Chapter Eighty-Six: Demonic Mist
Tarrant pointed in the direction indicated by the three-dimensional arrow and shouted, "There!" In a moment of excitement, his eyes returned to their original positions, the pattern disappeared, and his hand was pointing to the side of the iron door, and there was nothing there.
Rex trotted over there and checked the iron door, "What do you see?!"
"A hint to activate the door, the arrow, the door is painted with a hidden arrow", Tarrant focused again, the arrow appeared, he tried to get to the door with his current cross-vision, but when he got closer, the arrow immediately dimmed, and had to be kept at a suitable distance to see clearly.
Kitty looked at Katrina and Tarrant quizzically, "I didn't see anything. ”
"I'll let you see", Katrina raised her index finger, just about to cast a spell, when a cold wind suddenly blew from behind, as if someone was blowing at her at close range behind her, the collar part of the robe was suddenly cold, Katrina shrank back, and looked back, a thick burst of white mist.
"What's going on?" Tarrant noticed the mage's strange expression.
"Just now...... It seems that someone touched me in the back", Katrina rubbed her neck with her right hand, continued to concentrate, and suddenly, a small area on the back of her right hand had an unusually cold feeling, it felt like there was ice cubes on it, this time the feeling was more real and certain, it was by no means an illusion, she screamed and jumped down the steps, "There is something!"
"Prepare for battle!" Tarrant quickly drew his greatsword, the torch poked forward, and Rex rushed from behind, flail in hand.
In front of him was layers of white mist, which dispersed along the stone steps at his feet, and nothing else was to be seen.
"What's going on?!" Rex looked closely around and found no trace of the enemy.
"There must be something! cold!" Caterina rubbed the back of her hand, cowering nervously beside Kitty.
"What is it?" Tarrant focused all his energy on the greatsword, the current terrain was very unfavorable for them, tunnels, low places, if there was something surrounding them on the perimeter, they had no way out.
"I don't know...... Something cold", after the back of her hand returned to the temperature, Katrina slowly became suspicious of the reaction just now, she couldn't see anything in the white fog, could it be because of the low temperature generated by the fog that made her react sensitive.
"Hit the white mist with magic," Kitty whispered as she shielded Katrina.
"Which one?"
Kitty seemed to have a realization, "Arbitrary, fast." ”
Katrina condensed an arrow of flame and shot at the white mist between Tarrant and Rex.
The flames shot past their teammates and into the white mist, and an amazing scene happened! Magic arrows suddenly slowed down somewhere, falling in slow motion, as if there was an invisible obstacle blocking the magic energy from being cast and consuming it.
"What's the matter!" Tarrant took a step back, if it was a tangible enemy, no matter how powerful and dangerous it was, such as the Red Tiger and the Spirit Sucker, he would not retreat at all, but in the face of an opponent who had no body and was completely unpredictable, he had no bottom in his heart.
"Fog Void, we need to get out of here now, or they'll swallow us up!"
Tarrant swung his sword and slashed into the white mist that dissipated the magic arrows, and the greatsword slashed through them without hindrance, unable to reach them, and he asked loudly, "How to attack them!"
"They are lifeforms made of negative energy, and only healing techniques can attack them!" Ji Di lowered her head and stared, and the energy ball quickly integrated. Druids' spells are similar to priest spells, and they also learn to heal and resist themselves.
Rex buckled the flail and pointed to the gate, "Catrina, you cast a spell to point out the location, Tarrant opens the traps, and Kitty and I stop them!" he palmed each other and chanted healing aloud.
Kitty's blue energy ball swung out and catapulted into the white mist, and the "white mist" consciously retreated, widening the distance between itself and the team, and then immediately began to converge forward.
Katrina's eyes slanted inward, the hint on the door prominent, and she pointed in the direction of the arrow, shooting four magic bolts out, making four small holes in the ashes on the surface of the iron door.
Tarrant hurried to the door, four traces of magic formed a small area, particularly conspicuous in the layer of black oil left behind after the pine oil burned, he wiped off the black oil, and pressed the door for clues, the echo of energy surge behind him, he didn't care to look back, and pressed every inch of the iron door hard.
There was a trace of abnormal coldness in his calves, almost losing consciousness, Tarrant looked down, a strange white mist surrounded his legs, entering through the gap in the armor of his legs, he gasped, and hurriedly leaned over and patted, his palm passed through the white mist, and the air flow did not drive it.
"Quick!" Rex shouted behind him. The Priest and the Druid will not use all of their spell slots for mnemonics, and after a brief confrontation, the Fog Void will surround them.
Time was running out, Tarrant gave up the drive, continued to look for the mechanism, in a gravure place, he found a dark red dark grid, and the surrounding pattern perfectly blended, if it wasn't for the black oil melted into the gap of the dark grid to form a small black circle, even with the guidance of a three-dimensional arrow It was very difficult, Tarrant pressed the dark grid hard.
The iron door slowly opened inward with dust in the dust, and Tarrant took a sip and shouted to his teammates, "It's open!"
