Chapter 81: A New Puzzle
As an ice elf, Gru is extremely sensitive to the aura of elves, so the message sent by Gru immediately alerted everyone.
Gru led the group into the darkness in the direction of the breath.
Arthur and Huey followed closely behind the Ice Elves with blades in hand, Joan, Erani and the Ten Princesses broke off at the end of the group, and Venegia and Arya, the weakest in battle, were escorted in the middle of the group. A brilliant ball of light hovering above Alya's head completely illuminates the surrounding space of hundreds of square meters.
The crowd followed Gru all the way forward, and there was nothing on the open ground. The war was too long ago, the magic weapons of the year had long since decayed and rusted, and the vibration of the footsteps had turned the scattered dry bones into dust, and there was nothing of value left on this battlefield.
Compared to the ruins of the ancient battlefield at the end of the Sauron Gorge, the area of this ancient battlefield was much smaller, and everyone only walked for a quarter of an hour to reach the center of the battlefield. The reason why it was confirmed that this was the center of the battlefield was because there was also a stone platform here.
This square stone platform is only about ten square meters, and there is a white stone pillar more than half a person high in the center of the stone platform. Countless years had passed, and the pillar was still as white as jade, and Arthur could already feel the fluctuations of magic coming from the pillar.
Everyone cautiously surrounded them, only to see a delicate and complex magic array engraved on the flat top of the stone pillar, and a magic crystal was inlaid with a magic crystal in the heart of the magic array to power the magic array. This magic circle is still in operation, and it is unknown how many years it has been running. No one knew about this magic circle, let alone its efficacy.
"This is your elven magic array, right?" Arthur turned back to find Elani.
The elves' magic array has the distinctive characteristics of its race, and in order to pursue the beauty of the magic array's composition, the elves will even add completely redundant or useless formations to the magic array.
Arthur noticed that Alani was standing outside the stone platform and did not come around at all. Not only her, but even Gru hid away with his head in his hands.
"What's wrong with you?"
"I have a headache, and the closer I get to that pillar, the worse it gets. Alani said with a pained expression.
"That must be the problem with this magic array, I'll stop it. Arthur said that he was going to use the tip of the Starfall Sword to pry the hedrons in the magic array, which was the simplest and most brutal way to stop the magic array.
It was only Arthur's sword that was raised, and the ground under his feet suddenly moved, and the vines covered with spikes around the stone platform broke through the ground, and in the blink of an eye, it was seven or eight meters long, and Arthur and others around the stone pillars rolled over.
Seventh-level wood-based magic "Thorn Vine"! Someone obviously wanted to stop Arthur's behavior of stopping the magic array.
Arthur gave his back completely to his companion, and the tip of his sword exhaled slightly, and with a slight pick, he pried the magic hedron off.
The companions responded instantly to the magical attack, with Joan shielding herself and her companions with a rotating fire shield and then firing bursting fireballs into the rolling vines.
Huey's spear flung away, and the blade of the spear wrapped in vindictive spirit slashed through the vines like a scythe. Arya condensed a lightsaber and sliced off Huey's occasional slipping vines, making it impossible for them to volley.
Only the seventh-level "Thorn Vine" is no longer a threat to everyone, but this magic is very difficult, and the vine will continue to grow after being cut off.
"Gru, freeze the ground. Arthur, who had already turned around, shouted.
A large white cold air swept over the ground, and all the vines were frozen, and Arthur shattered them all with a swing of his sword.
They had only just finished their troubles with the thorny vines, when they faintly heard the sound of magical chanting.
Arthur's face immediately changed drastically, what needed to be chanted and prepared for a long time was high-level magic, and the thorn vines just now were just preparing time for this real killing move.
"Run!" Arthur shouted, the archmage's magic attack was not something they could do now.
It was too late, and as soon as Arthur took a step, the ground that had just been frozen cracked. This time, out of the ground were strange black trees, with hideous faces and mouths on their trunks, and blood-red branches hanging from the trees.
