Magicians never make wishes

Chapter 171 The Dark Trio

At this moment, the audience in the live broadcast square was filled with excitement.

"The first casualty has appeared! From the Eternal Night Kingdom!"

"Unexpectedly, the Eternal Night Kingdom, ranked second, will be the first to suffer casualties."

The vice principal of the Abyss of No Darkness Academy gave a passionate explanation, sparking heated discussions among the audience.

"Casualties have already occurred on just the second floor. I wonder how terrifying the trials of the Tower of Babel are?"

"These are all elite figures from the four major academies—"

"I don't care about the others, I just hope that the contestant from the Necromancer Valley can persevere."

"He's certainly good at persevering, but some dangers can't be overcome simply by perseverance."

There was much discussion outside, but none of the players inside the tower knew the truth.

Ronan has arrived at the third level of the Trial Tower.

As the second-to-last person to enter the third floor, he was among the last group to enter.

He discovered that the entrance to the fourth floor was suspended right above his head, but there were no stairs to open it.

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Having learned from the experience of the second floor, Ronan immediately guessed that the mechanism for going from the third floor to the fourth floor should be the same as that for going from the second floor to the third floor. After the original staircase spirals upwards and connects, a stable passage can be formed.

However, it is clear that they must complete other tests before that.

Looking around, he saw that many contestants had gathered in the center of the third floor.

There, a stone platform held up a huge rhomboid crystal, the surface of which was covered with recessed patterns.

This must be the key to getting to the next level.

Hearing a noise at the exit, everyone turned to look.

Upon seeing only two naked skeletons, they realized that the Necromancer Valley contestant, whose stealth ability was unparalleled, had arrived.

The group tacitly gathered around the crystal, without making any move.

"What are those people from the Eternal Night Kingdom doing? Why aren't they coming up yet?"

At that moment, a complaint came from within the Dark Tower faction.

It seems everyone is waiting for everyone to arrive.

Ronan guessed that this must be related to the crystal at the center.

He wasn't in a hurry and waited quietly to the side.

Before long, the group from the Eternal Night Kingdom came up from the second floor.

However, observant people noticed that their team seemed to be one person short.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the previously eccentric muscular man had disappeared.

In contrast, the nine contestants from the Eternal Night Kingdom who came up seemed to be more energetic than before.

The moment the people of the Eternal Night Kingdom arrived at the third floor, the crystal in the center suddenly emitted rays of light that flowed along the patterns.

Immediately, the entire crystal began to deform, constantly disintegrating and recombining itself, eventually transforming into a humanoid puppet.

The puppet was two meters tall and held a three-meter-long giant sword. The sword flashed with blue lightning and exuded a terrifying aura.

The crowd surrounding it quickly retreated and launched an attack in an instant.

Among them, the three black-robed figures from the Dark Tower reacted the fastest.

The three worked together extremely well, with an astonishingly high synchronization rate in their attacks. Anyone who didn't know better would think that it was the result of one person plus two alchemical puppets.

However, in Ronan's eyes, they seemed more like triplets.

"The Dark Trio has made their move!"

"We'll go too, for the darkness!"

"Kill, for the sake of darkness!"

The members of the Dark Tower faction attacked in unison, and seeing this, everyone else followed suit.

The three men in black robes used different spells, but their attacks arrived simultaneously.

One was skilled in necromancy, another used flesh magic, and the third used skeletal magic.

From this, we can deduce their professions: necromancer, flesh sorcerer, and skeletal demon.

Ronan couldn't help but wonder if, if the magic of the three of them could be combined, the bones could be used to forge a huge skeleton, the flesh and blood could be used to create a body from the skeleton, and then a soul could be infused into it, could they create a necromantic behemoth?

Of course, this is just wishful thinking.

Simply being huge in size, without any special advantages, makes one a giant target and is meaningless.

At this moment, the Dark Trio were using only offensive techniques.

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The one skilled in skeletal manipulation caused bone spikes to emerge from the ground, piercing the crystal puppet from bottom to top.

The one skilled in flesh and blood shot out multiple fleshy balls, which attached themselves to the puppet's joints and continued to grow outwards, thereby interfering with the puppet's movements.

The last one, who is skilled in necromancy, directly manipulates the soul to shield the crystal golem's head from perception.

To be precise, the magic used by the three of them all had a common purpose: to restrict the movement of the crystal puppet.

As for carrying out the strikes, that responsibility was entirely handed over to others.

Their intentions were immediately seen through by the twelve contestants from the Dark Abyss, who then took immediate action.

They abandoned the use of restrictive magic and instead focused their energy on attacking.

In just a moment, attacks of various types and intensities bombarded the crystal golem, forcing it to retreat repeatedly.

The attack kicked up clouds of dust and seemed quite effective.

After the smoke cleared, Ronan saw a wound on the puppet's forearm, but after a moment, the wound healed itself in a flash of light.

Ronan was secretly shocked; this crystal golem actually had self-healing abilities!

"Let's attack together!"

The leader of the Dark Abyss roared.

It's unclear whether he gave the order to a member of the Dark Abyss team or to someone present, but that's no longer important.

The others had also realized that they couldn't reach the fourth floor without defeating the alchemical puppet.

So everyone showed off their true skills.

Various magical techniques and attacks of varying levels of power bombarded the crystal golem.

Even the nine members of the Eternal Night Kingdom who had just arrived joined the battle in an instant.

Instead of blindly attacking the crystal golem, they dispersed and connected with each other using illusory array patterns, forming a huge magic circle centered on the crystal golem.

The magic circle had a large area of ​​effect, directly covering many players with short range.

Although the contestants within the formation found that there was no potential danger, they were still somewhat displeased with the behavior of the people from the Eternal Night Kingdom.

This includes Ronan's two skulls.

Ronan originally sent the two of them to loiter near the puppet, hoping to find an opportunity to make a move and grab some spoils.

But the people from the Eternal Night Kingdom silently enveloped the two skeletons, and Ronan immediately sensed something was wrong, so he ordered the skeletons to retreat immediately.

Black Owl, a player from the Necromancer Valley who was caught in the shroud, originally thought it wouldn't have much of an impact.

But when he saw the two skeletons retreat without hesitation, his expression immediately changed, and he reacted in the same way. Ignoring any attack, he quickly retreated and jumped out of the magic circle's coverage area.

This was his subconscious judgment.

As Raven's younger brother, he had heard Raven's evaluation and praise of White Night.

Black Owl's intuition told him that when faced with difficult choices, he could always follow White Night's lead.

The other three melee fighters scoffed at this, secretly despising this cowardly behavior.

However, their smiles soon faded.

After drawing the basic framework of the magic circle, the nine people from the Eternal Night Kingdom immediately retreated and began chanting complex incantations from a distance.

In an instant, the entire magic circle lit up with a barrier-like wall of light.

The light wall offers no resistance to any attacks coming from the outside in, but any attacks coming from the inside out will be blocked by the magic circle.

This includes those inside who want to get out of the magic circle.