Chapter 400 Accusations (Second Update)
In the underground palace, Lucian, who was holding the "Frost" long sword in both hands, dragged out the afterimage and ran wildly in the corridor, followed by Sophia, who had cast the "Acceleration Technique" on himself, but the speed of the two could not be fully expanded, because they had to pause often and identify the direction, so as not to take the wrong path in the ever-changing maze.
"You can't go through the door in front of you, otherwise you will step on a trap and trigger a very terrifying magic circle." After carefully identifying the nearby magic patterns and comparing them with the map, Sophia pointed to the end of the corridor and said.
Lucian, who was twice as fast as her, frowned and said, "Then what should we do? Cracking the magic circle is a waste of time."
Sophia smiled, and the previous panic and fear seemed to have completely disappeared: "Of course I went around, this is not a test of the Magic Council, it is the mastery and cracking of the magic circle. Among the people who came in, besides me, how many of them understood magic? They don't rely on the information and maps they collect to slowly grope around, and when they encounter dangerous magic circles, they take a detour, or wait for time to pass, and the position of the magic circle changes on its own."
"Take a detour or wait for a long time?" Lucian felt like a "professor" who was following the temptations, testing the judgment of female students through the ruins.
Sophia said without hesitation: "Take a detour, let's enter this room, it is connected to another corridor."
She pointed to the mahogany door a few steps away, her expression was quite proud, obviously with the pride of the spellcaster.
Full marks! Lucian muttered in his heart, then took a few quick steps and carefully pushed open the door.
The Sun King's underground palace had a natural suppression effect, and Sophia was right next to him, making it difficult for Lucian to deploy his mental force field.
The mahogany door was heavier than Lucian had imagined, almost comparable to the heaviest metal, and as it slowly opened, a foul smell hit his face.
"Be careful!" Sophia reminded her urgently, and then saw "Borak" flash aside with almost no time to react, as if she had been prepared.
She pointed at the turquoise magic wand in her hand, the wind was fierce, roaring everywhere, and the stench quickly dissipated.
"Poison gas?" Lucian asked knowingly.
Sophia nodded solemnly: "Someone may have passed by here and touched the magic circle, you have to be careful."
She saw "Borak" clenching the dark blue long sword and flashing into the room with knightly steps.
In the room, wardrobes, sofas, desks, etc. were either severely damaged or overturned to the ground, as if they had gone through a fierce struggle.
At the door on the other side, there were two young aristocratic men, their faces darkened, their hands clenched like chicken feet, and puddles of filthy liquid at the corners of their mouths.
"Poisoned?" Lucian recognized them as the children of nobles who followed Alten, and one of them had even inspired the bloodline.
A hurried exclamation came from behind Lucian, and Sophia also saw the two corpses, her expression gloomy again: "They are Denis's cousins, and they died here unexpectedly. No matter how this matter ends, your Plantagenet family will face great trouble, the power of so many noble families united cannot be underestimated, and you must pay a very high price to calm their anger."
"Damn conspiracy mastermind, and the traitor to the family who cooperates with him!" Lucian cursed like a member of the orthodox Plantagenet family, then slowly moved to the side of the two corpses and examined the scars on their bodies to judge what had happened to them.
Huh? On the chest of one of the corpses, Lucian found an obvious dent, the size of which was not like that a normal human could cause!
With a movement in his heart, Lucian suddenly rolled over on his side, and there was a rumbling sound of the wooden door breaking behind him, as well as a howling wind.
"Iron Golem!" Sophia shouted the word out loud, reminding Lucian.
After Lucian rolled away, he hit the ground with his elbow, bounced and turned around, and saw a two-person tall golem made of steel. Two red lights flashed coldly in its eyes, and it raised its hands high and swung the giant hammer down.
Suppressing his urge to cast "infrasound resonance", Lucian walked briskly, dodged the front sideways, clasped "frost" with both hands, and slashed hard at the side of the giant hammer.
When, in the harsh sound of metal clashing, the giant hammer was hit a lot off, and Lucian's hands were severely numb and trembled slightly.
What a terrifying power!
The power of the steel golem exceeded that of ordinary great knights, making Lucian, who was wearing ogre gloves, a little overwhelmed!
The monster seemed to be completely unaffected, and the giant hammer circled half a circle and hit Lucian.
Lucian's hands flashed with silver-white light, and a layer of cold blue rose above the sword body, and the hilt of the sword was recycled and pressed against the giant hammer.
The surrounding wind was fierce, and it suddenly solidified, turning into countless cyan blades that slashed the steel golem, but only shallow scratches were left on the silver-white body.
Sophia, who has little combat experience, seems to have chosen the wrong magic the first time!
Dangdang! The unaffected Iron Golem swings a giant hammer and clashes with Lucian's "Frost" longsword in succession, making a piercing noise.
Lucian hadn't fought hand-to-hand combat for a long time, facing a steel monster that was still overwhelming his strength, and the seemingly small room left him no room to flash and move, so he could only block it with his sword, following the knightly skills taught by Natasha and John, and then took a step back to relieve the huge pressure.
The power of the steel golem is comparable to that of the top level five great knights, and Lucian is in danger under its attack.
The more difficult the situation, the more Lucian calmed down, even if his hands were trembling uncontrollably, he could still hold the long sword tightly and block the steel golem's attacks again and again.
The dark blue light kept shining, and a layer of frost gradually rose on the giant hammer and body of the steel golem, although it could not bring damage to it, but it slowed down its speed.
The slight change in the "Stormy Seas" was so obvious in Lucian's preoccupied mind that he immediately took a step forward, dodged the giant hammer, spat out, swung his long sword, and slashed at the knee joint of the Iron Golem.
Pawn! For the first time since the battle, Lucian struck the Steel Golem, and a layer of frozen ice crystals appeared at its knee joint.
