The most important raw material for making glass is sand, and the sand of the Glass City comes from the Yarakhan Desert just south of the city. But the production of glass does not only require sand. The most important reason why Mikaela Blast Furnace City became the "Glass City" was also because there were a lot of limestone mines in the area.
Those servants, attendants and helpers who were transferred away were certainly not driven by Gray Gloves to work in the mines, but were transferred to the Hesinger Mine on the south bank of Green Lake. It was the largest village in the north of the City of Glass. Gray Gloves found a small farm at the end of a country road far away from the village. In fact, even if Shade did not come to investigate, those who were cleared of suspicion would regain their freedom soon.
The journey was a bit long, so Xia De borrowed a horse and rode to the outskirts of the city. With the "Strong Spatial Perception" and the map, he was not worried about getting lost even in an unfamiliar countryside.
It was only at 10:30 in the morning of that day, when Shad was riding a horse near the farm in the country fields, he saw abnormally thick smoke coming out of the fenced building on the ridge of the field.
He was worried about harming the borrowed horse, so he hid it in the nearby woods. When he quickly approached the farm, he found that the farm was indeed on fire.
The farm was located on a hill in the farmland. Shade ran up the road and saw a man stumbling with blood all over his face, running towards him with a pistol in his hand as if he was running for his life.
"Monster! Monster!"
He was so badly injured that his hoarse voice indicated that his life was nearing the end. He fell headfirst to the ground before he even got close to Shade, and when Shade ran over to check, the man was already dead.
"The pistol magazine is empty. The muzzle is overheated, so it has fired no bullets. The black marks on the face...poisoning?"
There were no fatal wounds on his body, only a bite mark on his neck. A foul smell came from there, and Shade only needed to sniff it to know that it was the poison of the corpse ghost.
"What's going on?"
He abandoned the corpse and continued walking towards the farm, preparing the materials for the spell. However, in just a few minutes, the fire had engulfed the entire farm. Shade saw dozens of corpses lying in the yard of the farm, and a large number of dead bodies burning in the burning building.
I closed my eyes, and there was no heartbeat on the ground. There seemed to be a warehouse under my feet, and there was still a faint heartbeat in the warehouse, but it was obviously dying.
At the same time, three figures with hunched backs slowly walked out from the flames of the burning barn, low house, and stable. The raging fire licked their bodies, but could not cause any harm to them.
These were three ghouls, but similar to Mr. Green, their bodies were not greatly mutated, and they basically retained their human form, except that their skin was grayish white, their eyes had turned into a turbid yellow, and their skin was wrinkled like an old man in his eighties or nineties.
All three of them had strong traces of elements, even whispering elements. One on the left, one on the right, and one in front, the three monsters moved slowly, but their eyes were fixed on Shade, and they worked in harmony with each other step by step towards him.
Standing at the door of the farm, Xia De stretched out his hand and pressed the pendant on his chest. He counted three, two, one in his mind, and when the zombies rushed towards him, he pulled off the pendant and held it forward:
"Praise the angel of death... what?"
Even when facing hundreds of water ghosts, the blessing power of this badge can sweep away all the undead with one blow. But this time, facing the light of the badge, the three corpse ghosts just subconsciously fell to the ground and dodged, and did not even show much discomfort.
Xia De was puzzled, but soon understood. He put away the pendant and took a step back:
"Gentlemen, could you please introduce yourselves? Perhaps I know your relatives?"
The ghouls did not answer, and rushed towards Shade from three directions again. Shade raised his hand and slashed out a cross of moonlight, but found that there were only two ghouls rushing towards him.
With his eyes wide open, he took a step forward and appeared deeper into the burning farmyard. The corpse ghost that tried to attack Shade from behind through space teleportation also missed.
The battle had just begun. The rolling heat waves enveloped one person and three corpses in the spring breeze. The three corpses crawled on the ground, intertwined and wandered around, and then disappeared together on the spot.
The yellow moonlight sword appeared in his hand, and then the Hiton seal with flowing light blocked the corpse ghosts coming from the left, right and back. In the exploding golden light, the corpse ghosts flew backwards together, and the "space stability halo" that followed completely eliminated the possibility of their next space transfer.
"Ragarai's Leap!"
Xia De's figure appeared beside the corpse ghost that was flying backwards on the left, and the falling yellow moonlight was so bright in the crackling fire.
With a clang, the sword hit the corpse's neck, but it only left a white mark on the opponent's skin.
