Song of the Water Demon (8)
With the last drop of potion falling into the transparent crystal vessel, Ajisha glanced at the hourglass placed on the messy long table, showing that it was already evening, with only a few hours left before his final deadline.
Touching the no longer smooth skin and the wrinkled face, the sharp eyes were extremely short and confused. Everything was ready, just waiting for that moment...
Until several explosions and shaking came from the passage above, Ajisha came to his senses from his thoughts. He drank the liquid in the vessel in his hand in one breath, and then turned around to face the visitors who deliberately made a sound.
Victor cleared out the zombies who were deliberately fond of guarding the lord's house. The explosions were the result of its use of spells and alchemy.
Dunan and the other two and the general manager Placi stayed near the entrance to the ground. They would not enter rashly without getting the signal from Victor. One is to prevent exposure, and the other is to avoid unnecessary dangers.
"The agreed time has arrived" went deeper into the ground, and Victor became more and more sure of his inference.
This is an ancient and old building, and it cannot be completed in one day. In addition to the blood and rotten smell, there is also the smell of water in the air.
"Please." Aji walked to an inconspicuous corner and gently pushed it. The seemingly solid wall immediately sunk into a dark hole, barely for one person to pass by. The whistling wind blew more water, and all signs were hinting that the basement was connected to the large lake outside the city.
Following Ajisha, Victor entered a more secret room, and he irresistible guess in his heart what kind of dragons he would see soon. After walking through the more curved and narrow passage, the space suddenly became clear. This was a huge cave that could even be described as empty. The soft soil was replaced by hard stone. There was no need for torches without lighting. Foam-like spheres floating in the air, with objects inside. Some were people, and some were wild animals that could not count the specific number.
Victor knew what this strange scene was. The spirit-absorbing technique of the undead, which is a certain life by absorbing other lives. An evil method strictly prohibited by the light system. It is said that it is evil because this spell cannot be grafted to himself like some nobles or magicians think that it can graft life to himself to achieve the effect of delaying life. Whether the party sacrificed or received the spell will be corroded by the dead air and become a soulless shell. On it, the Lich King can invent a spell that can easily manipulate corpses - puppet corpses.
Originally, Victor was calculating Ajisha:_Unlock the seal of his ancestors and awaken the ancient dragon sealed at the bottom of the lake. After seeing the spirit-absorbing technique, it changed its mind again.
The reason why dragons are powerful is not only because of their strong physical and elemental magic. It is more because of the wisdom accumulated by time. Even if the body is seized by using the undead spell, it doesn’t make much sense to have a body.
Victor cannot understand. But it cannot express a trace of confusion. Without knowing what order Paglot gave Ajisha, he can only wait for Ajisha to reveal his sight. Or... to witness it with his own eyes.
The more you go forward, the denser the bubbles will be and illuminate. However, this flashing light is not emitted by objects in the bubbles. Instead, something hidden deeper is hidden and emits light from the bubbles blocking the front.
Following Ajisha with ginger, Viktor secretly put several layers of defensive barriers on himself to consider what should he do after meeting the rumored ancient dragon?
Before coming to meet Ajisha, it reported to Klein that there were two burdens in the lord's mansion and the basement. No matter how fast he was, it would take some time to reunite. If Ajisha awakened the ancient dragon before this... Victor did not have enough power to fight. Even if he was controlled, it was still a dragon.
Although Ajisha has always been very respectful, Victor has already smelled the breath of rebellion and conspiracy. With such hypocrisy and forbearance, he will never hand over the ancient dragon that his ancestors had tried his best to seal. Which mage who obtained the power of the undead is not like letting this power belong to him? Even though he knows that the Lich King is powerful, he will still take a chance.
Pulling away the bubbles that were illuminating light, and watching the source of light gradually revealing, the lich narrowed his eyes solemnly.
This is inconsistent with the legend...
What it saw was not the recorded silver dragon Wendy Lana, but a... Oh, damn, how can we describe Victor's inner shock at this moment.
one person!
Yes, it was a person who was protected by a triangle barrier. After Victor approached, he immediately discovered that this was not an ordinary barrier but the most famous defensive shield of the Goddess of Earth. Its purpose was not to protect, but to trap the person inside.
Victor couldn't help but look at the human in the barrier carefully. His skin was slightly dark, quite like a mixed blood of a dark elves and humans, but he had no sharp ears and silver hair. His naked body characteristics also showed the gender of this human. The silver dragon Wendylana is a female dragon.
