Arcane Journey

Chapter 279 The Floating City of Sacross

A dark, twisted temple of shadows.

On the altar made of obsidian, a priest wearing a purple-rimmed black robe knelt and sat in front of the god statue, his eyes hidden in the shadow of the hood were tightly closed, and he held a crystal ball with a gray luster in his hands.

In the temple, the distorted statue like a phantom is endlessly transforming from a black sphere with a purple flame animated by magic to a beautiful and charming human woman with long black hair and body. Dressed in swirly black.

The temple is full of awe-inspiring voices, like a dark wind, and there are always strange voices coming out of the silent space. Sometimes it is the laughter of children, and sometimes it is like the crisp rolling of marbles falling to the ground.

"boom!"

Suddenly, the sound of cracking glass resounded through the temple.

The priest who was kneeling on the ground stood up in a flustered expression, looking at the fragments of the crystal ball scattered on the ground, his eyes suddenly turned cold.

This is not an ordinary crystal ball, but a prophecy treasure with advanced early warning.

Once an enemy breaks into the shadow temple in the floating city of Sacross, this early warning crystal ball will send a message to the black robe priest, and transmit the perceived picture to the depths of his mind.

However, things were completely beyond his expectations.

This uninvited guest not only countered his own early warning means, but also directly destroyed his early warning crystal through some kind of counter early warning means of his own.

Recalling the warning given to him by the high priest Rui Valan before leaving, the black-robed priest instantly realized something, his eyes changed for a while, and he shouted at the empty shadow temple: "There are enemies breaking into the temple of the lost lady, immediately step up!" Be vigilant and search for signs of intruders."

"Yes……"

The first to respond to the black-robed priest was a silent voice from the shadow in the corner of the temple.

The two full-body armored knights who looked like statues came back to life. Under the cold steel masks, a pair of scarlet eyes suddenly flashed, revealing a severe chill.

At the same time, shadows appeared in every corner of the temple, and there were even more than a dozen priests in black robes with purple borders, gathering around the head priest.

Just when the two heavily armed dark knights were about to walk out of the gate of the temple, a dazzling deep purple light burst out, attracting everyone's attention.

"Be careful!!" The black-robed priest who sensed something was wrong hastily reminded him loudly.

It's a pity that it was too late, as the substantive purple light instantly transformed into a battering ram in the shape of a ram's horn, wrapped in terrifying power, and condescendingly hit the head of one of the knights.

The knight who was caught off guard instinctively crossed his hands and blocked in front of him, trying to resist the blow with his own defense, but under this long-planned attack, it was completely futile.

The battering ram transformed from force field energy easily smashed the knight's hands wrapped in gauntlets, and then, the strong impact continued downward, hitting his head without hesitation.

"boom!"

With just a soft sound, the knight's head wearing a steel mask was completely dented and deformed like a balloon, blood mixed with muddy brains, and spilled down along the cracks in the helmet.

The knight's body also trembled suddenly at this moment, and he fell to the ground on his back, and then there was no more movement.

"Boom!"

Following the death of the knight, a fireball the size of a head roared into the chest of another knight, causing him to end his life in a flash of brilliant flame.

This sudden attack caused the entire temple to suddenly fall into deathly silence.

Brian, who quietly appeared in the temple, naturally wouldn't leave the enemy so much time to be shocked.

——"Group Human Immobilization Technique!"

Accompanied by the brilliance of arcane magic, Brian pointed forward with his staff, and in an instant, a group of priests and dark knights in front of them froze and stood still in place. The only exception was the leader Black robe priest.

- "Yang Yan burst!"

Immediately afterwards, a terrifying brilliance emerged, and the spell strengthened by many supermagic feats and fire-attributed staffs exploded like a scorching sun rising in the temple.

In an instant, painful wailing sounded one after another, and the moment the eyes of many enemies were hit by the strong light, they seemed to be contaminated with flames like maggots attached to their bones, and they directly entered a state of blindness.

At the same time, under the strong light of "Yang Yan Burst", those priests and warriors who had already been transformed into ghosts also underwent very strange changes.

The most obvious is a beautiful priestess.

At first she was standing far away, when she was enveloped by Brian's "Yang Yan Burst", her skin suddenly began to burn, and she let out a shrill scream of panic, fell to the ground and struggled for a while, then It was burned into a strange black coke.

A "Yang Flame Explosion" instantly wiped out the enemies that had been turned into ghosts in the temple.

——"Serial dispersal!"

The black-robed priest standing farthest away finally finished his spell preparation. He first held the holy emblem engraved with the emblem of the Lost Lady, and pointed at Brian.

