Although Raphael didn't know what Lin En was up to, he still kept the [Ring of Secret Magic] out of trust.
Yolande, Tik, Ivina and others also picked up various instruments and got ready for the trip.
Lin En did not give a long speech to boost morale. Instead, he told several people to be cautious and safe. The top priority for this exploration was safety and concealment. At worst, they could retreat for a while and the council would prepare a second team to enter the exploration.
"We will pay attention, then see you later!" Raphael said solemnly, and then stepped into the surging time and space gate first, and the other people quickly followed.
"Sure enough, were they cut off?" Lin En sensed it and thought to himself as he watched several people disappear into the space-time gate.
But this was within his expectation, but he didn't know whether the soul-splitting magic would work on the other side.
…
On the other side, Raphael, who had stepped into the door of time and space, felt as if the world was spinning, as if his consciousness had been stripped away and his body was thrust into a maelstrom and spun dozens of times.
When Raphael came to his senses, he had already appeared on the other side of the time and space gate.
"What a strong magic power."
This was Raphael's first feeling. I don't know if it was because of the time and space gate, but the magic power content nearby was almost comparable to the magic tide every Sunday.
Beside them, Yolande, Tik, Ivina and others also walked out of the time and space vortex, and what they saw was a dark, cold, and desolate world.
Just as the information said, the temperature here was extremely low. Tik couldn't help but shiver. He took out the temperature detection device and let it sit for a while, and quickly came to a conclusion.
"The temperature here is about 20 degrees below zero." Tik said in shock.
"No wonder it's so cold." Yolande also shrank his neck. Even though he had added cold-proof magic to his wizard robe in advance, he was still freezing.
"Also, the gravity of this world seems to be lighter." Ivina tried to jump, and she jumped three or four meters high.
Although her physical fitness is very good, she has never been able to jump to such exaggerated heights without the help of magic and magic.
After Ivina's reminder, Raphael and others also noticed this, and their bodies did feel a little light.
"According to the theory of universal gravitation proposed by Speaker Lynn, the mass of this world should be much smaller than our planet." Yolande, who specializes in astronomy, looked up at the sky.
There are no stars, no moon or sun, just darkness.
"We are not thinking about these things now. We will find out when we find a place to settle down and do an experiment on gravity acceleration." Raphael drew everyone's attention back from the exploration of gravity and temperature.
In fact, this is also one of their missions this time, to explore the composition of elements and gravitational constants in this world, and they have brought relevant instruments.
If possible, the parliament also wanted them to use Linn's light difference method to estimate the area of this continent or planet, but Raphael felt that this was entirely a problem with the minds of those congressmen, and there was no light in this place.
If you want to create a large enough light source, you have to release [Skyfall] directly in the sky, but that is tantamount to exposing your whereabouts...
"Light as bright as day." Raphael raised his hand to cast a spell, and a flashing thunder ball condensed above everyone's heads. The continuously emitting fluorescence immediately dispersed all the deep darkness nearby.
Only then did everyone realize that the space-time gate here was also erected in a valley. It was probably because the church's expeditionary force had massacred the nearby monsters not long ago, and the air was filled with blood and evil. Stink.
"Very good, the magic can be used smoothly." Raphael breathed a sigh of relief. The thing he was most worried about did not happen. He suddenly felt more confident in his heart, and then looked at the psychic wizard Tika in the team. .
Tika nodded and opened his loose wizard robe.
Ivina's pupils shrank because the opponent's wizard's robe was actually filled with dark-looking bats the size of half a palm.
"Is it a magic bat?" Several wizards immediately recognized it. This is a kind of weak monster that likes to suck blood, but it is usually sent out in groups. Without the help of wizards or magicians, A hundred mephits can slaughter an entire town.
However, this psychic wizard brought the magic bats here specially, obviously not to let them fight.
This kind of monster can use echo waves for positioning. In foreign and dark environments, it is undoubtedly an excellent detective helper to reduce the possibility of their exposure.
Yolande on the side also took action and put his hand on the ground.
He was selected into this exploration team not only because of his knowledge of astronomy, but more importantly because of his ability to sense ground vibrations.
In an unknown world, the more investigative methods the better, otherwise there will be some oversights.
For example now...
Yolande's expression changed immediately as he touched his hand to the ground, and he suddenly shouted in shock. "Underground...underground!"
At the same moment, a warning sign surged in Ivina's mind, and then the solid ground beneath her feet suddenly collapsed, and an abyssal mouth full of fangs emerged from the ground and bit her. Coming, the blood-red eyes flashed with cruelty and murderous ferocity.
Ivina had already jumped high into the air. Facing the incoming maw of the abyss, the girl's expression remained unchanged. She then drew out the slender blade from her waist and stabbed back with extremely precise precision. into the other party's red eyes.
Hot blood and green juice spurted out together, and after falling to the ground, they were frozen into pieces of fine ice crystals. Along with this, there were bursts of roars mixed with pain and anger, and the body was two meters thick. Swinging wildly, it plowed out ravines on the solid ground like a ground drill.
Ivina used the reaction force of the opponent's body to pull out the blade and retreated to a safe area.
However, there was more than one giant worm that attacked them. An unlucky wizard was also targeted, but he obviously did not have Ivina's excellent reaction speed, and was directly swallowed by the giant worm that emerged from the ground.
"Damn it!" Raphael's face was extremely ugly, and he cursed angrily. The flashing thunderball above his head immediately shrank into a ball, and then a strong laser beam flew out, drilling the worm out of the ground. Root cut off!
The huge body of the worm fell to the ground, but it was still twisting violently, kicking up dust all over the sky.
