Arcane Journey

Chapter 323 Dark Grand Canyon

The path from the monastery leads to the northern end of a canyon. This is the Dark Canyon, which is the projection of the Great Canyon to the east of the Great Swamp in the material world on the Shadow Plane.

However, unlike the main plane, the rivers meandering from the swamp converge here, forming waterfalls as high as 50 meters in the cracks, submerging the canyon underwater.

Even so, on the Shadow Plane, no matter how long such a scene lasts, the canyons never fill up and the swamps never run dry.

Because the distorted world structure of the Shadow Plane injects eternal power into this process, until the sea changes and the shape of the world changes, this flowing water will not change.

The most important thing is that the place named Dark Canyon is the most stable place in this world, it will not be lost due to the rules of the shadow world-of course, the details of the terrain will still change because of this.

This is also the end where the magic net and the shadow magic net meet.

This is why the followers of the Lost Lady gathered here: taking advantage of this characteristic of the Dark Canyon, the spellcasters who sacrificed from the false temple were used as sacrifices to catalyze the establishment of a ceremony to divide the magic net and the shadow magic net, And finally tear the magic net...

Now the magic net has been torn a small piece, but it is still not complete.

The ancient black dragon Despiel, who is responsible for tearing the magic net from the shadow plane, still needs more magic net users affected by "The Chronicle of Darkness", and sacrifices them, so as to hinder the self-repair of the magic net and expand the crack.

The ancient black dragon Despiel.

This black dragon was chosen by Shar, the lost lady, before he was born. She marked his egg with the mysterious 'Rune' text. When he was born from the egg, these words surrounded him for a long time. .

Because of this vision, and what was discovered later, he was unable to breathe and cast spells like a normal black dragon, and he was eventually abandoned by the black dragon group in Guangze.

Despierre lived alone in the Everglades for a long time.

Until one day, he saw the apocalypse, a woman shrouded in shadow, who sympathized with the injustice he suffered among his kindred, and taught him the ability to turn the curse of this talent into a blessing.

As a result, Despiel gained the ability to breathe out full of shadow power, and finally, he realized that his power could tear the magic net one day.

Since then, he has embarked on the path of pursuing this goal.

The black dragon acted just as the Lost Lady Shar wished, and was rewarded and empowered for it.

One day, he learned from a dream that his older sister, Taiya, had been killed by a tribe of lizardmen called Dragon Slayers in Guangze, leaving her treasure unguarded.

Following the guidance of a dream, Despiel found these treasures at the cost of slaughtering countless lizardmen who had begun to settle here, and enslaving the remaining residents of the Shadowscale tribe.

As he began to settle where his sister had once lived, a powerful human female appeared before him.

She easily thwarted Despierre's attempts to kill her, and showed the strength to easily eliminate him.

After demonstrating such power, she spared Despiel and revealed to him the great being who had protected him and provided him with strength for a long time.

Finally, the priestess named Elsweil told Despier what he was going to do next in the plan of the great being.

Elsweer gave Despier the Dark Chronicle, teaching him how to use this magical item to transform the lizardfolk he ruled over into more powerful undead creatures.

Moreover, this is also a key prop for the ceremony of tearing the magic net...

When Despiel methodically conquered the Great Swamp according to plan, he accidentally discovered the passage to the Shadow Plane left by the Twilight Lord.

Soon, Elsweil sent Koslo Selavin, the leader of the Cursemen, to open the way.

In the end, Despiel transferred all the lair and rituals to the Shadow Plane.

From this day on, Despiel began to work day and night, together with the priests of Shar, captured enough victims for ritual use, and tried to open a hole in the magic net enough to cover the entire Great Swamp...

In a hidden cave in the Dark Grand Canyon, the only source of light is a fist-sized milky white light ball suspended in mid-air, emitting bright light, bringing light and warmth to the small cave.

With the help of the soft magic radiance, Brian sat on a stone by the wall, flipping through the books he got from the Lost Monastery, while recalling things about the magic net and shadow magic net, as well as the ancient black dragon Despiel.

He pondered for a while, felt the passage of time, and immediately realized that since he and Kaladna left the monastery until now, the two have been resting here for at least 8 hours.

