Chapter 366 Turmoil (First Update)
The sun was shining, and the lake water rippled with gold, as if the completely frozen Belak had not yet begun to fall, and the light blue, snowflake-like solid air around him turned into dripping water droplets.
The rain fell into the air and quickly turned into white mist, blending into the surroundings.
After the ice condensed in the air melted, Belak's magic robe and body collapsed like sand sculptures, turning into fluffy white powder and scattering, shimmering with crystal light.
"This power is ......" The effect of "Evans' Extreme Cold Ray" exceeded Lucian's expectations, and a high-level magician with six rings was frozen along with human magic and air when he used a defensive spell, which was really terrifying.
Although this is related to Belak's underestimation of the ultra-low temperature limit of the extreme cold ray and the wrong choice of defensive magic, it cannot hide the fact that this seven-ring magic has surpassed most ice and snow magic of the same level simply from the comparison of freezing effects.
In other words, from a certain level, Lucian lowered similar seven-ring magic to the requirements of five or six rings while maintaining its power, just like what the Magic Council has often done in the past few hundred years, many seven-ring, eight-ring, and nin-ring magic have now been correspondingly reduced by one or two rings, and even some have been lowered from high to intermediate.
This is one of the major advancements brought about by arcane research!
Lucian came back to his senses, turned to look at Afrith, and saw that its translucent amber eyes were staring at the ice and snow powder that Belak had turned into, as if he couldn't believe it and couldn't accept it.
It was also shocked by the horror of the "extreme cold ray"? You have to keep it secret! Lucian thought silently in his heart, smiled and said to Africe: "What's wrong? Is it okay?"
"Ring...... Amulet ......" Averis' immature voice contains the emotion of "grief", defeating enemies and collecting loot is one of its biggest hobbies, as for the terrifying frozen rays, which can allow the five-ring magician to cast and kill the high-level magician in one blow, I'm sorry, I'm not in the mood to think about it for the time being.
This is normal Afrith, Lucian wiped a cold sweat that didn't exist: "Those broken materials are also valuable."
In fact, after Lucian's cognition of the world was initially substantiated, the use of "Elemental Vortex" was no longer as drained of his whole body as before, and he could even use it twice, so with Afrith, there were many ways to kill Belak, but Lucian was careful and directly used the strongest trump card.
"Really?" Afrith suddenly regained his vitality and asked eagerly.
"Of course." Lucian replied without changing his face.
These materials are indeed valuable, but compared to the value of the rings and amulets themselves, they are too far away, and they have been frozen, so even the first and second level magic items may not be comparable. However, how could this kind of thing be told to Africe, anyway, it is just a collection and viewing certainty, and it will not be sold.
Afrith's dorsal wing flapped, diving down, scraping the material into his hands at lightning speed.
"Averes, are you happy?" Lucian smiled,
"Yes!" Afrith replied happily as he counted the fine shiny materials in his hand.
"So, it's time to return the 'elemental' ring to me." Lucian continued to "smile".
Avery stiffened for a moment, as if he had been struck by lightning, and then said "as if nothing had happened": "I'll continue to pretend to be you!"
"I don't need to go out for the time being." Lucian pushed the monocle and contacted teacher Fernando, classmate Tang Pu, Elemental Will President Morris, Lavendi and others.
After playing around for a while, seeing Lucian's firm attitude, Avery took off the Holm crown ring and reluctantly returned it to Lucian.
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Kingdom of Holm, Rentat.
Cardinal Adrian ended his sermon to several conservative nobles and stepped out of the heavily guarded manor.
Seeing this, the coachmen who stopped nearby gently pulled the dragon scale horse and drove smoothly and smoothly in front of Adrian.
A dozen bishops, priests, and knights who followed Adrian quickly moved forward, divided into two columns, and the "guards" welcomed Adrian into the carriage by the door of the carriage in the middle.
Adrian drew a cross on his chest, whispered a few prayers, and then slowly walked towards the carriage with the dignity and demeanor of a cardinal.
Suddenly, a sense of danger filled his heart, as if he had received a warning from the Lord, and subconsciously used the seventh-level divine technique "Chaos Teleportation".
A door adorned with milky white light and full of sacred meaning opened in front of him.
But just when he wanted to step in, the illusory gate, which was like the entrance to Heaven Mountain, shook violently and shattered suddenly.
Nine-ring force field magic, "space lock"!
Immediately afterwards, the surrounding temperature rose rapidly, the air was scorching and twisted, and the ground turned into orange-yellow magma, and the dozen bishops, priests, and knights turned into green smoke before they even had time to scream.
Andrade's cardinal robe began to melt, and the "Magic Absorption Armor" and "Blade Barrier" generated by the trigger also melted like candles in the terrifying heat and flames.
