With tall limbs and long, slender legs full of thorns, these spiders look strangely terrifying. The horror comes from a structure that is completely different from many common creatures. After the insect is enlarged, the special limb structure impacts the common sense that has been formed for a long time.
This structure that is different from mammals is always surprising and shocking.
Roland Hill raised his head slightly and looked at the white spider that was rushing down quickly in the air. At such a close distance, the tiny hairs on the high feet were so clear, and the darkening fangs secreted liquid, like a waterline. Shot out, hit the face.
In this brief moment of less than a second, these high-speed and agile spiders swooped down on the girl, seeing that the thorn-like fangs were about to bite on the white neck, the swordsman girl finally Moved.
The long sword fluttered like a butterfly in his hand, and several lavender blades flashed through the forest, cutting away the obstacles in the air without a sound, and the figure that was standing there was like a phantom, 'swam' through. The side of these spiders, and then slowly lowered the sword body again.
After a while, a sparse 'rain' began to fall behind the girl. The spider's body smashed onto the fallen leaves and moss, splashing a yellow-green viscous liquid, and the surrounding air also had a slightly sour smell. .
After smelling this smell, many small spiders in the forest began to flee, as if they were warned.
But considering that letting go of these spiders might harm more people, Roland Hill acted again. With her sword in hand, she quickly shuttled between the forests, cutting down big trees and slicing small spiders that escaped. Countless white and yellow-green limbs and acid were sprinkled on the ground. The lavender arcs, like lightning, clear the circle of dangerous spiders.
Nearly half an hour later, the forest finally quieted down again, and Roland Hill was slightly tired and sat resting on a big tree not far away. This big tree is now horizontally on the ground, and dozens of distances in front of it are a pile of spider corpses.
"I'm finally done." After taking a break, Loren Hill wiped his sweat and put away the sword stuck on the ground.
It was easy for her to kill those big spiders, but it was hard not to let these little spiders get away. It took a lot of work for her, who only had Sequence of War 4.
Now that the spiders were dealt with, Roland Hill walked into the forest again to see what was hidden in the forest where the spiders were hidden.
The cobwebbed jungle is full of silk threads and white cocoons, some of which are used to hatch baby spiders, and some are wrapped in dead beasts.
After cutting some white cocoons with a sword, Roland Hill handled these things carefully, and then rarely saw the remains of a few fish bones.
Is there a river near here? The girl guessed, and then remembered the raccoon dog she had met before. This animal often lives by the water.
After the inspection, no human corpses were found, which made the girl relieved. Maybe this place is too remote, and few people come here.
She walked out of the dark spider forest, took out a small pot, and poured the prepared kerosene along the outer edge of the forest.
Stretching out her fingers to feel the direction the wind was blowing at the moment, the girl nodded, then threw down the match and lit the small haystack below.
Immediately, a burst of green smoke floated between the dead leaves and grass. Amidst the billowing green smoke, a small flame rose, igniting the surrounding green smoke, and soon other parts also burned, and the green smoke gradually faded.
Smelling the scent of the burning grass and ash in the air, Roland Hill stood aside, watching the fire gradually spread, scorching towards the spider forest behind.
As evening approached, the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and the fire that soared into the sky brought bursts of heat waves, rushing around, making people feel the scorching touch on their faces just by looking at them.
"I hope it won't be too conspicuous." The girl said worriedly as the fire grew bigger and bigger.
It's not that she is worried that the fire will get out of control. She is still prepared for this. She has made a fire barrier in advance, but she is afraid that other people will see and rush over and misunderstand that she is setting fire to the mountain, although the essence is true.
The night gradually fell, and the fire still did not go out. It was particularly conspicuous in the dark night. The bright yellow fire shone all around. Roland Hill was sitting not far away, with a few treated fish stuck on the ground in front of him.
After finishing the mission, she looked around and found a rushing river in the forest behind the hillside, so she also caught a few fish and enjoyed it for dinner.
Under the light of the fire, the swordsman girl looked at the fire that was not going out for a while, and walked back and forth. At this moment, the black and white raccoon dog trotted over again, hiding in the grass in the woods, its small black eyes hesitantly looking at the charred fish.
After rustling for a while, the cat-sized raccoon dog came out again, came to Roland Hill, watched the girl bark a few times, then lifted its front feet and landed in the direction of the grilled fish.
That look seems to be saying, can I eat it? It looks a little pitiful and cute.
"Okay, I know you're hungry, so I'll give you one." Loren Hill squatted down funny and looked at the little animal.
"But only one, I'm hungry right now." The girl took this opportunity to pat the raccoon dog's head.
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On the other side of the mountain and the forest, the back door of the lord's castle was pushed open again, and Viscount Moruo took the housekeeper and the girl out again.
