Heart of the Castle

Chapter 364 Crazy Genius Last Resort

The Advent of Yinchen is one of the taboo rituals recorded in the Dark Alchemy Secret Code. Once successful, the demon god known as the Saint of Yinchen can be summoned, and descend to the world in the image of star rain burning green flames.When these star rains fall on the earth, the earth will become a barren desert; if it falls in the forest, the trees and plants will wither immediately; Animals will die soon.

There is a supreme rule in alchemy, which is called equivalent exchange. Although dark alchemy is a side door that is incompatible with orthodox alchemy, it is also a branch of alchemy after all, so this rule cannot be avoided.The arrival of Yinchen has the terrifying power enough to seriously damage a country, and the price to be paid is extremely heavy. Not only does it require thousands of fresh corpses to build a tower of bones, and the full assistance of six magisters who are proficient in undead magic, but also once The ceremony failed, and the alchemist who presided over the dark alchemy ceremony had to endure an unimaginable magical backlash.

Generally speaking, as the occupation level increases, the physical quality will also be greatly enhanced. Although mage occupations are not as obvious as warrior occupations, due to the magic power that has a certain protective effect on the body, the actual physical fitness may not be better than those without. How much worse is the high-level fighter of grudge.It is not surprising that a great magister who looks extremely weak can casually knock down several ordinary soldiers who look burly and strong with a wave of his staff.

But alchemists are different from other professions. They pay more attention to the research of alchemy knowledge, and they don't have strong power in themselves. There is not much difference in physique between a high-level alchemist and an ordinary person.Therefore, often an alchemy accident that is not astonishingly powerful will cause serious casualties to alchemists.

When the black meteor completely destroyed the dark alchemy hexagram array, there was a gloomy and hoarse laughter from the Bone Tower. The laughter was made by several liches who were fixed on the Bone Throne by black bone spurs. Apart from the thoughtful expression on the eyes of the lich, the other liches gloated at Master Youyue, the gray-robed man standing in the middle.

"Is this your choice? Use your life to prove your stupidity?" A lich laughed mockingly.When the alchemy circle was destroyed, the blasphemy ceremony connected with the circle was also severely injured. This time the trauma was irreversible. As the green beam of light shot from the bone tower to the sky gradually dissipated, those black bone spurs also disappeared. It no longer absorbs the magic power of the undead in the bodies of the liches.

"Failed? No, I don't admit it!" Master You Yue roared frantically.

"You can only admit it, and I am afraid that you will enter the Kingdom of Eternal Night with the shadow of failure." Another lich reminded him coldly, "The backlash of this ritual is enough to smash you to pieces."

"Ritual backlash, body smashed to pieces? Ritual backlash, body smashed to pieces..." Master Youyue repeated twice in despair, raised his head and looked towards the sky.The huge vortex in the sky is still tumbling endlessly, the thunder is rumbling, and it still looks astonishingly powerful, but there are no new green pulp bubbles emerging in it, and the original pulp bubbles are also bursting, and more than half of them disappeared in the blink of an eye. .

"So... it's true... the structure of the alchemy ceremony was really destroyed?" Master Youyue muttered nervously, and then giggled again. "It's not that simple, I haven't lost all the cards in my hand yet!" With his low growl, a series of strange roars suddenly came out from the crystal ball that had fallen into the depths of the bone tower, and then the bones formed The ground parted left and right, allowing the crystal balls that were rapidly flashing with various colors to resurface.

"I'm not going to die!" Master Youyue pressed his hands on the crystal ball, and suddenly let out a strange cry, and then the crystal ball made a series of huge cracking sounds, and countless dense cracks appeared on it.

Seeing this scene, the eyes of the lich wearing the golden crown flashed, and there was a taste of horror in the voice that blurted out. "You Yue, what are you doing?"

