In the darkest moment of the storm, the thunder and lightning that pierced the sky from time to time pierced the thick darkness, vigorously splashing a little light into the oppressive castle. The fleeting light outlined the abandoned castle for Lulu at this moment.
It's so gloomy, the broken statues, the decaying ground cast strange shadows under the arc, and the statue of the giant sword knight hanging high above the steps is as hideous as an evil ghost.
The stone giant was shattered into pieces, and the debris left behind remained motionless. But where it disappeared, the light and shadow at the end of the deep and dark corridor changed, strange and gorgeous arc light refracted, and mottled colors were projected in a limited area, like an overturned puzzle piece.
Fragments, scattered blocks of light spots shook and swayed.
Lulu stroked the relics of the two teachers, took a deep breath, and released a fireball that slowly floated through the gloomy corridor.
It seemed that he felt the fluctuation of magic power, or that the "light source" that existed somewhere reacted to Lulu's movements, and the strange lights and shadows at the end of the corridor went out.
"hiss……"
Lulu took a breath subconsciously, cold sweat broke out on her forehead and fell on her eyelashes, but she did not dare to blink.
In the deep corridor, the light cast by the fireball reflects countless holes, transparent whirlpools, or spheres. They are like lenses, swallowing the light and diverging the light. For a moment when it is illuminated, it seems to be nothing.
The corridor is "ridden with holes", like a nest of some kind of egg-laying creature, densely suspended in the air.
This space seems to have been poked with countless holes using a sharp cone.
Lulu controlled the fireball to fall, and then directly cut off the control of it. The fireball penetrated the lens and fell to the ground, making a muffled sound that echoed in the castle where the only sound was the roar of wind and rain.
"If this is not an illusion, then...have I been poisoned?"
The identity of the potion master made her think quickly.
If a person's consciousness is trapped by the illusion created by a potion, how can she realize that the world she is in is false and leave it?
Lulu's brain was running rapidly.
Thunder roared, and Lulu subconsciously raised her head. Behind the lenses, a dilapidated cabin was like a heavy hammer, hitting Lulu's mind. Sorrow and anger surged into her heart at the same time.
"Do you have to let me see them?"
Lulu clenched her fists, except for the companions of Chenxi Ling, she never wanted anyone to get a glimpse of the warm memories of that home deep in her heart.
My parents' old home disappeared in an instant, as if I had touched something forbidden. The lenses in the corridor burst and dissipated one by one like bubbles, and the mirror at the end that reflected the strange scene disappeared.
From beginning to end, these strange objects did not produce any magic fluctuations, just like nothingness.
Lulu returned to the study room again. In order to confirm the situation, she needed enough information to break the situation.
Among the rotten books, she saw the handbook again. The original hazy handwriting was visible. It was different from what she had imagined. This was not a handbook for refining medicine, but... a detailed explanation of the nodes of the magic circle.
Except for the wet and stained parts, Lulu browsed and browsed, a chill crawling up her spine.
On the last page, the supposedly clear picture of an old mage riding a horse has turned into a young man in white robe with a dull face and seemingly indifferent to the things around him. His hands are resting on two deer, and they seem to be tamed demons.
Beloved, the shining emerald green magic nodes on the antlers complement the green of the garden.
The background of the portrait is still this manor.
Lulu's use of magic circles was mostly offensive. Such complicated descriptions of node arrangements and magic distribution intended to achieve various strange effects left her confused. The writer was obviously just recording and had no teaching intention, so Lulu
There is no way of knowing its specific effects.
While distractedly paying attention to her surroundings, she rummaged around, but still found nothing. The bookshelf that was swaying in the wind attracted Lulu's attention. Her magic power stretched toward the back along the gaps in the shelf, exploring and touching a certain place.
Strange space.
She lowered the shelf and lifted up a tightly fitting stone, revealing a hidden compartment with a rusty ring.
There was no need for any password or any magic circle to be released. With a gentle pull, a well-sealed crystal box was revealed in front of Lulu's eyes. She couldn't wait to open it.
Inside is a map and a strange document with confusing, illogical, and unreadable language. Lulu can understand every single word, but when combined together, it sounds like the ravings of a madman.
The map pointed to nowhere else but around the castle.
