Li Nuo and Creeping were staring at each other in fear.

The footage lasted less than 5 seconds before it was shattered by a noise coming from under his feet.

"Rustle... Click, click..."

This time the noise was much more noisy than what I had heard before.

Apparently, there were quite a few shadow creatures coming from underground to where Li Nuo was.

The five crawling fears in front of them were purely trying to delay time and wait for reinforcements, not really afraid of the "Silent Shield" on Li Nuo's body.

Li Nuo looked left and right with his peripheral vision.

The place where he is now is an underground cavern that covers an area of no more than two hundred square meters.

There are artificially dug openings in the wall, and the number is about three, each leading in different directions.

In the corners, there are some earthy brown stones with gnawing marks.

These rocks are barren stones.

There are wide footprints in their vicinity.

Judging from the height and width of the cave entrance, and the outline of the half-eaten rocks and footprints, this place should have been the territory of the Mole People.

Now that the Mole People are gone, replaced by shadow creatures, the whereabouts of the Mole People can be imagined.

Li Nuo looked at the hole on the side quietly, nodded secretly, and had some guesses in his heart about the location of the Shadow Magic Array.

Just as he was coming to his conclusion, ten Creeping Dreads leaped out from under the ground and appeared in front of him in a hideous manner.

Their arrival represents a signal for war.

The five crawling fears that hit the head pounced on Li Nuo like jackals.

Before the claws arrived, the shadow tongue came first.

Five fishy black tongues, like bullets, shot out of the big mouth of crawling fear, pointing at Li Nuo's heart, skull, and ankles.

The rest of the ten crawling fears, but instead of pounced on Li Nuo, they violently shook their heads on their backs, emitting noisy sound waves.

The noise suddenly increased in volume, as if a tweeter had been set up next to Li Nuo's ear.

At the same time, Creeping Dread drilled a large number of shadow threads.

The shadow silk threads, which were far denser than spider webs, instantly weaved an impermeable black cocoon around Li Nuo!

At this moment, a lot of systematic words refreshed in Li Nuo's mind.

【Warning! 】

[You are under attack by "Crawling Fear"!] 】

[[Shadow Whiplash hits your body, and the damage has been blocked by the "Silent Shield]!] 】

[[Shadow Psychic Shock] hits your heart, and the damage has been resisted by the [Psychic Shield]!] 】

[[Shadow Web] applies a "Binding Effect" to you, and your mobility is reduced!] 】

Level 50 crawling fear, that's just that.

I can't even penetrate my shields.

Li Nuo squinted at the crawling fear that was biting on him.

This abominable shadow monster has multiple mouthparts, and more than a dozen teeth that resemble short daggers.

As soon as he bit his arm, the teeth of crawling fear began to spray shadow energy.

The sticky, icy, fishy-smelling, thick slurry shadow energy flowed down Lino's bones and arms, and there was a fierce magical reaction with the shield on his body.

The five-headed crawling fear frantically splashed shadow energy, and in just three seconds, in the process of biting, Li Nuo's entire person was dyed black.

The system sent round after round of warning messages, all of which were indicating that Li Nuo was under attack, but all the damage was blocked by the "Silent Shield".

The Silent Shield's Shadow Energy Resistance is an astonishing 99%.

At this time, this resistance advantage was fully revealed, and it became the confidence for Li Nuo to fight against 15 crawling fears alone.

Of course, Li Nuo's posture of letting him fight was deliberate.

It was the first time he had been attacked by a shadow creature in the true sense of the word.

He had the heart to test the level 50 shadow creatures and how much damage they could do, so that he could have a good idea.

Li Nuo clicked on the personal panel:

…

[Silent Sound Meditation] Level 100

[Spirit] 100 points

[Magic Shield] Level 100, shield strength 200 points

[Energy] 1,300,000,000,000/647(100+547)

…

"Spirit" is 100 points, which means that the "Magic Shield" can be automatically cast 100 times in a cycle within 1 second.

The enemy must deal 20,000 points of effective damage within 1 second to penetrate Lenovo's shield.

Judging by the current situation only:

Under the premise that Li Nuo's Shadow Energy Resistance is 99%, the peak damage of a single level 50 Creeping Fear is about 700 Shadow Energy per second.

