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"Have we been to this lake?" Aphra asked uncertainly.

"...Yes." Fizer also had a gloomy look on his face, "A few days ago, we slept by the lake, but it was just over there, and now the angle looks different."

They always thought that they were going forward, but who knew that they made a circle and were still circling around the lake.

It seems that this lake has a kind of magical power, and even the mages and priests present were bewitched.

"What should we do now?" Fizer hadn't paid attention at all, and could only turn to the mages for help, and his eyes fell on Chris again.

Chris walked out of the crowd and walked towards the lake, stopping only when his boots were about to touch the water.

I saw him pull out his wand, and tap the water surface lightly with the end inlaid with the magic crystal.

No one knew what he wanted to do, but then something magical happened.

Taking the point where the gemstone touches the water surface as the center, the ripples quickly spread around. Wherever they went, the original ordinary lake surface became a mirror surface. Gradually revealed!

The "mirror surface" was still calm at the beginning, and what was reflected inside was the same as what they saw, but because of the magic, the visibility of the picture was very high, and it was not as dark as the outside.

It didn't take long before this calmness was broken. Two figures appeared in the picture, one grabbed the other, staggered, and ran towards the lake, and then jumped down almost without hesitation!

"It's Lily and Asur!" Aphra's exclamation broke the breathless silence of the crowd. "They jumped into the lake!"

This lake is very deep at first glance, why did Azul take Lily to jump down, even if that is not Azul, but a high-level monster, doesn't he know that it is a dead end?

D'Antonio stepped out of the crowd and walked forward without saying a word. Yannick knew what he was thinking at a glance, and quickly stopped him: "Calm down, maybe things will turn around!"

"Let him go down." Chris said.

"Chris!" Aphra was surprised.

"Let him go down." The mage in black repeated unhurriedly, "Are you going to go down with us, or wait here?" The latter words were addressed to Fizer and the others.

Since the mage in black said so, there must be a way to go down. Feizel thought about it, and said cautiously: "I will go down with you, and the others will wait on the shore."

"Then get into the water." The mage in black raised his chin slightly as a signal.

Feizel looked at the others, but he didn't have the nerve to say no, so he walked to the water's edge step by step. Seeing that the mage in black still didn't move, he couldn't help but smiled wryly, "Your Excellency, I can't swim."

The mage in black responded by raising his staff and throwing him into the water!

"!!!" Feizel opened his mouth wide, and unexpectedly choked a big mouthful of water into his throat, and then sprayed it directly from his nostrils. Thumping in the water, trying to catch something.

At this moment, he seemed to be stepping on something under his feet. Feizel seemed to have grasped the life-saving straw, and quickly stabilized his figure, trying to straighten his waist. I panicked again, only to find that the water around me seemed to be separated by an invisible barrier at some point.

Feizel stretched out his hand and touched around, and found a spherical barrier that wrapped himself. What's even more amazing is that this spherical barrier seems to emit some light sources, allowing people to clearly see the surrounding area within a limited range. scene.

As Feizel's figure gradually disappeared on the lake, the mage in black did the same and added the same water polo technique to others, except that others didn't have to be as embarrassed as Feizel. When they entered the water, they already had Ball up.

The priest didn't have any objection to being in the same ball with his teacher. Others seemed to be used to them doing everything together. The water polo carrying several people slowly sank to the bottom of the lake. The speed was not fast, but it was very stable, almost Can make people feel uncomfortable.

Groups of fish swam past the water polo, and some of them seemed to be curious about these newcomers who had failed, and surrounded the water polo to gently touch it with fish kisses.

The elf baby who was still sleeping soundly did not know when to wake up, babbling in the priest's arms, looking very excited, he even wanted to reach out to catch the small fish passing by, but unfortunately there was still a barrier in between, this wish could not come true , had no choice but to deflate his mouth in grievance, and his eyes continued to follow the whereabouts of those fish.

However, no one had time to appreciate such an almost romantic scene, except for the elves. They raised their vigilance and tensed their nerves, fearing that a terrifying monster would suddenly appear.

what is that? !

D'Antonio gestured to them, pointing desperately to the next place.

Immediately afterwards, without waiting for the others to respond, he manipulated the water polo to float in that direction.

Also as a water mage, his ability to manipulate this sphere is of course stronger than others.

After a while, Yannick and others who were behind also saw clearly what Dantonio was pointing to just now.

That's a person.

