Translator: Kris_Liu Editor: Vermillion
The cave was dark and small, just like the common caves. There were piles of faeces of wild animals in the corners. When Lucien entered the deeper part of the cave following a narrow path, there were more and more forks in the road as if he was facing a spider web.
Taking the crystal ball out of the magic pouch, Lucien gently stroked its surface and, with the information provided by Rhine, he cast a simple prophecy spell to figure out which path to choose.
Following the fork path downwards, Lucien made his way a few dozen meters and saw a new fork. He recognized the pile of oddly-shaped, dark coal ash as Rhine described.
The pale coal ash looked like the palm of a person’s hand, like a road sign.
Lucien had to visit the Dark Mountain Range, the polluted area in the Boundless Ocean, the desert in the south part of the Gusta Empire, and the capital city of Holy Heilz Empire named Antiffler. These places extended from the south to north, west to east, covering the entire continent. Although Lucien had mastered Advanced Fly, it was still very difficult for him to visit all the places with great caution. Therefore, Rhine offered Lucien a dimension under the control of the vampires to help him jump through the space and save a lot of time.
Although most common sorcerers would imagine that the formation of the other dimensions and the main material world was just like the many small bubbles attaching to a big bubble, the reality was totally different. The form of the existence of space had exceeded their imagination and what they knew from their experience. Their existence could only be proved by the formulas.
The dimensions were connected to the main material world by many space joints. Although these dimensions were way smaller than the main world, despite the different coordinate that two dimensions had, say, one in the Dark Mountain Range and one in Allyn, the distance between the two dimensions was probably way shorter. Therefore, using the Dimension Gates on the space joints was a great way to travel far.
However, an unknown dimension could be very dangerous, like a maze. Due to the barrier between the different planes, one would not be able to connect to the main world when in another dimension. Hathaway, the Lord of Elements, when she once explored a dimension called Elks Maze, it took her ten years wandering in this dimension trying to find the exit. In the end, she had to use her own connection as a legendary archmage to her demiplane and forced her way by using Space Drifting to come back, which took her another five years.
Therefore, Lucien was very cautious and careful when it came to the existence of the World of Souls. It was like a chaotic reflection of the main world without any space joints. However, it was, at the same time, connected to the many space cracks and gaps like a spider web.
Lucien held the World of Souls in awe because of its dark features. Knowing that those very powerful archmages, such as Maskelyne, had been trapped in there, and that there were many souls, zombies, and specters wandering around, he was worried that one day the World of Soul might destroy the main material world.
This was why Lucien decided to help Rhine. It was partly because he once promised Rhine, but more because he believed that the task was still achievable to him. If it turned out that he was still incapable of finishing all the work, Lucien would go back without hesitance and take the risk to report it to the Highest Council.
When seeing the first inconspicuous road sign, Lucien followed the path downward faster and faster. He did not need the help of prophecy anymore.
However, Lucien did not put back the crystal ball but let it float in the air in front of him. He gently stroked the crystal ball five times.
The crystal ball became brighter and brighter, and more and more crystal clear. Suddenly, it went dim and a weird “thing” was spat out.
The thing was only of the size of a thumb. It was all black, with deep creases.
Lucien pointed at the thing with his finger and it rose in the air. The thing opened a crack in the middle, that quickly grew bigger, and then a pupil was revealed.
It was an eye!
The creepy eye became vague and then divided into nine equal-sized eyes. After becoming invisible, the nine eyes spread out toward the different directions.
The crystal ball became clear again. The scene in the ball was divided into nine parts, provided by the nine eyes.
This was the fifth-circle astrology spell, Spy Eye.
Meanwhile, Lucien also cast a fourth-circle astrology spell, Detect Danger, on himself, which could remind him of any possible dangers and spies in the range of fifty meters.
Looking at the crystal ball while being very careful with the surroundings, Lucien moved further toward the underground. According to what Rhine told him, there could be some monsters and creatures hiding in this ancient dwarf relic close to the space joint, such as the Underground Hunters, the specter of the dwarves, the distorted Hive Mother and the many evil creatures she produced. Although they would not be a big threat to Lucien, he still wanted to be very careful.
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The many forks dizzied Angwoods. In this dark, moist, and suffocating cave, it had lost all trace of Lucien, including his smell.
After all, on erasing his trace, Lucien was well taught by Natasha, a radiant knight.
Angwoods remained rather calm and the two spots of red flame on its rotten face flickered. He cast the spell silently. It started to use prophecy to locate Lucien.
