Chapter Forty-Nine: I've Seen Through the Lord of Scales
The elf called "Doctor" also didn't move...... Most likely, you don't have to go to him.
Now three have been eliminated. If the stranger was okay, the doctor must have died.
Without adaptors to search or prophesy, they can only use prayers or rituals to find things.
Olive, an old ceremonist, is proficient in various alternative rituals. Even if you don't use a ritual circle, you can use some simple rituals.
He pulled out his pocket watch, and pulled out a bottle of woodpecker blood from his ritual bag and smeared it on his face. He then put on a white mask with no eyes and no mouth, and put a rope around his neck as a noose.
"Lord of the Hanging, Mother of the Thread! Sixty-seven illusions, I offer the blood of a woodpecker! β
Olive pours mana, prays aloud, and recites the pronoun of a divine being: "Please watch over this place with the Endless Mist, and answer my questions!" β
Ivus knew that these were two other aliases for Grey Sky.
Gray Tiansi is said to have sixty-seven images, but this statement is also a lie. At least the Gray Celestial Division, who had been pulled to the material realm by the Ouroboros ritual, looked like a large gray spider, and on the back of the spider was a beautiful woman lying on it, as if she had been kidnapped by a spider and seemed to be riding a spider.
Just like a spider-tailed horned viper, the snake's tail is a lifelike spider. When a bird sees a spider and wants to hunt it, it will be bitten by a poisonous snake.
The first stage of the Gray Sky Division is a woman, the second stage is a woman riding a spider, and the third stage is a giant spider, and it looks as if it is no longer acting. But in fact, neither a woman nor a spider is a real Gray Celestial. The body of the Gray Celestial Division is actually the gray mist that connects them.
In the previous mechanic, Gray Sky would continue to split out some mist balls on time. If left unhit, it will explode and slow down significantly, so the player will turn the ball of fire. In the last stage, a large number of balls will split into a large number of balls, and at this time, many players will think "hurry up and kill the main body, leave these balls alone, it won't be time to clean them anyway".
But if the spider is really killed at this time, it will trigger the group annihilation mechanism. Because the previous mechanic will hint many times, the health bar given by the spider is actually fake, it will lose blood at a uniform rate as long as it is during the battle, and its real health bar is actually the count value of the mist ball that is knocked out.
That's why its early mechanics seem so simple and boring...... Only players who are particularly sensitive to data and who stop unexpectedly will feel that the speed at which the health bar is falling is not right.
At this time, you have to go back and hit those small balls, and kill a certain number of them within a limited time to trigger the mechanism, so as to face the true essence of the Gray Sky.
- This is the Gray Celestials.
The heavenly division that is neither true nor false, and the heavenly division that is silent and speechless. It is the realm of lies that He controls...... Neither black nor white, neither evil nor good. Whatever question is asked to it, if it is willing to answer, it will tell a lie β and on the other hand, it is true.
Olive tied the noose to the end of his pocket watch, then shook it like a meteor hammer and threw it.
The pocket watch went straight through the beam and hammered at the other end. It seemed to become extremely heavy, and it directly hung the olives up.
"Please...... Give me a lie! β
Olive struggled to hold the gallows with both hands, so as not to get hanged literally. The old ceremonial master blushed and stumbled and said, "What is Aihuas looking for...... It's just around the corner β yes or no! β
Hearing this, he suddenly glanced at Ivus.
Ivas understood what he meant, and his right hand popped out a spark, burning the rope off.
The olive fell to the ground at the same time as the pocket watch. The pocket watch rolled on the ground, face up.
It means "no".
"When Gray Heavens says 'no', that's 'yes'! Very good......"
With his goal in mind, Ivas began to set up the prayer ceremony: "Ready, you may have to rush in a moment." β
β¦β¦ Rush fast?
Grape was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding what it meant.
The consultant and Olive's faces changed, and they had roughly guessed what Ivas was going to do.
Depending on his surroundings, Ivus chose to pray to the Flame Celestial Division: "I respectfully request the Flame Celestial Division!
"The Celestial Division of Burning Iron and Steel, the Celestial Division of the Cauldron and the Furnace!
"Give me the fire of life - like a snake spreading, like a butterfly dancing, like a dog seeking!"
A steady stream of light-attribute and fire-attribute mana gathered in Aihuas's hands.
I saw that the flames of the entire surrounding house were constantly pulling away from Ivus's side, and the heat gathered together and turned into a white-gold fireball. It was so bright that it seemed to darken the surrounding walls.
Under Aihuas's prayers, it gradually gained a body and expanded rapidly.
It soon became the height of an adult's thigh, like a cheetah.
- It's a monster like a "manticore". Its wings spread out like sparks, and its tail swayed from side to side like a burning snake.
