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In the afternoon of the second day, that is, the third day after they entered the stone tower, Kiki took two long swords and short bows that had become magical weapons, and returned with Amir to the lower room with windows.

Seeing that Keech finally showed up, Gordon immediately rushed forward, grabbed both weapons, and was about to throw the shortbow to Timzy, but found that the two weapons looked exactly the same as when they were taken up. There is no brilliance and splendor that enchanting is used to.

"Hey, hey, hey! What's going on here, what about the promised enchantment?" Gordon stared.

"Exercise your vindictiveness and try injecting it into the sword." Amir raised his chin slightly.

Gordon couldn't help being taken aback, looked at Amir suspiciously, hesitated for a while, and finally threw the short bow to Timzy, while he himself raised the long sword, transported his fighting spirit, and poured it into it according to Amir's request.

In an instant, a fiery flame ignited on the blade, emitting a dazzling red light. Even Gordon, who was holding the hilt, felt the scorching heat on the blade, and opened his mouth wide in surprise.

After being surprised, Gordon immediately put away his grudge, and the red light on the blade immediately dissipated, and it returned to its original plain appearance in a blink of an eye, without any trace of magic.

"It's so handsome! How did you do it, that you can use fighting spirit to stimulate magic?!" Gordon said excitedly.

"Do you think I'll answer?" Amir asked back, squinting.

"Haha, pretend I didn't ask!" Gordon laughed loudly, "This kind of enchantment is really great, the best of the devil! Timzy, try your bow!"

Seeing how amazing Gordon's long sword is, Timzi couldn't hold back any longer. He also picked up the bow and arrow and injected fighting energy, but he habitually injected fighting energy into the arrow, but it didn't work until he put the arrow on the bowstring. Seeing the change, he raised his head in doubt and looked at Amir and Kiki.

"Bow." Amir pointed concisely.

Tim Qi was slightly taken aback, but immediately understood, and hurriedly reactivated his grudge, and turned it to the short bow.

A gust of cold air suddenly overflowed from the arc of the bow and the bowstring, and quickly wrapped the arrow stuck between the two. Perhaps this kind of cold air was too pungent, so Tim Qi quickly shot the arrow aside. furniture, and immediately dissipated his fighting spirit.

The arrow pierced into the wooden board with a bang, and the cold air of the arrow spread rapidly, forming a layer of ice on the board that was pierced in an instant.

Before Gordon and Timzi could sigh again, Amir said, "Leave your grudge down a little bit."

Timzi couldn't help being stunned again, but immediately followed Amir's instructions and reduced the fighting energy injected by half.It's a pity that this time, not to mention shooting arrows, before Timzy put a new arrow on the bowstring, the flames overflowing from the front end of the short bow burned his left hand, forcing him to let go of the short bow. Bow, let it fall to the ground.

Leaving Timzi's control, the flames on the short bow immediately disappeared without a trace, but the wound on Timzi's hand did not disappear so easily. Gordon also glared at Amir and Kiki angrily, and asked: " How is this going?"

"Hmm... a small problem." Kidge touched his nose and admitted it voluntarily.When he tested the bow and arrow by himself, the flames generated by the magic circle were completely under his control and would not hurt him at all. This made him never consider whether Timzy, who is an ordinary person, could be like him Ignores flame damage.

"It's not a big problem, just wear a magic leather glove that can resist flames." Amir continued, never mentioning the possibility of Kiki's modification, and instead said, "Reduce the fighting spirit by half, don't worry, It won't hurt this time."

Although the hand injury was still stinging, Timzi couldn't help being curious after all, he treated the wound briefly, and then raised his bow and arrow again, inputting a little grudge.

Sure enough, this time there was no vision of ice and fire. Gordon, who was on the sidelines, didn't even see any changes on the shortbow. Only the three magicians next to him felt the changes in the elements above. The bow seems to be a lot lighter.

After hesitating for a moment, Timzi let go of the bowstring and sent the arrow next to the first arrow.

With a sound of "shua", the arrow flew out like a gust of wind, so fast that even Timzi himself, who had the best eyesight, could not see the trace of the arrow clearly.Unfortunately, perhaps due to the influence of the wind element, this arrow failed to land next to the first arrow as Timzi hoped, but deflected a large arc and landed farther away in the walls.

Even so, Timzy was still ecstatic. Regardless of his newly burned palm, he raised the short bow in front of his eyes and looked through it carefully.

