Volume 19 Chapter 219 The Magic Array in the Laboratory

Unlike the floors above, there was no water in the stairwell on this floor, so the stairs and railings are still intact. But out of my usual caution, I let the rose vine wrap around my waist before I dared to walk up the stairs.

It turns out that my caution was very correct. The stairs only made a creaking sound when I first stepped on them. However, after I waited for a while and found that the stairs had not collapsed, I took the second step forward. At that moment, the stair slab under his feet suddenly broke, and the entire staircase collapsed downwards with a bang. If it hadn't been for the rose vines wrapped around my waist, I would have fallen down right now. Although it would be fine even if it fell from this height, who doesn't like wrestling?

After letting Rose Vine put me on the ground under the stairwell, I called Xiao Longnu and Shuangxue down as well. The door panel of the stairwell here is also intact, so you must open the door carefully.

After using the same method to break the door, no water came out. After opening the door completely, I discovered that it was an empty room.

Like the floor above, there is also a hexagonal main hall outside the stairwell, but this main hall is empty. No, you can't say it's completely empty either. Because there is a huge magic circle embedded on the ground in the center of the room. The metal lines and magic nodes on it are easy to identify, but all the gems used as nodes have been broken into powder. Obviously, the magic circle was destroyed last time. Energy is used up when starting up.

Slightly different from the one above, the main hall on this floor has only four other doors besides the door we came down from. In other words, one of the six walls in this room is a pure wall. Based on the location, I can tell that behind this wall is the shooting range we saw on the upper floor. The shooting range we saw at that time extended downward by one level, so the room on this floor was occupied, and there was no door to it. Not surprising either.

Because there is one missing door, there are now only five doors left around the room. Except for the stairwell where I came down, there are only four doors left. However, I am not in a hurry to deal with the problem of those doors now, because The magic circle on the ground attracted my attention even more.

"Ziri, this is...!" Ling suddenly ran down from the Gate of the Earth above, and the reason was that she saw the magic circle on the ground simultaneously with my eyes. In fact, it was not only Ling but also Xiaochun who rushed down. Compared to the half-assed magic skills of my other familiars, Xiaochun and Ling are truly professional mages. Not to mention combat prowess, in terms of magic theory alone, they are definitely two of the three best among my magic pets. As for the remaining magic expert, it is Crystal. Don't think that Crystal is a dragon and think of her as a being who relies on brute force to make a living. She is also a fairy dragon after all. Among the dragon clan, fairy dragons have always existed as scholars. The magic development work of the entire dragon clan is basically maintained by fairy dragons. If it weren't for the scarcity of their numbers, they would definitely become more famous magic dragons than the silver dragons in the dragon clan. Of course, although she is also a magic expert, Crystal is a dragon after all. She is good at the research of dragon language magic, and the magic used by humans actually comes from the demons, so Xiaochun and Ling Geng have the say in the magic circle in front of them. right.

I didn't have much reaction when I heard Ling's voice, because I knew they would come down when I saw the magic circle. I walked to the edge of the magic circle and gently touched it with my hand. As my palm moved, a breeze gently slid across the ground and swept aside all the dust covering the magic circle. Without the interference of dust, this magic circle looks clearer and more complete.

Unlike most magic circles that are drawn temporarily, this magic circle is a permanent magic circle. Its lines are not drawn with Warcraft blood or special magic powder, but connected with metal strips. Judging from the surface gloss, the main body of the magic circle may be a mixed metal. This so-called mixed metal is slightly different from what we usually call alloys. Although both mix multiple substances into a whole, there are essential differences. We all know that alloys are a stable metal structure formed by mixing a variety of metal materials. Chemical fusion to the extent of shared electron pairs has occurred between the metal atoms inside. However, mixed metals are different. Mixed metals are mixed products that are formed by mixing one metal with another one or several substances. Although they are mixed into a ball, the various substances inside are not actually fused. To use a vivid metaphor, mixing metal is like adding sand to mud and mixing them evenly. Although the final thing has been mixed into a whole piece, the sand and soil still exist independently inside it. , it’s just that they stick together tightly.

Ling carefully squatted next to the magic circle and stroked the surface of the metal lines with her hands. Then she thought about it and said to Xiao Chun: "Try inputting one unit of magic power from the magic node next to you."

Xiaochun nodded and walked over to take out the shattered magic gem, and then input a unit of magic power into it. Only ten seconds after she released her magic power, Ling said, "This magic circle is so strange, the magic power gathering speed is so slow."

Xiaochun also followed: "Yes. When I input the magic power just now, I felt a sluggish feeling. It seemed that there was a lot of resistance on the magic line."

