203. No hostility?
The main hall where the Golden Knight is located was originally named "Central Hall" on the map in the game.
Here, it is the area that controls the distribution of all the energy of the entire Water Demon Vault, and it can be said that it is the most important area of the entire Water Demon Vault. Therefore, it is naturally a very normal thing to place a golden knight with the peak combat power of the upper golden peak here.
Originally, Sean was ready to fight to the death here.
In terms of combat power alone, it would not be difficult for several of them to join forces to suppress the Golden Knight. At least it makes Sean feel much easier than dealing with the twin knights, so since the battle with the guard warriors, Sean has found that the most suitable battle for their group is to rely entirely on combat power, rather than to compete tacit understanding or technical work of combat skills.
However, when Sean and the others opened the heavy iron door of the central hall, the strong smell of blood came to their nostrils like the old wine in the opening altar.
Choked so much that almost everyone couldn't help but take a few steps backwards.
Even people like Harding and Rottikabas, who can be said to have come out of the sea of corpses and blood, also stretched out their hands to cover their noses.
The old lich, the only one, seemed to be excited—there was a tone of intoxication and satisfaction in its peculiar skeaky laughter. In his eyes, the more corpses there are, the more materials they can use, and no lich would reject this great opportunity to collect materials. It's like in the corridor before, if it weren't for the blood sprayed everywhere that stained the red and the smell of blood condensed, I'm afraid no one would know what a tragic massacre broke out there.
As for the remains of the corpses?
It has long been taken away by this old lich.
For the Lich. Any space storage utensils are redundant, and they do so directly into the bone plane if they want to stack them. Of course, this also refers to under normal circumstances. For some of the more precious and very special things, the lich is still accustomed to carrying around and collecting, so occasionally you can still see the lich with space storage equipment on the body swaggering around the city.
However, the old lich who was traveling with Sean and the others was very clean.
"The Golden Knight has been destroyed." Sean pinched his nose and walked forward, then glanced at the situation in the central hall, and his expression was very calm. "It seems that the biggest loss in the early stage should be when the Golden Knight enters the P2 stage, and there are not too many people killed in the later P3 and P4 stages."
"What are P2, P3 and P4?" The old lich asked curiously.
However, although its tone was very curious, the movements of its hands were not slow at all.
Under his manipulation. All the corpses in the entire central hall soon began to decompose, and all the flesh and blood tissue turned into puddles of black water, which looked even more disgusting when mixed with the dark red blood on the ground, and the foul smell was not something normal people could stand. Just a slight smell of it makes me feel nauseous and dizzy.
Poisonous fog of carrion.
It is also a means used by necromancers as a trap and to prevent normal lifeforms from entering their area.
When all the flesh and blood turned into puddles of foul-smelling black water. All that was left was a piece of white bone. Soon, the bones began to levitate into the air automatically, and then began to be pieced together into a complete skeleton, many of which lit up with a faint blue flame in their originally empty eye sockets after they were put together.
These skeletons are all warriors who can already be regarded as having a rank when they are alive, so even if they are catalyzed into skeletons after death, they are not ordinary skeleton soldiers, but skeleton warriors belonging to the second order. Of course, the Skeleton Warrior is just a general term. In fact, depending on the weapon used, it will be divided into skeleton swordsmen, skeleton spearmen, skeleton archers, and so on.
As for those with dark blue flames burning in their eye sockets. It is a third-order skeleton warrior.
Compared to the second-order skeleton warriors, the fighting skills of the skeleton warriors are higher than the former, and the bone hardness of the body is also stronger, which is not easy to destroy. In the system of the undead legion, the third-order undead creatures have officially broken away from the concept of cannon fodder, and the legion composed of third-order undead creatures has almost the same combat power as the regular army of the human world, of course, the specific combat power is still determined according to the type of the undead legion.
At this time, more than two hundred skeletons were awakened in the central hall under the summoning of the old lich, nearly half of which were third-order skeleton warriors, it was difficult to collect such good materials in the outside world, and it was no wonder that this old lich was so excited and happy. Because counting the ones collected in the corridor before, this old lich just ran out of that enclosed space and formed an army of nearly five hundred in size, but compared to the three undead legions that it carefully prepared in the space, this newly formed legion can only be regarded as cannon fodder.
