The whole scene is quite scary.
The place that he had originally confirmed was empty, suddenly a mummy appeared. At that moment, Benjamin almost thought that he had entered some tomb robbery copy by mistake.
However, the mummy did not jump up to attack him, nor did it show any signs of movement. It just lay there quietly, looking like it had been there for a while.
So Benjamin couldn't help but walked over and took a closer look. Unexpectedly, he looked more and more familiar. Finally, he even recognized the corpse from its shriveled face and facial features.
This is Michelle's body.
"... Damn it." Realizing this, he couldn't help showing a shocked expression.
He had known about Michelle's death before, but what he didn't expect was that she would die in this place.
but…
After recovering from the initial shock, Benjamin felt that now, everything made sense.
In all likelihood, it was Michelle who saw the red crystal after entering the relic. She thought the red crystal was the treasure left behind by the "Soul Flame", so she picked it up, but like Benjamin just now, blood started to flow all over her body and she couldn't stop it. Unfortunately, she had no such thing as conscious space, so she just bled to death.
And the blood she shed, under the action of this red crystal or some other things, condensed into the undead creature that Benjamin later saw.
After thinking about all this, Benjamin couldn't help but sigh.
From a certain perspective, Michelle is a hero. She has lofty ambitions and careful plans. To this end, she worked step by step and tried every means possible, but in the end she lost to a small red crystal.
… Is this what is called “divine will”
Benjamin shook his head helplessly.
Everyone is dead, and there is no use thinking about it. He just suddenly felt that he should bury Michelle. Regardless of whether he buried it or burned it, he couldn't just leave her body here and rot alone.
—They sacrificed their lives for him anyway.
Most of the ground in the entire cave hall is made of hard rock, which cannot be dug. However, in some corners, Benjamin still found land. In this way, he spent more than an hour and barely dug a small pit using a wooden barrel as a tool.
He placed Michelle's body in the pit, covered it with soil, and buried her. Finally, Benjamin stood on the edge, remained silent for a while, nodded, and turned to leave.
Perhaps it was because he had known about Michelle's death before. This time, he didn't feel many complicated emotions. He just felt a little sad and lamented how careless a person's death could be.
But soon, he broke away from this emotion and continued his journey.
He walked towards the newly emerged cave entrance.
During the entire process of digging the hole, he also discussed with the system that was transformed into a "fish egg" about the "mechanism" here. He had carefully searched the entire cave hall before and found neither Michelle's body nor the entrance to the cave. It's not normal to appear out of nowhere now.
Finally, he came to the conclusion that it was the moss that had suddenly withered away that was causing the problem.
Combined with the dizziness after the moss disappeared, and the system said that when he first entered the cave, some kind of hormone seemed to have increased a lot in his body. Therefore, Benjamin estimated that in addition to emitting light, these moss may also have hallucinogenic abilities.
Hallucinations blinded Benjamin from discovering these things.
This is probably the trap set by the "Soul Flame" here.
The moss relies on red crystals to survive and at the same time gives people who enter here hallucinations. Unless someone can destroy the red crystal or really absorb the energy inside, others will not be able to find a way out.
The person who designed this is also very thoughtful.
However, Benjamin was still a little confused. Why does "Soul Flame" do this? Benjamin had personally experienced the energy in the red crystal. Therefore, he did not think that many people in this world could truly bear it.
No one can bear it, so wouldn’t leaving this thing here be a trick
After much deliberation, Benjamin couldn’t quite figure it out. So in the end, he could only think that the temper of this senior mage must be quite weird, at least on the lawful evil side.
Benjamin thought this as he continued walking along the entrance of the cave.
He was originally a little confused as to where the light in this cave came from. However, after walking for a while, the answer to this question emerged by itself.
He saw a glowing underground river.
Not long after walking out of the new cave entrance, the terrain on the right began to collapse. In the sunken groove, a thin and winding stream of water emerges from an unknown mouth and flows along the stone trough. At first, it was like a stream. But as the terrain continues to go downwards, the entire depression becomes deeper and wider. Not long after, an existence that could be called a river appeared in front of Benjamin.
—It’s already quite a magical underground landscape, not to mention, the river is still glowing.
At first, Benjamin thought it was because the river water was special. But upon closer inspection, he discovered that there were tadpole-like creatures scattered throughout the river. They have translucent bodies that emit a soft white light. It is the white light they emit when connected together that gives people the illusion that the river is glowing, like a bright and winding underground Milky Way.
Benjamin was filled with admiration.
What is this? Ordinary creatures in this world, or the so-called "Warcraft"
Both Benjamin before time travel and Benjamin after time travel have visited very few places. Therefore, he has never seen what a real Warcraft looks like.
In this way, after observing the luminous "tadpoles" in the river for a while, Benjamin suppressed the idea of fishing out a few, stood up, and continued walking forward.
Don't seek death, who knows if this thing is dangerous. If he fished it out and poisoned himself to death, where could he go to cry
So, he suppressed his curiosity and continued walking down.
However, after walking for a while, Benjamin turned his head inadvertently and found a large paragraph on the wall on the left.
His interest was instantly piqued.
The words seemed to be carved with something strange, and they looked like they had been there for a long time. The font is not very pretty, it’s a bit crooked, but the advantage is that it’s large enough, so it’s still easy to read clearly.
As for the content of the words, Benjamin took a quick look and concluded that these words were most likely left by the "soul flame".
"I hate all priests, and I don't like mages very much."
This was the first sentence Benjamin read.
Then reading down, the whole paragraph is very narcissistic. He keeps talking about how powerful his talent is, saying that no one can beat him before he is twenty years old, how boring life is, and he really wants to find a little excitement. So in the end, the mage decided to seal part of his strength in the red crystal, and then ran to challenge the church.
Seeing this, Benjamin was a little confused.
A very, very impressive senior.
However, when he thought about the intensity of energy in the crystal, he couldn't help but feel a little frightened. Even if a part of the strength was sealed, how powerful would it be in its complete form
So... what is the result of challenging the church
Unfortunately, it is not written above. This text was probably left by "Soul Flame" before he went to challenge the church. Naturally, Benjamin had no way of knowing what happened after that.
However, judging from the fact that the church is still at its peak, this genius mage probably did not succeed.
Pity.
After feeling a little regretful for a while, Benjamin continued to read. At the end of this paragraph, he saw something about the red crystal.
"I originally hoped to leave something to others, but after I finished it, I discovered that even a part of my sealed strength was not something that others could bear. In this case, anyone who reads this, either you Either you are dead, or you are stronger than me. If you are still alive, follow the road, you can go to the east of the kingdom, but this is impossible. You must be dead, this continent, and then go to In thousands of years, there will be no one stronger than me, thank you."
“…”
After reading the entire text, Benjamin was speechless.
What else could he say
Indeed, other than arrogant, he could not find a more appropriate adjective.
Regardless of whether the strength of this "Soul Flame" is really as powerful as written above, Benjamin can't quite understand this way of thinking. What is this? Probably only such a boringly powerful being can act so wantonly and treat life as a game.
It was also a bitter experience for Michelle, who kept searching for the remains, but this turned out to be the case. I wonder if her undead saw this passage. If so, how heartbroken would it be
Benjamin thought so and took another look. However, he suddenly discovered that there were several small words next to this carved text.
The small characters were not carved, but written with something... it seemed like blood or something. It should have been written not long ago, but it was almost stripped off. Benjamin had to get closer and look very carefully before he could barely see clearly.
Obviously, the small words were not left by "Soul Flame", but were comments made by another person who had been here.
It read: "Son of a bitch."