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Chapter 215 Turmoil

Just as Richard gave up the pursuit and led Gorkan and the other two to continue exploring the secret realm, a short while later, Richard sensed intense energy fluctuations coming from not far away.

"Huh!" Richard frowned. "This energy is..."

This made Richard look in confusion in the direction from which the energy fluctuations were coming.

The energy fluctuation just now was not the fire element particle or earth element particle energy fluctuation commonly seen in the Scorched Earth Secret Realm, but a relatively rare blood energy fluctuation!

As a necromancer, Richard was extremely familiar with blood energy!

The blood amber in his hand is a form of utilizing blood energy.

In addition, I have been studying knowledge about source blood and bloodlines recently, which has deepened my understanding of blood energy.

but

In this secret realm filled with elemental creatures, multiple fluctuations of blood energy suddenly erupted, clearly indicating that someone was causing trouble.

Richard remained silent, pondering the simultaneous eruption and the distribution from multiple directions, which seemed to be some kind of blood-powered magic array.

suddenly!

The entire secret realm trembled violently, the ground cracked open, and bursts of high-temperature gas emerged from time to time, accompanied by a sharp hissing sound.

Some of the fissures even oozed dark red magma.

Some of the original passageways have now shattered, with large chunks of rubble falling down.

Lava snakes and small rolling stone elementals panicked like headless flies, running around aimlessly, and only a few were killed by falling rocks.

Yes! The rolling stone was smashed by falling rocks!

Richard snapped out of his reverie and leaped onto the Bloodbone Golem's shoulder.

At the same time, he reached out his hand and shouted to Gorkan.

"Quickly! Gorkan, get up here."

"Thank you, Master!"

With Richard's help, Gorkan, who wasn't very agile, finally managed to climb onto the other shoulder of the nearly three-meter-tall bloodbone puppet.

"Snap!"

The sound, like shattering glass, rang out between Richard and Gorkan.

"Master, did you... hear that just now?"

Richard's expression was solemn. He nodded and said:

"This is."

Before they could finish speaking, a huge crack suddenly appeared in the gray-black ceiling to their right rear, which had been as solid as granite, and hundreds of tons of various rock fragments fell down.

"boom!!!"

"Get out of the way!!"

"Magic Armor Technique!"

"Water Shield!"

The Blood Bone Puppet also raised its arms, a rare occurrence, to prepare for the shockwave generated by the massive celestial debris hitting the ground!

In an instant, dust and smoke rose everywhere, and the surroundings looked like the end of the world.

A few minutes later.

"Cough cough cough, Master, look!" Gorkan waved his hand, pointing to the recently shattered ceiling.

Richard looked intently, and although there was still a lot of smoke and dust around him, it did not prevent him from seeing the high places clearly.

The entire shattered area had been transformed into a slope by the falling rocks, leading directly to the original top floor of the secret realm. Richard could clearly see, along the slope, the faint outlines of gray dwarf-style bungalows.

This immediately startled Richard!

Richard knew very well what this scene represented.

This means that a gap has appeared in the seal of the Scorched Earth Secret Realm. Although compared to the size of the entire seal, this gap, which is tens of meters in diameter, is nothing.

But what if there's no time to remedy the situation!

Numerous elemental creatures within the Scorched Earth Secret Realm will surge forth from this breach like a torrent.

At that point, even if all the wizards of Tug City came to besiege us, they would still be powerless to stop us!

Just as Richard was having second thoughts, suddenly!

A deep, majestic, and ancient wave of spiritual energy entered Richard's mind: "This place... is about to belong to Lokauer."

Gorkan, who was next to Richard, had obviously also heard the intermittent, low, inhuman voice, and was now looking horrified!

A wave of waves has risen again.

So much has happened in just a few short minutes.

It seems my journey through the scorched earth is about to come to an abrupt end!

"Gorkan, we'll crush the transmission."

Suddenly, Richard's gaze sharpened as he spotted seven or eight wizards of different races, including lizardmen and grey dwarves, scattered dozens of feet ahead. Each of them looked terrified and was fleeing at top speed, as if something terrible was chasing them.

Richard looked closely and immediately saw that there were several large rolling stone elementals behind them, some of which even included a few first-tier fire elementals that Richard had encountered but never met.

