At 8:13 pm, when passing through a snow-covered swamp, the undead horse summoned by Miss Aurora was grabbed by the horse's hoof by a bone hand that stretched out from the swamp. This did not prevent the undead horse from moving forward, but it caused the undead mount to suddenly mutate, and then frantically tried to get everyone off the horse.
Although it took only a short time to destroy these crazy undead, the mounts that were summoned next were still crazy. As a last resort, Miss Aurora and Miss Carina checked the swamp under the snow, pulled out the terrifying undead with hundreds of hands hidden in the mud, and burned them into black ashes in the blizzard, which temporarily restored the undead summons in this area to normal.
The malice of the Great Swamp was becoming more and more obvious to these outsiders as the group continued to move forward. Before setting off, Shade was glad that the battlefield was far away from human settlements, so he didn't have to worry about other things even if the battle was fierce. But now it seems that this isolated battle site in a remote area is actually disadvantageous to them. After all, Legins Prisha has the help of the Pantanal Voodoo Society, and Miss Pavo is also in a cooperative relationship with the Voodoo Society. It is as easy for them to go to the island in the middle of the lake as to go home.
At 8:57 in the evening, without any warning, the last horse disappeared silently, and on it were Miss Aurora and her follower Miss Scarlett.
Neither Shade nor the other two witches could discover when they disappeared.
But Miss Carina told everyone to keep going forward and not to worry:
"Her summons still exist, and she is the strongest among us. Now it's not so much that Xiwei and Scarlett disappeared, but rather that we disappeared."
After Miss Aurora temporarily left the team, this eleventh-level witch became the temporary leader of the team:
"We expected to be separated along the way before we set out. We will continue to move forward and Xiwei will find us."
The following evening around nine o'clock, the group encountered a naturally formed area of spatial anomaly. Miss Sylvia and Shad used the power of space to temporarily suppress the circulating space, allowing the team to escape temporarily.
After another strong earthquake and flashes in the snowy night in the east, Shad and Miss Sylvia, who were checking in front to see if the abnormal space area had expanded due to the earthquake, unexpectedly discovered that Miss Carina, who was waiting for them behind them, and two other sorcerers, Miss Avril and Miss Catherine, had disappeared in the blizzard together.
"If we look at the number of people, it should be us who disappeared this time."
Sylvia didn't seem worried at all. She tightened her scarf and said to Shade with a smile:
"If we are forced to separate later, just go ahead on your own and don't worry about me."
As she spoke, she took off the ring on her left hand and handed it to Shade. It was a sage-level relic, the golden ring of the ancient witch, the second from the left. Although the wearer would receive the witch's curse, it would also enhance all extraordinary powers:
"You need it more than I do."
The young witch with black shoulder-length hair said, and just as she said, when they continued forward and reached a location two miles (about 3.2km) away from the deepest lake in the Great Swamp, Miss Sylvia, who had dismounted with Shad to check the edge of the foggy area, also disappeared.
The angel-level relic's lingering fog seemed to be cut off at an invisible line. Although there was thick fog behind him, he could clearly see the Great Swamp Ancient Road in the deep winter snowstorm.
Shade led the horse that was still following him and crossed the line to the area where the fog did not exist. After feeling a moment of confusion and a throbbing pain in his temple, he immediately understood what was going on:
"The whispering element and the blasphemous element... There is a problem with the seal of the evil object in Pantanal. The angel-level relic is not cut off here, but it simply dares not move forward. After all, it is only angel-level, not unknowable-level."
He looked down at the clear footprints left by Miss Sylvia on the snow:
"This is the third time someone has disappeared. This is not a change in the power of space."
Like some kind of natural phenomenon, the power of the evil creatures in the warp has begun to affect reality. But it should be safe, as there are still many secrets in this great swamp.
"No matter what, let's keep going. The witches are stronger than me, so I should be the one who is worried. However, I am the only one this time."
He thought silently in his mind, climbed onto the horse, and pulled the scarf up to cover the lower half of his face.
Isn’t this good
"She" asked with a smile, and the howling wind in the dark night could not blur her voice.
“It’s hard to evaluate.”
Xia De grabbed the reins and prepared to continue, but suddenly frowned and looked forward.
Visibility was very low in the blizzard, but he confirmed that there was no one among the scary dead trees covered with frost before he got on the horse. But at this moment, a lady who was still wearing a long skirt even in the middle of the night in the blizzard was standing not far away, holding her big book.
The familiar black top and red bottom long skirt and the large silver book glowing faintly in the snowy night all reminded Xia De of the other person's identity.
Miss Pavo nodded and smiled at the man on the horse. The wind and snow pulled her skirt and swayed backwards, but there was no snow on her body. Looking closely, the shoes under the skirt were standing directly on the snow, not sinking into the thick snow.
