Chapter 213 The Elemental Realm and...
After waiting for the voice for a long time, the mountain mist was completely gone from everyone's sight. Lann finally put down his left hand with a pale face and began to pant violently. His magic power was finally exhausted.
Vesemir shook his head and stepped forward to light the braziers at the four corners of the altar.
He was about to tell Lan a few more words, but saw the young demon hunter raising his hand again in embarrassment.
"My magic power seems to have recovered a little..."
Vesemir's face was dull: "Use [Igni Seal], and enter meditation immediately after use. Otherwise, I'm worried that you will blow out these braziers, which will continue to waste time. ."
Lann nodded.
A huge amount of flames shot towards the sky, and the heat wave made the demon hunters who were watching couldn't help but take a step back.
Fortunately, this time it only lasted a few breaths and then stopped.
Lann knelt down on the spot and quickly relaxed his body, breathing lightly, and his spirit became light.
After lighting the braziers in the four corners, Vesemir let the candles facing the valley start burning. His movements were very skillful, and soon, when he turned around, he saw Lan who had already entered into meditation.
The badges on the chests of all the demon hunters shook more violently, which showed that some existence had established a connection with the chaotic energy in nature, making the magic here more intense.
"You got into the mood so quickly?" Vesemir didn't know that this was the first time he had exclaimed today.
The speed with which one establishes contact with chaotic energy largely represents the meditative proficiency of the communicator. But Vesemir has now understood Lann's basic skills. This young man has just been a demon hunter for more than a year. Even the meditation method is said to have been learned from Triss when he was engaged in political diplomacy.
But looking at this young man's current speed, even Geralt and other demon hunters who have been trained since childhood are ashamed.
Mossak stroked his beard with a smile: "It should be because of the ancient blood. You can also understand it as the source of magic. This is a body that is born with the ability to communicate with nature. This phenomenon is normal. "."
Vesemir looked at Lann, at Mossak, and then looked back at Geralt, Eskar, and Lambert one by one.
The young man from the wolf faction showed an unnatural expression.
In the end, Geralt thought about it and said, "I established communication very quickly when I meditated."
Unfortunately, no one cares about him now.
.........
Lan felt that his five senses were amplified.
No, it can't be said to be the five senses. At least Lan can't feel the voices of the demon hunters and druids talking behind him now.
But he could "hear" the crisp chirping of birds, the rustling of leaves, the gurgling sound of running water...
Something was wrong, it was winter, where could the chirping of birds and the rustling of leaves come from in the Blue Mountains?
Although he was confused in his heart, Lan's body relaxed further. Then he seemed to hear the roar of burning flames, the rumble of lightning and thunder, and a "buzzing" sound that he couldn't distinguish.
Lann's state of mind became calmer and calmer, and the aura on his body gradually began to condense. The magical energy transformed from natural forces made the energy in his body extremely rich and growing continuously.
Chaos energy was like a rainbow, condensing around Lann's body, forming a network made of natural elements.
Suddenly, Lan felt something boiling in his body. It is the blood of ancient times, your own bloodline, the bloodline that can give a person a demonic constitution from scratch, and the power of salvation that is destined to save the world.
Chaos energy seemed to form a vortex, pouring into Lan's body continuously. And in a place where Lann couldn't even notice, a skill in the system panel suddenly lit up -
[Travel],
a skill that drained all of Lann's magic power at the beginning of his awakening. And after consuming such a huge amount of magic power, the final result was only able to give him a glimpse of countless planes, which was not enough to reach other worlds.
This is like a super large machine, but Lann's battery can't carry it at all.
At this moment, the energy continuously provided by the Ring of Elements finally meets the conditions for activation of this skill, like a plug-in energy source, lighting it up.
Lan suddenly felt a lightness all over his body, and his consciousness left his body and began to drift upwards involuntarily. But this time is different from the time he awakened before. Compared with the previous time when there were countless images of the world in front of him for him to choose from, this time's [travel] seems to be directional.
If Lann makes an analogy, the previous [travel] was to build a road and explore by himself; but this time [travel] is that he happened to find a door that someone else had set up, and kicked it open by chance, so Only then can we pass outside.
Thinking of the place name of the "Ring of Elements" where he was before, it becomes clear where he is now.
Lann looked up and saw four dazzling light clusters lying across the ancient and dark sky, surrounded by surging elemental stars like a crescent moon.
