Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 635 The power of petrification

The demigod-level lightning light gradually dissipated, and a strange burning smell filled the entire open space.

In Angel's dark vision, which was almost blinded, the huge body of the feathered snake no longer stood upright, but slumped limply on its coiled tail, and black liquid slowly flowed out of the huge mouth that originally spit out the snake core—— It was a disease that had gradually taken hold and began to destroy the poisonous blood in the feathered snake's internal organs.

As for the thick wings spread out to the maximum angle on the snake's back, the white feathers were burned away by the hot lightning, leaving only a skinny skeleton covering its rolled-up snake body.

In the attack of "disease" and "lightning storm", this demigod-level feathered serpent died like this?

Angel was a little afraid to confirm. She turned on her spiritual vision and found that the faint glow on the huge body of the feathered serpent was slowly condensing. The "living corpses" that had been resurrected several times around them were also dying of a new round of disease. Then she approached cautiously. , entered the palace foundation that had not yet been completed, and came to the body of the feathered snake.

"It has no spiritual thread."

Klein, who had released his demigod ability, put away the precious "Lemanno's Travel Notes", picked up two copper whistles, followed Angel step by step, and suddenly said.

Does this mean that this feathered serpent was originally dead and was reawakened by some kind of power?

After hearing Klein's words, Angel began to analyze the battle just now.

She could feel the "god of death" power in the feathered snake. This kind of induction based on divinity is difficult to fake. Even if the other party is not a demigod, he must have some kind of demigod-level power, such as magical items and extraordinary characteristics. Or maybe it's some kind of gift...

But judging from the battle process and results, this feathered serpent cannot be called a true demigod at all. Its attack method is rigid and stiff. In addition to using the breath of death it emits to resurrect the surrounding living corpses and summon endless ghosts, He can only use his huge body to carry out "suppression" attacks.

Of course, the advantage of size is its biggest advantage, or the biggest support of all giant creatures. This is clearly reflected in Angel's battle with the "King of the North" in "Grossell's Travels". A line roughly equivalent to Sequence 5 The ice dragon defeated the Sequence 5 and Sequence 6 people. If not for everyone's tacit cooperation, let alone killing each other, the entire army might have been annihilated.

If it's not an ice dragon, but a tiger or lion, two Sequence 5s can easily solve it...

And this feathered serpent is probably just a "lucky person" who has a certain amount of demigod power, but cannot fully control the power itself?
Thinking of this, she continued to approach the body of the feathered serpent, and pulled back the hair that had returned to its normal shape. She was about to pull out the "Sword of Dawn" that had been scorched black by the lightning storm just now. Suddenly, I found that on the huge snake, the black was slightly green, and there were many white feathers growing between the gaps. The scales began to turn gray-white, like weathered stone slabs, quickly becoming rough, and a line appeared on the edge. Road cracks.

"It seems that it has indeed been dead for a long time. Perhaps these 'living corpses' driven by it are building a mausoleum for it? Is this some kind of resurrection method?"

Behind the two of them, Alger, who had just escaped death by using Angel's mirror substitute, murmured, reaching out to touch the feathered snake's fragile scales, but stopped when he was about to touch them.

The three of them just watched quietly as the body of the feathered snake "died" quickly. The scales fell off in pieces and turned into fly ash when they landed on the ground. The flesh and blood underneath had long since decayed and disappeared. The spines that were linked together lost their protection and were scattered everywhere. The ground, stacked together with the bodies of the "living corpses" it once controlled around it, formed a strange scene like an open-air burial ground.

Among these bones, apart from Angel's "Sword of Dawn", there is only one feather that exudes a pale luster under spiritual vision. It is different from those white feathers that are soaked in oil and look dirty, but with a smooth surface and a smooth shape. It has an elegant arc shape, like angel wings.

Extraordinary characteristics, or some kind of magical item that comes from the power of the Quetzalcoatl?
Angel guessed, instead of touching it directly with his hands, he picked it up with invisible silk thread. He looked at the two people beside him and saw that they had no objection. He put the feather into the bag he carried with him and used his spiritual power. The wall is sealed.

——Wait until the battle is over before disposing of the spoils. This is a rule that the three of them agreed upon before the action.

