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Chapter 441 - Underground Maze (IV)

    <h4>Chapter 441: Underground Maze (IV)</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>AsStudios <strong>Editor: </strong>AsStudios


    The Zombie Witches’ formation was instantly disrupted by Anne’s threatening shield. Perhaps if it were the Necromancer or Lich, they would have a chance to retaliate. However, these magical creatures equipped with basic intelligence behaved differently. Zombie Witches were hesitant in this chaotic situation and scattered frantically to escape from Anne’s whirlwind. At this moment, Rhode appeared behind a Zombie Witch.


    <i>Shing! </i>Gracier secretly prated the Zombie Witch’s skull without any resistance. The other Zombie Witch widened its mouth and converged the surging billows of magic into an intense shock wave. It released a strong st at Rhode to avenge itspanion.


    Although this Zombie Witch had quick reactions, the w in its low intelligence exposed itself here: it disregarded itspanion who was right before Rhode and due to this, itspanion became the sacrificial victim of its own magical shock wave. After getting struck by the shock wave, the Zombie Witch hovering in midair was left with only its lower body. Instead of being concerned for itspanion’s miserable encounter, the Zombie Witch tilted its head as it couldn’t figure out where Rhode was.


    At this moment, an X-shaped radiance shed before the Zombie Witch.


    Rhodended on the ground before the corpse of the Zombie Witch fell from the air.


    The battle ended.


    Standing on the peak of the tform, Rhode nced below him. Instead of the Maze Zombies, numerous pitch-ck vestiges stained the ground. Gillian was strolling through the hall towards the tform and sensing Rhode’s gaze, the fox-eared youngdy gave an OK gesture with her hand. “Master, no problem.”


    <i>Boom! </i>A deep collision sounded from the other side. Rhode turned over to find Anne rolling and getting up on her feet. The pitiful Zombie Witch beneath her feet had turned into meaningless debris.


    Anne revealed a cheerful smile to Rhode. “Leader, Anne’s part is OK too.”


    “Well done.” Rhode observed the surrounding as heplimented.


    Although the Zombie Witches were inferior to Necromancers in terms of powers, it seemed that Anne’s reactions in battle when facing three of them were still rather great. Even though Rhode knew the tricks of Zombie Witches inside-out, he didn’t exin the details to Anne because he wanted to put the youngdy to the test and see how well she could bring her qualities out. It seemed that Anne had passed his test and this would be extremely helpful for the next battle. Rhode shifted his attention to the box before him.


    That was a silver, squarish equipment in a shape of a box. It was carved withplicated patterns as though it was part of a certain ritual. A dull emerald gem was embedded above,cking the luster of a magical gem.


    <i>Could it be that the powers inside it have been fully exhausted?</i>


    Rhode picked up the equipment and scanned the magical gem carefully. After all, the most basic way to judge a gem’s magical powers was that the more ring it seemed, the more magical powers it possessed. This was the same theory for equipment or weapons embedded with magical stones. In terms of price, a sword iid with a magical gem brimming with magical powers could be sold for thousands of gold coins. However, if the magical gem had lost its powers, the sword would only be sold for a dozen gold coins as it would be deemed low-grade. At earlier stages, this had be a source of ie for Alchemists with the Production subss. After mastering the techniques of Productions, these yers could obtain or purchase low-grade magical items through adventures or NPC and profit after repairing and re-selling. However, there were also probabilities that the item repair would fail. Furthermore, with news of these methods spreading in session, many picked up this skill. As a result, the price of the low-grade magical equipment increased dramatically. Moreover, with an abundance of magical equipment in the market, the increase in saturation and price reduction led to a steep drop in profits. Therefore, this was no longer a good source of ie for Alchemist yers with the Production subss.


