Ange felt that there was a point in a distant place, which was completely different from other nodes in the soul network. Out of curiosity, he projected it there without much thought.
He had done this kind of thing many times, projecting onto Silver Coin, Anthony, and Oak, but this time the projection process seemed particularly long, and he finally came to a body.
The heart of the sleeping soul resumed beating, and the empty eye sockets lit up with blue flames. Then Ange found that he was in the body of a gray-bone skeleton wearing armor.
This skeleton was huddled in a small square, holding its knees with its hands, and slept for an unknown period of time. It was not until Ange's arrival that its soul was rekindled.
There are some residual thoughts that are transmitted from the skeleton to Ange's heart: Locke! Invincible! Locke! Bones! Locke!...
A big question arose in Locke Angel's mind. Why does the skeleton contain Locke's thoughts? Could it be that Locke didn't actually die, but just followed the 'King' here?
Ange checked the skeleton and found a few more residual thoughts.
It is indeed the remaining thoughts of Strong Bone Locke. Locke is not dead. Its soul was sent over with the Immortal King, so its body will stay in the Palace of Rest.
In other words, he was not dead before, but now he has dissipated, leaving only a few residual thoughts and a body with a soul and a heart.
Ange examined the body and soul and found that the condition was very bad. The heart of the soul had shrunk to the point of being almost broken.
The same goes for the body, which has degraded into gray bones, but it can be seen from some joints that this body should have originally been at the gold level.
The original golden skull continued to degrade for some reason and became what it is now.
As for the reason, Ange doesn't know. It is definitely not caused by the shrinkage of the soul. Even if there is no soul skeleton, it will only decay but not degenerate.
Ange moved his body and climbed out of the square, and then discovered that there was not just one square like he was in, but the entire wall... the entire basement, all four walls.
Each square is stuffed with a skeleton, some of which are complete in shape, but most of them are scattered and piled into the square, as if someone had randomly put the bones in after death.
Is this a cemetery dedicated to stacking skeletal remains?
Ange looked around and saw only a door and two words on the door except for the square where the bones were stacked.
What word? Ange tilted his head in a habitual way.
But after waiting for a while, there was no response, and Ange finally realized that he was a projection and that Nigris was not there.
If the node projected by Ange is his own, Nigris can still follow it, but this node is Locke's because he has the same source of power, and Nigris can't.
Nigris was not here, and no one gave him an answer. He was so used to it. What were these two words? Forget it, I couldn't understand. Ange moved his eyes to the door lock.
The door is locked from the outside. There is no keyhole or handle inside. If you want to get out, you may need to smash the door. Should you smash it?
While he was hesitating, there was suddenly a muttering and footsteps outside the door.
Someone walked quickly towards the door, muttering in a low voice from time to time: "Bless the Holy Spirit, the bread is gone, so I will use some small money to buy bread. Please don't be offended by the Holy Spirit. Don't be offended."
Soon, the man walked to the door. First there was the sound of a key being inserted into the door lock, and then with a click, the door opened. A priest in white robes quickly slipped in and closed the door behind him, leaving only a crack.
After finishing all this, the white-robed priest let out a guilty sigh, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, turned around and stood up, and then saw Ange with blue eyes burning.
A large amount of cold sweat could be seen on the priest's face, which formed into several strands and flowed down, and he started to tremble all over.
Ange tilted his head.
Without saying a word, the priest knelt down and said, "I'm sorry, Holy Spirit, I didn't mean to disturb your sleep. I'm sorry, I'm leaving right away. I'm leaving right away."
As he spoke, he didn't dare to raise his head. He knelt and turned back, touching and wiping the cracks of the door. He was about to open the door when Ange's hand pressed on his shoulder.
"Ah——!" The priest let out an earth-shattering scream, his body went limp and he fainted.
Ange looked at his hands in confusion, but didn't find anything special. Why did he faint? Is his blood sugar low?
Ange turned the unconscious priest over and slapped him in the face. Those guys under Ange seemed to use this method to wake people up.
The priest opened his eyes in a daze, and saw that the person holding him was a skeleton, and he began to tremble:
"Holy...Holy Holy Spirit, please...please forgive me. I don't dare to do it anymore. I don't dare to do it anymore. I confess. I regret. I took some gold ornaments in the stone room and sold them. I
Don’t dare anymore, don’t judge me.”
Ange tilted his head in confusion.
If it were Negris, he would understand what Ange meant by tilting his head, but the priest didn't understand and thought Ange was unwilling, so he hurriedly defended:
"Sir, I have no choice. No supplies have been sent down from above for a long time. I am guarding the holy room alone. I have no money and no food. If I don't exchange things for food, I will starve to death. I really didn't mean it. Please forgive me, Holy Spirit.
, I don’t dare to do it anymore.”
Ange thought for a while and asked: "Who are you?"
"Tombkeeper, Lord Holy Spirit, I am Albert, the tombkeeper of the stone chamber. I specialize in guarding the stone chamber cemetery." The priest responded hurriedly.
