raknovel Chapter 167 Summoning Failed, Lava Fishing
Chapter 167 Summoning Failed, Lava Fishing
Chapter 167 Summoning Failed, Lava Fishing
Upon seeing this, everyone immediately noticed something was amiss.
Clearly, there must be something more to these steps than meets the eye.
The man from the Eternal Night Kingdom has impressive physical strength; he's practically a muscle man.
The most likely reason for his disheveled state was the increased mental pressure from the steps.
At this moment, a member of the Eternal Night Kingdom's team stepped forward, helped the muscular man up, and asked in a low voice, "What happened?"
"The oppressive aura on the steps intensified several times over; I didn't notice for a moment—"
The muscular man subconsciously tried to find an excuse for himself, but upon seeing the other person's gaze, he dared not say another word.
The other person looked at him coldly and urged, "Try again."
This person's status or strength is definitely above that of the muscular man.
This blunt order left the muscular man with no room for resistance; he could only obediently comply.
He stood up again and cast a series of spells on himself.
Looking from afar, Ronan recognized several of them from the Magic Network. They were mostly temporary enhancements of mental strength achieved by burning flesh and blood.
This process lasted a long time, but the others in the Eternal Night Kingdom were not in a hurry.
People from other academies also stopped to watch, eager to see how this guinea pig of the Eternal Night Kingdom would solve the current problem.
With a white mouse leading the way, everyone naturally agreed.
However, not everyone is willing to wait in place.
Three contestants, clad in long, flowing robes, emerged from the crowd in the dark tower.
They looked straight ahead, completely ignoring everyone else, and stepped directly onto the stairs leading to the second-floor exit without pausing.
Immediately afterward, Dark Raven from the Valley of the Dead laughed and said loudly, "If you need to be this cautious even for the first floor, then you shouldn't be participating in the competition."
These slightly sarcastic words immediately drew the attention of a group of people from the Eternal Night Kingdom.
Ronan was somewhat surprised, not expecting that the Raven, who had been so amiable when communicating with him, would be so tough on outsiders.
However, he then realized that this might be what a normal sorcerer should look like.
After all, no one who spends all day cursing others behind their backs can appear kind and cheerful on the surface.
Upon hearing Dark Raven's words, most of the people present instantly understood and were convinced.
Yes, this is only one level. Besides, haven't all the people from the Dark Abyss passed through it?
Am I really weaker than others?
Immediately, both the people from the Dark Tower and the Valley of the Dead abandoned their observation and went up the steps leading to the second floor.
Of course, some people will find it very difficult to move forward due to their lack of strength, but this is where the group shows its superiority. As teammates, they can help each other overcome these obstacles, which is a piece of cake.
Soon, both groups from the Dark Tower and the Valley of the Dead had entered the second floor, their figures completely disappearing into the spiraling staircase.
The group from the Eternal Night Kingdom remained unmoved, seemingly completely unconcerned about outside opinions, still waiting for the muscular man to be their guinea pig.
The muscular man felt nervous when he saw that everyone in his academy was looking at him.
He nodded to the crowd and stepped forward.
This time, the same pressure came, but with his newfound strength, it was no longer an insurmountable difficulty.
He quickly walked to the top, and before leaving, he looked back at the people of the Eternal Night Kingdom and nodded.
As he officially entered the second floor, the group from the Eternal Night Kingdom also followed suit, climbing the steps one after another.
They didn't make any preparations like the muscular men, but none of them showed any discomfort, comparable to those from the Dark Abyss.
Ronan, who was at the very back, saw this scene and immediately understood the other party's intention.
The Eternal Night Kingdom must have deliberately sent this muscular man up to test the waters, then intentionally dragged out the time, with the aim of preventing the other two academies from knowing their strength as much as possible.
However, they clearly overlooked Ronan, who was lagging behind.
After Ronan completely separated from the people of the Valley of the Dead, he secretly turned his stealth function to the maximum. Combined with his custom-made new robe, almost no one could detect him.
At this point, he was the only one left on the first floor.
He wasn't in a hurry to climb the tower. The faction battle was about how many people could reach the top of the tower within the allotted time, not how fast they could reach the top.
Therefore, Ronan had plenty of time to linger on the first floor and do whatever he wanted.
His mental domain permeated every corner of the first floor, attempting to uncover some hidden secret.
However, what interested him most were the charred remains in the lava.
These remains could move freely through this deadly lava, so the materials used must be extraordinary.
Moreover, they can sense, capture, and devour spiritual energy.
Such a special creature might have some special effects, so Ronan planned to catch one to study it.
Even if things don't go well, they should still be able to make some money.
After a thorough search, Ronan found no other secrets on the first floor and turned his attention to the rolling lava.
He squatted at the edge of the lava area, twisting his mental energy into a rope and probing into the lava.
The scene strangely gave off a feeling of fishing.
Ronan tried to summon two skeletons to help him, but the summoning failed unexpectedly, and the same thing happened several times.
Logically, this summoning is for establishing a connection between the undead realm and reality, so it's unlikely to fail.
Ronan thought about it and ultimately attributed it to the fact that the Tower of Babel did not allow trial participants to summon creatures on their own.
It makes sense. If the trial participants could use their wealth to create an extremely powerful summon and then unleash it to wreak havoc inside the Tower of Babel, then the trial would lose its meaning.
Therefore, Ronan could only use the "Wind Creation" spell to generate a few wisps of wind swirling around him as a form of defense.
Combined with the Ice-Sealing Technique, if anything suddenly rushes up, it will come into contact with this breeze and be instantly frozen.
This was Ronan's way of protecting himself, but he didn't want his remains to be frozen as well.
If the remains were frozen, he would have no choice but to break them by force.
Faced with the problem of capturing the carcass after it was fished up, Ronan came up with another method.
He severed the connection between "Light Wall" and "Ice Seal Technique," preparing to create a box using the Light Wall to trap the corpse.
At that moment, the rope of his dangling mental energy was suddenly pulled, and the magma in the area was boiling violently.
Ronan knew the fish had taken the bait.
He immediately withdrew his mental energy and retrieved the mental energy rope below.
During this process, he felt an extremely strong pulling force; it was the corpse pulling him.
Ronan's mental energy wasn't a fixed pre-configured form. Fearing that the corpse might give up its grip on the mental energy ropes at the last moment, he did the opposite, strengthening and extending the end of his mental energy to create a mental net that directly trapped the corpse in the magma.
Without a point of leverage, the pulling force of the corpse immediately weakened.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ronan suddenly raised his mental energy upwards and instantly pulled a charred figure out of the gushing lava.