With a click, a dark passage was opening on the stone wall hanging the curtains behind them.
Fang Yu and Jita turned around and looked at the secret passage that suddenly appeared with some surprise. They were just observing the painting before, and had no idea how to trigger the mechanism here.
To say that the action of lifting the curtain earlier caused the change, the interval was too long.
Jita looked at Fang Plover. "Wait a minute." Fang Plover looked at this secret passage and did not rush forward. It also appeared a little too coincidental, as if someone behind it had let them in on purpose.
He raised his right hand slightly, raised his five fingers to summon the clockwork goblins, and let them fly into it. At the same time, a message was sent to Alyssa, telling the three of them the location and discovery.
After the message was sent, there was no news at all. The etheric magic in the valley was so chaotic that Fang Yu didn't know whether his communication crystal was functioning normally. Clockwork Goblin's exploration is also poor. There is no light source in the twists and turns of the secret passage. The clockwork fairy does not emit light. It flies out of the light range of the crystal lamp and crashes headlong.
He temporarily added a hook to it and removed unnecessary weight so that one of the clockwork goblins could move forward hanging on the crystal lamp. After flying forward for twenty or thirty meters in this way, there were only one step after another in the secret passage extending downward, and the scenery was the same. Further away, the crystal lamp was away from the maximum range of the magic furnace, and the light flickered and then went out.
Fang Plover had no choice but to take them back.
He took out his pocket watch and checked the time, feeling that staying here was not an option. Anyway, this secret passage will not disappear here. To be cautious, he decided to take Jita to find other people to join him.
But before leaving, he had other things to do. Fang Yu ordered the capable angel to loosen the old revitalized armor on the ground, and he fiddled with it for a while, planning to reverse engineer the blueprint of this thing.
Although the revitalized armor is dull, the design is preserved among several major alchemy families, and even the Corin-Ithurian Artisans Guild has no record of it. Now that he has met it, he must give it a try.
This thing really lives up to its reputation of being in disrepair. It's missing arms and legs. The rust even connects the pieces of gears together. It's a miracle that it can move at all. Fang Plover has mastered multiple parallel techniques, and his efficiency is far better than that of ordinary alchemists. However, he only achieved 17% of the drawing progress during the first disassembly before the structural value was lost while carefully maintaining it.
After the first disassembly, the remaining structural value was basically only a fraction, and it was almost impossible to reinstall it. Fang Yu had no choice but to try destructive analysis. It was only the second time that I finally got 30% of the drawing progress and a temporary design drawing.
This design diagram allows him to make three activated armors, and the remaining progress in reading the diagram will be turned into knowledge reserves. Come into play the next time he maps a similar construct.
Jita witnessed from the sidelines the whole process of Fang Plover dismantling the activated armor into parts with dazzling speed. And watched him turn the surveying and mapping progress into a light map and integrate it into the system.
Although this was not the first time she watched the captain complete this task, she was still amazed every time. It seems that this time, the captain is much more skilled than before. I just don't know where his upper limit is? Compared with the craftsmen selected by Tapolis, the latter cannot be compared with them.
To say it is the light of grains of rice and the brightness of the bright moon may be a bit too much. But she didn't forget that the captain was only level fourteen and his future was limitless.
Fang Plover finished his work, put away the craftsman system, and then took a breath and stood up. He kicked the empty breastplate of the activated armor, causing it to make an "empty" sound and roll to the wall.
It's no wonder that the activated armor, which was originally rated at level 18, dropped to level 13. This thing is too shabby. How long has it been here? He couldn't help but have a question in his mind: I don't know how many adventurers have been here in the past century. It was a miracle that this scrap of metal hadn't been dismantled by other adventurers before him.
Fang Plover raised his head again and looked around. This place doesn't seem to be secretive. On the second floor, directly opposite the northern corridor is the wall with windows. Anyone who sees such a strange place would come in to investigate, right?
It's a pity that Luo Yu is not here, otherwise the magician can use detection spells to check whether there are magic spells such as illusions here.
He opened his communication crystal, but it was empty and contained no information. It does appear that communications were disrupted. Only then did Fang Plover plan to take Jita out of this place to meet with Alyssa and her group. But at this time, he stopped, looked at a place and said softly.
Following this sigh, Jita naturally saw it - the breastplate that had been kicked before hit the lower left corner of the picture frame, and something was knocked out from there. It was a silver bracelet, small and delicate. It was originally buried under the dust, but now it was revealed.
She was stunned for a moment, glanced at the captain, then walked over to pick it up, compared it, and handed it to the latter. She found that the bracelet fit just right when she wore it, but it looked a little too small for the captain.
Its size seems to be an accessory for children.
The bracelet itself has no attributes and is not a magic accessory.
The name Fang Plover saw in the system was 'Chain of Blessings of Life'. Although time has left traces on it, when he touches it gently with his hand, he can still feel the faint sacred atmosphere in the silver brilliance.
Because of Fenris and his party, he was familiar with Mirela's magical power. The sacred breath on this chain should also come from the goddess of life, which has at least been blessed by its priests or baptized with holy water.