However, considering that both the Lich and the Dragon share the same trait - the latter likes to collect all kinds of treasure, while the former simply likes to collect wholesale materials for the undead, which is still a bit of a difference - in any case, the old Lich certainly doesn't dislike his own materials, the better.
So Sean simply didn't answer the old lich's question, just frowned and asked, "You created a carrion poison mist here, how can we go in and search." ”
"Do you think there's anything else you can search for here?" The old lich looked at the dilapidated grounds in the central hall where everything that could be taken away had been demolished, and asked curiously, "Look at that golden knight, the gold dust has been scraped off, I don't think there is anything else here for you to take away." ”
"The Pearl of the Deep must have been taken away as well, right?" Rottikabas asked.
Sean glanced at the puppet who had been thrown alone in the middle of the field, and the gold paint on his body had almost been scraped clean, and he also had a headache.
According to the situation in the game, after defeating the Golden Knight, the Pearl of the Deep will automatically drop. In this real world, even if the Pearl of the Deep doesn't drop automatically, it can definitely be found as long as you fumble around this puppet, so it's very likely that this thing has already fallen into the hands of Main. And if Sean and the others want to go to the Mermaid City, then they must use the power of the Pearl of the Deep Sea, which means that Sean still can't get around the tricky enemy of Main after all.
"Probably." Sean sighed, "But we are also looking for the entrance to the Mermaid City, and the rest of the place has basically been explored, and nothing has been found at all, and the rest of the place is only here and the Twin Knights, so we still have to go in and see the situation." ”
"It's a nuisance." The old lich muttered discontentedly, and then suddenly pulled out a bottle from his body—presumably from the plane of bones.
A low, hoarse voice came from under the old lich's robes, and in the blink of an eye, the carrion poisonous mist that filled almost the entire central hall quickly turned into a purple-black tornado, and then whistled towards the old lich. Just when everyone was slightly frightened, they saw that the tornado suddenly swirled and flew towards the black bottle held by the old lich, the closer it was to the mouth of the bottle, the smaller the tornado became, until finally the poisonous mist in the sky was received into the bottle.
At this time, everyone saw that the bottle in the old lich's hand was different from the test-tube type glass bottle that is common today, but a miniature vial similar to the style of a Ding pot. Compared to the test tube glass bottle, this bottle is slightly larger, and the surrounding patterns are engraved with strange magic patterns, and at this time, these magic patterns are emitting a golden shimmer, with faint magic fluctuations.
"I've got you." After the old lich put away the poisonous mist, he threw the bottle in his hand to Sean, "This is called the Demon Pattern Bottle, which was made by the ancestors of those arcanists in the current Floating Fortress, and was originally used to hold divine blood, and then it was used to hold other strange things when there was really no divine blood. …… Well, it's the predecessor of the magic scroll, anyway, this thing is too expensive to make, so the magic scroll was born. However, compared to one-time consumables like magic scrolls, this thing can be filled with spells that have already been cast, but only one spell can be filled at a time. ”
Hearing the old lich's words, Sean's eyes lit up, and it was a rare treasure to be able to put in the magic that had already been cast. Even if it can only contain one type of magic, if used well, it can be used as a killer weapon or hole card, after all, its potential value is immunity to a magic attack.
"Can the forbidden spell be installed too?" Sean asked with some excitement.
"Forbidden spells?" The old lich's eyes swept over Sean, and then he laughed strangely, "I'm afraid you're dead before you can put it in." …… But this thing can only be used by magicians, and you who charge in front with a sword can be your meat shield. ”
"Uh......" Sean choked for a moment, then said helplessly, "You're so humorous." ”
"Boom." The old lich let out another strange laugh.
However, after hearing that this thing could not be used by himself, Sean carefully asked the old lich about the use of the magic bottle before handing it to Cecilia, after all, only Cecilia could use this thing. However, in the process of consulting the old lich, Sean also quietly opened the eyes of truth, but on the old lich's body, Sean only saw a layer of orange light.
It's not like neutrality, there's no sign of friendship, and it's not like hostility.
Rather, it seems to have a suspicious scrutiny.
Sean guessed that maybe all lichs were like this, so he didn't pay much attention to it. After all, whether it was in the game or in this world, it was the first time to communicate with the lich in front of you, and it was probably thankful that this lich didn't shout to make them into undead creatures as soon as they met.
"Oh, we've got guests coming." Just as Sean handed the vial to Cecilia and told her to put it away carefully, the old lich suddenly spoke. (To be continued......)