Chapter 187: Creating something out of thin air! The world in the painting

——Remove petrification.

As Sean cast the spell, Quinn-To, who had turned into stone, gradually came back to life.

The petrification effect is a very powerful hard control. If you use the life-viewing spell to check the target after being petrified, it is neither dead nor alive. If a single person is accidentally hit by the petrification spell while traveling outdoors, it is basically a death sentence.

There are many wonderful uses for petrification spells. It is not only a control spell, but also a powerful output. For example, Flesh Touch, those monsters with amazing regeneration ability are difficult to kill no matter what you do, but after a petrification spell, you can smash it into powder, and it will be really dead. Generally speaking, this tactic will only be used on the aberrations on the flesh side, especially those monsters with regeneration ability comparable to trolls. In certain circumstances, it can also be used to turn flesh into stone.

"Damn evil creature!" Quin-To took a breath and slowly stood up.

Once a kitchen knife professional is hit by a control spell, he will be at the mercy of others. The mage also has an unexpected spell to save his life. If he is controlled, he can automatically trigger the spells he has prepared in advance.

——Mage’s mansion.

Sean set up a warning spell nearby and then opened the secret door leading to his wizard mansion.

It is very troublesome to go out of Candlekeep and come back. After all, there is not enough knowledge as an admission ticket. It is not safe to rest directly in Candlekeep because there are too many evil creatures lurking here.

Inside a luxuriously decorated dimensional mansion.

As soon as Xiao En and his party entered, an invisible butler and a team of invisible servants brought up all kinds of delicious food and wine. Quinn-Tuo was not polite and sat at the table to eat heartily. He looked at Xiao En with a hint of envy and said, "The wizard's way is still better. You can return to your mansion at any time."

Xiao En smiled and said, "Take a good rest after eating."

"We will continue to explore other areas tomorrow."

He lifted the effect of the fusion spell, and the figure of the insect queen gradually separated. Her role was to be a powerful auxiliary, directly using her own psychic energy pool as Xiao En's mana pool. Xiao En only consumed about one-third of his mana in this battle, but judging from the appearance of others, he might need to rest for a while.

The butcher still ate only vegetarian food as before. He wiped his butcher knife with a black shroud. When Xiao En looked at him, he nodded slightly and said, "I'll go take a rest."

After saying that, the giant-like man picked a room at random.

There are twelve luxurious bedrooms in Sean's wizard mansion. There is a bell in each room. Just ring it and invisible servants will come to provide service. There is a magic fountain on the side and a hot spring bath at the back. All necessary daily necessities are very complete, which may be more luxurious than many noble mansions.

The ugly monkey sat down next to Xiao En, picked up a piece of fruit and put it in his mouth, raised his eyebrows and said, "The knife in his hand seems to be a magical weapon."

He was talking about the butcher's knife.

Xiao En looked very calm after hearing this, after all, he also had a magic weapon on him, but he didn't need to use it in the previous battle. The butcher's butcher knife could animate stone into flesh and blood. This was the first time he had seen such a strange ability, but he had seen that knife many times, and it was usually used to cut the flesh and blood pillar, so he couldn't see anything special about it.

Xiao En said calmly: "Is that 'Ice Death' in your hand?"

The ugly monkey looked very surprised and nodded calmly: "Yes."

"I didn't expect you to know him."

At this point, the ugly monkey caressed the weapon in his hand and said softly, "This is a gift from my Lord."

He patted his butt and stood up, saying, "I'm going to take a bath. Want to join me?"

Xiao En shook his head decisively.

The ugly monkey shrugged and left on his own. Before leaving, he glanced at Quin-To and said, "Would you like to take a bath together to relax?"

Quinn-To didn't expect the other party to be so familiar. He hesitated for a moment and stood up and said, "Okay."

Ugly Monkey was once a pirate.

Taking a bath together was nothing for the pirates. When they were bored, they would swim naked in the sea. Sometimes they would drift in the sea for several months. When they finally came ashore, they would directly form a group and book a high-end brothel to have fun.

In the blink of an eye, only Xiao En and the Insect Queen were left in the wide hall. A ball of squirming clay appeared in Xiao En's palm. After taking a look at her, he said, "Come and help me set up a ceremony."

There is residual divine power in it.

Xiao En's way of digesting divinity is rather brutal, which is to directly drag the remaining consciousness in the divinity into his own spiritual world and continue to kill it until the last trace of thought of the enemy is wiped out.

The gains from this battle were greater than he had imagined.

The mysterious knowledge in Xiao En's brain has exploded. Although the field of sculpture is a branch of the art priesthood, the scope of application of sculpture in daily life is quite wide. As long as he can digest this part of the law, the road to advancing to the legendary destiny is more than half completed.

"There should be a conceptualized law field for the indescribable illusion."

"Blade Dancer could be a painting."

"The Great Detective - Moti Lane is probably literature."

"If I put them together, I might be able to master the abilities of the art priesthood, or abandon the art priesthood and transform it into the field of knowledge, and perhaps even condense the laws of inspiration."

