In the third floor room of the underground ruins, the three of them stood together to rest and prepare to continue their journey. So far, they had not encountered the Ring Warlock, but this was already the limit, and it was impossible for the Silver Eyed Man not to have discovered them.
If he had been so foolish as to forget to take extra precautions in the ruins, he wouldn't be alive today.
"But how did the people with Mercury Blood get through here?"
Miss Beas thought of this question:
"Are there any special individuals like detectives among them?"
"This mirror is not very effective against sorcerers above the seventh ring. Although the Silver Eyed One's strength has dropped to the sixth ring, he is still a ninth ring sorcerer. He can definitely move forward despite the damage and explore the ruins alone. Perhaps when Mercury Blood was developing this ruins, only a few sorcerers above the seventh ring served as the main expedition members."
Miss Annat gave her guess, and then added:
"Of course, it's possible that they have other safe methods."
"We didn't meet the person who came in this morning as the detective said. Does this mean that the other party is also above the seventh ring and is waiting for us inside?"
Miss Beatrice asked again, and Miss Annette tossed a coin, and then said to Shad:
"Listen to the sound. You may get something after the third time."
"no problem."
He closed his eyes to sharpen his hearing.
On the first try, Miss Beyath's voice is describing Shad punching and shattering the mirror.
The second time I tried, the violent panting sound seemed to be right next to my ears, but it quickly disappeared, and after waiting for half a minute, no other sound appeared.
On the third try, he heard the end of a conversation—
"...so you must never go near that tree."
Then there were the sounds of footsteps leaving here. The footsteps were heavy, as if someone was carrying something heavy.
The fourth attempt finally gave me the answer:
"I didn't expect that the countermeasure to this relic is so simple. By moving another mirror to completely cover your face, you can be immune to the effect of the mirror behind you."
This is the man with the strange accent, the ring warlock from the Blood Spirit School who entered here in the morning.
"No, this method can only be used for those above the fourth ring. Below the fourth ring, even if there is a mirror blocking the way, the relic will still harm you... Why are you the only one here? Where are the others?"
This sound has never been heard before.
"Silver Eyes, do you think it's easy to get from the New World to the Old World? The two people arranged by the organization should have arrived in Tobesk this weekend and would probably disembark at Coldwater Port tonight. But the organization received your letter and knew that there was a tree in the ruins, so they let me take the risk to come here to see you. Do you know how important the mission I was originally carrying out nearby was? The mission I was carrying out was related to the Unknowable-level relic! I hope your information is correct, and the tree in the ruins is really..."
Xia De opened his eyes and looked towards the door on the right. After the footsteps passed the door, all the sounds disappeared immediately.
"What's the result?"
Miss Beas asked.
"Strangers are above the seventh ring, above the fourth ring."
Xia De frowned, feeling a little uneasy:
"The other party is definitely from the Blood Spirit School, but he was not originally arranged to come here. He was originally carrying out another plan nearby, and it is suspected that he is related to the out-of-control Level 0 relic that the church is dealing with. Because of a tree, the stranger was urgently arranged to come here to meet the Silver Eyed One."
"Blood Spirit School? Tree?"
Miss Annette seemed even more uneasy than Shad:
"This is bad. The history of the Blood Spirit School can be traced back several eras. The things that this ancient organization cares about are probably not simple."
"But what is a tree?"
Miss Beas asked.
"I guess the 'tree' refers to the relic that was suppressed here. Oh, and remember, never get close to any tree. That thing is very dangerous."
Shade reminded her, and Miss Anat became more and more uneasy. Miss Bei Yasi still had the confidence to move forward, and Shade was not particularly concerned about what was happening in front of the ruins.
What he was concerned about was the top of his head. He had not forgotten the anxiety he had expressed to the maid in the carriage.
But in the end, they didn't have time to stay and could only keep moving forward.
This time, Miss Annat was walking in the front again. She took out a compass to guide the direction, put on a monocle to dispel illusions, and then pushed open the stone door pointed out by Shade.
Behind the door was a narrow corridor, with large stone bricks at the foot, head, and on both sides. The corridor was not long, and a fork in the road could be seen not far ahead. This was the special illusion constructed by the clerical-level relic maze candle that was brought into the ruins by the Silver Eyed Man as predicted by Miss Anat.
"Follow me. The structure of this maze will change at any time. It's hard to get out of it by luck without guidance."
The female fortune teller waved to the two people behind her, and they continued to maintain the formation with Shad in the middle and Miss Beatrice at the rear.
"However, since the candles were brought into the ruins by the Silver Eyed One, then what was the space behind this door originally used for?"
Xia De asked in a low voice when they set out, but his companions could not give an answer to this question.
As they got closer and closer to the deepest part of the ruins, they all remained extremely vigilant. Miss Anat walked in front with the compass in hand. Even with the guidance of the compass, she would toss a coin at each fork in the road to divine and then choose the direction.
She was only a third-ring sorcerer, so the accuracy of her divination couldn't be guaranteed, but it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.
Xia De walked between the two ladies, which was theoretically the safest. Therefore, while walking, he had time to turn around and look at Miss Bei Yasi behind him, who looked at him puzzledly:
"What's up?"
"fine."
Xia De shook his head, sighing in his heart that the seventeen-year-old girl behind him was really very different from her peers.
Five minutes after entering the maze, the three of them simultaneously heard a strange sound coming from afar, as if some kind of animal cub was crying. The sound lasted for thirty seconds before stopping, but it continued to echo in the maze.
From the information found, this document-level relic that formed the maze was only used to create the maze. There were no dangerous animals in the maze to hunt people who entered the maze. But the sound did not seem to be a collective hallucination of the three people, so Miss Annat quietly reminded the two companions behind her to prepare for battle.
Eight minutes after entering the maze, footsteps were heard at the fork in the road ahead. But when the three people, who were already on high alert, arrived, they did not see any figures in the other three directions of the fork in the road.
Miss Annat was very uneasy and tossed the coin three times, but to no avail:
"The most likely scenario is that the Silver Eyed One has discovered us."
"Finally found us."
Miss Bei Yasi said in a low voice.
Before the voice had died down, the ground beneath his feet began to shake.
The maze is trembling.