Chapter 229: The Mysterious Underground Palace
The vision kept spinning, and An Yi's finger fell into the cracked hole under the sand like a rolling gourd. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info then the field of view no longer rotates, as there is no reference object, and there is only darkness in the field of vision.
If there is such a thing as a tumbling skill in the world of the brave, it will definitely be upgraded several levels in a row based on the encounter just now.
[Warning: You have bruises]
The system prompt is also frantically swiping the screen, as if An Yizhi may hang up because of too many bruises in the next second.
Rolling and rolling, I suddenly felt empty behind me, and then fell to the bottom with a thud.
Thanks to the sand that fell before him, it formed a relatively soft gentle slope to cushion the impact of the fall, otherwise he would have to fall to his death.
Thanks to the 4-point constitution that is not weak, thanks to the Sunshine Vitality Charm for adding maximum health, thanks to the mage armor and shield that covers it, and thanks to the Feather Fall Technique...... There's no need to thank you for this.,I didn't have time to use it.,You can't use the Feather Fall Technique when you can only cast spells with one hand.。
"it!"
Before he could get up, he felt two heavy objects hit his stomach and chest respectively, and he held back his breath that had just recovered.
"Who! Something touches my ass! ”
"Huh? Why is the underneath soft? ”
"Because Lao Tzu is down there! You two get me up quickly! ”
Warm nephrite in the arms...... Fart!
Falling from such a high place, even if you fall on the water, you can break bones, let alone two large living people.
At this time, the two NPC girls realized that they had just almost killed their teammates, and they hurriedly searched for the sound to help Ann Yizhi up.
Tap. John, you're tugging on my legs! ”
Looking at the multiple fractures on the state panel, I want to cry without tears, damn, if this is placed on the cliff of reality, I will be disabled.
John is completely invisible in the dark, so it could only be her and not Elph, who has dark vision.
"Hey, hey, hey"
John chuckled dryly and reached for the healing scroll in his bag from memory.
"Illumination!"
With a ball of light on his head, at least he got rid of the state of reaching out and not seeing his five fingers.
An pointed to the top of where they had fallen, and the hole was gradually filled in by the quicksand, and it felt as if the blue sky had been buried by the yellow sand.
He heard the chirping of birds, and saw Hela burrow in and land on his shoulder before the hole closed completely. The action touched the bruise, causing him to grin again.
"What is this place?"
As if to ease the embarrassment, Elph asked, looking around.
"No matter where it is, it's not marked on the map anyway"
Ann gritted his teeth and took out the Sunshine Vitality Talisman that had just finished charging, anyway, he would first heal the place where the sternum was smashed by Elph, because of injuries such as fractures, his success rate of casting spells had dropped to 30% at this time.
"It looks like a man-made space, not like a natural cave"
Then the light of the light spell, John touched the wall and said, the tentacles were relatively smooth and flat, and the distribution was regular, which is certainly not the case in natural caves.
At this time, An Yizhi also completed the emergency treatment, and with John's healing scroll, at least the success rate of casting the spell was increased to 60%, which was barely enough.
"Dancing Light Technique!"
【Skill use failed, please try again】
An Yi fingered: "......"
Just finished speaking, it was barely enough, is this the rhythm of slapping the face?
Releasing the Dancing Light Technique, four white balls of light flew along the wall, and were finally placed on the ceiling by Anyi, illuminating the surrounding environment.
It is a boxy space, about 100 square meters, made of pure stone, with a heavy ceiling supported by several pillars at the corners, where they fall right in the middle of the room.
"There are four roads...... Well, it's three of a kind."
A stone door could be seen on each side of the square room, but the one facing them was sealed with rock.
An Yizhi cautiously walked over to check, and found that the traces of these stones were very old, and they were not caused by the explosion that had just occurred.
"I hope this door doesn't lead to an exit, or we'll be trapped"
"What then? Waiting for rescue? I remember that there was a distress mode on the badge, and the search and rescue personnel could find us quickly according to the coordinates."
Before it was determined whether he was trapped or not, it must have been John who was the first to be coaxed......
"Slow down, don't use it yet"
Ann pointed to stop John, and he suddenly realized something very important.
In the background of the script, this island was originally inhabited by a powerful mage, not to mention where he went, after the Three Towers Alliance found here, because of the particularity of the island's mystery, it was used as a testing ground by them.
Everything that can be found on the island by the first batch of people who went to the island must have been taken away, and it is estimated that there will be nothing good left, but this place is different!
Ann looked down excitedly and walked around, looking at John and Elf confused.
"What are you looking for? Did something fall off? ”
"Footprints"
Ann replied to John without raising a finger.
"Footprints?"
