What did you do with the dice?

Add a living corpse and a charred corpse to this picture of hell.

Now no one dares to go up, why bother?

"So what's your answer?"

The surviving wind mage swallowed a mouthful of nonexistent saliva, his throat extremely dry. He asked in a hoarse tremor, "If I let you go, will you let us go? Will you swear?"

"You're not qualified to be a mage with your brain? I've already gone down, how can I chase you? Can't you just leave on your own? Do you have any intelligence?"

The outrageous statement made by Intelligence 5 shocked everyone.

When people are extremely frightened, they really have no room for thinking. The wizard was only thinking about how to make Rusalka keep his promise to save his own life, but he didn't consider the reality that Rusalka couldn't have both. When he said this, everyone suddenly felt that what Rusalka said made sense and was very sincere. At this moment, they had completely lost the reason not to let him go.

Well, the core of the mage tower and so on are things that the living should consider. You are about to die, why should you care so much?

So everyone started to perform a duet with Rusalka in the tower. Rusalka took a step forward and they took a step back in the opposite direction. They turned around and finally watched Rusalka walk to the descending platform, while they walked to the position of the ascending platform, completing the tactical conversion operation.

"Someone help me press it, hurry up, I swear on my knightly honor not to kill him."

Rusalka's speech sounded strange. It felt like the honor of chivalry was not the honor of chivalry at all in his mouth. Instead, his tone was like the green onions given as a gift when buying vegetables at the market.

Not only that, Rusalka's words were the same as before, as if he had really used up all the magic power and holy light in his body. His stubborn and stubborn attitude with so many flaws was simply a naked temptation to commit a crime.

Would a normal person need help inputting magic power? Even a useless civilian would know how to output magic power. Otherwise, how could they activate flint and steel, make fire and cook?

Regarding this issue, Sanita has something to say: Rusalka never cooks, he is only responsible for eating.

The more he thought about it, the more suspicious he felt. But he didn't act because he felt guilty. Could it be that this guy knew about the special authentication trap on this descending platform, a pit that would explode if anyone other than a certified card holder inputted magic power? I was planning to use this trick to sneakily trick him, but my plan was seen through? The road to Cannes does indeed lead west, so why aren't you going?

But if it was a coincidence, it would be too deliberate. Couldn't they just tell me directly and let me deactivate the mechanism? Could they really force Rusalka to step into the trap?

The wizard stared at Rusalka for three seconds and the challenge failed.

Ultimately, he lacked the courage to gamble. He didn't dare to bet on whether Rusalka was deliberately using this childish "feigned weakness" to test their sincerity. After all, he'd already performed it once, so there was no need for him to use it a third time. Furthermore, their entire team had already broken through the barrier and entered the Mage Tower. Perhaps there was a traitor inside the tower who had betrayed the information, making the invasion so easy. He was just an ordinary mage, so why would he gamble his life? Since the other party hadn't fallen for it, he could only give up.

Of course, it doesn't mean that they didn't want to go back on their word and take the opportunity to escape after they reached the magic ladder. After all, the wizard's moral bottom line is very flexible. Rusalka said that he would not kill them, but that did not mean that they agreed to do things for Rusalka.

The main reason is that if they suddenly escape now, the magic ladder can only carry 5 people up at a time, and the rest will be killed by Rusalka, which will cause conflicts within the team. Moreover, Rusalka's speed and mobility were too strong in previous battles, and he could even ignore the space blockade and teleport. Who knows what his situation is.

The magic ladder rises very slowly. Maybe as soon as it rises, everyone will be teleported up and killed. It is better to do as instructed, send Rusalka down, and then run slowly in batches.

At this moment, the old wizard's life-saving teachings suddenly awoke in his mind. A wizard is willing to do anything to survive. Perhaps there are great wizards in the world who are discovered and praised after their death, but to him, only living wizards are good wizards. Dear teacher, today I will put the knowledge you taught me into practice and not bring shame to you.

So the only remaining wind mage sent a guard on the spot, holding the certification badge he had taken out, to send this living devil away.

