Chapter 193 The Flaming Skull
All adventurers who pass the test of the Sphinx will be rewarded with their protective spell, and Brian is no exception.
The protective spell is a temporary gain state that will disappear on its own once the time is up. It is also a weak supernatural gift with a wide range of acquisition channels.
For example, if a spellcaster discovers a secret about magic energy in the spell book of a deceased archmage, and uses it as a magic spell to infuse himself, he will have the opportunity to obtain some kind of blessing and protection. curse.
Similarly, talismans can be obtained by solving the Sphinx's riddles or drinking from the magic fountain.
At the same time, legendary creatures such as ancient golden dragons and unicorns sometimes cast protective spells on their allies.
Some explorers will also be affected by magic when they discover a long-lost location soaked in magic. Under the influence of this place, a magic spell is obtained.
Brian looked at his status and found that he had received an "anti-death barrier" spell that was immune to any type of instant death spell and lasted for 2 hours.
Thinking of the enemy he would face next, he suddenly felt that this was definitely the protective spell he needed most right now.
He stopped thinking about it and stepped into the ruins of this floating city with Helister.
The city fell into ruins thousands of years ago and is now surrounded by sand dunes.
Its facades and buildings are partially buried, and apart from a prominent mausoleum in the center, there are no intact buildings on the city's surface.
Looking more like a cemetery, it consists of a series of abandoned stone walls sticking out of the sand and brick streets exposed in the wind. War and yellow sand destroyed the city and its inhabitants.
The hissing of the sandstorm in the distance, but the silence here is eerie.
Although it was silent, Brian still felt as if he was being watched secretly.
Faced with this feeling, he briefly communicated with Herlist through telepathy, and then walked along a road in the ruins towards the mausoleum where the Great Arcanist was buried.
About half an hour, just when they were about to arrive at the mausoleum, Helist seemed to notice something, her eyes flickered, and she suddenly stopped.
She stood on the soft yellow sand, facing the wind, her feet not touching the dust.
Brian naturally stopped like her, because he had already noticed the abnormality around him through his specialty "tremor perception".
When his eyes fell on the sand not far ahead, just as he expected, as the quicksand sank, it turned into a funnel-like vortex, and the rotten skeleton arms seemed to be bigger than this middle finger. The same, breaking out of the quicksand, followed by the rotting skull and the fire of the soul dancing in the eye sockets.
In the blink of an eye, a dozen skeleton warriors with tattered cloth hanging on their bodies and looking dilapidated came out, shaking their heads.
They opened and closed their jagged mouths, making strange clicking sounds, and rushed towards Brian and the two with stiff steps.
Looking at these skeletons, Brian did not take action immediately, and at the same time, he stopped Heliste from taking action.
He stood there and looked at the group of skeletons carefully.
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 awaken themselves from a place filled with death and destruction. They may also be disturbed by necromantic energy, or activated by corrupt evil.
But some spellcasters who are proficient in the necromancy school can also summon an army of skeletons by manipulating dead corpses.
They use negative energy to awaken the skeleton, infuse dark energy into the bones of the skeleton, connect its joints and reassemble the broken limbs.
This power can drive the skeleton and allow it to repeat some of the behaviors in life using a crude way of thinking.
Furthermore, the bodies and souls of the skeletons reorganized by the Necromancer will be repaired to a certain extent. After the hatred of the undead spirit is removed, they will also be strengthened, and even awaken their self-awareness and move towards the profession. It is also possible for levels to develop and become stronger.
After thinking about these issues, he quickly used his keen sense of magic to detect that these skeletons were definitely awakened by the Blue Dragon Lich.
This means that when he and Helister step into the ruins, they are likely to be discovered.
——"Burning Hands!"
Brian no longer wasted time, took out the flaming staff, pointed it at the group of skeletons, and activated the spell in the staff.
In an instant, a faintly shining ruby on the top of the staff burst out with bright light, spewing out a hot cone of flame, covering the group of swaying skeletons.
