After a little preparation, Arthur set out with Otavia and arrived at the forest where the incident occurred as quickly as possible. On the surface, there was no abnormality here at all. The woods were not dense and occasionally you could see it.
Some monsters are mostly first-level and second-level.
"This forest is a bit big, and it's not OK to look for it without any clues." Although it's not a super big forest, it's naturally not too small to be called a forest. Arthur has no clues about this, and even disappeared
I can’t even figure out the location of the students, so how can I find them?
"It's okay, I brought this." Otavia was obviously prepared and took out something from the backpack behind her that looked like a radar. This is... a small magic search device?
Although Arthur has never seen the real thing, he has seen some information about this magic device from some books. It is indeed very convenient to use this to find people, but the premise is that the person who is searched must have a guide device on them.
Could it be that those students in the missing senior class brought a guide device?
"In order to avoid accidents, the college will configure a guide device for every student who goes out to practice. It was rarely used before, but I didn't expect it to be used this time." Otavia's expression was a little emotional, but Arthur was
Can't complain.
Since there is a search device, why don’t you tell me? It hurts me that I thought I would search the entire forest!
"Then let's start." Before Arthur could complain, Otavia turned on the device first. After two rounds of light scanning, several golden light spots suddenly appeared on the radar.
"Finished! In the southwest direction!" Otavia said in surprise.
"Okay! Go!"
Without saying a word, Arthur walked in front first, Otavia followed closely behind, and the two rushed towards the position where the light spot was, but just as they rushed to their destination,
I was very surprised to find that there was no one here and nothing.
"What's going on?" Otavia looked at the radar with confusion. The display on it was clearly here, why is this happening?
"Underground!" Arthur's expression was solemn. The radar should not be wrong, but since there wasn't on the ground, it was obvious that this man probably had reached the underground, otherwise there would be no other explanation.
"Underground?" Otavia looked at Arthur with surprise. If it was underground, it would be too exaggerated, right? Is there any underground passage in this forest?
"Yes, look around here. Maybe we can find some clues." After that, Arthur began to search around and seize the time. Arthur always had a bad premonition.
I hope that the students won’t have anything to do.
"Yeah!" Seeing that Arthur said so, Otavia also started searching quickly, but the range is so large that it is really troublesome to search. It took nearly half an hour before Arthur finally found a trace of it.
clue.
"Finished! There is a magic circle here!" Arthur shouted, and Otavia hurriedly ran over and saw that the one presented to the two of them was actually a blood-red magic circle with a six-pointed star embedded in the circle, but O
Tavia knew nothing about magic. Even if she found the magic circle, she didn't know what this thing was for.
"Teacher Arthur. Can you understand the magic circle?" At this time, Otavia could only place hope on Arthur. If Arthur couldn't do it, the two of them could only go back and find a magician who knew it.
"Well, this is a startup magic array. It is not very difficult to open something by inputting magic power into the magic array." What surprised Otavia was that Arthur actually nodded. He really understood this magic array!
Great! If this magic circle can be opened, it will save a lot of time! Finding people earlier will reduce the danger of those missing students!
But what Otavia didn't know was that although Arthur knew this magic circle, in fact, this magic circle was not as simple as imagined, because it was not a magic circle cast by ordinary magicians, but a magic circle unique to the demons!
Yes, Arthur saw it very clearly. This blood-colored magic circle must be cast by a demon mage with extremely high cultivation. If you want to open it, you must be careful, otherwise something is wrong. The detonated power of this magic circle will blow Arthur to the sky.
Adjust the magic veins, neutralize the magic power on the magic circle, be careful, be careful...get it done!
Although it was a little troublesome, under Arthur's careful cracking, the magic array was activated. As the blood-red light suddenly rose, the ground not far from the magic array suddenly trembled.
"This is..." In Otavia's surprised gaze, the mechanism on the ground opened, and a bottomless cave appeared in front of the two of them. There was actually a ladder? What is this place?
