When the last ray of sunlight in the west disappeared by the lake, the light of divine power faintly illuminated the silent night.
Shade walked out of the woods with the two ladies. As the night wind blew, an extremely cold wind that did not belong to late winter blew in their faces.
Looking at the Eldron Lake not far from the forest, under the moonlight, the ice surface, which had begun to thaw, was covered with a layer of white frost again. And this was only the situation on the lake surface. In fact, under the joint spell of three high-level warlocks from the church on the other side of the lake, a huge ice pillar had formed below the center of the lake, completely sealing the abnormally colored black mud area under the water surface.
"This is a basic spell, Breath of Frozen. Any spell can become very powerful as the level increases as it is mastered."
The witch told Shad that Shad actually knew this spell, which was taught by Miss Carina, but he could only blow out an ice flower in the teacup.
The church's actions seemed to be effective, at least as the ice surface continued to thicken, no abnormalities occurred. But just as the freeze ended and the ice surface was at least five centimeters thick, the ground suddenly shook, making the earth seem to roar.
"earthquake?"
A large earthquake centered on Lake Eldron suddenly occurred. The strong earthquake even made people unstable, which easily reminded people of the earthquake when the source of pollution appeared in the banquet manor.
"The earth is fighting back!"
Shad supported Luvia, and Miss Benannis supported the two of them, and the three of them heard a clear "click" sound.
The cracks first appeared from somewhere on the ice surface, and then went straight through the entire lake surface. After the earthquake that lasted for thirteen seconds, the entire surface of the lake of Eldron was shattered like a spider web.
The aftershocks occurred almost within a few breaths, and in the strong vibration, all the ring warlocks on the shores of Lake Eldron felt the angry roar that seemed to originate from deep in their hearts.
Under the moonlit night, the ice in the center of the lake melted completely, and then the lake water began to bubble with a gurgling sound as if it was boiling. The boiling lake water gradually began to turn black, and before the ring sorcerers of the Orthodox Church ventured into the sky above the contaminated area to observe, a huge column of black mud water broke through the ice and shot into the brilliant night sky outside the suburbs.
To Shade, who was standing by the lake, it looked like a giant dancing python had sprung up from the lake. The black mud mixed with the lake water reached the sky, and then sprinkled towards the area around the lake like a rainstorm.
"Power of the Earth, Field of Fertility!"
The purple-eyed girl cast a spell in time, and while a warm feeling attached to the surface of her body, the mud rain falling from the sky had no effect on the three of them at all.
The church on the opposite side of the lake reacted even faster. The eruption of black mud lasted for less than ten seconds before the lake water began to freeze from the roots of the black mud column and quickly froze the entire column, turning what looked like a giant black python into a solidified ice-colored giant python.
"Is this the end?"
Shade, who was holding an umbrella for the two ladies, said suspiciously, retracted the umbrella and looked up at a few small black dots flying in the sky. The light of divine magic was trying to melt the erupting black mud. The prayers on the other side were getting louder and louder. The ritual runes reserved on the ice were lighting up one by one. After the eruption of black mud was suppressed, the purification ceremony was about to begin.
"There's someone over there."
The witch suddenly said, pointing to the woodland in the southeast. When the earthquake started just now, a few clouds that came from nowhere covered the moon, so the edge of the woodland appeared dark.
Even with dark vision, he could only vaguely see a few shadowy figures at the lakeside in the distance. They didn't even use any method to hide their figures, but gathered conspicuously at the lakeside, as if throwing something onto the ice.
"Want to go check it out?"
The witch asked, and Shade looked at Luvia, who flipped a coin:
"Better go check it out."
It is so convenient to have a fortune teller around.
The three of them walked over and realized that they were three ring sorcerers in black robes, two middle ring sorcerers and one low ring sorcerer. The middle ring sorcerer in the lead was a middle-aged man wearing a pair of glasses and holding a linen bag in one hand, sprinkling grains like coarse salt on the ice.
They also noticed the appearance of Xia De and the other two. The man with glasses stopped what he was doing, turned around and said:
"You are too late. The relic that will descend soon was not summoned by us. We are only here to do some finishing work. Even if you arrest us, it will not affect what happens next. Besides, there are more than three of us doing the finishing work."
"What relic? Besides, we are not from the church."
Xia De said, and the strange middle-aged man became even happier:
"That's good. I was wondering how I could be caught by the church just for doing some finishing work. The money I get for this field trip is not worth my life."
"So can you tell us what finishing touches you are doing?"
