Arcane Journey

Chapter 18 The Abyss
Looking at his results, Brian nodded in satisfaction.

The effect of the three-ring evocation spell "Flash Explosion" is at best to blind enemies who cannot pass the will save.

But what he released was an improved version of "Flash Blast", which not only possessed the original blindness characteristic of the spell, but also had the same ignition effect as a white phosphorous bomb.

Although the burning damage of the flame cannot match the power of a normal third-ring spell, the panic effect caused by the blind state is even better than imagined.

The most important thing is that the drow elves who live deep in the dark area are afraid of all kinds of flash spells, so "flash burst" can directly achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Of course, what played a decisive role was Brian's use of the metamagic specialty "Spell Empowerment", which can increase damage and effects by 50%.

Under normal circumstances, when a wizard releases a spell, he must use a spell slot that is two levels higher than the original spell if he wants to add "magic power".

For example, the super magic of his third-ring spell "Flash Explosion" requires the use of fifth-ring spell slots.

This also means that if a wizard does not have the ability to release five-ring spells, it is impossible to release three-ring super magic spells.

However, for Brian who possessed the arcane fire, the restriction was not as great as imagined.

Because in addition to casting spells with the spell slot, he can also use the arcane energy in the arcane fire to cast spells.

The 27 points of arcane energy he possesses consumes 5 points when casting a third-ring spell. If he uses super magic to cast a spell, he needs to consume 9 points equivalent to the consumption of a fifth-ring spell.

It can be seen from this that a wizard who uses the blue bar to cast spells has a lot of flexibility in the battle.

Seeing the priestesses in chaos from a distance, Brian grasped the hilt of his sword without hesitation, and immediately activated the displacement spell of the conjuration system.

——"Second Ring Spell: Dimensional Jump!"

As dim light particles surged and rotated around him, in the blink of an eye, his body disappeared in a cloud-like halo.

The moment Bryan appeared, he drew his sword swiftly and slashed across a sharp arc, directly cutting off the two tearful priestesses.

Immediately afterwards, he heard whispers chanting divine spells behind him.

Brian turned sharply, just in time to see the priestess raising her arms and chanting a spell.

He flew up and kicked her jaw, making her cover her bloody mouth and stumble away.

At the same time, the sword in Brian's hand was not idle. Under the brilliant and rapid sword light, streams of blood splashed, and the three priestesses who extinguished the flames fell to the ground and died in screams.

He was about to chase the fleeing priestess, when he suddenly noticed the flames of the copper basin next to him. Inside, an unformed wax melter was screaming angrily, and even stretched out its shining tentacles towards him.

Brian was startled, naturally he didn't want to see the Waxmelt being summoned to the material world.

After all, as the demon of the bottomless abyss and the maid of the spider queen, the wax melted demon starts with a challenge level of 10.

Out of his understanding of summoning spells, he turned around to avoid the tentacles' entanglement, and without hesitation raised his foot and kicked over the copper basin that condensed the melting wax demon.

Accompanied by a harsh bang, the green flames in the basin splashed everywhere and gradually extinguished.

Just as he guessed, the melted wax demon's body, which had not yet been fully condensed, was forcibly driven back to the bottomless abyss' pit demon realm with a vicious scream.

Immediately afterwards, the remaining two priestesses finally came to their senses and prepared to fight.

A priestess raised the snake head whip with evil magic spells, and the other took the lead in propping up a protective barrier for herself.

Brian leaned over to dodge the hissing whip of the three snake heads, nimbly circled behind her, and took the opportunity to swing a sword, the blood-stained tip of the sword protruding from the priestess' chest.

Her body was also kicked by Brian and flew out, lying on the ground lifeless.

Fear emerged in the eyes of the last priestess who had just raised the shield, as if Brian was like a devil from hell in her eyes, more frightening than the devil from the bottomless abyss.

With a scream, she turned and ran away without hesitation.

——"Second-ring spell: Whirling Blade!"

With a thought, Brian trembled and hummed the sharp sword in his hand under the blessing of surging arcane energy.

With a flick of his wrist, the sharp sword flew out of his hand, making a screaming sound of piercing through the air.

"boom!"

The galloping sword smashed through the shield of the priestess, hit the back of the priestess, trembled slightly, and let the blood spurt, and flew back into the master's hand.

Brian glanced at the sharp sword in his hand with satisfaction.

The weapon given to him by Santilla, except that it is a bit uncomfortable to use, everything meets his requirements.

It belongs to a piece of magic equipment that has the three most commonly used attributes of sharpness, magic breaking and armor breaking.

At this moment, distant shouts came along the icy stone wall, getting closer and closer at an extremely fast speed.

Apparently, a fleeing priestess brought in reinforcements.

Brian judged from the dense footsteps that the number of enemies was beyond his ability to resist.

What's more, he still can't guarantee whether there are middle and high-level priestesses in this group of reinforcements.

So he immediately turned around and fled towards the deepest part of the cave.

Although there are many passages here, he knows that their destinations are the same, so he is not worried about getting lost in the tunnel.

Work in a while.

Brian followed the criss-crossing dark paths and arrived at his destination: on a high platform like a cliff, below is a dark abyss that cannot be seen to the bottom.

Sensing the approaching pursuers, his expression froze, and he danced spell gestures at the fastest speed, chanted spells, and cast attack spells.

I saw a mid-level priestess in a dark red robe leading a group of pursuers to this desperate place.

A terrible smile appeared on Brian's sharp-edged face, and his sonorous voice echoed off the cave walls, "A little parting gift for you all."

——"Three-ring spell: Fireball!" [Strength]

——"Arcane explosion!"

The wind of arcane blows his messy hair, and a fireball the size of an ogre's head is condensed from his light magic posture, hissing and bursting out with high-temperature flames.

In an instant.

This flame, as dazzling as the sun, roared and smashed towards a group of drow soldiers and priestesses who were oncoming.

"Get down!"

The leading priestess looked shocked, and quickly raised her hands to prop up a magic barrier for herself as quickly as possible.

"boom!"

Accompanied by a deafening bang, the entire cave was shaken, and where the fireball landed, seven or eight drow soldiers were blown to pieces on the spot.

The high-temperature flames raged everywhere, and the impact of the explosion was boosted by the "Arcane Burst" feature. The group of drow were like withered leaves in a strong wind, and they were violently blown away.

Most of the drow soldiers who survived the landing, spurted blood from their mouths, and slumped on the ground listlessly.

The bodies of two unlucky ones even hit sharp stalagmites, were pierced through their chests, and died on the spot.

A drow elf standing in the last row who was not affected by the aftermath of the explosion had just shown a gloating expression when his head was smashed to pieces by the broken stalactite pillars on the roof of the cave due to violent shaking.

Before the embarrassed priestess got up to perform the divine spell, Brian leaped and gracefully jumped into the endless abyss behind him.

Priestess Rose angrily chased after her, looking down at the direction where the enemy disappeared.

When she saw the bottomless darkness, there was an undisguised fear in her scarlet eyes, she turned around and left quickly with her surviving men.

(End of this chapter)