Spiritual creatures were probably the most difficult to deal with among all the Sorcerer Guards.
If it was an ordinary wizard beast, with the number of apprentices present, it would be easy to get rid of it. However, if it was a spiritual creature, it would be a little troublesome.
First of all, these spiritual creatures did not have real bodies.
In a low-magic world, if a person stopped breathing, they would really die. The death of the body also meant the dissipation of the spiritual consciousness, and the soul could not exist on its own.
However, in a high-magic world, those individuals with strong consciousnesses when they were alive, be it human Sorcerers or terrifying monsters, could continue to exist in the Material World with their strong willpower even if their bodies were dead.
They used strong resentment or obsession as their core, and condensed elemental matter as their body. When they were strong enough, they could also reappear in the Material World.
Their bodies were in between reality and incorporeal, and they could freely switch between incorporeal and material.
When they turned incorporeal, their transparent bodies were completely illusory, and they could freely shuttle through unprotected materials, such as wood, stone, metal, and so on. Only controlled elemental energy and magical force fields could prevent them from penetrating.
When they were incorporeal, the spiritual creatures would not suffer any physical damage. However, due to the lack of a solid body to protect them, when they were attacked by elemental attacks, the damage would even be doubled.
When they turned into a solid body, the body condensed by elemental matter had both physical and elemental damage. The effect was to absorb biological activity, and it was accompanied by strong negative energy damage. However, the spiritual creature in front of them obviously had some frost damage in its attacks.
At this time, the spiritual creatures still had extremely high damage immunity against physical attacks, and their damaged bodies could also recover by absorbing the drifting elements in the void. Therefore, to deal with the spiritual creatures, the most effective method was elemental attacks.
Therefore, in the next 15 minutes, the spiritual creature was like a sneaky assassin, from time to time drilling out of the walls, floor, and ceiling, touching a few apprentices and quickly disappearing.
Due to its fast and hidden movements, most of the apprentices' spells hit the floor and walls, and it was difficult to hurt it. The result of the apprentices' attacks was that their bodies were injured, their flesh and blood rotted, and their wounds were frozen, and it was difficult to recover with medicine such as hemostatic ointments.
However, it was very strange. This spirit body seemed to have a grudge against them. It only stared at them and attacked, but ignored Alice who was beside them.
Alice was happy to be at ease. She raised the Gem of Truth and leaned against the wall, carefully examining the portraits on it one by one.
Just like the wizard guards she had seen in the Swamp Tower, none of the portraits placed in this corridor were normal. What was sealed inside was either some kind of spirit or some monsters with strange abilities.
Every time Alice held the Gem of Truth in her hand and approached the portrait to take a look, the sealed monster would squeak loudly and desperately hide in the depths of the portrait to avoid being illuminated by the light of the gem.
Finally, Alice found the gloomy landscape painting on one of the walls, and saw the apprentice, Will, who was screaming at the top of his lungs.
At this time, the portrait had turned into a dark night with a curtain hanging low.
Under the cold and dim moonlight, the gray grass and soil near the small hill moved. Figures with crooked backs crawled out of the ground one after another, their deep howls resounding through the world.
These were terrifying corpses that had been sleeping underground for many years. Their originally plump bodies were now completely shriveled, their abdomens deeply sunken, and the sparse hair on their heads had completely withered. Countless corpse insects wriggled in their empty eye sockets, nostrils, and big mouths, crawling in and out.
Their movements were stiff and slow, and when they staggered forward, their bodies were constantly covered in all kinds of indescribable black debris.
Originally, they were just wandering aimlessly in the world of the portrait.
However, when their empty and incomplete nostrils sniffed a few times, they smelled the familiar scent of flesh and blood that belonged to living creatures and the warm smell that drove the dead crazy.
The next moment, everything changed!
The corpses suddenly looked up to the sky and howled, and the stale stench of a gloomy aura came out of their mouths.
They suddenly bent their bodies, and with agility not inferior to that of a hunting dog, they rushed towards the apprentice, Will. Their movements were as fast as lightning, and before Will could recover from the shock, they had already rushed in front of him, bringing along a gust of foul wind.
The rapidly spinning white bone shield blocked the incoming corpses. Right after that, densely packed bone fangs shot out from Will's hands, hitting the corpses around him into rotten flesh, and black blood splattered everywhere.
However, all of this could not stop the corpses' desire for warm human flesh and blood.
As the corpses howled more and more, the whole land began to rumble and boil. More corpses crawled out of the ground, howling as they pounced towards Will.
Damn, why are there so many of them?
