At the end, there is an uncovered door. It was dark inside the door, and nothing could be seen, only the death energy was constantly pouring in, whistling in the ear like a yin wind.
Floyd closed his eyes, the power of his soul vibrated between his eyebrows, and ripples that could not be seen by the naked eye rippled.
After a long while, Frode opened his eyes and said, "The specific situation inside is unknown, but there is no soul left, and there is no breath of living creatures."
After confirming that there were no living creatures and no undead threat, Floyd and Angel stepped into the door.
The gloomy and dead aura inside was even more intense. Even without any energy drive, all kinds of ghost cries were spontaneously produced in the ears, as if a large number of resentful spirits were whispering.
Angel was not affected, but Floyd's eyebrows kept beating, and he looked like he was patient.
Seeing this, Angel took a slight step forward, and as the pace fell, an invisible mental force field enveloped him and Frode.
Under the protection of the mental force field, Frode finally breathed a sigh of relief: "This must be the place where Mrs. Shira sleeps, and the residual resentment is extremely strong. Just standing here can arouse the accumulation in my soul. Damn."
If it wasn't for Angel's protection, Frode would not last long here. Once the resentment inhaled is too much, he has only one end, which is degeneration.
"In this way, it seems that this place is more suitable for practicing soul tricks than Xinghu Castle." Angel muttered as he stretched out his hand, and a bright ball of light slowly rose from his palm.
The ball of light rose to the top of the head, and the incomparably brilliant light immediately dispelled the darkness and shone all around.
This is an advanced level of light, level 1 magic light.
Under the illumination of the radiance technique, they can already see the situation in the vicinity of more than ten meters. Within the range of light, there is nothing special, the ground is abnormally flat, and there are obvious grinding marks, which are artificially created.
Directly in front of them, at the edge of the light, there was a faint glimpse of a staircase.
"It seems that this place is bigger than I imagined." Angel muttered in a low voice, and ten light balls made by the radiance technique appeared in his palm at the same time. With a flick, the light balls flew in all directions.
The dark hole is like opening the skylight for direct sunlight, and it is instantly bright. Even the deep dark corners are replaced by light.
When the light completely replaced the darkness, they finally saw the scene in the cave.
The area of the underground cave is very wide, even if you put down two or three Star Lake Castles, there is no problem. The entire cave is very flat. There is a high platform similar to an altar in front of it. A large number of regular rectangular stone platforms are placed near the altar. Around the edge of the cave, there is a small black cave every few meters. In addition, There are no other artifacts.
Floyd frowned and looked around for a week, and finally his eyes were fixed on the high platform.
"This high platform..." Floyd pointed to the high platform that looked like an altar: "The death aura on it is extremely strong, like a substance."
Without needing to say Floyd, Angel already felt it.
Although to the naked eye, the high platform seems to be empty, but the aura full of death, decay, and silence is extremely conspicuous. It can even be said that all the dead energy in the entire underground cave is emitted from the high platform, where is the source of...
"It always feels a little strange here. Let's split up and see if we find anything. Finally, we'll go to the high platform." Angel didn't go to the high platform to explore the source of the dead air, but planned to split up with Frode first. The situation in the cave.
Floyd nodded. He also felt very puzzled about this hole. Why was there such a hole here and who built it? What to do
Angel exerted a mental force field on Frode, and then went to the left of the high platform, Frode went to the right.
Angel first sensed it with his mental power. The only things worth exploring on the left were those cuboid stone platforms and the small caves on the edge of the cave.
He walked to the cuboid stone platform.
These cuboid stone benches protrude directly from the ground. Regardless of their height and shape, they look like workbenches in a laboratory.
On the cuboid stone platform, objects are also placed like a workbench.
a skeleton.
To be precise, it is a broken human skeleton.
It is a left-handed skeleton, which has been completely dry. Under the scouring of the rich dead energy, brittle cracks appeared on the skeleton, and it is estimated that it will weather when touched.
