"earthquake?"

The first time his feet began to tremble, Xia De thought of the terrible future he might encounter if he encountered an earthquake underground. But then he realized that it wasn't an earthquake, but the maze itself was shaking.

Observe carefully, the surrounding walls are slowly moving, some are turning in place, while others are moving towards the middle, and the sound of stone bricks rubbing against the ground is sharp and piercing.

Miss Anat, who was walking in the front, changed her face:

"Someone is manipulating that clerical-level relic [Maze Candle]. We are finally going to meet the Ring Warlock. Come on, come with me, don't fall behind."

But even if she said that, the speed of change of the maze wall was far beyond the expectations of the three.

After running a few steps forward, the wall around her suddenly slammed violently to the side, directly blocking Miss Bayas, who was walking at the back, behind the wall.

Xia De, who heard the voice, was very sensible and did not try to find Miss Bayas behind the wall, but continued to run forward with Miss Anat.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I turned the fork in front of me, a blood-red fog surged up:

"It's thaumaturgy!"

cried Miss Anat, pinching a pinch of powder from her pocket with her right hand and sprinkled it forward. But doing so had no effect. Instead, a few red-eyed bats flew out of the blood mist:

"This is not the thaumaturgy of the silver-eyed person. Detective, step back for a while, and I will deal with it."

Shad retreated back to the fork in the road behind him, but the walls of the maze were still changing. Xia De retreated, but Miss Anat did not retreat, and the two were about to be separated by the premise in front of them:

"Detective, don't follow me, we will act according to the original plan."

She only left these words, and rushed into the blood mist in front of her.

Shad wanted to follow, but stopped. The light of Yinyue flew out of his hands, but he couldn't leave any traces on the rising wall in front of him. He tried to shout a few words, but he didn't get any response from behind the wall.

Xia De, who was alone, stood still, listening to harsh noises coming from everywhere. It took two full minutes before all the walls stopped moving. In the new maze, the three of them dispersed separately, and the surroundings were silent. Xia De held the gold necklace around his neck tightly with his left hand, but his face was not panicked:

"Sure enough, this happened."

In the plan made before breaking into the ruins, I thought of the situation that the three people would be scattered for various reasons, among which getting lost in the illusion created by the maze candles was the most likely situation.

In this case, Miss Anat and Miss Bayas arranged for Xia De to find a relatively safe place to hide and wait for the two ladies to solve the trouble before coming out.

They seem to think that Xia De, who is alone, is weak, and it's good to protect himself, and don't think about doing more things. The significance of Xia De's follow-up is only to help solve the mirror that attacks the "other me". But now that the matter of the mirror is over, in the minds of the two ladies, it is a good thing that Xia De does not have to face the final battle.

"but now......"

He looked at the passage in front of him, and walked a few steps forward to the fork in the road:

"Where are you going?"

Touched the door pendant on the chest, but now is not a good time to use this:

"Feel if you can find the location of that [maze candle]."

[You can find it, but you can't touch it. The maze formed by this relic is not a real illusion. Otherwise, people outside the illusion would shoot directly, and you would have died long ago. This approximate incomplete maze, the way to leave, only you can find the exit of the maze. 】

"An incomplete maze?"

Xia De frowned and thought for a moment:

"This is going to be troublesome... I was attacked just now, why didn't anyone come to attack me?"

He stood there and waited for a while, and then he was sure that no enemy really came to him.

"Could it be that there are really only strangers and silver pupils from the Blood Spirit Sect in the depths of the maze? Seeing that I'm too weak, they don't plan to talk to me at all?"

Put your hand on the wall of the maze, but still no new discoveries. Of course Xia De is not willing to wait here like this, but it is of course even more impossible to use divinity because of the current situation.

[You still have other ways. 】

"I noticed you used the affirmative."

【Your emotional ups and downs are too small. 】

It's really nice to have a trusted voice to talk to yourself in this one-person environment. Although the "other me" is the price of gaining power, it will be entangled with the soul throughout the ringman's life. But at least, this means that ring warlocks will never be alone.

Taking a deep breath, hot and moldy air poured into his nostrils, Xia De said in his heart:

"Since there is no way to crack the maze, why not think about it in a different way. The ruins belong to the mortal sect of the [Innocent Creator], so will the sect leave some convenience for the new sect in the future?"

[You don't have the magic of that god, so it may not be easy to call on each other to resonate with the same power. 】

She reminded in a low voice.

"Yeah, there is no magic, but I have a last word."

Xia De looked around and said softly:

"Toymakers always dream of creating innocence."

