Chapter 418: The Forsaken Realm of Gods (7) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
Although no one wants to admit it, this trick damn well works.
Everyone outside the mine held their breath and listened. After a few seconds of silence inside the mine, Delmis' partner actually spoke to Hector: "If you can't learn it, just go slower."
Dermis clicked his tongue, "Okay, so what do you want to learn?"
Hector said weakly: "Fire...ball?"
He looked at Delmis's expression of disdain and speechlessness, and then remembered White Moth's advice, and added very quickly: "Master, you and your partner are a perfect match. You two look like a couple in your couple outfits! The first time I saw you, I realized that you two were made for each other!"
"...Of course," after a few seconds of silence in the tunnel, Delmis' voice sounded again, "This is a couple's outfit unique to the two of us. By the way, do you want to see our couple's rings?"
When Hector saw that the topic was changed, he couldn't wait to say, "Look!"
"This ring was originally..."
Everyone outside the cave: ...
"That's enough, that's enough." Guan Hongyan twitched her lips and walked to the side first. "That's enough. It would be impolite to listen to the rest."
She didn't want to hear where Dermis and his partner's rings came from!
The other teammates obviously didn't want to listen either.
Everyone silently gave up the miracle and slowly focused their attention on the white moth.
White Moth took a small step back: "Why are you looking at me... I told you this trick will definitely work."
"You taught Hector this trick..." Yun Guang pondered for a moment, "It may be difficult for us to get rid of Delmis's show of affection in the next exploration process."
"Human lives are at stake, brother!" White Moth argued, "How cruel is it to watch Hector turn into a skeleton?"
"I think it's cruel to me to let me listen to this thing..." Zhao Yinglai complained silently.
"Sacrifice is inevitable," Xu Zichen patted her shoulder, "Look at the bright side, we don't have to worry about the personal safety of the heroes anymore."
Which brave man would worry about being killed and turned into a skeleton by his teacher every day?
"I think I need to change to a miracle that blocks sound," Guan Hongyan muttered, "Yun Guang, is there a miracle in the mall that can specifically block a person's sound?"
"Unfortunately," Yun Guang shrugged, "No."
"Are we going to have to spend the entire exploration under the influence of this love-brain?" Su Hao was almost out of breath.
"There is still a way," White Moth looked towards the mine, "As long as Hector becomes a hero sooner and opens the gate to the kingdom of God, we will be liberated!"
Everyone took a deep breath and nodded slowly.
At this moment, their mood was highly empathetic to Dermis these days.
Let’s explore this world now!
Very urgent!
Extremely urgent!
However, there are a group of people who have the opposite idea:
[Damn, I think I figured it out, friends. I think I know why the giant's method of condensing the fire element is more powerful even though we are using the same spell as him!]
[Speak, hurry up, don't make me beg you! ]
[I don't really understand it either, I'm just telling you what I understand. First of all, the normal process of casting a spell is to use the elemental affinity in the body to resonate with the elements in the surrounding environment, so generally speaking, the higher the affinity, the more powerful the magic that can be used. On this basis, carrying some enriched products of fire attributes can enhance the element's response ability. This is the principle of needing a magic wand, staff, or some magic bracelets and rings when casting a spell.]
【Hmm, then what? 】
[And can you feel the way the boss extracted the elements just now? He doesn't seem to be using affinity to resonate with the elements.]
What is that?
[It is coercion. There are fewer fire elements in the mine than in a normal environment, and the success rate of resonance is also lower. Therefore, he is suppressing the living space of the fire elements in the surrounding space, forcing them to gather here. This is much more difficult than using pure element resonance. It is a good direction to use high-destructive elemental magic in extreme environments. ]
[So the lethality is much greater. After all, it is coercion, not resonance...]
[So how does this method help us in casting spells? ]
[No, after all, we don't have the ability to coerce elements yet...]
[Forced elements? When casting a spell, the elements are my daddy. The more the better. My fire daddy, water daddy, wood daddy, earth daddy, woo woo woo.]
[Can you use it again, sir, to teach me something new? ]
[Do you think the boss wants to use magic now? ]
[I don't know why, but when I saw the big guy being coaxed by Hector to talk about his love history while he was casting a spell, my fists suddenly hardened. ]
[Fist Hardened +1]
[Fist Hardened +2]
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In the mine, Hector half-sat on a skeleton warhorse, his mind full of thoughts about his teacher's ring, which was made of a precious magic material that someone had spent hundreds of years traveling the entire continent but still couldn't find. It could only be condensed in a pure magic environment. In order to obtain this material, the most powerful country on the continent once united to hunt down Delmis. A few months later, the king's head was hung high on the top of the kingdom, and the kingdom was destroyed in an instant.
