Mage Legend

After working hard for half a day, they still couldn't find the boundary of this hollow stone wall. Lynch placed his magic wand on the stone and then cast the Spell of Transmuting Stone to Mud, hoping to create a passage. To his surprise, the usually effective spell had no effect now. The stones didn't seem to react to the spell's energy at all, remaining steadfast and blocking the three adventurers.

"Let me break it open! Now's the time to use a dwarf's method!" Morgan had just lifted his hammer when both Zilvra and Lynch pulled him back: "Do you want everyone to notice us!"

"Then what should we do?" The dwarf put down his weapon, which relieved the other two. Morgan said, "My dwarf nose tells me there's definitely something good behind here!"

Wiping away the surface dust and disguises, Lynch observed the wall again, trying to uncover its secret. The wall was not completely smooth; it was covered with many dense white marks. Especially near the middle-to-lower part of the stone, the white marks formed a band, making it difficult to distinguish them from each other. The mage mimicked striking the wall with a pickaxe and found that the pickaxe head would most easily fall on that band.

The Snake-man was not much taller than the mage, yet there was a noticeable height difference between the dwarf and Lynch. By this reasoning, the striking was not done by the dwarf, and the Snake-man should have already discovered this spot, making countless attempts, but unable to find a way to open the entrance.

Lynch immediately ruled out the idea of using attack spells or physical methods to excavate. He believed those Snake-men must have tried such means. Recalling the knowledge he had learned, there was only one thing that could be so solid and immune to magical damage — Absolute Curse Stone.

This stone was discovered by the world after the Thousand-Year Divine War, possessing great hardness and immunity to magic. There was a time when mages believed that such stones were relics left from the body of the Magic God after his death, but as the same composition was found in older rocks, they began to dismiss this idea.

The Mage Association dispatched numerous personnel to collect these rocks, as their ability to isolate magic posed a serious threat to the mages' status. Over the years, even today's Great Mages might not know where those stones are stored, although there is a legend that in the center of the sea, there is an island used to imprison traitor mages, built entirely from this stone, known as the Seal-Magic Fortress. However, any more specific information was destroyed. Outside of the mages, any creatures knowing about this stone's intelligence were completely eradicated.

Lynch couldn't help but become even more intrigued by what lay behind the wall, his curiosity ignited. After casting Deep Dark Magic and a Silence Barrier on the surrounding space, a silver Energy Light Ball floated up from his left hand. The purest Magic Energy could melt and obliterate everything, so it was just right to use it to test the wall's sturdiness.

Zilvra and Morgan stepped back two paces, with Zilvra's right hand always holding onto the back of Lynch's hood. If anything went awry, the female Drow could pull Lynch back immediately.

The silver Light Sphere shone on the wall, and those black rocks no longer seemed so hard and cold.