Chapter 552 A Dragon
The area of the demiplane cannot be compared with the real plane, and it is not easy to enter the demiplane, especially if you do not enter from the real entrance.
The dog coins of the witch have quite good spellcasting ability, especially good at enchantment and illusion school spells, but the school of conjuration is good at this, and the witch does not have this ability.
If they did not enter from the entrance outside the academic city, there are only two possibilities.
There are many other entrances to this demiplane. For example, the battleship Skull Harbor may have entered through other entrances.
Another possibility is that the witch used some strange ritual.
The spellcasting ability of a witch is only okay, but a group of witches gather together and use some rituals that cannot be explained by the existing magic system, including teleportation, predicting the future and curses.
Regardless of which method they came in, creatures like witches will not wander around like adventurers. They must have a plan when they enter the ruins.
To be honest, there are already enough forces in this ruins, and now even the witches have come to get involved.
Using the semi-invisible secret eyes above to monitor these sea witches crawling out from under the water, they did not seem to find the three of them, but when they came ashore, they twitched their carrot-like noses, as if they smelled something.
But they did not look for the source of the smell, but walked into the darkness on the other side of the warship.
The invisible magic ball protected the three people, and there was a semi-rotten warship blocking them in the middle. The sea witches obviously didn't know that there were three people watching them not far away.
Seeing that the witches were getting farther and farther away, and if they were farther away, they would be beyond the remote control range of the secret eyes. Orde gestured to Zora and Nimia, intending to follow them to see.
Let's be honest, Orde came to the ruins for the Demon King's Ring, but until now, she hasn't even seen the shadow of the Demon King's Ring. Instead, she was extremely active in other aspects. She really didn't do her job.
Aoerdai is like this. Anything that makes her curious will attract her attention. Besides, there is no fork in the road. Even if they let the witch go, they will eventually have to follow the direction where the witch went far, just as if it was a side trip.
The controllable distance of the secret eye is closely related to the level of the caster. Aoerdai can control the secret eye to fly at a radius of about 500 meters with herself as the center. The three people are only about 200 meters away from the sea witch walking in front, so the secret eye keeps following.
This walk took almost ten minutes. The sea witch had left the beach and entered a strange cave next to the sea.
This cave may have been artificially modified. The middle was hollowed out, and even windows can be seen. It looks like a sea view room next to the sea.
The three squatted outside the cave and found a big stone as a cover. Aoerdai lifted the invisible ball and continued to peek with the secret eye.
On the ground near the cave, you can occasionally see wooden boards sticking out of the ground. If you look carefully, you will find that those wooden boards are actually used as tombstones.
The Mystic Eye flew into the cave, and soon saw several skeletons that had completely turned into bones, but they were not undead creatures.
Obviously, this was the final destination of all the crew members on the Skull Harbor pirate ship.
The witches stood in a circle in the cave. The ground should have been carved with magic circles in advance. When the last witch returned to her position, a bright blue flame immediately ignited in the center of the circle.
Then the witches around threw small bundles of herbs, the corpses of small animals, and what looked like human internal organs into the flames.
A large number of miscellaneous things were thrown in, and the color of the flame gradually changed from bright blue to dark green, and finally turned completely into emerald green.
As the witches threw, they raised their hands and chanted strange sentences in their own language. It was obvious that they were holding a ceremony.
As the witches' blasphemous voice became louder and louder, and finally accompanied by a tail sound like a shrill scream, the flame in the center of the witches suddenly bulged with a whoosh and burned violently.
After a moment, the flames calmed down, and above the flames, a glowing, almost translucent, 3D projection-like object appeared.
It was a mask that looked very much like the masks used by clowns in stage plays, with a teardrop-shaped pattern under one eye.
Alde never thought that she knew everything, but she should be considered knowledgeable. However, since entering this relic, she obviously found that her knowledge reserve was seriously insufficient.
Is this mask-shaped pattern a holy emblem of some god?
I have never heard that ghosts believe in gods?
Are there really gods willing to accept such things as believers?
A series of question marks popped up in her mind, and then Alde saw one of the sea ghosts bowing her head to the mask projection floating above the flames, and her mouth moved as if she was talking.
The secret eye certainly does not have the function of transmitting sound, and Alde wanted to know what the ghost was doing.
So she pointed to the cave where the ghost was, and the three of them tiptoed over and listened to the movement inside at the entrance of the cave.
There was no need for the secret eye at this time. The straight-line distance between them and the witch was probably less than ten meters. If they looked carefully, they could still hear the voice clearly.
"Did you find the thing?"
First, a man's voice was heard, and then the witch said in a hoarse voice:
"Not yet. This ruins is much larger than expected."
"When you contact me, you won't just tell me that it's hard to find me, right?"
"Of course not, sir, we are reporting to you specifically because of an emergency."
Oh, it's not a holy symbol, it's some kind of interdimensional communication?
Long-distance magical communication has always been a difficult problem to solve, especially cross-dimensional communication, which is considered impossible by current scholars.
But the magic used by hags is different from the magic technology. Their mysterious magic rituals are something that even magic cannot explain.
If the mystery of the hag rituals can be solved, perhaps the technology for cross-dimensional and long-distance magical communication will usher in the spring.
With these thoughts in her mind, Aldai heard the hag say again:
"Sir, we have discovered that many people have visited the ruins recently."
"Adventurer?"
"No, they seem to belong to different organizations, but none of them are adventurers."
"Tell me more about it."
"Some of them are mercenaries, but they perform strange rituals. They may be cultists of an evil god. There are also some who have semi-mechanized bodies and dress like priests, but they never use magic. There are also a group of people who are Zhuoer, we don’t dare to get close, we don’t know what their purpose is.”
"Three organizations?"
"Yes, besides that, there are also some sporadic intruders. I think the one we should pay the most attention to is a dragon."
dragon?
Damn it?
There is actually a dragon in this damn place?