If Ange had been silent, he might be about to pee now. It would be a good sign to be willing to ask him questions.
Ange asked again: "Who am I?"
"Ah?!" This question made Abbott stunned for a while: "You? Aren't you the Holy Spirit? The sleeping soul wakes up, the decaying body carries the sacred soul, the holy light wings protect the world, and the holy sword is held to judge the world.
Judgment of treason and sin.”
Ange tilted his head, it sounded so familiar, the Church of Light? There is also a Church of Light here?
Ange, who was a little confused, suddenly knew what to do. Don't forget that he also had another identity - the ascetic monk An. He was so skilled at pretending to be a bright monk, and he suddenly returned to his familiar rhythm.
Ange looked at Abbott and said, "You are guilty."
As soon as he finished speaking, a slender chain bounced up from the ground and was tied to the other party's body. Ange took a closer look and saw that it was a greedy chain.
There is only one original sin? Lock? Then this priest is very pious and austere.
Ange has been pretending to be an ascetic monk for a long time, and he is already very experienced. Original sin? The seven original sins in the lock are all the innate instincts of living beings, and they are not sins at all.
Is overeating a sin? No, it only makes people fat. Is greed a sin? No, robbing and stealing is.
If greedy people can control themselves and work hard to make money to satisfy their desires, is this considered a crime?
As for lust and laziness, that's even more nonsense. Without lust, how can living things reproduce? Without laziness, how can society develop?
However, the Church of Light defines them as 'sins' and hopes that all priests and believers will overcome their desires and serve the gods of light devoutly.
Ascetic monks are the best people who practice hard to overcome their own desires.
So in principle, all creatures have original sin. Perhaps only skeletons like Ange, who have no desires, are free of original sin.
But why do some people activate original sin? Locks, while others do not? There is a very clever thing here: Only if you feel that you are guilty can you activate original sin? Locks.
In other words, when Ange shouts "You are guilty", if you firmly believe that you are not guilty, it will not trigger the lock.
This is the principle that Ange discovered after trying many people. Ange did not convict them, but they themselves convicted themselves.
This is why many of the people who inspired the original sin lock are light believers and clergy, because they know what original sin is and subconsciously believe that they are guilty.
But back in the slums of the Sunken Land, the guy who kidnapped the child did not trigger the original sin lock, because he did not think he was guilty, but felt that he was doing something good.
He felt that he was doing a good deed by bringing children from poor areas to rich areas. Some of the children were even sold to him by their parents themselves, muttering nothing more than "find you a good family" or something like that.
Now this priest only has one original sin chain activated in his body, so he subconsciously believes that he has only one sin. If this is true, then his life will probably be very miserable.
The original sin lock lasted for a short time before disappearing. Ange was projected, and the power was not enough to support him from casting this magical spell for too long.
Abbott was a little stunned, kneeling there and not daring to move, but Ange raised his foot to pull him aside, opened the door and walked out.
Although the priest just said that he was guarding the stone chamber alone, which meant that he might be the only one here, Ange actually didn't care much.
Because he was originally a projection, even if someone chopped him off, it wouldn't hurt his roots, so he didn't worry too much.
As soon as he went out, there was a long stone corridor with similar doors extending all the way. There were at least four or five doors similar to the one he came out of, which meant that there might be as many as four or five similar stone chambers.
One side of the stone corridor was closed, and there was light on the other side. Ange walked toward the side with light. There was a staircase at the corner. He went up the stairs, turned left and right, and came to a semi-open cave.
Standing in the cave and looking out, there are dozens of acres of abandoned farmland under the slope.
When Ange walked out of the cave, he saw that except for the abandoned farmland at the entrance of the cave, there was a yellow desert in the distance. The edge could not be seen at a glance. This cave seemed to be on the edge of a desert.
There were footsteps, and Ange turned around to look. The priest came to the corner cautiously, peered at Ange, and when he saw Ange turning around, he retracted his head in a swish.
After a while, he stuck his head out again, and repeated this several times. It seemed that he saw that Ange was not prepared to do anything to him, so he slowly moved out step by step.
"Where is this?" Ange asked.
"Go back to Lord Holy Spirit, this is the Yellow Sand Wilderness." The priest responded quickly.
"I'm not..." Ange wanted to say that he was not the Holy Spirit. He was clearly on a skeleton, so why did he call himself the Holy Spirit?
But after only saying three words, Ange stopped. To explain clearly, it would take a long paragraph. I was tired just thinking about it, so forget it, I won’t explain it anymore.
At this time, he missed Nigris a little. With the Brass Dragon around, he never had to speak by himself.
The priest waited for a while and was a little surprised when he didn't hear the following. But after thinking about it, he took the initiative to explain: "It's very remote, but safe. This is the safest stone cemetery. There are very few people even in the church."
You know this place, not to mention the undead creatures, so you are safe here."
Ange tilted his head, what do you mean? Very safe? Undead creatures cannot find this place, so it is very safe?
It's normal for the Church of Light to be hostile to the undead, but isn't he also a skeleton now? Are the skeletons here not considered undead?
