Chapter 131: Passing Obstacles, Slaying Generals to Save the Queen (33)

Sea cliff cave.

On the way to rescue Lily's mother, Luosen quickly encountered a corner.

According to previous convention, there should be four warriors guarding after the corner.

Three qi warriors, one battle mage, all high-level strength.

Such strength is very troublesome.

Even an Arcane Master, or a Sage born for battle, might not be able to slip past silently.

Luosen couldn't do it before, but after developing the silent crystal wall with Lalatris, he can.

Hiding in the blind spot of the corner, he silently cast a Detect Guard sigil on the wall ahead.

After observing the situation past the corner and confirming the target's position, he silently activated a silent crystal wall to envelop himself.

Using the cover of this exquisite pure-water spell, Luosen began to activate a three-ring mental-type Group Poison Heart Curse.

This is the strongest attack-type mental curse spell Luosen has mastered, with a maximum of six targets.

He hasn't learned anything stronger.

Initially there was nowhere to learn; after becoming a lord, he was too busy and had no time.

However, a three-ring spell powered by ten-ring mana has absolute power that can even rival early five-ring spells, and it is more than enough for ambushing three-ring warriors.

In an instant, Luosen focused his mind, and the spell was activated.

"Hum~~"

Mental energy gathered on the high-level mental focus ring Luosen wore on his hand, and the ring flashed a faint azure light.

At the same moment, the mental talismans on the four warriors behind the wall shattered with a bang; the lingering curse power remained immensely strong, flooding into their brains like a deluge.

The four instantly rolled their eyes, fell limp with a thud-thud, and were already dead.

"Whoosh~~"

Luosen lightly exhaled: "Mental arts really consume energy; one strike costs me half my mana."

"Laifu, activate Rosen's Meditations, and find time to do background meditation."

Doing this would greatly boost Luosen's combat endurance; the cost is that it would consume considerable computing power, causing the Heart of the War God to drop from three-line extreme operation to two-line.

Therefore, finding time to meditate during battle lulls is the most stable solution.

After walking out of the corner, Luosen picked up the battle mage's rune firearm and carefully examined its structure.

"Hmm~ its structure isn't much like Queen Kao's firearm; it should have been independently developed by Levinde's weapon-development mage."

"Its attack strength reaches the peak of five rings; the runes control the activation, and the power comes from the eruption of fire-earth."

"The formula for this fire-earth is different from Kao's; hmm~ it's been improved, much more stable, and has a special activation spell lock added."

Indeed, all paths lead to the same goal; mages everywhere have thought alike, fearing their ammunition depots would be remotely blown up by enemy mages.

Luosen carefully studied the fire-earth; after a few minutes, he successfully cracked the activation spell lock.

It's not that the lock isn't exquisite; in fact, it is quite exquisite.

Without the secret key, an ordinary person could never solve it in a lifetime, but Luosen couldn't be stopped from using Laifu's high computing power to brute-force it.

He reassembled the firearm, placed it back in the battle mage's hand, then tapped the four dead warriors' bodies, infusing them with some puppet spiritual energy.

The four then "stood" up again, appearing to have "come alive," but in fact they were merely standing, so as not to arouse suspicion.

If one wanted finer control, there would be much to say.

If all the power comes from the mage, that is puppet art.

If it is activating the corpse's own power, with the mage only responsible for control, that is necromancy.

The former greatly consumes mana; the latter is a forbidden art everyone condemns.

Luosen certainly isn't preparing fine control; he continues forward.

Soon he reached another corner.

Luosen reused his old trick, using Detect Guard to observe carefully.

Past the corner stood a solid ice-frost wall; behind it faintly emanated two traces of mana, extremely subtle yet immensely potent.

Luosen closed his eyes, focused intently, and sensed one as early six-ring, the other as mid eight-ring.

Obviously, the former should be the ice-frost envoy Laifeng, and the latter Lalatris's mother Nefeloniya.

Laifeng's mana isn't remarkable, but Nefeloniya's mana is astonishing.

The eight-ring aura, though extremely faint, is very pure, very lively, with a taste of endlessness.

Luosen secretly marveled: "This is the strongest mana I have ever seen."

Not only is the ring level high, but the total mana is also extremely abundant; no wonder it can summon wind to push warships.

A mage's mana: ring number determines strength, but total quantity also varies.

According to talent gaps, it can even differ by five or six times.

Nefeloniya's total mana is astonishingly high, even reaching seventy percent of his.

Moreover, her mastery of spells in the pure-water and gale-wind fields far exceeds Luosen's.

"This queen is truly formidable. If we were to face her head-on at peak condition, once she pulls away the distance, I would definitely be beaten by her."

Back to the present.

Luosen discovered that, in front of the ice-frost wall, there were still four people guarding.

After careful sensing, Luosen concluded: "Three qi grandmasters, one arcane master."

The four four-ring warriors, their equipment and weapons are much stronger than the four high-level warriors encountered earlier.

Especially that arcane master, his rune firearm is obviously far superior to the one Luosen holds.

To be able to summon four four-ring experts as gatekeepers, likely only Levinde's supreme king Laifeng could do so.

How can we silently take down these four? Using the poison heart curse again might not kill them, and it would certainly alert Laifeng behind the ice-frost wall.

Even if the secret chamber inside the Ice Frost Wall had no extra escape tunnel, once he was alerted, he would definitely trigger the alarm of the entire sea cliff laboratory.

