“Even after reading the information, I’m still scared of this thing.”
Only Miss Annat knew in advance that the so-called "gargoyle" was so big, and Miss Beatrice also sighed like Shad.
"I thought... it was only the size of a human, but I didn't expect it to be this big."
Xia De expressed his thoughts, and Miss Anat looked around and further explained:
"The Secret Keeper-level relic Thousand-Eyed Gargoyle is numbered 3765. It actually has an unofficial name that is easier to remember. It is an elegant name given by ancient alchemists."
"What's the elegant name?"
"Giant God Soldier."
Looking up at the terrifyingly huge thousand-eyed stone statue, Shade twitched his lips, fully understanding what was in front of him:
"Hmm... Actually, if you had said the name earlier, I would probably have easily understood what it was."
Such a large open space seemed to be built to allow the gargoyles to fully fight. To be honest, if they didn't know how to let this thing rest temporarily in advance, I'm afraid that even if the silver-eyed people planned to join them temporarily, the four of them might not be able to defeat this relic.
The huge space looked empty, but then the three of them saw some corpses in varying degrees of decay by the wall. The freshest corpse was probably just this morning. The eyes of these corpses were all dug out. They must be the innocent people that Mercury Blood used to kill by passing through here.
After a careful count of the bodies, there were 36 in total, which means that in addition to the people from the Blood Spirit School this morning, Mercury Blood had used this method to enter the ruins at least 17 times.
Miss Beas whispered a prayer for the corpses, while Miss Anat continued to check the remaining empty space. Shad looked at the three freshest corpses and suddenly asked Miss Beas:
"Do you mind if your companions use necromancy?"
This point must be made clear.
"What? Undead? Is it a plague?"
The sorceress of the church asked curiously.
"Of course not."
"That's all right."
She shrugged indifferently, so Shade took out the bone powder and sprinkled some on the corpse. But after reciting the spell, there was no reaction.
"strangeness... ... "
He tried again, but the magic still had no effect. After briefly explaining the basic effects of soul echo to her two companions, Miss Anat believed that the Silver Eyed One had handled the corpse, making it impossible to obtain information from the corpse through psychic means.
"Or there may be something wrong with the ruins themselves."
Miss Bei Yasi also guessed it, and Xia De asked quietly:
"Do you think it's possible for Mercury Blood to find the so-called 'evil' relics that were suppressed here by this disappeared cult?"
No one could give an answer, but everyone understood that perhaps the danger in the ruins was not just the three relics blocking the way and the ring warlock.
They continued to prepare to move forward, but the problem they encountered was not that they could not find the way, but that there were too many ways to leave the space where the gargoyle was. There were four walls in total, and each wall had at least six stone doors. In the end, it was Shad who listened to the footsteps and combined with Miss Anat's divination to lock the correct direction.
The next possible danger is the mirror behind the Secret Keeper-level relic, which directly harms the "other self" of the ring warlock. It was decided at the banquet on Sunday that Shade would deal with this relic. The two ladies did not ask him how he would deal with it, and Shade did not ask the female voice in his heart how to deal with it.
You trust me so much? I feel honored.
She said teasingly.
This time it was Xia De who pushed open the stone door, but there was no space behind the door to accommodate the mirror. He stretched out his finger to illuminate the front, which was a lightless corridor wrapped in bricks and stones. The corner could be seen about twenty steps away.
"The mirror might be around the corner in the hallway, so I'll go first."
He said, but there was no answer from behind him. Turning around, he saw a wall behind him. There was no sign of the two ladies, and even less of the giant thousand-eyed gargoyle.
Xia De blinked and asked softly in his heart:
"Um... are you still there?"
It took two seconds to get a reply:
Throw your fist forward.
He immediately swung his fist, and when his fist hit the air in front of him, the sound of glass shattering almost made Xia De think that his hand would be injured. The space in front of him had dense radial cracks centered on the point where the fist hit, but it soon recovered.
"Aren't mirrors used to hurt 'the other you'? How did it trap me? I thought my mission was just to see the mirror, and then you stretched out a hand from my back and smashed the mirror with one punch."
As he thought about it, he swung his two fists at the same time and continuously hit the air in front of him, but the cracks recovered much faster than Shade's punches. Although he became a ring wizard and his physical fitness became very strong, he did not have the ability to punch at the speed of sound or even light.
I can't interfere with reality.
She repeated what she had said in his ear.
