The passage leading to the seal is in the cave under the cliff, but not everyone has to go in. Some people must be left waiting outside to prevent being attacked from behind.
Miss Aurora and Granny Cassandra had to go in, as they were the only ones who understood the seals left by the Witch Emperors. Of all the others, two high-ring sorceresses and four mid-ring sorceresses stayed outside, as did Shade.
This was his own request, after all, he did not understand the power of witches. While there was time, and the nearby evil spirits had been cleared, it would be better to collect the corpse grass, dark orchid, and black lady flower that Mr. Kopps wanted to buy.
Compared to the route that Shade took when he entered the city through the narrow space last time, this kind of plants are more common in the mountains. If the narrow space was not so dangerous, this place would be full of gold pounds.
So the group temporarily separated, and the witches led most people into the cave under the cliff. The six sorceresses who stayed on the cliff were all followers of Cassandra, and naturally knew about Shade.
When Shade said that he wanted to take a walk around the neighborhood, the brown-haired, middle-aged, eighth-ring warlock immediately agreed to go with him.
"No, I'm just going to collect some plants."
Xia De shook the sword in his hand:
"I won't go too far. If there's any danger, I can escape by myself."
In view of Xia De's performance along the way, they did not stop him.
The amount of the three materials Mr. Kopps purchased was very large, with 200 pounds (about 90.72kg) of corpse grass alone. Shade's toy making actually has an effect on spellcasting materials, but the effect is very poor. He collected some corpse grass and tried it, and found that he could turn them into toys, but the spellcasting consumed a lot of spirit, three times the same volume of ordinary materials.
Mr. Kops's more expensive Dark Orchid required more money to turn it into a small toy. The 20-pound Black Lady Flower could only be turned from a plant into a toy of the same size, and it couldn't even be shrunk.
"Although the size of the Lady of the Wrath Flower is large, one flower is equivalent to two Mias. The price of the Corpse Grass is 3 pounds and 7 shillings per pound, and the price of the Dark Orchid is 13 pounds, 15 shillings and 5 pence per pound. Even if it becomes the lightest stuffed toy, the weight is still amazing. Hmm..."
He brought a gift box from God, which was used to hold plants. In addition to weekly gifts and relics, this box could also keep plants fresh. This was not a commendable feature, as most container-type relics had similar effects. According to research, this was the influence of the whispering element.
"Gather more resentful lady flowers and less corpse grass."
After thinking of the plan, he left the bare cliff and went into the woods alone.
The black forest was extremely terrifying, with charred trees and gray vines, like strange plants that could only appear after the end of the world. The power of death corroded everything around it. Even though he had barely adapted to this place, Shad still felt uncomfortable all over.
"I don't know what's going on inside that border of mine, but I have to perform a ceremony tonight to seal it!"
In order to prevent himself from getting into trouble, Shade was very cautious and did not walk too far. It took him an hour to fill the box of God's gift on his back. Although this was not enough for Mr. Kopps to purchase, Shade knew how to be content with what he had, so he turned around and returned to the cliff.
The six sorceresses were still waiting there. When they saw Shad coming back, they were relieved to see that he was fine.
Miss Aurora and Grandma Cassandra still hadn't returned, so Shade and the sorceresses waited for another hour. Seeing that there was still no movement, he proposed to go down and take a look. No one here could restrict his freedom, so despite the objections, Shade finally left.
The strangers could not fly yet, so they could only climb down the black cliffs along the rope. The entrance to the material world needed parchment to open, and the special power of the witch was needed in the narrow space, so Shade used the witch's light spirit rune to illuminate it and saw the dark hole.
The cliff caves in reality are already very dark and scary, and this narrow passage seems to lead directly to the bottom of the bottomless abyss.
This passage was filled with the power of the Witch Emperor of the Fifth Epoch, and no light could be generated in it to illuminate the eyes. Even Shade's "light magic" could only produce a faint light the size of a grain of rice. Fortunately, after the action in the dark realm, he had a certain degree of dark vision, and the thick fog in the outside world did not exist here, so there was no need to worry about falling in this passage.
The further you go in, the more you can feel the whistling wind blowing from the front. When you first enter the passage, the wind only brings a little chill, but as you continue to walk, the breath of death cuts your skin like a knife.
After walking for 20 minutes, they finally left the passage and came to the platform on the side of the large hollow in the mountain. In reality, a fire demon was sealed here, and the bridge connecting the two platforms was broken. But here, a bridge built of white bones connected the two sides of the large hollow.
Those bones seemed to be suspended in the air. At least based on Xia De's understanding of mechanics, it was impossible to analyze their stress conditions from a purely materialistic perspective.