Master Youyue turned around, her hair hanging down covered most of her bloodless face, she looked like a zombie. "Of course, I took myself off the position of the host of the ceremony." He explained, "In this way, I don't need to bear the backlash of the ceremony..."

Before the words fell, the crystal ball finally couldn't bear it, and burst into thousands of fragments, flying in all directions like a rain of crystals.Standing next to the crystal ball, Master Youyue couldn't dodge at all, his whole body was bathed in the crystal rain, and the fragments scratched his dirty gray robe, quickly stained with the color of blood.Master You Yue uttered a scream and knelt on the ground, covering his face with his hands, with blood flowing from his fingers.

The alchemy ritual, which was barely maintained without the final collapse, completely collapsed with the burst of the crystal ball. The whole bone tower was shaking violently, and there were bursts of mournful wailing from the tower, as if it had been used for construction. Thousands of corpses in the tower suddenly came back to life, making frantic complaints about their own misery.

The collapse of the alchemy ritual was reflected in the sky, that is, the huge green vortex was completely out of control, part of it seemed to want to continue spinning, but part of it stopped like a rock.The chaotic clouds fought with each other, surging and roaring, and the huge cracking sound made people think that the sky and the dark clouds were about to explode together.

Immediately afterwards, these wonders disappeared without warning, as if there had never been any vortex in the sky. If it weren't for the green light and shadow remaining on the many dark clouds, it would make people think that everything just now was an illusion.

At the same time as the huge vortex in the sky disappeared, six consecutive muffled sounds sounded from the top of the Bone Tower one after another, and the six liches imprisoned on the Bone Throne by Master You Yue's trap exploded almost simultaneously.Five of the weaker liches didn't even have a chance to leave their last words. All the bones including the skull were shattered into countless fine powders. Only the lich wearing the golden crown roared. A bright emerald suddenly exploded. Although his body was inevitably destroyed by the backlash of magic power, his head remained intact and rolled down beside the throne of bones.

"You Yue, damn you! How dare you use the alchemy circle and let us bear the backlash of the failed ceremony instead of you!" The lich's hoarse voice was full of anger, and the crown with powerful protective magic was twisted into a crown in the explosion just now. A tattered piece of metal hung from the skull. "The accusers have plenty of time to deal with those who dare to betray them, one year, ten years, or forever." He gritted his teeth and made a pledge to the gray-robed man, promising to use a thousand cruel methods to deal with his betray.

Master Youyue didn't bother to pay attention to the threat of the skeleton at all. He got up from the ground and coughed violently until his mouth was bright red.However, he didn't care about these injuries, completely immersed in his madness. "Impossible, this is impossible. The dark alchemy hexagram array I have arranged is perfect, and the alchemy law is sufficient to suppress all destructive power. It cannot be destroyed so easily!" He frantically glanced around, but there was nothing in his pupil The slightest focus, which means he doesn't pay attention to the real world at all.

"By the way, it's luck, damn luck!" Master Youyue suddenly found a reason for his failure, and then he rushed to the edge of the bone tower, his blood-red eyes swept down, and immediately locked on the one who was killed by him. A young man suspected of being an alchemist.

"Young genius, your luck is really good!" Master Youyue's voice was full of resentment, and every word he uttered from the tip of his tongue seemed to be soaked in the venom of hatred. The brainchild of the game was destroyed...it was so funny."

Li Wei frowned and looked above the Bone Tower. He was surprised by this strange voice, because in the field of vision of the exploration technique, the dazzling light clusters on the Bone Tower that were originally like several scorching suns had all disappeared. The contrast caused the young lord to ignore the two faint red spots of light remaining on it.

Even Mr. Dish showed a slightly surprised tone, "It's amazing that he survived the backlash of the ritual." But he quickly overturned his judgment, "No, I'm afraid he used it. What other means, according to my speculation, that vortex should have been able to last for a while."

