'Hyena' Schubert dragged the empty bag into the basement with difficulty, as if there was a real person inside. He complained in a low voice or two, clapped his hands, turned around, and saw a man in a robe dragging
On the ground, there was a huge book floating in his hand, and the girl wearing glasses was looking at herself.
He was startled and subconsciously took a step back. But then he reacted and yelled angrily: "Who are you?"
As soon as Schubert opened his mouth, he felt his throat itchy, as if something was coming out of his throat. He couldn't help but cough loudly, and spit out several hairy spiders from his mouth.
Schubert was frightened, and realized that he had been hit by the opponent's vicious spell. He hurriedly tried to pull out the knife. But the girl just stretched out her hand, and the blade in his hand was as hot as fire, making him unable to hold it any longer.
'It fell to the ground with a sound.
"Mr. 'Hyena' Schubert," the girl said, her voice cold and somewhat tough, "If I were you, I wouldn't act rashly, otherwise there's no guarantee that the next time something falls on the ground, it's just your knife.
.Do you know what vicious spells wizards like to use to torture their opponents?"
Schubert's teeth chattered, and he asked with an inward look: "You, you, you are the naturalist, when did you follow me?"
Jita gently pushed the outside of her glasses, and the shell got stuck. She didn't think about how she should proceed with the braiding for a while, so she could only lower her head slightly and said: "You just need to answer, you will send the person away."
Come here, is this the great crypt down here? Where is this place underneath the Ori Temple, and where do the people of the seven families hold meetings?"
The girl's voice was soft and soft, but it sounded sharp to the latter, with a smooth and cold feeling. And Schubert saw with his own eyes a cloud of black smoke rising from behind Jita, of course
It was actually just a realm that was opening up, with the effects of silence and illusion.
A trace of viciousness flashed in his eyes, and he pulled out a sharp dagger from his sleeve with his backhand, and swiped it hard on his neck.
Jita looked at the Brotherhood killer standing in front of her with dull eyes. All the daggers, swords and spiders had disappeared long ago. Even the shriveled bag was only left in the center of the room. Only she and the enemy in front of her were left.
.
The grimoire floated between the two of them.
Miss Scholar sighed softly, but in the end she still had to use magic to pry open the other party's mouth. She was still lacking in on-the-spot response.
"Is this the great crypt under the Holy Temple of Orli?" she asked.
"Yes." Schubert replied dully.
Jita asked several more questions in succession and received answers one by one.
She stretched out her hand to make the brotherhood killer pass out, and then cast a small spell on the bag that fell on the ground. The bag came to life, squirmed and crawled to the opponent, opened its mouth and swallowed the latter bit by bit.
, and then the rope wound up like a snake, and flexibly tied a knot at the mouth.
After doing all this silently, the scholar lady walked outside. The underground of the large tomb was connected in all directions. After all, the purpose of building this place was to serve as a fortress and underground fortification against the army of darkness. In order to prevent the invasion of giants, the corridors were extremely narrow -
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But it is said that the goblins, the giant's servants and the naga, will still invade from the sewers. The Oshu people started a tug-of-war with the dark creatures in this underground fortification, and repaired and expanded it again and again. Later, the place gradually became...
It formed a maze-like scale today.
The densely packed tombs on the wall are indeed the victims of the giant war. This place is under the barrier of the Ori Temple, so it is impossible for the resurrection of the dead to happen, and tomb robbers do not dare to enter this place.
For thousands of years, time has seemed to stand still in this underground tomb.
There are coffins one after another in the darkness, and the tombs seem to extend to the end of the field of vision. The air is filled with the smell of dust. After all, even the priest of Ori cannot come down and clean it all the time.
The only ones who come here once a year are the magicians from the seven families.
Jita gradually approached one of the halls, and she soon met some magicians. The first one was wearing a red robe, who should be from the Eisengreen family. She stopped not far away and listened to the conversation of these astrologers.
But it was just a dirty joke among some nobles.
Miss Scholar blushed after hearing this, so she had to ignore these people and move forward. She also saw some magicians wearing brown robes, who should be members of the Terry Funk family of the Badger of Change. These magicians were silent and hurried forward.
.
The work of the school of change is somewhat similar to alchemy, both of which change the properties of matter, but one is temporary and the other is permanent. The magicians of the Trifunk family are also the most pragmatic of the seven families. They only
Passionate about yourself and magic.
The outside world rarely hears rumors about these sorcerers.
Jita knew something about the characteristics of these transformed magicians, and she was curious to follow them to see what was going on, but at this time, a strange movement caught her attention.
To be precise, it was a low shudder that passed through the ceiling like rolling thunder. The movement was very short and disappeared in an instant. Then she saw several magicians in purple robes hurriedly walking through the passage in front.
Said in:
"It's Carlai's people again. Are they planning to collapse this place?"
"That snake is the guardian of the grimoire, and the people of Kallaye can hardly suppress it."
"We shouldn't have let Carl Laiye's people come in the first place. Those old poisonous snakes are not of the same mind as us."
