The first impression that Lucien had of the Dark Mountain Range was "huge". The mountains were huge, the trees were huge, the vines were huge, and the beasts were huge.
Towering trees that were hundreds of meters tall could be seen everywhere. Their leaves covered the sky and blocked the sun. Walking in the Dark Mountain Range, people would feel that they were in the evening. It was rare for them to have any direct sunlight.
The thick layer of rotten leaves under their feet was soft and muddy. It was hard to tell where was the solid ground and where was the dangerous swamp. If they were not careful, they would fall into the swamp and could not get out. Poisonous snakes, spiders and other dangerous and disgusting creatures could suddenly crawl out from the mud, the trees, the rotten leaves and the shrubs at any time.
Also, all kinds of rotten smells mixed into colorful and highly toxic fog. Even a formal Knight would not dare to touch it easily.
However, in such a harsh environment, Lucien was wearing a white shirt, a black double-breasted suit, and a monocle. He felt that he was walking in the safe cities such as Allyn and Renstadt.
"Mr. Elvis, how long will it take to reach the magic tower of the King of Nightmare?" Lucien asked the liaison next to him. While observing the tall trees, the entangled vines, and the fishy flowers, Lucien was very cautious.
The liaison, Elvis, was an ordinary-looking brown-haired ordinary man. Usually, he would buy materials and other goods in the camp of adventurers and then sell them to the sorcerers who could not get close to the fortress in the Dark Mountain Range. Since Elvis represented the interests of many sorcerers, no one dared to mess with him in the camp of adventurers where there were many powerful and ferocious people.
However, after receiving the information from the Congress of Magic, Lucien knew that Elvis was not as simple as he looked. Elvis had the support of the King of Nightmare, Stanis. Elvis was responsible for helping the King of Nightmare to gather information from the outside world and guide visitors.
Therefore, as soon as he arrived at the camp of adventurers, Lucien turned his complicated thoughts back to the danger in the Dark Mountain Range and the completion of the mission. He went straight to Elvis and expressed his purpose in a vague way. Elvis responded as expected.
Wearing a tight black suit, Elvis walked briskly like a cheetah who was ready to pounce. Hearing Lucien's question, Elvis did not look back but continued to look around vigilantly. He answered in a calm tone, "At least more than half a month. Mr. X, you should know that it's better not to fly in the Dark Mountain Range if you are not a legendary. And if you walk too fast, you might run into some horrible creatures.... "
Mr. X was the code name that Lucien told Elvis. He did not use his real name.
Lucien nodded slightly to show his agreement. It was said that the sky above the Dark Mountain Range was full of cracks that connected to different dangerous dimensions. That was why there were all kinds of strange creatures. Also, many powerful magic creatures liked to divide their territories. If one was not powerful enough to fly over their territories, one would be easily attacked. The most typical example was the giant dragons, not to mention the flying creatures hovering in the sky, such as Lightning Eagles, Griffins, Scavenger Birds, and so on.
Stepping on the soft, rotten leaves, a green-yellow poisonous snake suddenly jumped up and bit Lucien's leg.
With a crisp sound, the snake almost broke its teeth as if it had bitten a stone. Its long body sprung up and escaped in a hurry, hiding in the rotten leaves.
Since he entered the Dark Mountain Range, Lucien had been carefully superimposing two defensive spells, Stone Skin and Douglas's Absorbing Wall, on himself. He could not afford to be careless.
"How come I didn't sense it before?" Lucien seemed to be talking to himself, but also seemed to be asking Elvis. With his spiritual power as a fourth-circle sorcerer, he did not notice a poisonous snake right next to his feet. Even though the rotten smell in the air could suppress his spiritual power, it should not be suppressed to this extent.
Elvis slightly frowned and said, "My intuition also seems to be suppressed. Is there any senior-rank magic creature nearby?"
The path that he took Lucien to was the gap between the territories of many magic creatures. There was a possibility that the balance was suddenly broken.
After identifying the environment, Elvis slightly deviated from the original direction and kept moving forward. After all, there was no real path in the Dark Mountain Range.
After a few steps in the dark, Lucien suddenly heard a strange squeaking sound.
A huge spider suddenly fell from the sky. The colorful bulges on its back seemed to form a creepy smiling human face. Its protruding fangs were like dark daggers. Two black arms wrapped in carapace stretched out from the bottom. There were a total of 120 bent joints on the twelve fingers.
When the spider fell, a giant web made of thick, white spider silk was shot out towards Lucien and Elvis.
Lucien's wrist flashed, and a red fireball appeared out of nowhere and hit the spider web directly.
A fierce explosion occurred. The rising flame quickly ignited the spider silk and spread quickly. Soon, the spider web became a fire web.
The weakness of spider silk was fire!
As a sorcerer, if he did not even know the most basic knowledge about monsters, he would not be qualified to be a sorcerer!
As soon as the giant spider landed, it moved with great agility. Its joints made squeaking sounds again. Its speed was not much slower than a level-three Knight.
At this time, the squeaking noises sounded like noises. Huge colorful spiders either fell from the sky or swung down the thick spider silk to the ground. They surrounded Lucien and Elvis in the middle.
"Shapeshifting Spider", a special kind of spider in the Dark Mountain Range. It could transform into a monster with a human head and a spider body. When it reached adulthood, it had the strength of level-three. It was fast, agile, and good at using supernatural powers such as illusion. It liked to move and hunt in groups. It could often deal with enemies much stronger than itself.
