Chapter 172: The Ruins of the Temple of the Apocalypse (3)
Not only that, but the magic strength was not particularly strong, and she also felt some kind of inexplicable pressure contained in the air of the ruins, if it weren't for the special spells she was good at were all relatively special law magic, which basically had nothing to do with the environment she was in, and there was no need to gather spell energy from the outside world, maybe the current Sias would basically not be able to use these powers anymore.
Avro and Richie also discovered this, they were affected by the strange pressure in the ruins of the Temple of the Apocalypse far above Siassi, and the communication with the magical elements in the surrounding air, as well as the use of magic energy and other aspects that magicians are best at, were almost suppressed by at least half, which also made the strength of the two people plummet to less than fifty percent of the usual.
"Order: Light!" Sias quickly spit out a few magic spells, forming a magic light source for lighting in front of her chest, but unfortunately compared to the same spell she cast outside, the area that this flickering magic light source in front of her can affect is too small, and the stone wall of Yongdao almost ten meters away can't be seen clearly, and the decorations and lines on it flicker and flicker from time to time between the light generated by magic and the eternal darkness in the ruins, and Xiassi frowned.
"I could only perceive about thirty meters away. Siassi shook her head and said to the others behind her, "There is no warning at this distance, in fact, I can sense it a little further with the means of thieves...... This is a magician's grave!"
"Looks like we'll have to use the summoned creature to find our way ahead!" Avro quickly came up with a solution, she chanted the corresponding magic spell in a deep voice, summoned a war dog in front of her, and then drove it to walk in front of the whole team, if there was any danger, it would naturally be borne by this summon first, which also increased the reaction time of Siassi and them in disguise.
Seeing that Avro also chose the same method as the mage back then, Ryan smiled slightly in his heart, but did not say anything, but let his students understand, and sure enough, the war dog had advanced less than fifty meters, and immediately let out a wail, and the whole body was swallowed up by a small whirlpool, which was caused by the exhaustion of the summoning energy that maintained it.
"It's only fifty meters!" Avro saw this scene, and immediately smiled bitterly, this ruin doesn't know how many kilometers it stretches, if it is fifty meters to re-release a summoning technique, then even if she is exhausted, she can't go far, not to mention facing countless threats in the darkness here, if you can't solve this problem, it's very difficult to even protect yourself, what kind of adventure?
"Looks like we're going to have to use the most primitive method!" muttered Richie, who had never heard much about adventures when he was a child, and the protagonists of the stories were often righteous knights, armed with torches and companions who ventured into the lair of dragons or demons, as the standard equipment of adventurers, torches, swords, and magic were naturally indispensable, and also triggered many memories of Richie and his companions' surprise imitations. However, Richie later followed Ryan to learn magic, and found that as long as there was a team of magicians, a small illumination could replace a troublesome torch, and those contents of the story were only made up by the bard, so he slowly extinguished his childhood dream, and never thought that today he would have the opportunity to experience the things that the protagonists in those stories did.
Fortunately, Richie has storage pockets for these miscellaneous items, otherwise he would be carrying torches, fire oil, tents and other messy things, don't expect any strength to cast spells, it took a few minutes, Richie was ready accordingly, and then the torches were lit by him with fire magic and distributed to other companions, but only Siassi and Avro, Ryan and Emma as a revenant naturally did not need these things.
Under the flickering light of the fire, Siassi and her party slowly walked along the passage in the ruins towards the depths, and there were obvious traces along the way, indicating that a large number of people had entered and exited this place not long ago, presumably Adra's cousin had gone straight along this passage during his last hunt, and then removed a large amount of Mithril from the warehouse in the corner where he didn't know it. Although they knew that there had been a lot of people coming and going in this area not long ago, and there should be no threat of the undead, but Xiassi and the others still walked very carefully, those undead were roaming around, and it was not clear what Adra's cousin was doing here, and it would be foolish to give up his life because of his carelessness.
