While Iluna faced Lykins Prisha in the ruins of Stonehenge, Shade chose the right path at the fork in the road, passed the library maze, and entered darkness, snow, and dense fog alone.
He braved the wind and walked along the upward slope. In the dark dead woods, countless black shadows were patrolling. At this time, the Pantanal Voodoo Society and its allies had dispersed all their hands everywhere.
No one appeared under the tower to stop Shade, but the monsters on the island, who were becoming more and more crazy because of the power of evil, did not retreat because of this.
They were peeping at Shade in the dark. When Shade was walking halfway uphill, a corpse with green mushrooms growing on his back and a mummy pierced by vines pierced the Tianling Cap appeared simultaneously.
"Silver Moon!"
The moonlight at the fingertips illuminated the path of the dry forest in the wind and snow. The monsters surrounding Shade were no longer intimidated by Iluna's skeleton horse. Even though they were frightened by the moonlight, they still refused to leave.
She touched her waist with her left hand and took out the "ebony pistol" with only the last demon bullet left. She closed her eyes and stood still, and "she" soon looked into the pair of yellow-brown eyes in the dead forest.
Found the most powerful individual:
【To the left, yes, that's it.】
There was no sound when the trigger was pulled, but the doctor's pistol finally shattered due to the demon's power, and the demon's bullet flew out, piercing the leader of the mutated ghouls at the moment darkness fell.
The monsters retreated quickly, and Shade also ran quickly in the snow towards the old lighthouse at the end of the road.
There was a wooden door under the lighthouse, and it was unlocked. But as soon as Shade opened the door, letting the wind and snow from the island penetrate into the tower, he saw the man carrying the black suitcase, looking at him in the darkness.
:
“How do mortals maintain eternal beauty?”
The question was asked directly. Shade took a step back subconsciously, but when he heard the voices of the corpses behind him, he gritted his teeth and entered the lighthouse and closed the door:
"Secret Keeper?"
He didn't know what the humanoid relic in front of him was, but having recently become familiar with various types of secret-keeper human-shaped relics, he could still tell that it was the secret-keeper.
Suddenly startled:
"Wait a minute, before I left home, Luvia said that there is something useful to me at the bottom of this tower. Doesn't that mean..."
Thinking of this, he frowned again. In the lighthouse basement beneath his feet, he felt a very familiar and wonderful power. It was a weak miraculous element fluctuation that could only be detected if he had experienced similar power and used it many times:
"There is actually a hidden space with a statue of an ancient god hidden in the basement of this lighthouse?! Is this what Luvia said? (Note)"
Although he was shocked, it was not the time to go home after all. So facing the secret keeper carrying a black suitcase, Shade took out the "Secret of Agelessness" borrowed from Miss Carina and displayed it:
"Eternal beauty? This book has relevant knowledge."
The secret keeper shook his head slightly:
"There is indeed a secret about 'eternal beauty' in this book, but you need to show it. The book in your hand is just a shell."
This shows that Shade is right. This book is definitely not as simple as imagined, but he still doesn't know what the witches of the Fifth Age have hidden in this book:
"Gods can maintain eternal beauty."
So Shade answered again, but the secret keeper still shook his head:
"Speak of ways in which mortals can achieve it."
Shade shook his head and said that he didn't know the answer and gave up the test. Fortunately, he didn't need more wise man's pyroxene.
He still remembered what he wanted to do, found the stairs, and walked toward the upper floor of the tower along the old metal stairs. But the secret keeper followed him, and Shade looked back at him, saying nothing.
He didn't say anything and continued walking up.
The light of the "primordial fire" can only be seen by those with the power of the first fire, such as Shade and Sister Devlin. In fact, the top of the lighthouse only has a huge extinguished kerosene lamp (note), and a device to move the direction of the light and amplify the light.
The lens group. A rusty and broken iron fence surrounded the top of the lighthouse. Although there was the spire of the lighthouse further up, the wind still sent heavy snow to the top.
This is almost the highest point of the entire island in the middle of the lake. Looking around from the top of the lighthouse, thick fog spreads all over the island, and under the thick fog are the fighting figures of the church ring warlocks.
At this time, at least four thirteen-ring warlocks have arrived on the island, but they are all in other directions of the island, fighting those weird things. Shade has seen the power of the thirteen-ring warlocks more than once, but the thirteen-ring warlocks are still
It's just human beings. Even if they can suppress those ancient evil things, they can't easily defeat them.
In particular, this is not the home ground of the church.
Lighthouses in the old days used kerosene lamps as the light source, and the person in charge of the lighthouse manually operated the clockwork device to turn the lens system that concentrated the light. The Pantanal Voodoo Society probably used this place frequently, so although the lighthouse was extinguished at this time, the kerosene lamps and
Metal fixtures can still be used.
Shade used a flame to ignite the huge kerosene lamp, and some dazzling light immediately illuminated the top of the lighthouse. This light should not spread far in the fog tonight, but at least Iluna in Stonehenge could probably see it.
