389. Shadow Thief

"Tulsali is really calm..."

Wizards flocked to the subway, but there was no metal progenitor dragon in the dusty city.

Li Nuo watched all this silently behind the scenes.

Through the observation of the magical vision, he confirmed that the last batch of anti-magic materials had been sent to the train.

The moment the wizards entered the subway entrance, the train full of anti-magic materials had already departed.

The fastest wizard could only see the tail lights of the train and the cannonballs and energy rays that flew in.

Most of the wizards who flew into the ground were the Seven Rings, and the spells they cast were enough to overturn the entire underground tracks and trains.

After several powerful underground explosions, the dead steel soldiers on the train were blown upside down.

However, there were no casualties among the Dead Steel soldiers.

Their bodies have been modified to resist demons, making them perfectly adapted to high-intensity combat involving the element of magic.

No matter what kind of magical energy it is, it can't really hurt them.

The energy of death, which can take away the living life, can only leave a scorched black mark on them.

After the lightning energy hit them, it turned into countless tiny electric snakes and quickly swam away, and finally disappeared into thin air.

Not to mention the flame energy, which can't even ignite or melt the Dead Steel Soldiers.

The few that can form pincers on dead steel soldiers are only the rock and soil energy and wind energy that involve kinetic energy.

Gradually, the wizards who went underground realized that the advantage was not mine.

They came in a menacing manner, looking like they were about to topple the enemy, but now they were being overwhelmed by the guns of the Dead Steel soldiers, who were almost completely immune to magic.

To make matters worse, there is also a sturdy transparent barrier on the periphery of the underground space where the subway tracks are located.

This barrier was far more formidable than the hemispherical barrier that protected the city, and it remained immovable even after repeated magical bombardments.

Its existence not only prevents the wizards on the ground from digging up the ground and moving the entire underground space to the surface, but also dispels the idea of the wizards who are underground from breaking through the ground and returning to the surface.

In this way, the wizards on the ground can only enter the underground from the subway entrance to support the retreating front line, and the wizards on the underground can only return the same way to escape the predicament.

However, this underground space is easy to get into, but difficult to get out.

The metal wizards on the ground pressed near the subway entrance, using magic to block all routes to escape the subway entrance.

At the same time, the dead steel soldiers who stayed on the ground also gathered near the subway entrance and built a very stubborn defensive line.

Whenever the wizards of the Nine Rings want to use powerful sub-plane summoning techniques to forcibly turn the tide of battle, the metal wizards in the sky must be the first to use metal magic to wash over specific areas and prevent the emergence of sub-planes.

With each other at odds, the scales of battle unconsciously began to tilt in favor of the metal wizards and the dead steel.

More and more wizards were trapped underground, and they couldn't figure out why there were only three or five hundred metal wizards outside, but they could trap themselves and others underground.

Li Nuo saw it very clearly.

Although the buildings in the Root Server City have collapsed, the will of the Metal Ancestral Dragon remains.

Invisible energy fluctuations shot out of the ruins of the building and poured into the bodies of metal wizards, greatly enhancing their metal magic.

It can be said that if you pick out a metal wizard at random, he can be one-on-one with the nine-ring wizard, forming a completely crushing situation.

From an outsider's point of view, Leno soon realizes what the metal progenitor dragon Thalsali is going to do!

This old dragon wants to borrow the hands of dead steel and metal wizards to kill this large number of wizards underground!

But is this little bit of dead steel soldiers and metal wizards enough for the scene?

Although the group of wizards underground is a handful of loose sand, they all hide the means of pressing the bottom of the box, but they are only useless for the time being.

It's really forcing them to be anxious, will they unite and concentrate on breaking through in one direction?

Li Nuo was thinking like this, but he saw several meteors dragging tail flames falling from the sky and slamming into the ruins of the city.

When the dust clears slightly, the meteor reveals its appearance.

It was a bloated, purely metal-made airborne troop carrier, shaped like an egg and over 100 meters in diameter.

After landing, these airborne troop carriers opened their hatches outwards like blooming flowers, and nests of dead steel soldiers ran out of them to join the battlefield.

After all the Dead Steel soldiers left the airborne troop carrier, these vehicles with the ability to land did not take off, but began to deform with a clatter, from a blooming metal giant flower to a metal giant ape on all fours.