Taking a wild adventure, especially in a dangerous outer plane like the Shadow Plane, it is very necessary to rest. Whether it is his mental state and physical strength, or arcane energy and psionic energy, all of them have been restored to a saturated state during the rest. .

So, without wasting time, he put away all the books scattered on the ground, and patted the sorceress who was resting beside him, signaling her to get ready to go.

As a legendary warlock, Kala Dena obviously did not sleep like a dead pig like ordinary people, but was half meditating and half asleep

Brian just patted her shoulder lightly, and the sorceress woke up in an instant. A look of vigilance and alertness suddenly appeared in the wine-red eyes, and gradually disappeared after realizing it was him. .

"Have you rested yet?" Brian asked casually. From the corner of his eyes, he noticed that her delicate and pretty face remained awake as always, and it was completely impossible to tell that it was the sleepy state of just getting up.

"Yeah." Kaladna, who was sitting next to Brian, nodded slightly.

She didn't care about the striking exposure of her concave and convex curves, stretched comfortably, and then combed her loose hair while arranging the slightly messy clothes, revealing the large white and tender skin that was unintentionally exposed. block.

Bryan pondered for a moment, then took out an incomparably clear teardrop-shaped gemstone pendant strung by taut, faintly golden rune threads, and handed it to her, "This is on the shadow dancer I killed yesterday. A good piece of magic equipment was found, it seems to be more suitable for you, take it."

Clear Soul Pendant +3
Type: Jewelry

Quality: Purple Excellent

Aura: Aura of High Transformation
Effect: This pendant charges 6 charges per day, and the wearer can activate the spell effects attached to the equipment by consuming charges.

1. Consume 1 charge to fully restore the vitality and physical strength lost due to casting spells on that day.

2. Consuming 2 charges, the wearer can resist sonic attacks within 10 seconds.

3. Consuming 3 charges, the wearer can be completely immune to the spell effects of the enchantment system within 5 seconds.

Explanation: This magical pendant of elf craftsmanship is a treasure made of 'Tears of the King', the work of the famous master of strange objects, the ancient star elf mage Morel, and his mark is left on it.

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A very coincidental thing.

When Brian identified the attributes of this piece of equipment, he was surprised.

Unexpectedly, this piece of equipment obtained from a disciple of Cyric turned out to be from the star elf lich who lived in the glass palace in the swamp of the far sea.

In any case, the attributes of this piece of equipment fully match its own quality.

At the same time, it also puzzled Brian in yesterday's battle, why the "Chaos Mantra" he released caused little damage to the Shadow Dancer.

Seeing the equipment handed over, Kara Dena was a little stunned for a moment, then accepted it unceremoniously, and gradually attracted her attention.

Seeing this situation, Brian smiled secretly. This female sorceress, who seemed a bit nervous, was indeed Hesaiah's best friend. He collects them.

In the face of this situation, Brian is not a man of coddling. When he sees expensive or good-looking ones, he waves all of them and collects them into his pocket.

"How is it, does it look good?"

Just as Brian was about to get up, he found that Kara Dena had put the pendant on his neck like a simple noble lady, and motioned him to look over.

The distance between the two was not too far, and they could even smell each other's breath. Brian turned around and looked at the warlock lady carefully.

She was sitting beside her, facing him. She was tall and well-proportioned, with smooth and supple blond hair hanging down to her waist. Her exquisite high-heeled shoes made her thighs look more slender and sexy. She was wearing a dark black rose dress that was slightly open. Inside the neckline of her neckline, the dark purple lace lace around her bust was faintly exposed. On her fragrant shoulders was a precious battle mage cloak, and on her neck was a soul pendant with pale golden luster, which looked noble and charming.

The beautiful face, the long hair beautifully lined the white and smooth skin, and under the soft magic light, it looked even more dazzling and charming.

Unknowingly, Brian's gaze has moved down to the slender waist along the bumpy figure.

Slightly raised buttocks, two slender and beautiful legs are crystal clear and white, the thighs are well-proportioned, and the calves are exquisitely curvy, full of beautiful lines of pure women, which are soul-stirring.

Looking at the sorceress in front of him, for some reason, his heart became a little restless. There was an impulse in his heart, and there was a faint inexplicable excitement, but he didn't know exactly what it was.

At this moment, Kara Dena suddenly raised her slit skirt lightly, her burgundy eyes flickered slightly, and she looked at Brian winkingly.

