old room

Mage Milian is a high-level mage with a fiery personality (or domineering), probably because of his temper, he is quite good at controlling fire demons and golems, which makes him become one of the mages to some extent. warriors in.Of course, very few people would sincerely want to provoke the aliens among such mages—but similarly, those mages with feminine and sensitive personalities are not shy about showing their rejection of aliens.

"I heard that after the lowest level of space was sealed off, those people asked Mage Milian to be in charge of controlling the rune disk that cuts the space."

Alister whispered in an almost sleepwalking voice.

The difference from Ivan is that Alister has not lost his fantasy and longing for the senior mage, so after he saw the corpse of the mage Miriam (assuming he can still be called a mage), his spirit was obviously affected. blow.

"I never thought that one day a person like Mage Miriam would end up in such a pathetic end..."

Alister seemed unaware that he was muttering to himself.

Ivan listened to Alister's chatter in silence, he frowned, and a faint feeling of irritability spread under his skin.

"It might not be the worst possible end for him."

Ai Wen didn't know why he muttered this sentence.

Alister's soliloquy disappeared immediately, and he stared back at Ivan with a strange expression: "Why do you say that?"

Ivan didn't like Alister's tone when he spoke.

A slight sense of irritability spread under Aiwen's skin.

"What 'why say that'?"

he replied coldly.

"When you said that, it sounded like you knew something, like..."

Let's say you know what could be worse.

Alister stopped his words and didn't finish his words, but Ivan still clearly understood what he had to say.

There is a rather rare tacit understanding between them.If it weren't for this accident, he and Alister might have developed a deep friendship under the influence of time—Ivan heard a voice deep in his heart say sarcastically.

"It's just a gut feeling."

Ivan answered Alister stiffly.

And almost at the same time as he was speaking, countless bizarre scenes appeared in his mind. Compared with those scenes, it is indeed not the worst choice for Mentor Milian to become a "swollen snake".

Of course, Ivan didn't intend to explain this to Alister.

"Hiss..."

Behind the corpse of Master Miriam, there was a muffled humming sound from inside the former laboratory, which attracted the attention of Ivan and Alister at the same time.

Almost at that moment, Alister's face turned pale.

He looked at Ivan: "Do you think..."

Aiwen frowned and nodded: "Unfortunately, if Mentor Milian is really responsible for controlling the rune disk as you said, then no matter how reluctant the two of us are to go in now, we still have to do that. At least the space The rune disk will allow us to figure out what's going on here."

After saying this, Ivan pointed to the window a little abruptly.

The thick night outside the narrow window was the reason why Ivan was distracted before.

"...I don't think the darkness outside is because of the night." Ivan added, "I can't feel the starlight."

After listening to Ivan's words, Alister looked as if he was really about to faint.

【Whenever and wherever, starlight is always watching over the earth—even in ancient times and wild places where magic cannot watch over. 】

This is common sense that every mage knows. There is no magic that can isolate starlight, unless...

"What you want to say is that the mage tower we are on now has been cut?"

Alister asked tremblingly.

However, the moment the question was spoken, he already knew the answer clearly.

At this moment, the dead silence and strangeness they felt before was explained.

Of course, the mage tower that was cut to another space will not have any magic factors, nor will it have any movement or vitality.

"However, this doesn't make sense. The abandoned space should be eternal silence and stagnation, but the two of us can still move freely... the same is true for Mage Miriam."

Alister said in a panic.

"Well, I also hope that my judgment is wrong."

Ivan replied absent-mindedly, his eyes remained on the door of the mage's laboratory.

The thick laboratory door seemed to be pushed further open by an invisible hand, and the subtle "hissing" sound became louder and louder.

Ivan felt as if he smelled a burst of metal.

"We have to act fast."

Alvin said something in a trance.

Then he started walking into the lab.

Alister seemed to make a sound of panic, maybe it would be "be careful" or "wait", Ivan noticed his retreat and fear, but it was not very important.

Ivan pushed open the door that seemed to indicate something ominous, and the smell of metal that had gradually become familiar became stronger.

The laboratory is not completely dark, from the floor to the wall, even the ceiling and windows are covered with a thin layer of mold-like unknown substance, and that substance is emitting a cloudy and dim colorful light at this time (strange Ivan and Alister didn't see this light when they were outside the door).

And after seeing the situation in the laboratory clearly, Alister's extreme resistance to this place seems to have become justifiable.

A large number of translucent vines occupy ample space in the laboratory.

They adhere to each other and are independent of each other. The secreted mucus pulls out a thin film between each other, and under the action of tension, countless circular holes appear in the film.

The patterns on their bodies are the source of the filthy light, and because of their translucent properties, Ivan thought that the mold was attached to the original building surface of the laboratory when he entered the laboratory.