The 15 crawling fears in front of him have a total of 10,500 points of damage per second, which is far from the requirement of not breaking through Li Nuo's shield.

Li Nuo stood here and beat them, and the other party couldn't do anything to him.

But if you have another 15 crawling dreads, it will be different.

With this in mind, Li Nuo no longer spends time collecting battle data.

He summoned the thunder and lightning energy in his magic heart and poured it into the magic orb in his left hand.

The Orb of Magic is activated by lightning energy, releasing a dazzling blue light.

"Crackle!"

In an instant, the "Lightning Nova" took shape!

Spherical thunderstorms are spherical in shape and spread in all directions, covering every corner of underground space.

The monstrous electric snake pierced through the crawling terrified body, causing a series of filthy explosions.

A strong shadow aura mixed with furious thunder and lightning energy scurried through the cavern.

It all happened in just a second.

The thunder and lightning subsided, and the light dimmed.

The crawling fear that had been grinning around Li Nuo before had all turned into jet-black shadow fragments, turning into black mist and burrowing into the ground.

The shadow fragments trapped in the rock cage were not spared, and one by one they were blasted into mist by lightning and disappeared to the ground.

The rock cage itself, however, survived because of its good resistance to lightning energy...

Except for Li Nuo, there were no other creatures or monsters at the scene.

"Well, that's good. Shadow Creature has a negative 10% resistance to lightning energy. I only used 1,000,000 lightning energy to kill 15 crawling horror seconds. If you don't count the wasted lightning energy, it is spread evenly over each crawling fear, but it is only 66,000 lightning energy costs. ”

Li Nuo silently calculated the battle data, and his heart was certain.

Since the lightning spell was so useful, he didn't have to be as timid as he used to be.

Li Nuo gave the five ground-drilling machine spirits who were underground, and gave the order to go all out.

He took out another 15 spider spirits and threw them into three holes in the wall.

Each cave is scouted by 5 spider spirits.

Li Nuo is multi-tasking, using the "Psychic Beacon" on the magic ring to control 20 mechanical spirits at the same time.

"If only Noreen were here. She's much better at this kind of reconnaissance than I am. ”

Li Nuo suddenly slapped the door of his head, and a wonderful idea popped out of his mind!

"Huh? That's right! Since no matter how far away I am, there is no delay when I use the "Psychic Vision" to observe Island 33, doesn't that mean that Noreen can also help me control the machine spirit from a distance without worrying about the delay? ”

Li Nuo felt that his idea was feasible.

He manipulated it in his mind, selected the "tracking mark" on Noreen's body, threw out the "telepathy", and communicated with the other party in the air.

It's afternoon.

Noreen is on the 2nd basement floor, giving Nicole a lesson in alchemy.

After receiving Li Nuo's instructions, she turned and sat down next to the magic channel.

She enabled two thought threads at the same time.

Thought Thread 1 is used to try to manipulate the mechanical spirits around Li Nuo.

Thought Thread 2 is responsible for mapping the Mole Man cave where Li Nuo is located on the Wizard Access Instrument.

After a few minutes of running-in, Noreen successfully took over the control of the Ground-Drilling Robot and the Spider Machine from Li Nuo.

"Sir! I didn't expect that we were so far apart, and I could still help you! Noreen cheered in her heart, a smile on her face.

Li Nuo said with a smile:

"I'm also a little surprised, it seems that psychic magic is far more profound than we think. Let's not talk about that, you can help me find the lair of the shadow creatures. Be careful, I'm not sure if the Shadow Creatures will be able to inflict a "Shadow Psychic Shock" on you in the Suman Islands. You'd better cut off contact with the machine spirits as soon as you spot them. ”

"Yes, sir."

Noreen and Leno learned about the Creeping Fear and the characteristics of the Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon, and then began to manipulate the machine spirit to find its way.

20 mechanical spirits, 20 magical visions, arranged in 4 rows and 5 columns in Li Nuo's mind.

Without Li Nuo's hands, the images on the 20 magical visions moved.

As Li Nuo had previously guessed, he was indeed in the cave group of the Mole People.

