Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty-Four Words of Ascension and Spiritual Religion
"No, you can't turn it on anymore."
When Shad and Tifa completely entered the area circled with black pen ink on the map, Shad suddenly said.
Tifa was riding a horse, so Shade observed the erosion state of the [Dark Box]. Now more than half of the box's surface area had turned into light-absorbing black. Shade felt that this was already a warning line.
"OK."
Tifa asked the horse to stop so that Shade could close the box again. But as the undead creature that had been running for two and a half hours stopped, it actually shattered into a pile of bones and scattered in the pitch black.
in the woods.
"It's reached its limit."
Tifa said with some annoyance, supporting Shade to prevent him from falling, while Shade hurriedly knelt down and closed the [Dark Box] again.
"It doesn't matter, we are not far from our destination."
Shade said, holding the map and holding his glowing finger close:
"Although the area of the [Dark Realm] can be expanded infinitely, the area in the core area is very small. If there are no mistakes, even if we leave, we can see Miss Carina in about twenty minutes."
"I have a very strange feeling around here."
Tifa carried the box on her back, whispered to Shade, and then took his hand. It was through this kind of physical contact that the unknown silver moonlight on Shade's body could help her weaken the darkness.
Impact. Entering the core area of angel-level relics, even Tifa is about to reach her limit.
The feeling of being peeped by something has become clearer in this area, and at the same time, the afterimages of the past in the air have become more and more dense. In the core of the dark realm, unimaginable things have definitely happened.
"Be careful, go this way."
Shade looked at the map, and then walked with Tifa in the black forest. The silver halo had a strange feeling in the darkness, and when it reflected the surrounding scenery, it seemed to make the vision a little blurry.
Shade thought about what might happen for a while, and thought about the power she could use in her hands. A voice suddenly rang in her ears. Because of the strong blasphemous elements in this area, she had not given out new information for a long time:
[Foreigners, watch your rear.]
"What?"
Subconsciously, he turned around to split the moonlight, but what he saw was a familiar face appearing like lightning. Before Shade spoke, he passed by the two of them, as if he didn't notice Shade and Tifa at all.
.
"That's...Mr. Hog Rendell, the great sun sword of the Church of the Sun?"
Tifa recognized who it was.
"Yes, it's a phantom."
Shade said with certainty that the voice in his ears would not be wrong in judging the target at close range.
"In other words, the darkness in the core area can already record phantoms in a short period of time?"
Tifa asked.
"That's probably true, but what is he doing running so fast?"
Shade thought in confusion, and then continued to move forward with Tifa. During this period, more real phantoms appeared one after another, most of which were ring magicians of the church. Shade and Tifa even saw Ivan Darkness once.
and the apparition of Hermons the Bloodweeper,.
Continue forward to leave the forest corrupted by darkness and enter a small rural village where even the sleeping people cannot be found. This is almost the source of the emergence of the [Dark Realm]. The villagers have long been melted by the darkness, and wandering people are everywhere in the village.
The secret servant.
The houses were gnawed by the darkness and were dilapidated, and the walls had turned pitch black. This place was even scarier than the ghost village in the mountains that Shade had heard Mr. Riddle describe.
Carefully avoiding the demon, even if it accidentally attracted the attention of a few individuals, Shade and Tifa worked together to barely avoid it. After leaving the village and standing on the field ridge, looking up into the distance, Shade unexpectedly
In the depths of the darkness, he could vaguely see a pillar that seemed to support the world. But because the darkness was too deep, he was not sure whether it was the imagination he had given to the darkness.
"Tifa, can you still hold on?"
He turned around and asked the black-haired girl. Although the maid looked a little worse, she was much better than when Luvia arrived at Miss Carina's manor:
"No problem, I feel that the lady should be nearby."
There are only thirteen witches in the Sixth Age, and other women with witch powers are all powered by witches. Tifa's witch power has the same origin as Miss Carina, and there is a certain degree of induction between the two.
"Okay, let's go small next..."
Before he finished speaking, a dazzling golden light burst out from the fields shrouded in darkness not far away. Because his eyes had already adapted to the darkness, when the light suddenly appeared, tears almost immediately flowed from Shade's eyes.
Come down.
Shade heard the sound, a deafening sound:
【When the heavy sword falls, the blazing sun will shine on the earth.】
"Words of sublimation!?"
Before he could react, Tifa stopped in front of Shade.
The hot golden light struck, almost violently sweeping away all the filth in this land.