After turning the "Sword of the Dawn" that was used as a throwing object and successfully attracting lightning strikes, into a bone bracelet and wearing it, Angel could feel the fatigue that quickly spread from the body to the limbs, but compared to before, the side effects of this "Knight Bracelet" were no longer It won't have much impact on her, and the duration will be greatly shortened. It may take less than half an hour to fully recover.

Just like the various extraordinary abilities of mid-sequences are difficult to take effect on high-sequences, the negative effects of magical items on me will also be greatly weakened... She thought as her eyes swept over the remains of feathered serpents on the ground and the "living corpses" of various races. ",road:
"Just keep going."

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Passing through the empty space that returned to deathly silence, the three of them continued walking toward the depths of the forest along the same path as last time. This time, they did not hear the faint call of the wind chime tree. Perhaps it was because an old tree died. The other new tree has not yet grown into an extraordinary creature that can actively hunt for food. It is also possible that they already have territorial divisions, and other wind chime trees will stay away from here, so that their hunting ranges will not overlap with each other.

"There are easy-to-hunt creatures like the Blue Shadow Falcon here, as well as powerful semi-god-level extraordinary creatures, but I have never seen them take the initiative to attack. They just stay in their own territory..."

Alger was still walking at the front, but he was much more cautious than before. He was holding a lantern in one hand and a "magic pocket watch" in the other hand, ready to press the crown at any time to gain the ability of the paper man's stand-in.

His low words drifted back with the wind and entered the ears of Angel and Klein.

"The battle just now was very noisy, and other nearby creatures must have fled after hearing the news. Although this will reduce the benefits of our exploration, the journey into the ruins in the center of the island will be much smoother."

With that said, the three of them had arrived at the edge of the dense forest, and arrived at the area covered with heavy spider webs, where hunting black spiders were ambush in the canopy of the tree.

Compared with the last time we arrived, there are many more remains of creatures inside the spider web, including human beings and various animals. Their common characteristic is that they have lost all their flesh and bones, leaving only dead bones hanging with fur or clothing scattered around. Between the spider webs, there are danger signs to remind those who come after you.

"Those spiders are gone."

Klein squinted his eyes and observed for a while before speaking.

Through the vision of the spiritual thread, he could find the silhouette of the spider hidden behind the tree canopy and under the spider web. This distance was only 100 meters when he was first promoted to "Puppet Master", but through the gradual digestion of the magic potion, through the According to the summary of the rules of play, Klein, who can skillfully use his abilities, can already detect creatures within 300 meters.

Of course, the demigod feathered snake hiding underground just now does not count, otherwise I would have told them to run away together... He laughed at himself in his heart, and scanned the vicinity again to make sure that there were no living objects in the spider web.

"It seems that the battle just now scared them all away, and even left their own territory. That feathered snake must have caused trouble to the surrounding 'neighbors'." Alger sneered, in response to the fact that he almost sent him away just now. The feathered serpent, which was crushed into a meat pie, taunted, and then continued to move forward.

They simply did not go around the cobwebs this time. Instead, Angel and Klein summoned flames respectively to burn away the curtain-like cobwebs blocking the road and create a straight road.

When the black spiders returned to their territory, they found that their cozy home had been burned down by three uninvited guests. They had already left the island.

I wonder if this kind of damage can promote the digestion of the "Despair" potion... As soon as this evil thought came into Angel's heart, he felt that the skin all over his body was tight, the hairs were standing on end, and his spirituality was frantically giving danger. reminder.

This level of vigilance occurred less than five times in her nearly year-long Beyonder career, and each time it meant she would face an extremely powerful enemy.

Another sneak attack by a "demigod"? Or has he stepped into some extremely dangerous trap?

At this moment, Angel's brain was running faster than ever. Her eyes passed over the slowly burning spider web, passed over the grass in the shadow, and stopped on a gray-white stone.

No, that's not a stone!
Under the gray-white object about the size of a person, a base composed of several slender roots of the same color is looming. On the other side of the stone away from the three people, smaller stones are inlaid on it, like raised Eyeballs.

It was a "Hunting Black Spider", an extraordinary creature turned into stone!
The spiders who call this forest their home were not scared away by the battle between the three men and the feathered snakes. Instead, they all died and turned into stones without life, spirit, and unable to sense the thread of spirit. !
And the spider web has become the hunting ground of that deadly hunter.

