Inside the bonfire, the twigs and leaves crackled as they burned. The light from the fire illuminated the dark underground cavern. Everyone's face flickered in and out of focus.
Most of them were busy meditating so that they could recover their mana.
After a long time, when everyone had slightly recovered, low rustling sounds began to spread among the crowd. Sennefer was still nowhere to be seen, and they began to whisper among themselves.
"Can Lady Sennefer defeat the Goat Demon?"
"She should be fine if it's just a Goat Demon."
"But it's been half a day. Why isn't Lady Sennefer back yet?"
It had been too long, and they were starting to worry. But since it was the apprentices who were discussing the matter, Maher decided to give them some peace of mind.
"The Goat Demons can be strong or weak. I think the one you just killed is as strong as a level-1 truth-finder wizard. With the help of the Abyss, it's very likely that Miss Sennefer won't be able to defeat it. "
Maher paused for a moment before he continued, "It's not easy to kill a Goat Demon. I think Miss Sennefer is trying to find a way to get rid of the Goat Demon. She should be fine. "
Maher's confident tone calmed the apprentices down a little.
Angor was starting to understand what Madelyne meant. The Abyss Plane was too unpredictable, which made it difficult to move Stronghold City.
Just imagine, if the internees of the Cinder Rock encountered something like the Sheepdemon on their way to the Street of the Immortals, perhaps only 1% of the thousands of apprentices would be lucky enough to survive.
The atmosphere in the cave was silent and oppressive. Just as the silence was about to continue, it was finally broken by a Frost Moon guard guarding the entrance.
It was an elemental wizard. He suddenly set up an armor of rock around himself. Puzzled, he probed the entrance of the passageway. After a while, he removed his armor.
The apprentices were puzzled by his action.
"What's wrong, Cage?" Maher asked.
"Nothing. I just heard a strange noise. Later, I used my spiritual power to investigate and found that it was the wind outside. The wind poured into the cave and made that sound. "
Although Cage had explained his actions, the apprentices present had been suppressing their emotions for too long, and this sudden outburst had broken the peace they had maintained on the surface.
Some began to complain, some cursed, and some even shed tears.
Apprentices were more worried about their future than wizards, which was why Maher couldn't stop them even if he wanted to.
The wizards, on the other hand, were still chatting with their colleagues.
Angor felt more and more depressed when he sensed the negative emotions in the cavern. Madelyne, who was sitting on the other side of the fire, spoke up, "You're holding your emotions too much. Why don't you vent them out?"
"Mind control is the foundation of Mind Illusion.. Even if you really need to vent your emotions, there are many ways to do so, "said Angor calmly.
"Like what?"
"Like sleeping, chatting, reading books, or listening to musicals."
"There's no musical here … Oh, I almost forgot. You're a Music Box Sorcerer." Madelyne raised her eyebrows. "What? "You're going to play some music?"
"I don't need to do that yet. Besides, music won't do anything except worsen the fear." Angor looked around the dark underground cavern. They could only see a limited part of the cavern. Anything that they couldn't see would cause them to imagine something horrible. If another piece of music was added at this moment, and it would definitely echo due to the cramped space, it would probably be even scarier.
"Fine. If music won't do, I'll talk to you." Madelyne chuckled. "You've been frowning. Do you have any questions?"
"I heard from Captain Maher that there's an unspeakable danger lurking in the Frozen Ruins. Where did that come from?"
Madelyne shrugged. "I don't know. I came here many times when I was still an apprentice, and I didn't run into any danger. I still remember that someone from the Moon Frost Alliance did suggest this place as a candidate for a foothold city, but something seemed to have happened, and the matter was left unsettled. "
As for what happened, you'll have to ask someone from Moonfrost Union. "
Angor only asked out of curiosity. He wasn't going to ask someone from Moonfrost Union for something so trivial. Besides, he wasn't familiar with the place.
"When we were flying here, I noticed that the environment here is much better than the outside. But I don't see any buildings here. Where is this Frigid Ruin?" Angor changed the topic.
"I don't know," Madelyne said. Madelyne recalled the time when she was roaming the Abyss. "Speaking of which, when I roamed the Ancient Cold Ruins, I didn't find any so-called ruins, so I asked someone about it. But no one knows. "
"Then how did the name" Frigid Ruins "come to be?" Angor was curious.
