Chapter 117: Drastic Change
There is no other way. It is difficult to escape outside, and the Mage City will never let him leave. The only option is to try another method.
The base was built on the edge of the underground space, against the stone wall. It was dug into the stone wall from the side of the room. All the excavated soil was collected using the space in the palm of the hand, and then stones were combined to plug the caves that had been passed.
Then use the spell of turning fossils into mud to turn the stones into soft mud, then hammer it hard to make the mud deform and expand, and then turn the mud into stone. The expanded stone will get stuck in the unevenness caused by the excavation.
Don’t ask how they solve the breathing problem. The space in the palm is so big that it can hold enough air for them to survive for more than a week.
In a week, we can dig to a depth of at least two or three kilometers.
With the complex structure of the underground, there are passages of various sizes everywhere. As long as you are not too unlucky, you can always dig through them.
Of course, if he really can't dig through it within a week, it's not a big problem. For Li Qing, who possesses the blood of the ancient dragon, breathing is not necessary.
Breathing is a habit, but not a necessity.
In the Mage City-State, eight hours after Li Qing left, the Mage Tower that was monitoring him discovered something was wrong and immediately sent people to check, only to find an empty temporary military camp.
Several hunting dogs circled back and forth in the military camp for several times, but not only did they find nothing, but they were frightened when they entered the study where Li Qing was staying and sensed the lingering breath of the ancient dragon.
Li Qing cleaned the place very thoroughly when he left. The stone slabs fitted together tightly and were filled completely. Even when using a hammer to test it, the sound of the stone wall he dug was no different from that of the other stone walls.
A group of mages used magic to plow the entire military camp, including smashing all the stone slabs on the ground, but found nothing unusual.
It was not until the angry old wizard ignored the taboos of the underground space and used an earth-shaking spell that the stuck stone pillar was dislocated and discovered.
But even if you discover someone, it’s not easy to catch him.
They couldn't dig stones like Li Qing did, so they needed to mobilize a large number of mages to use fossils to turn into mud to soften the rocks, and then send people to dig.
The volume of the fossilized mud by an ordinary mage is limited, and requires continuous casting and digging. Even a group of mages combined are not as efficient as Li Qing and Long Fa.
In eight hours, Li Qing had dug several hundred meters deep, and it was basically impossible for them to catch up.
Core Mage Tower, Observatory.
After receiving the news of Li Qing's disappearance, Speaker Canovino had been sitting in the center of the observatory without saying a word for a long time. Several middle-aged and elderly mages who were his students were standing outside the observatory's magic circle and were also silent. The observatory fell into a strange silence.
At this moment, Speaker Canovino looked older and more decadent than before, and his figure seemed more hunched.
After an unknown amount of time, Canovino suddenly sighed, and a hoarse voice sounded in the observatory:
"Why didn't he just leave without saying anything? Actually, we can still talk!"
After a moment of silence , the hoarse voice sounded again:
"I have no choice but to lose this opportunity!"
The magicians and students were silent, as they all knew what the teacher meant.
"Then let's get started!"
A skinny hand took out a scroll from the sleeve and spread it out. With the help of the starlight, one could see a few words written on the scroll - Lich Transformation Ritual!
Time passed, and soon a week had gone by. Li Qing had been digging forward for a whole week. The total length of the excavated tunnel was probably four or five kilometers, but no end was found.
So he didn't hesitate and quickly changed direction and dug to the left.
They dug for another five days and covered another three or four kilometers, but still did not find the exit.
“So thick?”
Li Qing was speechless.
Fortunately, he no longer needed to breathe at this time, otherwise someone else would have suffocated to death.
There is no choice but to keep turning and changing direction.
In the following days, he kept changing direction and digging forward, and before he knew it, a month had passed.
On the day when he had been digging for a whole month, the core mage tower in the center of the mage city-state suddenly exploded violently, and huge flames broke through the wall of the mage tower and sprayed out.
Just as the entire city was looking towards the center of the city in doubt and astonishment, the four elemental energy balls on the surface of the central wizard tower suddenly shrank inward and merged into the tower. After a while, a surging breath of death gushed out from it, rushing in all directions like a tide.
The city hall near the Mage Tower was instantly flooded, and then a large number of mages working in the city hall fled outside. Many mages shouted in disbelief:
"This is impossible!"
But the death tide did not stop because of this. Instead, it caught up with them at an extremely fast speed.