The great detective, Mortylane, has been looking for Sean, but he has the ability of "God's Eyes", which means that even gods cannot find him, so even if he came to Candlekeep, the great detective Mortylane probably wouldn't know. In the weird kingdom, without anyone to protect them, it is difficult for people with high spiritual powers to survive. They can't even wait for the moment of rising up, and the indescribable vanity has already swallowed them up.

Silent all night.

The next day when Sean walked out of the room, there was a glimmer of divinity in his eyes, and in his palm was a ball of gray clay squirming. A part of it had been cut out, but the rest quickly split itself and grew back to its original size.

——Gray Soil [Legendary Seal]; This seal from the Dust Plane can continuously regenerate and split itself. The separated parts can be shaped into any form you want by simply turning them into stone. This special stone is regarded as a magical material, with a hardness equivalent to steel and good magical conductivity. If it is used to make a sculpture creature, clay golem, stone golem and other constructs, the creature will automatically have the additional feats of robustness (construct), damage reduction (fine gold), strength enhancement (extra +4), and magic resistance after the manufacturing is completed.

——Special Ability [Erosion]: This seal can corrode any stone creature. After direct contact, it is equivalent to casting a 9th-level domination spell (stone construct).

——Special Ability [Petrification]: Direct contact with this seal will cause you to be petrified.

This seal is used to make a golem.

It can be used to control any stone creature, and the effect is equivalent to domination, which can cause pollution effect on all golems.

"Can it be used to control the giant stone statue outside?"

Xiao En immediately thought of the colossi guarding outside Candlekeep, three stone colossi and three iron colossi. The iron colossi were out of the question, but the stone colossi were probably a possibility. However, they could not take control of Candlekeep, and even if they did, they could only control it for a short period of time.

"Can you control the stone colossus to stop the iron colossus outside?"

"This way, the others can march straight in and attack the interior of Candlekeep."

Xiao En said to himself, "I have to discuss this with the teacher when I get a chance."

If we can skip the Colossus army outside Candlekeep, the difficulty of capturing Candlekeep will be greatly reduced.

Others have already arrived in the hall.

Xiao En nodded to the others, and a number of reconnaissance magic eyes appeared on his palms. After making sure that there was no problem outside, he was the first to walk out of the wizard's mansion.

In the light curtain of a secret door, Xiao En appeared in his original position.

It seems that the balance of Candlekeep has been maintained for a long time, and other evil creatures will not easily enter other people's territory.

"Wait a moment."

After walking out of the storage room, Sean signaled to everyone to wait. He had already digested the monster's extraordinary relics last night. After obtaining the ability of the Son of Slaughter, Sean digested the extraordinary relics much faster.

——Control the animated statues.

Xiao En cast a spell-like ability, and as the wall gradually squirmed and changed, figures appeared in the center of the wall.

——The Great Reader - Isidor [Statue Creature] [Candlekeep Scholar] (Challenge Level 15)!
——The Singer - Kael Modan [Statue Creature] [Candlekeep Scholar] (Challenge Level 13)!
——Guide-Ratnaven [Statue Creature] [Candlekeep Scholar] (Challenge Level 12)!
Three monsters that had been killed reappeared.

They have become the earthbound spirits of Candlekeep, but after Sean killed the evil creature, they obeyed Sean's orders. Maybe because they were killed once, the challenge level of each animated statue was reduced by one level, and their imprisoned sanity was also restored a little, but these people have been dead for too long, and many of their memories have been completely forgotten. "You can control them?" Quin-To was surprised.

Xiao En nodded slightly and said, "Yes. I'll be able to use them next."

Sean can control all the animated statues around the storage area, but the challenge level of those statues is only 7-8, which is not of much use to him, so he only brought these three activation managers.

They still retained their spellcasting abilities from their lifetime, but they were greatly weakened, and it was unknown whether Lady Hecate could help them recover some of their thoughts.

To the side of the storage area is the reading room.

When he saw the portraits hanging in the corridor ahead, Xiao En knew that he had entered another realm of 'indescribable illusion'.

Each area of ​​Candlekeep is clearly divided, often showing different characteristics due to the different evil creatures that rule it.

A group of people entered the corridor.

next second.

Everything around them began to change, the laws of reality were distorted, and everything they saw seemed to have turned into the tones of ink, with even the ground looking like a landscape painting splashed with ink.

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"Abnormal spatial fluctuations detected! You have entered the [World in the Painting]!"

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"Detected that an unknown realm is interfering with the laws of reality!"

"This area is locked by a dimensional lock."

In an instant, Sean realized that all teleportation spells were ineffective.

Different from the previous indescribable illusion, the evil creature here is obviously more proficient in the laws of space. It directly distorted the dimensional field of the reading room and connected it to the world in the painting that it had opened up.

"Be careful." The butcher's low voice sounded.

The butcher's appearance had changed drastically at this moment, or rather, the appearance of everyone present had changed drastically. They all looked like three-dimensional characters in oil paintings, and the Insect Queen had become like a monster in a cartoon.