Lulu followed the guidance of the map and stepped into the increasingly terrifying wind and rain. She saw with her own eyes that a slender tree in the distance had its waist crushed, and its upper body flew into the dark sky. Without the protection of magic, Lu would
Lu believes that she will be "free" instantly.
After comparing various aspects, she summoned a big bowl in an empty place. With a command, the big bowl stretched out its powerful arms and invaded the ground with the power of the earth element. The earth within the range was surging like boiling water.
After a while, another mud-yellow crystal box was revealed.
Inside the box, there is still a map and a confusing document.
In this way, a total of five boxes and five documents were collected in Lulu's hands. Some of them are in the castle, hidden behind an inconspicuous brick, and some of them have no reference and can only be searched in a wide range.
In the wilderness, some are buried deep inside the statues, which shows that their authors spent a lot of effort to hide this information.
It's just that this design of finding all the boxes when you find one box seems to be intentional?
The chaotic text narrative could no longer hinder Lulu's reading. With her superb understanding ability, she quickly cracked the encrypted reading method. The satisfaction brought by this genius' instant solution did not make Lulu happy for long. She followed the signature
The name of the author [Eling] was combed down, and the first sentence of the opening sentence was silently read.
"The world will fall apart because of the appearance of gods..."
Erling's writing is clear and logical. In Lu Yu's words, he has written a paper that is enough to reach the top of the magic world. The words written by this mixed-race man who claims to be only 27 years old in the article
Lulu was shocked beyond measure.
When she read the middle chapter, she felt suffocated... The future was described in a pessimistic tone by Erling.
"I have always been in awe of all things, and I also have the deepest respect for Mother who nourishes all living beings in the sky. I hope that all pessimistic prospects will be torn apart by those who hold hope and knowledge, but the future that belongs to me seems to be
Full of mist."
"No matter where you see these words in any way, please remember the following patterns and words."
"I will try to make sure that they are true."
Lulu could understand this text, but for some reason, her hands were shaking... This text was like dust and smoke, drifting into the depths of her thoughts, covering her sight, and bringing about the most inexplicable and incomprehensible horror.
She took a deep breath and pieced together the papers attached to the document. The revealed patterns and accompanying descriptions made Lulu stand up suddenly.
The lingering fog in her mind was dissipating, and a terrifying suspicion emerged in her mind.
"Sela, Lu Yu..." Lulu didn't dare to think too deeply. She quickly packed up the words written by Erling, identified the direction, and ran headlong into the heavy rain curtain.
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As a pool of black mud scattered on the ground and was washed away by the heavy rain, Lu Yu was so tired that he could hardly breathe. If it were not for the support of his strong willpower, he would have collapsed to the ground.
The trumpet flowers in the quiet garden drooped, and half of them had withered and withered. The body made of black mist curled up hard, turning itself into a canopy, covering Lu Yu's head.
The brave flesh and blood chariots could not withstand the gang fight. A huge amount of black mud rushed out from the rain curtain. The chariots that tried their best to suck and decompose them had their feeding pipes blocked, and their tentacles were also stuck together with the sticky black mud.
Lu Yu could not help the poor Cheche and could only watch as the huge amount of black mud submerged it and was forced to disperse.
The punishment technique of the Judge of the Abyss was ineffective against the black mud, and it was torn into pieces after persisting for a while.
No. 2, which had the most obvious effect, crystallized hundreds of black mud in succession. As Lu Yu fought and retreated, the black mud seemed to know the weakness of No. 2. After accumulating a large number of crystal pillars, they swarmed up and gnawed at it.
Eat the crystal clusters that are rich in magic power, and swallow up all the magic power.
This was the first time Lu Yu saw something that could actively and harmlessly detonate explosions created by high-concentration magic power.
"The nightmare entity possessed me, but it had no effect... Could it be that this method cannot truly confirm whether I am in a dream?"
Lu Yu had long suspected that he was experiencing the same endless dream as Elleger, because all the summons he had summoned so far could not be summoned a second time. The method of reversing the summoning ritual only appeared once and could not be summoned again.
After receiving the summoning ritual response and shaping the summoned object, any one with a record of assistance will not be able to appear again.
For his summons, use one less one.