The gemstone on the ring is the most special vessel of the dead. Before it became the gemstone on the ring, it had taken the lives of an entire magical race. At the moment the vessel was formed, thousands of lives of this race were turned into ashes. Countless people have speculated on the reason why this race was inexplicably exterminated, and why their former habitat has now become a forbidden land of death. But no one knows that Delmis once passed through this forbidden land of death and took a deadly gem from the high altar with his bare hands and split it into two.
The pattern on the ring is a pattern with divine power that can only be used by gods. Even the priests who are closest to gods according to legend do not have the right to carve all the patterns of this pattern, otherwise they will face divine punishment. But now this thing appears on their rings, blatantly showing that the gods are helpless against Delmis.
All in all, he seemed to have a really amazing mentor.
The ring on his hand alone has countless explosive origins. If this thing were thrown away, no one would dare to pick up such a terrifying existence.
Hector was in a daze, and for the umpteenth time he began to doubt why such an awesome being would take a fancy to him.
Could it be that... he is really a genius?
Can he really summon these fire dragons, fireballs, and fire whirlwinds? Is that why the teacher has such high expectations of him?
"Hector," his mentor noticed his distraction, "what are you thinking about?"
Hector blurted out: "Am I really a genius?"
Bai Jinshu: ...Who gave you the confidence?
“If you are a genius…” He slowly scanned Hector’s body, “Why couldn’t you even learn the Fire Whirlwind just now?”
Hector bowed his head silently and admitted his mistake: “I’ll do my best.”
No, even if he is a genius, he has to start by summoning a flame, right?
How can someone start out as a fire dragon or a fire tornado?
Fortunately, his mentor seemed to be enjoying the show of affection and did not want to dwell on this topic any further. Instead, he replied with a fake smile: "Keep your best. If it really doesn't work, I can consider tearing you into pieces and stuffing them into magic vessels. That way, you won't have to study anymore."
Hector: Ugh...
He didn't dare to say a word, and could only crouch down a little lower, hoping that the lowering of his height would further reduce his presence.
Bai Jinshu patted the fire dragon under his command and continued to sit on its head and fly forward.
The mine was very deep, and there were many forks on the road. He did not remember the routes the village chief had told him, but instead used the exhaustive method and tried them one by one.
This place has only been abandoned for less than two months, and the wild beasts have not had time to go deep into the mine. The deeper you go, the fewer monsters you will encounter.
In the end, it had completely turned into a pitch-black corridor.
The mine was deep and there was no living creature except the three of them. Hector lay on the skeleton warhorse and shrank his shoulders a little timidly.
He is a little afraid of the dark...
But the big guy next to him might be much scarier than the darkness. Thinking of this, he sniffed again firmly.
Brave Hector, don't be afraid of difficulties!
They have now walked deep into the mine. There is a faint cold metallic glow in the dirt on both sides of the mine tunnel walls. Hector reached out and touched it, and found that these should be some minerals left behind during the mining process because the mining was too difficult or because digging would affect the mine structure.
There were some scratch marks on the edges of these minerals that looked like those left by wild beasts' claws. Hector reached out and touched it, and found that the metal was extremely hard and did not look like it would leave any marks.
"Teacher," he shouted bravely, "Is this the beast that the villagers found?"
He heard the teacher snort and laugh: "Not a beast."
"This is a newly born elemental spirit that has not yet taken a specific form." The white bones brushed across the cracks on the mineral. He seemed to suddenly have a desire to teach. He jumped off the fire dragon and waved at Hector, "Do you know what an elemental spirit is?"
Hector shook his head honestly.
"It's a special elemental factor," Bai Jinshuo flicked the metal. "Generally speaking, normal elemental factors in the environment don't have any intelligence. They're just scattered in the environment. As long as the affinity is high, they can be summoned. Once a certain amount of elemental factors are summoned, they can be driven and carved into various forms to cast different magic."
This is how a wizard casts spells.
It was rare for him to talk about these very basic theories for mages. Hector suddenly became serious and quickly jumped off the skeleton warhorse.
Bai Jinshu glanced at him and continued, "For most people, except for certain races that have a high affinity for certain elements, the affinity of most mages is determined at birth."
Therefore, in order to allow weaker mages with lower affinity to use magic, mages have developed countless ways to enhance their own elemental affinity, such as magic weapons to assist in casting spells: wands, staffs, or some easy-to-carry magic accessories: magic bracelets, magic rings.