Suddenly, the figure of the Insect Queen began to change. She seemed to be ink washed away by water, and suddenly became indescribable, just like a painting that was soaked by water and turned into absurd graffiti, unable to maintain even the basic human form.

This is an effect similar to Malevolent Polymorph.

Sean had seen reality distorted into an oil painting before, when he first saw Blade Dancer.

Ms. Hecate also taught him the mysterious knowledge about the Zhendan people's map of mountains and rivers. That was also a world opened up in a painting, equivalent to a half-plane drawn in a painting.

——Pot of Greed【Prayer】!
Xiao En took out the Pot of Greed in an instant. As he wiped the Pot of Greed, a wind elemental monster with a slightly dull expression emerged. His style was different from that of everyone else. Xiao En and the others turned into the color of ink, while he was a dark blue stain that seemed insoluble.

——Wish (9th-level spell).

——Change reality.

With the appearance of the giant wind monster, everyone's style began to return to normal. They returned to their previous appearance, and the insect queen who had just melted into a ball of graffiti also returned to her original appearance, as if the transformation spell had been lifted.

"Unknown Transfiguration Effect Detected (Painting Field)!"

"Unknown creative effect detected (painting field)!"

"Creation out of thin air detected!"

despair.

When everyone returned to normal, the surroundings had turned into a space of ink painting. Strange and twisted imaginary creatures crawled out one after another. They poured out from the corners of the walls, scrolls, and portraits, and soon filled the corridor in front.

——The Great Reader - Braniff [Scroll Curse Spirit] [Candlekeep Scholar] (Challenge Level 16)!
——Archiver Scholar-Isidora [Scroll Curse Spirit] [Candlekeep Scholar] (Challenge Level 15)!
——Cartographer-Karadi [Scroll Curse Spirit] [Candlekeep Cartographer] (Challenge Level 13)!
Two men and one woman.

Three figures emerged in the distorted scroll kingdom. They did not look like normal people, but rather abstract ink portraits. The monsters around them looked a bit like the magic brush Ma Liang, except that the things drawn by the magic brush Ma Liang were not so terrifying. Various distorted and deformed creations and evil replicas kept pouring out of the scroll.

——Shadow of the Scroll [True Mirror Image] (Challenge Level 8-10)!
One by one, flesh and blood touches appeared as if from an ink landscape painting. They were black tentacles dripping with sticky ink. The other monsters were basically the same as those in the outside world, except that they were replicas of the ones in the painting.

"Multiple dimensions? Multiple mirror images?"

"Can this be achieved in the field of painting? This evil creature even has some knowledge of the laws of space!" Xiao En looked slightly surprised.

Master the laws of space in the field of painting.

Unbelievable!

Quin-To finally had a chance to show off this time. He roared and his body began to swell, turning into a burly giant. He swung his battle axe and chopped the monster in front of him into pieces. The barbarian's fighting power was still quite strong. These monster replicas could not stop him at all. However, the three condensed scroll curse spirits were a little different. When Quin-To's battle axe fell, they suddenly changed from three-dimensional creatures to two-dimensional creatures, just like a paper man, directly ignoring the opponent's total.

"Like a ghost, there is a certain chance that it is immune to physical damage."

Xiao En took a decisive step forward, and after signaling others to step back, he took a deep breath.

——Dragon Breath Technique!

A ferocious dragon head appeared in front of Xiao En, and as the blazing sea of ​​fire spread, all living creatures in sight were engulfed in flames.

Clear the place directly.

Even the portraits on the walls were burned clean.

The entire corridor was empty in an instant, the space around them changed, and they returned to reality again. They had already walked to the door of the reading room, but all the paintings hanging along the corridor were burned to ashes.

This is a barrier activated by a ritual.

"interesting."

“It feels like a labyrinth that forcibly drags us into the world of the painting.”

Xiao En's eyes were burning. What he coveted was not the field of painting, but the laws of space mastered by that monster. The illusory creations here seemed to be able to distort the real space, constantly switching between the real world and the world in the painting. It might be more difficult to deal with than the previous indescribable illusion, but the abilities it possessed were a huge improvement for Xiao En.

“The two-dimensional world and the three-dimensional world.”

Xiao En's eyes were dim. He had not thought that such an inconspicuous field could be exploited to such an extent.

Creating things out of thin air, changing space, and deforming with malicious intent.

Xiao En didn't know what other strange abilities this evil creature possessed. The domain laws it mastered were stronger than Xiao En had imagined, and its attainments in the laws of space were even higher than Xiao En's.

creak.

The heavy door of the reading room opened, revealing a quiet space filled with bookshelves. Many books were shining with various kinds of spiritual light. Some books had black mist hovering above them, some books had flesh and blood tentacles growing out of them, and one bookshelf was surrounded by nebula-shaped dust. Every book here was filled with activated knowledge, and they were also living things.

At the deepest part of the reading room, Sean saw 'Blade Dancer', but it was not hanging on the central wall.

The position in the center is now empty!
The most powerful evil in the field of painting does not seem to be the Blade Dancer. There are two other indescribable paintings hanging next to it.

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(End of this chapter)