Hail the King

Chapter 159: drastic change

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Back to the Mountain of Bones, Fei found that the nun and the wretched man were shopping for treasures on the halfway of the Mountain of Bones. They looked excited like two stray dogs frantically searching for treasures in the garbage dump. At the foot of the mountain, a temporary tent has been set up at some point, and a blacksmith frame is even set up in front of the tent. With the help of several female Rogge, the female blacksmith Charsi is sweating and dancing with a hammer. Or what, there was already a large pile of gleaming white bone weapons in front of her.

The heavy and magical hammer was held in the slender hand of the female blacksmith Chaxi, and it danced into a ball of black light. This beautiful female blacksmith has obviously fully adapted to forging bone tools. Watching her swing the hammer, it seems like Looking at the elegant angel dancing, the red ponytail dances swiftly in the air, like a lovely flame elf, giving people a dazzling beauty.

After Sun Fei completed the clearance of the seven major professions, everyone in [Rogge Camp] has been upgraded with corresponding skills, including Charsi’s forging skills, Akara’s potion configuration and scroll making skills, wretched uncle Kane’s magic research and equipment identification skills , Fatty Kidd's deceit skills, etc. have all been improved, so at this time Charsi can adapt as soon as possible, forging the "devil's remains" like a dance, which has long been expected by Fei. The technology has been upgraded by at least one level, and it can forge magic equipment and utensils that are twice as powerful as before.

"Sir Fei, are you finally back?"

Seeing Fei approaching from afar, Charxi happily waved and said, "Sister Akara and Lord Kane have made a new discovery. Looking at these stone pillars around, it's really unbelievable that they are all [Black Iron Essence] ore... "

Charsi said, showing a black stone in his hand to Fei: "Look, it's the legendary magic metal, although it's not as hard as the 'Devil's Bone', but it's plastic for forging armor Even better, on Rogue Continent, many legendary weapons are made of this rare metal!"

"Uh... I really didn't expect that there are treasures everywhere in this space. It is indeed the treasure house of gods and demons that can make countless super empires rise in legends!"

Fei took the black stone, rubbed it with five fingers, felt the hardness and coldness of the stone, was pleasantly surprised, thought of something, and asked: "By the way, how to smelt these ores? Is there any abnormal requirement?" ?”

"You guessed it right this time!"

I don't know when, the wretched old man Kane appeared behind Fei holding a brand new stick of bones that Qia Xixin made for him. Fei turned his head and looked, and was startled, because the old man's whole body was fully formed. White, with white beard, white hair, white face, white staff and white robe, if he hopped and walked on two feet, he could go to PK with Bai Wuchang. The old man looked at the huge stone pillars around him with bright eyes, and then He said: "[The Essence of Black Iron] is really difficult to smelt. If you want to extract them from these stone pillars, you must use the flames from the depths of hell—[The Flame from the Center of the Earth]!"

"The Flame of the Earth's Heart?"

"Well, a terrifying flame that is said to be produced by burning the power of demons. It has terrifying power. It is said that it can burn everything in the world. According to legend, there is a [Fortress of Demons] in the west that is very far away from [Rogge Camp]. In this land, there is a river called 'River of Flame', in which the flame of the center of the earth is burning forever, if you can get the flame there, you can smelt this precious ore!"

"Sounds like a lot of trouble!"

Fei touched his chin habitually. If he remembered correctly, there was indeed a place called [Fortress of Demons] in the world of Diablo, but that was after completing [Rogge Camp], [Lu-Gauin] and [Kurast Seaport] are the fourth difficulty map to go after the first three acts of missions. The second mission in this big map is called [Hell Furnace]. If you want to complete this mission, You have to go to a river called [River of Flame], which is a dark underground world with orange-yellow magma flowing everywhere. But now it is too difficult to obtain such flames. Fei has just entered the second difficulty map [Lu-Gaoyin], and it is too far away from the fourth difficulty [Fortress of Demons]. The most optimistic estimate is at least a year away.

"It is indeed a little troublesome. According to legend, almost no one can reach the [Fortress of Demons] from [Rogge Continent] alive, but hey, in the ruins of gods and demons you are talking about, the situation seems to be less troublesome Come on, come and see..."

The wretched man with the white beard stuck the stick of bones in his hand into the cracks in the ground under his feet: "There are very interesting things here!"

