Although he had already confirmed from Miss Tata that there might be an exit nearby, Fang Plover was not in a hurry to go check it out immediately. He first tried to use the communication crystal to contact Alyssa and the others outside, but there was still no response from the communication crystal.
Fang Yu was a little speechless, and he didn't know if there was something wrong with his communication crystal itself - someone in the community had indeed said that some communication crystals were of sub-optimal quality. His previous communication crystal didn't have so many problems.
Fortunately, the communication crystal on Jita's side was also silent, which made him give up the idea a little.
Although I don’t know if the lich will come back. However, Fang Yu put away the communication crystal, looked at the altar in the center of the cave, thought about it, and walked over. "Brother Ed." After so many things happened, Jita looked a little worried from behind and called him in a low voice.
Fang Yu shook his head at her, indicating that there was no need to worry. He has not forgotten all the strange things that happened when he approached this altar before, and of course he has to find out what happened. Now that the lich was frightened away, he was about to seize this moment to check it out.
He turned around and walked to the altar. He had actually had the opportunity to get close to the altar more than once during the battle, but he had no time to pay attention to it - but now it seems that the altar itself is ordinary and boxy, and seems to be made from a whole piece of natural rock. carved out of it.
It’s just that the Holy Sword of Moya, which was originally suspended in mid-air, has also disappeared at this moment. It is not known whether it was taken away by the lich, or if some other changes occurred during the battle.
He asked Tata about this. But Miss Goblin only shook her head, saying that it was filled with smoke and dust and she didn't know what happened.
At this moment, only the skeleton was left quietly on the altar. Due to its age, it was covered with dust and cobwebs. Fang Plover raised the lighting crystal, pushed aside the layers of mesh, and watched the large and small round spiders disperse in a flurry below.
Out of respect for the deceased, he only checked it carefully - but he still found many details. There were cuts on several ribs on the chest of the remains, where the sword had been inserted. The blade passed through the heart, killing him with one blow.
A century has passed, and this skeleton still retains the posture of its last moments of life, holding the non-existent sword blade in the air with its hands, as if it is still looking for a chance of survival.
There was a ring on its ring finger. Fang Plover wiped the dust off the ring with a cloth, revealing only a bright silver wolf head.
He was slightly startled, subconsciously took a step back, and his heart moved. At this time, Lady Cat was also walking to the stone platform, circling around the altar and the Plover a few times. It raised its head and looked at the skeleton with sapphire-like eyes, and barked a few times.
The girl in the painting, and Delise in her arms——
This picture flashed through Fang Yu's mind, and he was suddenly stunned.
The afternoon on the canvas is quiet and peaceful, and the girl's expression is pure and innocent. But who would have thought that the owner of the painting would end up in this place?
Lying quietly in this dark and silent underground.
There are only remains under dust and cobwebs, quietly savoring a hundred years of loneliness.
Fang Plover opened his mouth wide, and couldn't help but think of everything he saw in Dolifen's dreamland.
Isn’t this the same for Shizu? She also died on such an altar, and her father was still looking for the whereabouts of his daughter until the end. But in the end, Misu used her kindness and dragon soul to let her return to this world.
But this time, in this abandoned castle, who knows that the beautiful girl in the painting is lying on this altar? There is no longer a kind and noble lady here with the same kindness to bring her back to life.
No one even knows the girl's name.
No one knows what her life was like or what she went through. For a century, she just lay here quietly. No one knew who the murderer was. The Union of Elmau Castle would become what it is today.
If he and Kita hadn't come to this place accidentally, the secrets here might have been buried under the dust of history for a long time, just like Dolifen's fantasy.
Until the end, all traces disappeared——
But maybe it wasn't a coincidence. Fang Plover couldn't help but look at the cat lady surrounding his feet.
Is Doris the cat in the painting, or is she a direct descendant? Although according to common sense, cats cannot live for more than a century, in Etalia, it is not impossible.
As long as you become a magical beast, you can have a longer life. Fang Plover suddenly thought of a possibility, maybe Delise is a magic pet.
"Did you bring us to this place, Miss Delise?"
"why?"
Fang Plover asked softly.
But the cat lady just meowed to him, as if she was being coquettish.
Fang Yu couldn't help but smile. Miss Delise is sometimes very mysterious. It can not only kill vampires, but also frighten away the lich and move in and out of this place freely.
But sometimes, it is just like an ordinary cat, except more elegant and beautiful. He couldn't help but wonder, could Chris be the name given to Miss Delise by the girl in the painting?
It's a pity that Fang Plover didn't know this.
After all, he is an alchemist - not a veterinarian or a druid. As for Miss Attila, she also couldn't understand what this cat was. It didn't seem to be as simple as a magical beast.
But the only thing Fang Yu could do at the moment was to check everything on the altar and around it to see if he could find any clues. He approached the skeleton with his hand, but this time the half-crown mark on the back of his hand showed no reaction, and the power of Cang Zhihui seemed to be dormant.
