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Keech was still guessing what this strange monkey was trying to do, but Timzie on the other side also noticed its existence, and immediately reminded: "Be careful, that monkey is coming again!"

"Just kill it!" Gordon said without thinking, but he has no advantage in speed, and he can only talk about this agile monster.

"I'm coming!" Irene volunteered to stand up, picked up the magic scroll she didn't have time to use just now, injected spiritual power, and attacked the shadow monkey on the branch.

There are two types of magic scrolls, one can be used by ordinary people, and the magic can take effect as long as it is torn open at the target; the other needs to inject spiritual power into the scroll, and use spiritual power to point it at the target you want to attack Or the target of protection, which can only be used by magicians.The latter is usually more powerful, and the level of spells it can carry is also higher, but no matter which scroll is a one-time item, it will become invalid after use, and the cost of the former may not be lower than the latter, so use Scrolls have always been considered a luxury.

The magic scroll used by Irene is a low-level water-type scroll that can shoot three ice arrows at once, but the monkey is extremely sensitive to magic. As soon as the scroll takes effect and the ice arrows are still on the way, it swishes Jumping away from the branch at once, all three ice arrows fell through the air.

Irene stomped angrily, but the others were not surprised. Timzy even changed into a short bow when Irene took out the scroll. As soon as the ice arrow fell through the air, the three sharp arrows shot shot at the monkey's new abode.

Although Timzi's arrows were fast and accurate, the monkey's reaction was more alert. With a flash of his figure, the three ordinary arrows missed their targets again.

The three arrows missed the monkey, but succeeded in angering it.After dodging Timzy's arrow, the monkey jumped up violently, its black hair stood on its head, its mouth opened wide, and it let out a sharp and ear-piercing cry.

Following the monkey's chirping, black dots flashed one after another in the surrounding woods. Originally, there was only one shadow monkey, which soon became a group, surrounded by five people, and roared in unison like a demonstration.

"Ah—" Irene couldn't help screaming, and Gordon and Timzy also clenched their weapons.

But Amir didn't do anything. On the one hand, it was because he was a bit tired after casting two spells. On the other hand, he was a little confused because of the way the group of shadow monkeys appeared and the fluctuation of the surrounding elements when they appeared. Seeing this The group of monkeys just surrounded them and didn't attack immediately, which made their doubts even more intense.

Kiki is more sensitive to elemental changes than Amir, and he sensed something was wrong the moment the group of monkeys appeared. At this moment, he has habitually closed his eyes and used his ability to examine the group of monkeys that suddenly appeared.

——Uh, why is the element density inconsistent?

As soon as he changed the angle of view, Kiki immediately discovered the problem. Although these monkeys all looked the same, the density of the dark elements in their bodies was completely different. Except for the one that appeared at the beginning, which was thicker, the dark elements in the other monkeys were different. One is thinner than the other, and the farther the distance is, the smaller the density is.

—Wouldn’t those monkeys be illusions created by magic?

——Could this be the legendary avatar technique?

Kiki guessed the truth after a moment of astonishment, and immediately condensed many small fireballs around, and threw them at the fake shadow monkey clones.

As Kiki expected, those shadow monkeys that appeared later would disperse at the first touch, and they were completely vulnerable.

"It's all fake?" Gordon and the others also recalled it now, and their eyes widened in surprise.

"It's a very subtle clone technique, but only this kind of elemental creature can use it." Amir said lightly.

Seeing that the illusion created by myself was broken by Kiki, the remaining real monkeys seemed to be a little flustered, and their voice changed from "roar" to "squeak", jumping up and down on the branch facing Kiki, Seems ready to dodge new attacks at any moment.

Timzi immediately raised the bow and arrow in his hand again, but Amir raised his hand and stopped him: "Don't worry, let's see what it wants to do first."

"It seems like it wants me to go with it," Keech whispered.

"Are you sure?" Amir asked, raising an eyebrow.

