Chapter 393 Inside the Circle
The place where the most intense battle between the people and the trolls broke out was in the village, and the scars left at that time remained everywhere. Although the tallest residence was just a shack, the most important facility was that the well built by stone fell down. The most secret building was a five-meter-square-meter cellar collapsed. The entire village was poor and backward, but it should not be robbed, destroyed or defiled by the trolls.
After passing through the gray ball shell magic circle, what he saw through the window was a dilapidated scene. Bran Walton was almost lying on the car window, looking at the grass and trees outside with red eyes, and his hind hooves kept kicking angrily, making a cracking sound. "It's there!" He poked the glass with his fingers: "There is absolutely no such thing in our village, I dare to use my head to guarantee it."
It was a strange musical instrument. The beer barrel-sized clock was suspended in the air about one meter above the ground. Four clock hammers of different sizes, like tuning forks, were suspended around it, and they were beaten rhythmically. They could not hear their sounds through the car window, but that didn't matter. Zhao Mai drove directly over and felt the vibration caused by the collision. The clock was overturned to the ground, and the tuning fork also rolled into the soil. At the same time, the magic circle of ball shells on the all-terrain scanning also disappeared.
The centaurs that entered the shadow range were still a little dull and gradually woke up after the magic circle disappeared. They made horror calls because under their feet were the cold corpses of countless trolls. A few remaining trolls also woke up, but they were soon divided and surrounded by the people and then subdued.
"Let me get out of the car, I'm going to meet them." Bran Walton said, looking down at Zhao Mai.
"You have to remember that these people are not your villagers, or your villagers in this world, may be somewhat different." Zhao Mai first thought of the parallel world, which is the most likely explanation: "And, all this is definitely not something that trolls can do, and there is no black hand behind the scenes."
"I know!" Bran Walton nodded: "You have killed the trolls, thank you, Mike Long Roar, you are an honest wizard." He jumped out as soon as the door opened, waved one-arm at the people and excitedly said: "Hey! How are you all?"
Zhao Mai closed the car door and observed Bran Walton's performance through the window, and confirmed that he had not been affected anymore before getting off the car. At this time, it would not be an exaggeration to be careful. Regardless of the scene of the people hugging each other to celebrate, Zhao Mai and others came to the floating bell and tuning fork.
"What a strong magic wave, it seems like a hot wind blowing towards me." Xiaohua lay behind Zhao Mai, only daring to reveal her eyes. Others except her did not feel this way. Zhao Mai just felt uneasy, but could not tell what kind of uneasiness it was. The clock and tuning fork were quietly, and when they were close, they could see the fine and dense magic runes on it.
In the past, Chinese people liked to leave words on the surface of the Yu Zhong and the tripod, which took the meaning of "sound spreads to all directions" and "determines the world". The runes on the tuning fork in front of them were a complex magic array, which acted through the strike of the tuning fork. Zhao Mai picked up the bell, and the four tuning forks flew up together, just like invisible chains connected to each other. The tuning fork emitted a faint light, and Zhao Mai could clearly feel the magic energy slowly gathering on it, just like a process of energy storage. When the energy storage is completed, the tuning fork will ring at the bell, causing a magic effect.
Zhao Mai broke it with his hands, and even with all his strength, he could not drag the tuning fork out of the range of the clock. So he directly installed it with a storage bracelet. Sure enough, the tuning forks and the four tuning forks were one, and they were all installed in only one position. Zhao Mai breathed a sigh of relief, at least he was isolated into a portable space and would not be confused again.
"Zhao Mai, Adu found something." Xiaohua's voice came from afar. They stopped at the place where the portal appeared before, looking at a long wooden box in front of them. The box was thin and narrow, and could be folded in the middle. If opened, it was about one meter long. Looking from the opening of the box inside, you could faintly see silver-white light, rippling like mercury at the bottom of the box.
Just as Zhao Mai was observing, the light in the box began to gradually brighten, and something might happen. Zhao Mai asked everyone to retreat a little further, and Aduo blocked the shield in front of him and hid a string behind him. A new arched portal opened, this time it was covered with a gray-green light curtain.
"What will come out again this time?" Barbara poked her head out from behind Ado, rubbed her hands and said excitedly. After a while, there was no movement, and ripples continued to appear on the green light curtain, that's all.
Three minutes later, the light curtain closed. The wooden box was still lying quietly on the ground. "That's it? It's so boring." Barbara curled her lips, and Adu turned her head back behind her with her hands. Zhao Mai looked at the location of the box and then the layout of the village. "I understand!"
"This is a cage for raising trolls. Through the portal, drive people and horses from the parallel world and feed trolls. When the trolls exceed a certain number, some of them will walk inward into the village. Three minutes is enough for the trolls to walk from the edge to the green portal!" Zhao Mai gestured for a moment, and everyone understood.
The remaining question is: "Who did it? Why do you create so many trolls? What is the other side of the door?"
"No matter who did it, I will definitely come and see what went wrong here." Zhao Mai clapped his hands and directed: "Let's take action, Barbara, go find Bran Walton and tell him to start cleaning up the troll's corpses. Not one left is burned. This is the most thorough solution. Ado will help you set fire with a magic wand. Dogian, take down the weapons in the car, use the car as a barrier, and establish a shooting position. We must ensure that we can evacuate at any time. Xiaohua, show the entity and tell the people to be ready for battle. The old, weak, women and children will evacuate as soon as possible. By the way, I guess the portal may be opened in a while, and a group of people will come."
As everyone got busy, Zhao Mai began to prepare for the battle just like them. He put on leather armor on Aliang and cast druid spells to make it more agile, stronger and more patient. Afterwards, he turned on the elixir and applied it on his face. The ointment extracted from the rhizomes of plants and fruits exuded a bitter smell, and it was colorful on his face. There was only one very single but magical effect: to accelerate the speed of the natural force flowing to Zhao Mai.
Halfway through the preparation, the fire of the trolls burned was lit and the portal opened again. A large group of people rushed out of the mercury light screen, running through the ruins of the village with a terrified expression. Bran Walton, who was already prepared, stopped them, relaxed them, and then exited the village in an orderly manner. Some young and middle-aged warriors stayed, and even the same person from different parallel worlds stared at their "twins". Although they didn't carry many weapons, many of them just picked up ropes and tied them to stones and wooden stakes to use, everyone was full of fighting spirit.
Chapter completed!