From Witcher to Lord of the Empire.

Chapter 212 Ring of Elements
Lane turned his head and raised his left hand to prepare for the release of the seal.

In the depths of the cave, the huge black shadow that had gotten rid of the deceleration effect of Arden's magic circle was getting closer and closer, and the sound like an earthquake was shocking.

……

Cohen stepped forward and stood shoulder to shoulder with Lane.Lann didn't reject his companion's kindness, and after a glance, he slightly reduced the amount of magic power he was preparing to output in his body, and prepared to attack with the magic seal.

Bowing his head, the vibration of the stones on the ground is getting bigger and bigger, and the thunderous roar is getting louder and louder.

……

Vesemir suddenly took a step forward, lightly patted the shoulders of the two young men, and signaled them to take a step back.

"Let me come, this is the revenge of the wolf faction. We have no reason to just watch from the sidelines." Vesemir said with a serious face, "I am still a little confident about [Igni Sign]."

Lan and Cohen looked at each other, nodded and took a step back to hand over the output position to the old witcher, but they were always ready for support.

The white-haired old witcher took a deep breath, as if he wanted to transfer all the suppressed emotions for so many years to his left hand.The fingertips trembled slightly, obviously the fire hadn't been ignited yet, but the air was slightly distorted by the high temperature.

In the next second, the giant beast's roar was finally audible, without the reverberation of the cave.

In the next second, a huge amount of flame finally roared out, no longer suppressing the anger in his heart.

Lann narrowed his eyes slightly, and an incandescent flame like a scorching sun appeared in front of his eyes.In a short period of time, the lake water was vaporized and transpired in a large amount to cover everyone's sight, and the weeds lost all their water and dried up in an instant.

At the same time, all the fuses of the bombs that were deliberately exposed by the demon hunters as traps began to burn together.There is no need to be touched by the flames at all, just lightly touched by the hot and twisted air, these bombs are naturally ready to explode.

No one knows what the first explosion was, [Honeycomb] or [Dancing Star]?unimportant.

Hearing an earth-shattering "bang", Mossak thrust the oak cane into the soil suddenly, and the green vines instantly wrapped everyone up, and then there was a green light film extending with these vines as the structure Together, they are connected to each other and become an extraordinarily solid magic shield.

The splashing stones of "噗嗤嗤" and the steel nails in the [Honeycomb Bomb] kept hitting the protective cover, causing ripples after waves.

It wasn't far from the center of the explosion, but Mossack looked calm and composed.Obviously, defending against the impact of these hundreds of bomb explosions could not threaten him at all.

"Uncle Mossack, is there no problem?"

"If it is in the middle of the explosion, there may be problems." Mossak shook his head, "But this is a forest in the mountains, even in winter, the natural power I can borrow is still not small. "

"Lan, spellcasters can obtain power from nature in any way you can't think of, so if you fight against spellcasters in the future, try not to use these alchemy bombs." Mossak taught Lann how to deal with himself without hesitation Ordinary people, "If you can use magic gold, use magic gold, and those magic gold arrows you equip are very creative."

"The teleportation ability you recently acquired is also very good. Use that to go directly to the back. No matter how powerful a spellcaster is, it's just a flesh and blood body. As long as you bypass the protective shield, it's just a knife!"

The corner of Lane's mouth twitched and nodded, knowing that these were definitely Mossak's own words.

The other companions also had weird faces. A druid taught the demon hunter how to kill the spellcaster, which was against harmony no matter how you looked at it.

While Mossack was teaching Lann every minute, the aftermath of the explosion finally dissipated.

The black smoke slowly rose and dissipated, revealing the same black smoked rock wall.The entrance of the cave has collapsed, and the body of the Cyclops has been buried; on the other side of the mountain lake, there are continuous terrified voices jumping out of the water and fleeing, and the figure should be a water ghost; The voice, it should be an avalanche on a hillside that has been covered with snow for a long time, but the snow is not thick so early, it should not cause much trouble.

The Cyclops was completely buried, with only one hand hanging out of the rock.

Before the demon hunters began to test, the drooping hand immediately clenched into a fist. With a "boom", the Cyclops instantly broke through the burial and appeared in front of everyone again.

At this moment, it is already many times more miserable than the first time we met.The hood that was obtained from somewhere on the head has been burned to ashes, and the pants have naturally disappeared, but at this moment, it is covered in torn skin, dripping with blood, and the flesh is scorched black. It seems to be wearing a strange dress again.

At the same time, there are dense steel nails and ceramic shards nailed to its body. Anyone who sees it will probably go crazy if he sees it.

Even steel had been torn to pieces in an explosion of this magnitude, but the Cyclops was still able to retain most of its strength, which is truly astonishing.

