Chapter 2120 Underground of Winterhold

With Joan's casting level as high as 23, the maximum scanning radius of "biolocation" can reach 1320 feet.

After two more supermagic enhancements of "magic extension", it was upgraded to a 6-level spell, and the scanning limit reached 5280 feet, which was enough to cover every inch of space within the walls of Winterhold.

It stands to reason that as long as Clark is indeed in Winterhold, he will definitely be found by the "biological location technique".

However, the result of this search is still "no such person found". Fortunately, Qiao An also discovered a suspicious detail.

A hundred feet underground in the castle, there is a large area of ​​tunnels that look like a mine pit, and a small area seems to be protected by a "mage's secret room" like a protective barrier, blocking the scanning fluctuations of detection spells, like a "black box" , There is no way of knowing what secrets are hidden inside.

Wherever the place is deliberately covered up, there must be an ulterior secret!

Joan took out the "navigation compass", looked at the three-dimensional structure map of the underground of Winterhold, searched along the complex tunnel section, and found the area shielded by the enchantment in the corner of the map, which looked like a dungeon!

"It's getting more interesting."

Joan looked at the map, smiled slightly, and his eyes became extremely shiny.

Driven by curiosity, the young mage quickly cast a few protective spells on himself, and then opened the "Anywhere Door", directly teleporting to the tunnel located a hundred feet deep underground in Winterhold.

Joann looked around and soon noticed that the tunnel was constructed in an irrational way.

Under normal circumstances, the geometrical section of a tunnel excavated by manpower will not maintain the same height. Some road sections are wider and some are narrower. Some walls are smoother, and some walls are uneven. irregular marks.

If engineering spells such as "Earthquake", "Fossil to Mud" or "Soft Stone" are used to excavate the tunnel, the construction site will show the other extreme. The walls of the tunnel will show regular geometric features, and the walls will be smooth. Like a mirror, like butter cut by a sharp knife.

However, the underground tunnel that Joan is in at the moment has different characteristics from the above two excavation methods.

First of all, the section shape of the tunnel is generally flat and oval, with the same width, but the surrounding walls are not very smooth, especially the ice surface on the top of the head and the left and right sides, which clearly show stripes and extend straight to the depth of the tunnel , like a scratch made with a scorching blade.

The scene in front of him prompted Joan to ask a question: Trim, the lord of Winterhold, what method did he use to dig out a maze-like and complicated tunnel in the hard ice buried deep underground?

After thinking about it for a while, he thought that the 6-ring spell he had learned not long ago could just be used to solve doubts.

Joan was not in a hurry to hurry. He touched the smooth ice wall with his right hand, freed his left hand to make a series of spell-casting gestures, and at the same time chanted the spell in a low voice.

"Ondo!"

The complex spell-casting ceremony lasted for a full ten minutes. Qiao An finally chanted the activation spell of the 6-ring "Stone Words", and the ice wall in front of him trembled undetectably under the influence of the magic net.

"Stone Words" can temporarily animate natural or artificial stone, thereby providing the caster with nearby intelligence. The term "stone" is broad enough to include any solid mineral or crystal, and the ice that makes up the walls of a tunnel is no exception.

The tremor on the ice surface lasted for three seconds, after which a vague and old face emerged, nodding slightly to Joan, and sending out a telepathic greeting:

"My dear mage, what are your orders?"

"Hello, Mr. Ice Cube, I would like to know who built this underground tunnel?"

"The first owner of Winterhold, that is, Trim's father, first drove the servants to dig tunnels, and then Trim took over. It took two generations of continuous expansion for half a century to form the huge scale it is today. , my lord." Stone answered slowly.

"Then who are the servants of the specific construction?" Joan then asked.

"It is a strange insect with a thick and flat body, like a giant centipede. Its body is covered with a blue-white hard shell. It is scorching hot like lava, so that fiery red rays of light continuously flow from the gaps in its limbs, gushing out water that melts the ice. steam."

The face on the ice recalled for a moment, and continued to tell Joan.

"This kind of strange insect is about 20 feet long, 5 feet wide, and weighs no less than 10,000 pounds. When the frost giant finds their nest, they will kill the adults, steal the eggs, place them in a red-hot furnace to hatch, and then domesticate Larva, serving as a servant."

"The frost giants drove the monsters into the ice cave, ordered them to crawl along the tunnel, melted the ice with their own radiated heat, and formed new tunnels. After years of excavation, this solid and huge maze was finally created. .”

"This kind of strange insect has a pair of huge pincer-like jaws on its head, and a row of spear-like spines protruding from its back. When they crawl in the tunnel, the scorching jaws and back spines will sink into the ice wall and scrape out. The straight and deep grooves are still clearly visible after the ice water freezes."

Having said that, the activated ice cube looked up at the scratches on the ceiling of the tunnel, and then at the scratches across his face, looking a little displeased. It seemed that the scratches left by the disgusting monster ruined his handsome and unrestrained appearance. face.

While listening to the narration of the activated ice cube, Joan was also recalling the "Insect Volume" and "Magic Beast Volume" of the "Wares Monster Guide", and soon found the giant insect in the description of the activated ice cube. The corresponding species is an insect-shaped magical beast called "Centured Beast".

The physiological structure of this monster is a bit like a "soil worm". There is a supernatural organ like a furnace growing in its body, which can convert food into heat energy with extremely high efficiency.

The body temperature of the Centipede Warcraft is too high, like a red-hot iron, even they can't stand it, so they have to find ways to lower their body temperature, such as reducing food intake, so that the "stove" in the body will reduce the thermal efficiency due to the lack of raw materials. But to starve.

No creature likes to suffer from hunger, and the Centipede Warcraft is no exception, so they prefer to live in a cold area covered with ice and snow all year round, and use the external environment to lower their body temperature.

The snow-covered fang mountain peak is just the favorite habitat of centipede monsters. However, this vicious monster is not the top predator in the area.

In the food chain of Fangshan Mountain, Centipede monsters live above elk, dire wolves, and snow monsters. Occasionally, they even dare to form a team to hunt young white dragons. Warcraft also had to bow down.

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