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"What kind of proverb is this? Ahead is a passage leading to death, and it is indeed a dead end."
Xia De reached out and touched the stele, confirming that it was just an ordinary item. But based on Xia De's understanding of the Witch Council, after this incident is over, the stele will be taken away by the big witches for collection.
"It's really interesting."
He went around to the back of the stele and found that there were also words on the back. However, unlike the neatly written letters on the front of the stele, the text on the back is like the traces left by a rough mathematician on the corners of the paper at hand during calculations.
Even the words on the front and back are not the same:
"This is......"
He squinted his eyes and looked closer, and found that this was a sentence:
"...deep into the Borderlands and slay the Risen. Before dying..."
He read out these words, and frowned after thinking for a while:
"A fragment of a poem?"
Although the text is very short, the grammatical structure is very similar to what Shad had seen on the stone statues buried with Mr. Passolo.
"This is not like a sentence for judging the identity of the chosen one, but rather like a requirement for the chosen one's ceremony... The location of the ceremony needs to be in the boundary between life and death, and the person performing the ceremony must kill the dead and resurrect or. Then, something needs to be done before the actual death..."
It might be useful for him to record these words.
Continue to walk inward, and after leaving the platform, there is another long and narrow passage. The whistling black wind containing the power of death is almost at the same level as the depth of the Hazama Natural Church at this moment.
A fierce battle had obviously taken place here, the ground was covered with a layer of black dry bones, and silver powder and holy water used to exorcise evil spirits were sprinkled on the dry bones, which looked like traces left half an hour ago. Although Ms. Aurora and the others entered earlier, it seemed that it took a long time to solve the troubles that Xia De did not encounter.
When I first entered the passage, the passage was very narrow, but after walking a few dozen steps, it opened up. Different from the passage outside, the passage here is surrounded by flat stone slab walls, and there are faintly unrecognizable traces on the wall.
The wind that contained the power of death forced Xia De to stretch out his right hand in front of him, and he vaguely saw a light in front of him.
After quickening his pace, he soon saw the witch's followers stopping in the passage. Two-thirds of them were casting spells to resist the howling black wind. Among them, a lady with a rank of nine rings even held a green orb in her hand, using natural power to resist death.
Mia cat will probably like this kind of round beads.
The remaining one-third of the people used the special black ink prepared in advance with the scent of cinnamon and roses to paint the mottled ritual symbols on the wall.
Even the black wind can't blow away the strong smell, at least in the vicinity.
After more than two thousand years of baptism, the ancient runes and murals that originally existed on the walls have become very blurred. These are the outermost ceremonial formations of this seal, which are equivalent to those silver threads and silver-threaded charms and bells that Shade saw in the natural church.
"Miss Swift! Where are Miss Aurora and Granny Cassandra?"
Shad asked, and the crowd moved out of the way to allow him to come to the wall.
Miss Rita Swift, a young apprentice of Granny Cassandra, is instructing the sorceresses to restore the ritual traces on the wall according to the records of the council. She replied:
"Mr. Hamilton, why did you come in? The teacher and Miss Aurora walked forward, and the core of the ceremony is ahead."
"I want to go inside and take a look. Do you have anything to say to me?"
Seeing that Xia De wanted to move forward, the flaxen-haired young girl hastily stopped her:
"Please don't move forward. The teacher said that the front is not a place we can approach. There is really only a thin line between death and death."
"It doesn't matter."
Xia De shook his head:
"Grandma Cassandra showed me the seal on the top of the mountain, I can't resist it."
He didn't want to go inward because of curiosity, but he thought that since he had seen the passages at the foot of the mountain and the top of the mountain when he rescued Priest Augustus and reunited Helen and Grace, he would go to see the passages on the mountainside. It's not like wasting most of the autumn at Fort Midhill.
"Well, please be more careful."
Seeing that Xia De was very persistent, the young girl threw him an oval smooth gray runestone.
There are huge glowing runes on the front and back of the runestone, the front one looks like a tree spiral, and the back looks like the veins of a leaf.
These are runes in the Elvish language, which mean "life" and "health" respectively. This kind of runestone can help resist the wind of death. According to the knowledge of the elves that Shad has obtained, he believes that if the materials are complete, he himself Can also make similar alchemical products.
