"Don't worry about the evil spirits in the manor. I come here every once in a while to 'clean' them up. The last time I came was half a month ago. In such a short time, there shouldn't be too many evil spirits born."
Brown ladies' short boots stepped on the snow-covered ground. Miss Grande explained the situation to Shade while using the key to open the lock on the hinge. After pushing open the gate, she walked in first, followed by Shade, but just after stepping into the door, she frowned slightly.
He felt a familiar sense of coldness and malice. This feeling came from the ground beneath his feet, and it was very faint. Even for him, he could only sense it because he knew in advance that there was a problem here.
The familiar cold feeling was very similar to the strange evil spirit that Miss Norma transformed into when he dealt with the "Miss Norma Buried Alive Case" last week. And that malice was undoubtedly the disgusting black mud that he encountered in his dream last night.
Of course, the problems of this manor seem to be more serious than the "buried eucalyptus" in Tobesk, but the malice is far less terrifying than the black mud in the dream.
At this moment, Xia De was almost certain that the "crazy land" mentioned by the robed man in his dream last night should be referring to the situation here.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Xia De stop, Miss Grande, who was walking in front, also stopped and looked at Xia De.
"I think I know what's going on."
He said, retreating back to the outside of the manor, bending down to push aside the snow on one side of the fence, and with a sharp silver trace of his fingertips, he pried out a piece of frozen hard soil:
"Ms. Grande, I can solve the problems here. But I still have some doubts, so I want to meet the undead here and ask some questions."
The young sorceress raised her eyebrows:
"If you want to ask why the manor attracts souls to turn into evil spirits, I think it's probably impossible. The evil spirits here are different from ordinary souls. Not only are they more powerful, but almost every one of them can perform abilities such as petrification."
Miss Grande reminded that she seemed to have attempted to channel spirits and communicate with spirits:
"They are even crazier and have a greater impact on ordinary people. We first discovered that something was wrong here because a few stupid thieves broke in... In fact, apart from destroying those evil spirits, the usual evil spirit purification power is completely ineffective against them."
"I understand, but I have to try it after all."
He put the piece of soil away temporarily, clapped his hands and looked towards the bleak winter courtyard:
"Where can I find them... I see."
Xia De looked up at the window on the second floor of the mansion. Several guys with hideous faces were staring at them from behind the black window.
Although the nature of gathering evil spirits makes this land dangerous, these special crazy evil spirits are not a threat to a seventh-ring warlock like Miss Grande.
She led Shad along the snow-covered courtyard trail and arrived at the gate of the manor house. Seeing her take out the key, Shad guessed that she might be a member of the Golden Dawn Opera Company. Of course, he had no intention of prying into other people's secrets, so he didn't say much about it.
The appearance of evil spirits will spontaneously affect the surrounding environment. You may not feel anything in the sunny courtyard, but once you enter the building, the damp and cold atmosphere will immediately turn this seemingly good-looking manor into a terrifying haunted house.
As soon as the two of them stepped into the door, the door behind them closed with a bang. Without giving them a chance to react, a ferocious soul with a gray-green glow all over its body rushed towards them from the left and right.
"careful!"
Miss Grande reminded, and then she found that the two evil spirits were actually targeting her. The one on the right even deliberately bypassed Shade before rushing towards her. The sorceress, who was already unhappy because the manor was "dirty" again, was even more unhappy at this moment.
The thumb of his right hand rubbed the emerald ring on his index finger, and gray smoke floated out of the ring and "swallowed" the two evil spirits. In the piercing and sharp screams, the two souls were completely shattered.
"Come with me, there should be a lot more upstairs... Really, how come there are so many dirty things again."
Miss Grande looked at the stairs going up in the dark and said with displeasure. Shade knew that her displeasure was not directed at him. She quickly led Shade up the stairs covered with a layer of glowing green moss and went to the second floor in the darkness where the gas lamp could not be lit for some reason.
They had just stepped onto the last step when a tide of souls consisting of dozens of evil spirits rushed towards the two of them, or towards Miss Grande. The corners of her mouth twitched, and she crossed her index fingers and gently pushed forward. The golden cross flew out and cut the spirit.
It was a bright day outside, but in the corridor without curtains, it was as dark as if the sun had already set. The dark spirit shook and screamed, and even though it was split, it still rushed towards the two. Countless terrifying illusions impacted the minds of the two ring warlocks, and the woman's scream that almost pierced the eardrums made Shade frown:
"sun."
