Chapter 552 A Dragon
The area of the demiplane cannot be compared with the real plane, and entering the demiplane is not an easy task, especially if you don't enter from the real entrance.
Dog coins like hags have pretty good spell-casting abilities, and are especially good at enchantment and illusion school spells, but what they are good at is actually the conjuration school, and hags do not have this ability.
If they did not enter from outside the academic city, there were only two possibilities.
There are many other entrances to this demiplane. For example, if you look at the battleship Skull Harbor, it may have entered through other entrances.
Another possibility is that the hag used some weird ritual.
A hag's spellcasting ability can only be considered acceptable, but when a group of hags gather together, they will use some rituals that cannot be explained by the existing magic system, including teleportation, predicting the future, and curses.
Regardless of how they got in, creatures like hags don't wander around like adventurers. They must have a plan when they enter the ruins.
To be fair, there are already enough forces in this ruins, and now even the hags are getting involved.
They used the semi-invisible secret eyes above to monitor the sea hags crawling out from the water. They didn't seem to notice the three of them. They just twitched their carrot-like noses when they came ashore and seemed to smell something. odor.
But instead of looking for the source of the smell, they walked towards the darkness on the other side of the battleship.
The invisible sphere protected the three people, and there was a semi-rotten warship in the middle. The sea hag obviously didn't know that there were three people staring at them not far away.
Seeing that the hag was getting further and further away, and if it was further away, it would be beyond the remote control distance of the arcane eye. Aldai gestured to Zora and Neemia, intending to follow up and take a look.
Let's be honest, Aldair came to the ruins obviously for the Demon King's Ring, but up to now he hasn't even seen the Demon King's Ring. Instead, he is very active in other aspects, and he really doesn't do anything serious.
Aldai is like this. Anything that makes her curious will draw her attention away. Besides, if there is no fork in the road along the way, even if they let the hag pass, they will still have to follow the direction where the hag went. It's the way to go.
The controllable distance of the arcane eye is closely related to the level of the caster. Aldai can control the arcane eye to fly within a radius of about 500 meters centered on herself. The three of them followed the sea hag who was walking in front. Just about two hundred meters away, let the secret eye keep following.
After walking for almost ten minutes, the sea hag had left the beach and entered a strange cave next to the sea.
This cave may have been artificially modified, with the middle hollowed out, and even windows can be seen, like a sea-view house next to the sea.
The three of them squatted outside the cave and found a big rock as cover. Aldai dispelled the invisibility sphere and continued to peek with her secret eyes.
On the ground near the cave, you can occasionally see wooden boards poked into the ground. If you look carefully, you will find that those wooden boards are actually used as tombstones.
Mystic Eyes flew into the cave, and soon I saw several skeletons that had turned into bones, but they were not undead.
Obviously, this is the final destination of all the crew members on the Skull Harbor pirate ship.
The hags stood in a circle in the cave. There should have been magic circles carved on the ground in advance. When the last hag returned, a bright blue flame immediately ignited in the center of the circle.
Immediately, the surrounding hags threw small handfuls of herbs, corpses of small animals, and what looked like human internal organs into the flames.
A lot of miscellaneous things were thrown in, and the color of the flame gradually developed from bright blue to dark green, and finally turned completely into emerald green.
The hags raised their hands while throwing them away, and uttered strange sentences in the hag's unique language. From this glance, it was clear that they were performing a ceremony.
As the witch's blasphemous voice became louder and louder, and finally followed by a final sound like a shrill scream, the flame in the middle of the hag suddenly swelled and burned violently.
After a while, the flames returned to calm, and above the flames, a glowing, almost translucent, and more like 3D projection appeared.
It was a mask that looked a lot like the masks used by clowns in stage plays. It was decorated with a teardrop-shaped pattern under one eye. Aldai never thought that she knew everything, but she should be considered well-informed. However, since entering this ruins, she obviously found that her knowledge reserve was seriously insufficient.
Is this mask-shaped pattern a holy symbol of some god?
Have you ever heard that hags believe in gods?
Is there really a God willing to accept this kind of thing as a believer?
A series of questions popped up in her mind, and then Aldai saw one of the sea hags lowering his head towards the mask projection floating above the flames, and his mouth moved as if he was talking.
Of course, the Mystical Eye does not have the function of transmitting sounds, and Aldai wants to know what the hag is doing.
So she pointed to the cave where the hag was, and the three of them approached the cave quietly, listening to what was going on inside.
At this time, there is no need for any secret eyes. The straight-line distance between them and the hag is probably less than ten meters. If you look carefully, you can still hear the sound clearly.
"Did you find anything?"
First I heard a man's voice, and then I heard the ghost woman say in a hoarse voice:
"Not yet. This ruins is much larger than expected."
"When you contact me, you won't just tell me that it's hard to find me, right?"
"Of course not, sir, we are reporting to you specifically because of an emergency."
Oh, it's not a holy symbol, it's some kind of interdimensional communication?
Long-distance magical communication has always been a difficult problem to solve, especially cross-dimensional communication, which is considered impossible by current scholars.
But the magic used by hags is different from the magic technology. Their mysterious magic rituals are something that even magic cannot explain.
If the mystery of the hags' rituals can be solved, perhaps the technology for cross-dimensional and long-distance magical communication will usher in the spring.
With these thoughts in her mind, Aldai heard the hag say again:
"Sir, we found that many people have come to the ruins recently."
"Adventurer?"
"No, they seem to belong to different organizations, but none of them are adventurers."
"Tell me more about it."
"Some of them are mercenaries, but they perform strange rituals. They may be cultists of an evil god. There are also some who have semi-mechanized bodies and dress like priests, but they never use magic. There are also a group of people who are Zhuoer, we don’t dare to get close, we don’t know what their purpose is.”
"Three organizations?"
"Yes, besides that, there are also some sporadic intruders. I think the one we should pay the most attention to is a dragon."
dragon?
What the hell?
There is actually a dragon in this damn place?
(End of this chapter)