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Ahead, there was a burning orange sky. From time to time, fireballs would fall from the sky, instantly burning everything around the ground to ashes. Boundless volcanoes, mountain rivers, gravel slopes and flames flying in the sky constitute a unique scene in this world.
Behind, a sea of purple and rose reveals itself. The vast sea, towering rocky pinnacles, dangerous cliffs and frequent storms are what it’s all about here.
On the left, there is a thick and costly block. There are constant sounds of the roaring of the earth and the grinding of rocks. Stones, rocks and vast plains can be seen everywhere. This is the main theme here.
To the right, there is a completely disordered world, with chaotic air and crazy storms the only things left in it. Lann can't even see a single solid thing from it.
This is the elemental plane. The world outside the planet wrapped around Lann's feet is like the "atmosphere" of Lann's previous life. Different from the "atmosphere", this elemental layer contains not only "air", but also earth, water, and fire. The scope is larger, the layer is thicker, and it is more dangerous.
There is also invisible energy supporting these four realms, which is the fifth element that symbolizes "spirit" - ether.
Before Lan En could react, a huge figure suddenly appeared in each of the four realms. They have shapes that match their respective realms, and their appearances are very different; the only similarities are the profound wisdom revealed in their eyes and the terrifying aura exuding from their bodies.
Lan En was horrified when he saw this: World Spirit! Unique magical creatures that live in their own planes. Powerful warlocks can establish contracts with them through [Summoning Magic], just like summoning foreign demons; what's more, they can capture these world spirits directly from the sky.
The strong among the world spirits have the powerful ability to move mountains and fill the sea, or like the "Di Jing", they have the mythical ability to fulfill the wishes of mortals.
There are also relatively weak elemental beings in world spirits. But when Lann looked at the appearance and size of the four world spirits in front of him, they didn't look like weaklings. He was sure that the four in front of him were ruthless characters that he couldn't deal with at this stage.
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The first time the four world spirits appeared, they roared towards their respective opposite sides. The water plane faces the fire plane, and the air plane faces the earth plane. They are majestic and will not give in.
But then they became quiet again, and a silent understanding permeated among them. Even though he had no eyes, Lan still felt that their gazes were focused on him.
Lann was suddenly shocked. There were too many things in his sight. It's scrutiny, it's disgust, it's hatred, and... it's greed.
To suffer.
Four forces appeared on Lann's body without giving him any time to react, and suddenly began to tear him apart in four different directions. The illusory muscles and bones were torn apart unreasonably, as if they were twisted into countless weird shapes and could not be pulled back.
Every second was like a poisonous needle stinging all the cells in his body, and all kinds of incredible pain spread throughout his limbs and bones. The overwhelming pain made Lan want to scream, but he forgot that his body was still in Kaer Morhen's elemental ring at this moment, and he was still just a spirit body.
Lan opened the system panel like crazy and frantically clicked on the [Travel] skill.
Immediately, the magic power in the body was released like a flood, but the force of the four pulling forces also increased sharply, trying to compete with the system's skills.
Lann could feel that the system had the advantage in this confrontation. However, in just one breath, his magic power bottomed out. But unlike when he came here, this time there was no energy provided by the elemental realm to replenish him.
In the darkness, there was a faint dull laughter. Like a strong wind, like a landslide, like a raging flame, like a tsunami.
Lan's consciousness gradually became blurred.
And just when the four pulling forces were getting stronger and stronger, almost tearing Lan En's spirit body apart, a very familiar voice suddenly came from outside the elemental realm.
...
"Ah! Lann, you're here! So fast?"
This voice seemed happy and looking forward to it. It's like a traveler on the road has discovered a long-awaited companion, and it's like a hard-working gardener finally seeing his fruit trees bear fruit.
However, the voice suddenly paused and made a sound like it had seen something dirty.
"...Huh?"
...
The next thing happened in a short moment.
Maybe even faster.
As if the ancient abyss suddenly gained consciousness, a wordless darkness filled the elemental world.
The four world spirits roared again, but this time it turned into anger, then fear, and anger.
The infinite ether seems to have turned into a human hand, tightly wrapping the world where these world spirits live. It originally held up the four elemental realms, but now it holds the four realms tightly in its palm. And harder and harder, harder and harder.
With a crisp sound like a broken glass mirror, Lann felt that the power surrounding him suddenly lightened up and disappeared. Then he felt as if there was a string pulling the puppet behind him. With a slight tug, his spirit body sank back to his own planet again.
