Chapter 867: Clear Lake
“Wizard Abel, are you ok?” Barbarian Ruin saw Abel from a distance and quickly approached him.
“Ruin, I’m good!” Abel said casually. He had no injuries. Of course, he didn’t even fight.
“That’s good. We are not far from our destination!” The priest pointed at another mountain peak and added, “All we need is to pa.s.s through that peak!”
His desperation vanished as soon as he saw Abel. He had a detailed plan for this adventure. The reward would be huge, so he didn’t want to mess it up.
Half-elf Leon smiled at Abel. It would be strange if Abel couldn’t escape since he could move in a flash. Moving in a flash was something all druids yearned for. If a wizard was prepared, almost nothing could stop them.
The team continued to move forward, and Abel returned to the back of the team.
They ran into a few more decent spiritual beasts, but no one in the team needed Abel’s help.
Ruin was already deeply touched by Abel saving his life, and a moment ago, Abel had volunteered to stay behind. He just couldn’t thank him enough.
Half-elf Leon had an elf’s pride. He was suppressed by the red stone giant and retreated, so he wanted to make up by showing off his ability in front of Abel.
The priest also didn’t want Abel to take too many risks. Abel was new to the Central Continent, so the priest thought Abel was just trying to show off as much as possible.
However, the priest was the ignorant one. During the Holy Knights battle in Sland City, Abel, as a rank 16 wizard, had fought against rank 18 holy knights.
Abel had also killed 2 elite wizards from the blizzards and volunteered to fight the red stone giant by himself.
The priest couldn’t understand how Abel wizard had survived for so long. Normally someone of his rank would be more careful. They wouldn’t take unnecessary risks for no reason.
Just like during the Holy Knights fight, all the priest did was use a bone wall. It didn’t take much for him to join the battle.
However, Abel almost died in that battle. All the priest wanted was for Abel to live just a bit longer until their adventure finished.
“We have arrived!” The priest pointed at a giant lake.
Abel never expected such a beautiful scene in this so-called dangerous place. The water was crystal clear, and the bottle could be seen from afar.
The water slowly swirled around, and everything seemed peaceful. It was an oasis.
The water was so clean that they could easily see if there was any danger. Therefore, there was not the fear of the unknown when going into a normal lake.
“Bighorn, are we going into the lake?” Abel asked. The lake was too big. Going around it would be too far, and he didn’t have any tools to get across it.
He didn’t want to expose his flying mounts. Since he was new to the Holy Continent, he did not feel too safe.
“Wizard Abel, don’t worry. We’re prepared!” An ugly smile emerged on the face of the priest.
He then took out some wooden parts from his portal bag, and the others also did the same.
The three of them began to work. After 20 minutes, they had a little boat.
Although it was not big, it could hold 4 people no problem. Each of them had a paddle.
Everyone jumped on the boat. Abel was the last one to jump on the boat. He was just as heavy as Barbarian Ruin, even though Abel was just 2 meters tall. It was his body’s density beyond 100 points.
They were all experienced in battle, and they were shocked to see Abel’s weight.
The priest wouldn’t believe Abel was actually that heavy. A wizard would not be as heavy as a Barbarian no matter how he trained, so…
His eyes landed on the belt on Abel’s waist. It must be some kind of treasure. Also, maybe Abel had many defense gear on him, so that’s why he was so heavy.
Any defense gear on an elite wizard was high in value.
He interacted with Abel before, and he knew Abel didn’t have any interest in normal treasure. Back then, more than 40 Holy knights were badly injured, and Abel didn’t even bother to kill them off and take their gears.
Greed flashed in the eyes of the priest, but then it quickly disappeared.
Barbarian thought differently. Abel was someone who could alter a top-level Barbarian skill, so having a strong body was not too surprising.
Even though he had a hard time using that skill, Abel could do so effortlessly, so you could just imagine how strong Abel was.
Half-elf Leon was also curious. Abel looked like a human, but he had the ability of a soul speaker and a skill to win the heart of Barbarian Ruin.
Abel couldn’t care less what the others thought about him. Instead, he felt something strange as the boat started moving.
If Abel was alone, he could move in a flash across a calm lake even though not all elite wizards could do so.
It needed an extreme spell casting speed, to the point where a wizard could ignite a move in a flash on the lake again before they sank.
