Volume 19 Chapter 228 The Cursed Man
Seeing this massive black mass of bugs in front of me, I felt like my hair was about to stand up. Although I am a man, and although I think I am quite courageous, when faced with so many disgusting bugs entangled together, I still can't help but have the urge to run away.
"Holy light purification." I was thinking whether to climb up first and then throw some magic down, or waste some time and just use the scorching sun halo. Unexpectedly, the person above just shouted and threw the magic down. Along with a dazzling white light, I suddenly remembered the screams all around me, but after the holy light passed, I felt very regretful. If I had known earlier, I should have just used the scorching sun halo, and shouldn't have considered solving the magic problem. Xiaochun's holy light purification is indeed very powerful against the undead, but those bugs below obviously do not belong to the undead system, so the effect of the holy light on them is just to roast them. The high temperature brought by the strong light did kill these weak bugs, but the effect was just killing them. The bugs basically remained the same except that they turned a little darker.
I'm afraid of these bugs because they're disgusting, not because they're powerful, so they're equally scary dead or alive. The only way to make them not scary is to cut them all into pieces or burn them to ashes. In short, it will be fine if the original shape cannot be seen. Xiaochun's magic had no effect at all when he threw it. The bugs would do what they were supposed to do. If it was thrown away, it would mean that it was not thrown away.
"Hey, it seems that I still can't save this magic value!" I said, switching accounts again and activating the scorching sun halo. After a flash of flame, the room was finally clean. The scorching sun halo is a large-scale advanced magic and is very powerful. Using it to clean up bugs is like using an anti-aircraft cannon to kill mosquitoes.
Even after I cleared away the insect corpses nearby, I didn’t change my form, and just kept my silver moon form. I can finally see that 80% of the mausoleum is full of this kind of bugs. Compared with Zi Ri, Yin Yue's mage skills are more effective in dealing with these low-level bugs in large numbers.
After calling down Xiaochun and others, we discussed it and decided to continue digging. Although this floor does not have eight passages like the one above, it is a corridor, which means it is connected to both sides. Now we don’t know which direction to go anyway, so rather than try our luck, we might as well go straight down, and this time I already figured it out. This mausoleum is so big that the depth should not be too shallow, so there is no point in digging down two or three floors. If you want to dig, dig thoroughly. If you don't penetrate the seven or eight floors, there is no need to turn.
After I decided, I started digging down layer by layer. Facts have proved that this mausoleum has indeed become a nest of the kind of bugs just now. I dug down ten floors in one go. The passage structure of each floor is different, but without exception, there are this kind of bugs on every floor, and every floor has them. Every time, it was so scary. However, although there is this bug on every floor, I found that the bug is gradually changing. It's not that the bugs themselves are changing, but that the bugs on each level are different. As I continued to dig deeper, the number of bugs in the surrounding passages began to decrease, but the density did not decrease at all, because the bugs below were getting larger and larger. At first, the bugs I saw on the first floor were thinner than chopsticks. By the time I reached the twelfth floor, the bugs around me had become as thick as the bottom of a disposable paper cup. Individual large bugs with the mouth of a bowl were found in the group. Of course, it doesn't matter if these guys become ten times thicker, because from the first level to here, the level of the bugs has only increased by more than 200 levels. The top bug is a level 36 monster, and when it gets here it becomes level 247.
"Is this almost deep enough?" After cleaning up the nearby insects, I looked up and asked Xiaochun and the others who were still on the upper floor.
Xiaochun jumped down and said, "It's almost done. Let's choose a direction and walk around?"
The place we are standing on is still a passage, but there is a T-shaped fork five or six meters ahead in the direction I am facing, so now there are actually three roads to choose from.
Because I didn’t know the specific direction at all, it was just a waste of time to think about it, so I directly selected the passage to the right of the T-shaped fork in front of me.
There is no reason for choosing this path, it’s just because it’s easy. But it turned out that I finally had a good luck today, because after turning the fork in the road and walking less than ten meters, I found the stairs leading to the next floor.
"Go down or continue walking on this floor?" Sha Yezi asked, looking at the stairs.
I thought about it and said, "Go on. It should be easier to find clues by following the regular route."