Ange thought for a while and found that to figure out this problem, he needed more information, so he needed to ask the priest more questions...
It’s so annoying, forget it, don’t ask anymore.
Changing the subject and asked: "The fields are deserted."
Abbott responded: "Yes, sir, the weather has been dry in recent years and there has been a lack of rain and water, so it has been abandoned. Originally, relying on the output of these fields, I could maintain a living here alone, but there is no
I thought there was no water."
"It's very troublesome for the church to send food over once. In the past few months, it has not been delivered once. I don't know if I was discovered again and I was on the run. I had no choice but to sell the gold jewelry in the stone room. Sir,
I really didn’t mean it, please forgive me for my sin.”
The amount of information in the priest's words was too great. If Nigris were present, he would not have to ask until dark to understand every detail.
But after Ange listened, he struggled for a while and asked instead: "Can the field be planted?"
The priest said blankly: "There is no water." He silently thought about what he had just said. Didn't he make it clear just now?
Ange walked down, opened his palms, and with a thought, water droplets poured from his palms onto the dry farmland.
In remote projection, the power will attenuate a lot. The more powerful the power, the more severe the attenuation. On the contrary, those low-level powers are not inherently strong, and the attenuation cannot be seen.
So Ange discovered that his rain skills were similar to when he first left the Palace of Rest, enough to thoroughly water thousands of acres of farmland.
After watering the 20 to 30 acres of abandoned farmland at the entrance of the cave, Ange came back and asked: "Can the field be planted?"
"Yes... yes." What else could the priest say? He could only say "yes" hurriedly, and then thought to himself: Could this Holy Spirit be a fool?
…
Ange, who couldn't walk to the farmland when he saw it, happily started planting. He hadn't planted in more than two months, but soon he discovered a problem. He couldn't reach out.
The Palace of Rest.
This is for sure, it was just a projection of his thoughts, not a physical projection, and the hand that penetrated the world did not follow.
However, although he cannot reach into the Palace of Rest, as long as he concentrates, 'thinks' about the things stored in the Palace of Rest, and then reaches out to grab a handful of things.
Ange caught a handful of rice seeds, and then he couldn't concentrate for a while. It wasn't until half an hour later that he concentrated, grabbed again, and caught a handful of fairy beans.
It only takes half an hour to catch it, and you can only catch a handful at a time. A handful of rice seeds is not enough to sow one part of the field, so slow.
Ange planted the rice seeds, stepped on the footprints hard, and then discovered another problem, he couldn't step on the instant death halo.
What he didn't know was that he stepped on the halo, but the halo was activated on his body and could not be projected over.
Ange stayed for a while, and then it didn't matter. Anyway, when there was no halo, it was the same before. After more than a thousand years of planting, there is nothing strange about it.
There were footsteps behind him, and Abbott walked over, took out a bag and said, "Sir, are there no seeds? I also have some quick lettuce seeds here. If there is enough water, they can be harvested in a week.
, do you want to plant this?”
The handful of rice seeds Ange grabbed just now was definitely not enough to plant these dozens of acres of land. He quickly took it, then took out an elf bean out of habit and handed it to Albert.
Exchange of equal value is Ange's habit.
Abbott took the beans in confusion and didn't know why. It wasn't until Ange said it was for food that he put it in his mouth, chewed it a few times like a snack, and swallowed it.
One bean was not enough to fill his teeth, and Albert, who was disapproving of it, pretended to want to thank Ange. Before he could say the words, he felt a burst of warmth in his stomach, and a feeling of fullness quickly spread throughout his body.
, and wiped away his hunger.
Why do you want to steal the ornaments that were buried with you? Is it because you are so hungry that you are no longer hungry when you drop a bean? What kind of treasure is this?
After Ange planted seeds, watered the seeds, and arranged dozens of acres of farmland, it was already dark. As a skeleton, the night was more comfortable than the day. Then he discovered another problem. His soul heart seemed to have grown a little stronger.
It has been an afternoon since the projection came over. When it was first projected over, the soul heart shrank so much that it was almost broken. Now it has grown a little bit stronger. Although it is only a little bit, it can explain some problems. His body's soul energy is being projected.
come over.
At this moment, a light flashed in the sky. Ange looked up and saw a strange object hanging in the sky. The light was hitting the strange object and was blocked by something.
This object appears to be as big as a palm from the ground. It is a man-made thing, with one end thin and one thick, and the thick end is semicircular, much like an erected heavenly fortress.
However, judging from the height at which it hangs, the real size may be as big as the Celestial Fortress.
"What is that?" Ange pointed to the man-made object and asked Abbott.
"Oh, that's the endless star power starburst array of the warlocks. I heard that it was built to destroy the undead king. The undead empire has been attacking it and trying to snatch it away. It was launched once in the past two months.
It’s a pity that the shot missed and ended up somewhere unknown.”
Warlock? King? Undead empire? Which one should I ask? It’s so annoying, how can I ask other people questions? How can I get Negris to do it? Ange scratched his head.