Chapter 310
Chapter 310 Seal
Spirits and the like are one of the most troublesome guards to deal with.
If it had been ordinary voodoo beasts, four apprentice adepts would still have been able to kill them, even if they had to suffer some losses in the process. However, it was challenging to get rid of spirits.
Firstly, these spirits didn’t possess actual physical bodies.
In low-magic worlds, death was inevitable once you stopped breathing. The death of the body meant that the spiritual consciousness had dispersed and vanished. The soul could not exist independently of its host.
However, this was not the case in high-magic worlds. Individuals who had possessed powerful wills in life, be it adepts or magical creatures, would still be able to exist in the material plane through their powerful mental will. They would be able to preserve their spiritual consciousness.
They would use their powerful hatred and regrets for their core and gather elementium substances as their bodies. Once they became powerful enough, they could even materialize in the material world.
Their bodies were both intangible and tangible, which allowed them to switch between the two states freely.
Alice waved the Gem of True Sight around as she chased away the accursed spirit that had tried to take the opportunity to attack her. Meanwhile, she drew her right hand out from the wall.
Bop.
Her arm came out and Will the apprentice was dragged out of the painting as well.
The spirit was enraged to see the prey it had caught be saved.
It let out an ear-piercing screech, and white smoke started to obscure the painting. Countless mummies charged towards the exit as if they wanted to get out of the picture as well.
Alice let out a cold laugh and shook the Gem of True Sight. A series of twisted and distorted magical runes surfaced in the middle of the painting.
“Amiasa, Slumber of the Dead!”
Alice quickly finished her chant, and a bright white light glowed within the painting. A mysterious white vortex appeared out of nowhere and dragged the wailing spirit back into the canvas.
When the light faded away, the painting had returned to its original appearance.
Mountains in the distance, a river, grey fields, a small hill, and a spirit wailing on the top of the hill.
She managed to seal the enemy!
Alice turned and smiled at Warren, “Hey, big guy! I really won’t be responsible again if you take one more step backward and wake the monster sealed in that painting!”
Warren turned around with his left hand cradling his wounded right arm. Only then did he realize how close he had gotten to the wooden frame on the other side when he retreated.
A mysterious spirit boat was crashing through the towering waves in the painting as it sped forward.
Warren might not know what monster was sealed within, but he had already seen what happened to Will. He had no desire to tempt fate.
He quickly moved away from the painting!
It seemed that the guardians of this corridor were the creatures in these sealing paintings.
Progress was much more relaxed now that they understood what awaited them.
Alice used her Gem of True Sight to shine the way for every bit of distance they covered. They quickly uncovered the existence of magical traps this way. All they needed to do was take turns to attack and seal any enemies before they could come out and cause trouble.
It was evident that this was the primary location where Adept Sak performed his secret experiments. The number of magical traps he had prepared was numerous.
Monsters sealed in paintings, alarms hidden in candlesticks, and killing contraptions hidden underneath the floorboard were only a few.
It wasn’t hard to imagine the fate of an intruder. Sak would be able to pick up on the abnormality even if he was a thousand kilometers away. All he needed to do then was rush back and seal the exit. The depths of the corridor would trap the enemy.
All magical traps and contraptions, as well as voodoo beasts, required an adept’s management to exhibit their fullest potential.
However, now that Sak was dead, it didn’t matter how many and how tightly-packed his defenses were. They would eventually be overwhelmed.
Thus, after an entire night’s worth of torturous exploration, the party successfully reached the end of the corridor. They had arrived before the door of the laboratory!
A strange human face surfaced on the wooden door.
“Password. Speak the password or be denied entry!”