Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 258

2021-08-12

Chapter 258 Prayer & Sarcophagus

“Earthquake?”

Begins Underfoot For the first time in the tremor, Shade thought of the terrifying future that might be encountered in an earthquake underground. But then he realized that it was not an earthquake, but the maze itself was shaking.

Carefully observe, the surrounding walls are slowly moving, some are turning in place, some are moving closer to the middle, the sound of stone bricks rubbing against the ground is sharp and harsh.

Miss Anat who was at the front of the complexion changed:
"Someone is manipulating that clerical relic [Labyrinth Candle], we are finally about to encounter the ring warlock. Quick, come with me , don't be left behind."

But even if she said that, the speed of change of the maze wall was far beyond the expectations of the three.

After running a few steps forward, the wall around him suddenly fiercely flicked to the side, directly stopping Miss Beas who was walking at the back behind the wall.

Shade, who heard the voice, was very rational and did not try to find Miss Beas behind the wall, but continued to run with Miss Anat.

didn't expect As soon as I turned the fork in front, a scarlet fog came up:
"It's Mystic Art!"

Miss Anat shouted , the right hand squeezed out a pinch of powder from the pocket and sprinkled forward. But this did not have any effect, instead, a few red-eyed bats flew out from the blood mist:
"This is not the Mystic Art of the Silver Eyed, detective, step back for a while, I will deal with it ."

Shade then retreated to the fork behind him, but the walls of the labyrinth were still changing. Shade backed away, but Miss Anante didn't. Seeing that the two were about to be separated by the wall in front of them:

"Detective, don't follow me, we'll act according to the original plan."

She left only these words and rushed into the blood mist in front of her.

Shade wanted to follow, but stopped anyway. The light of the silver moon flew out of his hand, but it couldn't leave any traces on the wall rising in front of him. He tried to shout a few words, but he didn't get any response from behind the wall.

Shade, who was alone, stood still, listening to harsh noises coming from everywhere, and it took two minutes before all the walls stopped moving. In the new labyrinth, the three of them dispersed, and the surroundings were silent. Shade's left hand was holding the gold necklace around his neck tightly, but his face was not flustered:

"As expected, this happened."

In the plan made before breaking into the ruins, I thought of the situation where the three people would be scattered for various reasons, and getting lost in the illusion created by the labyrinth candle was the most likely situation.

In this case, Miss Anat and Miss Bayas had arranged for Shade to find a relatively safe place to hide and come out after the two ladies resolved the trouble.

They seem to think that the Shade of a single person is weak, and it's good to protect yourself, and don't think about doing more things. The meaning of Shade's follow-up is only to help solve the mirror that attacks the "other me". But now that the mirror thing was over, it was a good thing that Shade didn't have to face the final battle in the minds of the two ladies.

"But now"

He looked at the passage in front of him and took a few steps forward to the fork:

"Where are we going?"

Touched the door pendant on my chest, but now is not a good time to use this:
"Feel if you can find the location of that [Maze Candle]."

[It can be found, but if you can't possibly touch it, the maze formed by this relic is not a real hallucination, otherwise people outside the hallucination will shoot directly, and you will already be dead. This approximates an incomplete labyrinth, the way to leave, only you find the exit of the labyrinth. ]

"Incomplete Mystery Lock?"

Shade frowned thought about it for a moment:
"This is going to be troublesome. I was attacked just now, why no one came. sneak attack me?"

He stood there and waited for a while, then was sure that no enemy really came looking for him.

"Could it be that in the depths of the labyrinth, there are really only strangers in the blood sect and those with silver eyes? Seeing that I am too weak, so you don't plan to pay any attention to me at all?"

Paste her hand On the walls of the maze, but still nothing new was discovered. Of course Shade won't be willing to wait here like this, but because of the current situation, it is of course more impossible to use divinity.

[You have other ways. ]

“I noticed that you used affirmative sentences.”

[Your mood swings are too small. ]

In this one-person environment, it's really nice to have a trusted voice to talk to. Although the "other me" is the price of power, will be entangled with the soul throughout the life of the ring warlock. But at least it means that the ring warlocks will never be alone.

took a deep breath, the hot and moldy air poured into the nasal cavity, Shade in the heart said:

"Since there is no way to crack the maze, it is better to think about it in a different way. The ruins belong to The mortal sect of the [Innocent Creator], will the sect leave some convenience for new sects in the future?"

[You don't have that god's diving technique, so you want to call on the same The resonance of the amount of source power may not be very simple. ]

She reminded in a low voice.

