Everyone hid in the tunnel, and the sand outside buried the entrance and exit, blocking the ferocious monsters. Several monster hunters in the tunnel had Hawkeye meditation, which could see things clearly in the dark, and the light at the corner at the end of the passage made it not completely dark here. They seized the time to check their status, especially Momm's wounds.
"I'm fine, their daggers are pretty clean, I've applied medicine." The half-dwarf tightened the wound, then pulled half of the gun and sword out, and used it as a crutch. Feiqi used hell treatment for him, and the wound was fine, but there was a crutch that could better recover. "Don't just look at me, are you not injured?"
Giles shook his head, Kelle raised his eyebrows, Ssina curled her lips...Mom looked at Feich, hoping that she would not be the only one who was unlucky. But Feich sighed and said helplessly: "My clothes were broken, but they did not pierce the armor."
"Okay, you are all taller than me, but I'm just unlucky, and it's the lowest position like the ankle - is there any place to make sense?" Mom whined his beard with anger and asked, "Who do you know what those monsters are outside?"
"It feels like some kind of goblin. You know if you shave off all the goblin's hair and dye it a color, it looks like that." Ssina spoke while adjusting the flying knife on her body and moving them to a more convenient position. "As for the big ones, I look like ogres, too..."
"Shad your hair and apply color?" Momm snorted: "You are a way to remember monsters, which is very labor-saving."
"Okay, the most important question for us is how to get out here." Feiqi said: "It's very unnatural here. The pits are bursting out all over the mountains and fields and then so many monsters are pouring out? I think someone is controlling all this behind the scenes."
"I think it's meaning too." Kelly agreed: "Feich said it right. The monster's organization is obviously of hierarchy. The hair removal and color-changing ogres manage the hair removal and color-changing goblins. And so many ogres can fight together means that they must have a higher level, or even higher level."
"They started attacking as we approached the top of the sand slope, and have you noticed that the hair removal and color-changing ogre that I knocked over fell to the bottom of the sand slope, and then teleported to the top. So, no matter who built or managed the place, they were obviously very proficient in teleportation spells." Feiqi thought for a while, then pointed to the depths of the passage: "Obviously, the other party wanted to force us in, and wanted us to go in that direction."
Everyone looked at the entrance and exit buried by the sand, and there were silences of monsters behind them. "My earth element-bound tentacles cannot block them forever, but only two or three days can be done." Feiqi said: "My high-risk teleportation spell takes at least two days to carve the magic array. I think it's safe to wait for me to finish drawing the magic array to test it, and make sure there is a way out - even a dangerous way out - and then move forward?"
"Two days? I'm afraid we don't have that much time." Kelly shook his head: "It's probably not safe to split into two teams, so we'll just sneak forward and learn more about the environment here, and then plan for the next step?"
No one expressed his opinion, but looked at Feichi. Whether it was the presiding priest of the Ice Peak Fortress or the only person who could teleport spells, Feichi's opinions were very important. No one expected that Feichi would be persuaded immediately by Kelly: "Well, it's good to find out first. I can collect more information, which will help improve the safety of the teleportation. By the way, I need to do a lot of calculations first, so you can protect me more."
There must be no problem with this. Everyone let Feiqi go in the middle. Mom and Kalie held their steps in front, Giles and Ssina protected their tails behind. Feiqi was among the four people, constantly looking around, muttering in her mouth, saying something that no one could understand. The cat-tick stick kept tapping the ground gently, making a monotonous and rhythmic dong dong sound, accompanied by Feiqi's steps.
It is true that it requires human protection, but it is false to observe and calculate the teleportation technique. Feiqi's space teleportation technique does not take two days to prepare, nor does it require the magic array to be portrayed. He can cast it in the form of a spell. However, this spell is very long and requires a lot of mana accumulation. Feiqi will do this while exploring.
He did this without hiding his companions, even more so that he could hide it from the managers of this strange place. After all, there is a great possibility that someone has been observing them all the time - the phenomenon of releasing monsters when approaching the top of the sand slope is evidence. What are the "two days" and "carving magic circles" and so on are all told by Feiqi to the "observers in the secret". He must cast spells secretly and carefully cover up the fluctuations of mana. During this period, he must try to avoid being disturbed, otherwise the spell will be over.
When I just arrived here, Feiqi said that his space teleportation array was very dangerous. It was not a scam, but there were two types of space magic arrays. Generally, teleportation requires knowing the destination and origin, and then using a device of the size of a three-barrel magic array to open the space channel. The other is to use the summoning statue technology, Feiqi is the origin point and midnight is the destination, and use the same soul belonging to the two places as the anchor point to establish a space channel.