The "primordial fire" was sealed at the top of the tower, but he didn't know how to summon the flame, let alone take it away when the evil thing was about to be unsealed. Therefore, according to the method taught by Sister Devlin, Xia
De stretched out a hand towards the central light source and closed his eyes.
Sensing the warm power of the first fire in my heart, in the dark field of vision after closing my eyes, a cluster of very familiar bright flames gradually appeared. The center of the flame was a standard black circle, and a slender orange-red flame was drawn upward.
Flame tail.
Following Shade's induction, the flame absorbed Shade's own power and worked hard to maintain itself. Shade opened his eyes and looked at the dazzling light source, and could vaguely see the shadow of the original fire in the deepest part of the fire.
But he still maintained the posture of extending his hand towards the light source. Only in this way can he stabilize the power of the initial fire and maintain the seal that is now extremely fragile.
In this state, he couldn't even use long-range throwing magic such as "Thunder Gun" to help Iluna, not only because he had to concentrate on stabilizing the source of the fire, but also because the distance was too far.
Looking down at the open space between the dead trees and the lighthouse hillside from a high place, the fires of Stonehenge are connected together, like a standard fire ring. Lykins Prisha floating in the snow and Iluna on the ground,
They are all as tiny as ants.
"This time, I really became the audience."
Xia De sighed quietly in his heart:
"I wonder where Sister Devlin is now."
He continued to think in his mind, and counted down to the ceremony for the selection of Lykins Prisha. Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a light flashing through the Stonehenge, and with a muffled sound, [Ai
Ken'ola's Arrow of Knowledge flew over and was nailed to a pillar on the side. The arrow completely penetrated into the pillar, and the tail of the arrow was still buzzing and vibrating:
"Iluna's shooting is really accurate. I remember that she also learned the aiming assist spell for the [Sunshine Gun]... Sure enough, she still can't defeat him with this arrow alone."
He took off the arrow nailed to the pillar with his left hand and carefully put it into the quiver. Then he saw the secret keeper standing aside. His presence was very low and he didn't speak.
"Sorry, why are you following me?"
Shade asked, and the man carrying the black suitcase answered in awkward ancient Chinese:
"I am a tower guard. In human cognition, I will give people who enter the ancient old tower a test and then give them knowledge. However, I am also willing to help those noble people who voluntarily sacrificed and fell from the tower. You have
Falling from the tower, so I can give you some knowledge you want, even if you can't answer my questions."
"I once fell from a tower? And also died?"
Shade pointed at himself hesitantly, and then inexplicably remembered that in the autumn, when Joey Barton, the chosen one of death, used [Impermanence and Death] to divine him, he thought that he was in the spring of 1853 ten months ago.
, and died under the tower.
At that time, I thought there was an error in the divination, but I didn’t expect to hear a similar statement again:
"What tower did I fall from?"
He was very confused about this. There was no such experience in the past of this body investigated by the academy. Grace and Helen, who had been waiting for Shade since the Fifth Era, had also investigated the past of this body, but they also did not mention it.
Been to any "tower".
"I can only give you knowledge, but I cannot trace back your history."
The tower guard continued, and the language he used was the language of the Fifth Age. This was not a difficulty at all for Shade, who was proficient in ancient languages:
"You have to give me knowledge...Sorry, let me think..."
He kept pointing his right hand at the light source and tried to ask:
“Why do Cherubim reside in the physical world?”
Shade has not forgotten the "fourth ring of the Lake Lady Trial", which represents a drop of divinity. But he actually doesn't have much hope. After all, even the gods of the Fifth Age refuse to answer this question.
The tower guard nodded slightly:
"I can give you the answer."
"What?"
Shade raised his head suddenly, almost unable to believe his ears. This was probably the most shocking thing to him since tonight, and he had to confirm again:
"Do you know why cherubim reside in the material world?"
"All the secret-keeping human relics know it, because it is our past."
The man carrying the black suitcase looked at Shade with a calm expression:
"As long as you ask, we will tell you that it is not a problem."
But the problem is that for the sake of pyroxene, Shade has never asked this question to any secret keeper in recent times. If the secret keeper in front of him hadn't thought that he had fallen from the tower and was willing to answer a question directly, Shade would not have been able to
After completing the Keeper's Trial, choose Question instead of Pyroxene.
This also means that the answer has always been right in front of him, but it is impossible for him to touch it.
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
ps1: Information shows that the light source of the lighthouse of that era was indeed a kerosene lamp. Further forward, it was firewood.
ps2: I am aware of the hidden space under my feet. On the one hand, as the level increases, my perception ability has become stronger than when I was in the first level. The other reason is that I have been exposed to [Space Maze] too many times, and my perception of this type of space has been greatly enhanced.
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ps3: Chapter 1115 has been modified to let Iluna take away some details of the arrow to make the plot seem smoother. It does not affect the plot.
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