Whispering Verse

The true god that the Granger family believes in is the God of the Sun and the Earth [Old Man with the Lamp], so this century-old chapel is also the Church of the Sun. Generally speaking, the specifications of churches in the cemetery are different from those of regular churches. This was also the first time for Shade to see the Church of the Sun in the cemetery.

Although it has been abandoned for more than 300 years, the cathedral in the urban area of ​​Randall Valley City has no longer sent priests. However, the lumberjacks who worked here probably repaired it out of respect, or for some other reason, it was abandoned. The church in the cemetery looks like it has been maintained, and it doesn't look like it was destroyed three hundred years ago.

The great earthquake in 1498 GCE destroyed the most important underground tomb area in the Granger family cemetery. According to Earl Granger, although attempts were made to reopen the passage to the closed underground tomb area after the earthquake, they gave up after finding it too difficult.

The underground rock formations in this area are extremely thick. If you want to dig out the ground, you actually have to dig out large rocks instead of dirt. Therefore, there is no need to worry about someone easily stealing those dusty tombs. And when the outsiders arrived in 1854, the only area worth exploring was the small church in front of them.

"If it hadn't been mentioned in the memoir that Mr. Lyman kept one of the four gem keys for future generations, I would really doubt whether today was a waste of time."

Shade muttered that in the book "The Butterfly Family: My Life", only a few chapters were used to introduce Mr. Lyman's arrangements for his own funeral. The book does not mention the location of the cemetery, but it does mention the whereabouts of the four gems.

One is stored near the statue of the ancient god together with the memoirs; one is entrusted to a friend to take away from home; one is given to the most precious daughter to pass down to future generations; one is thrown into the trading market and lets fate decide how far away it will be. direction.

Because the colors of the four gemstones were mentioned in the memoir, Shade was able to determine that the white gemstone provided by Stone Oxenfurt was the one he "entrusted his friends to take away from home."

Therefore, Xia De thought that he should gain something from coming all the way here today. If not, you can only consider spending precious coins and letting Luvia help with divination.

The gray exterior wall of the chapel in the cemetery is clinging to vines that have withered in winter. All the windows were boarded up, but fortunately the door was not.

The lower end of the rusty metal door was almost integrated with the ground. Shade pushed but didn't push it open. After using the door key to unlock the door, he still couldn't push it open. Only then did he realize that the deformation of the door frame had completely blocked the door.

"I apologize for that."

He said softly, then kicked the door open, and reminded himself to find a way to seal the door again before leaving.

The interior of the long-closed chapel was extremely cold and filled with a rotten smell. This type of chapel is quite limited in area and generally only contains a main hall for prayer and an area for clergy to live.

At this time, the main hall was empty, with some construction debris piled in the corners. The remains of dead mice and dead spiders lay in a secret corner, and it was not known which one starved to death first.

Shade bent down and tried to lift up the iron door that he had completely kicked off the door frame and place it against the wall. However, after lifting the thick metal door, he found that the lock position of the door showed signs of damage. I don't know if this happened tens or hundreds of years ago.

And then, he actually saw traces of blood on the rusty metal handle on the inside of the door. There was an extremely sharp bump on the door handle that looked like it had been accidentally scratched.

"Interesting, this is who has been here - Echo of Blood."

Squinting his eyes slightly, the unnoticeable blood stains on the door handle immediately began to glow scarlet.

Shade then looked at the ground under the door frame, and sure enough he saw dripping blood. It appears that the area where the wound occurred was quite large.

However, the owner of the wound seemed to have no intention of dealing with his own wound. Shade looked towards the inside of the church, and saw blood dripping scarlet on the ground at regular intervals.

He followed the blood stain inward, but found that the blood stain did not spread to the back of the church where the clergy lived, but extended all the way to the stone pulpit and then disappeared.

"The wound he was treating here?"

Because the windows are closed, the light inside the church is quite dim. In order to prevent the ranger from just now from following him again, Shade did not light up the light on his fingertips. Therefore, in the darkness, he could easily see the lower side behind the pulpit, which also had a faint scarlet light representing blood stains.

The amount of blood stains attached here is extremely rare. If it weren't for the fact that the sunlight at the door cannot reach such a deep place, Shade would not be able to observe it at all:

"Instead of bandaging and cleaning my wounds, I came here in a hurry. What's going on here?"

Behind the pulpit is where the clergy stand, similar to a pulpit, and the bottom is usually empty. Shade also bent down and relied on his dark vision to observe the location of the blood stains. He tried to reach out and touch it, and then he was surprised to find that there was a stone button that could be pressed on the inside under the stone pulpit. A faint trace of blood was attached here:

"Is there really a secret?"

