Returning from the abyss

Chapter 445 Destruction
Todd staggered into a shop that looked a bit dilapidated.

Ewalang has a long history, and there are many shops like this, most of which are difficult to maintain due to poor management, let alone renovation.

But Todd knew that the real owner of this store hadn't had a chance to renovate it long ago. The person sitting behind the counter was just a counterfeit with Transfiguration on his face. The real owner... probably died long ago.

If it was him in the past, he might have foolishly believed that this group of people bought the store from the previous owner, but reading the magic book not only brought him great mental pain, but also made him A little bit more knowledge.

After Todd entered the door, he walked directly to the counter, clapped his hands on the table, and the "owner" came out quickly.

"I want... a glass of wine, chilled, anything."

"Todd?" The shopkeeper looked at him with a frown, took out a metal wine glass from under the table, took a glass of wine from the barrel next to it, knocked it twice, and a cold mist appeared on the glass.

Todd took the glass and drank it all.

"Where did you go yesterday? What about your stuff?"

"It's shot." Todd threw the glass aside, and the cold liquid made his confused brain a little clearer.

"Why do you look a little bit wrong?"

"Hey...Old Sam, tell me, how many of you are here?"

The shopkeeper frowned: "This is not what you should ask. Now that everything has been sold, you can move freely. There is no need to come here all the time."

"Then I have to live and move freely!"

Todd roared suddenly, and with a lift of his finger, several spellcasting rings on his hand lit up one by one. In an instant, all the doors and windows of the hotel were closed by the strong wind, making a series of loud crashes.

"Todd!" the owner Sam slapped the table, "what are you crazy about?"

Seeing his reaction, Todd was happy instead: "You don't know? Hahaha, so you don't know either? Sam, I thought you were a little soldier just like me... Forget it, little soldier Just soldiers."

He punched the counter out of the crack and approached Sam: "I'm going to die, you know?"

Sam frowned and looked at him: "Are you going to die? What nonsense?"

"Old man, I know that some people are coming up behind, but it's useless. I only know you, and the only thing I didn't say is you, because I know it's always going to fall on you... I watched the magic guide Book."

As soon as the last sentence was spoken, Sam immediately retreated several steps like avoiding the plague, and even knocked over a round stool.

And seeing his actions like this, what else does Todd not understand?

"So you don't know anything about that spell?"

"Know what? The order I got is to deliver something to you! Magic book? Damn it! Is that thing a magic book?"

"Sam! Are you a silver hand?" Todd roared.

"Silver hand? What silver hand? I am the dark thread buried here by the horn. What does it have to do with the silver hand?"

Todd froze.

Horn is a pirate, and his reputation is generally in the sea and coastal cities, and has almost nothing to do with the Silver Hand Thieves.

"Wait...who is your order from..."

"What order? I just took the job! My informant knew about it! Damn it! I'm confused! What the hell is going on with you bastard? And the grimoire? Did you read the grimoire? At this time, Sam no longer cared about the normal customers in the store, and shouted in horror.

The few people who had quietly gathered up behind did not dare to approach.

After all, Todd only got some experience in magic books, and he couldn't figure out the current situation at this time. He only knew one thing, and he was dead.

"Haha, hey, isn't that, isn't that... great?"

After saying this, Todd raised his index fingers with a distorted smile and pierced his eyes.

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"Memory can increase choices, experience can judge success, but in the end the way to deal with things is still determined by character. Because of this, as long as he is still Todd, he can't do anything promising."

Lu Ning was squatting on the roof, about ten meters away from her was the dilapidated store door. At this time, most people hadn't noticed the danger inside, but the people inside began to try to open the blocked doors and windows to escape.

The control of the magic power flow for several days has made Lu Ning's magic power perception extremely keen. She can feel the soaring magic power concentration in the store, and even this kind of concentration has formed a pure magic environment that is not conducive to the release of magic power.

