Opening the door to the room, Brian and Brenas came to the third area of ​​the underground mausoleum, which is where the Lich Arokal lives.
As the Armor of Fear explains, there is a huge rift at the door. In the middle of the rift, shrouded in dark mist, there is a platform of considerable area floating.
From here, the ceiling is about 20 meters high, and the bottom of the rift is very deep, looking like a terrifying bottomless abyss.
Torches burning green light were hung in two places, illuminating the passage to the south and one passage to the other side of the rift.
The only passage through the rift are two narrow stone bridges, which connect the stone platform from the north and the south respectively.
This narrow stone bridge winds up along the side walls of the rift.
The rocks in the sky kept colliding and rubbing, shattered dust filled the air, and gravel kept falling from the air, and the sound of impact echoed in the rift, reflecting back and forth, forming a thrilling loud noise.
Normally, if Brian and Brenas want to continue walking, they must cross this stone bridge to reach.
However, what is surprising is that in the dim rift valley and mid-air, countless huge rocks are flying. Wrapped by the faint magical aura, they are like meteorites in the starry sky, constantly colliding, pushing each other and making huge sounds.
Brian also noticed that a thick layer of rock powder fell on the stone bridge and platform due to the continuous impact and shattering of flying stones.
These thick powders preserve several footprints of humanoid creatures intact.
This means that under normal circumstances, Arokar's guests or subordinates can pass normally without being disturbed by flying stones.
Thinking of this, Brian looked at the ghost prince who showed a thoughtful look beside him.
As if sensing his gaze, Brenas came to his senses, spread his hands, and smiled helplessly: "I have no choice this time. These magic circles made of stones look like the product of an ancient and powerful earth magic."
He looked at the dark abyss of the Rift Valley thoughtfully, pondering and speculating: "The lower part should be the earth vein node of the Shadow Valley, which contains rich earth vein energy, so we can maintain the operation of the magic circle. If we want to pass, we can only risk exposure... and choose to break through."
Brian did not respond, but carefully observed the changes in the stones.
"Actually, the progress of exploring the lich's nest this time has completely exceeded my expectations." Seeing Brian looking at the abyss silently, Brenas continued: "We have not been noticed by lichs since we entered the nest until now. Even if Arokar himself saw it, he would probably be shocked to fall."
Brian nodded deeply. The two of them explored the way, basically Brenas took action to avoid guards and crack traps and illusions, which was very smooth.
At this time, the other party suddenly claimed that he had no choice but to have no choice but to break through the rock formation in the Rift Valley, and that was really no choice. If they wanted to pass, they could only risk exposure.
"Let me try." After thinking for a while, Brian looked at the countless flying, floating, constantly colliding and rubbing stones, and began to prepare for his superpowers.
When Brenas heard this, he made way for him and observed with great interest.
In the darkness, accompanied by Bryan's deep eyes, an uncontrollable mist gradually spread out. All the stones in the narrow stone bridge area were frozen in the air almost the moment when Bryan's eyes locked on them, as if they were pressed, motionless.
"We only have five seconds to go there as soon as possible." Seeing that the method he had come up with was really effective, Brian immediately explained and rushed towards the opposite side of the Rift Valley.
The ghost prince came to his senses, turned into a cloud of smoke, and floated over.
"What's going on?" Brenas, who turned into a human form, looked at Brian with confusion, "What kind of supernatural power did you use to fix these stones?"
"Time stops." Brian simply replied.
"I see."
Brenas showed a sudden look, "Combined with the ability to stop the time of the Nine Rings spell, I can indeed temporarily control them for a few seconds. Why didn't I expect it at that time?"
"Because you are not a psychic, you will naturally not consider this situation." Brian smiled slightly and signaled Brenas to walk forward to lead the way.
The quiet underground world only had a faint fluorescence brought by the glowing fungus, which made Brian realize that they were likely to have arrived in the dark area.
As he thought, the two of them had just walked out of the winding rock tunnel and were in a vast cave, and they noticed something strange.
A torch radiating green light was inserted into the walls of the cave. Two oversized underground lizards were tied to stalactite columns. Their saddles were carrying heavy packages on both sides and crawled on the ground to rest.
"It's the Drow Elves." Brenas said nonsense.
Three Drow merchants rested near the underground lizard. They were short, slender and elegant in movement, with black jade-like skin and silver-white hair, wearing well-made chain armor, with small crossbows and daggers.
Brian and Brenas looked at each other, and after confirming that there was no abnormality around them, they suddenly appeared, casting their spiritual powers and magical techniques without any sound, killing the three Drow merchants on the spot.
While cleaning up the trophy, Brian accidentally found a map box with a leather from the merchant.
Inside is a map of the underground passage of Shadow Valley.
