my age of magic

Chapter 363
In fact, it takes a lot of magic power to maintain the stealth effect of the shadow state of four people. Even if my magic recovery ability is five times faster than others, such continuous consumption makes me only last for a quarter of an hour at most.When we are in the shadow state, our bodies are like ethereal black mist, but they will still be intertwined with each other. We can walk slowly in this state, and we must reach the safe zone as soon as possible.

Of course, in this state, hiding in the shadows is considered complete invisibility. If there is strong light shining over, the shadow outline formed by our body can still be clearly displayed.I signaled everyone to leave the dungeon as soon as possible. The head guard had no intention of leaving at all. He was going to smoke us out of the ventilation hole with ignited wolf dung.

I don't know how many people will be killed by this bad idea. Once the smoke is ignited in the dungeon, the entire two-story basement may be useless.The thick smoke will squeeze out all the air, and then the choking smoke will travel along the entire underground ventilation network and reach every corner of the basement, leaving those who have no time to go out in the basement and dungeon. , all at risk of suffocation.

Su’s wheelchair was left in the cell. I put her on my back and supported her soft, round legs with both hands. Her leg was broken at the knee, and she sat in the wheelchair all year round. There are obvious signs of muscle atrophy on her two big white legs, and she still feels very soft and very elastic when held in the hand. Her body is very light, and I don't seem to feel it when I carry her on my back due weight.

She quietly wrapped her arms around my neck with both hands, and exhaled like blue. It was an indescribable feeling. I felt that Su in the shadow state was in a very good state. Those shadow elements were like countless moths. , rushing towards her body from all directions, every shadow element rushing into her body, she is like a magnet, absorbing countless shadow elements in this dark space, her body is constantly trembling, as if her whole body chills.

I don't know what's wrong with her, she looks a little uncomfortable, there is a guard standing in the corridor not too far from here, he is looking around carefully, although he can't see us hiding in the shadows at the moment .But I know that as long as we talk, our whereabouts will be revealed.

Originally, I wanted to break through layers of defenses, reach the ground again, and sneak out while taking advantage of the chaos in the manor, but something happened to Su, so I immediately changed my focus, I must find a safe place as soon as possible, and escape from the shadow state. It seems that Su's situation is not very good.

When we were about to reach the end of the dungeon, far enough away from the guard, I asked Su worriedly: "Su, what's wrong with you, do you feel any special now?"

Su was a little nervous, she raised her head from behind me, looked left and right, and then said to me cautiously: "I don't feel anything special, it's just that I suddenly feel that my whole body has become full of power, like... like ... are praying!"

"Pray?" I asked with some surprise.

"En!" Su replied affirmatively, "It's like praying."

The essential difference between a priest apprentice and a magic apprentice is that a magic apprentice can awaken the magic pool in his body and feel the power of the four elements.And apprentice priests recite holy prayers all day long, gain the protection of the gods, and at the same time comprehend the power of the sacred elements possessed by the gods.Then if the magic apprentice uses meditation to accumulate mana, then the priest apprentice uses prayer to restore the sacred power that he has consumed.

I don't understand why after Su entered the shadow state, it actually felt like she was praying. She must have felt the power in her body revive.

Annie noticed that my face was a little ugly, so she interjected and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, the shadow state is two states that are completely opposite to the sacred power. To be reasonable, some priests will feel a little uncomfortable in the shadow state. After a long time, it will even damage their own sacred power. I am worried about Su's body. It's going to be uncomfortable!" I explained.

Su felt a little sad, lay on my back, put his pointed chin on his shoulder and said with some disappointment: "Jia, if I tell you, I can no longer feel those divine powers! I am a devout believer , but now I feel that I should be abandoned by the gods, I can't feel those divine powers, and I haven't been able to use healing for a long time!"

"In the future, maybe I won't be able to be a priest anymore, will you look down on me?" Su was a little frustrated, and I felt some moisture on my shoulders.

"How come? When we were good friends, you were not an apprentice priest, nor was I a magic apprentice, but we were already friends at that time, we were friends before, we are friends now, and we will be friends in the future." I affirmed to Su. explain.

We didn't go up, although we could reach the basement by going up, but Su's situation forced me to choose another more secure way out, that is to enter the cave.

This is Ignaz's laboratory. Dozens of hell-type plants have been cultivated in the entire wide cave. Plants from the hell world such as black scorched wood, Amanita muscaria, Amanita vine, golden branch, hoarfrost flower, etc., all grow in specific glass containers, and even the laboratory here simulates the environment of a crater. Hot sulfurous gas spewed out of a crucible from time to time, and the black charred wood grew around the vent of the crucible.

The same as when we came, the entire laboratory was empty and very quiet. The potion master Ignaz, who only heard his name but never saw him, was not here. We boldly checked the surroundings, and those big red-eyed bats were locked up. In a separate cave, the top of the cave with an area of ​​more than ten square meters is densely packed with dozens of red-eyed bats, large and small. They seem to be very afraid of the spider web at the entrance of the cave, and no bat dares to break through. Spider webs flew out.