Shad got off the horse again, holding the reins and looking at Miss Pavo from a distance.
"My book tells me that if I reach this position now, I will be able to meet the person who has the greatest chance of hindering the ceremony tonight."
Miss Pavone's voice was a little blurred by the howling wind. She did not recognize Shad. After all, Shad's entire face was wrapped, leaving only his eyes exposed. When riding in a blizzard, one must take the most basic protective measures.
"I thought I would meet the first two chosen ones, Miss Bei Yasi and Sister Defulin, or the crazy women of the Witch Council, but I didn't expect to meet you..."
She looked at the bloated Xia De and asked hesitantly:
"Godcaller?"
Xia De said nothing. In his hand that was not holding the reins, silver-white thunder exploded. This was the casting action of the magic lightning spear.
Ms. Pavo smiled and took two steps back. She seemed not to care about her surroundings at all:
"We met at Schluchsee Lake in Lakeview Manor. At that time, your companions were a rather unattractive lady and a very ugly dog. I was quite impressed by your lightning gun. Sir, I don't want to fight with you here."
She took a step back slightly.
"Just curious who the funniest person is tonight."
Xia De still didn't say anything, just looked at the other person quietly. If he didn't use other means, he certainly couldn't beat the lady in front of him, and his means were prepared for the chosen ones, if possible, he didn't want to waste time here.
"Now that I've met you, I think I should... I almost forgot something."
She smiled and said to Shade:
"The crazy seeker of knowledge, Mr. Legins Prisha, is a man with a strong sense of ritual. When he learned that the Voodoo Society, our people, and his other helpers were heading in different directions to intercept the intruders, he asked us to bring you a message..."
Apparently, the ring wizard organizations that helped Lakins Prisha were not just the Pantanal Voodoo Society and the Truth Society. Just as the Witch Council wanted to dominate the epic of the Sixth Epoch, as the rumors of the Chosen One spread throughout the material world, they were not the only ones who had this idea.
"What did he say?"
Shade asked in extremely proficient Kasenric.
"The chosen one of knowledge and wisdom needs to pass the five tests of the keeper if he wants to touch the crown of wisdom. And you spectators, if you hope to witness the ceremony of the chosen one and be enlightened by the ceremony, you naturally need to pass the test as well. This place is still two miles away from the final ceremony site, and the danger ahead is the test."
She said with a smile, and slowly stepped back. It was obvious that like Xia De, she was not willing to fight with someone she could not defeat.
"Onlooker? This title is quite appropriate... Did you know that there are five Wise Pyroxenes?"
Xia De frowned slightly. Miss Pavo's voice was quite clear in the wind and snow:
"Yes, this part is contained on a stone tablet unearthed on the eastern coast of the Old World this summer."
It is possible for a poem to mention the same thing repeatedly in different paragraphs, just as a normal poem may mention sentences like "the sun is shining" in different paragraphs. Therefore, although it was unexpected that Miss Pav knew about the "five pyroxenes", it was not surprising. What Xia De was curious about at the moment was that since she already knew about the "five pyroxenes", why had she been looking for the "Secret of Immortality"
This lady would not do meaningless things. She chased Margaret from Huntington City to Tobesk City. The secret hidden in the Secret of Immortality seemed to be more important than Shade thought. If Luvia's divination this time was as accurate as usual, Shade could almost guess what was in the Secret of Immortality.
The problem was, he didn't know how to get it out.
"Please wait a moment."
Shade stopped the sorceress who was about to leave and asked in Carsenric:
"You call Lykins Prisher the 'mad seeker of knowledge', so how about I call you the 'sane mathematician'?"
"My pleasure."
The sorceress bowed slightly in the snow.
"You help the Chosen One for the enlightenment of the Chosen One's ritual. Then does the Truth Society know that the Chosen One of Knowledge and Wisdom is not necessarily Legins Prisha?"
"Just like the chosen one to die is not our Joey Barton, but the blind nun?"
She raised her head and looked at the man leading the horse, her expression becoming a little more serious:
"After the Middlesbrough incident, speculation about the existence of a candidate system for the elected has already emerged. It seems that you really know more."
"I can tell you who the next candidate for the title of Chosen One of Knowledge and Wisdom is, but you have to answer me a question."
The dark clouds of the snowy night covered the starry sky and the moon, and there was no light source here. On the snowy surface of the ancient road between the dead trees, a young gentleman leading a horse and a young woman in an autumn dress looked at each other from a distance.
Both of them looked serious. The doubts in Shade's mind needed to be verified. Miss Pavlo whispered softly:
"Of course. I am even more curious than the next candidate in line for the Chosen One. God Summoner, what is the question that deserves such an important answer from you at this moment?"
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