"Even after reading the information, I am still afraid of this thing."
Only Miss Anat knew in advance that the so-called "gargoyle" was so big, and Miss Bayas sighed like Shad.
"I thought... it was only the size of a human being, but I didn't expect it to be so big."
Xia De expressed his thoughts, Miss Anat looked around, and further explained:
"The keeper-level relic [thousand-eyed gargoyle number 3765] actually has an unofficial name that is easier to remember. It is an elegant name given by ancient alchemists."
"What nickname?"
"Giant magic."
Looking up at the terrifyingly huge thousand-eyed stone statue, Xia De twitched the corner of his mouth, fully understanding what was in front of him:
"Well... Actually, if you had said the name earlier, I would probably have been able to understand what it was easily."
Such a large empty space seems to have been built to allow the gargoyles to fully fight. To be honest, if they didn't know how to let this thing rest temporarily, even if the silver-eyed people planned to join them temporarily, the four of them together might not be able to defeat this relic.
The huge space looked empty, but then the three of them saw some corpses of varying degrees of decay by the wall. The freshest corpse among them probably only appeared this morning. The eyes of these corpses were all gouged out, and they should be [Blood of Mercury] used to kill innocent people passing through here.
After careful counting of the corpses, there were 36 in total. That is to say, apart from the people from the [Blood Spirit School] this morning, [Blood of Mercury] used this method to enter the ruins at least 17 times.
Miss Bayas prayed for the corpse in a low voice, and Miss Anat continued to inspect the remaining empty space. Shade looked at the three freshest corpses, and suddenly asked Miss Bayas:
"Do you mind if your companion uses necromantic thaumaturgy?"
This must be asked clearly.
"What? Undead? Is it a plague?"
The sorceress of the church asked curiously.
"of course not."
"That's all right."
She shrugged indifferently, Xia De then took out the bone meal and sprinkled some on the corpse. But after chanting the mantra, there was no response.
"strangeness......"
He tried again, but the thaumaturgy still had no effect. After briefly explaining the basic effect of [Soul Echo] to the two companions, Miss Anat believed that the silver-eyed man had disposed of the corpse, making it impossible to obtain information from the corpse by psychic means.
"Or there is something wrong with the ruin itself."
Miss Bayas also guessed, but Xia De asked in a low voice:
"You said, is it possible for [Blood of Mercury] to discover the so-called 'evil' relic suppressed here by this vanished sect?"
No one can give an answer, but they all understand that maybe the danger in the ruins is not just the three relics blocking the way and the ring warlock.
Continue to prepare to move forward, but the trouble they encounter is not that they can't find the way, but that there are too many ways to leave the space where the gargoyle is. There are four walls in total, and each wall has at least six stone doors. In the end, it was Xia De who listened to the sound of footsteps, and then cooperated with Miss Anat's divination to lock on the correct direction.
The next possible danger is the keeper-level relic [mirror behind], this relic directly hurts the "other me" of the ring warlock. It had already been decided at the banquet on Sunday that Xia De would deal with this relic. The two ladies did not ask him how to deal with it, nor did Xia De ask again what method to deal with the female voice in his heart.
[So trust me? I am honored. 】
she said with a smirk.
This time, Xia De pushed open the stone door, but there was no room for a mirror behind the door. He stretched out his finger to illuminate the front, which was a dark corridor wrapped in bricks and stones, and the corner could be seen from a few dozen steps away.
"The mirror may be around the corner in the corridor, so I'll go first."
He said, but got no answer behind him. Turning around and looking, there was actually a wall behind him, and there were no figures of the two ladies at all, let alone the huge thousand-eyed gargoyle.
Xia De blinked, and asked softly in his heart:
"Um... are you still there?"
Waited for two full seconds before getting a reply:
[Punches forward. 】
Immediately swung his fist, and after the fist hit the air in front of him, the sound of glass shattering almost made Xia De think that his hand would be injured. The space in front of his eyes was centered on the point where the fist hit, and radioactive dense cracks appeared, but they recovered quickly.
"Aren't mirrors meant to hurt the 'other you'? How could it trap me? I thought, my mission was just to see the mirror, and then you stretched out a hand from my back and smashed the mirror with a punch Woolen cloth."
While he was thinking, he swung his two fists at the same time and hit the air in front of him continuously, but the speed of crack recovery was much faster than Xia De's punching speed. Although his physical fitness has become very strong because he became a ring warlock, he does not have the ability to swing the speed of sound punch or even the speed of light punch.
