Throne of Magical Arcana

As Lucien cut off the flesh and blood on his severed arm and drew line symbols wrapped in circles, a strange and mysterious feeling gradually spread out, as if it represented the most abstract and profound secrets of the human body and the universe.

Karina watched Lucien set up the magic circle intently, and muttered to herself: "These three symbols seem to symbolize the spirit, consciousness and carrier respectively. As the same level, they probably represent the soul. The five of the same level The symbol is a traditional symbol of the necromantic system, which symbolizes blood, bones, flesh, internal organs and vitality, and may be used to represent the body. The remaining four symbols of the sun, silver moon, stars and darkness may represent the world outside the body. This is a magic circle that combines necromancer magic and astrological magic? And depending on the location and connection, it seems to have different changes and play different roles."

The opportunity to see and learn advanced magic circle knowledge is very rare for her.

After drawing the basic symbols of the necromantic "Miranda's Twelve Rings of Life" magic circle around the energy pool, Lucien turned the remaining bones and flesh into a semi-solidified viscous liquid, and then used it as "magic ink" in the A unique connection is drawn between the twelve rings, a connection with the dark symbol at its core.

After doing all this, Lucien applied the viscous flesh and blood liquid as a "magic conductor" to the connection path, and finally reshaped and changed the "dark symbol", "blood symbol" and " symbol of consciousness".

Faint rays of light filled with a sense of life lit up with Lucien's spiritual power, and quickly spread along a fixed passage. Soon, the entire "Miranda's Twelve Rings of Life" magic circle was connected. As a whole, the light suddenly restrained.

The magic circle is no longer as messy and fragmented as before. All the symbols and connections seem to form a unique open life form, giving people a wonderful three-dimensional illusion.

Karina stared at the magic circle like a work of art with fascination, constantly analyzing the meaning behind each symbol and each connection.

Suddenly, a voice rang in her ear: "Karina, wait as long as the energy pool starts to boil, you will use your spiritual power to activate the dark symbols."

"Huh?" Karina woke up suddenly, only to realize that Lucien was talking to herself.

After Lucien repeated it, she blushed and said: "Mr. Lucien, don't worry, I will grasp the timing well."

Lucien nodded. At this time, he could only fully trust her. After all, he hadn't had the opportunity to learn simulacra magic, so he could manipulate it by himself. Then he turned to the two knights and said, "Alva, Brad, You are responsible for guarding Karina, don't let anything disturb him."

"Of course, Mr. Lucien." Alva and Brad saluted solemnly.

Lucien didn't hesitate, and looked at Adam next to him: "Adam, let's go to the core of the magic tower."

"No problem!" Adam was a little eager to try. He had been imprisoned by the old witch for decades, and he had been an experimental material for so long. He couldn't wait to fight back. Escaping is a coward's choice!

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With a loud bang, the two steel golems fell to the ground, and their hands and feet seemed to be bouncing uncontrollably.

Seeing this scene, Adam said with great emotion: "If I was the only one, unless I had a lot of room to move, it would be difficult to kill even a steel golem easily, but you destroyed them so ferociously and unstoppably with just one spell. , It’s unbelievable, amazing. Hey, I regret not learning magic at the beginning.”

"This is the advancement of knowledge." Lucien replied succinctly.

After finishing speaking, Lucien walked past the steel golem, slightly shook his head and looked at the patterns of magic circles on its steel body, and said in his heart: "Many things have advantages and disadvantages. If there are no magic circles, We can make a metal shell to effectively shield the magnetic field interference to the steel golem, but how can the current pure alloy block the attack of the big knight and the bombing of elemental magic? Unless the knowledge advances again, this structural problem can be effectively solved dilemma."

Adam didn't quite understand the development and changes of magic, so he spread his hands and said, "Dude, break the protective magic circle quickly, I'm always worried that the old witch will come back suddenly."

The magic circle at the core of the magic tower is much more complicated than that of the energy protection room, but fortunately it is still a common high-level magic circle, and there are references from senior arcanists, so Lucien still used it for an hour and a half. It cracked.

This one and a half hours is extremely tormented for the "prison escapers" who are racing against time. Even Adam, a strong-willed fifth-level knight, couldn't help pacing back and forth anxiously. Any slight movement would make him extremely nervous. big reaction.

From his performance, Lucien can guess that Karina, Alva, and Brad in the energy room are probably mentally tense to the point of collapse. At this time, there is no need for the old witch to come back, just another flesh and blood puppet knight will be enough. They were so frightened that they acted aggressively and even fled.

Since the distance between the magic tower's core and the energy was relatively far, beyond the scope of the secondary spiritual connection, Lucien had no way to contact Karina and the others, so he could only maintain an attitude of trusting his teammates and opened the black door.

Seeing that the shiny black metallic door moved back, Adam heaved a long sigh of relief: "This was the most difficult hour and a half of my life, but luckily the old witch didn't show up."

"Let's go, there is still danger waiting for us." Lucien resolutely stepped on the stair passage behind after carefully observing it.

I don’t know if there are other powerful guards at the core of the magic tower, whether the control hub is protected by a unique magic circle, whether the attempt to control it can be successful, whether the old witch who will definitely be alarmed after I start trying can come back in time ... This series of unknown clouds hang over Lucien's head.

Adam's body gradually darkened, and he carefully followed Lucien up the silver-gray stairs.

The two had just stepped up a few steps when the entire narrow staircase suddenly started to squirm.

