The first impression that the Dark Mountains left on Lucian was the word "huge", the peaks were huge, the trees were huge, the vines were huge, and the beasts were huge.
Towering giant trees dozens or hundreds of meters high abounded, seemingly dyed with a layer of black leaves to shade the sky and sun, making people walking in the dark mountains feel as if they were in the evening, and it was rare for bright light to shine directly in.
The thick layer under your feet is full of accumulated rotten leaves, and when you step on it, it is soft and muddy, and you can't tell where it is solid land and where it is a dangerous swamp.
Moreover, all kinds of rotten breaths are often mixed into colorful and colorful poisonous mist, even formal knights dare not touch it easily.
But in such a harsh environment, Lucian was dressed in a white shirt, a black double-breasted long dress, and a monocle, like walking in the safe cities of Allinge and Lentatt.
"Mr. Elvis, how long will it take to reach His Excellency the Nightmare King's Magic Tower?" Lucian, who was cautious in his heart, observed the tall trees, intertwined vines, and seductive flowers that emitted a fishy smell around him, while asking the contact person next to him.
The liaison Elvis is an ordinary-looking brown-haired ordinary man who usually hangs out in the adventurer's camp to buy materials and other goods, and then sells them to the magicians deep in the Dark Mountains who are not convenient to get close to the fortress in the Dark Mountains.
After accepting the task, Lucian, who received information from the Magic Council, knew that he was not as simple as it seemed, and there was a faint figure of Stanis, the King of Nightmares, who was tasked with helping the King of Nightmares inquire about external information and guide visitors.
Therefore, as soon as he arrived at the adventurer's camp, Lucian shifted his contradictory mind back to the danger of the Dark Mountains and the completion of the mission, and found Elvis directly, expressing his intentions in vague words, and received his response without accident.
Elvis, who was wearing a black tights, walked briskly, his whole person was like a cheetah with restrained strength and ready to go, after hearing Lucian's question, he did not look back, continued to look around guardedly, and replied in a flat tone: "At least half a month. Mr. X, you should know that it is best not to fly without legendary strength in the Dark Mountains, and if you walk too fast, you will easily crash into some terrifying creatures without reaction."
Mr. X is the code name Lucian told Elvis to use, without using his real name.
Lucian nodded slightly, agreeing with this, the high sky of the Dark Mountains is said to be full of cracks, connecting various dangerous xenoplane spaces, so there are strange and diverse creatures here, and many powerful magical creatures like to divide their territory, if they are not strong enough but fly over their territory, they are very easy to attack, the most typical example is the dragons, not to mention many flying creatures hovering in mid-air, such as lightning eagles, griffins, scavengers, etc.
Stepping on the soft pile of rotten leaves, a greenish-yellow poisonous snake suddenly jumped up and bit Lucian's leg.
With a crisp sound, the poisonous snake almost broke its teeth like a stone, and its body bounced, fleeing in a hurry and hiding in the rotten branches and leaves.
From the moment he entered the Dark Mountains, Lucian carefully superimposed two defensive spells, "Stone Skin Technique" and "Douglas's Spell Absorption Wall", and there was no room for carelessness here.
"You didn't sense it in advance?" Lucian seemed to be talking to himself naturally, and as if he was asking Elvis, using his spiritual power as a four-ring magician, he couldn't find a poisonous snake right at his feet. Even if the rotten aura that permeated the surroundings was very suppressing the mental force field, it should not be suppressed to this extent.
Elvis frowned slightly: "My intuition also seems to be suppressed, is there any high-level magical creature nearby?"
The path he took with Lucian was a gap between the realms of many magical creatures, and he could not rule out the possibility that the balance would suddenly be broken.
After identifying the environment, Elvis deviated slightly from the original direction, and then continued to move forward, anyway, there was no real road in the dark mountains.
Just a few steps in the shadows, Lucian suddenly heard a strange creaking sound.
A huge spider suddenly fell from the sky, the bulge on its back was colorful, it seemed to form a strange smiling face, the protruding fangs were like pitch-black daggers, and two black arms wrapped in carapaces stretched out below, with a total of one hundred and twenty curved joints on twelve fingers.
When the spider fell, the thick white spider silk formed into a huge web and sprayed out overwhelmingly, covering Lucian and Elvis.
Lucian's wrist flashed, and a red fireball appeared out of thin air, hitting the spider web.
A violent explosion occurred, and the rising flames quickly ignited the spider silk and spread rapidly, quickly turning the spider web into a web of fire.
Spider silk's weakness is flames!
As a magician, if you don't even know the most basic monster knowledge, you can't be called qualified!
As soon as the giant spider landed, it moved extremely agilely, and its joints made a creaking sound again, not much slower than that of the third-level knight.
At this time, the surrounding creaking noise sounded like noise, and huge colorful spiders either flew down in the air or swung along the hanging thick spider silk to the ground, surrounding Lucian and Elvis in the center.
"Shapeshifting Spider", a spider unique to the Dark Mountains, a monster that can transform into a human-headed spider body, has a third-level strength as an adult, is fast, has high agility, is good at using supernatural powers such as illusions, likes group activities, collective hunting, and can often deal with enemies much stronger than themselves.