A divine radiance emerged, and the temporarily added defensive spells around Brian began to be slowly peeled off one by one.

——"The Howling Ghost!"

The black-robed priest immediately crushed the black gemstones that had been prepared, and a cloud of black mist emerged from the shattered gemstones, turning into a ghost-like shadow. While groaning strangely, it galloped towards Brian like a sharp arrow. go.

——"Shadow Snake Attack!"

——"Shadow that blocks the sun!"

——"Psychic Shadow!"

The shadow guard assassins who had recovered from blindness and immobilization also unleashed all kinds of best attacks, turned into afterimages of galloping, or released phantoms that affected the mind, and attacked Brian.

Pieces of shadows shrouded the temple, and ghostly creatures exuding strange screams also danced and roared wildly in the shadows, as if to tear the enemy to pieces.

Facing the enemy's siege, Brian stood on the spot holding his staff, his expression as calm and calm as ever.

——"Advanced mirror image technique!"

He first activated the attached spell on the 'Bright Evening Star' ring, turning it into six identical phantoms, causing the raiding assassins to suddenly lose their attack targets, then he recited a spell and waved his staff lightly.

——"Lightning Curtain!"

Accompanied by the surge of arcane energy, in the spherical area centered on Bryan, lightning sizzling repeatedly danced in the area with terrifying electric light.

As soon as the translucent bound spirit summoned by the black-robed priest approached the lightning curtain, his whole body was convulsed and trembling by the leaping electric light, screaming again and again, his blood-red eyes were full of fear, and he hesitated to move forward.

Those Shadow Guard Assassins who were trying to sneak up to Brian through the shadows also stopped suddenly, and looked solemnly at the six identical figures in the lightning area, showing a look of helplessness.

Seeing this situation, the black-robed priest in the distance was about to raise the holy emblem and release the dispelling spell. Brian appeared behind him through the teleportation spell at some point.

The moment he reacted, a sharp sword exuding starlight easily broke through his magic shield, causing his body to straighten up and fall to the ground.

——"Tornado storm!"

Brian's attack didn't stop because of this. With a thought, the air around the surviving shadow guard assassins suddenly seeped out waves of terrifying energy.

When they reacted through their own perception, these energies have been transformed into a raging storm under Brian's control, tearing these unsuspecting assassins to pieces.

Seeing that the enemy was cleaned up by him in one go, Brian didn't show any relief on his expression.

After all, their purpose of coming here is to destroy the floating city, not to kill people.

Thinking of his real purpose of coming here, he didn't dare to waste time, so he immediately quickened his pace and walked towards the deepest part of the Shadow Temple.

In the cold night.

Shadow Prince Yada stood on the tower of Sacross, looking at the three uninvited guests who broke into the floating city and slaughtered the defenders in the city wantonly, his face became very ugly.

Among these three legendary professionals, in addition to a harper scout and the old enemy of the Lost Lady, a silver moon walker who believes in the moon goddess Su Lun, there is also a drow holding a bow and arrow.

The purpose of these people seems to be very simple, that is to wreak havoc in the floating city.

He didn't even know how these people sneaked into the floating city without making a sound, avoiding the detection of weaving the maze.

However, these are no longer important.

Just as his elder brother Rui Valan expected, the people in Misty Valley did have the idea of ​​a floating city.

In order to guard against their actions, he had already made sufficient preparations in advance.

Thinking of this, his expression turned cold, and his gray-blue eyes unconsciously locked on the group of troublemakers.

Even though he knew that these people were just for the Floating Void City to attract his attention so that other lurkers could destroy the inner core of the city, but he didn't care.

Because he had anticipated this situation in advance, he had already made strict precautions and deployments, and his mission this time was mainly to cooperate with the operation of the Shadow Tower to kill these troublemakers.

Moreover, there is also a follower of Su Lun, the goddess of the moon.

Silver Moon Walker has a pivotal position in Su Lun's church, if he stays in the Floating Void City, he can even get the favor of the goddess.

Just as the Shadow Prince was about to make a move, a priest from the Temple of Shadows ran over in a panic, "My lord, someone sneaked into the Temple of Shadows and slaughtered many of our priests."

"What?" A flash of anger flashed across Yada's expression upon hearing the news.

Someone dared to break into the Temple of the Lost Lady. This was a naked provocation for anyone in Sacross City.

"The Miser Energy Core of the Floating Void City is not in the Shadow Temple. What is their purpose of infiltrating into the Temple?" After the anger subsided, Yada calmed down and began to think about this question.

"Do you know who the person who sneaked into the temple is?" He asked the embarrassed priest.