Fei had noticed the abnormality of the ground under his feet before. There were two finger-wide stone cracks everywhere, like a dry river bed after a severe drought, which was full of dense cracks. There is an almost undetectable red glow that appears and disappears, with a slight trace of heat... Could it be that these strange cracks are related to [The Flame of the Center of the Earth]

"This is really a strange space. From these cracks, I can feel the aura of [Earth's Flame]. It is said that some natural gods are born together. There are a lot of [Black Iron Essence] here. Sure enough, there is also the [Earth Core Flame] that can restrain it, but these gaps are too deep, and the ground is hard, it is not easy to draw the [Earth Core Flame] out of it!"

The white-bearded uncle stroked his usual white beard, shook his head and said: "However, I can try to set up a small magic circle to see if I can draw out a little [Earth's Flame]."

After obtaining more than a dozen gemstones of various colors from Fei, the white-bearded uncle began to use the bone stick as a pen to slowly draw the magic array directly on the ground. The cane made of the 'devil's bones' is really convenient to use, the magic power flows smoothly, and even has an amplification effect. The end of the cane easily draws beautiful and delicate lines on the hard stone surface, which is extremely smooth Uncle En's magic circle attainments, the Jedi can be called a master.

This is a rare learning opportunity.

Fei was watching carefully from the side.

After studying with the nun and aunt during this period of time, Fei has learned a lot about magic, and he has a little knowledge of magic circles. He is no longer the idiot who used to be a magician but knew nothing about magic. . The magic array is divided into six types: pentagram non-element type, hexagram element type, combination type, decomposition type, symbol type and physical combination type, with different powers and functions. Because [Earth Center Flame] belongs to the power of the fire element, the magic array that Uncle Kane engraved with all his attention at this time belongs to the hexagram element magic array combined with real objects. During this process, he put away his obscene state, He showed rare caution and seriousness, and was extremely focused, avoiding the danger of backlash caused by the high degree of concentration and dislocation of elemental power.

After half an hour, a profound magic circle with a diameter of about one meter was finally completed.

The outermost layer of the magic circle is almost all round. The circle represents the circulation, which can ensure that the magic power will not be lost. Inside the circle is the magic circuit, which is the wire to ensure the transmission of magic power. The more magic circuits represent magic The more complex and advanced the array is, the more magic power it needs to consume. Generally speaking, magic stone crystal powder is needed to draw a magic array, but since the wretched uncle Kane has a staff of white bones forged from the 'devil's bones' in his hand, relying on This step can be omitted. In addition, the power of the magic circle depends on the level of the magician crystal powder and the magic power of the caster... Whether it is in the world of Azeroth or Diablo, these are the basic knowledge and skills of the magic circle. principle.

The wretched old man with the white beard was so tired that he stretched out his tongue like a dead dog and panted Ha Chi Ha Chi. After resting for a while, he carefully inlaid six pieces of red [split rubies] in the corners of the hexagram of the magic circle. , and then injected a weak magic power.

Then, a miraculous thing happened—the magic circle was stimulated and started to operate. I saw reddish flames flickering on the ruby, the energy fluctuations flowed strictly along the formation lines, and fine red lines appeared on the ground. Finally, they converged to the middle of the magic circle, and then the whole magic circle radiated red brilliance, soaring into the sky, a huge suction force and vortex fluctuations came out from the magic circle, and the ground began to tremble slightly. A few minutes later, a A faint orange-yellow flame slowly emerged from the middle circle of the magic circle.

"It came out... Haha, look, it really is [Flame from the Center of the Earth]!"

The wretched man with the white beard jumped up and down excitedly, but soon, like a rooster that was crowing with all its strength was suddenly pinched by the neck, his crowing stopped abruptly, because at this critical moment At that time, for some reason, the magic circle on the ground instantly dimmed, and soon lost the fluctuation of magic power, and the small orange-yellow flame that came out after a long time disappeared with the first light bang.

"Ah, the level of the Philosopher's Stone is not enough..."

Uncle Kane went over to check, and was dismayed to find that the six [cracked rubies] had run out of magic power and turned into ordinary gray stones.

"I can't help it. I don't have six higher-level rubies for the time being. Let's try again tomorrow!"

Seeing the scene just now, Fei suddenly thought of the map of the magic array rubbed in the stone room in the distant stone wall corridor, and immediately showed it to the magic madman in front of him.

"Huh? What is this? Strange, such a familiar pattern..."

Uncle Kane's occupational disease broke out in an instant. He has such a habit. When he finds something he is interested in, he immediately enters a frenzy like no one else. Anyone's, so he resolutely left Fei standing aside waiting for the result, turned around and entered the distant portal, and returned to [Rogge Camp] to study the magic circle on the rubbing map.