Victor's thoughts flew around, considering various possibilities. He did not think that Paglott would pay attention to a worthless human for no reason.
Ajisha used a dagger to cut his palm and then gently covered it on the surface of the barrier, a solid knot
After two small holes were dissolved, Ajisha glanced at Victor standing behind him with a trace of conscience, and a hint of pride that he had not even noticed appeared on the corner of his mouth.
There is resistance in the barrier that Victor could not imagine, and each previous push would take a lot of effort. If it weren't for half of the body's necrosis, Ajisha's current situation should really be described as sweating.
When he touched the man in the barrier, a black spell emerged from his arms to his fingertips, and many blood vessels grew like a magic tree that took root, and penetrated into the mysterious man's body. Ajisha's body quickly expanded, especially his stomach and arms were most deformed, as if he had transformed into a weird blood-sucking plant. Looking at the dark-skinned human male he was attached to, the smooth skin that was originally soaked in water actually produced obvious cracks.
"What are you doing?!" No matter how you look at this situation, it seems like you are absorbing energy. Victor could not wait any longer and asked in a pun.
But Ajisha burst into laughter and accelerated the speed of absorbing power.
Without caring about the original stroke, Victor summoned out the uncommon black sickle and took the swelling and slid alone towards Ajisha.
"Wild Blade...you...you aren't the messenger of the lich?!" Ajisha, who was attacked, turned around and saw the weapon in Victor's hand change slightly.
The black sickle, with corrosiveness and life-taking power, quickly took away the power that had just been absorbed from the originally expanded abdomen. Ajisha let out a painful moan, and could only absorb more power from the life body he was currently dependent on. The cracks were expanding, and from a distance it looked like a broken crystal statue.
Hurry footsteps came from the narrow passage. With Reina's shout, Victor had to remove the Black Scythe, and he didn't want to reveal his identity for the time being. Quedlin was an excellent cover-up, and it was most suitable to monitor Hawke and others. As long as he made up a reasonable reason, he had confidence to deceive these three people.
"Haha... fate really favors me even more. If you can hold on for a while, my plan will fail. What a pity..." Ajisha's pride did not hold on until he finished speaking, but the man who was regarded as the target of energy had opened his eyes. His bright red vertical pupils immediately changed the feeling of "humanity". His slightly raised mouth also showed sharp teeth. There was a human being, clearly a beast with a human-like appearance.
With a quick blow, even Victor could see clearly how it happened. Ajisha had already flew backwards and hit the hard rock wall. The blood vessels connected to the body were transported back to the thing that was pulled back. Ajisha's body was like a plant and shriveled quickly. The cracked skin of the man who looked like a human was gradually regaining his luster.
"Silly human." All spells are familiar with language echoing in the empty space, and the triangular barrier collapsed.
"I should thank you, mage." The narrowed vertical pupils kept their sharp light, but instead became more cunning and cruel.
"I am the one who awakens you!" Ajisha climbed up from the ground with pain, and the heavy blood loss made him look more like a dead soul.
"From the beginning, your goal is my body. Even if you unseal the seal, at most you can only consider making up for the mistakes made by your ancestors. Even if the odor in the blood is separated by hundreds of years, you can't hide it from me. The descendants of Phelist." The grinning mouth was covered with sharp teeth that humans could not have. The dark-skinned man began to deform and soon left the form of a "human". Its fingertips grew sharp hooks, knuckles extended to a strange length, and the membrane composed of flesh became wider and wider, and finally became a pair of wings. Fine scales covered the smooth skin, rough and hard. Five horns of varying lengths squeezed out from their thick hair like plants sprouting after the rain, making this monster more terrifying.
After completing the transformation in form, this terrifying creature began to change its volume. The cave began to shake violently, accompanied by sand and stone falling.
"My God...what is this?" Hawk was the first to arrive at the cave and saw a monster that had become several times larger.
The monster busy with the change narrowed his eyes unhappily, and a black lightning flashed through the air and arrived in a blink of an eye. It was so fast that Hawk couldn't even shout. Just when he thought he was finished, a faster shadow set off the attack for him. When he looked closely, it was his annoying mage Quidlin.
"Note your words, warrior." Victor glared sideways at Hawk who was out of his mouth, and then bowed to a creature that was still growing wildly: "Ancient dragon, a powerful man of wisdom and strength, please forgive the offense of this tiny human being, he cannot understand your power."
The dull laughter filled the cave, which had changed so much that the black dragon in its original form could be seen to be slightly lowered. It was a fearful revelation, approaching Victor, who pretended to be respectful.
Chapter completed!