Barbara led the way, Dick and Xiya followed behind her with their fingers clasped tightly.
After the three people walked into Energy Elevator, Barbara descended rapidly.
Barbara explained:
"Dean Mary has brought a dozen professors from the Magic Academy down below to make preparations. This time we have made complete preparations and we will definitely succeed."
At the end of the sentence, her expression gradually became serious,
"At that time, Dean Mary will activate the magic circle to guide the curse out of Xiya's body, and then communicate with Abyss to send the power of the curse back to the demon who cast the curse."
Dick nodded lightly, feeling the slight buzzing sound of the Energy Elevator magic circle when it was running, and couldn't help but wonder, "It has been down for more than ten seconds, why haven't you reached the basement yet?"
"It's not accurate to say it's a basement." Barbara continued to explain,
"The place we are going to is much deeper than the basement. That is the underground space that Dean Mary accidentally discovered. It is very empty.
If the Nine Hells demon inside accidentally breaks out while talking to Abyss, our fight there will not affect Magic Academy.
Dick, has your sword been sharpened?"
Dick nodded solemnly again, "Don't worry, I will protect you."
"No." Barbara smiled again, "As a demon hunter, the commission we Magic Academy assigns to you is - you just need to protect Xiya."
"Is this considered a commission?" Dick was slightly startled.
"Of course, the reward is that Xiya can safely go to Kaer Morhen to settle down with you." Barbara smiled and winked.
"I will accept this commission." Dick solemnly promised.
The tinnitus caused by Energy Elevator's continuous descent made Dick secretly calculate the depth. At a standard deceleration of ten meters per second, twenty-seven seconds meant that they had penetrated 270 meters underground, which was far beyond the scope of conventional buildings.
When the bronze door opened, what appeared in front of Dick was indeed an extremely open space:
The cold and wet rock walls glowed with blue phosphorescence, and the spiral ravines were half a meter deep.
The soles of Dick's boots ran over the gravel on the ground, making a crisp sound like broken bones, and the pungent smell of mold went straight into the nose.
He could even hear the gurgling sound of underground water coming from under the repaired and relatively smooth gravel floor.
This familiarity reminded him of the Arachas nest he had seen deep in the Firstfall Bay silver mine. The spatial structure here was extremely similar to it.
Directly in front, there were already a dozen figures in robes standing there, surrounding a six-star magic circle drawn with special materials.
Indigo will-o'-the-wisps rose from the edge of the six-pointed star, and the suspended magic runes twisted and reorganized like living centipedes.
"You are finally here." Dean Mary greeted several people, "Xiya, you will sit on the other side of the summoning circle in a while. Don't move around."
Dick looked in the direction of Dean Mary's finger and saw a half-meter-high stone platform about 30 meters away from the magic circle. On the stone platform was carved a magic circle that was similar to the big magic circle but slightly smaller.
The length of the stone platform is just enough for Xiya to sit down.
"Dean Mary, everyone, I'm sorry to trouble you." Xiya said softly.
"What's the trouble?" an elderly male warlock said majestically, "Little Xiya, you are a member of our Magic Academy. No matter what the situation, we will help."
"Yes, Magic Academy share weal and woe." Another young sorceress also said with a smile,
"Witcher, please protect Xiya for a while. We are all wearing defensive amulets, so there is no need to worry about our safety."
She added, "This defensive talisman will trigger when attacked, similar to the effect of your witcher's defensive shield."
"Everyone, thank you."
Dick wrapped Xiya's slightly trembling fingers in his palm, gently rubbed her cold knuckles with his thumb, and the two of them slowly came to the stone platform.
With the support of Dick, Xiya slowly sat down on the magic circle in the center of the stone platform.
She closed her eyes and placed her hands on her abdomen. This action seemed very skillful. It seemed that everyone at the Magic Academy had practiced it in advance.
Next to the larger magic circle on the other side, including Dean Barbara and Mary, 12 warlocks stood around the six-pointed star array, distributed at a certain angle.
They raised their hands high and kept raising and lowering them, mumbling words and spells that Dick couldn't understand.
The voice was solemn and high-pitched, Dick felt a series of demonic sounds penetrate his ears, and his mind was shaken into a trance.
With his keen Witcher Senses, he noticed that the six-star array was constantly giving birth to black light.
This phenomenon is extremely inconsistent with common sense in physics. Black color does not emit light.
The black mist swallowed up all the surrounding light sources, but produced a strange 'negative glow' phenomenon visually;
Just like the burning dark spots that remain on the retina after looking directly at strong light, they occupy the center of the field of vision against cognition.
But at this moment, what filled the magic circle was black mist, emitting an evil and dangerous light.
The demon hunter's instinct made the hairs on the back of Dick's neck stand up. He had firmly grasped the black sword in his right hand, and the five fingers of his left hand were intertwined, ready to release Signs at any time.
A sharp buzzing sound resonated in the skull cavity, and Dick tasted the rusty smell in his throat.
Although it looks like a rock wall covered with ice and snow, the burning pain of Lava is felt on the skin. This dizzy feeling with five senses cut apart is explaining a problem:
Hell energy is seeping here, and conventional physical laws are failing.
As the texture of the magic circle became brighter and brighter, the black mist became thicker and began to twist and roll crazily in the 'magic net' created by the warlock.
Some weird shapes faintly emerged in the mist, sometimes like giant octopuses, with countless tentacles waving wantonly in the air;
Sometimes it looks like a long, winding worm, twisting its body and making a creepy hissing sound.
These shapes are constantly changing, and unknown existences are trying to break through this shackles and descend into this world.
Xiya behind him suddenly let out a small groan of pain.
Dick quickly turned around, Xiya's neck showed bulging blood vessels like Lava's pattern. When cold sweat dripped on the surface of the stone platform, the white mist that evaporated instantly contained the smell of sulfur.
She had opened her eyes at this time, cold sweat overflowing from her forehead, but she still endured the pain and comforted Dick:
"I'm fine. Dean Mary has successfully communicated with them.
I may indeed have been tampered with in my body by some kind of powerful demon, please go and protect them and listen to me."
"Okay."
Dick took a deep look at Xiya. The tip of his sword pointed diagonally at the ground, and Signs in his left hand was stored but not fired. He maintained a triangular position that could both protect Xiya and coordinate the magic circle.
The voices of this group of warlocks became louder and louder, and suddenly stopped at a certain moment.
The mist covered by the "magic net" is as still as dead silence.
"Did it succeed?" Dick asked.
Mary The cuffs of Dean's robe suddenly burst, and the five elemental runes in the iris spun faster and faster, almost coming out of the body. "Everyone, get ready for battle!"