"Please be careful with it!"
"rest assured."
Xia De waved his hand and continued to walk forward against the strong wind.
The area where Miss Swift and her party are located is the widest part of the passage. Going forward, the passage narrowed again, and the power of death became more and more intense.
When the cold and severe wind left the first wound on Xia De's face, and the dots of golden light inside the wound dragged the light backward, he knew that he was about to reach the end.
The appearance of the divine afterglow made Xia De even stronger at this moment. Therefore, when there was a rustling sound in front of him, and a pile of bones that had been broken up not long ago were reassembled into a black skeleton, Xia De did not feel panic:
"Can the undead be resurrected?"
Any monsters that can exist in this extreme death zone must be taken seriously. Xia De frowned, holding the [Night Watchman] in his right hand, looking at the black bone sword in the black skull's hand.
The two charged towards each other almost at the same time, and the two swords touched together at the moment of the blow. After the crisp sound, [Night Watchman] and the black bone sword were bounced off at the same time.
The black skeleton sprayed a black mist towards Xia De, but the mist was dispelled by the afterglow of divinity before it touched Xia De.
Hold the sword in one hand and stab forward, accurately hitting the bone of the skeleton's right hand. After flying the black bone sword, Xia De took a step back, holding the sword in his right hand and slightly retracting it to his left chest, took a deep breath, then burst out with all his strength, and quickly stabbed the sword forward.
Relying on the strong physical quality and the power of the jump at this moment, the three swords that were stabbed in an instant almost turned into afterimages in the black wind. The golden spots on the arms, at this moment, formed thick golden beams of light in the air.
With the [Blade of Chaos Time and Space], the six swords appeared almost simultaneously within a second. 【Night Watchman】Excellently displayed the power to fight against evil. As Xia De retracted his sword and pressed his wrist, the six points on the surface of the skull showed signs of fragmentation, and then re-disintegrated into a pile of dry bones.
"Miss Aurora and Granny Cassandra, how did they get here?"
Even he found it very difficult to move forward.
After walking for more than twenty steps, the temperature on the witch detection badge hanging on his chest finally defeated the temperature of the black wind, allowing Xia De to feel its existence. Continuing forward, the passage continues to narrow, and finally ends in front of the stone gate that only allows one person to pass through.
There is a seal on the stone gate itself, but it has been cracked by the witches. At this moment, the door was pushed open, and there was a symbol like a holy emblem on the door, and the main body was like an upside-down question mark. Xia De suddenly had a feeling that this symbol was the holy emblem of the ancient **** [Chaos Witch].
After walking out of the stone gate, outside the passage is a circular space about the size of the venue of the [Witch Council].
The pitch-black wind lingered in it, and Xia De could only see it when he squinted his eyes. There was a well in the center of the space. The water well is located in the very center of the circle, and the violent black wind is ejected from it. This is the passage on the mountainside.
The place is very empty, except for the well and the stone gate that has been opened, there are only mottled ritual traces on the wall, garbage beside the wall, and a bronze skull on the wall opposite the stone gate.
Miss Aurora and Granny Cassandra were standing in front of the metal skeleton at the moment. Because of the sound of the wind and the strong death power, they didn't notice Xia De's arrival. It wasn't until Xia De approached that they were surprised to see the dense golden cracks on Xia De's body.
"Devlin also had this behavior, but it was fiery red, and she gave you the flame?"
asked Granny Cassandra, and Shad shook his head.
Only then did he notice that the two witches were wearing jewelry that could directly open the passage of the parliament. Miss Aurora's is the [Ancient Witch's Gold Ring, the first from the right], and Grandma Cassandra's is the golden button on her chest. Presumably this is the [Ancient Witch's Golden Button] among the thirteen pieces of witch jewelry.
It was these two pieces of jewelry that helped them arrive here successfully.
"Xia De, why are you here? No, how did you come in?"
"Since Miss Galina can take a fancy to me, I am naturally superior."
He stretched out his fingers, and even the silver light on his fingertips seemed to be shaken by the wind. The rusty bronze skull in front of him looked very familiar.
"Shad, this is..."