Gordon next to him couldn't help complaining to Amir, "I said, why can his bow have three kinds of magic, but my sword only has one?! We are old friends, why should we add magic to him? You have an enchantment like an artifact, and you just make do with it?"

"It's you who only want the fire magic, isn't it?" Amir replied without changing his face.

Gordon was unwilling to let go, but Amir was firm in his stance. No matter how entangled Gordon was, he refused to let go. In the end, he simply refused on the grounds that "the magic circle has been finalized, and further modification will only lead to damage to the weapon".

Hearing that the modification would destroy his long sword, Gordon couldn't bear it after all, and asked Amir to make another magic weapon like Timzi's short bow, which was as magical and useful as it was.

Amir chuckled twice, noncommittal.

But when Gordon was entangled with Amir, a gaze was firmly attached to Kiki, which made him feel very uncomfortable.Since Gordon and Amir were staring at each other, and Timzi was admiring his short bow, Keech didn't even need to guess who the gaze was coming from.

——Is it because everyone got benefits, but she didn't get anything?

Kiki turned his head slightly and met Irene's gaze.

Irene immediately lowered her head to avoid Kiki's direct gaze, but the moment she lowered her head, Kiki still saw her tightly pursed lips and the calculation in her eyes.

Keech has only seen this kind of look in Rocky's eyes. Although it doesn't necessarily make anyone unlucky every time it appears, Rocky will definitely get some kind of benefit, even if it's just a piece of candy sometimes.

—Forget it, anyway, with Amir here, even if this woman wants to plot something, he doesn't need to worry about it.

Kitsch pouted and turned to look out the window.

The flood still maintained the same water level as yesterday, and the two fire-type monsters were still dormant at the bottom of the water, while the water-type monster had drifted away somewhere, so far away that Kiki couldn't sense its existence with his supernatural powers.

——The water won't really go away like Amir feared, right?

Keech thought worriedly, and began to consider the possibility of using supernatural powers to "drain" the water dry.But considering that his abilities cannot be created out of nothing, and it is difficult to turn nothing into nothing, and the amount of engineering is too huge, so after thinking about it, Keech realized that instead of draining the flood, it would be better to build a small boat Come out more practical.

But Keech didn't thankfully drain the floodwaters or build a boat of unknown origin after all.On the third night after they entered the stone tower, the flood came down as silently as it appeared.When Keech and his party opened their eyes to welcome the morning light, the flood had completely disappeared, and the forest appeared in front of them again, lush and lush.

Since the number of magic cores has already been greatly exceeded, and there is nothing worth exploring in the stone tower, Amir and Gordon discussed it and decided to leave the abyss to avoid another accident.

Perhaps it was because of their lack of care, and because all the monsters avoided them, the speed of the return journey was faster than when they came, but within a day, the five people left the abyss and returned to the forest shrouded in black mist.

The road was calm and unremarkable, only Irene's gaze made Kiki uncomfortable from time to time.But at this time, Irene was not just looking at him, she was more like observing everyone, especially Amir and the luggage in his hand.She thought she saw it very secretly, but Kiki knew that Amir had already found out, and even Gordon showed an unhappy expression when Irene couldn't see it, obviously dissatisfied with what Irene planned.

However, until dusk approached and the group set up their tents to prepare for a rest, Irene just kept planning and didn't make any requests or do anything.The only thing that surprised Kiki was that she left the team for a while in the name of convenience, but Kiki deliberately "saw" that she didn't take anything with her, and she didn't bring anything back.What's even more strange is that when she was resting at night, as soon as the tent was set up, she got in immediately, and when she came out, she had changed and her expression became very unnatural.

——Going to sleep and changing clothes?

Keech couldn't figure it out.

Amir and the others should also find it strange, but Irene is a woman after all, and she can't blame her for her cleanliness.Timzy started to prepare dinner as usual, but he was a lot more courageous, and he no longer cared about the taboo of not using fire in the Abyss of Nightmare, so he directly lit a bonfire and set up an iron pot.

Amir and the others also sat around the fire, chatting about the current war in Oz.

Kidge listened silently, but Amir and Gordon only talked about Oz and didn't mention Yaron, and what they said was far from what he wanted to know, which made Kidge a little disappointed.But in order to wait for Timzi's dinner, he can only sit next to Amir, patiently listening to them talk about things that he doesn't care about.

At this moment, Kiki suddenly felt something watching him, not Irene sitting diagonally across from him, but somewhere behind him.

