Chapter 14 Castles, Twilight, and Strange Shadows (Part 2)
"What's wrong? Lance?" Dora turned around in surprise.
Lance looked thoughtfully at the place where the strange shadow disappeared and whispered: "Nothing."
At this moment, it was dusk, and the dim sunlight shone over from the distant west, illuminating the scenery on the lake and between the rainforest.
This place is surrounded by mountains, obviously deep in the hinterland of the Hanshan Mountains. These mountains are extremely tall, wrapping this vast lake in your arms, like a sleeping baby tightly holding up. Lance looked up and could see the snow lines high in the surrounding mountains, and the coldness above.
However, in the terrain of this basin, the climate is very humid and hot, and the dense rainforests grow by the lake, which is really puzzling.
The castle at dusk looks mysterious. It’s fine for the rest of the people, but they can only see a rough outline. However, Lance has Hawkeye, but he can see it more clearly.
He could see that the Sivare Castle on the island was very magnificent and tall, and could vaguely see three narrow stone bridges. There were iron chains hanging on the top of the stone bridge, and there should be turbulent rivers or lakes below. The city walls were undulating and undulating. Judging from the arc, the entire Sivare should be cylindrical. Except for the most conspicuous astrological towers in the city, the other buildings were hidden in the tall stone walls. Even Hawkeye could not get more information.
The five of them looked side by side for a while, and Dora was the first to speak: "Since we have found Sivare, the next step is to wait for the arrival of the summer solstice."
"We have to find a place to settle it, and it's best to build a temporary camp."
After saying that, she looked at Lance. The latter nodded in agreement, and added: "I personally think that the concealment of the camp is very important. Whether the old ghost deceives us or not, we must make complete plans. If we are really a wizard from the Flower Scorpion Society, we will not have much advantage in confronting them head-on."
The group discussed and left the lakeside and walked into the rainforest.
After a while, the careful Sacra found a cave on the edge of the rainforest in the west. The rainforest spread here and was separated by the cliffs. To the north, there was the mysterious black lake water. The lake water and the mountain walls were closely connected, and there was no other way.
The cave is hidden among several huge banana leaves. If Sacrat hadn't been careful enough, it wouldn't have been discovered.
At that moment, they pushed away the banana leaves and walked into the cave one by one.
It is different from the humid and hot climate around it. The cave is very dry and suitable for temporary residence.
"Bang!"
Lance casually smashed a piece of white crystal on the stone wall of the cave, and the white light immediately filled the entire cave.
"I really doubt how many white crystals have you picked out?" Dora asked with a little amusing.
But even though she said that, she had to admit that the practicality of this white crystal is almost as good as most of the lighting magic items. The fluorescent stones or magic stones in Dora's hand are not as bright as white crystals. The only disadvantage of white crystals is that they are very shy and cannot contact humans, so it is very suitable to use them to fix lighting.
"It looks like a ton." Lance's casual answer shocked everyone.
When they were in the country of Green Fairy, they walked all the way. Although they saw Lance often picked up some white crystals everywhere, they just thought that this guy had a unique hobby for white crystals. Unexpectedly, he actually used this thing as a lighting tool and a consumable...
Under the dazzling light of white crystal, the entire cave is completely visible.
The dry ground has no extra plants, nor does it look like a nest for snakes or other creatures. It is indeed a very ideal rest base.
"Huh? There seems to be something inside."
Landry walked in with great strides, bypassed a small troubled mouth, and then snorted, his face changed: "Come on!"
Lance and others immediately came over.
I saw a thick white bone buried in the soil on the ground where Landry looked directly at him!
"I'll do it."
Lance threw out another piece of white crystal and illuminated the remaining shadows. From the outside, when the cave arrived at this place, there was no way out.
He bent down, grabbed the leg-like thing and pulled it out of the soil.
Hurry!
The soil debris fell one after another, and everyone's faces changed slightly.
As wizards, you will naturally not be afraid of things like white bones, but what makes them uneasy is that this is the corpse of a semi-giant human being.
The upper body of the corpse had disappeared, and the skeleton in Lance's hand was just a skeleton of the lower body.
"It seems that the old ghost's information is not groundless."
Lance squinted his eyes and looked at the corpse in his hand. He pointed to some red spots on the corpse and said, "It is not natural that it has rotted and shrunk. Look, there is still some remaining flesh and blood that has not been... "
When he said this, his eyes fell on other parts of his legs, and small and tight tooth marks gradually appeared.
"It hasn't been eaten clean yet..." he added coldly.
