Chapter 270 [Melt into Stone]
Hunter guard leads the way, followed closely by Gothe, Grant and Katherine.
h "The few people who were arrested only acted according to the orders and knew very little about the inside story, so the interrogation in the past few days has not made much progress."
h Here, Grant was explaining the specific situation to the two people, "The most important thing is that I have been unable to ask questions. Their origins can only be determined to be that they are not from our Zhenbing tribe. "
"Fortunately, Elder Lan Wen has been out hunting all year round. He has traveled all over the country and has extensive knowledge. He happens to know where the ice worms originate. I used this clue as a breakthrough and finally discovered something useful."
"The area where the ice worms originate has no tribes choosing to camp there because of the lower temperature. However, I asked someone to investigate and found out that you, the guardian of the snowfield, hunted a fourth-level frost giant there in the past two years."
It's just that Kathleen's face is hidden under the mask, making it impossible to see her emotions at the moment.
Seeing this, Grant didn't take it seriously and continued: "Of course, this doesn't mean anything. It's most likely a simple coincidence, not to mention that this happened several years ago."
"However, some time ago, didn't you entrust me to investigate which people from your sect have appeared in the area near the Snover clan during this time, and whether there have been any abnormalities in that area recently?"
"It just so happens that the people I sent out to investigate and collect intelligence also made some gains." He smiled mysteriously and looked at Catherine quietly.
At this moment, Kathleen could no longer keep calm. Her appetite was suddenly whetted, and she asked cooperatively: "What did you find?"
"In the distance from the Snover clan camp, Eight hundred miles away from the ground, there used to be a fourth-level frost troll, but it is gone now. "
"Frost trolls are earth-line creatures with a strong sense of territoriality and extremely dislike migration." Kathleen murmured.
"That's right, so the possibility of it migrating to other places is very low. The people I sent out searched the area carefully, and sure enough they found some traces of battles, as well as some human bones."
"There is a high probability that this frost troll has been killed."
"Frost trolls are also extremely powerful among fourth-level earth-line creatures, and are ordinary fourth-level mages. It will not be its opponent at all. "
"There are actually not many people who have the strength to kill the Frost Troll. They are all important figures from several large tribes. They generally will not leave the tribe easily, and they are even more precious about their lives. Why would they go all the way to that place to kill the Frost Troll?"
"It seems that the only ones who can do such a thing are you, the Guardians of the Snowfield."
"But even among you Snowfield Guardians, the one who can kill the fourth-level frost troll seems to be proficient in fighting?"
"So, I reported the matter to the War Mother. After all, the matter has already reached this level, and it is beyond my ability to investigate further."
"The War Mother called us over to discuss matters today, and there must be new gains." Elder Grant asserted.
Kathleen was lost in thought.
Gothe's heart tightened. Although there was no substantial evidence, his intuition told him that there was a high possibility that the Ruian Inquisitor was the murderer behind the scenes.
originally, Catherine had already speculated that the person behind the scenes was most likely one of the three inquisitors of Ruian, Chief Quentin and Archbishop Rune.
Now there are two more things pointing to the Ruian Holy Magistrate.
More importantly, Kathleen and Roic are hunters.
And the Ruian Holy Inquisitor is the leader of the hunters. In this incident, the person behind the scenes happened to be extremely knowledgeable about Loic's methods.
From this point of view, it is like adding another bargaining chip, making Gothe even more suspicious of the Ruian Holy Magistrate.
While thinking about it in his heart, Gothe looked around as if he was distracted.
Suddenly, his eyebrows raised, as if he had discovered something and came back from his thinking state.
Subsequently, at a moment when no one noticed, a golden mysterious symbol quietly emerged from the depths of Gothe's left eye pupil.
The place where Sunaifa wanted to meet them was at Sunaifa's own residence.
In the entire Phoenix, the magic power is naturally given to Bingyu Wutong first, followed by the War Mother.
Hence, as the war mother of the Zhenbing Tribe, Sunaifa’s residence is actually at the core of Phoenix, not far from the Ice Jade Sycamore.
They first passed through three checkpoints and then detoured through a short street to reach their destination.
There are several larger private houses on both sides of the short street. These are the residences of Gaohuan Ice Master of the Zhenbing Tribe. The outer walls are made of dark gray stones, and the roofs are covered with thick white snow, making them look solemn and solemn.
Just as a group of them passed by one of the gray stone houses, on a seemingly ordinary wall that no one noticed, an ice blade exuding coldness came out of the wall silently.
