Chapter 43: Absorption
"Necromancer!" Listening to the squirrel's exclamation, Liu Li understood what was happening, and under the guidance of the azure in the meditation space, the runes formed by the twisted gray spots on it allowed him to unconsciously cast a necromantic magic in the squirrel's mouth.
The "silver face" was pierced through the chest by the giant sword, and he had stopped breathing at this moment, but Liu Li's attention was completely unfocused on the person who had slashed him. The captain of the guard, who once had the name Brumman, could no longer be called a living person at this moment, he was just a moving corpse. In his eyes, Liu Li could not see the slightest trace of the spirituality that belonged to the creature, and in those gray eyes, there was nothing but emptiness.
"Is this the power of the death element......" Liu Li couldn't help but sigh. Although the gray aura flowing from the bones of the code words still belonged to the black element in essence, this terrifying nature made Liu Li feel a pang in his heart, "This is definitely not a power that belongs to this world. ”
"The Bone of Secret Whispers is mine!" Just as Liu Li was amazed at the impact of the death element, Ian, who had seen everything that happened to Bluman, rushed towards Liu Li despite the obstruction of the others in front of him. The wisdom and calmness of being a spellcaster had long been forgotten by him, and in his eyes, there was only the bone of the secret words clenched in Liu Li's left hand, and the terrifying power of the death element. Eve didn't realize that her brother was so crazy about the Whisper Bone, she only thought that Ian was greedy for the power in the bone, but she didn't expect that this power was closely related to his life and death.
"Hide. Seeing that Ian broke through Eve's barrier with a solid black film, and even under the swing of the blade, a new crack appeared on the mask, Liu Li hurriedly let go of the squirrel's tail and said at the same time, and then lifted the "return" stuck in the ground, and waited for it.
However, the first person to confront Ian was not Liu Li, but Bruman, who had lost his ability to think and had empty eyes. He may have lost consciousness, and there was no trace of life in his empty eyes, but he always remembered the obsession before he died. He is the captain of the caravan, Eve's personal guard, he has to protect the caravan, protect Eve, and in this battle, he also has to protect Liu Li, who is the caster. Bluman drew the giant sword that pierced into the body of the "Silver Face" and slashed at Ian who rushed over.
"Get out of here, damn the undead!" Ian ignored the slashing greatsword as he relied on his masked shield to protect him. In Liu Li's "omniscient" state of vision, the gray death element emanated from Ian's body, forming a distorted face in front of him, accompanied by a terrifying wail, piercing through the black film in front of him, and pounced on him.
Liu Li had flipped through most of the books in Wells's library, and had never found any records of souls in this world, but Liu Li could not think of any other words to describe them more accurately than resentful souls.
The "Return" stab in his hand, wrapped in the power skills of "Zhen", greeted the resentful soul who rushed the fastest. Although Kuhn could have smashed Landolia's black hole with his martial arts, he didn't know if Liu Li could stop the invasion of resentful spirits with the same skills. However, the situation at this time did not allow him to think more, and at the moment when the stabbing "Return" came into contact with the resentful spirit, a palpitating cold feeling spread along the "Return" to Liu Li's hands.
"Not good, spell recoil. ”
Martial arts, as a special force technique, are the entry to the path of martial artists. And the spellcasters, of course, also have their own skills, and this kind of skill, the requirements for elemental control, are more difficult than the use of martial arts by martial artists. When a mage casts magic, he mobilizes the elements in his body to build the basic structure of the spell through his spiritual power, and then mobilizes the elements that already exist in nature to fill it through the spiritual imprint imprinted on the basic structure. A long time ago, when time could not be verified, a spellcaster once put forward the conjecture: "If you can use your own mental power to erase the mental imprint of other spellcasters on the spell structure, can you make the spell collapse, or even re-brand your own mark, can you control the spell that belongs to others?" "There have been countless spellcasters throughout history who have devoted their lives to this conjecture, and the final conclusion only proves that the first half of the conjecture is achievable. And the martial artist's ability to break spells through martial arts is also derived from the extension of this conjecture, and it is only through the unique power technique, that is, martial arts, that is, to defeat the spiritual imprint in the spell.
However, it is not so easy to erase the spiritual power in a spell that has been formed, if it succeeds, it can naturally defeat the spell, this technique is called spell disintegration, and if it fails, it will cause the spell to explode in advance, and even produce uncontrollable consequences, and the uncontrollable consequences caused by the spell explosion caused in advance are called spell recoil.
Liu Li was not careless, as an orthodox spellcaster, he believed that he would never be weaker than Ian in terms of meticulous control of spiritual power, and the interpretation of the gray ray that shot at him before also proved this. However, what Liu Li didn't expect was that these souls that rushed towards him contained not only Ian's spiritual imprint, but also their own will. Although this will is governed by the element of death, it is also real.