Keech couldn't help being a little surprised. After so many days in the Abyss of Nightmare, except for the pet monkey who was said to be a man-made monster, this was the first time he encountered a monster that dared to approach him.

——Could it be another magic pet?

Kiki lowered his head, closed his eyes and "looked" behind him.

But the target is not a magical beast, but a mist wrapped in endless darkness, just like the never-ending black mist in this forest, only denser and the elements contained in it are more mixed.

--dark?

Kitsch suddenly tensed up.Ever since he was a child, what really made him fear was the endless darkness that seemed to be able to absorb everything, especially after Moriarty was "stabbed" to death by him, Keech would shudder as soon as he saw something black. I couldn't help changing my horizons, always worrying that it was Moriarty's clone, his coming again.

However, the darkness behind him was far less pure than Moriarty's black, and it was somewhat similar to the black hole he created himself.However, it was already less than 50 meters away from them, and no one else noticed it except him.

Biting his lip, Kiki didn't open his eyes, and asked cautiously, "Amir, is there...is there something behind me?"

Amir was slightly taken aback, and immediately made a guard gesture to Gordon on the opposite side, then turned around and looked behind Kiki.

Seeing this, not only did Amir change his face, but Gordon couldn't help but exclaimed, "Nightmare beast!"

——Is that the Nightmare Beast?

Hearing Gordon's cry, Kiki felt a little relieved, and immediately changed his vision, stood up, and looked behind him.

They saw a monster whose body was the same color as the mist, but whose eyes were as red as blood, was staring at them. It looked a bit like a lion, but its limbs were more slender and its figure was taller.At this moment, knowing that they had discovered it, it still stood there motionless, looking at them coldly, as if it was looking at five corpses.

Gordon and Timzi immediately grabbed their weapons, and Irene also raised her shield. Only Amir did nothing, just grabbed Kiki in his arms, and whispered in his ear, "Prepare the ice tomb!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Amir pushed Kiki away, and he also stepped aside, keeping a distance from Gordon and others.

As if confirming Amir's concerns, as soon as Gordon and the others picked up their weapons, their bodies began to sway, and soon fell to the ground with a plop, as if they had been drugged.

Kiki was stunned for a moment, then remembered Amir's repeated nagging before he came, and hurriedly mobilized the surrounding water elements, and instantly erected four ice tombs, trapping all four people, including Amir, inside.

After placing the ice tomb, Kiki didn't stop, and then cast a freezing spell on the opposite nightmare beast.

The dark monster was immediately frozen into an icicle, but before Kiki breathed a sigh of relief, the icicle quickly disappeared from the nightmare beast as if it had been dissipated by Kiki himself, and returned to the state before the spell took effect in a blink of an eye. appearance.

Kiki was startled, and immediately used a fire-type Pyro-explosion technique, trying to blow up the Nightmare Beast like the Fire Venom Bee and the Earth-type Warcraft.

The Pyroblast also took effect, and the Nightmare Beast's body was shattered into pieces with a bang, only to recombine in the blink of an eye, and an intact Nightmare Beast appeared in front of Kiki again.

Although he saw that it was just the Nightmare Beast repairing its body with the surrounding elements, and not the time magic such as time reversal in the legend, Kiki was still taken aback.

——This nightmare beast's ability to control the elements is on par with him!

Kiki was sighing and thinking about what kind of magic he could use to put the monster to death, when there was a pounding sound from the ice tomb behind him.

Keech didn't dare to look back, and only scanned with his ability, and found that Gordon stood up and was hitting the ice wall hard, as if he wanted to get out of it.

The idea of ​​letting him out to help flashed in Kitch's mind. In the next moment, Amir's warning came to mind again. After calming down, Kitch immediately noticed Gordon's abnormality. With his strength, he could use Dou Qi broke through the ice wall and let himself out, but now he was like a fool who only knew how to hit repeatedly, and didn't even know how to use a weapon.

——Is this the insanity of the nightmare beast?

Kiki suddenly woke up, ignored the four people behind him, and focused on dealing with the nightmare beast in front of him.

The strange thing is that the Nightmare Beast still just stood there. Even though it had been attacked twice, it still didn't move. It just stared at him intently, as if it wanted to penetrate him with its eyes.

——This monster is not casting soul spells on him, is it?

Kiki was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, he quickly connected multiple spells together, and attacked the nightmare beast one after another.

Keech didn't expect that the superposition of these magics could kill the Nightmare Beast, he just hoped to find out the weakness of the Nightmare Beast and deliver a real fatal blow.For example, although he himself can repair his body, even if his heart is injured, he can win a gamble, but if someone directly smashes his head, he may only die completely.

