Age of Adepts

Chapter 316: Haunted hallway

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After stepping into the corridor, everything in front of him quickly became dim!

The corridor walls, which were originally dull in color, were dilapidated and faded at a speed visible to the naked eye. The wall skin was constantly lifted, damaged and peeled off, and then quickly withered and yellowed in the air. After the skin peeled off, revealing the rusty metal wall below, a soul-stirring low rumbling sound began to echo in the ears.

"It seems to be a kind of illusion!" Kerr whispered behind him.

"Who has the material to restrain the illusion?" Will, who was walking in front, trembled.

The senior apprentice Hua Lun fumbled in his pocket for a while, took out a black clay pot, and said softly, "I have a little psychedelic grass, who of you needs it?"

"I"... "I"... "I"

The other three were overjoyed and couldn't help asking for it.

Psychedelic grass is a kind of herbaceous plant with sawtooth on the edge of the leaves, and it is also one of the basic materials for making psychedelic potions. If the psychedelic grass is ground into a paste and applied to the nose, it can refresh the mind and enhance the body's ability to resist hallucinations.

After the four concocted it according to the law, they were about to turn around and ask Alice if she needed it, but found that the other party was holding a shiny magic gem in his forehand, and he couldn't stop looking at the changes around him.

This gemstone is rhombus-shaped, colorless and transparent, and when held in the hand, a soft ray of light shoots out, giving people a sense of tranquility and clarity.

True Sight Gem!

The muscles on the faces of several apprentices twitched, and they were speechless for a while.

This kind of magic gem that can see through invisibility and illusion has a minimum market value of 400 magic crystals, which they simply cannot afford with their financial resources. The other party is also a wizard apprentice, although he is a relatively noble quasi-shaman, he can easily take out one.

This... The gap between apprentices and apprentices is too big!

Alice shook the gem of true sight, and moved a little closer to the wall. The dilapidated and withered scene she had just seen disappeared in an instant. The wall changed back to the dark brown wooden texture, and everything was the same as before.

It really is an illusion!

After several apprentices saw it, they finally put down their snacks.

Will walked ahead with a bitter face and three steps.

Judging from the length of the buildings on one side of the castle, this corridor is less than 100 meters at most. With the eyesight of a few people, no matter how dim the lights are, they should be able to see the end of the corridor at a glance. But it was weird, the line of sight of several people could only extend seven or eight meters away at most.

The scene in the distance seems to be swallowed by a mass of darkness, and it is completely impossible to see.

It seems to be some kind of illusion effect again!

Will moved forward slowly, his eyes constantly scanning his surroundings and feet. Any slight change or abnormality will make him stop, and he will not move forward until he is sure that there is no danger.

The misty darkness faded away bit by bit.

The candlelight jumping on the walls on both sides reflected a group of dim halos, and the shadows projected on the walls were long and short, left and right, like monsters with teeth and claws. The wooden boards under his feet were obviously old, and he couldn't help making a creaking sound when he stepped on it.

A pair of half-meter-square wooden picture frames hung on the wall on the left side of the front, hidden in the shadow of candlelight and unable to be seen. Now that it was so close, Will could only see what was inside clearly.

This is an idyllic painting, with distant mountains and near water. In the middle of the picture is a slightly raised hill, and a vague figure whose gender cannot be seen is looking up at the hill.

The painting technique is quite good, but I don't know what the painter thought. The whole painting was only used in black and white, which turned a beautiful pastoral scenery into a ghostly painting with a hint of ghost.

Will shook his head, and turned his attention back to the wooden boards under his feet.

As he moved forward, the creaking sound accompanied him all the time, making it almost impossible for him to concentrate on distinguishing the movement around him. But when he stopped and wanted to listen to the movement around him, the creaking sound of wooden boards came from behind him again.

"You guys are quiet..." Will couldn't help turning around and reproached, but the sight he saw shocked him.

Several companions were indeed following behind, but...they were all pale, with distorted faces, and two lines of blood and tears were slowly flowing from their eye sockets.

"What's wrong with you?" Will asked tremblingly.

Several companions showed ferocious and terrifying smiles on their faces, stretched out sharp and sharp pale claws like drowned corpses, and surrounded him with hoohoo screams.

Will took a few steps back in fright, and finally couldn't bear the fear in his heart and turned back to run quickly.

Crossing the creek and running across the grass, Will ran out of breath, and finally stopped panting after climbing a small hill.

Are you finally free from those horrible monsters now

With a trace of panic, Will looked back and suddenly found that the environment around him was different.

This... This place doesn't seem to be the dark corridor on the third floor of the castle, but...