From the map, we can see that they have arrived at the dark area at this moment. The passages at the intersection of the Shadow Valley are well connected, with roads leading to the ruins of the city of Meremidra, a passage to the fortress at the bottom of the Twisted Tower, and even roads to other areas around the valley.
As can be seen from the map, opposite the Rift Valley is a secret fortress.
There is no doubt that this fortress is definitely the real lair of the Lich Arokar, and the underground tomb that the two entered before was similar to an outpost.
After confirming the destination of the trip, the two of them followed the map's instructions and headed upwards along a cave dug out by artificially and headed towards the fortress deep in the belly of the mountain.
The cave ended up at a stone door, which described the mark of the three spiral lines that Brian had seen several times.
Obviously, this is the mark of the wizard Arokal, which means they are not looking for the wrong place.
Thinking that they were getting closer and closer to the Lich Arokar, they used their spells more cautiously and passed through this stone gate blocking the way.
In the cold hall with a dark gloss, Brian noticed that there were ten statues of equal size around him, displayed in different postures, in this room.
All statues depict human males or women wearing aristocratic costumes, some with peaceful expressions and some with sad or sad expressions.
"This is a human in the Neserier era." Brenas carefully examined each statue and told Bryan that he had come to a conclusion.
"Obviously this wich who has begun to become crazy in his mind is often immersed in the glorious memory of the empire. If she cannot stand it, her demise will be welcomed. No wonder she chose to be loyal to the Lost Lady. It turns out that there is such a reason."
Brian nodded silently. Although it was transformed into a lich, allowing them to break free from the shadow of death and have nearly eternal life, there was another flaw that most lichs could hardly avoid.
That is the nature that gradually loses itself under the erosion of negative energy.
As time goes by, if they cannot resist this erosion of soul-bearing elders like Iolum, Laroc and Owo, they will slowly forget their past as a living being.
This means that the form of immortal existence expected by the lich itself has come to an end, because the long years, like the wind turning rocks into dust, have wiped out their rationality and memory, often make them decide to live in their ancient tombs and forget the matter of taking up their souls.
This terrible sequelae will gradually fade into the spells that the Lich has learned, no longer drives arcane energy like a Lich, and degenerates into a semi-lich with only one head left.
Although there is only one head left, the half-lich is still a fatal and powerful existence, but this is just a small fragment of the vicious vitality of the Lich, so small that once it is disturbed, it will float in the air with its entire remains, turning into a spirit-bound form until it perishes.
Brian continued to look at the room. He saw that there was a stone door on each side of the wall. The west side of the wall was a large double-page stone door, with colorful ancient limes, blue, black, and crimson red...
Obviously, this should be the gate leading to the lich room.
After carefully pushing open the stone door, Brian discovered that the room looked absolutely gorgeous and luxurious a long time ago, with red carpets, colorful tapestries and ancient furniture placed in the room.
But at this moment, everything is so old that it is corrupt.
There is a candlestick beside the door, which is the only light source in the room, shining weakly on the room, making people vaguely see that the room is densely covered with creepy bones.
After carefully checking all the rooms here, Brian and Brenas continued to walk deep into the hall.
After about half an hour, the two of them avoided countless tingling traps and patrols, they finally found the true deity of the wizard Arokar in a messy room.
The room was scattered with long work tables, shabby bookshelf, heavy boxes, and a chair that looked like a throne in front of a crystal ball.
It seemed that it was once gorgeously decorated with brilliant carpets and tapestries. However, these wealth of the past was already ragged and covered with thick mold.
There are two rows of stagnant and terrifying stone statues in the niches on the wall.
The wizard Arokar sat calmly at the desk, wearing a rotten red robe that looked very expensive, the kind that seemed to be often seen in powerful mages.
She sat calmly on the chair, with terrible crimson flames burning in her empty eyes, as if she had expected the rash intrusion of the two of them in advance.
As the expected result, she has made sufficient preparations in advance.
Two gargoyles guard the lich themselves, hiding expressionlessly behind the two niches, doing their best to disguise themselves as two real statues, just like those around them.
There were also several pillars in the room, each surrounded by a statue of a hovering snake. However, between Bryan and the door opposite, a terrible creature hovered:
A large spherical creature has many prominent eye shanks on its body and a huge mouth full of sharp teeth.
However, it is obvious that its flesh and blood have long been dry and fallen off.
The creature slowly turned its body and pointed the giant eye in the center of its body at them, but Brian could notice that the eye no longer existed and replaced by a huge black hole.
Dead Eye Tyrant, he recognized the true identity of this Eye Demon variant at a glance.
"You arrive here faster than I thought." The Lich spoke first, "As I expected, the ghost princes are indeed useless."
"Do you think so, the crying little prince, Mr. Brenas?" She looked at Brenas in a mocking tone.
