After sending away the owl that didn't like the cat food but still accepted it reluctantly, Shade avoided the eyes of the church and went through the white fog to the outskirts of the city. Compared with the relatively quiet city center, the disaster here was more serious. Because not everyone has a house to live in.
When Shade was passing through Modini Alley in the slums, he saw a body that looked like it had been dried for a long time at the entrance of the alley. He was worried that the body would revive, so he went to check it out. He then found that the body was still warm, and it was obvious that it had just died not long ago.
I continued forward in the direction I had planned, and soon I saw dense black spider webs deep in the alley. I picked up the kerosene lamp in my hand to explore the way, and the spider webs actually melted in the flames.
Moving forward, Shad saw a horrific scene at the door of an illegal tobacco shop at the end of the alley, which had turned into a spider's nest.
The dense spider webs completely covered the entire building and the surrounding alleys. Just from what he could see, there were more than a dozen ordinary people trapped in the spider webs in the thick fog. The owner of the spider webs used the spider webs to wrap the peeling wall of the building, and the human-faced spider "watched" its prey from a high place.
It was a black spider, roughly the size of six or seven Shards stacked together. Its chest and abdomen were covered with black hair, and its six pairs of appendages were a strange, translucent yellow.
"Ghost-faced spider?"
Xia De was a little surprised. The ghost-faced spider and the "mirror ghost" that had appeared in his home were both quite rare spirits. Only special environments could give birth to such terrifying spirits, and these evil spirits with their own names were also very powerful.
The giant spider had obviously noticed Shade, and it climbed down the web as it trembled. Although it was not very fast, the sight was truly frightening.
"Silver Moon!"
He drew an arc with his hand, cutting the spider web in the air cleanly. With the spider's hissing sound, dense black spider silk sprayed downward from its mouthparts.
"Feliana's Witch Light!"
He raised his left hand to the sky, and a translucent golden arc of light appeared above his head, melting the spider silk. At the same time, Shade suddenly jumped up and used the power of the spell to get into the air.
The giant spider clinging to the wall also pounced towards Shad at this moment, but Shad disappeared in the air and then appeared above the spider.
"ha!"
He held the sword in both hands and stabbed it into the spider's carapace, and then gravity brought both of them to the ground. The force of the fall allowed the Night Watchman to stab further into the spider's body, and Shad's arm even touched the hair:
"Silver Moon!"
He pressed his fingers on the sword and used the Night Watchman's magic. The light of the silver moon radiated from the sword, and then dense cracks appeared on the surface of the wriggling spider. The moonlight shone through the cracks until the whole spider exploded into dust with a fishy smell.
"oh!"
Shade's legs went weak and he almost fell down. Then he noticed that his hands were black, obviously poisoned. He immediately used the elves' detoxification technique to treat himself, then raised his hands to shoot out sunlight rays to burn the spider webs blocking the front.
He raised his sword and pointed it at the sky, hoping to use the light of the silver moon to attract the nearby ring magician team of the Orthodox Church to rescue the poor people entangled in spider webs. Although it was foggy now, with the Night Watch's amplification magic, Shade was not worried that the church would not notice.
But before he could perform his magic, a cocoon tightly wrapped in a black spider web began to wriggle nearby.
"The little spiders are about to hatch?"
Shade was shocked, but when he put on the mask and used the sunlight rays to burn off the spider webs, he found that it was the man in the cocoon who had awakened.
The other party woke up so quickly because he was a vampire, and the little bat mark on his head clearly proved this.
The man was confused for a few seconds, but soon understood what had just happened. After being pulled up by Shade, he enthusiastically told him the process of the ghost-faced spider crawling out of the narrow gap, how many dangerous creatures there were nearby, and even showed Shade the way to leave the nearby area.
When Shade asked about the other party's plan, the scruffy-bearded middle-aged vampire looked at the thick fog and shook his head:
"It's too dangerous in the city. I plan to leave the city for a while. My people... I mean friends, have already left the city. The festival is about to start. If I had known I would be so unlucky, I should have left earlier."
"Festival?"
Xia De asked suspiciously, and the middle-aged vampire did not hide it:
"It's about Mount Xikar, but don't worry, it won't have any impact on the city. I can guarantee it with my soul. Sir, if you are also interested, don't forget to look up at the top of Mount Xikar tonight. There will be a scene that mortals may not see once in their lifetime."
