The Mythical Path of a Princess from a Destroyed Kingdom

Maginus corrected, "Everyone only has one life, and you, as my companions, should also cherish your lives."

Kercia felt a little awkward. Maginus knew she might be meddling a bit too much, but she still didn't want to see her companions or fellow travelers die in front of her.

Knowing she was meddling too much, she thought about it carefully for a moment and decided to act in her own best interest: "I need to adjust my mindset, wait a bit, and let me find someone."

She planned to ask Bennia if there were any suitable missions that could be carried out on the continent, and Maginus could pay for the missions herself.

Let Kercia continue collecting commissions, Maginus got up and left alone, reaching across her belt to retrieve the Ouroboros Badge and activate it.

The badge began to vibrate, indicating that this royal residence belonged to Nia. She immediately set about, following the direction indicated by the badge.

Chapter 387 Super Large Ritual Array

"Let me take a look at the commission from the mainland."

Upon finding the shop and entering, Maginus explained the situation to Benia. The snake-man mage reached into the void and pulled out an extremely thick notebook. After opening it and touching the writing with his fingertip, he searched for a moment before revealing an expression of sudden realization.

"Oh, I've got it! I heard that a crypt in the Kingdom of Music was recently washed out. Could you please find me an item?"

The underground tomb, the one that Kishia had mentioned to him?

Maginus frowned, disregarding Nya's sources of information, and instead inquired about the internal situation: "It sounds like you know what's going on inside."

“Of course I know. That tomb used to be the dwelling place of a lich,” the snake-man said, brushing his fingertips across his face. “The lich borrowed a research tool from me and hasn’t returned it to me yet.”

"Now that the tomb has been washed out by the rain, it means that the tomb itself is completely dead. Please help me find something."

"As for the dangers inside, I've been in there once, so I should remember."

After thinking carefully for a moment, Nia drew a huge map, marking the function of each area and even the traps.

"That's the situation when I went there. I don't know if it's changed since then. You guys be careful."

Nia yawned and waved, signaling her to leave. Maginus put away the map but didn't leave immediately. Instead, she asked the legendary mage if he had any large-scale ritual spells.

"Do you have any large-scale ritual spells that I can use, or any means to make life force and psychic energy resonate and resonate?"

If there are too many people hunting her down, she plans to use ritual magic to expand and enhance the influence of her life force.

After explaining to the legendary mage the imminent danger of death he would face in two or three years, Bennia raised her eyes, intrigued: "Hmph, the prophecy of the Ancient Tree of Wisdom..."

After a moment of contemplation, the legendary mage searched his memories, opened his eyes, rose, and stepped out from behind the counter. He approached Maginus and gazed at him intently: "I need to examine your entire condition, is that alright?"

Nia's request made the girl subconsciously tense up. Remembering how the legendary mage in front of her could control her effortlessly, she finally nodded in agreement.

Following the snake-man into the back of the general store, a vast, sophisticated laboratory appeared before Maginus. Nia's hair emerged from the void and lightly touched the magic screen, causing the instruments to move aside on their own, and the ground sank to form a shape resembling an arena.

Nia made Maginus stand in the middle, and a magical barrier rose up around her. She beckoned to Maginus: "Let's fight my golem first. Remember to use your full strength."

The ground opened up, and a golem shimmering with silver light appeared before the girl. The construct's appearance was still that of Nia herself, the biggest difference being the clothes that connected the silver construct to her body, which were heavy armor.

"This is?"

"Mithril Golem, don't worry about damaging it. Just attack it to your heart's content and unleash your full power. I'll collect the data."

Upon hearing the name of the golem, Maginus couldn't help but marvel at Benia's wealth and power. It was said that the mithril golem possessed legendary strength, though he wondered if it was true.

Go all out...

Twisting her neck, the girl took the greatsword from behind her back. Her heart pounded, and two-colored patterns spread from her heart to her neck. Knowing that the battle was safe enough, she also wanted to see where her limits were.