The mages cast defensive spells on themselves, but the civilians of the city-state did not have this ability. They were swept by the tide of death and soon turned blue and fell to the ground.
After a while, the fallen body began to shake violently, and soon stood up shakily.
The drastic changes in the city shocked the war lord apprentices gathered outside the city. They were so shocked that they didn't know how to react for a while.
"What the hell is this?"
Zhang Chunyi held his head in his hands, his face filled with shock and confusion.
While they were fighting off the natural disaster army in front, a fire broke out in the backyard, which made them at a loss for what to do.
Fortunately, someone was quick to react and immediately notified everyone on the Divine Domain LAN:
"Bad news. One of the three speakers of the Mage City-State, Speaker Canovino, has completed the lich transformation ritual and has officially transformed into a lich. He has also seized control of the core mage tower and cast the nine-ring spell, Undead Scourge."
"I think Canovino has already transformed this spell into a heroic spell. After being enhanced by the core wizard tower, its power is no less powerful than a legendary spell."
"Everyone, immediately call the frontline troops to retreat and assemble in Zhong Haiying's divine domain."
Zhang Chunyi immediately came to his senses, quickly summoned his men, and ordered his heroes to go to the front line to summon his troops fighting on the front line.
However, the changes in the city-state have affected the front battlefield. Today's offensive by the Scourge is particularly fierce, and with the withdrawal of a large number of mages belonging to Speaker Canovino, the front line is on the verge of collapse.
When many war lord apprentices summoned their troops to retreat, the already barely holding front collapsed completely, and countless undead troops rushed to the entrance of the passage and began to attack the city.
If it were in the past, the mage towers in the city could exert their power at this time and directly bombard the undead army at the entrance of the passage.
In the past, the undead army was suppressed by relying on the combined efforts of more than twenty wizard towers.
But this time, something strange happened in the city. Not only did the core mage tower not take action, but it was suppressing other mage towers, resulting in no support.
The high city walls lasted only one day before being destroyed head-on by the surging undead army.
A large number of abominations, seven or eight meters tall, or even ten meters tall, rushed to the city wall, hammering it continuously with chain hammers, smashing the wall open.
Once the city wall was breached, a massive amount of undead poured into the underground space where the city-state was located.
The War Lord apprentices gathered in Zhong Haiying's divine domain turned green when they saw this scene.
"Damn it..."
"What should we do? Run away!"
"Where to escape? The only few exits have been blocked and the portal has been closed."
"What should we do then?"
"I remember there were several small passages. Large troops certainly couldn't enter or exit, but they could accommodate small groups of troops."
"Why didn't you tell me earlier? Where is it?"
"On the other side, we need to take a detour."
"Then lead the way quickly."
At this time someone asked:
"what about me?"
Everyone was stunned, and a few people said:
"Give up the divine realm!"
There was silence for a long while.
No one paid any attention to him, and no one could take care of him at this time. The troops quickly gathered outside the city, preparing to take a detour to the other side of the city-state.
Halfway through the journey, the undead plague that had been strengthened to legendary level had covered the entire city and was spreading outside the city.
This interrupted their march, forcing them to retreat further into the underground space.
Most of the hundreds of thousands of residents in the entire city-state were civilians. They had no power to fight back against the legendary necromancy spell and were all transformed into zombies on the spot.
Even mages were not immune. Mages below level three were forcibly transformed into corpse wizards before they could escape the range of the legendary spell.
Mages above level three will only have a chance to escape if they discover the change early. If they react a little slower, or discover the change too late and have no time to escape, they will all die.
The effect of the legendary spell quickly extended to outside the city, and the moment it came into contact with the Scourge that had already broken through the wall of the passage, the submerged Undead Army suddenly stopped moving, and then was forcibly controlled, launching a counterattack against the Scourge behind them.
Two different undead armies started fighting outside the city.
The Scourge Lord soon discovered the abnormality, and the subsequent Undead Legion no longer moved forward, but gathered and waited at the broken city wall at the entrance of the passage.
As time passed, the spell effect of the Undead Scourge extended to cover the entire underground space before stopping, and then slowly faded until it disappeared.
Then an army composed purely of zombies gathered at the gate of the city-state and rushed towards the entrance of the passage.
Soon the two undead legions collided head-on and started fighting.
