As expected, the blood-red halo of priest Augustus appeared at the entrance of the cemetery, and there was only one continuous shadow, which meant that he had only been here once in 24 hours. However, Shade could only see the priest's figure entering the cemetery in the mist, but he did not see the priest's figure appear again.
"Strange! Did the priest climb over the railing and run into the mountains?"
Shade followed the priest into the cemetery and was not particularly worried about the evil spirits. Theoretically speaking, unless the evil spirits were formed by relics or other external factors, they would not pose much threat to a third-ring warlock like him.
After all, even if one harbors resentment and becomes an evil spirit, it is only the power of one soul. It makes no sense that the power of human resentment is stronger than the power that a ring warlock risks reading ancient texts, touching ancient relics, and chasing crazy old gods. Although a ring warlock is an idealistic power, he also sticks to basic principles.
Because the priest had obtained the location of the tomb from Ms. Michelle of the "Home for the Blind", he did not go to the gravekeeper to look for it. Instead, he walked on the stone road between the tombstones with a clear goal and successfully found the tombstone with "Matilda Fox" written on it.
The tomb was located under a large pine tree with lush branches and leaves in the center of the cemetery. The figure of priest Augustus stayed here for a long time. Shade didn't want to pry into other people's privacy, but those overlapping blood-red halos undoubtedly pointed to priest Augustus who was sitting down and looking at the tombstone. What was his mood at that time
"He failed to hold her hand when he was young. This is a lesson for me. I must hold on tight..."
But it seems like you don’t have enough hands.
Her voice suddenly appeared, almost scaring the sentimental Xia De.
"Don't underestimate me. Also, are you sure this mist is okay?"
The white fog spreading from the mountains and forests was even more exaggerated than the smog created by Tobysk's industrial development. Not only was the water vapor extremely heavy, but the visibility in the fog was even worse than Shade had imagined.
At least that's OK for now.
Xia De then opened his mouth and took a deep breath, sucking a small amount of mist into his lungs. Because he inhaled too hard, he couldn't help coughing:
"And now?"
No problem.
Xia De nodded, bent down to straighten the bunch of wilted white chrysanthemums in front of the tombstone, and then prepared to continue looking for the whereabouts of Priest Augustus.
Looking around, he saw a transparent soul floating in the fog not far away, but it was restrained by the corpse and could not go away. This harmless soul would soon leave if left alone, so Shade ignored it.
After the priest got up from the ground, he did not return along the original path, but walked towards the small church in the center of the cemetery, presumably wanting to inquire about the daily management of the tomb.
But the priest did not reach the church. After Shad followed his figure from another path between the tombstones and returned to the stone path of the cemetery, he had not taken a few steps when he saw the figure of Priest Augustus showing signs of being frightened and then defensive.
"What?"
Xia De realized that he might be close to the truth.
The priest Augustus who was attacked did not fight, but turned and ran towards the entrance of the underground cemetery farther away. The red halo clearly depicted the priest's figure as he fled. It must be admitted that although he was a little older, his skills were still very good.
"What attacked the priest?"
Instead of following directly, Xia De looked around, returned to the tombstones again, and found the floating soul he had just seen.
He stopped at a tombstone with the name "Joel Pon" written on it, and the cause of death written on the tombstone was that he died of heart disease at the age of 47.
Mr. Joel Pon's soul is exceptionally transparent, and his expression is relatively peaceful. Although no one knows why he stays here, this kind of soul is harmless.
"Excuse me, sir, did you see anything strange around here yesterday afternoon?"
Xia De walked over and asked politely. There were not many people in the cemetery in the afternoon, and there was a heavy fog in the forest, so Xia De did not have to worry about being seen talking to the "air".
The soul still retained basic rationality, but just glanced at Shade with an expressionless face and did not speak.
Xia De raised his finger, his expression became more serious, and moonlight appeared on his fingertips:
"Sir, did you see anything strange yesterday afternoon?"
As if he was somewhat afraid of the moonlight in Shade's hand, Mr. Pang's soul spoke:
"Lend me your body for a day so I can experience healthy living again, and I'll tell you."
A threatening expression appeared on Shade's face. The chain in his sleeve shot towards the soul's forehead, but suddenly stopped at a distance of only a little finger away from the soul. The sharp metal at the end of the chain pointed at it:
"you say."
The horror and filthiness of the chains of sin can be clearly felt even by a living person, let alone a soul. Mr. Pang En was obviously frightened and turned around to run, but he was bound by his own corpse underground, so he couldn't run away:
"I know! Yesterday afternoon, an old gentleman in a priest's robe came here and encountered a monster that jumped out of the bushes. It looked like a human, but its body was covered with rotten brown flesh. Its head was strangely shaped like a triangular pyramid, and it was lying on the ground. Oh, that thing was so scary! Just by looking at it, I felt like my soul was shaken."
"Ghost?"
Shade frowned. This was the lowest level of undead creature that a ring sorcerer would learn in the first year, even lower than a skeleton. The upper and lower limits of this low-level undead creature varied greatly. If Priest Augustus encountered a very powerful ghoul, he might not be able to cope with it.
"But how could there be a ghoul in a public cemetery? Moreover, would an Augustus priest who is proficient in the power of death be killed by a ghoul?"
