Chapter 43: The Ruins of Krimatha (4)
Jones and Dora fled!
Two tentacles instantly stretched out from the door and chased them along the corridor. They were extremely fast and powerful.
Along the way, those anti-magic walls that Jones could not move at all. When they encountered these tentacles, they seemed to have turned into ordinary stone walls. Although the anti-magic walls would not be directly destroyed when they were rubbed by them, Jones could see obvious dust shaking, shaking, or even bursting.
With the roar, the entire underground world was shaking violently, just like an earthquake that would collapse at any time.
Just as he was about to be caught up, Jones had to shout loudly: "Hurry up! Throw away the armor!"
So, Jones and Dora directly transformed into bats while running. The silver moon armor worn on their bodies broke apart like a pile of blocks.
Two bats emerged from the gap in their armor, then flapped their wings and continued to fly forward desperately.
Suddenly, the distance that was getting closer and closer began to grow farther. The tentacles that stretched straight line did not seem to be as fast as they did when they swept across.
Until the distance was about ten meters wide, the tentacles paused, as if they had given up their pursuit and began to retreat little by little.
Jones and Dora also stopped, hanging in the air with their wings flapping.
Soon, the tentacles that were just retracting stopped again, and then turned to pursue them.
Helplessly, Jones and Dora had to continue flying forward desperately, pulling more than fifty meters away in one breath.
Finally, the tentacles stopped again.
Jones and Dora hovered again, looking at each other from afar with those tentacles.
Of course, it may not be called "eyes" because these tentacles do not have eyes. Jones cannot even understand how the other party senses himself and Dora without eyes and pursues further.
This time, probably because the distance was too far, the tentacles didn't seem to be the same as the one just now, and after Jones and Dora paused, they quickly started chasing again.
The two sides were in a stalemate.
Jones opened his eyes wide and observed the strange creature in front of him, which looked like a giant earthworm.
Jones didn't even know whether the word "biology" should be used to describe it. Because it has no fluctuations unique to ordinary creatures or even monsters on it. As a "magic source", Jones can only feel it in the perception given by Lucy. Under normal circumstances, Jones can't feel its existence by himself. Even the "magic source" is only the eyeball part of the core. There is no such tentacles at all.
This is terrible. You should know that tentacles account for the vast majority of its body. This is equivalent to saying that less than one percent of its body can be perceived, and the rest, whether it is using Jones' usual magic wave perception, breath perception, or Lucy's magic source perception, cannot be perceived.
The key is that you don't know how long these tentacles can be. Judging from what Jones observed, these tentacles seem to be able to stretch infinitely, but they will become thinner and thinner. At least Jones did not see any signs that it had reached its limit. Once they were rolled up by these tentacles, with the strength of Jones and Dora, they could be said to be dead.
During the stalemate, Dora's voice suddenly rang in Jones' mind: "Mr. Jones, behind..."
Jones was stunned. Turning his face, he saw Dora's eyes wide open and looking at him carefully from the corners of her eyes.
In an instant, Jones' goosebumps all started. Even if he didn't look back, he knew what was behind him.
Without any hesitation, Jones immediately launched a shield technique at an extremely fast speed. It was not for defense, because he already knew that the shield technique could not resist the frontal attacks of these tentacles. He used the shield technique to push Dora out and push Dora to one side. At the same time, he quickly retreated to the other side.
Almost at the same time, two slender tentacles stabbed from top to bottom from behind, and after falling out, they pierced heavily on the floor tiles in front of Jones and Dora, instantly smashing several hard floor tiles into a deep pit, and debris splashed.
I have to say that Jones' decision to become a bat was right. In this underground world, especially when facing such monsters, the bat form is much more convenient than the one originally wearing Silver Moon Armor.
In the dust, Jones used the advantage of the small body of the bat to pass through the gap between the tentacles, then used his small bat feet to hold Dora who was still in shock, drag her out of the dusty area, and then flew desperately into the open area.
When he flew out for a while, Jones suddenly discovered that more than a dozen tentacles were flipping around in the sand, including the two tentacles that had been chasing them early but were more than fifty meters away from them before the attack began.
And the moment Jones turned around, the tentacles seemed to notice that Jones and Dora were no longer in the dust, and they all stopped, then turned around and chased Jones and Dora frantically.
There was no other way, so Jones could only flap his wings desperately, and use all his strength to pull Dora forward desperately, hiding in the boundless and crisscrossing underground world, running around, and not daring to stay for a moment.
...
At this moment, in the original room, the eyeball monster had already smashed Lucy's skull. It opened its eyes wide and quietly stared at the broken bones in the darkness, as if waiting for something.
Soon, the bones that turned into pieces lit up dark green light. Then, the dark green light broke away from the pieces itself and slowly merged in the air, finally forming the outline of the skeleton.
"Calm down, man. You can't defeat the lich by just your strength." Lucy smiled "Gaga" and said, "I know you are a monster, but in essence, Lich is also a monster for most creatures in this world. Maybe there is a common language between 'monster' and 'monster', so you can talk about it carefully? It would be best if you can say something. In that case, I can judge what language you can understand, without trying one by one."
The eyeball monster made a "whimper" sound, as if it was gasping violently. But does it have a mouth and vocal cords?
It seems that there is no.
Not only does it have a mouth and vocal cords, it seems that it does not even have an ear. As for where those "whimper" sounds come from, I don't know.
