"We stayed in front of the gate...for about forty days." Lich slowly recalled, "At first, we tried to use various methods to crack the magic on the door, or to recreate the structure of the magic.
None of them succeeded. However, one day, one of the knights in the team suddenly came to the door and read a passage in a language that none of us could understand, and then the door opened inward."
"Behind the door is a spacious passage. We walked through the passage and came to another room. The room was filled with heavy bookshelves, and the bookshelves were lined with all kinds of books, including magic, art, history, etc...
And most of them are things we have never read." The Lich made a big gesture and continued, "At the end of the room is another door, which is also locked by magic. You can only move forward if you unlock it——
And soon we discovered that the clues used to decipher the magic were recorded in some books on the bookshelf."
"Wait a minute." Lily interrupted the Lich, "This is weird no matter how you think about it? Who made so many locked doors? And why can you find the code to crack the locked door in front of it?
The book is completely putting the cart before the horse?" She looked at the girl who seemed to be deep in thought, "Yuffie, what do you think?"
The girl shook her head and said she didn't know. She thought of a possibility - but didn't say it because it was not a beautiful thing.
"Indeed, there are many abnormal places when I think about it now, but at that time, no one noticed them." The Lich continued, "Due to the reference of books, we only spent about twenty days to crack the second one.
The door - and what leads behind the door is another room, a slightly smaller number of bookshelves, and a third similar door."
"In this way, we kept moving forward, each time taking less time than before... But when I felt something was wrong, I discovered that the original exploration team of ten people, including me, had no idea when
There are only five people left." Morrills stretched out a hand and shook it in front of him, "That's when I realized that we might have been under a spell from the beginning without even realizing it."
"What, what kind of spell?" Bell was startled.
"It's probably mental control and illusion." The Lich pointed to his head, "It eliminates our doubts about the anomalies around us, and creates scenes that are completely different from reality, thus leading us to make wrong decisions.
Action. I tried to decipher possible illusions or mind control, but could not find any traces of magic. In desperation, I used the method I had prepared before entering the mystery - triggering a spell buried in my brain.
Transform your life form into a lich that is not affected by ordinary psychic spells."
"Normally, the transformation ceremony takes at least ten hours, but I only felt that it had passed for a moment. When I regained consciousness again, everything around me had turned into shabby furnishings covered with dust, and the remaining four teammates were also there.
Not far away." The Lich sighed - or just sighed, "Probably... this is the scene we should have seen. I tried to wake up my teammates, but ordinary methods also failed to achieve anything.
Effect. In desperation, I can only follow the agreement before departure and transform them into undead to get rid of the control of the spell."
"Wait a minute." Lin fiddled with her hair, "Is it normal for you Erna people to become undead?"
"You can say yes, you can say no." The Lich replied, "We respect life, so we will not give it up easily; but we also understand the fragility of the mortal body, so it is also acceptable to abandon it when necessary.
Choice. If I still maintain my original body, I'm afraid all you can find is a decayed skeleton."
"Well... it makes some sense." Yuffie nodded, "Please continue."
"The matter did not end there. We found that the key we carried had disappeared at some point, which meant that we could not leave the mystery lock normally. Someone suggested that we try to return to the exit first, and then try to contact the outside world.
However, we seem to be trapped in a closed space with no way to leave, let alone report the situation here to Her Majesty the Queen."
"With nothing to do, we rummaged through every corner of that space, and we actually found something." The Lich gestured to an object as tall as a person. "It's a beautifully decorated glass mirror, which is similar to the surrounding area."
What is incompatible with everything is that it seems to have gone through many years, but it is still as clean as new. On the outer frame of the inlaid mirror is engraved a line of text belonging to the ancient Kamal language. After interpretation, it means 'I connect the real and the
Your heart desires'."
"It still doesn't sound right." Lily muttered, "It feels like it's too deliberate?"
"That's true. But even if we knew it was a trap, we had no other choice at the time." The Lich drew a prayer gesture on his chest. "After research, we determined that it was a powerful and magical magic item that could allow us to escape."
That closed demiplane. The only problem is that it seems that it has not been manufactured yet and cannot be started normally at all."
"So, did you fix it?" Alphonse asked. "Where is it now?"
"Yes, that magic item was far beyond the scope of my knowledge, but we finally fixed it, and it took... countless hours. We used its power to return here, and found that many years had passed.
The environment has improved a lot, but the mystery lock is still not lifted." The Lich looked around and said, "As for the mirror, it is naturally left in that space and cannot be used again."
Yuffie gently rubbed the corners of her eyebrows. The Lich's narrative seemed perfect and reasonable, but there still seemed to be a slight inconsistency that she could not fully accept.
"We tried to go inside the palace again, but found that at some point, it had been filled with a large number of demons, and the number was still increasing." The Lich shook his head, "With the strength of a few of us, it is difficult to fight against the large number of demons.
To fight, we can only choose to return here and use these wandering undead to fight against the demon army to prevent their number from further expanding."
"Speaking of which, what happened to the rest of the exploration team? You are not the last team, right?" Amberli asked.
"Yes. After we woke up, two more groups of people entered the closed space one after another and were also trapped in the illusion." The Lich nodded, "We tried to wake them up and transform them into undead to survive -
-However, only five people succeeded in the end." He shook his head with some regret, "It is a pity that the four lich transformations ended in failure... After all, practical methods are rarely used, so it is not surprising that the success rate is lower."
"It seems that you are doing quite well." Yuffie nodded and glanced at the people around him again, "What are your plans next?"
"Try to break into the palace and confirm what those demons are doing." The Lich said seriously, "Our high-level combat power is limited, and those slow-moving zombies are not suitable for moving in the narrow palace passages."
Demon Morrels raised his head and looked at Yuffie with eager eyes - the fire in his eyes became brighter, "For this, I need your help, please."