The commander of Shaonan is a middle-aged man in his forties with a solemn expression. Although he is dressed like an officer, the wand in his waist reveals his other identity. I saw him pulling out his wand and sending a blue light signal to the sky. The magicians on the entire city wall immediately took up their positions. Several of the great magicians raised their wands, and the various magic crystals inlaid on them were sparkling. .
The commander emitted another red light, and then, the river under the city suddenly surged, and soon the waves rose higher and higher, rushing toward the monsters overwhelmingly. When the monsters were struggling to rush forward, the second wave of magic arrived. Silver light flashed, and all the river water that touched the monsters turned into ice. In the blink of an eye, the dozens of monsters that rushed to the front were frozen into ice. piece.
The attack of the monsters slowed down and then started again. The monsters behind ignored the companions in front who were trapped in the ice, bypassed them, or climbed over them, continued to rush towards the city wall, and then suffered another blow. The fate of companions.
Huge ice blocks filled the riverbed and riversides, blocking the flow of the river. This time, the dozens of monsters that were the last to escape finally retreated. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, cheered, and became alert again under the commander's reminder.
Minte looked at the piles of ice in the distance and the magical beasts trapped in the ice, and sighed: "It's amazing... Shaonan's magicians are really strong." Next to him, Vasily and other security agencies Colleagues also nodded in agreement, "Don't move at all." Alex suddenly poured cold water behind them. He had just finished purifying the water, and when he climbed back up, he had already witnessed the Shaonan magicians intercepting the monsters.
Minte asked unconvinced: "Aren't they very powerful? They got rid of all the monsters in one go! It's not like how much effort we spent back then."
Alex sneered: "Just trapping them with ice does not mean killing them. If the monsters were so easy to freeze to death, there would be no variant of the snowfield monsters. We are in Xi'an , at least it burned them to ashes. But now, it only stopped their attack. Even the method may not be perfect, you don’t believe it. Just look at the river outside. "
Minte didn't understand what he meant. He looked under the city wall and found that the river had become very shallow. The silt at the bottom of the river was clearly visible. The slightly gray-black ice cubes that had just been thrown out were half immersed in the city wall. In the water, there was a circle of dead fish lying around. "This is..." He opened his eyes slightly.
"This magic is achieved by using river water. Now the river water is frozen into ice, but it cannot be recycled and reused, so it will naturally become less and less. As long as the monsters come again a few times, what will we do when there is no water to use? Difficult to do? Can't we use water elements to condense it?" After Alex finished speaking, he raised his hand and pointed towards the river bank, "Just now it was just a little bit of ashes from the living corpses, we have to purify the water. Those areas of the river bed that were crawled by monsters. What will happen to the water? With this dam, it may be possible to stop the water from flowing in, but what about the land next to it?"
Myint's heart grew heavy as he watched the water flow down from upstream, around the ice, slowly pouring into the river bed, or seeping into the land beside the river. Alex is right, just trapping the monsters with ice cubes will not destroy them until the ice cubes melt. They will come out to do evil again. Even if the entire ice doesn't melt, only one limb of the monster is exposed. It's possible for it to escape. He will not forget the weird black birds in the Demon Realm and the mutated monsters under the walls of Xiko.
"What should we do?" he asked. "Can I use your light magic to purify it?"
Alex sneered: "How is that possible? I'm just a junior magician. That's something only gods can do."
"Can that be done by the bright monk?" Minte's eyes lit up. "That's right. Warcraft is afraid of the kind of magic taught by the God of Light. Let's ask the Van'a people for help!"
Alex frowned: "What are you talking about in your sleep?! Van A doesn't care about what's happening outside now. How could he come?"
Minte was a little discouraged. Vasily met him nearby. He patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "There will always be a way. I will report it to the superiors. See if we can negotiate with Van A through diplomatic channels."
There was a hint of sarcasm on Alex's lips. Was about to say something. But he heard a cry of surprise coming from nearby. Min Te and others looked around. It turned out that there was a disturbance among the magicians. Vasily ran over quickly and asked what was going on. Only then did I realize that the great magician who had just issued the freezing spell had been depleted of magic power. Fainted from exhaustion. Many magicians with lower qualifications hurriedly helped him down the city wall. Return to camp to rest.
Minte looked worried: "Is this magic consumption so serious? How long will it take to recover?"