At this moment, a three-meter-long flame gun blasted straight into the gate. After all, Pierre was a high-level magician, or specialized in attacking fire techniques. The power of the flame gun exploded directly inside the tavern, and all the sealed The dead doors and windows were all washed away by the fire waves, and at the same time, all the living people inside were accurately avoided.

"Help, help!"

A man immediately appeared at the door, but he was blocked by a light wall. The man smashed the light wall hard, and even threw a lot of magic.

The window is also in a similar situation. The people in the room are crowded around the cage that they cannot leave, but the light that shines out of the room is a blood-red dazzling color.

Lu Ning felt her scalp go numb.

"Don't go in!" Pierre, with his rich experience, immediately stopped everyone. At the same time, a ball of fire gathered in his hands, and he shouted at the people at the door: "Get out of the way!"

The man squatted by the door with his head in his arms, and Pierre's fireball was also thrown directly into the store. This time it did not explode, but ignited, and the flames immediately rose from the roof, and the flames burned the wooden structure. Soon the dilapidated old house began to crumble, but as the charred wood pieces peeled off one by one, more light walls appeared in the field of vision.

"You better hurry up, the guards have about 3 minutes to react before they arrive." Lu Ning shouted down.

"This is not something that can be handled in 3 minutes." Pierre smacked his lips, "That kid Todd seems to have created a restricted area, or an enchantment?"

At this moment, the flames also began to be stained with a blood-red color, and the bright red broken light sprinkled from the countless cracks in the wall, looking extremely scary under the night.Pierre noticed the problem, and immediately swiped his fingers in the air, murmuring a magic spell in his mouth.

With the development of magic to this day, basic spells rarely need to be recited. Conversely, what needs to be recited must be powerful magic.

"Wind Pillar!"

Under Pierre's order, the flames began to twist, and immediately, a cyclone was formed tightly around the shop room, sweeping all the sawdust and flames in the outer circle into the air, and the entire room was sealed off by the light wall. Finally, it was completely presented in front of everyone, but the indoor scene made everyone who saw it chill.

It was an "angel" on the outside, but in fact it was a completely distorted and blasphemous creature. Its tumor-like head, which had swollen to three or four times the size of a normal human, only had two bloody scorpions. Holes of blood and a mouth full of sharp teeth that cannot be closed.Its body hangs in the air in a posture as if it was hanged, its hands are hanging down, and rotten pieces of meat are constantly falling from the cuffs.Eight flesh and blood tentacles stretched out from its back, and now these tentacles are wearing a corpse, continuously splashing blood drops on the ground while twisting.

The blood-red light came from a beating heart that was originally located on the roof. There were a large number of chambers growing on it, and all parts were squirming crazily and irregularly, releasing a strong red light with every beat of the heart.

Even among the countless monsters Lu Ning has seen, the disgusting appearance of this thing must rank among the top few.

"Necrosis has already occurred... No, it should be necrosis now." Pierre sighed, "Let's stay away."

"Hey! Help! Help us! As long as we can get out of here..."

The man at the door smashed against the bare wall unwillingly, his eyes gradually stained with hatred and despair.

"Everything in the place where the destruction occurred must be eliminated, and most of the witnesses also need to undergo memory cleansing. As for those of you who have witnessed it..."

Pierre looked at him with some pity. This man hadn't realized that the same tentacles of flesh and blood had begun to stretch out from his back, and half of his head was rotting away.

Lu Ning glanced sideways, and saw that the team of guards had arrived, and there were even some high-level magicians flying over in the air, so she immediately jumped down from the room.

Pierre also led people away quietly from the scene by another road.When such a thing happened, there were naturally some people around watching. No matter what kind of psychology they were, at least they would be the priority targets of the guards.

"Where's Lilian?" Bai Meigui turned her head and saw that Lu Ning hadn't come, so she asked.

"Didn't she say it? She has something about herself."

"Isn't her job to observe what happened in the store? Now that the observation is over, don't you go back together?"