Only the ring of golden flames was still faintly warm in his arms.
He took out the Ring of Golden Flame again - the ring seemed to have drawn some power from the previous mutation, and became blazing again in the dark environment, like a layer of flowing lava.
It's just that the light it emits is not as good as before, it just seems to be faintly coming out from under the rock formations, giving people a feeling of hidden flames.
At this time, Fang Yu felt a faint throbbing, as if a voice in his heart was calling something, asking him to put the ring close to the skeleton. It felt like a mother's call to her child, which he couldn't resist.
The goblin lady seemed to be aware of this, but did not warn her.
Fang Yu felt slightly relieved, knowing that Miss Tata could not harm him. So he raised the ring and brought it closer and closer to the skeleton, until the ring of golden flames only lightly touched the right finger bone of the skeleton.
At that moment, Fang Yu felt that everything in front of him seemed to be stretched, as if he was being pulled into a long passage, and all kinds of illusions came one after another.
It was like endless pictures and memories poured into his mind, but he couldn't see anything clearly. He could only watch the fragments of those pictures and memories as if they all fell into an unknown abyss.
An extremely complicated emotion arose in his heart, which seemed to be sadness and relief. There were also tears and hysterical pain that burst out of his eyes, making him almost unable to help but cry out.
But all these illusions are just a matter of a moment.
All the phantoms and emotions finally turned into a vague sigh.
When that faint sigh sounded in Fang Yu's heart. He seemed to see a tall shadow with long black hair, slowly turning around in front of him, away from him.
In the depths of the darkness, only a pair of golden pupils were shining.
Then all illusions disappeared——
"Brother Ed?"
Fang Yu only heard a worried voice shouting timidly beside him.
Only then did he come back to his senses and found that Jita had come to him at some point, looking at him with a thin brow. Fang Yu shook his head and realized that everything before was just an illusion.
But he couldn't help but look at the ring of golden flames in his hand. The light on the ring had long since silenced and returned to its dim appearance, as if nothing had happened before.
Even the throbbing feeling in his spiritual world disappeared, and the gestating dragon soul that once existed in his spiritual world seemed to disappear without a trace.
Only the text description on the ring remains the same:
'Powerful power is contained in it——'
Fang Yu turned around in confusion and asked, "Did you see something just now, Jita?"
"I only saw the light on the ring gradually disappearing, and then Brother Ed, you have been standing there for almost ten minutes." Miss Naturalist shook her head slightly and replied in a low voice.
Fang Yu didn't expect that he would be distracted for ten minutes. However, from Jita's description, at least the light emitted by the Ring of Golden Flame was not his own hallucination, which means that something did happen between it and the skeleton before.
But what did the last phantoms he saw represent? The Ring of Golden Flame is Nicol Bolas's golden dragon and the source of power, but it is not only the power of the Dragon Witch alone, but also absorbs part of the divinity of Toragothos and the Lizard God. Power.
Fang Plover didn't know whether everything that had happened in Elmhorn Castle was related to the Dragon Witch, Toragothos or the Saurian God. But the pair of golden eyes he saw at the end should undoubtedly be that of the Dragon Witch.
Is it just Misu, or is it Nicol Bolas?
And why does the Ring of Golden Flame react with this remains?
Who is the girl in the painting, and what is her relationship with the Rogersle family? What happened to Elmau Castle again?
Fang Yu suddenly remembered what the lich said before: "Everything is determined by fate-" The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was something in this sentence, but he had no clue at the moment.
He recalled the last scene he saw, and then asked Tata in his heart: "Miss Tata, what do you think?"
Fang Plover knew that Miss Tata should feel the same way about everything he saw. After all, the knight and the dragon soul are one body, their emotions and thoughts are connected, and they share joy, anger and sorrow together.
Tata thought quietly for a moment: "I don't quite understand the emotions between mortals. Mr. Knight, if you have any ideas, can you teach me. However, the power in the ring of golden flames should belong to the Dragon Witch."
She continued: "Those powers have now disappeared without a trace in your inner world. But I feel that they have not disappeared, but have become more perfect - I even have a hunch that you may be very We are about to see 'it', Mr. Knight."
"it?"
Fang Yu suddenly realized that the goblin lady was talking about the dragon soul that was born from the dark power of Nicol Bolas.
He couldn't help but fall silent.
Every time Nicol Bolas's power appears, it is full of negative aura, which is also the inherent attribute of the dark dragon - and Toragothos and the Saurian God are not good people, and they are born from the power between the three. 's existence' made him really unsure whether this was good news or bad news.
Although the other party has never shown any malice in his spiritual world.
He was silent for a moment, and the underground cave became even quieter - after all the strange phenomena disappeared, this place would be silent in darkness. Except for the dim light of the lighting crystal, there was no movement around.
Fang Yu couldn't find any clues for a while. He checked other places. Apart from the altar, there seemed to be nothing else worth noting in the underground cave.