With her adaptability, she couldn't guess Ann's intentions at all, but Elph was worthy of being a tree elf living in the forest, proficient in tracking skills, and she said in surprise:
"Could it be that no one from the Three Towers Alliance has been here?!"
"Nope! Definitely not! ”
An Yizhi said excitedly, he had just turned around and found no footprints, if the explorers of the Three Towers Alliance had been here recently, it would be impossible not to leave any traces.
And they didn't come, which shows ......
An pointed as if he saw a treasure trove beckoning to him.
Normally, only princes and nobles and mages built dungeons, the former to continue to enjoy the blessings underground after death, and the latter to avoid all kinds of troubles.
As we all know, the study of magic is a very long and quiet business, and mages are forced to find uninhabited places to study magic in the face of the increasing size and number of human settlements. Compared to the time-consuming and laborious construction of the Mage Tower, it is obviously much easier to dig the dungeon with magic, and it is well concealed and not easy to be discovered.
As a result, many of the dungeons that exist today were once laboratories or shelters for a mage to study magic.
However, the lifespan of mortals is too short, and the study of magic is an extremely time-consuming project, except for a few mages who have transformed themselves into lichs, many mages will die of old age in their own dungeons, accompanied by the research results, until future generations will discover them.
An Yizhi estimated that eighty percent of the cabins in the center of the island were built by the Three Towers Alliance later, and fooling the candidates into saying that the mage who arranged the mystery lock originally lived there, which is nonsense at all!
Just look at Jascord and Nikolai, the more powerful the mage, the more space they need to study spells and experiment with new things, and it is impossible to do it with just a wooden house, even if the wooden house is inflicted with a space expansion spell.
Therefore, this dungeon that has never been visited by outsiders is likely to be the real residence of that mage!
It's no wonder that whoever seems to be okay would dig through such a thick layer of sand and soil to find the underground palace below, if it weren't for An Yizhi and them coming in along the hole where the giant antlion was blown up, it is estimated that no one would ever find out here.
Excitement is excitement, but Ann knows that the mage's residence is not so easy to enter, and the interior is likely to be filled with various well-known spell traps. It is also possible that the original owner has become a lich and stays in the dungeon to continue studying spells.
Of course, the latter possibility is not high, if nothing else, Jescord must have been to the island, if there is an extremely powerful lich hidden in the dungeon, he cannot not detect it, that is to say, they only need to guard against the remaining spell traps, another possibility...... Even if they were on guard, it was useless, they were not enough to beat the lich.
"I found a sign, who do you see is impressed?"
Elph beckoned the two of them over and pointed to the marker on the wall.
It was a mark of three triangles, somewhat like a nuclear and biochemical marker, but the triangles were arranged longitudinally, with a standard circle on the outermost circle and some runes carved into the periphery. But because of the age, those runes with small characters have been blurred, not to mention An Yizhi, the second knife who has only learned this language for a long time, even the native-born NPC can't understand what is written.
The marks that appear in the mage's dungeon are by no means graffiti drawn randomly, usually a mark represents the identity of the mage, for example, the mark on An Yizhi's forehead is from Nigu, and those who know it know at a glance that An Yizhi has a lot to do with Nigulai. So figuring out where the markers come from will be of great help to their future explorations.
"Hela"
"Wait a minute, I'll check"
It seems that this symbol is really rare, and usually any Hela is checked in seconds, and this time it takes a little time to search the database.
"I seem to be a little impressed......"
John frowned and said that the symbol became more and more familiar, and she was sure that she had seen it.
"By the way, Ann Yizhi, did you have the magic book I gave you last time? It seems to have this mark in that book."
"Really?"
How come I don't remember?
John's spellbook was the side quest reward that helped John clear the Tower of the Stars, and Ann read it carefully from beginning to end, and he didn't remember it having this mark on it.
Suspiciously, he rummaged through his dimensional pockets, and soon he found the magic book that had been turned into an ornament after learning his skills.
"Look, here"
John removed the cover of the spellbook and pointed to the cover.
It was a very unobtrusive sign, it was not visible at all in the dark spots, its color was almost exactly the same as the cover, and the clues could only be found when you touched it, and the material of the logo was different from the material of the cover of the magic book.
"Do you know the origin of this magic book?"
John shook his head:
"The magic books at home have been collected by the clansmen from generation to generation, and it is estimated that the origin can only be found by going back to check the records."
John's House of Cooks lasted for thousands of years, and it is very difficult to determine the origin of what has been collected by the clan for generations over such a long period of time.
At this time, Hela seemed to have found something in the database, and she whispered in Ann's ear:
"The master, this is the sign of one of the eight masters"
"One of the Eight Masters? 1300 years ago!? ”