Volume 1: The Girl and the White Dragon Chapter 38: The Hidden Corridor
There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the boat is naturally straight to the bridge.
The mandate of heaven is so difficult to disobey, and the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road.
Chrissy knew very well that no matter whether these killers were "secret envoys" sent by the elves, and whether there were endless pursuers behind them, she had to get through the difficulties in front of her first, otherwise everything would be out of the question.
"Dolma, we're going 'there' now. They will surely catch up soon. β
Chrissy knows better that she can't delay a single step on her side, she can't make a mistake, and the slightest mistake will bury all her past efforts and future hopes.
"Yes, Miss. β
Dolma carries Chrissy in her arms and gallops quickly through the aisle.
At this time, she has to be carried by others to run away, but it is not that Chrissy is pampered.
Forcing Chrissy, who is not very physically good, to get down and run away on her own will drag down Dolma's movements.
And Dolma, as a magic puppet, does not have the concept of "tiredness", plus there is also the bonus of Chrissy's [Light Foot] talent. Dolma can afford a girl who is less than sixty pounds, and she won't even have more energy consumption.
"Miss, be careful. β
"Is there really one?"
In fact, there is no need for Dolma to remind her, Chrissy also sees and senses the restlessness of those things in the dark.
Hiss~
The poisonous insects and snakes hiding in the passage attacked the two of them, and the sight of these black oppressive shadows made people's scalps tingle, and they were either killed or injured when they touched them.
"Hey-ha!"
With the girl's shout, a circular ring of fire was released from Chrissy's body.
The third-order spell Ring of Fire spreads out, dealing area fire damage while effectively pushing away or dispersing enemies that rush around the caster.
Fire spells have always been effective against poisons, and this time is no exception.
Poisonous insects and snakes instinctively avoid the fire when they see it, and those who fail to dodge in time are burned to the outside and tender inside.
The few remaining ones that were not dispelled by the ring of fire were no longer in the climate, and the loose defense line of the poisons was quickly broken through by Dolma, who had a movement speed bonus.
The Ring of Fire Spread is a spell that consumes quite mana, and Chrissy originally planned to keep it for the two killers.
However, if this situation is omitted, it will cause more trouble.
After all, even if Chrissy had any means, she was just a witch.
And witches, no matter how special, are just a branch of magicians.
The strength of mages lies not only in their ability to control the field and attack in groups, which are difficult for ordinary warriors to match, but more importantly, they themselves are enough to defeat the enemy in a safe area far away.
As a result, the weaknesses of mages who can usually be safely defeated by "flying kites" are also obvious, as they gain strong ranged attack abilities while they do not have the melee ability to match them.
In other words, although Chrissy is a trainee witch who has mastered multiple spells and can defeat several seasoned warriors on her own, her body is actually as fragile as an ordinary person.
As soon as a venomous snake bites her, Chrissy loses her ability to move and falls into a dangerous state of fighting death.
What's more, she is still in a situation where she is being pursued by a strong enemy, and once she is seriously injured, it is equivalent to announcing the end.
In fact, it's not just the confrontation with the poisons, but the previous fight with the killers, why wasn't it dancing on the tip of the knife?
However, the adrenaline had made Chrissy forget her fears, and instead of being nervous, her thoughts were as clear and calm as pouring cold water on her head in the morning.
It was a wonderful feeling, Chrissy's eyes sparkled, and the flawed plan became clearer and clearer in her mind.
The poison behind them that they had just thrown off still did not give up and continued the pursuit, and in front of them, another poison appeared on the road ready to stop the two.
However, the master and servant, who had been prepared for a long time, continued to bombard the spells and iron fists in the surroundings, and due to the small number of poisons in the way, Dolma did not slow down while attacking instead of defending, and after a fight, she successfully escaped from the encirclement of the poisons with Chrissy.
"It's finally here... It seems that this layer is not occupied by those poisons. β
Chrissy looked back and saw no more of the poisonous insects and snakes, and her tense nerves relaxed.
"Dolma, let me down. β
"Yes, Miss. β
Dolma lowered Chrissy from her arms, and in front of them was a wall that seemed to be a dead end. Of course, if it was really a dead end, they wouldn't stop here.
"Whew... I thought it would be five years before I came back to this place, but I didn't expect to come now. β
Chrissy touched the bricks on the wall in order, and the bricks on the wall shrank back and retreated into the wall, leaving room for the two to pass side by side.
Inside is a long corridor where Chrissy has just stepped into it, and the torches on the walls on both sides of the corridor are lit with dark blue flames, and on the walls on both sides there are various bone reliefs that are easily reminiscent of the rituals of evil gods.
"Well, Dolma, I've always wondered if my family ancestors had any strange hobbies. β
No matter how many times she visits, Chrissy gets goosebumps from the dΓ©cor.
"Mademoiselle, Mr. Ballard, who designed this corridor, is a talented necromancer, and you may have his blood in the hidden corridor he helped design and build one hundred and twenty-one years ago when he was a lover and friend with the tenth witch Emile. β
Dolma tells the history of the castle like a treasure, and no one knows the story behind the castle better than her.