"Try it again tonight, I don't believe it anymore." After a day of restlessness and anxiety, Viscount Moruo was still a little unwilling to give up.
"Yes, my lord."
The housekeeper followed at the end, and in the middle was the girl with dark blonde hair. Compared with yesterday, her clothes were much tattered, as if they were scratched by branches and thorns. Today, he is still staggering behind Viscount Moruo.
"You'd better walk faster, I don't have time to wait for you all the time." After walking a distance, Viscount Moruo turned his head and watched the girl drink lowly.
"Yes, my lord." After hearing the reprimand, the girl trembled in fear, and then replied in a low voice and uneasiness.
"Humph." Viscount Moruo turned around again, and the three slowly walked towards a hidden place in the forest.
In the end, the three stopped under a large stone, which was about two miles away from the castle, so it was impossible to say how far or near.
After stopping here, the housekeeper stepped forward as ordered, found a hidden corner under the boulder, input some magic power, and soon after, the stone slowly turned, revealing the passage below.
Holding torches and lanterns, the three walked into the dark passage, and then the boulder slowly closed again.
Walking in this underground passage, the world seemed to be quiet, and only the slight crackling sound of the torches and the whistling sound of flames passing through the air could be heard.
The surrounding walls are fairly flat, and there are no signs of weathering and aging on the steps below. It seems to have been built in the past ten years.
After the three of them walked in this long passage for a long time, the surrounding walls and steps changed into another style, more primitive and full of traces of time erosion.
On these walls are exposed gray and black bricks, some of which have been pressed crookedly, and the steps under the feet are also broken and full of various gaps and gravel. Walking in it, you will fall down if you are not careful.
After walking through the long and quiet stairs, everything around him became more and more silent and depressing. At this time, the world on the ground seemed to be a very distant existence, and at this moment, the sound of his own breathing was so clear.
"It's here." Viscount Moruo's voice sounded, there was no surprise and excitement, only exhaustion and anxiety.
He turned his head again, looked at the young girl in the light of the fire, was silent for a while, then stepped aside to reveal the scene behind him.
This is a small enclosed space with a stone wall at the end of this square passage. The relief of a skull is painted on the wall, along with a crescent moon, with branches and vines wrapped around it, and wisteria flowers in full bloom. Valley
This is the symbol of the Quicksilver Dynasty, and its style is still that of the early dynasty. Although there is nothing in the square space, if you stretch your hand in, you can feel a repulsive force, and there is a feeling of life being extracted and corroded.
This is the ban left by the former Mercury Dynasty. If you must forcibly break in, you must at least have the strength of Sequence 8, and this will also trigger the secret technique of self-destruction left in it, making the intruder return empty-handed.
In order to fight the orc empire and the elf kingdoms in difficult times, the Quicksilver Dynasty established dungeons in various places in the early days. These dungeons are not suitable for life, but they have little impact on the undead creatures and have the advantage of home battle, so as to resist stubbornly. .
And if it is really unable to resist the evacuation, the things that cannot be taken away will be sealed.
According to Viscount Moruo's search and translation of ancient documents for more than ten years, he has figured out that there is a 'sacred relic' obtained during the Quicksilver Dynasty sealed here. Compared with ordinary creations, 'sacred objects' have extraordinary functions, and these things are not made by humans or elves, but are the heritage of gods.
Just like saying that the witch is a fragment of a god, the sacred object is a smaller fragment. Although these fragments are separated from the crown and cannot be returned to it, they still retain a little power.
The 'sacred object' representing the mighty power of the gods is also a treasure that has been chased by various organizations and heroes for several epochs. Possessing it can even allow ordinary Sequence 9 to resist the terrifying power of witches in a short period of time. This is also a 'sage' It's the reason that can check and balance many witches.
The 'Sage Society', which gathered the legendary heroes, still retains a large number of 'sacred objects'. Although it is not often used, it has always ensured the supremacy of this organization as a powerful deterrent.
There are these red rust-like marks on the gray-white stone wall, which seems to be caused by the infiltration of groundwater. Against the background, the skeletons and crescents on the wall also appear more dilapidated, as if they were abandoned by time.
"It's a pity." Looking at the unreachable stone wall, Viscount Moruo murmured, and then stretched out his hand to feel the resistance in the square channel below again.
The hand seemed to touch a soft barrier. In the extraordinary perception, a fresh and warm energy slowly flowed from the body. Before the body was damaged, Viscount Moruo took his hand back again.
Now he only has the strength of Sequence 3, which can only be considered ordinary among the nobles, and he has not improved for many years.
Before the change of the world, he still had the strength of Sequence 4. After he didn't want to change everything, it seemed more difficult for him to practice. Now that he has returned to Sequence 3, there is no change.