She took the initiative to put a slender and beautiful white leg that was completely exposed to the air on Brian's legs lightly and gently. With a light force on the ankle, with a soft 'click', a sweet and slippery leg The tender feet were exposed to the air so nakedly.

Under the soft light, the toes are extremely pink and clean, the exposed feet have a charming fragrance, the nude feet are beautifully curved, the smooth and creamy skin is not picky, the white is dazzling, crystal clear.

The sorceress leaned on her small face on the back of her hand, lifted her smooth and white legs, and said softly in a charming tone: "Brian, tell me, do my legs look good?"

"Of course." Brian said subconsciously as he looked at the alluring beauty in front of him, swallowed again subconsciously, and his heartbeat seemed to speed up.

After saying this, he woke up suddenly as if a basin of cold water had been poured on him.

This made him instantly realize that he was unknowingly affected by Kara Dena's charm spell. He pretended to be annoyed with a 'slap', and left a red palm mark on her thigh with his hand. He stood up and shifted his gaze.

Brian took a deep breath to get his heartbeat back to normal.

Under normal circumstances, in order to ease his nervousness, he usually relaxes his guard in front of more trustworthy people.

It was also for this reason that this mischievous sorceress seized the opportunity and was almost successfully molested by her. Apart from making complaints about this, his instinct actually told him that he seemed to enjoy this atmosphere.

This is not a good thing.

Thinking of the next task, Brian immediately calmed down. He snorted coldly at the sorceress who was pretending to be full of resentment and looked at him, then turned and walked out of the cave.

"Are you still a man, you're so hard on yourself."

Seeing that Brian had left, Karadena gasped, stretched out her hand to rub the burning pain in her leg, got up angrily and quickly followed his footsteps.

In the dark canyon, the two of Brian appeared in the dark forest.

Under the darkness of the shadow plane, without the blessing of dark vision, nothing can be seen in the forest, and even the light spell cannot function normally.

Feeling the withered trees in the forest, the dark stone cave, and the silent and terrifying atmosphere... even a person with a big heart like Bryan would want to give up decisively for a moment, turned around and said to Carla Dena: Immediately pack up and go home to wash and sleep.

However, he also knows that this is just a delusion, after all, this is not a game, so he can only bite the bullet and continue walking.

"Keep close, the road ahead will be difficult." Brian reminded the sorceress who was looking around with interest: "If you fall behind, you will be in trouble."

Although Kala Dena deliberately teased him with a charm spell in the cave, after walking out of the cave, the lady warlock acted like nothing had happened, as if nothing had happened.

It's true: As long as I'm not embarrassed, it's someone else who is embarrassed.

"I see." Carladna pursed her lips into a smile when she heard this, and immediately moved to Brian's side, happily walking side by side with him.

Soon, there was a change in the forest. If the forest was dead and silent before, now as the two went deeper, they felt as if they had entered a silent world.

The dense forest no longer exists, replaced by a large expanse of withered trees, their dry and pale branches twisted into creepy shapes, looking suddenly, it seems that the arms of countless dying struggling for help are waving in the air.

Brian walked in the front. Although the endless darkness and those weird trees in front of him didn't affect him in any way, it still made him feel hairy.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that the purple dragon seal ring was sending a dangerous message to himself.

The moment Brian was about to activate the flash spell to escape, a huge black shadow descended from the sky. Although he raised his long sword to resist in time, he still couldn't resist the huge force. He only lasted for less than a second before being caught Completely fly out.

"Brian!!!"

Looking at the scene in front of her, Kara Dena shouted out in shock, and at this moment, as if hearing her voice, the huge black figure turned her head and stared at her coldly.

The moment she was stared at by that cold gaze, Kaladna was unable to say the next words for a while, she only felt that she was bound all over her body, unable to move.

On the other side, Brian noticed that the sorceress who was frozen in place was already a black figure preparing to attack. His expression changed, and he immediately used an instant spell to cast his attack method.

—"Bigby Smash Palm!"

Accompanied by a baby-like shrill scream, the giant phantom hand transformed from pure force field energy exploded with terrifying power, hitting the shadow fiercely, and hammering it out dozens of times like a ball. Meters away, he smashed through dozens of thick dead trees and disappeared into the dark and withered forest.

