Chapter 363: Crab Fishing in the Gaps
If you want to safely navigate through a chaotic space, there are two things you must do. First of all, you must be able to be able to pull the space and not deviate too far from the trajectory you are expected to travel, and for cheese, it is not to leave the sometimes narrow and sometimes wide corridor on both sides. As long as he is still within the confines of the corridor, small spatial deviations can be ignored. If this is relatively easy to accomplish, then the second requirement to get out of here is the main reason why it is fatal.
The second requirement to leave the chaotic space is to find the "coordinates". The space itself cannot be marked, and there is no character to speak of. However, after the research of the spellcasters, they found that the matter attached to the outer layer of space and shaped the space has a slightly fixed nature. The mages refer to these substances as the ether, and the coordinates are achieved by locating a certain part of the ether. And with the help of the stable nature of coordinates, people who enter the disordered space can find their way. Most people, in order to ensure that their coordinates are always valid, will use a mountain or a large lake in nature and a magnificent city as their lighthouse. As for Cheese, as a gray robe, his coordinates are naturally the towering building that he grew up in the north of the world.
Locating the Grey Tower is not difficult, and it is almost becoming a natural skill for a mage. You know, the first thing Cheese and his fellow disciples do when they wake up each day is not to open their eyes, but to locate themselves through the Grey Tower, so that they can be sure that they are still in real space and not captured by nightmares or anything else. However, after trying it, Cheese was surprised to find that although he could accurately find the location of the Gray Tower, it was difficult for him to locate it as a reference, how could this be? In order to ensure the influence of the Gray Tower, the Lord of the Gray Tower also built an extension of the Gray Tower in almost all the spaces that overlapped with the real world, and these worlds even included the shadow world and some deeper and more difficult to find places.
The mage cast his gaze unobtrusively at the oil painting behind him. It seemed that the ability to catch crabs in the gap could indeed be used against him, much to the frustration of Cheese, who was now so preoccupied with the safety of his allies that he couldn't afford to fight such an opponent. But he also knew that this battle was inevitable, and that the ability to catch crabs in the gap was effective against him, which meant that he did have the ability to hunt the caster, and he would not tolerate carelessness in fighting such an opponent.
The robe, swaying slightly, the hands under the gray fabric flexibly make various movements. This is an unstable spatial fault, and the spell must be precise and controllable, and if you accidentally cause any damage to this turbulent space, God knows what will happen. As luck would have it, it's possible that cheese and crab fishing were compressed into invisible particles by the collapsed space.
The spell is shot, silently. Many spellcasters find it difficult to cast spells covertly, and it is easier and more powerful for them to burst out of their magic in one go. Cheese is the complete opposite of these people, the efficiency of the mage rejects rude spell casting, his magic is always precise, but this precision is often also deadly.
"Poof!" the sound of a steel needle piercing a balloon sounded from the painting, and the camouflage of the crab was punctured, revealing its true body behind the cracked canvas. It was a black creature that resembled a lobster but had twelve legs and two giant crab-like feet. Most of the creatures in the void are of this color. The monster was the size of five cheeses, and it was unknown how it had been hiding under a small oil painting. The crab fisherman was not afraid to see that his usual predatory tricks were exposed, as Cheese had guessed, this creature had the ability to perceive magic, and it could feel that although the mage in front of him was aware of him, the magic he released was not strong.
That's the illusion that Cheese wants to give the other person. He was afraid that if the crab fisherman sensed his true ability and avoided it, it would take longer to escape from here. The mage turned around and bowed his body halfway, although he knew how to hunt crabs in the gaps, but there was no record in the books of how this creature fought. Probably a mage who can see through its disguise can easily kill this thing.
There was an orderly clatter from the carapace of the "cluck" monster, and Cheese guessed that it might be its cry or something like that. If it weren't for the fact that time didn't allow, the mage's curiosity really wanted to dissect this crab to see what kind of structure it was. Just as Cheese was thinking about where to start if he wanted to dissect this monster, the crab fishing in the gap moved.
Movement in disordered spaces tends to be slow, and each step needs to be carefully considered to avoid being swept up in sudden turbulence. So the mage had a preconceived idea that the same would be true for his opponent, ignoring the fact that the creature itself grew up in this environment. Therefore, when the monster's huge body appeared directly in front of Cheese in the next second, the mage was inevitably shocked. Immediately after that, there was the severe pain!
"Shhh Judging by the blood oozing from his hands, there was no doubt that the crab claws had just pierced the robes produced by the Grey Tower, leaving a rather serious wound on the mage's body. The pain makes Cheese realize that he is now fighting on the home turf of a dangerous predator. Here, if he doesn't fight with all his might, his fate will be no different from that of other prey that dies in the mouth of a crab.
"You brought it on yourself!" The serious mage's eyes burst with a powerful magical light, and he pointed at the enemy with his right hand, and the spell that had made a large number of ghouls petrified was activated again, although this time there was only one goal, but Cheese did not dare to slack off in the slightest. The "buzz" magic makes the surrounding space emit an ear-ringing sound, reminding the wizard that the space is not stable. But now Cheese can't take care of that much, he just wants that monster to be honestly turned into a stone statue now.
At a speed visible to the naked eye, the crab quickly petrified from its feet, and the monster didn't seem to understand what was happening to its body, and it tried to move its feet, but couldn't do it anyway. It waved its claws at the mage in vain, and was finally shaped like this. It seems that the mage's magic has succeeded.
"Whew. Cheese let out a sigh of relief when he saw that the monster had been turned into a stone sculpture. He frowned and examined the wound in his abdomen, fortunately, after so many battles, the mage's reflex nerves were much more sensitive than before, if it was when he had just left the Gray Tower, this blow would have pierced him entirely, but Rao was like this, and the distance between the wound and the internal organs was already very close.
Cheese took out the strip of cloth from the inside of the robe and simply wrapped the wound to stop the bleeding. He then began to seriously look for a way out of the space, but only when the mage had his back to the stone sculpture turned into a crab in the gap......
"Giggles"