Holding the sword in both hands, he swung a ray of moonlight forward. The bright moonlight temporarily illuminated the corridor, but it went straight through the snake's head, as if the snake was really just an illusion.
The snake looked at Shad and swam towards him slowly but with increasing power of whispers.
Because I don't know the characteristics of the relic, I can't know the specific reason. But from the contact with the snake just now, I can confirm that it is in a physical state.
"Then why... .."
When your attack touches the opponent's snake skin, the corresponding position is transformed into a special state of nothingness. You did hit the target, but you failed to hurt the opponent. This should be one of the characteristics of the relic.
"Wherever you attack, that place will become nothingness?"
Xia De understood, and the best way to deal with this kind of enemy seems to be to attack the opponent's whole body in an instant, but there is also the possibility that the opponent's whole body can be weakened.
"It is indeed a very troublesome relic. No wonder I dared to carry out such a mission when I was only in the third ring. When I was in the third ring, I was..."
Thinking of what he was doing when he was in the third ring, Xia De pondered again:
"However, since it is not to avoid the attack, but to make the attack ineffective, then it is not really without weaknesses."
He thought of another way, and the dark chains of sin flowed out from the sleeve of his left hand. The runes of gluttony, greed, and laziness written in different languages were interwoven on the chains. After the ritual linked laziness to this magic, the strength and length of the chains of sin became better than before.
Combined with the spell he learned from the Pink Book - the rope trick, Shad can now control the chain more freely.
In the darkness, the thin black chain climbed along the carpet towards the snake, and the pitch-black snake also crawled towards Shade. When the chain and the snake touched, the latter did not care about this thin "fellow". As Shade expected, the chain of sin tried to bind the snake, but it still passed through the snake's body.
At this moment, the climbing snake suddenly paused. At the same time, Shade also felt that the spirit in his body was rapidly consumed because the chains were imprisoning an extremely powerful guy:
"Sure enough, even though I can't attack, I can still imprison it!"
The snake didn't stop completely, but its squirming body seemed to have been hit by a not-so-sophisticated petrification technique.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xia De took a step forward and appeared directly in front of the big snake. He swung his sword with both hands, and the light of the silver moon left a brilliant afterglow in the darkness. But at this moment, the imprisoned huge black snake actually melted into the darkness, and Xia De's attack failed again:
"Relying on dark space to move? What kind of creature did that snake skin originally belong to?"
left.
clang~
The sword swung out and swept across the triangular snake head that was biting from the left. The snake had clearly broken free from the chains by using its spatial movement ability, but Shade's sword did not penetrate the snake's head. Instead, it actually chopped on the snake's head, making a heavy impact sound:
"The power of space and the power of virtuality cannot be used at the same time?"
The Moonlight Greatsword bounced the snake away with force. After landing, the snake hissed at Shade and stared directly at the human in front of it in the darkness. It was becoming more and more powerful.
"Space Stabilization Aura!"
Xia De stepped on the ground with his left foot, and invisible ripples spread out in all directions. The black snake seemed to sense something and turned around to retreat.
"Chains of Sin!"
The chain slid toward the ground again, and the snake swiftly tried to dodge it, but the live rope trick in the Pink Book specifically restrained such flexible movements. Even a woman with great agility would have a hard time evading a rope controlled by a trick, let alone a snake. Therefore, in the brief confrontation between the snake's tail and the chain, the snake was still pierced by the chain.
The snake slowly turned its head towards Shade, opened its mouth and showed its fangs, as if it wanted to make a desperate attack, but Shade would not give it another chance. The last thing the snake saw was the incomparably gorgeous moonlight.
"Moonlight Greatsword!"
The silver sword fell behind the snake, pierced through the snake's head, and scattered into dots of light in the darkness.
Snap~
The snake's head fell to the carpet, and its heavy body fell with it.
Shade breathed a sigh of relief, noticing that as the giant snake's body burned, the gas lamps in the corridor lit up quickly. But he still frowned, because inside the burning snake's body, a man's body appeared again, and the head of the body was broken like the snake's body:
"This relic is really weird."
When the last dark flame disappeared, the giant snake was completely burned to ashes, leaving only the man's body lying on the carpet, but strangely, no blood flowed out. In the mouth of the man's head, a small piece of snake skin was exposed.