After walking for more than ten minutes, Ryan and the others came to a fork in the road, and the footprints on the ground showed that people had entered and exited in both directions in front of them, but there were traces of heavy objects dragging on the ground in one of the passages, which should have been caused by carrying Mithril and other things, so Sias led the team to continue walking in this direction, after all, the immediate priority was to revisit the location where Adra's cousin had been, and see what had happened to cause the convulsion of the Cursed Swamp.
Emma silently followed Ryan's side, her mood has been very low since she entered the ruins of the Temple of Apocalypse, which is very different from the kind of excitement she was adventuring to hunt outside, Ryan knew that Emma's emotions had to rely on herself to really get rid of it, so she didn't intervene too much, but let her follow her silently, but when Siassi began to turn around and follow the route that Adela's cousin had walked, Emma suddenly whispered in Ryan's ear: " Hey, this road leads to the martial arts arena, how could they choose this side at that time?"
"Arena?" Ryan repeated the name of the place Emma had said, and asked in a low voice, "Listen to the name, it should be the place where the Templars are trained?"
"Yes, it's a big palace, and it's where the Templars usually train, but when the Legion of the Undead attacked, naturally no one went there anymore. Emma whispered, "It's not impossible to get some Mithril weapons in the arena, there are always unopened Mithril weapons for the Templars to practice. It's a pity that I never asked about outside things when I was in Cassano, otherwise if I had been asked to see the style of the weapons they had moved back, I might have been able to confirm it directly, instead of speculating here. ”
"It's okay, we'll just go and see. Ryan smiled at Emma, he found that this method of diversion was quite beneficial to adjust Emma's situation, so he asked Emma as he walked, "Speaking of which, although I have been here a few times back then, it is only limited to the part of the area that I have walked through, this Temple of the Apocalypse covers such a vast area, and I have not understood what its layout is, why don't you give it to me now......"
Before Ryan finished speaking, there was a voice from Sias not far ahead: "There is an enemy!"
Then Richie's voice rang out: "Be careful, it's a necromancer!"
"No, it's an undead warrior!" Avro's voice rang out almost at the same time as Richie's words fell.
"It's a fallen Templar!" Ryan behind him no longer continued to talk to Emma, he had already sensed the undead creature in advance, but he did not warn his students, but talked to Emma in a low voice, and now when Siassi and the others found this enemy, Ryan said to a few students slowly: " They wore Mithril armor and held weapons that could fight in close quarters or cast spells for long-range attacks, and although they had been eroded by the dark rituals of the undead legion and degenerated into their current state of revenants, their power had not diminished, but had become more powerful. ”
As if to annotate Ryan's explanation, before his words fell, the Templar spirits wandering blindly in the distance of the passage discovered Ryan's existence, and then a piercing scream immediately filled the corridor, and the other party actually sent several thick lightning bolts directly towards Siassi. "Order: Impact!" Siasis's reaction was not unpleasant, and when the lightning flew in front of her, she also spat out a short magic spell in a deep voice, and directly collided with the lightning bolts.
The two spells were fiercely intertwined in the air of the corridor, and suddenly released a blue light to illuminate a large area nearby, and also clearly displayed the spell-casting Templar in front of Theas Sissi and the others, unlike the shriveled corpse that Ryan had faced before, the dead Templar in front of him had completely rotted, the rusty armor barely covered the exposed internal organs of the white bones and carrion, and every time it waved its arms or took a step forward, shredded flesh would fall from its body, which looked disgusting and weird。
After Richie also joined the warband and used the fireball technique to cooperate with Sias to fight the dead Templar, there was a foul smell in the corridor, and Avrol, who couldn't stand this the most, squatted aside and vomited, while Richie and Sias could barely overcome their desire to vomit, but it also greatly affected their fight against the dead Templar on the opposite side, and the frequency of their spell casting dropped significantly, although they could barely resist the thick lightning beams from the opposite side, but they couldn't hide the situation of losing and retreating。 The dead Templar didn't care about the rotting flesh or even the entrails falling outward, and rushed towards Theas with half of his intestines already on the ground, apparently intending to kill the enemies who had invaded his range in hand-to-hand combat.