Chapter 1745: Returning to Cloud City (Ⅱ)

Looking up at the castle in the clouds, Joan couldn't help but imagine that if he could become the new owner of the castle, he could make full use of the facilities in the castle and use it as a studio, or in traditional terms it is "Mage Tower ".

The young sorcerer who revisited his old place went straight to the opposite castle wall with complicated emotions, and bumped into it head-on.

The figure swayed slightly, as if blending into the wall, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

A minute later, Joan got out from the inner side of the castle wall and found himself in the banquet hall on the first floor of the castle.

The layout in the hall is exactly the same as when Joan visited for the first time two years ago. The white tablecloth and neat tableware on the long table gave him a wonderful sense of déjà vu.

What impressed him most was the painting hanging above the fireplace, a canvas depicting a silver castle standing above storm clouds.

Joan still remembers that the canvas is enchanted with illusion, which can show various scenes in the castle. It looks like a navigation map, but it is not completely consistent with reality. If you believe it is true, you will be misled and fall into a trap— —Joan and his companions were fooled by this painting two years ago.

Joan stood in front of the fireplace, hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't bear to destroy the magic oil painting with hidden traps, so he cast a ring 1 prophecy spell "Detect Secret Door", and synchronized the detection effect to 18 glass windows through "Myth Link". On the magic eye, instruct the magic eye to search each room on the first floor of the castle separately.

After a carpet search, Joan confirmed that all the buildings on the first floor, including the servant's room, guest room, toilet, and kitchen, found no hidden doors and windows, and no signs of biological activity.

Except that these rooms are very spacious and fit the figure of the cloud giant, there is nothing unusual about them. The only room where the magical aura is observed is the kitchen.

The kitchen on the first floor of the castle has its own storage room and cistern. The storage room is enchanted with the "grain making technique", which will automatically generate grains that can be eaten by 300 people every day. It will disappear automatically if it expires; technique", always filled with clean water for direct drinking.

Joan searched the first floor of the castle, and then went up the stairs to the second floor.

The main building on the second floor of the castle is a living room. Joan still didn't go through the main entrance, but walked in directly through the wall. Looking at the window of the hall, what caught his eye was the floor-to-ceiling windows with excellent lighting and the gathered velvet curtains.

A round table and a circle of sofas are placed near the window, and a violin matching the shape of a cloud giant is placed on the table.

Joan doesn't know the quality of musical instruments, but I remember Casio said that this piano is exquisite in workmanship, beautiful in tone, and very valuable for collection. It can be seen that the owner of the castle or the owner's relatives and friends have quite artistic attainments.

It's a pity that the residents of the castle have long disappeared, and the living room on the second floor is no longer the lively scene when the music salon was held.

There was a slight mechanical start-up sound behind him, and Joan was not surprised. He turned around calmly, and his eyes fell on the two marble sculptures placed next to the gate.

Both of these statues are twelve feet high, dressed in armor, holding battle axes and shields, resembling mighty ancient knights, the face under the mask is slowly drooping, and blue rays are shining through the grid, Scan along the trajectory that Joan walked.

When they first explored the second floor of the castle in the clouds two years ago, Joan and his companions didn't know that there were two guarded stone golems next to the gate. Road, almost suffered a "sap".

Joan revisited the old place this time. The reason why he didn't go through the main entrance and entered through the wall instead was not because he deliberately didn't walk well, but because he didn't want to be attacked by the golem guards hiding beside the door.

Now it seems that no matter whether the door is opened or not, as long as one breaks into this living room, the guards will still be alarmed.

Joan stood in the center of the hall and activated "Advanced Internal Vision" to check the two "Stone Golems".

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Detection target: marble golem × 2 (large construct, golem subspecies)

Attributes: Strength 28, Dexterity 9, Constitution -, Intelligence -, Wisdom 11, Charisma 1

Special Abilities: Blindsight 60 ft., magic immunity, damage reduction 5 powers/adamantine, slow

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Two years ago, Qiao An and his companions took a lot of effort to get the two stone golems. He remembered that they had caused serious damage to the stone golems. Now when he came back and looked at them, the two golems were intact. In the hall, there are no traces left from the fierce battle. It can be seen that this castle has some kind of magical function. If the facilities and golem guards in the castle are damaged, they will be automatically repaired after a period of time.

At this time, the scouting eyes of the two stone golems guarding the gate had already locked on Qiao An. He picked up his battle ax and shield, took big strides, and approached him side by side.

Joan touched the collar, activated the "Giant Transformation Technique", and his body swelled rapidly, turning into the form of the hill giant Todd.

With Todd's strength, it is a little bit reluctant to fight against two stone golems with his bare hands.

Joan decided to further strengthen the combat power of "Todd Form", and by the way, used the stone golem as a target to test the "Diamond Belt Buckle" that was re-enchanted not long ago.

Thinking of this, Joan recited the mantra in a low voice, and combined the 5 spells and abilities attached to the belt buckle - "Magic Tooth", "Beast Claw", "Many Arms", "Righteousness" "Rainbow" and "Stone Skin Technique" - all of them were activated in one breath, all kinds of magical auras shone all over the body, and the giant's body expanded rapidly again, and finally turned into a behemoth with a height of more than 22 feet and a weight of nearly 10,000 pounds!

The second evolution of "Todd's form" has a rocky texture on the surface of the skin. In addition to the original two arms, four additional thick and muscular long arms have grown. Very evil and domineering.

It's not just the body shape and limbs that have changed. The strengthened "Todd Form" has increased the strength attribute to 44, the agility attribute to 16, and the constitution attribute to 34.

In addition, Joan's natural defensive power strengthened by "righteousness like a rainbow" is comparable to wearing a set of full-body plate armor lined with soft leather armor, not to mention the special damage reduction effect provided by the "Stone Skin Technique". There is nothing serious about letting the stone golem swing an ax here.

For an opponent with a smart enough brain, seeing Qiao An turned into such a six-armed giant who is much taller than himself, he must weigh whether he has the strength to challenge the opponent. It may be a better choice to retreat and seek peace.

However, the stone golem doesn't even have the intelligence attribute, and it doesn't have the ability to think independently at all. No matter how powerful the opponent it faces, it will execute the program implanted in advance by the creator and rush forward to fight Qiao An with a single tendon.