Grandma Cassandra wanted to introduce, but Xia De had already recognized the thing in front of her:
"This is a soul-forging skeleton. People of the second era used ancient knowledge to make taboo alchemy weapons. Like the 'Giant Soldiers' found in the underground ruins of Tobesk, they are servants of ancient supernatural beings. Oh, the fifth How could the Witch Emperor at the end of the era be able to come up with something like this?"
Although the details are a little different, the thing in front of him is of the same kind as the skeleton guarding the "Yegger Scroll" that Shade saw in the Fifth Epoch's Dead Valley. It's just that this time the skeleton is holding a stone box instead of a stone slab.
"You know this too? Then there's no need to explain it. My mother-in-law and I think it's left by that witch emperor, Violet Marshall, as a gift for those who come after me."
Miss Aurora doesn't look very good, and she can't hold it for a long time in this kind of place:
"But we are all living people. If we take the box away, we will definitely fight this skeleton. In this kind of place, we don't want to fight."
"It's okay, I'll come."
Shade held out his hand as he spoke.
In the Fifth Era, Miss Olan Nord let Shade touch the skeleton once on the grounds that "you have not been born, so you are not considered a living person". At that time, Xia De understood that this thing was not malicious to him, definitely not because of time, but because he had entered the land of death.
Sure enough, after reaching out, he was just stopped by the skeleton instead of being attacked:
"Answer me, in the nothingness before the birth of the world, besides those ancient gods, what else is there?"
The witch emperor probably reset the language for this skeleton, and it spoke the ancient language of the Fifth Epoch. The question this time is different from what Xia De heard last time, but he also has the answer:
"The original flame."
Mr. Edmond of [Light Guiding Priory] said that [Primary Fire] was used by the ancient gods to illuminate the world before the birth of the world.
The skeleton resisted Xia De's arm and retracted. The bronze hand bone held the stone box and lifted it towards Xia De.
"Look, it's easy."
He smiled and said to Miss Aurora, and then the three of them saw the stone box turned into powder in the black wind.
On the skeleton's hand bones, only three items remained. A comb with an iridescent glow made of ivory; a wooden key that looked familiar to Shad; The manuscript is still longer.
None of the three items rotted in the black wind, but only the wooden key is a relic.
"Time key?"
Xia De was slightly surprised. Judging from the sparseness of the wood grain on the surface of the key, this key is still the time key leading to the fifth era.
"Since it's a time key, it's yours."
Miss Aurora reminded, reaching for the comb:
"What's this? It doesn't look like a relic, but...beautiful."
"A replacement for the ritual core left by Weedon's guardians."
Granny Cassandra, who took the parchment and unfolded it, said that the old witch was standing beside Shad, reading the contents of the parchment with her eyes squinted in the wind by the light of his body:
"Here is the emperor's letter to the latecomers, which contains some historical information, some knowledge, and... yes, at the end, the complete seal content. In order for the latecomers to repair the ceremony, she will make the ceremony The core is condensed into this comb. Throwing the comb into the well and using the power of the witch with guidance can repair most of the ritual. But if we want to make a complete repair, I think we are not prepared enough."
"Then what other materials are needed for the ceremony... Do you want to restore this large-scale ceremony empty-handed with just this comb?"
Shad asked.
"Of course not~www.mtlnovel.com~ We have prepared some things to be used in advance, and besides that, the ceremony materials include this."
Miss Aurora flicked her long hair:
"The hair of the Great Witch is enough to be used as a spell-casting material, especially for rituals in the Witch System, where hair is often used as a ritual material. Although ring magicians in the sixth era didn't know it, it was common knowledge in the fifth era."
Seeing that Xia De hesitated to speak, the lady with curly brown hair added:
"I know what you're thinking, oh, young knight, manipulating the growth rate of hair is the most common secret technique used by witches. Apart from the vicious 'balding curse', nothing can stop us from having beautiful hair. "
Seeing that Xia De was really okay standing in such a place, the witches distributed the blue lizard blood ink and special Nim silver alloy wire in the ritual materials to Xia De, and asked Xia De to help restore the dilapidated ceremony venue. And part of the knowledge in [Witch Reverberation Fei Lianna] also helped Xia De better understand the work to be done.
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