Of course, before setting out to go deeper into the island, Shade placed the two newly acquired leaves of youth in front of his eyes. The magic given by the leaves can be directly obtained without any learning ceremony. Shade also obtained the magic "Imprisoned Light" and the spell "Flying Flower Curse" belonging to Silver Moon.
When Shad took the leaves away from his eyes, Iluna asked Shad to try his new power so that it would be easier to use later.
The casting of "Imprisoning Light" does not require any casting materials. Iluna watched Shad's right hand draw a circle in the air. After the silver light mark was left in the air, his right hand passed through the light circle and hit the horse behind Iluna through the air:
"Imprisoning Light!"
The light ring was strung on Shade's arm, and as his arm struck out, it turned into five silver light rings that flew towards the skeleton horse and circled its head, neck, body and tail respectively.
"The effect is very good. My mount is indeed unable to move."
Iluna said, and then asked Shade to cast a spell on her again. This time Shade cast the spell with minimal force, but three glowing and rotating circles of light still flew out, strangling Iluna's neck, hands, and feet respectively.
"In this state, you cannot move or cast spells, but speaking is not affected."
Iluna said, then frowned and tried to break free. With a crisp sound, the three light circles shattered like glass, and only the silver light spots were blown away by the wind:
"The restraint effect is not as good as your chains of sin."
"But it casts faster, has a longer range, automatically tracks the target, and can cast on multiple people."
Xia De was quite satisfied with his new magic and thought about trying it on Mia when he got home, so that he wouldn't be afraid of not catching the cat next time he washed it.
Then he tried the Flying Flower Spell, which required "petals of any kind" as the material, which Shade had.
Iluna watched as Shad held the petals in his palm, then put his right hand in front of his mouth and blew hard at the petals.
"oh!"
Iluna sighed quietly, watching the pink petals being "blown" into thousands in the dark night, flying majestically into the thick fog in front of them. They fell at an extremely slow speed, interweaving with the snowflakes in the air, and there was also some pink miasma in the space filled with petals.
"Flying Flower Spell, blow out a petal, and it turns into more petals. If I want, I can make the flying petals stronger and sharper than a flying knife. And if I consume a lot of spirit, these petals can be poisonous, but not fatal, it will only make people faint. This is equivalent to a large-scale 'Coma Spell'."
Shade also watched the petals falling with Iluna. Compared with the magic "Imprisoning Light", the effect of the spell "Flying Flower Curse" was indeed not very strong. But Shade was never a greedy person, and he knew what the "Flying Flower Curse" was better than Iluna.
Manipulating plants is a power of "nature", and "one flower becomes many flowers" is vaguely similar to the time effect of "Blade of Chaos in Space and Time".
The ancient god Infinite Tree Father is the god of time and nature. The "Flying Flower Curse" is the first power of both "time" and "nature" that he gave to Shade. Compared with the actual use of this spell, Shade is more concerned about its representative meaning.
"At least I don't have to bring a knife with me when I go out."
Shade waved to Iluna:
"Let's go."
The Pantanal Voodoo Covenant and their collaborators seemed to have placed most of their defenses and resistance measures in areas outside the central lake of the Great Swamp, and there was nothing on the island except the thick fog.
This may sound incredible, but considering that the island is not safe now and that several important ceremonies will be held here soon, it is indeed very important to minimize the damage to the environment of the island itself in order to prevent those dangerous relics or summons from endangering the ceremony itself.
Of course, this does not mean that there is no danger in the fog.
Shad and Iluna first walked carefully along the shore for a few hundred meters. After finding the abandoned small pier marked on the map held by Iluna, they planned to continue deeper into the island along the path of the pier.
This pier was built by the army that was once stationed here. Although the army withdrew from the island hundreds of years ago, the pier is still usable and appears to have been used frequently recently.
The blood was spilled on the snow on the dilapidated pier. Xia De bent down and wiped it with his fingers and found that the blood was very fresh.
"There should be dangers in the lake. If Desire hadn't accompanied us, we would have had a problem crossing the lake."
Shade straightened up and said to Iluna, use blood wine brewing to make blood from the blood and drip it into the eyes, then use the echo of blood to see the bloody figure of the burly man.
After Shad's description, Iluna recognized that he was the thirteenth-ring warlock of the Church of Creation, who led a team into the swamp area from the western part of the Pantanal region and seemed to have successfully landed on the island.
This thirteen-ring warlock seemed to have a way to avoid being tracked. His bloody figure stretched into the fog and disappeared, and his footprints on the snow were also cleared away.
Shade and Iluna walked forward together, following the path towards the lighthouse. After a while, a faint black figure appeared in the fog. In the heavy snow at night, as the stench became more and more obvious, the monster lurking in the fog finally revealed its figure.
