Luo Fan, who was in the shadows, also noticed this situation. He didn't expect Roy to be so decisive and directly activate a low-level forbidden spell.
After warning the girls to be careful, he slowly made his way towards the dark magic mage. After all, he had already given away his defensive scrolls, so they should be fine.
Soon, the scene was filled with the whirlwind of wind and blades. The emerging octopus was directly impacted and torn to pieces, and the nearby rock walls were also cut, with large rocks constantly falling down.
The lake surface was now churned into a pool of blood and gore, with a strong stench splattering everywhere.
Caitlin was notified in advance and, together with Daisy, retrieved her pet. At the same time, she tore open a large protective scroll, barely protecting the girls around her, but they were still covered in mud.
Toria retrieved her badly damaged pet and huddled together with Caitlin, using their shields to reduce the erosion from the mud.
As for Freya, realizing something was wrong, she escaped the cave and temporarily escaped disaster.
The immense wind energy eventually swept through the entire space, and the wind mage protected Roy, hiding in a crevice in the rocks.
As the wind blades danced wildly, Luo Fan made his move.
The dark magician hid in another corner, but Luo Fan caught up with his whereabouts and left a trap nearby.
Immediately afterwards, a treated dagger shot out from the shadows, its target the archmage.
"Who?" The archmage became alert, but he did not detect any movement or magical fluctuations in the surroundings. The dagger seemed to have appeared out of thin air from the darkness.
The active wind blades around him continued to strike the surrounding rocks, making a great commotion that prevented him from concentrating on probing the subtle fluctuations in his surroundings.
The dagger pierced his shield without losing momentum, startling him into quickly shifting his position. Unsure if the surrounding darkness still posed a danger, he flew out.
Suddenly, he sensed a peculiar magical fluctuation in front of him. It was very faint and not the type he was familiar with. He had just run into it.
Just as the life-saving magical item was activated, that inexplicable energy swept past and slowly dissipated into the void, as if it had never existed.
The dark mage, bewildered, was about to move when his body spontaneously split in two. His upper body flew away, but his lower body fell into the wind blades below, churning into a spray of blood.
"Ah~!" A huge cry of agony rang out, but it was quickly drowned out by the noisy wind blades.
Luo Fan noticed that half of the man's body had stopped moving, so he pulled out his broadsword and shot it, killing the agonizing mage instantly.
After sheathing his weapon and waiting for the wind blades to subside, Luo Fan hid again. Just then, he heard the sounds of outsiders rushing towards them.
Under normal circumstances, killing a dark magic master is extremely difficult, given their numerous escape methods. However, Luo Fan didn't want to expose himself, so he could only slowly lure him into the trap.
Finally, under the cover of a low-level forbidden spell, he used a spatial blade to cut him in two and finish him off. After all, ordinary life-saving items couldn't heal the damage caused by the spatial rupture.
Upon seeing the scene, the people who had just rushed in were immediately terrified and frantically shouted the princess's name. Freya flew back in at this moment, only to see the cave filled with dismembered corpses and a strong stench of blood.
The reinforcements arrived just in time; any earlier and they would probably have suffered terribly. Luo Fan muttered to himself from the shadows, then flashed to Ai Li's side. These surviving girls were submerged by the giant octopus's severed limbs, but thankfully, they were not in any immediate danger.
At the crucial moment, Caitlyn used several scrolls to block the subsequent damage.
Roy emerged from the corner and discovered that Caitlin was still alive and her reinforcements had arrived. Terrified, he quickly called for the remaining mage and frantically ran towards the depths of the cave.
"Quick, catch them! They're the ones trying to murder His Highness!" Freya noticed the movement of her opponents and quickly gave chase.
Luo Fan had just told her that Caitlin was alright and that she should hurry up and hunt down the fleeing guy.
Toria summoned Xuanwu again and gave everyone a quick rinse. The loss of most of the guards filled Caitlin with deep guilt; she had acted too impulsively.
"Your Highness, it's so good to know you're alright!" Someone walked over; it was a middle-aged mage who seemed to be the leader of the group.
"Sean, did you encounter any resistance along the way?" After cleaning herself up on Xuanwu's back and drying off, Caitlin finally came out.
"Yes, there were nearly 10 mages, and demons underwater. But for some reason, those demons didn't move. We arrived here after we repelled the mages."
As they were talking, something slowly began to recover from the surface of the water in the cave—it was the black-clad man who had been swallowed earlier. Now, they were all mixed together, forming a multi-armed, multi-legged monster.
"Caitlyn, that damn array is still operating. Quickly, make them remove the array plate inside," Luo Fan reminded them. After the giant octopus's flesh and blood sacrifice, the array had actually stabilized, and the dark elements were rapidly gathering.
Several mages acted quickly, retrieving the array plate and eliminating the monsters in the water, preventing further trouble.
Just then, Freya returned, bringing back Roy's body, while the wind mage was nowhere to be found.
"Your Highness, that guy is too cunning. He used Roy as a cover and disappeared somewhere. He even took his spatial ring." Freya looked very frustrated, as she hadn't been able to kill that bastard herself.
"Send men to seal off the dungeon entrance, I refuse to believe he won't come out!" Having nearly lost her life, Caitlin kicked Roy's corpse a few times and shouted the order.
Luo Fan, who was hiding in the shadows, quietly slipped out again.
Rings are great, I love spatial rings the most. It's just that wind-elemental mages will find them troublesome to deal with, since the fluctuations of spatial magic shouldn't escape their perception.
After searching deep inside for quite a while, and having to be wary of people searching inside, plus the sheer number of caves, Luo Fan suddenly felt immense pressure.
On Ellie's side, the girls looked somewhat dejected, after all, several guards had been sacrificed. Toria and Freya guarded Caitlin to prevent any further accidents.
The rest of the group searched the vicinity for other traces, trying to find any possible clues.
About fifteen minutes later, guild members came to help clean up the environment inside to prevent chaos in the dungeon.
"Xiaoxue, hasn't Luo Fan returned yet?" Daisy asked softly, holding the snow maiden she had just summoned.
The little girl shook her head, her gaze fixed on the depths of the cave.
They ventured far into the distance until a wall blocked their final escape route, at which point Luo Fan only managed to find some scattered traces of energy.
"Where could that guy have gone? Did he leave by water? I heard this place isn't connected to the outside world." Following the spatial nodes left in the shadows, Luo Fan slowly returned until he found a rescuer whose actions seemed a bit strange.
Luo Fan noticed that he always deliberately avoided his companions and focused on the puddles rather than other nooks and crannies.
By this time, they had already investigated all the caves, and most people had returned, but he was still dawdling around, and it was unclear what his purpose was.
After some time, the man seemed to have found his target, cautiously observing his surroundings. He even scanned the area to make sure no one was around before letting out a sigh of relief.
Immediately afterwards, he took out a blue stone and began to infuse it with magic.
That's a resonance crystal!
Luo Fan immediately understood.
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