Chapter 411: Ruined Island
The next day, everyone was quickly getting ready, and Lukka handed out the vertigo glass.
Ollie waved her hand, "If I want to stun them, I don't need this." ”
Instead of insisting, Luca stuffed the rest of his brain to Phil and led everyone to the dinghy.
Vinci and Gavin, of course, didn't know they were targeting themselves, and the two of them sat in the bow and stern of the boat, sitting as far away from each other as they could, but the verbal exchange never stopped.
There was not a single wind on the sea, the surface of the water was as smooth as a mirror, only the faint sound of bubbles that bubbled up from time to time under the water, reminding Lukka that this was not the Sunset Islands he was familiar with, but within the confines of the boiling sea.
Ollie and Daniel paddle together, and the dinghy soon approaches Ruined Island.
The island was indeed as the gnomes had said, with no inhabitants, no buildings, not even a single tall tree, only a few broken slabs buried in half-man-high grass, carved with the kind of motif that Finch had once painted.
The island as a whole is made of rocks, and the location of the entrance is not difficult to find, as all the stone slabs are radially distributed around the circular entrance. Even if someone is so blind that they can't tell the direction of the stone slab under their feet, as long as they walk to the middle of the island, they will not find the location.
In the middle of the island, in a circular area with a diameter of 10 meters, there is not a single grass grow. The circular square on the ground is paved with curved masonry, and the patterns on the masonry have long been worn down by the erosion of time, except for the white marble in the middle that still attracts attention.
The white marble is about two meters in diameter, perfectly circular, pure white without a hint of variegation, and if it were not covered with dust and earth, it would simply be incompatible with the surrounding broken mirrors. In the middle of the round stone, there is a palm-sized arc-shaped depression, and the lines are equally perfect, and it looks as if a piece is missing.
Could it be that the most important key is missing here like the passage on Winter Qingdao?, Luca crouched down on the edge of the white circle, his fingers on the surface of the stone, and looked down in thought.
When Finch saw him stop, he immediately took a short step and ran to him, pointed to the stone, and said, "This is it! You see, there is no place to grasp it, and the slate seems to be firmly attached to the ground, and I have tried many ways to lift it." ”
"That's because you gnomes are all stupid! Gavin held his head high and pointed his nostrils at the dwarf. He may be the most cautious and timid of the goblins, but compared to other races, the "solve everything with explosives" mindset is still deeply ingrained in his brain.
Lukka ignored the two men's daily bickering, and focused on exploring the stone slab that covered the entrance with the flow of mana emanating from his hands.
"Dynamite, you green-skinned bastards know how to blow up, blow up, blow up, why haven't you blown up your city yet?"
"Our city is much stronger than your little broken mushrooms, don't compare your rubble to our city!" Gavin retorted loudly.
"Simple-minded green-skinned monster! This is a historical relic, can you blow it up casually?, can you afford to blow up something underneath?" Finch slapped him away.
Gavin grabbed him by the collar with his backhand: "Don't you use an excavator for fear of breaking things? You little dwarfs, you can't even build large machinery, pick up some metal parts that we threw away, and install them on the house, are you worthy of those parts? Oh yes, I almost forgot, even those houses were taken by us!"
"You green-skinned bastard!"
"Short-legged idiot!"
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Phil finally couldn't stand the endless bickering between the two guys anymore, took out two pieces of vertigo glass that Lukka had given him from his pocket, mounted them on his crossbow in turn, aimed at the two of them in the head, and fired them separately.
Finch bore the brunt of the blow, the glass struck him on the forehead, and then shattered into powder, and there was a low muffled sound in the air, and the dwarf didn't even snort, but fell straight to the ground, not even having time to finish half of the curse.
Phil's two rounds of ammunition were fired in succession, less than a second apart, and the second piece of glass flew towards Gavin. However, he overestimated the goblin's courage this time, even in the process of arguing with Finch, Gavin was always nervous, for fear that the other party would suddenly swing his fist or that there would be any change in the island, so when he heard the wind in his ears, his quarrel opponent had not fallen to the ground, so he squatted down with his head in his hands. This not-so-majestic move allowed him to dodge this attack just time.
The stun glass misses its target and flies over Gavin's head in its original trajectory. It was facing the white round stone slab, and as it flew above the arc-shaped depression, it shattered into countless glass shards as if it had crashed into an invisible wall of air, triggering the magic attached to it.
However, this time, the effect was not the kind of small fight that stunned Finch, the thunderous roar was centered on the location of the impact, and spread outward, and the huge volume made everyone present deaf for a while. The sound waves then continued to spread outward, far beyond the confines of the island, creating circular ripples on the surface of the sea, all the way out of everyone's field of vision.
Lukka could only see Ollie's lips open and close, but he couldn't hear what she was saying. After a while, when his hearing gradually regained, the first voice in his ears was a piercing scream and broken words like "What should I do? There's a monster on this island! I shouldn't get out of the ground! I'm going to die!"
Gavin ran around the crowd in circles with his head in his hands, apparently too frightened to communicate in a normal way.
"Why don't you make him faint for a while. Ollie hesitated.
Before she could finish speaking, Gavin lay himself on the ground, motionless.
Phil went over to check it, looked up and said, "It's easy now, he's scared himself." ”
"My ears can finally be quiet for a while. Ollie also breathed a sigh of relief, "However, how can the spell on that piece of glass just now be so strong?
"Impossible!" Shut up and got up from the ground, struggling to fly onto Luka's shoulder, "the effect just now is impossible to attach to that kind of ordinary glass." ”
It's right, enchanted glass, a disposable magic product, can carry a spell strength that is directly proportional to its own material. A stun technique of that intensity, even the purest hedron produced in the wizarding world, may be difficult to bear. [.]