"Of course not. Since she didn't follow, she probably discovered something."

Pierre's judgment of Lu Ning's way of doing things is quite accurate.

After Lu Ning jumped out of the room, she walked unhurriedly along an alley.Soon, a dazzling golden light appeared at the place where the destruction occurred, and the blood was quickly suppressed.

"There is indeed an emergency response team in Ewalang, or rather...they should have been prepared to control the out-of-control situation of the magic book. Given the time difference between everyone's reading of the magic book, the outbreak time will be around tomorrow morning to noon. After that, Xue Ni will probably be able to come back."

Lu Ning was thinking, and turned into a secluded street.

Apart from the bustling streets of Ewalang, the buildings in other places are quite far apart. For example, there are actually no other shops around the Crow Hotel, and most of them are warehouses.The road that Lu Ning took was also a very quiet one. After walking a short distance, she saw a temple.

The temple is not enshrined by magicians who practice divine arts. After all, the gods worshiped by divine arts want piety and prayer, and it has nothing to do with the location.Temples in this world belong to the religious faction.

Ewalang itself has no religious inclination, so there are many kinds of gods enshrined in the temple, except for the classification according to the origin, other things are ignored.But the world is so big, and there are so many religious believers, gradually the temples have more functions such as staying overnight.

So at the first sight of the temple, Lu Ning felt that it was much larger than other buildings.

At this time, it was close to late at night, and it was not the time for everyone to rest.After Lu Ning entered through the vaulted gate, she saw a tall woman swinging a sword in the courtyard.

"Hello." Lu Ning greeted.

The woman turned her head and wiped the sweat from her head. With the help of the crystal lights in the courtyard, she could see Lu Ning's appearance. Except for her black robe... she looked harmless to humans and animals.

"Hello, we can't accept overnight stays here at night, oh, and also during the day, as far as I know, all the rooms are full."

"Thank you for the reminder, but I'm not here to stay." Lu Ning smiled, "My name is Lilian, what about you?"

"Delia." The woman inserted the sword into the soil of the flower bed next to her, and while relaxing her body with small movements, she talked to Lu Ning.

"I came chasing a person. This is the only place around here that still has a door open. I don't know if anyone passed by the door just now?"

Delia was taken aback for a moment, then shook her head: "People who haven't passed by."

"Excuse me, are you sure?"

"I'm a paladin, Lilian. If someone passes by the door without me noticing it, Mr. Priest will definitely drive me out." Delia smiled, "I know magicians have some hidden skills , but there are probably not many who have a high level of physical skills."

Lu Ning nodded, and suddenly asked another question: "So, has anyone just come back?"

Delia raised her eyebrows: "Yes."

About 5 minutes later, Delia and Lu Ning knocked on the door of a quiet room. After a question, Delia reported her name, and soon the room was lit with candles, and then the door was locked. opened.

The person who opened the door was a monk who didn't know how old he was. His dress was very similar to what Lu Ning remembered as a monk from the Middle East. .

The monk clasped his hands together and bowed slightly to Delia: "I don't know if the lady came late at night, what can I do for you?"

"Uh... I'm not used to your way of speaking, how about we talk in common language?" Delia was a little embarrassed.

"Of course, Ms. Delia, and this young lady, there should be something important to find me at this time, right?"

"She came chasing people. I practice swordsmanship for a while before I go to bed at night. I didn't see anyone passing by the door. I met Jingwen from your knotted monk who came back at night. Master Jingrui knew that he was going out to do something. What's up?"

"Although the monk in knots is a colleague, he is just a partner. I'm sorry, but I don't know the reason why he returned late."

"Then... I don't know Jingwen very well, can you please help me find him, Master, and we'll leave after a few words, right Lilian?"

"That's right, I just need to ask a few questions." Lu Ning smiled.

"In that case, please follow the monk's footsteps." Jingrui nodded, put on a pair of wooden slippers, stepped into the middle of the corridor, and walked to the inner room.

(End of this chapter)