The night is getting darker and darker.
The air in the tower was damp and cold. Saira wrapped the blanket around his shoulders and squatted on the edge of the magic circle to read Lin Ze's tracing.
"Where is your friend?" Sela asked.
"In a place you would never expect." Lin Ze said with a smile. He thought to himself, if he calls out Tom, wouldn't it scare you?
The swamp was unusually quiet in the middle of the night.
There were no insects or frogs chirping outside the window, and even the rustling of the wind through the reeds had disappeared.
Instead, there was a low-frequency buzzing sound, which came from close to the water surface, causing the stone walls of the tower to vibrate slightly.
Lin Ze put the drawings into the box, stood up, walked to the window and looked down.
The shallow water area down the slope has been covered by a layer of dark red light.
Those water lotuses grew crazily in the red light, with stems and leaves jumping out of the water and climbing up the slope.
Fine barbs sprouted from the edges of the lotus leaves, which would wrap around stones and pierce into the soil.
"Damn it, now I know how those soldiers disappeared, and how lucky those few who ran back were!" Saira's voice came softly.
Lin Ze glanced back at her. She had already put her backpack on her back and the scimitar on her waist.
"What should I say? Jump down with me?" Lin Ze deliberately joked.
Unexpectedly, Sela directly put his hands around his shoulders, his eyes full of determination, which made Lin Ze want to laugh for a while.
The next moment, Lin Ze reached out and put his arms around her waist. Unfortunately, the leather armor on Sela's body was thick enough, and there was no graceful touch like those in bloody novels.
Lin Ze, carrying Sela, gradually tilted his body and fell slowly from the top of the sentry tower.
The sound of wind came from his ears, and Sela watched himself falling downwards. He immediately closed his eyes and retracted his head.
The next moment, there was a crisp "crack" sound.
The two figures disappeared in mid-air, and a few seconds later, they appeared on a slope not far from the sentry tower.
The cold wind came from the direction of the swamp, blowing Saira's short hair into a mess. When she opened her eyes, she found that she had appeared not far from the sentry tower.
The water lotus in the distance has climbed to the window on the first floor of the sentry tower, and dense dark red light spots cover the entire slope of the tower base, like a backward tide of blood.
"This is to block us in the tower." Saira forcibly resisted the urge to retching and pretended to be calm, pushing the hair from his face behind his ears.
Lin Ze nodded. "Wait for me here."
After Lin Ze finished speaking, without waiting for Saira to respond, "Apparition" appeared directly on the outer wall of the sentry tower, sticking to the wall like a gecko with the help of the jagged stone walls of the sentry tower.
He held the wand in his mouth, with both hands free, and moved it sideways along the crack in the tower to the right.
Saira looked at him from a distance, and she noticed that he was pulling down the moss and soil that had accumulated in the stone crevices of the tower.
"He's not going to..."
Lin Ze stopped at the intersection of cracks on the right side of the tower, took out the wand from his mouth, and pressed the tip of the wand against the stone wall. A silver-blue light diffused from the wand and penetrated along the stone cracks into the entire wall.
"Softening Charm"
The stone on the outer wall of the tower softened at that moment and collapsed in pieces like burning wax.
The guard tower lost its support on the right side and began to tilt sideways.
Those wooden beams also groaned and began to break one by one as the sentry tower tilted.
"Lin!" Sela looked on with fear and exclaimed.
Lin Ze ignored her and followed up with the second spell.
"Duro"
The stone mud that he melted re-solidified under the influence of the spell, but did not return to its original position. It was shaped into a stone slope extending diagonally downward from the top of the tower, like a slide attached to the outer wall.
The surface of the stone slope is as smooth as a mirror.
The entire tower shook violently during the reset process.
Lin Ze ran up the stone slope and jumped back to the observation deck in three steps and two steps at a time. When the monsters saw Lin Ze running up to the observation deck, they made a series of "cuckoo" sounds and rushed towards Lin Ze crazily.
Lin Ze was condescending and pointed downwards with his magic wand.
A stone wall rose from the ground at the bottom of the slope, temporarily blocking out the incoming monsters.
But those monsters were not resisted for too long. As their numbers continued to increase, the stone wall was directly broken through.
Lin Ze stood there with the wand raised, and the magic power on his body began to converge towards the wand.
He had wanted to try this trick for a long time.
For a long time, he has been fighting with physical magic and single-target spells, but today the situation is obviously more suitable for area-of-effect magic.
Looking at the monsters that broke through the stone wall, they were already rushing towards them.
The nearest one was less than three steps away from him, its gray-white mucus shone coldly in the moonlight, and the suckers on its abdomen opened and closed, making a wet "squeaking" sound.
"Protego Diabolica"
A golden red light exploded in all directions with Lin Ze as the center.
The blazing fire dragon spurted out from the tip of the wand, with a torrent of golden-red light, as if the ancient god of fire had descended.
The flames snaked forward like living creatures. Wherever they passed, rocks melted into red streams, and the air twisted and rose.
This is not just flame, but highly compressed explosive magic power.
The flames instantly expanded in the air and turned into a huge burning dragon head, crashing into those monsters with a devastating momentum.
Lin Ze increased the magic power output at the same time.
"Ho--"
Those monsters that could only "cuckoo" roared in terror for the first time in front of this Charms.
The thick skin of the monsters, which was strong enough to withstand most Charms, melted like butter in front of the golden-red flames, and the sour smell that originally filled the air was instantly evaporated by the hot flames.
The monsters at the front didn't even have time to scream. The thick skin curled, cracked, and carbonized in the flames. The mucus was instantly evaporated by the high temperature, and the remaining gray-white bodies were blown to pieces in the aftermath of the flames.
For the first time, fear permeated the monsters, and countless monsters huddled together, blocking each other in place.
Lin Ze's wand was waved gently like a band conductor, and the fire dragon raised its head and tail and passed Cleansweep along the slope.
The golden-red light illuminated the entire sentry tower and the surrounding swamp water as if it were daytime, and even the reeds in the distance were reflected in a caramel color.
The water lotus vines that climbed up to the tower first retracted suddenly when they encountered the flames, and then the entire vine exploded from the middle. Dark red juice splashed out, and evaporated into a puff of pungent white smoke before it even hit the ground.
Sela stood there with a pale face, staring blankly at the god-like Lin Ze controlling the fire dragon.
She had seen many scenes since she was a child. She had an encounter with the remnants of the barbarians, was surrounded by horse thieves on the mountainside, and even once chased a deserter to the edge of a cliff, and fought hand-to-hand with the opponent on the edge of the cliff.
But those scenes put together didn't make her scalp numb as much as the scene before her.