Arcane Journey

Chapter 194 The Skull of the Burning Flame
All adventurers who pass the test of the Sphinx will be rewarded with their spell protection, and Brian is no exception.

The protection spell is a temporary buff state, which will disappear when the time is up, and it is also a weak supernatural gift with a wide range of acquisition channels.

For example, a spellcaster who discovers a secret about mana in the spellbook of a deceased archmage and uses it as a magical amulet to infuse himself has a chance to obtain some kind of blessed amulet.

In a similar fashion, solving sphinx puzzles, or drinking from magical fountains can also be used to obtain wards.

At the same time, legendary creatures such as ancient golden dragons and unicorns sometimes cast spells on allies,
When some explorers discover a long-lost place soaked in magic, they will also be affected by the place and receive a magic charm.

Brian took a look at his status and found that what he got was an "anti-death barrier" protection spell that was immune to any type of instant death spells, and lasted for 2 hours.

Thinking of the enemy he was going to face next, he immediately felt that this was definitely the ward he needed most right now.

He didn't think about it anymore, and stepped into the ruins of this floating city with Helisite.

The city fell into ruins thousands of years ago and is now surrounded by sand dunes.

Its outer walls and buildings are partially buried, and apart from a prominent mausoleum in the center, there are no intact buildings on the city's surface.

Here it looks more like a cemetery, a series of disused stone walls jutting out of the sand and brick streets exposed from the wind as war and sand destroyed the city and its inhabitants.

The hiss of sandstorms in the distance, but the eerie silence here.

Although it was silent, Brian still felt as if he was being watched secretly.

Facing this feeling, he briefly communicated with Hellist through telepathic voice transmission, and then walked along a road in the ruins towards the tomb where the great Arcanist was buried.

About half an hour or so, when they were about to arrive at the mausoleum, Helisite seemed to have noticed something, her eyes flickered, and she stopped suddenly.

She stood on the soft yellow sand, standing against the wind, her feet not getting dusty.

Brian naturally stopped like her, because he had already noticed the abnormalities around him through his specialty "vibration perception".

When his eyes fell on the sand not far ahead, as he expected, the quicksand sank and turned into a funnel-like vortex, and the rotten skeleton arms, like the middle finger, broke through the quicksand Then came the rotting skull and the fire of soul dancing in the eye sockets.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen skeleton warriors with tattered cloth strips hanging on their bodies and looking dilapidated came out shaking their heads.

They opened and closed their jagged mouths, making weird clicking noises, and rushed towards the two of Brian with stiff steps.

Looking at these skeletons, Brian didn't act immediately, and at the same time prevented Hellist from making a move.

He stood where he was, carefully looking at the group of skeletons.

It's not that he is afraid of these so-called weakest undead creatures, but he is curious about how they wake up.

Under normal circumstances, skeletons are self-awakened from places filled with death and destruction, or they may be disturbed by necromantic energy, or activated by corrupt evil.

But some spellcasters who are proficient in the Necromancer School can also summon an army of skeletons by manipulating dead bodies.

They use negative energies to awaken the skeleton, infuse the skeleton's bones with dark energy, connect its joints and reassemble its broken limbs.

This power can drive the skeleton and allow it to repeat some behaviors in life with a crude way of thinking.

Moreover, the skeletons reorganized by necromancers will have their bodies and souls repaired to a certain extent. After the undead spirits full of hatred are eliminated, they will also be strengthened, and even awaken their self-awareness, and develop and become stronger towards the professional level. , is also possible.

After figuring out these questions, he quickly detected through his keen sense of magic that these skeletons were definitely awakened by the blue dragon lich.

This also meant that when he and Helisite stepped into the ruins, they were likely to be discovered.

- "Burning Hand!"

Brian didn't waste any more time, took out the staff of flames, pointed at the group of skeletons, and activated the spell in the staff.

In an instant, a faintly shiny ruby ​​at the top of the staff burst into bright light, spewing out a hot cone-shaped flame, covering the group of rickety skeletons.