"If you have a good magic potion, you probably need to rest for two or three days." Alex is no longer in a mocking mood now, "Such a large-scale magic, even with a good staff and magic crystal, is not something ordinary people can bear. Come on. If the magicians on the entire defense line do this, then even if all the magicians in Shaonan go into battle together, they may not be able to hold on for a long time."
Minte was anxious. At this time, Vasily ran back and said to them seriously: "Go back and rest immediately! We have a mission tomorrow morning."
Huh? Minte and everyone else were a little confused. Vasily urged them again and again, so they had no choice but to go back to the hotel to sleep. Minte was always thinking about what happened tonight, and couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning, so he had to drink a dose of sleeping potion.
When they gathered in the town square the next morning, they discovered that not only their security department was participating in the operation, but also Shaonan's elite cavalry team, as well as dozens of junior and intermediate magicians from the mainland, including Alex. , all of them were dressed very neatly, mounted their tall horses, and were waiting to set off.
The leader of the team was a Shaonan officer. He whispered to Vasily for a few words, and then shouted to everyone: "Everyone! Our mission today is to protect the magician, conduct follow-up processing of the Warcraft Iceberg, and at the same time search for the escaped There are traces of monsters. Please be careful not to leave your horse as much as possible, and don't be alone. Act as a group. Once you find any suspicious clues, report it immediately!"
Everyone said "yes" in unison, and then set off. They didn't walk by the river. Instead, go around the back of the town and go out through the mountain road. Minte noticed that the city wall extended all the way to here, and the mountain road was passable. However, the terrain is a bit high, and it may not be possible for monsters to climb over it.
Arriving at the "iceberg" made of ice blocks that trapped the monsters, the magicians began to take action. They first used the suspension technique to levitate the ice cubes in the river bed, and wanted to move them to the open space next to them. Unexpectedly, they accidentally bumped them. A corner of a piece of ice was knocked off, and the monster that was originally frozen inside broke away from its restraints with its left foot and immediately kicked it up non-stop, even causing cracks in another piece of ice next to it.
Everyone was startled, but Alex reacted the hardest and immediately added a freezing technique. Then several magicians with the strongest magic power also cast spells. Finally, the two pieces of ice were frozen again. People breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a little scared, so they decided not to move the ice cubes anymore as a precaution, but also applied the Freezing Technique to all the ice cubes.
Some of the cavalry were on guard at the perimeter, and some were fully armed and followed the magicians to prevent any strange movements of the monsters. Vasily made a gesture to Minte and others, and led them to search west of the river bank. Hope to find traces of the monster's escape.
I searched for most of the day. Nothing was found. The magician had finished his work. Someone was sent to ask them to go back, and Vasily had no choice but to give the order to return. They were riding past a hill. A colleague from the Security Department found several vague footprints on the surface of the grass on the roadside, which obviously did not belong to humans or livestock, and immediately reported it to Vasily. The latter took the lead, leading everyone to follow the footprints, turning around the hills step by step, and came to a valley, where they cut off the clue.
Minte looked around at the weeds and trees, and suddenly found something suspicious about the vines on the left front: "Look there! Is there a cave?!"
Vasili immediately rode over, and Minte and others hurriedly followed. Suddenly, they saw Vasili waving in front of them to signal them to stop. They were confused when they heard a squeaking sound, and they suddenly became vigilant.
A black figure suddenly jumped out from the cave and attacked Vasily directly. The latter picked up the knight's spear and stabbed the black figure straight on. However, the man was knocked off his horse by the recoil, and the horse neighed. He was immediately hit by the black shadow, and died in the blink of an eye.
Min Te, who was following him, immediately recognized that the black shadow was a monster. He was so frightened that he quickly transformed into an ice sword, chanting the prayers of the Light God Sect, and kept slashing at the monster. It was hit a few times, screamed, and struggled to pounce on him, but was stopped by arrows from other Security Agency colleagues.
Minte took the opportunity to recite the prayer louder, and the monster retreated step by step, whining from its mouth. Vasily took the opportunity to climb up on the horse of his subordinate to meet him, and shouted: "Call the magician!" The last one in the team The man immediately turned his horse's head and reported the news.
Minte didn't wait for the magician to arrive, and first used the seismic technique to force the monster back into the cave, and then raised an earth wall to block the entrance of the cave.
Alex arrived first, said "good job" when he saw it, drilled a hole in the earth wall, and threw a ball of fire into it. The few magicians who followed also followed suit. After Minte retracted the earth wall, everyone saw that the cave was scorched black, and seven or eight magical beasts had turned into black coal. A magician adds a few spells, and the black charcoal becomes charcoal powder.