Angel went to investigate through the double vision of the naked eye and the spirit, and found that when the left-hand skeleton lived, there seemed to be traces of energy infiltration. However, he couldn't be sure that he didn't fully understand the skeletal knowledge applicable to wizards, but he could ask Frode later.
In the absence of other discoveries, Angel went to another cuboid stone platform.
Like the previous stone platform, there is also a broken skeleton here, but the one here is smaller, the right palm bone.
Judging from the metacarpal bones, the knuckles are distinct and not missing, and there are also traces of energy moisturizing.
Angel recalled the previous left hand, which seemed to be larger than the right palm bone, and should not belong to the same person.
Immediately afterwards, Angel went to other cuboid stone platforms. Each stone platform had incomplete skeletons, all of which were different parts, and some were not human.
After reading the cuboid stone platform, Angel went to the small cave dug out on the cave wall.
He had used his mental power to investigate the situation in the small cave before, but now he just came to confirm it again.
After reading it, Angel was sure that the result was the same as that of the mental power vision: the small caves were not big, and the depth was only two meters inside. In each small cave, there was a complete human skeleton sitting cross-legged.
Angel looked around the caves for a week. These small caves were every few meters. There were 360 caves in total.
In each cave, there is a human skeleton sitting in the same cross-legged position.
This is absolutely not normal.
Angel seemed to have thought of something, his eyes suddenly became dark, and he silently paced back to the central high platform.
After a while, Floyd also came over.
Freud: "The stone platform is full of broken bones, some of which are human, some are humanoids, and some are non-native plane aliens. I feel that some superhuman may have done some secret research here. Because, all There are traces of energy use in the bones of the people before they died, and they should not be mortals."
Frode's judgment was similar to what Anger thought, and Anger pondered for a moment: "If it is really the secret research of supernatural beings, it would be normal for humans and humanoids to appear here. However, there are skeletons of otherworldly creatures, It reminds me of a certain ethnic group."
"The Carabites." Floyd agreed softly.
What the Karabits love most is the study of living things, especially outsiders.
Angel nodded: "Maybe it's a Karabit wizard doing experiments here."
Floyd: "There is a possibility, but from the perspective of the scene, it has been abandoned for a long time, and there is no trace of any experimenter, so this speculation cannot be confirmed."
Angel nodded, the skeleton on the stone platform has no more information for the time being, and can only be put down temporarily.
Angel: "What I pay most attention to is the skeletons in those small caves."
Floyd recalled for a moment, trembling slightly: "Those skeletons are all intact, but they are all sitting in the same cross-legged position, which makes me feel a little creepy."
After a pause, Floyd asked curiously, "Why do you care about those skeletons?"
Angel pondered for a moment: "The distance between each small cave is the same, the size of the inside is the same, the skeleton is also human, and it poses the same posture. Everything follows a unified standard. This reminds me of now…”
Angel hesitated for a moment before revealing the word in his heart: "Ritual."
ceremony. Frode whispered the word. Ritualism in the Southern Regions was not surrounded by extremist sects like inscription literature, so he had heard of it, but he had only heard of it, but rarely contacted it.
However, he knew that basically all sacrifices were more or less related to ritual. There is even a school of thought that, like inscription literature, ritual science is born out of the devil, but ritual science is born out of the sacrificial ceremony between the devil and the believers.
"I have been exposed to the ritual of prayer from Anada, and later learned some basics of ritual with Greya." Angel recalled some of the ritual contents of Professor Greya: "Before becoming a master of ritual existence Before, ritual studies rarely had freedom, and everything had to be done according to ritual."
"And the rituals of ritual science are very strict and rigid norms. For example, in the sacrificial ceremony, the position of the presenters must be scattered more than ten times the distance of the tribute, and all the presenters must be separated by three meters. The position of the person must be at 90 degrees…”
"It is precisely because of the existence of these norms that the ceremony can be carried out completely. The existence of the small caves here, in my opinion, is an absolutely rigorous set of norms."