Nine Rings Elemental Magic, "Ravendi's Flame Hell"!
The trigger effect is generated, but the "Radiant Jump" is still locked, and Andrade can only wail and die of scorching death!
A few minutes later, the rolling and burning "Flame Hell" subsided, and the coachmen saw a deep pit in horror, its range just enough to wrap around a dozen clergy, while the carriage and the coachman a few fingers away were unharmed, and the dragon-scaled horse was still leisurely snorting.
The remnants of the flames burned a few words on the ground not far away:
"Reciprocal retaliation".
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At noon, a quiet church in the city of Rentat.
There are no believers here, because it has been transformed into a "monastery" for ascetics, with all the ornate and extravagant decorations replaced and planted with thorns that symbolize suffering.
In the room where the bishop originally lived, a young man in his twenties was tempering his heart with pain and tenacity in the dark.
He is the most devout, talented, and theologically studied Abraham among the ascetics of this generation, and many of the latest revisions of theology were proposed by him. Although Wallenhill did not like his point of view, he had to admit that he was likely to be promoted to the rank of cardinal within five years, and he was also one of the dozen young clergy with the most hope to step into the field of the Holy Spirit, and was even evaluated as a future "saint" by many cardinals and cardinals!
When the Magic Council frequently blasphemed the gods and the church's focus shifted, he was the first to propose the clergy to come to the kingdom of Holm, in his own words: "Only hardship and danger can purify devotion to the Lord. Without suffering and death, how can the glory of giving be demonstrated?"
Abraham walked barefoot in the thorny room, the pain did not make him snort at all, and suddenly, his eyes opened, and the whole dark room seemed to brighten, as if something holy was descending from the heavenly mountain.
Outside, four meteorites with flames fell from the sky and hit the church hard.
Nine-ring magic "Meteor Explosion"!
It's a magic that straddles both elemental and astrological systems.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
After several violent explosions in a row, the monastery was razed to the ground.
Abraham's body was torn apart, his eyes were wide open, and he had no idea why he died.
High in the air, Morris opened the door to "Precision Teleportation" and left before the Lentart defense was activated.
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Not far from the Cathedral of the Radiant is the residence of the Knights of the Holy Grail.
Sixth-level Sky Knight Sigma wore all-white Templar armor and led several knights to do routine inspections, and the sound of armor colliding was crisp and pleasant.
Suddenly, he pounced forward, extremely fast, but the lightning that struck in the sky was faster.
With a snap, lightning struck Sigma's back, hitting the holy wings that emerged from him.
The brilliance jumped, and this lightning did not electrocute and paralyze like normal, creating a pitch black, but vibrated at high speed, like a table knife cutting cheese, easily cutting through the holy wings and all-white armor, and the inside was scorched and melted.
"Fernando's Lightning Furnace"!
This five-ring magic is no worse in the hands of an eight-ring mage than ordinary eight-ring magic!
After leaving the word "reciprocal retaliation", Tang Pu quickly left.
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Alinge, the thirty-third floor of the Magic Council headquarters.
"Teacher, the ten cardinals, ascetics, and heavenly knights on the list have been removed, showing the church our determination to retaliate equally. In the future, as long as the church dares to assassinate our magicians in Alinge, Lentat, etc., we will return them tenfold." Tang Pu reported to Fernando, the storm lord.
Fernando nodded slightly: "The ten people selected are biased towards the Pope, right?"
"Yes, the cardinals and ascetics all support the pope's reform of theological content, and the knights are fanatically loyal to the pope." Tang Pu replied affirmatively, and then said with a little worry, "Teacher, we must be ready for an all-out war. In the face of such retaliation, the church cannot help but fight back."
"Gather magicians, get ready, and reveal the news to the nobles at the same time. If they want to balance control on both sides, they will have to endure the backlash caused by this control." Fernando laughed sarcastically, "Let's see if they want to choose to help, or do they want to continue to maintain the fragile balance, or watch us fight hard and wait for both sides to win together?"
"The all-out war must be in Holm, and it is impossible for them to stand by and profit, and the best option is to threaten the church to remain calm to maintain the fragile balance. With a huge gap in their own strength, if you want to gain benefits from balance, there are only so many options!"
After listening to Fernando's analysis, Tang Pu turned and left, ready to convey the will of the Supreme Council to the Affairs Committee.
After a while, Fernando saw Lucian walking in with Avery in.
"You did it quite carefully this time." Fernando still didn't praise Lucian much, "Is there something wrong?"
"Teacher, I have finished another thesis." Lucian smiled.
Fernando didn't take the paper, his red eyes looked at Lucian carefully.
(End of this chapter)