Chapter 473 Level 5 Extraordinary Material
"My King, I will go to the island to take a look. Are you waiting on the boat, or what?" Lan Wen, who had already prepared, stood at the bow of the boat and asked Gothe for his opinion.
"Let's go together." Gothe thought for a while and decided to follow him.
Although his mage level is not high, with Mandola's magic eye around, Lan Wen is not necessarily better than him in terms of detection.
In addition, you should also go to the island to relax.
"Okay." Regarding Gaode's opinion, Lan Wen naturally chose to follow it.
Him He also doesn't think that a random desert island encountered at sea will encounter threats that he cannot deal with.
Stability is necessary, but too much stability is not necessary.
“My king, shall I take you there?” Lan Wen glanced at the land that was not far away from the Columbus.
"No need." Gothe waved his hand, and without waiting for Lan Wen to ask any more questions, he cast [Wild Agility +], summoned the Storm Soul, and under the possession of Boeing, his figure was already rising into the air.
Lan Wen couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw this scene.
Flying is the signature ability of the three-ring mage...
However, under the influence of the worship of the King of the North and the "myth" culture that has gradually become entrenched in the North, in the eyes of many people, no matter how "outrageous" Gothe does, it is reasonable in their perception.
Although Lan Wen is a fourth-ring mage, he is one of the northerners who "suffered deeply".
So he quickly thought to himself: As a king, no matter how amazing things you do are reasonable, I, the king, cannot be measured by common sense!
He immediately stopped thinking about it, used [Flying Technique], caught up with Gothe, and flew side by side to the desert island with Gothe.
The two quickly landed on the edge of the island.
The entire island, as Gothe had seen before, except for the dark green limestone and ice, there were no signs of life.
The only thing worth taking a second look at is the skeleton of a huge sea beast under the ice.
· Looking from a distance, in Gothe's field of vision, this frozen skeleton was not only huge but also twisted.
Now that he was right in front of his eyes, Gao Decai realized that the skeleton was more beautiful than when viewed from a distance.
The skull of the corpse is extremely large, and a huge spiral horn protrudes from the center of the frontal bone.
The body of the horn is covered with triangular facets, with dark green seaweed fragments stuck between the facets, like scratch marks when it was forcibly dragged ashore from the deep sea, frozen together by the ice, and retaining its original appearance.
It is conceivable that before the body of the corpse died, this giant horn must have been its powerful weapon, possessing terrifying power.
The eye sockets of the skeleton are hollow enough for two people to stand side by side, and there are several deep grooves left on the bone walls around the edges of the eye sockets.
The cervical vertebrae are like a series of giant stone rings connected in series. Each vertebrae has wing-shaped bone fragments that open outwards. The ends of the bone fragments are jagged. The most shocking thing is the tail vertebrae. The bones are flat paddle-shaped, with five bifurcations at the end. Each bifurcation has two rows of barb-shaped bone spurs.
Just by looking at the size of the corpse and the shape of its bones, one can tell that it must have been an extremely powerful sea beast during its lifetime. It is unknown what it must have gone through before it died on this deserted island.
Lan Wen stretched out his hand and gently touched the ice covering the corpse. As soon as his fingertips touched the ice, they flicked away like being bitten by a poisonous snake. "The ice evil is so strong," he said, looking at the white frost that instantly condensed on his knuckles: "Ordinary creatures may be seriously injured if they touch it."
Gao De's eyes flashed slightly when he heard this.
This is good news for him.
Just in the edge area, the ice demon erosion is so strong, so the level of this ice cave must be extremely high, and it may even produce a fourth-level ice demon.
He also reached out his hand and touched the ice lightly.
As expected, a chill with evil aura extended all the way along the contact surface between his fingers and the ice, sweeping across his body, as if countless ice needles were traveling along the meridians of his body.
But there is [Intermediate Ice Blessing Body]. Although this chill is terrifying, Gothe's expression will not change at all.
However, it is not completely unharmed.
The skin on Gaode's arms turned blue and black.
This is caused by the erosion of evil spirits.
Looking scary, the evil spirit actually does no harm to the body. It targets the human spirit. If you are in an environment surrounded by evil spirits for a long time, you will easily become irritable and insane.
But whether it is Gaode or Lan Wen, their mental strength is high enough, so this evil attack will not affect their aspirations.
The reason why Gothe "tested the law with his own body" was of course not just to verify the power of ice evil mentioned by Lan Wen. The mana flowed in his body, and orange-red fire suddenly appeared on his fingertips.