Shade bent down and pulled the snake skin out of the corpse's mouth, confirming that it was the relic itself. Perhaps because Shade had just defeated it, its whispering element was much weaker than before:
"A clerical-level (level 4) loot, but this thing is really disgusting."
After clipping the snake skin in his notebook, Shade briefly searched the man's body again, but found nothing:
"He went out without a wallet, confidential letters, or even a diary? Is he poorer than me?"
He complained softly, used a handkerchief to restore the canvas toy back to canvas, and then used the canvas to turn the corpse into a toy.
Looking at the corridor that was damaged by the brief battle just now, he took a deep breath, and the breath of time reversed the flow of time, restoring everything to its original appearance.
Without staying here for long, Shade continued to walk along the corridor. After going up the stairs, he soon arrived at the door of Miss Sylvia's lounge, but after knocking on the door, there was no response.
"I'm sorry, please forgive my impoliteness."
Shade said softly, turning the handle and pushing the door open.
Unfortunately, although the light was on in the room, no one was there. The windows were closed, and the thick embroidered curtains blocked the moonlight outside.
"Where did Miss Sylvia go?"
He walked quickly to the window, opened the curtains and looked outside. Outside this room was the garden of the manor. The garden, which should have been lit by gas lamps, was now completely dark. However, with his dark vision, Shade could see three low-ring warlocks of the church fighting a fifth-ring warlock holding a flower pot. He could also see a sixth-ring warlock of the Mechanicus Church, who was constructing machinery in the void and fighting a sixth-ring warlock who was manipulating vines.
In the garden of this mansion, there were at least a dozen people fighting. The two sides were the church and the hired Pantanal Voodoo Society. It was obvious that the church had the upper hand, but everyone tacitly refrained from using spells and magic with obvious sound and light effects.
Shade did not find any trace of Miss Sylvia in the garden. He frowned and looked into the room again, then suddenly closed his eyes, holding his breath and concentrating. Following the vague inspiration, he opened his eyes and walked to the door, then looked at the oil painting facing the door:
“There’s something wrong with this painting.”
The gas lamps in the corridor were very bright, and the red carpet under my feet even looked scarlet in that light.
The oil painting under the gas lamp was a gray pyramid-like temple located in the dense forest. The temple was built of square bricks and was almost completely submerged by giant trees and vines. At first glance, there was nothing special about it, just an ordinary ruins landscape painting, but staring closely at the painting, I had the illusion of being sucked in.
As he blinked, the painting suddenly turned into a weird, indescribable, terrifying thing made up of trees, vines, grass, flowers, and thorns, but when he blinked again, it returned to its original appearance.
Xia De took a step back in surprise, but quickly came to the wall, reached out and took down the painting, and felt the four elements as he touched it.
He stretched out his hand to touch the screen, but his hand was immediately bounced away by a huge force:
"What's going on?"
There is a subspace sealed in the painting, similar to the "Sublimation Words" and "Magic Lock", but not the former two. Emma Sylvia is likely in it and can feel the power of the witch in the painting.
"Can I come in?"
Xia De frowned slightly. Although he didn't know what was going on, as long as he found Miss Sylvia, all the problems would be solved.
Use your sword and stab it. But be careful, such spaces are easy to enter but difficult to leave.
"I know."
His right hand once again drew the Moonlight Great Sword from the air, but this time it was the slender yellow great sword. Shade held the sword with both hands, pointing the tip of the sword at the painting, with a serious expression:
"I want to see what happened."
The tip of the sword pierced the painting, and the bright light in the corridor suddenly went out. Everything around was fading, and those illusory colors were quickly reorganizing.
Xia De looked around vigilantly. A foul and rotten smell was coming. He was standing in a corridor with sewage flowing on the ground. The stone walls around him were covered with green plants, which emitted a green light to illuminate the place.
This looks like the interior of an ancient building that has long been abandoned in the Great Swamp. This desolate corridor exudes a sense of antiquity and vicissitudes, and nature and mystery seem to blend perfectly here.
Carefully observe the stone walls covered with green plants, and look carefully at the shallow stream under your feet. Walking forward along the corridor, the things on the wall that emit a faint glow, like tree roots and creepers, become thicker and thicker. The air gradually becomes thinner, and the mental pressure of unknown origin makes Xia De's every step forward difficult.
He soon walked along the corridor to the end, which was a square temple space. The six sides of the entire room were made of rough gray square stones. On the innermost wall was a stone platform, on which was enshrined a terrifying statue made of plant remains.
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