"No, no, we must have missed something." Ling stood up from the ground, then walked around the magic circle twice and suddenly said to me: "Zi Ri, go and stand in the middle of the magic circle."

"Huh? Let me stand up?"

Ling thought for a while and then said: "No, let the crystal go up, your magic power induction is not good."

"Are you sure there's no danger?"

Ling nodded and said: "The laser cannon is also very dangerous, but if it is powered by only one AA battery, how powerful do you think it can be?"

"Understood." I said and released the crystal that had turned into human form. Then I followed Ling's request to get out all the magic pets that could change into human form. Later, I found that there were not enough people, so I had to pull out the death guards. help. Fortunately, my Death Guard is an individual modeled after me, and it also has spell combat capabilities, so it is no problem to help with some magic research for the time being.

After gathering the number of people, I began to follow Ling's command and input magic power into the magic nodes around me with other magic pets and death guards. The magic circle in the room has a total of 372 magic nodes, of which more than 80 nodes require input of magic power. The remaining nodes only need to be placed with magic gems to transfer magic power to activate.

After we were all ready, Ling asked everyone to input magic power into the magic circle. Of course, everyone only input one unit of magic power into the node they were responsible for. Different from the previous state where there was no reaction at all, this time it can be said that the effect was immediate. As soon as Ling finished speaking, the real magic circle lit up with a buzz, and then he saw six magic light pillars shooting out from the six nodes on the magic circle and hitting the crystal head standing in the center of the magic circle. together and had a small explosion. Of course, the power of this explosion is really very small, and it is almost not as powerful as the firecrackers played by children.

When the six beams of light exploded on the top of Crystal's head, a shining silver point suddenly appeared from the center of the explosion, then landed vertically on the center of Crystal's head and quickly disappeared into her body.

"How do you feel?" Ling asked immediately.

Crystal paused for about two or three seconds before saying in an uncertain tone: "It seems that my magic power has increased a little bit. But it's really just a little bit, so small that I can hardly feel it."

After hearing what Crystal said, Ling immediately looked at the magic circle again and said, "Is it really a strengthened magic circle?"

Xiaochun said on the side: "The main structure looks correct, but why are there no input nodes? We activated the magic circle by actively inputting magic power inward. The guys who are used as batteries should not be so generous, right?"

"What battery are you talking about?" I asked in confusion while listening to the conversation between the two.

Xiaochun and Ling were still discussing there and had no time to pay attention to me. Crystal on the side explained: "Although I am not good at this, judging from the situation just now, this should be a power deprivation circle. It can treat other creatures as Energy source to absorb their power, and then transmit this power to the creature at the center of the magic circle. Like just now, it is equivalent to each of you passing a unit of magic power to me."

"You mean this thing can concentrate the power of several people into one person?"

Crystal nodded and affirmed: "Yes, that's what it means."

Upon hearing this, I immediately asked excitedly: "Does this thing only stack the attack output or the total energy value, or both together?"

"It should be two superimposed together, but not entirely. The main thing is to superimpose the output ability. For example, if ten people with an attack power of 100 are used as energy sources, if they are all sucked up, the beneficiary in the middle can get a Thousand units of attack power, but this person's endurance will only double or triple, not as much as the attack power. If it is a magic attack, the main thing that is superimposed is the magic attack power, and the total magic power increases. It’s not obvious.”

"Is this superposition a permanent one or a one-time one?"

Crystal shook his head and said: "I don't know about that. I don't know much about this magic circle. There is no similar magic circle in the Dragon Clan. This should be a kind of magic developed based on the fusion of resentful spirits in necromancy." Formation."

Just as Crystal finished speaking, Ling ended the discussion with Xiaochun and turned to me and said: "This is actually an ability transfer circle. It can temporarily move one person's power to another person, but the movement The main thing is attack power, and the proportion of movement in terms of energy is relatively low. According to our observations, this kind of movement should be time-sensitive. The research done by the owner here seems to be trying to turn this time-limited transfer into It becomes a permanent transfer."

"Then what is the input node you just mentioned?"

"That's right. Because this magic circle will transfer the ability of one party to another, usually the person who is transferred is involuntary. So this requires a forced device to extract the power from his body. But look at this The magic circle seems to be missing extraction equipment."

I looked at the surrounding rooms and said, "Maybe we can find it after exploring these rooms."

Ling also nodded and said: "That should be the case. Judging from the structure of the magic circle, the extraction equipment should be made of a detachable type. I guess there may be many extraction objects of different sizes used by the original owner here. , so he made the extraction equipment detachable, so that the extraction circle of appropriate size can be replaced at any time as needed."

I nodded and said, "You guys should study it first, Xiao Longnu, Shuangxue, let's open the other doors first, maybe we can find some other clues."

