Chapter 41: The Beast
There was a thick haze on all sides, the air was filled with the smell of dust, and his nasal passages were stuffed with waste, and Alexey felt his breath as soon as he entered.
"Ancient ruins. ”
He crouched down and brushed his fingers away the three-inch thick dust on the slate, which shone with the color of obsidian, but unlike obsidian, these dark black stones were unlike any mineral Alexire had ever seen, they perfectly absorbed the magic released by the mage, and their affinity for magic was comparable to that of Mithril, and even more so.
"Magical stones. ”
"Like, Olmea. ”
He tried to sweep away the dust around the slate, and the bottom was all the same black slab: "This is indeed a mage's paradise. ”
In the same way that Mithril is used as the base material for most demonic blocking equipment, the good absorption of mana shows that the material is tolerant of spells. Most of the elements with destructive properties will leave no trace on these magical materials, and they are inherently mage's nemesis.
Of course, there are two sides to everything, and while restraining mages, magic materials such as Mithril are also of great help to mages, and they are basically indispensable.
"Maybe I'm in the wrong place, the gods of fate are really joking. ”
"But if you're the gods' patron, then I'll always be a pawn in the wheel of fate, hunting down the destined one. ”
Alexei looked around, and within a dozen meters, the flat surface of the dust told him that this place had not been set foot for tens, or even hundreds of years.
Unless...... They can float and walk, but under the effect of the stone slab under their feet, the huge forbidden demon realm will cause a great increase in the consumption of mana, and Lan Meng and her helpers are not so extravagant that they are, Alexei ruled out this possibility in the first place.
"Maybe it's a random teleportation. ”
He took out the time hunter, opened the lid of the watch, and after entering the magic power, the hour hand inside swayed and could not stop.
"The effect of the spell has been disrupted, and there must be other mysteries in this place besides the stone slab. ”
Retracting his pocket watch, Alexei looked up into the distance, and the haze that existed in the ruins caused the visibility to the naked eye to be very low, about twenty meters away, and even Alexey's specially enhanced eyesight could not penetrate the fluttering dust.
"You can't escape. ”
A different pleasure rose in his heart: "Hide and seek? Okay, I haven't played for a long time." ”
Suddenly excited, Alexei tried to use his magic to attach Kalam's razor to his fingers, and then went to cut the stone slab under his feet, but soon, the rapid consumption of magic in his body made him frown. Looking at the stone slab that had been intact under the razor, he showed an expression that he had expected: "Sure enough. ”
However, it was a fluke attempt, and Alexei was not angry, he dissipated his magic and thought of another way.
Pulling out the Celestial Orb, Alexei had previously stored a few large spells in it, and now it could come in handy. Although it is estimated that due to environmental impacts, its utility will be greatly reduced.
"Come on, wind. ”
Storm!
With Alexei as the center, a fierce wind surged out from the celestial sphere, and the surging magic blew Alexei's hood, raised the mage's hair, and swirled, stirring all the dust in the ruins into a whirlpool.
At the center of the storm, the confident mage had already closed his breath. Dust that almost makes up a tsunami will rush to pour into your stomach even if you just open your mouth.
Particles of dust crackled against the mage's shield under the power of magic, and the magic that flowed in his blood was quickly swept by the waves in the corners of the sea. The amount of dust had accumulated far beyond Alexei's imagination, and the mud wall not far in front of him grew higher and higher, and soon overshadowed his vision until it reached the sky, obscuring the light from nowhere.
Suddenly, he heard a beast roar from the depths of the sea of dust. Before Alexei could react, a huge and unrivaled lion slapped him to the ground with one claw.
"Lion?"
No, not a lion.
From afar, the head of a cat with a sky-high head has a light-colored mane similar to that of a lion, and its head appears to be large and round. Of course, it was big enough on its own, with its pupils resembling snakes, and its eyes were the size of an adult man's body. With a bloody mouth, the storm that stirred up the storm was thrown into the stomach along with the mud wall, and its power really could not be guessed by the imagination of mortals.
"Question!"
The lion let go of its claws, Alexei noticed that its five nails were hidden in the pads, which was similar to a domestic cat, in the past, there were many apprentices in Glio Davido's academy who had small furry pets, Alexei had observed the cat's body structure up close, so he also understood some of the differences between kittens and big cats.
