The Record of Initiation - Legacy of Nightmares Chapter 17 The end of the plan
Finally, when Fagni pulled the lever, Alexander saw the black smoke beginning to become thicker and thicker at a speed visible to the naked eye. Fortunately, no other changes occurred. The five people continued to keep in touch by shouting, and after some time, the smoke finally
The gas was so rich that it completely formed a liquid.
That's right, unlike the black pool before and now, which only seemed to be liquefied, the one in the bowl has completely liquefied.
"Hey! It's really turned into liquid!" Alexander's voice was very excited.
"Are there any subsequent changes?" Sophia was a little happy to use the book knowledge in adventurers for the first time.
"Try to find something and throw it in and see what changes will happen." Brandon called over.
"Um..." Alexander looked to see if there were any pebbles or anything like that on the ground, and planned to throw them in, but after looking around, there were none, so he threw in an unenchanted adamantine arrow. Only the adamantine arrow floated.
On top, it is corroded cleanly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"This liquid is very corrosive!" Alexander loudly replied to Brandon.
"Then be careful. Are there any other changes?" Sophia felt a little strange. Logically speaking, it shouldn't be like this.
Alexander stood in front of the sculpture and looked around again before replying: "Not yet." She felt at this time that since it was built by the bugs, it must be solved in the bugs' way.
Brandon thought for a moment and shouted: "Miss Sophia, let's change places. Although it's a bit dangerous, I think it's better for me to go take a look."
"Okay." After responding, Sofia and Brandon exchanged positions.
Alexander thought about it for a while and found that he couldn't put it into the insect man's mind, so he shouted: "I'm stupid, I can't see what this thing is for."
Ten seconds after Alexander finished speaking, he saw Brandon rushing over with a very weak light. "Since the insect man built this sculpture, it proves that these liquid black smoke are not directly harmful, and I don't feel it now.
When it comes to aggressiveness, you just said it’s very corrosive, right?”
"Yeah, I threw the fine gold arrow in, and it was gone." Alexander watched Brandon stand on the stepping stone and looked at the liquid black smoke that had not changed yet with the faint light.
"Perhaps the insect man has a way to make the black smoke of this liquid have some other effect, otherwise it would be better to keep the light on." Brandon thought deeply.
"It will definitely be useful." Alexander took out a small crystal he got in the hidden room from his backpack and put it in. "Hmm... try this?"
"Okay, maybe this black liquid is used for charging?" Before Brandon finished speaking, the crystal hit the bottom of the bowl and made a crisp sound.
"Huh? Just now, the adamantine arrow floated on it and didn't sink." Alexander stood on tiptoes and looked at the surface of the liquid. "It seems to be different."
"Well, you still have a lot of that, right? Throw some more away?" Brandon also took out what he had brought.
"Okay..." Alexander put all the crystals in his backpack, and then Brandon continued to add them.
As a large number of crystals were thrown in, the height of the liquefied black smoke in the bowl actually dropped. When the 61st one was thrown in, it completely disappeared, leaving only half of the crystals that had not yet been melted. Immediately afterwards
Alexander was struck down by a strong sense of dizziness, but before he fainted and lost consciousness, Alexander seemed to see a beautiful purple moth flying past and still barely standing, reaching for Brandon's body in the bowl.
【Ah? What is this...】
After Brandon woke up the four people, Alexander found that he woke up again at the place where the large armor was broken, but there was no way to continue downwards.
"What's going on?" Alexander got up, looked around cautiously, and then began to check his physical condition and belongings. "What was that just now?"
"How did we get up here..." Kino rubbed his head and got up from the ground.
"Well... what happened just now? Is it complete?" Sophia stood up.
"What's going on? What did you do?" Fageni, who was confused, shook his head and stood up.
"I don't know what happened, but what happened before does not seem to be false." In Brandon's hand was the insect-man's dark green cloak, and a bunch of opaque black crystals were scattered on the ground.
"My intuition tells me that these things can't be thrown away. I'm afraid it's safest to hand them over to the church." Alexander began to put the crystals into his backpack: "But the seal, has it been reinforced?" At this time, she found that the diamond-shaped purple tattoo was stuck.
At this time, in the previous position and there was also one on Brandong's body... the archer realized that this tattoo should be the emblem that she could not see clearly in the dream earlier!
"I don't know, maybe. But when we reach the place where we just sculpted and come back here, where are the people who went on that inheritance path before us?" Sophia shook her head and tried to sort out her chaotic thoughts.
"In short, the matter seems to have been resolved... although I'm not sure." Kino spoke slowly.
"I think we should have solved part of the problem." Sophia stopped thinking about it, as it was useless.
"Go back and take a look at the previous hall?" Brandon was also a little at a loss, but he had to go back after all.
"I thought we would encounter some minions of the evil god, but they are gone now, but those bugs are quite scary." Fageni patted the dust on his body and said, "Then let's go back and take a look."
"There are so many unknown places, and I'm a little confused now." Sophia walked towards the previous hall.