Just as Lucy was still trying hard to judge the meaning of the "whip" sound, the eyeball monster's attack began again. It attacked Lucy with its tentacles madly, and even the eyeballs as its main body began to roll in this small room for it.
However, physical attacks have no effect on Lucy, who has been transformed into a soul state. Tentacles travel through Lucy's body one by one, as if it was just a shadow.
However, even if you can't attack at all, it seems that you can't stop the Eye Monster's anger, and its attack continues.
Under the fierce attack, the walls around were shaking violently with the roar, as if they would collapse at any time.
The roar echoed in the underground world, and even the location Andrew could be clearly heard.
...
Looking in the direction where the sound came, Andrew was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "They have activated the tomb guardian."
"What is the tomb-guarding demon?" Turu asked in a low voice.
"It is a monster summoned from the turbulence of space. It is said to be a monster, but it is actually very different from the monsters in our world itself. Strictly speaking, they are not powerful, but they do not abide by the rules of this world. If you don't understand them, you will be completely unable to defeat them. Not to mention us, even angels and demons can't handle it. Under normal circumstances, it is something that angels and demons are unwilling to touch."
"But the humans in Krymartha's era dared?"
"Because they didn't think about coming back here at all, they dared to release something like that. They would only threaten those who sneak into here, and they had no threat to themselves. The humans in the era of Kree Martha went deep into some 'unknown magic' explorations. They were even ahead of heaven and hell."
“‘Unknown Magic’?”
"It's magic that violates the law and transcends things outside the plane. This kind of research sometimes kills itself."
Turu opened his eyes wide and stared at his master blankly.
"I know nothing strange about how much I know." Andrew gave a long sigh and said with a smile: "I wanted to come in here more than a hundred years ago. I have read a lot of books about the era of Kree Martha."
"Why is the master here now?" Turu asked.
"Because it's useless to come in, you have to take things out alive. Even taking things out is useless. Just like the Krimatha pendant I had before. It's really good to use. But if the mystery inside cannot be cracked, it's just a magic prop, only easy to use. So we need the support of the Blood Elf Queen, otherwise we can't digest what we got."
After walking a few steps in the narrow aisle, Andrew stopped and looked to the side: "To this side, there may be a tomb guardian in front of you."
As he said that, he had bent down and walked into a narrow tunnel.
Under normal circumstances, probably no one would choose such a difficult path.
Turu nodded and hurriedly followed.
...
At this moment, Jones had escaped the pursuit of the tomb-guarding demon. Or, at least that's what he thought.
However, the situation was still very bad. He didn't even know where he was...
What's worse is that the tentacles seem to have a sense of his sound waves. As soon as he emits the sound waves, the tentacles will appear again in less than five minutes. And he doesn't even know if the tentacles belong to the same tomb-guarding demon...
This means that Jones and Dora are lost.
Yes, I was lost. I was lost in the ruins.
It was pitch black all around, and when the fire broke out, Jones could only see about ten meters away. There were stone walls of Demon, floor tiles of Demon, and various roads that didn't know where to go...
Jones still remembers how difficult it was when he came in. How could he find the original gap and leave here when he was lost?
It would be fine if this place was just an ordinary ruin, no matter how big it was, he would always have enough time to search slowly until he found it.
However, it is not. There are unknown weird monsters here. If I had seen that every magic source was such a monster... then there were at least one hundred of them here.
Even what he just saw was the weakest.
The fifty square kilometers and the multiple layers are not small, but after stuffing a hundred monsters, it becomes very crowded. It is equivalent to traps everywhere...
After thinking about this, Jones's cold sweat came down.
"It seems that I shouldn't underestimate this place..."
"Sir Jones, what should we do now?"
"It's no longer important to find a way to leave here. We must first leave here and find a way after we go out."
As he said that, Jones found the nine-petal snake flower badge from his body. It was the "locator". Although there are not twenty lichs in Giant Snake City that are still casting, the Space Gate cannot be opened within one minute. But as long as it is activated, the Snake City knows Jones' situation, and it is still easy to open the Space Gate within two hours.
Without hesitation, Jones activated the "locator".
However, the "locator" just flashed twice, and then the gems on it shattered...
Dora was stunned.
Jones silently put the badge back into his pocket: "It's useless, it's isolated by the stone."
"Then...what should we do now?"
"Let's take one step at a time, look for it slowly. We should have just run back... But maybe there are other exits. I began to understand a little why heaven and hell didn't destroy the place directly. Because there are things they can't handle."
Looking around, every road looks exactly the same and I have no idea where to go.
Holding the fire letter, Jones could only take Dora to start fumble little by little, carefully.
Fortunately, these monsters didn't seem to react to the light, otherwise Jones would have been finished walking with a fire letter.
This place is really a bit terrifying and unfathomable. Now Jones regrets not bringing all his combat power directly.
Of course, if he knew this, he might not have been in a hurry to come in at all. He would arrange a camp outside and then send at least half of the lichs to squat, study it little by little, and advance it little by little without rushing it.
After escaping from the area that was originally like an underground city, he seemed to have rushed into a deeper underground in panic. Unlike the tall buildings and rooms everywhere there, there are corridors hanging in the air everywhere here.
Jones raised the fire letter in his hand and explored bit by bit.
While walking, he said to himself: "But... if you can master this kind of monster, it may be possible to deal with heaven and hell."
Thinking of this, his interest in the ruins of Krimatha suddenly increased.
Chapter completed!