But although they didn't hurt the root, these exposed flesh wounds gave the snakes a chance to send the demon hunters.Only Lei Suo's legendary silver sword broke the defense before, but now these wounds are truly defenseless.

Lan En suddenly rushed forward and raised the [Yarden Seal] with a slap. The Snake Sect and Lan En cooperated tacitly and were already familiar with this special magic circle. Say hello to the Cyclops.

This is not enough, the seal of Lann alone really can't restrain this huge monster.Fortunately, he was far more than a demon hunter present.

A crossbow bolt flew towards the huge eyes of the Cyclops, and the giant beast blocked the arrow just by closing its eyelids.Being attracted to it, it angrily opened its eyes and looked in the direction of the arrow, but it saw five or six left hands glowing with white light.

【Yakeshi Seal】*N
The old Spearhead suddenly woke up from a deep sleep and was already in a trance, but the huge explosion made him even more confused. Now he was under the mental control of multiple demon hunters, and the Cyclops finally calmed down for the first time.

Although this control only lasted for five or six breaths, the old spearhead immediately regained his sanity.But this time is enough time for the snakes to send the witchers to complete their work.

……

At this moment, the old spearhead was almost surrounded by various colorful poisonous mist, and the scars of various poison weapons were densely covered below the knees, and there was basically no red blood flowing out.

Lei Suo rolled back: "These poisons are all we have, the dose is enough to kill an entire barracks!"

"Very good, retreat! Wait for the poison to take effect!"

The old spearhead was wounded more and more, and he staggered. After a while, the black wound on its body and even the blood that flowed out finally turned black.

Relying on crossbow arrows, bombs, and sigils, all the demon hunters fought and retreated, and Mossak's spell delay, hanging this clumsy giant beast like a kite.

Finally, the Cyclops started to shake even when he walked. It seemed to be scared, and he turned around and wanted to run.And all the demon hunters also raised their long swords, knowing that it was time to decide the outcome.

The injury made the Cyclops no longer flexible, and the experienced witcher was finally able to approach its body unscrupulously.

Ten swift figures took Lann's [Sign of Arden] as the stage, spinning around it like a ghost.Whenever the old Spearhead reacted, he would raise five or six hands to intimidate him with the [Yakesi Seal], making him in a trance for a while.

The old spearhead let out a mournful howl, and then stood still in place again.

Its arm was like a battering ram that had been in disrepair for a long time, and it swung it slowly and heavily in front of it. The strong wind whipped up mud and leaves on the affected ground, and it became potholed, but it couldn't hurt any witcher.

And with the strenuous exercise, the toxins gradually eroded his internal organs, devouring its no longer surging vitality.

At a certain moment, realize that the enemy has finally reached an extreme.Cohen suddenly rolled under the old Spearhead's scarred left leg. The left palm was covered with thick skin, and the air in the palm was rapidly compressed.

【Alder Seal】!
His dharma seal seemed to have shot an air cannonball in the air, and the sound of "boom" made people's eardrums tremble. In the zero-distance situation, even he himself was carried away by the reaction force and rolled twice in mid-air.But Cohen is obviously experienced and quickly adjusted his figure.

Looking at the old Spearhead again, he finally lost his balance under this zero-distance cannonball, and fell to the ground like a golden mountain and a jade pillar, every heavy breath seemed to burst his lungs.

The golden light flashed, Lan En teleported to the back of the old Spearhead, and the Lake Lady's sword was raised high above his head.The magic power, vitality, and adrenaline in his body began to drop and put into his skills, and he started the longest power accumulation in history.

The old Spearhead felt something, and was about to stand up with his supporting palm, but saw Lambert rolled under its eyelids, and almost desperately raised his left hand, pouring all the strength of his body into the seal.

Then came Geralt, Eskar, and Vesemir.

【Yakeshi Seal】*4
Under the spiritual control of the four-fold seal, the old spearhead completely missed the last chance to resist.

On the other side, the Lake Maiden sword in Lan's hand was as dazzling as a torch, even in daylight.

He swung his arm violently, and the long sword pulled out a dazzling arc of light. The invisible force stretched out and lengthened the blade, making the long sword seem like a huge side knife with a severed head.

With a "buzz", there was no feeling of the sword piercing the flesh at all.But Lambert, who was lying under the Cyclops, only felt that something was gliding before his eyes, and it actually cut the skin on his palm lightly.

Immediately afterwards, the stinky blood like a waterfall covered his head and face.Before he could react, two powerful arms pulled him by the collar and dragged him out from under Old Spearhead.

