Wizard: You can become stronger by living life to the fullest.

Chapter 182-019: The Corridor

Luo Xi picked up a bone fragment from the ground and examined it, his brows furrowing involuntarily.

It wasn't as simple as falling apart; the originally intact skeleton shattered into small pieces of broken bone.

You should know that this skeleton was originally a knight, and the hardness of a knight's bones is extraordinary.

It's not difficult for a wizard to kill a knight, but it's not so easy to damage a knight's bones to this extent.

"What is it? A magic guardian? An alchemical golem? Or some kind of defensive magic?"

Luo Xi stared at the dark stairwell in deep thought. No matter which way it was, it was definitely not easy to deal with, so it was best to be careful.

After a moment's thought, he took out another alchemical puppet from his spatial ring. These were all things he had made while studying alchemy and usually just kept in his spatial ring, but now they came in handy.

Then, he took out a small bottle, inside which burned a ball of ghostly blue flame. This was a ghost, a type of soul fragment.

He then extracted a wisp of spiritual energy and placed it into the bottle, merging it with the ghosts. He then embedded these ghosts into the alchemical golems.

Closing his eyes, Luo Xi calmed his mind, and the next second his consciousness seemed to leave his body and enter the alchemical golem, transforming into an alchemical golem.

【Soul Severing Technique】

This is a wizard-level necromancy spell that can cut off one's own soul energy and project it into a body or some kind of vessel, after which it is as if one has a clone.

Of course, this clone is very short-lived. After all, the energy that Rosie put into this alchemical puppet was only a tiny bit of his soul power, which could probably only last for half an hour at most before it was exhausted.

It is worth mentioning that if the soul energy is strong enough and the vessel found is suitable, this spell can be used to create several clones or backup bodies of oneself, so that one can be resurrected through other bodies after the original body dies unexpectedly.

Transformed into an alchemical puppet, Rosie walked up the spiral staircase.

The crisp sound of footsteps echoed in the quiet laboratory as Rosie walked step by step up the stairs.

The stairs weren't long; in less than a minute, he reached the top and entered the room above, where a corridor awaited him.

The quiet corridor seemed unremarkable, but the moment you stepped into it, something unexpected happened.

The first step is to lengthen it.

The original corridor looked to be only a dozen meters long, but the moment Luo Xi stepped onto the corridor, the entire space began to distort, and the two ends of the corridor rapidly extended to the sides, suddenly stretching to hundreds or even thousands of meters.

Immediately afterwards, a strange, eerie laugh rang out.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"Intruders, intruders, hahaha!"

"Great! Finally, some new, daredevil toys have arrived! Hahaha!"

"Kill him! Kill him!"

The sound came from the wall. When Luo Xi turned around, he discovered that oil paintings had appeared on the wall at some point.

These are all portrait oil paintings, and the figures in the paintings are all different. There are noble ladies adorned with jewels and waving small goose down fans, headless knights in armor holding their heads, farmers holding pitchforks, blacksmiths, kings, and even wizards in cloaks holding magic wands, etc.

They all seemed to come alive at this moment, bursting into unrestrained laughter at Luo Xi.

"Taste the flavor of my precious sword!"

Amidst a burst of laughter, the headless horseman launched the first attack on Rosie.

He rode on a tall, black warhorse, one hand holding his head, the other grabbing a whip and lashing it hard across the horse's rear. The horse neighed and charged straight at Luo Xi.

The background of the oil painting is a dirt road in front of a dark ancient castle. After the knight rushes to the end of the dirt road, he rushes out of the painting and instantly kills Rosie. He pulls out the cross sword hanging on the side and slashes it straight at Rosie.

As a fellow knight, Rosie accurately judged the direction of the knight's cross sword's attack and quickly ducked before the blade struck, narrowly avoiding it.

While dodging the knight's fatal blow, Rosie also turned around and threw a punch at the knight's warhorse. However, the punch hit the warhorse without any impact, as if it hit the air, and there was no reaction at all.

"Interesting little thing, resist all you want! The more fiercely you resist, the more excited Lord Conrad will be!"

The headless knight laughed and swung his sword again, but Rosie easily dodged it.

While dodging, Rosie continued to try to fight back against the headless knight, but no matter how he attacked, he could never touch the headless knight's body and could only take hits.

"Hahaha, Conrad, you idiot, you can't even kill such a small thing."

"Are you sure you can do it? If not, let me do it!"

Seeing the headless horseman's attacks miss their mark time and time again, the other paintings around him couldn't help but burst into laughter.

The headless knight, clutching his head, immediately showed an embarrassed expression and roared angrily, "You damned little thing, you stinking rat hiding everywhere, I'll chop you into pieces!"

Rosie ignored the headless horseman's roar. After several attacks missed, he suddenly remembered that these things seemed to be spirits. Using simple physical attacks against spirits would definitely be ineffective.

To deal with the soul, it must be the power of the soul itself.

As the headless knight charged at him once more, he simply mobilized the only remaining wisp of soul power within his body, completely relinquishing control of his physical form, and used this wisp of soul power to strike at the headless knight.

Rosie's guess was correct. When the soul power attacked the headless knight, it no longer missed its target by passing through his body as before, but instead struck the headless knight squarely.

Although it was just a tiny, insignificant attack, causing negligible damage to the headless knight, it did indeed hit him.

"Whoosh—Click!"

The next second, a cold, whistling sound rang out as the cross-shaped sword sliced ​​through the air and struck Rosie hard. The sturdy alchemical armor was instantly torn to shreds by this powerful trial, and Rosie's soul power collapsed in an instant.

"Jingle bells!"

A crisp sound of metal breaking echoed through the library as the alchemical armor, now reduced to fragments, tumbled down the spiral staircase.

Downstairs, Luo Xi opened her eyes.

He picked up the metal fragments from the ground and examined them, figuring out what had happened.

"I see."

"Is it a protective magic circle from the Ghost Guardians?"

(End of this chapter)