Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 292 Extreme Ice Ray
Inside the laboratory, the reactor was boiling due to the contamination from the remains of the Corrupted Armor Knight, and the dark red steam mixed with blood covered the ceiling.

Alvas turned into a blood mist and teleported behind Basu. The Everwinter Sword wrapped in frost stabbed the wizard in the back: "Do you know the price of enslaving the undead?"

Basu tapped his staff lightly, and the arcane runes on the skull staff suddenly lit up, and a skeleton shield condensed by resentful souls blocked the sword. Frost and black mist intertwined, and cracks spread on the surface of the shield, but the sword tip was unable to penetrate.

He chanted the spell quickly and magic power gathered rapidly.

"A mere trifle." The vampire sneered, and clenched his left hand in the air. The undried blood on the laboratory floor suddenly boiled and condensed into several blood thorn spears that shot towards Basu.

Basu suddenly took three steps back, and the soul-binding orb on the top of the staff burst into a dazzling golden light - a circle of complex magic circles interwoven with holy runes and spell runes appeared under the vampire's feet.

Alvas thrust the Sword of Everwinter into the ground in an attempt to freeze the magic circle, but the speed at which the runes flowed was much faster than the spread of the frost. His bat wings were burned by the golden light, "... Banishment? You despicable wizard!"

"The Shadow Underworld is your destiny, Mr. Vampire." Basu grinned and pressed his staff down suddenly.

Countless golden chains with scriptures entwined in them stretched out from the magic circle, binding the vampire's limbs and neck. Alvas's body gradually faded away, and the blood mist was dragged into a crack leading to the gray wasteland by the chains.

The red-robed wizard was very proud of himself when he saw that he had easily killed the vampire with a seventh-level spell. He said to Nemesis, "Do you think you can kill me with just a vampire?"

At this time, the Blood Vine Corpse Witch had already dealt with all the Flesh Golems. Hearing the arrogant words of the Red Robe Mage, he took a step forward, intending to deal with him.

She is not a fool like a vampire, and things like banishment cannot touch her.

But Nemesis waved his hand gently, signaling Silas to step back.

The Tome Dragon's violet eyes looked at the red-robed wizard with great interest: "Your confidence. No, your arrogance really amazes me. What gives you that confidence? Ignorance? Or the knowledge of Netheril?"

He glanced at the items in the laboratory, many of which were engraved with ancient characters. They were all relics from the Netheril Empire.

While relics of Netheril are collected across the continent, the Red Wizards seem to have too many vessels.

He even knew a lot about the unknown blue-white flame.

Cursed fire?

That's what he seemed to call the flame.

He didn't think that the red-robed wizard possessed more knowledge than the memory inheritance of the scroll dragon. Obviously, the source of the fire that the other party knew could only belong to the same place as these Nether relics.

This mage seems to have unearthed a real Nether ruin?

This is also the reason why he has not killed the Red Robe Wizard yet. He wants the knowledge in the wizard's mind, but the power of the mind cannot penetrate the brain of a nearly legendary spellcaster.

At least not at Nemesis' current level.

The red-robed wizard sneered and said, "Arrogant? Haha, do you know that there are 600 elite knights wearing heavy armor guarding outside this wizard tower? Even if you can defeat me, do you think you can escape from here with your remaining spell slots?"

Basu was very confident, and his confidence came from the strength of the fortress itself and his personal strength. As long as the opponent was not a legendary wizard, he didn't believe that this damn guy could escape.

There was a glimmer of understanding in Nemesis' eyes. He had just tried it, and the teleportation spell, including the supernatural power, had failed.

It seems that this place has been completely locked by the dimensional anchor. Is the other party sure that he can defeat me?
Basu swung his staff and chanted a spell in a low voice. Strong resistance to magic? Then try the power of the instant death spell.

Eighth-ring necromancy spell——[Withering]!
Necromancer is the culmination of body manipulation. Compared to the cumbersome manipulation of tens of thousands of tons of seawater by evocation spells, [Withering] allows the caster to manipulate the water in the recipient's body at will.

