Chapter 30 The Shadow of the Dragon and the Strange Fragment
Fang Yu picked up the attendant's emblem on the ground. He calmed down and looked around. The crystal lamp was dim, the underground was dark and damp, the surrounding walls were covered with moss, and the hall was circular, from east to west, and from south to north, it was approximately
There are about fifty steps, and there is no other exit except the entrance.
The ground under your feet is uneven, with some rough patterns on it. If you sweep away the dust with your hands, you can see the shallow dents underneath. The dents may be straight or curved, extending in all directions, forming a regular pattern.
Fang Yu straightened up so that he could see further. His eyes flickered in the darkness, as if he could see what it looked like when it was completed in the past. "Is this a magic circle?" he asked the person on his shoulder.
Miss Tata.
"It's very similar." Tata agreed with him.
Fang Plover walked forward along the texture, thirty-three steps in total. The texture gathered on the north side of the hall, and there seemed to be something underneath. He ordered the capable angel to sweep away the dust, and then he saw clearly the mark of a running wolf on the ground.
When Fang Yu saw this scene, he suddenly thought of something. He raised the crystal and illuminated the north wall with soft light. There were branches and vines stretching out from the ceiling there, making them a mess and with mixed shadows.
He walked over and separated the roots with his hands. On the stone wall behind there was indeed a wolf head emblem, surrounded by thorns, and he carved a line of small words in the stone:
‘Strict and just, awe-inspiring’
Seeing this scene, Fang Yu remembered why he felt familiar with the wolf head on the girl's ring in the previous painting, because it was the emblem of the Logosl family.
Speaking of which, he also has some relationship with this family. He has the inheritance rights of the Logosl family, which he obtained accidentally in Dolifen's illusion.
In the illusion, Dolifen's consul, Roquelen-Rogosl, was the last head of the Rogosl family. He died in the fire thirty years ago. His last obsession during his lifetime was shared with the Dragon.
The Golden Eyes were bound together, and after Fang Plover avenged him in the illusion, he got this seemingly strange inheritance.
Although the Logosl family is located on the coast of Baozhang, this place may also be a branch family formed due to marriage, so it is not surprising that this emblem appears here. Fang Yu couldn't help but think of the girl in the painting, and couldn't help but wonder about the identity of the other party.
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He looked at the stone wall and wondered if his inheritance rights could have any effect here. Thinking of this, he stretched out his hand and pressed against the stone wall, but after a moment, nothing happened.
He also thought that the Logosl family respected strict hierarchy and was proud of blood. Perhaps this magic circle was based on 'blood'. He put a little blood on his chest with his backhand, and then put it against the stone wall.
This time a miracle happened. Fang Yu found that his hand passed through the stone wall without any hindrance, and his palm disappeared behind the stone wall, leaving only the forearm, as if he had passed through a phantom wall.
He took a gentle breath and tried to walk forward. The stone wall gradually swallowed up his elbows, upper arms, and even the tip of his nose. Then his eyes blurred and he found himself behind the stone wall. The light from the lighting crystal on his left hand glowed.
The brilliance outlines a low and long corridor here, and messy roots stretch out from the four walls, pulling out shadows.
The corridor seemed to have been dug hastily, and was low and uneven. Even he could only bend forward. But more importantly, he found blood stains on the ground, which had just dried up.
Not long after he followed the blood trail, a bright light appeared in the darkness ahead. Seeing this, Fang Plover extinguished the lighting crystal and released the clockwork fairy to fly in that direction.
But he didn't see Jita in that direction. His field of vision was empty. The clockwork fairy seemed to have entered a stone room.
There are two statues on the left and right sides of the stone chamber, looking straight ahead with empty eyes. In the center is a stone platform, which is dark and dark, like igneous rock. There are a large number of luminous crystals growing on the left and right of the stone platform, which was the source of the previous light.
When Fang Yu saw that there was nothing else in the stone room, he opened his goggles and walked over. He walked over and checked the crystals, and was surprised to find that they were all magic crystals of mixed purity.
But he has rarely seen this kind of golden magic crystal in other places. The color of the crystal generally represents the attribute of magic. What attribute does gold represent?
