From Witcher to Lord of the Empire.

Chapter 213 The Elemental Boundary Layer and... That Voice

After waiting for a while, the mountain fog was completely gone from everyone's sight.And Lann finally put down his left hand with a pale face, and began to pant violently, his magic power was finally exhausted.

Vesemir shook his head, and stepped forward to light the braziers at the four corners of the altar.

He was about to tell Lan something again, but saw the young witcher raise his hand again in embarrassment.

"My magic power seems to have recovered a little..."

Vesemir's face was dull: "Use [Igni Sign], and enter meditation immediately after using it. Otherwise, I'm worried that these braziers will be blown out by you, and continue to delay time."

Lane nodded.

A huge amount of flames spewed towards the sky, and the heat wave made all the demon hunters watching couldn't help but take another step back.

Fortunately, this time it only lasted for a few breaths before it stopped.

Lan En knelt down on the spot, and soon relaxed his body, his breathing was faint, and his spirit became light.

After the four corner braziers were lit, Vesemir started burning the candles facing the valley.His movements were skillful and quick, and when he turned around, he saw Lan who had entered meditation.

The badges on the chests of all the demon hunters trembled more violently, which meant that something had established a connection with the chaotic energy in nature, making the magic power here even stronger.

"Get into the mood so soon?" Vesemir didn't know how many times he exclaimed today.

The speed of establishing contact with chaotic energy largely represents the communicator's meditation proficiency.But Vesemir has already understood Lann's basic skills at this moment. This young man has just become a demon hunter for more than a year, and even the meditation method is said to have been learned from Triss when he was out for political diplomacy.

But looking at this young man's current speed, even Geralt and the others, who have been trained since childhood, feel ashamed of themselves.

Mossack stroked his beard with a smile: "It should be because of the blood of the ancients. You can also understand it as the source of magic. This is a constitution that can establish communication with nature by nature. It is normal to have this phenomenon." of."

Vesemir looked at Lane, at Mossack, and then turned back to Geralt, Eskar, and Lambert one by one.

The young man from the wolf faction showed an unnatural expression.

In the end, Geralt thought about it and said, "I established communication very quickly when I was meditating."

It's a pity that no one cares about him now.

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Lane felt his five senses magnified.

No, it can't be said to be the five senses. At least Lan can't feel the voices of the demon hunters and druids talking behind him now.

But he can "hear" the crisp chirping of birds, the rustling of leaves, the gurgling of running water...

Something's wrong, it's winter now, where are the birds chirping and leaves rustling in the Blue Mountains?

Although he was puzzled in his heart, Lan En's body relaxed further.Then he seemed to hear the roaring of flames, the rumbling of lightning and thunder, and——a "humming" sound that he couldn't distinguish.

Lan En's state of mind became calmer, and the breath on his body began to gradually condense. The magical energy transformed from natural forces made the energy in his body extremely rich and constantly growing.

The chaotic energy is like a rainbow, condensing around Lan En's body, forming a net made of natural elements.

Suddenly, Lane felt something boil in his body.It is the blood of the ancient times, my own bloodline, the bloodline that can give a person the physique of the devil source from scratch, the destined power to save the world.

The chaotic energy seemed to form a vortex, continuously pouring into Lann's body.And at a place Lann couldn't even notice, a skill in the system panel suddenly lit up——

【Crossing】

A skill that drained all of Lan's magic power at the beginning of awakening.But after consuming such a huge amount of magic power, the final result could only give him a glimpse of countless planes, and it was not enough to support him to reach other worlds.

It's like an oversized machine, but Lane's battery can't move it at all.

At this moment, the continuous energy provided by the ring of elements finally met the conditions for this skill to activate, like a plug-in energy source, lighting it up.

Lan En suddenly felt light all over his body, and his consciousness left his body and started to float upwards involuntarily.But this time is different from the previous awakening. Compared with the images of countless worlds in front of him before him to choose from, this time [traversal] seems to be directional.

If Lan En is to make an analogy, the previous "traveling" was until he built roads and explored; but this time "traversing" is that he just found a door that was secured by others, and kicked it open by chance, so to pass outside.

Reminiscent of the place name of the "Ring of Elements" where I was before, it is very clear where I am now.

Lann looked up, and saw four dazzling light clusters lying in the ancient and dark sky, surrounded by surging elemental stars like a moon.