When the flames swept over the skeletons, it was like fire igniting dry wood, making a crackling sound and mercilessly burning the group of skeletons.
The reminders to gain 10 experience points kept jumping in Brian's system bar.
As the group of skeletons were instantly killed, Brian discovered that the same abnormality as before appeared all around the tomb.
Hundreds of skeleton arms stretched out from the quicksand, moving their finger bones stiffly, as if to grasp something, and crawled out at extremely fast speeds, rushing towards the two men without fear.
This is just a group of ordinary skeletons, not even a decent corpse demon.
Brian could tell from the rags and almost decayed ornaments left on their skeletons that these skeletons were residents of the floating city when they were alive, but now they have been desecrated by the Blue Dragon Lich.
At the same time, dozens of firelights appeared in the dark sky.
"Jie Jie Jie..."
With the blazing green flames and the crazy echoing laughter, a pair of vicious eyes in the fire locked on them and quickly floated over.
Brian looked up at the sky. After observing carefully for a moment, he discovered that these were a group of skulls without bodies. They were not will-o'-the-wisps, but flaming skulls.
This is the territory patroller that lichs like to make the most.
They used the remains of the dead caster to complete a transformation ritual similar to soul summoning. The resentment remaining in the body of the caster during his lifetime would turn into green fire, spurting out from the skull and turning into burning Flame Skull.
The most important thing is that the immortal transformation allows them to master most of the spells in life, and when releasing spells, they can also ignore the casting materials and casting actions.
While the Flaming Skull was still far away, Brian quickly shared the information about the Flaming Skull with Herlist and asked her not to hold back and clean up the hundreds of skeletons. clean.
After receiving the instruction, the psion summoned his six spiritual crystal servants without hesitation.
Her beautiful eyes, which were obscured by the shadow of the hood, were slightly condensed, and the six spiritual crystal servants simultaneously bloomed with dazzling brilliance.
In an instant, traces of substantial ectoplasmic energy seeped out around hundreds of skeletons.
——"Energy Explosion!"
These terrifying ectoplasmic energies were suddenly transformed into violent flames at the moment Heliste lightly opened her jade lips. Around them, balls of brilliant flames burst out.
In the raging fire, hundreds of skeletons were blown to pieces and debris was everywhere.
Brian was really shocked when he saw what happened at this moment.
Although these were just hundreds of weak undead creatures, the efficiency with which Helister was able to clean them up with just a raise of her hand was still incredible. As a wizard whose strength had reached the legendary realm, he knew that he did not have any confidence that he could destroy so many skeletons like her with just a raise of his hand.
After all, the "Energy Burst" that Helist just cast is just a simple third-level ability. The power and attack range of this ability are actually the same as the caster's "Fireball" There are not many mistakes in technique.
But Helister was able to destroy hundreds of skeletons in an instant with such simple psychic powers.
The reason for this is not only related to the simultaneous display of psychic powers by her six spiritual crystal servants, but she must also have mastered many expertise in amplifying supernatural powers.
With her current strength, she might be able to fight against high-level legends.
No wonder the Silver Moon Dragon Queen did not hesitate to let Yin Yi go out to find her personally in order to win over her.
Even after he arrived at Silver Moon City, he gave five ancient dragon scales as a meeting gift.
Then, he no longer thought about it, and threw the fireball that he had just gathered but failed to find its target at a group of flaming skulls that happened to fly into the attack range.
Following a roar, the group of flaming skulls did not cause any substantial damage except for the wind pressure generated by the fireball, which disrupted the green flames lingering around them.
Brian was not surprised by this situation.
After all, his fireballs were not originally prepared for these Flaming Skulls with extremely high fire resistance.
——"Level 3 power: energy burst!"
He quickly concentrated his energy, used his transformation psychic power, and together with Heliste, headed towards the group of flaming people. The skull launched a new round of attack.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."
As bursts of explosions came from the group of flaming skulls, heads surrounded by green flames exploded in the air like gorgeous fireworks. .
