Soon, Angel found the dead tree hole that the couple mentioned on the back of the hill.
The tree hole is not obvious under the cover of branches and vines. Moreover, the outside of the tree hole is covered with a thick layer of snow. If the couple hadn't hit a hole when they escaped, it is estimated that the tree hole would still be covered by heavy snow.
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No wonder I didn't find this place when I inspected the puppets before.
Angel bowed and got into the tree hole. The path in the hole was all the way down, dark and deep.
Not long after entering the cave, Angel walked from the narrow tunnel to a very spacious underground cave. There was a pungent smell of sulfur in the underground cave, and at the same time, white steam occasionally came out of the cracks in the ground.
In the smoke and mist, Angel faintly saw a few white shadows. When he searched with his mental strength, there was nothing. They were probably the "shadows" rumored by the outside world.
There were many forks in the underground cave, and Angel didn't know where to go for the moment. He could only judge the direction they had gone based on the footprints and slight blood stains left by the couple on the ground.
Following the traces found on the ground, Angel passed through the geothermal area and came to a corridor that smelled of water.
This corridor was longer than the previous one. Through the light of fluorite, Angel could clearly see the messy bloodstains on the side walls of the corridor and on the ground.
When the corridor was approaching the exit, Angel heard the sound of water rushing in front of him. At the same time, he also encountered what the previous couple said made them run away in panic - the flying fish monster.
This kind of flying fish monster has a very strange appearance. Its scales are like glass, and its body is as slender as a shuttle. The fins on both sides of its body are wide and large, one size larger than Toby's wings. At this time, the fins
It is constantly swinging up and down to keep it flying in the air.
Ever since Angel entered the Shadow Cave, he had turned on boundless silence, so the flying fish monster patrolling alone in the corridor did not find Angel.
However, when he wanted to pass by the flying fish monster, the flying fish monster seemed to notice something, and a mist of water suddenly fell around him.
Angel was within the scope of the water mist, and the flying fish monster immediately noticed something was wrong. The originally silver fish eyes turned scarlet in an instant.
The fish opened its mouth, and a water arrow as thin as white water rushed towards Angel.
There is one bad thing about boundless silence. It eliminates the sense of existence. When you are not discovered, everything is fine. But once you are discovered, it is difficult to hide.
He didn't expect that the flying fish monster would spread water mist around it to monitor the surrounding movements!
Angel cursed secretly in his heart, and then dodged the water arrow. While dodging, Angel also took out a long white sword from his bracelet and aimed it at the flying fish monster.
The Flying Fish Monster was slippery and very fast. It successfully dodged Angel's slash.
However, the main purpose of Angel taking out his sword was not to hit the flying fish monster.
Instead, he was hit by water mist!
His sword is a sword with frost demon patterns attached to it. Its ice-condensing effect is so powerful that as long as there is a little liquid around it, it can be quickly frozen.
This flying fish monster is surrounded by water mist. Although Angel's swordsmanship is not as stable as Nausicaa's, it can hit the flying fish monster stably, but it is not difficult to hit the water mist.
As the sword cuts through the mist, the erosion of the ice follows the mist directly to the flying fish monster in the center.
Before the flying fish monster could launch its second attack, it had already frozen into a fish stick and fell from the air with a snap. At this time, Angel wanted to hack them to death, but it was easy.
With a wave of his hand, the frozen flying fish monster was cut in half by him.
Flying fish monsters are a big trouble for the couple apprentices, especially when the number increases. But for Angel, he has too many ways to kill them while saving the source of magic.
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As he continued to move forward, Angel encountered more and more flying fish monsters.
However, no matter how powerful the flying fish monsters are, they don't have much wisdom. They only act on instinct, and Angel has various alchemical weapons to assist him. It is very easy to deal with these flying fish monsters.
After leaving dozens of flying fish monster carcasses on the ground, Angel finally walked out of the tunnel.
Outside the corridor was a wider underground cave. As soon as Angel came out, he saw the spacious underground river.
The river is so long that it goes nowhere.
There was an undercurrent of low-pitched gurgling sounds, accompanied by the sound of dripping water falling from the rocks above. The echoes kept lingering in the cave, and the empty sound made people feel frightened.
In addition to water, there are more flying fish monsters flying in the air in the cave. They seem to be resting or cruising. However, when Angel stepped into the cave, they immediately looked over because of the light of fluorite.
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When they discovered that an outsider had broken in, thousands of flying fish monsters went crazy.
They all attacked Angel one after another, but when the water arrows missed, they rushed over with their sharp bodies.