    Rhode concluded that this magical equipment was utter trash. He wouldn’t be able to use it unless it got repaired with its magical gem reced. But... Rhode’s forehead furrowed because the strategy guide didn’t exin that he needed to repair this equipment. This portion wouldn’t be deliberately abandoned if there indeed was this requirement to repair it. Moreover, even if the author had forgotten to include this detail, yers would have added on in thements. <i>But, I don’t remember seeing the yers’ments on this issue, so what’s wrong...</i>


    If this equipment required repair, it was a grave mistake to not bring Lapis along. After all, not every smith could repair magical items. Furthermore, with the probabilities in sess rates, it would be best for Lapis who possessed the Behermes’ alchemy skills to repair this equipment. At the same time, it didn’t seem realistic to fetch her.


    “Master?” Gillian’s voice pulled Rhode back to reality. However, Rhode’s eyebrows rose as soon as he realized that the dull magical equipment in his hands suddenly emanated faint magical radiance.


    “This is...” Before Rhode could finish his sentence, a ring beam of white light emerged from a gap in the middle of the tform ground. The hall was shrouded in radiance entirely and at the same time, Rhode found himself suspended in the air and the space around him had distorted...


    “Damn it, Anne, Gillian, be careful! This is spatial teleportation!” eximed Rhode.


    “Eh?” Anne curiously widened her eyes and scanned the surroundings. “No problem, Master.”


    Gillian remained as calm as usual. This fox-eared youngdy was unconcerned, or perhaps, she was ready for it all along.


    At this moment, a dazzling white brightness upied Rhode’s vision and he was vestured in the entirety of it...


    When Rhode opened his eyes, the first sensation he felt was a cool breeze filled with the scent of soil.


    “I don’t remember that damned strategy guide mentioning that I’d be teleported by that thing...” Rhode held his hand against his forehead and grumbled as he struggled to get back on his feet. He found the half-conscious Anne half-kneeling on the ground while Gillian stood quietly beside her. The Fire Elemental Lord was used to such standards of spatial teleportation. She shut her eyes and positioned both hands before her like a wise and virtuous woman.


    As soon as Rhode stood to his feet, Gillian opened her eyes and gazed at her master with a cheeky smile. “How was it, Master? Feels great?”


    “That was terrible. I regret not taking a motion sickness pill in advance.” Rhode stomped the ground a couple of times to force the dizziness away. He lifted his chin and gazed forward. Unlike the underground hall, Rhode could clearly see the glittering stars in the sky and the distinctive rays which only the Light Dragon Soul emitted. The moon hung in the air brightly and the waist-deep prairie in a distance swayed in the gentle night breeze. Rhode was familiar with this ce and even though he had only been here a few times, he remembered this ce deeply. Gazing at his feet, a perfectly round te ritualid quietly in the prairie.


    “I was thinking why would a ritual would be in that kind of ghostly ce... It seems to serve this purpose...” Rhode mumbled at the sight of the te ritual.


    Meanwhile, Anne stood up and unlike Gillian, this youngdy had never experienced spatial teleportation. Her body shook as she got on her feet. She squinted her eyes and swayed left and right like a drunkard. She mumbled unintelligibly and stumbled her way to Rhode’s shoulder. After a few moments, Anne opened her eyes and gazed at the man beside her curiously. “Urgh... Leader? Where are we... Feels so ufortable... What happened...”


    “Spatial teleportation. We left the underground maze and this ce is...” Rhode lifted his head. He saw a prairie upied with broken ste and subdued ruins. However, it was amazing that this exceptionally ruinedndscape had a strangely mesmerizing atmosphere under the brilliance of the illustrious moon. “Castel teau Ruins.”


    Castel teau Ruins.


    No one knew its true origins. From a yer’s perspective, Rhode knew that this ce was once a huge city with a supetive civilization. However, this city sunk into the deep underground due to various reasons and turned into an underground city through and through. This happened a long time ago and Rhode and his team had identally entered this underground city and discovered the te ritual set on this prairie.


    ording to the yers, there must be something hidden in this prairie for it to have such an odd thing. Therefore, the yers began their search and entered the entrance to the underground ruins. Although Starlight met unexpected obstacles, they advanced through and cleared this ruins dungeon smoothly. Due to this, Rhode wasn’t sure of its history and the only information he gathered from the yers was that this city used to be advanced in magic technology. However, the entire city sank after a massive magic experiment failed. As the experiment failed too abruptly, most of the citizens didn’t escape sessfully. The underground sarcophagi chamber which Rhode’s group had entered was built by the citizens that had escaped safely. They hid in Eagle City and strived to make their city alive again. However, they weren’t able to reach their goals. In the end, the city fell into an evesting hibernation.