Thinking of this, he shook his head again, then took out the holy white sphere in his arms, held it in the palm of his hand, and stretched it out again.
At this time, the viscous resistance in the air seemed to be neutralized and became weak, and he was able to move forward slowly, and finally touched the skeleton on the wall. A little bit of stone chips and dust peeled off the wall and fell into his palm. He tried to inject magic power or drip blood into the skull, but there was still no response.
Seeing this, he turned his head and looked at the girl not far behind him.
"come here."
The girl raised her face, touched her hands in fear, and walked over with her head lowered.
Compared to Viscount Moruo, this girl suffered much less resistance. But even so, her face turned pale, and her body seemed to be shaky.
After she got close to the stone wall, Viscount Moruo grabbed the girl's hand and cut a small hole with her fingernails, letting the blood flow out.
"Sword Comes"
Drops of dark red blood dripped on the mottled skull, and then the skull trembled, and there were bursts of crackling noises from behind the stone wall.
Seeing this, Viscount Moruo and the butler looked at the stone wall intently, waiting for some kind of change.
But after a few minutes, the movement slowly subsided again, until calm was restored.
"It's the same as yesterday." Viscount Moruo frowned and slapped the wall in annoyance.
Where is the problem? He kept thinking about it in his mind, and then recalled the information he had inquired from the classics over the years.
The device in front of him is obviously a ban on verifying the bloodline, and only people with a specific bloodline can unlock it with fresh blood. Such structures, although rare today, were once popular in the distant past.
To trace the origin of this secret technique, we have to mention the era of the first empire of mankind, the True Red Empire.
In the empire that is good at demon sequences, various blood-related secret arts flourished, and the nobles were also proud of their own blood at first, so they invented this kind of thing that can identify the blood of their descendants.
It is a pity that this secret technique gradually declined during the Quicksilver Dynasty. Compared with an empire ruled by bloodline inheritance, the Quicksilver Dynasty is more like a union of necromancers, so it pays more attention to the inheritance of master and apprentice, rather than bloodline. Therefore, the further down the road, the less this kind of secret technique is used, until after the disintegration of the Mercury Dynasty, these ancient secret techniques were lost in wars and disasters.
Now he found this thing in the ruins again. After constant research and experimentation, he finally set his target on the remnants of the Quicksilver Dynasty.
After the disintegration of the Mercury Dynasty in the Second Era, many blood descendants of the original dynasty were exiled to the Eternal Dark Island, and this situation continued until the Chaos Calamity at the beginning of the Third Era.
Because in the disaster, the necromancers played a role again, the high-level human beings no longer continued to suppress this sparse sequence, and some remnants of the eternal dark island were also able to return to the mainland, and a large number of them were assigned to the barren and desolate north of the empire. The most famous of these remnants is the Trey family with the gray raven as the coat of arms.
It was the undead army led by this family that, in the war between the Green Empire and the Oz Kingdom, finally captured the magical city of Oz, Eudymite.
After the war, the remnants of Eternal Dark Island returned to the barren north, but a few bloodlines remained in the south. They may be the products of love during the war, or they may be greedy for the warm climate of the south, and a small number of people finally secretly stayed.
Viscount Moruo spent a lot of time investigating one by one, and finally found the girl who was about to be executed in the prison in Longyi Province.
According to the obscure records of her ancestors, she was a remnant of the Eternal Dark Island, so she also had the bloodline inherited from the Quicksilver Dynasty.
Why is the mechanism behind the wall no longer responding after it rotates and vibrates, is it because the bloodline does not match
Viscount Moruo thought slowly, but rejected this conjecture. The bloodline on this girl is genuine, or after hundreds of years of living in the dark island, the residents of the island have intermarried, and the bloodlines have already been mixed.
Is it not pure enough? Maybe so, but now where can we find pure-blooded descendants of the Mercury Dynasty
Viscount Moruo pondered, watching the blood-stained skeleton on the stone wall motionless.
After a long time, he slowly put his hand down from the wall, put away the holy white ball, and walked out of this square passage again.
"Master?" the butler asked suspiciously.
"Let's go back first." He looked at the bloodstains left in his palms, and a message he saw in the past slowly emerged in his mind.
It is said that during the period of the True Red Empire, there was a secret technique for purifying blood. Although this was originally used for magical beasts to extract blood to make potions, it may not be impossible to try at this moment.
The only obstacle is that he needs to think about where he saw this information.
It is estimated that this time I have to turn over the entire library in the family.
Thinking of something in his mind, Viscount Moruo walked ahead without saying a word, until he returned to the ground again, and the edge of the sky gradually revealed a cold white.
Another new day begins.