Combined with some spells that can enhance affinity, some spells with shape and movement pattern orientation, they can be used in combination to specify what form the elements summoned by the wizard will take. In this way, ordinary weak wizards can also summon elements and use magic.
Hector nodded seriously: "Then why don't you chant the spell, teacher?"
When he saw his teacher casting a spell, he just raised his fingers?
"Because I said," Bai Jinshu looked at him silently and spoke with a stronger voice, "This is the preparation for casting a spell that only weak and small spell masters need."
And Delmis is a top-notch necromancer who is powerful enough to shake the world.
At his level, he doesn't even need spells that enhance affinity and fix casting status.
As soon as he thought about it, all elements would obey his command and take on various forms, without the need for unnecessary assistance such as spells.
"Then..." Hector raised his hand weakly, "Why do you think I can do this, teacher? Shouldn't I also be able to chant spells and use a staff?"
He is not a big shot like his teacher!
He was just an innocent passerby! If he hadn't been forcibly turned into purple hair, he would never have come into contact with magic in his life!
Why on earth did Delmis think that he could learn the same spell just by raising his hand?
"Because I didn't know you were so ordinary. Besides, there's no way I can remember the spell of a low-level fireball spell," his teacher said with a rude sound. "In the past, an apprentice who couldn't mobilize the elements with a wave of his hand was not worthy of entering my Mage Tower. I have never taught a student as weak as you. You still can't do it even after I've demonstrated it so many times. In the past, I would have kicked you out of the Mage Tower long ago."
Hector closed his eyes.
My dear Marseille mentor, I don’t want to be such a loser.
"Forget it," Delmis seemed to have figured out that he had accepted an apprentice with such mediocre talent, "Let's talk about it after we go to some big cities with wizard towers."
"Can I become an apprentice in those wizard towers?" Hector guessed.
"I will just plunder these wizard towers," his mentor said with a sneer on his face, "and I will have as many spells and magic tools as you want."
Hector:!
Before he could say anything about his mentor's blatant robbery, the next moment, Delmis' hand suddenly reached into the surrounding ore.
"Chi——" an extremely sharp sound was heard.
"I got it," Bai Jinshu pulled the thing out of the ore with a little force, "This is it."
"What...what is this?" Hector was stunned, watching his mentor drag out a strange animal from the ore that looked like a wolf but was made entirely of metal.
"Elemental spirits," Bai Jinshu threw the thing to the ground and clapped his hands, "are the culprits that caused this village to become like this."
This thing has been moving among the walls ever since they entered the mine.
The energy fluctuations carried by elemental spirits are much stronger than the energy fluctuations in a normal environment, making it difficult for him not to notice them.
As soon as the elemental elf was thrown to the ground, he turned around and wanted to run away, but found that he could not move.
"Is this the monster that caused everything?" Hector took a few steps forward cautiously, "So where are we now..."
Do you want to kill it?
The next second, the elemental spirit floated up from the ground.
"Of course not," his mentor Delmis hooked his hand again and summoned a fire dragon from the air, "I don't kill people casually, and the same goes for elves."
"I once swore..." He leaned back slightly and mumbled something incomprehensible, "In order to resurrect... I can never kill any sentient being again."
The air around him became hot again, and before Hector could hear the vague word clearly, the skeleton horse pushed his back and carried him on its back again.
*
By the time the three people in the mine came out, the exploration team members waiting outside were already drowsy.
The sky lasted from the afternoon when they entered the mine to dusk when the three men came out. Looking at Hector, who had a pale face (from riding a horse), rubbed his back (from the bruises of the skeleton horse), and was busy trying to please him (the big man who could destroy a country with a wave of his hand actually wanted to rob a wizard tower for him, how flattered he was), the exploration team members withdrew their gazes with lingering fear.
For such a long time, how long did Delmis show her affection in there...
I dare not think about it.
I dare not think about it.
Looking at the pale look on Hector’s face, one can tell that there is a price to pay for not being turned into a skeleton.
Everyone quickly stood up from the ground and went to meet them.
"Sniff."
Xu Zichen suddenly moved his nose: "What's that smell?"
These three people seemed to have a particularly special smell.
"Why do I feel..." Guan Hongyan hesitated, "This smells like barbecue?"
“Sister Yan,” Hector said with a very complicated smile on his face, “It smells like barbecue.”
"The fire dragon summoned by the teacher roasted all the monsters in the mine." He had a complex expression of wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh. "The minerals here contain salt, so after roasting these animals in the mine, the taste is..."
It smells especially good.