The latter method does not require magic circles, which are relatively simple to use, but also has its weaknesses. Calculated by souls, you can only transmit one individual at a time; the two anchor points must remain unmoved; and teleport back a large amount of mana consumed by the anchor points. The summoned statue uses sacrifices to provide the mana consumption of one point, and the summoned devil itself needs to bear the other half. This is why the devil wants to collect more sacrifices as much as possible after being summoned: they must earn back what they have paid.
When escaping, you don’t need to consider the cost, just the success rate. Using the latter method can make your companions go back, but it will also reveal the secret that they can be summoned. Only creatures in other worlds can use this way of summoning statues. Whether they will regard Fitch as an angel or a devil, in short, the fact that "Fitch is not a human" is a foregone conclusion.
‘Even if exposed, it is better than not having escape means!’ Feiqi slowly accumulates mana, stores the spell runes in the teasing stick, and is careful not to let others discover it.
"Look at these walls," Mommy reconnaissance forward. He touched the stone walls and ground from time to time, using the dwarf's ability to sense the rocks to ensure that there were no traps. "These walls are very long, and I guess the reliefs on them have been three to four thousand years old, and have been eroded by years."
"Yes, it has been eroded by the years... If we die here, we will also have to eroded by the years!" Sisina used a dagger to scratch the wall, and the soil slag mixed with shell powder fell down. "I don't like this broken place, hurry up and find the way out!"
"I've been looking for it all the time!" Mom blew his beard. They came to the corner of the passage and carefully poked their heads to look in the direction of the glowing. A hall was just outside the exit of the passage several meters away. The sunlight shone from top to bottom through the hollow on the top of the hall, just facing the exit of the passage.
This is a marble building with a tall dome. The giant glass puzzle windows on both sides remind Fitch of many church structures. They came out of the passage at the bottom of the "church", each with twenty meters wide on both sides, and then the main hall extends forward 450 meters. Every ten meters or so, it is five meters wide, leading to the ceiling, with a glass window that is twenty meters high. All the windows are a pattern: a huge burning axe.
The sun shone down from the circular hole in the center of the dome, and the dust in the air was clearly visible. Under the sun, thousands of biological specimens filled the hall. The largest specimens were a two-hundred-meter lizard covered with carapace and eight legs, but for Feige, the most conspicuous specimen was a fear-eating giant.
"Can these have a history of three to four thousand years?" Ssina threw a flying knife and pierced into a specimen of a lizard man not far away. "It seems that he is dead... What strange place is this?"
"This is the exhibition hall of the Old World and the striker camp of the New World."
Everyone looked at the sudden sound and found that a specimen of hair removal and coloring goblin was talking. At the same time as the sound sounded, the specimen's eyes lit up and blue cold flames rose. With the crunching and friction sound, the goblin waved stiffly at them: "Yes, I'm talking. But I'm not a mite."
It seems that the scientific name of hair removal and coloring goblins is called mite genitals. If you think about their huge number, it is appropriate to name it with the word "mites". Kelle looked at Fitch and signaled him to speak on behalf of everyone. However, Fitch still had to continue storing spells, so he shook his head and signaled Kelle to speak with his eyes.
"Where is this? How can I leave?"
"Ah, monster hunters from the Ice Peak Fortress, I was disappointed by your speech. I have answered the first question just now, and the answer to the second question is obvious. "The mite spirit squeezed out a stiff and ugly and malicious smile with force, and said, "Your fate has only one ending, that is, to bury your dead goddess."
Swish! Scina's flying knife took action and decisively hit the mite's eyebrows, almost all of them disappeared. The little monster staggered and sat on the ground, then slowly touched the flying knife between his eyes and slowly pulled it out. Feiqi noticed that there were some red, white and light yellow substances hanging on the blade of the flying knife, which looked like the brain tissue of a creature, and normal specimens should have removed all of these.
"Don't rush to do it. Throwing the flying knife like this will not kill me. Even if I destroy this body, I can still move to other places, so don't try to destroy my collection." The mite spirit stood up again, rubbed his eyebrows with his hands, and the broken mouth quickly healed. "Don't be so hostile, I didn't do anything to you. Yes, I did set up a trap to lure you in, and I was not allowed to leave, but at least I didn't hurt you!"