When Brian was wondering what kind of monster the enemy was, the dark shadow twisted, and a huge black shadow appeared in front of him out of thin air.

As if realizing that the attacker just now was Brian, the huge shadow roared and raised its arm high, then smashed it down hard.

Brian, who had suffered once, was obviously prepared for it. When the huge shadow fell, he had already used the flash technique to dodge quickly and appeared in front of Kara Dena.

Shadow's fists hit the ground heavily, shaking the entire ground.

At this moment, Kaladna who had recovered quickly waved her hand, and a rose-purple light appeared in the dark forest, illuminating the surrounding environment, and the monster revealed its true colors.

After seeing the monster's true face, both Brian and Kaladna couldn't help but gasped.

"My God, what the hell is this!??" The nervous sorceress turned pale from the monster in front of her eyes, her voice trembling.

What appeared in front of them was a huge baby.

It looks about the same as an ordinary baby, with no hair on its bald head, and two big eyes that move erratically in the eye sockets. It looks a little fat naked, and from the scars and wounds on its body It can also be seen from the iron blue skin that this baby should have died long ago.

However, it is still alive.

It seemed to have absorbed all the evil and darkness here, and grew from a weak little thing to this terrifying monster with a height of three meters.

It turned its head, and the brilliance and the shadows of the two were reflected in its lifeless eyes. Afterwards, the huge dead baby opened its toothless mouth as if laughing, but what followed was a cold, low voice. call.

"I want...to find...Mom..."

The moment she heard this word, Kara Dena felt an inexplicable fear, so that her face turned pale and her whole body trembled.

As a legendary warlock, neither ghosts, crazy evil spirits, or even liches have ever defeated her will, but now, this cry made her feel an inexplicable palpitation, subconscious hands Grab Brian's arm and lean close to him.

"What the hell is this?" Brian had a panoramic view of the sorceress' expression. Although he was not as bad as the other party's performance, he still forcibly passed a fear save.

What puzzled him was what kind of undead creature that appeared in front of him could unleash such terrifying power.

In the game world, he had never seen such a baby-like undead.

——"Psionic Mind Barrier!"

With a thought, Brian added a barrier to the shivering female sorceress that was immune to mental and emotional effects.

Then, he shook the other's cold little hand, "Get ready for battle."

As soon as he finished speaking, he had turned into a shadow and came up quietly. The sword of stars in his hand was shining with the blue and white flame of the curse fire, and it pierced the giant baby's neck without hindrance or stagnation.

However, the baby's blue skin is now harder than steel, and Brian's attack with all his strength is just cutting a layer of skin.

The monster under attack uttered a baby-like cry, and it screamed and stood upright, like a bullied and helpless child, but the next moment, its hand stretched out violently, grabbing at the cloth. Ryan.

At the same time, the female sorceress on the other side has regained her calm under the blessing of Brian's ability. She narrowed her eyes slightly and chanted a spell softly. A spear the size of a javelin burning with dark purple chaotic energy was like The off-string arrow turned into a purple light and shot at the monster.

The dark purple chaotic energy cut through the darkness, piercing the monster's smooth, huge eyes with incomparable precision.

"Ah!"

The severe pain caused the monster to fall to the ground suddenly, and at this moment, light full of chaotic energy also fell from the sky, covering it, like sulfuric acid with a strong corrosive effect, making its skin rot at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This made the monster even more painful, it wailed and raised its hands, trying to resist.

The Sword of Stars, which was shining with blue and white flames in Brian's hand, mercilessly burst into raging flames, wrapped in sharp blades, and pierced through the head of the giant baby in an instant, and the stench and black liquid splashed out from the hole in the back, falling White smoke rose from the ground.

"what!!!!"

The battered giant baby let out a shrill scream, desperately making the final struggle, and saw that its bluish-white skin turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye, like a cooked lobster, and hot water rose from it. Billowing white smoke.

Turned into a red-warm giant baby?
Brian's instinct told himself to get away from this giant baby as soon as possible.

So, with a flash technique, he disappeared in place.

"Run!" Then, he yelled at the sorceress who was still preparing for the magic.

It's a pity that it was too late, a huge crossbow made of bones appeared out of thin air in the hands of the red-warm giant baby, and with a clicking sound, a bone spear was suddenly fired.