Although there were many forks, Angwoods was sure that the distance between them was no more than one kilometer, and therefore it was very confident that the prophecy spell would work very well.
Angwoods did get the astrology coordinate of Lucien, (159,260), and he knew that Lucien was only four hundred meters away from him. With the information, Angwoods carefully picked the forks in the road. As soon as it met a dead end, Angwoods went directly through the wall.
There was no such a standard in using astrology coordinate, and there was a prominent difference between how the senior-rank specters and the Congress of Magic used the coordinates. For the specters, their magic power came from their inherent talent, and they automatically gained new spells when they reached a higher rank.
After going through the walls more than ten times, Angwoods could feel that Lucien was already very close. Angwoods reminded itself that it could not step in the range within thirty meters of Lucien, or it would be detected by Lucien’s divine item. Once Angwoods figured out Lucien’s destination, it would be waiting there and launching an ambush at him.
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With the assistance of the nine eyes, Lucien was very prepared when the degenerate creatures jumped out. Using the simplest and the fastest-cast spell, Magic Missile, he killed them easily one by one.
Some of the degenerate creatures were of the size of a human being, and some looked like dwarves. All of them had crooked horns and the sticky liquid on them had solidified into their black armor. The white bones in their right hand were revealed. Some of them were holding heavy axes and some long swords, and in their left hand, a black shield was carried.
They rushed to Lucien in groups, and their roaring sounded very evil, making Lucien feel a bit dizzy.
After killing four of them, Lucien took a glance at the disgusting liquid produced from their body. Because his magic pouch was already rather full, Lucien decided to give up collecting it.
As he was walking, he suddenly felt the burning from the amulet, Sun’s Corona. Three layers of its seal had been revealed, and thus it was more sensitive now!
Lucien knew that the powerful specter was only about less than twenty-five meters from him, and he could feel that it was still following him. He wondered if Rhine’s plan had been found out by someone else.
Rubbing the ring, Lucien was prepared.
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Angwoods could feel that now it was only sixty meters away from Lucien, and it became more and more alert. Because of the many powerful magic items Lucien had, if Lucien was prepared, Angwoods would definitely be in trouble.
Hiding into the Wold of Souls and going through another gray stone wall, Angwoods popped out of the wall on another fork in the road. However, when it was about to relocate Lucien again, Angwoods was shocked to find that Lucien was standing in the corner, smiling at it. The sorcerer shot a dim ray shot directly at Angwoods, as if he was expecting this for a long time.
“It’s impossible! How come I’m this close to him?!” Angwoods thought to itself in great shock.
Before it could take any action, the anti-magic ray directly hit it. All the magic effects on Angwoods had disappeared!
Lucien was also a bit confused when seeing the ray just hit the specter so easily. What was it doing there? The situation was a bit embarrassing. Lucien did all he could to get prepared for the ambush, but this senior-rank specter behaved in the way like it was just passing by.
However, soon Lucien noticed the familiar white patterns and the creepy black robe. He saw them before on the senior-rank specter when he was in the World of Souls. After the ray hit the specter, Lucien immediately cast Dimensional Cage. The spell was specifically used for binding specters.
Hit by the anti-magic ray, Angwoods temporarily lost the ability to go back and forth between the World of Souls and the main material world, as well as the ability to cast spells.
Angwoods, as a specter, was not able to fight hand-to-hand like a Death Knight. Right now, Angwoods rushed toward the stone wall to win a few seconds for itself.
It only needed a few seconds to recover!
However, as soon as Angwoods touched the stone wall, it failed to go through the wall as it expected but immediately bounced back.
Although Angwoods just hesitated for a few seconds, he had lost its precious chance.
At this time, the air surrounding Lucien started to become solemn and sacred, and a halo spread out.
The sixth-level divine spell, Exorcist Halo!
Dimensional Cage was just a third-circle magic, so Lucien did not have to spend much time on buffering.
When covered by the halo, like the melting snow under the sunlight, the entity of Angwoods started to thaw. Its bitter scream lingered in the narrow cave everywhere. Without any defense spells, Angwoods could not protect itself at all.
Angwoods did not understand why it never even had a chance to use its power, and why the prophecy magic showed such a terrible difference to the actual situation.
Before Angwoods was annihilated, an invisible pair of shackles trapped it and dragged it to Lucien.
The spell was from the Immortal Throne robe, Soul Cage! / NovelFull.Com
Lucien definitely would not let the chance slip out of his hand. He was going to get what he wanted to know out of the specter. He started to read the specter’s most important memory.
Lucien first felt the bitterness, then anger, and confusion.