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Ahead, is an orange burning sky.From time to time, fireballs fell from the sky, instantly burning everything around the ground to ashes.Boundless volcanoes, mountain rivers, gravel slopes and flames flying in the sky constitute a unique scene in this world.

Behind, is revealing the sea of ​​purple and rose.The vast sea, towering rocky pinnacles, dangerous peaks and steep walls and frequent storms are everything here.

On the left is a heavy and expensive block.The sound of the roaring of the earth and the grinding of rocks is constantly heard, and the stones everywhere, rocks and vast plains are the main theme here.

On the right is a completely disordered world, chaotic air and frantic storms are the only things left in it, and Lan can't even see any solid things from inside.

This is the elemental plane.The world outside the planet wrapped under Lan En's feet is like the "atmosphere" of Lan En's previous life.Different from the "atmospheric layer", this elemental layer has not only "air", but also earth, water, and fire. The range is larger, the layer is thicker, and it is more dangerous.

There is also an invisible energy supporting these four layers, which is the fifth element that symbolizes "spirit"-ether.

Before Lann could react, a huge figure suddenly appeared on each of the four boundary layers.They have shapes in line with their respective realms, and their appearances are very different; the only similarities are the profound wisdom revealed in their eyes and the terrifying aura exuded from their bodies.

Seeing this, Lan En was horrified: World Spirit!Unique magical creatures that live in their respective planes.Powerful warlocks can establish contracts with them through [Magic Summoning], just like summoning foreign demons; what's more, they can directly capture these world spirits from outside the sky.

The strong among the world spirits have the powerful ability to move mountains and fill the sea, or have the mythical ability to satisfy the wishes of mortals like "Di Jing".

There are also relatively weak element life in the world spirit.But Lan saw that the shape and size of the four world spirits in front of him didn't look like weak people. He could be sure that the four in front of him were all ruthless characters that he couldn't deal with at this stage.

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The first time the four world spirits appeared, they roared towards the opposite sides.The water-planet faces the fire-planet, and the air-planet faces the earth-planet, majestic and unrelenting.

But then they fell silent again, and a wordless tacit understanding pervaded them.Although he had no eyes, Lan still felt that their eyes were focused on him.

Lan En was startled suddenly, there were too many things in that sight.It's scrutiny, it's disgust, it's hatred, and...greed.

to suffer.

Four forces appeared on him without giving Lann the slightest reaction time, and suddenly began to tear him apart in four different directions.The illusory muscles and bones were torn apart unreasonably, as if twisted into countless weird shapes, unable to be pulled back.

Every second is like a poisonous needle stinging the cells of the whole body, and all kinds of incredible pain spread all over the limbs and bones.The pain that had nowhere to spread made Lann want to yell, but he forgot that his body was still in Kaer Morhen's ring of elements at the moment, and he was only a spirit body.

Lan opened the system panel frantically, and frantically clicked on the [Travel] skill.

Immediately, the magic power in the body drained down like a flood that opened the gate, but then the four pulling forces also increased sharply, trying to fight against the system's skills.

Lan could feel that the system had the upper hand in this confrontation.However, in just one breath, his mana value bottomed out.And different from when he came here, this time there is no energy provided by the elemental plane to supplement him.

In the darkness, dull laughter came faintly.Like a strong wind, like a landslide, like a flame, like a tsunami.

Lan's consciousness gradually blurred.

And just when these four pulling forces were getting stronger and stronger, almost tearing Lan En's spiritual body apart, a voice that he was very familiar with suddenly came from outside the elemental world.

……

"Ah! Lane, you're here! So fast?"

The voice seemed happy and looking forward to it.It's like a traveler who has found his long-awaited partner, and it's like a hard-working gardener finally seeing his fruit trees bear fruit.

However, the voice suddenly stopped, and there was a sound of seeing something dirty.

"……Um?"

……

The next thing happened in a short moment.

Possibly even faster.

The ancient abyss suddenly became conscious, and a wordless darkness pervaded the elemental world.

The four world spirits roared again, but this time it turned into anger, then panic, and anger.

The infinite ether seems to have become the palm of a person to tightly wrap the world where these world spirits live. It originally held the four elemental worlds, but now it holds the four worlds tightly in the palm of the hand. And getting harder and harder.

Accompanied by a crisp sound like a glass mirror shattering, Lan felt that the power covering him was suddenly lightened, and it all disappeared.Immediately afterwards, he felt as if there was a silk thread pulling the puppet behind him, and with a slight pull, his spirit body sank back to his own planet again.