Rex swung out the blue energy chain in his hand, the "white mist" shrank slightly, and the three of them turned around and ran quickly towards the gate, the white mist around it was even thicker, enveloping the entire four walls of the passage, rushing quickly like a white wave.
A small cloud of white mist on Katrina's robe was slowly rising, and Tarrant kept waving at the door, "Speed!"
His teammates ran past him in turn, and Katrina suddenly stopped in front of him, "What a sound!" Tarrant had already heard a strange sound, and in the iron door next to him, there was the sound of pulling strings, and the iron door must have been activated by the power of the tension spring, after thousands of years, the tension spring mechanism has been corroded and may break at any time, and the iron door will be re-closed under the action of the rebound force!
Before she could explain, Tarantra grabbed Katrina's arm and rushed towards the temple, "Get out of the gate!"
There was a crack from the back, and some kind of fixed object broke off, sending out a "buzzing" resonance, and the iron door that was opening lost power and rebounded rapidly to its original position, and when the two huge doors closed, there was a deafening sound in the temple hall, and the dust on the top of the temple fell like a drizzle.
Tarrant covered his ears and opened his mouth wide, letting the echo ripple around him, his eardrum was painful, and it took about 5 seconds for the roar of the giant gate to calm down, he carefully let go of his hand, and the torch stretched out in the direction of the gate, it was dark all around, and the fog didn't seem to follow, "Is it safe?"
"Look at your legs!" Catrina screamed loudly from behind.
Tarrant looked down and saw that the white mist had covered his thighs and was running up his body.
"Don't move!" Kitty stopped Tarrant, "only healing works," she chanted quickly.
The blue energy struck into the white mist, and after absorbing the energy, the white mist expanded sharply and suddenly shrank and fell rapidly, spilling out of the gaps in the leg armor and drifting along the ground towards the gate.
"What's going on?" said Titart, looking at the conscious White Mist, to Kitty.
"Healing is not enough to destroy them, only to repel them temporarily, they like to hide in the natural mist. ”
"What the hell is that?!" Catrina stomped her feet and slapped the dew on her robe, the white mist on her back gone, probably dragging away from her run.
"I think it's a former temple attendant, whose body has disappeared, but for some reason turned into a negative energy life. ”
"What is negative energy?" Tarrant asked, puzzled.
"Don't you know about negative energy, stupid", Katrina sneered, "Let the great master teach you a lesson", often taunted by Tarrant, the rare opportunity to fight back must be taken advantage of, she explained proudly: " The world we live in is called the main material realm by the mages, that is, the world that can be observed with the naked eye, and the magic we use is derived from the collection of energy, and the other worlds that coexist with our main material realm are called the plane realm by the mages, and can be reached by tearing the spatial passage through guò spells, and the creatures living in the plane realm call their world the main material realm. In addition, there are some masters who claim that every main physical realm has a negative physical counterpart, but neither our body nor our consciousness can reach it, it coexists with our main physical realm, and we cannot discover or feel it in any way. ”
"Well...... It's abstract", Tarrant's absorption of this knowledge is as boring as the study of magic.
"I'll give you a simple but unrealistic analogy, when you look in the mirror, you can see the things inside, but you can't touch it, you can't smell it, you can't feel it, the negative material world is such a world, and you don't even have a way to observe it. ”
"In that case, how can the mage prove its existence?"
"The magic is real, just like the mages of the institute do now," Katrina laughed proudly, "and when energy is used in reverse, negative energy is generated, and the mages recognized this early on, and deduced that there would be a negative material realm made up of negative energy. ”
"Anti-use?" "Attacking the fog void with a healing technique just now, this is probably what it means, if he heard this kind of thing in the research institute, Tarrant would definitely laugh, but now he believes that there is such a strange thing in the world, he thought for a while, "So...... Tell me, what the hell can those fog voids do?"
"......," Catrina was stunned for a moment, "I estimate that their lifeforms are the link between the negative material realm and the main material realm...... Maybe...... Your body will be pulled into the negative material realm and disappear ......", she blinked, looking at Kitty for confirmation.
Kitty shook her head, "I'm not sure, when I was a child, I used to hear the legend of the Fog Void, wandering the cold, pale, empty world, looking for innocent passers-by, devouring their bodies, and once devoured, those people would disappear. ”
"Then I'm right," Catrina smiled, "converting the energy of the human body into negative energy, and the person who is devoured should be transported to the negative material realm, which can also be called death." ”
"No, that legend isn't over yet", Kitty looked around nervously.
"What?" Looking at Kitty's uneasy expression, Tarrant had a hunch that things weren't over yet, "What will happen after that?!"
"Those who are swallowed by the fog are not willing to die like this, and will leave their resentment in the place where they disappear, and become ...... Something even more terrifying, they are entrenched around the Fog Void, and weapons and magic cannot attack them......"
There was a faint rustling sound in the distance, subtle but clear.
Rex keenly stretched out his torch in that direction, and all eyes looked at it together, and it was empty and dark......