That would become very troublesome. As he was thinking of a countermeasure, two Battle Masters suddenly walked toward Luosen, one of them saying while walking: "Lunchtime, brothers, let's go fill our stomachs first, we'll relieve you later."

Luosen felt a surge of joy: "Heaven really is helping me."

He first retreated a bit, hid in a blind spot, then activated the Silent Crystal Wall, then unleashed the Flawless Steel Iron Dragon Body, finally activated the Invisibility Spell, and then patiently waited by the wall.

Soon, the first Battle Master approached.

Luosen focused his mind, the Heart of the War God activated to the extreme, he stepped forward, and his finger, already transformed into a dagger, thrust forward abruptly.

Pfft~

His finger shattered the trigger device's defense and pierced straight into the brain.

Aside from the trigger device, the first Battle Master had no time to react and died without a sound.

The second Battle Master realized, instinctively wanting to shout.

Luosen turned his body, his right-hand finger followed closely and then stabbed into the second Battle Master's eye.

Meanwhile, the second Battle Master had already raised his arm to block, his arm was less than ten centimeters from Luosen's finger.

If he managed to block it, the situation would suddenly become much more complicated.

Fortunately, the Heart of the War God was fast enough! After silently killing both, Luosen exerted a little force with both hands, dragged their bodies, then released Puppet Art on them, making them stand in place.

Afterwards, he controlled one of them to shout at the two guards behind.

"Hey, brothers, come quick, see what I found."

His tone was delighted, as if he had discovered something good.

In the Detect Guard's magic seal, the two stationed masters felt strange and didn't move; one of them shouted: "La Rui An~ what's the situation outside?"

"There's a weird bug here, looks like it's dancing, this little thing is really interesting~~"

Another of the dead Battle Masters also exclaimed enthusiastically:

"This bug actually grew a human face—could it be a fairy?"

Then, the two stopped paying attention to the stationed masters, exchanging sentences enthusiastically as they began discussing the "human-faced bug".

The two stationed masters could no longer contain their curiosity, and since they weren't far away, they also came over to watch the commotion.

Luosen just hid around the corner, waiting.

The first to appear was a Battle Master.

As soon as he showed up, what greeted him was a finger like a dagger.

The second was an Arcane Master; his four-ring power gave him some intuitive sensitivity to danger.

He hesitated in his steps.

But Luosen took the initiative to attack, advancing like a ghost; as the Silent Crystal Wall covered over, his finger stabbed toward his eye.

Boom~~ puff~~

The first sound was the trigger device being activated; unfortunately its strength was only four-ring, and it was directly pierced through by the dragon finger, penetrating his brain.

All four Battle Masters were killed.

Luosen hid the four corpses in a corner, then walked up to the Ice Frost Wall and began studying this thick ice wall.

The ice wall was extremely hard; although it was colorless ice crystal, it shone with a metallic luster.

Luosen reached out and touched it, feeling that its strength was not inferior to steel.

It was also very thick, over a meter thick, making forceful destruction very difficult.

The good news is that Ice Frost power is a variant of pure water power.

And because Laalte Lis imparted all her knowledge, Luosen gained a considerable grasp of pure water knowledge.

Thus, he stood before the Ice Frost Wall, carefully studying this magical wall, attempting to break it silently.

As he continued researching, he obtained more and more related information.

"It is a very exquisite six-ring technique, almost flawless. The only way to break it seems to be smashing it head-on."

In ancient times, when techniques were not flourishing and mages were few, to obtain a nearly perfect high-ring technique, one could only slowly refine it over long periods of time.

But nowadays, for high-ring techniques of the lowly types like lightning, fire, light, and pure water, the royal family's guardian sages should already have a completely new method.

That is to use magical artifacts to achieve high-ring power, then use that power to continually test one's own high-ring technique.

With La Feng Ge's noble status, he naturally had the manpower and material resources for massive testing.

Therefore, his six-ring technique is truly nearly perfect, even surpassing Luosen's acquired 'Nature's Gift' and 'Steel Flawless Iron Dragon Body' in perfection, and is comparable to his newly developed six-ring 'Silent Crystal Wall'.

The reason is simple: Luosen's Silent Crystal Wall was also tested using a similar method.

Even the testing conditions were more mature than La Feng Ge's, because he himself possessed ten-ring power and had a seven-ring Pure Water Mage assisting.

"As for the six-ring level alone, this technique is already flawless."

"But for me, there still exist some extremely subtle flaws that six-ring mages cannot feel, yet are truly present."

Just this tiny flaw is enough to become Luosen's breakthrough.

He focused all his mind, pondered bit by bit, and also stored the relevant data in Laifu's Heart of the War God, using its built-in simulation of technique combat ability to conduct a simulated break.

After more than ten minutes, Luosen raised his hand and lightly tapped the ice surface a few times.

Each tap infused a thread of pure magical power; after tapping continuously more than twenty times, he lifted his finger and lightly knocked on the ice surface.

"Turn into mist~"

Whoosh~~

A barely audible sound, and the one‑meter‑thick ice layer turned into a dense mass of water vapor.

The water vapor silently dissipated in the underground space, revealing an ordinary wooden door behind the ice layer.

A faint sound of speech came from behind the wooden door.

A male voice, triumphant yet hinting at anxiety and fear, like frost that could shatter at any moment.

A female voice, weak and exhausted, but her tone calm and gentle, exuding a soft determination, like an ocean that embraces everything.

(End of chapter)