winter era

Chapter 18 The King of the Night

Now the outside time is midnight, and because of the snow clouds that even cover the moonlight, the whole world is plunged into perfect darkness.Except for the whistling north wind, there is not a single bit in the whole world that can interfere with the existence of Kaos.In the eyes of Kaos, the whole world is a smooth road.With shadows as his main body, he is like returning to his hometown in this area.You can come and go freely without any auxiliary spells at all.

Kaos has always been an activist.After confirming his target, he directly cast the spell, traced the traces of the congressman wizard, and came to the cave where the dead souls lost their courage.After all, it was a month, and the traces are still obvious after 50 years.

The Great Wizard is an existence that has truly come into contact with the origin of the world.Just like the difference between a student and a professor, the difference between an ordinary wizard and a great wizard is fundamentally different.The effect that ordinary wizards need to rely on rituals, materials, and secret orders to achieve is as simple as breathing for great wizards.Kaos did these things effortlessly even because of the shadow suppression.

In his shadow form, he can go directly to the cave he calls fear as long as he traces the path of the councilor wizard.To be honest, Kaos is still looking forward to the so-called fear.After all, it is a horror that can make the wizard's spirit on the verge of collapse. If that kind of atmosphere is absorbed into his own shadow system, maybe he can save himself from a month of penance?
But after tracking the location, Kaos found something unusual and interesting before the seemingly ordinary mountain cave.Let him know something about the background that even the councilor wizard didn't know.

"Imperial Mage Corps, the head of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Xass. Neanderthal established the tomb of the imperial soldiers here..."

In the dark spiritual world of Kaos, someone used magic and consciousness to build an unimaginably complex monument in front of the cave.The messy flow of consciousness and mana made Kaos in the shadow form feel his scalp tingling.He even felt that if he entered this monument in a pure shadow form, he might come out and become a pot of hanging thread soup.

But what Kaos cares about is not the enchantment and structure.This can basically be done for a great wizard.What he cares more about is the content described on the monument that makes people feel awe in their hearts.

What is recorded on it is a story that Kaoser is familiar with.The story of the Frost War in the North.

"Great wizards who have come here, I believe you will not be the first nor the last travelers to come to the Northland." The monument of the spiritual world did not last long, and the shadows and lines quickly disappeared. Under the gaze of Oss, it distorted into the image of a man with a square face and a hood with a big beard.The pair of shining eyes—I mean, there is only light left—Kaos quickly recalled who this man who looked [-] times more normal than him was.

"I am the first and last leader of the Northern Mage Expeditionary Force, Xas. Neanderthal." This maverick humanist is still blowing his beard, using his buzzing curl The tone of the tongue spoke proudly in the spiritual void.

"Later travelers, I don't know whether you are the descendants of the great human empire, or the descendants of some shit race. But please remember that 27 people who died when our great human empire mages fought against the frost are buried here. The skeletons of a councilor wizard and four great wizards. Frost may have died in your time, but remember, we once completely banned a pretentious god here. Let him roll back to his ice Ye Laojia has expanded the progress of civilization. Regardless of your later achievements, please remember the sacrifices of our predecessors!"

Still the same as before, he first blows his beard and stares and scolds for a while, advocating the greatness of human beings.This guy's personality has not changed a thousand years ago, and he is still so unpleasant.But as the brown ring of rock and thick soil in the current seven-fold ring, Kaos, a small character who just joined the Imperial Mages and didn't even have enough time to play outside, is still not qualified to criticize a sage.

But this was the only place he was criticized.He quickly and briefly described everything here.

This was not a production base for any ice dragon replicas at all.The predecessor here should be a relic with a long history that even Kaos felt a little unbelievable.No, it might not be correct to say that it is a relic, this should be a tomb.

Back then, the Imperial Mages led a group of the most elite soldiers of the Empire to the northern lands, and waged epic wars against the sunless God of Frost Sky.Mortal words can't even describe how beautiful the war was.Ordinary people don't even have the ability to face the glow of the battlefield, so they can only use their weapons to hunt and kill the monsters outside the core battlefield to buy more time for the mages and warriors in the core battlefield .

When people later described this earth-shattering war, they could only describe the war that completely reversed the northern land with words such as the mages broke the sky and sealed the frosty sky in the eternal night.And decades later, the 23 nobles dared to bring people to open up the territory, and built a solid foundation for human beings to colonize the Northland.

