The Benefit of Ancestors - Zhu Xie Nai III Chapter 16 Flesh and Flesh Stone Carving
After that, Sophia released another awakening spirit and asked the elements what was inside the downward collapse. The dark elemental elves that appeared in the downward collapse circled around her and suddenly passed by her eyes, startling her, and then darkly
The elements dissipated. "Wow..."
"Ryan, where did those dwarves flee to?" Noel asked in confusion as he looked at the collapse.
"There is only one passage here, but this collapse has created a second option. You can take a look first." Ryan continued: "This is where the abnormality first appeared." Judging from the scenes he saw during the escape,
Between the location of the trigger and this hall are some rooms where stone sculptures are stored.
"In that case, we have to keep walking along and take a look. What else could you see before?" Sophia asked, and then Ryan told this part.
Noel walked to the front of the collapse and looked down. The lower part seemed to be part of the ruins because there were stone bricks. From the structural point of view, this hall should be the last room of this building. It felt like a secret room down there.
It was built the same. He visually checked how high it would fall and whether it would injure the two casters. It didn't look like sixty feet, but it would be difficult to climb up. Sophia had a rope and could put it down.
Ryan also leaned over to take a look at the scene below the collapse. Then Ryan recalled whether the ruins below were on the map in his mind. He couldn't be sure.
"It feels like what's underneath this collapse was built secretly," Sophia said after hearing Noel's opinion.
"Well, I always feel like there is a ghost down here. Do you want to go down and take a look before going up the stairs?" Noel felt that there was nothing to see up there.
"Go down and have a look." Sophia nodded.
"Okay, let's go down and take a look. We have ropes, right?" Ryan looked at Sophia. She was the only one with space equipment.
"Of course there is." Sophia asked Noel to help bring a statue, tie a rope on it, and throw the rope down.
"I'll go down and check the situation first." After saying that, Noel tried the load-bearing effect and then slid down the rope. When nothing happened, Ryan and Sophia followed.
Alice lacked arm strength, so she had to cast a feather fall spell on herself and then jumped down.
The ruins below were much simpler, with no unnecessary patterns and only a staircase diagonally downwards. Looking back and forth, Noel saw a belt on the steps in front.
"Ryan, look at this belt. Do you remember it? Is it something belonging to those dwarves?" Noel did not dare to pick it up rashly, but waited for others to come down and pointed it out.
Ryan briefly recalled whether this belt appeared in that memory, but it seemed that this belt did not appear in the picture. Then he shook his head: "I don't know the origin of this belt. But from another perspective, it should
You can cast spells on this belt."
So Sophia cast an identification spell and learned that it was a cursed equipment, which would reduce health but increase strength, which would be of great help in attacking.
"Sophia, what's the purpose of this belt?" After going back and forth, Noel, who was familiar with her, called her by her first name without any hesitation.
"This is a cursed equipment. It should damage the wearer's vitality, but it will increase its strength and attack." Sophia shook her head.
"It seems more suitable for Noel." Ryan didn't want it.
"Indeed, just use it. It happens to be the dwarf style, although there are some magic equipment that can automatically adjust the size."
"When you put it that way, it's just right." Noel put his backhand on his waist and felt a chill. Then he touched his tendons.
"We have to continue to the destination area, but do we want to go up and see the rooms that Ryan has seen?" Sophia asked.
"Let's go up and take a look first. You can easily pick up such terrible cursed equipment on the ground here. There might be something inside." Noel felt that he could still bear one piece.
A group of four people followed Ryan's instructions and took the stairs up to see the room above. After checking the room where the stone sculptures were stored, one of the dwarf stone sculptures actually moved!
The dwarf stone sculpture holding a sledgehammer rushed over with a rumble. Judging from the cracks and bleeding at the joints, it seemed that the inside had turned to flesh.
"Have even the stone sculptures been corrupted?! Be careful, everyone!" Sophia reminded. She looked at the stone sculptures and thought that she had to break the outer stone shell first and then use lightning strikes on the inner parts. So she aimed at the joints and fired.
I don’t know how effective the thunder ray is, but it seems that the stone layer can withstand most of the power. “You have to use blunt blows or sonic means to break this layer of stone first.”
"That being said, there's nothing I can do about it." Noel glanced at his giant sword and said, "I can only look at yours." Then he shouted loudly, exuding heavy magic power, wrapping the giant sword and smashing towards it.
But the stone carving only caused two small cracks. "Tsk, it looks like another hard lump."
"Well, it's a troublesome character again. Noel, if it doesn't work, just use magic oil." Ryan reminded.
"Tsk, it just so happens that these are all things I'm not good at." Alice put on a spiritual wind shield before making a sound that was not ladylike at all. Then she upgraded the stone skin spell and added it to herself and Ryan at the same time.
Petrified skin.