Looking at the gloomy distant mountains behind, looking at the gray grass in front of me, looking at the black river... In the distance, a wooden box is suspended in mid-air, which seems to be a window, through which one can vaguely see a The pale figure led Kerr, Warren and the others to walk slowly in a dark and terrifying corridor.

Judging from his position and angle, Will found in horror that he seemed to be... in the portrait he saw just now. And his original position has been replaced by the figure in the portrait!

Damn, is this illusion or reality

For a while, Will couldn't tell whether he was attacked by illusion or was really drawn into the portrait. So he frantically ran towards the wooden window, while waving and shouting loudly.

However, the strange thing is that no matter how he shouts and runs, the wooden window is always so far away from him, it seems that it will never reach him...

...

In the gloomy and dim corridor.

Kerr couldn't help frowning and said, "Will, can you walk faster. How long will it take us to check the entire floor if you step and rub like this!"

Will responded vaguely, and finally quickened his pace.

The corridor was not long at all, and soon a few people came to a wooden door.

Everyone studied it closely, and did not sense any traces of witchcraft fluctuations on the wooden door. There should be no witchcraft traps or the like.

After being signaled by everyone, Will bravely pushed open the wooden door gently.

With a soft creak, the wooden door opened.

Inside is a beautifully furnished small library. The space is not large, but the wooden shelves against the wall are densely packed with books and volumes. Many of the books are still glowing faintly, and they are not ordinary at first glance.

books, lots of books...

The few apprentices who have already regarded collecting knowledge as an instinct want to push others away and break into the house to find some books they are interested in. But at this moment, behind them, Alice coughed slightly childishly.

Several people froze, and hurried to the side, bowed and saluted: "Master Alice, please first!"

Alice took a step forward, and said with a sneer, "Before dividing up the spoils, you should see clearly before talking!"

With her delicate little hand raised slightly, a soft white light from the True Sight Gem in her palm projected into the library inside the door... and the intermediate apprentice Will who was leaning on the door!

The picture that was normal one second, turned sharply downward in the next second, and what caught everyone's eyes was an extremely terrifying picture.

The wooden door just now had disappeared, and what opened in front of everyone was a weird black crack on the wall. The end of the black crack led to a portrait hanging on the wall. The figure in the portrait is shaking, and several strange black figures are looking at this side furtively.

And Will, who was originally standing by the door, also turned pale under the white light, and his skin seemed to be translucent, giving people a ghostly and terrifying look.

"I've already opened the door, come in quickly!" Will turned his head and urged everyone with a smile.

His face was as pale as if it had been smeared with a thick layer of stone powder, and two bright red tears of blood were clearly visible. And with his sinister smile, the muscles on his face were twisted and ferocious, giving him the appearance of a monster from another world.

Damn it, when Will has been swapped!

In the next second, without any explanation, three witches of different colors hit "Will".

Kageyajutsu!

Frost Dagger!

Electric claw technique!

The energy intensity is between 12-15 degrees. Although the intensity is not high, the attack is still fast. Although the fake Will sensed that something was wrong, he had no time to dodge, and was hit on the body by the rapid-fire witchcraft of the three apprentices.

The bone shield originally lingering around Will's body was directly penetrated by witchcraft as if it didn't exist at all. Fake Will was hissed and screamed after being beaten by the three witchcrafts. His voice was hoarse and cold, not like a human voice at all. And the fragments of "his" body that were beaten and splashed could not see a trace of flesh and blood, but instead slowly melted into the air like energy matter.

False Will's emotions were exposed, and the appearance of his body changed suddenly. The whole body instantly turned into a transparent energy substance, which quietly blended into the wall beside him.

The second round of attacks of the three wizard apprentices failed, only punching a big hole in the wooden wall, exposing the completely dark space inside.

A gust of cold air blew out from inside, and the few people in front of it couldn't help shivering.

"Damn it, it's a spirit body!" Senior Apprentice Hua Lun cursed angrily, "Our attack just now wasn't enough, we didn't really hurt it. Everyone be quiet later..."

Before he could finish speaking, fluorescent light flickered on the nearby wall, and a transparent human-shaped phantom got half of its body out of it, and its sharp and sharp claws ruthlessly slashed across Warren's left arm.

"ah… "

Warren screamed in pain.

Two streams of witchcraft shot out, but unfortunately only the sawdust hit by the old wall flew away, and the spirit body had long been hiding somewhere.

Enduring the severe pain, Hua Lun tore off the torn sleeve, and saw several terrifying claw marks on the side of his left arm. The rolled wound had turned blue-black, and a layer of crystal clear frost completely froze the flesh and blood near the wound, and it was still spreading upwards and downwards.

"Damn it, it's a quasi-witch-level spirit body, everyone be careful!" Hua Lun shouted hoarsely.