Hao Ren was completely shocked. He had calculated thousands of times before, but he never realized that the "noble family" who used to live in this house turned out to be a group of demon hunters!
Moreover, he broke with the Demon Hunter Cult and got involved with a different kind of Demon Hunter!
Hesperis' face was full of disbelief: "This is impossible! If the previous note and the voice just now are true, could it be that this group of demon hunters defected from their sect? It has never happened since ancient times!"
"The demon hunters are extremely united and loyal to the sect. Even if there is a huge internal conflict, it will not turn into a defection." Vivienne also shook her head lightly, "At least until we release the shackles of innate hostility, None of them have ever had an example of defecting from an organization... let alone running a group of people to help Hercules, the 'remnant of the alien'."
At this time, Hao Ren suddenly remembered a detail that he had just heard from the echoes of the past: "Wait a minute, didn't we hear it in the house just now, a demon hunter said that Hercules extracted power from the artifact, and then removed them from the Freed from bondage... Could the bondage here refer to innate hostility?"
Vivian let out an ah, and seemed to suddenly realize: "Ah, so that's what that sentence means... What the hell is that artifact?"
"It has the power of a bat, and it somehow lifted the innate hostility curse of a group of demon hunters, and there is a big villain sealed inside," Lily scratched her hair, wagging her tail restlessly, "Why so many Weird attributes."
Hao Ren didn't say a word, but looked up at the towering tower behind the main house: In this ancient house located in a different space, the tower is still intact. It is built of stones and painted with white mortar. Iron ornamental frames adorn the sides of the slender windows. Seeing some details of it in good condition, and recalling the words he heard just now, Hao Ren realized that this is actually a magic tower.
It's just a regulation masquerading as a secular building.
"The echoes of the past that we hear so far seem to be following us," Hesperis said. "Wherever we go, we hear voices, and they all sound like some major turning point in events."
Vivienne nodded slightly: "Maybe someone deliberately set these up to remind us, or it may be that the living stepped into this space and touched the magic power that has been preserved here for hundreds of years. This phenomenon often occurs in ancient monuments."
"That tower," Hao Ren pointed to the tower behind the main house, "I think the turning point of everything happened in that place."
The group quickly found the way to the tower, and they walked through the path between the main house and the attached house, and came to the back of the mansion: there may have been a small garden here, but now there are only flower beds and stone flower pots. See oddly off-white grit and a twisted semi-crystalline substance, and the tower is at the end of this "little garden."
Lily was emboldened, and just as she was about to step towards the tower gate, she suddenly heard a fierce quarrel in the nearby air:
First came a majestic male voice: "Enough! Sivir! Your research direction is becoming more and more dangerous. If you continue like this, sooner or later you will step into the darkness on the other side of the border!"
Then a young female voice: "I know what I'm doing, Master Mojaben, and I respect your learning, but despise your flinching—didn't you see it? The wonderful sight on that side? In that darkness it wasn't Empty! Except…”
"Besides madness, what else do you want to find?" Mojaben's voice became even higher, "Before you complete your first adult trial, you should have heard your mentor say countless times that there are indeed countless mysteries in this world , but not every mystery can be touched by mortals, behind some secrets is a taboo twisted world, and some secrets lead to the dark side of the universe, and now you are standing only a thin line away from the dark side of the universe! From today onwards, you can no longer meet Hercules, and you are not allowed to touch that artifact. I will keep it forever... "
The sound stopped abruptly here, and this short echo was over.
Hao Ren looked at Hesperis: "It seems like you said, as long as we arrive at a place where a major event has happened, we will touch the space-time memory here."
Lily came to the tower door, shrugged her nose to confirm that there was nothing suspicious inside, and then pushed open the unusually heavy door nailed with a mixture of oak and iron bars.