The surface of the ice blade is covered with a thin layer of frost flowers, and the cold air is everywhere, as if it will freeze everything around it at any time. The power contained in it is self-evident.
说时迟那时快，就在那柄冰刃瞄准高德，即将脱墙而出的时候，一直在与格兰特说话的凯萨琳，不知何时，竟然已经是先行一步施法。
A beam of linear lightning burst out from her fingertips without warning.
The light of lightning drew a dazzling trajectory in the air, carrying the force of thunder, and struck the wall first.
Hum.
Amidst the lightning and flint, the walls made of gray stones instantly collapsed under the strong electric shock, with rubble scattered and gunpowder smoke filling the air.
The fragments of the wall fell like raindrops, hitting the ground with a crisp sound.
The moment the gray stone wall collapsed, a figure also fell out of it.
He seemed to have grown out of the wall, and only now did he reveal his original shape as the gray stone collapsed.
After the figure fell out of the gray stone, he first vomited a large mouthful of blood, and then fell directly to the ground. He was seriously injured and it was difficult to even get up.
His face showed pain and shock, and he obviously did not expect the current situation.
“Melt into stone!” When Gao De saw this scene, he didn’t think of Sun Monkey, because this was a spell he had learned in the “General Spell Knowledge” course.
Three-ring transformation spell, [melt into stone].
After casting [Melt into Stone], the mage can enter a stone object or stone surface that is large enough to fully accommodate the body, and fuse himself and all equipment he carries with the stone for the duration of the spell.
After entering the stone, the mage's presence cannot be seen or detected by any non-magical senses.
Slight damage to the stone will not cause harm to the caster itself, but when the stone is partially damaged or its shape changes (to the point where it is no longer suitable to accommodate the caster), the caster will be expelled from the stone and cause extremely high bludgeoning damage.
When the stone is completely destroyed (or its material is changed), it will also push the caster out of the stone and cause bludgeoning damage.
When being pushed out of the stone, the caster will be thrown to the nearest unoccupied space from where he first entered the stone and fall to the ground.
This is the reason why the other party was already in a half-dead state as soon as he showed up.
The gray stone he was hiding in was completely destroyed by Katherine. Under the backlash of the spell's effect, he instantly suffered extremely severe blunt damage.
This all happened in an instant, and even Grant didn't react - one second Kathleen was still talking to him, but the next second she suddenly cast a spell to destroy the house, and then the next second she smashed out a person?
Here, Kathleen has walked up to the figure.
Obviously, it’s another completely unfamiliar face that I don’t recognize.
The other party was still vomiting blood and his body was twitching violently.
He looked at Kathleen's cold eyes, and then looked down at his seriously injured body. He knew that he had fallen down this time and had no chance to stand up.
"How did you find out." He moved his mouth, wanting to know how he was found out.
【Integrate into Stone】As a third-level concealment spell, once cast, it will be completely integrated into the stone, and no flaws can be seen at all. Only magic methods can have a chance to detect it.
As for the low-level spells, there is no spell to detect creatures at all, and the high-level spells are very expensive.
Who has nothing to do but cast high-level spells to look around?
So under normal circumstances, the concealment ability of [Melt into Stone] should be almost perfect and impossible to be discovered.
But he was discovered, which he couldn't understand at all.
It's a pity that Kathleen was not prepared to explain to him.
But at this moment, black blood and white foam suddenly began to appear from the man's mouth. Then his head tilted, his body went limp, and he completely stopped moving.
Kathleen frowned and took a closer look. It was exactly the same way Thomas died before.
"It's the poison hidden in the teeth again. The moment it is exposed, the poison in the teeth has been crushed." Grant also walked over at this time, his voice was low, and his eyes were flashing with anger.
In Phoenix, someone is actually planning to commit murder in front of him on the street. How can this make him not angry?
Compared to Grant's anger, Katharine was unusually calm about this.
"Please elder, please take his body back. I will be of great use." She said.
Gothe's heart moved, and when he realized it, Kathleen was about to cast her strange spell to briefly resurrect the corpse.
"Okay." Grant nodded, and at the same time ordered the hunter guard in front: "Go and call a few people to deal with the scene."
Gothe caught a glimpse of this scene and said nothing.
This time he was attacked on the way to see the war mother, and the opponent's target happened to be him, but Gothe did not suspect that there was something wrong with the hunter guards who were leading the way.