This mite monster was obviously making trouble, and everyone would not believe it, nor would they sit and wait for death. With the tacit understanding of the monster hunter, they immediately began to investigate the surroundings, especially these very strange-looking specimens. Is regulations like not to destroy them useful? Kelly waved his gun and sword, directly beheaded a monster that looked like a velociraptor, and then raised his head to show everyone: "This is not a specimen, it's complete inside."
"Specimen? You underestimate me too much." The mite smirked, then snapped his fingers, and immediately six specimens of different creatures came alive, and their eyes were blasting towards the monster hunters with blue cold flames. The people from the Ice Peak Fortress quickly gathered at Fitch, then pulled out spears and swords, or used heavy crossbows to attack, destroy their knees, restrict their movements, and then pierced the vital points of the heart or neck. These specimens looked very impatient, and their combat power was similar to those of the mite squirrel on the sand slope before, and they fell to the ground and died quickly. The blue cold flames were extinguished, and strange pink blood flowed out from the wound, spreading in all directions, gradually covering the ground.
"We will kill as much as we come!" Although Kailie was very tough, the combat environment here was not much different from the ones before on the sand slope. Such a large number of specimens came alive and drowned them.
"Kill, kill whatever you want." The mite giggled. "By the way, I want you to see a few people before you start your futile action."
As he was talking, a few people walked through the specimen and walked over from the other side of the hall. Everyone was meditating with Hawkeye. At first glance, they saw the "people" whose eyes were dominated by blue cold flames. "Kante? Milton? This is the apprentice of the Blue Shield Fortress! What about the hunter of the fortress? Why are the apprentice also..."
"Yes, they are like you, but they have worked a lot to come to the 'rift', and two more died on the way, not as easy as you." The mite genital smiled and said, "They are more obedient than you, so they come here to check it out. Then I used up those monster hunters from the cat school, and there are still these two collections left. Do you monster hunters all have diseases? If you don't like dialogue, you like to fight and kill? Forget it, even if there are differences, the results will not be different, it doesn't matter."
"I want to kill this little monster!" Momm put down his gun sword and took off his beloved dwarf's hand axe from his belt. "Fech, do you need a research specimen? I think this thing is good."
"Cut it." Feiqi said, Mommy raised his knife and cut the mite sperm into two pieces. His hands were very fierce, his axe was fast, and his heart was still beating when the "specimen" turned into two pieces.
"They were not dead, but were in a mixed state of hibernation and paralysis," Kelle and Giles checked the bodies before and returned to the queue and said: "These guys in front of us are hibernating, and their heartbeats are likely to drop to once a day, so we all think they are specimens. Then when the eyes are blue, they are awakened, but the body seems to be controlled by others."
"Creepy," Momm said: "If I'm about to become like this, please smash my head and make sure I die! The goddess is on it, it's so evil here!"
"Evil? Oh, you guys underestimate me too much. I am not evil, I am a purer existence than evil. You can call me a blue knight of war." A gray dwarf had blue eyes and walked over from the specimen, and it was obvious that he became the new spokesperson. "Welcome to my war collection."
"I think beautifully, you fake dwarf!" Mom raised his axe and was about to continue chopping over the guy opposite, but suddenly stopped: "Ice Blade, I...I don't feel good."
Ssina pulled him back, and then noticed that the half-dwarf's body began to stiffen, and there was a purple substance spreading in the blood vessels on the surface of the skin. "Smash my head, smash it! Quick!" Momm's voice began to be ambiguous, but the anger and horror were obvious. At the same time, Kelly also said: "Oh, I don't think it's good either."
Paralysis began to spread, purple in their blood, and their skin became pale, just like the strange-colored mite sperm outside. "Corpse Blood." Giles said three words concisely, and took self-destruction with a gun and sword in front of him, but lost the ability to move before he could hurt himself.
"The blood flowing out of the corpse is poisonous, avoid it!" Feiqi immediately understood Giles' words. The three of them had slashed the specimens before. Although they were not injured, their bodies were more or less splattered with blood. Feiqi looked closely and saw that the paralysis was indeed spreading from the blood drops to the surroundings, and the purple color of the blood vessels was obviously deeper. "Be careful!" Feiqi and Ssina quickly avoided and stood in a dry place.
"Now you understand, you will inevitably fail." The Blue Knight of War looked at Fitch and Scinna who were still able to act for the time being. "Don't worry, although you will die, there will be no pain. Don't misunderstand, I mean there is no pain after death, not before. Of course, compared to these specimens, you monster hunters still have more important uses."