A three-meter-thick cannon muzzle protruded from the metal ape's back, pointing at the subway entrance where the artillery was flying in the distance.

After a brief build-up, the cannon let out an earth-shattering blast and rained a three-meter-diameter laser beam towards the subway entrance.

Among the wizards near the subway entrance, several people were weak and were shot through the magic shield by the laser beam, melting on the spot.

Their tragic death made the hearts of the rest of the wizards tight.

But when the wizards were about to counterattack and break through, they were horrified to find that the laser beam that filled the entire subway entrance seemed to be endless, without the slightest trace of interruption.

The wizards could only use all their strength, using all means of defense, to barely suppress the laser beam near the subway entrance.

"Bang bang bang..."

A series of muffled noises came from the ground, and several more airborne troop carriers landed on the ground.

The newly arrived airborne troop carrier also turned into a metal giant ape capable of firing laser beams, and began to pour fire on the subway entrance.

"Tulsali really wants to kill the wizards underground..."

Li Nuo thought for a few seconds, and felt that he had to do something.

The relationship between him and the group of wizards is a bitter one.

By the time Tulsali had cleaned up the group of wizards, the next one who would be unlucky would be himself, the one hiding in the shadows.

Li Nuo looked away and looked in the direction of the subway train.

In his mind, there were several magical visions that were always following these columns.

The trains are now parked near another underground factory, where the Dead Steel Soldiers are moving anti-magic materials into the factory to continue producing anti-magic components.

"Tulsali has had countless chances to transfer anti-magic materials, but I only have one chance to steal them. If Tulsali fails, it will only be a sacrifice of materials, and I will have to pay with my life. ”

Lino reached into his magic pocket and decided to do something more to distract Tulsali.

In his magic pocket, there has always been a regular, the Dark Wizard of the Eighth Ring, who has been captured from the Exiled City.

The guy is a delirious shadow creature.

After being transformed by the Assassination Angel, it was completely erased and turned into a shadow puppet that could only act on orders.

Didn't Thalsali think that the thief who stole the soul gem was the Shadow Executioner, so well, Lino came to help him confirm this guess.

Li Nuo took the Shadow Orb out of his pocket and fastened it to his front with the "Wizard's Hand".

He used his shadow wand to guide the shadow golem inside the orb out of the cage, and then threw the "Veil of the World" (imitation) at the opponent, erasing all traces of the opponent.

"Go, complete your mission, lure me away from Tulsali, and give those besieged wizards a breather."

Li Nuo calmed down and manipulated the shadow puppet to fly towards the ruins of the city.

The Shadow Golem's destination is not the subway tunnel covered by the laser beam, but the underground space vents that have not been affected by the battle.

Although the vents are buried in the rubble, this is not difficult for the ghostly shadow golems that have no fixed form.

Squeezing through the cracks in the rubble, through the vents blocked by rubble, Li Nuo saw several expected figures.

Those were some wizards with more flexible minds.

When they found themselves trapped underground, they thought of a way to escape from the cramped pipes that were not guarded by the Dead Steel soldiers.

The formless and insubstantial nature of flying spells gives them the ability to travel through tiny tubes.

Just as the shadow golems passed through the ventilation ducts, the group of bright-minded wizards were about to reach the ground, just in time to pass by the shadow golems in an absolutely invisible state.

"Good luck, wizard. You can avoid the Dead Steel soldiers, but you can't get around Tulsali's eyes. ”

Li Nuo casually sent blessings to the wizards passing by, and manipulated the shadow golem to continue to explore inward.

After nearly half an hour along the ventilation duct, the shadow golem finally came to the heavily guarded underground factory in silence.

Like the previous underground factory, the floor, ceiling, and walls of the plant are now tainted by Tulsali.

The same goes for the warehouse where anti-magic materials are stocked, and its door frame is also a contaminant from Tulsali.

Li Nuo patiently picked out the problematic metal ingots from the anti-magic metal ingots and set them aside.

Then, he asked the Shadow Golem to put all the anti-magic metal ingots that had not been planted with spells into the Shadow Golem's body.

"Jingle Bell ————"

As expected, as the Shadow Golem was about to retire and leave the factory with the anti-magic metal pad, a piercing alarm sounded.

