Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 54 The Great Robbery of Elf Plants

Although "Shadow Magic Research" is a forbidden book, the attitude of the imperial magic circle to shadow magic is not completely taboo, but in an ambiguous state.

This is mainly because, unlike the belief in the god of death, which is completely regarded as an evil pagan religion, the goddess Selena, the goddess of shadow magic, is not an obscure god of grass, but a serious supreme One of the "seven gods" under the Holy Spirit, the god of thieves and craftsmen in charge of shadow, chaos and deception!

Although the "Goddess of Shadow" Selena is associated with some unpopular concepts, her favorability in the eyes of the public is far less than the other six "seven gods", but she is indeed a One of the official gods recognized by the Holy Light Church, has its own divine position in the pantheon of the imperial capital!

This kind of moral legitimacy forced the Magic Association to pinch its nose and exclude shadow magic from the list of forbidden magic.

However, compared to the four main magics of Feng, Di, Water, Fire, and political correctness, shadow magic is really unpopular!

This is not only because the shadow magic is full of invisibility, curses, confusion and other bad effects that are bad in nature and easy to lead to crimes, but also because the ruthless shadow goddess Selena is the only one who will collect money from her followers. The black boss god of protection money!

The price of using shadow magic is simple: pay the shadow goddess life!
Whenever a magician casts a shadow magic, his lifespan will quickly elapse, and the amount of loss is proportional to the level of the magic used - this also makes shadow magic the only spell in the continent that does not have a master-level spell. The genre:
Because the several magicians who tried to cast master-level shadow magic in history all threw themselves on the spot because of excessive life expectancy!
As we all know, magic spells are divided into four levels: apprentice, professional, mentor, and grandmaster, and to successfully cast grandmaster-level magic, at least the magic level of the seventh-level "senior magician" is required!

How difficult is the advancement of a magician!

Except for peerless geniuses like Simon Adrian, the vast majority of magicians will never be able to touch the threshold of the seventh step in their lifetime, and those who successfully advanced to the senior magister are at least seven or eighty years old and buried up to their necks. Bones!

Originally, these Shadow Magisters didn't have a few years to live, plus the consumption of lifespan by casting magic...

If you don't die, who will die?
Therefore, shadow magic, an evil and deadly magic faction, is not only officially excluded from the normal magic teaching system by the Magic Association, but even the shadow magician group is suppressed at the bottom of the magic contempt chain. !

Generally speaking, when magicians see a rare species practicing shadow magic, they will greet each other like this:
"Hey, how are you? Did you cast a few shadow magics yesterday? How many days do you have to live?"

It is precisely because of the disdain of public opinion, coupled with the rapid death of all shadow magicians, the inheritance of shadow magic has almost been completely cut off on the mainland, and the remaining shadow magicians are more numerous than wild South China tigers. Not much.

This also led to the Academy of Magic, like the WHO sealing up the smallpox virus, locking "Shadow Spell Research" in the depths of the forbidden library - in the eyes of most magicians, this is not a taboo, but it is more than taboo magic Factions, it is better to die out as soon as possible.

However, in order to get the elf plant smoothly, Xia Houyan decided to play with shadow magic this time!

Of course, after all, no one can predict his own longevity, and the lord does not have a pattern to break through to cast a master-level magic to find his own way to death. After he opened "Shadow Spell Research", he just turned to the apprentice-level magic "Shadow". Stealth" chapter.

Magic as its name suggests, "shadow stealth" is a stealth magic.

However, unlike the "invisibility" that changes the refraction of light and the "sensory occlusion" that changes the perception of the enemy, "shadow stealth" achieves the effect of invisibility by briefly entering the shadow plane - precisely because of being The person casting "Shadow Sneak" is actually projected to another plane, so it's also the most reliable and least detectable form of stealth.

In other words, for today's task of stealing elf plants, it fits the bill!
Xia Houyan concentratedly recited the ancient Aeolian incantation of "Shadow Sneak" - the incantation was very short, and soon the spell was over, and a thick black mist floated out from Xia Houyan's hand, killing Egg Several Jiang Yang thieves from the Er family wrapped up.

Everyone just felt cold all over.

Taking Alice Comstock as an example, the moment she was enveloped in the black mist, she felt a huge sense of emptiness rising from her chest, and she couldn't help closing her eyes tightly - and waiting for her to reopen. Open your eyes, the world in your field of vision has completely changed!