Shade said goodbye to the soul that he frightened and continued to follow the footsteps of Priest Augustus. Priest Augustus went straight to the catacombs, but the door leading to the underground was locked, so the priest broke the lock without hesitation.
The gravekeeper had changed the lock, and the lock that stood in front of Shade was new. He opened the new lock and entered the underground tomb area, which was colder than the ground, although there was no fog.
Although Shade could see in the dark after the adventure in the dark realm, the vision was not clear, so he still lit up the moonlight with his fingers. Of course, there were gas pipes in the underground tomb and quaint gas lamps on the walls. But Shade didn't want the old gravekeeper who was guarding here to be frightened by the gas meter that managed the gas pipe in the tomb suddenly turning.
The air underground was particularly stuffy and had a smell of corruption. Following the priest's figure as he fought and retreated, we arrived at the deepest part of the cemetery. From the metal plate hanging at the corner of the passage, we could tell that this was one of the earliest underground tombs in the cemetery that was excavated more than 30 years ago.
The priest did not enter any of the tombs, but retreated to the wall at the end of the passage where an unlit kerosene lamp was hung. Then, the red halo that Shade had been following disappeared.
"Hmm? The effect of Blood Echo has ended?"
Xia De turned around and looked behind him. The figures with clear tracks were still there, but the last figure did disappear under the wall.
"Hidden walls? There are two exits from the space maze in Midhill Castle?"
Hot steam gushed out of the narrow tomb passage, and runes with four-color light flashed on the life ring. The light of time and space illuminated the ordinary earth wall in front of it, but nothing happened.
However, there seemed to be something reflecting light on the ground illuminated by the aura. Shade bent down to pick it up and found that it was a brass pendant with a notched ring. The brass notched ring was the holy emblem of Mr. Liming, the God of Righteousness. This pendant should have been left here by Priest Augustus. Shade had seen him wearing this ornament.
"It seems that we have come to the right place, but why did it disappear? Is there a mechanism? Or, do we need secret words to open this wall? Or, does the priest actually know how to walk through walls or something like that?"
Shade narrowed his eyes and turned the last figure of the priest into a continuous movement. The figure retreated to the earth wall, turned his back to the earth wall and made a movement similar to a magic spell. Then, the priest disappeared abruptly, and the last movement was still a spell, as if the priest was wiped out from the world by a huge eraser.
"What exactly happened? Are there any traces of the elements?"
Outsider, you need to put your hands on the wall to... ...something is coming.
Xia De turned around and looked in the direction he came from. There was no light or shadow in the deep tomb passage, but he also heard footsteps.
It was obviously not the sound of human footsteps, but rather the sound of an animal on all fours running at high speed. The sound came from the tomb passage next door. Xia De's actions just now seemed to have awakened something dormant there.
As a series of footsteps came closer and closer, Shad drew a cross in the air with his right hand and let the cross stop in front of him.
Under the illumination of the cross-shaped rays, in the distant tomb passage, a terrifying monster finally appeared. It was covered with rotten flesh, with its hands and feet on the ground, a swollen head, and yellowed teeth protruding outward.
"It's a corpse ghost."
Because of the unfortunate person's long hair, Shade will attract evil spirits or undead creatures more strongly in the next period of time. This is probably why the gravekeeper here was not attacked when he was dealing with the damaged door lock, but Shade was attacked as soon as he arrived.
"Is this the one that attacked Father Augustus yesterday?"
Thinking in his mind, Xia De raised his foot and kicked the cross moonlight suspended in the air forward.
The passage in the underground cemetery was narrow to begin with, and the arc of light drawn by Shade almost blocked the entire passage. But when the monster coming from afar met the intersecting moonlight, it suddenly jumped and drilled through the intersecting gap.
"So agile?"
After just a few leaps and bounds, the terrifying monster, which exuded the stench of corpses, had already rushed in front of Shade. Not only was its appearance terrifying, but when he saw it up close, an inexplicable sense of fear appeared directly in Shade's heart. This was the innate fear power of the undead.
But for Shade, who had once faced the Dreadfort, this fear had little impact.
First, he casually threw out a beam of moonlight, forcing the agile corpse to dodge, and then Shade pointed his finger forward:
"Silver Moon!"
An explosion of moonlight appeared in the gloomy tomb passage. This moonlight itself possessed sacred properties and had an extraordinary killing effect on undead creatures.
Sure enough, in the light of holy silver that was close to pure white, the corpse ghosts with black smoke all over their bodies quickly retreated. The organs of this creature were completely damaged, so it could not express its anger and fear with screams. But this silence seemed even more terrifying.
"Felian..."
He wanted to use Felianna's Witch Light to melt the opponent's limbs, but the power of this magic increased the closer the distance was, and Shad didn't want to get close to the thing opposite him at all.
"Raglai's Leap."
He had prepared the spell materials long before entering the catacombs, so before the moonlight on his fingertips faded away, he took a step forward and appeared behind the retreating corpse.
The moonlight in his hand was getting closer and closer to the terrifying thing, which seemed to have aroused its ferocity. It suddenly turned around and grinned at Xia De with its rotten mouth, then rushed towards Xia De with terrible injuries that were emitting black smoke all over its body.