Angel is still not afraid of such a large number of fish. When he was purifying the garden, the flying fish he dealt with were much more numerous than here, and they were also more powerful.
Angel directly set up a misty illusion and acted as a harasser by simulating water arrows in the mist illusion. The flying fish monster fell directly into chaos and civil war amid suspicion and excessive vigilance.
Angel just laid out a chessboard, moved a chess piece, and then completely stood aside.
Before long, the number of flying fish monsters killing each other in the fog became less and less.
At this time, Angel took the sword of frost and began to harvest at targeted locations. Soon, all the flying fish monsters within sight disappeared, and the entire battle did not last more than twenty minutes.
After clearing the flying fish monster, Angel came to the edge of the underground river.
Under the light, you can see that the water in the underground river is very clear, and you can even see the fish swimming below. A flash of silver light flashed, Angel rubbed his eyes, and was surprised to find that in the river not far away, there was actually
There is a shrimp-like creature with a faint silver light.
No, not one.
It's a whole team, at least a dozen of them.
Angel is no stranger to this kind of shrimp-like creature that glows with a silver ring. This is the mysterious silver ring that Bobota and others were looking for before! A gourmet ingredient that has a fascination effect on men!
He now understood a little bit why the couple came to the Shadow Cave to look for the silver ring. They found a group of them, and each one cost dozens or even hundreds of magic crystals. The group Angel saw
, at least thousands of magic crystals.
The personal power of the confusing silver rings was almost non-existent. Angel directly stretched out his magic hand and grabbed these confusing silver rings.
Looking at the ten turbulent silver rings imprisoned in the palm of the magic hand, Angel couldn't help but sigh.
The abyss is extremely dangerous, but at the same time it is accompanied by unimaginable opportunities. If in the wizarding world, if you want to earn thousands of magic crystals, a wizard apprentice will probably have to struggle for more than ten years.
This is also the reason why so many people risk their lives to venture into the abyss.
He picked up a bottle, put these mysterious silver rings on it, and stuffed them into the bracelet.
Angel himself would definitely not need the Lost Silver Ring. He thought that after returning to the fortress, he could give some to his mentor and Kanter.
Angel walked along the river. According to what the female apprentice said before, the birdsong she heard came from where the water in the underground river came from.
Therefore, Angel began to move against the direction of the water flow. The river was very long and the caves were also large. Angel still encountered many flying fish monsters along the way, and their density was beyond his imagination.
"Will Toby really be ahead?" After killing another group of flying fish monsters, doubts arose in Angel's mind.
However, this question was quickly answered.
It's not that Angel found traces of Toby, but that he found the body of a strange dead monster.
This monster is a crab carrying an anemone on its back. It is taller than an adult and has a huge body. The monster is dead, but Angel can vaguely feel the traces of gravity veins on the monster's body. It can be seen that this monster
He was probably killed by Toby, and he died no more than a day ago.
It seems that the female apprentice did not lie. It is really possible that Toby is deep in the Shadow Cave.
Angel estimated that Toby must have discovered that the river was frozen outside and it was not easy to catch fish. Later, he accidentally discovered the underground river in the Shadow Cave and found that there were many fish here, so he forgot about eating.
Already.
Angel had previously called Toby via a signal in the fortress, and the answer to its lack of response emerged—how could the signal be received in the Shadow Cave?
Angel breathed a sigh of relief.
Although there are some monsters near the underground river, such as the flying fish monster or the crab monster, these monsters pose little threat to Toby.
Although Toby was not necessarily in danger, just in case, Angel still accelerated his pace and headed deeper into the cave.
Not long after walking, Angel followed the river and passed through a narrow gap. Then, he came to another vast underground space.
As soon as he arrived in this space, Angel noticed something strange.
I suddenly felt depressed, as if something was oppressing my heart, making me feel inexplicably heavy.
Moreover, the fishy smell in the air is even stronger.
This fishy smell is not the fishy smell of water in the river, but a mixture of the smell of blood and the fishy smell of some reptiles.
This feeling is very similar to the smell Angel smelled in Axo's cave when he left Pocrates.
"Snake monster?" Angel wondered in his heart.
He walked towards the center of the cave. There were obviously striped crawling marks on the ground, and the fishy smell in the marks was even stronger.
If nothing unexpected happens, there is indeed a snake here, and judging from the size of the trace, the snake is quite small.
Not only is it not small, Angel also found a lot of traces of snakes in this cave. This means that there may be more than one snake here.
Could it be that this is still a snake den?
When Angel was thinking, a subtle sound suddenly reached his ears.