The spell model was aroused, reaching directly to the palm of the hand through the magic veins, and then a cone-shaped scorching flame spurted out.
【Burning Hands】.
The flames carried the scorching smell of sulfur and lava, and made a sizzling crackling sound the moment they touched the ice.
Flame waves spread over the ice like a tide, and spider web-like cracks suddenly appeared on the ice.
The ice chips instantly evaporate into white mist in the high temperature, forming a rolling cloud of steam wrapped in flames. You can vaguely see the frozen bubbles inside the ice layer exploding one after another under the heat of the flames.
The outermost layer of ice turned into turbid ice water at a speed visible to the naked eye, flowing along the ravines of the skull.
When the flames gradually subsided, the skull of the giant beast, including the huge spiral horn in the center of the forehead, was completely exposed, shimmering in the remaining steam.
Gothe ignored the steam from the nitrogen box and placed his palm against the giant spiral horn.
The moment his palm came into contact with the cold bone surface, pale golden runes appeared on his fingertips.
【Identification +】.
The mana in the magic wood crystal condensed from the "Green Wood Sutra" in the mana pool continues to flow out, like a fine spider web seeping into the texture of this huge spiral horn.
Gothe's pupils began to glow.
Mana is constantly being consumed, but there is no corresponding information feedback.
Faced with this situation, Gothe knew in his heart that this meant that the skeleton of this giant beast was of an extremely high level, and even [Identification Technique+] could not easily obtain information.
The higher the level of extraordinary items, the more mana it will cost to identify them.
One line, two lines...Ten lines, eleven lines...Twenty lines!
After consuming one-third of his mana, Gothe finally obtained some scattered information:
Fifth-level extraordinary material... Hard... Energy circuit, rapid conduction, energy stability... Enhanced ice system... Water element...
Fifth-level extraordinary material!
Gaode first noticed the key information and was shocked.
This means that the owner of this skeleton was actually a fifth-level sea beast during his lifetime.
The fifth-level sea beast died like this on this desert island.
Did it die of old age and illness naturally, or was it attacked by some terrifying entity?
This is destined to be an unsolved mystery.
Just looking at the appearance of the corpse and the traces of bones, you can tell that it has been more than a thousand years since its death.
It is impossible to judge what happened back then based on the current clues, at least with Goude's current mage level and the spells he masters.
But he actually doesn’t care much about what happened to the giant beast, it’s not important to him.
The reason why he went to so much trouble to unfreeze and identify it.
It is because based on his knowledge of earth-line creatures, for earth-line creatures with a single horn, the horn is often the core of their strength and the most valuable part of their body.
The most typical one is the legendary unicorn that the elves regard as a symbol of purity.
The identification results are indeed the same.
The spiral horn contains the majestic power of water and ice elements. The spiral pattern on its surface is not just a decoration, but is actually a naturally formed energy circuit. It has extremely strong energy conductivity and stability, which can increase the caster's spell release speed.
And it seems that it is because its level is high enough, or because the freezing has delayed the destruction and erosion of time. In short, this spiral horn is still intact and as hard as iron.
Whether it is its shape, or its own characteristics such as sturdiness and energy circuit, it shows that this unicorn is an excellent main material for making staffs.
The main material of the fifth-level staff is extremely valuable.
I have just landed on the island, and I haven’t seen the Ice Demon yet. I just picked up a fifth-level extraordinary material for nothing. How can it not be considered a good start?
Gaode retracted his hand and canceled the casting of [Appraisal +]: "Deputy Director Lan Wen, is there any way to remove this horn?"
The corpse of a fifth-level sea beast, even if it is not the unicorn at the core of its power, has extremely strong bones. As a second-level mage, he needs to expend a lot of effort to obtain the materials.
Hence, Gaode decisively threw the problem to Lan Wen aside.
Lan Wen did not disappoint him and nodded, "My king, leave it to me."
He took a step forward and placed his palm against the very fine area where the horn was connected to the skull.
The next moment, magic waves surged out of Lan Wen's palm.
Three-ring spell, [Decomposition].
Using the magical effect of [Disintegration], Lan Wen gradually disassembled the connecting parts, just like untying a complicated knot, to separate the horn from the skull.
Relying on his extremely high degree of control over spells, Lan Wen is able to ensure that the magic power of [Decomposition] will not spread to other parts of the unicorn,
Thus ensuring the integrity of the unicorn.
The entire process requires extremely precise operation, and the single horn is large enough.