Knowledge of this dark creature flashed through his mind, and immediately afterwards, Lucian stirred up the "Mass Terror Technique", and invisible magical waves spread all around.
When this magical wave touched Elvis, the amulet on his chest glowed with a milky white light, canceling out the "Mass Terror Technique".
Most of the shape-shifting spiders were frightened and ran around, while a few managed to resist, creaking and attacking Lucian from all directions.
Some of them rippled quiet green ripples on their bodies, flowing as if to soothe people's sleep, some continued to spew out spider webs in an attempt to trap Lucian and the two, while others pounced on them, ready to successfully trap them and engage in close combat, defeating their opponents by gnawing, injecting venom, and grappling, and entangled them into spider cocoons as reserve food.
Elvis glanced at Lucian with a slight dissatisfaction, and then held a black hammer the size of a head to meet the shape-shifting spider.
Although he understood that Mr. X planned to use indiscriminate area-based magic to control the scene, it was a better choice in the previous situation, anyway, for Mr. X, there was no practical meaning in having a helper like himself, and he could recover after being frightened, but when he was affected by the area-based magic, he inevitably felt a little uncomfortable.
With each blow, the hammer could stir up burning flames, destroying the spider's webs and other amenities, and hammering a deformed spider into a meatloaf in four or five strokes, while the monster's sleep spells, stun spells, silent phantoms, etc. were all canceled out by his talisman light.
He looks like a level four great knight and has not yet shown his bloodline power.
Lucian highlighted a transparent wall of light with countless magic symbols, absorbing all the quiet green ripples and terrifying black phantoms, and then using the coral staff to assist in locking, triggering the "fireball technique" of the Fireweaver's bracelet to kill a shapeshifting spider that pounced in front of him.
When the spellcasting buffer passed, Lucian's staff pointed, and those shape-shifting spiders who chose to use spell-like powers and spray spider webs instead of close combat, as well as their frightened compatriots, condensed a dark cloud above their heads.
Silver-white lightning split out of the dark clouds, turning the place into a forest of thunder and lightning, and the shape-shifting spiders were quickly scorched to the ground.
The four-ring electromagnetic magic "Thundercloud Technique", one of the two four-ring magic that Lucian built in his soul during his return to Alto, and the other is the unique magic "Maskirin Curse".
After killing most of the shape-shifting spiders, it didn't take long for the remaining two or three to be killed one by one by Lucian and Elvis.
"Mr. Elvis, is there anything wrong?" Lucian saw Elvis's solemn expression, so he asked suspiciously. Isn't it normal to be attacked by monsters in the dark mountains? He is also preparing to collect intact shape-shifting spider fangs, venom and silk sacs.
Elvis looked left and right a little uneasily: "Mr. X, there shouldn't be so many shape-shifting spiders on this road, unless, unless ......"
He seemed to think of a terrifying possibility.
Before Lucian could ask in detail, he suddenly felt a strong oppressive force, which made him feel trembling.
He hurriedly raised his head and saw a huge crimson lizard-like ferocious monster flying in mid-air, with two bat-like wings flapping vigorously, as if fleeing in a panic.
"Red Dragon?!" This is the dragon at the top of the biological chain, no wonder it has such a terrifying aura!
When Lucian, who saw this legendary magical creature for the first time, subconsciously regretted not having a mobile phone to film this spectacular scene, Elvis shouted in horror: "Oh no, we have fallen into that demonic land!"
After saying that, he began to run away like a rabbit hit by an arrow.
"What? Mr. Elvis." Lucian ran wildly with Elvis.
Elvis was still determined, and while looking for something with Lucian, he hurriedly said: "There is a legendary mountain in the Dark Mountains, which can move around like a living creature, and it will also change the appearance of the original terrain, making it undetectable. As long as you enter its range, you will be imprisoned in it forever and will never come out again!"
"The only way to tell is that the creatures near it will become chaotic and no longer obey the original patterns!"
Lucian had never seen a similar legend in the materials of the Magic Council, and was about to ask in detail, but Elvis suddenly screamed, countless huge vines stretched out from the rotten soil, entangled him tightly, and dark red thorns pierced into his body.
Seeing this, Lucian immediately wanted to inspire the "elemental order" to break down this terrifying vine that seemed to have no energy field protection to rescue Elvis, but two rows of huge, inhuman all-black eyes suddenly opened on a towering giant tree next to it.
Rays of different colors shot out from those dense eyes, hitting Lucian at close range.
The spell absorption wall was highlighted, and the magic runes surrounding the whole body were broken one by one, and the transparent light wall quickly collapsed.
In this inexplicable place where the spiritual power was suppressed, Lucian completely ignored the giant tree as a terrifying scarlet demon tree, so he was hit by rays such as paralysis, slowness, stillness, and sleep, and did not even have time to activate the "powerful flame shield".
With his head dizzy and his vision blurry, Lucian tried his best to sobriety and used all his mental power to stimulate the "element" of Holm's crown ring.
Black, white, gold, silver and other different colors of light appeared around Lucian, forming extremely dangerous vortices that isolated everything else.
It's not an attack, it's a defense!
Before he regained consciousness, he hoped that the "Elemental Vortex" could block the enemy, and Lucian, who thought so, fell into deep darkness.
It's much better, let's recover at two o'clock today
(End of this chapter)