Fei looked back and saw that Aunt Akara, the nun, was still greedily crawling on the Mountain of Bones to pick out the bones. She couldn't help shaking her head, and turned back to the [Rogge Camp] through the portal.

In the next five or six days, Fei's exploration was relatively stable, and he didn't discover anything new.

He used the [Hradik Cube] to synthesize a sufficient number of perfect-level gemstones in the Rogge camp, and then returned to the corridor stone room on the stone wall opposite the cold abyss, and inlaid perfect-level gemstones on the five small stone pillars , inspired all five small magic circles, and indeed new changes appeared. On the wordless stele in the middle, there appeared a crystal blue pattern that Fei could not understand no matter how much he researched. At first glance, it looked like A huge magic circle, but obviously not. Not only does it not have an alien circular cycle, but the trend of the magic circuit is completely different. It is not so much a magic circle as it is a map with no meaning. The fine lines are full of complicated routes, just like those circuit diagrams in the previous life, a small red dot is eye-catching, appearing on top of the blue lines.

It's a pity that all discoveries are limited to this.

Fei couldn't figure out the meaning of the pattern on the wordless stone tablet at all. The function of the five stone pillar magic circles seemed to be only to stimulate the pattern on the wordless stone tablet. Besides, no matter how you activated the magic circle on the stone pillar, Nothing was found. Uncle Kane's research on the rubbings of the five magic arrays is still ongoing. He only guesses that this may be a teleportation-type magic auxiliary array, which lacks a central part and is difficult to operate. During this period, Sun Fei also brought Akara, the nun, to the stone room to observe, but unfortunately, there was still no additional discovery.

Fei had no choice but to hold back his temper and take it step by step.

In the next ten days or so, Fei spent half a day every day to explore the thousands of passages on the stone wall one by one, to see if he could find the correct way to cross the stone wall, and to see the mystery hidden behind the labyrinth of passages. , although the progress is not much, but it is also deepening step by step. Fei estimated that in more than ten days, maybe he could really find the right path. In addition, he carefully searched around the entire mysterious and huge space, and found that the three sides of this space with at least tens of square kilometers were all dark and bottomless cold abyss. All three sides are isolated by the abyss, forming a horseshoe shape.

In addition to exploring the mysterious space, Fei of course did not forget to kill monsters and upgrade in the dark world.

Fifteen days later, he has completed the first two tasks of the second difficulty [Lu-Gaoyin] map with the seven major professions. The character level of the barbarian has been raised to level 27, the level of the mage has been raised to level 27, and the level of Amazon has been raised to 27. At level 26, the level of paladin has been raised to level 26, the level of druid has been raised to level 25, the level of assassin has been raised to level 26, and the level of necromancer has been raised to level 24. The strength has improved significantly, and with the skills of the major professions, Fei's comprehensive combat strength has already approached the five-star intermediate level, even if he leapfrogs to challenge the five-star peak master, he can give it a try.

In addition to leveling up, Fei will switch to [Assassin Mode] every day to experience the flow of true energy in his body, and constantly refer to the fighting energy cheats obtained from the storage ring to open up new channels for fighting energy and create new ones that he has never done before. Fighting Qi Cheats, in fifteen days, Fei improved the electric fighting energy [Lightning Light Speed Fist] cheat book, and at the same time created several other new fighting Qi cheats with different functions. It was handed over to Elena to bring it back to [City of Heroes], and handed over to a specific confidant for cultivation.

Fei has been working hard, and the others have not relaxed.

Also during these fifteen days, the wretched uncle Kane activated the magic circle with five perfect-level gemstones, and finally drew out the legendary [Flame of the Center of the Earth] from the cracks in the ground, and handed it to the girl. The blacksmith Charsi used it to smelt [Black Iron Essence] ore, and successfully extracted a large amount of high-purity [Black Iron Essence]. This legendary magical metal and the 'Devil's Bone' are simply a perfect match. Charsi used [The Essence of Black Iron] to cross the devil's bones, and successfully forged a large number of pure black armor and weapons, which can cover up the white bone image of the "devil's bones" and prevent these armor and weapons from being exposed After being equipped on the soldiers and generals of Chambord City, the image is too terrifying, becoming a kingdom of the undead, and being questioned by the Holy See of the mainland, it will not reduce the magic and grudge conductivity of the demon remains. These bone armor plated with [Black Iron Essence] were all stored in Fei's storage ring.