"Let me think... do you want to get information from us?" Feiqi finished the conversation, and pressed his hand on Scina's shoulder, tapping her index and middle fingers gently to calm her down. "No, intelligence is just a cover, what you want should be more things. I was thinking, only monster hunters can see the light outside, but ordinary people can't see it, right?"
"It's right, it's right. You've bought yourself some time to speak, so keep going."
"The difference between Monster Hunter and ordinary people is the enhancement ritual and seal, and the sharp senses are second. The red and blue lights contain summoning and space spells. I always thought it was to summon creatures to my world, but I didn't expect that it was the other way around, summoning Monster Hunter to come here."
"Very good! You've surpassed the average level, and I sincerely feel happy for you - because you'll be one of my favorite collections."
"No, I won't be your collection, you don't need to lie to me." Feiqi looked at the cat-knitting stick and smiled slightly, his fingers still pounding on Scina's shoulder. "I've solved the corner of the puzzle: You're interested in the power given to us by the goddess of truth and wisdom, which comes to us with the enhancement ritual and the seal, thus making us unique. These two apprentices can become specimens because they haven't performed the enhancement ritual, let alone the seal. Therefore, we won't have their ending."
"Hahaha, I have vision! I think very well! I will make an exception and leave a head for you."
This is not a question of vision and thinking, but Feiqi finally figured it out. Unlike other monster hunters, he has experienced the enhancement ritual, but has changed his body - the skin that has been repaired and resurrected has been completely abandoned - so the goddess blessings that were shot in with lightning in the enhancement ritual have long disappeared. The magic seal and Hawkeye meditation are just two "techniques". One requires the identity of a monster hunter to obtain, and the other requires strong physical fitness as the basis. Whether it is the body of a contract demon or a desire demon, Fitch far exceeds the physical fitness of Hawkeye meditation, so it does not affect it. The magic seal is a rune engraving combined with the soul, and it will still be there after changing the body.
Therefore, the enhancement ritual is the key, and the goddess' blessing is the fundamental. Feiqi himself cannot see the red and blue light, but he can see it when he holds the teasing stick. That is because the teasing stick is made of the Goddess's God Kingdom source quality, which is much better than the blessing lightning in the enhancement ritual! Similarly, if he holds the pit sword, Feiqi feels that he can also see the red and blue light...
However, he was more concerned about what the Blue Knight of War had said before, and asked, "When did you say the goddess die?"
"Time cannot be measured, but the result is certain. She overestimated herself and became fragments. Although she was indeed very brave, she could not say that she had done useless work, but the result remained unchanged and was only delayed for a while."
"You are the subordinate of the Creator, aren't you?" Feiqi stopped tapping his fingers, patted Ssina's shoulder gently, and walked to Mom's side. The half-dwarf's eyes could still be turned, and he kept looking at Feiqi, crying, and his expression was full of begging. "When will the Creator come?"
The Blue Knight was silent, all the blue cold flames in the eyes of the surrounding specimens were extinguished, and then a skull covered with gems flew over and stopped in front of Feichi. "You have won respect and status for yourself, and you can at least meet me."
"So this skull is your body? No, I think it is one of the bodies."
"One of the originals. I don't have the originals. If this skull is destroyed, I won't die. But I like this form the most because the gems on it are so perfect!"
Indeed, there are two huge diamonds in the eye socket of the skull, and a sapphire in the nostrils. Each of its teeth is red, green, and yellow, and the ear piercings are amber. But what attracted Fitch the most was that it had a hole directly above the top of its head, with an ellipsoidal crystal cluster the size of an egg!
"You said the goddess was dead and broken, but at least she did not do useless work. I was mixed when I heard this news, and it caused another problem for me..." Feiqi smiled slightly, avoided the blood on Momm's body, placed his hand on the half-dwarf's hair, looked at the skull, and asked, "Is the Creator's former Lord broken?"
"You dare to ask this question!"
"There are so many things I dare to do!" Feiqi stomped the ground hard and shouted: "The earth element bondage array is fully opened!"
Countless earth element tentacles emerged from the ground and gathered around Feich, layered and densely packed, stretching in all directions. Feich wanted to use them to pull any specimen monsters that were approaching and let everyone go.
The teleportation technique and earth element bondage that had been stored for a long time were used at the same time. The first one to leave was Mom. Ssina, without saying a word, pulled the clothes with both hands, dragged Kelle and Giles over, threw them at Fitch's feet, then picked up Kelle's gun sword, and made a defensive posture in front of her chest. "Don't worry, Fitch, I understand everything, I won't let them both disturb you."
Chapter completed!