The area of ​​the entire cave is very wide, and there are many oval glass bottles placed on the flat places around them. In addition to some weird life embryos, there are also some biological specimens from the hell world in those glass bottles. Being soaked in a glass bottle, there didn't seem to be any vital signs.

I'm still worried about one question, where are the hellhounds bred in the cave?

"Where is this place?" Annie looked at the whole laboratory curiously and asked.

On the contrary, Su looked more familiar. Hearing her sister's question, she quickly replied: "This is the laboratory of the owner of the manor, Ignaz. He wants to breed hellish plants that can grow in the sun, but it seems that recently In the past few years, the most successful one he has bred is Ye Meiluo, as long as it is not exposed to the sun, it can basically survive. Besides, there are almost no hell-type plants that can resist the sun's rays!"

"Sue, have you been here?" Anne asked her.

"En..." Su hesitated for a moment, and said hesitantly. "He is a very paranoid scholar of magic pharmacy. His experiments are all blasphemy to the priests in the temple. A few days ago, Cindy and I were looking for a way to escape from here. , came here by accident, and unintentionally learned of his secrets."

Su leaned on my back to guide the way, and led the three of us to a remote corner of the laboratory. I saw a black mist monster sealed in an electric cage, looking at us curiously. Some are active, moving constantly in the cage, trying to attract our attention, it must have regarded us as its kind, this kind of lowly creature in hell is generally not very IQ, but it uses weird Known for its rarity and rarity, this black mist monster is a master at lurking. If it is not trapped in an electric cage, it usually lurks in the dark, and few people can catch it.

When Su turned his head and looked over curiously, the black mist monster was trembling with fright instead.

At this time, my magic power was almost exhausted, so I revoked the shadow state, and the bodies of several people slowly emerged from the black mist. The black mist monster roared at us twice angrily, and its actions seemed to want to Expressing my rage, actually our audio is not in the same area at all, I just can't hear it.

Me, Annie, and Cindy recovered from the shadow state, but only Su still maintained the shadow state, but her shadow state was different from when she was invisible. She was lying on my back, all over her body. It was pitch black, and I could see a lot of shadowy elements surrounding her body.

There are many shadow elements floating around Su, and only a magician like me with super magic perception can see them. Others can only see that Su is still in the shadow state, and his whole body is trapped in darkness.

"Hehehe, it's really good..." The voice came from the direction of the dungeon entrance. The voice was a little hoarse and weak. We looked past the voice and saw a magician wearing a demon robe hobbling down the steps. His face is a bit slender, with a paper-thin lip under a curved hooked nose, the color of his lips is a little blue, and his big deep eyes are full of bloodshot eyes, but at this time he looks a little excited, his eyes blink Looking at Su without blinking, he was actually very excited.

Surrounding him are three strong hellhounds. These three hellhounds are much stronger than the ones I have seen before. Their bodies are all stained with blood. The light was shining, but the whole body seemed to be crumbling, it must have been seriously injured.

"Ignaz?" I asked Su who was behind me in a questioning tone.

"Yes!" Su's voice trembled a little.

"It's a perfect shadow body, isn't it! I didn't expect that I made this kind of legendary anti-magic medicine. It seems that those magic medicine formulas of the demons still have some uses!" He limped away Going to the side of the test bench, he naturally sat on the chair in front of the test bench, and glanced at us with the attitude of a master. He slowly took a blue test tube from the test bench, and put the cork on it. Pulling it out, he raised his head and drank the blue liquid in the test tube.

After a while, his pale and blue face appeared much ruddy, and his figure was very tall, but a bit thinner.

"Su, for you, having such a friend is really a lucky thing, but for your friends, having a friend like you is not so good." Ignaz's face suddenly turned cold. It seemed to be covered with a layer of ice, but at this time, I took out something like a bottle of red healing potion in my arms, but those red liquids were constantly churning up and down, and I suddenly felt the pain of this liquid. Very familiar, it seems to be... the blood of the devil.

Before I could confirm it, Annie on the side took a big step forward.

"It was you who made my sister look like this?" Anne had already tasted some of the flavor in Ignaz's words at this time. Although Ignaz didn't mention the matter clearly, it was enough to make Anne furious. She stood up with clenched fists and stood in front of everyone. She seemed to tense all the muscles in her body, as if she was ready to make a move at any time.As soon as she made such a violent movement, some faint blood stains leaked from the wound on her abdomen.

Annie's injury has healed a lot. After all, hydrotherapy is a very good healing magic. Although it is not as effective as the sacred "healing" of the priests in the temple, the advantage of hydrotherapy is that it can stimulate the healing speed near the wound. In the next few hours, the new flesh on the wound will grow rapidly. I treated Anne's abdominal wound in a timely and effective manner, and then used cotton thread to suture her wound, so that the pressure in the abdominal cavity would not be completely relieved. The effect of the wound on the wound will make her feel better. At this moment, her slow walking is no longer a problem.