"I also thought there would be a battle." Alexander put away the crystal and tied the straps of his backpack: "Now that there is no road ahead, we can only go back the same way and see if there are any changes. Brandon, what's wrong with you?
Do you also have this emblem?" She decided not to think about the previous dream, but still asked.
Only then did Brandon realize that he saw this pattern on his wrist: "I don't know either...but there is no harm so far. Maybe it is some kind of mark? Anyway, let's go back first."
"It seems that it can only be like this." Chino wiped the canon and followed.
"Well, let's go." Fageni was still a little confused now, and he almost walked in the direction that was not the road now.
The five people returned to the main hall, but they saw that there was no door in the main hall and it was open. The statues inside had already collapsed.
Chino confirmed that the injuries he suffered before were still there. The physical conditions of the people were the same as those who had experienced the incident. The scars were still there, and the clothes were damaged.
"Why do I have an ominous premonition?" Alexander's face looked ugly.
"The statue collapsed? What does this mean?" Sofia walked into the hall to check the interior of the hall and the condition of the statue.
Alexander carefully touched the big hole on the opposite side of the passage and said: "This may mean that we slept for a long, long time."
"No? Don't scare me." Fageni walked to the statue.
Brandon closed his eyes and felt it carefully and then said: "No, I can still feel that the seal is in a normal state. It would not be like this if it was broken." He paused and continued: "Maybe we never came to the main hall.
He was in a hypnotic state before and was sealed in another way." This is what the paladin guessed.
"Maybe we have actually lost the memory of going from below to sleeping in that armor?" Fageni said casually: "It's all guesswork anyway." He turned back to the hole that might have four nodes to see the situation. Anyway, Alexander
It seems to have passed.
"Being hypnotized to seal? This statement is really strange." Sophia carefully checked and used magic power to sense the situation of the hall and the statues, and compared it with what she had detected here before, but this time there was no abnormality in the magic perception.
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So they could only walk back, and others other than Alexander and Fageni saw traces of fire and casually discarded blood-stained bandages on the other side of the passage. After the two of them took a look at the hole, Brandon also left.
Come over. "The seal is fine. The other teams have returned." He kicked the ashes and sparks flew everywhere.
"It probably depends on the situation. I don't know what their condition is, and they haven't been gone for too long." Sophia looked at the semi-gray carbon block with bright spots.
"In this case, there's nothing to find here, right? It's time to return. I don't know how long we have been here." Fageni clapped his hands.
"There are also traces of other teams returning here. Speaking of which, since the original Adventurer's Guild seems to be confident, and since the seal is still intact, I think we can return." After Alexander said that, he walked towards the ground but still kept it.
Be extremely vigilant. [If there is a mole among those four teams, they will definitely take action.]
"Well, it's time to submit a report on what we discovered during this trip." Sophia nodded.
"Miss Sophia, do you still remember that clue?" Kino asked.
"Which one are you referring to?" Sophia looked at her.
"Let's go, let's go." Fageni shouted loudly and then walked towards the exit. Anyway, I will definitely get the money, which is great.
"The scarf left by your family. If we were hypnotized, why is your mother-in-law's scarf left there? And you can clearly feel the magical atmosphere inside..."
"Of course I remember it, but that one may have belonged to my mother-in-law. At least my impression is that she doesn't use it." Sophia shook her head.
"Moreover, why can these things still be preserved? Isn't this just a hypnotic dream?" Kino expressed his own opinions and strange feelings, but others did not pay much attention to these issues now.
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"So it makes more sense to say that there is amnesia." Fageni's voice came from before the exit.
"Are there too few clues now? Is it meaningful to discuss this? And can't we talk about it on the road? Come up." Alexander seemed to have returned to the ground.
"After all, this is the ruins of the evil god. It is normal to have unknown situations. I think I still have to go back and communicate with people from other teams about the conditions of other roads, and then we can make a more comprehensive judgment, so we will go back first.
Let's go." Sofia looked at Brandong who was waiting for the two of them in front of them and was still lighting up, and quickened her pace.
"Okay, let's get out of this damn place first." Kino followed Sophia.
It is now about ten o'clock in the morning, which means that the five of them must have stayed in the ruins for nearly a whole day. Moreover, they now feel correspondingly tired and need a good rest. This situation seems to confirm Fageni's statement.
After repelling several waves of wild beasts on the road, the five people arrived outside the city of Lamesa in the evening and entered the city after two inspections.
It was starting to get dark at this time, and he was both hungry and sleepy. Brandon said that it would be better for him and Miss Sophia to hand in the task first, so that the others could eat something and then take a nap.
"I think it would be better for us to go together?" Alexander scratched his head: "Even if we are in the city, there is no reason to separate our troops?"
"I always feel that something is wrong. I hope I am overthinking. I agree with what Alexander said." Kino has always been troubled.
"Let's go have something to eat first. We won't miss this for a while." Fageni said and looked at Alexander hopefully.
"Do we still have money..." Kino also looked at Alexander.