"Miss Tata, these magic crystals?" Fang Yu broke off a piece and placed it in his hand. The crystal was pure gold, like amber without any impurities.
But amber does not have such a regular shape.
Tata shook his head and said that he had never seen similar crystals. "The magic power here is very rich to form these crystals. They were formed within a hundred years."
Unfortunately, magic crystals are too common in nature, and those of this level are not worth much. Fang Plover only put a small piece in his pocket before moving on. He had a vague feeling that the rich magic power in the valley came from here.
underground.
When he passed by the stone platform, he accidentally took a look and felt that the deep igneous rock did not have a natural color. It was more like the color formed by layers of blood flowing over the stone platform and drying up.
He couldn't help but shudder, touched it with his hand, and found that he was overthinking it. The stone platform was as smooth as a mirror, and the color of the rock came from the inside out. However, when he touched the stone platform, a depressing feeling flashed through his heart.
, subconsciously retracted his hand
"Who is there!"
Fang Yu suddenly heard Miss Tata's somewhat stern questioning voice.
He subconsciously turned his head and saw Miss Tata staring at the long and narrow shadow she had cast on one side of the stone wall. Miss Tata talking to the shadow? This thought made Fang Plover feel uneasy.
He suddenly realized that something was wrong. The light source came from all directions. How could there be such a deep shadow on the rock wall in that direction? As if sensing his thoughts, the shadow suddenly moved in one direction.
It stretches longer and longer, blending into the darkness in that direction.
There was no sound during the whole process, but Fang Plover got goosebumps all over his body.
He almost immediately remembered the local legend of the Pale Ghost that Sylvide told him. They had discussed this thing for a while, and concluded that it was either extremely cunning or extremely powerful.
Miss Ship Officer agrees more with the latter guess.
But Fang Yu didn't expect that he would see this thing on the first day he came to this castle. And this thing was even weirder than the rumors. He recalled the scene where the strange shadow left, and he still felt a little shuddering.
"Be careful, Mr. Knight." Miss Tata said in a rare serious tone, "There is something wrong with that thing."
"Miss Tata, what is that?"
Tata shook his head. "What did you see before?"
"A shadow." Fang Yu thought for a moment, not sure.
"What I see is magic," a silver light flashed in Tata's eyes. "A kind of ether with a very strange state of existence, completely different from what we know now. It seems... mixed with something."
"I can't say what it was, but it made me feel a little uneasy."
Even Miss Tata showed some uneasiness.
Fang Yu became even more uneasy. He suddenly heard the clicking sound coming from the magic furnace behind him. When he looked back, the pressure gauge was spinning like crazy.
He was attacked! Fang Yu realized this immediately, but when he looked around, he didn't even see the enemy. Suddenly, the back of his hand felt hot, and green light shot out.
There seemed to be a sharp scream in the air, so loud that the eardrums almost burst.
Fang Yu subconsciously covered his ears, and the space in front of his eyes flashed slightly, and a translucent figure appeared there. He really didn't know how to describe what a standing shadow looked like.
It was like a mess of light and shadow, thin and long, with almost no thickness. Its two eyes were shining in the air, flashing with a malicious light. The strange shadow was holding a long and narrow shadow sword, and stabbed at him with one sword.
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Due to the suddenness of the incident, Fang Plover had no time to control the sword-wielding man standing aside. This was also the weakness of the combat craftsman, who was often unable to face a surprise attack.
But fortunately, he was still holding the blunderbuss given by Scape in his right hand, and he raised the gun to block it without thinking. A huge force came from the sword, and the square door was opened wide, and the blunderbuss flew out.
But Fang Yu finally seized the opportunity and fired a flying fist. The strange figure dodged sideways and jumped out of the darkness with a single-digit dodge damage value.
Fang Yu held his left hand back to his chest. At this moment, the capable angel finally arrived and slashed at the strange figure with a sword of silver light. The strange figure took a step back in a daze, as if it was moving, moving in a way that violated the rules of physics.
Once the sword was blocked, the two swords intersected, making a tooth-piercing trembling sound.