But she is obviously more curious about me!Yes, no matter who it is, it is difficult for anyone to accept it. A boy from the neighbor’s family who grew up watching this can almost lock himself in the attic and never go out of the attic. He is introverted and never wants to communicate with others. Now he is just Nearly four months after the awakening ceremony, the boy miraculously learned some magic, and also possessed many survival skills, such as these first aid techniques and the like.

Is it true that the trip to Xinliu Valley will change people so much?Annie thought so in her heart.

However, Su's body seemed to be a bit wrong. Her body was trembling violently, and she escaped from the shadow form in a moment. She looked a little excited, struggling to fall off my back. She should be kneeling on the ground, trembling violently, breathing very rapidly, stretching out her hand to Ignaz with a painful expression, her eyes have lost focus, and her expression is full of complicated longing, just like Ignaz There is endless temptation in Zizi's hand: "Master Ignaz, give me the potion!"

"I think, if you call me master, I will give it a little more pleasure!" Ignaz sneered sinisterly, and when he spoke, his eyes stared at us like poisonous snakes. An inexplicable taste showed the pride in his heart.

Su looked very painful, the long white dress was spread on the ground, she didn't care at all even if it was covered with muddy water, she stared obsessively at the red blood of the devil, buried her head between her hands in humiliation, Shuangcun trembled slightly, but Finally, with a crying sound, he said in a low voice: "Master."

Annie, Cindy, I, and I were all stunned at this moment. Su crawled forward a little bit on the ground, and the broken legs were quickly worn away by the hard stone, leaving a trace of blood.

"Look, Su, the Shadow Body I made with devil's blood and poppy flower juice is all for you." Ignaz took out a delicate silver knife from his pocket and threw it at Su. In front of him, he continued to say in that devilish tone: "As long as you kill the three people in front of you, I will give you another taste of the delicious taste of this bottle of Shadow Body, that wonderful feeling like a dream It will make you fascinated, come on, don't hesitate, kill them!"

"I don't!" Su finally broke down and cried bitterly, it seemed that she was enduring great suffering in her heart.

And I finally understood why Su lost her divine power, because she drank the blood of demons. In Willow Valley, countless goblins and goblins had consumed the blood of demons and sold their souls in order to gain great power. It seemed that the reason Su could not use the holy prayer spell was because her soul was no longer pure.

But even though she was suffering like this, even though she had been abandoned by God like a fallen angel, she was still fighting against her inner demons, and she did not lose her last sanity.

Ignaz looked a little proud, raised his head and said to Annie: "You have worked so hard to come here, don't you think so! In fact, it is the person you plan to save, who doesn't want to leave here at all, haha, but you still don't hesitate at all The price rushes in, this matter, just think about it, it's funny!"

The next moment, Su's entire body finally turned dark again, unexpectedly automatically entering the shadow form.

"Ah, so this is the 'Shadow Body', what a perfect elemental form! Does it have infinite power? I still have a volume of 'Dark Prayer' here, maybe you can try to learn it! Later, You are slowly telling me how it feels to enter the shadow form, now, go and kill those friends around you, don't say no to me again, you know that my patience has never been high..."

Ignaz was still chattering, but suddenly, the pupils of his eyes widened, and his face was full of fear. He howled at the top of his voice, as if his throat was about to burst.

The next moment, a blood-colored hexagram magic circle appeared from under Su's body, slowly floating in the air like a spider web, and under Su's magic spell, it turned into the image of a vampire from the undead clan, even more so. What's scary is that the vampire was holding the silver knife in its hand, and it flew towards Ignaz in an instant. The whole vampire hugged Ignaz like a big bat. After a pause, he raised the silver knife in his hand, and stabbed Ignaz hard in the heart.

"Fear of Death" and "Embrace of the Vampire"

The names of these two shadow magic skills suddenly came to my mind, and I was thinking: Could this be the skill Su is using now?After the vampire image killed Ignaz with a single knife, it turned around and started chasing the three hellhounds. It hugged one of the hellhounds with its big nihilistic hands. After a while, the hellhound was covered in blood of lava fire. Completely dried up, the dog's carcass was thrown on the ground casually, scaring the other two hellhounds to flee in a hurry...

Ignaz fell to the ground, not much blood flowed from his body, and the bottle of forbidden magic potion of 'Shadow Body' in his hand was also smashed, and those potions quickly seeped into the cracks in the stone.He raised his head with a pale face, looked at Su in confusion, and asked her weakly: "You will die without the 'body of darkness', don't you fear death?"

Su fell to the ground, looking at the empty bottle obsessively, when he heard Ignaz's question, he said without hesitation: "I'm not afraid!"

These were the last words Ignaz said to Su before he closed his eyes: "Maybe there will still be demon blood in the Grimm Empire, but it is definitely a rare magic material that cannot be found. I don't think you can get it." Endure it until the day you find the devil's blood, hehe, you ruined your own life with your own hands, cherish every second of time, while your heart is still beating..."

(End of this chapter)