The silver-gray walls and steps quickly turned blood-red, revealing a hint of flesh-colored, and kept secreting pure white and dark green acid, which was so rotten that Lucien's "spell absorption wall" sizzled and swelled.

The darkened Adam was doused by these "acids" and let out a slight scream of pain. Fortunately, the injury was not serious. He still remained calm and did not attack blindly so as not to alarm the old witch: "Man, what's going on? What? Shouldn’t I be immune to acid damage after darkening?”

"It's the unique magic of the old witch. It seems to be able to rot and digest the soul. It's not just acid!" Lucien said in the secondary telepathic connection, while running at full speed, dragging out a long afterimage, " This magic circle, which seems to be activated inevitably, will be activated even if the old witch comes by herself, but she will definitely cast the corresponding magic protection in advance."

This is one of the effective means of defense for many magicians on their important items and locations, and it can kill those who think they have cracked all the magic circles without defense.

Fortunately, neither Lucien nor Adam was careless, and this came from their fear and guard against the old witch.

The whole section of the blood-red staircase wriggled crazily, as if a human stomach was digesting food, weird and bloody.

Lucien and Adam endured the "acid" damage, climbed frantically, and rushed towards the exit above.

The exit is like an open mouth, with thick red lips and white teeth on the upper and lower sides. They are closing rapidly, as if there is a time limit!

And Lucien and Adam, who had superimposed the acceleration technique, were very fast, and they were getting closer and closer to the exit. They saw that there was only a not-so-long staircase.

But at this time, the wall of light flowing with mysterious magic symbols absorbed to the limit, shattered, and turned into shining spots of light one by one.

Seeing that the further you go back, the faster the exit will be closed. Lucien didn't waste the precious casting buffer to cast another "spell absorption wall". Instead, he grabbed Adam next to him and activated the "short-range instant shift".

In a flash, Lucien and Adam appeared on the stairs seven or eight steps in front of the exit.

The biggest disadvantage of this magic is that the distance is not far enough!

As soon as he appeared in shape, Lucien seemed to have expected it a long time ago. Regardless of the burning pain in his body, he kicked his feet and shot out like a flying arrow, passing through two rows of teeth that were about to close together, and landed on the thick carpet. superior.

Turning around on the spot, looking back and seeing Adam rushing in, Lucien relaxed a little, got up quickly, and looked around, completely ignoring that the acid on his body was corroding the flesh and hurting the soul.

This place seems to be the old witch's study room. There are rows of bookshelves on one side, stone carvings of beautiful women on the other side, and a gorgeously decorated desk in the middle. A crystal ball is placed at the intersection of countless patterns on it. It reflects the condition of the entire magic tower.

And behind the desk, there is a crooked old woman wearing a red magic robe. Her skin is loose, with deep wrinkles, and she is shriveled and terrifying!

"Old witch?!" In the secondary telepathic connection, both Lucien and Adam blurted out.

Just when Lucien subconsciously wanted to activate the magic, he suddenly sensed something was wrong, so he stopped it forcefully, and quickly said to Adam: "Don't attack, it's an illusion!"

Adam was a little shocked and said: "Illusion?"

"A six-ring magic that can create an illusion identical to oneself, and control her to move and speak, etc., but cannot cast spells. The old witch seems to be placed here as a warning. As long as she subconsciously attacks her illusion, she will It can be sensed." Lucien calmed down his beating heart, and then cast the "medical technique" to heal the wounds splashed by the "acid", using nearly ten spells and Adam's darkening to help Only then did this difficult injury heal.

Adam cursed in a low voice: "Although the old witch is a bit crazy, she is actually very sinister."

After recovering from his injuries and mental strength, Lucien once again superimposed defensive magic on himself, then walked to the side of the crystal ball, and tried to analyze the "control hub".

After waiting for another nearly an hour, and the time passed until midnight, Lucien finally completed the analysis, stretched out his right hand and pressed it on the crystal ball, murmured a mantra in his mouth, and condensed his spiritual power into a needle to pierce it in.

Not only is it cracked, but the old witch's spiritual imprint must be erased, so that the crystal ball can be grasped!

Following the path Lucien cracked, the mental power bypassed many obstacles like a fish, reached the core in an instant, and rushed towards the mark of the old witch.

At this time, sensing the threat, the crystal ball suddenly lit up like a brilliant sun.

A series of magic patterns light up, and the power of the entire magic tower will be concentrated on the crystal ball to kill the intruders.

In the energy room, Karina saw that the energy pool started to boil, and quickly activated the "Miranda's Twelve Rings of Life" magic circle.

The twelve rings lit up at the same time, and the darkness suddenly expanded, covering the entire energy room, and everything seemed to freeze.

And Karina, Alva, and Brad made a decisive decision, turned around and fled towards the door of the energy room in memory.

The energy flow was cut off, and the protection of the spiritual imprint in the crystal ball came to an abrupt end, allowing it to face Lucien's spiritual attack directly.

If this spiritual imprint could not be erased, Lucien would be backlashed to death.

Ten seconds, only ten seconds!

Suddenly, the old witch behind the desk exuded a breath of life, and an angry voice came from afar: "Two hateful flies, I will make you into mummies!"

The breath of life became stronger and stronger, and in just a second, the illusion of the old witch became a real person!

Six-ring magic "Position Exchange!"

After using this magic, if the straight-line distance between two pre-set connecting living bodies is within 500 meters, they can exchange positions within one second, but the old witch actually applied it to the main body and the illusion, which seems to be her unique magic!

Every magician should not be underestimated, even the ancient inheritance magicians!