Not only that, Siassi, who was not particularly powerful in magic, also felt some inexplicable pressure contained in the air of the ruins. If it weren't for the fact that the spells she was good at were relatively special law magic, she would be in a different situation. There is basically no connection with the environment, and there is no need to gather magic energy from the outside world. Perhaps Siassi is basically unable to use these powers now.
Avro and Richie also discovered this. They were affected by the strange pressure in the ruins of the Temple of Apocalypse, far above Siassi. They were able to communicate with the magic elements floating in the surrounding air, as well as their ability to use spells. The areas where magicians are best at, such as the use of energy, have been suppressed by at least half. This has also reduced the strength of the two men to less than 50% of their usual strength.
"Law: Light." Siassi quickly spit out a few magic spells, forming a magic light source on her chest for illumination. Unfortunately, compared with the same spell she cast outside, the ball in front of her was flickering. The area that the dark magic light source can affect is too small. It is impossible to see clearly the stone wall of the corridor almost ten meters away. The decorations and patterns on it are competing between the light generated by magic and the eternal darkness in the ruins. It flickered from time to time, making Siassi frown.
"I can only sense a place about thirty meters away." Siassi shook her head and said to the others behind her: "There is no way to warn at this distance. In fact, I can use the thief's method to sense further. Farther away...here, this is really the tomb of the magician."
"It seems that we have to use summoned creatures to explore the way ahead." Avro quickly figured out a solution. She recited the corresponding magic spell in a deep voice, summoned a war dog in front of her, and then drove With it walking in front of the entire team, if there is any danger, it will naturally be borne by this summoned creature first, which also increases the reaction time of Siassi and the others in disguise.
Seeing that Avro also used the same method as the mage, Ryan smiled slightly in his heart, but did not say anything, but let his students realize it. Sure enough, the war dog only advanced less than fifty meters. He immediately let out a cry, and his whole body was swallowed up by a small whirlpool. This was caused by the exhaustion of the summoning energy that maintained it.
"Only fifty meters." Avro smiled bitterly when she saw this scene. The ruins stretched for who knows how many kilometers. If the summoning spell had to be released again for fifty meters, she would not be able to walk much even if she was exhausted. Far away, not to mention facing countless threats in the darkness. If we can't solve this problem, it will be very difficult to even protect ourselves. What's the point of taking risks
"It seems we have to use the most primitive method." Rich muttered. When he was a child, he often listened to adventure stories. The protagonists of the stories were often knights of justice, holding torches and venturing into evil dragons or monsters with their companions. The devil's lair, as the standard configuration for adventurers, is naturally indispensable with torches, swords and magic. It also triggered many memories of surprise imitation by Richie and his partners. However, later Richie followed Ryan to learn magic and found that as long as there was In the team of magicians, a small lighting spell can replace troublesome torches. I am afraid that the contents in the story are all made up by bards, so they slowly extinguished their childhood dreams. I never thought about today. But I have the opportunity to experience what the protagonists in those stories have done.
Fortunately, Richie had a storage pocket to store these sundries. Otherwise, if he had to carry torches, kerosene, tents and other messy things, he would not have the strength to cast spells. After a few minutes, Richie was able to do it. After making corresponding preparations, he used fire magic to light the torches one by one and distributed them to other companions, but only to Siassi and Avro, Ryan and the revenant Emma. Of course you don't need these things,
Under the flickering firelight, Siassi and his party slowly walked deeper along the passage in the ruins. There were obvious traces along the way, indicating that a large number of people had entered and exited here not long ago. The last time Della's cousin went hunting, he walked straight along this passage, and then moved a large amount of mithril from a warehouse in an unknown corner, even though he knew that many people had come to this area not long ago. Normally, there shouldn't be any threats like the undead, but Siassi and the others still walked very carefully. The undead were wandering everywhere, and it was unclear what Adela's cousin was doing down there. , it would be really stupid to throw away your life because of carelessness,
After walking for more than ten minutes, Ryan and the others came to a fork in the road. The footprints on the ground showed that people had entered and exited in both directions. However, there were traces of heavy objects being dragged on the ground in one of the passages. It was caused by carrying mithril and other things, so Siassi led the team to continue walking in this direction. After all, the top priority now was to re-walk the location where Adela's cousin had been to see what happened. What happened to cause the upheaval in the Cursed Swamp,
Emma, who returned to her hometown, silently followed Ryan. Her mood had been very depressed since she entered the ruins of the Temple of Apocalypse. This was very different from the excitement she had when she was adventuring and hunting outside. Ryan knew Emma's You have to rely on yourself to really get rid of this kind of emotion, so you don't interfere too much, but let her follow you silently, but when Siassi starts to turn and walk along the road where Adela's cousin once walked, As they were advancing along the route, Emma suddenly whispered in Ryan's ear: "Hey, this road leads to the martial arts arena. Why did they choose this way?"