Although it was originally at night, the street opposite the "Top of Glory Monastery" was still illuminated by street lamps and the lights of street houses!
But now, the whole world has turned into a pure darkness, and you can't see your fingers!
Even the moon and stars in the sky are like the beauty of the pipa covering her face, shyly hiding her face!
At the same time, the only thing visible in the field of vision are some blurred shadows of different sizes and dark gray, which are slowly creeping, causing the female swordsman to feel a heart palpitation for no reason——

"Everyone, don't be afraid!" Master Laurie's slightly ethereal voice came from his ears.

The female swordsman turned her head, and she felt certain in her heart: Master Laurie, the Lord Lord, and the other two guards all maintained their original clear images, which were extraordinarily abrupt in this pitch-dark world.

If Alice realized something: This should be because several of them were projected into this shadow plane together, so she could see the clear images of her companions;
And those fuzzy gray shadows in the dark should be the projections of other humans in the main world on the plane of shadow.

Just as under normal circumstances, the shadow creatures that appear in the eyes of human beings are also pitch-black, and the creatures in the main world seen in the shadow plane will naturally become shadowy.

On the other side, Master Laurie is already asking:

"Lord Lord, are you okay?"

"Uh... I'm fine." The Lord looked a little sluggish, but then replied as if he had just woken up from a dream.

Master Laurie didn't care.

How could he know that at the moment when he projected into the plane of shadow, the Xiahou officials clearly saw three familiar shadows flashing before his eyes——

An official man wearing a crown and a black robe;

An oversized long worm with a human face and a snake body surrounded by red flames;
And a graceful palace beauty with a mournful look in her eyes!

The three figures only appeared for a moment, but Xia Houyan was extremely sure that the man in black robe was Lord Yama who had been protecting him all the time!

As for the human-faced snake, it is more appropriate to say that it is a "dragon" from China;
Not to mention beauties in palace costumes, if one can find such obvious oriental style clothing in the empire, then Xia Houyan will eat his own crowbar on the spot!

These two and one dragon are clearly fellow Chinese from the same place as him!

There is a saying that when a fellow villager sees his fellow villager, tears are streaming down the cheeks, but the Xiahou officials didn't shed any tears, only full of suspicion!
Including King Yama, why do gods and characters from China appear in this Western-style otherworld full of swords and magic?
And, even Elliot Igor's "Serenity" that was supposed to summon the outer gods to come, actually summoned the soul of the ordinary human Xiahouyan, this whole thing is also strange!

However, the images of the three fellow villagers just disappeared in a flash, leaving only a vague afterimage.

Without waiting for the Xiahou officials to think much, Master Laurie on the side has already begun to explain the task:
"Okay, don't panic, under the action of 'Shadow Sneak', we have entered a shadow plane similar to the reflection of the main world! As long as there is no particularly powerful magic detection method, our actions here cannot be ordinary. People found it! But please note that we can only move our position here and cannot affect the things in the main world. Therefore, after successfully sneaking into the monastery, we must exit the shadow plane in time to obtain the elf plant!"

"You are quite familiar with the function of 'Shadow Sneak'..." Lawrence muttered.

Even in the dark plane of shadow, Xia Houyan saw Master Laurie's face redden.

"The real magician is so knowledgeable!" The master patted his chest with a bluff, "Including taboo magic, we all need to be familiar with the knowledge of all kinds of magic systems by heart!"

Let's not mention how harsh the word "authentic" in the master's words sounds to the lord;
What Xia Houyan thinks or thinks, looking at Master Laurie's easy-going, wandering-like attitude after entering the Shadow Plane, this old wretched third must have used "Shadow Sneak" before!

As for the purpose...

The lord guessed that it should be one of three choices: peeping at the women's bathroom, peeping at the women's toilet, and peeping at the women's bathroom after peeking at the women's bathroom.

After the three guards simply got used to the activities of the Shadow Plane, a group of five began to sneak into the monastery.

When they entered the main entrance of the monastery, the two gray shadows standing on both sides of the main entrance did not move at all - this shows that in the eyes of the monastery guards in the overworld, they could not see the five guest versions of the Dark Templar from their own. Slip by!

Invisibility is invincible!
Since the effect of "Shadow Sneak" is so powerful, the five people who have been tensing their heartstrings gradually relaxed.

In the Shadow Plane, even the stone and brick walls of the monastery seem to have lost their solid form, making Xiahouyan as if he has a see-through eye, and he can see the entire monastery's architectural structure.