"Why 'maybe'?"
"Because Emile Lanjere has more than one lover......"
"Oh, that's it....... Huh?!"
Chrissy remembered that the Lanyere family's comments seemed to have taken a sudden turn for the worse in a certain generation, wouldn't it be ......
Forget it, now is not the time to think about family anecdotes.
Although the atmosphere of the corridor is a bit eerie, it is not the first time Chrissy has been here, and for some special reasons, she is familiar with the environment here, and even now she still remembers it vividly.
Chrissy had no ink, and she ran quickly towards the end of the corridor, but the place where she stepped was strange was that she seemed to be deliberately avoiding some unremarkable stone slabs, and Dolma followed in Chrissy's footsteps.
"We have to go through the portal, but it seems like ......"
At the end of the corridor is an obsidian door frame, but this is only a door frame, and inside is a thick white wall, with no access.
"Damn, the portal has been useless for too long, it's broken, it needs to be repaired. β
Chrissy pressed the green gem on the wall on her right, but the door did not respond, and Chrissy leaned over to check the runes engraved around the gem, and sure enough, some fragments were blurred, causing the portal to not open properly.
"Miss, Dolma has noticed that a living being is approaching our location. β
Dolma, who was standing behind Chrissy, suddenly turned around and took an attacking stance.
"How could it be, it's obviously not in the back... Huh?"
Rumble!
Before Chrissy could finish speaking, there was a loud collision sound at the entrance to the closed secret corridor.
"Hmm!"
The entire corridor shook, and the sand and gravel in the wall tiles poured through the cracks, leaving Chrissy in disgrace.
"It must be the Spirit Devouring Python, it's hitting the wall!"
This kind of movement can only be made by the giant python, the giant python follows their trail all the way, and the surrounding poison can also be counted as its eyeliner, it is not difficult to judge that they are hiding here.
"I can't put it off any longer! β
It's hard to say how long the protection at the entrance of the corridor will keep the powerful python at bay, and Chrissy can only repair the portal as soon as possible.
"Of course, miss. β
Dolma moved behind Chrissy, shielding her with her arms from the falling sand and gravel while keeping an eye on the entrance.
"Tsk!"
Chrissy bit through the bloody scab on her index finger and tore the wound wide with her teeth.
Next, she used blood as ink and her fingers as pens to begin to paint on the missing runes on the wall.
The Soul Devouring Python outside continued to slam its massive snake body against the wall, and through the heat and smell, it was able to sense that its target was behind this wall.
And the wall has begun to sink and deform in the brute force collision of this giant python.
Bang!
Finally, under the continuous blows, the wall could not hold on, and the Spirit Devouring Python successfully knocked down the wall that stood in its way. With a strong gust of wind, bricks and sand flew out, and the blue flames on the surrounding torches swayed violently.
In the smoke and dust drifting in the air, the figure of the giant python seemed to have disappeared, and the giant python with invisible ability was definitely a terrible killer in the jungle.
The cold killing intent had already locked the position of the two, but Chrissy did not stop the movement in her hand, and Dolma only stared at the giant python, but did not take any further action.
The python thought that both of them had been frightened by his momentum, and no matter how he looked at them, there was no way out, so he didn't care, and continued to crawl forward with his bloated and bulky body.
Click!
When the python touched the floor tiles, there was a jolt on the walls on either side, and an armored skeleton holding a mace crawled out of the mural.
Hiss~
Still invisible, the Spirit Eater noticed the undead warrior approaching him, obviously it couldn't deceive the undead who didn't use his eyes to see with his eyes, and feeling a hint of threat, it chose to coil up the snake body and prepare to fight first.
Click!
However, this disc directly touched more floor tiles, and more and more undead warriors crawled out of the mural with various weapons in their hands.
Boom!
These undead warriors, all of them cold and terrifying, snapped their joints as they moved, and they opened their fleshless jaws as if they were roaring and smiling, brandishing their weapons and charging towards the python.
Hiss!
Not to be outdone, the python smashed a skeleton spearman to pieces with a sweep, but the other undead still charged at the python without fear of death.
At the same time, a green light shone on the mural at the skeleton spearman, who had been beaten into a pile of bones, and after a few breaths, the bones began to be reassembled, and soon an intact skeleton spearman appeared, and quickly joined the warband.
"While I know I have to thank the senior who designed the Hidden Corridor now, is it necessary for him to make an introductory test for training a novice like this?"
When Chrissy saw the giant python fighting with the undead, she secretly said in her heart that she still had a lot of time, but these undead warriors had left a lot of shadows on her once young self.
The devil knows how many times she was chased by these undead warriors who couldn't be beaten at all and cried her mother in order to find out the correct location of the slate. The short 30-meter-long corridor took Chrissy two years to figure out what to do.
How skilled she is in passing the test now, how difficult the process was back then.
After thinking for a moment, Dolma replied:
"Because of some kind of resentment, probably ......"