How could mere zombies defeat the army of the Lord of the Scourge? More than a dozen abominations nearly ten meters tall rushed into the zombie group, rampaging and unstoppable.
However, behind the zombie army there are a large number of corpse wizards, who, under the control of the lich Canovino, begin to cast various spells to provide support.
These corpse wizards were transformed from real wizards, and they can still cast most of the spells they cast when they were alive, including the battlefield skill fireball.
A large number of fireballs flew into the battlefield, blasting bones and flesh into pieces.
In addition, as time went on, many wizard towers in the city gradually fell, and a large number of wizards either surrendered or actively transformed into liches or necromancers and joined the battle.
With the support of numerous corpse wizards, necromancers or liches, hundreds of thousands of zombies firmly blocked the undead army.
Li Qing dug a cave for more than a month, turning left and right, and finally dug out the earth. He appeared somewhere in the middle of the stone wall in the underground space. He stuck his head out and saw the chaotic battlefield of the undead below.
He was stunned for a long time, and was confused for a long time before he realized that he had been digging left and right in the deep of the closed earth, and actually turned around and dug back again.
However, although he recognized that it was dug up, he was still confused at first.
It's only been a month, and this wizard city-state has turned into a city of death. There are few living people in the entire underground space.
The place where he appeared was the edge of a stone wall more than a thousand meters above the ground. He was neither in the sky nor on the ground, and there was no place to stand around him. He was completely suspended in the air. Hundreds of thousands of undead were fighting fiercely below, and no one noticed his existence.
The Scourge Lord had quite a few flying undead units on his side, but he concealed his breath as soon as he came out, so the undead that occasionally flew by did not notice him.
Most undead units rely on soul fire to sense their surroundings, not their eyes.
As long as all the aura on his body is completely restrained, he will be as non-existent as a piece of stone to the undead, and they will not notice him even if they pass by him.
The destruction of the mage city-state surprised Li Qing, but he also saw the possibility of taking advantage of the situation.
Although the Mage City-State converted the entire city into undead, instantly gaining more than 100,000 soldiers, the quality is not good enough. They can temporarily defend themselves with the help of the Mage Tower, but once the consumption continues, they will most likely be no match for the opponent.
Although the Scourge heroes have a huge advantage in terms of military strength and will most likely win if they fight to the end, their strength will definitely be greatly damaged by the end.
By that time, Li Qing will have a chance.
If you can really fish in troubled waters, no matter whose head you grab, the harvest will definitely be extremely rich.
So, after the excitement, Li Qing slowly calmed down, restrained his breath, sealed the entrance of the cave, leaving only a small hole.
Next, it’s time to wait.
The changes in the underground space were just as he had expected. The two undead legions began to consume each other, and a steady stream of skeleton zombies were turned into dust in the war.
But just after the war had lasted for five full days, more than twenty liches or necromancers of the extraordinary level and above gathered on the observatory at the top of the core tower in the center of the city-state.
There is a huge magic circle on top of the observatory, with the liches standing in different positions and chanting spells.
Standing in the center of the magic circle is a tall lich wearing luxurious robes , holding a staff, but with three heads. If Li Qing were here, he would recognize that the head in the middle is Speaker Canovino.
The three-headed lich inserted the staff in his hand into the center of the magic circle, and the head in the middle muttered something.
At this time, the soul fire in the eye sockets of the right skull burst out of the eye sockets, and shouted angrily:
"Canovino, you will not succeed, you will definitely die."
The head on the left said in a calm voice:
"Canovino, you are too impulsive. We can pay the price to get the dragon vein first. Relatively speaking, becoming a dragon vein mage is a better choice than becoming a lich."
The head in the middle paused in chanting the spell and said in a deep voice:
"But he's already escaped, and I don't have time."
The skull on the right roars angrily:
"You can choose to become a lich, but you are not qualified to make decisions for the entire school. You killed the people who supported us. You betrayed the school and our people."
The left head also spoke in a calm tone:
"Canovino, you are wrong."
The central head replied coldly:
"I am not wrong. Only by transforming into undead can we have enough soldiers to resist the natural disaster. Only by transforming into undead can we not be afraid of undead spells."
He shouted:
"Time will prove that my choice is correct."
He slammed the staff in his right hand, and a circle of invisible ripples exploded. The soul fire in his pupils suddenly surged, and the powerful might instantly pressed down the two heads on the left and right.