In the endless starry sky, a sigh of disappointment came slowly:

"Oh...forget it, it's not time yet. You should go back first..."

"Remember, this time you owe me a glass of wine..."

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Lan En suddenly opened his eyes, breathing heavily like drowning, he could no longer maintain his body balance, and fell directly to the ground.

In his ears, the system beeps sounded one after another.Subconsciously opening the panel, a brilliance began to flicker on it immediately.

Lan En took a long breath, and found that his [Sign] skill panel had undergone earth-shaking changes.

The five three-level French seal skills were all lit up in one go at this moment!
[Quen Enhancement] The strength of the Seal of Quen increases by 10%. (2/5)

[Yarden Enhancement] The strength and duration of the Seal of Arden are increased by 10%. (2/5)

[Axii Strengthening] The strength and action time of the Axii Seal are increased by 10%. (2/5)

[Alder Enhancement] The strength and attack range of the Seal of Alder are increased by 10%. (2/5)

[Igni Enhancement] The strength and burning chance of Igni Seal increase by 10%. (2/5)

The five great seals respectively symbolize the five elements of earth, fire, water, wind and ether.The five skills are like water words, and the strengthening effect is also neat.This is the most essential improvement for Lan En's seal.

With such a neat strengthening effect, and thinking about what just happened in the elemental world, Lan can know why these five skills have been improved without guessing.Even if a demon hunter can gain power from the ring of elements, this type of strengthening is a bit too exaggerated.

And the activation of the five third-level skills automatically met the conditions for Lan En to activate the four final skills of the [Dharma Seal] series, and the harvest was not insignificant.

It seems that I owe a certain guy once again... Although the other party can't enter this world now, and can't collect debts from me.But sooner or later, the self with the blood of the ancients will travel through the multiverse, and he cannot be avoided at all.

I don't know what kind of request the other party will make at that time...

Lan shook his head and put the question aside for the time being.At the same time, I also made up my mind not to activate the [Traveling] skill until my ability is insufficient. This adventure is a lesson from the past.

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On this side, Lann adjusted his state in rough clothes.

On the other side, everyone who had been watching Lan meditating finally reacted after seeing the abnormality of the young witcher.

Mossack ran much faster than the other witchers, and he helped Lan who was lying on the ground with a tense expression.

"Lan, what's wrong with you, wait...why do you have no magic power even though so much chaotic energy has been poured into your body?" the old druid said and hurriedly turned to Vesemir, "Is this normal? You Do you know what happened?!"

Lan quickly grabbed Mossack's shoulders, suppressing the discomfort and pulling out a smile.

He looked at his health and mana. The blue bar had indeed bottomed out, but the red bar was still above the health line.

"I'm fine, Uncle Mossak." Lann said in relief, he didn't think about telling Mossak what happened just now. It involved things beyond the elemental plane, which even the old druids didn't know. There is a solution.

"Actually, I have gained a lot now. More than one seal has been strengthened. Maybe it's because of this that I am very tired."

Although everyone was still surprised when they heard the words, their expressions relaxed.

Lann used the excuse that he was not yet familiar with power, and at the same time, to relieve fatigue, he sat aside alone and began to adjust his state.

The demon hunters such as Ke En and Lei Suo were shocked by Lan's state, but after hearing that he had indeed been enhanced, after hesitating for a while, they still knelt in the center of the ring of elements and began to meditate.

But the process of their meditation is relaxed and freehand.Everyone only spent a quarter of an hour, and at the end they were all refreshed, and there was no such thing as Lann.

Taking advantage of the other demon hunters who hadn't been strengthened to meditate one by one, Mossak sat next to Lann and asked with concern: "Are you sure you're all right?"

Lan En has adjusted most of his state at this time, and his face looks much better.

"I'm really fine."

After thinking about it, Lan suddenly asked, "Uncle Mossak, do you have any books about the elemental plane?"

Mossak was taken aback, and he immediately replied with a lot of knowledge: "There is a copy of "Elemental Empire". This book itself is in the magic class I arranged for you. I plan to teach you when you have time."

The old Druid's eyes became deep: "Why, you are suddenly interested in this knowledge and want to learn [Magic Summoning]? That is taboo magic, and it can even be counted as black magic."