"The key is the magic book, not to mention we have to rely on the eyes of the viper."
Jita watched those people hurriedly passing by in the dark, "The magicians of the Hawke family, why are they here?" She was startled, listening to the conversation between these people, and subconsciously followed them.
.
Now the entire empire knows that the Hawke family has suffered a big change. Duke Hawke's ship was attacked and crashed in Apenand, and his life and death are uncertain. The reason behind it must not be as simple as encountering air pirates or cultists.
Everyone thought they had nothing to worry about, and never thought that the other party's magician would appear in this gathering, and those people didn't look very worried.
The Kallay they call is the most mysterious one among the seven families, the spiritual snake Kallay Draka. The Empire people call it the poisonous snake. It is precisely because the magic of control is good at playing with people's hearts, not only
In the eyes of others, most people within the Seven Mage Family are unwilling to deal with the masters of these psychic spells.
One of the five magic books in the possession of the Seven Magicians is in the hands of the psions, but that magic book has no owner.
There are seven magic books in the empire, but only six naturalists. That's why.
Jita didn't care about Carleye, and she didn't know much about this mysterious family, but she became curious about the Eyes of the Serpent. She just asked 'Hyena' Schubert, and the other party mentioned the Seven Magicians.
The magicians of the Shi family will hold a ceremony.
It’s not surprising that magicians perform ritual spells. Most of the reasons why the Council of Seven Sages hold this underground gathering throughout the year is to perform several ritual spells, the most important of which is the prophecy ritual.
In fact, the great prophecy of the Empire seven centuries ago was derived in a similar ceremony.
Of course, that big prophecy was the result of a grand gathering of astrologers from the Council of Stars and Moon. At that time, the most famous astrologers in the entire empire were invited by the Magic Emperor to gather in the imperial court.
There were even astrologers from outside Sintaan who participated in that gathering and joined forces to witness the prophecy. Astrologers have left many prophecies over the centuries, not just for mortals, but Gudasso
The rain diviner priests of Ke are also similar.
However, 'Hyena' Schubert repeatedly mentioned the Eyes of the Serpent in his words, which attracted Kita's attention. Naturally, a Brotherhood killer did not understand the magical objects of the magicians, and the other party had probably only heard of them.
.
If we want to ask further what it is and what effect it has, Schubert cannot answer.
Now that these magicians mentioned Carle Ye again, Miss Scholar naturally became curious. Moreover, she had sufficient reasons to follow these magicians of the Hawke family. It was enough for them to appear here.
Strange.
Unexpectedly, if she followed that direction, she would be followed by an extremely long dark corridor. The distance was so long that Jita even doubted whether she had left the area of the Holy Temple of Ori, and the target she was following had also disappeared.
The other party was walking faster than she expected. If it weren't for the fact that there were no forks in the road along the way, she would have almost thought she had lost track of him.
But just as she was thinking, a fork in the road appeared in front of her. The corridor was perpendicular to the one she came from, forming a T shape. From left to right, light rose from Miss Scholar's fingertips, but even the faintest light could not illuminate it.
Exit the end of the corridor.
Both sides of the vision disappeared into the endless shadows.
Jita frowned. She opened the page and chanted softly. A white ghost rose from the ground. The ghost without face and facial features floated in front of her. Miss Scholar asked: "I
Where should we go?"
The ghost paused for a moment, then floated in one direction.
Jita hesitated for a moment. This ghost was the one that King Angeles encountered in the legend. During the Northern War, he and his knights were lost in the dark forest, but a mysterious ghost led them out of there.
A labyrinth created by the evil magic of dryads.
That was also the turning point in the establishment of the Northern Empire, and it was one of the stories familiar to the people of the Empire. But the ghost she summoned here was just a fictional existence in her story. In fact, it was more similar to a prophecy spell.
The problem with prophecy is that fate sometimes misinterprets people's hearts. As astrologers say, the correct future is not necessarily the best one. They just find out the answer, but the answer sometimes does not mean
everything.
She should have asked, "Where did those people go?"
The clearer the problem, the more obvious the role of prophecy spells, but this time the people she wants to track are a group of magicians, not Brotherhood killers who know nothing about magic.
What's more, those magicians who are in the spell department are best at sensing spells. As long as the etheric connection is exerted on the opponent, the opponent can immediately sense that someone is tracking them with spells from behind.
However, Jita only hesitated a little. She looked at the direction in which the ghost disappeared and quickly followed it.
There was no one in the corridor, and only rustling footsteps were left in the darkness. Jita used a small spell to eliminate her own footsteps, and after walking in silence for a while, she felt that she had entered a small room.
within.
This time she didn't cast another lighting spell.
She vaguely felt that there seemed to be something in the room. She took two steps forward and saw a statue standing in front of her - it was a young girl standing with her hands clasped in a bush of thorns, and even those thorns
It is also carved from stone, and even the barbs on it are delicately visible.
