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A moment later, a second dead mouse appeared on the ground.
Xiaobai: "It's still no big problem."
Wang touched his chin and said, "Strange. There are so many 'road signs' and altars here, but why is the distortion of positive energy so limited? Could it be that..."
Nini silently placed the wisdom-locking headband on Wang’s head.
Wang ignored her and continued to immerse himself in his own thoughts, muttering to himself: "The people of the cult only took away the cats and dogs of a city, but the positive energy of Langdon City was distorted to humans and caused mutations, and even killed Elizabeth's father. There are so many samples of the Blasphemers, but the distortion of positive energy is so... controllable..."
"In comparison, the variable that has changed is..."
Nini silently put the headband back on her head.
Xiao Bai stared at her: "Are you particularly addicted to the feeling of sharing your wisdom with others?"
At this time, Wang slapped his thigh and said, "I understand! The technology of the Blasphemers is already so advanced that they can build beacons without exposing themselves too much. But the technology of the Cult is very crude! Damn, maybe these beacons are everywhere!"
Chapter 329 Uninvited
At the same time, in the Thorn Islands, now in the Thorn Islands, night has fallen.
In the magic ship manufacturing department of the Gnome Explorers Association, the explosion occurred as usual.
The great craftsman Talford got up from the ground, skillfully tore open the healing scroll to heal himself, and then picked up the shattered glasses on the ground.
"Damn, this is the latest product from Zeiss Workshop."
His students also stood up and complained loudly: "Teacher, is there something wrong with your design?"
"Nonsense, this design is based on the latest archaeological findings!" Talford said angrily, "The magic ship of the ancient Cyclops Empire used a core like this to fly out of the Crystal Wall System."
The student sighed. "It's already difficult for us to just test the core principle. The Cyclops Empire can use legendary magic to build a magic ship from scratch. For the Archmages, going to the moon is as easy as taking a walk in their backyard!"
"That is the most glorious civilization in Gralia after all. But don't be discouraged. Didn't the floating island reappear recently? If we work hard, we will surely be able to master the manufacturing technology of magic ships again. One day, those stars will become our colonies!"
After the master craftsman finished speaking, his student complained: "Why build it yourself? You can ask the mind flayer to make a conch shell ship. Those alien creatures came to this plane on conch shell ships."
Talford said angrily, "Asshole! The moment you see the Mind Flayer, even if you are well protected, you may become its slave. Only the Mind Barrier can completely prevent its enslavement.
"Even if you have the protection of a mental barrier, the mind flayer will still use language to seduce you."
As Talford was speaking, the door suddenly opened and several dwarves rushed in: "Master Craftsman Talford, come and look at the starry sky!"
"What? Which country's destruction does the stars foretell?" the master craftsman asked nonchalantly, with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
The dwarf who came in shook his head: "No, a brand new star has appeared! And it appeared out of nowhere in the sky. Our telescope observed a very obvious comet tail."
"It's just a new comet." Talford still didn't care. He didn't know whose idea it was to assign the astronomy department to the magic ship manufacturing department. It might be because the bigwigs of the Supreme Council felt that the magic ship manufacturing department and the astronomy department were departments that only had time to eat and did nothing.
The dwarf from the Astronomy Department shook his head firmly: "No, no, no, it appeared suddenly. We were observing the southwest quadrant and suddenly it appeared in the field of view of the telescope!"
Talford: "Could it be a firefly?"
"Do you think I'm stupid? Fireflies fly high and low! And we've used many telescopes and we've seen the same light. That must be an uninvited guest that just appeared! I'm going to write a paper and publish it in this year's Annals of Exploration!"
"Then you'd better pray that there is progress on my side, otherwise you will never be able to go and see the new uninvited guest in person." Talford shrugged, but he immediately had a new idea.
"Wait a minute, if this is true, maybe we can let the bigwigs on the committee know that we are not eating for free. You should write a report to the explorer immediately, detailing how shocking this discovery is!
