Chapter 565 Earth Bound
"Oh, it's a bit embarrassing to say that." The poet showed shame, "Just now a thick fog appeared in the corridor, which made me unable to see the surrounding situation clearly. I was afraid of losing you, so I hurriedly stepped up and tried to catch up with you, but behind me Suddenly there was a call, and I looked back, and saw a figure through the mist, who looked very much like you, so I called out 'Brother Qiao An', and the man nodded in agreement, beckoning me to go over."
"You just passed?"
"At that time, I didn't have any suspicion at all, so I ran towards that person foolishly, but just as I ran up to that person, my foot suddenly slipped, and somehow I fell into a pit, which made my eyes black and dizzy It took a while to wake up."
Joan nodded, thinking that the man in the fog who pretended to be himself to lure Casio into the trap was probably the cunning "wax golem".
"This trap is indeed deep, but no matter how deep it is, it can't stop you. Mr. Casio, why don't you fly up?" Joan asked in surprise.
"You think I don't want to fly?" Casio smiled wryly and spread his hands, "The trap is blessed with 'Earth Binding', so I can't fly even if I want to!"
"Brother Joan, do you know what's more annoying? It's the 'Silence Technique' applied to the trap! I almost broke my throat by shouting at the bottom of the well, but it was useless, and no sound could be transmitted. !"
"Thanks to my brother, you are smart enough to see through the phantom in the well, let down the rope and rescue me, otherwise I will really be trapped to death in this insidious trap! I have to say, the person who invented this trap is definitely a full-fledged person." Shameless bastard with a bad belly!"
Joan was also surprised by the exquisite structure of this trap, but he was more concerned about the "earth bondage" mentioned by the poet inadvertently. After a little thought, he gave Casio the rope and slid down the trap by himself.
"Hey! Brother Joan, what are you doing?"
"Go down and have a look, hold on to the rope, and drag me up later."
"Wait a minute! There's really nothing to see below..."
Joan smiled, ignored the poet's dissuasion, and quickly dropped to the bottom of the well along the rope. With the help of the "dark vision" enchanted by the prosthetic eye, he observed the spell attached to the bottom of the well in the dark well, as Casio said , one is the 2nd-level divine spell "Silence", and the other is the 2nd-level arcane "Earth Binding".
Joan quickly took out his pen and ink, and drew the No. 4 rune Ansuz at the bottom of the well, skipping the incomprehensible magic spells, and directly analyzed "Earth Binding", and copied the spell configuration extracted from the runes into his spell book superior.
"Earth Binding" is a very special magic that can force those subjects who can fly to temporarily lose the ability to fly, and have to slowly descend from the air.
This spell is not only effective for creatures that rely on wings to fly, but the flying ability obtained by using magic such as "flying" will also be sealed. Therefore, after Casio falls into the trap, he cannot use magic to fly out of the well.
For Qiao An today, the configuration of the second-level spells is no longer difficult at all. It took less than ten minutes to complete the complete transcription of "Earth Binding", put away the books, pens and ink, and climbed up the rope .
Casio stretched out his hand and pulled him out of the well. Seeing the rarely satisfied smile on the young mage's face, he couldn't help scratching his head in wonder. He really didn't understand what's so interesting about an empty trap.
Considering that they had already spent a lot of time in the corridor, Joan and Casio quickened their pace and ran back.
When they returned to the hall on the third floor, they happened to see Clark and Shrek walking towards each other. Behind the two of them lay four destroyed clay golems, with spider webs and mud stuck to their bodies, and their noses were bruised and their faces were swollen. They were in a state of embarrassment, but fortunately they were not seriously injured.
"Brother Qiao An, you are finally back. Fatty and I were still worried about your safety just now."
Seeing that the two long-lost companions were safe and sound, the frost giant smiled with relief.
The four of them sat on the ground in the clean and tidy corridor, taking a short rest. Casio recounted the thrilling and bizarre encounters that he and Joan had experienced just now, and the part about the wax golem's sneaking assassination in the dense fog was a retelling of Joan's experience.
Joan's original words were very concise, and he finished in four or five sentences. When the same story came to the poet's mouth, it naturally had to go through some ingenious artistic processing, adding many thrilling details.
Joan listened to him speak vividly and brilliantly, and couldn't help but be engrossed.
Even if he is the person involved, he has to admit that compared with his own personal experience, the story told by Casio sounds more dramatic and reasonable, so that it is more like the truth than the truth. Perhaps this is the charm of art.
After a short rest, Joan and his party embarked on a journey to explore the cloud giant's castle again.
Having encountered accidents several times before, Joan had to admit a grim reality:
The navigation map provided in the lobby on the first floor was actually not comprehensive. It did not show the traps and golem guards in the castle to their group of uninvited guests. The map was not so much to provide them with navigation convenience, but more like a malicious intention. Inadvertently lure them into a trap.
These painful lessons made Qiao An heighten his vigilance and no longer blindly believe in the navigation map. Before entering a new place, he had to cast spells to detect traps and secret doors. After several twists and turns, he finally led his companions through without any danger. On the fourth and fifth floors, take the "wind ladder" to the sixth floor of the castle.
Now, they are just one step away from the penthouse where the "Coschurch collar" is kept!
The layout of the sixth floor of the castle is similar to that of the third floor. Facing the "wind-moving ladder" is a wide corridor leading directly to a hall with an open door.
Joan and the others had learned the previous lesson and did not dare to go directly into the hall. They stood vigilantly outside the door and looked into the hall.
The layout of the hall on the sixth floor is different from that of the other main halls of the castle. There is no furniture in the empty hexagonal hall, and each wall is equipped with a crystal floor-to-ceiling window from the floor to the ceiling.
The six giant windows provide sufficient lighting for this hall suspended in the sky, and the bright moon shines in through the crystal windows, bringing a somewhat dreamy atmosphere to this empty and quiet hall.
A gorgeous crystal chandelier hangs from the ceiling of the hall, and the brilliance emitted by countless "inextinguishable flames" focuses on the center of the floor, forming a hexagram circle. The beam of light rising from the circle is like a bridge that penetrates the ceiling and reaches the attic.
Qiao An and the others were naturally attracted to the most conspicuous array in the center of the hall. After a little observation, they guessed that it was a teleportation array. Considering that there were no other exits in the hall on the sixth floor, they could not find a way to the attic. Stairs, so it is conceivable that this teleportation array should be the only way to the attic.