    Rhode’s group had been puzzled because this te ritual should have been used for teleportation purposes. They thought that this te ritual was for them to enter the dungeon tunnel and they spent a lot of time researching, which concluded with no results. After entering the dungeon, they were once again misled that this ritual was one that transported them to the surface after clearing the dungeon. However, it seemed like this ritual served the purpose of teleporting from the chamber to the tunnel of the ruins.


    Although to be teleported to the entrance of the ruins was a big surprise for Rhode, he continued to remain calm. Initially, Rhode had decided to head to Castel teau Ruins the second day after he obtained the equipment. Now that his traveling time had been saved, it was all the better for him.


    “Let’s go.” Rhode lowered his head and scanned the area before moving forward while Anne and Gillian followed behind him closely. Anne hadn’t shaken off the dizziness yet as she covered her forehead and mumbled, swaying her way at the back.


    As the trio ambled along, the soft grass patches transitioned into a solid, b path. After years of wear, the smooth b had cracked. Green grass grew stubbornly from between the chinks and gave some life to the scenery.


    However, as they moved ahead, the scenery before their eyes transformed.


    “Eh?” Anne looked around curiously.


    The moon continued to hang in the sky and the night breeze was still as chilly while the prairie was rustling feebly as usual. However, Anne found her world blinded by depressing gray and all the colors had lost their vibrancy. Even Gillian and Rhode seemed to be lifeless, as though they were dead.


    “Leader!?” Fear crossed Anne’s face as she grabbed onto Rhode’s arm frantically.


    “Eh?” Rhode turned over and found Anne with an awkward expression.


    Anne quickly withdrew her hands and didn’t know what to say. Were her eyes having problems?


    “Don’t worry, Anne” As though Rhode was reading her mind, he patted her shoulder lightly. “We are in the Necromancer’s territory and this ce has been totally shrouded by lifeless aura. That is why you are seeing such depressing sceneries. Rx and use the power of your element to dispel them away.”


    “Okay!” Anne shut her eyes and began to put to use her elemental powers. In the blink of an eye, wind elemental powers wrapped around herself . When she opened her eyes, the gray, spiritless color had faded and vibrant colors once again returned.


    “Phew...” The youngdy heaved a sigh of relief.


    It was certainly depressing for a cheerful young girl like her to ept such a dull-looking world. Even though Anne had fought in the underground, the duskiness of the underground world would still light up with the radiance from the mes and at least the world was still bright and dazzling. However, the world that filled her eyes before was lifeless, as though it were abandoned.


    “Eh?” Rhode slowed down his pace.


    A huge cave as though a monster’s wide, enormous mouth presented itself patiently for its prey to enter. Although this was the entrance to the Castel teau Ruins, this was nowhere simr to the one in Rhode’s memories. There were no Undead Soldiers guarding this entrance; instead, it was cold and empty. Apart from the broken walls and ste that copsed, there was a pile of bones scattered on the ground.


    <i>Scattered on the ground?</i>


    Rhode half-kneeled and picked up a bone by his feet. His brows knitted as soon as he recognized the clear scars on these bones. These were vestiges left by swords. Also, the marks revealed that it happened recently!


    <i>Could someone have gotten into the Castel teau Ruins before us?</i>


    Rhode’s heart sank and he stood up to gaze at the entrance while his head was spinning. This Castel teau Ruins was a 5 Star Mission and no mercenary group had the qualifications apart from the guilds. In other words, only the members of a guild would be here. However, Barter denied that they would be heading here toplete their 5 Star Mission and he didn’t seem like one who would lie. So, what exactly was going on? Who else woulde to the Castel teau Ruins?


    Rhode hesitated no more as he tossed the bone. “Let’s go!”
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