Blood energy spread from her body, and crimson mist covered Maginus's body. She took a step forward, and the mist became more violent and solidified, transforming into crimson flames that rose up.

The greatsword was covered in blood and blue light, and its sharpness and even weight were improved.

Bloodthirsty False Armor Blade Infused with Psionic Energy: Enchanted Weapon

With her body temperature rising, Maginus exhaled a breath of hot air and instantly appeared in front of the motionless mithril golem, swinging her sword with all her might!

"The test is over. It's quite interesting that your psionic mode still has vitality."

Looking at the mithril golem with cracks in front of him, Maginus heard Nia's happy tone, took a deep breath to calm his active life force, and put the greatsword back behind him.

The magic barrier disappeared, and the mithril golem returned to the underground. Nia scanned the data and felt a long-lost interest in spell creation. She suddenly longed to see Maginus use the ritual spell she had created.

"So, are there any super-large-scale ritual spells that I can use?"

"Yes, wait for me to make it. If I can complete it, it can instantly boost your strength to a high level. I won't charge you this time, I'm interested myself."

Nia explained her ideas to Maginos, who was once a sorcerer but never forgot to learn. Maginos was able to understand the plan.

Maginot's solidified life force is well-suited for ritual magic, meaning she can create the items needed for rituals.

Nia plans to extend the solidified life force of her life force for at least five years, and with this as the core, the magic array will use solidified life force as material.

Sprinkle blood where it is needed, bury solidified vitality beneath the ground, and subtly change the environment.

By placing solid life force on all nodes, when the magic circle needs to be activated, Maginus can use psionic energy to resonate with them, releasing all the life force at once and gathering it around the girl, allowing her to use it at will. The surrounding environment will also be more suitable for the flow of psionic energy and life force.

The magic circle, modified by Nia, will have its influence on life force greatly amplified, making it no exaggeration to say that Maginus possesses high-level strength.

The biggest drawback is probably the time involved; such a large-scale magic array should have been able to last for a long time once completed.

To be suitable for Maginus to use alone, it was made into a one-time spell, and it takes three to four months to complete.

Intrigued, Nia urged Maginus to leave: "By the time you return with my task, I should be almost finished. Go quickly."

Having gotten the answer she wanted, Maginus left the grocery store and returned to the tavern. Everyone was already up. Ajax had dark eyes and seemed to have lost a lot of weight.

Maginos ushered everyone into the room and displayed the map:

“Kshia, as you said, let’s go complete the graveyard quest. This is a map of the graveyard I found. It’s said to be a lich’s lair, and the lich himself is already dead.”

"By the god of music, am I struck gold this time? As long as I find the lich's treasure!"

Ajak was filled with excitement, his eyes dazzled by the treasure. Brian was thinking about how to fight the monsters and traps inside, while Kercia was puzzled as to where Maginus had gotten the information.

She didn't delve into it further and replied, "Okay, when do we set off?"

"The day after tomorrow, today and tomorrow, let's prepare what needs to be prepared."

Chapter 388 The Lich's Tomb

"This is where the ancient tomb is located. Its appearance has not only increased the number of undead creatures in the vicinity, but more seriously, the land can no longer grow crops."

The adventure team had arrived near the city where the tomb was located. After explaining their purpose, the advisor, who was clearly sleep-deprived and overwhelmed by the tomb, led the group to the vicinity of the tomb.

He didn't place too much hope in the group, after all, Maginus and his group looked far too young, and their age alone made them untrustworthy.

Although the team includes elves and half-elves whose ages are unpredictable, the advisor could clearly sense the childishness of Kersha and Brian.

"Understood, leave it to us."

Maginus looked out over the forest, where all he saw were withered trees and dead weeds covering the ground, a scene devoid of life.

