Is it some kind of mistake or some kind of invitation?
Or is it just a coincidence?
There can't be someone really inside, right?
If Mahiad designed it like this, then this might be a trap...
Looking at the edge of the bookcase in front of him that was moving slowly to the side, Duan Qing pressed his brow hard. The little starlight coming from behind the bookcase did not bring the slightest help to the gray-robed magician at this time. On the contrary,
This made his already chaotic thoughts even more confusing: "... Damn it, don't give me problems at this time, my brain is running out."
"Anyway, let's go in and take a look first." The splitting headache seemed not to allow him to think about this issue for too long, and his forward steps quickly brought the gray-robed body into the revealed passage.
Among them: "The worst that can happen is death. The reputation of the library is probably of no use..."
The dim light of the passage then appeared in front of him, accompanied by the smell of moist and decaying air that reached his mouth and nose. The light and shadow belonging to the secret room then appeared in the center of the field of vision where the ancient ground and walls were receding, leaving
A familiar scene that Duan Qing had seen once before appeared in front of him again. The dark blue magic lights rendered this irregularly shaped stone chamber with an indescribable mysterious atmosphere. At the same time, it also painted the surroundings of this stone chamber.
Countless unknown lines and runes shine more clearly. They keep shining with the flashing lights, as if they are using their own breathing to prove their life-like existence to everyone who comes here:
"……Well."
"It seems I'm worrying too much."
After checking quickly, Duan Qing found no one and then sighed with relief: "She really isn't here... Heh, I think it's impossible even if I think about it. The chance of this happening is almost zero."
Clang.
The sound of glass shattering on the ground then rang in his ears, quickly interrupting what he was about to continue talking to himself. Duan Qing, who was still somewhat vigilant, turned around hurriedly, looking for
The abnormal gaze quickly fell on the ground behind him: "Glass bottle? Why is it in a place like this?"
"No, that's not right." The sight that was a little confused due to the sudden situation stabilized slightly, and Duan Qing's aware eyes finally showed a bit of shock: "This familiar glass shard... is what I have seen countless times.
It looked like he threw it to the ground with his own hands."
"This seems to be my potion bottle."
He quickly reached out and touched his waist. As expected, his fingers came up empty. His searching eyes and his groping hands then moved around his waist twice before finally confirming that he had just touched it.
The bottle of enchanting potion has disappeared: "It has evaporated completely? How could it be so fast? Even if I keep opening it, the effect of this bottle of potion should last for a long time... Hmm."
The rays of light floating by magical elements then passed by the corners of his eyes, drawing his attention to the walls of this dark blue secret room again. The erratic magical rays originating from his body then appeared in those depictions.
The rune lines on the wall flickered and disappeared, disappearing from Duan Qing's field of vision like smoke: "x."
"Elemental absorption magic circle?"
He once again took out a bottle of magic potion that he had prepared before. The corners of Duan Qing's secretly cursed mouth moved involuntarily. He looked at the liquid that was disappearing little by little with the "breathing" of the magic light in the secret room.
On the surface, he finally suddenly turned around and shouted behind him: "Are you sure this is a quiet room for rest and recuperation? This is obviously"
"Yes, this is our stomach."
The heavy friction sound sounded behind Duan Qing again. It was the sound made when the door of the giant bookcase belonging to the outside was quickly closed. The light that was originally vaguely reflected in the lobby of the outside library also suddenly appeared in his field of vision.
Disappeared, bringing the increasingly dark blue dimness and a certain voice echoing in the stone chamber to Duan Qing: "Since the establishment of the Imperial Library, this ancient library has been providing a large amount of information to the entire Redcar.
Magic energy, street lights, residents' magic, major teleportation arrays, and even the structures and mechanisms of the palace... All the energy sources needed to support the public magic arrays mainly come from what is left of this ancient building.
The power that comes down.”
"However, this power has encountered challenges in recent times."
The blue magic light became more and more obvious around the dark secret room, and at the same time, the voice echoing in the secret room became a little clearer: "Simply put, there are some problems with the supply of magic energy.
"
"So you just use the magician's own energy as firewood?" Duan Qing sighed and raised his eyelids: "Isn't it a little too inhumane, respected Lord Mahiaide?"
"Don't worry, no one knows about this." The voice belonging to Mahiaide once again answered Duan Qing's words, but the answering voice had lost the indifference that had appeared in front of others in the past: "And even if this magic
The array has lost its original function, and at most it will only cause a few streets to lose power, which will not cause much panic."
"...Then what do you want to do with such ulterior motives?" As if knowing that it would be difficult for him to escape from this closed room, Duan Qing simply sat on the wet ground: "It can't be just for fun.
Are you having fun?"
"Do you know about the magic core?"
He did not immediately answer Duan Qing's question, but his voice full of malice had a sense of triumph: "The powerful magical beasts and elemental creatures wandering across the continent will all have their energy essence in their bodies.
The condensed magic crystal is not only a symbol of their power, but also the source of their power in battle."
"A powerful magic core can not only be sold for a high price, but it is also one of the magicians' favorite casting materials." He couldn't help but let out a burst of proud laughter when he said this: "But if you want to get such a high level
The magic core requires a lot of time and energy."
"So you have come up with such a sinister idea?" Duan Qing looked around the secret room: "The density of a living person's body is not enough to form a magic core, right? The strength of normal human flesh and blood cannot support the cohesion at all.
The conditions for the magic core, otherwise every magician would already have his own magic core..."
"This should be the case under normal circumstances." Maher's voice became gloomy again: "But since we have special 'squeezing' means at our hands, why don't we use it?"
