Chapter 18: Petrification
When Arthur woke up from his great vertigo, the river was covered with wreckage, the boat was still alive and man, and many floating planks were still burning. A great fear welled up in his heart, and before he could think about what was going on, he shouted, "Tony, Kim, Tony......" His ears were still roaring, so that he could not hear his own cry, so that the cry was just a lonely echo on the surface of the river. There was no response.
Kaye shook Arthur violently beside him, his mouth opening and closing as if to say something, but Arthur couldn't hear anything at all. And Athena simply fainted. Arthur just wanted to approach in the boat, but suddenly felt a huge crisis, and there was no time to explain, an "underwater breathing" was immediately released on Kaye next to him, Arthur desperately gestured to Kaye, and shouted into her ear: "Don't come out! Don't come out, go find Kim, Kim!" and pushed her into the water regardless of whether she heard it or not.
Perhaps understanding what Arthur meant, Kaye dived deep into the water and swam towards the place where the explosion had just occurred, pushing their boat far away. All but their ship, which had Arthur's maneuvering and was far away without capsizing, capsized. Falling into the icy river water in that kind of vertigo is not optimistic, and the person on the big boat is even more certain to die.
With great concern for her brother, Kaye struggled to swim into the water. Without seeing behind him, Arthur cast another "underwater breath" on himself and stayed there.
Arthur now felt bitter in his mouth, and the moment he wanted to jump into the water, he felt a gaze, a deep gaze, as if the obsession of a lover made Arthur feel the murderous intent of the blade on his neck, Arthur understood that as long as he moved, death would come in an instant. So he had to stop all movements to delay the feeling.
In the black translucent water, a figure meandered, a beautiful woman's face, slowly clear, and her long green hair floated and sank in the water like aquatic plants, but it made her look even more dreamlike.
Amazingly, her eyes are blindfolded, but it makes Arthur feel like he is dying. A plain white hand grabbed the boat gang lightly and firmly, and then out of the water like a hibiscus, her whole body was leaking out of the water, and the water droplets slipped off her body one after another, and the upper body was almost **** except for the scale armor on her chest. And her lower body turned out to be a dark green snake body with patterns.
Arthur couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Queen Medusa." Surprise, fear, and bewilderment floated in Arthur's mind along with her floating figure in the water, and Arthur only understood that he seemed to have fallen into some kind of trap. The night was as cold as water, but this beautiful figure close at hand made him feel the cold of death.
Medusa, an underground creature, is half-human, half-snake, with twisted hair and poisonous snakes that can petrify creatures, and once a Medusa's hair turns into silk hair, it means that the level of this Medusa is more than level ten. This information appeared in Arthur's mind, and Medusa above level ten, Arthur felt a deep bitterness.
"Sizzle, you, why don't you run?" a shrill voice ran across Arthur's skin, causing goosebumps. Although Medusa's voice was special, there was a different kind of temptation, but Arthur just wanted to run away at the moment, escape from the creature in front of him, and escape as far away as possible.
"May I ask where I offended you by letting you set such a trap?" asked Arthur, a little confused.
"Answer me!" Medusa suddenly became angry, which made her face twist and look vicious.
"Did you run away?" replied Arthur with a wry smile. It seems that he has been smiling bitterly since just now, and perhaps this bitter smile will continue until he dies.
"Sizzle, can't run away, sizzle, but if you're the first to get in the water, maybe there's still a chance, sizzle, but, why?" said Medusa, staring at Arthur. Although her eyes were covered with a thick cloth, from just now until now, this feeling of gaze has never disappeared from Arthur's body. You can even feel the burning and stiffness of your gaze on your body. The sensation moved with Medusa's gaze, as if there was an invisible crawling path on Arthur. This feeling gave Arthur creeps.
"That's my wife!" Arthur found himself unable to grasp the topic, and could only respond helplessly.
"Wife?" muttered Medusa, as she seemed lost in thought. This sentence did not even bring a sizzle.
"Can you tell me, then, what is the reason for everything today?" asked Arthur curiously. But he used the corner of his eye to scan the surroundings for the fifth time, and went through the spell he had in his heart. But there is still no solution to the current dilemma, only death is approaching little by little. Athena was still in a fainting state, but Arthur couldn't do anything about it at the moment.
"You're dead, sizzle, will she be in pain?" Medusa asked again.
"Yes, she's going to be miserable!" Arthur only responded, almost giving up the confidence to get things straight.
"Sizzle, that's great, the more painful the better, sizzle!" said Medusa, happy, her face full of contented resentment. Let Arthur scold the pervert in his heart. It seems completely impossible to touch each other with great love.
"Okay! I'll ask you one last time, what is the cause of all this?" Arthur struggled to figure out what happened, a bit like Roland who died in happiness in the first place, but fortunately it wasn't Arthur. Convincing the loser with the attitude of a victor is the nature of all intelligent creatures.
"Sizzle, I tell you, because of your father, Sizzle, that you curse him in hell too, and because of him you died. Medusa's tone was full of vengeful pleasure.
It was for such a reason that I knew that I was not capable of offending such a "person". But Arthur could only cautiously ask, "My father, Andrew, did he abandon you?"
"No, sizzle, he cheated on my mother, sizzle, and abandoned her!" Medusa said excitedly, her fat tail slapping the boat gang with a thumping sound.
"Is it true? Andrew, this bastard, he also abandoned my mother and left me out for more than ten years, I wanted to kill him for a long time, but my strength is too small, can you help me?" Arthur said with his face flushed with excitement, clenched his fists fiercely.