Ryan tightened the knife in his hand. The feeling that he had no effect on the skeleton attack before became stronger. Ryan's feet moved in a certain pattern, looking for opportunities around the stone statue. Then there seemed to be a slight flaw, and Ryan shouted. "Eat my doubles."
Blade slash!" Then he slashed at the stone statue with two slashes.
The fleshy dwarf stone sculpture hit the floor in front of him with a heavy hammer. As a result, several large cracks opened in the floor of the room. The cracks then extended to the walls and ceiling, and many stones fell down, injuring the stone sculpture and four people.
Immediately afterwards, the stone sculpture swung the heavy hammer towards Alice again, but the moment it was about to hit Alice, the scales she placed in her arms suddenly shattered, and a solid rock barrier appeared between the stone sculpture and Alice, barely blocking it.
Heavy hammer blow to stone sculpture.
"Although it is said that the resistance to thunder and lightning is not high because of the flesh and blood, the stone part of the body obviously disperses the damage of thunder and lightning. This time it will not have much impact. You still have to use more powerful spells directly.
." Sophia decided to use other methods to destroy the stone sculpture. "It's obviously still a stone sculpture, but its flexibility doesn't seem to be affected much."
Sofia watched the movements of the stone sculpture, and took advantage of the gap between the stone sculpture and the attack, and decisively hit it with the holy flame. As a result, the rock on the surface of the stone statue was almost completely broken, and the muscle tissue inside was made of tentacles, which seemed to be very elastic.
"It's so disgusting. Even dead things can be corrupted like this. What will happen if the living things inside are corrupted..." Sophia frowned, clearly showing her disgust towards the tentacles.
Ryan had just recovered from the violent impact and reapplied the Bark Technique on himself. Then he stepped on his feet and began to wander around the stone elephant in an attempt to interfere with its judgment.
Noel swung the giant sword with all his strength and slashed at the exposed flesh and blood of the stone sculpture. After hitting it, he spun around and broke off a large piece of the tentacles with one slash.
Alice drank a bottle of healing potion and activated the special ability of the staff to temporarily turn herself into a spirit body. Then she fired two magic tricks in succession, but she didn't expect that the necromancy system unexpectedly worked, causing Ling to stagger around even after being cut off.
The tentacles lost their activity. This caused the stone sculpture to stagger and seemed about to fall over.
At this critical moment, the heavy hammer in the hand of the dwarf stone sculpture fell freely. The tentacles of both hands stretched out towards Sophia and Alice. Suddenly, a space crack appeared in front of the stone sculpture, and two huge purple tentacles stretched out from it and attacked the two.
Sophia dodged in time, but Alice couldn't dodge and was hit. Even with the defense bonus of the double protection system, she spit out a mouthful of blood and injured her internal organs.
Sophia had no time to turn back and released lightning rays at the stone sculpture to completely purify it. Then a space crack began to suck the stone sculpture and everything around it into the interior. It would be dangerous if she didn't leave here quickly.
"Ah, look. That crack is attracting things around it. Move quickly." After seeing the crack, Ryan reminded his teammates anxiously. Going up means running towards the exit of the ruins. There is no special area in the screen. He hesitated for a moment, and then selected
which way down.
"As soon as possible." Noel ran outside.
"Get out of here first." Sophia quickly cast a healing spell on Alice, telling the others to leave quickly, and prepared to follow her.
After Alice felt a little better, she immediately drank a bottle of healing potion. Sophia was afraid that Alice would run too slowly, so she carried her outside.
This was the right choice, because before returning to the previous hall, the upper level of the ruins began to collapse on a large scale. What was even more unfortunate was that the hall also began to collapse. After the four people fled towards the downward passage for a while, the shaking stopped. Now go up
The road is also completely blocked.
However, although the back route is completely blocked, since Sophia can mobilize the power of the emblem to open the directional space door, this is not the biggest problem.
After she was safe, Sophia cast healing spells on Alice many times to allow her to fully recover from her injuries... although this consumed a lot of magic power.
While Noel was still breathing, Ryan checked the collapse behind and said. "It seems that we can only go deeper. The road above has collapsed. If we want to get out, we can only go down. I hope there is an exit."
"Get some rest before you continue walking. The situation just now was too dangerous." Sophia waited for Noel and Ryan to recover before borrowing the ring for recovery, and returned it to Noel after recovery.
"Ah, is the way back blocked? I hope the monsters I encounter next won't be too strong." Alice became even more worried.
"If you feel the injury is too serious later, remember to drink medicine in time or ask me to help heal the injury." Sophia began to drink magic recovery potion, and Alice also drank three bottles. After a short rest, she had to continue downwards, and the situation became more and more serious.
She still understands that the longer you stay, the more dangerous it is.
Noel was still walking at the front carrying the giant sword, carefully watching the situation in front of the passage. Sophia was walking in second place holding the holy flame.