Then there was a violent "boom", and the smoke and dust on the ground began to rise.Lambert wiped off the plasma on his eyelids and looked over, it turned out to be the head of a Cyclops, and the neck as thick as a steel pillar was cut in two by Lann.

Lambert looked up again, and saw the sighing expressions of Geralt and Escal, who had just pulled him out.

"Did you know?" Geralt wiped the long sword in his hand, "You were almost killed by that head just now."

Lambert was about to refute, but found that the [Quen Seal] on his body had been scattered long ago.

He took a breath with lingering fear, and all kinds of emotions came to his heart, and in the end only anger remained.

"Bah!" Lambert spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm, and then kicked Old Spearhead's head again.

"This is for Wardhe, you monster." Lambert muttered the name of his apprentice at the same time, his chest heaved violently, "And I... And I will continue to live!"

[Task - Revenge of the Wolf - Completed]

The system prompt sounded like a holy lament, and Lan looked at his experience value.Not long after passing monster killing in Haji Fortress, there is still a long way to go before upgrading.

……

The powerful enemy died, and the crowd gathered around in amazement, admiring this painstaking and expensive masterpiece.

"Cyclops, there should be a mutation-inducing substance. I just don't know how to dissect it. It's too hard..."

Geralt sighed: "This was the most strenuous battle I fought, and it was also the strongest enemy I encountered. But miraculously, there were no casualties."

Lan patted the old acquaintance on the shoulder: "Perhaps this is our way of fighting. In the face of powerful enemies, demon hunters should act as a team. This is also one of my original intentions for revitalizing the demon hunter order— — help each other, watch out for each other.”

The youngest demon hunter present sighed: "If a demon hunter who has been trained with painstaking efforts and decades of time is killed or injured by a monster, it is really not worth it."

While everyone was watching Spearhead's corpse, the other griffin hunter was studying something else.

Cohen noticed that on a rock wall away from the center of the explosion, several stones had cracked and broken into several petals.Alchemy bombs alone could not have such an effect, the shattering of these stones was due to the high temperature, obviously this was the effect of the Vesemir Seal.

Cohen touched Lan En quietly: "Can you do this?"

Lan shook his head: "My seal has a larger range, and the limit can cover an army of hundreds of people. But the temperature is not so high, it's just an ordinary flame."

Looking at the damage caused by Vesemir, Lan estimated that he would have to increase the absolute strength of the seal by a percentage after he clicked on the third-level skill of the seal to be able to cause such an effect.

This is the [Igni Sign] that can forcibly crack the rock in just a few breaths.At present, in Lann's cognition, only Geron can surpass it, and his seal can forcibly burn out magma.

But after all, Geron was forcibly strengthened by the second mutation of the demon hunter for a hundred years, which is not comparable at all.Lan even thought that if Vesemir also undergoes a second mutation, can his sign also burn out magma?
I just don't know if Kelda, another Griffon school's master, has such strength.

……

After hearing Lane's answer, Cohen compared his signature with Vesemir's, and shook his head and sighed: "My signature doesn't have such power either."

Unlike swords and swords, seals gradually strengthen with age.As a Griffin, Cohen is stronger than his peers, the previous generation, the previous two generations, or even the previous three generations in terms of French seals, but compared to Vesemir, who is more than 100 years older than himself When I got up, it was still not enough to see.

"This is also the effect of the ring of elements being strengthened." Vesemir was quite kind to the young people of other schools, and after hearing their sighs, he took the initiative to explain, "After you go there, you may be able to overcome it." I."

Escal curled his lips slightly: "I don't have mine."

When Vesemir heard this, he immediately raised his voice: "That's because you haven't trained hard enough!"

The wolf faction's witcher pouted, not paying much attention.He was obviously used to the temper of the old witcher.

The old spearhead was dead, and the gloom in the hearts of the wolf hunters was swept away, and they only felt that the sky was bright and clear for a while.

But everyone's journey is not over yet. For other demon hunters, there is still a goal ahead - the ring of elements.

Lan patted the Cyclops' body with his left hand, put the whole body into the [item], and then walked towards the entrance of the cave that had been bombed and collapsed.

The magical aura of natural energy once again appeared on Mossak's body, and all the demon hunters also assisted with [Alder's Sign], and after about fifteen hours, the boulders blocking the entrance of the cave were cleared away.

The old druid also specially turned the plants into the shape of brackets in the mine, supporting the rock walls of the cave in a sparse and orderly manner, so that the explosion of the same level in the future would probably not cause it to collapse again.

Although the Wolf Faction intends to move to Sintra in the future, Kaer Morhen, especially the Ring of Elements, still cannot be abandoned.This kind of terrain that can permanently enhance the witcher's sign is not available in other schools, and it is rarely even heard of in the Brotherhood of Warlocks.