"Martial Arena." Ryan repeated the name of the place Emma had said and asked in a low voice: "From the name, it should be a place where Templars are trained."
"Yes, there is a big palace there. Templar warriors usually train here, but after the undead army launched an attack, naturally no one went there anymore." Emma explained in a low voice: "It's not impossible to get some mithril weapons in the martial arts arena. There are unopened mithril weapons there all year round for the Templars to use for practice. Unfortunately, I never asked about it when I was in Cassano. Things outside, otherwise if you let me see the style of weapons they moved back, I might be able to confirm it directly instead of guessing here."
"It's okay, let's go over and take a look and we'll find out." Ryan smiled at Emma. He found that this method of diverting attention was quite beneficial in adjusting Emma's situation, so he asked Emma as he walked, "Say Although I have been here a few times in the past, I was only limited to the area I walked through. This Apocalypse Temple covers such a wide area, but I have never understood its layout. Why don't you give it to me now... "
Before Ryan finished speaking, Siassi's voice came from not far ahead: "There are enemies."
Then Richie's voice also sounded: "Be careful, it's a necromancer."
"No, it's the undead warrior." Avro's voice sounded almost at the same time as Richie finished speaking.
"It's a fallen Templar." Behind him, Ryan no longer continued to talk to Emma. He had sensed this undead creature in advance, but he did not warn his students. Instead, he talked quietly with Emma. , and now after Siassi and the others discovered this enemy, Ryan slowly said to several students: "They wore mithril armor when they were alive, and they could hold weapons for close combat and cast long-range attacks. Although they have been corroded by the dark rituals of the undead army and degraded into the current state of undead souls, the power they possessed during their lifetime has not only not weakened, but has become more powerful."
As if to annotate Ryan's explanation, before he finished speaking, the souls of the Templar Knights wandering blindly in the distance of the passage discovered the existence of Ryan and the others, and then the harsh screams immediately filled the corridor, and the other party She actually fired several thick bolts of lightning directly at Siassi, "Law: Impact." Siassi's reaction was not unpleasant. When the lightning from the opposite side flew in front of her, she also said it in a deep voice. The short magic spell hit those lightning bolts directly,
The two spells intertwined fiercely in the air of the corridor, immediately releasing a blue light that illuminated a large area nearby, and also clearly displayed the spell-casting Templar in front of Siassi and others, and Different from the shriveled corpses that Ryan and the others had faced before, the dead Templar in front of them had completely rotted away. The rusty armor barely covered the internal organs exposed in the white bones and carrion. Every time it waved its arms, or towards If you take a step forward, pieces of meat will fall from your body. This situation may look disgusting and weird.
After Richie also joined the battle group and used fireball and Siyasi to fight against the dead Templar, a foul smell appeared in the corridor. Avro, who couldn't stand it the most, squatted aside They started vomiting, and although Richie and Siassi could barely overcome their desire to vomit, it also greatly affected their fight with the dead Templar opposite. The frequency of their spellcasting dropped significantly. , although he could barely resist the thick lightning beams fired from the opposite side, he could not conceal the situation of continuous defeat. The dead templar did not care about the rotten flesh and even internal organs falling out of his body, and directly Dragging half of his intestines that had fallen to the ground, he rushed towards Siassi, apparently intending to use close combat to kill the enemies that had invaded his wandering range.