Chapter 298 Soul Artifact, Ye Zhi: You are very weak
In late autumn, the autumn wind was howling on the withered and yellow Sol Plain.
The eagle soared in the sky, and in its sharp eyes, it reflected a magic carpet flying in the air, with three figures sitting on the crimson carpet.
Megan thoughtfully cast a protective spell around the magic carpet to prevent it from being affected by air currents.
It was the first time for Ye Zhi to ride on this kind of flying magic tool.
Gray also found it novel and kept looking around.
This time, Megan and her teacher went to Stonehenge to capture the escaped lich, and Megan took out this magic carpet as a means of transportation.
Yeats had seen this magic carpet in a book about "flight" at Cambrian University.
It is said that in the mountainous northeastern part of the continent, the empire's extraordinary people use "magic boats" built by dwarf craftsmen to fly long distances.
This magic boat is a highly integrated product of magic arrays, machinery, and alchemy, and uses magic crystals as energy.
And in the mysterious icy sea filled with undead and sirens.
Some adventurers have seen ghost ships flying in the sky burning green flames.
And this ghost ship was recorded as a flying vehicle and entered the human world.
Generally speaking, the extraordinary people prefer flying vehicles to consuming magic power to fly themselves. This is like the difference between walking and driving, the latter is always more convenient.
On the way to Stonehenge, the graceful and beautiful half-elf wizard Megan talked to Yeats about the origins of the lich fugitive.
"In the six hundred years since Emperor Lorraine slew the Lich King, there have been few traces of liches on the Midgard continent."
Megan said: "But inevitably, there are always some misguided wizards who, due to their obsession and greed for the power of magic, use alchemical witchcraft and necromancy to transform themselves into undead creatures and refine [Soul Artifacts]."
"Human souls are stored in living bodies, but the souls of liches are carried by cold magical instruments."
"I heard that liches are immortal?" Gray asked, "Then how can we destroy the liches?"
"Lich is immortal. This is both true and false."
Megan patiently explained: "The lich's body is indeed immortal, and can be resurrected through new bodies. However, as long as the lich's soul artifact is destroyed, their soul will completely perish."
Megan paused for a moment, her eyes moved slightly, and said, "It is said that six hundred years ago, Emperor Lorraine only severely damaged the soul artifact of the Lich King and sealed it, but did not completely destroy it. Therefore, the will of the Lich King sometimes affects some mages and makes them go astray... Of course, there are also many mages who voluntarily become liches."
"Lifespan, physical body, and magic power are all limitations for humans to explore the realm of magic."
"If you become a lich, you don't have to worry about your life span, and you can spend endless time studying magic."
"It sounds like the benefits are quite great." Ye Zhi couldn't help but say.
"The wrong path is always full of temptations." Megan shook her head and said, "How could I not understand the excitement and satisfaction that studying magic brings? But everything is excessive, and the lich will inevitably lose its humanity and become a disaster for mankind. This is why Lorraine issued the 'Witch Extermination Order'."
The original intention of the "Order to Eliminate Witches" was to eliminate snake people, liches and other alien races who studied witchcraft and were harmful to humans.
This edict was later deliberately misinterpreted by the Vatican, leading to the witch-hunt movement, in which tens of thousands of innocent civilians died, but the authority and voice of the Vatican were repeatedly consolidated.
Ye Zhi pondered the plot in the original work and said thoughtfully, "What is the Lich King's soul weapon, Teacher Megan, is it recorded in the book?"
"It's a sword."
Megan's eyes were deep: "A broken, evil, lich sword full of negative emotions and curses and resentment."
Yeats thought to himself:
"This sword must be cold and sad."
While chatting, Yeats saw a majestic and amazing prehistoric monument beneath the hazy clouds.
Landing on the ground, looking up at the towering stone, Ye Zhi felt a shock coming upon him. In this extraordinary world, this Stonehenge is even larger than the wonder of the same name in his previous life! Megan looked up at the towering stone arch and said with emotion:
"Stonehenge is more than 4,000 years old. It took prehistoric humans a thousand years to complete it."
"Each boulder weighs hundreds of tons. They have to be transported from a quarry more than 400 kilometers away to this circle and arranged in concentric circles..."
Megan's eyes gradually turned cold.
"This wonder of human civilization must not be desecrated by a lich... Ye Zhi, let's hide and go inside the stone formation to find out!"
Although Megan is a half-elf, she considers herself as a human. Yeats thought that this might be the reason why Megan cares so much about her age.
Megan is proficient in the "Enchantment School" among the seven major spell schools, and is a "Seducer" who believes in the magic goddess Minerva.
As a six-ring wizard, Megan was also proficient in other schools. She used invisibility to cover Yeats and Gray, and they passed through the towering stone archway and entered the interior of Stonehenge.