This is the true background of a university school. Even Lann felt that around this ring of elements, a magic school comparable to Arethusa could be built, or a ring of druids like Skellige could be built. assembly of spellcasters.

This location should have been carefully selected by the warlocks of the Demon Hunter Cult.From this, it can also be seen how Buddhist the Wolf faction is and how much it wastes resources. Sitting on such a real treasure mountain, it has not developed a matching force at all.

……

"Before reaching the ring of elements, is there any trouble we need to pay attention to?" Leaving the cave, the eyes suddenly became clear again.

Lan En suddenly remembered something, and asked the wolf faction pointedly.

Geralt and the others had been looking around warily for a long time, and their posture was also the reason why Lan asked this question.

"If I remember correctly, there is also a family of rock trolls here." Geralt recalled, "There should be three heads. I only had one head when I was doing the trial, and it was easy to use the [Axii Sign] It's over."

Lan pointed to the group of people around him, and said with a smile: "It will only be easier to meet those trolls now."

"But we just made such a big commotion, with bombs and avalanches, and the roar and screams of the old spearhead, these trolls must have been hiding long ago."

The fact is also the same, everyone went all the way without encountering trolls, which disappointed Lann who had never seen these humanoid creatures for a long time.

But his attention was quickly attracted by the ring of elements.

In front of you is an obviously artificially dug platform. The architectural style has the style of an altar, simple but solemn.

Half of the dozens of steps in front of the altar have collapsed, apparently no one has visited for some years.A group of people must pass through the gap and climb up the steps. What they see is a pile of tattered candles and four braziers.

Perhaps because of the strong wind in the mountains, these objects did not accumulate much dust.

The rock guardrail below the candle is engraved with various dense runes and ancient texts, dividing the entire ring of rocks into four parts——

Spring, the water element that symbolizes vitality; summer, the fire element that symbolizes heat and drought; autumn, the earth element that symbolizes the harvest of crops; winter, the air element that symbolizes the withering of everything and the desolation of the world.

Water, fire, earth, and air are also the basic elements of today's caster system.It's a pity that there is no ether element that symbolizes "spirit", otherwise it would be all there.

All the demon hunters felt the badge on their necks trembling slightly at the same time, obviously the chaotic energy here fluctuated abnormally.

Lan En felt something in his heart: Perhaps, this is the [Magic Place] in the real world.

"What's next?"

Upon hearing the question, Vesemir instructed, "Use up the mana first, and then sit down to meditate. We will help you light the four braziers and perfect the magic circle to help you gather the mana."

"Exhaust the magic power?" Lann raised his eyebrows.

Vesemir nodded: "Is there any problem? Only by exhausting the energy in the body can we better guide the injection of external energy."

Lan shrugged, went straight forward and knelt on the ground, then raised his left hand up to the sky.

[Alder Fayin·Magic Explosion]!
A roaring gust of wind surged out from the palm of the hand, and the natural wind from the mountains was swept in for a moment, engulfing it and scattering the clouds not far away.

The long hair and robes of the demon hunters were blown violently, and those who stood closer inevitably squinted their eyes and took a few steps back to avoid the wind pressure.

"He is really good." Vesemir exclaimed at the old druid, "I heard that he has been a witcher for less than two years? He can actually have such a magic output, and it is an ordinary apprentice at this time." I’m not even familiar with the seal.”

Mossak lifted his chin slightly reservedly: "It's more than that."

"Oh?" Vesemir didn't know what Mossak meant.

In this kind of doubt, the storm of thought power continued to sweep the sky in front of him.Ten breaths, twenty breaths, fifty breaths, a hundred breaths...

Half an hour later, Vesemir's brow was already sweating.

And Lan's left hand is still like a blower used by a giant, endlessly spewing storms outside.

In the gust of wind, Lambert's gaze slightly turned to Cohen, who was also surprised.

"Shut up, I know what you're going to ask." Cohen snapped impatiently, "I can't do it!"

　Regarding the Cyclops, everyone seems to have some doubts. After all, after the level in the game goes up, it may be killed in less than a minute after taking drugs to pay New Year's greetings.It's really not good to use pig and donkey to play solo.

　　But the fact is that under this world view, the Cyclops is an existence outside the ecological chain, and there are no natural enemies. "There is only one case of natural death, and it has never been killed by humans" is also the textual research of the original work.

　　A more realistic and realistic approach is used here, and Panda thinks this is more reasonable.If the Cyclops is really weak, why didn't the wolf faction kill this bloody monster after they stopped training apprentices?

　　What's more, the old Spearhead was no ordinary Cyclops.It is still necessary to properly give the boss some face...

　　that's all.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)