The knowledge about this kind of dark creature flashed across his mind. Then, Lucien activated "Group Panic". Invisible magic waves spread out in all directions.
When the magic waves touched Elvis, the amulet on his chest emitted a milky white light and canceled out the "Group Panic".
Most of the shapeshifting spiders were scared and fled in all directions. A few of them successfully resisted the spell and attacked Lucien from all directions.
Some of them emitted quiet green ripples on their bodies, as if they were comforting people to sleep. Some continued to spit out spider webs, trying to trap Lucien and Elvis. Some pounced on them, ready to fight them in close combat after successfully trapping them. They would defeat their opponents by biting, injecting venom, and capturing them into spider cocoons as food.
Elvis looked at Lucien with slight dissatisfaction. Then, he held a black giant hammer the size of a human head and attacked the shapeshifting spiders.
Although he understood that Mr. X intended to use indiscriminate area-of-effect magic to control the situation, which was a better choice in the previous situation, he still felt a little uncomfortable when he was affected by the area-of-effect magic. After all, to Mr. X, having an extra helper like him didn't have any practical significance, and he could still recover if he was frightened, but he still felt a little uncomfortable when he was affected by the area-of-effect magic.
Every strike of the giant hammer could ignite burning flames and destroy the spider webs. After four or five strikes, a shapeshifting spider was smashed into a meat patty. The spells cast by the shapeshifting monsters such as Sleep, Stun, and Silent Phantom were all canceled out by the light of the amulet.
He seemed to be a level four Knight, and he had not revealed his Blessing yet.
A layer of transparent light wall with countless magic symbols appeared on Lucien's body, absorbing the quiet green ripples and the frightening black phantoms. Then, with the help of the Coral Staff, he activated "Fireball" from the Flame Weaver Bracelet and killed a shapeshifting spider in front of him.
When the cooldown time was over, Lucien pointed his staff at the shapeshifting spiders who did not fight in close combat but chose to cast spells and spit out spider webs, as well as their frightened compatriots, a dark cloud condensed above their heads.
Silver lightning bolts struck out from the dark cloud, turning the place into a forest of lightning. Soon, the shapeshifting spiders were burnt black and fell to the ground.
Thunder Cloud, a fourth-circle spell in the school of Electromagnetism, was one of the two fourth-circle spells that Lucien constructed in his soul when he was back in Aalto. The other one was a unique spell, Maskelyne's Curse.
After killing most of the shapeshifting spiders, the remaining three were quickly killed by Lucien and Elvis.
"Is there any problem, Mr. Elvis?" asked Lucien, seeing Elvis's serious expression. Wasn't it normal to be attacked by monsters in the Dark Mountain Range? Lucien was also preparing to collect the intact fangs, venom, and silk of the shapeshifting spiders.
Elvis looked around uneasily, "Mr. X, there shouldn't be so many shapeshifting spiders on this path, unless … unless …"
He suddenly thought of a horrible possibility.
Before Lucien could ask more questions, he suddenly felt a great pressure, which made him tremble in fear.
Lucien hurriedly looked up and saw a huge, ferocious red lizard-like monster flying across the sky. Its two bat-like wings were flapping hard, as if it was running away in panic.
"A red dragon?!" This was a giant dragon at the top of the food chain. No wonder it had such a horrible vibe!
It was the first time that Lucien saw such a legendary magic creature. While he was regretting that he did not have a phone to record this scene, Elvis shouted in panic, "Damn it! We're in the land of demons!"
After that, he started to run away like a rabbit that was shot by an arrow.
"What? Mr. Elvis? "Lucien followed Elvis and started to run.
Elvis was quite determined. While leading Lucien to look for something, he said in a hurry, "There's a legendary mountain in the Dark Mountain Range. It can move around like a living creature, and it can also change into the original shape of the terrain, making it impossible for people to notice. As long as you enter its range, you'll be trapped inside forever, and you'll never be able to get out! "
"The only way to tell is that the living creatures near it will become chaotic and no longer follow the original rules!"
Lucien had never seen such a legend in the Congress of Magic. When he was about to ask for more details, Elvis suddenly screamed in pain. Countless huge vines reached out from the rotten soil and tightly entangled him. Dark red thorns pierced into his body.
Seeing this, Lucien immediately wanted to activate Elemental Order to break down the horrible vines that seemed to have no energy field to protect them and save Elvis. However, two rows of huge, inhuman black eyes suddenly opened on the trunk of a towering tree next to them.
Rays of light of different colors shot out from the eyes and hit Lucien at close range.
The magic runes around Lucien's body were broken one by one, and the transparent wall of light quickly collapsed.
In this strange place where his spiritual power was suppressed, Lucien did not realize that the giant tree was a horrible Scarlet Magic Tree. Therefore, he was hit by the rays of light, and he did not even have the time to activate Superior Fire Shield.
His head was dizzy, and his vision was blurred. Lucien used the last bit of his spiritual power to activate Element in his Holm Crown Ring.
Black, white, gold, silver and other light spots in different colors appeared around Lucien and formed many extremely dangerous swirls, isolating him from other things.
This was not an attack, but a defense!
Before he regained his consciousness, Lucien hoped that Element Swirl could stop the enemies. With this thought in mind, Lucien fell into the deep darkness.
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