The three people who stayed behind in the ruins had only a few personal belongings that represented their memories. The ring was related to Caris's love in his youth.
“These three people are indeed worthy of admiration.”
Xia De said softly, then suddenly froze and turned to look at the corner behind him. The silver moonlight in his hand illuminated the place, but there was nothing there.
"I just felt like someone was watching me there."
I felt it too, but it was very vague and I didn't know what it was.
"Is anyone there?"
Xia De called out softly, but received no response. After confirming that the thing that had just peeped at him was gone, he continued to check the contents of the coffin.
He did not move the urn, nor the ring, but carefully studied the map in the letter in his hand. The map was very detailed, and he easily found the room where the gargoyles and mirrors were stored. According to the direction, he found the room where the maze candles were located.
There was originally a trap in that room. If someone rashly broke in, the ruins would release a deadly alchemical poison mist. But it seems that it was modified by Mercury Blood and a safer relic was used as a guard.
Shad cannot go back to that room, otherwise he will be trapped in the maze again, but this time there will probably be no butterflies to help him.
Fortunately, although the current tomb room has only one door, there is also a secret passage that leads to the room where the corpse tree is suppressed. At the same time, there are not only dangerous trees in the room, but also holy emblems, statues and gift boxes of the old gods.
The corner of Xia De's mouth twitched:
"As expected, the most dangerous things are put together. However, now is not the time to hesitate. I need to find God's gift box quickly so that I can help them."
Following the instructions on the map, Shade found an inconspicuous brick with a holy emblem carved on it on the wall of the tomb. He pushed it hard inward, and then the stone wall around him suddenly turned, revealing a dark passage.
Walking along the passage, it was not a straight road, it kept turning. Even if the pace was fast, it took five minutes to reach the end. The light of the silver moon illuminated the stone wall in front of him. Shade hesitated for a moment, first put the diluent of the extract of the weathervane blue grass on the tip of his tongue, then lit the few remaining candles, and then found the stone with the shallow holy emblem engraved on it.
After pressing hard, the stone wall in front opened again, and outside the stone wall, there was a strange blue light with dots of light.
After crawling out of the secret passage and looking around, the new ruins room was more than three times larger than the room with the gargoyles, like a huge underground hole. The ground was not flat, and countless tree roots were crawling under the floor. A giant tree stood in the center of the room, and the treetops covered the entire ceiling of the room, and because the rock wall above was not high enough, the branches were forced to bend.
Vines hang down from the treetops, and the vines themselves are glowing with a faint blue light. It is this light that illuminates this place, but it also makes this place look extremely strange.
You came into contact with Whisper.
"Is this tree the relic?"
The tree itself did not react to Shade's appearance. It stood quietly in this relatively small underground space, as if it had always been like this from time immemorial.
Perhaps because of the existence of this tree, the musty smell in the ruins finally disappeared. But this means that the tree is still "alive" and has not starved to death after thousands of years.
Looking deeper into the room, there stood a three-tiered platform in the corner. On the wall of the platform, there was a metal holy emblem hanging, and below the holy emblem, on the platform was a statue of a god without facial features, wearing a robe, holding a box in its hands.
The statue and the holy emblem seemed to have no power, illuminated by the blue light of the vines. Even from a distance, Shade could still see the exquisite straight lines on the six sides of the bronze cube, like a circuit diagram with a different order in the chaos.
The sparkling seven-colored gems were inlaid at the nodes of the straight lines. An inexplicable urge made Xia De want to cross the tree canopy and touch the box, but he still held back.
There is a ring warlock nearby.
"Where?"
Ahead, in the shadows on the left.
Xia De squinted his eyes and looked in the direction "she" pointed, and sure enough, in the dim light, he saw a figure standing in the shadow under the tree, looking up at the treetops motionlessly.
Judging from his body shape, he was a man, so it couldn't be Miss Bei Yasi or Miss Anat. Shade calculated the time until the end of the 47 seconds and walked quickly to the man. He didn't dare to get too close, worried that his unreasonable "sixth sense" would make the other party notice him.
Holding his breath, the light of the silver moon lit up in his palm, and as the candle went out, it struck the man with his back to Shade.
The moonlight appeared silently in the air without making any sound, but when it hit the stranger's back, it made a sound like hitting a metal plate.
The cautious Shade had used the candle in his hand to hide himself again, ready to jump into space at any time. He saw liquid mercury flowing out of the wound on the stranger's back, but he remained motionless.
The strange situation made Xia De take a few steps back and turned to look at the exit of the room. However, he did not expect the person under the tree to turn around stiffly at this moment. The silver eyes surprised Xia De:
"Are you the guy who broke in here?"
His voice was very hoarse and weak, and his face was as pale as a ghost.
The candle was still burning, but he actually looked directly into Xia De's eyes. Xia De knew he couldn't hide it anymore, so he took the initiative to extinguish the candle:
"Who are you?"