Minte found that those monsters were smaller in stature and were obviously just born. He frowned and gently blew up a gust of wind to blow away the charcoal powder. He then saw a magic circle painted on the flat land. , and twice as big as he had ever seen.
Alex stepped forward to inspect, turned back and said seriously: "This is a magic circle that can carry twelve monster eggs. Minte, look at these lines. Are they the same as the ones you saw in Noga?" ?”
Min Te hurriedly stepped forward to take a look, and sure enough, it was burned using a certain method, not just a random drawing. He took out a dagger and tried to swipe it, but was immediately bounced away by a force. He raised his head and said to Alex: "That's it, any act of sabotage will not work."
Alex said in a deep voice: "Get out of the way first and let me try." After Minte walked away, he used a seismic technique and took the ground and shook it. The magic circle did not suffer any damage. Instead, he was knocked to the ground by the anti-addictive magic power. Minte helped him up quickly: "No, right? The stronger the force, the stronger the rebound. It is different from the formation you destroyed. There is protective magic in it. .”
Alex pursed his lips and stared intently at the magic circle, showing an expression of unwillingness.
"Let me try." An intermediate magician came forward and cast several spells on the magic circle, but no matter whether it was fire, water immersion, lightning or freezing, it could not shake the magic circle in the slightest. However, he himself was a little embarrassed by his antipathy to magic, and finally came to one conclusion: "This must be a magic circle drawn with the most complicated ancient method, and it has a protective function itself. If you want to destroy it, you must first destroy it." Its source of power!”
After hearing this, Minte immediately looked towards the center of the magic circle. The thin layer of soil could not hide the bright red light. He thought that this was obviously the energy center of the magic circle, probably the kind of soul magic crystal that Father Riddle had mentioned. . But how to destroy it
The intermediate magician used lightning strikes, hitting the red light directly, but there was no reaction at all. Vasily frowned and stabbed the spear he had picked up. The red light flashed and the spear was bounced back. He then shot arrows, chopped with knives, and stabbed with swords, all to no avail. The light magic only dimmed the red light slightly, and it was impossible to do anything. Destroy the magic circle.
The Shaonan officer leading the team came over after hearing the news. His face became gloomy when he saw this. He turned around and asked a subordinate behind him: "Why hasn't anyone noticed that this kind of thing appears here?!"
The subordinate, who was probably a local, replied: "This cave was originally used to store grain. After the granary was built in the village, it became deserted. In addition, a beggar died here last year, and everyone felt it was ominous. I didn’t dare to come here, I didn’t realize there was an extra magic circle here.”
The officer snorted coldly, turned to a tall and thin middle-aged man among the magicians and asked, "What do you think we should do?"
The middle-aged man said calmly: "Since the magic circle itself cannot be destroyed, then don't let the monsters leave this cave. Just like what the young man from East did just now." Minte blinked and faced everyone's gaze. , smiled sheepishly.
Everyone evacuated from the cave, and then several magicians worked together. First, they pressed several huge rocks on the magic array, and then created an earth wall to seal the entrance of the cave. Then they cast several earth magic spells to seal the cave entrance. All the small holes were sealed, and finally the hardening spell was cast to increase the hardness of the mountain wall and all surrounding land surfaces to prevent the monsters from escaping.
When everyone was walking back to Ori, someone suddenly asked a question: "Although that magic circle is big, it can't transport so many Warcraft, right? Did the Warcraft come from the Weisha Desert, or are they where we are?" I don’t know where this kind of magic circle exists?”
Everyone's expressions changed after hearing this. Several magicians looked at each other and immediately decided on their actions for the next few days. Vasily also expressed his willingness to contribute, but Minte remained silent.
After returning to the town, he immediately grabbed Alex and pulled him into his room, saying: "Listen, Alex, this can't go on! The Warcraft are just trapped, and now they can't be burned to death. Those magic beasts can't go on like this!" No one knows where there are formations or something like that. Even if we run out to look for them every day, who can guarantee that we will be able to find them all?! And it will definitely be like today. Even if we find it, we can only use stupid methods to seal the cave. The magic circle cannot be destroyed. What if there is a magic circle located outdoors?!"
"Of course I know what you said, but what can I do?!" Alex's face turned ugly. This feeling of knowing the problem but not being able to solve it was really terrible.
Minte tightened his grip on his arm: "Go to Van'a and find the bishops of the Light Cult! Let them use that magic! That is the only way to deal with these monsters!"