Hence, even though Lan Wen was a fourth-ring mage, he still spent three or four minutes concentrating on completely peeling off the spiral horn from his skull.
"My king." Lan Wen displayed the intact horn in front of Gothe like a treasure. Gothe nodded slightly and asked Lan Wen to put the horn away. Then he set off again and slowly moved towards the ice cave in the center of the desert island.
This island is larger than any island Gothe saw during the previous ten days of sailing, but the same thing is that it is extremely deserted.
"My king, look!" Lan Wen was extremely observant and soon discovered some unusual traces.
It was a scratch mark on a stone wall. There were three scratches at almost equal intervals, but they were only 40 centimeters long, so they were not conspicuous.
Lan Wen can notice that one is that he is an attentive person, and the other is that he has been the deputy director of the Phoenix Police Department for more than a year. The requirements of his "professional" have made him increasingly good at observation.
"It should be a claw mark, and the direction is from top to bottom. At this height and angle, it is most likely a bird-type earth-line creature."
Lan Wen gave his own judgment.
However, there are too many types of earth-line creatures in the world, so Lan Wen cannot give an accurate answer for the time being as to what kind of creatures left traces.
"And this," Gothe discovered that on a protruding stone next to the claw mark, there was a layer of gray gel, "like the weathered saliva of living things."
Compared with the claw marks, the gel's existence time is actually extremely limited, and it usually disappears completely after a few months.
Since they have been discovered now, it means that this desert island has actually been haunted by earth-line creatures in the near future.
Both of them are extremely experienced mages, and both are aware of this.
After looking at each other, Gaode decided to stop moving forward and let Lan Wen help protect the magic. He wanted to replenish the magic power consumed in identifying the spiral horn.
Lan Wen naturally has no objection.
Although the environment was simple, with the blessing of the body of Dharma Ninja, Gothe quickly entered a meditative state and began to recover the consumed mana.
After replenishing the mana consumed in their bodies, Gothe and Lan Wen once again explored the ice cave on the island.
Because they discovered traces of leyline creatures existing on the island, both of them were on high alert.
Gothe even deployed the Mandora Magic Eye throughout the entire process in an extremely luxurious manner.
However, even as they cautiously approached the ice cave, the two of them still found no trace of any living thing.
So much so that both of them thought they were a little too careful. Those traces were most likely just the temporary habitat of bird-like creatures on the desert island, rather than the native creatures on the island.
After all, this island, apart from an ice cave and the skeleton, is completely barren and does not have the material conditions for biological survival.
The closer to the ice cave, the colder the air becomes. The cold air inhaled into the lungs seems to be carrying countless tiny ice needles, which stings the throat.
When he was still dozens of steps away from the ice cave, a palpitating cold breath hit his face, several times stronger than what he had felt at the edge of the island before.
The air around the ice cave appears gray-black, which is evil spirit. It is intertwined with the extremely cold air, colliding with each other, and making a subtle popping sound.
The depression where the ice cave is located looks like a deep pit that has been split open, and the icy limestone on the edge has been eroded to the point where the teeth are intertwined, like a giant beast's open mouth full of fangs.
"This is a third-level ice cave, but the concentration of evil energy shows that it is transforming into a fourth-level ice cave. It may take another few decades or a hundred years to become a fourth-level ice cave." Lan Wen said with a serious expression.
Gaode slightly nodded his head.
This just shows that no one has visited the ice cave here for a long time.
Because the ice devils in the ice cave have not been taken away for a long time and are constantly accumulated, the ice cave will be upgraded.
Gothe was about to walk into the ice cave, but as soon as he took his steps, he was suddenly paused.
Lan Wen noticed Gaode's pause, and his expression changed accordingly.
"My king, what's the matter?"
"There is a situation..." Gothe looked around, and finally set his sights on the left.
Lan Wen followed his gaze, only to find that there was clearly nothing in his field of vision.
"The oxygen content is wrong..." Gothe said softly: "There are earth-line creatures lurking there!"
In his perception, the oxygen content in the air was actually decreasing there.
This is the super oxygen content sensing ability given to Gaode by [Body of Air and Breath].
Even though Lan Wen is a fourth-ring mage, his perception in this area is not as good as that of Gaode who has undergone [Adaptive] evolution, so he is not aware of it.
But Lan Wen has absolute trust in Gaode.
So even though there was nothing in sight, after Gothe's words fell, he activated the spell model without hesitation.
The next moment, Lan Wen waved his right hand, and ice cones like rain poured down so quickly!