"You're using some sensational words. Yes, the Savior Team is very famous now. Every day, people take the airship to the Floating Island. They are the hottest star now, and they are the secret to everyone's attention! You said that this star is very likely related to the adventures of the Savior Team."
The people in the Astronomy Department looked at each other in bewilderment. "Is it related? We have no evidence to prove that these two things are related."
Talford: "Thinking about your budget, don't you want new Zeiss lenses? And the Qilusi beam splitter."
The people in the Department of Astronomy frowned, and hesitated for a while between funding and the honesty of scientists, and finally chose funding.
"A world-destroying disaster has appeared. What do you think of this title?" said the leading dwarf.
**
This is the king.
"Smart," Wang paced back and forth, "After Ragnora's power is projected, everyone will find out that something is wrong. Let's just build a target first. If we hadn't happened to fall into the Underdark and encountered the base of the Blasphemers, we wouldn't have noticed it at all. In that case, we would probably have to fight wits and courage with the Cult for a long time."
"What should we do? Is there any way to quickly locate the Blasphemer?" Nini asked.
"Yes." Marika said, "Making the beacon requires a large number of slaves, so we just need to find the slave owners underground and track the flow of slaves. But the mind flayers and beholders, who control slaves with their psychic powers, will not allow slaves to flow. Only the drow elves keep and trade slaves at the same time."
The king frowned, "It seems that our journey to find the drow will not only require us to borrow a passage back to the surface."
Marika sighed and said, "It is almost impossible for my people to cooperate with us obediently. If we want to understand the movement of slaves, we may have to kill half of them first to let them know who is stronger."
Xiao Bai: "Is it my illusion? You were so gentle when you said 'kill half first' just now. It made me feel like you were so kind that you left half behind."
"Franka!" Zhuo Er said unhappily, "Stop eating her endlessly!"
"Eh? I didn't eat it just now." Franka rolled up her tentacles and touched her bald jellyfish head. "Rather, you didn't have much malice when you said you would kill half of it just now. It's not good to eat it."
"Kaelin's horns," Flint took out his pipe, "I'll smoke one to calm myself down. The idea of kind and gentle drow elves is too disgusting."
Wang: "Malika, calm down and think about what black skin means to you."
Marika took a deep breath and put on a grim face: "Let's go find those drow elves, and reduce their number to a level where they are willing to cooperate with us, and then find all those blasphemers based on the direction of slave flow in the underground world!"
Wang: "Very, this time he looks pretty good, like a big evil demon."
After saying that, he added sincerely: "Really."
Marika: "Don't worry about it. We have almost used up all our magic today. Let's find a safe place to camp. Tomorrow we will release His Highness from petrification, and then we will go visit my lovely compatriots."
Franka: "Wait a minute, I sense a new evil, and it's huge! Great, I can have a feast!"
Wang frowned: "Are there still enemies?"
Now the team's daily usage items have been almost used up. Although Wang's own four-ring spells are still kept, it is obviously not enough to rely solely on his four-ring spells to back up.
Flint: "I still have a lot of magic, I should be able to take on this battle."
Wang: "At times like this, I suddenly miss Elizabeth."
Warlocks have more spells every day and their endurance is much stronger than that of mages and priests.
Marika looked at Furu, "Are you sure what it is? A monster or... a 'human'?"
Franka: "They are your people. Judging from their thought waveforms, they may have sensed some movement here, so they came to investigate."
Chapter 330 Are there any masters?
Marika: “Is that so? That’s easy.”
She pulled out her dagger: "I'll go meet them and catch some tongues. Franka, which direction are they in?"
Franka raised the tentacle with the ring and pointed to the northeast: "Probably in this direction. But my senses can't be compared with the map, so I don't know which passage or room they are in."
Marika: "This direction must be the main passage. We should have come in from the small door on the west. Wait a moment."
After saying this, the drow elf quickly left the furnace room.
Wang: "Let's go back to the warehouse and see if there is anything else besides the altar. Maybe we can find a list of the Blasphemers in this world or something."