Klein and Alger beside her felt the fatal shadow shrouding their heads like a substance due to the gap in sequence. Things shrouded in the thin moonlight in front of them seemed to be covered with frosted glass and became hazy.

Their hands and feet were frozen in place, starting from the fingertips, turning gray bit by bit, losing the luster of their skin, and turning into lifeless stones like the "hunting black spider" under the crimson moonlight.

Klein reacted immediately after witnessing this. The "Creep Hunger" in his left hand became transparent, and his right hand tried to grab Alger on the other side, but their feet closer to the ground were already petrified to the knees. Unable to take steps, let alone bring their bodies together to "teleport" away together.

boom--

There was a sharp sound, and a black flame ignited on the other side of the spider web, away from the dense forest. It was less than 30 meters away from the three of them. It was only the size of a finger, but it instantly reflected in the eyes of Klein and Alger, like A ray of hope.

Without hesitation, Klein gave up "teleporting". His partially petrified body was enveloped in bright yellow flames, and suddenly appeared next to the black flames. At the same time, he looked at another piece of withered yellow grass farther away. , the gray-white and unbendable finger trembled slightly, and another flame ignited there.

With two consecutive crisp blasts of fire, Angel and Alger flashed through the flames and came to Klein's side. The former used the ability of the "Hypocrisy" ring, and the latter's hand holding the "Magic Pocket Watch" hit his waist directly. Using the impact to press the crown, he also temporarily gained some of the abilities of a "magician".

It was like three magicians performing together... Klein's thoughts, shrouded in a sense of crisis, reluctantly took a break, and then immediately jumped to a pinch of flames further away, his "Secret Puppet Master" level flames Jumping can jump out of a range of 30 meters, but in order to take care of the "Hanged Man" who is only a "magician", the flames are only ignited within meters at a time, but even so, the tacit cooperation of the three allows them to quickly stay away from the cobweb-covered place. Forest, continuously jumping to the vicinity of an ancient ruins.

After passing an invisible boundary, Angel felt that the danger reminder from her spirituality disappeared instantly. She subconsciously looked back and saw that the forest dyed gray-white by cobwebs and many stones was hundreds of meters away, and she did not find anything in it. The suspicious targets were as quiet as when they first entered, as if they were dead.

"Then...what exactly is it?"

Alger asked hesitantly. His face was so pale that Angel almost thought that the "petrification" had spread to the part above his neck. In his hand, he tightly grasped the pocket watch that saved his life. The gray that spread to his elbow was fading away little by little, and his fingertips were gradually returning to red.

"Some kind of creature that is stronger than the feathered serpent has the ability to petrify... It is probably underground. The petrification speed on our feet is faster than on our hands."

Klein replied. While shaking his stiff legs, he pressed the top hat on his head. He was surprised to find that this inanimate object was also affected by "petrification". The brim of the hat had become hard and no longer silky. soft.

"It's the 'Witch'..." Angel thought for a moment and said, "Or it's a high-level extraordinary creature originating from the 'Witch' pathway. It just subconsciously emits its own abilities, which is enough to destroy all creatures in that area. Petrified, killed.”

As a Sequence 4, she was not immediately affected by "petrification" like the other two, but when she was in that area, she could still feel that her limbs had become stiff and her thoughts were almost frozen, as if her entire body did not belong to her.

Most importantly, this feeling reminded her of the aura of destruction she felt when she used the "Disaster" spell. Although the two expressions were completely different, in the final analysis, they were both some form of "destruction" and some kind of "decline" external manifestations.

At least she is "ageless", perhaps one step closer to reaching the level of a "disaster" witch... She made a judgment with some fear.

"Fortunately, it seems that no extraordinary creature dares to approach this ruins. Otherwise, if the guy who created the 'Petrification' just came over, we might have to use 'Teleport' to escape immediately, and we may not even be able to escape."

Klein spoke in a calm tone, but his frown still revealed that he was not calm.

The other two nodded in agreement and looked at the ruins that had saved them.

Among the collapsed stone pillars, hollow walls and buildings that can still see a trace of the Quaternary style, a magnificent building with a complete main body stands in the most conspicuous position.

"That is our target today. It may contain ancient ruins worth no less than the 'Card of Blasphemy'."

Alger stretched out his hand and said with a slightly excited tone.

(End of this chapter)