Reminding the other me to be ready to burn divinity at any time, my left hand held in my pocket the silver talisman provided by Miss Bei Ya Si, which could resist the greed of the magic eye.
"'Silver Eyed' Diack."
As he spoke, there was a rustling sound from the treetops above. Some vines slowly drooped, and the faint blue light illuminated the two people standing opposite each other under the tree.
Only then did Xia De finally see that seven or eight thick, non-luminous vines hung down from the treetops and pierced deeply into the back of the Silver-eyed Man. Under the faint blue light, the Silver-eyed Man, the Nine-ring Warlock who was regarded as a great enemy by the three, actually looked like a hunched, decadent middle-aged man.
He looked pretty bad, with vines digging into his back, connecting him to the tree behind him. The tree seemed to be absorbing him, literally.
He looked at Xia De, his dim eyes seemed to have no soul:
"Who are you? The Orthodox Church? Or a ring sorcerer who came here simply for that sage-level relic?"
The hoarse voice asked, and Shade shook his head:
“Neither.”
"It doesn't matter who you are, why don't you stay with me."
His mouth opened, and mercury shot out like an arrow, heading straight for Shade's face. But Shade, who was well prepared, dodged it easily by turning sideways. At the same time, a silver mist rose up and enveloped him.
The Silver-eyed Man did not continue to attack, and his throat continued to make a hoarse sound:
"It's useless. No one can escape."
The blue light shone on his face, making him look as scary as a ghost. In the silver mist, Xia De noticed that only the tip of his toes were touching the ground, and his whole body was lifted up by the vines.
Xia De did not continue to talk to the other party. He held the golden necklace on his neck and controlled the area of the illusion to expand. If you want to touch the box held by the statue, you must pass under the tree canopy. It is difficult to judge what the silver-eyed man is like now, but there is definitely something wrong with this tree.
He wanted to expand the range of the illusion to a large enough size, and then coordinate with Raglai's jump to reach the statue without alarming the corpse tree.
"Do you know the Blood Spirit School? You all think I'm crazy, but they are the ones who are crazy. The guy who was sent here activated this tree for the corpse of the ancient ring warlock that was swallowed by the tree. Haha, no one can escape... Even if you run away, what can you do? The evil god is about to come, and you won't survive if you go out."
"Do you think the True God Church has no preparations?"
Xia De in the silver mist retorted, but he didn't expect the other party to laugh. His silver eyes scanned the mist:
"Lawrence, the church has discovered that Lawrence is a vessel sent by God. But that was a vessel we prepared for the cultists of the Lord of the Blood Feast. Do you think that the cultists themselves didn't have a second-hand preparation?"
Xia De, who was controlling the illusion, frowned:
"And a second mortal body for the divine descent... and so on."
His eyes widened slightly, and countless clues were connected together at this moment. The back of the doctor who left the banquet seemed to appear before his eyes:
"Could it be the doctor's two bulimic patients?"
He shut up and stopped talking to the Silver Eyed Man. He finally understood the reason for his uneasiness tonight. The Silver Eyed Man was injured by the relic, and the ring sorcerer of the Blood Spirit School was fighting with the two ladies outside. His uneasiness was not because of the trip to the ruins, but because of the evil god.
But having an extra God's descent container does not mean that accidents will definitely occur. After all, the church also controls the banquet. Without the "Blood Feast" as the basis for the God-summoning ritual, the Lord of the Blood Feast will not appear anyway.
"We need to resolve the underground situation as soon as possible and have Miss Bei Yasi inform the church of this news to prevent any further complications."
Xia De thought to himself, holding the golden necklace in his hand to control the silver mist and thinking about it expanding continuously around him.
Under the blue light, neither of them spoke any more. The man with silver pupils even closed his eyes. Only the vines behind him kept squirming, as if they were absorbing something from his body.
A few minutes later, the Silver-eyed Man opened his eyes again and looked at the fog that had grown larger:
"I figured it out."
The sheen of mercury floated on his body, and finally gathered on his back. In his silver eyes, a crazy look finally appeared:
"The people of the Blood Spirit School threw me to this tree for the remains of the ancient ring sorcerer. If I die, then no one here will survive."
A humanoid figure made of mercury appeared on his back, faintly overlapping with his body. The Silver-eyed Man had once summoned a giant mercury giant to fight against the church's ring magician team in Lakeview Manor. Now that his power has further declined, he can only summon a life-size mercury humanoid:
"Stay with me."
A mercury figure with the exact same appearance as the man with silver pupils separated from his body. The vines shone with a faint blue light, making the mercury floating on its surface sparkle.
The mercury figure looked towards the silver mist.
Boom!
A nearly round metal ball was thrown out from the silver mist. After landing on the ground, it emitted steam and spun around.
The man with silver pupils looked down at his feet.
Boom!
The steam bomb exploded under the feet of the Silver-Eyed Man and the Mercury Figure.