When the flames swept across the skeletons, it was like a raging fire igniting dry wood, making crackling noises, and mercilessly burned the group of skeletons to death.

Tips for gaining 10 points of experience one after another, constantly jumping on Brian's system bar.

As the group of skeletons were instantly killed, Brian found that the same abnormalities appeared around the tomb as before.

Hundreds of skeleton arms protruded from the quicksand, moving their finger bones stiffly, as if they were about to grab something, and crawled out at an extremely fast speed, rushing towards the two without fear.

This is just a group of ordinary skeletons, not even a decent wight.

From the rags and almost decayed ornaments left on their bones, Brian could tell that these skeletons were residents of the floating city, but now they were desecrated by the blue dragon lich.

At the same time, dozens of flames appeared in the dark sky.

"Jie Jie Jie..."

Accompanied by fiery green flames and wildly reverberating laughter, pairs of vicious eyes locked on them in the flames and quickly floated over.

Brian looked up at the sky, and after a moment of careful observation, he found that these were a group of skulls without bodies. They were not ghosts, but flaming skulls.

This is a favorite territory patrol made by liches.

They use the remains of the dead spellcaster to complete a transformation ritual similar to soul-calling. The resentment left in the body of the spellcaster during his lifetime will turn into green fire, gushing out from the skull and turning into a flaming skull.

The most important thing is that the undead transformation allows them to master most of the spells in life, and when releasing the spells, they can also ignore the casting materials and casting actions.

Taking advantage of the distance of the Flaming Skull, Brian quickly shared the information about the Flaming Skull with Helister, and told her not to hold back, and clean up the hundreds of skeletons.

After receiving the instructions, the psion master summoned his six psicrystals without hesitation.

Her beautiful eyes, which were obscured by the shadow of the hood, froze slightly, and the six psicrystals burst into dazzling brilliance at the same time.

In an instant, around hundreds of skeletons, traces of celestial energy permeated like substance.

——"Energy burst!"

These terrifying ectoplasmic energies were suddenly transformed into berserk flames the moment Helisite gently opened her jade lips, and clusters of brilliant flames erupted around the skeleton army.

In the raging flames, hundreds of skeletons were blown to pieces, leaving wreckage everywhere.

Seeing what happened at this moment, Brian was really surprised.

Although these were just hundreds of weak undead creatures, the efficiency with which Heliste could clean them up in the blink of an eye was still unbelievable.

As a wizard whose strength had once reached the legendary realm, he knew that he didn't have any confidence that he could wipe out so many skeletons like her with just a single lift of his hands.

After all, the "Energy Burst" that Helisite just cast is just a simple third-level ability. The power and attack range of this ability are actually not much different from the caster's "Fireball".

But Helliste was able to instantly wipe out hundreds of skeletons with such a simple spiritual power.

The reason for this is not only related to her six psicrystal servants displaying psychic powers at the same time, but she must also have mastered many special abilities to increase powers.

With her current strength, she might be able to fight the high legend.

It's no wonder that in order to win her over, the Silver Moon Dragon Queen did not hesitate to let Silver Wing go out to find her herself.

Even after he arrived in Silvermoon City, he even sent five ancient dragon scales as a meeting gift.

Then, without thinking too much, he smashed the fireball that he had just condensed but failed to find the target on a group of flaming skulls that just flew into the attack range.

Accompanied by a bang, the group of flaming skulls did not cause any substantial damage except that the green flames around them were disturbed by the wind pressure generated by the fireball.

Brian was not surprised by this situation.

After all, his fireball was not originally prepared for these flaming skulls with super high fire resistance.

——"Third-level power: energy burst!"

He quickly concentrated his mind, used his transformation system psychic power, and together with Helisite, launched a new round of attacks on the group of flaming skulls.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."

Accompanied by bursts of explosions from the group of burning skulls, the heads surrounded by green flames exploded in the air like gorgeous fireworks.

Just a round of psionic bombardment wiped out more than a dozen Burning Skulls.