Feeling the negative energy, the somewhat uncomfortable girl beckoned everyone to step into the forest that was sealed off by guards. Not long after entering, they saw animals that had turned into zombies after death.

The animals, who had come back to life, sensed a glimmer of hope, and their yearning for life drove the monster to pounce on them immediately.

The group cleared away the undead creatures and soon arrived at the tomb emanating a massive amount of negative energy. There were many footprints around where people had gone in, but none had come out.

“No one has actually come out alive,” Ajax said with some fear. “Should we really go in? Maybe we should think about it again?”

"Uncle, didn't you look greedy before? Don't back down now."

Brian teased, raising his large shield as he approached the tomb entrance and entered first, followed closely by the others.

As he descended the stairs, Neike tiptoed past the elven warriors and began the scouting work expected of a thief. After surveying the area, he raised his hand and said, "Ah, just like on the map, there are no traps here."

"No normal person would fill their home hallway with traps. I think you just need to be careful in places like treasure vaults and treasure chests."

Kercia offered a suggestion, but her cautious demeanor was hardly convincing. Maginus, an exceptionally versatile fighter, had no intention of participating in the team's adventure, silently watching their actions while using her life force to sense the situation within the graveyard.

The intense negative energy affected her perception of life force, so she couldn't see very clearly. She could identify several places where the negative energy was strong, which she guessed were the subordinates of the ethereal creatures that the lich had once controlled.

As you slowly walk through the passageway, you see the corpses of many adventurers lying in the dark and dry underground tombs. Due to the influence of negative energy, they look like they have been dead for a long time, but they should have actually died in the last few months.

Kishia asked the advisor about their general clothing, and many of the details matched, but what exactly caused their deaths?

After informing everyone, the girl carefully approached the corpse to examine it, and under Neko's guidance, she suppressed her nausea and removed the valuables.

There were no external injuries on his body. Judging from the way he was hugging his arms, he must have felt cold before he died, which was most likely caused by a ethereal creature.

If a place has a large number of ethereal creatures, even if they cannot directly harm the human body, the low temperature caused by the accumulation of negative energy can freeze unprepared adventurers to death.

Not only low temperature, but whenever a ghost attacks a human body, part of the life force will try to resist the negative energy, while another part will be absorbed by the ghost, so they may also be drained to death.

"Wear more clothes while it's still safe, because the temperature may drop sharply soon."

Kercia gave a reminder, and Maginus took out warm clothes from her dimensional bag and handed them to everyone. Brian, who was wearing heavy armor, didn't need to change and was careful to be vigilant about his surroundings.

After changing into their new gear, the group continued onward. The half-elf cast a glow spell to illuminate the entire tomb, and the sudden light startled the monsters that had been watching them from the shadows.

Those who are wise choose to temporarily avoid confrontation, while those who are not wise gradually awaken and intend to launch an attack.

The corpses of the adventurers on the ground trembled. They opened their eyes, and a fire of souls ignited in their lifeless pupils. They rose from the ground and immediately went to the back of the group to clear out the monsters behind them.

The scimitar repeatedly stabbed at the corpse's head, piercing it through. Every now and then, it twisted its body and swung its tail, the short swords tied to its tail slicing off the skull of the newly resurrected undead creature.

Sword and shield clashed. Brian blocked the unarmed adventurers' corpses, his longsword swiftly and accurately piercing their heads, twisting slightly to completely destroy their cores.

"Be careful inside, there are ghosts!"

Sensing the approaching negative energy, which was heading towards Neko who was somewhat separated from the group, Kexia immediately reminded her, and Ajak decisively plucked the strings, drawing magic towards Neko.

Heroic spirit!

With his keen senses, Neko had already detected the approaching chill. His body stiffened slightly, but his morale soared to its peak thanks to his heroic spirit, and his body warmed up as his spirits lifted.

"Hmph, you dare to lay a hand on me?"