In the endless starry sky, a sigh of disappointment slowly came: "Oh... forget it, it's not time. You should go back first..." "Remember,
you owe me a glass of wine this time... "
......
Lan suddenly opened his eyes and breathed heavily as if he were drowning. He could no longer maintain his body balance and fell directly to the ground.
In his ears, the system's beeps sounded one after another. Subconsciously opening the panel, brilliance immediately began to flicker on it.
Lan took a long breath and found that his [Sigil] skill panel had undergone earth-shaking changes.
The five level three seal skills were all lit up at once!
[Quen Strengthening] The strength of Quen's Seal increases by 10%. (2/5)
[Arden Strengthening] The strength and duration of Arden's Seal are increased by 10%. (2/5)
[Axi Strengthening] The strength and action time of the Seal of Axi are increased by 10%. (2/5)
[Alder Strengthening] The strength and attack range of Alder's Seal are increased by 10%. (2/5)
[Igni Strengthening] The strength and burning probability of the Igni Mark are increased by 10%. (2/5)
The five major seals respectively symbolize the five elements of earth, fire, water, wind and ether. The five skills are as numerous as water, and the strengthening effects are also neat. This is the most essential improvement to Lann's Seal.
With such a neat strengthening effect, and considering what just happened in the elemental realm, Lann knew without guessing why these five skills were improved. Even if the demon hunter can obtain power from the ring of elements, the enhancement of this level is a bit too exaggerated.
The activation of a total of five third-level skills also automatically meets the conditions for Lan to activate the four final skills of the [Sigil] series. The harvest is quite rich.
It seems that I owe someone some money again... Although the other person cannot enter this world now and cannot collect debts from me. But with the blood of the ancients, he will have to travel through the multiverse sooner or later, and there is no way to avoid him.
I wonder what kind of requests the other party will make then...
Lann shook his head and put the issue aside for the time being. At the same time, I also made up my mind not to activate the [Travel] skill again until my ability is insufficient. This adventure is a lesson learned from the past.
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On this side, Lan was breathing heavily to adjust his condition.
On the other side, everyone who had been watching Lan's meditation finally reacted after seeing the abnormality of the young demon hunter.
Mossack ran much faster than the other demon hunters and lifted up Lan, who was lying on the ground, with a nervous look on his face.
"Lan, what's wrong with you, wait... Why do you have so much chaotic energy poured into your body, but now you have no magic power at all?" The old Druid said and turned to Vesemir hurriedly, "Is this normal? You Do you know what happened?!"
Lann quickly grabbed Mossak's shoulders and forced a smile while suppressing the discomfort.
He looked at his health and mana. The blue bar had indeed bottomed out, but the red bar was still above the health line.
"I'm fine, Uncle Mossack." Lann comforted, not wanting to tell Mossack what had just happened. It involved things beyond the elemental realm, which even the old druid didn't know. There's a solution.
"Actually, I have gained a lot now. More than one seal has been strengthened. Maybe it's because of this that I am particularly tired." Although
everyone was still surprised and confused after hearing this, their expressions also relaxed.
Lan excused himself that he was not yet familiar with the power, and also wanted to relieve his fatigue, so he sat aside alone and began to adjust his condition.
Demon hunters such as Cohen and Reso were shocked by Lan's state, but after hearing that he had indeed been enhanced, they hesitated for a while and knelt down in the center of the Ring of Elements to start meditating.
However, their meditation process was relaxed and freehand. It only took a quarter of an hour for everyone, and everyone felt refreshed at the end, and nothing like Lann's situation ever happened again.
While the other demon hunters who had not yet been strengthened were meditating one by one, Mossack sat next to Lan and asked with concern: "Are you sure you're okay?"
Lan had already adjusted most of his state at this time, and his face looked good. A lot.
"I'm really fine."
After thinking about it, Lan suddenly asked: "Uncle Mossack, do you have any books about the elemental plane?"
Mossack was stunned, and he responded immediately with full knowledge: "There is a book "Elemental Empire". This book itself is in the magic course I have arranged for you. I plan to teach it to you when you have time." The old Druid's eyes became deep: "Why,
you Suddenly you are interested in this knowledge and want to learn [Summoning Magic]? That is forbidden magic, it can even be counted as black magic."
