In the small town of Bonn, Lilith and Sala, who couldn't and didn't dare to sleep, stood by the window and looked at the empty and quiet street.
"Brother, I heard that since the Dark Age, people have been disappearing in Bonn every once in a while. Is it because of the magic lock?" Lilith asked curiously. According to the information she had gathered, the longest interval between disappearances was more than a hundred years, and the shortest interval was several years. Therefore, the town was covered with a layer of strange color. The church had sent pastors to check, but they found nothing. Therefore, they could only suspect that the beasts and monsters in the mountains were secretly coming down from the mountains to eat people.
Sala shook her head and smiled bitterly, "I don't know. We don't even know what kind of magic lock it is. But I think it has something to do with it. Look at that empty house. It used to belong to one of the few noble gentlemen in Bonn who could read. However, his seven-year-old daughter went missing on the evening of April 10th ten years ago, and she was never found again. So he and his wife chose to leave this sad place and moved to the country in the east. "Lucien pointed at a house on the street.
"April 10th … What a coincidence." Lilith said thoughtfully.
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The little girl's smile was so bright that it looked like she had just run out of a black and white photo. She opened her arms and jumped at Lucien like a daughter waiting for her father to come back home. However, her floating body and her empty eyes made Lucien shudder. He did not dare to let her jump into his arms.
The spell was cast, but no one, not even Lucien, could hear it. The spell was cast successfully.
The air around the little girl became turbulent, and many invisible ropes were formed to bind her.
The apprentice-level spell, Spirit Binding!
Without a doubt, Lucien was sure that the little girl was a ghost.
The bright smile disappeared immediately, and her little face twisted, full of hatred and ferocity. She slightly raised her head, opened her mouth, and let out a silent scream.
The invisible barrier formed by Silencer appeared in front of Lucien, and the invisible ripples made the barrier shake violently.
After casting 'Spirit Binding', Lucien had been preparing for this spell. It was based on his understanding of the attacks of the Specters. Knowledge was the power of a sorcerer!
However, the moment the Soundproof Fortress appeared, it completely collapsed under the ripples that seemed to be shaking very slowly!
A small portion of the Wraith's Shriek was neutralized and hit Lucien directly.
His head was spinning, his ears were ringing, and he felt nauseous. Lucien could not maintain his balance at all as if he were stepping on cotton. Even his internal organs seemed to be resonating. Also, countless negative emotions surged out at the same time. Panic, fear, resentment, and so on almost made Lucien lose his consciousness.
Lucien's exposed skin emitted a faint grayish-white light. It quickly became blurry and wobbly before it slowly stabilized.
The timely 'Moonlight Transformation' saved Lucien's internal organs from rupturing, losing his mind, and even death. However, Moonlight Transformation could not weaken the attack of Specter's Shriek. It could only improve the defense of his fragile internal organs and brain. Therefore, Lucien was heavily wounded on the spot.
"This is a Specter as strong as an official Knight!" From the attack, Lucien figured out the strength of the little girl and what category she belonged to. Kicking his right foot, Lucien turned into a faint shadow and moved to the other side of the horrible specter. Then, he cast a silent spell, and Illumination flashed.
Even the weak Specters were immune to most of the elemental damage and many spells. Only light (positive energy), fire, and sound waves could hurt them.
However, the light that should have been bright became pale in this strange world of locks. Then, it was tainted by a vague haze. There was no feeling of illumination at all.
After releasing Specter's Shriek, the little girl floated half a circle on the spot. Then, ignoring Illumination, she lunged at Lucien.
Lucien was still in the cooldown period, so he could only turn into a gray shadow and dodge. Then, he swung his long sword back at the little girl.
The long sword penetrated the body of the little girl without any hindrance, but it did not cause any damage to her! Even if it was an enchanted long sword, even if it had the attack power of an official Knight.
The little girl was not angry at the long sword and Lucien's attack because she did not hurt herself. The twisted expression on her face returned to normal, and she smiled again.
Then, her body became transparent and disappeared. A few seconds later, she suddenly appeared in front of Lucien, with her hands still open.
Lucien's agility and balance were very good, and he still had some strength left. He immediately changed his direction and began to prepare Homan's Choking Cough.
Little white dust gathered, and the little girl magically appeared in front of Lucien again. At this time, a silent boom sounded. A cloud of dust flew up on the street, and the little girl's body also shook.
An expression of grievance and resentment appeared on the little girl's face at the same time, and then it completely turned into hatred. First, she raised her head and screamed silently. Then, she jumped at Lucien without stopping.
After Lucien cast Homan's Choking Cough, he immediately changed his direction and successfully avoided the fiercest front of Wraith Shriek. Then, he quickly turned into Moonlight.
But even so, Lucien was still affected by the wide-range of Wraith Shriek. His legs went soft and dizzy again. His half-transparent body rippled like water and he paused on the spot for a moment.
It was at this moment that the little girl jumped on Lucien.
Lucien's consciousness became blurry. He felt that his body temperature, stamina, strength, and vitality were quickly disappearing.
The little girl directly penetrated Lucien's body and jumped to the other side. She looked at herself in disbelief.