After listening to Angel's explanation, Frode also understood why Angel valued small caves.
If it's just a ceremony, it's really nothing. But unfortunately, the rituals of this ceremony used human bones.
Regardless of whether this ceremony uses human sacrifices or dead human sacrifices, it all means that this is a sacrificial ceremony.
Sacrifice naturally has a goal, and the goal of using humans as tribute is generally a demon, an evil god, a monster with divinity that feeds on humans, or a giant from another world that is hostile to humans.
Otherwise, there is no need to use humans as tributes.
And whether these are demon gods, evil gods or other worlds, they are not easy to deal with, and they are all the focus of the wizarding world.
There is such a sacrificial ceremony here, which really needs to be taken seriously.
"Since the rituals are all human bones." Angel looked back at the nearby high platform: "Then this high platform is undoubtedly an altar."
"As for who this sacrificial ceremony is dedicated to, you can find out if you go up and take a look. There must be clues there."
After Angel finished speaking, he took the lead to set foot on the stairs of the altar.
Every time he took a step, Angel could feel that the scouring of death energy on the spiritual force field became more and more violent.
However, although the death energy here is very strong, it is not controlled, it is just an unconscious impact, and it will not cause any damage to the mental force field.
There are thirty-six steps in total, which just corresponds to the number of small caves, once again confirming the normative nature of the ceremony.
When they came to the top of the altar, what they saw was a bone altar built with the dead bones of the deceased.
There is nothing on the altar of white bones, but the aura of death is the strongest here.
Angel guessed that Mrs. Sila might have stayed on the altar before, so the aura of death and undead here was so strong.
Floyd circled around the altar and saw no other anomalies. That is to say, if they wanted to find clues, they could only search from this bone altar.
But at first glance, it is difficult to get clues on this white bone altar. Not only is there nothing, but the altar is pure white and has no lines.
Angel reached out his hand and touched the bone altar.
When the cold feedback came from the fingertips, Angel's eyes narrowed slightly.
"This bone altar has no energy left." Angel said slowly.
The altar of white bones is built with the dead bones of the deceased. The dead bones of the deceased are semi-finished magical materials in the wizarding world, and they must contain extraordinary properties.
But now, the dead bones of the deceased have been reduced to mortal objects, without any extraordinary properties, which means...
"The ceremony has already taken place."
Now that the ceremony has taken place, what exactly is this ceremony? Was the ceremony a success or a failure? Why is Mrs. Shira here
When Frode was full of doubts, Angel's palm slammed hard, and the altar of white bones fell apart instantly.
After a bang, the bone altar was brittle and fell to the ground.
As the bone altar shattered, the ground at the top of the altar was revealed.
"Hey, there's a symbol here!" Floyd looked down, but saw a strange symbol clearly drawn by humans in the center of the ground below the altar of white bones.
After confirming that there was no energy left on the bone altar, Angel used his mental power to investigate and found this symbol. That's why he shattered the bone altar to reveal the symbol.
This symbol, Angel had never seen before.
It is very neat and can be divided into three parts. The outermost is a concentric circle, and the inside of the concentric circle has a standard ritual hexagon, and inside the hexagon, there is a left-right symmetrical meandering symbol.
This symbol is like two symmetrical and curved crickets. When you look closely, it is imprinted in your mind. It seems to be alive, twisting and twisting.
"Although this symbol doesn't seem to have any extraordinary signs, it has a faint connection with the surrounding dead energy." Angel sighed: "Unfortunately, I have never seen this symbol."
The symbol inside this hexagon is obviously the key clue, perhaps pointing directly to the object of sacrifice.
Angel looked at Floyd on the opposite side, wanting to see if he knew.
Floyd shook his head: "I've never seen it either. However, it doesn't matter if I haven't seen it, we can ask for foreign aid..."