Since Abel didn’t sense much danger from the lake, he let his heart relax.
The others began to paddle, and the boat soon headed towards the center of the lake.
“Wizard Abel, our destination is the center of this lake!” The priest said.
Abel opened his eyes and gazed forward. The water was so clean he could see everything in the bottom. He just didn’t see anything strange about the center.
However, when he thought about it, how would an ancient sight be spotted easily?
“Are there any creatures?” Abel asked suddenly.
He always had a strange feeling about this lake. He just didn’t know where it was coming from. He focused on the water. All he saw was some corral, no moving creatures.
Fish and little shrimps were almost guaranteed in such a big lake, but this lake was so clear it was spooky. There were not even any worms.
“Bighorn, somethings not right. The last time was not like this. Did we leave something in the ancient sight last time?” Half-elf Leon placed his hand in the water and then continued, “There was no scent of life!”
Abel felt his soul alerting him, but he couldn’t pinpoint where the threat was coming from.
“Everyone, be careful!” He trusted his intuition. The knight intuition had been his lifesaver ever since he was a novice wizard. His instincts were more powerful in a peaceful place.
After he warned the team, he flashed out of the boat and reappeared on the lake in a flash of white light.
His toe touched the surface and unleashed chilling force. A frozen ice block emerged as he landed.
The moment he flashed away, a hole blasted open from the place he was sitting, and an invincible tentacle emerged. It missed Abel, so it struck towards the others on the boat.
It was not good to fight on a boat with a hole, so they all had to leave.
Half-elf Leon was the quickest. He summoned his poison creeper, and it twirled in the water like a long snake. A part of its root emerged on the surface, and half-elf Leon stood on top of it.
Meanwhile, the priest cast 2 bone walls and formed a cross on the surface of the lake. It sank a little as he stood on it, so he cast another one to stabilize it.
The bone wall could not last for too long. It would vanish when the death within it was drained.
Of course, he could keep casting more bone walls to stabilize the surface, but there was an enemy in the water. He might not have a chance to cast another one.
“Ah!” Barbarian Ruin was the most helpless. He couldn’t float on water, and his close combat ability would be demolished if he went into the water.
He could only wait for that monster in the water to strike again. Attacking was almost impossible.
As he was about to sink, Abel threw out an ice block below him, and he immediately jumped on it.
“Thank you so much, Wizard Abel!” Barbarian Ruin yelled.
He then roared, and golden light beams shot out from his body.
“Sorry, I can’t join the fight!” He said after the roar.
Everyone in the team knew a Barbarian could not fight on water. It was a fact, and the only thing Barbarian Ruin could do was to use his roar to drive out the monster. ”Same. I can’t sustain this for long!” Half-elf Leon added. He summoned 5 ravens, but they also couldn’t do much to a target underwater, let alone an invincible one.
“My skeletons can fight in the water, but they’re a little slow. Wizard Abel, you?” The priest turned towards Abel and said.
“Hold on, let me summon my beasts!” Abel lowered his voice.
He was certain that this invincible monster must be a top rank spiritual beast, at least since it could form a threat to his life. Top rank spiritual beasts were almost never seen in the Holy Continent, and he came across 2 of them in just a few hours in the Central Continent.
This just showed how dangerous this place was. It would be dangerous if he ventured outside by himself. If he was so curious about the ancient sight, maybe he wouldn’t even join this little team for adventure.
As Abel was planning how to fight that monster, the priest summoned 8 skeletons. His skeletons were not like the ones in the Holy Continent. It didn’t matter if they were destroyed. He could summon new ones as soon as he came across a dead body.
However, the newly summoned skeletons lacked battle experience, so they still needed some time to recover.
“Wizard Abel, I’ll help you search for that thing!” the priest yelled as he saw his skeletons dived down.
A damage increase curse then emerged from his hand. The best thing about that curse was the wide-area it covered. Anything he deemed as an enemy would be affected.
A curse glow would emerge on anything that was affected, and the invincibility of the monster would be broken.
That was a clever idea, but the lake returned clam. Water flowed against the breezy wind as their little boat slowly sank.
Therefore all the priest could do was aimlessly throw out as many curses as possible. Cursed clouds covered the lake, and red cursed raindrops poured down.