If they hadn't said they had just come out of a mine, just based on the smell on him, people would have believed they had just had a barbecue picnic.
Guan Hongyan: "...Okay."
She should have known that this would be the effect of summoning a fire dragon.
"I'm a little hungry..." Zhao Yinglai muttered, "Have we finished dealing with this place now?"
She looked at the mine in the distance that was emitting a faint aroma of barbecue and had nothing to do with a mine in the slightest.
"I guess so..." Hector hesitated for a moment, "Anyway, the villagers should be able to leave here now."
"What's in the mine?" White Moth asked curiously.
"There is a golden elemental elf that has developed a faint intelligence." Bai Jinshu said.
"The people in the village can't get out. This elf probably thinks the miners who enter the mine are bad guys, so it wants to punish them." He half hugged his chest, holding the wolf-dog-like elf in his hand, and his tone revealed a sense of dissatisfaction, "It's such a small matter, but you still have to trouble me." "Elemental elves are naturally highly affinity with the element they belong to, so they formed a circle, not letting the people in the village go out, and not letting others come in."
"Is this the thing?" Guan Hongyan came over to take a look curiously. "It's really made of metal. Why is it avoiding people?"
"The newly born elemental elves are too weak. If they are dispersed, they will need more time to gather together, so they are afraid of people." Delmis rolled his eyes, and the elf in his hand made a desperate "chi". "Anyone can kill this elf. It is obviously a problem that they can solve by themselves."
Members of the exploration team: ...That sounds true.
The village chief mentioned before that when they first discovered that something might have escaped from the mine, they used a simple trap made of bamboo baskets and poles to capture a "monster".
However, after opening the bamboo basket, the "monster" turned into a lump of metal, which caused panic among the people.
This was probably how the villagers "killed" the elemental spirit for the first time.
"What about the big hole they dug?" White Moth asked with concern, "Does it have anything to do with this elf?"
"Yes." Bai Jinshu replied through his nose, "It was a metal mass that condensed into an elemental spirit. After the spirit took shape, it became a big hole. This mineral here has a weak magical fluctuation and is the lowest level of magical material."
At this point, all the strange encounters in this village have been explained.
Golden elemental elves were born from the special magic materials in the mine. The newly born golden elemental elves knew nothing and instinctively protected the magical environment that gave birth to them. So they regarded the villagers who were mining as bad people and wanted to trap them and prevent them from leaving with these magic materials.
This is why so many strange things happen in this village.
"Then we should tell the village chief about this now, and then what?" Su Hao thought for a while, "This village relies on mining for its livelihood, we can't ask them to stop mining, right?"
"Persuade the Golden Essence?" Bai Mo looked at the Golden Essence in his hand, "Will mining have an impact on its living environment?"
“No,” Bai Jinshu shook the Golden Yuan Essence and sneered at its chirping sound, “This one is simply stupider.”
The essence that already has a form no longer needs to rely on the magical environment in which it was born. Besides, that mine is not a rare magical wonderland, so there is no point in staying there.
"What if it's stupid and can't understand what we're saying?" Lu Changfeng said worriedly.
"It's easy," everyone heard Delmis' soft voice, saying something extremely terrifying, "Just beat it until it can understand."
"Right?" He picked up the Jin Yuan Jing and shook it.
Jin Yuanjing said in horror: "Chi——"
"Yeah, I understand." Bai Jinshu let go with satisfaction, watching Jin Yuanjing lying on the ground trembling weakly, and nodded contentedly, "The next step is to collect the reward and leave."
*
The villagers in the village waited for the adventurers to return.
After listening to the whole story of the strange incident in their mine, the villagers' worries and fears finally faded away. When they learned that the gold elemental spirit was only a young elemental spirit that was less than two months old, some children bravely went up to touch its body a few times, then turned around and hugged their parents in surprise: "Mom, it's hard!"
Jin Yuanjing: ...What else?
It is the essence of gold! Do you know what the gold attribute is?
Bai Jinshu glanced at it coldly, and the Jin Yuanjing lay down timidly again.
I can’t afford to offend you. I can’t afford to offend the big guys at all.
When the village chief saw that the problem had been solved, he burst into tears. He held the hand of "Hector, the brave man who had exerted the greatest effort in this battle" who was pushed out by everyone, and said to the people in the village: "That's great. Thank you, brave man from afar. Our village has been saved in this disaster..."
"Okay, why are you talking so much?" A hand with only bones suddenly appeared in front of the village chief. "There are only 29 days and five hours left until the 523rd anniversary of my partner and I. Where is our commission?"
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