Chapter 1641 Self-destruction device
Since Aidas said that gods who interfere too much in the mortal world will have a bad end, Li Chengqi also felt that it would be better to trust them than to trust them. He did not want to be like Cronus, the god of time, who was less than a hundred years old. The year is gone.
Therefore, Li Chengqi's direct interference during this period was very minimal. Even if he took action, he would try to keep it under the arrival of the saint, which meant that it would cost less than 200,000 faith points.
The believers of the Demon King Cult understand this quite well, because most gods are similar.
It is standard practice to frequently show miracles when religion is first promoted. When the church gets on the right track, there will be far fewer miracles.
If it were Li Chengqi in the past, he would have killed these two Soul Seizing Demons the moment they appeared. After all, his ability to interfere in the demon realm was very strong.
But now Li Chengqi, who was trying not to interfere as much as possible, could only see if Aldai and the others could deal with it first. If not, he would take action himself.
The three of them breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the soul-killing demon had turned into a .zip file, and almost sat down on the ground.
Aldai also waved her hand diagonally upward, roughly expressing her gratitude.
——Although the direction in which she waved her hand was opposite to the direction in which Li Chengqi was observing.
Running wildly consumes physical strength, and using magic does not only consume magic power. Using high-level spells continuously, Aldai's physical strength was also greatly consumed. The three of them sat on the ground and planned to take a rest.
Anyway, all that's left is to return the way we came, so that's not a big problem.
But as soon as the three of them sat down, within a few seconds, Nemea suddenly sniffed:
"Have you ever smelled it? There is a very pungent smell."
"It must be the body odor of demons, they smell of sulfur."
The abyss is like this. The air smells like rotten eggs, and the demon's blood also has a particularly strong smell of sulfur.
Aldai's statement convinced Neemia, but she was still a little uneasy.
Then he said:
"Besides the smell, why do I feel like the temperature is getting hotter?"
The duration of resistance to elemental damage has long since expired, and sensitivity to temperature has restarted.
At first, Aldee and Zola thought it was Nemea's illusion, but soon, they also felt that the temperature was rising rapidly.
This is obviously not a good sign.
The three of them quickly stood up and looked past the statues of the Seven Apostles in the direction they came from.
I saw a large piece of lava and molten iron mixture flashing dazzling red in the dark, squeezing through the channel like a flood from a sewage pipe, and when the three of them saw it, it had already erupted from the channel on the other side.
Thanks to the statues of the Seven Apostles, otherwise the three of them would have had their faces covered in lava.
"Why is the lava flowing here?"
The three of them immediately jumped to their feet and ran away.
There was a violent vibration when they left the deepest room just now. At that time, they were wondering that there wouldn't be such a big movement when the Soul Seizer Demon came out. Now they know what the vibration is about.
That's what the lava sounds like when it erupts in the distance!
This is actually Ao Dai's fault.
Once the Lich's phylactery is put down, most of the time it will not be moved easily.
If the time comes when the Lich needs to take away the phylactery, there are generally only two situations.
Either the lich plans to move to another place to live, or the lich plans to take the phylactery and escape.
No matter which of these two situations it is, for the lich, the original place of residence has no value.
Therefore, it is very certain that the Lich set a spell on the phylactery that will activate the self-destruction program when leaving the room.
Whether it's the soul-judging demon or the sudden burst of magma, it's all part of the self-destruction program.
If Aldai destroyed the phylactery in the room, the self-destruction program might not be activated, but she had to take it back and study it carefully, and it was triggered.
So sometimes curiosity can actually be equated with death... Zola quickly re-covered the three of them with resistance to elemental damage, otherwise the high temperature will bake them.
It was impossible to go back the way they came. Now that side was submerged in lava, and the passage was completely blocked. Unless the three of them had the ability to butterfly swim in the lava, they could only run.
So, how about using teleportation to escape?
Aldai is best at the spells of the Conjuration School. When she casts the group teleportation spell, she does not need to draw a magic circle on the ground. By drawing a circle, the three of them can go home together.
For example, when they went to find the Demon King's Ring last time, Aldai used group teleportation to take Zola and Nemea to the Academic City first.
That's true, but there's a problem.
The influence of the dimensional anchor is still there.
The dimensional anchor will block all space teleportation within a certain range, regardless of the enemy or friend. What's even worse is that this move cannot be canceled even by the caster himself, and must wait for the duration of the dimensional anchor to expire.
There is no time to wait now!
Even though it’s very embarrassing, there’s no need to panic at this time.
"We just need to run out of the range of the dimensional anchor, about forty or fifty meters, and then I will use group teleportation to take us back."
After all, the effect of the dimensional anchor only takes effect within a certain range, and you can teleport freely beyond the range.
However, when the three of them ran along the passage, they saw dazzling red magma spewing out at the end of the passage.
It was coming from the direction of the alchemical creature assembly workshop, and the golems and golems working there must have been overwhelmed in an instant.
But that's not important. What's important is that Aldai and the others are now stuck in the same boat.
There is lava in front and behind, and it may be because the pressure is particularly high. The lava moves very fast. Although it is not the same as a flood, it is much faster than running.
What's even more unlucky is that they just didn't have time to run out of the dimensional anchor's range and were trapped in place.
"What to do now!"
"This way, follow me!"
Alde made a spell-casting gesture, and then slapped her hand on the wall.
The rock wall suddenly cracked, revealing a cave about five meters deep, enough for two people to walk side by side.
This was not a secret passage, but one that Aldai had just dug out.
As mentioned before, the entire underground palace was actually built by an elf mage himself, and if the weak mage wanted to build such a huge underground building, he definitely couldn't dig it out one by one on his own.
Digging, a spell from the school of change, is not of a high level and is the first priority for mages to excavate underground palaces.
You can open a 5-meter-long cave with just one slap. If you master it skillfully, you can even add some decorations to the wall while opening the path.
But Aldai just knows how to use it, it doesn't matter whether it is decorated or not, so run away quickly.
The three of them quickly got in. Aldai, who was walking at the front, patted the rock wall again and immediately opened another five-meter-long cave.
When Aldai took the third shot, the magma rushing from both ends had successfully joined forces and began to chase up along the entrance of the hole dug by Aldai.
Aldai deliberately made the cave slightly tilted, which could delay the lava from catching up. At the same time, he would also drill a hole sideways from time to time to prevent the rising heat of the lava from harming the three of them.
She even goes back to using the fossils as mud to collapse the back of the cave in an attempt to stop the rising lava.
But who knows how high the pressure of the lava is. These measures only slow down the rise of the lava a little, but cannot stop it at all.
The speed at which Aldai was digging forward obviously could not keep up with the speed at which the lava was rising.
What's even more unfortunate is that, perhaps due to unstable strata, the newly excavated cave began to collapse after the three of them walked in. Large and small rocks fell down, and the three of them could only run away with their heads in their hands.
The lava has already reached behind the buttocks. In the dust and gravel in the sky, the three figures were completely submerged. Finally, the lava filled in, leaving no gaps...
(End of chapter)