These strange trees grew very fast, and in the blink of an eye they reached the soil layer above, and quickly joined into pieces, except for the stone platform in the middle, all around them were surrounded by these strange trees, and Arthur and them were completely surrounded.
"It's the Forest of Death!" Eleanne screamed in terror.
"What is this?"
"It's our elves' twelve-level attack magic 'Forest of Death', don't listen to those sounds. Alani had covered her ears and hugged her head.
"What sound?"
Arthur wanted to ask, but the next second he understood, and the strange trees suddenly opened their mouths and let out a banshee-like howl. The scream was a splitting headache, a body shaking, and a desire to bang your head against the wall.
Eleanne's previous words were not finished, the "Dead Forest" is a dual attack magic that combines the wood and spirit systems, and it is the strongest attack magic under the forbidden spell in the wood magic, and only the elves who have mastered the magic can use it.
Arthur was powerless to resist the mental attack, and at the same time, those dense blood-red branches rolled towards them.
Arthur and Huey endured the pain and swung their greatsword and golden gun, but the blood-red branches were tougher than the previous thorn vines, and Arthur's sword could not completely cut off the branches. The branches wrapped around the sword, and the screams of pain made Arthur unable to turn his fighting spirit far away, and the result of cutting the branches was that the sword was rolled up.
Huey held on a little longer than Arthur, and he used the enchantment "Flame Burst" on the Golden Gun of the Sun to blow up a lot of branches, and after the enchantment was used, he fell into the same situation as Arthur.
Joan couldn't build a magic array to release magic attacks under the mental attack, he only had time to barely tear open the "Fire Dragon Technique" scroll, but the fierce fire dragon was also helpless with these strange trees, the strange trees actually took the initiative to break off the branches on fire, and the branches stretched out from other directions grabbed Joan.
Alya, Venegia, and the girls had no power to resist, and they were all entangled in the branches. Arthur, who was the first to be entangled, had been completely rolled up, entangled and tightened, the huge restraint force made him almost suffocated, and the mental attack made him powerless to resist, and he was close to a coma.
When everyone was about to be strangled one by one, there was another exception in the field, and that was Gru. The Ice Elves rolled on the ground in pain when the spirit attack was launched, and when the last of those branches rolled up the small Gru, the Ice Elves erupted, and a cold storm of ice blew in place. The intensity of this ice storm was no less than that of a twelfth-level ice magic, instantly freezing the entire Death Forest, and all the screams stopped abruptly, along with Arthur and them, who were wrapped in the branches.
At the critical moment, the stimulation of spiritual magic allowed Gru to break through!
Over the years, no one has really noticed the change in Gru's strength. Four or five years ago, when Arthur first met Gru, he was the strength of a high-level elf, and over the years he had been by Arthur's side, he had absorbed the Ice Spirit Heart Pendant and countless ice-based demonic beast crystal nuclei, and the accumulation of ice elements in his body had already reached a critical point, and today it happened to be an opportunity.
After the breakthrough, Gru not only grew a little taller, but also had a more handsome face, even the most handsome male elf in the Elven Kingdom.
With a slight leap, Gru jumped onto the branch that wrapped Arthur and smashed the ice to save him from it.
Arthur's martial arts are strong in physique, and there is no major problem except for shivering, "Save those girls first, I hope you don't freeze them to death!"
When the ice storm melted, the "Forest of Death" really died, and the strange trees turned to black ash.
When Arthur and his companions cautiously searched for the enemy hiding behind them and found nothing, the most plausible explanation is that Gru's ice storm scared them away.
Arthur and his companions turned around the entire ancient battlefield and found nothing else, and finally destroyed the magic array on the stone pillar in the center of the battlefield after rubbing it down.
When everyone returned to the ground, they found that the forest outside had been completely renewed, the trees and plants were all full of life, this forest was alive in the dying, and Erani could not hear the cry of the elves, and the spiritual power that had been lingering for thousands of years dissipated.
At this moment, Arthur and the others finally understood the effect of the magic array underground, because of that magic array, these spirits were trapped and not dissipated.
It's just that why do some people want to restrain these spiritual powers? This has become a new mystery......