The moment the door opened, Hao Ren seemed to hear countless voices rushing towards him. They were trivial whispers, intermittent quarrels, and meaningless daytime chats, as if there were hundreds of invisible people hiding in the Nearby, pointing and discussing in low voices right here, and the mixed whispers were so vague that he couldn't make out any meaningful fragments at all.
It wasn't until more than ten seconds later that these whispers gradually weakened and disappeared, but there were still a few sporadic sounds floating from nearby. Facing the dark magic tower gate, these whispers coming out of nowhere are creepy.
"There's a magic focus here," said Hesperis, who also heard voices, but more professionally, "so a lot of extra voices were recorded."
Hao Ren nodded, and joined Lily in the front line, and walked into the tower, the whispering voices followed them like a shadow.
The structure in the tower is surprisingly simple—perhaps because he has explored too many large-scale relics, and seeing a huge magic tower like the "Spirit World Bell Tower", Hao Ren almost forgot what should be inside the normal tower. What does it look like. There is almost no decoration inside the building, and there are no rooms. There is only a spiral upward wooden staircase extending along the curved wall. In the middle of the tower, several platforms protruding from the wall can be seen. Outside, you can directly see the topmost floor.
On the bottom floor, Hao Ren saw many wooden shelves lined up along the walls. On the shelves were suspicious potion bottles, silver ritual utensils, and scrolls and books of unknown age. Perhaps because of the heterogeneity, all of these things appear distorted and disordered, the glass bottles become crooked, the ritual utensils glow with an abnormal luster, and the books and scrolls are blank after being opened.
When they stepped up the stairs, everyone heard the old voice again, and this time the voice was mixed with the surrounding whispers, and it also showed serious distortion and interference, so that it was impossible to tell who the voice of the speaker was:
"It has finally begun to enter the real world... Our measures have not had much effect. The power of that artifact cannot be sealed. It is far beyond our understanding."
"So only a prison can be built..."
"In the end, we still have to use Sivir's results. Although her research caused the boundary to be broken in advance, she was the one who found the possibility."
"Can Sivir come back?"
"All I can find is her research notes and a ruined ritual site...she has probably been sucked into the other side of the boundary, the dark side of the universe, from which no mortal can escape. Sadly, we have lost a promising hunter." Demon, she is actually the best researcher I have ever seen. If she stays in Corpus, she may even become a scholar in the library of the clock tower of the spirit world... It's a pity that she ran out with us, and Her impatience cost her again."
"Forget it, forget it, I'm dying anyway. But you, old man, this burden will fall on you and Hathaway, you have to persevere."
"Ha, Hercules will also be there with us, don't worry..."
The sound faded away, and the spiral staircase was coming to an end.
"They must have performed some kind of ritual on it," Vivienne looked up at the end of the stairs, "and then created the 'enchantment' of the village."
After the last few flights of stairs, Hao Ren held onto the wooden handrail beside him, looked at the situation on the top floor of the tower with his head, and then let out a soft "Huh".
The top floor of the tower is a circular room with a large number of shelves and desks. Four long and narrow windows are symmetrically distributed on the curved outer wall. In front of one of the windows, there is a black chair impressively. A man with white hair is sitting there!
His back was facing the stairs, so he couldn't see his face, but Hao Ren could see the demon hunter's suit on the opponent's body, and a holy silver long sword lying on his leg with half of it protruding from the side.
"Someone?!" Lily was following Hao Ren, and she couldn't help but whispered immediately after seeing the situation above.
"Big dog, you hit me in the face with your tail—what's going on up here?"
"Excuse me..." Hao Ren walked towards the old man sitting in front of the window, but there was no response from him.
You can already see the appearance of the other party from here. This is an old witcher. Although you can still see some heroism in the past from the outline of his eyebrows, he is already very old now. He is slumped on a chair, Facing out the window, eyes half-closed, still seems alive, but doesn't feel alive at all.
Hao Ren stretched out his hand, but just as he was about to touch the old hunter's shoulder, a faint female voice came from not far away: "Don't disturb the watcher." (To be continued~^~)