"How is it? Do you want to go in and take a look?" Arthur handed over the choice to Otavia. It can be seen that the situation this time is definitely not optimistic. There must be a demon involved. The missing students were most likely to be kidnapped by the demons. The matter was beyond Otavia's ability. Even if she wanted to withdraw at this moment, it was reasonable.
"Of course, we are all here, how can we retreat back!" Otavia's expression was very firm, without any wavering or hesitation. Although the cave looked very gloomy and terrifying, how could this prevent Otavia from saving the students' confidence!
"Even if the demons appear inside, it doesn't matter?" At this moment, Arthur said something, which made Otavia stunned. Demons? What does this mean?
"I didn't say it just now, but that magic circle must be played by a powerful demon. Even if I were me, I might not be the opponent of that person. Teacher Otavia, even so, are you still going?"
"Yes, I'm going!"
Faced with Arthur's problem, Otavia recovered as before after making a slight mistake. The firmness of his eyes made Arthur unpredictable. I have to say that Otavia is really a good teacher.
"Okay, since Teacher Otavia has decided, let's go!" No matter what kind of dragon and tiger den he is, Arthur went through with Otavia today!
Entering from the cave, although it was a little gloomy, the space was not very spacious, which didn't make people feel very terrifying. However, after the two of them continued to move downward for five or six minutes, the scene in front of them completely shocked them.
Who would have thought that after the narrow tunnel, there would be such a large and wide space! In the past, this underground space would have to be at least tens of thousands of square meters, and in such a huge underground space, there were various sculptures and stone statues all over the ground.
By the way, the stone statues are so realistic. They are all demons with demon wings spreading on their backs and holding various weapons. At first glance, there are countless of them.
"What the hell is this?" Otavia looked around in surprise. This was the first time she had seen such a demon statue. Is this the legendary demon? It was indeed ugly.
"Maybe it's a demon's stronghold." How could Arthur know where this place is, but in terms of this place, it's absolutely true that it belongs to the demon clan. I really didn't expect that the traces of the demon clan would appear in the territory of Bradrick's Kingdom!
The legendary demons have all returned to the demon world? Why can we still find traces of the demons? And this time, it is not the copycat demons made by those drugs, but the real demons!
At this time, Arthur could detect this. Although he had never seen a real demon, Arthur believed that his feelings would not be wrong.
"The Devil's stronghold? Oops, are the Devil ready to attack this world again?" Otavia frowned. If the demons descended to the world again, the consequences would be unimaginable. At that time, the creatures would inevitably be devastated. People with strength would be fine. If ordinary people without strength, they would wait for their family to be destroyed.
"Not necessarily, maybe it's the remaining demons on the continent. Let's take a look at the situation first." Arthur shook his head. Before he saw that everything was a blush before, it was better to look at the reality than to make up for it. If all the real murderers could be captured, the truth would be revealed.
"Okay, let's continue..." Otavia just took out the magic search device again and guided the route along the light spots on the radar. However, after only two steps, they suddenly heard a crackling sound. What's wrong?
Arthur and Otavia turned their heads in the direction where the sound came at the same time, but they didn't know that they didn't look at it. When they saw it, they were shocked. At least dozens of demon statues cracked at the same time, and the stone fragments on their bodies fell to the ground, revealing the body inside the stone.
Although it looks similar, the colors on these demons are different, including blue, purple and green... Of course, black is the majority, accounting for the vast majority.
"This...what is going on?" Otavia took two steps back in horror. This was definitely the first time she had seen such a thing. Is this a demon? The real demon?
"Gargoyle..." At this moment, Arthur said the real names of these demons. He hadn't noticed it yet, but after seeing the changes of these demons, Arthur immediately confirmed that these must be gargoyles!
Gargoyles, a demon that can be petrified into sculptures, have super defenses in the petrified state. After the petrified state is removed, the attacks of these gargoyles should not be underestimated. They like to appear in groups. When attacking the continent, the demon gargoyles legion once brought devastating blows to human forces.
ps: Thanks to Awei King, it’s a reward for a cup of R, Kamiyo Saki, and gp03-d.
Today is Teacher's Day on September 10th. I wish the teachers a happy holiday~