Whispering Verse

He held the sword in both hands and swung a [Moonlight Slash] forward. The bright moonlight temporarily illuminated the corridor, but it went straight through the snake's head, as if the snake was really just an illusion.

The snake looked at Shade and swam toward him slowly but with increasingly strong whispering power.

[Because we don’t know the characteristics of the relic, we can’t know the specific reason. But when I touched the snake just now, I could be sure that the other person was in a physical state. 】

"Then why"

[When your attack touches the opponent's snake skin, the corresponding position is transformed into a special void state. You did hit your target, you just didn't hurt the other person. This should be one of the characteristics of the relic. 】

"Wherever you attack, there will be nothingness?"

Shade understood, and the best way to deal with this kind of enemy seemed to be to attack the opponent's whole body in an instant, but there was also the possibility that the opponent's whole body could be insubstantial.

"It is indeed a very troublesome relic. No wonder I only have the third ring to dare to carry out such a task. I didn't when I was the third ring."

Thinking of what he was doing when he was in the third ring, Xia De thought again:

"However, since it is not avoiding the attack, but making the attack ineffective, then it is not really without weaknesses."

He thought of another method, and the dark chains of sin flowed out of his left sleeve. The runes of [Gluttony], [Greed] and [Sloth] written in the languages ​​of different eras are intertwined in series on the chain. After linking [Laziness] to this thaumaturgy through the ritual, the strength and length of the Sin Chain became more outstanding than before.

Coupled with the spell he learned from the "Pink Book" - [Live Rope Trick], Shade can now control the chain more freely.

The slender black chain climbed towards the big snake along the carpet in the darkness, and the dark snake also climbed towards Shade. When the chain came into contact with the big snake, the latter didn't care about this slender "similar" at all. Just as Shade expected, the Sin Chain tried to bind the snake, but it still passed through the snake's body.

At this moment, the climbing snake paused suddenly, and at the same time, Shade also felt that the spirit in his body was being consumed rapidly because the chains were imprisoning an extremely powerful guy:

"Sure enough, although it can't attack, it can still be imprisoned!"

The big snake did not stop completely, but its squirming body seemed to have been affected by a not-so-skilled petrification technique.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shade took a step forward and appeared directly in front of the big snake. He brandished his sword with both hands, and the light traces of the silver moon left a brilliant afterglow in the darkness. But at this moment, the imprisoned huge black snake actually melted into the darkness, and Shade's attack failed again:

"Relying on dark space to move? What kind of creature does that snake skin originally belong to?"

【left. 】

Qiang~

The big sword he swung swept across the strange triangular snake head that was biting towards the left. It was obvious that the snake had broken free of its chains by relying on its ability to move in space, but Shade's sword actually did not go through the snake's head, but actually cut it on the snake's head. On the top, there was a heavy impact sound:

"Space power and virtual power cannot be used at the same time?"

The moonlight sword flicked the snake away hard. After landing, the big snake hissed at Shade and stared directly at the human in front of him in the darkness. It was getting stronger and stronger.

"Space stabilizing halo!"

Shade stepped on the ground with his left foot, and invisible ripples spread around. The black snake seemed to feel something, and turned around to retreat.

"Chains of Sin!"

The chain slid out towards the ground again, and the big snake quickly wanted to avoid it, but the [Live Rope Trick] of "The Pink Book" specifically restrained this kind of flexible movement. No matter how agile a lady is, it would be difficult for her to avoid being manipulated by the trick. Rope, not to mention a snake. Therefore, during the brief confrontation between the snake's tail and the chain, it was still penetrated by the chain.

The snake head slowly turned to Shade, opened its mouth and exposed its fangs, as if it wanted to make a desperate blow, but Shade would not give it another chance. The last thing the snake saw was the extremely brilliant moonlight.

"Moonlight Great Sword!"

The silver sword fell behind the big snake, passed through the snake's head, and scattered into little glows in the darkness.

Pa da~

The snake's head fell to the carpet, and the heavy body fell with it.

Shade breathed a sigh of relief and noticed that as the giant snake's body burned, the gas lamp in the corridor quickly turned on. But he still frowned, because inside the burning snake corpse, a man's body actually appeared again, and the corpse's head was broken like the snake corpse:

"This relic is really evil."

When the last ray of dark fire disappeared, the giant snake's body was completely burned to ashes, leaving only the man's body lying on the carpet, but strangely no blood flowed out. In the mouth of the man's head, a small piece of snake skin was exposed.