So, if we calculate it that, there were a total of twenty or thirty first-tier elemental creatures chasing after the seven or eight people. No wonder the wizards were being chased around like chickens and dogs.

Moreover, Richard didn't believe that the wizards hadn't seen what had just happened.

It seems that none of these high-level wizards have purchased teleportation stones.

This is normal. Teleportation stones are not permanent; they are valid for about three months. After that, they will no longer have the teleportation effect and you will need to buy them again.

Therefore, most wizards who are skilled but do not intend to venture deep into the Scorched Earth and whose purpose is resource gathering will not choose to waste 20,000 magic stones to buy a teleportation stone.

Because they came here specifically to earn magic stones, and the Scorched Earth Secret Realm has been relatively stable for the past few hundred years with no major incidents.

However, this had nothing to do with Richard, who took out a teleportation stone from his pocket.

"Huh! It's Fana."

Richard, who had originally planned to return immediately, suddenly saw that the dwarf witch Fana, whom he knew, was running towards him.

She was surrounded by a pale blue light, holding a short wooden staff. Her luxurious wizard robes were torn in several places, and her delicate face showed a hint of panic, no longer as calm and composed as before.

She must have gone through a tough battle, otherwise she wouldn't look so disheveled.

Fortunately, Fana was only followed by a large rolling stone elemental and a first-tier fire elemental, so I could still try to save her.

At worst, if they attract even more elemental creatures, they can simply crush the teleportation stone and leave.

Furthermore, Fana is not proficient in puppetry and most likely wouldn't recognize that the ogre skeleton under her command is a Bloodbone Puppet.

Fana can't blame herself, after all, she did her best!

"Gorkan, prepare to rescue! Let's go behind the rocks." Richard quickly ordered the Bloodbone Golem to hide behind a boulder a few meters away, and then the two of them immediately jumped off the Bloodbone Golem.

"Gorkan, Water Arrow, target, Tier 1 Fire Elemental!" Richard quickly shouted a few words to Gorkan.

Richard ordered the Bloodbone Golem to stay put while he attracted the first-tier fire elemental.

"Yes, Master."

Richard silently chanted, "Mental shock!"

Instantly, a transparent wave of mental energy surged straight towards the first-tier fire element!

Immediately afterwards, an arrow formed from a stream of water rushed swiftly from in front of Gorkan toward the first-tier fire elemental!

The mental shock left the first-tier fire elemental frozen in place, while the water arrow instantly tore a large hole in its body.

The large hole began to slowly close, but the flames noticeably dimmed.

Richard took one look and knew that what the ancient book said was true: water-based magic could cause extra damage to first-tier fire elements.

However, this also caused the fire elemental to suffer, and it immediately abandoned Fana and turned to rush towards Gorkan.

Richard stared intently at his surroundings.

Whew~ Richard breathed a long sigh of relief!

Fortunately, apart from a few lava snakes following the first-tier fire elementals towards the large rock, no other first-tier elemental creatures came along.

"Gorkan, continue the attack!"

"Whoosh!" A fireball the size of a washbasin shot out from the hand of a first-tier fire elementalist.

Gorkan gave a sly smile, took a step back, and hid behind the giant rock.

This caused the surface of the first-tier fire elemental's blazing body to reveal an angry face in a very human-like manner, as it continued to charge angrily toward the large rock.

After being hit by three water arrows from Gorkan, the first-tier fire elemental finally managed to reach the rock where Richard and Gorkan were hiding, but by this time the face on the surface of the flames already looked exhausted.

Suddenly, a skeletal monster, even larger than the fire elemental, leaped out from behind the rocks, brandishing incredibly sharp bone blades, and began to spin rapidly toward the fire elemental.

"Blade Storm!" Richard quickly issued the command to the Bloodbone Golem in his mind.

Although fire elementals are immune to most physical damage, the core within the body is a solid entity, not a phantom of flame.

Under the Blood Bone Puppet's more than ten slashes per second, it was quickly severely injured!

The lava snakes that followed the first-tier fire elemental didn't even last a second before being cut into several pieces by the bloodbone golem, their size just right for making snake platters.

"Ah!!" The face on the flame, after being repeatedly slashed by the blood bone puppet's sharp blades, emitted a burst of mental energy representing a scream of agony, and the next second, it turned into a pile of ashes.

