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Chapter 133 Tentacles
"Huh? Disappeared?" Ryan's pupils shrank slightly.

With his current perception ability, in the case of deliberate targeting, even if the leader of the great magician can hide it from him, it is impossible for the remaining few high-level magicians to leave no traces.

The most important thing is that he felt an unusual breath just now.

So he can be sure that those magicians are no longer here, instead of simply turning off the light source to make him invisible. No matter what the reason is, there are obviously secrets at the bottom of the lake that he doesn't know.

Thinking of this, the chain fixed to the bottom of the lake beside Ryan was quickly pulled out, and while ripples were rolled up in the water, it instantly pulled him towards the location where the few people disappeared just now.

Deep in the bottom of the lake, Ryan activated the purification technique to illuminate the surrounding area of ​​several meters.

"It's impossible for them to disappear out of thin air. Could it be that there is a formation at the bottom of the lake similar to the ruins of the original disaster?" Ryan frowned, lowered his head, and used chains instead of hands to sweep the bottom of the lake, constantly digging and fiddled with the mud at the bottom of the lake.

The depth of Crescent Lake was already approaching 300 meters. At this depth, even in broad daylight, the light on the lake could not reach here at all. Although he was only 20 meters away from Eddis and others, he couldn't see their specific actions clearly.

So now he can only do a blanket search to see if he can find some clues.

"Edis and the others are obviously not sure about the location of the hermitage. It is very likely that they found the mechanism just by chance."

Ryan was still very patient.

I searched inch by inch, constantly comparing the positions of the people just now in my mind, trying to copy their actions just now.

It took him half an hour to search the bottom of the lake. He had searched the place where Eddie and his party disappeared. He had found quite a few broken weapons, birds and poisonous snakes, but he had never found the whereabouts of Eddis and the others.

"They did disappear around here just now, but why can't I find them?" Ryan frowned, and began to recall what happened just now in his mind.

Although he didn't see the specific actions of Eddis and the others clearly, from their trajectory and behavior, it can be completely analyzed that Eddis and the others are also groping for something, which is no different from what he is doing now.

If I have to say it, the tools for groping are different. After all, they don't have chains to replace their hands.

However, Eddis is a great magician after all, and the remaining three are also high-level magicians. It is impossible to use both hands to touch the mud in the nearly 300-meter-deep water.

"Hand of the Mage!"

Ryan's eyes lit up slightly, and the moment the idea appeared, he immediately began to build a spell model in his mind.

With the flow of magic power, a pair of transparent hands more than half a meter long appeared at the bottom of the lake, and began to replace the role of the chains, exploring and exploring the bottom of the water.

This is the first time that Ryan has used the basic spell of Mage's Hand in the main body. This spell is actually very easy to use. It is often used by great magicians, even magisters, and magic apprentices.

As long as the spiritual power is attached to the pair of transparent mage hands, the "tactile sense" of the mage's hands will be fed back to the caster's mind, but generally no one will do this. After all, if there is a problem with the mage's hands, it is easy to follow the clues and hurt the mental power.

But this is precisely the biggest difference between the prison shackles and the mage's hand. Although the chains are easy to use, they don't have such a "tactile sense".

Sure enough, after using the mage's hand to start groping, Ryan quickly felt the unusualness of the bottom of the lake.

He seemed to have vaguely felt some regular depressions at the bottom of the deep silt, like the inscriptions of the magic circle.

"Huh?" The mage's hand swept the mud randomly, and suddenly encountered an obvious raised hard object. Ryan was not at all excited, but just prepared to grab it out casually. It is normal to encounter hard objects at the bottom of the lake. There are too many bird bones, even human bones, and stones.

However, when he pulled hard, his eyes suddenly widened.

I don't know what the material of this hard object is, and he can't move it at all, as if it is rooted in the bottom of the lake. More importantly, it seems that something is extending towards him along the mage's hand.