In the end, Fang Yu only took out a dark fragment from his pocket, which he dropped after killing the strange shadow. He only now recalled that this thing might be a fragment of something——
It should probably be part of the Dragon Slayer Sword Moa.
No wonder Miss Tata would say that it has the aura of goblins on it. Aren't the five holy swords forged by goblins and given to the five guardians of mortals?
But how the fragments of the dragon-slaying sword turned into that kind of twisted monster is really questionable. It's just that there are too many questions in this underground place, and there is no shortage of this one. Fang Yu knew in his heart that he might be able to figure out what happened in Aimao Castle for more than a hundred years.
is the answer to all these questions.
He took one last look at the remains, which were still lying motionless on the altar in the same position as before. He just used the ring of golden flames to approach it again, but there was no reaction.
Fang Yu hesitated for a moment, whether to find a place to bury the skeleton so that it would not be exposed here. But he thought for a moment and realized that he didn't know the life of the owner of the remains. He didn't even know his name. He couldn't even build a simple tombstone for him.
He sighed, as he unintentionally became more and more involved in the Dragon Cult and the Dragon Witch incident. Perhaps one day, he and Miss Attila will find out the truth about all this.
Maybe then, it won't be too late for him to come back and do all this.
Before that, it might be good to let this quiet underground cave serve as a temporary tomb for the remains.
After all, he and Jita may have been the only ones to enter this underground cave in the past hundred years. Of course, except for the lich - but the lich shouldn't have any interest in this remains.
He looked at the remains on the altar and couldn't help but think of the girl in the painting again. On that quiet afternoon, under what circumstances, a painter fixed the portrait of the girl on the canvas.
Then everything is buried in history.
"Perhaps I will help you find out all the truth," Fang Plover said silently in his heart: "If you can still hear it, you just need to wait for a while."
Jita also looked at the skeleton silently. Of course she also saw the ring on the other person's hand. She vaguely thought of something and couldn't help but look a little pitiful.
But the girl has been waiting alone in this dark underground for a hundred years, and maybe she has become patient enough.
Only Dai Lisi tilted her head and looked at Fang Plover, and called out softly.
The cat lady's cry brought them back to their senses.
Fang Yu lowered his head and looked at Delis. Although he didn't know what kind of power made the cat lady bring them to this place, he would rather believe that it was the guidance of the girl's soul in the dark.
Apart from the altar, the dark crystal and the skeleton, there seemed to be no other notable places in the cave. Fang Yu checked around and was convinced of this. After he couldn't find any clues, he turned back to Jita and said, "Let's go, leave this place."
Miss Naturalist nodded slightly.
In the darkness underground, only the light of the illuminating crystal slowly extended forward.
The two of them, plus a fairy lady and a cat, walked through the tunnel on the side of the cave. After walking for a short time, they found the exit that Tata and Delise had discovered before. As expected, there was a staircase leading upwards. Fang Plover checked it and found that there was a guillotine trap at the entrance, but it was in disrepair and had long since rusted to death - it no longer worked.
Only then did everyone feel relieved to cross the trap and walk upwards. I don't know where this secret passage leads, but it is somewhat similar to the secret passage from the room with the portrait of the girl before, except that it is slightly wider.
Fang Plover briefly estimated the direction. Although it may not be accurate, judging from the size of the cave below, it is very likely that the exit of this corridor is not within the castle.
He didn't know if it was his imagination, but he had a vague feeling that this tunnel might lead to the valley below.
But in that case, the exit of this secret passage should not be difficult to find in the valley. After so many years, there must be many adventurers going to the Blood Thistle Grove. Is it true that no other adventurers have discovered this place?
While he was thinking about this problem, he heard a knocking sound from ahead.
Fang Yu was stunned, and when he turned around, he realized that he was not the only one who heard the sound. Jita behind him also had a puzzled look on her face and looked forward.
Fang Yu made a gesture to Miss Naturalist, telling her to calm down. The latter closed his mouth and nodded obediently.
Fang Plover then turned around and heard the knocking sound getting louder and louder - because the sound was so close, he didn't bother to use the clockwork fairy, so he just let Miss Tata, Lady Cat and Jita stay where they were, and he Touch it alone.
When he got closer, Fang Yu discovered that the end of the secret passage was in front of him, and there was a thick iron door. A violent knocking sound came from behind the iron door, mixed with several anxious voices:
"Haven't you opened the door yet?"
"This thing is a little too strong."
"Why haven't you heard of a door here before?"
"Since when do you still care about this? Those ghosts are about to catch up, can you hurry up?"
Upon hearing this, Fang Yu knew that these voices were not from Alisa, Ms. Kusu, or Luo Yu, nor from Shesta and the big cat man below. He immediately understood that these people should be the selected ones who had entered the valley before and left traces of camping.
But listening to their conversation, it seemed like they had encountered some trouble?
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