"I don't recognize your luck, never! You can destroy my trump card with luck, but I have another one, can you still destroy it?" Master Youyue laughed wildly while holding up his trump card. A crystal bottle in his hand, "Yinchen can poison half of the northern border county, I can't do that, but the angel of death I refined can also turn this damn swamp into a forbidden zone of life!"

"Your threat is too exaggerated." The Black Crow Queen appeared beside Li Wei, with a hint of imperceptible excitement on her pale and delicate face. "The future I see doesn't taste like destruction. Levi of the Griffon Tribe will save the Rotten Swamp."

"He may have saved this damned mud, but can he save yourselves?" Master You Yue's voice was full of malice, "Would you like to try it, this crystal bottle may be filled with harmless water?"

The voice of the Black Crow Queen choked in her throat. The guy in the blood-stained gray robe in front of him seemed powerless. Standing on the high bone tower, he seemed trembling and might fall down at any time, but In his hands, the lives of most of the people present are likely to be held.The Black Crow Queen herself can naturally spread her wings and fly high into the sky, but except for her, no one else has mastered the ability to fly.

"That's probably true. Since he was able to almost successfully summon Yin Chen, he must have successfully refined the Angel of Death." Mr. Dish's voice suddenly rang in Li Wei's ear, looking a little nervous. "The angel of death is actually the toxin produced by alchemy. Of course, it is much weaker than the power of the descending ceremony of Yinchen, but judging by the amount of medicine in this guy's hand, it will turn into a pool of poisonous water within a few kilometers. .”

Li Wei's face changed suddenly, and he looked at the crystal bottle in Master Youyue's hand with a little more fear, "What do you want?" He asked loudly to the figure on the tower, "Tell me your conditions, Then let's see if that's acceptable."

"How do you know that I will put forward conditions?" Master Youyue's mouth twitched strangely, "Maybe I want the lives of you people to be buried with my brainchild."

"Then you dropped that bottle a long time ago." Li Wei told him with sharp eyes.

Master Youyue laughed wildly, "Sharp thinking and calm judgment are the most important things in alchemy, right, my little genius? But I hate the so-called genius the most!" His gaze changed It became more sinister, "Especially if you are so lucky that you can accidentally destroy the alchemy ceremony that condenses my life's hard work, you are simply unforgivable!"

"Your failure is not because of good luck or bad luck, but because evil can never defeat light." Li Wei said in a calm tone.

"Now it's your turn to teach me the truth? That's right, you won one game, but it's not the last one. Don't forget that sentence, you can laugh the sweetest when you laugh at the last." Master Youyue said He flicked his fingers, "Let's compete again, this time the competition is alchemy, a duel between alchemists, how about it, is it like a knight who is about to go to the battlefield, trembling with excitement? ?”

"A contest of alchemy?" Li Wei felt a little dizzy, "I must reject you, because I don't know much about alchemy."

"Liar boy!" Master Youyue leaned half of his body from the bone tower, raised the crystal bottle threateningly, and made a gesture of throwing it downward. "You must not provoke me, or I will throw this away." His tone was extremely sharp, "The method of destroying the alchemy circle just now is known to no one except the alchemist. You don't want to say that is also Lucky?" Seeing that Li Wei was at a loss for words, Master You Yue laughed wildly again, and his body swayed wildly with the laughter. "You have no choice, either die together or duel with me."

Li Wei's expression froze, genius alchemist?There seemed to be another illusory halo covering him.But obviously other people didn't think so, Babrupa's high-pitched voice was the first to ring out behind him, "Competition is a competition, Master Levi, teach this gray-robed guy a lesson!"

"Yes, teach him a lesson! Then let me use this flail to smash every bone in him!" The leader of Worf of the Tooth Tribe agreed, the heavy flail in his hand whimpered and spun.

"Li Wei of the Griffin Tribe, you are the savior of the Rotten Swamp in the prophecy, and you will successfully defeat him." The Black Crow Queen finally promised Li Wei.

"It seems that I have no choice." Li Wei sighed helplessly, "Since it is a duel, what are the rules?"

