"Sure enough, it is the lowest undead creature. Although its strength and agility are amazing, its intelligence is completely at the level of a beast. Doesn't it show how dangerous I am?"

Thinking in his heart, Xia De drew the moonlight sword from the air with his right hand. As the ghoul approached, he stabbed a sword in front of him—

"The blade of chaotic time and space!"

The ghoul twisted its body nimbly in the air to avoid Xia De's first sword, and then was pierced directly through the head by the second sword pierced from the air.

Its "life force" was extremely tenacious, even so it still rushed forward to Xia De's neck, but Xia De easily dodged it.

With a swipe of the moonlight in his hand, the arc-shaped blade of light cut the fallen ghoul into two pieces. The two corpses wriggled at the same time trying to escape, and a foul-smelling black-green liquid flowed out from the wounds of the corpses.

It took a long time before it completely stopped moving, and Xia De also confirmed that the other party had finally truly entered "death".

He squinted his eyes and looked at the disgusting corpse on the ground:

"Although Priest Augustus is the second ring, he is not good at fighting. Facing this kind of ghoul that can be called an 'elite', he will indeed be forced to the catacombs. But he is absolutely impossible to die because of this. The priest probably There is still a backup, but the movement is too loud, and you have to find a place where there is no one to use it..."

With the sword in his right hand, he stirred the hideous and terrifying corpse on the ground. In fact, quite a lot of alchemy materials and potion materials could be separated from this mutated and more powerful "ghoul". But this requires professional techniques and professional equipment to complete the harvest. Although [Witch Reverberation - Fei Lianna] gave Xia De a lot of basic knowledge, including simple material separation techniques, he has no professional equipment.

This is not holding a sword, simply cutting a piece of meat.

Therefore, he chose to open the locked door of the ancient tomb, put his palm on the ground, and used "Flianna's Witch's Light" to "melt" the ground to create a big hole, and threw the divided body into two pieces. go in.

Handling the corpses of undead creatures must be done with care, or it could lead to even greater trouble. The best way to deal with it is to burn the corpse to ashes with the oil such as [Fire Heart] used by the priests of Augustus, but Shade does not have this kind of potion on him, so he buried the corpse first, and then deal with.

After burying the body, he returned to the wall where the priest disappeared last, and pressed his hand on the wall. The surface of the cold earth wall was uneven, but it was not unusual:

"What did you find?"

[Nothing was found. 】

"Really...Flianna's Witch's Light."

The palm of the hand emitted a golden light, and then the wall was "melted" by the light like cream. Xia De controlled the power of the thaumaturgy, only letting his hand penetrate the inside of the wall.

But until his elbows were also inserted into the wall, the back was still solid.

"This is troublesome, there are no traces of elements, and it is not a mechanism."

Withdrawing his hand, he took a sharp breath. As the invisible air flow rushed from the wall into Shad's nose, at the cost of losing less than two seconds of life, he restored the wall to its original shape.

"Did the priest really evaporate out of thin air?"

Shad looked around again, and there seemed to be no other clues in the cold and damp catacombs:

"Do you want me to lick the floor and the wall?"

[No need, because you used the thaumaturgy "Breath of Time", you got in touch with the space in front of you more deeply and got detailed information. 】

"[Breath of Time] still has this kind of benefit?"

Considering that the thaumaturgic effect is to inhale air currents representing "past time" into the nose, this also seems reasonable:

"I knew that the thaumaturgy that uses lifespan as the material for casting spells cannot only have the effect of changing time... What do you know?"

[An area similar to a space anomaly zone once appeared here briefly. Your friend, there is a high probability that you have fallen into a space anomaly. 】

"Priest Augustus was teleported to another place?"

Xia De thought of him and Luvia in the cornfield of the Dark Realm, passing through the space fault zone, and coming directly to the gate of Miss Galina's manor.