Sacra also bent down, wiped a handful of soil on the ground, and said lightly: "The soil has just been turned up."
Next sentence, his voice was very low, and he said in a voice that only five people could hear: "The enemy has not left yet..."
Lance nodded in agreement, his face very handsome: "From the bone density, this is not the bone of an ordinary human... or a warrior with high martial arts skills or a high-level apprentice."
"He is right next to us, he is observing us."
Lance's conclusion made everyone look stern, and they took out their usual weapons without hesitation, or silently prepared spells they were good at.
"We'll be divided into two groups, Landry, come with me, let's go inside and take a look; you three are at the entrance of the cave, be careful."
Lance gave the order quickly, Dora nodded and took the two back to the entrance of the cave.
Lance and Landry stood up and walked into the cave. Turning over the difficult mouth. Less than ten feet ahead was the mountain wall, and it seemed that this place could not hide people at all.
Landry held the staff tightly, and an ice-blue light came out from the tip of the staff, obviously fully prepared.
Lance was calm, and he and Landry carefully observed the soil on the mountain walls, one left and one right.
Suddenly, he stopped and said to Landry: "There should be no one, let's go."
After saying that, under the latter's astonished gaze, he pulled Landry and walked outside.
"The stone wall on my right is three feet from the ground." He whispered.
Landry immediately realized it, turned around suddenly, and the staff in his hand lit up. The ice-blue light suddenly flew out.
Ice Trail!
The cold spell factor spread rapidly. Within such a short distance, it immediately pounced on the stone wall.
The next second, a strange cry came from the stone wall, and a sudden shadow jumped out like a ghost. Its speed was unparalleled. It could actually flash through most of the attacks on the Ice Path, and was swept to a little by one of the broken ice.
The strange shadow screamed and suddenly leaned forward, and the speed was astonishingly fast. Even Lance was caught off guard and could not stop him!
"Dora!" he shouted in a hurry.
Unfortunately, it was too late, and the length of the cave was not very long. It was just a matter of lightning when Landry launched an attack to escape from his encirclement. By the time Dora and the others realized, the monster had already galloped past them against the mountain wall!
Whoosh swish swish swish!
Lance chased out of the cave entrance, and saw a strange shadow jumping in the forest for a few times, then disappeared.
Everyone looked at each other, all of which were a little heavy.
"Its speed...has agility at least 6. On the flat ground, I'm fully sprinting, which should be comparable to it, but the problem is that the terrain here is too complicated. And... my explosive power is far from it!"
Lance was also a little unhappy when he came to the conclusion silently in his heart. His speed was not simply based on his body, but was supplemented by various witchcraft powers. In this way, he would be a little lacking in explosive power. Even if the maximum speed is not far from this strange shadow, it may be difficult to catch him.
"What was that thing just now?" Valerie asked with lingering fear.
She had just stood on the edge of the mountain wall. If the strange shadow hadn't been afraid of their large numbers and seemed not ready to fight with them, she would have faced the threat from the other party. The old ghost woman had left a considerable shadow in her heart before, and she was in a very bad condition now.
"I don't know." Lance said expressionlessly, "But I believe we will see him again soon."
"Let's go, this place is no longer suitable for a campsite, we have to find another hiding place."
...
Late at night, in a tree hole deep in the rainforest, five people sat aside and rested quietly.
It is also a helpless thing to choose a tree hole as a place to live, but the experience at dusk reminds them that there are not only a group of powerful creatures in the rainforest, and everything must be cautious.
Dora inserted six crystal pillars around the big tree and used spells to disguise them as six tree stumps. Within the scope of the crystal pillar, the barrier of [Blessing of the Earth] was unveiled, and everything was disguised, so even if they made fire in the tree hole, they would not be seen by ordinary people.
At this moment, they had already eaten the food they carried and were quietly recovering their physical strength and magic. Especially when Lance was in the cave at dusk, the reason why he asked Landry to take action was to prepare to take action and see what the lurking enemy was; the second was to save magic.
After experiencing the fusion of the magic sword and the battle between the old ghost, his magic power is about to be exhausted. In such a crisis-ridden place, it is better to save as much as possible.
He closed his eyes and used Viron meditation to quickly restore his magic power. Because he was with the rest of the people, it was difficult for him to take out the bottle of Eternity, which led to his magic recovery level becoming very slow.
It was midnight before the magic in the Dawn Pool had just reached 300 points, only 60%.
However, at this progress, there is still hope to restore the overall situation before dawn comes.
However, at this moment, he suddenly heard a noise coming from the rain forest in the distance. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!