"Huh!" Richard frowned, "This energy is..."
This made Richard look in the direction where the energy fluctuations came from with a puzzled look.
The energy fluctuation just now was not the energy fluctuation of the fire element particles or earth element particles commonly seen in the Scorched Earth Secret Realm, but the relatively rare blood energy fluctuation! As a necromancer, Richard was very familiar with blood energy! The blood amber in his hand was a form of utilization of blood energy.
In addition, I have been studying knowledge about source blood and bloodlines in recent times, which has deepened my understanding of blood energy.
However In this secret realm filled with elemental creatures, multiple waves of blood energy suddenly erupted. Obviously, someone was causing trouble.
Richard pondered in silence. Judging from the characteristics of the simultaneous explosions and the distribution in multiple directions, it seemed to be some kind of magic formation driven by blood energy.
Sudden!
The entire secret realm trembled violently, the ground cracked, and beams of high-temperature gas emerged from time to time, accompanied by sharp "hissing" sounds.
Some cracks even emitted dark red magma.
Some of the original corridors were now shattered, with large chunks of rubble falling off.
Lava snakes and small rolling stone elements were even more panicked, running around like headless flies, and only a few of them were killed by the falling rocks.
Well! The rolling stone was smashed by the falling rocks! Richard was startled, and quickly reacted from his contemplation, and jumped onto the shoulder of the blood-bone puppet with a single step.
At the same time, he held out his hand and shouted to Gorkan.
"Quick! Gorkan, come up."
"Thank you, Master!"
With the help of Richard, Gorkan, who was not very agile, finally climbed onto the other shoulder of the blood-bone puppet which was nearly three meters tall.
“Crack!”
A sound like breaking glass rang out between Richard and Gorkan.
"Master, did you hear what I just heard?"
Richard looked solemn, nodded, and said:
"This is."
Before he could finish his words, he saw that to the right rear side of their current position, the gray-black ceiling that was originally as solid as granite suddenly cracked with an extremely huge hole, and hundreds of tons of various rock fragments fell down.
"boom!!!"
“Hide quickly!!”
"Magic Armor Technique!"
"Water Shield!"
The blood-bone puppet also raised its arms for a rare moment and began to deal with the shock wave generated by the huge fragments of the ceiling falling to the ground!
Suddenly, dust and smoke rose up everywhere, and it was like the end of the world . A few minutes later.
"Ahem. Ahem, master, look." Gorkan waved his hand and pointed to the ceiling that had just shattered.
Richard looked carefully. Although there was still a lot of smoke and dust around, it did not prevent him from seeing clearly at high places.
The entire shattered area had formed a slope due to a large amount of fallen rocks, leading directly to the original top floor of the secret realm. Richard could clearly see that along the slope, he could faintly see the shadowy gray dwarf-style bungalow.
This immediately shocked Richard! Richard knew very well what this scene meant.
This means that a gap has appeared in the seal of the Scorched Earth Secret Realm, although compared with the size of the entire seal, this gap with a diameter of dozens of meters is nothing.
But what if there is no time to remedy the situation!
The numerous elemental creatures within the Scorched Earth Secret Realm will rush out from this gap like a torrent.
By then, even if all the wizards in Tug City came to block it, they would still be powerless! !
Just when Richard was about to retreat, suddenly! A low, majestic and ancient spiritual power wave came into Richard's mind, "This place will soon belong to Roccoll"
Gorkan, who was beside Richard, had obviously also heard this intermittent, low, inhuman voice, and was horrified at the moment !
So much happened in just a few minutes.
Now it seems that his journey to the secret realm of scorched earth is about to come to an abrupt end! "Golkan, let's crush the legend"
Suddenly, Richard focused his sight and found that there were seven or eight wizards of different races, such as Lizardmen and Gray Dwarves, appearing in the front dozens of places. They all had terrified expressions and were running away quickly, as if something incredible was chasing them from behind.
Richard looked carefully and saw clearly in an instant that there were several large rolling stone elements behind them, and some of them even had a few first-level fire elements that Richard had always encountered but had never encountered.
By this calculation, there were a total of twenty or thirty first-level elemental creatures chasing after the seven or eight people. No wonder all the wizards were being chased in such a panic.