Nothing happened.

Xia De thought for a while, and the face of the Augustus priest suddenly appeared. The only thing missing in the mysticism of the three major thaumaturgy academies is the content about prayer and magic:

"If you want to draw the power of the gods, of course you have to pray." (Note)

As he spoke, he closed his eyes and drew the holy emblem of the old **** [Innocent Creator] on his chest with his fingers. Shad used the technique he learned from Priest Augustus and prayed softly:

"Toymakers always dream of creating innocence."

As the wind passed by his ears, Shad heard a sigh. Opening his eyes again, a pure golden butterfly took off from his shoulder and flew into the distance in front of his eyes.

"What element?"

He stared at the butterfly that seemed to be seducing him.

【Miracle. 】

Shad knew his plan had succeeded.

The extinct sect would definitely not be able to guess what kind of relics someone would use in the ruins, but this butterfly, which is suspected of leading the way, has the function of guiding the correct path.

Following behind the flying golden butterfly, Xia De kept walking forward in the maze. Ten minutes later, a stone wall appeared in front of him, which meant that he had entered a dead end. But the butterfly did not stop, but went straight through the wall and disappeared.

"Is this the exit?"

Thinking suspiciously in my heart, I touched the necklace around my neck, and then lit the few remaining [Bordeaux candles].

Reaching out to touch the wall in front of him, his hand didn't pass through the wall, but touched the real obstacle.

Xia De froze for a moment:

"I see."

He increased his strength a bit, although the wall did not change, but his hand did push open a stone door. After the stone door was opened enough, Xia De stepped forward, his body passed through the wall, and entered the next room.

The maze is over, and the new relic room no longer has those large stone brick walls, and there are no other relics blocking the way.

The golden butterfly fluttered up and down in the darkness, and finally exploded into golden light particles in front of Xia De's eyes, illuminating the small room little by little.

Different from all the relic spaces that I have experienced just now, here is only the door that Shad passed through. The size of the space is about the same as the space in front of the original stone door. There are no notches on the wall, but there is a sarcophagus in front of it.

It should not be possible to enter this place by normal means. The sarcophagus has not been touched, and it seems that the people from [Mercury Blood] have not been able to find this place either.

Xia De hesitated for a moment, and after confirming that there was nothing but the coffin, he approached the ancient coffin. The sarcophagus bears only the name—Joel Old Callis—and it appears to be the tomb of one of the last three to remain at the site.

Under normal circumstances, Xia De would not mess around with other people's coffins, but since the golden butterfly guided him here, he could only go inside the coffin to find answers.

"Feel sorry."

He apologized seriously to the sarcophagus, and then pushed the sliding cover of the coffin. Obviously, no one has touched it for more than a thousand years, but the sliding cover is still easily pushed away.

There were no corpses inside, just an exquisite stone box, a roll of parchment, and a silver ring.

"May your soul rest in peace."

Xia De said in a low voice, he actually admired the last three people who stayed.

Then picked up the scroll of parchment and found that it was a letter. The characters used are still the ancient characters on the wall.

The beginning of the letter stated that the person who left this letter was Gina Angela Sewell, the last of the three people who stayed in the ruins to die. She explained that the stone box was the urn of Joel Old Carliss among the three, and hoped that the latecomers would not disturb it, and prayed for her two dead companions in the letter.

Finally, on the yellowed parchment scroll, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com drew a map of the ruins, and marked the coffins of the three people, the secret passage, the anti-theft mechanism and the location of some relics, hoping to help the latecomers.

Of course, the most important thing is the dangerous relic sealed by the relic, which is called the Keeper-level relic [Corpse Tree] on the parchment.

Although it is only at the keeper level, it has the characteristics of space movement, large-scale collective hallucinations, manipulation of undead, manipulation of life puppets, and so on. Once this relic goes wrong, it can destroy a city in a short time. But as long as it is not "eating" for a long time, its power will decline by itself, so it will be suppressed by the religious order in the ruins.

The letter did not talk too much about the more specific characteristics of the [Corpse Tree], but repeatedly emphasized that those who enter the ruins should not touch the [Corpse Tree]. At the same time, once the abnormal Mushu is found gushing from the wound of the companion around him, it means that he is infected and must be killed immediately.

The third item placed in the coffin, the silver ring next to the urn, is a relic of Karis. It's not a relic with the [Whispering] element, it's a personal relic, it's just an ordinary ring.

Miss Sewell, who left the letter, hoped that the latecomers would not touch the relics of the three of them. This was their only wish as the guardians.