Xiaobai: "Is it such a coincidence? I suddenly remembered that we were going to Yisongzuo to find a church. Do we still need to find this church now?"
"…We should go there. After all, there might be clues." Wang shrugged, "Or at least understand how the Blasphemers gave birth to the cult."
Xiao Bai: "If that Ragnora has already arrived in our plane, then we don't need to bother looking for the Desecrator or the Beacon, and can just wait for it to land and then start a decisive battle?"
Wang: "No, even if Ragnor reaches the main material plane, he will not necessarily land in our crystal wall system. Guidance is a continuous process. As long as that guy doesn't land, there should be hope of stopping him. My teacher said we still have five years, so it must be at least five years."
"It's been almost half a year since we started our adventure," Flint reminded him. "No, it's been half a year. It's already October. I remember when you kidnapped me into the tavern, the Winter Veil decorations in the tavern hadn't been taken down yet."
Wang: "Let's go and search the altar."
Nini: “Don’t you need to leave a message for Marika?”
"No, Marika's tracking technology can easily figure out where we went."
In fact, rangers should be better at tracking technology, and rogues are only good at detecting traps and the like. However, many rogues have relatively outstanding tracking abilities.
In this way, the group returned to the altar from the place where the spherical evil god fell off the cliff.
Nini took Marika's place and went forward to check the mechanism on the altar. After a moment, she shook her head and said, "There is no mechanism. At least I can't find it."
Wang gestured to Xiaobai: "You turn into a bear."
Xiao Bai complained: "It always makes me deform and step on landmines."
"But no one can do this except you." Wang said, "The rest of us who fell into the trap at least consumed one treatment for minor injuries. But you, after you transformed back, it was as if nothing had happened."
"Yes, yes." Xiaobai turned into a bear, stood on the altar, and then opened his arms and posed as if embracing the sun.
Nothing happened, and it seemed like there was really no mechanism here.
Wang began to give instructions: "Look for any hidden compartments on the altar. Pay attention to knocking on the altar panel and listen to the sound to determine if there is an empty space underneath. Be careful not to break the altar."
The bear bent down and began to bang on the altar in a comical manner, with his ears pressed to the surface.
Nini began to walk around the warehouse, looking at the empty boxes and various cans thrown in the corner.
"There's fluorescence in this jar," she loudly reported her discovery.
Wang turned his head and saw Nini holding a fluorescent jar.
Wang frowned, took out the coded log of the Blasphemer, flipped through it and said, "If I remember correctly, this kind of fluorescence was mentioned in the log. The Blasphemer called it the Gift of Ragnora."
Wang approached the bottle and touched its surface with his hand: "It has temperature."
He bent over and looked more closely at the contents of the bottle.
Xiaobai changed back to human form and jumped back: "What is this, a can of fireflies?"
Wang shook his head: "No, there are many things that emit this kind of fluorescence. But I have a bad feeling. I will cast a detection magic."
After saying that, he performed it directly. After getting the result, he slapped his thigh and said, "Put it down quickly! Remember that contaminated thing we got in the Fetal Movement Hall? This is the same as that thing!"
"Kaelin's horns!" Flint exclaimed, "Does that mean that the Fetal Movement Hall is also related to the Blasphemers? When did they come to our world? Why hasn't our world been in crisis yet?"
The king did not answer immediately. After Nini put down the jar, he pulled the elf over and examined her carefully to make sure that her smooth skin had no scales or hair.
After confirming that his students were not contaminated, Wang said to the others: "According to the log of the Defiler, every time Ragnora returns to the main material plane, they will choose many alternative worlds to see where they can guide Ragnora in the end.
"Maybe many gods related to monsters are actually Ragnora, but the Blasphemers made up different names to deceive believers. Think about it, if the Catalonia State Religion continues to exist, believers will probably think that Ragnora is a god of the same level as the Mother of Monsters, right?"
After Wang finished speaking, the others looked at each other.