Shad asked, somewhat understanding that the "big thing" that Stone Osenfurt was talking about should be the things that these three people were finishing up.
"We are giving a magical power to a relic that is about to come."
The strange middle ring warlock smiled and looked at the three people:
"Two women and one man, in the wild, what a good mood... But since you have seen us, sorry, please go to hell."
The bag was thrown towards the three people and exploded in the air like a steam bomb.
The smoke and dust from the explosion swept across the lakeshore. Although they had just spoken harshly, the black-robed ringmasters immediately turned around and tried to escape into the woods under cover. However, a clear female voice came from the smoke and dust:
"Earth wall!"
In the smoke and dust, Benannis stepped on the ground, and three tall earth walls rose up in front of the three people who were escaping, with gaps between each wall.
"Thorns of the Moon!"
As Shade cast a spell, scarlet thorn bushes emerged from the soil, filling the gaps between the earth walls and quickly spreading toward the wall.
The earth wall summoned by the witch was really tall, and it would take a lot of time to go around it, climb over it, or fly over it. Of course, seeing the blood-red thorn bushes that were as red as crystal all over the wall, the bespectacled middle-ring warlock who was leading the group did not attack directly with his fists, but shook his right hand and smashed the wall with the black sphere that appeared in his palm.
There was no explosion at all. The black shadow ball melted a large area of the wall and even melted some blood-red thorns - after all, this magic was used to prevent the opponent from coming in, and the defense on the same side was slightly weak.
But even so, the face of the middle ring warlock who threw the shadow ball still turned pale, and he felt that his spirit and physical strength were strangely lost in an instant. At the same time, the blood-colored thorns that absorbed the opponent's power spread again, not only filling the hole that was melted in the earth wall, but also becoming more and more beautiful, as if blood would drip out in the next second.
As long as they could withstand the blood-sucking effect of the blood-red thorns and attack two or three more times, Shade's magic would be broken, but now they had no time.
The arc of bright silver light swept across, forcing them to turn around to block it. Even if they shattered the moonlight slash that Shade casually swung, their chance of escape was gone.
The six people looked at each other, and then Miss Benanis walked towards the leader of the three, who was probably an eighth-ring warlock; Luvia frowned and looked at the black-haired man with long hair, who was the only low-ring warlock among the three, but he was holding an obsidian pendulum in his hand, which was a relic. The man looked at Luvia in doubt, and then looked at the pendulum that was spinning as if it had fallen into a steam turbine, as if it had encountered some problem.
Xia De's opponent was the last remaining six-ring warlock, who had a gloomy face and looked like he had insomnia. Without waiting for Xia De to make a move, he suddenly rushed forward, and then the whole person exploded into black smoke with a bang.
Then, a loud explosion sounded above Xia De's head, marked by black smoke. The six-ring warlock came towards Xia De with a pitch-black sickle in his hand.
"Space power. It's not the power of some strange relic or something else. He has space power all by himself!"
Xia De was a little surprised. It was not like he had never encountered guys with spatial power, but most of them were not human. Most of the human opponents with spatial movement power were chosen ones, and this time it was finally an ordinary ring warlock who had spatial power.
Without dodging the opponent's scythe, a scarlet short knife appeared in Xia De's hand, and then he held the knife with both hands to block the opponent's attack. At the moment of stalemate, a black chain pierced out from Xia De's sleeve, and the sharp tail of the chain pierced the opponent's right eye.
The ring wizard in the air immediately grabbed the cold chain with his own hands, and the power of sin made his body stiffen immediately.
"Um?"
Scythe was still struggling with Shade, but his hands did grab the front end of the chain. Shade was surprised at how many arms the other party had.
The man's third and fourth hands quickly loosened the chains, and with the help of the force from Shade's dagger, he landed lightly in the air, avoiding the chains that were sweeping towards him. As he squatted down to release the force, the life ring of the six-ring warlock behind him was fully revealed.
The aura of the spirit runes on the life ring allowed Shade to see that the opponent indeed had only two arms. However, a very dark red shadow was tightly attached to the opponent's back, and the ringmaster himself stood on tiptoe, letting the red shadow's feet insert between his heels and the ground.
The pitch-black sickle was actually held by the bloody shadow.
"What the hell is this? A special undead?"
It was the first time that Xia De had seen such a strange ability. He looked at the other party's life ring again. The spiritual rune with the brightest spiritual light at this time was the blood-colored ghost:
"A spiritual rune with a very precise meaning. Is this a special magic that corresponds to the spiritual rune? Bloody Ghost..."