He grinned, revealing a wild smile, and could sense the ghosts floating in from all directions, trying to overwhelm him with sheer numbers. He spun the bone scimitars in his hands, unleashing spiritual energy as they approached, accumulating within the bone blades to collide with each other!

Boom!

The lightning spread outwards from her center, and the intense lightning brought pain to the ghosts. They were instantly reduced to ashes by the electric current, leaving only streaks of light that disappeared without a trace.

The intense energy deterred the irrational ghosts from approaching, forcing them to turn and attack areas with more life force, but Kersha was also there.

The prepared girl took out the holy water she had bought from the Temple of Endless Light from her waist, poured out the holy water from the bottle, and continuously fired fire arrows at the surface of the water.

The holy water evaporated and turned into mist that drifted in the air. The weak ghosts howled as they were burned to ashes. The originally noisy and shrill cries disappeared, and this group of ghosts was completely eliminated.

"No wonder so many professionals died. Without spellcasters, who can defend against this?"

Startled, Ajax wiped away imaginary cold sweat. The ghosts only appeared after they had gone some distance, and a large number of them blocked their retreat, making it difficult to get through without a spellcaster.

Without any intelligence, the non-caster adventure team, assuming this was just an ordinary graveyard, had no choice but to continue deeper into the area.

Even with enough holy water, the only way to cleanse these numerous and mixed spirits without causing any damage is through mist; otherwise, sprinkling the holy water would only get you a few spirits.

"Let's keep going, it'll probably get even harder from here on out."

Kercia breathed a sigh of relief and opened the map, deciding to go to the nearest room first. It was the lich's laboratory where he conducted experiments, and there were definitely unknown creatures or traps inside.

Upon arriving at the laboratory, the door was wide open, and the corpse of a thief lay on the ground, his head bitten off by something, with a laceration on his shoulder.

The group looked around but didn't go in immediately. Nei Ke, like an assassin, tiptoed in to check for danger, muttering, "We must recruit wandering knights in the future and let them handle these kinds of things."

Chapter 389 Learning in Battle

Drawing the dagger from his waist, he carefully stepped into the laboratory. What came into view were numerous cultivation chambers containing many types of body parts, mostly from monsters. It seemed the lich was conducting experiments to synthesize monsters.

"Tsk, surely there aren't any monsters hiding inside."

Inside, she could strike each other with curved blades, and detect the spread of electric current in all directions. Although she couldn't sense any life, she discovered that several places in the room were filled with magic.

They simply climbed up the wall to move around, and could jump across the lab table to reach the area of ​​magical anomalies. An ordinary-looking cabinet was placed in the laboratory, covered with a transparent glass cover, and inside were stored a large number of potions.

It didn't look dangerous; the immense magic might be used for preservation. But Neko's intuition told her that this thing could be very dangerous if not handled properly.

"Come in. There are no trigger mechanisms, but several treasure locations are protected by magic."

Neko beckoned everyone in. Kshia came to Neko's side, saw the cabinet and first added several layers of defense to herself before carefully approaching.

After fiddling with the cabinet for a while, confirming the type of magical aura and finding the corresponding spells that might exist on the cabinet based on the magical attributes, he then began to slowly decipher it.

After waiting for about ten seconds, a light flashed across the cabinet. Brian quickly pulled Kercia back, and nothing happened. The half-elf successfully dispelled the magic on it.

Opening the cabinet, the bottles and jars inside were unlabeled. Kxia scanned the bottles with her identification ring, and her mind automatically identified their characteristics.

"Not bad, all useful potions. These few bottles are for restoring life, increasing strength, increasing agility..."

After sorting the bottles, Maginus gestured for everyone to drink the amplification potions: "Drink the amplification potions; the upcoming battle may be very difficult."

After each drinking a potion that maximized their combat abilities, the group searched the laboratory without triggering any traps and opened all the boxes.

A large portion of them were magical materials used by liches for experiments, all exuding a strong negative energy and a deathly aura; most of them were corpses and bones.