After hearing my words, Xiao Longnu and Shuangxue quickly left the magic circle and followed me to the door opposite the stairwell where they came down to wait while Ling and the others continued to study the magic circle on the ground.

I picked this door first because I wanted to know if this was the last floor. If this is the bottom floor of the laboratory, then the door opposite should be an ordinary room. Of course, if this is a stairwell, it only means that there is another floor below.

The process of opening the door went very smoothly, and we have become familiar with the process after working with it so many times. After easily breaking open the door, what we saw was not the stairwell, which meant that this floor was indeed the bottom floor. Of course, we do not rule out the possibility that the stairwell on this floor may be built in another location. However, the upper floors have always had stairwells facing each other, and it is generally unlikely that the stairwells on the lower floors will suddenly change positions.

After opening the door, I immediately went in and checked, and found that this room was similar to the shooting range room I had seen before. There was also a staircase extending downwards as soon as I entered, but it was much deeper than the previous shooting range room. many. The height of this room is at least fifty meters, and the width is much wider than the rooms seen before. Although the length is not as long as the shooting range room, it is still considerable. However, this room is very big, but now there is nothing useful left. The whole room was filled with shattered debris. Except for a few things that could still see some shape, most of the things had been broken into pieces and were no different from sand.

After walking around the room, I still couldn't figure out what the room was originally for. It seems that there should be some sorted supplies here, and the quantity is very large, but because it is so powdered, it is not clear what supplies were originally placed. However, if it can be broken into pieces like this, it must not be an ore-type material.

After leaving this room, there are three doors left to open. I first chose the door on the wall next to the wall without a door. This time, the door panel was still opened smoothly, and inside the door was a small room. This room was supposed to be a place for storing sundries and the like. You can see the remains of some wooden shelves and some completely rusty metal tools. In addition, there is a wall on the door deep in the room. Take out the bookshelf. This bookshelf is relatively small, less than one meter wide and only about one meter high. Its bottom is more than one meter above the ground. There is a pile of scrap wood under the wall below it. It looks like it was originally a table or something.

There are several piles of dust on this stone bookshelf. It seems that they should have been books before, but now they have turned into powder. Although the desk below is not pink, the degree of brokenness is actually no different from turning pink. However, I unexpectedly found some traces of metal under the pile of shattered remains of the desk.

Although there are not many metal products in this laboratory, there are definitely many. However, most of the metal products here are so rusty that they can hardly be seen in their original shape. Only this piece of metal and the magic circle outside still retain the luster of metal.

I reached out and opened the pieces of wood, and pulled out the new-looking piece of metal. I didn't realize it at first, but when I pulled it out, I realized that the metal I just found was actually the front end of a key, and there was a long section behind it. Looking at this giant key, which was half a foot long and weighed more than 20 kilograms, I was stunned for five or six seconds. Because, this key is actually made of fine gold. No wonder it's still looking like new after all these years.

When they saw me coming out with the key, Ling and the others looked at me in confusion. "Where is the key?"

I shrugged and said, "I don't know. I just found a key. But I guess its purpose can be found in the two doors opposite."

Xiao Longnu and Shuangxue stood directly in front of the opposite door and said, "Come and open the door quickly. Once you open all these doors, you will know what the key is for."

I nodded and walked to the door and broke it open the old way, but this time there was still no water. It seems that the lower level of protection in the laboratory is much better than the upper level. There was still a very small room behind this door. I glanced at the door and saw everything in the room.

There is a row of stone shelves at the door of this room that are similar to the bookshelves we saw on the wall before, but now all that is left on them are pieces of metal. Although the rust was very severe, I could still roughly guess the purpose of these metals. It seems that these metals should have been some saddles. The leather buckles and cushions on them have long been powdered, and only these metal parts are left.

Apart from the remains of these saddles, there were only dozens of stone slabs left in the room. I walked over and flipped through it and immediately confirmed that this was the kind of extraction magic circle that Ling and the others wanted. After I asked Ling to come in for inspection, it was indeed proven that this was the special extraction magic circle that matched the magic circle outside. Because the base of the magic circle is made of stone, and the magic circle itself is made of fine gold mixed with other magic materials, it is not pulverized like ordinary items. On the contrary, these things look quite new.

A few death guards were left to move the stone slabs outside, while I, Xiao Longnu and Shuangxue walked to the last door and started to break it.

Since I had no problem opening so many doors before, this time after I found that the back of the door was not flooded, I cut the door open with two swords as usual, then went up and knocked down the entire door panel with one kick. However, the moment the door panel fell, I suddenly saw a black figure rushing toward me.

"careful!"