Chapter Nine
It is also from this stone staircase that each stone staircase afterwards falls downward in turn. When people walk on it, the surrounding scenery will undergo certain changes. Although it is not an illusion, it can still have a good effect of interfering with the senses.
So they always think they are going up, but sometimes they are going down.
After discovering the key to the problem, Lance took out the Macon Sword without hesitation, aimed at the stone staircase with thin red lines, and threw a fireball over it.
The forbidden magic field here is even stronger than in the sword forest. Lance had no choice but to take out his staff and cast the spell. Even so, the fire ball that appeared was only one-half of that in normal circumstances, and its power looked very weak.
Fortunately, although these suspended stairs have mysterious power to support them, their materials are very average.
Lance's fireball hit it, immediately breaking the stone staircase and falling from the sky.
Not long after, another stone staircase immediately moved over and filled the position.
Lance lay down again and observed it and found that this time, the stone stairs were naturally upward and there was no downward situation.
"It's really the trick of that stone staircase!" He smiled slightly, clapped his hands and stood up: "Let's go."
After cracking the secret of the stone stairs, everything that followed seemed much simpler. During the climbing process, Lance stayed from time to time to observe the true height of each stone stair. Dora even summoned the Crow Brothers to help determine whether the floating stairs were really up. Although this place is a Forbidden Demon Zone, it is not a Forbidden Flying Zone. Two crows can still fly in the sky with their own flying abilities to guide the way.
After knocking off two more troubled stairs, they walked upward for more than half an hour and finally arrived at the end of the suspended stairs.
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It was a protruding platform, located in the center of the canyons on both sides, with black vines growing on the platform. The group stood on the edge of the platform, watching these vines vigils vigils.
"Failing Vine." Dora said with a serious expression: "The vitality of this monster is very tenacious. If you don't kill them in one breath, you will be attacked endlessly."
"This is their home court, we must be careful." Lance looked at the abyss behind him and shrugged, "The only good news is that the power of the forbidden demons here has been weakened a lot, and finally the power of the fireball technique is equivalent to the embarrassing thing."
"I saw a cave." Sacra reminded: "It was covered up behind these [scam vines]."
"Nightmare Tunnel." Lance's eyes lit up. I guess the inside of this cave was the Nightmare Tunnel mentioned by the Magic Sword Orphee.
But Orphee has not mentioned that there is a very tricky nest of plants in front of the Nightmare Tunnel.
"Who knows the characteristics of the deceitful vines?" Lance pondered: "I know very little about this plant."
He did not lie. The fox's database did not record the characteristics of this monster. Only some of the information mentioned a name. Its single body strength is about the peak of the first-level monster, but this kind of creature usually lives in groups, pulling up radish and bringing mud. On this platform that is so high, I'm really careful to deal with it.
Everyone looked at him in surprise. The look made Lance himself feel a little confused.
Dora chuckled: "I thought there was nothing in this world that you didn't know..."
"Knowing more things does not mean you know everything." Lance shrugged, and thought to himself that if he had enough authority to scan the contents of the Silver Oak Library, he would be really close to knowing everything.
After all, the storage capacity of the main chip fox is very powerful, enough to accommodate all this knowledge.
"Okay, I understand the weaknesses of this plant." Dora nodded and said, "First, like ordinary plant monsters, the scammers are very afraid of fire. But it must be noted that they are only afraid of fire. The flames actually cannot kill them, and they can only make them uncomfortable; second, they are extremely afraid of force field spells. Because of their own structure, their individual strength is weak, and they are all rushing to attack the enemy."
"We don't have to kill them." Valerie suggested, "Just find a way to clear the scammers at the entrance of the cave."
"Aren't they afraid of flames? I can maintain three, five or six feet long and seven or eight feet high fire walls around us, and can move over," Landry said.
"What are you waiting for? Just leave." Lance smiled and said, "We don't have much time."
"But the flames cannot kill them." Dora frowned and said, "I suspect that these deceitful vines were planted manually, and the purpose was to cover this cave. If this is the case, even if they face the flames, they would not give up their positions easily. What's more, a fire wall alone may not be safe enough."
"I think so too. The mobile firewall is not a particularly strong fortress." Landry agreed.