The Ice Avenger ring Lucien was wearing came into effect. He quickly regained his consciousness and focus, and then he chanted the spell without hesitation.
A cold wind blew past, and a ghost with a blurred face appeared between the two "people".
Lucien did not release the control of the low-rank undead creature like before. Instead, he commanded it to jump at the "little girl". If he had dealt with it outside the magic lock, there would have been no problem, and he would not have almost been seriously injured. But this place was too strange. It seemed to be very suitable for the undead to weaken the light magic to the extreme!
Therefore, Lucien, who had learned the lesson of "geographical advantage", began to use the undead creatures to deal with the undead creatures.
The two ghosts were entangled, their arms stirring each other's body. However, the ghost that Lucien summoned only quickly became transparent, and it seemed that it would completely disappear in less than ten seconds.
Lucien was not in a hurry to escape, because the ghost seemed to be able to blend into the air and move quickly. After the magic waves from before had calmed down, Lucien sprinkled the casting materials again and chanted the spell.
Still, there was no sound in this quiet and cold world. At this time, a pale white wall of fire suddenly enveloped the two ghosts at the same time, and the strong smell of sulfur assaulted Lucien's nostrils.
Lucien did not waste his time studying magic in the past few months. Based on in-depth analysis and simulation experiments, he finally transformed the sudden inspiration he had when facing the Water Ghost into a normal "Sulfur Fire Wall". The only problem was that the structure of the spell was not simple enough, and it required more time and spiritual power than other apprentice-level spells.
In the pale white fire, the ghost summoned by Lucien disappeared even faster, and the little girl finally showed a painful expression. Her body gradually faded, but the fire still could not cause any serious damage to her. After all, this was an apprentice-level spell, and she was not like the Water Ghost, who had a physical body and was completely suppressed by fire.
However, it seemed that the little girl was very afraid of fire. She kept dodging to the places where there was no fire, and she did not try to break out of the fire.
"As expected, her intelligence is not very high. Her instinct is controlling everything, just like the experiment last time." Lucien let out a sigh of relief when he saw that things were going as he expected. Then he turned around and was about to run away from the little girl's sensing range. This kind of ghost was as powerful as a real Knight, and Lucien, who was not a Knight yet, could not deal with it head-on. Also, his magic level was too low, so it could only be used as a support.
As soon as he turned around, Lucien subconsciously looked at the house where the little girl came out from. To his surprise, he saw a gray skeleton lying on the wooden table in the living room. The skeleton was small and slender. Lucien remembered all kinds of knowledge about ghosts, and with an idea, he turned into a shadow and ran into the house.
Seeing that Lucien was approaching the house, the little girl was terrified. She was no longer afraid of the fire in front of her, and she directly endured the burning and rushed out of the house.
Lucien stood in front of the skeleton, and without any hesitation, he sprinkled some fine sulfur powder on the white skeleton. Then he started to chant the spell.
The pale white fire covered the skeleton and started to burn fiercely.
In the light of the fire, Lucien vaguely saw a few pictures on the wooden table. At first, it was a simple family of three, and then it became a little girl who had been waiting at the door.
And under the pictures, there were a few misspelled words, which roughly meant "Dad", "Mom", "I want to go home", and so on.
When the fire burned the white skeleton, the little girl's empty eyes stopped at the door. Her face showed a sad expression, and her body quickly became transparent.
Lucien roughly guessed why she was here from the pictures, words, and the irregular changes in the entrance of the magic lock, and the fact that ordinary people could enter by mistake. He immediately felt a little sympathetic.
"Dad", "Mom", "I want to go home" …
Lucien's heart softened. Looking at the little girl who was about to completely disappear, Lucien said softly, "I'll bring you home."
In the complete, silent black, white, and gray silence, the little girl seemed to understand Lucien's words. More transparent tears fell from her transparent face, and then she nodded heavily, trying to put on a happy smile.
Soon, the little girl disappeared. The white skeleton was burned into white powder by the magic fire, and the wooden table was smashed into pieces.
Collecting the white powder and putting it into his pocket, Lucien was even more confused about this magic lock world, "It doesn't look like the Grand Cross that was set up underground. This is so weird."
From the beginning until now, even after such a fierce battle, Lucien still did not hear a single sound in this magic lock world. Lucien even had the illusion that he was deaf and mute.
Back on the street, Lucien held the sword Alert tightly and walked towards Elsinore Lake. It was really quiet all the way.
When he reached the end of the town, Lucien found that the graveyard that should have existed here had disappeared. Instead, it was replaced by a barren land full of gray grass.
"Is this magic lock world not strictly corresponding to the original world?"
Suppressing his confusion, Lucien walked a few steps faster and walked around the corner of the barren land. He saw a completely different Elsinore Lake.
It was no longer a sparkling, beautiful lake. Instead, it was a water surface filled with a strange blood-red liquid. The reflections of the nine stars appeared on the surface of the water, connecting to form a dazzling cross that completely enveloped the liquid!
This was the first time that Lucien saw a color other than black, white, and gray since he came here. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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