Chapter 66: The Apprentice's Hall
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Seeing this inexplicable and terrifying scene, Lucien, Charlotte and Sandra breathed a sigh of relief, because they said that the magic array of the "Bertrand" castle itself had not been opened, indicating that either the core part of this magician castle had been damaged during the impact of the failed summoning ceremony, or the people who came through the summoning array were indeed low-level devils, with insufficient intelligence, no magic knowledge, and no ability to manipulate the magic array.
Either way, this is good news for Lucien and others, because a fully stimulated magic tower or magician castle often means that its owner has one or two levels of strength or more, if the magician himself inherits a high-level, it is not impossible to rely on the magic tower to temporarily resist the magician of the sixth and seventh rings, so if this castle designed and built by the three-ring magician Bertrand completely opens the magic array, it will be equivalent to a magician with four or five rings, and it will cost Lucian, Charlotte and Sandra took a long time to break.
However, Lucien did not rush in immediately, but stopped in the air outside the castle, pushed the monocle, and the left eye that was blocked by it became red, looking at the dark scene inside through the partially opened castle window, from time to time you can find a huge amount of thermal radiation of red light - from hell, most of them grow in sulfur flames, the devil who is immune to flames and toxins, its infrared radiation is far more than that of ordinary humans, and sometimes even if there is a thick wall to block and absorb, Lucien can barely find a little red trace.
After synthesizing with the conclusions reached by Charlotte and Sandra using their respective reconnaissance methods, Lucien probably had a topographical map of the castle that showed the range of activities of the low-level devils in his mind, combined with Susan's description of the environment inside, he quickly made a preliminary decision, and calmly said to the other two: "We first need to go to the bondage to destroy the summoning array." Then we will clean up the remnants of the devil, and according to this line of thinking, it is not as easy for us to enter through the windows or directly blast the castle walls as it is to go through the gates, courtyards, and hall stairs to the second floor, away from the windows. ”
"I think so too. Mr. Evans. Charlotte nodded in agreement.
And the lightning crackled in Sandra's hand, condensed into a silver-white electric spear and flew out, directly through the gate, and fell into a bottomless dark well in the corner of the courtyard. Bursting with dazzling electric light and a slight explosion, this is the energy well that draws on the power of the sun and the tide to maintain the normal operation of the magic array.
She took advantage of the fact that the magic array had not yet been opened to destroy one of the energy wells. Don't get blocked by a magic circle when you enter the castle - even if most magic towers are set up stronger on the outside than on the inside.
Of course, there are many similar energy wells in the castle, and they all converge into the energy room on the third floor, and only by completely blowing them up can most of the magic arrays in the castle be destroyed.
A faint layer of black light with countless magic runes appeared on the pitch-black energy well, struggling to resist the explosion of silver-white electric light.
Just as Sandra was about to condense another four-ring "Thunder Spear" attack, she suddenly saw Lucien stretch out her right hand. In front of the palm, a different crimson fireball condensed, the size of the skull, and the color was restrained, as if it contained terrifying power.
With a push of Lucien's right hand, the crimson fireball flew out with a snort. Quickly hit the energy well.
There was a loud bang, an explosion that Charlotte and Sandra had not expected, and countless black smoke rose in place, forming a small mushroom cloud.
When the black smoke disappeared, the fragmented energy well appeared in front of Sandra and the others, which made her open her mouth and speechless, the simple explosion and destruction were really the power of the elemental system, worthy of the title of "destruction maniac"! It's just that the magic power of Mr. Evans is too exaggerated, right? It surpasses the three-ring fireball technique I don't know how many times, and it can even be compared to the "large flame explosion" of the five-ring!
Is this the Elemental Will or Mr. Evans' unique magic?
How could she and Charlotte, who were standing right next to Lucien, not be able to tell if it was the magic activated by the magic item or the magic released by itself, and Lucian Evans only had the magic level of the three rings!
Therefore, after seeing this magic, they no longer had any doubts about Lucian's magical strength, at least in terms of pure destructive power, which was definitely stronger than the two of them.
Satisfied with the effect of the explosion he had caused, Lucien said quickly, "Rush into the hall before the devils can hear the noise and gather." ”
"Lucien's Great Fireball" is mainly explosive damage, supplemented by flame burning, which is equivalent to the elemental explosion magic of the four rings, and more importantly, Lucian's Holm crown ring "elemental" can also increase its power by an additional forty percent, so when you look at it, it almost has the horror of the five rings of magic!
And with Lucian's original mental power, he can cast more than twenty large fireballs in a row, but after combining with the super magic technique "Spell Increase", he can only release seven or eight, but the "elemental" ring has increased Lucian's mental power recovery speed to the level of a five-ring magician, as long as it is not used continuously except for the casting buffer without any room for rest, there is basically no danger of mental power exhaustion in the half-hour battle.
I have to say that the "elemental" ring is really an artifact compared to Lucian's level.