Thorns are growing around things that symbolize death. Poisonous snakes crawl out of the eyes of those skeletons, and thorny roses grow on the other side. The statue of the girl is located in the center of these symbols of life and death. Her eyes are closed tightly and her hair is long.
Hangs all the way to the floor.
The scholar lady couldn't help but stretched out her hand, and the girl's clasped hands responded with a cold touch on her fingertips.
She recognized the scene before her.
In the handwritten notebook that Fang Piao got from the eldest princess Rupert, one of the inserts was exactly what she saw at the moment, but the girl painted in the insert was mysterious and unpredictable, and the person in front of her
This statue is filled with a sacred atmosphere.
What surprised her slightly was.
How could the things in the notes obtained in Instania appear here? In Xintaan, within the empire?
Jita frowned. This sacred aura meant that this statue might be part of this shrine, but she had never heard of such a god in her knowledge.
Is it life and death in the shadows?
She had heard of Amaya's twin sister, Lady Shadow in the Forest, not long ago, but it was said that the shadow lady looked very much like Lady Amaya, except that one lived and the other died, in terms of image and attire.
Just a little different.
It is said that the goddess of the shadow in the forest rarely appears in front of the world, so much so that some believers of Amaya even believe that she and the forest lady are the same person. All things grow in the forest, but there is also the chill and withering of winter. Both of them are inherently different.
as one body.
And this person in front of me.
She seems to be much younger than Ms. Amaya, and her brows are frowned, as if she has witnessed some suffering. That kind of painful look is definitely not something that can be seen in the field where Ms. Forest and her sister work.
The color of suffering adds a bit of indescribable weirdness to the mystery. Ms. Scholar has actually seen that style before, but it is only on the icons of some cultists. They advocate pain and disaster. They
Most of the statues have this kind of uncoordinated unity.
Both sacred and depraved.
Jita came closer to see the many scrolls hanging on the slender stone arms of the girl's statue. Those scrolls were naturally carved in stone, but they seemed to be engraved with some kind of text, and they were so detailed - she
At first I thought it was a prayer, but later I found out it wasn't.
Jita raised her head slightly and looked around. She had not forgotten that she was chasing the magicians of the Hawke family here. Although she was a little surprised by the scene in front of her, she also wanted to make sure that she had not stepped into a trap.
.
When she raised her head, the magic book in her hand also glowed slightly, and an undetectable spell spread out in all directions. If there was someone within her detection range, the spell would naturally warn her - of course, naturally, the other party would
Also aware of her spells.
But at this time, she couldn't care so much anymore. There was no perfect plan in this world.
It's just that when the spell was swept into the empty room, it was found that there was no one else here. That feeling made Jita a little strange. Her spell seemed to have fallen into a quagmire. In theory, even if there was no one, it should be able to
to the four walls.
To be on the safe side, she cast another spell, but the same feeling was the same. But even Jita herself didn't notice that when her magic book lit up, the scroll on the stone statue's arm also flickered slightly.
One light.
It's just that the light was so dim and short-lived that it didn't attract Miss Scholar's attention even in the dark.
Her attention was entirely focused on this room at the moment. She stopped her spell, walked around the room, and confirmed with her own hands that there was indeed a wall there. After measuring it, she also concluded that there was nothing wrong with her spell.
This room is actually not big. It should be similar to a shrine. There is only this statue in it, and there is no one else.
Although she was a little confused as to why her spell had such a response, Jita returned to the statue again. This time she could finally read the words on the scroll on the arm of the statue carefully. It was better not to read.
At this glance, she was surprised to find that she could read the words——
That is Yuanhai Document.
Her understanding of the Abyssal Document came from her time in Instania, when she and Luo Yu met the great mage Karatu, and learned advanced knowledge about naturalists from him.
It was also there that the transition from narrator to reader was completed.
At that time, what Karatu showed them was actually the Abyssal Scroll.
Although they later learned that there were many Abyssal Scrolls and did not refer to a specific part of the knowledge, the things Karatu showed them at that time were indeed those related to the incident in Instania more than ten years ago.
The Battle of Bain, the Abyssal Tablets and the Holy Relics.
Some of those stone slabs should be provided by the Traveler Star.
But part of the text she saw before her eyes was exactly the same as what she had read in the sea of sand in the past. She couldn't help but read the words softly just like that day:
'Darkness returns, and the star of disaster comes——'
'The fire of Venus, falling into dust.'
'The branches of the holy white forest stretch out, and the shadows of the forest bring winter;'
‘Under the eyes of the snake boy——’
'The tail of the comet streaked across the sky.'
'Under the seven obelisks are buried ancient secrets, the place where twelve stars shine, eternal life, and endless wisdom.'
Jita's eyes widened at once. Some of the words on the scriptures were familiar to her, but some seemed strange to her.
But this last sentence, isn't this the prophecy of the seven obelisks?
Why is it here?
She was about to continue reading, but suddenly a shuddering cold feeling crawled up her back.
It felt like a cold gaze was watching her from behind.