The cold feeling spread along the "return", Liu Li's right arm holding the gun stick also became dry and decayed with the erosion of the resentful spirit, he could even feel the atrophy of the muscles on the arm, the blood was also sucked away by something, and most of the condensed power dissipated, and even the entire arm became as if it did not belong to him at all.
Seeing more resentful spirits attacking him, Liu Li knew that he must not sit still at this moment, and the extraction of the death element in the Secret Bone was no longer as careful as before, but let the terrifying element contained in the strange bone pour into his body like a raging tide.
As the torrent of gray elements stirred in his body, in Liu Li's meditation space, the azure shone more and more intensely, and the gray marks that had just appeared on the azure blue gradually solidified with this intense brilliance, and the color deepened, and finally became pitch black as ink. A new rune gradually condensed, and like the dark red before, it exuded an ancient aura, as if the terrifying existence that had survived from eternity to the present day had finally awakened. The light circulating in the crystal clusters composed of elemental crystals was gradually dyed a layer of pitch black.
The gray death elements rampaged through Liu Li's body, eroding Liu Li's body with their unique characteristics, but the moment the black symbol in the meditation space was fully formed, it suddenly became obedient like a beast that was choked by the throat. Even the resentful spirits that invaded Liu Li's body have also become peaceful, and they no longer have the mania they had before.
Those resentful spirits who were still attacking Liu Li in mid-air were like encountering natural enemies, and they could no longer care about Ian, the master of the spell, and fled in all directions. With their simple consciousness, they do not understand what they are afraid of, but instinctively know that if they continue to rush towards the enemy in front of them, even that simple consciousness will die the moment it comes into contact with it.
The death element is essentially the same as the black element that Liu Li is familiar with, but it just shows another characteristic. They didn't belong to this world, and it was naturally difficult to control them, which was why Liu Li didn't dare to channel the gray elements in the Secret Whisper Bone too quickly. However, at the moment when the pitch-black runes above the azure in the meditation space condensed, Liu Li seemed to have obtained a kind of permission that did not belong to this world, and the gray death element became the same as the black element he was familiar with. Ian's manipulation of the gray element is just an inertia that has been developed after years of familiarity, and he does not understand its essence. In addition, those resentful souls are still mixed with thoughts that do not belong to him, and it is natural for Liu Li to be directly destroyed. But Ian doesn't care about those resentful souls anymore, he only has the secret words in Liu Li's hands in his eyes, and everything else is no longer important in front of things related to his own life. Especially seeing Liu Li's arm eroded by resentful spirits gradually recovering, the desire for the bone of secret words in his heart became more and more irrepressible.
For Ian's raid on Liu Li this time, the black film in front of him is too strong, plus this defensive spell is generated by a stored spell item, and it is impossible to rely on the attack on the spirit mark to cause the effect of spell disintegration.
Just when Liu Li was worried about how to break through this layer of defense, a nut pierced the membrane and hit Ian's head, which was also the only long-range attack method for the squirrel in a hurry. She is not sure about the accuracy of throwing the dagger, but throwing nuts, she can definitely achieve 100 shots within the range, Liu Li later knew that she had this strange talent, and she didn't know what to say, but at this moment, this small nut made Liu Limao stunned.
The defense provided by the "Mask" will never be kept on all the time, not to mention whether the magic contained in it is enough to provide shield consumption, and it will cause a lot of trouble in normal times if you really carry this film all the time. Then as a trigger defense, there must be a specific trigger condition. Through the nut thrown by the squirrel, Liu Li also had some guesses about the trigger conditions for the masquerade defense.
Holding the "return" tightly, Liu Li felt that the state of his arm had almost recovered, and the powerlessness caused by the erosion of resentful souls had subsided. Liu Li, who lifted the cane, seemed to attack extremely slowly, but with an extremely strong sense of oppression, and the shield in front of Ian seemed to be unaware of Liu Li's attack, and did not hinder the "return".
"Sure enough, I was thinking too much. Liu Li finally confirmed his guess, although the shield generated by this mask was extremely outstanding in terms of defensive power, the condition for producing defense was not to detect hostility like high-level magic storage items, but to simply detect the speed of incoming objects.
Ian didn't expect Liu Li to discover the weakness of the mask so quickly, but it was too late to defend again. The originally good body had been riddled by the erosion of the elements for decades, especially the death elemental with the decaying nature, so he couldn't make any effective response to this slow blow. And Liu Li is so strong in terms of strength, especially in the slow speed, he still has the skill of martial arts "shock". Ian could only fold his arms in front of him, but as the "Return" made contact with his arm, Pei Ran's power suddenly exploded, and the pain from his arm constantly stimulated Ian's brain, making him almost faint.
At the same time that "Homecoming" came into contact with Ian, the gray death element, like a traveler finally finding his way home, couldn't wait to rush out of Ian's body and spread to Liu Li along "Homecoming". And with the departure of the death elemental, Ian's life is gradually coming to an end. The strange mask on his face, at the same time as the force of the "shock" exploded, it became shattered along those black cracks, and Liu Li also saw for the first time that Ian's face was no longer human.