Seeing this bracelet, he suddenly remembered a rumor. "Miss Tata, is this that thing?" Miss Elf's emerald eyes were as smooth as a mirror - she could feel her knight's thoughts and nodded lightly.
In Aitaria, the infant mortality rate is still quite high, so nobles will seek some holy objects blessed by the goddess of life to pray for the safe growth of their offspring. Mirela, the goddess of life, was responsible for fertility, which itself was one of her vocations.
The bracelet in his hand should be such a sacred object. Wear it on a baby or child, and the power of the goddess of life will naturally protect it from growing up.
Fang Yu took the bracelet and took another look at the painting. "Let's go." He then said to Jita. This should be the last discovery in this room, although there are some coincidences in its appearance.
However, he had a feeling in his heart that this bracelet did not appear by coincidence. It is well-preserved and clearly out of tune with other things around it, and the sacred aura of the goddess of life on it has not dissipated for hundreds of years.
It's like there is an obsession lingering on it, just like the sacred object in Dolifen's fantasy, it lasts forever.
It seems like this room.
There was a faint force that led them to this place——
The two pushed the door open and found that the room outside was like weathered gravel. The previous illusion had long since disappeared, and the orderly room was reduced to ruins. How could there be any scene like the guest room before?
"Ah?" When Jita saw this scene, she couldn't help but let out a low cry.
But it was this exclamation that seemed to disturb something in front of him. Fang Yu suddenly saw a dark shadow flashing behind the window in front of him. This time he saw it clearly and it was definitely not an illusion.
Having lost the opponent several times in a row before, how could Fang Yu let this opportunity pass? He immediately released the clockwork fairy, while protecting Jita behind him, and chased after him in one stride.
The capable angel arrived first and flashed on the other side of the wall almost at the same time as him.
As soon as Fang Plover climbed over the window, a black shadow rushed straight ahead. Seeing this, Jita held up the crystal lamp, and the soft light shone in all directions - allowing him to see clearly that in the darkness was a half-body zombie with a huge mouth open, a mouth full of sharp teeth, and long... Her tongue curled towards him.
Starving ghost——
The sudden appearance of this thing in the darkness made Fang Yu's scalp numb. However, he reacted quickly and waved his left hand diagonally. On one side, the angel raised his knife and lowered it, and a ray of silver light cut diagonally downward along the zombie's Tianling Cap.
Fang Plover stepped aside again and passed by the zombie with its head on the ground. But his dodge is too low. As the zombies passed him, the dodge value was reset to zero, and the long claws still pulled a gash on his chest, and the blood immediately stained his coat red.
Jita's exclamation came from behind.
The system also sent prompts for kills and experience. But Fang Yu didn't have time to see it. Things like 'starving ghosts' don't appear alone. There must be another type of undead behind them - vampires.
But his awareness was too low, and vampires are masters of concealment. Fang Yu covered his chest and was wary of his surroundings. For a moment, he couldn't feel anything in the dark and narrow environment.
Fortunately, his vigilance was not useless. At the critical moment, Fang Plover suddenly felt a strong wind coming from behind his head. "Be careful, behind!" Jita also shouted angrily, the little girl's voice was full of nervousness and worry.
Without even thinking about it, Fang Yu raised his right hand to block the attack and turned around at the same time.
It's just that he blocked an empty space.
The attacker cunningly changed its direction. Its attack in the darkness was almost like a surprise attack, and it was destined to severely damage the plover. But at this moment, Fang Plover's dark ritual took effect.
Anticipating danger, he automatically controlled Fang Plover's body, causing him to pounce forward unexpectedly. The vampire turned into a huge bat and flew over him. It flapped its wings and turned into thick smoke, falling to the ground and turning into a human form again.
Fang Yu quickly got up from the ground, and then he saw the other party's appearance clearly. It was a thin human being with a gray face, wearing a tattered black robe, looking like a shameless dark wizard.
Fang Plover saw the opponent's level in the system: high-level servant, lv22.
Its face was bloodless, it missed a hit, and roared lowly. At the same time, its figure flashed to one side and disappeared from Fang Plover's sight again - the level was too high! Fang Yu secretly screamed something bad, and at the same time released a second powerful angel to protect his back.
Then he heard a stuttering spell coming from behind: "Vine!"
That was Kitta's voice.
Thorns grew out of the stone corridor.
At the same time, there was a loud bang, and a thorny vine as thick as a bucket rushed through the wall, carrying scattered stone bricks, and rolled towards a steering wheel behind Fang Plover.
Fang Yu knew that Jita could see things from behind that he couldn't see. He didn't think about it, just moved by instinct, without even turning around. He placed the metal glove of his right hand flat and swept it with his five fingers.
I saw the capable angel shooting there with an arrow and stabbing the thing in the vine with a sword.
There, the black shadow wrapped in vines was letting out a scream - and Fang Plover also felt that his angel had stabbed something. But the black shadow suddenly repeated its old trick, once again dispersed and turned into a cloud of smoke. Countless bats flew out of the smoke, chirping, as if trying to escape from all sides.