"So that's it, these are the scratches, right?" Turning to look at the blue walls that were still absorbing magic elements, Duan Qing dropped another empty bottle of magic potion in his hand on the ground: "It's really
I have troubled you so much to not only carefully arrange this secret room to absorb the magic essence, but also to make up a suitable reason to invite the magician in..."
"These magicians were not tricked by us. They were originally seeking refuge with us."
Yangsheng interrupted Duan Qing's words, and the gloomy voice belonging to Maher filled the secret room again: "The Fleur Empire does not have a magician council, and most of the local magicians who have offended the imperial nobles have no magicians to use."
It is a place to avoid disasters, so whether it is to avoid trouble or to recuperate, most magicians who choose to escape from the world will find us here."
"Since they don't want to see the outside world anymore, then we have to fulfill their wishes for them." In the buzz of magic surrounding the secret rooms, Maher's voice seemed to be following those dark blue
The brilliance of color kept stirring: "As for the carving of the magic circle in this secret room, we don't even need to do it ourselves. We only need to slightly increase the absorption capacity of those imprints and extract all the magic energy existing in the room. It is enough.
."
The dizzy feeling came to Duan Qing's mind again, accompanied by the noisy warnings from the system that kept ringing in his ears, and the drowsy floating feeling flowed out of his body one after another.
The emergence of magical energy occupied the consciousness of the gray-robed magician, extending towards the surface of the gradually brightening magic scratches around him: "Humph, hum hehe, hahahahaha!"
"I didn't expect, I didn't expect that a little low-level magician like you actually contains such a huge essence!" The intertwined lines continued to gather in the scene around this secret room, and Mahir's wild laughter echoed again.
Duan Qing's people asked: "What is this? A magic potion? Or a magic prop? Such pure magic energy... We can sell it at a good price again!"
"Guys who use such despicable means for money...don't you have any dignity as a magician?" Duan Qing's fingers sunk deeply into the hair on his temples, and his voice became louder as he scratched his forehead.
He was so angry that he said, "If the Lord of Violet hadn't noticed some danger in advance, her life might have fallen into your hands."
"This is also the reason why we have been trying to catch you." Mahir, who stopped laughing wildly, replied in a gloomy voice: "Since the Lord of Violet will escape on his own, then at least we must kill the disciple of the Lord of Violet.
Otherwise, if any bad rumors spread...our career may also be affected."
"Fortunately, you are quite easy to deceive, and you actually got into our stomachs so easily." He seemed to recall the process of going to the library just now, and he let out a few mocking laughs.
: "Why, don't you try to resist? If you try, can you break out of this cage and get a chance to make up for your mistakes and regrets?"
"The more intense the struggle will only lead to the accelerated loss of magic energy. According to the taste of you people, this stone room is probably designed like this." Duan Qing, panting slightly, shook his head: "I'm just a little curious..."
"The diversion of magic will only return the elements to the ordinary order, and the ordinary order arrangement cannot form high-density magic crystals like the magic core." He slowly raised his head, and his two pillars were covered with fine
Sweat's eyebrows were also deeply tangled because of the tremendous pain he was suffering at this time: "Do you have a sufficiently advanced level of magic to rearrange these diverted elements into a stable crystalline state? Or do you have something?
An ancient magical device that can solve this technical problem?"
"...Hmph, it's not your turn to worry about it this time." The voice from above paused obviously, and then let out a cold snort along with the whistling sound caused by the increasingly intense magic absorption:
"Anyway, by the time the human body's magic core appears, you will have already become a dead person."
"It seems that my guess was correct."
A smile appeared at the corner of Duan Qing's mouth, and Duan Qing's raised eyes showed a sense of relief that was completely inconsistent with the current situation: "The structure of the Imperial Library will not leave you any extra space to process the absorbed magic.
Energy, so the place where the magic core is generated can only be in this stone chamber."
"Just run this magic absorption array in reverse and squeeze all the magic energy together on site." He slowly stretched out his hand into his arms: "The formation process of the out-of-control magic core may not be smooth, but according to the
From the magic theory I know, it should be more than enough to use violence to form a crystal..."
"So what if you guessed it? You can't possibly see all this!" Maher shouted fiercely: "Enjoy the last few seconds of your life! You will be sucked dry soon!"
"Do you want to make a bet? Bet on whether I can see my own magic core?" As the magic absorption intensified, an increasingly heavy feeling filled every air in this secret room, but Duan Qing's answer
With a bit of a smile: "As for the bet..."
"Let's just gamble with our lives."
A bright radiance suddenly appeared all over Duan Qing's body, accompanied by streaks of colorful rays of light blooming in the stone chamber. These rays of light drilled out of Duan Qing's gray magic robe then absorbed the energy of the magic circle.
Under the influence, they quickly became entangled together and spread towards the surrounding walls like surging waves: "You, you actually released all your magic power? No, that's not right."
"It's all the vitality." The face originally illuminated by the dark blue light has turned pale. Duan Qing answered the other party's surprise in a weak voice: "Sorry, I happen to use some means of releasing vitality. Originally, I was studying
I didn’t expect that the things used when making magic would be used in such a place..."
"The amount of elements produced by these energies is beyond what ordinary magic can match."
"You are committing suicide! Are you going to blow up the entire library? Quickly, activate the reverse magic circle, otherwise"
boom!
The colorful magic energy instantly covered up the dark blue magic light that filled the room. The sudden roar of magic also completely replaced the sound of the magic circle that originally echoed in the secret room. The high temperature and dazzling light of the explosion then followed.
The sweeping manner occupied Duan Qing's field of vision, swallowing up his kneeling body and the surrounding burning walls.
This chapter has been completed!