The Bone Spear carried countless frantically screaming souls of the dead, across the darkness, making the air sound like a muffled sonic boom, and shot straight towards Kara Dena.

The female sorceress, who couldn't dodge it in time, changed her expression slightly, and quickly raised her hands to prop up a thick dark purple energy defensive force field, trying to block the attack of the bone spear.

"Zizzizi..."

The bone spear that suddenly pierced through the air, and at the moment it hit the dark purple energy field, countless roaring undead phantoms suddenly emerged, corroding the thick defensive barrier without any hindrance, and piercing through the body of the sorceress like a bamboo. .

And at this moment, Brian also seized the opportunity, like a bolt of lightning shot straight past, he grasped the long sword tightly with both hands, and stabbed into the heart of the giant red-warm infant.

The blue-white flame of the cursed fire erupted from the blade, and in the blink of an eye, it was wrapped in a raging flame and turned into ashes.

After finishing off the giant baby, Brian immediately rushed to Kala Dena, who looked lifeless leaning against a big tree, her face paler than ever.

He put away the long sword, carefully supported her, let her lean into his arms comfortably, and tried to pull out the bone spear stuck in Kaladna's lower abdomen.

The sorceress frowned, her wine-red eyes flashed, she looked up at him, and groaned more like complaining than suffering pain, "Please, you can't slow down, it hurts to penetrate so deep all at once. Yes, you think it's cool, do you want to try it too?"

Seeing the other party speak in such a neutral tone, Brian secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Then, he didn't bother to pay attention to her, deliberately put on a straight face, ignoring her grunting in pain, and forcibly pulled the spear out of her body at an extremely fast speed, and blood flowed out.

After Brian simply treated the wound for the sorceress, and poured a bottle of advanced healing potion for her, the sorcerer's pale and pretty face gradually began to turn red again.

"No wonder there are no other undead creatures in this forest."

Gradually regaining her strength, Karadena held Brian's hand and got up from the ground with her strength. "It turned out that they were all swallowed up by this terrifying giant baby."

When saying this, the sorceress subconsciously glanced at the place where the giant baby was burned to ashes, showing a lingering fear expression.

"That's true." Brian also showed a look of fear, "I didn't expect such a terrifying monster to be hidden here."

Although he knew the plot of the scars of the magic web, he did not personally participate in it, and because of his appearance in the real world, the timeline was disrupted, so that many unexpected things happened, and this giant baby included inside.

Under such circumstances, he couldn't help but secretly blame the little prince Brenners from the City of Shadows who released his pigeons.

If the other party was with him, maybe there wouldn't be so many things.

After all, Breners has lived in the Shadow Plane for more than 1000 years, and he is very familiar with the environment here. He is also a file scholar of Sinnoh Shuangxiu, and he is especially good at dealing with undead creatures.

The reason why he dared to confidently go to the shadow plane to destroy the dark ritual of the ancient black dragon was that Breners nodded and agreed to help him.

Who would have thought that he could only bring the sorceress Kaladna, who was pulled over temporarily, into the situation in front of him, and bite the bullet and force it.

After resting for a while and confirming that Kara Dena was safe, Brian led her forward.

Walking out of the dark forest, an open area appeared in front of them, and on the mountainside of the cliff in the distance, Brian finally saw a gray semi-circular building built, which looked like it was built from the mountain wall. Like a big mushroom that grows.

Apparently, that castle was where the ancient black dragon held dark rituals.

At the same time, where the castle descends, there is a road burning with torches.

On the road leading to the cliff castle, there is a tall tower surrounded by billowing black tentacles. The structure of the tower is very similar to the towers encountered in Guangze.

Around the tower, there are two skeleton giants wandering.

They are about 6 meters tall and they don't look thin at all. Their bodies made of white bones are strong and powerful. They walk slowly around the tower. Their huge heads look around from time to time. The soul flames in their eye sockets seem to be small The small sun radiates white brilliance from the darkness, as if it can see through all invisibility and illusion.

"What should I do?" Kaladna leaned in front of Brian, the two of them hid in the shadow of a rock, she looked at the tower surrounded by black mist, and said worriedly, "It can be seen that these two skeleton giants Its role is to guard the avenue leading to the castle, once we fight against the skeleton giant, we will definitely alarm the guards in the tower, and it will be more troublesome then."