The monkey on the opposite side also seemed to have heard the conversation between Kiki and Amir, and immediately responded by waving to Kiki.

"Really!" Gordon next to him was dumbfounded.

Amir frowned and said, "Follow it and have a look."

"Oh." Kiki replied, and was about to walk over, but Amir grabbed him.

"Let's go there together." Amir gestured to Gordon, "Hurry up and clear the battlefield."

"Don't clean up, let's go directly with this monkey." After speaking, Gordon had already bent down and picked up the luggage on the ground.

The others also picked up their things one after another, put their weapons in convenient but not scary positions, and walked towards the monkey together.

Seeing Kiki approaching, the monkey also started to move, and jumped to a tree in the north. After landing, it turned around to see if Kiki could keep up. Seeing that he was still following behind him, it immediately jumped to the up another tree, then looked back at Keech again.

After going back and forth like this for more than half a day, seeing that the sky was getting dark, a stone pagoda finally appeared in front of everyone.

In terms of appearance alone, this stone tower is very similar to a mage tower, and its height is similar to that of a four-story mage tower, but it occupies a larger area and the overall structure is rougher.The weirdest thing is that this tower only has a few windows on the top floor, and the bottom is a dense stone wall covered with moss and vines. There is no door at all, and it looks more like a thick chimney at first glance.

After the monkey led the crowd here, he jumped up the stone tower, climbed to a window on the top floor after a few steps, then turned around again, and continued to wave to Kiki.

"Is it telling us to climb the window?" Gordon said gloomily, and began to look at the outer wall of the stone tower, looking for a protrusion that could be used for climbing.

"Follow up and have a look." Amir ignored Gordon, turned his head and said to Kiki, then put down his luggage, chanted the spell of flying, and soon floated up.

Kiki didn't need to recite the mantra. Seeing Amir take off, he drove the wind element around him and flew with him to the window where the monkey was.

The window was open, and it seemed to be a living room, with tables, chairs, cabinets and other furniture, and there was even a fireplace against the wall.

Seeing them coming, the monkey slid into the stone tower and squatted on a table in the living room.

Amir grabbed the window sill and jumped in. First, he looked at the layout inside. Seeing that there seemed to be a trap, and the monkey didn't show signs of attacking, he stretched out his hand and pulled Kiki in.

"Where is this place?" Keech asked suspiciously.

"I'm afraid you have to ask it." Amir pointed to the monkey on the table.

The monkey squeaked twice in response, but neither Kiki nor Amir understood what it meant.The monkey seemed to be aware of this too, leaped forward and rushed towards Kiki directly.

Seeing the monkey pounce on him, Kiki condensed an ice shield without thinking.

With a bang, the monkey bumped its head against the ice shield and fell to the ground. It took a while to get up again, and looked at Kiki with wide eyes. Although there was no expression on his dark face, But inexplicably makes people feel pitiful.

Kiki frowned, but he was still unwilling to let such a guy of unknown origin approach him, and continued to put the ice shield between himself and the monkey, assuming that he would not allow it to approach.

But Amir bent down and said to the monkey seductively, "Tell us, what exactly do you want to do? If you don't express clearly, we won't understand, and we won't let you achieve your goal."

The monkey squeaked again, but such a yell could not make Kiki and Amir understand its intentions. After yelling for a while, the monkey saw that it still had no effect, so he raised his right front paw again and pointed at it. Keech swayed.

—Right hand?

Keech was startled slightly, and glanced at his right hand, but what he saw was the obsidian bracelet that Hill gave him.

"You want this?" Kiki raised his right hand suspiciously, showing the obsidian bracelet in front of the monkey.

The monkey nodded immediately.

But Keech hesitated, he didn't know what the monkey wanted the bracelet for, if it was just for looking at it, it would be fine, if it wanted to keep it for itself...but he couldn't give it to it no matter what.

