Wizard Bloodline.

Chapter 409: Capture and Destruction of Essence

Ronan's mental power radiated out, like light radiating throughout the entire royal treasury.

Under the blue desert, he found several huge metal boxes, buried deep in the desert like coffins, and what looked like the roots of some kind of plant, spreading across the entire sea of ​​sand like a web.

There was no sign of the so-called "awake snake".

"Ordinary means cannot detect the existence of the awake snake."

"The lucid snake feeds on the thoughts of living beings. You can draw it out by releasing fresh distracting thoughts."

"But be careful not to let them eat your thoughts into your brain. A hungry awake snake can eat a dawn wizard alive and turn him into a soulless shell."

Alazan's voice echoed in his mind.

Ronan took a deep breath, still maintaining the state of emanating mental energy, while trying to clear away all the messy thoughts in his mind. The dust raised by the sea of ​​sand gradually concealed his figure.

Selina frowned at the looming figure in the blue sand.

Selina had been in and out of this royal treasury many times, and she knew exactly what was inside and where each item was placed.

She only needed to move her fingers to take out all the things, lay them out in front of her and slowly examine and select them. She didn't understand the meaning of the other party doing this.

"An arrogant and conceited fellow."

Selina's eyes flickered and she stepped back.

There are some secret treasures buried deep under the blue sea of ​​sand, some of which require special means to be taken out even if they are found, and some are hidden in extremely secret "secret compartments". Without her reminder, she was looking forward to how to find the golden dawn in front of her.

A breeze blew gently past Serena, ruffling her long hair.

Selena suddenly felt a huge and inexplicable sense of horror in her heart, and the hairs on her body almost stood up.

"Who?!"

Selena turned around suddenly, but found nothing. She only saw horizontal ripples in the void, as if something huge and invisible was passing by silently.

Selina frowned. She had never encountered such a thing before when she entered this secret library.

"Your Majesty Tyrion!"

Selina called out, looking in Ronan's direction.

He suddenly discovered that the human figure that had been quietly floating among the countless blue sand tornadoes had disappeared at some point.

In the empty and silent royal treasury, it seemed that Selena was the only one left, and the atmosphere gradually became a little depressing and weird.

Selina pursed her lips, golden runes flickered in her pupils, and countless rays of light burst out from her body, transforming into gorgeously shaped armor attached to her entire body.

A gorgeous golden longbow appeared, and Selina placed her hands on the bowstring, feeling a little safer.

at this time.

"Swish——", something quickly passed by my side, and that inexplicable sense of horror appeared again.

Selina instantly drew the bow like a full moon, the muscles in her right arm stretched into an almost perfect smooth curve, her fingertips loosened, and the arrow of light condensed like a substance shot out, rapidly splitting the moment it was shot out, turning into countless smaller arrows of light.

Dense array of light arrows shot like rain towards a void filled with ripples. Amid the rapid sound of crystal breaking, Selena heard a strange and long roar that seemed to come from a very distant place.

Immediately afterwards, a huge body appeared.

snake!
A giant translucent black snake with a trunk that was more than ten meters thick was lurking almost in front of Selena.

The strange snake body covered with brain-like patterns wrapped around Selena's position like an iron barrel.

It seemed to be angered by the arrow that Selina had just shot, and a ferocious snake head as big as a mountain hung down.

There were no eyes on the strange snake head, and its lips and jaws were open like petals, with dense black whiskers extending from them, and it came straight towards Selena to bite her.

"Om-"

Selena's scalp tingled for a moment, and she subconsciously raised the golden bow in her hand.

But before she could pull the bowstring, the countless black whiskers extending from the mouth of the strange giant snake suddenly pierced into the void above Selena's head.

"Gulu——"

There was some weird sucking sound.

Selina's hand movements suddenly stopped, her pupils dilated, and even the life armor on her body showed signs of collapse.

Selena stared blankly at the black snake's big mouth biting down, and felt that all the decisions and thoughts that quickly ran through her mind were inexplicably drained away.

For a moment she didn't even know what she was doing, or what to do next.

Selena could only watch as the giant snake's mouth quickly fell, about to swallow her whole. At this moment, an indescribable and powerful mental force suddenly descended.