Under the sunlight, these huge stones emit a strange magnetic field, causing ripples in the magic network in the realm of creation, making Stonehenge even more mysterious.
"Stonehenge was originally a place where prehistoric humans used to offer sacrifices and worship gods. There is ancient magic and divinity left on these towering stones." Megan whispered:
"The lich chose to escape here, probably to use the ancient magic to study his witchcraft."
Ye Zhi thought to himself, "My Snow Owl also knows ancient magic, which can help that lich open his eyes!"
"Senior Megan, which god is Stonehenge dedicated to?" Gray asked softly.
Megan hesitated for a moment and said, "Time has buried too many historical truths. It is impossible to know which god the Stonehenge was dedicated to, but it is certain that the god has disappeared... Otherwise, the god would be furious if he saw his temple being invaded."
【Wonders】 are an important part of the realm of God.
For example, the Temple of Delphi is the domain of the God of Light, who once gave prophecies in the temple;
The Acropolis of Minerva, built according to the terrain of the mountain, is under the protection of the goddess of magic.
Only magnificent and majestic buildings used to worship gods are worthy of being called wonders.
Therefore, although the contemporary Great Wall of Border Defense and the Great Wall of Winter are magnificent, they still cannot be called wonders.
"The deity worshipped at Stonehenge..." Yeats recalled the plot of the original work, stroking his chin, and thought to himself, "It should be the [God of the Sun]. The shadows of these huge stones act as sundials to some extent, and the movement trajectory of the sun can also be observed based on the huge stones."
The mythical sun god, who rode across the sky on a chariot pulled by four flaming horses, was once a powerful deity on par with the moon god.
However, after the God of Light was assassinated, the world entered a three-year long winter. The sun gradually lost its brilliance and eventually fell, and power was scattered throughout the God Realm and the continent.
Considering the similarities between the sun divinity and the light divinity, Yeats was also very eager for the sun divinity, and wanted to use this divinity to fill the lack of divinity in the Silver Oak Sword.
It’s like, if you can’t find No. 98 gasoline, you use No. 95 gasoline instead!
"It turns out to be an ownerless wonder." Gray looked around the Stonehenge and said with emotion, "It's a miracle that it hasn't been occupied by outsiders for more than a thousand years."
"There is a power hidden in the Stonehenge that even the Mage Guild has not fully explored." Megan said seriously, "If you encounter danger, don't take risks. Let me deal with it."
Ownerless wonder.
Yeats looked up at Stonehenge and couldn't help feeling a little bit of anticipation.
——This wonder is destined to be with me.
When the day comes when I open the holy land, I will try to bring this wonder into my territory!
*Inside Stonehenge.
A black diamond placed on a stone platform exudes an enchanting brilliance.
The body of Yarrel Morris sat quietly in a dark tomb three kilometers away from Stonehenge, meditating with his eyes closed.
With the [Soul Artifact] placed inside Stonehenge, Morris greedily extracted the ancient magic power inside Stonehenge.
Feeling the magic power gradually filling up the soul artifact, Morris felt an indescribable pleasure and slowly exhaled.
Magic is addictive. If one advances recklessly while delving into the arcane without the guidance of a wise master, it is easy to become addicted to the pleasure brought by magical power and become unable to extricate oneself.
Scholars define it as a special symptom called "demon addiction".
A wizard who cannot control magic is destined to be controlled by magic.
Among the human mages who fell into lich status.
Some cannot bear the end of their lifespan and want to continue living even at the risk of their souls perishing.
Some are pure idealists and researchers who are obsessed with exploring more profound fields; some are drug addicts who have become liches due to [magic addiction].
Morris, the young lich who had just transformed from a human into an undead creature, couldn't even tell which category he belonged to.
He is frail and sickly, has a soul that pursues the truth, but often lowers his noble head before temptation.
In the dim tomb, Morris finished his meditation for the day, opened his dry eye sockets that were surging with blue fire, looked down at his dry fingers, and muttered to himself: "Ancient magic is more powerful than the magic in the magic network! If I had learned ancient magic earlier, I wouldn't be stuck at the threshold of the master and unable to break through for a long time!"
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"I am a genius, and geniuses should explore areas that ordinary people have no right to explore!"
Morris clenched his palms tightly, the blue fire dancing in his eyes was filled with strong obsession and desire, and his twisted will formed a materialized dark force field, surging coldly beside him.
"When I reach the master's realm with the help of the power of Stonehenge—"
"I want the Mages Guild to see what a stupid decision it is for them to expel me!"
At this time.
Morris felt a palpitation in his heart.
A warning came from his soul weapon.
An outsider has broken into Stonehenge! The soul weapon is the origin of the lich. Morris dare not be careless and prepares to intercept it personally.