"I heard that a long time ago, a half-blood demon said that this place was called the Ancient Cold Ruins. It was a holy land of the aboriginals of the Abyss during the Ancient Cold Era … The Ancient Cold Era was a division of the aboriginals of the Abyss into the Ancient Cold Era. Later, the ancient wizards learned from other abyssal natives that the half-blood demon wasn't lying. This place was called Frozen Ruins, so the name was changed. "
Maybe there really was a hidden ruin here. It was just that no one had discovered it yet.
"Based on what you've said, half-blood demons can communicate?"
"Many of them can. But you have to be strong enough to do so," Madelyne said. Madelyne paused for a moment before continuing, "However, demons are all cunning. None of them will side with humans. But there are a few half-blood demons who are close to humans. For example, the Street of Immortals was built with the help of some half-blood demons. "
Half-blood demons were the hybrids of abyssal natives and demons. They were hated by both abyssal natives and demons.
Therefore, some of the half-blood demons began to lean towards the humans in their difficult circumstances. But they were only a small minority.
Next, Angor and Madelyne talked about demons, Abyss Plane, and other base cities in different worlds. When the third batch of twigs was added to the fire, they finally heard some noises coming from outside the cave.
Frost Moon's guards first put on a vigilant posture. It was not until the shadow of Frost Moon's fiery eyes appeared in the Catacombs that everyone was slightly relieved.
It was Sennefer.
"Are you alright, Miss Sennefer?" Maher asked worriedly.
Sennefer shook her head. "I used too much mana. I'll be fine after some meditation."
Maher asked, "What happened to the Sheepdemon?"
Sennefer's eyes flashed with anger. "With the help of the Abyss Plane, it's not as strong as I am, but it's not far from me. Plus, the Abyss Plane is its home ground. I'll get killed if I stay here for too long. So I had to find a way to get rid of it. But it wouldn't let me go, so I had to take a detour. "
"A detour?" Maher tried to recall the area around the Demon Monastery. There was only one way to get rid of the Sheepdemon.
Maher's eyes flashed with suspicion. "Miss, you couldn't have gone …"
Sennefer nodded helplessly. "I went to the Ice Valley to get rid of it."
When Sennefer mentioned the Ice Valley, all the wizards except the apprentices frowned. The name of Icy Gorge was known to all Magi who had been in the Abyss. That place was an absolute forbidden area, not only because there was an eccentric Abyssal Dragon there, but also because of the curse of the Ice Gorge.
Anyone who stepped into the Ice Valley would be cursed.
No one knew where the curse came from. Once a person was cursed, it would not be easy to remove the curse.
"The curse …" Maher hesitated and looked at Sennefer worriedly.
Sennefer opened her right shoulder and revealed a strange white emblem on her shoulder. This emblem looked very artistic. Of course, the prerequisite was that one had to disregard the extremely dense curse power.
Sennefer pulled up her clothes and said, "This is the curse of Frost Chaos. I can't use the power of ice until it's removed."
Sennefer's words made the wizards frown even harder.
Everyone knew that the reason Sennefer was so powerful was that she could control two opposing powers at the same time: Frost and Fire. Now that her frost energy was suppressed, her fire energy could no longer be balanced.
Sennefer's power had been greatly reduced. If they were to run into something like the Goatmen again, they would be at a great disadvantage.
After Sennefer's return, the atmosphere became tense again.
Madelyne also told him something about the curse. "Is there really no way to get rid of it?" Angor frowned.
"It's going to be hard to get rid of this curse. It's comparable to a rank 3 truth-finder wizard's curse. Either we go to the Abyssal Dragon or a rank 3 truth-finder wizard … I'm afraid the only rank 3 truth-finder wizard in the abyss right now is Sir Monkey." Madelyne's face was filled with worry.
"Abyss Dragon?" Angor was surprised.
"There's an Abyss Dragon in the Ice Valley. Part of the curse was created by the Abyss Dragon, so it's almost impossible to get rid of the curse.
"The only thing we can do now is take one step at a time and see how things go. Let's pray that we don't run into any more Sheepdemons. "
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