Lann smiled and said: "We all know that forbidden magic is just difficult to control and easy to hurt beginners. Just a scholar. Fire magic is also forbidden magic, as is necromancy, but look at how many people in the Warlock Brotherhood don't know these." In order to
reassure Mossack, he added: "Don't worry, Mossack. Uncle Ke, I know the upper limit of my ability. I have no plans to try these spells now, I am just curious. There are some things I can use, but I have to..." After hearing this, the old Druid thought for a while and nodded in agreement
. He said: "You are an independent child, so I don't have to worry about that. Don't worry, the courses I give you include knowledge in this area, but you have to do it step by step - I will teach you, but not now."
Lann leaned his back against the rock wall, raised his head, and his sight seemed to pass through the clouds in the sky and fall into the boundary layer: "That's enough."
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A few more quarters of an hour later, all the Snake Sect hunters The demons have also been promoted in the Circle of Elements. Judging from their beaming expressions, the result was great.
Vesemir looked at the sun. Everyone set out early in the morning. Although there were thrilling battles along the way, it was just past noon.
"Old Spearhead is dead and the Ring of Elements has been absorbed. It's almost time to go back." Vesemir suggested, "Now we can return to the castle with enough time to prepare dinner. There must be a lot of bear meat left from yesterday."
Lambert curled his lips: "We have been busy outside all day, why do we have to go back to prepare dinner..."
Eskar patted him on the shoulder: "Yennefer definitely doesn't know how to cook, Shirley. The kitchen is a disaster, so Triss can't prepare food for more than a dozen people by herself."
Lann and Geralt both had embarrassed looks on their faces after hearing this.
The way back will definitely be smoother than the way back. The noise from the battle with Old Spearhead just now is definitely enough to drive away the eyeless monsters on the clear road.
This is what everyone originally thought.
Just as they were returning to the cave from the Ring of Elements, three stone heads suddenly stuck out.
"Demon hunter, stop, go back! This is the 'Giant Mama' territory!"
A simple, slow, but dull sound like the impact of rocks reached everyone's ears.
Everyone followed the sound and found that on a small slope not far away, there were three humanoid monsters with stones all over their bodies standing there.
To give a rough estimate, this distance can be a hundred steps. The demon hunter wanted the other party to at least roar, but the other party seemed to be speaking in a normal voice and could still be heard clearly in everyone's ears.
It's a troll.
Just on his way to the Ring of Elements, Lan heard that there were trolls here. It was a pity that I didn't meet him at the beginning, but I didn't expect that I would meet him suddenly now.
The one scolding the demon hunters was the one at the front of the three trolls, who looked like the leader. But after it finished speaking, the troll closest to it suddenly raised its hand and hit the leader on the head with a fist more powerful than a heavy hammer.
This hit caused the stone on the troll's head to crack, and the demon hunters from far away could feel the terrifying momentum. Lann made a mental calculation, and the normal knight's plate armor would probably need to be remade if it took a few hits.
"Stupid! You are a 'troll', not a 'giant'!" The troll who took action shouted viciously at his leader.
The leader of the trolls scratched his head and seemed not to be affected at all. He turned to the demon hunters and shouted again:
"Demon hunters, stop, go back! This is the troll territory!"
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The actions of the demon hunters He frowned in unison, raised his jaw slightly, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Only Mossack showed an interested expression.
"How dare they? There are so many of us..." Lambert reached behind his back and grasped the hilt of the wolf's head sword.
But after thinking about it carefully, he put his hand down again, turned to Lann and Cohen and asked: "It hurts the sword too much to cut this thing, so it's easier to use the sigil. Are you short of [Troll Decoction]?" Geralt listened
. After saying this, he stopped talking. Although White Wolf is a demon hunter, he has always been friendly to intelligent monsters, including monsters with extremely high alchemical value such as night demons, shapeshifters, and nymphs.
Trolls are naturally among this group. Perhaps in the eyes of White Wolf, these are already "inhuman races" rather than "monsters".
Lann is not a murderous demon hunter, but he is not a philanthropist like White Wolf either. But he really didn't intend to kill the trolls in front of him.
After thinking for a while, Lan turned to look at Vesemir: "Have these trolls ever killed apprentices of the Wolf sect?"
Vesemir thought for a moment and shook his head: "The apprentices who fell at the last level were all broken. In the hands of Old Spearhead. These trolls...the apprentice's IQ is enough to deal with them."
(End of Chapter)