"It's only been two days and the Mage Guild's lackeys have come to our door?"
There was a flickering blue fire in his eye sockets, his expression was arrogant, and a cold arc appeared at the corners of his mouth.
"Well, let these mortals of the Magic Web era experience the power of ancient magic!"
*Yeats had learned in advance that the lich named Morris was once a genius in the Mage Guild.
He was expelled from the Mage Guild just because he repeatedly violated taboos related to witchcraft.
Although Morris is a genius, he is arrogant and cannot withstand setbacks. His transformation into a lich is also related to his personality.
Once you become a lich, the only possibility left is that your magic weapon will be broken and your soul will perish.
Everyone has arrived inside Stonehenge.
A strange aura of magic surged from the stone seat, and violent ancient magic was seen hovering around a black crystal.
"Is this a soul weapon?" Gray asked in surprise.
"Could it be a trap if they appear here so openly?" Ye Zhi asked cautiously.
Stonehenge is located on a plain and is an open-air temple. Its interior is not as winding as a catacomb, but is exposed to the sun with no place to hide.
Megan narrowed her eyes slightly, and concluded that this was undoubtedly a soul weapon. She ordered Ye Zhi and others to step back and prepared to take action herself.
Ye Zhi thought that the situation of liches in this world was even more difficult than that of the vampires. After all, they were the mortal enemies of the behemoth Mage Guild. In addition, the Five-Ring Lich would be dealt with personally by the Six-Ring Master, so it would be difficult for them to make any splash.
This was the safest time among all the operations. Even Yeats, who had experienced a great disaster, felt a little uncomfortable!
Megan's spell bombarded the soul weapon, and the protective spell covering the black crystal was instantly broken, and a roar exploded from the sky.
"Let's see who dares!"
A black torrent of energy fell from the sky, containing a violent aura of ancient magic, causing a dull echo like thunder in the sky.
Ye Zhi looked up and saw a skinny man with a hooked nose, wearing a wide robe. His pale face had sunken eye sockets with blue flames dancing in them, and his whole body exuded an ominous aura of death.
The lich flew proudly in the sky, exuding the aura of ancient magic, which made Ye Zhi fall into silence.
...That's it? Not even as good as my pet! Boom! Megan blocked the energy torrent with a spell barrier, confirmed the strength of the lich, and said lightly: "I need to put the violent magic power here back into the order of the magic network, which will take some time... I'll leave this lich to you, Ye Zhi."
Morris was not a fool. Facing the arrival of the Six-Ring Master, he was a little scared, but he knew that he had to hold on to have a chance of survival.
Seeing that the master actually underestimated his enemy and let a young junior duel with him, Morris couldn't help but see hope.
The next moment, a snow-white owl flapped its wings and took off.
On its wings, ancient rune patterns emerged, shining with deep blue light. Violent magic power, through the power of the runes, lingered around the snowy owl, and a load ball like a black ball of lightning made the already fragile magic net tremble continuously.
The lich couldn't help but reveal a look of surprise in his eyes: "This is... ancient magic?!"
——How is this possible?! I actually saw the power of ancient magic from a snowy owl! Morris was filled with disbelief and humiliation.
This snowy owl even mastered runes? The power of runes is a high-level application of ancient magic. Could it be that its attainments are even higher than mine? This must be a false image, an illusion!
"Hmph, don't even think about shaking my mind!"
The blue fire in Morris's eye sockets flickered wildly, and he raised his palms high, drawing on the ancient magic power. From his palms, a majestic black energy flew out, rising into the sky like fireworks, and then falling towards Yeats!
Spell, Night Meteor! The secret of this ancient magic is exactly the Lich's specialty!
"Look here and see what talent is!" Morris grinned.
Boom! However, Morris' smile froze on his face, and his pupils shrank instantly.
The Night Meteor and the Load Orb condensed by the Snow Owl collided with each other.
The black magic ball suddenly expanded and in turn swallowed up the magic power of the Night Meteor!
call out--
The load ball continued to fly towards the lich, and the black light suddenly became strong, swallowing the lich whole!
Morris roared in pain. Compared to the injuries to his undead body, his heart was bleeding. The humiliation and jealousy made him even more heartbroken! - This was not an illusion. Could this magical pet really use ancient magic? ! "It's fake, it must be fake!" Morris didn't want to believe it.
The words haven't finished yet.
The Snow Owl once again blasted out the load ball, bombing the lich a hundred meters away.
With a deafening explosion, black smoke billowed in the sky! "Well done."
Megan felt a little surprised and looked back at Yeats:
"I haven't finished processing my side yet, but you've already done it?"
Ye Zhi felt strange as he looked at the vulnerable lich.
Please, you are so weak! (End of this chapter)