"I know, sizzle, your name is Arthur, right?" Medusa's voice was pleasant, but before Arthur could breathe a sigh of relief, the next sentence sent him into the abyss. "You must die, sizzle, make Andrew miserable, that Anthony will die too, he is the man's favorite son! Sizzle, you all have to die, but don't worry, Andrew will be with you down there soon. !”
The night seemed to be deeper, and on this strange night, the boat lost control, and with the surging waters of the River of Tears, it flowed downstream, and soon left Saint-Rolle behind, and after that turn, the speed of the water gradually increased, and galloped away with the boat and the three men on board, yes, no one could find them, and even if they did, who could save Arthur in the river?
Arthur's brain spun rapidly: it was already determined that this was a trap, but how could a dungeon creature know so clearly, but it was wrong for Anthony and Tony, yes, it was supposed to be Anthony, is there a traitor in Bloodthorn? For what, to deal with Andrew's father? Yes, as long as we kill us, how can Andrew, who has just lost his two sons, reach the fifteenth level of the Sanctuary. But this did not help the current crisis, but only strengthened the determination of the other party to kill him. What to do?
"If I kneel and beg for mercy, will you spare me?" Arthur looked at Queen Medusa in front of him with a look of pity. With that, he bent down and slowly knelt down.
On the rushing river, the cold moon hung high, undulating with the waves, and the two figures on the boat faced each other silently. Maybe it's not a confrontation, but there's a confrontation between a viper and a rat. Just playing, this is the helplessness of all mice, but they still can't help but resist and struggle, which is also the survival instinct of all mice.
Arthur's knees slowly touched the cold plank, and Medusa on the other side was full of disdainful mockery, yes, there was no chance. At least that's what she thought, a single blow would be fatal.
But a huge ball of light suddenly shone between the two "people", and the magnificent translucent ball of light emitted a soft and firm ice blue light and flew towards Medusa, and the ball of light the size of a basketball appeared extremely abruptly, such a distance, in such a small boat, it was impossible to dodge.
Such a shape, such a brilliance. "Frozen Ball!" Medusa let out a slightly frightened angry roar, she had thought that a seventh-level druid had no way to hurt herself, but the elemental mage's high-level spells were obviously not among them, the sphere that seemed to exude an endless chill could instantly freeze everything it touched, even a fourteenth-level mage could not instantly use this magic, she didn't expect that Arthur would have such a rare scroll.
Medusa took out a small shield, and the face of a beautiful woman carved on it made Arthur's pupils shrink, Medusa's shield. Legendary-level weapons, Medusa holding this thing should be careful even for legendary-level powerhouses. The shield glows with a limestone gray glow, as if trying to fend off the puck's attacks.
The "Frozen Ball" burst instantly when it touched Medusa's shield, but the strong impact that Medusa expected did not appear, and was drenched in water. Water that glows.
At this time, Arthur was scooping up Athena who fell to the ground and threw herself into the water, yes, only if you can enter the water, there is a glimmer of life, with the power of underwater breathing, in such a turbulent and cold river, it is not easy for Medusa to find herself, and although Medusa can swim, she is not an aquatic creature after all.
The icy river instantly soaked Arthur, and he felt a chill of ice, but this slight stinging pain made Arthur feel very happy, as if he was protected by water. I didn't have time to be happy, so I desperately dived into the water. Suddenly, Arthur felt mortally in danger and turned his head sharply, and the Medusa on the bow of the ship ripped off the blindfold that had been blindfolding. And the beautiful face on the little shield, which had closed its eyes, opened suddenly, and together with Medusa's eyes, it emitted a dead gray light.
This light penetrated through the dazed darkness, through the thin surface of the water, through Arthur's dark green eyes, and made him feel that the resistance of the water instantly increased to the point that he was powerless, no, not the resistance of the water increased, but his body was slowly stiffening into a hard rock, this change seemed to be slow, but in an instant it spread to Arthur's whole body. Arthur looked weakly at the last scene he saw, and used his last strength to take back the spatial ring of Athena, who had been completely turned to stone, and then sank deep into the black water.
Level 0's "Water Formation" and "Light Technique" were released at the same time on the left and right hands, although it helped Arthur buy a little time. But it still can't make up for the huge gap in power, and death is just around the corner. He finally fulfilled his promise, for Athena and Kaye, he should have had more chances, if he went into the water first, if he didn't care about Athena who passed out, but he couldn't taste the trace of regret in his heart, and even his heart turned to stone.
Medusa stood proudly in the boat, and the torrent quickly carried her away, and did not go down the river to chase after her, except how difficult it was to find a stone at the bottom of the river in the middle of the night, and a "petrified eye" in the face of eye contact with her, the power of Medusa's shield was enough to make anyone below level fifteen instantly turn to stone. And not only could they not find Arthur, but the people of Bloodthorn could not find Arthur either, and they didn't even know where Arthur was now. So Arthur could only slowly fall apart at the bottom of the river as time passed.
Notes: Hydraulicism: Produces 2 gallons per grade of pure water. But the water that was made had no fixed shape, so Arthur made it into a circle and pushed it out.
Illumination: Causes the target item to glow like a torch. The light emitted was supposed to be red, but a small change in the way it was cast would make it glow a deep blue.
The combination of the two creates the effect of simulating an ice ball. In that environment, the other party has no chance to think carefully at all, and can only instinctively resist or dodge.
Elemental Mage: One of the most important branches of the Mage Shaping system, it played a very important role in the Age of Magic Destruction, and the founder of this school was the first female mage in De Grasse. Break the dictatorship of men in the realm of mages.