It was as if a blazing and majestic golden sun suddenly rose, emitting infinite light and heat, and instantly dispelling all the gloom and weirdness in the void.

A tall and slender figure in a platinum robe was reflected in Selina's confused eyes, and the latter landed lightly on the head of the black giant snake.

The majestic mental force firmly suppressed the giant snake's body, and countless rune-shaped streams of light rushed out from under his palms, tightly wrapping the entire giant snake.

"Chong-"

There was the clear sound of a golden blade being unsheathed, a cold light of magic flashed, and a cross-shaped hole appeared on the giant snake's skull. Streams of almost transparent light blue mucus flowed out of it. Ronan took out the container he had prepared long ago and caught all the mucus without leaving a single drop.

When the last bit of light blue mucus flowed out, the huge black snake became completely motionless, floating lifelessly in the void as if it were inflated.

The body, which was already almost transparent, became even more illusory, and the snake patterns on the body that resembled brain flowers also faded quickly.

"He's not going to die just like that, is he?"

Ronan gently shook the container in his hand, which was similar to a long-necked vase. There was a sound of liquid sloshing inside, and it was probably only about half full.

The venom of a conscious snake is also its brain fluid, which is stored in the brain.

"will not."

Alazan shook his head. "It just went into a short dormant state. After absorbing a certain amount of thoughts, it will wake up again. As long as you can provide enough nourishment, this awake snake will be enough for you to use for a long time."

"I didn't expect that the so-called awake snake would be so huge..."

Ronan sighed softly.

He originally thought that the awake snake was the same size as an ordinary snake, flexible and difficult to catch, but he didn't expect the opposite to be true.

"This is still small. You haven't seen a really huge awake snake."

Alazan paused, then continued, "That will definitely subvert your imagination."

Ronan couldn't help but recall an earlier experience of "reincarnation in a dream". In that world ruled by the "Church of the Drowned", he had seen an ouroboros black snake that could entangle the entire world.

It looks somewhat similar to the Sober Snake, and I don't know if there is any relationship between the two.

"You can keep it in your personal space. The characteristics of the sober snake allow it to provide a good warning. Once any evil-minded being approaches the space, it will be able to detect it immediately."

Alazan made the suggestion, obviously alluding to Ronan's last experience in the misty space, when he was caught off guard and had his home "stolen" by Hekaltor.

Ronan nodded and put the dormant awake snake into the "Mirror of the Void". He drained all the brain fluid from the awake snake in one breath. It would take some time for it to wake up from dormancy, so he could slowly find a way to tame it.

When the foggy space expands in the future and the Holy Blood Tree has its own followers, the living creatures in the foggy space will provide it with a steady supply of food, and he won't have to worry about anything.

Now that we have the sobering snake venom, all that remains is the preparation of the "sobering potion".

The prophet Eve did not lie to him, and everything went much more smoothly than Ronan expected.

A problem that had been weighing on his mind was solved, and Ronan was in a good mood. He turned his head and focused his gaze on Selina who was slowly recovering.

Perhaps it was because his will was too sharp and pure, and the distracting thoughts he released were too deliberate, the Sober Snake was completely uninterested in him.

Instead, Selina inadvertently served as the perfect "human bait".

Speaking of which, Ronan has to thank Selina. If he had entered this secret vault alone, it would probably have taken a lot of effort to successfully lure out the awakened snake hiding in the void.

The confusion in Selina's eyes gradually dissipated. When her dazed eyes focused again, she seemed to be reconnected from a power outage, and she blurted out a sentence quickly.

"What was that just now?!"

"Your Highness should know better than me."

Ronan replied calmly: "This is the royal treasury of your Alba family."

"I never knew there was such a monster hidden in this treasure trove?!"

Selina gritted her teeth, stared at Ronan, and whispered, "You knew it a long time ago, right? You came here just for this?"

"You shouldn't look at me like that."

Ronan looked down at Serena and shook his head, “If it weren’t for me, you’d probably be dead now.

The first member of the Alba royal family to die in his own treasury."

"You clearly used me as bait to lure out that snake!"

