Chapter 35: The Lich
Watching the bone eggs in mid-air not move at all under the impact of the giant fireball, Rosie couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.
That's too strong, isn't it? Is this still an egg? If the lich inside comes out, can we still fight it?
As if to see Rossi's thoughts, Christina smiled without discouragement: "Don't be discouraged, as long as you break this 'eggshell', the weak lich that has just formed inside is not to be feared at all." ”
"Breaking the 'eggshell'?"
Rosie muttered silently, and began to think about how likely it was to break that 'eggshell' with her spell level.
At this moment, with a loud sound that shook the mountains and forests, the fireball against the bone egg exploded.
Immediately after, the bone egg in mid-air was repelled by the huge energy, smashing through the outer wall of the abandoned castle and falling into the second floor of the castle.
Ha? Is this the effect of a blazing flame?
Seeing Rossi's surprise, Christina took out her broomstick and explained:
"This is the follow-up change of the flame, no matter what the spell is, when you practice it to the extreme, it will produce a qualitative change."
"I see!"
Rosie nodded abruptly, picked up a broomstick and followed her into the second floor of the castle.
Spells change when they reach the advanced level, and Rosie has heard this happen before.
There is no decoration on the interior of the castle, and it is possible that the decorations of the past have been emptied or damaged.
There are those meaningless graphics painted on the walls, and Rosie has seen a lot of them when she was a rookie, which should be the communication methods or words of the red hats.
After only glancing around, Rossi fixed his gaze on the bone egg in front of him.
At this moment, the 'egg' made of white bones was only a thin layer, and the humanoid creature wrapped in it could be vaguely seen.
It seems that the effect of the magic that Christina just cast is very pleasant.
Rosie stared at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that the human figure in the eggshell looked like a skeleton monster.
"Be careful, this is when the lich is at its weakest, and it's also the most dangerous!"
Christina replied with a remark, and the wand with the tip drooping gracefully pointed at the "bone egg" with the upward movement.
"Arrow of Shadows!"
A tiny short arrow rose from the shadows, and in the next second, the arrow that exuded a dark aura pierced the "bone egg" like a flash, piercing the lich's body.
“…… Giggle......"
The lich in the egg let out a piercing cry of pain.
"Arrow of Shadows???
Rossi looked at Christina in surprise.
"Before it was formed, the Lich was a spirit creature and was inactive, so the Arrow of Shadows was ineffective against it, but now that it is active, the Arrow of Shadows should be effective against it."
Christina, whose eyes were always fixed on the humanoid monster in the bones, explained slowly.
No, that's not what I'm wondering about.
Rosie, who was puzzled, opened his mouth and asked, "How can you also do this magic?" ”
"Huh?"
Christina turned her head to look at Rosie and asked a little strangely, "Didn't the Aurors have basic information about all the families in Brantania?" Haven't you seen it? ”
Well, Rosie was a little ashamed in his heart, it seems that he really needs to verify and look at those materials in the future:
"When I was in the Ministry of Magic, I patronized playing wizard chess......"
Despite her shame, Rossi chose to confess.
Christina sneered, and then said, "Then we have a chance, and we'll have a game...... My mother, but the eldest lady of the Greengrass family! ”
"I see!" Rosie suddenly realized.
Most of the reason why Christina decided to act with me was because of Shadow Arrow. Forehead...... By the way, I said before that most of the magic comes from the family, so she didn't think that the Arrow of Shadow was passed down from my family, right?
In the blink of an eye, Rosie thought a lot: uh, maybe it could be...... She even thinks I'm somehow related to her?
At this moment, the location of the lich suddenly changed.
The hazy mist rose in an instant, spreading towards the positions of the two of them with an extreme cold.
Before he had time to think wildly, Rossi vigilantly cast his gaze ahead, only to see ice picks piercing out where the fog passed.
"Burn yourself!"
The red flames swung in circles towards the lich's position with a soft cry from Christina.
Ice and fire collided against each other, and in an instant, a thick mist evaporated and spread throughout the space.
In an instant, Rossi's vision was extremely disturbed, and even Christina, who was standing beside him, became blurred in the fog.
At this moment, in the depths of the thick fog, a voice that sounded more like a roar to Rossi suddenly sounded.
As she pondered the content of the voice, she saw a green beam of light burst out in front of her.
"Avada Suo?"
!!!
Rossi's heart was suddenly shocked, and before his brain could react, his body reflexively pounced, and Christina, who had no time to cancel the continuous spell casting, pounced aside.
In the next second, a green beam of light suddenly shuttled through where Christina had just stood, and exploded a large hole in the wall with a bang.
Luckily, Rosie didn't try to resist with the Defensive Charm, and with her defensive magic, she might not be able to resist the attack of the Calling Charm.
Before she could say anything, Christina pushed her elbow hard, stood up from the ground around Rossi's waist, and immediately followed, her wand in her hand pointed out again and again:
"Cloud Spell Withdrawn!"
"Protect them all!"
"Peacefully guarded!"
As Christina's magic took effect, the fog in the castle suddenly dissipated, and the original location of the lich was now only a pile of broken bones.
"It ran away!"
Rosie, who rushed to the pile of bones, looked at it and examined it carefully for a moment, then bowed down and chanted the incantation in a low voice:
"Footprints revealed!"
The golden mist diffused from the tip of the wand with the rotation of his body, and as the chaotic footprints appeared in an instant, Rosie quickly found the footprint in the middle of the pile of bones that was clearly not the footprint of the red hat.
The footprint is made up of several oval-shaped lines, apparently improvised by bones put together.
"This is the Lich's Tracks!"
It was a simple judgment, and Rosie didn't have the slightest suspicion, crouching down, and the tip of his black wand dotted the Lich's footprints:
"Manifest!"
The golden mist swirled abruptly, eventually forming a skeleton image with a faint golden light on the footprints.
The skeleton's slender index finger pointed forward for a few seconds, then stumbled in the direction of the door, jumped out of the window at the end of the hallway.
"How could it be ?!!"
Looking at the scene in front of her, Christina was still a little incredulous, "A newborn lich, isn't he not very intelligent?" How do you use the Curse? It's also so bizarre! ”
As she spoke, she hurried to the window of the corridor: "Rosie, let's chase after it, we can't let it escape!" ”