However, before he died, he did deliver the legendary "Flame Shockwave" to Richard and Gorkan!

A ring of flame, centered on the fire element, instantly bursts outwards!

but

Perhaps because the opponent had already been severely injured, this fire shockwave did not cause any substantial damage to Richard and Gorkan, who were protected by the magic armor and water shield spells.

All talk and no action!

"Master, a Flame Crystal!" Gorkan picked up a fiery red crystal from the pile of ashes and respectfully handed it to Richard.

He knew that his master's main goal in coming to the Scorched Earth Secret Realm was to collect as many Flame Crystals as possible.

This is the first Flame Crystal.

Richard took it, holding the still-scorching flame crystal, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly, this was only the first flame crystal.

But compared to the amount I need to collect, how long will it take? Sigh~

On the other hand, let's look at Fana's side.

Just as the water arrow released by the Water Arrow spell hit the fire element behind her, Fana sensed the fluctuation of water-based energy particles behind her.

Clearly, someone is helping her.

But who could it be?

Fana quickly turned her head to look behind her. Since there was only one large rolling stone elemental left behind her, she was naturally capable of taking it down.

After Richard and Gorkan dealt with the first-tier fire elemental, the battle on Fana's side was also nearing its end.

A few minutes later, Fana met the people who had saved her, Richard and Gorkan.

"It's you??" Fana's beautiful eyes widened instantly.

Several people's images had just flashed through her mind, but she never imagined it would be Richard.

This young human alchemy master!

Tug City.

Subsidence area.

The lizardman elder, wielding a black wooden staff, realized what was happening and immediately shouted to the group of other Shadowfire Wizards around him, "You all retreat! I'll cover your retreat!"

"Vice President Valéry, let's retreat together!"

"Shut up! Move along! The city guard has collapsed. If we want to retreat, someone has to cover the rear. You're still young." The lizardman elder slammed his black wooden staff into the ground, glaring angrily at these disobedient young people!

However, before he could finish speaking, he heard a commotion from behind.

"Get out of the way! Civilians, evacuate immediately!" At this moment, a deep but somewhat magnetic voice came.

"Clang, clang, clang!"

The sound of armored steel boots pounding the ground rang out once again!

Moreover, judging from the numbers, it is clearly far greater than the city guard squadron from before, with at least several hundred fully armed city guards.

The old lizardman holding the black wooden staff turned around and saw the city guard commander Bram leading a large number of Tug City guards to arrive. His expression immediately softened.

"It's Bram! Great! Asadi, you guys retreat first. Even if it's Bram, the difference in strength between him and the Elemental Lord is too great. He probably won't be able to hold out for long."

"But it's good that someone's here; at least I don't have to cover your retreat."

"Yes, Vice President Valéry."

However, the gray dwarf city guard commander who arrived saw through the black-robed group's intentions at a glance and immediately rebuked them: "Shadow Flames? According to the wartime orders just issued by Lord Bagdadi, all wizards in Tug City must cooperate with the city guard in battle."

This immediately caused the expressions on their faces to freeze, including the lizardman elder, whose face turned extremely ugly.

However, judging from their appearance, Bram knew that these Shadow Flame Wizards were probably the first to arrive at the collapsed area and fight the elemental creatures.

"Valerian, although you cannot retreat, you can make some adjustments on the side. Members of the Grey Dwarf Brotherhood and other wizarding organizations will be arriving soon."

This made Valery and his companions look a little better.

When Bram finally saw the Stone Elemental Lord Lokor, he was stunned and stood there dumbfounded:

"Damn, it's so huge, how am I supposed to fight it? I jumped with all my might, but I couldn't even reach its knee!"

"Commander, where did it get its knees?" At this moment, one of his city guards weakly interjected.

Immediately, everyone covered their mouths and snickered, some of them their faces turning bright red!

The Shadow Tongue wizard standing nearby was also laughing heartily, never expecting the city guard commander to be such a simpleton.

No wonder he spoke so directly just now!

You can't argue with a simpleton.

However, this little incident did lighten the pre-battle atmosphere considerably.

As the current supreme commander of Tug City, Bram is ready to strike at the Tier 3 Stone Elemental Lord if he dares to do so.

Undoubtedly, his soldiers would follow suit.

Grey dwarves are never short of courage!