The death of four great wizards and 27 congressman wizards in the main material plane is already considered a great event.Although in the peacetime battlefield and the hell battlefield, an average of double-digit councilor wizards died in battle and at least one great wizard disappeared, the battle damage was ten times higher during the war.The main material plane was able to kill more than two great wizards in the battle of gods, and Shuangtian is definitely an amazing god.Even the cemetery of the expeditionary army was established here, and it might not be a memorial to the existence of that frost.

"It's a pity..." Kaos shook his head with emotion as he squinted his eyes at the influence of the great wizard who was a great wizard thousands of years ago and has now become a great sage of the Ring of Arcane Law. "The corpses of the predecessors have been defiled by that villain."

The reason why that person chose this place is already clear.It is also clear why the councilor wizard felt so panicked.As the cemetery of the dead of the Imperial Mages, even Kaos couldn't tell how many shadow servants were still operating in it.If it weren't for the sake of being a wizard, that poor elf wizard would have been torn to pieces by the shadows long ago.

But now Kaos doesn't think he can rush inside unscathed. The great wizard hid here 50 years ago and started the replication plan.So will he be defenseless for 50 years? 50 years ago, there might not be a way to operate the shadow guards here, so what about 50 years later?Now he still has no way to control the shadow guards of a mausoleum?That is a real great wizard who is older than Kaos by many years.Kaos didn't believe that there were no means of defense in it.Maybe the monument in front of him was deliberately set up by him to warn the great wizard passing by.

It seems that there are many defense methods that cannot be explained clearly.In the world of the soul, the entire cave is filled with indescribable magic aura.From other worlds to shadows, from hell to heaven, the chaotic atmosphere turned the entire defense system into chaos.Not to mention the existing defense system of the mausoleum itself, which turned this seemingly ordinary small mountain into a real iron wall.Even ordinary great wizards will find it very difficult to see this kind of defense system.

But Kaos is not a great wizard in the ordinary sense.Although in terms of combat effectiveness, he ranks at the bottom of the Empire's great wizard system, but that's only because of the hidden danger of his shadow backlash.If there is no hidden danger that makes people feel headaches, Kaos who is fully engaged can even rank quite high in the list of great wizards of the Imperial Mages, tied with the old seniors who have accumulated for many years.

"...Hmph, it's just some boring means."

In order to express respect for his predecessors, Kaos broke away from the shadow form.The face of the black-robed man who seemed to have only bones left in the shadows cracked a dark red arc.He stretched out his withered palm and snapped his fingers on a silent ice field.

With a crisp sound of 'pop', it was like pressing a switch, and the world suddenly changed into another color.

Countless dark red arcs that were almost as frightening as Kaos's were suddenly cracked in the originally pitch-black shadow.Like the mouth of the monster in the portrait, there is a crazy smirk.A dizzy atmosphere began to gradually fill the air, and countless white pupil-like things turned indifferently, chattering and shaking their scalp-numbing bodies.Surrounded by their leader, the man in black robe standing in the middle of the ice field.

A noise as if some machine had failed began to circulate on the ice field.It was the sound of the shadows crowding around restlessly, hoping to escape from the shackles of the shadows.The endless dark red mouth and pale white eyes constitute the night of Kaos—an oppressive, crazy, and charming evil world.

"I'm Kaos!" The great wizard who had become no different from the shadow opened the corner of his dark red mouth, and shouted into the cave with a sound like metal rubbing.He believed that his voice would reach the ears of the great wizard inside.

"Let go of your enchantment! Let's have a one-on-one duel!"

The wizards in this unreasonable request naturally refused to accept it.As if there were no living things inside, the entire cave still looked half-dead and lifeless in the real world.But Kaos could feel that in the world of the soul, the monument had gradually woven into a dark golden defense network, protesting against his shadow army.

An opponent who is not considered pedantic has certain abilities.And the brain is not very good, dare to use the defense structure of the imperial mage group mausoleum to fight against the chief mage of the Northland appointed by the empire.This is simply a perfect training monster.

Kaos smiled slightly, and gently waved his shadowed palm downward.

"Then don't blame me for being rude."

(End of this chapter)