Moreover, Richard didn't believe that these wizards didn't see what just happened.
It seems that these high-level first-level wizards have not purchased the teleportation stone.
This is normal. The teleportation stone is not permanent. Its validity period is about three months. After the expiration date, it will no longer have the teleportation effect and needs to be purchased again.
Therefore, for those wizards who are powerful but do not plan to go deep into the Scorched Earth Secret Realm and whose purpose is to collect resources, most of them will not choose to waste 20,000 magic stones to buy teleportation stones.
Because they came here to earn magic stones, and there have been no special incidents in the Scorched Earth Secret Realm in the past few hundred years, so it is relatively stable.
However, this has nothing to do with Richard, and he took out the teleportation stone from his arms.
"Hey! It's Fana."
Richard, who was planning to return immediately, suddenly saw that the person running towards him was the familiar dwarf witch Fana.
She was surrounded by a light blue light and was holding a short wooden staff in her hand. Her luxurious wizard robe was torn in many places and her delicate face showed a little panic, no longer as calm and composed as before.
It looked like she had been through a tough battle, otherwise she wouldn't have looked so embarrassed.
Fortunately, Fana was only followed by a large rolling stone element and a first-level fire element, so he could still try to rescue her.
Worst case scenario, if more elemental creatures were attracted, the worst that could happen was that he and Gorkan would just crush the teleportation stone and leave.
Moreover, Fana is not proficient in puppetry, and there is a high probability that she cannot recognize that the ogre skeleton under her command is a blood-bone puppet.
Then Fana couldn't blame herself, after all, she had tried her best!
"Gorkan, get ready to rescue people! Let's go behind the rock." Richard quickly ordered the blood-bone puppet to hide behind a huge rock a few meters away, and then the two of them immediately jumped off the blood-bone puppet.
"Gorkan, water arrows, target, first-level fire element!" Richard quickly read out a few words to Gorkan.
Let the blood-bone puppet stay on standby while Richard tried to attract the first-level fire element.
"Yes, Master."
Richard silently chanted "Mental shock!"
In an instant, a transparent mental power wave rushed straight to the first-level fire element!
Immediately afterwards, an arrow made of water rushed quickly towards the first-level fire element from in front of Gorkan!
The mental shock made the first-level fire element stand still, and the water arrow technique instantly created a big hole in the fire element's body.
The big hole began to heal slowly, but the flames were noticeably dimmer.
Richard took a look and realized that what the ancient books said was correct. Water magic could cause additional damage to first-level fire elements.
However, this also caused pain to the fire element, and it immediately abandoned Fana and turned to rush towards Gorkan.
Richard looked around without blinking.
Huh~ Richard let out a long sigh in his heart!
Fortunately, apart from a few lava snakes following the first-level fire elemental rushing towards the big rock, there were no other first-level elemental creatures following.
"Gorkan, keep attacking!"
"Swoosh!" A fireball the size of a washbasin shot out from the hands of a first-level fire element.
Gorkan smiled cunningly, took a step back, and hid behind a huge rock.
This caused the first-level fire element's burning body to reveal an angry face in a very anthropomorphic manner, and it continued to rush towards the boulder angrily.
After being hit by three consecutive water arrows from Gorkan, the first-level fire element finally managed to reach the rock where Richard and Gorkan were hiding, but the face on the surface of the flame already looked exhausted.
Suddenly, a skeleton monster taller than the fire element suddenly jumped out from behind the rock, waving an extremely sharp bone blade and quickly spinning towards the fire element.
"Blade Storm!" Richard quickly gave orders to the blood-bone puppet in his mind.
Although the fire element is immune to most physical damage, the crystal core in the body is a real entity, not a phantom of flame.
Under the blood-bone puppet's slashing at more than ten times per second, he was quickly severely injured!
The lava snakes that followed the first-level fire element didn't even last a second before they were cut into several pieces by the blood-bone puppet. The size was just right for making snake steaks.
"Ah!!" After being continuously cut by the sharp blade of the blood-bone puppet, the human face on the flame emitted a mental wave representing a scream in extreme pain, and the next second, it turned into a pile of ashes.