Rusalka descended on the magic ladder, shouting as she went down: "Bang Bang Ka Bang! The Pearly Lament is coming!"

No one paid any attention to him because the people above were busy escaping, and the second underground floor only had a core sealed in a crystal shield and magic barrier, with no other personnel stationed there.

Rusalka: I'm so lucky! There are no guards! Look, I pick up my big sword, I grab sunny days, I grab cloudy days, I treat drizzle as good days, I treat moonlit days as daytime, I use one sunny day as two days, I chop hard when it rains lightly, I chop hard when it rains heavily, I chop hard when it rains heavily, I chop through empty spaces when it rains heavily, I chop with all my might when there's no rain!!!

If it was Sanita who was here, even without any other information, he didn't even need to be a mage. Just knowing that this was the core magic supply room would make him wonder why such an important place had no guards, and then he would deduce the following two possibilities:

1. The tower owner is very confident in the protective shield of this place.

2. This thing is very dangerous from a certain perspective, and invaders dare not destroy it rashly.

Of course, the ending is the same. After all, if you tell Rusalka these two guesses, he'll answer the same: Confident? There's no shield in the world I can't break. Daring? In my previous life, I could still find it in the dictionary, but in this life, a new version has been updated, giving the word "bold" to every cell in Yuyu's body.

Take a deep breath, get ready, and drop the sword.

There was no unnecessary movement, and he chopped the shell right in with one blow, like a woodcutter who had chopped wood all his life, and each sword strike hit a precise spot.

After five strikes, the outer shell made of unknown material finally broke, revealing the core inside which was wrapped in a rune array.

The energy outside the core is transparent, but the magic fluctuations generated distort the space. Even a layman in magic like Rusalka feels that this thing does not look like something that can be easily messed with.

He first picked up a piece of shell fragment on the ground and poked it. When the shell, which had withstood five giant sword blows before shattering, touched the barrier, there was a sharp friction sound, and the entire metal suddenly became extremely hot. Its magic conductivity was extremely strong, and the temperature was so high that Rusalka, who was just holding the metal, suffered [2 points of burning damage]. The part that passed through the barrier melted and disappeared directly, without even any ash left.

When I took it out again, I saw that the piece had been completely flattened.

Rusalka planned to try using a bullet-proof shield, but the shield was blocked when it touched it, and two years of her life were inexplicably deducted.

The effect of [Life Contract] was displayed in a state that was not as Rusalka imagined, where it had nothing to do with magic. Even after the greatsword was bound to it, it was still held up by the barrier, and the two sides could only emit fierce sparks of collision with each other. Although the greatsword was trying to squeeze in little by little, it seemed that there would be a stalemate in the short term, which was not in line with the brothers' core strategic idea of ​​"quick battle and quick decision".

Rusalka: (Good idea, bro.)

Sani Iron Tower: (Whatever you do, if you break it, it's mine. If you can get it back, you win.)

Rusalka: (Ah? So tolerant, is there really no problem?)

Sanita: (It has come to this point, do you think there can be any problems?)

Yuyu frowned, realizing the question didn't seem simple. Emm, why did the brother's answer use this familiar-sounding sentence structure...

Sani Tower: (524 points, you can't even open a barrier, right? Oh, forget it, I can't rely on you, just stand there and wait for me.)

Rusalka was immediately displeased: (Are you kidding? A barking dog? With your small stature, I was afraid you'd be like Tari. Look, if I get serious, I'll take it down in a minute and come to your aid!)

Well done, Barrier, you've piqued my interest!

He threw the shield aside and cast a [Faithful Shield] on himself. With the help of the double [Heavy Armor Master+++] talents, he reached in.

Damage numbers that almost filled the screen popped up from the lower right corner, but fortunately, with the Heavy Armor Master's 16-point damage immunity, the high-frequency damage to non-vital parts such as the arm was reduced to single digits, and the Hamlet Shield and Holy Healing Pool were also working. Rusalka watched as her golden arm, which was constantly smoking and emitting colorful sparks, finally caught the core floating in the air, and then pulled it out with force!