"Epee, falling, blazing sun, shining, earth. Believers of the God of the Sun and Earth [Old Man with the Lamp], the sublimated words of the Thirteen-ring Warlock's Great Sword of Sunshine!"
Shade, who was blocked behind by Tifa, heard what she was saying. Even though her back was in front of him, he could feel that the surroundings were getting brighter and brighter, and the surrounding scenery was changing.
"We have been affected by the aftermath of the Word of Sublimation. Don't touch Shade. We must not enter the scope of the Word of Sublimation."
Fuzzy golden steps appeared behind Tifa and Shade, but their power was not enough to compete with the thirteen-ring warlock's words of sublimation.
"Words of sublimation? Space stabilizing halo!"
Invisible fluctuations spread from Shade's feet to the surroundings, and when combined with the witch's power, the light shining in the surrounding environment immediately subsided. The words of sublimation have some power of spatial nature, and Shade is on the edge of the influence of this powerful force.
, and Tifa barely managed to avoid being pulled in.
Darkness reoccupied the place, and the maid seemed to be injured. She snorted and was supported by Shade.
"Is this the power of the Thirteen Rings?"
Shade took out a container filled with water to help her treat her. At this time, a strong light suddenly flashed high in the sky. Then, two weak light points appeared in the dark sky. One was golden and the other was blood red, and they fell together.
Towards an area far away from the core area, it seems that they are still chasing.
"The Sunshine Sword won."
Tifa said softly, her face recovering quickly under the silver light, her eyes staring in the direction where the two light spots disappeared.
"I'm not surprised. If the Bloodweeper could compete with the top thirteen-ring warlocks of the Righteous God Church, he wouldn't have been hiding in the New World for so many years. It seems that Darkness and the Bloodweeper separated because of the church's obstruction. We
Then we set off, and there seemed to be other things ahead, and the nearby elements were really chaotic."
Shade said, confirming that Tifa's condition was not bad, and the two of them continued to move forward.
It is completely impossible to tell what was originally planted in this field. The corrosion of darkness has turned all the plants in this area into mud-like things. You can even feel that your shoes are being corroded when you step on them.
Immediately after walking forward, the black stains that originally appeared on the ground, like lichen or table salt, began to accumulate into small black crystals, becoming larger and larger as they moved forward.
"A very pure element of profanity."
Shade took the risk and touched those terrifying black crystals with his hand, and then the color of his fingertips quickly darkened, but was quickly dissipated by the light from his fingertips.
"This is a top-notch alchemy material. Why is it that every time something big happens, there are a lot of alchemy materials."
He sighed and collected some with the small bottle he had with him.
And Tifa looked forward anxiously. She seemed to feel that Miss Carina was in a bad situation at this time. But before meeting the red-haired witch, Shade and Tifa met another group of strange people.
woman.
These women walked together, and each of them was dressed exactly the same.
The upper body is a white gauze dress with unusually large sleeves. The hem almost reaches the knees. The lower body is a black floor-length skirt. There is no decoration on the skirt. The black belt around the waist tightly ties the coat and skirt together.
But what caught Shade's attention even more was that these women all covered their eyes with silver metal goggles. But if you look closely, you can see that those goggles with fine patterns carved on them are clearly crowns, but they wear the crowns too far.
Got off.
There were nine of them in total, walking together in the darkness. Obviously they could not see any relics in their possession, and they could not feel the magic and spells at work, but the women were still shrouded in white light.
Those white lights are distributed very evenly, as if they are glowing by themselves.
The two sides were quite far apart, and only Shade could still observe them. Shade described his findings to Tifa, and Tifa immediately smiled:
"It's the nuns, the nuns of the [Spiritual Order]."
"Spiritual Order?"
Shade knew about this ring warlock organization.
Although they are called a "sect", in fact they do not have a unified belief, but believe that all things are animistic, so they revere nature, life and death.
This organization is active in the eastern part of the Old World. Its members are mainly women. Most of them live a simple life and like to help women deliver babies. Some child welfare organizations and hospitals are related to them. They often promote some environmental protection ideas, so they and
The promoters of the Steam Revolution [Church of Creation and Destruction] have had some friction, but they still belong to a more moderate group of ring wizards.
Covering your eyes with a blindfold is a characteristic of the ring magicians of the [Spiritual Cultivation Order]. The order believes that covering your eyes can not only expand your "spiritual sense" and allow you to better perceive the spirituality of the world, but also be able to
Your own spirituality is locked in your body, allowing you to better control the power of the four elements.
