039. Investigation
"This is definitely not Black Dragon Island, not even in the Arctic Ocean! That stone gate just now should have a teleportation function, and the strange thing is that it doesn't have the vertigo that other modern teleportation arrays can't avoid. ”
In front of Talos was a field of ice and snow, with snow-capped mountains towering into the clouds, undulating and endless, and the group seemed extremely small in this vast world.
Goose-feather snow fell from the sky, and although it wasn't a snake and didn't need to hibernate, when the snowflakes fell on him, Talos still had the urge to find a cave to sleep in.
"What a great illusion!"
Armand, a young knight who was silent along the way, just followed Odinson, reached out to catch a snowflake and said suddenly.
This sentence surprised Talos, this is a fantasy?
Somewhat unconvinced, Naga concentrated on perceiving the ice and snow world, but found nothing—perceiving illusions has always been an area of expertise for spellcasters and clerics.
Just as Talos was about to sigh that he was no longer a mage, and the second before his ability to sense illusions decreased, the soul fire, which had not moved, suddenly trembled twice.
Under the effect of the soul fire, Talos's eyes turned into Naga's unique snake pupils, and then the icy world in front of him was filled with ripples like a reflection in the water, and it was vaguely seen that there was a real city behind the ripples.
"It's really a fantasy!"
While Talos rejoiced at another function of the Soul Fire, he secretly doubted the young knight's true origins.
A bloodline knight who only has a first-order is the first of six high-level professionals to discover this is an illusion, and it is by no means that simple.
"It's a fantasy indeed. The High Mage who followed Princess Anna agreed, "If the essence of this illusion is not discovered, the latecomers will trek through this snow-capped mountain with no end in sight, trapped in it, just like them." ”
Looking in the direction of the High Mage's finger, Talos spotted a group of lizardmen and harpies covered in snow at the foot of the snow-capped mountains in the distance, having lost their lives in the blizzard.
They are barbarian pirates.
This is the power of the advanced illusion, it is clear that everything is fake, but after deceiving the target's senses, the target is naturally trapped by what he sees and hears, and even suffers damage, maps to reality, and loses his life.
The high-ranking mage said as he took out his wand, and the incantation was swiped in front of him.
With a pop, the snow-capped mountain in front of him was split in two, revealing the real city hidden deep inside.
"Let's go!"
The group's bodies melted into the environment like water and vanished, as a city made entirely of ice appeared in front of Talos.
"This is obviously the last place to hide the treasure, but I don't know where it is, the scale of this city is not small!"
Although the spells of the Prophecy faction are named after Prophecy, in fact, more than 70% of the spells are probe-type spells, which can detect the environment and obtain basic information, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.
Now the high-level mages are using a high-level prophecy faction spell, Environmental Scouting!
A wrist-thin, silver-gray magical aura poured out from the wand of the high-ranking mage, sinking into the earth, radiating very invisibly into the distance.
After a full half a minute, the magical aura was like an echo carrying all kinds of information back to it, rising from the ground, converging in front of the high-ranking mage, and wriggling into a piece of parchment.
The high-level mage reached out and grabbed the parchment paper that had been embodied by the results of the reconnaissance technique, and when he opened it, it turned out to be a two-dimensional flat map.
All of the information detected by the Recon technique is presented on this map in great detail, including the overall terrain, size, and distribution of specific buildings in the city.
Talos knew that this was just the result of a high-level prophecy spell, if an archmage who was proficient in the spells of the prophecy faction personally cast a fourth-order spell and advanced reconnaissance technique, he could directly generate a three-dimensional holographic model suspended in front of him, which was much more intuitive and detailed than a two-dimensional flat map.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, the area of this ice and snow city is about 270 square miles, which is equivalent to a medium-sized city, and there are currently seven places on the map that my spell cannot detect, and it is estimated that the so-called treasure is in one of them. ”
"It's good, we're making concrete plans as we go. ”
Anna was very confident in the prophecy spells of the high-ranking mage, and after giving a few orders, she turned to the girl of the Mithriel family, who had been following everyone quietly, and said, "Dolores, do you see anything different?"
Princess Anna was drawing on the Prophetic bloodline of the girl from House Mithreel, and Talos thought that the last shipwreck had given the girl named Dolores a step further in her prophetic abilities.
Compared to the spells in the Prophecy faction, the Prophet bloodline is a true prophecy, even though it is often mistaken as nonsense.
"Nope. The girl shrunk her neck, and Dolores seemed to be more introverted and reticent than the last time he had encountered him on the magic submarine.
"It's okay, if you see any pictures, you must report it to me as soon as possible, understand?"
"Understood, Your Highness Anna. ”
"Bill, I'll take care of the rest. Sitting on the magic flying carpet, Talos whispered to the priest of the Church of the Goddess of Wealth beside him.
"Don't worry, as I said, my attainments in alchemy are very profound. ”
As he spoke, Bill took out his scepter, placed it lightly on the magic carpet, and began to pray to the goddess of wealth.
A special force field is wrapped around the scepter along with prayer, and then the scepter turns on its own, like a compass thrown into an area of magnetic field disorder.
After about ten seconds, the scepter stopped spinning, emitting a faint golden glow pointing in one direction.
"This direction represents the place where the ice city has the largest amount of gold. Talos said.
"No, the place with the largest amount of gold in my spell range, to be exact. ”
Under Talos's gaze, Bill had a little embarrassment on his face, compared to the high-level mage's skillful and accurate environmental reconnaissance technique just now, his spell was a little immature.
"With my current abilities, the range of alchemy spells is only one-fifth the size of a city. ”
Better than nothing, Talos thought, combining the 2D map of a high-level mage with a lot of things.
Suddenly, a terrible lightning bolt fell from the sky, and the lightning burst out, as if through the heavens and the earth, and fell straight to the north of the city.
Then, there was a loud explosion that made Talos's ears feel as uncomfortable as if they had been stuffed with cotton.
"Air Elemental Faction High-level Spell Thunderstorm Technique! There are people fighting over there, at least a few high-level professionals, let's go over. ”