He did not rush to press the button, but first dropped the silencing spell. After making sure he was ready, he pressed the button that seemed to be stuck.

And with the harsh friction sound that only Shade could hear, the entire pulpit moved to the right, revealing the entrance to the underground and the steps at the entrance.

Shade took a slight breath, and was about to light up the light on his fingertips and walk down, when he heard a dull roar coming from below the cave entrance. Just as he was thinking about what this was, a miserable green light shone from the entrance of the cave.

"Moonlight Great Sword."

The silver sword was pulled out from the air. Two seconds later, as the pale green light became stronger and stronger, Shade also saw the source of the light. An evil spirit holding an oil lamp in his left hand and a shovel in his right hand, covered in rags and rags, with a skull-like face, floated out from the depths of the cave along the steps:

"He's dressed as a tomb robber?"

The dark interior of the church was reflected in a gloomy green, and Shade took two steps back to leave a fighting space for himself. The floating undead roared again, and after holding the oil lamp high, it turned into smoke and disappeared below the cave.

[Left side. 】

As the roar of the undead came again from the left, Shade hurriedly dodged to the right. Then a pale green light appeared at the source of the sound. The evil spirit wielding a shovel struck at the place where Shade was originally standing. The pale green weapon Sparks hit the ground.

Although the undead looked extremely terrifying, Shade was used to seeing similar things in Fort Midhill.

While the evil spirit lifted up the fallen shovel, Shade took a step forward and waved the sword in his hand. The great sword passed directly through the evil spirit's spirit body, but it did not directly destroy it, but instead made the color of its soul much darker.

"Um?"

This is the first time I have encountered an evil spirit that is resistant to the Moonlight Sword.

The evil spirit opened its arms and raised its chest, the mouth of the skull face opened, and the rune light flashed on its forehead. At the same time as the ear-piercing scream appeared, obvious shock ripples appeared in the air around it.

Shade, who was nearby, was swept by the ripples and felt that his spiritual recovery speed suddenly slowed down. This is not a permanent slowdown, but it will take at least half a minute to recover:

"No, this is not a normally formed undead! It is the guard here!"

This special method of dealing with ring warlocks can only be spawned by special undead rituals. After understanding this, Xia De didn't intend to hold back. While the evil spirit was holding an oil lamp and wielding a shovel like a sickle, he quickly floated toward him. He raised his free left hand and struck forward with a moonlight slash.

The undead's shovel hit the silver arc of light, and then the shovel emitting green light died together with the Silver Moon Slash. This further strengthened the speculation that the undead was a ring warlock who came to see the door.

Shade continued to retreat, this time raising his left hand, and the rotating silver light wheel formed in his hand. The moonlight wheel was thrown towards the evil spirit who had lost his weapon, and the evil spirit immediately picked up the oil lamp that emitted green light in his hand.

The lamp did not provide protection, but it actually absorbed the light of the moonlight wheel. But as a price, the lamp collapsed into points of light because it could not contain the power of the holy moonlight.

"It's now!"

Shade still didn't choose to get close to this evil spirit who didn't know how many abilities he had. This time, the lightning in his hand exploded. The silver thunder gun left a dazzling silver light mark in the dim church, and then penetrated straight through the evil spirit's chest, exploding together with the evil spirit.

The thunder gun did not create much explosive smoke, but only left some jumping arcs on the ground.

After the smoke dissipated and he carefully confirmed that the evil spirit had been eliminated, Shade breathed a sigh of relief and walked down the hole exposed under the pulpit.

The stairs are not long, and below the entrance is a relatively flat square basement that is about half the area of ​​Shade's bedroom.

Two skeletons were lying by the wall at the end of the stairs. One of them was dressed exactly the same as the evil spirit just now. They were the tomb robbers who came together.

In the rather large underground space, stone tables are placed on two walls and cabinets are placed on one wall. On the table are flasks, funnels, scales, beakers and a few books, while in the cabinet are various biological material samples. Because they are preserved with potions such as formalin, one-third of the contents of the bottles in the cabinet are still intact. Shade can see the frogs, snakes, and things like tiger whip soaked in them. s things.

As for the ground between the table and the cabinet, there is a huge ritual matrix painted on it that even though it has been severely faded, it seems to Shade to be exquisite and complex. He didn't even have to touch it, he could sense the elemental reactions remaining in these traces.

"The Ringman's Laboratory."

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