I don't know if it's a coincidence, but in reality, there is also a bonfire in front of the bridge that corresponds to the seal of the Flame Demon. But when I got closer, I found that the bonfire was lit not long ago, and it should be left by Miss Aurora and her group. The bonfire was still strong, and I could feel the warmth when I got closer. Even the physical strength and spirit that had almost completely stopped recovering were slowly recovering under the firelight.
"The preparations are indeed thorough."
After a short rest, Shade walked around the campfire and stepped onto the bone bridge.
He stepped lightly on it and immediately felt the entire bridge shaking. Then, a sudden strange feeling of dizziness almost caused Xia De to fall to the side.
"oh."
He covered his head and felt that the sky and the earth were spinning, but he was the only one who was not spinning.
There is a cursed power on this bridge.
"This curse that makes people lose their balance is simple, but it is really vicious in this scenario."
Just thinking about how deep the abyss under the bridge was, Xia De felt cold sweat on his back.
When he recovered a little, he took out the extract of weathervane blue grass and put it on the tip of his tongue, hoping to use Raglai's jump to leave the bridge in dozens of steps. But this magic failed. This strange bone bridge actually prohibited space movement, and the effect was very similar to Shade's space stabilization aura.
"Although she is arrogant and extravagant, the Witch Emperor is worthy of being the Witch Emperor."
He could only keep walking forward in the shrill black wind, trembling with fear every time he took a step. Before the dizziness was over, something unusual happened on the bridge again.
The sticky and strange liquid seeped from the bottom of the bridge through the cracks in the skeleton and onto the bridge surface. The amorphous strange liquids were like some strange creatures, accompanied by whispering elements, and they gathered together to form a strange shape of a human-sized creature that kept shaking.
The monster looked particularly terrifying, with small granulations trembling constantly on the surface of its squirming body. Between the granulations, white particles like acne kept growing, bursting, and then growing again.
The severe dizziness and the appearance of the thing in front of him made it difficult for Xia De to resist the urge to vomit:
"A humanoid relic? What the hell is this?"
With a light stroke of his right hand in the air, a bright streak of light flew forward silently parallel to the bridge surface and smoothly cut the body of the liquid creature. But it was useless, the opponent's body could be deformed and combined at will, and an extra wound was not a problem for it at all.
"How did Miss Aurora and the others get there just now?"
He raised the Night Watchman in his hand, but put it down immediately. The squirming monster was shaking its body and slowly walking towards Shade. The slippery sound was particularly obvious in the extremely quiet cave in the mountain. Shade could even imagine that once the two sides fought in close combat, the other party would attach the mucus on his body to his body until he was completely "swallowed" into the body.
"How could the Witch Emperors use such weapons? I always thought they only liked beautiful and expensive things."
Taking a cautious step back, pointing his finger forward:
"Feliana's Witch Light."
The power of the witch blossomed at her fingertips. In the golden light, the liquid monster's steps suddenly stopped, and the surface of its body slowly melted. But judging from the speed of melting, even if Shade used up all his spirit, he would not be able to destroy the other party.
A clattering sound was heard on the bridge, and the dark chains of sin flowed out from Shade's sleeves, then easily bound the enemy's ankles, or were actively absorbed into the enemy's body.
The power of sin contaminated the liquid, but the most important thing was that the restraining effect of the chains of sin began to take effect. Although the effect of the chains of sin on the relics was not strong, it did make it difficult for the opponent to move temporarily.
Throwing the frog leg onto the bridge, Xia De bent down slightly and ran forward a few steps, then suddenly jumped up:
"ha!"
His excellent physical fitness and the power of the spell allowed him to pass over the head of the liquid monster. He maintained the effect of the chain and ran to the other side of the bridge in a hurry.
The bridge surface was shaking violently with every step. When Shade finally stepped out of the bridge and reached the platform on the other side of the large hole, the dizziness disappeared almost immediately. Looking back, the end of the chain of sin was lying on the bridge surface, and there was no trace of the terrible monster on the bridge surface.
"Hallucination?"
It was not an illusion, the traces of the abnormal whispering elements had not disappeared.
“That’s really amazing.”
Leaving the bridge, the light that had been suppressed since entering the mountain finally returned to normal. The light of the silver moon spread all around, and Xia De waved his fingers left and right, and found a stone tablet on the side of the cave entrance as he continued to walk inward.
Looking closer, the inscription was written in the language of the Fifth Age, probably left by the ruler of Witton, the Witch Emperor Violet Marshall:
There is a dead end ahead.
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