[The perceived information is not much, but the opposite is not the physical world. I felt twisted, malicious, and death in its purest form. 】

Xia De thought for a while, and then confirmed that with his own knowledge, he had no idea what this meant:

"Could it be that Priest Augustus fell into the underworld? But in the mythology system of this world, there is no underworld at all..."

After people in this world die, if they are not picked up by gods or dragged to paste the wall (referring to the wall of unbelievers), they can only "keep going". The concept of "reincarnation" in the hometown of foreigners does not even exist here.

"Isn't it some kind of subspace that seals evil things?"

This is the most likely outcome.

Since there were no clues to the next step in the catacombs, Shad left the misty cemetery and returned to the "House of the Blind" in the city by carriage. By the time he knocked on the door of No. 15 Ruf Lane again, it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon.

At this time, the effect of [Shad's Blood Echo] completely disappeared, and the only clue Shad had was that the priest finally disappeared in front of the deepest wall of the catacomb area at the foot of Mount Xikar.

This time it was not Ms. Michelle who opened the door for Shad, but probably with Ms. Michelle's permission, the young nun who also wrapped cloth strips around her eyes led Shad directly to the third floor.

Ms. Michelle's eyes have returned to normal, but instead of covering her eyes with sackcloth again, she covered her eyes with a silver crown-like blindfold that Shade had seen once.

When entertaining Xia De to sit down, Ms. Michelle also told Xia De that in [Spiritual Religion], only monks who are official nuns can wear such blindfolds. In the "House of the Blind" stronghold, she is the only one qualified.

The two still met in the reception room, and Xia De told each other what he had just experienced. Ms. Michel frowned slightly when she heard the word "ghoul". When Xia De said that he found the priest falling into a strange space through a method that is not convenient to disclose, the middle-aged woman in her forties frowned even more. raised his eyebrows:

"Sorry, I'm not suspicious of a powerful Ring Warlock like you."

She probably misunderstood Shad, but before Shad explained, the nun continued:

"Excuse me, are you sure that it is a twisted, malicious, and full of death?"

"very sure."

"Then do you know the local myths and legends?"

"I don't know anything except what the coachman told me that there is an inexplicable fog on Mount Xical every autumn."

Shad said honestly, thinking that he could go to the tower keeper of Coldwater Harbor, Mr. Edmund, a self-proclaimed folklorist, to inquire about rumors about the city.

"In fact, there is a very old rumor in this city, and it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false."

Ms. Michel lowered her head and said cautiously:

"The first point that needs to be emphasized is that, like Priest Rat Augustus, who suddenly disappeared somewhere, in this city, it happens frequently every one or two years. Walking and walking suddenly Lost trace, or talked to his companion, but turned his head away, and the companion disappeared."

This sounds like an urban legend in the age of steam. Once Tobesk's tabloids can't find a suitable topic such as "The Showdown of the Grand Duke's Lovers", they like to use this kind of shocking story to occupy the page, and even Those who have good intentions publish these stories in a collection, which is also an illegal publication.

"Mysterious disappearance?"

Xia De frowned slightly:

"It seems that there are similar rumors in many places, but it is just a bizarre case that is difficult for the city hall and the police to solve."

"But at Midhill Castle, it's real. I thought Priest Augustus had just had an accident, but I didn't expect this to be the case."

"Has the church explained the situation?"

"There are rumors that at Mount Xical..."

Xia De looked at the window. From the window on the third floor, he could directly see the mountain range that had been shrouded in mist. Mount Xikale is part of the Rommel Mountains. The continuous mountains are like a giant dragon in the hometown of foreigners, lying in the distance of the city.

"At the foot of Mount Xikale, there is an ambiguous area that connects the world of the living and the world of the dead. The church calls it [The Narrow Room of Life and Death]."

Although there is no "underworld" in this world, because the dead will continue to walk, there is a clear boundary between the living and the dead. This kind of "boundary" is just a conceptual thing, Xia De has never heard of it, there really is such a place:

"It's not normal, a place like this shouldn't exist."