The result was also as Kiki expected. The Nightmare Beast was destroyed by magic again and again, and it was restored again and again. Even the head was broken several times without any effect.However, when its head was shattered, Gordon behind him no longer hit the ice tomb, as if its head was the key to performing the soul-destroying technique.

But the lack of a head only affects its ability to cast insanity, not enough to kill it.Keech observed with his supernatural power for a while, and finally found a problem—no matter how its body was broken, the darkness in its body remained unchanged. It hurts nothing.

——How about taking that mass out, or isolating it from the body of the nightmare beast?

Kiki was still thinking about it, but the Nightmare Beast on the opposite side finally gave up the ineffective instigating technique, leaped forward, and rushed towards Kiki.

Kiki, who had never had any training as a warrior, naturally couldn't match the speed of a ferocious beast. He could only drive the wind element, let himself float into the air quickly, and let the nightmare beast fly into the air.

The Nightmare Beast didn't fly like a bird as Kiki was worried about. Although it also mobilized the surrounding wind elements, it only made itself jump higher and pounce faster.But this kind of jump is limited after all. After Kiki ascended three times in a row, the Nightmare Beast finally had no choice but to fall back to the ground and roared viciously at Kiki.

Keech can't stay in the air forever, although he can fly straight out of the forest, out of the nightmare pit, but he can't leave Amir alone.Moreover, without Amir leading the way, he might have to turn back to the abyss after flying for a while, and he may not be able to get out in this life.

After thinking about it for a while, Kiki finally decided to give it a go, immediately wrapped himself in wind elements, and jumped towards the Nightmare Beast on the ground.

The Nightmare Beast was eager for him to come down, it didn't dodge at all, and opened its mouth wide, as if it wanted to swallow him in one gulp.

Kiki will never forget the legend about the stomach of the nightmare beast that Amir told him, and naturally he will not really get into the stomach of the nightmare beast. The moment he is about to touch the nightmare beast, the freezing technique has already been activated, and the pyroblast technique follows closely. After that, the nightmare beast was blasted from icicles to ice slag in a blink of an eye.

Just when the nightmare beast exploded again, Kiki stretched out his hand quickly, grabbed the dark substance in the nightmare beast's body that was probably the stomach, pulled it out from the nightmare beast's residue, and then quickly backed away.

When grabbing the stomach pouch, Kiki tried to freeze it with a freezing technique, but unexpectedly, the freezing technique failed, and Kiki could only replace it with burning fire elements, wrapping these scorching fire elements around the stomach pouch , so that any elements that want to get close to it and cling to it are all shy away.

Kiki's approach was obviously correct, the exploded nightmare beast finally did not come back to life, only a black "stomach bag" was left in Kiki's hands.

Kiki finally breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the four people sleeping in the ice tomb behind him, hesitated for a moment, did not release them immediately, but calmed down his breathing, tried to clean up the stomach pouch with supernatural powers, and immediately It was discovered that there was a colorless magic core hidden under the stomach pouch. Although it was only the size of a fingernail, it was a high-level magic core, and it was a light magic core that Kiki had never seen before.

It took a little effort for Kiki to remove the magic core from his stomach, and the moment the magic core was taken off, the elements of various departments that had been gathering at the stomach immediately stopped, and Kiki tried The fire element outside the stomach pouch dissipated, and the body of the nightmare beast reappeared without being attached to the stomach pouch.

——Could it be that the key is not the stomach pouch, but the light magic core outside the stomach pouch?

Kiki was taken aback, but immediately realized that such things should not be known to untrustworthy people, and hurriedly stuffed the magic core into his underwear pocket, and put it together with the other low-level magic cores that Amir gave him to play with. , carrying only the stomach of the nightmare beast, walked towards the ice tomb where Amir was.

To Kitsch's surprise, Amir didn't fall asleep like Gordon and the others did. Instead, he half-opened his eyes and stared at an open space in front of him with a hideous face.

"Amir?" Kiki called tentatively.

Amir turned his head in response, and saw that it was Kiki who appeared outside the ice tomb, and immediately put away his evil face, raised the corners of his mouth, and chuckled.

Kiki breathed a sigh of relief, dissipated the ice tomb without thinking, and lifted the stomach bag in his hand.

"Amir, this is..."

Before Kiki could finish speaking, Amir had already grabbed his wrist, pulled him around, then hugged him in his arms and pressed him under him.