The reason is also very simple. Just now in the core spiritual land of Phoenix, Flora did not notice the malice in the other party.
It wasn't until the hunter guard came back with his men and tidied up the "assassin's" body on the ground that Grant calmed down a bit.
"Let's go see the war mother first." He decided.
Gothe and Kathleen nodded.
The three set out again.
"How did you discover him?"
At this time, Kathleen's voice came from Gothe's heart.
This is exactly the question that the "assassin" asked Kathleen before.
Kathleen didn't answer just now, firstly because there was no need to answer, and secondly because the person who discovered the "assassin" was actually not her, but Gothe himself.
Similar to the assassin's inability to understand, Kathleen still has not figured out how Gothe, who is only a first-level mage, discovered the other party.
Even she couldn't find it?
"My eyesight is better." Gothe smiled slightly and gave an ambiguous but truthful answer.
He understood early on that Kathleen seemed to be powerful, but she also accidentally fell into the opponent's trap.
In this case, if I rely too much on Kathleen's own abilities, I will be ruined sooner or later.
Kathleen is a protective umbrella that can indeed protect him from some strong winds and heavy rains.
But if you rely too much on this protective umbrella and lose your due vigilance, something will happen sooner or later.
Because the protective umbrella also has defensive loopholes.
Hence, as long as he leaves home, Gaode will use [Detection Magic+] throughout the process and pay attention to the surrounding situation at all times.
It was this move that made Gothe discover the almost invisible magical aura that flickered on the gray stone wall.
How can magic aura appear on the stone wall?
This itself is an extremely unreasonable discovery.
But when Gothe looked intently again, he could no longer see any magic aura.
For other people, they might just pass it by and just think that they are dazzled. Even if they don't think they are dazzled, with the concealment ability of "melting into stone", it is indeed difficult for ordinary people to detect the clues.
But Gaode is an exception.
Because in addition to having the [Detection Magic +] added by Wind Spirit Moon Shadow, he also has the second-level Mandela Magic Eye.
After noticing the clues, Gothe opened the Mandela Magic Eye without hesitation and conducted [insight] on the gray stone wall where the magical aura was found.
With the powerful power of Mandela's Demonic Eye, [Insight] captured traces of the flowing energy. Coupled with Gothe's own knowledge, he made an instant judgment - someone used [Melt into Stone] to hide in it.
At the first opportunity, he conveyed this discovery to Kathleen through [Messaging Technique], and then the rest happened.
Under the ice jade sycamore tree.
· Mana fluctuations have begun to appear in Donald's hands.
He was already preparing to cast a spell to forcibly subdue Flora.
"Great Elder!" The elders belonging to the conservative party saw this scene and subconsciously spoke out, wanting to stop Donald's actions.
There was obvious worry and tension in their voices.
Even Flora can see Donald's evil intentions, so why can't they see Donald's thoughts?
He is clearly trying to rob Flora!
Even Donald himself had no intention of hiding his intentions.
Because, when the strength or status is almost the same, it requires careful planning and various conspiracies.
And Gao De is just a foreigner with low strength.
For such an existence, what kind of planning is needed?
With such a huge difference in strength between the two, direct robbery may seem barbaric, but in fact it is the smartest strategy because it is the most efficient.
Faced with the obstruction from the elders of the conservative party, Donald turned a deaf ear.
His eyes showed a trace of fierceness, and the mana fluctuations gathered into a transparent ripple in his palm.
As soon as Donald waved his hand, the transparent ripples shot towards Flora who was hiding on the branches of the ice jade sycamore tree at extremely high speed.
However, something unexpected happened to everyone.
Just when the transparent ripple was about to approach Flora, the leaves of the Ice Jade Sycamore tree suddenly shook violently, emitting bright ice crystal light.
These rays of light quickly gathered into a wall of ice, blocking Flora.
The surface of the ice wall shone with cold light, like an indestructible barrier, eliminating the ripples invisible.
"This" Donald opened his mouth slightly and was stunned for a moment.
His eyes flashed with disbelief, obviously he did not expect this scene
The reason why the Ice Jade Wutong is called the guardian tree is, firstly, because of its miraculous power, and secondly, because it does have the ability to protect.
It’s just that Donald never thought that the Ice Jade Wutong, the patron saint tree of the Zhenbing Tribe, would one day help outsiders deal with him, the great elder of the Zhenbing Tribe!
(End of this chapter)