"This is the aura that passed away just now!"

Ryan suppressed his subconscious resistance, and that weird energy flooded his whole body in an instant.

That energy didn't invade his body, but enveloped his body surface like a breeze. Ryan only felt that there was a light curtain in front of him covering his sight, which seemed to be a little bumpy. After a trance, when he came back to his senses again, the surrounding environment changed.

The lake water that had been suppressed to the extreme disappeared, and the bones of the birds and humans also disappeared. At this moment, the environment around him was completely changed.

"Sure enough." Ryan thought to himself.

The moment the few people disappeared, he knew that the bottom of the lake was not simple, and there might be something like the ruins of disasters in the Silver Moon Mountains.

At this moment, he was deep in a grassland, and among the lush greenery, there were many bright flowers that he didn't know. The gentle breeze made all this seem a bit dreamy.

However, this secret realm is obviously not as real as the ruins of disaster.

The evidence is that when he looked up, there was no sun or clouds in the sky, and the whole sky was like a warm and non-glare incandescent lamp, illuminating the world.

"There doesn't seem to be any traces of human footsteps around here. Isn't this where Eddis and the others entered?"

After looking at the surrounding environment, Ryan frowned slightly.

Surrounded by flowers and plants, the whole is a strange grassland, and I can't even find the direction, but the area of ​​this grassland is not very large. In front of him on the right, looking from a distance, about a few thousand meters away, there are some continuous protrusions that seem to be mountains.

After pondering for a moment, Ryan decided to go to the mountain range to take a look. Even if the magister really lived here in seclusion, he must have a place to live, right?
The grassland could be seen at a glance, and he didn't see anything like a house nearby.

Just a few steps out, Ryan stopped.

Less than two meters in front of him, a distorted human skeleton appeared. The surface of the skeleton was covered by black armor that was not completely corroded. In addition, the long sword less than half a meter away from the skeleton made it easy to determine the profession of this skeleton.

This discovery made Ryan's face a little ugly:
"It seems that the reason why no one knows the secret of Crescent Moon Lake is not because no one went to the bottom of the lake to investigate, but because all the investigators died."

He had found some skeletons at the bottom of the lake before, but he didn't notice any problems at that time. After all, this was in the Gobi wilderness, and robbers were commonplace. Even among lone travelers, it was normal for them to murder, rob, and throw corpses out of nowhere. He himself had done similar things a few days ago.

However, the appearance of skeletons in this secret realm is unusual. Judging by the degree of corrosion of the skeletons, it must have been dead for at least hundreds of years. Although there is no way to determine the strength of the deceased, it can also prove that this secret realm may not be some paradise.

With a thought, the dark chain stretched out along Ryan's arm, exploring the ground like a poisonous snake.

Half an hour later, Ryan looked at the skeleton not far away with a serious expression.

This was already the third corpse he encountered after coming to the secret realm, and he had only been in for about half an hour.

The bad news is that the death time of these corpses is hundreds of years. The youngest magician should have died more than 100 years ago, and their death methods seem to be similar, except that the youngest magician has a more serious fracture. The state of the three skeletons is very close.

This shows that in this secret place, or in this grassland, there is likely to be some kind of powerful life that is hostile to humans, and it is likely to have lived for hundreds of years.

To be able to survive for such a long time, it is at least a third-order existence, and there is even a high probability that it may be a fourth-order existence.

This secret place is far from being as peaceful as it appears on the surface.

The good news is that he has already walked half of the distance, and he has not encountered that unknown existence yet, which makes Lai somewhat doubt whether that unknown powerful life is dead.

But as soon as this idea appeared, it was rejected by Ryan.

This secret place has existed for at least a thousand years. For such a long time, the secret place can still be so lush. Compared with the Gobi outside, it is two extremes.

Even with the help of magic, if there is only one life, or only plants, it is impossible to maintain the ecology for such a long time.This secret place must be maintained in a form similar to a special ecological house.

