After the first attempt to explore the ruin, it didn't go wrong or very right, we didn't lose any coins and gained some common items, since we were only in the initial aria of the ruin. If we find a similar amount on the lower floors of the ruin, this expedition will be very profitable for the Kelence family.
After we got back to the surface, Aunt Venus prepared a very large number of supplies and some boxes to store what we took from the ruin, they would only be used after we cleaned the ruin or we gave up exploring more, but now that we've seen that this is a ridiculously large ruin and better already collect everything we can to cut down on unnecessary trips into the ruin.
With an even bigger convoy than the previous one we entered the ruin again, but as I had already deactivated most of the matrixes and many of the guard golems already dead, it didn't take us long to get back to where we left off last time.
During the next day I must have disarmed over a hundred matrixes and each floor we passed the they became more complicated and time-consuming to disarm, but we were lucky enough that the ruin golems didn't change. They haven't gotten stronger or more numerous, but I'm getting a feeling that something bad is approaching, to be more correct I believe we're going to him and it's making me nervous.
The feeling of walking towards your death is something very disturbing and to my surprise I don't see anyone from the expedition showing nervousness about the routine of this ruin to have given a bad feeling of security to these idiots, apart from Aunt Venus and her guard who are Extremely watchful around the rest of the expedition is getting lazy.
But this quiet situation came to an end when we arrived at a large hall with a large and ornate altar, when we entered this room, I noticed that there was not even a matrix in it, but there were some large statues leaning on the walls and in the lights.
As we entered this part of the ruin, I had a bad feeling that these statues would start to move and attack us. This would be a classic sena, but the hall is simply silent as we pass it and head for a really grand staircase.
Behind the wall of this room is a big staircase that goes down a big slope down and it's really big. We descended more than three hundred meters down and when leaving the stairs, we were greeted by several golems' knights and mages, but unlike the previous golems these were black with gilding ornaments their strength should be compatible with an orange core warrior I just hope their defense be stronger than your attack.
The onslaught of a dozen knights is too great a challenge for a single shield knight, but as I backed up the ladder, I saw a wave of the shadow element hitting the golems and knocking them back.
Aunt Venus and really strong she alone started to tear the golems apart with her magic as if they were nothing, but after the first wave of golems came the second and in it a unit of magicians that shoots a meteor shower in the expedition.
The next few minutes were quite confusing for me who was running for my life, even in the protection of the stairs I hid behind the arched door to avoid being hit by the fiery meteors.
Apart from the explosions that were making the entire ruin shake, I could barely see the fight between the golems and the orange core warriors a river formed by the shadow element writhed like a serpent breaking the golem formation, I could barely see the movements of the two offensive warriors who protected aunt Venus if it wasn't for the color of her second elements that stood out in the black river I wouldn't have seen, they were destroying the golems that should have a defense that should resist the attacks of red core warriors being torn by the spear and sword of the two orange core warriors and this was explained by the density of the shadow element that was covering their bodies and weapons.
Not only were they being driven by the darkness of the ruin, the river of the shadow element itself was strengthening them and binding them to their weapons. This river must be a very complex spell to have so many effects and functions at the same time.
This is the first time I see a high-level mage fighting, I've only seen high-level fighters fighting when I saw Captain Raven fighting and she's holding back. But seeing Aunt Venus fight now I was surprised how she fights, unlike the low-level mages who perform various spells to overwhelm enemies she is using a single large permanent spell to attack, defend, disrupt enemy coordination and strengthen the allies in a single spell that must be extremely complex.
As far as I know the more complex the spell the more mana and elemental energy you'd expect, but the mage's concentration is also drained by magic and one like this is a spell that is complex, it must not only wear down the magician's mind as it must also overwhelm the magician's mind and ability to control. Without a shield warrior protecting Aunt Venus she probably wouldn't choose to use magic like that.
But my ability to see their fight was quickly cut short when a barrier of mana and aura formed covering the entrance to the room, and this caused a huge filter to be placed in front of me preventing me from seeing the fight, even when I turned it off. my vision i could see almost nothing of the fight apart from the black river and the fiery meteors that were coming to hit the barrier that was created.
When I turned my attention to the barrier, I noticed something different about it, not an element in it, it is made up of aura and mana which is unusual as mages can hardly use pure mana. It takes quite a lot of training for a mage to use a spell with no attribute just relying on mana, this type of magic is not very popular, because it is not very effective to use this type of magic.
This type of spell does not suffer from the normal weaknesses or advantages of elemental spells, they are difficult to master and use more mana than elemental spells to be able to have the same effect, only two advantages on them and that they can easily interact with the aura of warriors and that multiple mages can reinforce the same spell simply by putting more mana on it.
But this group of warriors and mages shouldn't have the ability to make a defensive barrier like this, but it didn't take me long to figure out how they created a defensive barrier like this so quickly, each warrior and mage has a magical tool that is serving as they will. between them and the barrier.
The matrix that is shaping the barrier is engraved on the warriors' shields, this barrier is being fed by the aura and mana of all expedition members who have a green core. And this barrier is barely able to withstand the golem mages' meteorite pack, this barrier was not created to defend the warriors and mages but the entrance to the hall if only to keep the mages and warriors safe, we simply had to keep running by the ladder and away from the combat.
But if the temple is badly damaged by the golems, our passage can be destroyed and that would hinder exploration a lot, and for this reason the warriors and mages are taking risks to protect the entrance to the room by blocking the meteors that pass through the magic of Aunt Venus which is blocking most of the golem mages' attacks.
The fight in this hall didn't take long to end which was very good news for the wizards and warriors who were running out of aura and mana more than half of their aura and mana had already been spent if the fight took a little longer the barrier would have been destroyed along with the entrance to the hall.
As I approach Aunt Venus who is standing with a noble air, she doesn't even look like she went through a fight now if it wasn't for the mana and elemental energy that has diminished in her I wouldn't think she just went through an intense fight like this. The fight was more complicated than I thought it had been.
When I looked at what was left of the bodies of the golems, you notice that in my fight it looks like different golems looked like different parts of humanoid golems that were twice the size of the golems we killed on the previous floors and also the part of golems with animal characteristics or magical beasts.
It appears that this floor is when the temple aria that was used by the members of the nature church begins. The previous arias were supposed to be used by servants, priests and low-level devotees, but I still find it strange to have so much space for people with small importance and it's weird to have the most important members have to walk so far to get to the temple's central aria.
The way this temple was built is very strange.