"It's the mage lord of Mokou Town." The priest's expression showed obvious fear.

"His strength has reached the legendary realm. We are not his opponent at all, and we have no power to parry at all. His purpose seems to be very clear, which is to destroy the temple of the lost lady."

"It's him again!" Hearing this name again, Yada gritted her teeth with hatred.

Although he had never had a direct confrontation with the opponent, but because of the mage lord, the plan of the lost lady did not go smoothly at all.

Now he dared to sneak into the floating city, and even swaggered into the shadow temple.

Did he really think that the temple of the Lost Lady could come and go as he pleased?

"If you dare to desecrate the temple of the goddess, I will meet him in person." Yada looked cold and made up his mind, and then he said to the priest next to him, "Tell Mattick to let him use his ghost tower to take care of him." Treat the three troublemakers in the city."

The Mither Energy Core of the Floating Void City was placed by them in the Shadow Tower of Lamorak, and the other party had already taken full precautions under his reminder.

Yada didn't think that the harper leader, Storm Silverhand, who hadn't appeared yet, could quietly lurk in the Shade Tower, and then destroy the Mithr energy core under Lamorak's strict precautions.

After finishing speaking, he immediately locked his eyes on the most magnificent Shadow Temple in Floating Void City, and disappeared into a black mist.

Inside the Ghost Tower in the Floating Void City.

The figure of the leader of the harpists, Storm Silverhand, has long been invisible to the naked eye, and he is cautiously moving towards the upper floor of the wizard tower.

No one would underestimate the power of the wizard's tower, let alone the various devices and traps in it. After all, no one knows how many dangerous devices those mad wizards will install in their towers.

This point, even those legendary professionals will be worried.

"Crack!"

A faint magical light flashed, and accompanied by a slight noise, the figure invisible to the naked eye of the storm pried open the second door of the wizard tower, and then walked cautiously into the third floor.

As the Chosen of the Goddess of Magic, although she does not possess powerful magic, hundreds of years of study have given her powerful skills as a bard, rogue, and ranger at the same time.

Even if she doesn't deliberately keep it, she can hardly hear any sound when walking, and she can easily open and avoid any complicated magic locks and traps.

Just when the storm reached the fifth floor of the Shadow Tower unimpeded, there was a sudden heavy muffled sound from the wall, and a solid stone door fell instantly, blocking her way.

At the same time, heavy footsteps sounded from the rear of the passage, mixed with a disgusting stench.

Even without looking back, the bard of Shadow Valley knew clearly that the huge figure of the flesh and blood golem was slowly approaching him.

She stood there calmly, thinking for a moment, with a smile on her lips.

Based on her rich experience, she realized that this was not a discovery, but a relatively extravagant automatic patrol method rarely used by the wizards in the wizard tower.

This method of extremely consuming the energy of the element pool is often chosen to be activated when someone is expected to try to break into his wizard tower in advance.

Thinking of this, she quickly suppressed her breath, and let the patrolling flesh and blood golem slowly move past her.

When the flesh and blood golem returned to the passage, the storm unexpectedly found that the solid stone gate was slowly rising amidst bursts of dull sounds.

Seeing this, she didn't rush in and headed for the sixth floor, but hid her figure and watched everything around her.

As she expected.

As the stone gate rises, dozens of organs are simultaneously opened on both sides of the passage, and the energy of frost, flame, strong acid and lightning interweaves into a frightening arcane storm in an instant.

The leader of the Harpers waited patiently for about an hour or so.

After seeing the automatic patrol trap reciprocating three times, she cautiously entered the passage and headed towards the sixth floor of the tower.

After arriving at the top floor of the Shadow Tower without any risk, Storm saw himself appearing in a room whose walls and ceiling were all made of transparent glass.

This inner courtyard is located at the highest point of the floating city, surrounded by only the sky, which can be illuminated from all angles.

The moonlight streaming through the walls and ceiling was distorted into thousands of blue and red points of light, revealing the chamber as a vast hollow diamond.

An obscure magical enchantment is engraved on every surface of the diamond to prevent the outside world from peeking inside.

The great orb, which channels raw magical energy from the Shadow Weave, is placed on an ornate ceremonial bracket made of many golden rings.

Apparently, this is Saxor's Shadow Mither Core.

Its flowing energy can be seen by the naked eye as a glow colder than ice and brighter than the hottest fire.

"As expected of the leader of the Harper Alliance, he was able to escape my detection and come here."

A deep and hoarse voice sounded from behind the storm, "However, I regret to tell you that I have been waiting here for a long time, Lady Storm of Shadow Valley."

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(End of this chapter)