"What's the point of all that fancy stuff? Luckily, I've mastered the incredibly difficult 'click anywhere that lights up' mouse-clicking technique of 'Pearl Tears, Xianming, Zhu Guang Throwing Outposts,' so I'm a cut above the rest."

Rusalka looked at the still-smoking [Infinite Magic Core] in her palm and laughed out loud. "Haha, I got the Reality Gem! It's a shame they didn't even put some Titan Guardians in this treasure room to protect such an important item. Do they really think it's foolproof with just a barrier? I was so impressed by the Mage Tower in Alice City, but it turns out its defense is just so-so. Bro, I got it, I'm switching to manual labor!"

The energy supply array next to him was very considerate of him, as if it was cooperating with him and waiting for him to finish speaking. After a second or two, it confirmed that Rusalka had no other acceptance speech, so it flashed decisively, and then exploded on the spot without being able to bear the humiliation.

boom! ! !

Before the earth-shaking roar shook everyone, Rusalka was the first and most unlucky one. Before he could raise his shield, he was taken away by the 360-degree magic glare. The damage number was no longer important at this moment, because no matter how big it was, it was just a life. His perspective suddenly switched to a God's perspective, and a countdown began in the lower right corner to choose whether to resurrect.

Very good, you are worthy of being my trusted good friend, and you have lived up to my trust.

Damn it, I can’t have a private chat until I’m resurrected. The burn I just received cost me two drops of blood, but it didn’t hurt at all. My brother’s unkind behavior has caused my body temperature to rise, and I feel like I’m going to turn into a braised mermaid. I’ll wait for 10 seconds before resurrecting each round, so that I can prepare the opening curse words for the battle cry!

Chapter 274: Fierce Battle Outside the Kingdom's Capital Castle (14)

Inside the 9th floor hall, at this very moment, the most pinnacle wizard showdown in the Snidi Kingdom in this century is taking place quietly.

Because battles between great wizards are so rare, they almost never fight among themselves. Even if they serve different masters, at most they use the battlefield as a chessboard and the army as chess pieces, and each uses their most proud magic on this chessboard to defeat the opponent. They almost never personally take the field to be chess pieces, let alone a face-to-face duel, which is almost certain to kill one of them.

If an ordinary duel between mages is about who has better equipment, faster chanting speed, higher spell efficiency and accuracy, then a duel between two mages who must have reached the pinnacle of a certain magic attainment is a game of moments. Strength becomes a vague variable here, and only luck and meticulous observation can make the final decision.

Even activating a scroll takes time, but a low-level spell can be completed in a breath for a great wizard. There will never be a situation where the spell fails due to external interference, or misses the target. It is even faster than activating the scroll. Therefore, at this distance, using the high-level magic in the scroll may not necessarily beat the instant low-level magic.

If the low-level magic is blocked in advance, you will be put in a passive situation where you have to cast the next spell to pursue the opponent because you are one spell cycle behind the opponent.

Casting a spell is a kind of alternative rock-paper-scissors. Whoever casts a spell later loses, but you can never cast a spell before your opponent.

The three air needles that had just been countered by the spell returned along the same route. Facing his own move, the tower master mobilized all the resources that had been arranged in advance on the 9th floor of the Mage Tower to assist in defense. Taking advantage of the home field, the air needles could only sigh in despair in front of the magic barrier and turned into airflow and dissipated.

The gray-robed old man did not take advantage of this opportunity to attack, but just maintained the barrier and waited for Sanita to tear the scroll in his hand first. He judged the targeted spell the moment Sanita released the magic, and then directly used the runes on the wall to grab his magic circuit and convert it into output, inflicting serious injuries when he was not well defended!

But unexpectedly, Sanita did not use the scroll immediately. Instead, he asked, "Old Senior, you look like you are over 200 years old, right?"

"Haha, speaking in battle isn't just chanting syllables? Although I'm old, you know that mages grow stronger with age, so you'd better not underestimate my age."