To be precise, it is a person who is entangled by many aquatic plants.

Those water plants grew in the surrounding rocks, big and small, and they seemed to have been integrated with the rocks long ago, and the person entangled by them seemed to be embedded in the pile of rocks.

And as the distance got closer, everyone could vaguely see that it was the silhouette of a woman.

That's why D'Antonio must have thought that it was Lily, so he rushed there in such a hurry.

But in fact, the gods were not on his side this time. Facts were destined to disappoint one person, but surprised another.

When he got very close, D'Antonio suddenly realized that the woman was not Lily. Under extreme disappointment, his face even turned a grayish bluish white, but no one could see clearly in the water.

At this time, the other person became ecstatic again, he hurriedly approached the woman, trying to untie the water plants with both hands.

The barrier of the water polo was impassable, and the helpless swordsman could only dance and gesture, beckoning others to help save him. Judging from his expression, he obviously knew this person.

"It seems that she is the Sophia we are looking for." The priest sighed, and he also felt sorry for not being able to find Lily. This girl is not annoying.

Under the command of Chris' wand, the water plants took the initiative to let go of the woman, and the latter naturally floated up without the imprisoned body. She seemed to have suddenly regained her body's self-consciousness from a coma, and swallowed a large amount of lake water into her mouth and nose, subconsciously Struggling like hell.

With the black-clothed mage present, of course the person they were looking for would not die in such a ridiculous way. After a while, a water polo surrounded the woman, wrapping her up.

"Should we still look for it?" the priest asked.

In the water, Aphra's tracking magic is completely useless, and they can only hope for Chris.

"There will be no more gains." The black-clothed mage said so.

But they still "drive" the water polo almost all over the bottom of the lake.

Of course, the result was exactly as Chris said, nothing was achieved.

In fact, it’s not fruitless. At least they found the person Feizel was looking for, and they have completed the task of this trip. As for Lily and Azul, the last clue stopped at this lake, and then it seemed to disappear completely in the air. , evaporated without a trace.

This lake is unusually large. After searching around, even a powerful mage like Chris looked exhausted, let alone other people.

The young woman who was rescued was indeed Earl Marin's daughter Sophia. She was still wearing the trousers she wore before she disappeared. A disfigured appearance.

The strangest thing is that she seems to be in the water for a long time, but she is still alive. Yannick checked her body and found that she was just in a coma, and there was no scar on her whole body. This must be said It's a miracle, but if you want to know the reason and what happened to Sofia, you can only do it after she wakes up.

D'Antonio, however, seemed to be about to die completely. After crawling out of the lake, he slumped on the ground without saying a word, letting water drip from his wet hair in embarrassment.

Because of this, even if Feizel and the others were in high spirits, they didn't dare to show it too obviously, lest they irritate the poor mage who had lost his lover.

Aphra looked at the embarrassed D'Antonio, sighed secretly, and walked over.

"Danttonio, we are all very sad about Lily's disappearance, but you..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard D'Antonio growl: "Go away!"

Aphra was stunned for a moment, her face a little bewildered.

Dantonio's eyes were red, and he stared at her viciously: "If it wasn't for your friend, that Azul, how could Lily have disappeared! He got into trouble again and again, if you didn't speak for him time and time again, and even pampered him, He's been kicked out of the team long ago! My Lily is missing, she's missing! She's such a kind girl, what did she do wrong?!"

Sad and aggrieved, Aphra pursed her lips tightly and let him vent without saying a word.

Seeing this scene, the priest wanted to go over to reconcile, but his arm was grabbed by the mage in black.

The latter said to everyone: "I have to go to the lake again, who wants to go together?"

Dantonio's eyes lit up, he wiped his face, and got up from the ground: "Are you going to go down and search for Lily again, I'll be with you!"

"No, there are magic crystals and lion's tail trees at the bottom of the lake." Chris said to him realistically, "Lily is not at the bottom of the lake, you saw it just now."

D'Antonio was so shocked by his blunt words that he stood there dumbfounded, unable to react.

Feizel was surprised: "You said there are magic crystals at the bottom of the lake?"

"Yes," the black-clothed mage said calmly, and asked Yannick again: "You too?"

"Of course." Yannick asked helplessly, "When will I not be with you?"

Although he didn't know the use of that thing called lion tail tree at all.

Seemingly satisfied with this answer, the corners of the black mage's mouth curled up slightly.