This can also be seen in the previous disaster relics. Except for the best-protected churches, there are almost no plants in other places.

But he walked all the way, not to mention animals, he has never seen even insects.

The seemingly lush grassland is as silent as death.

"In this secret realm, the elements are much richer than the outside world. It's a bit of a paradise, but these elements don't seem to be very active." Ryan thought to himself.

I don't know what department this magister is, and he can have such a large secret realm.

As time passed, the stretching bulges he had seen before gradually became clear and turned into a steep mountain range.

"Huh?" Ryan's eyes moved, and the grassland not far away finally began to change its appearance. There were not only a large number of potholes, but also patches of overwhelmed flowers and plants, and traces of flames.

"This ground is full of large pits and deep ditches, as if they were smashed down by a giant with a sledgehammer. The strips are very messy, and they are obviously traces of fighting!"

Ryan's face was a little dignified: "These big pits should be just the aftermath of the battle. It may be a life-and-death struggle to cause this situation."

Most importantly, the battle didn't take long, and it should have happened less than an hour ago.

This happened to be the time when Edith and the others disappeared.

It seems that Eddis and the others came to this grassland just like him, but they have already left this grassland.

After slowly approaching that area, Ryan discovered that the situation on the battlefield was more tragic than he thought. Judging from the situation, Eddis and others should have won.

However, it was a miserable victory.

The battlefield is full of green juice that is suspected to be blood. These juices seem to be slightly corrosive, and they keep making "sizzling" sounds.In addition, there are many things that look like vines and tentacles, which have been chopped into pieces and scattered everywhere, and there are still a lot of green juices oozing from these wreckages.

Ryan's face was very solemn: "Could it be that this is a powerful vine creature? But the diameter of these scattered wreckage has exceeded half a meter. If its body is a vine, how big would it be?"

Although the entrance to the secret realm is at the bottom of Crescent Lake, it is obviously land, and it is unlikely that octopuses and the like will appear here.

It seems that this vine tentacle monster should be the real cause of death of the previous corpses.

It's no wonder that their bones had no obvious injuries. With such thick vine tentacles, the internal organs of the human body would probably all be crushed and shattered with a little force. The two soldiers were wearing armor, so they were relatively well preserved.The magician's physical fitness is poor, and the fracture marks are much more serious.

On the edge of the battlefield, near the mountains, Ryan found half of the corpse.

Although it was torn to pieces, judging from the incomplete clothing on the corpse, the person who died was one of Eddie's group that he followed all the way.

This discovery made Ryan more cautious.

A great magician and three high-level magicians cooperated in the battle, and one was left behind. One can imagine how terrifying the strength of the unknown life is.

At this moment, there seemed to be a sound in the grass behind him.

"Shusha~~"

The moment the sound appeared, the dark chains hovering around Ryan exploded instantly, stabbing in the direction of the sound.At the same time, Ryan jumped, and his figure instantly retreated more than ten meters.

puff!
There was a muffled sound, and the chain was like a spear, deeply pierced into a thing that looked like a tentacle and a vine.

"This is the monster that attacked Eddis and others before. What the hell is this?" Ryan stared at the weird tentacles with wide eyes.

This monster doesn't seem to have the concept of "body" at all. The three somewhat incomplete tentacles are glued together in a very awkward way, but they don't affect each other's actions. Each tentacles seem to be a separate entity, but it seems to be just a part of the body, which is very strange.

The tentacle that was deeply inserted by the chain began to dance wildly, and the other two tentacles also started berserk at the same time, attacking Ryan in a strange and twisted hovering posture.

"What the hell is this strange thing?!" Ryan's complexion changed. The tentacle monster is at least tens of meters long and more than half a meter in diameter. The chain is like a toothpick in front of it. Although it can be easily poked in, it cannot cause effective damage at all.

This does not correspond to the vine life he thought before, Ryan has never seen such a weird thing.
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