolores looked at each other, a little unsure, so polite that they didn't look like crazy people with ties to the Spider Sect.
"This is the polar waters south of Sainz, and the three of us are the clergy of the Temple of Death—" the Human Bishop replied in the same dragon language, "They come from the Naga Kingdom, the Snowy Mountain Temple, and the Mermaid and Fish-Man United Kingdom. ”
The mysterious man named Harvey cheered: "Great, I made it!"
Then he looked at Talos, Dolores, and the mermaid with regretful eyes, and confirmed to the human bishop, "Are they beast-like people created by mages? ”
"Watch your words, human!" Dolores warned with his staff pointed at Harvey.
Orcs and beast-type people are two completely different concepts, the former is a natural race including Rakshasa lionmen, lizardmen, minotaurs, harpys, etc., while the latter is the product of alchemy experiments by mages and does not have the ability to reproduce.
Moreover, it was extremely disrespectful to describe the other person as half-human and half-snake in front of Naga, just as not being able to call a dwarf a dwarf would ignite the anger of the little ones, even though it was an accepted fact that they were short.
"—A fourth-order archmage who has never seen a Naga and a mermaid, should be from another material plane. ”
The second half of what the Naga Witch said to Talos was in Naga, which no one could understand except the Mermaid Warlock, but Harvey understood the first half in Dragon's language.
He seemed to have guessed something, and a look of embarrassment flashed across his face, but then he was dissatisfied and angry at being provoked, and suddenly an extra wand appeared in his hand, and a magical aura flashed quickly, and an activation cable that Talos had just used rolled towards Dolores.
Dolores snorted, and the surging cold spread around her, and the activation cable was just close to her when the cold froze into a rope of ice and fell to the ground.
The Naga Witch, who worships the water dragon "Ice and Snow" and "Freezes All Things", can be said to be the highest in the entire main matter plane in terms of freezing, and even some mages who have been immersed in the spells of the water elemental faction for many years can't catch up.
"Huh?" Harvey couldn't believe how easily his spell could be broken by Dolores, and with a flick of his wrist, his wand drew an arc, this time a frost ray from the Water Elemental faction.
Talos held the scroll of spells in his hand and watched warily as the mermaid warlock prevented the latter from erupting.
Probably not finding the right opportunity, and the blue-fish mercenaries who had come with her earlier were all gone, the mermaid warlock glared at Talos hatefully before quickly leaving.
"By the way, what exactly is that thing you just mentioned?" After confirming that he would not be attacked by the Mermaid Warlock, Talos asked the Human Bishop as he watched the battle, "Does this human named Harvey come from another material plane or something interesting?"
The human bishop glanced at Talos in surprise, becoming more and more curious about the identities of the two Nagas, and was able to deduce the origin of Harvey through a few short conversations, which was by no means an ordinary person.
He nodded and generously admitted, "Yes, the situation of him coming to the main material plane like this has been recorded in our Death Temple before. ”
"It would be nice if you could explain it to me in detail. ”
"Well...... this"
The human bishop hesitated, and just as Talos pondered how to get something out of the other's mouth, Dolores' voice came from afar, "I'll explain." ”
It wasn't a wise thing for a land creature to fight a Naga in the ocean floor, and Harvey hadn't used a single fourth-order spell from start to finish, so Dolores' battle with the human mage was a tight one.
Using a magic spell to block Harvey's spell again, Dolores returned to Talos and quickly explained in dragon language: "There are many other material planes in the void outside the main material plane, and some of these lower planes have their origins damaged, and some are in the ascending stage, and the laws of the plane are not perfect, so they cannot give birth to fifth-order powerhouses belonging to the main plane. ”
"If a professional whose strength has reached the fourth order wants to go further, he must find a new way, provided that he knows that there is a fifth order above the fourth order, and that there are other material planes and the existence of upper stars beyond the lower plane. ”
"With the help of certain special rituals or timings, fourth-order professionals who are lucky enough can be lucky enough to enter the main material plane, thus opening up new horizons and going further on their career path. ”
Talos nodded, and suddenly realized, and his gaze fell on Harvey, this behavior of coming from the lower plane to the upper star sounded familiar.
Yes, in the Oriental Xianxia system, this kind of behavior from one world to another has a very professional term - Ascension!
But now, Talos pursed his lips, withdrew his gaze from Harvey, and concluded in the aria-like tone of the aristocracy, "So standing in front of us is a stowaway from the lower planes. ”
For Harvey's half-human, half-snake evaluation just now, Talos minds very much.
Then he complained softly: "Why didn't my mother tell me such a funny thing?" ”
Talos's voice was soft, but it was clearly heard by the human bishop, and he was a little unimpressed.
He did think that the origins of the two Nagas, Talos and Dolores, would not be ordinary, but no one was qualified to know about other physical and extra-dimensional visitors, and even he had accidentally read it in a secret book in the Temple of Death.
However, the attainments of the two in "Plane Science" and the familiarity with the matter of the visitor from the different plane made the human bishop decide to overturn the conclusion just now, perhaps, the origin of the two is really not inferior to him at all.
"There is nothing to regret. Dolores reassured, "Anyway, this human mage—yes, stowaway, I like the word—doesn't have a chance to be promoted to a fifth-order legendary mage, never will." ”
"Tell me, why?"
Harvey stepped forward and asked in a deep voice, unleashing the coercion unique to a fourth-order archmage to press on Talos and Dolores.