Lan En laughed and said: "We all know that forbidden magic is just difficult to control and easy to hurt beginners. Fire magic is also forbidden magic, and so is necromancy, but look at how many people in the Brotherhood of Warlocks don't know this."

In order to reassure Mossak, he added: "Don't worry, Uncle Mossak, I know the upper limit of my ability. I don't plan to try these spells yet, I'm just curious. I can use some things, but No way..."

The old Druid thought for a while after hearing the words, and nodded in agreement: "You are a child with your own opinions, so I don't have to worry about that. Don't worry, the lessons I give you will cover this aspect of knowledge, but you have to do it step by step— —I will teach you, just not now."

Lan leaned his back against the rock wall, raised his head, and his eyes seemed to pass through the clouds in the sky and fall into the boundary layer: "This is enough."

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A few quarters of an hour later, all the snake demon hunters also gained promotion in the ring of elements.Judging by their beaming faces, it turned out pretty well.

Vesemir looked at the sun, everyone had set off early in the morning.Although there were thrilling battles along the way, it was only past noon at this time.

"The old spearhead is dead, and the ring of elements has been absorbed, so it's about time to go back." Vesemir suggested, "It's almost time to prepare dinner when we return to the castle. There must be a lot of bear meat left from yesterday."

Lambert pouted: "We've been busy outside all day, why do we have to go back and prepare dinner..."

Escal patted him on the shoulder: "Yennefer definitely doesn't know how to cook. Ciri's cooking is a disaster. Triss can't work hard to prepare food for a dozen people by herself."

Lan and Geralt both had expressions of embarrassment on their faces.

The way back must be smoother than when we came, and the noise from the battle with the old Spearhead just now is definitely enough to drive away the monsters that don't have eyes on the road.

People originally thought so.

Just as they were returning to the cave from the Ring of Elements, three stone heads popped out.

"Demon hunter, stop, go back! Here, the site of 'Giant Mama'!"

A simple, dull, but dull sound like the impact of rocks reached everyone's ears.

Everyone followed the discovery made by the sound and found that on a small slope not far away, there were three humanoid monsters with stones all over their bodies standing there.

According to a rough estimate, this distance can be a hundred steps.The demon hunter wanted the other party to hear him at least by roaring, but the other party seemed to be speaking in a normal voice, which could still be clearly heard by everyone.

It's a troll.

On the way to the Ring of Elements, Lan heard that there are trolls here.It was a pity that I didn't meet him at the beginning, but I didn't expect to meet him suddenly now.

The one who scolded the demon hunters was the frontmost of the three-headed trolls, who looked like the leader.But after it finished speaking, the troll closest to it suddenly raised its hand, and slammed the leader's head with a powerful fist like a heavy hammer.

All the stones on the troll's head were smashed by this blow, and all the demon hunters could feel the frightening momentum from a long distance away.Lan En estimated in his mind that the normal knight's plate armor would probably have to be remade after being hit.

"Stupid! You are a 'troll demon', not a 'giant mama'!" The troll who started the attack shouted viciously at his leader.

The leader troll scratched his head, seemingly unaffected at all, turned his head and yelled at the demon hunters again:

"Demon hunter, stop, go back! Here, the territory of the trolls!"

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All the witchers frowned in unison, raised their jaws slightly, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Only Mossak showed an expression of interest.

"How dare they, we obviously have so many people..." Lambert reached out and held the wolf head sword hilt behind his back.

But after thinking about it carefully, he put his hand down again, turned to Lan and Ke En and asked, "It's too hurt to cut this thing, so it's more convenient to use the seal. Do you lack [Troll decoction]?"

Geralt hesitated to speak after hearing this.Although White Wolf is a demon hunter, he has always been friendly to intelligent monsters, including monsters with extremely high alchemical value such as female night goblins, shapeshifters, and nymphs.

The trolls are naturally also in this ranks, perhaps in the eyes of the white wolf, these are already "inhuman races" rather than "monsters".

Lan was not a murderous witcher, but he was not a philanthropist like White Wolf either.But he really didn't intend to kill the trolls in front of him.

After thinking for a while, Lan turned his head and looked at Vesemir: "Have any of these trolls killed the apprentices of the wolf faction?"

Vesemir thought for a while, then shook his head: "The apprentices who fell in the last stage were all in the hands of Old Spearhead. These trolls... the IQ of the apprentices is enough to deal with it."

(End of this chapter)