Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 258 Virgin Blood
The shadow bats scattered and rushed towards everyone. Cade was so scared that he screamed "Ahhh" and raised the short-handled copper wand in his hand to point it into the void. A fireball the size of a soybean flew away from the tip of the wand.

There was a loud "bang" and the fireball exploded among the bats. In an instant, a dazzling fire shot up into the sky. The scorching flames spread wildly with the explosion point as the center, and the bats were burned with a "sizzling" sound wherever they went.

Hammerl's eyes widened with anger, and he shouted loudly, his deep and powerful voice seemed to be able to penetrate the dark void. Then, he swung the heavy mace in his hand high up, drawing a powerful arc in the air, bringing up a gust of extremely sharp wind, and smashed a shadow bat apart with one hammer.

But the next moment, the bat's misty body merged again in the void to form a new bat.

"These are shadow creatures, attacking with fire and positive energy!" Ebis shouted upon seeing this.

After saying this, she moved on the narrow stone slab like a ghost, avoiding the attacks of the bats. The dagger in her hand ignited with black flames, and she stabbed out quickly like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue. With each strike, a bat was burned to ashes in the black flames.

"Enchant me! Cade!" Hammerler shouted when he saw that his hammer was useless.

Cade hurriedly chanted an incantation and released the second-level conjuration spell [Blade Fire]. Hammeril's hammer immediately caught fire, making it impossible for the bats that were hit to escape.

Nemesis stood quietly where he was, but no bat dared to approach him. Monsters always have stronger intuition than intelligent races, and they instinctively sensed the terrifying nature beneath the humanoid appearance.

Nemesis watched coldly for a while and found that the strength of these three people was too weak. If it weren't for the wizard having a [Fireball Wand] in his hand, killing a large number of bats, they would probably have fallen into the abyss under their feet.

He looked up at the sky, a faint yellow light flashed in his dark purple pupils, and the spiritual power that was invisible to the naked eye radiated out instantly, enveloping the entire group of bats.

With Nemesis' current level of a 14th-level professional, it was easy for him to use the Mind Gem to control the group of low-level monsters in front of him, and he controlled all the shadow bats in an instant.

The moment Nemesis controlled them, he felt that there seemed to be some existence behind this group of bats that was also controlling them.

However, no matter whether it is magic or psychic power, the control of the mind relies on the mental power of the caster, and it is vulnerable to the mental power used by Nemesis. But in an instant Nemesis shattered the control of the former master of the bat group.

Hammerir and the other two were already in despair, but they found that the group of shadow bats in the air had stopped attacking at some point. At the same time, the entire space was shaking, and the stone slabs under their feet made crisp sounds. Cracks appeared on the stone slabs, and it seemed that they would shatter at any time.

"Hurry up!" Seeing this, Hammerlir hurriedly called everyone to rush to the pavilion at the end of the stone slab. Fortunately, the distance was not too far at this time, and they reached the pavilion in just over ten seconds.

As soon as they reached the pavilion, the stone bridge behind them shattered and collapsed, falling into the abyss. The vibration continued, and everyone could even hear a faint roar coming from the bottom of the abyss.

Nemesis's face was as gloomy as water. He knew that the being behind the bat group had discovered that the puppet he controlled had been taken away. Everything before his eyes was probably the other party's way of venting his anger.

What made him curious was why the other party didn't immediately kill these intruders?
Is he imprisoned?
Hammeril and his companions were sitting on the ground in the pavilion, breathing heavily. Seeing that Nemesis was neither blushing nor out of breath, Cade's eyes flashed with a hint of vigilance.

During the battle, he stood in front of this man and naturally noticed his abnormality. The swarm of bats seemed to ignore Nemesis and did not approach him at all. He did not even show any fear or panic from beginning to end.

Nemesis naturally noticed Cade's attitude towards him, but he didn't care. He just gave him a creepy smile and raised a finger to his mouth.

"Shhh."

Cade now confirmed his guess that this guy was definitely not simple!
But he was always timid, fearing that he might encounter a terrifying monster disguised as a human, so even if he found something wrong, he just swallowed his saliva and lowered his head without saying anything. Hammerl stood up and looked around.

This pavilion is located in the void of the dark space, floating in the air. The entire pavilion is only a few dozen square meters in size, and except for a stone platform in the middle, it is bare.

"Cade, come and see what the runes above mean?" Hammerl walked to the stone platform and looked at it for a while, then frowned and called Cade over.

Cade calmed down, walked to the stone platform and looked at it for a while, then said with a confused look on his face: "I don't know what this means."

Chuil's eyes widened. What do you mean you don't know? Don't you mages know some spells that can help you understand languages? And don't you nerds know multiple languages?

Just when several people were getting discouraged, Nemesis walked up to the stone platform and took a look.

There is a circular pattern on it, which is completely filled with runes written in the ancient language of the Underworld. In the middle is a groove, which connects several carved lines to the prototype pattern on the outside.

"Sacrifice the blood of a virgin and you will see the prisoner in the shadows." Nemesis whispered.

Hearing his words, everyone's eyes lit up: "Do you understand?"

Nemesis nodded and said, "Are any of you virgins? Put some blood on it and it should be able to activate the mechanism. But I don't know what will happen next."

Several people looked at each other, and finally it was Hammerir who stood up and walked to the stone platform with a red face.

"Are you a virgin?" Nemesis asked in surprise, looking up and down at the dwarf who was obviously middle-aged.

Hammerl glared at him angrily, then silently took out a dagger and cut his palm. Large streams of blood flowed into the groove in the middle and then spread around.

As the blood filled the grooves in the circular pattern, the stone platform suddenly rose into the air and turned into square stones that were arranged and reorganized in the air.

Later, the stones turned into a two-meter-high rectangular door frame, and thick black fog appeared inside the door.

"Do you really want to go in?" Cade looked at the thick fog inside the door and the unknown place behind the fog, and said timidly.

Erbis snorted coldly: "What if we don't go in? How are you going to get back? The stone bridge has been destroyed."

Cade looked back at the gate a hundred meters away behind him and the void in the middle and sighed.

That's all.

The group of people entered the black fog one after another and disappeared. After they entered, the stones quickly reorganized in the air and restored to the shape of a stone platform. The broken stone bridge appeared in the void, and everything returned to its original state.

(End of this chapter)