The task written on our last quest scroll is to find an item in this tomb and then give it to someone. But the question is what item we are looking for and who specifically it should be given to. This is not written at all. According to my experience in doing tasks, the task scroll in this kind of task actually only serves as a guide. You only need to follow the task clues to find it. When you get there, an NPC will naturally convey the next task to you in a plot way. If my experience is correct, this tomb should be just the beginning of the guided mission. What we need to find now is not something, but the intelligent NPC, because only he can tell us what to do next.
Hearing my instructions to go down, Sayoko was the first to float down. Xiaochun and Bailang were following behind, while I walked at the end. With Sayako exploring the road in front, any danger should be discovered immediately, so it is not dangerous for Xiaochun to walk in the middle. As for me, I have to be responsible for the aftermath. After all, there may not be any other creatures in the tomb except that kind of bug. If a monster runs out from behind, wouldn't leaving the mage Xiao Chun behind to deliver food to others?
The stairs in the mausoleum are different from the stairs in the building. It does not turn back and forth, but leads straight to the next floor. Moreover, the stairs are also quite wide. It seems that this may be the main passage.
After going down the stairs, there is a relatively large hall first, with two rows of giant sculptures standing on both sides of the hall. The content of the sculpture is an upright lizard like a human, and it seems that these lizard people are intelligent, because they all hold weapons in their hands and wear armor on their bodies. One of the lizard men even held a weapon that seemed to be a crossbow, which showed that the other party at least had a certain degree of civilization. After all, crossbows are more complex in structure than bows and arrows. You can see some people in primitive tribes using them. Bows and arrows, but you will not see any primitive tribes using crossbows.
The lizard man sculptures on both sides of the hall are all over eight meters tall. They seem to be enlarged sculptures. After all, most of the passages in the mausoleum are only four or five meters high. If the owner of the mausoleum is a lizard man eight meters tall, then The passage in the mausoleum should at least ensure his own passage.
After passing through the two rows of sculptures, we came directly to the other side of the hall. This is the only exit from this hall besides the staircase. However, the exit in front of him was not open, but a door blocked the passage.
There is a stone door like a gate at the entrance of this long hexagonal passage. There are some strange symbols carved in the middle of the door, but I asked the demon pets to recognize it and no one knew what it was. In desperation, I had to start the demolition work again.
"How thick is this damn gate?" Ten minutes later, I stood a dozen meters deep from the previous entrance and complained. I have dug fifteen meters deep from the gate to here, but there are still rocks in front of me. This shows that the gate we just saw is at least fifteen meters thick. As for how many more will follow, we don’t know yet.
Although I was very depressed by this door, I had no choice but to continue digging. Fortunately, after the appointed man dug more than five meters, I finally let me dig through the door. Looking back at the entrance of the passage, this damn gate is actually twenty-one meters thick. Where is this mausoleum? A whole fortress?
After passing through that damn door, we finally entered the room inside. The environment inside this door is not complicated at all, it is just a stone room of more than 100 square meters. The stone chamber was very empty. There was only a platform with three steps in the middle of the room, and a huge sarcophagus was placed on the platform.
"It seems we were lucky and found the core directly." Xiaochun and the others said after getting in.
"Don't be too happy. This may not be the goal of our mission. But it is definitely necessary to open it first and take a look." I said and directly summoned the king, and then asked the king to help push the lid of the sarcophagus with me. . However, both of us struggled for a long time and couldn't move the lid. "Damn, is this thing sealed with cement?"
Sayoko circled around the bottom of the sarcophagus and said, "You seem to be in the wrong direction."
"what does it mean?"
Sayoko pointed to the interface between the bottom of the sarcophagus and the ground and said, "Look, the cover of the sarcophagus is connected to the surrounding circle. You shouldn't push it, but lift it up."
I looked where Sayako was pointing, and sure enough, the top and side panels of the sarcophagus were connected together, which meant that the sarcophagus was actually buckled on the ground like a box. If you want to see what's inside, you have to lift it up entirely.
