The two of them opened their mouths to speak at the same time, but stopped at the same time. Because deep in the black mist that had not been dispersed by the red butterflies, the sound of messy footsteps came, and someone was coming.
The face of the girl in black skirt suddenly turned ugly. For a moment, Shade thought she would raze the village to the ground.
"Someone is disturbing us."
As she spoke, she was about to direct the seemingly harmless red butterflies to pounce, but Shade grabbed her hand in time to stop her:
"Let's see who it is first."
The girl in the black skirt suppressed her anger, forced a smile and nodded:
"Okay, sir."
Lifting his left hand slightly, the red butterflies that were originally scattered all gathered around the two of them. Although they did not fall down, they were still wrapped up.
"I heard that surrounded by these red butterflies, others can't see us or hear us."
The girl in the black skirt didn't forget to explain.
Shade actually wanted to know if Mia, who was carrying Mia on her back, was released at this moment, whether the cat would flutter at butterflies. Speaking of which, he was not even sure whether the kitten Mia had ever seen a butterfly.
There were three people walking out of the black mist, but if you look closely, there were four people. It was just the village woman who looked to be in her forties or fifties. She seemed to have fainted and was being carried on her back.
The three people walking were all ring warlocks, and all three were men. The leader was a middle-aged man in his forties with a mustache, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a decent formal suit. If there was no human skull in his hand,
Lamp, using the firelight in the skull to dispel the dark fog, he is more like a senior scholar in the university.
Among the two people following him, Shade, who was holding a book and wearing a robe, was very familiar. This was the ring of the [Truth Society] that he and Iluna jointly fought off in the forest on the day of the Fire Worship Festival dinner a week ago.
Warlock. Because the opponent "robbed" the Moonlight Sword and forced him to use the [Yellow Moon] spirit rune to summon another sword, Shade was very impressed with him.
As for the man carrying the middle-aged woman on his back, he looked the youngest, probably only a little bigger than the outsider's body. His clothes were neither a robe nor a formal suit, but an ordinary and even shabby yellow coat. Although the three of them
They are all ring magicians, but the young man's status and level are probably the lowest.
"This is a member of the academic organization - the Society of Truth."
The girl in black skirt explained beside Shade. She was thinking about the three people walking towards the tower in the village, but she didn't notice them at all.
"A standard outbound action team, with a high-level 'professor', a middle-level 'lecturer' and a low-level 'apprentice'."
The professor should refer to the man holding the skull chandelier, the lecturer is the man who fought with Shade once, and the apprentice is the young man carrying the woman on his back.
"What do they want to do? Oh, they are coming."
The high-level warlock wearing gold-rimmed glasses took the lead in walking to the tower, glanced behind him, and let out a sigh of relief:
"The truth is above all, it's finally back."
This is Kasenlik language.
"Yes, Professor Johnson, it's not easy to get the key."
The central warlock took out a bronze-colored, blood-stained metal key from his pocket:
"It is indeed a sage-level location-based relic. Just looking for the key almost wiped out our entire army. This is completely incomparable with those low-level relics. The village chief's evil spirit is really difficult to deal with, and there are always a bunch of
After the corpse baby that appeared in the corner goes back, I will probably need psychological counseling."
The corners of his mouth twitched, as if he was thinking of bad memories:
"What I can't understand the most is why this important key was thrown into a cardboard box in the corner of the warehouse."
"I'm sorry, if I hadn't wanted to fully hear the last words of the evil spirit transformed by the village chief's servant before the collapse, I wouldn't have caused the village chief's evil spirit to absorb other evil spirits after its collapse and become even more terrifying.
That madman probably slaughtered half a village before he died."
The young man carrying the middle-aged woman apologized softly.
"Okay, okay, we got the key successfully. As for crazy people, aren't we considered crazy?"
Mr. Johnson, the leader, joked humorously, and then took the bloody key:
"It was an accident to meet this resurrected person here. Our main task is to make this mountain village go out of control. If the sage-level relic [Gold Mine Village] goes out of control, and we have successfully brought back the resurrected nail,
, then the credit this time is enough for each of us to exchange for a five-digit thaumaturgy."
"The nail that came back from the dead?"
Shade looked at the woman being carried in surprise, while the girl in black skirt explained in Shade's ear:
"The only exit out of the village is in the gold mine under the tower. The corpses of generations of miners in the village are buried there, but there is also a secret passage out of the village. It is not only a secret passage out of the village to sell the gold mine output, but also a passage for sacrifices.
The passage for the children of the sacrifice.”
Shade nodded, and then watched "Professor Johnson" holding the key and trying to insert it into the keyhole. But the key just pressed against the keyhole and the door actually opened.
After all, the door had opened a gap just now, but because the surroundings were too dark, the three people from the [Truth Society] did not see it.
"this"
Professor Johnson looked at the door in front of him in astonishment. Just when Shade thought he would guess that someone had opened the door early, the "professor" looked at the key in his hand and suddenly realized:
"Oh, it turns out that the key is just a symbol. The key is not to use the key to open the door, but to 'find the key'. Opening the door is a symbolic ritual, which is why finding the key is so difficult."
His statement was naturally approved by his two companions. The three of them opened the door and walked in without stopping at the door any longer.
"Let's follow."
Shade said to his companions, and they also entered the tower in the village.
The door on the outside is the best shield, so there is no need to cover up the inside at all. The floor on the first floor of the tower is a bronze metal lifting platform with no visible power source that automatically descends by stepping on the central button.
The three people from the [Truth Society] had already gone down. Shade originally wanted to wait for the next trip, but he didn't expect that the girl in the black skirt actually smiled and took his hand and jumped directly.
Red butterflies surrounded them, making their descent as light as if they were hanging parachutes. The two landed silently on the top cover of the lift platform, and then jumped off the top again.
At this time, the front has been illuminated by the spiritual light on three huge brass life rings. The high ring is ten rings, the middle ring is five rings, and the low ring is four rings. The opponents of the [Truth Society] ring warlocks are
It's a dense mass of ferocious evil spirits.
The souls in this strange mountain village are extremely ferocious and terrifying because of the black fog. Coupled with the "site effect" after the two earthquakes in the West Kal Mountain area, every evil spirit has a power beyond that of a low-level warlock.
the power of.
But even so, there is an insurmountable gap between low-level and high-level circles. Mr. Johnson is at the forefront. The three spirit runes on his life circle [Exorcism], [Erosion], and [Transformation] flash with aura, an unknown thaumaturgy.
The gray light floating around him seemed to be eroding his soul.
"This is the undead high-circle thaumaturgy - Death Praise. Those gray rays can easily corrode any soul without physical protection. I heard this from my circus sorcerer friend."
The girl in the black skirt spoke softly.
What surprised Shade the most was that among the core spiritual runes of this high-level warlock, there was actually a black iron-colored Whispering Spirit Rune [Remains].
The doctor and Shade have said that although the number of core spiritual runes of human ring warlocks is uncertain, they can only be brass-colored "enlightenment" because the power of civilization is the most powerful force of the human race. But some irregularities
The inauguration ceremony may allow the ring warlock to obtain the other three types of core spirit runes, but those methods undoubtedly have huge hidden dangers.
"The Society of Truth is indeed an organization that studies forbidden knowledge. The core spiritual runes are added with whisper elements. Madman."