Sani Tieta raised his index finger with the hand holding the scroll and pointed his little finger at the old man in gray robe.

"Oh, then I could eat a whole chicken every day."

A pitch-black wave flashed from the fingertips, and the next moment, the gray-robed wizard's face suddenly turned pale, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. An aura of decay and death emanated from his whole body. There were even gray corpse spots on his old face, and he looked miserable as if he was about to die.

【Finger of Death｜Seven-ringed Undead】

[Emits negative energy that penetrates a creature you can see within range, causing it to suffer pain. The creature must make a Constitution saving throw against this condition. On a failed save, it takes 7d8+30 points of necrotic damage; on a successful one, the damage is half as much. A humanoid creature killed by this spell awakens as a zombie under your control at the start of your next turn, and then strives to follow your verbal commands.]

Although the magic circuit of the archmage level can penetrate the body and enhance lifespan and physical strength, he is already 200 years old and has begun the countdown to his death. When playing the role-playing game, the impact of physical decline caused by age is not considered. But in reality, for a 200-year-old wizard like this who sits in the tower every day to conduct magic experiments, his physical fitness can exceed 12, which is considered a victory. How can he overcome my physical fitness immunity?

But soon Sanitta found out. The other party quickly took out a bottle of amber potion full of vitality from his arms. Sanitta used [Human Immobilization Spell] on it, but unfortunately it didn't work this time. The other party seemed to still release a resistance spell in this situation to offset Sanitta's [Human Immobilization Spell], and took the opportunity to pour the potion into his mouth.

Before long, the tiredness in his body disappeared, a hint of redness reappeared on his gray face, and he looked full of energy again.

Okay, he demonstrated to Sanita what "as long as you are not dead, you are alive" means. This is the margin of a two-hundred-year-old veteran player of "Eternal Plane OL" who has been playing hard and spending money. This bottle of stuff originated from the Ancient Well of Life in the Forest of Elves. People of Alijiesana's level are not worthy of owning it. It is almost an exclusive consumable for the upper elves, and it is simply out of stock.

Sanitieta felt a little regretful that he hadn't been able to sneak attack and kill the opponent instantly, but it was also expected. After all, it was ridiculous for a local archmage to have less than 60 health points. He had 86 health points at level 14. He was cheating and was mistaken for an archmage. The opponent had trained for at least 200 years, so his actual level would be much higher. "Life Drop, you are the archmage of Snidi Royal City, but you have a good relationship with the elves."

The gray-robed old man remained noncommittal and responded in kind, "Necromancy magic. You're a black magician, huh? No wonder I haven't heard of you before. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens when those Esidi knights discover you."

The two men smiled at each other and attacked again. This time, Sani Iron Tower burned two scrolls in an instant, and a huge transparent palm appeared directly from the void beside the opponent. It clenched the shield around the opponent fiercely, causing fierce friction between the palm and the magic barrier. The other spell was gravity, trying to knock the opponent directly to the ground.

The great wizard was obviously more experienced than Sanitta had imagined. The moment Sanitta used the [Gravity Spell], the other party actually cast a [Flight Spell] on himself, and forcibly used the magical relationship of mutual promotion and restraint to offset the downward effect of [Gravity] with the upward effect of [Flight]. It seemed that he read the content of Sanitta's spell in seconds.

Facing the big hand of the Sanitar, he was very confident and ignored it. Instead, he took advantage of the extra space and released the [Airflow Cage] that Rusalka had used before towards the Sanitar, trapping its body in the airflow. Then, he guided the rune magic on the wall of the tower to flow in front of him, gradually accumulating power and condensing into a brilliant ball emitting terrifying fluctuations.

Well, it is inevitable to spend magic power to change the ring position here, because the high-level ring position of the Sani Iron Tower has been emptied. It seems that this ball can only be countered with seven rings. Next, you can use spell counter to counter this small ball, and then point at him.

But if the opponent still has a life-saving item, and this finger fails, and there is no high ring position, you will easily be hit by a big one.

It’s better to keep it and use it as a meal replacement.

