Chapter 684: Mountain

Under the cover of night, above the ancient castle, Frederico, a high-ranking member of the Dark Gold Society of the Haojinshigui, spread his metal wings, supported his huge body, and used his eyes and the gems on his wings to release a rain of scorching rays downwards. The cage formed by these rays was originally supposed to be the death place for the fleeing thieves in the castle below, but the most critical one of these rays behaved unexpectedly at the last moment.

The heat ray that was supposed to pierce the thief, after passing through the thief's two hats, was strangely reflected back and shot towards Frederico. Frederico himself had an incredible look on his face. He was directly hit by his own heat ray, and the whole person was completely submerged in the dazzling light.

"Magic hat" is one of the abilities that Nefernis possesses after she relies on the secret spirit and transforms into Thief K. It comes from the classic hat magic that magicians perform on stage. In hat magic, magicians often take out various things from their hats, or take out things from one hat that are put in another hat. After this seal is transformed into an extraordinary ability, its manifestation is that Thief K's hats can be spatially linked to each other, so that the things put in them can be moved freely inside the hat.

Thief K can have four hats in total, all of which are standard top hats. The spaces inside these hats are connected. What goes into one hat can be taken out from another hat, not only items, but also attacks. As long as the attack can be contained in the hat mouth, it will be received by one hat and reflected back by the other hat.

In addition to invisible attacks such as curses or mental influence, most types of small attacks can be absorbed and reflected by the hat, whether it is bullets or arrows, whether it is rays or rapiers, as long as the hat mouth can accommodate the attack type, it can be reflected. This ability is very effective against high-powered shooting or piercing attacks. However, it will not have any good effect when dealing with large-scale and large-tonnage attacks. Because there are only four hats, it is impossible to swallow too many projectiles at once, and it is also impossible if the size of the projectile is too large and larger than the hat mouth.

After being hit by the reflected heat ray that originally belonged to himself, Frederico was engulfed by a burst of dazzling light. When the light ended, Frederico's huge metal body reappeared in the air. There was not a single damage on its shiny surface, it just became a little red and shiny, but it quickly cooled down and recovered.

“Was that... my attack? What a strange ability…” Federico murmured in a serious tone as he looked at the skin of his hands cooling down quickly. He then shifted his gaze to the ruined castle below.

"With so many unheard-of strange abilities, is this Thief K really related to the inheritance of 'Qi'? Then I can't let you escape this time..."

Frederico said this, and after he finished speaking, the gems on his wings and eyes emitted a dazzling light again, and continued to shoot towards the thieves. Facing Frederico's move, the thieves who were still hiding in the castle were already prepared. He took out two more hats from the original two hats, and then under an invisible force, all four hats could not help but float in the air, and the hat mouths automatically pointed upwards, accurately receiving the rays that penetrated the sky board.

Although Frederico's rays are fast and numerous, the thief can dodge most of them with his excellent agility. For those that he cannot dodge, his hat can absorb the reflection. With the assistance of Dorothy's excellent real-time dynamic battlefield detection and tight ballistic calculations, the thief's dodging and the hat's acceptance of reflection will not make any mistakes. The thief can keep dodging and moving forward under Frederico's series of ray attacks and quickly approach the edge of the castle.

On the other side, Frederico continued to use rays to put pressure on the thief below with his own output, waiting for the thief to use ice storm to cover a large area where she escaped from the castle and freeze her. But when the thief really rushed out of the castle from the lower floor of the castle building, a refracted ray hit his face, and the dazzling light blocked his eyes at once.

This refracted ray had a great impact on Frederico, because the thief had just rushed out of the castle window and escaped directly into the wild woods outside the castle. Frederico could sense the thief's position in his castle, but this perception ability was invalid after the thief left the castle. He originally wanted to wait for the thief to fly out of the castle and lack effective building protection before using a wide-area ice storm to freeze him, but he lost his vision on the face of the thief due to the return of his ray at the moment he flew out of the castle, and could not judge the specific direction of the woods the thief flew to after flying out of the fortress. In an instant, he lost the thief's trace.

In this situation, what Frederico can do now is to use ice storm or fire storm to attack the woods on a large scale, hoping to be lucky enough to sweep out the thief. However, this method cannot hit the thief 100%. It will be troublesome if the thief is not swept away and escapes far away through the woods at night.

Faced with such a situation, Frederico did not choose to gamble, but chose a more reliable way to prevent the thieves from escaping.