Shade bent down and pulled the piece of snake skin out of the corpse's mouth, confirming that it was the relic itself. Probably because Shade had just defeated it, its whisper element was much weaker than before:

"A clerical-level (level 4) trophy, but this thing is really disgusting."

Putting the piece of snake skin in his notebook, Shade briefly searched the man's body, but found nothing:

"You go out without a wallet, confidential letters, or even a diary? Is he poorer than me?"

He complained softly, used his handkerchief to turn the canvas toy back into canvas, and then used the canvas to turn the corpse into a toy.

Looking at the corridor that was damaged by the short battle just now, he took a deep breath and used [Breath of Time] to flow back time and restore everything to its original appearance.

Not staying here for long, Shade continued walking along the corridor. After walking up the stairs, I soon arrived at the door of Miss Sylvia's lounge, but I didn't get any response after knocking on the door.

"Sorry, please forgive me for being rude."

Shade said softly, turning the handle and pushing open the door.

It was a pity that although the lights were on, there was no one in the room. The windows of the room were closed tightly, and thick embroidered curtains blocked the moonlight outside the window.

"Where did Miss Sylvia go?"

He quickly walked to the window, opened the curtains and looked outside. Outside this room was the garden of the manor. The garden where there should have been a gas lamp was dark at the moment, but relying on dark vision, Shade could see three low-level warlocks from the church fighting a five-level warlock holding a flower pot, and he could also see the Mechanical Church. The six-ring warlock is building a machine in the void and fighting the six-ring warlock who controls the vines.

In the garden of this mansion, there were at least a dozen people fighting. The two sides were the church and the hired Pantanal Voodoo Society. It was obvious that the church had the upper hand, but everyone tacitly agreed not to use belts. Spells and thaumaturgy with obvious sound and light effects.

Shade found no trace of Miss Sylvia in the garden, frowned and looked indoors again, then suddenly closed his eyes, holding his breath and concentrating. Following Ruoyouruowu's inspiration, he opened his eyes and came to the door, then looked at the oil painting facing the door:

"There's something wrong with this painting."

The gas lamp in the corridor was very bright, and the red carpet under my feet even looked scarlet in the light.

The oil painting under the gas lamp shows a gray temple like a pyramid located in a dense forest. The temple is made of square bricks and is almost completely submerged by giant trees and vines around it. At first glance, there is nothing special about it, it is just an ordinary ruins landscape painting, but when you stare closely at the painting, you actually feel like you are being sucked into it.

As he blinked his eyes, the oil painting instantly turned into a weird, indescribable, terrifying thing composed of trees, vines, grass, flowers, and thorns. But when he blinked again, it changed back to its original appearance.

Shade took a step back in surprise, but quickly came to the wall. He reached out and took off the oil painting, feeling four elements at the same time.

He stretched out his hand to touch the screen, but his hand was immediately bounced away by a huge force:

"what's the situation?"

[There is a subspace sealed in the painting, similar to the 'Language of Sublimation' and the 'Mysterious Lock', but not the first two. There is a high probability that Emma Sylvia is in it, and she can feel the power of the witch in the painting. 】

"Can I get in?"

Shade frowned slightly. Although he didn't know what the situation was, as long as he found Miss Sylvia, all the problems could be solved.

[Pierce it with your sword. But you should note that similar spaces are easy to enter but difficult to leave. 】

"I know."

His right hand pulled out the moonlight sword from the air again, but this time it was the slender yellow sword. Shade held the sword in both hands and pointed the tip of the sword at the oil painting with a serious expression:

"I want to see what happened."

The tip of the sword penetrated the oil painting, and the bright light in the corridor suddenly went out. Everything around him is fading, and those illusory colors are rapidly reorganizing.

Shade looked around with vigilance. The stench and rotten smell came over him. He was standing in a corridor with sewage flowing on the ground. The surrounding stone walls were covered with green plants. Lighting is done here.

This looks like the interior of an ancient building that has long been abandoned in a large swamp. This desolate corridor exudes a sense of antiquity and vicissitudes of life. Nature and mystery seem to be perfectly blended here.

Carefully observe the stone walls covered with green plants, and look carefully at the shallow water under your feet. Moving forward along the corridor, the shimmering things on the wall that looked like tree roots or ivy-like things became thicker and thicker. The air gradually became thinner, and the unknown mental pressure made every step forward for Shade more difficult.

He quickly followed the corridor to the end, which was a square temple space. The six sides of the entire room were all made of gray rough ashlar, and there was a stone platform on the innermost wall. There is a horrific statue made of plant remains.

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