Throne of Magical Arcana - Chapter 248
Chapter 248: Distortion
The greenish-gray pimples soon covered the whole face of the young man in the mirror. His eyeballs were protruding, and his nose started to get rotten. Chunks of gray flesh were falling, and white bones and two black eye sockets were revealed.
Lucien was shocked. Seeing what was happening with the familiar face in the mirror, Lucien felt goosebumps rise from the tips of his toes to the top of his head. Although the spell Mechanized Mind did help, Lucien still got frozen there, and he could not think clearly.
At this time, the rotten face in the mirror put on a smile like an ugly clown.
Everything in front of Lucien’s eyes went black and his heart stopped beating for about three seconds. Three seconds later, Lucien got his heartbeat back, and it was beating so fast, so bad, as if it was going to jump out of his chest.
Lucien’s head started to buzz like crazy. Every single vein in his body was bulging, and all his blood rushed to his brain. He found that what he could see all turned into blood red now, and everything looked very blurry and weird.
Lucien felt that his life force was escaping from his body.
Fortunately, thanks to Lucien’s strong will and the spell he had cast on himself, in the last second, he stopped himself from just running away like ordinary people but instead covered himself with a layer of light, in which many magic symbols were appearing and disappearing as if they were alive.
A second later, the rotten Lucien in the mirror took a step forward and directly came out of the mirror. Its red tongue reached out from its mouth and turned black. Shooting out, the tongue directly went through Lucien’s Powerful Fire Shield like it did not even exist.
Lucien sensed the smell of death.
Thanks to the newly cast spell, the black, illusory tongue was stopped by the magic-symbol light shield. As soon as the tongue touched the shield, it was burned, and black smoke rose.
The fourth-level divine spell, Death Ward!
After Lucien made it to middle-rank, the second layer of Sun’s Corona’s seal had been unlocked. So he could cast three more divine spells in a day: Burning Radiance, third circle; Death Ward, fourth circle; and Flame Strike, fifth circle, but among them, Death Ward was the very conqueror of any death-related power.
At this time, Charlie and Sandra noticed Lucien’s weird behaviour—staring at the mirror like he was possessed, Lucien’s body was protected by some divine power. However, when they looked in the mirror, there was nothing in it, not even any reflection!
Sandra pointed her purple magic staff at the mirror, and instantly very strong light burst out of the mirror, but the light somehow could not go beyond a radius of ten meters. Beyond the ten-meter radius, the darkness was still thick.
Burning Sun was the fourth-circle spell in the school of Light-darkness, and it was only used for resisting demons or the undead from other dimensions. The power just did not feel as holy as the divine spells.
In the pure brightness, a few pieces of black smoke leaked out of the mirror, and when they united together, a horrible monster showed up.
The hood it was wearing did not hide its face. The demon had scarlet eyes, and its skull was covered with only a very thin layer of rotten skin. Its two rows of teeth were directly revealed because it did not have lips. However, this appearance did not look real at the same time, as it kept changing all the time, just like some kind of illusion.
The demon was tall, and it was wearing a really fancy black robe, embroidered with mysterious patterns, and they all looked evil.
The demon, surrounded by black smoke, blocked the light from Burning Sun behind it, and it started laughing. At the same time, gray shadows showed up around Charlie and Sandra.
Although the magic-symbol shield around Charlie worked, however, the gray shadows were just too many, and the shield started to get dim.
At this time, Charlie flew directly towards the bookshelf, or more specific, he dropped onto the bookshelf on the other side of the hall, as if gravity was messed up.
It was the fourth-circle spell in Force Field, Virtual Gravity!
Close beside the mirror, the five magic power spheres above Sandra’s and Susan’s head were now spinning very fast, and every single gray shadow which tried to jump on them got absorbed by the magic spheres. The magic balls, at the same time, started to get bigger, as Sandra pointed her magic staff at the demon, the spheres fiercely flew toward it.
Two magic spheres directly hit the black smoke around the demon, and the smoke started to be driven away.
Seizing the chance, the strong light from the magic, Burning Sun, reached the demon, and the demon burst out a dreadful scream.