Starting from the cave where he is, he burrows into the three holes in the wall to reach three mole-man caves with different purposes.

The leftmost entrance leads to the Mole Man's warehouse, which is piled up with rocks like a low mountain.

The middle hole is connected to a very large underground hall. On the floor in the center of the hall are the Mole People's handicrafts, a stone ornament carved with fingernails.

The hole on the right leads to the deposit, with obvious traces of mining and debris scattered on the ground.

The odd thing is that there are no mole people in the magical field of vision, and there is no dark green blood on the ground and walls.

Well, there is only one answer:

The mole people in this cave group have all become food for the shadow creatures.

The relationship between the creatures and the shadow creatures is the same as the relationship between the Wastestone and the Mole People.

How much shadow energy can a whole group of cave moles bring to the shadow creatures and the shadow magic array?

Leno quietly waited for Noreen's reconnaissance results.

Noreen didn't make Leno wait too long.

But the results of the reconnaissance were somewhat unexpected by Li Nuo.

About 300 meters below Linuo, there is an underground cavity the size of a football field.

It may have been where the Mole Man slept, with many horizontal pits in the walls that allowed the Mole Man to lie down.

The hollow floor of the underground was covered with the bones and hair of the Mole Man, still devoid of blood.

And in the center of these terrifying things, there was a magic circle that had just been artificially destroyed not long ago.

The frame of the magic array is a magic metal chain with a relatively high energy transmission efficiency.

The chain is coiled on the ground in an intricate circular pattern.

There is an empty space in each of the three corners of the pattern, which is where the magic device is prevented.

As long as the magic array is activated, the shadow magic stone in the center of the magic circle will flow out of shadow energy, and enter the magic device along the magic metal chain, and then a certain magic phenomenon will occur.

This is the design idea of the magic array that is common to the entire wizarding world.

But now, this magic array has been cut, melted, and corroded by shadow energy, turning it into a place of metal waste.

There is no doubt that after discovering that Li Nuo could easily kill the shadow creatures, someone decisively destroyed the shadow magic array and took all the shadow creatures with him.

Normal wizards who find out about this step will most likely fall into a situation where progress is slow.

But!

This is for normal wizards.

Li Nuo performed the "Death Flight" and followed Norein's guidance to find the metal slag.

He had the heart to test his reasoning skills, and he didn't use deconstruction as soon as he came up.

"The maximum width of the magic circle is 15 meters. Well, it's a medium-sized magic array. Generally, a magic array like this cannot be operated by a wizard, so you have to add two assistants. ”

Li Nuo crouched down, used the "wizard's hand" to remove the metal slag, and observed the ground below the magic array:

"When the magic metal chain conducts shadow energy, a very slight escape of shadow energy occurs. The escaping energy corroded the surface of the ground, and the corrosion area was not large, and the corrosion depth was only two or three millimeters.

"The person who set up the magic array did not lay a magic carpet on the ground to prevent energy from corroding the ground. This shows that the group of people did not intend to stay here for a long time, but only settled temporarily, and did not care about the negative impact of energy escape on the ground. ”

Li Nuo looked around, scanning the white bones nearby.

He saw the mole man's skulls, leg bones, sternums, phalanges, and other bones, but not the backbone.

Mole people, as humanoids that walk upright, also have backbones.

There are the remains of two hundred mole people lying here, but not a single backbone.

Li Nuo quietly noted this.

He walked around the metal scrap and found some clues.

When he was completely unable to discover any new details, he threw a deconstruction technique at the metal waste.

The moment he got the result of the solution, the corners of Li Nuo's mouth twitched slightly.

How to say it.

A system is a system after all.

Sometimes, it just discovers more than Linuo.

[System News:]

[You consumed 23,000 energy points to launch a harmless deconstruction of the "Damaged Shadow Magic Array".] 】

[Harmless solution constitutes work!] 】

【You have obtained the following solution results:】

Name: Destroyed Shadow Magic Array

[Item Level] Level 0

【Description】

The arranger of the magic array is suspected to be three shadow wizards from the fifth to the sixth ring.

When constructing the magic array, the arranger used about 3.2 tons of magic metal chains with an item level of around level 55.