A ring of flames, with the fire element as the center, instantly rushed out in all directions! However, perhaps because the opponent had been severely injured, this flame shock wave did not cause any substantial damage to Richard and Gorkan, who were protected by the magic armor and water shield.
Much thunder but little rain!
"Master, the Flame Crystal!" Gorkan picked up a fiery red crystal from the ashes and handed it to Richard respectfully.
He knew that the main goal of his master's visit to the Scorched Earth Secret Realm this time was to collect as many fire crystals as possible.
This is the first flame crystal.
Richard took it and held the still hot Flame Crystal in his hand. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this was the first Flame Crystal.
But compared to the amount I want to collect, how long will it take to collect it? Alas~ On the other hand, Fana is here.
Just as the water arrow released by the water arrow technique hit the fire element behind her, Fana felt the fluctuation of water energy particles behind her.
Obviously, someone was helping her.
But who could it be? Fana quickly turned her head and looked back. Since there was only one large rolling stone elemental behind her, she was naturally able to deal with it.
After Richard and Gorkan eliminated the first-level fire element, the battle on Fana's side was also coming to an end.
A few minutes later, Fana met her rescuers, Richard and Gorkan.
"It's you?" Fana's beautiful eyes suddenly widened.
Several people's portraits flashed through her mind, but she never thought it would be Richard.
This young human alchemist! —Tuge City.
Subsidence area.
The old lizardman holding the black wooden staff came to his senses and immediately shouted to the surrounding wizards who were also Shadow Flame Tongues: "Hurry up and retreat. I'll cover you!"
"Vice President Valeri, let's retreat together!"
"Shut up! Go! The city guards have collapsed. If we want to retreat, someone must cover our retreat. You are still young." The old lizardman slammed the black wooden stick heavily on the ground and glared at these disobedient young people!
However, before he could finish his words, he heard a noisy sound coming from behind.
"Get out of the way! Civilians evacuate quickly!" At this time, a low but slightly magnetic voice was heard.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
The neat sound of plate armor and steel boots stepping on the ground was heard again!
Moreover, judging from the number, it is obvious that they far exceed the squadron of city guards just now, with at least hundreds of fully armed city guards.
The old lizardman holding the black wooden staff turned around and saw the city guard commander Bram, who led a large number of Tug City guards to arrive. His expression immediately brightened up.
"It's this guy Bram. Great, Asadi, you guys should retreat first. Even if it's Bram, the difference in strength between him and the Elemental Lord is too big. I don't think he can hold out for long."
"But it's good that someone is coming. At least I don't have to cover your retreat anymore."
"Okay, Vice President Valeri."
However, the commander of the Gray Dwarf City Guards who arrived saw the plan of the black-robed group at a glance, and immediately scolded: "Shadow Flame Tongue? According to the wartime order just issued by Lord Baghdadi, all wizards in Tug City must cooperate with the City Guards in the battle."
This immediately made several people's faces freeze, including the old lizardman, whose expression was extremely ugly.
However, when Bram saw the appearance of several people, he knew that these wizards of Shadow Flame Tongue should be the first to arrive at the collapsed area and fight against the elemental creatures.
"Valeri, although you cannot retreat, you can make some adjustments on the side. Members of the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood and other wizard organizations will be here soon."
This made Valeri and the others look better.
When Bram actually saw the Stone Elemental Lord Rocour, he was also stunned and stood there in shock:
"Fuck, it's so huge, how can I fight it? I jumped with all my strength, but I couldn't even reach its knees!"
"Commander, where do its knees come from?" At this time, one of his city guards interjected weakly.
Suddenly, everyone covered their mouths and laughed, and some of them even blushed!
The wizard of Shadow Tongue standing by was also laughing uncontrollably. He had never expected that the leader of the city guards was such a fool.
No wonder he was so direct just now! You can't confront a fool.
However, this little episode made the pre-war atmosphere much more relaxed.
As the highest commander of Tug City at the scene, Bram would dare to swing his hammer at the third-level Stone Elemental Lord.
There is no doubt that the warriors under his command will naturally follow suit.
Gray dwarves, never lack courage!
