Chapter 122: The Underground Labyrinth
Thor looked at the eerie spirits in their movements, at their bare shoulders, and instantly remembered the arms he had seen on the cliffs before he entered the crypt.
The arms are calling for help outside, but the body is walking carefully and hidden underground.
If these spirits were the souls of the dead, Thor couldn't imagine what horrors they had experienced when they died.
The first time he listened to Byron's story of the tragedy in the Valley of the Hanging Hands, Thor thought that the wizards and apprentices should have been crushed, squeezed, and suffocated to death. It's not just fighting each other and dying in the run.
But it's obviously not that simple.
There were many white phantoms, coming out of the middle passage in rows, and one by one mechanically entering the left passage.
There are too many of them.
If it weren't for the subtle differences in the size and appearance of each of the phantoms, Thor would have thought that the phantoms might be copies of one or the other.
The left and middle passages are now crowded with these phantoms, only the right passage is clean.
Bill, who was standing at the front, observed for a while, but did not feel the danger, so he asked in a low voice, "Byron, is there an evil spirit here?" ”
Bill could tell that the phantom in front of him was nothing more than the remnants of a broken spirit, not even a soul fragment.
But he wasn't sure if the phenomenon meant that there were evil spirits in the neighborhood.
Byron called to Thor, "Thor, let's go over and have a look." ”
Thor followed Byron through the passage that Bill and Rat had left sideways.
They stopped three meters away from the fork in the road.
Thor was the first to enter semi-immersive meditation.
In an instant, the armless humanoid phantom in front of him disappeared, and there was only a faint white flame in mid-air.
The flames, faint enough to seem to be extinguished at any moment, were moving in mid-air with the rhythm of the phantoms just now.
It was silent and trembling.
Even though he had lost his human form, Thor could still feel a suffocating tension in their neat beatings.
He carefully observed the three caves and withdrew from the meditative state.
"Whew-"
His ribcage dilated violently twice, as if he had just recovered from suffocation.
"Did you find anything?" Seeing that Byron and Thor had stopped observing one after another, Lyte asked in a low voice, leaning on the air flow in his throat.
Thor and Byron glanced at each other, and they both raised their hands in perfect understanding—pointing to the passage to the left.
The corners of Bill's mouth twitched slightly, "Is that what we mean by letting us walk side by side with those guys?" ”
Byron walked over and reached out to shake it among the white shadows.
The phantoms were unaffected, still raising their legs high and falling gently, walking cautiously.
"At the moment, these remnants also look strange, and they don't have the ability to affect us in any way for the time being."
Latt touched his arm, "That's why I've always disliked dealing with spirits. I never knew if attacking them was a waste of my magic. ”
Bill said unceremoniously: "But if you feel the fluctuations of their spiritual power with your heart, you will not be frightened by a group of phantoms." ”
"Hah, as if you weren't nervous just now."
"This time I'll go to the front." Byron ignored the bickering, glanced at Saul, and motioned for him to follow him.
"Alright," Ratter followed, "it's your home field now." When dealing with evil spirits for a while, I can only listen to your commands. ”
As he spoke, the four of them inserted themselves into the white phantom team one by one.
"Actually, there are not necessarily evil spirits here." Saul gave the two seniors a dose of vaccination, "Maybe it's just that the evil spirit once wandered here and caused some pollution here." ”
"Understood!" "When I go to catch the trachonyma, I often only pick up their dry droppings. ”
"I don't need to give this example!" Bill couldn't wait to raise his hand and knock on Ratter's head.
A few people continued on their way.
The white phantom parallel to them turned right at the next intersection and entered another hole in the ground.
"It's another fork in the road." Rite frowned, "I don't like to walk through mazes. ”
"That's how it is under the valley of the weeping hands." Byron replied very boringly, focusing on discerning the road ahead.
The few of them walked through a few more forks in the road, and the underground world was even bigger than Sol had imagined.
And that's just the periphery of the Hanging Hand Valley.
"There's movement." Byron stopped suddenly.
At this time, everyone had just stepped into a wide space, where there were eight forks in the road.
"Why are there so many holes? I feel like I can't remember the route I came from. Rite covered his face with his hands.
His emaciated face was as pale as a dead man in the dim light of the shimmering spell.
Bill was also visibly impatient.
"I don't think it's very reliable to look for evil spirits based on pollution. That's just a trail they've left behind, and it's not necessarily still here. He pointed to the passage that led to the underground, "I think it's better to keep going down." ”
With that, Bill walked over to the other side, not seeming to consult with anyone.
But Thor looked over and felt a little strange, "Wait a minute! ”
He was halfway through his sentence when Bill jumped off the aisle.
Bill's body fell into the air, and the passage on the ground suddenly began to close.
Seeing that people were about to be cut off by the waist, Bill was not surprised.
I saw a large pile of purple foam instantly appearing on the skin of his hands and feet. The foam looked soft, but it could withstand the shrinking tunnel.
Bill then pressed his hands to the side of the tunnel and jumped upward, leaving a pile of foam stuck in the hole before jumping into the air.
Thor didn't have time to watch the others fight.
After the first hole suddenly contracted and bites, a hole in the ground to Thor's left suddenly leaned towards him.
The mountain contracted, like a huge sucker, trying to suck Thor's whole person in.
Thor immediately felt a strong suction.
He lifted his leg and stepped on the lower edge of the sidewall, and against the suction, he flicked his hand and flew out a blow to the necromancer.
The hole shrank twice, but unfortunately the attack effect was not ideal.
But Saul just hit a blow just to buy himself time.
He immediately unleashed the miss.
The sharp arrow gained more kinetic energy along the suction of the hole, and almost instantly burrowed into the inside of the hole.
This time the hole shuddered and spat out a stream of green slime.
But then, it suddenly expanded, instantly expanding nearly two meters from a small hole less than a meter in diameter, and the suction power increased again.
This time, there was no place for Thor to fix his body, and almost the whole person was about to fall into the cave that was bigger than his whole body.
Suddenly, a thorn protruded from Thor's feet, plunging directly into the mountain above his head.
Thor grabbed the thorn to prevent himself from being sucked in.
But because of the huge suction, his feet could not stand firmly, and he floated into the air, and he could only rely on one arm to firmly hold the ground spur.
Thor's other hand wasn't idle, and after a quick spell, translucent moths began to appear on his arm.
Thor flicked his hand, and several moths were sucked into the cave.
The reason why he chose the soul borer as his first first-order sorcery was because it was a rare low-level sorcery that could attack both the body and the soul.
Although it is not the kind of instant sorcery, it has a very complete striking surface.
Within a few seconds, the hole shrank again, and the suction power was greatly reduced.
Thor's feet finally landed on the ground.