After Avas treated Dongya and knew the intensity of the curse, he went back and reorganized his team.
——The curse power of the seventh energy level is not something that ordinary people can bear.
For example, ritual masters Ibn or Anar cannot withstand this level of curse. Even if Avas can lift this curse, he cannot move it over in three steps.
At least you have to have a certain degree of resistance to curse.
Isabel dared not come - she was not afraid herself, and was full of curiosity about the petrified Rock Cellar City. But she was worried that the curse would have a bad impact on the children in her belly, so she chose to seek stability.
Sherlock is not afraid of curses.
After reaching the fifth energy level, the profession of Mithra lit up the sun's fire and possessed the power of dedication - that is, the power of light and fire. With this power, his "spiritual body disorder" was completely cured.
By applying spells to resist curses on himself in advance, he was able to enter Rock Cellar City for a period of time.
Secondly, Lijiya. As a sorcerer, her resistance is strong enough to allow her to survive in various environments. And her current winged form can also provide sufficient resistance to negative states - and then Lily hiding in the shadow of Aivas.
With Lijiya as the flesh shield and Avas as the treatment, they are considered a relatively standard light-sharp team. Although Anar wanted to come and have a look, Avas was very tough and ordered the Snake Man to look forward to her and not let her do anything randomly - he didn't want to be distracted to protect the crispy NPC while exploring the dungeon.
Even if the strength of this copy is not high.
Just in case, Avas switched to his beast of sin and summoned Vignes out and let the little crow step on his shoulders.
However, in order to prevent them from getting lost in this damn desert and to keep their energy, they did not continue to trek in the desert.
As the core transit place of the Yanjiao City Runren, the Snake Man Temple has a secret passage that leads directly to the underground passage of Yanjiao City. In fact, if you walk in the opposite direction, you can also directly enter Yanjiao City from the underground passage.
As for the issue of exports being sealed by petrochemicals, they are the least worried about it—
"--arrive."
Aivas said.
When he entered the tunnel, he removed the illusion imposed by Isabel, thus fully revealing the antlers on his head.
The shimmer they emit is already sufficient to serve as a light source in the dim underground passage. And it is much safer than torches.
——Although they don’t need much lighting.
Lijiya, who evolved for the second time, already had night vision ability, so Lily simply hid directly in Aivas's shadow and followed with one click. Only Sherlock still needs lighting... and he can also use a spell to provide night vision to himself.
After being blessed by Avas with the blessing technique of increasing movement speed, they easily completed the three-hour journey that required them to trek in less than an hour - and in the desert outside, they had to start at least eight hours, with the premise that they had not lost their way.
It is also because of this that it was still early for Evas and his party to arrive in Rock Cellar City. It was not yet dusk and the sun had not yet set.
Although the petrification curse did seal the outward passage, some slight sunlight pierced through the stone wall like a needle.
The glow of dusk plated the gray-white city with a honey-like shell. The entire city is like an insect specimen filled with giant amber.
"I'll do it."
Sherlock glanced at Lijiya, who was eager to punch the door, and sighed helplessly: "Don't break it... Maybe they will use it later."
He said, lifting the sapphire staff in his hand and pausing slightly.
The earth-yellow magic array appeared instantly - the stones in front of them dissolved into mud and flowed to both sides. The sunlight surged in like water at the setting sun, but they did not adapt to the process of sunlight, so they walked out directly along the light.
Immediately afterwards, the mud flowed back on its own and resealed the entrance.
This seems to be a "dead end" in a remote alley.
“Wow.”
Aivas looked up and couldn't help but sigh: "Fortunately I didn't bring them here."
I saw the entire city shrouded in an amber halo.
The power of the tranquil curse is like a tide, surging waves of rhythmic surges constantly strengthening the curse.
The priestess Dongya probably could not notice this level of invisible power. Avas could only clearly see the ripples of the curse based on his special vision.
This also means another thing-
"This is definitely not a ritual that releases power at one time, such as [detonation] or [detonation]. It is a mode similar to [transmission] or [sacrifice]."
Aivas said with a squinted eye.
"What's the meaning?"
Lijiya made a puzzled voice.
"That is, it means continuous effect...even continuous casting."
Sherlock said leisurely, "If you say it more clearly..."
He said, looking at the city that had stopped in an instant due to the curse.
The woman holding the pottery pot of water held a shocked and raised her head, and the splashed water droplets condensed into tiny quartz crystals in the air;
The sentry on the city wall seemed to want to ring the gong to warn, but the sound waves also manifested in the amber, radar-like fluctuations, turning into sandstone patterns visible to the naked eye;
The guard who was raising his head raised his head and roared, his throat and mouth bulging high. His right hand holding the scimitar was still holding the orchid fingers. The half-pulled scimitar was covered with a layer of gray;
The slave child holding his head curled up in a ball with his eyes closed, as if it was not a petrified curse, but a whip raised by the master;
The frightened camel still maintained a pose of a raised foot. The innocent sand lizard also turned into a gray-white stone statue while running, and the tail tip still maintained the swinging curve when it fled, and it stuck to the wall...
People's faces were full of fear, shock, and fear... The distorted faces were like tortured souls in the hell pond, or as if they were poured and solidified into wax figures.
"...that is, the curse wizards who are preparing for the curse medium should still be here. They may also die - a large curse ritual of this scale is basically impossible to have a rivalry with us." Sherlock sarcastically said.
Otherwise, the curse imposed will be too easy to crack - even if the curse cannot be cracked, it doesn't matter, just obtain the identity of a "friend".
This curse that needs to be continuously released requires the sacrifice of one or several ritual masters directly.
Its essence is "single-soldier shoulder-resistant nuclear bombs".
The kind with a shorter range than the kill radius.
Sherlock said calmly: "It is obvious that the matter on this small border town is too big. This is not simply establishing authority, but intentional murder, a street test knife. Just like using a saturated cannon to execute a thief, it is wrong no matter what... the key to the problem may be the stone slab."
"No," Evas shook his head, "I think the key is Star Antimony."
"It's more of a war than a star antagonist."
Sherlock sneered: "I think what we are talking about is almost the same thing."
"What? What are you talking about?"
The only angel Lijiya who didn't keep up with the rhythm was a little confused: "No, gentlemen... can I explain it to me in a way that I can understand?"
“—This is not punishment, nor even war. It is an 'arms window'.”
Aivas said: “Just as we accept the news of rest, there will be delays in accepting the news of rest, too.
"It was probably because the good Lord of Paradise City heard that Xingying was in the war, so he planned to sell this "petrochemical curse ritual" that could instantly turn the situation around the war to Xingying. The city is closest to Xingying, so it is "fortunate" to become a display window for such ritual weapons.
"There is nothing wrong with Yanjiao City. They can't afford the 'ransom' given by the good Lord of Heaven City, because he hopes that Yanjiao City will refuse to pay, so that he can give him an excuse to take action. In other words, the ransom he first asked for was just an excuse to kill the people of this city with peace of mind."
“——The hypocritical human.”
The little crow sarcastically said, "It's no different from the nobles of Herasl."
"Mankind has been repeating the same mistakes from ancient times to the present. Judging from the fluctuations of the ritual, there are probably living people who are maintaining the ritual. I really don't know what price Adil gave them..."
Aivas sighed and swallowed the second half of the words back.
He looked at the petrified mansion of the Shanzhu in the city: "Let's go, let's go to the core area. The center of the ceremony may be there."