And at the joints of those vines, several cocoons were wriggling.

Through the cocoon, which is also translucent and glowing with moldy light, one can clearly see the creatures that are being bred inside - after seeing them, Alister understood what Ivan said before very personally .

Indeed, in this weird and incomprehensible world, it may not be the worst end for Mentor Miriam to end up as such a monster.

"vomit……"

Ivan heard Alister retching behind him.

"Be quiet."

he said softly.

"You'll startle them."

In fact, when I saw those monsters that could no longer be described in words, their names automatically appeared in Ivan's mind.

But that name is composed of an extremely profound and ancient language, and Aiwen has no way to successfully translate them into a language that humans can understand.But it also goes some way to showing just how tricky and evil these "things" can be.

Aiwen believes that they may have been human beings...innocent or not innocent mages and mage apprentices, but the moment they were entangled by those vines, their fate had already been decided.

There were subtle whispers that could not be ignored from among the slowly breathing and wriggling cocoon balls.

They sounded like laughter and wailing mixed together and then diluted many times-and Ivan knew that Alister didn't hear this sound.

And Ivan ignored them as a matter of course.

"What do you know about Mage Miriam... do you know where he might have kept the rune disk?"

Ivan stepped over a few vines carefully, and then asked Alister.After the initial retching, the latter quickly restrained all his movement and life, but this could not conceal his shaky state of mind.

It wasn't until Ivan's eyes met him that he seemed to barely hold up a little energy.

"Hmm...I...I think about it...I think I should be able to guess...Maybe...Master Milian is a fire mage, and his thinking mode should be quite straightforward..."

Alister babbled, and he didn't seem to notice that he couldn't help licking his lips nervously as he spoke.

Even though he knew that he was trying to find the small rune disk in the huge (and dangerous) laboratory, when his eyeballs were sunken in their sockets and turning around gruntingly, Ivan still felt that his appearance was a little strange. People are not very pleasant--

At one point, Alister's tongue seemed a little too elongated and dark red.

Ivan squinted his eyes, and he suddenly remembered Alister's elbow bitten by the swollen snake.

After that, Alister didn't seem to care about the wound, but...

"there."

Suddenly, Alister pointed somewhere and let out a low cry.

Ai Wen came back to his senses, he looked towards the place pointed by the red-haired youth, and then couldn't help frowning.

It was supposed to be a wide and thick desk made of fire perches. Even now, various reagents and potions sealed in crystal bottles are still neatly placed on it, even though the crystal bottles have become It has a dull yellow-brown color and the handwritten label on it has long been blurred, but judging from the obvious sculpture of the flame dragon on the bottle cap, these things should have been the personal items of Master Miriam before.

Alister was right, Master Milian's thinking mode was indeed quite straightforward during his lifetime.

He controls the rune disk, which he tucks away in his desk.

Everything is so natural.

But this doesn't make Ivan feel better...

In his field of vision, the place where the desk was originally had been entangled by five or six vines.Ivan suspects that the material of the desk, that damned expensive fire perch has a certain degree of attraction to these annoying and extremely dangerous vines. Surrounding the desk, the surface of the vines hangs seven Eight bulging cocoon balls, the "creatures" wrapped in them are larger in size and more terrifying in appearance than similar ones in other areas.

Different from the translucent outer shell of other cocoon balls, its outer skin has swelled to be almost transparent, and in the turbid greenish mucus floats a mass of the ugliest creatures that Ivan and Alister have ever seen in their lives.

Compared with it, the swollen snake transformed by Master Milian is almost like a follower of the goddess of beauty Navis.

However, under the body of the thing, a corner of the dark stone base of the rune disk was exposed.

As if aware of the people's gaze, the monster that was almost out of its shell slowly turned around in the monster's amniotic fluid. It seemed to aim its head at Ivan and Alister, and was watching They, although from the naked eye, the eyeballs on its body that were attached to the epidermis like skin diseases were not opened, and the gray eyelids covered its eyeballs.

Ivan tried his best not to keep his eyes on the creature too much. He felt chills and a chill, but there was still a hint of rage—that feeling reappeared again.

Ai Wen lowered his head and saw the blue veins on his wrist shaking like a frightened snake, but when he stared seriously, everything returned to normal.

"It's right there... right there..."

At the moment when Ivan was in a daze, Alister swayed and walked over him towards the desk. He looked a little dazed, as if he didn't notice what kind of monster was entrenched on the desk.

"Da - wait!"

Ivan almost made that weird and hoarse voice again.

(The ball of cocoon in the lab quickened its rhythm with that small moan).

Then he reached out and grabbed Alister firmly.