(The rest of the deconstruction information is omitted)

…

The conclusions drawn from Li's observations also appear in the results of understanding.

Not only that, but the system also marks the wizard strength of the arranger.

This is as strange as deconstructing the handwriting and knowing the information of the writer.

Li Nuo is no longer surprised by this.

He pulled out the Death Thread Wand from his magic pocket and threw the "Death Technique" at the skeletons on the ground.

Today, the "Death Technique" has reached level 100.

For all the additional rewards of the entire ten levels, Li Nuo chose "Option 1: Increase the number of enslaved undead".

A full 200 skeletal undead made of mole-man bones rose from the ground and became Li Nuo's men.

This was the first time that Noreen had seen Li Nuo's death magic attainments, and she couldn't help but be amazed:

"Wow~ Sir, you can still control so many undead~ It's amazing! Can I learn this spell? ”

Leno grinned and responded with "telepathy":

"Death spells, you don't want to learn them. For some reason, you'll learn psychic spells at most. ”

"Oh, it's okay, use mind spells to control the mech, I can help you too." Noreen didn't feel depressed.

She controlled 20 mechanical spirits, reunited with Li Nuo, and asked:

"So what do we do now? Do you want to continue the search for the whereabouts of the shadow creatures? ”

"Nope." Li Nuo shook his head and took out the topographic map of the quarry he had drawn from his magic pocket.

He drew several arcs with a pen on the topographic map:

"Noreen, you control the machine spirit and follow the route I drew to find out the molemen's cave groups, and try to find out the distribution of the molemen around the quarry. During this time, whether you find traces of shadow creatures or see mole people, you must tell me as soon as possible. ”

"Yes, sir." Noreen took the order.

Li Nuo picked up a magic bag around his waist and shook off a large number of mechanical spirits from it.

A total of 100 Machines have become Norein's control.

With the sound of brisk footsteps, the mechs quickly left the cavern and headed in all directions.

Li Nuo's thinking was simple.

First of all, he basically determined that the underground monsters that appeared in the depths of the quarry were actually shadow creatures.

Second, a shadow creature attack on the quarry could have been an accident.

The original intention of the wizard who set up the Shadow Magic Circle was to destroy the Mole People and convert them all into Shadow Energy.

A few shadow chrysalis cocoons accidentally ran into the quarry, which led to the appearance of "underground monsters".

If these two judgments are correct, Noreen should find more empty Mole-Man Caves and Mole-Man skeletons near the Quarry.

These skeletons may not be looked down upon by wizards of other factions, but for Li Nuo, they are ready-made spell casting materials~

Li Nuo smiled and clicked on a magic book in his mind that he had barely read.

The name of this magical book is called "Dictionary of Bones".

It was found by Leno from the other's magic pocket after killing the tomb wizard Nehecut.

Tomb Wizard is derived from the wizard power "Tomb King".

It was a large force obsessed with bone magic, and spent its days searching for strange bones.

In the eyes of tomb wizards, bones are "aggregates", a material that grows on living beings.

All the aggregates that are in the hands of the Tomb Wizard will be sent to the Tomb King's treasury.

Li Nuo used harmless deconstruction to get the spell blueprint on the "Dictionary of Bones".

This includes an extremely useful ritual bone magic:

"Bone Discovery Ritual".

There are too many bones stored inside the "Tomb King", and it is inevitable that the correct bones will not be found.

This is where the "Bone Discovery Ritual" comes in handy.

As long as the magic altar required for the ritual is set up, and enough aggregate is put in as the casting material, you can sense the exact location of a specific bone.

The good news is that the blueprint of the "Bone Exploration Ritual" in Li Nuo's hand is only 10% complete, but it does not affect its use.

The bad news is...

The aggregate required for the ritual is 10 times as much as it would normally be.

Li Nuo may have to prepare thousands of mole-man bones in order to find out the whereabouts of the mole-man's backbone.

If, during a magical ritual, the Quest Ritual is detected by the wielder of the Spine, the spell will also be devoured.

Li Nuo plans to try it out with the "Bone Discovery Ritual" first.

If it fails, try another way.

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