With the deterrence of magical strength, Charlotte and Sandra did not oppose Lucien's decision, and quickly landed in the castle courtyard with Susan, and at the same time blessed her with the "Acceleration" and "Bear Endurance" spells respectively, so that she could keep up with the three mid-level magicians who had already stacked these magic buffs.
As soon as they landed, Charlotte and Sandra stood in front of them, one left and one right, with Lucien behind them, a standard three-man battle formation of the Magic Council, and Susan following Lucian and Sandra behind.
Splashes of blood could be seen on the courtyard floor from time to time, and at this time, the castle resounded with a vicious roar, and it was clear that the low-level devils had discovered the enemy invasion.
Quickly passing through the courtyard, Charlotte blasted the half-hidden iron door of the hall with a fireball, and then rushed in with Sandra.
In the hall, incomplete human corpses lay on their backs, their faces full of lingering fear, severed limbs, hearts, intestines, etc. everywhere. The strong smell of blood and nightmarish scenes made Susan almost retching and her feet limp.
After discerning the direction slightly, several people began to run through the burning couches, chairs, wood, etc., stepping on blood and flesh and running up the stairs.
A black, carved staircase in the faint black smoke appears in the corner. Susan couldn't help but feel a little excited, and there was some joy on her face, but suddenly there was a buzzing sound, and a team of bloated "wasps" that seemed to be carved out of obsidian flew down different aisles. They are huge, equivalent to two or three humans.
Unlike normal wasps, their head is in the form of a human female with white pupils. Her expression was full of pain, with short tentacles on her head, a twisted straw in her jaw, a pair of flexible black insect wings on her back, and a spike at the end of her body that glowed with black light.
Gazing at these "wasps" with their terrifying female faces, Susan screamed as if in a nightmare.
Lucian, Charlotte, and Sandra were unaffected.
This is the "Tiger Bee Demon". The fact that they don't have yellow, red, or orange stripes on them is just low-level!
A thick, bright bolt of lightning appeared out of thin air and slashed at a tiger hornet demon who had tried to influence Sandra's mind and used her huge body to grab her and inject her with toxin.
With a snap, the tiger bee demon fell to the ground like charcoal, and tiny electric light popped out of it and hit the other tiger bee demons.
Most of the people affected by the lightning convulsed and paralyzed in place. Only a few in the distance were unaffected, and continued to frantically unleash fire spell attacks.
Then a biting cold wind mixed with diffuse snowflakes whistled near the staircase, and soon a fist-sized, shimmering hail fell, freezing and shattering the many tiger hornets into ice.
The four-ring magic "Ice Storm" from Charlotte!
Since the Devils are immune to normal fire and toxins, and are resistant to acid and cold, they are experienced in combat, and neither Charlotte nor Sandra has chosen fire magic.
In front of Lucien, dark green arrows flew out of front of him, and they quickly corroded and pierced through the tiger bee demon after hitting it.
The second ring magic "Muskelin's Acid Arrow".
When the ice storm stopped, all the more than 20 tiger bees that attacked were dead.
This made Lucien feel a trace of emotion in his soul, killing a low-level devil so easily was completely unimaginable to himself more than two years ago.
When the Silver White Horn summoned the devil projection to fuse with Baron Laurent's bloodline, even if the devil projected from it was only one or two level strength, he made himself afraid and cautious, and tried to destroy it before the ritual was completed, and now killing more than twenty first-level tiger bee demons was as simple as eating and drinking.
After the tiger bee demon landed, the corpse quickly disappeared, and there was nothing left, which slightly disappointed Lucian, who was planning to collect the devil's blood materials, etc., it seemed that they were projected and not summoned real bodies.
Without delay, the formation changed, and Charlotte cleared the way, with Sandra, Lucien, and Susan climbing the stairs right behind him.
Amid the sound of thumping footsteps, several people quickly came to the second floor, and appeared in front of them a hall full of bookshelves, with many tables piled high with books, paper and pencils.
Some of them were overthrown, some remained as they were, and even a magic apprentice sat on a chair next to a wooden table, his chest and abdomen open, and his intestines and liver fell to the ground, apparently killed by the devil before he could react.
"This is the apprenticeship hall where we learn. Susan briefly explained, "Go through it and go to the bottom of the hallway and turn around to the bondage room." ”
Although he wanted to collect the books here, Lucien, who understood the urgency of the matter, did not delay, and stepped into the apprenticeship hall with Charlotte and the others, and walked around the spaces separated by bookshelves.
The emphasis on knowledge made them not choose to destroy the bookshelves and walk through them directly.
Bypassing a bookshelf, Lucien found a mirror standing on the wall next to it, reflecting the silhouette of himself and others: Charlotte and Sandra in the front, Susan in the middle, and himself in a long black double-breasted gown in the back.
As Lucien glanced at it, the figure in the mirror also turned its head, making a normal "eye contact", also wearing a pair of monocles in his left eye.
Lucien, who didn't think it was strange, was just about to turn his head, when he suddenly saw a strange smile on his face in the mirror, white eyeballs bulging, and blue-gray pimples on his face! )