In the next second, all the walls of the factory seemed to come to life with dense ripples.

"Buzz Buzz ————"

The boundless seismic wave swept across the entire factory, and in just a moment, the "Veil of the Otherworld (Imitation)" that Li Nuo applied to the shadow puppet was exposed because it could not change its form with the seismic wave.

The Shadow Golem is forced to manifest and move in disarray.

Li Nuo immediately steered it through the gate of the factory that was about to close, and accelerated its flight in the dark subway passage.

At the same time, Li Nuo activated the "Shadow Cloak" that came with the Shadow Golem, and with the help of rich shadow energy, it merged with the dark environment.

This near-perfect state of invisibility is enough to deceive the wizards of the Eighth Ring and even the Ninth and Tenth Rings, but it must not be able to hide from the Metal Ancestral Dragon.

Sure enough, after the shadow golem drilled into the ventilation duct made of metal, the pipe was immediately tightened by an invisible force, forming a closed container that blocked the shadow golem.

"Stupid fellow, have you been in the wilderness for too long to make you think you can use the same trick to deceive me twice in a row."

Tulsali's voice rang out in the underground space, a slight smug in anger.

The pipes that sealed the Shadow Golem squeezed inward, emitting a noisy metallic deformation noise.

"Tell me quickly, what good has Nerefar (the White Ancestral Dragon) given you to come... Hey? Wait..."

In the middle of speaking, Tulsali suddenly stopped.

A solemn gaze shot out from the wall of the tube, landing on the shadow golem and scanning back and forth.

Li Nuo knew that the shadow puppet would not be able to fool Tulsali for long, so he decisively ordered the shadow puppet to blow itself up.

Shadow golems are transformed from Shadow Spirits.

When the Shadow Ghost dies, its body will turn into Shadow Fragments and travel in the direction of a pre-set Resurrection Ritual Circle.

The Shadow Shadow comes with its own carry-on space, called the Shadow Skin.

Only when all the Shadow Shards are destroyed will the "Shadow Skin" appear on the corpse of the Shadow Shade.

Whenever a Shadow Fragment escapes, the Shadow Skin will follow the Shadow Fragment out of the battlefield and be reborn with its owner.

And the contents of the "Shadow Skin" will also be kept intact in the skin.

Li Nuo knew the mystery in advance, and at this time, he manipulated the shadow puppet to self-detonate, which was to use the characteristics of the Shadow Shadow and the "Shadow Skin" to forcibly take away the anti-magic materials stored in the skin.

The impact caused by the self-explosion is equivalent to the impact of shadow energy unleashed by the eight-ring battle wizard with all his might.

The metal pipes that trapped the Shadow Golem are not anti-magic materials.

Even with the bonus of the Metal Ancestral Dragon, the metal pipe inevitably cracked with a slender rift.

The shadow shards poured into the rift like nimble swimming fish, and suddenly escaped into the dim underground space.

Tulsali didn't know what to think, and suddenly chuckled and said:

"No wonder you don't dare to appear in front of me openly, it turns out that your strength has weakened to the point that you need to use the shadow magic of this world to compete with me!"

Li Nuo raised his eyebrows, realizing that the other party still firmly believed that the shadow creature in front of him was the Shadow Executioner.

That's a good thing.

As long as Tulsali didn't turn a corner, the probability of Li Nuo succeeding in stealing the anti-magic materials was infinitely close to 100%.

A few pieces of shadow shards swam through the darkness, and Tulsali chased after them, blocking their way with complex ventilation ducts and subway tracks.

As you chase me, a few Shadow Shards are covered in the Veil of the World, disappearing from under Tulsali's nose.

Tulsali seemed to be completely absorbed in the game of cat and mouse, completely oblivious to the vanishing Shadow Shards.

More than ten kilometers away from the city, Li Nuo took out the ritual circle of the resurrection of the shadow fragment, wrapped it in the "Veil of the Otherworld" (imitation), and quietly waited for the shadow fragment to come here with the "Shadow Skin".

This is the most dangerous stage.

If Thalsali sensed the vanishing Shadow Fragment and appeared on the black earth outside the city, then it was highly likely that Leno would face the threat from the other side.

That's it!

The battle in the city reached a climax, and the wizards who had been trapped underground for a long time finally organized a decent counterattack.

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