Flapping his wings, Frederico quickly flew to a tall tower high up in the castle, then spit out a fireball that directly blew up the roof of the tower. After the top of the tower shattered into countless debris and rubble that scattered everywhere, a magic circle emitting a faint glow appeared on the ruins of the roof. In the center of the magic circle, a huge stone hammer was inserted on it. There were countless inscriptions carved on the stone hammer, and it was so huge that it was not something that humans could lift.

Flying over the ruins of the tower, Frederico stretched out his hand and picked up the stone hammer on the magic circle with one hand. Then he raised the hammer high and smashed it down hard, hitting the magic circle in the ruins.

The moment the magic circle was hit, a circle of mysterious light patterns lit up on it, and a strange wave centered on the magic circle rapidly spread in all directions. Under the influence of this force, the environment around the castle began to change drastically.

Rumble, bursts of thunderous roars came from all directions, and the earth began to tremble slightly. From the wilderness and woods far away from the castle, strange things suddenly rose up and grew and quickly spread towards the sky. If you look closely, they are actually rocks.

Rocks, solid rocks. On the ground on all sides of the castle, numerous rocks appeared and grew out of thin air like trees. In just a moment, they completely engulfed the surrounding vegetation on the ground, and rapidly extended upwards, blocking the moonlight from outside. Looking around from the inside of the castle, it was as if seeing a huge curtain rising rapidly around oneself, covering the entire castle.

However, what rose up was not a curtain, but a mountain, a huge and solid mountain! After Frederico smashed the hammer, a huge mountain appeared out of thin air around the castle and grew rapidly from bottom to top, and soon completely engulfed the entire castle.

The castle swallowed by the mountain instantly transformed from the wilderness into a huge cave. The outside wind and moonlight were directly isolated. Looking out from the castle at this moment, it felt like being in a huge cave that could accommodate the entire castle. It was pitch black without the moonlight.

This mountain that suddenly appeared was not created out of thin air, but existed here originally. There had always been a mountain here, and this castle was originally built in a huge cave in the mountain. The reason why the mountain disappeared before was because it was hidden by the power.

"A mountain just appeared out of nowhere... What a powerful ability..."

Somewhere on the edge of the castle cave, Dorothy, who had just flown into the cave at high speed and escaped being swallowed by the mountain, could not help but murmur softly when she saw the scene around her. It was the first time she had seen such a spectacular and strange scene.

The gargoyle's ability allows people to pass through rock barriers. The essence of this ability is to make the gargoyle itself "hidden" from physical matter and become "non-existent". If this ability is used in reverse, the rock can become "non-existent" to the gargoyle and even to everyone else and the world, becoming a hidden state.

Frederico used his own abilities in reverse, and with the help of rituals and extraordinary props, he made the entire mountain invisible. His base was actually a castle in the mountain, but he hid the mountain. When someone tried to attack his castle, he could directly remove the hiding and release the "mountain". In this way, all the existence within hundreds of meters around the castle would be swallowed up by the inside of the mountain in one breath, and buried alive. Even if they didn't die, they would become the prey of Frederico who had the ability to walk on the wall.

High-level extraordinary people often have a magic field bonus when fighting in their own area, and the bonus of the "Stone" extraordinary people will be more exaggerated and obvious. This hidden mountain is the magic field weapon that Frederico prepared for himself.

Since the weight of the mountain appeared from the bottom up, the thief who was hiding in the woods around the castle was almost swallowed up by the mountain that "grew" suddenly in an instant. Fortunately, the thief had escape magic. Soon after being swallowed by the mountain, she used escape magic to teleport out of the predicament. At this point, the thief only had one last chance to use the escape magic.

However, since the teleportation distance of the escape magic was only ten meters, the thief was hundreds of meters away from the outside of the mountain, so she could only teleport back to the inside of the mountain, that is, the huge cave where the castle was built. Moreover, since the mountain swallowed up all the trees outside, the entire rock wall almost appeared next to the outer wall of the castle. After the thief teleported back, she could only appear in the castle, which made Frederico feel the thief's presence again almost immediately. Without the cover of the trees, the thief was once again exposed to Frederico's firepower.

Without hesitation, Frederico immediately poured his rays and ice storms towards the thief. The thief could only be forced to dodge in various buildings of the castle again to find a way out. But this time she no longer had any possibility of escape, because the castle cave was completely closed, without any passage to the outside world. The thief could only be trapped to death inside.