"Everyone, rest assured. City Lord Baghdadi has just contacted all the second-level wizards in the city. He will soon activate the suppression wizard formation of Tug City. By then, the power of the elemental lords will be greatly restricted."
"Also, wizards from other major wizard organizations will probably arrive within ten minutes. So, everyone must work together and hold on for ten minutes!"
As a commander for many years, Bram was very good at pre-war mobilization. With just two sentences, he mobilized everyone's morale! This immediately boosted the confidence of the city guards and Shadow Tongue wizards present.
After all, it is impossible to win! However, if we delay for only ten minutes, the possibility is still very high. ——Half an hour ago
In the woods near the east gate of Tug City.
A group of hooded gray-robed men suddenly appeared here.
The leader was a tall man in a gray robe, over two meters tall, while the two gray-robed people beside him were unusually petite, and judging by their graceful figures, they should be women.
However, although she is a woman, she is at least 1.7 meters tall.
Such a group of people would naturally be too conspicuous in the city of Tug, which is mainly inhabited by gray dwarves.
However, the passers-by seemed to have completely ignored them. They didn't even turn their heads to look at them when they passed by.
I think these people used some concealing witchcraft to cover their tracks.
"Nicole, are you finally ready to take action?" Grace looked at the tall gray dwarf wall in front of her and felt touched. She had waited for too long.
This was the first time Grace came to the gray dwarf city of Toug. With such tall and solid walls and very powerful gate guards, it was not difficult to see the strength of the defense of this gray dwarf city.
Without Nicole's help, it would be difficult to complete the mission with just myself and Irene's strength.
Unless "Shadra" walks out of Tug City by himself.
"That's right! Within an hour, there will be unrest in Tug City, and that will be the best opportunity." "Haven't you been urging me? Now the opportunity is here!" Nicole nodded and said with a weird smile on her face.
"Gremi, please give me a brief introduction of the situation."
"Yes, Master Priest!" A man in gray robe stepped forward from behind and bowed slightly to show respect.
"Lady Grace, Lady Irene, I will accompany you two to the target mission area in a while. The gray dwarf wizard Disor and the lady named Shadra are both in the villa area in the city. The two are very close."
At this time, Nicole interrupted and said, "Grace, don't worry, I will personally deal with that old man Desol. You two just need to deal with Shadra, there shouldn't be any problem!"
"Of course! Thank you, Nicole. We can leave Shadra to the two of us."
As long as there was no obstruction from Disor, a high-level first-level gray dwarf wizard, Grace was almost absolutely sure that she and Irene could defeat Shadra and take back the source blood and the mirror.
However , Irene remained silent, as if she hadn't heard what Nicole and Gremi said.
Because from the very beginning, she had deep doubts about Nicole's motives.
Even now! The other party just said that there would be unrest in Tug City? Tsk! For such a strong city of gray dwarves, I don’t know how much manpower and material resources would be needed to cause unrest.
How could Nicole be so kind? Even if Grace was his first love, it would be impossible! Therefore, Nicole definitely had no good intentions.
The other party must have some conspiracy.
And Grace now completely regarded Nicole as her last straw, how stupid! Just as everyone was waiting quietly, suddenly, a violent energy fluctuation came from Tug City.
Immediately afterwards, there was a buzzing sound of the ground shaking.
You know, they are currently outside the city of Tug, and they can feel the obvious ground vibrations from such a distance. It is conceivable that if they are inside the city, the vibrations will be much stronger than here.
Soon, a large group of terrified-looking gray dwarf civilians, wealthy businessmen, etc., poured out of the city gate, mixed with a number of lizardmen and murlocs dressed as mercenaries.
Of the more than ten guards responsible for security at the city gate, only four were left, and the rest seemed to have been transferred into the city.
With only four gray dwarf city guards at such a big city gate, it is obviously useless!
Nicole couldn't help but burst into laughter and waved her hand: "Let's get started!"
In an instant, a group of people rushed straight to the city gate like a gray line!
The team was secretly divided into two groups. Nicole would lead four or five people to directly attack Disol's residence.
Nicole's deputy, Gremi, is responsible for leading Grace and Irene, and will assist in killing Shadra! (End of this chapter)