Although the king and I are very strong, it is still a bit difficult to lift such a large sarcophagus, but I have a way. I directly summoned the little dragon girl to add an anti-gravity spell to the sarcophagus. Then the king and I lifted it up together, and the shell of the sarcophagus was immediately lifted up. After we opened the protective cover made of hollowed-out stone, we discovered that there was actually a layer of sarcophagus made entirely of obsidian inside. However, it is different from the smooth sarcophagus outside that I almost mistook for a table. The outside of this black sarcophagus is densely covered with text and various symbols with golden lines. What's more, what's even more amazing is that these golden runes are still being used slightly slower than breathing. Some frequencies flicker slowly, brightly and darkly.
"What's written on it?"
"I don't know." Xiaochun answered simply. "I'm not like Ling. She worked as a clerk in the Dark Temple before she was a goddess, so she naturally knows more than me."
When I heard Xiaochun's words, I was about to summon Ling out, but I didn't expect Ling to run out first. "Ignorant means uneducated, and you are still making excuses." Ling first despised Xiao Chun, then touched the golden text on the black sarcophagus and said: "This is used in the dark ceremony. Magic scripts are real ancient magic scripts, and the magic scripts you usually see are modified versions of this kind of magic script."
"Then what is recorded on it?"
"There's nothing written on it."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
After Ling thought for a while, he explained to me: "Magic text is originally a magical text. When it is written, it will produce magical effects. But because sometimes we don't want it to exert magic during teaching. effect, so the magicians in the past came up with a method, which was to recreate a new type of writing that imitated the magic text. This type of writing should actually be regarded as a variant of the magic text, but because later magicians all learned it directly This kind of changed magic text, so over time, everyone has forgotten the regular magic text."
"Isn't that right? If the regular magic text is forgotten, how does the magic take effect?"
"This is the advantage of the new magic text." Ling explained: "The new magic text has some more special symbols similar to punctuation marks than the old magic text. These symbols are used to mark whether the magic statement is effective. When a new magic text After the text is written, it has no magical effect, but when you add special symbols to these words, the new magic text will immediately produce the magical effect like the ancient magic text. This kind of magic text that can be controlled can be used at will Therefore, it is widely welcomed, and the ancient magic text that cannot be closed at all is gradually eliminated. However, some powerful beings with profound magic power among the gods still use this ancient magic text, because of the The magic power is more powerful, and compared to the new magic text, this magic text has almost no shortcomings except for the inconvenience."
After listening to Ling's explanation, I suddenly looked at the coffin in surprise and asked, "You mean this magic writing is actually a magic circle?"
"It might be a seal, or something else. Anyway, it is indeed running."
"Do you know what kind of magic circle it is?"
Ling looked at the text on the surface of the sarcophagus and said: "This is a bit troublesome and needs to be analyzed slowly. The grammatical structure of the ancient magic text is somewhat different from the new magic text. I have to translate it to find out what is specifically written."
"Then please translate quickly."
Ling nodded and waved to summon Emmenis and Victoria together. I was wondering what she was going to do, but Ling pointed to the words on the sarcophagus and asked them both: "Do you know each other?"
Victoria was a little surprised and stood on the sarcophagus while looking at it and said: "Ancient magic script? Is there anyone still using this thing now?"
Amynis also said: "That's right! No one has used this thing for at least thousands of years. Where did you find such an ancient thing? Hey, this is still a coffin! It seems to be old, no wonder it is used It’s an ancient magic text.”
"Okay, that's it. Now we need to know what's written here. Please help translate it quickly."
Emenes nodded and said: "Then I will be responsible for this." As she said this, she squatted down and began to read the magic text on the left side of the sarcophagus, while Victoria immediately ran to the right to read the text on that side. Ling thought for a while and called out Yeyue, Princess, and Crystal. It turned out that Crystal also recognized the text, so someone also translated the text on the head and feet of the coffin. As for Ling himself, he climbed up and began to translate the text on the cover.
Watching a group of demon pets translating words, I walked up to Xiaochun and patted her shoulder and said, "It seems you need to study harder!"
Xiaochun snorted and said: "Our light magic is a new sect. Those old antiques don't understand it, so they don't understand it."
While I was making Xiaochun happy, Crystal first finished the text on the front of the coffin. However, she did not rush to find the words at the foot of the coffin. Instead, she turned to me and said: "Here is a soul stabilizing array, and it has energy gathering settings on it. It should continuously inject energy into the inside of the coffin. .”