"Don't worry, everyone. Lord Baghdadi has just contacted all the second-level archmages in the city and will soon activate the suppression magic array for Tug City. At that time, the elemental lord's strength will be greatly restricted."

"Also, wizards from other major wizarding organizations should arrive within ten minutes. So everyone must work together and hold on for ten minutes!"

Having served as commander for many years, Bram was very skilled at pre-battle mobilization; with just two sentences, he boosted the morale of the troops!

This immediately boosted the confidence of the city guards and the wizards of Shadow Tongue present.

After all, it's impossible to win!

However, if it drags on for even ten minutes, the possibility is still quite high.

-

Half an hour ago.

In the woods near the east gate of Tug City.

A group of hooded, grey-robed figures suddenly appeared here.

The leader was a tall man in a gray robe who was over two meters tall, while the two gray-robed figures beside him were unusually petite and, judging from their graceful figures, were likely women.

However, although she is a woman, she is at least 1.7 meters tall.

Such a group of people would naturally stand out too much in Tug City, which is dominated by gray dwarves.

However, the passersby seemed to completely ignore them, not even turning their heads to look at them as they passed by.

It is likely that these people used concealment magic to hide their whereabouts.

"Nikol, is it finally time to make a move?" Grace looked at the tall gray dwarf city walls in front of her, feeling a pang of emotion. She had waited far too long.

This was Grace's first time visiting Tug City, a city of grey dwarves. The tall and sturdy city walls, along with the formidable gate guards, clearly demonstrated the city's strong defenses.

Without Nicol's help, it would be difficult to complete the mission on my own and Irene's own.

Unless "Shadra" leaves Tug City on its own.

"That's right! Tug City will definitely be in turmoil within an hour, and that will be the best opportunity." "Haven't you been urging me? Now the opportunity has come!" Nicol nodded, a strange smile on his face.

"Gremy, please give a brief explanation of the situation."

"Yes, Your Excellency." A man in a grey robe stepped forward slightly from behind and bowed slightly in respect.

"Lady Grace, Lady Irene, in a little while I will accompany you to the area where the target mission is located. The gray dwarf wizard Dissol and the lady named Shadra are both in the villa area of ​​the city, and the two are very close to each other."

At this moment, Nicole interjected, "Grace, don't worry, I'll handle that old man, Dissol, myself. You two can focus on dealing with Shadra; that shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"Of course, no problem! Thank you, Nicol. We two can handle Shadra."

As long as it weren't for the obstruction of Dissol, a first-level high-ranking gray dwarf wizard, Grace was almost absolutely certain that she and Irene would be able to defeat Shadra and reclaim the source blood and the mirror.

but

Irene, standing to the side, remained silent, as if she hadn't heard what Nicol and Gremi were saying.

From the very beginning, she harbored deep suspicions about Nicol's motives.

Even now!

The other party just said that there will be unrest in Tug City?

Pshaw! This fortified city of gray dwarves would require an immense amount of manpower and resources to cause unrest.

Would Nicol be so kind?

Even if Grace was his first love, it's absolutely impossible!

Therefore, Nicol definitely didn't have any good intentions.

There must be some kind of conspiracy involved.

Grace is now completely clinging to Nicole as her last hope, how foolish!

Just as everyone was waiting quietly, a violent energy fluctuation suddenly came from Tug City.

Immediately afterwards, a buzzing sound of the ground vibrating came out.

Keep in mind that they are currently outside Tug City, and they can feel the ground shaking even from this distance. You can imagine how much stronger the shaking would be inside the city.

Before long, a large group of terrified gray dwarf civilians, wealthy merchants, and others poured out of the city gate, along with many lizardmen and merfolk dressed as mercenaries.

Of the dozen or so guards responsible for security at the city gate, only four remained; the rest had apparently been transferred to the city.

Such a large city gate, with only four gray dwarf city guards, is clearly a mere formality!

Nicol couldn't help but burst into laughter, waving his hand dismissively: "Let's begin!"

In an instant, a group of people rushed straight to the city gate like a gray line!

The group subtly split into two groups, with Nicol leading four or five men to directly attack Dissol's residence.

Meanwhile, Nicol's second-in-command, Gremi, is responsible for guiding Grace and Irene, and will assist in killing Shadra!

(End of this chapter)