Best of all, the empathetic psion's damage control is perfect, always allowing him to finish off.

Ordinary Burning Skull's challenge level is at least around level 5, and the experience points obtained are above 1500, which is much more efficient than brushing small skulls.

——"Fire rays!"

- "Fireball!"

——"Blazing Ball!"

- "Exploding flames!"

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At the same time, the group of Burning Skulls who used to be spell casters released their own spells without showing any weakness, and launched a counterattack.

Apparently, because the Flaming Skull's body is continuously burning with flames, they have become more proficient and proficient in the fire spells of the evocation system.

In bursts of frantic screams, what greeted us was overwhelming fireballs, rays, and gushing flames, sweeping towards them.

Although most of the spells were on Helliste, Brian still faced a deadly threat.

——"Six-ring spell: spell invalid enchantment!"

He quickly chanted the spell, and when the attack came, a magic barrier emitting a faint light and reflecting countless arcane runes emerged, surrounding him within a three-meter area.

Any fireballs and rays blasting towards him, at the moment of approaching, all splashed a ripple on the barrier, turned into gunpowder smoke, and dissipated without a trace.

Just when Brian was about to fight back, he suddenly smelled the smell of sulfur in the air.

As if realizing something, he quickly looked up through the thick gunpowder smoke.

He suddenly discovered that in the dark sky, a flaming skull with a diameter of about two meters, in the gushing green flames, condensed eight dark red fireballs the size of fists, floating in front of it, visible to the naked eye. The speed becomes larger.

"It turned out to be a meteor explosion!" Looking at the sky that was reflected in blood red, Brian couldn't help being moved.

Obviously, he didn't expect that among this group of enemies, there was secretly a caster with at least level 17 strength in his life who was transformed into a Burning Head.

Otherwise, it would not be able to release the "Meteor Burst" with nine rings by relying on most of the spells it had mastered during its lifetime.

It can be seen from this that the blue dragon lich hidden in the depths of the ruins absolutely transformed the remains of most of the arcanists who died during the fall of the floating city into burning skulls.

However, under such a precarious situation, it is naturally not the time for him to think about this issue.

Because amidst the bursts of weird screams, the Burning Head had already thrown two of the eight fireballs towards itself.

After Brian sent a message to Helliste that there was no need to worry, he released the sixth-ring spell "Anti-Magic Field" in time through his supermagic specialty "Instant Spell".

With the moment when an invisible barrier surrounded him, all the magic effects and magic equipment in the space instantly lost their effect, and even the anti-death enchantment he had just obtained turned gray temporarily.

This feeling is like a person who is playing a game on the computer suddenly disconnects from the Internet, causing his game character to lose control.

For this situation, Brian was naturally mentally prepared and would not make a fuss about it.

Because the space inside the anti-magic field barrier is completely unaffected by any magic and magical effects, thus preventing the passage of spells and their effects.

Likewise, it blocks the operation of any magic items or spells within range.

So just like in front of him, when these two bolides, which had become the size of washbasins, touched the anti-magic field space surrounding him, they seemed to encounter some obstacles and collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Brian calmly observed the fading fireball. He knew that with his current strength, the anti-magic field released was not enough to resist the power of the nine-ring spell.

This is like water can extinguish fire, but fire can also evaporate water.

The moment the anti-magic field barrier was crushed, he quickly activated his arcane barrier in time through his newly recovered spellcasting ability, and successfully blocked the aftermath of the explosion after the nine-ring spell was greatly weakened. He was safe and sound. survived the attack.

This is the level suppression of high-level spellcasters facing low-level spellcasters. If the roles of the two sides are swapped, it is impossible to break the opponent's anti-magic field based on his current strength.

Seeing that Brian was safe and sound, Hellist stood against the wind with a slightly relaxed expression, and then the turbulent flow of energy released from raising her hand completely drowned the rest of the Burning Skull.

　PS: Sorry, I have been looking for a job in the past few days. When the job settles down, I will resume normal updates.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)