The wretched uncle Kane and the nun Akara spent most of their time sorting and sorting the "devil's remains". Classes for the first batch of college students have been sorting and screening day and night, and the 'devil's bones' are sorted by rank and brought back to the Rogge camp for storage.

Time passed day by day, and when Fei had completed two-thirds of his exploration of the stone wall bee swarm passage, the mysterious space finally changed.

"What's going on? I really want to feel the temperature rising slowly?"

With the help of Rogge and others, the female blacksmith Charsi who is using [Earth's Flame] to smelt and extract [Black Iron Essence] frowned suspiciously. As a talented blacksmith and blacksmith, her sensitivity to temperature is more Far beyond the average person, even a slight temperature change cannot escape Qiaxi's senses.

Hearing what Charsi said, the female Rogues who were helping around also stopped what they were doing. A little loli with flaxen hair like seaweed looked around, and suddenly pointed to the dense cracks on the ground and said : "Oh, look, there's heat coming out of here..."

Everyone looked at it, and they found traces of hot air slowly emerging from the densely packed cracks on the ground.

Fei gently stretched his hand into the crack, and he could clearly feel that the temperature coming from the ground was rising slowly and evenly. In a blink of an eye, the entire mysterious space became a little stuffy. At this time, he noticed There was a strange phenomenon, a thin layer of white mist appeared in the sky

"It's foggy? Why is it foggy?"

Fei was stunned, and immediately thought of something, his face changed, and with a bang, the rocks under his feet exploded, and his figure shot out like a cannonball, and flew towards the icy abyss defense line at the edge of the distant space, turning into a Phantom, at the same time, his voice rang clearly in the ears of Charsi and the female Rogge: "Hurry up and pack your things, and return to the camp for me within ten minutes, don't delay!"

No one dared to disobey the orders of the Supreme Leader. Feeling the solemnity in Fei's words, Charsi and the female Rogge quickly packed up the tents and the finished and semi-finished armor and weapons they built around them, and withdrew to the world of Diablo through the portal. In the [Rogge Camp].

In the blink of an eye, Fei came to the dark and cold abyss at the edge of the space.

As he expected, the abyss was filled with cold air, and puffs of bone-piercing moisture burst out frantically from the bottomless abyss. The cold air from the abyss collided with the hot air constantly gushing out from the cracks in the ground under his feet. A large amount of white mist was produced, and the sharp flow of air counteracted, and wind began to be generated...

wind

A flash of lightning flashed in Fei's brain, and almost instantly, he figured out how the huge suction force he encountered when entering the tunnel for the first time came from. He was still wondering, although the air in this space is smooth, but there has been no large-scale air flow, how can there be wind? It turns out that the root of the problem is here.

In the short time that Fei was thinking, there was a terrifying whistling sound from the bottomless abyss, like countless ancient demons screaming and struggling below. It sounded like a terrifying scene, followed by countless cold The debris was sprayed out by the cold air. Fei held it in his hand and looked carefully. It turned out to be fine and dense ice debris. However, before he could figure out where the ice debris came from, suddenly there was a loud bang, bang, bang, I saw countless huge rock-like ice blocks gushing out of the dark abyss with a howl, and smashed on the ground around me.

"Damn it!"

Sun Fei was caught off guard and hurriedly dodged.

Time passed quickly, and the ice cubes ejected from the abyss were getting bigger and bigger, ranging from the size of a millstone to the size of a hill, as if an invisible hand had thrown them out, and the terrifying cold air flew out with the ice chips, Fei Fei A thick layer of hoarfrost instantly formed on his eyebrows and hair, and even his nose hairs were frozen stiff. He hastily switched to [Mage Mode], wearing the [Akana's Track] suit, a thin layer of The magic power of the flames worked to dispel the cold.

However, the coldness intensified quickly. With Fei's level 27 mage strength, it was difficult to resist the coldness, and he was in danger of being frozen.

Fei quickly flew back.

The hot air in the cracks in the ground under his feet became more and more intense, and all the cracks burst out with crimson flames, even with traces of small orange flames. The hot air and cold air met in the air, and instantly became a large expanse of whiteness. Thick fog, followed by hail in the sky mixed with pea-sized raindrops crackling down... A torrential downpour unexpectedly fell in the mysterious space.

Rumbling—the rolling thunder came, and there was a faint flash of lightning in the dense fog.

Then, the air in the mysterious space crazily convected and rotated. Fei quickly pushed to avoid a huge stone pillar near the Mountain of Bones, and when he looked up, he saw a scene that made him pale with astonishment...