"Jita, stop him!" Fang Plover shouted.
"Anstali Glacier!"
Jita gently closed her eyelids, her long eyelashes trembling slightly. She placed her hand on the silver pages of the magic book and recited the spell in a slightly trembling tone.
There was a loud bang.
The corridor was immediately filled with cold air, and curling ice walls rose from all sides, completely sealing the narrow space.
The only exit at this moment was in the direction where Jita herself was. And after a group of blood-red bats flew around and hit the wall, they turned in that direction.
Fang Plover immediately threw a Ts-1 lurker that could generate a gravity trap in the direction of the window.
But at this moment, the corridor where the three of them were located suddenly sank downwards. "Oops!" Fang Yu secretly said something bad. He knew in his heart that it was Jita's previous vine spell that destroyed the fragile structure of this long-disrepaired corridor.
As expected, the ground cracked downwards. Fang Plover raised his hand and shot out his flying claws, grabbing onto a protrusion above to prevent himself from falling.
But he heard an exclamation from ahead.
"Mr. Knight, it's Kita."
Fang Yu heard Miss Tata's prompt and looked up, only to find that his Ts-1 lurker also rolled down along with the cracked floor and failed to work. And the cloud of smoke was rolling toward Jita.
The latter had already turned pale with fright, and had forgotten what other spells he had. Besides, even if she has some magic, she is only a sixth-level naturalist.
As soon as the smoke fell to the ground, it turned into hands and grabbed Miss Naturalist. The vampire seemed to be seriously injured and did not dare to stay. He grabbed the stunned Jita and disappeared at the other end of the corridor.
That direction is exactly the room before.
Fang Yu was so anxious that he didn't even bother to see where his Ts-1 lurker fell. He knew that vampires could recover by sucking human blood. If the other party was given enough time, Jita would most likely be in trouble.
He quickly swung forward with all his strength and landed firmly on the platform formed by the break in the corridor in that direction. Without even having time to check the injury on his chest, he gritted his teeth and chased in that direction.
He didn't expect that he would be back in this place in just a few minutes. But when he pushed the door open and entered, the room was empty. He took out an illuminating crystal and lit it up. There were no Jita and vampires around?
The painting was still placed in that place, and the girl in the painting looked at him quietly——
Fang Yu accidentally glanced at the girl and discovered that she was wearing a strange ring on the ring finger of her right hand. The wolf head on the ring looked vaguely familiar to him.
But this thought only passed by for a moment. He didn't have the heart to think about this at all now - he just glanced at it and saw that the only exit in the room was the secret passage, and he understood that the vampire should have escaped in with Jita.
He didn't care about anything at the moment. He just hung the lighting crystal on his chest with his backhand, then pulled out the silver blunderbuss Scarpe gave him and Sylvester, and walked in carefully.
Two powerful angels guarded him, one behind the other.
The secret passage was not much different from what he had seen in the Clockwork Fairy's vision before. It was narrow and winding, and the scenery was the same as in the previous chapter, all the way down. This kind of place is the easiest to set up traps and traps, but Fang Yu was worried about Jita's safety at the moment and couldn't care less.
Fortunately, it seems that because it has been too long, the trap has long since expired. Or maybe the original owner didn't set any traps here in the first place, and he didn't encounter any trouble along the way.
He walked more and more hastily, and he didn't know how long he walked, but there was still no trace of the vampire and Jita in front of him. But suddenly, his line of sight suddenly opened up. Under the shining light of the crystal lamp, Fang Yu found that he had entered an underground hall.
In the darkness, the hall didn't know how wide it was. But at least it was no smaller than the antechamber he and Kita saw when they entered the castle.
The silence around him made Fang Yu feel a little strange, so he slowed down a little - the hall was very empty, only the rustling of his footsteps echoed. Fang Yu looked around, then took off the crystal from his chest and raised it high.
The range of the light was slightly expanded, allowing the halo to extend in a circle, but it only just hit the center of the hall.
Only then did Fang Plover notice that there seemed to be a flash of light on the ground in that place.
He walked over and took a look, only to find a bat-shaped silver badge on the ground, lying flat in the dust. Fang Yu couldn't help but be stunned. This is the attendant's emblem. The vampire will leave this emblem after death, but he doesn't know which level it is?
He was secretly confused and looked behind him carefully before picking up the emblem. The emblem is still warm when you hold it - vampires naturally have no body temperature, but this is a reaction that the magic power has not dissipated.
It shows that this emblem was left just now.
The system also gave a hint: high-level attendant emblem.
Fang Plover's heart trembled. Unless there are other high-level servants in this place, then this emblem is probably left by the previous vampire. But how could it die in this place?
Did this unlucky guy succumb to his injuries before he had time to suck Jita's blood?
But the problem is——
Where's Jita?
Fang Yu stood up with doubts and looked around. The hall was completely silent. If Jita was still here, she would have seen him holding the light source in his hand.
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