"Yes, there is no diving technique, but I have a last word."

Shade looked towards the surroundings and said softly:

"The toy maker, Always dreamed of being able to create innocence."

Nothing happened.

Shade thought about it, and the face of Augustus priest suddenly appeared. The only thing missing from the three Mystic Art Academy in mysticism is the content of prayer and diving technique:

"If you want to evoke the power of the gods, of course you have to pray." (Note)
As he spoke, he closed his eyes and drew the holy emblem of the old god [Innocent Creator] on his chest with his fingers. Shade prayed softly, using the techniques he had learned from Augustus priest:
"Toy makers always dream of being able to create children's innocence."

The wind passed by, Shade listened. To the sigh. Opening his eyes again, a pure golden butterfly took off from his shoulders and flew into the distance before his eyes.

"What element?"

He stared at the butterfly that seemed to be seducing him.

【Miracle. ]

Shade knew his plan had been successful.

The defunct religious order certainly can't guess what kind of relics someone will use in the ruins, but this butterfly, which is suspected to have the function of leading the way, has the function of guiding the correct path.

Shade followed behind the golden butterfly flying and kept walking forward in the maze. Ten minutes later, a stone wall appeared in front of him, which meant he had entered a dead end. But the butterfly did not stop, but went straight through the wall, disappeared.

"This is the exit?"

Thinking in doubt, he touched the necklace around his neck, and then lit the few remaining [Bordeaux candles] again.

He reached out and touched the wall in front of him. The hand did not pass through the wall, but touched the real obstacle.

Shade was stunned for a moment:
"so that's how it is."

He increased his strength, obviously the wall did not change, but his hand did push a door open. stone gate. After the stone gate was opened enough, Shade stepped forward, passed through the wall, and entered the next room.

The labyrinth is over, and the new relic room no longer has those large brick walls and no other relics blocking the way.

The golden butterfly flew up and down in the dark, and finally exploded into golden particles of light in front of Shade's eyes, illuminating the small room little by little.

It's different from all the relic spaces I've just experienced, there's only the door that Shade passed through. The size of the space is about the same size as the space in front of the original stone gate. There are no nicks on the walls, but there is a sarcophagus in front of you.

This place should not be accessible by normal means. The sarcophagus has not been passively passed, and it seems that the people from [Blood of Mercury] have not been able to find it.

Shade hesitated, making sure there was nothing but the coffin, before approaching the ancient coffin. The sarcophagus is only engraved with the name - Joel Old Carris, which appears to be the tomb of one of the last three left behind.

Under normal circumstances, Shade would not tamper with other people's coffins, but since Golden's butterfly guided him to come here, he could only go to the coffins to seek answers.

"Sorry."

He apologized to the sarcophagus very seriously, and then went to push the sliding lid of the coffin. Although no one has moved it for more than a thousand years, the slide is still easily pushed open.

There are no corpses inside, just an exquisite stone box, a scroll of parchment, and a silver ring.

"May your soul rest in peace."

Shade whispered, in fact, he admired the last three people left.

Then picked up the parchment scroll and found it was a letter. The text used is still the ancient text on the wall.

The beginning of the letter stated that the person who left the letter was Gina Angela Sewell, the last of the three who remained behind the ruins. She explained that the stone box was the urn of Joel Old Carris, one of the three, and hoped that the latter would not move, and in the letter prayed for her two dead companions.

Finally, on the yellowed parchment volume, I drew a map of the ruins, and marked the location of the three coffins, the secret passage, the anti-theft mechanism and some relics, hoping to help those who came later.

Of course, the most important thing is the dangerous relic sealed by the ruins, which is called the secret-keeper-level relic [corpse tree] on the parchment.

Although only the Keeper class, it has the characteristics of space movement, large-scale collective hallucination, manipulation of undead, manipulation of life puppets, etc. Once there is a problem with this relic, it can destroy a city in a short period of time. But as long as it does not "eat" for a long time, its power will decline on its own, so it will be suppressed in the ruins by the order.

The letter did not talk much about the more specific characteristics of the [corpse tree], but repeatedly emphasized that those who enter the ruins should not touch the [corpse tree]. At the same time, once the wounds of the companions around him are found to have abnormal wood whiskers, it means that he is infected and must be killed immediately.

The third item in the coffin, the silver ring next to the urn, is Caris' relic. It's not a relic with the [Whisper] element, it's a personal relic, it's just an ordinary ring.

Ms. Sewell, who left the letter, hoped that those who came later would not touch the relics of the three. This is their only wish as guardians.

PS: Mentioned in Chapter 232.