Kiki was still hesitating, but the monkey became impatient, and when Kiki was distracted, he jumped up and rushed towards Kiki's right hand again.

This time, Keech and Amir were unable to stop it in time, and finally let the monkey get in front of them.

But the monkey didn't want to snatch the obsidian bracelet in his hand as Kiki thought. On the contrary, the moment it got close to the bracelet, it suddenly flashed and disappeared in front of Kiki.

"Invisibility?" Amir straightened up, staring at the place where the monkey disappeared in surprise.

"No..." Kiki was even more surprised than Amir, staring straight at the obsidian bracelet on his wrist, and said dryly, "It... got into the bracelet."

"Bracelet?" Amir was taken aback for a moment, reached out and grabbed Kiki's wrist, looked it over carefully, and asked with a frown, "Where did you get this bracelet?"

Keech hesitated for a moment, and said, "This is... Hill gave it to me."

Amir frowned and asked questioningly: "Why would he give you a magic weapon?"

"He...maybe he didn't know it was a magic weapon." Kiki withdrew his hand from Amir's and replied with downcast eyes.They didn't talk at all that day. He didn't know why Hill gave him this bracelet, and he didn't know whether the many magic weapons and magic scrolls he left behind had reached Hill's hands.

Amir looked at Kiki's expression, didn't ask any more questions, and instead said, "I'm afraid this is an old pet ring."

"Eh?" Keech looked up, waiting for Amir to explain further.

"The pet ring is a magic weapon specially used to load magic pets." Amir continued.

"Space magic weapon?" Keech immediately opened his eyes wide.

"No." Amir shook his head, "It sounds similar, but since the so-called magic pet is not a real life, but a self-aware elemental structure, the magic ring that holds it is not actually a real space. In essence, it is more similar to a special element container."

"This monkey... is a magic pet?" Kiki held the obsidian bracelet on his hand and asked suspiciously, "But I can be sure that it is a creature of the dark element, and the magic circle engraved on my bracelet is Fire element."

"The methods of making magic pets and pet rings have been lost. I'm just guessing now, and I'm not really sure." Amir spread his hands, "Maybe you can study it yourself."

"Produced? That monkey was also made?" Kiki was stunned.

"I'm afraid so, if... it's really a magic pet." Amir also lowered his head, looking at the obsidian bracelet on Kiki's hand, "Reminiscent of its avatar technique, I suspect that the so-called shadow monkey in the abyss , from the beginning to the end, there is only one of it, and the rest are clones."

The two were talking, but suddenly there was some noise from the window behind them.

Amir immediately closed his mouth, grabbed a wind blade, and turned his head to look at the window.

Soon, Gordon's head popped out of the window, grabbed the window sill, and jumped into the stone tower. Seeing that only Kiki and Amir were inside, he immediately asked, "Where's the monkey?"

"Bring us in, and it will disappear." Amir replied calmly after dissipating the wind blade.

"It's such an inexplicable monkey." Gordon muttered, and turned his head to look at the room. He saw that there were only some old furniture in it, and he didn't see any valuable treasures. His expression became more depressed, "There won't be only this A room?"

"Obviously not." Amir raised his finger and pointed to the door not far away, "Let's take a look together?"

"Get Timzy and Irene up first," Gordon replied. "Anyway, it looks like it can at least stay overnight."

"Alright." Amir glanced at the sky outside and nodded in agreement.

Amir did not use the flying technique to go out to pick up people, but together with Gordon, he used a rope he brought up to pull up the luggage and the two living people one by one.

When Irene also jumped into the window, the sky outside was completely dark, but the strange thing is that the abyss is not dark tonight, and a round bright moon has hung high in the sky at some point, covering the entire valley. Added some light.

But considering that there are no windows under the stone tower, Amir still took out a small magic lamp from his luggage, asked Gordon and others to close all the surrounding windows, and locked them as much as possible. The magic lamp pushed open the only wooden door in the room.