He introduced enthusiastically, thanked Shade for saving his life again, and even gave Shade all the money in his wallet. Before leaving, he pulled a bundle of spider silk from the ground and wrapped it around his arm. Shade then remembered that the spider silk of the "ghost-faced spider" is a very special semi-solid substance, a top-notch undead material.
"I knew that whenever something big happened, there would be gold pounds everywhere."
But Shade was in a hurry and didn't have time to take away all the spider silk nearby. So he just imitated the vampires who had already left and took a large bundle of spider silk and put it in his pocket. Then he raised his sword to the sky and made sure that the ring magician team of the Orthodox Church was attracted before he hurriedly left.
If there is enough time, Shad believes that he will probably be able to increase his savings to over 10,000 pounds today.
"Since you have so much money, shouldn't you consider investing it? Get yourself some fixed assets, even if it's just buying a building and collecting rent every month..."
While the matter of the chosen one is important, livelihood is equally important.
At 5:40 pm, Xia Decai, panting, finally saw the huge black shadow of the Mechanical College Castle in the fog. When he approached the castle, he found that the college had been blocked by barbed wire and no one was allowed to enter or leave. This was a building that the City Hall focused on defending.
But these obstacles could not stop Shade, and he entered the castle without much effort. Afterwards, he met up with three high-ranking nuns wearing silver eye masks in the castle and went to the location they found that was most suitable for opening the gate.
Coincidentally, that was the basement used to store valuable items for the auction during the Fire Worship Charity Banquet. Shad even remembered that the vampire Mr. Armand Bernhardt took an antique coffin from here.
Of course, these things have nothing to do with opening the door.
Because the narrow space is getting closer to the material world, the ceremony this time does not need to be as complicated as the last time. With bells, bone bonfires and a piece of black cloth as symbols, three nuns use the power of the spirit runes Whisper-Door, Miracle-Death and Blasphemy-Illusion to stand around the bonfire in an equilateral triangle.
As the bell swung, the red flame turned blue with a sharp bang, and the black gauze hanging on the wall swayed in the windless basement.
The nuns were chanting something in a low voice, but it sounded like they were singing. In this somewhat eerie atmosphere, the wall behind the veil seemed to disappear, and wisps of white mist were seeping out:
"Mr. Watson, please be careful on your way."
The nuns gave their blessings, and Shad quietly thanked them, knowing that his adventure was about to begin.
He moved closer to the wall, stood in front of the veil, took a few deep breaths to adjust himself, then lifted the black veil and walked in.
The sudden stride made Xia De feel off balance, but when his raised right foot touched the solid ground, he knew that he had entered that strange world again.
He sincerely hoped that this would be the last time he would come to this damn place.
Stranger, you have left the world of the living.
You feel the wonder, the blasphemy, the enlightenment, the whisper.
Note that further changes have occurred in the gap.
The power of death overwhelmingly surpasses the power of the living, and any magic related to life and light will be weakened.
"What?"
Shade was shocked. The Moonlight series of magic and the newly acquired Sunlight Rays were his most advantageous means of fighting against the undead.
This effect has no effect on you, a little light of divinity dispels the power of death.
Xia De breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately received a new prompt:
Outsider, you have been cursed with a death that entangles your soul. The curse is ineffective against you, but your physical and spiritual recovery has been further weakened, so please be careful.
"I see."
The narrow room still looked the same. The black, white and gray basement looked like it had been through thousands of years of wind and frost. Corpse grass grew in the cracks of the wall, and disgusting black mud appeared on the ground in patches. There was even a dried corpse leaning against the wall on the other side of the basement.
When Xia De looked at it, the mummy actually moved.
"Daylight rays."
He raised his finger and a beam of sunlight flew out from between his fingers. It was only a very thin beam of light, but after leaving a small hole in the mummy's head, it immediately melted its entire head. The corpse fell to the wall and finally did not move this time.
Sunlight rays are the nemesis of the undead and dark creatures. Coupled with the witch's golden necklace and the increase in Shad's soul power in the narrow space, it is normal to have such an effect.
However, compared to the first time he entered the narrow space, Shade's power in the narrow space was greatly compressed. The power of death became more and more intense, so that Shade, who was still a living person in essence, was also restricted.
When rescuing Priest Augustus, he was even able to use the maze incompletely. But in this narrow space, even if he used up all his spirit, he couldn't achieve that effect.
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