"Is it possible that it thinks you are weaker and more suitable for attack?"

"you!"

Selina's pretty fair face turned red instantly, and her plump breasts rose and fell violently under the gorgeous platinum armor.

The light of life weapon on her body continued to bloom, and she could feel Selina's rapidly surging emotions.

Ronan looked at her calmly. Under the mask with the light of morning light floating on it, his deep blue eyes were filled with condescending indifference.

The keen characteristics brought by practicing [Ancient Star Meditation] and [Spiritual Amber] at the same time allowed Ronan to clearly sense that Selena's violent emotions in front of him were constantly accumulating, like a volcano that was about to erupt.

But gradually, the raging volcano subsided until it was completely calm again.

"This woman."

Ronan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Ever since she met him, Selena has been enduring his various rude requests and behaviors, and her resentment has been accumulating.

He thought Selina would finally explode, but he didn't expect that she could still hold it in.

Compared to when she was in the South, Selina seemed to have matured a lot.

“Is power really that tempting to a person?”

“Maybe it’s not just because of power.”

Alazan responded suddenly, and a name quickly flashed through Ronan's mind, but he didn't say anything.

"Is there anything else in this treasure house that Your Majesty needs?"

Selina, who had completely regained her composure, spoke expressionlessly.

Ronan shook his head and said calmly: "Just go to the next one."

"it is good."

Selina turned around and opened the exit to leave the secret realm of the treasure house.

Ronan had achieved the purpose of this trip, so it didn't matter to him whether he saw the remaining four treasure houses or not.

But it is an empire's royal treasury after all. Now that he is here, there is no reason for Ronan to let it go.

Ronan didn't have any expectations for the last four treasure houses, but he never expected that when he entered the fifth treasure house, he would actually find something useful to him.

The fifth secret place of the royal treasury is a nearly barren grassland.

The irregular patches of green and yellow lawns were scattered across the plain like mottled scars.

Ronan landed on one of the grass plots, pushed aside the green grass that felt like plastic, and revealed the dark red clay underneath with an indescribable smell.

It was like the stench of something rotting, mixed with a hint of sweet cake-like scent.

Ronan gently placed his palm on it, and the dark red clay under the lawn immediately surged up and slowly "dug" out a hole with a palm-sized diameter.

As more clay was dug out, it gradually piled up into a small hill beside Ronan, and the strange smell of rottenness with a sweet fragrance became stronger and stronger.

Selena stood not far from Ronan, frowning as she watched him do it, but she didn't come up to stop him.

Until a certain moment, a stream of turbid spring water gushed out from the cave, holding up a strange black egg the size of an egg, with some black liquid flowing in it. Ronan's eyes flashed, and he subconsciously reached out to grab it, but was stopped by Alazan in a low voice.

"Don't touch it directly with your body, and don't touch it with your mental power. Don't put it into your personal space, use a separate space ring to store it!"

Ronan thought about it, and with a sweep of his mental power, he picked up a ball of dark red clay beside him, wrapped the black egg, and casually threw it into an useless space ring.

Then he put all the turbid spring water that came up with the black eggs and the dark red clay that had just been dug out into the ring.

After doing all this, he stood up calmly.

"Your Majesty seems to know more about the secrets of these royal treasuries than I, a legitimate member of the Alba family and the owner of the treasury."

From a distance, Selina's lukewarm voice came.

Ronan didn't indulge her, he glanced at her coldly and said, "Why do you think the prophet wants me to assist you?
Do you really think you are the new King of Alba as predicted by the prophecy?"

Selina's expression froze, and soon she was unable to speak anymore.

She took Ronan away in silence. After the two came out of the last royal treasury, Selena said nothing and left quickly with all the wizards of the Court of Life.

Ronan didn't bother to pay attention to her. His attention was now focused on the strange black eggs that he had just dug out under the guidance of Alazan.

Before Selina and her group had gone far, he couldn't wait to ask Alazan about the origin of the strange black eggs.

Alazan replied: "Destruction Essence.

A magical substance that can only be created when the world is destroyed.

Don’t you still have a World Devourer in your hand?
Now it can be used.”

(End of this chapter)