"Rules? Of course it's in the category of alchemy, let's have a good fight." Master Youyue's voice was between a roar and a mocking wind. "If I lose, this bottle will be yours, and you can take my life as you please, but if you lose...these people will accompany you to die." Master Youyue replied, and then he Shaking the crystal bottle in his hand, he let out a roar. "I absolutely don't believe that you can beat me again with luck!"

"In the name of the supreme Father God and God of War Balud, I accept your challenge." Li Wei said in a decisive voice, "Where shall we duel now?"

"It's fine here." Master Youyue looked around, then pointed to himself on the Bone Tower, and then pointed to Li Wei, "I'm on top, you're on the bottom, the duel between alchemists is about brains and brains." Knowledge does not need to face-to-face ping-pong-pong collisions like stupid knights." He paused for a while, his originally crazy eyes became calm, just like the harsh winter days unique to the northern border, let Levi There was a slight shock in my heart.

"This guy is a genuine master of alchemy, and it can be seen from his eyes." Mr. Dish said with a rather appreciative tone.

"The three most important things for an alchemist are a keen mind, a wealth of knowledge, and an extraordinary imagination." When Master You Yue spoke again, his voice returned to its original clear and soft voice. "There is nothing to compete with in the first one. I admit that your mind is sharp enough. Let's warm up with a basic knowledge of alchemy first, and then let's compete with imagination."

Li Wei took a deep breath, folded his hands on his chest, and tried to make his expression as natural as possible. "Come on then," he said.

The next question and answer on alchemy actually has nothing to do with Li Wei. Master Youyue asked questions quickly and quickly, like a breathless storm. Most of the questions were completely unanswered by Li Wei. The composition of the alchemy terms he had heard made Li Wei unable to understand the meaning at all.However, this does not prevent Levi from answering these questions quickly enough. As a master of alchemy, Mr. Dish, these questions are as common to him as breathing and walking. After a beginning, Mr. Dish announced the answer.

When Master Youyue started to ask questions, his expression was very confident, because he had been immersed in alchemy longer than the average lifespan of an ordinary person, and the foundation of alchemy knowledge can be said to be quite solid.At the beginning, his questions were relatively basic, but he quickly asked a lot of unorthodox things. However, what made him feel seriously frustrated was that the knowledge of alchemy that he thought he had mastered alone appeared in the bottom one. The young man under the age of 20 is talking in the mouth, and he can't even notice the slightest pause.

This is simply an impossible thing, no matter how talented the mind is, it will take a long enough time to accumulate enough knowledge, which is well known among alchemists.However, the young man in front of him seems to be deliberately trying to break this rule. He has spent hundreds of years researching and thoroughly understanding what he considers to be an absolute secret, using the most concise and simple language to answer lightly. , as if that was the most basic knowledge of alchemy.

Master Youyue's face began to flush with anger or jealousy, and the next questions became more and more difficult, most of which he didn't even know the answers to, but Li Wei still had that relaxed look and tone of voice. Calmly revealing unimaginable esoteric knowledge.These knowledge made Master You Yue couldn't help trembling with excitement, he took a few breaths, then took out a pen and paper from his robe, and quickly wrote down the answers to each question on it.

Seeing this scene, Li Wei couldn't help laughing. "This is not like a duel. When do you want to ask?"

Master Youyue took a few heavy breaths to calm down his excitement, "You do have enough knowledge, young alchemist." He admitted, "But for us, the most important thing is the extraordinary imagination, this is the final contest."

imagination?How to compete with this?A burst of doubts arose in Li Wei's heart, but on the surface he still seemed calm and composed. "Then, please come up with a question."

Master Youyue's face regained a somewhat conceited expression, he raised his left hand, a little golden light rapidly expanded in the palm of his hand, and shrouded towards Li Wei. "This is it, the Void Alchemy Chess! Let's compete!"

(End of this chapter)