The sword light is almost dazzling
The two sides exchanged blows several times, each blow was as fast as a blow. Then Neng Angel took a wrong step, and Fang Pliance's hand was a little slower, leaving a deep wound on her left arm.
However, Fang Plover also retaliated and slashed at the shadow's right leg with his sword.
The structural durability of the Enchanter plummeted by 44 points, and the durability of his left arm was almost cleared and almost broken.
A number also popped up on the strange shadow. The strange thing was that the value in the system was blue, and Fang Plover recognized this color as the color of mana damage.
He felt strange in his heart, but his hands were not slow at all. At the same time, two light doors opened behind him, one against one capable angel, but at a disadvantage, but combat craftsmen have never been masters of one versus one.
The engineering machine appeared behind Fang Plover and began to remotely repair the damaged Archangel under Fang Plover's command.
On the other side, another Angel Power also blocked the path of the strange shadow. As soon as the two Angel Angels joined the battle, the battle situation immediately changed. Only then did Fang Plover have the opportunity to retreat to a corner of the battlefield and leave far away.
Be careful if this thing has any weird tricks
Facts have proved that the strange shadow is very difficult to deal with, and the two powerful angels can only fight it to a draw. However, it is still inseparable under the attack of the two alien sword-wielders, and Fang Yu gradually feels relieved.
Not in a hurry.
Fang Yu had tested the remote repair speed of the engineering machine early in the morning. The basic repair crystal he installed could restore a point of durability about every three seconds. The flexible construction only required a supply of magic power and had no physical limit. He fought for a minute or two.
, the injured angel will be repaired as before.
However, the strange figure had a few more wounds on its body.
Fang Yu consciously slowed down his offensive to maintain the continuous output of magic power. As long as there was no problem with the output of his main magic crystal, it would be a matter of time for this thing to fall.
This was the first time he had encountered such a difficult battle. In Dorifin, he couldn't defeat Nicol Bolas and had to outwit him. But in Fenris, he encountered a sea of monsters underground.
, but with the support of the military, the battle went smoothly, but the process was a little tortuous.
And for the first time, this strange shadow gave him the feeling that his output was simply not enough when fighting a single boss, and he could only rely on his advantages in other areas.
But his wishful thinking didn't last long before Tata reminded him again:
"Mr. Knight, end the battle quickly."
"What's wrong?" Fang Yu wanted to ask why. But suddenly, he heard a slight "click" sound coming from his magic furnace again, and the magic output began to continue to decrease.
At that moment, he knew in his heart that there were other enemies around him!
Miss Tata also said: "There are quite a few of these things approaching from the direction we came from."
Fang Yu couldn't help but feel his scalp numb. This thing was already at the boss level, and there were quite a few of them. What on earth is this place? No wonder not many people are willing to come here. There are so many elite monsters under this castle.
Not to mention the vampire before, the system couldn't even give the species and level of this strange shadow, so it was probably a lord-level creature. Of course, there was also the factor that his knowledge was too low, but Fang Plover would rather believe it was the former.
And the strange figure looked like it wasn't going to fall down for a while.
Fang Yu had no choice but to make Angel Angel give up its defense, and stabbed its thin chest and abdomen with a sword. The latter's narrow shadow sword also stabbed directly into Angel Angel's chest, and the two stabbed each other at the same moment.
wear.
The strange shadow screamed and turned into tens of millions of fragments and exploded. At that moment, Fang Yu felt a sting, as if something had passed through his body, but there were no wounds on his body. After checking, he discovered that the monster was
The magic power in the furnace has been reduced by more than half.
Only then did he realize that this thing could actually self-destruct, and it would burn with mana when it self-destructed.
Fang Plover was speechless for a while. However, Miss Tata said that things themselves have magical properties, so it is not surprising to have such powers. He checked his powerful angel, and fortunately the sword did not damage too many precision components of the project.
Machine remote repair can only repair the structure and armor. If the internal precision components are broken, there will be no conditions for repair on the battlefield.
He has a total of three Energizers as his main combat power. Losing one is equivalent to losing one-third of his combat power, which is not a good thing in this place.