At the prayer of Aihuas, the elemental creatures of the Flame Celestial Realm were summoned by Aihuas.
This is the third level of prayer, summoning secondary elemental creatures. Monsters known as flametails usually only survive in volcanoes in the physical realm.
The summoned elemental creatures are only relatively weak in the second energy level, and can only exist for ten minutes. The only advantage is that it has fire burning on its body and is very intelligent.
And Ivus summoned it now because it has the ability to "smell treasures". And most importantly, its special ability, "Flame Vision" - it touches fire like a shark touches seawater, and when it touches flames, the entire surrounding flame is seen as an extension of it.
"Help me find a dagger, it should be nearby. It is characterized by ......"
Ivus looked down and explained to it.
Soon, the flametailed beast nodded. Signal that you fully understand.
It leaped in, into the flames in the corner.
After only two or three seconds, it jumped out and ran out quickly.
Without hesitation, Ivus followed directly. The other three followed closely behind Ivus.
The grapes were the slowest of them all, even slower than Sherlock β Microft's bulky size made it extremely difficult to run in such an environment.
But she couldn't run - she was stunned to find that the knights and servants who had been blind seemed to be aware of their presence and gathered from all directions. Even the whole palace seemed to wake up, and the surrounding walls began to fire again...... The cracks in the walls breathe fire rhythmically, and you have to dodge the flames at a fixed rhythm in order to escape without getting burned.
"It's ...... What's going onβ"
"The flames of this area have an owner!"
Sherlock gasped and exclaimed, "The Fire Demon senses us!" β
Now that he was exposed, he didn't have to save mana. So Sherlock directly used the spell "Curtain of Pure Water" to surround him, and for a moment it seemed smoky, and a cloud of white gas enveloped him, and he couldn't see the people inside clearly.
But even so, running was a little difficult for him - especially since Ivas was so fast, and Ivus, who was extremely resistant to fire and heat, was not afraid of fire at all. Immediately following the flametails, completely ignoring the fire. But they can't ignore it completely, they have to wait.
The advisor ran wildly, panting for air, only to be stopped by the flames.
He glanced back at the approaching knights, and couldn't help but curse in his heart:
- You're waiting for me!
β¦β¦ But he thought about it, and it was useless to talk to the aborigines of the ritual anyway. Ivus ran so fast, presumably this was the test of the Lord of the Scales. He's going to have to keep up!
As a result, Sherlock ran wildly, and with some despair, found himself stopped in a very familiar place.
Underground ceremonial room.
It's where I was rescued in the first place.
Why didn't I see anything else to pick up here?!
"Detective, open the door!"
When Ivus looked back and saw him coming, he shouted from afar.
- Why can't you open the door and run so fast!
The advisor thought through gritted teeth.
Although he didn't have a staff in hand, he skillfully chanted a spell in a low voice.
The mana of the wind and the earth attribute converged, forming a strange fluctuation. The moment they came together, the originally closed door was forcibly unlocked by Sherlock directly with a spell.
- Lockpicking!
He rushed in after Aihuath.
In addition to the three ceremonial tables in the underground ritual room, there were a large number of cabinets for storing ritual materials - nearly twenty cabinets, each with many drawers. You can't tell anything from the outside.
The flametailed beast rushed straight to a certain place, stopping in front of a certain cabinet.
And the advisor directly rolled up a sharp wind and blew towards the cabinet. This is an "exposed projection" that destroys the package, and it has a particularly strong effect on the containers - they shatter all the cabinets in an instant, knocking out all the contents inside.
Eivus immediately found the dagger he was looking for, rushed over and picked it up.
"Got it, retreat!"
"Probably not ...... It's not easy to withdraw......"
The last grape to rush in said breathlessly.
As soon as he entered, he closed the door. As the earthy yellow light flashed, the "Preservation Technique" took effect, instantly reinforcing the closed door.
The next moment, tiny sparks splattered through the crack in the door. As they stood inside, they all heard a distinct shaking sound coming from the door.
Someone's attacking the door!
If it weren't for the grapes urgently reinforcing the door with protection, I'm afraid it would have been breached immediately!
"Those people outside are only at the fourth level at most, so it's not so easy to break through my preservation technique...... But how do we get out now? β
Grape looked at the advisor a little nervously.
The advisor glared at her in turn.
Look at what I'm doing!
- You're my brother now, my brother!
"Then ...... Leave it to me. β
Ivus whispered, pulling out a red card from his fingertips.
"Leah, guide the flames!"
Feeling the terrifying heat and coercion in the air, the advisor was shocked.
- I knew that as long as I followed Ehuas, there would be no dead end!
I've seen through the arrangement of the Lord of Scales!
(End of chapter)