[I can't interfere with reality. 】
She repeated what she had said in his ear.
"Wait, I seem to be in trouble."
It seems that because Xia De's fist attacked this space, bursts of black smoke and dust flew from the depths of the passage, and at the same time as there was a tearing sound in the air, they all rushed towards Xia De's chest. But it didn't even help him to fight back, the golden cracks on the surface of the body flashed, and the black smoke disappeared.
He said dryly.
The attack just now was aimed at the soul, but the divinity protected his soul.
"How to get out?"
[Find a solution, it shouldn't attack you, it's exposed. 】
Her whispering voice carried some joyful feelings, probably in a good mood:
[You are in the mirror space, the mirror can't do anything to you, it can only trap you temporarily. 】
"What am I going to do now?"
[Punch yourself. 】
If it weren't for the fact that "she" was still using the strange language that Shad had never heard anywhere, he would even think that it was the mirror playing tricks on him.
"you sure?"
She was chuckling, and the laughter confirmed that it was indeed her.
Xia De took a breath and clenched his right fist, closed his eyes and hit his chin violently.
Unexpectedly, I didn't feel any pain, just like hitting the dough covering my face.
The sound of glass shattering clearly appeared in his ears, and when he opened his eyes, there was no passage in front of him. He pushed open the stone door just now, and the door was facing the mirror.
Xia De was standing in front of the mirror right now, with his right hand clenched high, and the big hole on the shattered mirror was undoubtedly made by him. The pain of the bleeding fist came from the senses very slowly, and every piece of broken glass hanging in the frame reflected his appearance at the moment.
"Shad?"
A tentative cry came from behind, it was Miss Anat's voice.
"I'm fine...the mirror is temporarily disabled."
The Keeper-level relic [mirror behind] also has the characteristic of "indestructible" that most relics have. Breaking the mirror now only makes it temporarily invalid. It will return to normal in a short period of time, but as long as there is a crack in the mirror, the ability to attack the "other me" cannot be used.
The mirror itself will automatically move its direction to the direction where people may appear when people are not looking at it. In other words, even if Xia De moved the mirror to the wall to point it at the wall, when they left, the mirror would automatically point to another direction.
"No problem, the mirror is out of order."
Xia De repeated it again, and while he was relieved, he turned around and shook his bleeding hand:
"Who is convenient to give me some water, it is not convenient for me to put my hand into the right pocket right now."
"Oh, why is it hurt so badly?"
Miss Bayas immediately walked over the stone door and directed the ball of light to illuminate the place. And Miss Anat went to check the mirror to see if there was anything other than the mirror behind the stone door.
The scratched palm was healed by the clear water treated with 【Satiating Food】, and Xia De curiously asked the two ladies what he had just done.
"You pushed open the door, walked in, and shattered the mirror with one punch."
Miss Bayas briefly described it, and was then asked by Shad to give more details:
"Is there anything unusual about me, like..."
He hesitated for a moment, then said softly:
"A phantom appeared behind him, and the phantom punched the mirror."
"What's the meaning?"
Miss Bayas asked suspiciously, as if she suspected that Xia De was still affected by the mirror, so his head was a little confused.
She shook her head:
"Nothing unusual, Detective. Before we even knew it, you smashed the mirror with your fist. What just happened? Why didn't you kick it."
"Because I couldn't kick myself in the face ... we'll explain when we get out."
He shook his head, indicating that there is no time to chat here now.
Looking at the ground, the silver light from the fingertips illuminated the shards of glass on the ground, and three people were reflected on the shards~www.mtlnovel.com~ Among them, Shad and Miss Bayas were both normal, while Miss Anat Behind him, Xia De actually saw that transparent woman who looked very similar to her, only a little more mature.
In the blink of an eye, the transparent woman in the shards of the mirror disappeared. Xia De looked at the female fortune-teller standing in the light of the silver moon in surprise and was observing her surroundings. There was nothing unusual about her.
"She...forget it, the current situation is not suitable for asking about this."
The mirror is stored behind the stone gate, which is the third relic space they entered, and its area is about the same size as the space in front of the first stone gate. The silver light from Shad's fingertips and the ball of light summoned by Miss Bayas are enough to illuminate this place.
Still no living people were seen, not even dead people this time. Apart from the mirror standing there, there was a door on each of the four walls, but this time there were no carvings on the walls.
On the contrary, there is a line of ancient text on the metal frame of the mirror. After it is translated into Delarion, the approximate meaning is:
[Be wary of "another me". 】
None of the three ring warlocks commented on this line.