"That's right." Brian nodded slightly.

Through the negative energy surging around the skeleton giant, he could feel that the strength of these two big guys was probably at the legendary level, and it was obviously impossible to kill them silently.

However, seeing the skeleton giant walking around the tower regularly, Brian immediately thought of a good way, and said to the female sorceress beside him:
"How about this, I will lead them one by one to a place where the tower cannot see, you are responsible for releasing a silent force field, and then I will kill them."

This is just one of his purposes. According to Brian's speculation, after he kills the two skeleton giants, it is possible to attract their master, the death knight, from the tower.

In this case, it will be easier for them to deal with them.

"It's obviously impossible to break in by force, and that's the only way to go." Kara Dena nodded, expressing her approval of Brian's approach.

Brian didn't hesitate any longer. When one of the skeleton giants turned his head again and wanted to go to the other side of the tower, he used his magic to shoot a flame arrow and flew across it, landing on a rock not far from the skeleton giant. On the pile, there was a slight sound.

At this moment, the skeleton giant that had planned to leave suddenly stopped in its tracks. Then, it quickly turned its head, and its eyes were like searchlights, emitting an incomparably dazzling brilliance, shining on the stone pile in front of it.

Under such light, even an invisible mouse would have difficulty escaping its eyes.

The moment Brian intentionally met the eyes of the skeleton giant, he immediately pulled Kara Dena back quickly.

The skeleton giant walked slowly. Looking from a distance, it seemed that its movements were very slow, but this was just a visual error caused by its huge size.

In fact, the skeleton giant only took a few steps, but it came to the two of them in an instant.

It opened its mouth, and a deep roar emerged from the deep darkness that no vocal organs could use, carrying the evil of death.

It bent its body, and the halos emanating from its two eyes scanned the surroundings, looking for any suspicious signs.

Brian held up a finger.

This is the code.

Kaladna whispered a spell, and a dark purple light flashed through it, and then it turned into a straight line and shot at the giant.

Then, a purple, dim semi-circular barrier appeared from mid-air, enclosing the Skeleton Giant in it like a birdcage, and then disappeared after a flash, as if it had no effect.

But a magical dotted line that appeared from the void and connected to Kaladna's finger showed that this was not the case.

In an instant, it disappeared without a sound, as if a transparent monster opened its mouth wide, swallowing all the sounds in the world in one bite.

"This skeleton giant has high resistance, and I can only last for 60 seconds at most!"

While Kala Dena worked hard to maintain the effect of the spell, she reminded Brian through magic sound transmission.

"enough"

Brian nodded slightly, and rushed forward with his long sword in hand.

"——!!!"

Sensing that things were different, the skeleton giant raised his head, and the first thing he saw was Bryan who was about to charge. The blue and white flames emanating from the sharp sword in his hand made him feel uncomfortable and angry.

The skeleton giant opened its mouth wide, roared and raised the sledgehammer in its hand. The thick white bone hammer whizzed past, and immediately smashed several hard boulders when it hit the nearby valley.

The gravel the size of a human head tumbled down from the cliff and fell heavily to the ground.

But all of this did not make any sound, so absurd and weird that people might mistakenly think they were watching a silent pantomime.

The Sword of Stars in Brian's hand swung down from the air and slashed on the bone giant's hammer.

Although the silence swallowed the sound, it can be seen from the sparks flying when the two clashed, how fierce the battle between the two sides was.

The huge and strong impact made Brian's figure shake in mid-air. However, in this kind of confrontation, his legendary professional feature "recoil resistance" unexpectedly helped him to shed most of his strength.

And the skeleton giant obviously didn't want to stop there. It took half a step forward, growled and raised the hammer, wanting to slap the enemy with the unpleasant light on the sword to eternal death like a bug.

But it failed to do so.

The sword of stars spinning in Brian's hand hit the arm of the skeleton giant, forcing its attack to change direction and pass by. Although the resulting strong air current made Brian's figure crooked, he managed to escape being caught. Completely smashed into a meat sauce ending.

"——!!!"

Being provoked twice in a row made the bone giant even more angry. As a subordinate of the death knight, the bone giant was not a smart guy. The only meaning of its existence was to destroy life with its own hands. Only then could it feel short-term satisfaction.