But this one can't be described as a big cat. It can be called a giant, a giant cat.
And what is even more surprising to Alexei is that it actually speaks out people, the voice is so loud and scary, every time it opens its mouth it is a hurricane, with a stinking heat, like experiencing a tropical storm in the south, and its clothes are a little wrinkled and damp.
"Can you speak?"
Alexey was afraid that his voice would not reach the ears of the giant cat, so he specially used amplification and deliberately slowed down the speed of speaking, and expressed his meaning in Wang Chinese and Imperial Chinese: "What do you need? I am still the first time to see a beast as magnificent as you, can you let me pull out the hair and study it, I am willing to exchange anything with you." ”
"Question!"
The lion's mouth was still the same short word, it lowered its head and shook the tip of its nose, the huge black beast nose was more than twenty meters away from the top of Alexey's head, and I don't know if it really smelled something, and the deafening voice was like thunder overhead: "Who are you? You have the breath of a second-level admittance, but you yourself are not allowed to enter." ”
Accessor?
Alexey's heart beat a drum, and the breath in the lion's mouth was probably the taste of blood on Lan Meng's body, he rolled his eyes and said, "I'm her friend, and now I'm separated from her, can you help me find it?" ”
"You're lying. ”
The lion seemed to have the ability to distinguish between the real and the fake, and it took two steps around Alexey, and at the end of its mountain-like body was a huge forked snake tail that stretched into the sky, resembling the legendary ladder. Two giant snakes with triangular heads grow at the end of the lion's tail, and the eyes of the snake head on the left hand side are red diamonds, the diamonds the size of human heads have countless facets, all of which have a dazzling red light of the eyeballs, which is beautiful and not like a human thing, if it is placed outside, it can really be said to be a unique mortal treasure.
On the other hand, the snake's head eye on Alexey's right hand is two tangled thorns. It opened its mouth, and there was a black hole inside, no teeth and no tongue, and the voice came out of the hole, with a sweet hot air, and when it smelled it, there was a sudden sleepiness in his mind, Alexey immediately understood, and closed his breath again, in case he was really poisoned and fell asleep, and let others slaughter.
"Ryan, I smell resentment. ”
The voice of the thorn-eyed snake's head is sharp and overlapping, like a group of monkeys in the mountains hissing together in your ear, echoing until tens of seconds later.
"Are we going to get rid of the invaders, then?"
The lion opened its mouth to talk to its tail, its thin eyes showing a little unkindness, and its claws poked out of the flesh pads slightly, a small human like Alexei was afraid that his flesh and blood could be torn apart and even his soul was torn apart at once.
"No, I can't. ”
The red diamond snake head on the left hand side spoke: "It's been a long time since we've seen a guest outside the gate, as long as we don't violate the rules set by the lord and let him play some games with us, it's not too late to decide what will happen to him." ”
After the red diamond snake head finished speaking, the thorn snake head objected dissatisfiedly: "I don't agree, Ryan, kill him quickly, those who betray morality deserve to die!"
Just when the lion was still hesitating, Alexey, who had a bad premonition, had secretly prepared a means of resistance, he let out a low cry and raised the Heavenly Orb, and the large and small spells contained in it were instantly released at the same time - lightning, flames, winds, deadly dissociation rays, decay techniques of dried flesh, as well as sluggishness, curses, Dissolving the strong acid that dissolved everything, completely heading towards the lion's body and tail, Alexei did not seek to kill the beastmaster, who was larger and majestic than the mountains combined, but only wanted to be able to stop it for a second and buy him time to release his teleportation spell.
But it's a pity that Alexei just raised the magic celestial sphere in one fell swoop, and the canopy in front of him turned into pitch black in an instant, and there was a suction force that could not be resisted by human beings from the sky, he couldn't stand at all, and the next second it was like being squeezed into a narrow passage, and the bones were squeezed by the invisible boundary wall.
In the ruins, the lion, who had a big burp, turned his head to the thorn snake head on his tail and said, "Two votes for one, the game is ...... Hiccup, here we go. ”