Will cursed angrily.
The elemental particles that he had affinity with were negative energy, and he walked the path of a white bone wizard, so he was no stranger to the undead creatures like the corpses. In fact, he was even more familiar with them than other sorcerer-apprentices. If there were only ten to twenty corpses, he could still handle it, but if there were hundreds and thousands of them, he would not be able to handle it even if he was divided into three parts!
Will kept taking out all kinds of white bone tools, activating the negative energy within them, and then threw them into the group of corpses. After a while, there was an earth-shattering explosion of negative energy. All the corpses that were caught up in the wave of negative energy were instantly torn into pieces, and the remaining soul consciousness in their body was also washed away, and they could no longer command the dead body to stand up.
His research was on negative energy, so he knew how to kill the undead more effectively.
However, it was impossible for Will to have too many of such powerful white bone tools, so after throwing four or five of them, his face turned pale, and his waist pouch was empty.
Facing the corpses that were pouncing towards him from all directions, Will finally could not help but scream with a twisted face.
At this moment, the picture frame in the distance suddenly fluctuated, and then a giant hand reached in from outside. This hand was like the small hand of a girl that was suddenly enlarged by a hundred times. The skin was white and delicate, and there were palm lines and pores on it. Even the newly applied red nails could be seen clearly.
The giant hand reached in, passed through the distant picture space, and directly appeared on top of the hill. It grabbed Will, who was trapped inside, and quickly shrunk back.
The corpses around Will were not willing to give up. They stacked together and roared as they clawed at the giant hand, wanting to keep it.
Their actions undoubtedly greatly angered the owner of the "giant hand". With a shake of the giant hand, the world within the picture was immediately shattered into pieces, and the countless corpses were also smashed into pieces.
After punishing the undead inside, the giant hand slowly retracted, and finally disappeared into the wooden frame.
In the corridor, Alice waved the Gem of Truth, chasing away the detestable spirit that wanted to take the opportunity to ambush her. At the same time, she pulled her right hand out of the picture on the wall with great difficulty.
There was a soft poof.
Her arm was pulled out, and the acolyte Will was pulled out along with it.
Seeing that its prey had been rescued, the Spirit Body was clearly enraged.
With a piercing scream that tore through the clouds, the picture was filled with white smoke, and countless corpses surged towards the exit in a frenzy, looking like they wanted to charge out.
Alice smiled coldly, and waved the Gem of Truth. A series of twisted and strange runes appeared in the middle of the wooden frame.
"Ami Asa, Slumber of the Dead!"
When Alice quickly chanted the secret spell, the wooden portrait suddenly shone with a dazzling white light. An inexplicable white whirlpool appeared and sucked the screaming spirit into it.
When the white light dissipated, the wooden frame returned to its original state.
The spirit was howling angrily on the greyish-black grass, and on top of a small mound …
He had finally sealed the other party again!
Alice turned around and smiled at Hua Lun, "Hey, big guy, if you take one more step back and alert the monster sealed in the picture, I won't be able to help you anymore!"
Hua Lun held his right arm and turned around in shock. Only then did he realize that he was a little too close to a wooden frame on the other side of the wall.
And in that portrait, a strange ghost ship was moving forward quickly in the midst of the raging waves.
Even though he did not know what kind of monster was sealed in it, Hua Lun did not want to be sucked in by the picture just from what happened to Will.
Therefore, he quickly distanced himself from the picture.
It seemed like the guards arranged by Magus Sack in this corridor were the various monsters sealed in the picture.
Now that they had figured out the layout of this place, it would be a lot easier to deal with later on.
Every time they advanced a certain distance, Alice would shine the Gem of Truth and discover the location of the spell traps. What they needed to do was to take turns to attack and seal it in advance.
It could be seen that this was the main place where Magus Sack conducted his secret experiments, so the spell traps he set up could be said to be concentrated.
There were monsters sealed in the picture, alarm traps hidden in the candlesticks, and killing mechanisms hidden under the floor ….
It was not hard to imagine that when an intruder entered this area, even if it was a thousand miles away, Magus Sack would still be able to detect the abnormality. When that time came, all he needed to do was to rush back in time and trap the enemy in the depths of the corridor like a turtle in a jar.
Any spell traps, mechanisms, or groups of wizard beasts would always need a Magus to control them.
But now that Sack was dead, no matter how tight the defense of this laboratory was, it would still be breached one day.
Thus, after a night of torment, the group finally arrived at the end of the corridor, the entrance to the laboratory!
Here, a strange human face protruded from the wooden door.
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