But the long-term emptiness that follows will make it more painful and angry, until it finds an opportunity to vent again.

And now, it has apparently found cathartic purpose.

The skeleton giant turned around and raised the sledgehammer again. Brian stepped back, trying to escape, but at this moment, the sledgehammer whizzed through the air and smashed down heavily.

"20 seconds!"

After the simple test ended, Brian dodged the giant hammer of the skeleton giant. The hard hammer head hit the ground, and the shattered stones scattered and bounced to his protective barrier under the violent impact. It made him gasp involuntarily.

However, Brian did not stop moving forward because of this. He raised his long sword, and the energy of the curse fire began to condense around his sword body, and dancing blue and white flames emerged on it. Afterwards, Brian stepped forward Stepping forward, he raised the long sword with his right hand and swung it down vigorously.

On the surface, this sword is ordinary, but when it fell, a condensed dazzling light suddenly appeared on the sharp point of the sword, and when Brian's sword point finally swung down , when it pointed to the ground, the condensed light on the tip of the sword burst out suddenly.

In an instant, a shocking gap appeared on the originally flat ground as if split by an invisible giant sword, and then light gushed out from it, spreading forward along the gap.

This is a new sword technique that Bryan and Kaladna jointly worked out to expel the ghost dragon tortoise, combining the chaotic energy of the Sword of Stars and the flames of the Cursed Fire.

This is a sword technique that combines purer chaotic energy and curse fire energy.

Its speed is not fast, and its moves are not gorgeous, but the power it erupts makes people look sideways.

Although the bone giant is very powerful, Brian is very confident, because it can't touch his body at all because of its clumsy attack.

The bone giant, which was attacking with all its strength, finally failed to block Brian's attack this time. Before it could pick up its weapon, the gap in the ground burning with blue and white flames came to its feet, and the huge and steady body of the bone giant It also swayed at this time, it raised its body, and its footsteps began to become a little chaotic, but before it regained its balance, the brilliance bursting out of the gap followed closely, from bottom to top like The magma gushing out from the ground hit the giant's defenseless body like a flame.

Silence still enveloped everything.

But at this moment, the skeleton giant's body is no longer as complete as before.

Under the fierce attack, its chest was already cracked, and the white bones that were originally tightly knit together were already in pieces.

But it is still persisting, although it seems that the bone giant is at the end of its strength, and even shows signs of completely falling apart under the violent attack, but Brian knows very well that this is the most dangerous time.

"40 seconds!"

In the frantic surge of arcane energy, Brian turned into a dazzling light and charged forward. His superb swordsmanship caused the long sword in his hand to explode into dazzling circles one after another, stabbing at the head of the skeleton giant. past.

Facing the imposing Brian, the skeleton giant finally reacted.

It instinctively stretched out its left hand and opened it in front of itself, trying to resist the attack.

However, this is also its last struggle.

The full blow that Bryan unleashed was simply not something it could resist.

Before his sword even pierced the bone giant's palm, the center of the bone giant's palm began to shatter and collapse under tremendous pressure, and then completely turned into powder and drifted with the wind, not even the slightest hindrance. arrive.

And in the next moment, the long sword in Brian's hand shone like a star, and easily pierced into the giant skeleton's open mouth.

An extremely strong impact erupted from it, and in a blink of an eye, the head of the skeleton giant was completely blown away from the inside, forcing it out of the distance from its own body. The chin and half of the face were completely missing, leaving only pieces Traces of cobwebs that are spreading.

The soul flames in the eye sockets flickered again and again, as if they wanted to do something, but at this moment, sword lights surging with blue and white flames flashed past, flying over as easily as cutting tofu, completely killing them Split up.

Then, the shattered skull finally lost all its strength, and it began to weather rapidly, turning into dust.

At this moment, the brilliance in the bone giant's dark eyes completely disappeared.

"60 seconds!"

The huge body without support and strength crashed to the ground. At this moment, the silent force field maintained by Kaladna finally came to an end.

After solving the skeleton giant, Brian didn't dare to waste time, and immediately went to attract a skeleton giant. Otherwise, it would be more troublesome for the death knight to rush over before killing the skeleton giant.

At the same time, on the other side, inside the tall tower shrouded in shadows and surrounded by black mist.