"What?" I asked in surprise: "Then the guys here will definitely become undead?"
Crystal nodded and said: "That should be the case, but the specific situation will not be known until we finish translating everything."
"Then hurry up and translate." Crystal nodded and ran to the foot of the coffin to start translating, but not long after she started, Amynis said: "I've finished translating here."
"What are you writing about?" Ling seemed to have completed his translation task and turned to ask her.
Amynis pointed at the text and said: "It says imprisonment and eternal torture, but the grammar is strange. I don't know the specific meaning. It probably constitutes a kind of punishment method similar to a vicious curse. Formation. If the souls inside this place had not dissipated, they would have endured endless pain and torture."
After hearing this, Ling immediately turned to look at Victoria on the other side and asked, "What did you write over there?"
"Wait a minute, there are still a few words left." Victoria squatted on the last few words for a while and then said: "Okay. It says the fire of hell will burn forever. Translated, it probably means here His soul will endure hellish torture forever."
"Isn't that the same as over there?" I asked.
Ling stood on top of the coffin and said: "It's different. Both sides are mental torture circles. When added together, it doubles the damage, and after superposition, there is a compensatory effect. The actual power may be greater than the two simple curses." Even more vicious. It seems that the guy in the coffin must have done something outrageous, otherwise he wouldn't have been given such a vicious curse."
After listening to it, I immediately asked: "Have you translated what you wrote above?"
Ling nodded and said: "This is a magic circle that keeps life alive. If I guess wrong, the person in the coffin should not be dead yet."
"What?"
"The other party has arranged so many cursed magic circles to make this guy endure eternal pain and torture. If he dies, the torture will be reduced a lot, so the other side has arranged this vitality-supplementing magic circle to ensure that the guy inside can endure it alive. All this is painful, and if no one opens the coffin, he may be tortured like this forever. If my guess is correct, what is written on the other side of the foot should be a magic gathering circle to supplement the needs of the life magic circle above. of energy.”
Crystal just finished translating at this time, she stood up and said: "You guessed it right, this is a magic gathering circle."
After listening to their translation, I couldn't help but look at the coffin and asked Ling, "Do you want me to open this coffin or not?"
Ling thought for a moment and said: "It must be opened. After all, our mission is inside. But I think we must make some preparations."
"Preparation?"
Victoria explained for Ling: "Although mental torture is painful, it can actually increase a person's magic power. Of course, this method of self-torture usually makes people crazy first, so magicians can only choose to practice slowly , rather than strengthening oneself through this method.”
"You mean to say that the guys here have been practicing magic during the years of torture?"
Victoria nodded and said: "Not only has he been practicing, his training speed is several times that of normal people, and because this magic circle will not be interrupted, he has no day and night. After he was sealed in the coffin Over the years, he has been practicing non-stop for 24 hours a day. Even if he was a magic apprentice, his magic power is probably stronger than that of the intermediate gods! Besides, he can be sealed with something like this I don’t think his strength was that low when he first entered. So his strength is now at least equivalent to that of a high-level protoss."
"It doesn't matter. We've killed a lot of protoss, so the high-level protoss are not afraid either."
Although I said this, my actions were not slow at all. First of all, I took out the two mobile angels for anti-protoss from the Phoenix Dragon space and put them in the room for backup. Then I took out a bunch of medicines to replenish the magic power first, in case a super one really comes out. This guy is difficult to deal with. I can activate the Divine Realm Fusion at full status. With the cooperation of two mobile angels, I believe I can kill him in minutes.
Ling saw that I was ready, so he didn't say anything more, and directly called Crystal to help lift the cover of Obsidian's sarcophagus. Almost as soon as the coffin lid was lifted off, we immediately saw a black shadow pop out of the coffin. The black figure rushed directly to the roof, then used the force to bounce on the roof, and the next second it pounced on Xiaochun behind me.
Buzz... With a sound of metal collision, a mobile Angel standing next to me took a big step back, but the black shadow was also bounced out and smashed into the opposite wall with a bang. Using mobile angels against the protoss is not ordinary mobile angels. These guys are specifically used to deal with the protoss. The guy in the coffin is at best close to the strength of the high-level protoss, but he is not a god after all.