"Then I will regret to tell you, Ms. Arokar, soon you will be killed by a crying person." Brenas was unmoved, but smiled: "Just thinking about it, it makes people feel unconsciously embarrassing to their nest."
Brian did not respond, but used his legendary favors to real vision and detect magic to carefully detect the specific information of the lich in front of him.
Although he could clearly feel a strong negative energy aura emitted from the other party's body and the inability to conceal the arcane fluctuations, what surprised him was that he did not detect the divine power belonging to Ms. Lost Lady Shar in the other party.
For him, this undoubtedly found an opportunity to target the other party.
Thinking of this, he calmly prepared his attack methods.
"Just because of you two?" The wizard Arokar's slender and haggard finger bone gently tapped the magic circle on the table that had been printed in advance by her, and said disdainfully: "The magic net of this land has been polluted. Using any spell here will poison your soul. If you are not careful, you may become slaves to Miss Lost."
"Is that true?" Brenas took a step back and deliberately showed a horrified expression. "I'm so scared. Do I still want to thank you for your kind prompt?"
Although Brian did not believe the words of the lich, he carefully checked the surrounding situation for safety.
He did sense a chaotic magic net energy, but it was not as Arokar said, enough to become a slave to Miss Lost.
Regarding Brenas's joke, vicious crimson flames flashed in the wich's hollow eyes. With her cold smile as if she was whispering, the lights of the teleportation array illuminated the spacious room.
In an instant, the rich and suffocating negative energy spread out, and a skeleton warrior with flames burning all over the body showed up from the magic circle.
At the same time, the gargoyles guarding both sides of the lich jumped out of the Godless eye sockets, and then made a harsh scream, slapped the powerful blood-red bat wings, jumped and hovered in the air.
"It seems that this lich is quite prepared." Brenas sent a voice to Brian with a serious expression: "You can help me delay the lich for a while first, and I will clear out the undead creatures around me."
"Go to go." Brian said calmly.
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly took out the Staff of the Great Master of the Artifact and activated the only legendary spell "Advanced Time Stop" without any warning.
As the top of the Great Master's Staff emitted a faint divine light, the wich who was about to release the spell to attack Brian and the others was suddenly frozen.
——"Unlock the magic!"
——"Advanced Magic!"
——"Chain to remove magic!"
Seeing the Lich who was successfully controlled, Brian did not hesitate to use the ability of the Grand Master's Staff to instantly emit low-ring spells, and unstoppablely broke all the defensive fields around the Lich.
——"Arcane Sequence!"
Then, in his heart and mind, he activated the spell against the lich: Ma Youfu MicroMeteor.
Countless fire meteors as big as fists, with the blessing of the passive skill of the Great Master's Staff, dispersed all the triggering techniques activated by the Lich, and slammed firmly on the indestructible skeleton body she had spent thousands of years to refine.
A cluster of gorgeous magic flames exploded on the body of the Lich. The terrifying flame explosion and penetration characteristics of the Fire Meteor, in the blink of an eye, blasted a wich who had not even released a spell into a pile of residue.
At this time, the ghost prince Brenas, who was standing beside him, had just released his magical dispersal technique.
Seeing the Lich killed instantly, even Brenas, who had always been calm, was stunned. After all, his original plan was to let Bryan hold the Lich down for a moment, and when he solved these undead creatures in the middle of the problem, he turned around to deal with the Lich.
Who would have thought that just by turning around, Brian had already solved the lich that made him feel a headache.
And the other party's relaxed look was as simple as killing the weakest skeleton, which completely refreshed the three views of the ghost prince.
After neatly dealing with the wich, Brian did not waste time checking the shocked expression of the ghost prince, but immediately put away the Great Master's Staff, which had a slight crack, and used the Chaos Mantra, combined with Brenas's magical dispersion technique to clean up all the summoning objects and components of the Lich.
This encounter ended smoothly than expected.
After cleaning the battlefield, Brenas suppressed his inner shock, squatted on the ground, looked at the remaining ashes of the lich, and speculated: "I can't predict where her life box is."
He shook his head in disappointment, stood up, and said in an uncertain tone, "This feeling is more like her life box..."
"Fusing the Life Box and the Shadow Magic Net together, right?" Brian expressed his point.
Theoretically, as long as the Shadow Magic Net is not exploded, Arokar can be resurrected infinitely, but the control of the resurrection is not in her hands, but is controlled by Ms. Lost.
"That's right." Brenas nodded slightly.
"Then don't waste time." Brian felt the magical energy in the air, which had become obviously more chaotic than before the battle, and said:
"Since she has merged her life box with the Shadow Demon Net, it means that at the moment of her death, the priestess Aceville was noticed, so let's go there as soon as possible."
Chapter completed!