Death Knight Makarin opened his eyes. His face was composed of scorched black skulls covered with shriveled and rotting flesh. Dark red flames danced in the two eye sockets. Even if the terrifying eyes were not watched, It still feels cold and vicious.

The dark ceiling and the pale hall formed the landscape before his eyes.

The death knight looked at the scene in front of him in silence, then reached out to stroke the mane of the mount under him, feeling his master's caress, Nightmare shook his head, raised his front hooves uneasily, and struck With a snort, two streams of thick smoke spewed out.

Legend has it that the world in the eyes of the undead has no color, as if when they chose to abandon life and choose false eternity, they also chose to abandon the opportunity to own this beautiful world.

No matter how beautiful and colorful the scene is, only black and white, the two most monotonous colors since the creation of the world, are displayed in front of the undead.

This is why the undead are always extremely cold-blooded and cruel.

Because for them, there is nothing worth commemorating and cherishing in this world, only death and destruction can bring them the supreme feeling.

Makarin used to be a purple dragon knight in the border army of the Cormyr kingdom. Later, because he violated the military regulations, he had to escape from the land of the purple dragon kingdom and came to the chaotic swamp on the border with Sambia, where he was finally killed by the orcs. Died in a lost fortress.

When he opened his eyes again, he was taken to the shadow plane.

He has been here for 500 years.

500 years is probably a long time for ordinary people, but Makarin knows very well that in the eyes of those "old and immortal" undead, 500 years is just a moment. If he returns to Cormyr Kingdom, not only will his crimes not disappear due to the retreat of time, on the contrary, his status as an undead creature will allow him to be completely purified by the priests of the gods.

Just stay in this ghost place forever?
It's not that Makarin didn't ask himself this question, but he didn't take these things too seriously. After becoming an undead, human desires almost completely disappeared, and the concept of time, loneliness, and other emotions completely disappeared.

To some extent, the dead are like puppets with their own will, but they are still puppets after all.

Makarin, however, is clearly an exception.

He still seems to retain some of the emotions of the human period, which is why he was favored by the pastor of the Church of the Lost Lady in the first place, and even turned into a death knight at a heavy price.

Makarin moved.

He felt that the aura of his subordinates, the skeleton giant, seemed to be weakening.

This was a very unusual state of affairs, nothing like it had happened since he entered the Shadow Plane.

These two skeleton giants are the "native species" he subdued in the shadow plane, and their strength is not inferior to the adult shadow dragon.

Besides, in the shadow plane, Makarin thinks that no one would dare to trouble him.

After all, this is the fortress of the Lost Lady, and he is in charge of guarding it.

But now it seems that this is not the case at all.

He felt a wave of magic power spread through the air.

Makarin looked through the windows of the tower, and just at this moment, he saw the blue and white flame falling from the sky.

Someone is attacking! !
As a defected death knight, Makarin immediately raised his vigilance.

He picked up the knight spear and giant shield placed beside the horse, pulled off the heavy armor on his face, and drove Nightmare to turn slowly.

As a high-level undead with self-awareness, he can feel the surging and frantic magic power in the air, like the surging waves of the sea, and even kill the heart of this undead, which has already died and no longer beats. suppressed in it.

The other party is a mage?

Legendary mage?

Could it be that the Kingdom of Cormyr sent people to hunt and kill me?

This thought flashed through Makarin's mind and quickly disappeared.

He has been dead for more than 500 years, and he has not committed any serious treasonous mistakes. The history of the Kingdom of Cormyr has long since completely forgotten him as a small person.

This is the power of the living...

Is it an adventurer?
Thinking of this, Makarin clenched the knight spear in his hand, and at the same time, there was a trace of anticipation deep in his heart.

For the dead, the only happiness they can get is to give death to those fresh lives with their own hands. Watching the flames of life that were originally burning and jumping gradually disappear, this will bring them the same as creating life among the living. An intoxicating thrill.

This is the reason why the undead creatures are eager to take their lives, because this is the only happiness they can enjoy in this world...

Makarin is no exception.

He turned around and whistled lightly. Then, the heavy adamantine gate of the tower slowly opened, and the nightmare surrounded by the flames of hell below spewed out two streams of thick smoke from his nostrils, and started to run towards the valley. run away.

coming! ! !

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(End of this chapter)