Lance blinked: "What about force field spells?"
"Then it's perfect." Dora spread her hands: "Landry, let's start?"
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A low chant sounded on the towering platform, and the fire flashed and then became extremely bright.
Three burning flames formed a barrier to protect them inside. Landry was indeed very skilled in controlling the shaping spells. Although Lance was also good at using flame spells, moving the witchcraft of the firewall requires more sophisticated skills, and he was not very good at it.
Under the cover of the fire wall, a group of five people approached the dense climbing vines.
Suddenly, all the black vines suddenly bounced from the ground and swung rapidly in the air. Each vine had barbs on it. For a moment, the black vines were everywhere in the sky as if octopuses were dancing, looking very strange.
Although he was prepared, the rise of the scammers still scared everyone. Before that, all these slim crawlers were lying obediently on the ground, motionless. They looked completely harmless; but in the blink of an eye, all of these guys showed their hideous faces and minions, which caught people off guard.
This is also the origin of the name of the scammer. Before the prey approaches, it will remain motionless, as if it is dead. Once someone approaches their territory, they will be dispatched as soon as possible and surround them.
Seeing that the vines were about to reach into the fire wall, Landry snorted coldly and strengthened the magic output. The magic fire wall suddenly rose several feet.
Sizzle!
The crawler encountered a wall of fire. It was immediately ignited. The high-temperature magic flames made the crawlers retreated and continued to shrink.
Seeing this scene, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that these vines were indeed afraid of flames.
So under the cover of the mobile firewall, the group gradually approached the hole.
The deceiving vines were unwilling to surround the fire wall and staring at them fiercely.
Such a scene also made everyone a little nervous. God knows whether these deceitful vines will suddenly rush up together. If the firewall is extinguished, they will have to fight directly with so many crawlers. That is undoubtedly a very difficult thing.
"Why should we use some spells to cut off some of the vines?" Valerie suggested in a terrified manner. It seemed that only by doing this could she feel some security.
Who knew that Dora immediately ruthlessly denied her proposal:
"Once we take the initiative to attack Satoshi, they will be completely crazy. At that time, these firewalls cannot withstand the invasion of these monsters. So before these Satoshi really launch an attack, we should not provoke them."
The group continued to move forward slowly.
Finally, about ten feet away from the cave, Landry stopped. At this moment, his forehead was covered with sweat, and maintaining such a high-intensity mobile firewall was still very consuming mental and magical power. He said in a deep voice: "You can't move forward any longer, this is where they are guarding. These vines would not retreat no matter what they said."
Everyone was stunned for a moment and looked forward.
Sure enough, in this place, all the deceitful vines gathered tightly, and they refused to take a step back no matter what they said.
Even if Landry tried to control the flames forward, they would rather be burned by the flames than leave the hole.
"It seems that someone has planted it, and the purpose is to protect the hole."
Lance frowned slightly, and somehow, he had a bad premonition in his heart.
"Although these scammers are huge in scale, they seem to have grown in recent days..."
He looked carefully at the black rattan barbs on the deceased vines and the brand new barbs on them, and thought so in his heart.
But now it is not the time to think about this. He took out the Sword of Macon and chanted a spell quickly.
The next second, an invisible net opened, and powerful pressure fell from the sky, covering all the deceitful vines at the entrance of the cave.
Lance held up the Macon Sword and suddenly activated the Bilegli Field Swamp!
The fifteen struggled wildly, but their single power was weak. Under the cover of a powerful force field, they were actually held down by Lance alone!
He took a deep breath and waved the staff in his hand.
Whoosh swish swish swish!
Large areas of climbing vines flew away horizontally, revealing a dark cave.
Several people took this opportunity and rushed in quickly.
Landry did not forget to put a large handful of magic flames at the entrance of the cave, completely blocking the way for those crawlers who wanted to chase in.
The group took out the lighting tools and quickly walked into the depths of the cave.
"It should be a tunnel opened manually." Lance said, observing the surroundings.
The rest of the people nodded in agreement. The stone walls of the cave were very smooth and did not look like they were formed naturally.
After walking for about three minutes, I arrived at a relatively empty space.
At this moment, a ball of light yellow appeared in everyone's eyes. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!