He quickly found the location of the "Desolate Wind" mercenary group:

On the second floor of the monastery, there was a group of gray figures lying on the ground, three by two, apparently the mercenaries were sleeping soundly with their arms around the nun; in addition, there were several standing figures. Swimming slowly in the corridor, it must be the man in charge of vigilance.

However, no matter how good the eyesight of this group of mercenaries is, they can only become deaf and blind, and they cannot see Igor and his party at all!
In this world where no one buys powder and gems, the role of stealth is so overbearing!

However, the precious elf plants would definitely not be placed in the bedrooms where the mercenaries were sleeping—Xiahou Yan looked around, then looked under his feet, and soon found a suspected target.

It was in the basement of the monastery, a square huge box that looked almost as tall as a person.

Even in the shadow plane, Xia Houyan's vision could not penetrate the surface of the box and observe the things inside.

"That should be a safe for storing valuables!" Master Laurie also noticed the box and whispered, "The cabinet may be made of magic metal, so we can't perceive what's inside! I have already probed. After going through it, there is no abnormality in other parts of the monastery, and the elf plant can only be hidden in this safe!"

"Then what are we waiting for?" Xia Houyan squinted at his chief mage.

So, the group immediately set off for the basement.

"Shadow stealth" is time-limited, and once it expires, if you want to work on the same person again, the magic power consumption of the spell will increase exponentially - this is essentially due to the fact that the shadow plane, as a different world, has the ability to repel creatures in the main world. Tendency, which is also called "Odegaard's Second Incompatibility Criterion" in magic!
Therefore, the five temporary thieves of the Igor family did not dare to delay, and soon descended to the basement.

They were a little fortunate that there was not a single gray shadow around, proving that there was no one else in this place except them--obviously, the "Desolate Wind" mercenary group, who thought that the monastery's defense was solid, didn't send anyone to guard it at all. Basement ideas!

However, this is not pure Tuoda - according to Master Laurie, they set up a magic detector at the entrance of the monastery, which could have been able to detect the magic fluctuations of all outsiders!
It's just that the extremely rare and powerful shadow magic just hit the blind spot of the "Desolation Wind" mercenary group - the rest of the shadow magicians in the world are almost unable to gather a table of mahjong, and again Who would specifically consider the partial magic of "Shadow Sneak"?
After confirming that the basement was absolutely safe, Xia Houyan waved his hand and removed the effect of "Shadow Sneak".

As a result, the colorful colors returned to the eyes of the five people, indicating that they had withdrawn from the Shadow Plane and returned to the main world.

If there is another person in the basement at this time, then from his perspective, these five people have emerged from the void like ghosts.

After removing the magic effect, Xia Houyan did not hesitate at all, and immediately stared at the huge safe in the corner!

The note that says "Flowers of abundance, transport carefully" on the safe simply makes the Lord's heart surge!

But then, he realized the problem.

The surface of the safe is iron-blue, and at first glance it seems to be ordinary steel, but the flashing runes engraved on it and the looming magic fluctuations indicate that this is a magic metal "Babylonian dense grain steel" forged. Magic Safe!
Moreover, the Lord found painfully that this cabinet also had no keyhole.

This means that the motherfucker is a magic lock that can only be opened by a special method!
Xia Houyan stood in front of the safe and said tentatively:
"Simon Adrian is a handsome guy?"

The safe was motionless.

Obviously, not all magic locks can be opened with the same password.

"What should I do?" Xia Houyan looked at Master Laurie for help.

Master Laurie sucked in a sullen face.

How to crack the magic lock has always been a problem in the world - although with the experience and magic level of Master Laurie, it is not impossible to try to forcibly crack the seal of this safe, but it will take a lot of time!

But what they lack most is time!

Xia Houyan was about to lose his temper: how come he always sees a good baby right in front of his eyes recently, but is blocked by something like a magic lock!
He was as anxious as a senior otaku who had downloaded a compressed package of seeds, but found that the compressed package had a password!
"Don't worry about it!" The lord, who knew that he couldn't delay too much here, said, "Let's transport this safe back first, as for the magic lock on it, we can only slowly find a way to break it... …”

Master Laurie also has to admit that this is undoubtedly the best solution when time is pressing.

Although this safe is extremely heavy, in the eyes of a junior magister, it is not a great obstacle!
With a wave of his sleeves, Master Laurie recited the "Floating Mantra" fluently. This hill-like safe floated in midair as if lifted by an invisible giant hand.

Then, the piercing magic alarm sounded in the "Top of Glory Monastery"...

(End of this chapter)