It was a humanoid creature crawling on the ground, its skin had turned a disgusting brown due to advanced decay, its head was swollen, and its burnt yellow teeth were turned outward.
"Ghost."
Iluna said in a low voice, but this kind of ghoul is different from normal ghouls. Not only is it larger in size, but it also has three fist-sized gray-green mushrooms growing on its body. Those mushrooms wriggle spontaneously, and every time they move, they spray a light green smoke into the air.
"Affected by the power of evil."
Shade nodded, and saw that the monster was actually wearing clothes. They were the uniforms of the old Carsenrick United Kingdom Army. Those ordinary people who had disappeared here had obviously turned into undead long ago.
"It's probably not a summoned monster, it's a monster that was already active on the island."
After Shad stated his conclusion, he kicked forward with his right foot, and an arc of moonlight flew along the snow surface towards the corpse ghost who was hesitating whether to move forward. The latter did not launch an attack immediately because he was frightened by Iluna's undead horse.
Although the silver moonlight was silent, its holy power was extremely conspicuous to the undead whose only instincts were eating and murder. It let out a frightened cry like a beast, and after its right foot was cut off by the moonlight, it limped away into the depths of the thick fog.
"What a pity. The mushroom on its body seems to be the extinct 'Corpse Mushroom'. I remember it was very valuable..."
There were many native monsters on this large island, but they did not pose a big obstacle to Shade and Iluna. However, the environment on the island was very different from that old map. After walking along the path in the snow for five minutes, they saw a circular pit as big as a house. The pit was artificially carved. From the outside to the inside, there were stone steps going down. At the bottom was a large circular flat land, but it was also covered with snow.
“The ritual site looks like it was dug out decades ago.”
Iluna judged that this had nothing to do with their goal tonight. The Pantanal Voodoo Clan had apparently done more than one thing in the Great Swamp over the years.
Going forward, there is a dead forest with intermittent barbed wire at the edge of the forest. According to the map, it was left by the Carsonrick Army before the retreat. The dead forest in the snow should have been the garrison camp, but now there is no trace of it. Instead, it has become a gathering place for the zombies.
As Shad and Iluna walked along the path, pairs of cloudy brown eyes peered at them from the dead woods, but no one dared to jump out of the woods to attack them.
At this point, there was still no ring sorcerer appearing to block their way.
"Have the Pantanal Voodoo Society and the Truth Society sent out all their ring sorcerers to intercept them?"
Shade muttered quietly.
Continuing forward, the path in the snow forked. To the left, it led to another old dock and warehouse on the island in the middle of the lake, while to the right, it led to an old manor and lighthouse with a history of hundreds of years.
The correct direction to go was of course the right, but at this moment, a series of blurred footprints appeared on the snow, all heading to the left. After checking, Shade and Iluna confirmed that these footprints were left about ten minutes ago. If they had come a little later, the footprints would have disappeared in the snow.
“Who went to the left?”
It was difficult to see far in the fog of the heavy snow in the middle of the night, and coupled with the power of the "Pantanal Evil" that permeated the island, even Shad's perception could not tell him what was happening in the distance.
Fortunately, he had Iluna by his side. Before setting off, the church team had anticipated the situation where they would be separated, so they made preparations in advance for contacting each other after the separation.
In addition to the candle heads mentioned by Iluna, they had other ways. The 17-year-old girl bent down and searched for a while with Shade in the snow at the fork in the road, and soon found the pink little conch hidden in the snow.
"Iluna Emilia Beas."
She spoke her name into the conch, then put it to her ear and listened, her expression gradually becoming solemn.
"What's wrong?"
"The situation is a bit complicated. The ceremony location on the island is not limited to the one below the lighthouse. Specifically, the stone circle below the lighthouse in the northeast of the island in the center of the lake is for the ceremony of the chosen one. Ceremonies will also be held in the other three directions to release the evil creatures in the Pantanal and other strange things sealed in the Great Swamp."
Xia De frowned slightly:
“Are you persecuting the church’s ranks and splitting them apart?”
"Yes."
Iluna nodded and said to the conch:
"Beas went to the direction of the lighthouse."
Then he hid the conch again in the snow:
"The church's plan is perfect. For others, the main task this time is not to stop the ritual of the Chosen One, but to prevent the evil creatures in Pantanal from lifting the seal. Stopping the ritual of the Chosen One, or arresting and killing the Chosen One, is my mission."
She pointed to herself, then looked at Shad.
For Shad, stopping the Chosen Ceremony was not his first task. The task he had to complete was to confirm the identity of the Chosen and witness the Chosen Ceremony with his own eyes. Stopping the evil creatures in the Pantanal was also something he had to ensure.