Although this layer of ice crystal shattered instantly with the force of the steel golem, it brought it a brief stagnation, and Lucian seized the opportunity and slashed the knee joint on the other side again.
The wind howled, and wisps of blue wind condensed into ropes, entangled the Steel Golem's knee joints, elbow joints, wrists, neck, and other places, making it move more and more slowly.
Lucian's attack seems to have inspired Sophia, allowing her to cooperate effectively!
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lucian's steps were firm and flexible in front of the steel golem, and he launched a stormy attack in front of the steel golem, swinging out with a sword, dodging again and again, the sound was endless, and his body was boiling.
The steel golem's eyes flashed red, its iron jaws opened, and a stream of yellow-green gas erupted.
Lucian was about to dodge, but the gas was blown away by a sudden hurricane and drifted away behind the steel golem.
"Dispel the smoke", Sophia reacted "miraculously" and chose the right magic.
Lucian kicked his foot and rushed forward, dodging the falling hammer, and the long sword slashed into the knee joint again, making the steel golem's movements rusty.
However, the fourth-level long sword could only leave a small mark on the steel golem's body, and so many swords could not destroy its knee joint, but Lucian was almost swept by the giant hammer several times. If it weren't for the special "Frost" slow effect, without magic, Lucian would have failed.
At this moment, Lucian suddenly felt a strong suction from the opposite side, and finally stabilized the "Frost" long sword, and the steel golem was even more unbearable, and it was even more difficult to move forward by the invisible force.
After more than ten seconds, a faint metal twisting sound came out of the steel golem's body, and the red light in its eyes quickly extinguished, and it fell to the ground with a bang, like a mountain peak collapsing.
Sophia seemed to finally remember that the best magic to deal with steel monsters was the "strong magnetic field" type, so she used the five-ring "strong magnetic shock" in her talent magic.
"Fortunately, this is the palace of the Sun King, not the palace of the storm lord, otherwise it will have to hold on for a while." Lucian sighed secretly. The latest model of the Magic Council's steel golem has been able to maintain combat effectiveness within a strong magnetic field for several minutes, which is enough to kill most mid-level magicians and great knights.
While thinking about it, Lucian gasped violently, after becoming an official magician, he had never fought such a terrifying hand-to-hand combat before. Under the astonishing power of the Iron Golem, every second is at stake, and several times he has to cast "Professor's Infrasound Resonance" recklessly.
But after this battle, Lucian only felt that his qi and blood were smooth, and his blood was roaring, although he was sweating, his hands were shaking, and he was exhausted, but he was extremely comfortable.
This is faithful feedback from the body!
"I have to keep exercising in the future, I can't waste my body......" Lucian suddenly had a strange idea.
Seeing "Borak" gasping for breath and not speaking, Sophia said timidly and blushingly: "I, I didn't mean to, the first time I encountered the Steel Golem, I forgot all the knowledge I usually learned, and then I remembered, are you okay?"
"It's okay, that's it for the first battle, Your Highness Princess, you don't have to mind." Under the rush of blood, Lucian only felt that his strength was recovering extremely quickly, but he was thinking about unrelated questions in his heart. Sophia is said to be the bloodline of the "Angel of the Wind", but she can cast strong magnetic field magic, does the power of the wind in this world really represent the electromagnetic force?
In Lucian's understanding, among the four elements redefined by the Magic Council, the wind element represents the electromagnetic force, and even most arcanists think so, and they also regard the earth element as gravity, but the fire element and the water element, and they have never been able to find a recognized explanation for the fundamental force.
"In the first brutal battle, it's good to have you as my guardian knight." Sophia said with a soft and moving gaze.
"It's my honor." Lucian replied "excitedly".
Sophia nodded briskly: "Then let's take a break and move on."
When she cast her magic to check the passage in front of her, Lucian lowered his eyes, shook his head and said secretly: "Was she testing my strength and trump cards just now?"
Unless you are really scared and stupid, or no one teaches you what it means to cast a spell, there can be no such a long interval between several magic sessions! In the hand-to-hand combat for more than a minute, Sophia only cast four magics, deducting the buffer, she had plenty of time to re-enter the casting concentration state, even if she couldn't think of the right magic, she would try to cast it a few times.
Regaining their strength, Lucian and Sophia moved on.
After bypassing the room with the dangerous magic circle, the two of them abruptly entered the other hall directly from one hall.
And in this hall, more than a dozen nobles have already gathered!
Ralph and Claire each had two or three companions entrenched in a corner, confronting Alten and the others from a distance, with several bloody corpses lying in the center.
Their faces were filled with panic and gnashing of teeth, as if they were frightened by the real tragedy of death.
From their numbers, Lucian could judge that most of the noble children had either not arrived yet, or had already been frightened to run around like headless flies, looking for hidden corners like Duda to hide, waiting for the nightmare to pass. And the remaining people, who can suppress panic and gather together to protect themselves, has shown that they are considered the elite among the children of the nobility, if they can get out alive and then go to the northern provinces to experience the tempering of war, they will not be able to become the backbone of the nobles in the future.
"It's you, Borak, it must be you who changed the magic circle and wanted to kill us all here!" When Arten saw Lucian and Sophia entering, he immediately shouted loudly with a shield in his left hand and a sword in his right hand, with uncontrollable hatred and hatred.
"Among us, only Her Royal Highness is a spellcaster with the ability to change magic circles, and she supports you!"
"Claire, Ralph, let's forget the previous battle and stalemate, and join forces to kill this despicable villain!"
The accusations aroused strong suspicion and anger among the terrified nobles.
The first watch tomorrow is still half past twelve noon. It's late the month, for the sake of not interrupting the workday, I ask for a monthly pass~
(End of this chapter)