"Okay, I'll just say it here. The vice president told me before that this was a test for Miss Sophia. Although I don't know exactly why, they must know the reason. Now think about it,
Maybe everything is designed, I don’t think there’s any need to worry, especially since we got a lot of benefits from the ruins, right? So we can really feel at ease.” Brandon stopped and turned around to explain what he knew.
"You, you mean, this inheritance path is... it was before..." Fageni thought for a while but couldn't think of a good explanation. "Maybe it's a lie?"
"Trial?" Sophia looked confused, then said with some relief: "It would be best if it was just a trial, at least it means there are not many problems with this matter."
"Trial?" Alexander tilted his head and asked, "Didn't I hear anything about this when I listened to you talking before?" Having traveled with Brandon for more than a year, he had some abnormal words like his.
, Alexander is still very sensitive. It was probably just a lame lie. In addition, she had heard the content before, and Alexander felt something was wrong, but she did not see the thing that Brandon got.
"It's rude to eavesdrop on other people's conversations, and this is trust that only men can understand." Brandon smiled awkwardly.
"Then what is the mark on Miss Sophia's hand? And it has been transferred to Alexander, hasn't it? Mr. Brandon also has one on his body now. Isn't this sexism?" Chino said dissatisfied.
"This can't be said to be eavesdropping." Alexander touched his chin, thinking about how to speak.
"By the way... can we get the reward for this mission?" Kino covered his stomach: "I took the mission because I had no money to eat. I only had one meal from yesterday to now, and I'm starving to death."
"This will only waste more time. Let's go to the guild together and collect the money first." Brandon sighed and walked towards the Adventurer's Guild first.
"Well, let's go to the guild together first." Alexander didn't say much.
"Let's go, let's go." Fageni followed quickly.
Sophia followed with some doubts. After all, the most important thing for ending this commission was for her to arrive at the guild safely with the information.
"Then what." Alexander thought over and over again on the way, but couldn't help but asked in a low voice: "Brandon, what did the vice president say to you? I really didn't hear him mention any trials.
What's the matter?"
"Then you heard everything, and that's all that was said." Brandon turned back and glanced at Alexander, with an expression on his face that said, "Do you still want to ask more questions?" The black cross sword pendant rotated around his neck.
The cold light shining from the silver chain also penetrated Alexander's eyes.
"Then why did you suddenly talk about a trial that doesn't exist?" Alexander became alert.
"Forget it if you don't understand. It's hard for me to explain, but it's not a bad thing anyway." Brandon sighed.
Although Brandon had turned his head and could not see his expression, due to his concentration, Alexander still noticed that the muscles between Brandon's shoulders and neck were exerting force in an unnatural way. It felt like he was enduring pain.
, but he didn’t show it at all, so it’s better not to ask here.
Alexander glanced around and continued to whisper: "Anyway, we have discussed it before. There might be a spy among those four groups. Don't be careless recently and be ready to enter combat mode at any time." As he spoke, Alexander quickened his pace and walked to Hebu.
Standing side by side, Brandong glanced at his face and necklace with her peripheral vision. But Brandong just shook her head gently. She believed that this upright paladin still fulfilled the oath he had made.
There was nothing else before the five people arrived at the Adventurer's Guild, and everyone, including Sophia, received eight linseys and eight gold coins as a reward. This is equivalent to eight hundred paise, and eight hundred silver coins can be placed in remote areas.
It's a huge sum of money.
Vice President Jason came out of the reception room after Sofia had almost finished submitting the oral information, and walked over, patted Brandon on the shoulder, and told him to come over.
Alexander followed closely behind Brandon, and when Jason finished speaking, he interrupted: "Mr. Vice President? Is there anything that I have to talk to Brandon alone?" Sophia also followed behind her.
"You have money to eat! You can eat!" Kino imagined that he would have a full meal soon, and patted Fageni on the shoulder hard.
Fageni glanced at Kino and said, "It seems that we have nothing to do with each other?"
"No, I always feel that this matter is weird. After all, we are our employers, so we should be concerned and concerned, but I am really hungry." Kino touched his stomach.
"This is about a cooperation between the Church of the Holy God of Glory, the Adventurer's Guild and the Imperial Library. It is still inconvenient to reveal the specific details to the adventurers, but Miss Sophia is a relevant person in this matter. Can you rest assured?
"Jason's attitude was completely bureaucratic. What he meant was that Sofia could come with her, and no one else would have a chance.
However, Brandon himself had no objection to this and comforted him: "I will be out soon. Don't worry, there is no mole or anything."
"We can't help, let's go, let's go, I'm hungry." Fageni put the money in his bag. He had already dumped the stones in the bag, and then he left the guild hall.
"Tsk, why do you sound like a noble gentleman?" Kino also followed Fageni and walked away.
Although her heart was still filled with doubts, Sofia nodded to Alexander and then followed Jasons and Brandon.
"Well..." Alexander narrowed his eyes and silently went to wait at the door of the hall. This chapter has been completed!