Chapter 414: Walking on Demon Ice
What does it feel like to walk on water? This is probably not an easy answer to answer, after all, most people think that water is not a medium that can be used as a vehicle for walking.
It is a shallow puddle on the ground after the rain, and when you step on it, you will reach the bottom of the pit with one foot, and you will not step on the water surface. Even if you swim in the water, you don't rely on the soles of your feet to support your whole body. In the final analysis, standing on the water is not a matter of common sense. Therefore, when the group was advancing on the water, no one dared to stride forward, and every step had to be carefully taken with all kinds of caution, for fear that if one foot was wrong, they would fall into the water where there was no reflection.
"Ahh Gray Robe's eyes turned slightly, it didn't feel normal, after all, magic is dangerous to most natural creatures, and the instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm will keep them away from the place where magic gathers.
Of course, there are exceptions, and there are some animals that prefer certain magical powers, such as the crow and the black cat's obsession with witches, which are always closely related to female spellcasters.
"Don't worry, it won't come up. "Cheese wouldn't open his mouth to comfort his apprentice, that would be contrary to his original purpose. Therefore, the person who said this was Wei Ya, a female mage from the City of Ten Thousand Laws, her expression had calmed down a lot, and the thick fog behind her obscured the shadow of the ship, and also made her forget her dying colleague for a while,
"Water condensed by high mana is similar in nature to ice, because mana conducts differently in air and in water, and they preferentially accumulate on the surface of the water body to form a viscous state that is not easy to pass through. At this time, the underwater creatures are unable to perceive the changes in the surface of the water, and for them, everything is normal. ”
Although she didn't get along well with the other members, Wei Ya showed some kindness to Yuni. This may have been due to the fact that the boy was the only one standing by the duo of the City of Ten Thousand Laws to help them fend off the fish infestation just now. And this action did not come from the instructions of the cheese, with the protection of the hat and the coat, Yuni could have been left alone, but he chose to protect the injured with his heartfelt thoughts, and it seems that the difficult life and illness have not made the child as cold as iron.
This should have been a good thing, but the problem was that he was the apprentice of the Grey Robe, and the rationality required by the way of magic was bound to be accompanied by indifference.
"How long are we going to go, and are they going to attack us here?"
Lolo asked Cheese with some flinching. This isolated, unavoidable environment is an ideal ambush location than a well-targeted enemy, and if the cultists set a trap here, they will be a living target and left to be eaten. Thinking of this, the people in the team immediately looked around vigilantly.
There was nothing but fog all around, and if it weren't for the Breath of Dawn on Cheese's waist as a wonderful artifact from the hands of the dwarves, the mist would not even be visible to the people in front of him.
In fact, the gray robe has some reservations, and these water mist are also born from magic, if he turns up the lantern to the maximum now, coupled with proper guidance, he may not be able to break the magic gathering here and direct the energy accumulated here to other places. But if you do so, it will be so powerful that even people who don't know magic will be aware of it. Second, if there was no strong magical power, the magic ice under their feet would no longer exist.
"Attacking us? It's possible, but I wish they did. Cheese smiled, stretched out his hand and swiped in the air at will, the rich magic power immediately condensed under his disturbance, no need for magic vision, even Yuni, an ordinary person, could observe with the naked eye that the brilliant magic aura converged into a small ball of light, floating in the air like opaque bubbles.
It's a space where magic is abundant enough to influence the waters, and where spellcasters who use their magic to fight are like they have infinite ammunition, and no sane person would choose to attack a mage here, let alone a team of mages.
"Maybe they know how to use magic, too. The dancer was still a little uneasy, because the way she cast her spells had nothing to do with magic, but came from a connection with the golden spirit, so she couldn't quite understand Cheese's confidence.
"Cultists who can use magical powers? Believe me, believers in those things will not have the ability and interest to come into contact with magic, because if they do, they will realize what kind of being they believe in. They will go crazy because of this, and madness is the biggest obstacle to casting spells. ”
Words, it sounds reasonable. Cheese is convincing, but attitude alone is convincing. Of course not, but what is hidden behind this sentence is the experience of the gray robe against the evil god and his followers, and even his own research on the evil god. And if these things are spoken, others will believe it or not, and even if they believe it, it will be even more troublesome, because the people who study these extra-earthly beings and the spellcasters are just like the spellcasters and ordinary people, and they are incomprehensible.
Whether it was Cheese's words or the discriminatory perception of the cultists, the members of the team survived this small turmoil and were no longer suspicious. But after they were suspicious, they had to think about another question in front of them, and the first person to realize this problem didn't know who it was, but the first person to ask it was the old man with a pointed hat.
"Why is this magic condensed here, and what are they going to do?"
Yes, that's the point of the anomaly at hand. If cultists don't have a need for magic, then what is the purpose for which they have created what they are seeing, and it can't just be to walk on water or cover their tracks with mist?
Everything that happens must have a cause, and if it is artificially driven, then this cause must not be out of people's hearts. In fact, everyone present had already thought of this question, but they were all looking for the answer in their own way, and this was the self-confidence of the caster.
The old man asked this question, which showed that in his opinion, there was no reasonable explanation. Since you can't go through your own path, it's understandable to learn from others, you can't hang yourself on a tree, that's not persistence, it's stupidity. But if he can't find the answer, others will be able to find it?
Aside from Yoni, several of the casters present had somewhat confused expressions on their faces, and they didn't understand what the reason was hidden here. Only Cheese, he has already experienced too many things, especially the confrontation with the worm evil god is not the first time, thinking of the nightmare-like figure on Tianmu, he already has some kind of conjecture, and what is still missing is the evidence to support the conjecture.
Conjectures must have evidence, because the ideas and logic put forward by wishful thinking can also be broken by the wishful thinking of others.
The evidence that Cheese was looking for was not in front of them, nor in the east, west, north and south, it was at the feet of a few people. When the Grey Robe inadvertently brought Dawn's Breath close to the water's surface, he saw the evidence.
It was a pulsating behemoth, with an eeriely colored velvety wrap on its surface that swallowed the light beneath the water's surface, rendering it invisible. But when the light of dawn shines on it, the thing that creates the illusion of darkness reveals its appearance because of the reflection.
Cheese's brow furrowed, and something underwater seemed to be a cocoon.