"Blade of Chaos Time!"
The second sword light fell, but it only cut off two slender fingers of the corpse ghost. The corpse ghost opened its mouth and bit towards Shade's neck, but was then kicked away by Shade. It pierced the wall like a cannonball and flew into the burning barn.
The two remaining corpse ghosts behind him did not continue to approach Shade, but crawled on all fours and followed the broken wall into the burning barn. Shade took a deep breath, raised his sword and chased in amid the rolling heat wave.
There were fires everywhere, and the crackling sound seemed to be the only sound in the world. With so many blessings, Xia De was not afraid of the high temperature and heat waves at all, but he had to be more careful with his clothes.
In this burning building, there was an empty space in the center where nothing could be placed. Three ghouls gathered at the edge of the central space and moved around alternately. They were not ordinary undead creatures. Although Shade could easily deal with any one of them alone, the three of them together were a big trouble.
"Thorns of the Moon."
The long sword in his hand stabbed back at the wall, and bright silver thorns quickly emerged from the ground, blocking the holes in the doors, windows and walls. Then, the yellow moonlight long sword disappeared, and the silver moonlight sword was taken out by Shade from the firelight.
The crackling of the flames covered the sound of footsteps, and the sound of swords swinging again after it disappeared could not be heard from the burning house. The three ghouls who were temporarily unable to move in space took turns fighting with Shade who was constantly moving in space. When one was attacked, the other two would immediately come to the rescue. The advantage of numbers was offset by the space movement, but the three ghouls not only had similar behavior logic, Shade even found that they could share each other's vision and even injuries.
But even so, in this closed environment, restricted by Shade's "space stability halo", the zombies gradually fell into a disadvantage.
Suddenly, claws and swords clashed again. The Moonlight Sword chopped off one of the corpse ghost's hands, but the squirming flesh was recovering quickly. The three corpse ghosts retreated into the fire again. One of them puffed up his mouth and blew suddenly, causing the surging sea of fire to rush towards Shade.
As Shade used his sword to split the sea of fire and prepared to deliver the final blow, the hands of the corpse ghosts came together. In an instant, the four elements suddenly expanded, and as the ground shook, the scene of the burning granary gradually disappeared, replaced by the scene of the abandoned town on the central island of Green Lake that Shade was extremely familiar with.
Puzzle lock.
"Although I know these ghouls are unusual, it's a bit exaggerated that they can even use the puzzle locks."
His keen perception told Shade that the three ghouls were the masters of the maze. They were obviously different individuals, but they were connected as if they were one person. They were casting a spell together. As the town took shape and the fog came over them, the ghouls also disappeared in the fog.
The whole world was oppressing and weakening Shade, but the environment of the maze was much better than those places in "Time Adventure", and these weakenings were completely negligible for Shade. He did not panic, and observed the surroundings in the gradually formed town. The effect of "Maze Green Lake Town" was almost immediately apparent. In the height of the fog, under the pale sky, three huge black shadows gradually approached Shade in the town.
Looking up, they were clearly three ugly corpses that had transformed into giants. As they grew larger, the details of their bodies became clearer, and their ugly faces and cloudy eyes were as terrifying as the man-eating demons in the stories.
Three giant corpse ghosts leaned over from three directions and looked at Shade, just like humans fooling ants, stretching out their claws to grab Shade. For a moment, it seemed as if the space was locked, and although Shade still maintained the ability to move, he was strangely unable to move even a little bit.
The glowing key in his hand quickly turned into a long staff. As the staff was raised high into the sky, a huge rotating light wheel greeted the six giant hands of the three zombies.
Because Shade cast the spell hastily, the six hands of the masters of the puzzle grabbed the light wheel and tore it into pieces with a sound that made people's teeth ache. The time gained was enough for Shade to mobilize his remaining spirits and knock the Staff of Yggdrasil with both hands towards the ground:
"The key to the door!"
Kacha~
With the location where the staff hit the ground as the center, dense cracks spread to the entire world. As Shade twisted the staff in his hand like turning a key, the puzzle lock collapsed instantly, and he and the ghouls returned to the burning granary again.
"Hmm? How can I use the Staff of Yggdrasil to cast the Key of the Gate to forcibly break the maze lock with such little consumption?"
He was originally planning to take out the pink bottle and take a sip.
Is it possible that the staff itself is the key
What “she” said made sense, so the staff that long-haired Luvia called an “angel-level relic” was discovered to have new properties.