Magicians never make wishes

Chapter 178 is not very kind.

Seeing the spring water within reach, even Ronan couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion.

He quickly walked towards the spring.

A rich sense of life washed over me, and my spiritual power was cleansed in the process, its intensity slowly and steadily increasing.

The closer Ronan got, the stronger the life force he sensed became, and the faster his mental strength grew.

However, just as he was about to reach out and touch the spring water, Ronan found his hand frozen in mid-air.

An invisible wall of air blocked his subsequent movements.

He scanned the area with his mental domain but found nothing.

The location was empty, but there was indeed a force preventing him from reaching forward.

Ronan frowned, sensing something was wrong, and immediately shifted his attention to the ground.

At the center of the fourth floor, to highlight this spring, the ground is a raised platform, much like a small mound.

Upon closer inspection, he suddenly discovered that the earthen slope was covered with obscure and tiny incantations.

These incantations were extremely inconspicuous; if Ronan hadn't possessed such strong mental power, he wouldn't have been able to detect them at all.

These incantations are arranged in a certain form, forming a special magic circle that is completely different from a magic circle.

With Ronan's existing magical knowledge, he simply couldn't understand the logic behind this special magic circle.

All he knew was that this arrangement and depiction of the incantation was the most reasonable and would definitely achieve its current function.

As for issues such as spell analysis, array arrangement, energy activation, and maintenance costs, they can all be disregarded.

Ronan had a sudden realization:

The incantation should be written this way, so that it can provide protection and generate a powerful resistance field.

At the same time, he also learned that once this stable structure was destroyed, the enormous energy contained within would erupt instantly, destroying everything within the array.

In other words, if Ronan could add a stroke at a precise point, disrupting the entire structure of the magic circle, the consequences might immediately destroy the spring in front of them.

With that in mind, Ronan immediately decided to give up fiddling with these unknown runes.

The most important thing right now is to find a way to obtain this spring water to help ourselves.

The reason these people can fight without any worries is probably because they can't do anything about this spring.

They want to monopolize it, but they lack the means to do so.

Therefore, we can only eliminate our competitors first, and then slowly come up with a solution.

Ronan had a feeling that this should be the specific content of the fourth level of trials.

In his view, the best solution for this level is for everyone to sit down calmly and discuss a plan to obtain the spring water, and then distribute it reasonably after a successful attempt.

Of course, this is just an ideal situation.

Such fights, caused by greed and desire, are commonplace everywhere.

Ronan suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought:

If the "Mage's Hand" were made of spiritual energy instead, would it have any other different effects?

This is definitely worth a try.

However, casting "Hand of the Mage" directly will be immediately detected.

Ronan didn't believe that these people would mindlessly ignore the anomaly appearing in the central area.

His ability to remain invisible is mainly due to the Mask of Truth and the magic robe made of special materials.

However, if "Hand of the Mage" is released directly, then "Hand of the Mage", which is made of mental energy, will immediately break free from the blessing of these two pieces of equipment and be exposed to the environment that can be sensed.

This is tantamount to telling everyone present that someone is stealing what they are fighting tooth and nail for.

Ronan now has two points that need to be verified:

First, can the spring water and the "Mage's Hand" ignore this space constructed by mysterious incantations?

Secondly, how can we ensure that the casting of "Mage's Hand" will not be immediately detected?

The answer to the first point depends on the second point.

After much thought, he came up with another approach:

Since the "Hand of the Mage" will be exposed as soon as it appears, let it be exposed.

The fact that "The Hand of the Mage" is exposed does not mean that he himself will be exposed.

Why don't you just stay away from it?

He measured the furthest distance he could reach with his mage's hand and began to retreat to a more crowded spot.

This distance is approximately twenty meters.

Immediately, with a thought, a semi-transparent "mage's hand" appeared out of thin air at the center, 22 meters away from him.

What happened next greatly excited Ronan.

The "Mage's Hand" passed through the resistance field without any obstruction and reached towards the spring.

This scene immediately caused everyone present to freeze in their tracks.

No matter how fiercely they fought, they always kept an eye on the central spring, lest someone try to take it all for themselves.

Just now, a semi-transparent "mage's hand" suddenly broke through the resistance field and plunged straight into the spring.

In that instant, everyone seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding.

Apart from the five members of the Star Constellation group who were trapped in the magic array of the Eternal Night Kingdom, the others unleashed a series of area-of-effect attack spells centered on the spring.

They weren't worried at all that the attack would affect the spring, because someone had already tested it before. There was an invisible barrier, or resistance field, around the spring, which not only prevented people from reaching it, but also blocked magical attacks.

At this moment, centered on the spring, all kinds of magic bombarded over, creating a sense of overwhelming force.

Ronan was very satisfied with his approach.

The reason he retreated so far was to prevent anyone from discovering his actions and launching a wide-area attack centered on the spring, forcing him out of his stealth state.

He is currently more than 20 meters away from the center, and he is not the person closest to the center, so these attacks cannot affect him at all.

Everything went as expected.

Everyone present frowned when Ronan still hadn't appeared after a round of attacks.

They didn't believe Ronan could remain undetected under this barrage of attacks, nor did they believe he could withstand all the assaults on his own.

That means Ronan is still hiding somewhere, waiting for an opportunity to strike the central spring.

Upon realizing this, the group, who had been fighting to the death, involuntarily stopped what they were doing.

They cannot allow the situation to happen where they fight their way to the front, only to have their spoils stolen by someone else.

"Friends from the Valley of the Dead, isn't this a bit unfair?"

The eldest son of one of the Dark Saints said with a gloomy face.

Ronan remained silent.

The other party was clearly trying to provoke him into responding in order to track his location.

Although he can choose any space in the spiritual realm to respond spiritually, that is, to create fictitious coordinates.

Ronan didn't respond because he looked down on the man and couldn't be bothered to even acknowledge him.

What kind of bird are you?

You want to talk to me about being kind and honest?