All commonly used numbered summons appear.
Summons that are not named in the Summoning Manual are sealed because the ritual cannot be reversed.
The engraved summoned object could not appear again in that manor for a while.
The medium for heroic spirit summons is all on Lulu.
After summoning once, all templates of elemental life forms, mimic plants, mimic monsters, and musical entities will be invalidated.
After summoning the big radish of the Boggart family Winter's pioneer once, the basic summoning ritual became completely chaotic. It was like returning to the era when goods were out of stock. Lu Yu tried it twice, and the objects he responded to were completely different summons from what he wanted.
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Lu Yu, only the quiet garden was left.
The only seemingly good news was that he did not seem to encounter a ghost beating the wall. In the heavy rain with extremely low visibility, he could vaguely see the vague light on the distant hills.
No matter what it was, whether it was a dream, hallucination or something else, he didn't want to sit in the open and wait for death. These black muds were like some kind of patrolling monsters with strong senses and were not driven by magic power. Lu Yu walked along like
This is a Pokémon trainer who walks in the grass without insect spray. He fights again and again, and his physical strength, magic power, and spirit are stretched to the limit.
"I have to find a place to organize my thoughts."
He gritted his teeth and moved forward, and when he came to the hill, he saw the lights floating in the wind and rain, and also saw a complete village.
There were about dozens of villagers. It was late at night, the rain was pouring, and the wind was strong. Everyone was hiding in their homes to sleep. Only one family had a bag hanging at the door, which contained a large amount of dust made from ground fluorescent stones.
This is a common lighting fixture for many residents in mining areas.
After the previous encounter, Lu Yu gradually became calmer. No matter what happened, he decided to deal with it in a normal state first.
Magic induction revealed that there were two people in the room. The child had fallen asleep on the bed, and the adult was mending something with needle and thread.
Lu Yu lightly knocked on the door, and the adults were frightened. When he stood up in fright, he knocked over the chair behind him, causing the sleeping child to wake up in confusion.
"Mom...what happened?"
"Good boy, get back under the covers and be obedient."
The woman asked in a trembling voice: "Who?"
"I am in a shipwreck and have fallen here. Can you let me take shelter here?" Lu Yu lied casually.
The woman was silent for a while, then cautiously opened the door. Her eyes swept over Lu Yu, who was wet and out of breath, and finally stopped at the white wound on his thigh.
"You came from outside the island?"
"Yes, a terrible shipwreck. Look at the weather. No one can escape this disaster."
The middle-aged woman took one look at the terrifying celestial phenomenon and suddenly showed a sentimental look: "Who says it's not the case... Please, please come in."
Lu Yu dragged his injured leg in. He carefully chose a corner to sit down. In order not to scare this woman without any magic power, he took advantage of the woman's back to cast another fire ring spell on him, but it was better than the previous one.
It is more hidden in order to restore the already pitifully low body temperature.
The woman brought a piece of rag, but after looking at Lu Yu's condition, she gritted her teeth and took out a man's jacket from the clothes cabinet and handed it to Lu Yu.
"Just wipe it, you look terrible."
"Thank you." Lu Yu wiped the rain off his face, looked at the child who was hiding on the bed, grabbing the edge of the bed and peeking at him, and showed a friendly smile.
The woman lit the fire in the house with flint and called Lu Yu to come closer.
Lu Yu wanted to refuse. He had encountered too many strange things during this period, and the sudden normal scene made him uncomfortable. But looking at the woman's earnest eyes, he thought of his parents for no reason...
He sat over and the woman brought a bowl of hot water and asked curiously: "Are you really from outside the island?"
"right."
Lu Yu answered again, and a strange look suddenly appeared on the woman's face.
"But I heard that outside the island, it has been destroyed by natural disasters. There is a terrifying plague everywhere. There are evil beasts everywhere that are difficult for ordinary people to fight against. There are mind-eating devils roaming around. No matter day or night...how did you survive?
"
Lu Yu's hand froze and he asked, "Who told you that?"
"This has been passed down orally from generation to generation since childhood." The woman said, "If you leave the island, your mind will be taken away by the devil and you will be enslaved forever."
"You never left here?"
"Never...we have never even seen anyone from the outside world. You are the first."