Laser shot out from the magic ball in the old man's hand. Sensing that the magic power had entered the "explosion period", Sanita quickly used magic power to replace two seven-rings, one six-ring and one five-ring. Then, he burned the six-ring position and a small quartz stone, and released an [Ice Wall].

[Ice Wall | Six-Ring Shaping]

Create a wall of ice on a solid surface within range. You can shape it into a hemisphere or sphere (up to a 10-foot radius), or into a flat surface consisting of ten 10-foot-by-10-foot squares. Each square must be connected to at least one other square. Regardless of its shape, the ice wall is always 1 foot thick and persists until the spell ends.

As an object, the ice wall can be broken by damage. Its AC is 12, and each 10-foot segment has 30 hit points. It is vulnerable to fire damage. When a 10-foot segment of ice wall reaches 0 hit points, it is destroyed, leaving behind a pocket of freezing air. The first time a creature passes through this pocket of cold air in a round, it must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 5d6 points of cold damage; on a successful one, it takes half as much damage.

This thing only has 30 health points for every 3 meters it's 3 meters long, but that doesn't matter, I can just put it vertically!

The laser that had just been fired encountered a vertical ice wall that appeared out of thin air between the two of them, with a distance of nearly 30 meters. Since the direction of the laser is a straight line and cannot change, the attack on the Sani Tower from the old wizard's hand is also a fixed path. It can only work hard to penetrate this long thick ice wall to attack the Sani Tower.

This terrifying laser that looked like it could kill anyone on contact actually left a huge circular hole more than ten meters deep in the center of the ice wall. Fortunately, this was its limit. After that, the light ball could only dissipate powerlessly in the old wizard's hands because its structure was not strong enough to support the spell. The laser lost its source and disappeared along with it.

But this was not the only killer move. When Sanita lost the old wizard's sight due to the obstruction of the ice wall, he directly took out a scroll and lit it to activate it. As a man with rich combat experience, when using the scroll, he would remember not to leave the enemy any chance to "read" the spells recorded in his scroll.

The magic circle unfolded above the Sani Iron Tower, and a huge rock spike fell from the sky above his head. He was stuck in the rotating air flow cage, and the stone pillar was like a medicine pounding stick that was about to fall and smash him to pieces.

Oh, it's really hard to deal with, and there aren't enough rings. If I use the seventh ring to counter this move...

Then the ground beneath them tilted.

No, it was the entire space and even the entire Mage Tower. With a violent tremor, it began to gradually collapse. The stone pillar in the air was naturally knocked crooked and fell behind the Sani Iron Tower.

At the same time, the magic runes on the surrounding walls and the magic circle were extinguished instantly. The gray-robed old wizard was stunned and quickly made a decisive decision. He directly detonated the magic barrier on his body that had lost the magic supply in the tower, and blew up the magic hand around him in coordination.

Sani Iron Tower seized the opportunity and released [Magic Missiles] directly into the sky. Three shining darts bypassed the wind wall, ignored the weightlessness caused by the tilt of space, circled in the air, passed through all obstacles and magic turbulence on the road, automatically tracked the target, found the old wizard whose surrounding barriers had disappeared, and flew over.

Although the old wizard reacted quickly and realized that the missile flying from the sky was just a trivial spell that could be blocked by just holding up a shield, he was not good at sports after all. His old body in an "unbalanced" state could not keep up with his lightning-fast thoughts. As a great wizard, it took him half a second longer than when he was young to adjust the entry-level shield spell casting posture. This half second resulted in a magic missile penetrating the barrier before he could hold up the shield, hitting his forehead, and automatically triggering a precious life-saving amulet on his body.

At this moment, Rusalka's voice came from the private chat channel: (Brother, when you get married, I curse you to come home from get off work and see your eldest son starting up Genshin Impact, your second son playing 7+7=11, and your wife asking if you would still love me if she turned into a caterpillar.)

Sanita: (I won’t get married unless it’s natural.)

Rusalka was silent for a moment. (Awesome! If it were anyone else, I'd laugh at their nonsense. But if it were you, I'd be hard to say. You win.)