The "click" sound of the magic furnace was getting louder and louder. Fang Plover knew that those strange figures were approaching in this direction, so he did not dare to stay longer, so he put away the Angel and prepared to leave.
But at this moment, Fang Plover stopped.
He found that there was an extra line of prompts in his system at some point.
‘The ‘Dragon Witch’ lower-level event directory has changed.’
'The character kills the 'Dragon Shadow' and absorbs the original power.'
Only then did Fang Plover see that his craftsman attribute had another piece of legendary inspiration:
Legendary inspiration, sadness.
He was completely stunned. The last time he got legendary inspiration was when he got the opponent's Pale Flame after killing Gujun Hunter. But what level of monster is Gujun Hunter?
?Even though it is just a phantom, it does not affect its legendary level.
And it is not surprising for craftsmen to draw inspiration from legendary weapons. But how can you get a legendary inspiration by killing an inexplicable shadow?
Then if he kills all the monsters here, wouldn't he be able to get countless legendary inspirations?
Of course, Fang Yu could only think about this possibility in his mind. And what he was more curious about was, what is the original power? What is the Dragon's Shadow?
He had heard of the Dragon's Minions, seen them with his own eyes, and even fought with them. But Dragon's Shadow, he had never heard of the term. If Dolifen's Shadow of Nicol Bolas could be considered a Dragon's Shadow, he had heard of it.
If it's a shadow, then it's very different from this thing.
He really didn't see this weird shadow, so what does it have to do with the dragon?
"Mr. Knight, on the ground." Tata reminded at this time.
Fang Yu was stunned for a moment, then looked up to the ground, only to find that where the strange shadow fell before, there was something left, lying quietly on the ground.
It was a dark metal fragment, which didn't seem to have anything out of the ordinary.
However, the 'Dragon Shadow' has no entity, and it can drop a metal fragment, which is already very strange. Aitaria is not really a virtual world, and there is no such thing as killing monsters and exploding equipment.
Fang Yu then picked up the metal fragments. The fragments were heavier than expected. They looked almost thin, but they were very substantial.
Tata looked at the iron piece in his hand intently, and suddenly said: "Mr. Knight, this is cold steel, with the smell of fairy blood on it."
"Cold Steel?"
Fang Plover glanced back and asked as he walked out of the stone room.
"A rare metal that can withstand goblin spells, even rarer than goblin gold. They like to use this metal to cast weapons..." Tata considered the words. "But goblins generally don't leave themselves on it.
breath, unless..."
"unless?"
Miss Tata shook her head and said nothing.
Fang Yu could feel that her thoughts were a little complicated, and they both felt the same way, but he didn't ask any further questions.
Besides, he had no intention of pursuing the troops behind him. After leaving the stone chamber, the corridor began to become more complicated. Fang Plover did not dare to stay longer, and he did not know whether he had taken the wrong path, so he could only move forward blindly based on his intuition.
Twice he encountered traps, but he carefully avoided them both times.
After an unknown amount of time, he gradually felt that the feeling of light on his back disappeared.
But Fang Yu was not sure whether his feeling was correct. He walked forward for a while before stopping. The surrounding area had become completely quiet, leaving only the dim light of the lighting crystal.
The 'click-click' sound of the magic furnace also completely disappeared. Fang Plover glanced back and was convinced that those 'things' had left.
"They seem to have left suddenly." He asked in a low voice.
Miss Tata nodded. "They turned back around the time we reached the fork in the road."
"What's going on?" Fang Yu felt that the underground was extremely weird.
"Maybe there's something nearby."
Fang Plover looked around, only to find that a bright light appeared in front of him. His heart tightened, thinking that he had inadvertently circled back to the stone chamber, and was about to summon the powerful angel, but a frightened voice came from behind.
came and asked tentatively: "Brother Ed?"
"Jita!"
Fang Yu couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this voice. It was the voice of the little naturalist girl who had been missing for a long time.
He rushed over and took a look, and sure enough he saw Jita sitting alone by the wall with her knees bent, holding a lighting crystal, with an injury on her arm, looking at him with some fear.