That thing was a mass of energy. There was no telling what color it was, but Roland felt nauseous and nauseous after he wrapped his mental network around it. Even more unbelievably, it seemed to be absorbing his mental power.
Although it was slow, it was indeed absorbing it.
So, Roland quickly retracted his mental threads.
"Then, it must be the gatekeeper that Grandpa Hero left for us." Cage looked at the rocks up ahead. "It seems that it's going to be troublesome to clean them up. I'm scared that the gatekeeper down below will suddenly attack us when we're about to clean them up!"
Cage's concern was not entirely unreasonable.
As a former mercenary, Cage was vigilant enough even though he hadn't been in a battle for almost ten years.
He knew very well what would happen if he was attacked while he was doing his job.
He had suffered losses in that regard before.
Right when he was in a dilemma, Roland stood out and snapped his fingers.
The rocks before him melted into liquid like ice under the scorching sun and turned into a swamp. In the end, a tiny swirl appeared, and the swamp mud flowed down.
"That's impressive!" Cage clicked his tongue in amazement. "You can instantly cast a large-scale spell, and it's a level-two spell like Stone to Mud. You're more than a genius at your age."
Andonara smiled delightedly. She liked Roland to be praised.
Roland smiled modestly.
But then, Cage frowned. "The swamp has sunk into the chamber. What if the three health potions are buried?"
"Don't worry. I've examined the chamber with my mental power just now. It's quite large. " Roland looked at the bubbling swirl. "Even if all the swamp is poured into the chamber through the entrance, it can only cover the floor of the chamber with a layer of mud no more than three centimeters high."
Cage was much more relaxed after hearing that.
Very soon, most of the swamp flowed away from the swirl, and a dark entrance appeared before their eyes.
Roland snapped his fingers, and the rest of the mud turned into rocks again.
Cage looked at Roland again and shook his head in admiration.
The three of them gathered in front of the black hole … There was originally a stone staircase here, but after being flooded by the muddy water, it was almost impossible to see the shape of the stone staircase. There was only a faintly discernible slope with regular undulations.
Cage and Andonara both looked at Lauren.
Roland snapped his fingers again, and the slide made of mud turned into a rock slide.
At this moment, a cold and gloomy aura seeped out from the bottom of the cave, and the surrounding air dropped at an extremely fast speed. The three people's breaths instantly carried white water vapor.
"There's something wrong with this cold." Cage unsheathed his longsword and wiped it with his left hand. Blue flames immediately covered the sword, and the cold aura in the surroundings immediately lessened. He continued, "I'll go down first. You guys follow me."
With that, he jumped right in.
Because he still had more than half of the duration of Float, Cage wasn't worried that he would fall. He fell very slowly.
Roland instantly released three illumination balls and threw them down. At the same time, he jumped down too.
Andonara immediately followed Roland.
The three of them staggered into the secret chamber from above, and the three illumination balls reached the center of the chamber first.
Under the illumination of the illumination balls, the three of them could clearly see what was going on in the chamber.
The floor of the chamber was covered with a layer of rocks that was more than ten centimeters thick. The rocks at the entrance were particularly thick and uneven.
At this moment, Roland looked at Cage, who simply jumped down without the illumination balls at all.
There were only two possibilities. Cage had to be very familiar with the chamber, but that was unlikely.
The other, more likely, reason was that Cage had the Dark Illusion.
Such a special ability was usually found in alien races, such as kobolds, drows, or nocturnal beasts.
There were not many races in the main plane that had night vision, only six or seven of them.
But the devils were different. It was said that the world that the devils lived in was very dark. For survival, all the races in the Realm of Devils had night vision.
Considering the language of the Realm of Devils last night, Roland had some special guesses.
But the idea only popped up in his head for a moment. Then, his attention was immediately attracted by what was in front of him.
At the center of the chamber was a huge platform that looked like a sacrificial altar. Above the platform was a red bronze box with a white key hanging on it.
What really attracted their attention was that above the red copper box, there was a mass of black energy rolling, like the boiling black clouds in front of a summer thunderstorm.
At the center of the energy were two red balls of light that looked like a pair of eyes. They stared at the three of them without moving at all, as if they didn't have any intelligence.
Andonara drew her longsword and subconsciously stood in front of Roland.
"Is this the gatekeeper?" Cage looked around and waved his longsword that was covered in blue flames. He said with a smile, "So, it's a dark creature. Our family is born to resist such things. No wonder our ancestor said that it's not difficult for us."