Charlie raised up his right hand wearing the white glove. Instantly, a huge illusory palm showed up beside the demon and directly grabbed it.
Douglas’s Huge Palm, a fourth-circle Force Field spell, and it was said that the spell was an improved version of an ancient one.
The ring on Lucien’s right hand, Element, was helping him recover. Lucien felt that he could move now, but he did not. Standing there, Lucien took out a crystal ball from his storage pouch.
The crystal ball first dimmed like there was a night sky in it, and then stars showed up in the night sky, moment when the crystal ball burst out pure light.
Floating in the air, the crystal ball stopped twenty centimetres above Lucien’s head. Twelve spots of light surrounding Lucien formed the same pattern with the formation of stars in the crystal ball. The stars were spinning around the ball, and together they formed a small astrology system.
This was a nightmare demon, and Lucien knew that common attack spells would not work on it. So, he directly cast Maskelyne’s Star, which was a multi-aspected astrology spell combining illusion detection, enemy’s luck alteration, supernatural power absorption and a star sphere attack. On Astrology and Magic Elements, there was a corresponding ninth-circle spell called Maskelyne’s Star Map.
As soon as Maskelyne’s Star was fully constructed, beams of star light shot out from the crystal ball and directly cast light on the demon. It was for identifying whether the demon was just a projection!
In the star light, the demon was still there.
Charlie pointed his black magic staff at the demon and cast Magic Resistance Reduction on it. Then the demon looked a bit faint.
Capturing the moment, both Sandra and Lucien launched their attacks at the same time, one in the front and one behind. They worked together perfectly well!
A shining big net caught the monster, and it started to become tighter and tighter. Black smoke came out of the demon in the net like it was bleeding!
One of Lucien’s star spheres shot the demon right in its center. Like a piece of glass, the demon was torn apart silently in the extremely bright light.
When Susan, who was beyond scared watching them fighting, was just about to give a sigh of relief, the parts of the demon body started to distort, along with the floor, the walls, the light, and even the huge Force Field palm!
Actually, the whole space was distorted!
And then everything broke down!
Like a broken mirror, the space was falling apart, and smoke started leaking out from the cracks in front of them.
Although the smoke was not thick, Lucien realized that he had lost his spiritual power sensing and his intuition. He started to get slow, and he could only see about twenty centimetres in front of him. At the same time, the smoke was affecting how his brain hormone and brain wave worked.
Were it not for Mechanized Mind, Lucien would already have become an idiot there at the same moment, or maybe completely broken down.
Fifth-circle spell, Mind Mist!
Lucien realized that the demon might be of level five, however, the sorcerer had never read much about this kind of demon before!
Although the star spheres spinning above his head lit up the place quite a bit, he still could not see through the mist.
In the terrifying silence, Lucien cast another defensive spell inside his Powerful Fire Shield, which was all he could do right now. He could not see where Charlie, Sandra and Susan were in the mist, and he could not even feel them being around!
When his spiritual power had recovered a bit, Lucien cast a second-circle spell, Dissipate Smoke. This was a spell that was designed for driving away magic smoke.
Lucien had no idea whether this would work, but he really thought it wouldn’t. However, the mist did start to disappear, and he could see more clearly now.
Charlie and Sandra also cast the spell, and they saw each other around.
“The mist might be the demon’s last struggle…” Sandra tried to grab Susan who was already freaked out, but her tone showed that she was not sure.
“That’s impossible! There’s no way that the horrible demon would just die like that!” said Susan, whose face looked beyond pale. At this time, using all of her strength, she got rid of Sandra’s hand and ran toward the corner of the hall.
When Charlie was about to catch her with his Force Field hand, Susan ran into the copper statue in the corner and then she grabbed the statue’s ear.
Susan twisted the ear, and a secret door opened in the wall.
Susan did tell them that there was a secret chamber in the hall, which was built by Bertren. Several apprentices found it, and that was their secret.
The sorcerers were not surprised by the existence of the chamber. However, their eyes opened wide when they saw that there was a young teenager boy in the chamber!
The teenager boy was squatting down on the ground, with his hands covering his head. He slowly looked up, and his eyes were filled with fear.
They found another survivor!