"Don't you need to leave someone here to guard, just in case?" Irene couldn't help asking.

"In the Abyss of Nightmare, being alone is the most dangerous." Amir explained without looking back.

Erin had to keep her mouth shut and followed Gordon and Timzy.

There is a stairwell outside the door, and there are only descending stairs. Amir went down first, Gordon took Irene to the back, and Keech and Timzi walked last.

Downstairs are some empty rooms without windows, which look a lot like a living room, and the structure of the room is more and more similar to a mage's tower, but you can't see anything inside except for some decayed furniture, and the walls are mottled, obviously not seen for a long time. people live.

Further down is the last floor. From the perspective of furniture and furnishings, it looks like the kitchen and dining room, which are also dilapidated and empty.

The stairs ended here, and the surrounding walls and floors could not find a way to continue descending.

"That's not right, it looks like it's four stories high from the outside, so why is there no way out at only three floors?" Gordon said suspiciously, "Could it be that there's a secret passage?"

"Look for it." Amir said this, but he didn't move, just stood there holding the magic lamp.

Gordon didn't seem to be good at this either, so he just gestured to Timzy to look for it here.

Kiki lowered his head, looking a little bored, but actually closed his eyes, using another vision to explore the real appearance of this place.

After a little observation, Keech realized that Gordon and Timzy might be disappointed. There were layers of stones under their feet, as solid as the stone piers of a bridge, and there were no paths or secret rooms they thought existed.

—Is it just an abandoned stone tower?

Keech thought suspiciously, and turned his gaze to other places in the stone tower unwillingly.

The walls are also ordinary walls. Although there are some traces similar to magic circles inside, perhaps because of too long time, they have completely lost their effectiveness. It is difficult to distinguish the original purpose of these magic circles at a glance.

Keech continued to move his gaze upwards depressedly, through layer after layer of stone steps and ceilings, and was soon stunned by what he "saw"—just above their heads, just a few meters away. Looking at it, it seems that a place higher than the windowed room actually gathers a large amount of elemental essence.

——There are many magic cores there?

After looking at the existence of the elemental essence, Kiki quickly made a judgment, retracted his gaze, and looked up at Amir.

Amir has been paying attention to Kiki, and seeing him looking at him, he immediately understands that he must have discovered something, and immediately shakes his head slightly, signaling him not to speak.

Keech didn't intend to say it, but he also couldn't think of any way to avoid Gordon and others from entering the secret room on the top floor, so he could only wait for Amir's disposal with a little curiosity.

After a while, Timzy also stopped searching in disappointment, shook his head to Gordon, and said that he had not been able to find the secret passage.

"If you can't find it, rest first." Amir said.

"Upstairs or here?" Gordon asked.

"Go back to the room with the window. In case of accident, at least you can escape by jumping out of the window." Amir suggested.

Gordon shrugged and agreed, so the five of them went back to the room on the top floor, took out their sleeping bags and made a bunk on the floor, preparing to spend the night here.

"Light up the fire." Amir said to Timzi, "If you attract monsters, just kill them directly."

"Okay." Timzy had already seen Kiki's terrifying strength, and immediately agreed, grabbed a half-rotten wooden chair, and prepared to use it as a fire source.

Gordon and Amir also sat down to rest, while Keech sat alone at an angle, stroking the bracelet on his hand, hesitating whether to check it carefully.

Irene was attracted by the moonlight outside the window, and walked to the window curiously, ready to enjoy the rare moonlight in the abyss, but just as she was about to reach out to push the window, she was startled by the scene outside, and hurried to the window. Shouting to others, "Come and see, outside...outside..."

"What's going on outside?" Gordon stood up suspiciously, walked to Irene's side, followed her finger to look out, and immediately froze.

Seeing that Gordon and Irene looked like this, Amir, Timzi, and Keech also got up and walked over. Seeing the scene outside the window, they quickly showed the same surprised expressions as Gordon and Irene. .