Sanita: (Is this how aggressive you are?)

But he never imagined that this was Rusalka's deliberate move, a retreat-to-advance strategy to lure the enemy in. He immediately launched into the second phase of her unexplained combo: (Because I know you'll naturally marry those two elves. Elves can't play Genshin Impact, so your children won't play Genshin Impact either. Elves don't need math, so not knowing math doesn't matter. And since they really can turn into caterpillars, they certainly won't ask you such stupid questions. So you win, you're an unassailable winner in life. Win! Win! Win!)

When Sanita heard this damned elf joke, he felt the fire element in the magic circuit in his chest surge up: (Head!)

Rusalka made a prompt decision and directly released the "Five Wisdom Voids", dragging Sanita into her familiar conversation area: (Damn, you want to tie the knot with me? There's a perverted Nantong! Cat, save me!)

Sanitta had to admit that Rusalka's trash talk skills seemed to have improved a bit as his level increased since he came here. For a moment, he couldn't think of any words to fight back effectively except calling him a "stupid dog", which was almost a surrender.

The current situation was completely unexpected for the gray-robed old wizard, and his questioning voice could be heard through the ice wall: "Your servant sacrificed himself at this moment to detonate the magic core in the tower for you. You took this opportunity to bet that I would be careless and then used an insignificant little magic to trick me out of my amulet. You seem to know me a little too well. Is this a coincidence, or did you know me before and all this was part of your calculations?"

"Old Senior, of course I've never met you, but you've lived for so long, haven't you learned a lesson?"

Sanita responded with a smile, cleverly transferring the dangerous red temperature passed on by his brother to the enemy.

"There are no coincidences in the magical world, only a wrong move in chess."

Chapter 275: Fierce Battle Outside the Kingdom's Capital Castle (15)

The power of Rusalka's shocking explosion was stronger than the shocking kneeling of a long-term vegetarian, no, it was even more powerful than the explosion that the Demon Lord used to blow up the guest building of the Hendalia City Lord's Mansion. The violent and disordered magic of various attributes rushed around like a dump truck with a sudden loss of steering control and brake failure on the highway. Everything on the entire second underground floor was reduced to dust in an instant, and even the walls that were said to be made of materials with extremely strong magic resistance were instantly destroyed into pieces like paper.

Rusalka, who was holding the shield, died on the spot because of his carelessness and had to rely on delayed resurrection to delay the magic burst period.

A glance at the system prompt revealed that just for that moment of his life, 76 years of his lifespan had been deducted, which was equivalent to the power of 220 exploding crystals exploding at the same time.

The entire Mage Tower and its surroundings were in a state of earthquake and trembling. The survivors in the Mage Tower turned into gourds rolling on the ground. The shelves collapsed, and the items and reagent bottles on them fell down, and crashed into the tilted walls with the people. The leakage of magic power and the chain reaction made the tower a mess in an instant. The worst thing was that after all the magic array power supply stopped, even the magic ladder stopped in mid-air and did not move, frightening the people who could not come down from the air into losing their voices.

Not only was this the case inside the tower, but the area around the Mage Tower was also greatly affected. The shaking made the sand and gravel on the ground bounce and vibrate. The soldiers on the city wall felt as if the entire wall was hit by a giant's hammer, and some of the half-asleep guys were especially unsteady on their feet and almost fell down.

Unable to contain their curiosity, everyone turned back in the direction of the tremors. The sight they saw instantly dispelled the sleepiness they had felt from the all-night battle—the Invincible Mage Tower behind them, which had stood for centuries, was now slowly tilting and sinking, a scene of impending collapse! Combined with the seemingly endless night, it was like a giant ship running aground, slowly sinking, emitting a silent, final sadness.

The fall of this guardian-like black shadow brought pressure to the soldiers' hearts, which was no less than strangling their throats with their hands. Feelings of disappointment and helplessness filled their chests, and even breathing became extremely difficult. The weapons in their hands seemed to be as heavy as a thousand pounds.