In other words, he could drain every drop of water from this abominable guy at any time. Basu raised his palm and locked Nemesis tightly in a claw shape. He sneered and said, "It should be a good idea to make you into a mummy."

He clenched his fists tightly, but the next moment, the imagined scene in his mind did not appear.

"How...how is this possible?" Basu's eyes widened. The scene he imagined of the other party's blood gushing out of his body and his body shrinking into a bamboo pole did not appear. Instead, the other party smiled at him gently.

Nemesis smiled and said, "It's a good idea to use a spell that controls the body's moisture to kill people. It can indeed bypass my magic resistance, but unfortunately..."

He spread his hands and said with some regret: "Instant death spells are useless against monsters with strong physiques."

With the addition of the attribute enhancement spell, the three-dimensional strength of his body has reached a terrifying 99 points. Not to mention [Withering], even the nine-ring instant death spell [Death Command] would be inferior to him.

The instant death spell is indeed not affected by magic resistance, but it is just a toy for those with strong physiques and cautious people who have [Anti-Death Ward].

The shocked Basu now completely understood the seriousness of the situation. He had extremely strong resistance to magic and a physique that could withstand the [Withering Technique].
The opponent is a dragon!

Judging from the situation, it is very likely an ancient dragon-level existence.

He looked the other person up and down, trying to find clues about his dragon species.

Silver hair, white skin, handsome appearance
Except for the purple pupils, all the other features are consistent with the humanoid features of the silver dragon.

An ancient silver dragon? !
Basu's legs were trembling. That was a legendary warrior, and also a giant dragon!
He wanted to escape, but the wizard tower had been locked by a dimensional anchor, and Basu was trapped in his own cocoon.

Nemesis raised his left index finger slightly, pointed it at the other party, and chanted a spell in a low voice.

Eighth-ring transmutation spell——[Ice Ray]!
The spell chanted from the dragon's throat seemed to come from the roar of an ancient glacier. The temperature in the laboratory dropped sharply, and even the air condensed into ice crystals and dust.

Amidst the surge of magic power, a dark blue ray only as thick as a thumb burst out from the rune. Wherever its trajectory passed, the space collapsed briefly, leaving behind spider-web-like frost cracks.

The ray was aimed directly at Basu's heart. The protective spell that the wizard hastily released with his staff froze into a fragile ice shell the moment it came into contact with the ray, and then shattered.

The ray penetrated Basu's left shoulder, and the extremely cold energy spread like a plague.

His left half was instantly covered with a layer of ancient ice, and his skin, muscles, and bones were eroded by ice crystals and turned into a pale blue glass-like substance. His staff slipped from his stiff fingers. His lips on the right half of his body, which had not yet frozen, trembled as he squeezed out a spell, but his vocal cords were strangled by the frost, leaving only a choking sound in his throat.

The remaining force of the ray continued, piercing through the arcane barrier wall behind Basu, penetrating through seven layers of enchanted steel plates and rune stones, and finally chiseled a giant hole with a diameter of ten feet in the outer wall of the wizard tower, and it flew to an unknown place.

The cold night wind blew snowflakes into the cave from the entrance. Under the moonlight, the ice crystals on the edge of the cave refracted cold light like diamonds, and the guards' exclamations came from far away outside the tower.

"What is that?! Oh my god, how could a mountain suddenly turn into an ice sculpture!"

The laboratory equipment swept by the radiation froze collectively, the living reactor exploded due to the temperature difference, and the corrupted mucus splashed into the air and condensed into scarlet hail, which fell to the ground and broke into powder. Wuermu curled up on the ground, trembling and exhaling hot air.

"It's so cold."

The aftermath alone was enough to freeze Urumu to the point of almost losing consciousness.

The frozen half of Basu's body maintained the posture of raising his hand to cast a spell, the pupil of his right eye shrank into a needle point due to severe pain and despair, and his right hand, which had not yet frozen, grabbed in vain in the direction of the scroll dragon.

(End of this chapter)