"But I find it difficult." Andonara pursed her red lips and said rather uncomfortably, "I'm a Great Swordsman. I can't deal with such intangible things."
"Then let me destroy it first." Cage was about to walk forward with his sword of blue flames.
"Wait!" Andonara suddenly stopped him. "Uncle, unless you plan to take the Phoenix Blood home later, this thing should be kept as a gatekeeper. Otherwise, it'll be easy for someone to break in and take away the rest of the Phoenix Blood. " “
Cage pulled his foot back. "You do have a point. “
"Then what should we do?" Cage looked at the black energy. "If we don't kill it, we'll probably be attacked the moment we approach."
"Why don't you protect yourself with your blue flames, open the box, and come back?" Roland thought for a moment and said, "After all, your family's blue flames are the bane of this thing. I don't think it dares to attack you when you're covered in blue flames."
Cage looked at Lauren with a speechless expression, which made Lauren a little confused.
"Did I say something wrong?"
Looking at Roland's innocent face, Cage said gloomily, "We're Warriors, not Mages. We can't control magic power precisely and use it however we want like you Mages do. It took me more than ten years to attach flames to my sword so that they wouldn't burn everywhere … But you're covering me in flames? Although it won't hurt the master, all the clothes and hair will be burned. Besides, I can't do such a delicate operation. "
"Then it seems that we have to destroy it." Roland opened his hands.
Cage stepped forward with his sword, but exactly at this moment, the two red balls in the energy suddenly became very bright and doubled in size. They had turned from the size of apricots to the size of apples.
At the same time, a very strange sound rang out in the secret room. It was very unpleasant and made people feel extremely uncomfortable.
It sounded like fingernails scratching against an iron blackboard, and it made one's scalp tingle.
Cage subconsciously stepped back and assumed a defensive posture, and Roland immediately summoned two blue magic puppets that were holding shields before Andonara.
Besides, the Prismatic Spray spell was ready and could be cast immediately.
"The descendant of the Phoenix family is really weak."
The sharp voice echoed in the secret chamber, and all three of them felt that their eardrums were extremely uncomfortable.
Also, a rather intense mental attack began to take place.
Cage had the Hero bloodline and the specialization of Bravery. Regular mental attacks had no effect on him at all.
Roland, on the other hand, had high mental power, and he was protected by a Magic Shield, so the mental attack was barely affected.
Andonara was the only one who was more affected than Roland. She was a pure Warrior, so she was naturally less resistant to psychic attacks. Fortunately, the Great Swordsman class specialized in all magic attacks, including psychic attacks. Therefore, she was more resistant to magic attacks than the average Warrior.
Although she felt that her head was stinging, it was nothing more than that.
Cage looked at the black energy in surprise. "You have a will? Didn't the manuscript say that you were just a pale soul?"
"Hehehe!" The black energy hummed mockingly in the secret chamber. "I've been here for almost a hundred years. It's not strange that I've regained my own will, is it?"
Cage looked awful. There was a huge gap between a soul with self-awareness and a soul without it. The Hero bloodline in his body wasn't very obvious. It was fine for him to deal with regular evil monsters, but it might be difficult for him to deal with a soul that hadn't dissipated after more than a hundred years and still had self-awareness.
Then, he looked at Roland and was more or less reassured. Thankfully, he had brought a Mage with him.
Spellcasters were the best at dealing with energy creatures.
"So, you have your own name and past?" Roland had secretly mobilized his magic power, ready to attack.
"Of course." The black energy began to change shape. It expanded and transformed into a gigantic humanoid monster with two horns on its head.
It was about three meters tall and looked rather intimidating.
Roland found the shape rather familiar. He slightly narrowed his eyes.
Cage and Andonara, on the other hand, changed their expressions and turned awful.
"It seems that you remember what I look like. Descendants of the devils' traitors, descendants of Phoenix, the Devil King." The black, gigantic horned monster laughed in fury. "A pitiful wretch who betrayed his own kind and tried to suck up to human beings. A Devil King who abandoned the Realm of Devils where he was born and raised and wanted to be a dog of the main plane. It was your ancestor who ruined our best chance to conquer the world of human beings. Phoenix, you'll be cursed by all the demons forever. You'll spend half of your life sleeping in pain while your offsprings will lose their loved ones at the happiest moment. I can see it … I can see the curses in your bodies growing stronger and screaming. Hahahahaha! "
Laughter filled with malice and schadenfreude shook the secret room, causing dust to fall from the sky.
Cage and Andonara, on the other hand, turned pale and bloodless.
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