He whispered softly, and the thin "sunlight rays" that burst out from his fingertips swept away the "disabled" souls that rushed forward. This magic was perfect for fighting against the evil spirits that were about to collapse.
"The evil spirits born this time are stranger and more powerful than ever before. The problems in this land are becoming more serious."
Miss Grande explained to Shade, then pointed her fingernail-painted finger forward. Gray traces of light flew out from her fingertips, like two gray ribbons, binding the evil spirit that was trying to escape at the end.
This magic seems to be particularly effective on the soul, and the evil spirit actually stopped where it is.
Those gray traces of light are memories, and the power of memory has a great influence on spirits.
"She" explained softly to Shade.
"You can't hold it in for long. If you want to do something, do it quickly."
Miss Grande urged, pulling the gray thread, and the evil spirit automatically floated over. So Shade stepped forward, ready to reach out to the stiff black undead, but unexpectedly the sorceress stopped him again:
"Don't touch it. Direct contact with it will turn your limbs into stone."
However, Shad's "Guiding Death" requires direct contact with the spirit to read the memory. He does not have the ability of Sister Defulin to communicate with souls just by "looking".
Don't worry, in last night's dream, you were not petrified even when you came into direct contact with the black mud. After swallowing a part of the Weeping Angel, your resistance to petrification has also increased.
"She" continued to whisper in Shad's ear, "Another me" is really useful to the ring warlock.
"Ms. Grande, I'm not touching it, I'm getting close to it. I'll place my hand above the spirit."
As he spoke, he turned his back to the lady and stretched out his hand:
"Guide to death."
The scene in front of him began to blur, and then it was as if countless paintings were cut into pieces and forcibly pieced together. The chaotic scene made Xia De only able to distinguish the contents of his soul's memory with difficulty. When everything in front of him returned to the dark corridor of the manor house, he felt extremely dizzy as if he had turned around 100 times in place.
"How about it?"
Miss Grande asked when she saw Shade withdraw his hand.
"She is 54 years old now, her name is unknown, and the cause of death was heart disease. This happened before she died. It is impossible to discern memories after death. I only know that after she was buried, because she didn't have too many regrets, her soul was supposed to leave normally, but it was attracted and captured by this land, and became what it is now."
Thaumaturgy-guided death itself also has the power to reduce the resentment of evil spirits, but this time the soul touched by Shad showed almost no change.
"Do you still want to try? If not, I'll break it up."
Miss Grande asked, and Shade shook his head and hesitated:
"I want to determine how seriously this land pollutes the soul."
Take a deep breath, and slowly move your right index finger through the air from top to bottom:
"Death's Door!"
As the dark crack opened, Miss Grande subconsciously took a small step back. She certainly didn't understand what this crack meant, but her instinct was madly reminding her that she should retreat immediately.
The evil spirit was still bound by the thread of her memory, so Xia De endured the tingling pain in her palms and tried hard to "push" the undead spirit into death.
However, when the spirit was very close to the gap, it seemed to have hit an invisible wall and could not move forward at all, which meant that it could not enter death.
"I don't know what you're doing, but it looks like you've failed."
Miss Grande said again, but there was a hint of fear in her words. The five-ring warlock hired in front of her was definitely not as simple as he looked.
"I was just trying a little experiment."
Xia De let go of his hand and said, thinking of Miss Norma not long ago. It seems that the problems in the two places are not the same. Miss Norma left quite smoothly.
"Experiment? Don't tell me you are from the Truth Society."
The sorceress started jokingly, and Shade shook his head:
"I do know them, but I'm not one of those crazy people. The temporary attempt is over. Let's purify this place first... Wait, please continue to bind this soul. I want to see what will happen after purification."
"No problem...if you can really purify this place."
Although the casting material of "Power of the Earth·Healing Aura" only needs normal soil, it is better to stand on the ground when casting, rather than on the building floor. So Miss Grande dragged the soul and returned to the snow-covered courtyard with Shade.
She originally thought that Shade was going to arrange a ritual to assist, after all, what he wanted to do was to purify the entire manor, so the sorceress stepped back a little, but she didn't expect that Shade just took out the soil he had just obtained, and crushed the soil, which was almost like stone, with both hands.