Shad pointed out that the nun nodded:

"This is indeed abnormal. There shouldn't be any connection between death and the material world, and there shouldn't be a passage connecting the two, but there are indeed similar gaps in the material world. Most of them are small in scale, and Fort Midhill , built on the top of the largest known boundary between life and death. Including the white fog that must appear every autumn on Mount Xikar and the inexplicable disappearance of people, this is the blurred boundary of the boundary, which leads to the direct connection between the world of the living and the dead. due to overlap."

Ms. Michelle sighed softly:

"And once you fall into that boundary, it is almost equivalent to death; once you enter a special door in [The Narrow Room of Life and Death], you really step into an irreversible death. There, the concept of death is really connected itself."

"The rumors you mentioned are all local legends?"

These things were not mentioned in the folklore-related courses of the second-ring warlocks at all.

"No, there is a lot of evidence to prove that this is the real situation. Mr. Watson, the religious order has long ago determined that there is indeed something under this Mount Xikal, this volcano..."

Xia De was taken aback:

"Volcano? I'm sorry, please forgive my impoliteness. Mount Xikale is a volcano? Although my geology and geography are not good, it doesn't look like a volcanic terrain."

"This is indeed an extinct volcano."

Ms. Michele said that while she was wearing a crown-like eyepatch that prevented Shad from seeing her eyes, the woman was clearly not joking:

"The Orthodox Church knows about the [Life and Death Room] under Mount Xikar, but they don't disclose any information to the outside world. The church believes that it is actually a very dangerous relic."

"Angel level?"

Xia De asked tentatively, but Ms. Michel shook her head slightly.

"Unknown level?"

His eyes widened.

"The sect thinks so. Some things are inconvenient to tell you, but in fact, the sect has been exploring the secrets here. We worship death, and we perceive spirituality. You can peep into its appearance, and even peep into the twisted The terrible power of death, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with it, which is really incredible to me."

Ms. Michel concluded:

"Judging from the current information, Priest Rat Augustus should not have entered the door in [The Narrow Room of Life and Death], but just fell into the [Narrow Room of Life and Death]. And the ghoul you met is It arises because of blurred boundaries."

"It turned out to be like this...then you guys help dispose of the corpse of the ghoul, and the valuable things on it will be regarded as rewards."

Xia De put his hands on his head and said, this situation is really an unimaginable big trouble~lightnovelpub.net~ Just a day ago, with the help of Tifa, he was still making the final preparations for the big city player finals , but 24 hours later, another terrible rumor was heard here.

Today is Thursday, the 19th day of the Harvest Moon. From the leisure at the beginning of the month to the present, after more than half a month of rest time, foreigners understand that their own adventure is about to begin again.

The nun said softly:

"Thank you for your generosity."

It is not difficult to dig out the buried corpse, and the materials that can be separated from the mutated and powerful ghoul are indeed valuable. The most valuable of these are ghoul brains and ghoul lungs, which can be sold for at least 20 pounds from Mr. Cops in Tobesk.

Xia Deken gave it to the other party, in addition to expressing his gratitude, but also because he was in this city, he might need more help from the [Spiritual Practice Group].

"Then assuming the priest does fall into that kind of place, is there a way to get him out?"

Shad asked again.

"You can only come out by yourself. The area where life and death are ambiguous is not something we living people can interfere with. But once we haven't left for a long time, or we have really crossed the border, crossed the gate of the border between life and death, and entered The world of the dead will never come out again."

Xia De nodded, he almost understood the meaning of the priest's "dead but not dead" status. The priest thought he couldn't get out, so he used his last strength to enter Shade's dream to say goodbye to him.

"Then for the next period of time, I will stay in Fort Midhill until the priest is rescued."

Xia De stood up and walked to the window, looking at the rolling mountains in the setting sun:

"Most definitely."

"Good luck."

Ms. Michelle said in a low voice.

It's not that she doesn't want to help directly, but she's really powerless.