"Wait, I think I'm in trouble."
It seemed that because of Xia De's fist attacking this space, bursts of black smoke and dust flew from the depths of the passage, making a tearing sound in the air, and all rushed towards Xia De's chest. But he didn't even need to fight back, the golden cracks on the surface of his body flashed by, and the black smoke and dust disappeared.
"Oh, no more trouble."
He said dryly.
What happened just now was an attack on his soul, but the divinity protected his soul.
"How do we get out?"
Found a solution, it shouldn't attack you, it's exposed.
Her murmur was filled with some joy, and she was probably in a good mood:
You are in the mirror space, and the mirror can't do anything to you, it can only trap you temporarily.
"What am I going to do now?"
Give yourself a punch.
If it weren't for the fact that "she" was still using that strange language that Shade had never heard of anywhere else, he would even think that it was the mirror playing tricks on him.
"Are you sure?"
She was laughing, and the sound of her laughter proved that it was indeed her.
Shade took a breath, clenched his right fist, closed his eyes and hit his chin hard.
Surprisingly, I didn't feel any pain, it was just like hitting the dough wrapped around my face.
The sound of glass breaking was clear in his ears. When he opened his eyes, there was no passage in front of him. He had just pushed open the stone door, and the door was facing the mirror.
Xia De was standing in front of the mirror, his right fist raised high, and the big hole on the broken mirror was undoubtedly made by him. The pain of the bleeding fist came very slowly to his senses, and every piece of broken glass hanging in the frame reflected his current appearance.
"Shad?"
A tentative call came from behind, it was Miss Anat's voice.
"I'm fine... the mirror is temporarily out of service."
The mirror behind the Secret Keeper-level relic also has the "difficult to destroy" feature that most relics have. Breaking the mirror now will only temporarily disable it. It will return to normal in a very short time, but as long as there is a crack on the mirror, the feature of attacking "another me" cannot be used.
When people are not looking at it, the mirror will automatically move in the direction where people may appear. In other words, even if Shade moves the mirror to the wall and points it at the wall, when they leave, the mirror will automatically point to another direction.
"It's okay, the mirror is broken."
Xia De repeated it again, and while heaving a sigh of relief, he turned around and shook his bleeding hand:
"Can someone give me some water? It's hard for me to reach into my right pocket right now."
"Oh, why are you injured so badly?"
Miss Beas immediately walked over the stone door and directed the light ball to illuminate the area, while Miss Anat went to check the mirror to see if there was anything else behind the stone door.
The clean water treated with the food of fullness healed the scratched palm, and Xia De curiously asked the two ladies what he had just done.
"You pushed the door open, walked in, and then punched the mirror and broke it."
Miss Bei Yasi briefly described it, and then was asked by Xia De to give more details:
"Do I have any abnormalities, such as..."
He hesitated for a moment and said softly:
"A shadow appeared behind him, and he punched the mirror."
"What's the meaning?"
Miss Beatrice asked suspiciously, as if she suspected that Shad was still affected by the mirror and therefore a little confused.
She shook her head.
"There's nothing unusual, Detective. We didn't even react when you punched the mirror and it shattered. What happened just now? Why didn't you have to kick it?"
"Because I can't kick myself in the face... We'll explain once we get outside."
He shook his head, indicating that there was no time to chat here.
Looking down at the ground, the silver light from his fingertips illuminated the glass fragments on the ground, and three people were reflected on the glass fragments. Among them, Shade and Miss Beiyas were both normal, and behind Miss Annat, Shade actually saw the transparent woman who looked very similar to her, but a little more mature.
In the blink of an eye, the transparent woman in the mirror fragments disappeared. Xia De looked in surprise at the female fortune teller who was standing in the silver moonlight and observing the surroundings. There was nothing abnormal about her.
"She... Never mind. The current situation is not suitable for asking this."
The mirror was stored behind the stone door in the third relic space they entered, which was about the same size as the space in front of the first stone door. The silver light from Xia De's fingertips and the light ball summoned by Miss Bei Yasi were enough to illuminate the place.
Still no living people were seen, and this time there were no dead people either. In addition to the mirror standing there, there was a door on each of the four walls, but this time there were no carvings on the walls.
There is a line of ancient text on the metal frame of the mirror. After translating it into Draerion, the approximate meaning is:
Be wary of “another me”.
None of the three ring sorcerers commented on this line of words.