Tik and others immediately rushed forward, trapped it with magic, cut open the body of the giant worm, and rescued the unlucky wizard.
Thanks to being swallowed in one gulp, the wizard was not bitten to pieces by the worm's fangs. In addition, the rescue was timely, so there was nothing serious, except that the whole body was covered with green body fluids.
Seeing that the other party was fine, Raphael was relieved. If there were attrition as soon as he entered the foreign land, or if the other party was too seriously injured and needed to be sent back, then he would be embarrassed.
Ivina on the other side also cooperated with Yolande and others to kill the worm that attacked her, and removed some of the limbs and blood of the [Sand Worm] and sealed them for research.
"This should be the [Sand Worm] in the intelligence. I didn't expect this thing's actions to be so secretive." Raphael said in a solemn tone.
He originally thought that something with such a large size would have some warning signs even if it was moving underground, but in the end, he was not even aware of it.
"No, I think they should have been waiting here to hunt." Yolande explained. When he used detection magic just now, he discovered that these two worms had been hiding underground.
"It's really insidious. He has learned to wait in front of the door of time and space, just waiting for others to step through the door." Tik looked at the dead [Sand Worm] who was dismembered and said with palpitations. If he had been stared at just now, It was him who got hit, and he was not completely sure that he could avoid it.
Tick even suspected that these giant worms had the ability to distinguish the strength of their prey, because the best time to take action was when they had just come out of the time and space gate, but the opponent did not take action.
Probably because the first person to step in was Raphael, the [Sand Worm] did not have the ability to kill him, so he remained patient until he noticed the slight vibration caused by Yolande's detection magic. , realizing that they had been discovered, launched a sudden attack.
"Anyway, we must be more careful next." Raphael was 120% vigilant, and then looked at the psychic wizard Tika, asking about the status of the magic bat's exploration.
"Everything is normal for the time being. Several monsters were found two kilometers away to the west. They don't look very strong, but it's best to avoid them..."
Tika truthfully told everything he saw through his spiritual eyes, but he paused quickly, with a slightly surprised look on his face, and hurriedly reported his new findings to Raphael.
"Are you sure?" Raphael was also a little strange. After thinking for a while, he spoke again. "Then let's get out of here first."
Yolande and others nodded, and after checking that the instruments they carried were still valid, they left the valley together.
Before leaving, Raphael also extinguished the thunderball above their heads. Such a light source was too noticeable.
Fortunately, in this valley, the church had sent expeditionary forces several times to kill the monsters gathered nearby, and the noise caused was much greater than theirs, but it was not necessarily the case after going out.
With the departure of the nine people, the valley once again returned to its previous tranquility. About half an hour later, three short figures wrapped in animal skins trotted over from the outside of the valley, with the clear target of the two dead [Sand Worms].
The three of them moved with extraordinary proficiency. They quickly swung the bone knives in their hands and cut open the body of the worm. After draining the green juice on the surface, they cut off the inner film, revealing the brownish flesh underneath.
The juice of the [Sand Worm] is very corrosive, and only a small part of the meat inside the whole body is edible. However, due to its huge size, it is enough for a small tribe to eat for a week.
With the skillful movements of a few people, it took only twenty minutes to separate all the meat from the body.
As for the part of the body that was submerged in the ground, they did not move, because digging requires a lot of time, and every second they stay here is extremely dangerous, because at any time a powerful monster may smell the smell and come looking for it.
In this god-forsaken world, greed and death usually go hand in hand. If you want to survive, you must be careful enough.
Several short figures wrapped the separated flesh with film torn from the body of the [Sand Worm], and dragged it away before leaving.
However, the way out of the valley was blocked, and a shining thunderball was speeding toward a few people at extremely fast speeds.
A sharp shout rang out from the mouth of the leader, and the other two men dropped the pieces of meat they had worked so hard to peel off without hesitation, scattered and ran away.
It's a pity that their speed obviously cannot be faster than lightning. The flying electric ball quickly exploded, and the flashing arc spread quickly like a spider web, covering the surrounding area of 100 meters.
The one who took action was the figure hidden by polarizing magic. Raphael turned back again. He was holding an equally short figure in his hand - this was a sentry.
Several magic bats flew down from the sky and landed on the shoulders of the psychic wizard Tika. He had already discovered the four people hiding outside the valley just now. However, he did not know the identity and purpose of the other party, so he did not take action rashly. .
After receiving the news, Raphael didn't want to alert the enemy. The distance between the two parties was too far, and it would be difficult for the other party to stay with just a few magic bats. So he pretended to be unaware and waited for the other party to make the first move.
But what Raphael didn't expect was that the three people were not targeting him, but the two [Sand Worms] that had been killed in the valley.
Are you here for the food?
Raphael glanced at the scattered film bags, feeling a little more clear in his heart.
"They all seem to be children?" Tik stepped forward, looked at the dwarfs who were twitching from the electric shock, and said in surprise.
"No, it should be a halfling," Raphael corrected. He had seen Lydia many times and knew a little about the halflings, so he recognized her right away.
"Are they the aborigines here? Or did they accidentally step into the time and space gate? Or were they driven in by the church?" Yolande guessed one after another. What surprised him most was that there were halflings who could survive in such a desolate place. survive in the world
There is no sunshine here, there is very little water vapor in the air, and there are many dangerous monsters. The most important thing is that the opponent's strength seems to be pitifully weak.
"Don't underestimate every species. No matter how bad the environment is, life can always find a way out!" The speaker was a plastic wizard. Having analyzed thousands of species of living things, he naturally understood that under the trend of the desire for survival, life can How tenacious.
(End of chapter)