In just one round of psychic bombardment, more than a dozen Flaming Skulls were wiped out.
The most important thing is that this considerate psychic has perfect damage control, always allowing him to complete the final finishing blow.
The challenge level of an ordinary Flaming Skull is at least level 5, and the experience gained is more than 1500, which is much more efficient than farming small skeletons.
——"Fire Ray!"
——"Fireball!"
——"Blazing Spell!"
——"Explosive Flame!"
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At the same time, this group of Flaming Skulls, who had been spell casters in their lifetime, also released their own spells without showing any signs of weakness and launched a counterattack.
Obviously, because the flames of the Flame Skulls continue to burn with flames all over their bodies, they have become more proficient and skilled in the fire spells of the evocation system.
Amid bursts of crazy screams, they were greeted by overwhelming fireballs, rays and gushing flames, sweeping towards them.
Although most of the spells were directed at Helister, Brian still faced a fatal threat.
——"Sixth Ring Spell: Spell Invalid Barrier!"
He recited the spell quickly, and when the attack came, a magic barrier that emitted a faint light and reflected countless secret runes appeared, surrounding him within a three-meter area.
Any fireballs and rays that hit him will cause a ripple on the barrier at the moment they approach, turn into smoke, and dissipate without a trace.
Just when Brian was about to fight back, he suddenly smelled the smell of sulfur in the air.
As if he realized something, he quickly looked up through the thick smoke.
He suddenly discovered that in the dim sky, a flaming skull about two meters in diameter condensed eight fist-sized dark red fireballs in the green flames, floating around it. before, growing in size at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"It turned out to be a meteor explosion!" Looking at the blood-red sky, Brian couldn't help but feel moved.
Obviously, he did not expect that among these enemies, there was also a flaming skull that was transformed into a spellcaster whose strength was at least level 17 during his lifetime.
Otherwise, it would not have been able to release the nine-ring "Meteor Explosion" 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 deep in the ruins has definitely transformed the corpses of most of the arcanists who died during the fall of the floating city into flaming skulls.
However, in such a dangerous situation, it was naturally not the time for him to think about this issue.
Because amid the bursts of weird screams, the Flaming Skull had already thrown two of the eight fireballs towards him.
After Brian conveyed a message to Herister that there was no need to worry, he used his metamagic specialty "Spell Instant" to release the six-ring spell "Anti-Magic Field" in a timely manner.
As an invisible barrier surrounded him, all the magic effects and magic equipment in the space instantly lost their effect. Even the anti-death barrier spell he had just obtained temporarily turned gray.
This feeling is like a person who is playing a game on the computer and suddenly disconnects from the Internet, causing him to lose control of his game character.
For this situation, Brian was naturally mentally prepared and would not make a fuss about it.
Because the space within the anti-magic field barrier is completely unaffected by any magic and magical effects, thus preventing the passage of spells and their effects.
Also, it will prevent any magic items or spells from working within the area.
So just like this, when these two bolides, which had become as big as a washbasin, came into contact with the anti-magic field space surrounding him, they seemed to have encountered some obstacle. Collapse at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Brian calmly observed the disappearing bolide. He knew that with his current strength, the anti-magic field released was not enough to withstand the power of the nine-ring spell.
This is just like water can extinguish fire, but fire can also evaporate water completely.
At the moment when the anti-magic field barrier was crushed, he quickly used his newly restored spellcasting ability to activate his arcane barrier in time, successfully blocking the aftermath of the explosion after the nine-ring spell was greatly weakened, and he was safe and sound. The ground withstood this attack.
This is the level suppression of a high-level caster facing a low-level caster. If the roles of the two sides were swapped, it would be impossible to break the opponent's anti-magic field with his current strength alone.
Seeing that Brian was safe and sound, Heliste, who was standing facing the wind, looked slightly relieved. Then she raised her hand and released a turbulent flow of energy, which completely submerged the remaining Flaming Skulls.
PS: Sorry, I have been looking for a job these days. I will resume normal updates when my job settles down.
(End of this chapter)