'Hyena' Schubert dragged the empty bag into the basement with difficulty, as if there was a real person inside. He complained a word or two in a low voice, clapped his hands, turned around, and saw a girl with glasses and a robe trailing on the ground, a huge book floating in her hands, looking at him.
He was startled and subconsciously took a step back. But then he reacted and yelled angrily: "Who are you?"
As soon as Schubert opened his mouth, his throat felt itchy, as if something was coming out of his throat. He couldn't help coughing loudly, and spit out several hairy spiders from his mouth.
Schubert was frightened and realized that he had been hit by the opponent's vicious spell, and he hurriedly tried to draw the knife. But the girl only stretched out her hand a little, and the blade in his hand was as hot as fire. He could no longer hold it and it fell to the ground with a clang.
"Mr. 'Hyena' Schubert," the girl said, her voice cold and somewhat tough, "If I were you, I wouldn't act rashly, otherwise there's no guarantee that what falls on the ground next time is just your knife. .Do you know what vicious spells wizards like to use to torture their opponents?"
Schubert's teeth were chattering, and he asked in a stern voice: "You, you, you are the naturalist, when did you follow me?"
Jita gently pushed the outside of her glasses, and the shell got stuck. She hadn't thought about how she should proceed next, so she could only lower her head slightly and said: "You just need to answer, you will send the person away." Come here, is this the great crypt down here? Where is this place underneath the Ori Temple, and where do the people of the seven families hold gatherings?"
The girl's voice was soft and soft, but it sounded sharp to the latter, with a smooth and cold tone. And Schubert saw with his own eyes a cloud of black smoke rising from behind Kitta. Of course, it was actually just an opening realm, with the effect of silence and illusion.
A trace of viciousness flashed in his eyes, and he pulled out a sharp dagger from his sleeve with his backhand, and swiped it hard on his neck.
Jita looked at the Brotherhood killer standing in front of her with dull eyes. All the daggers, swords and spiders had disappeared long ago. Even the shriveled bag was only left in the center of the room. Only she and the enemy in front of her were left. .
The grimoire floated between the two of them.
Miss Scholar sighed softly, but in the end she still had to use magic to pry open the other party's mouth. She was still lacking in on-the-spot response.
"Is this the large tomb under the Ori Temple?" she asked.
"Yes." Schubert replied dully.
Jita asked several more questions in succession and received answers one by one.
She stretched out her hand a little to make the brotherhood killer pass out, and then cast a small spell on the bag that fell on the ground. The bag came to life, squirming and crawling to the other person's side, opening its mouth to swallow the latter bit by bit, and then the rope wound around it like a snake, flexibly tying a knot in the mouth.
After doing all this silently, the scholar lady walked outside. The underground of the large tomb was connected in all directions. After all, the purpose of building this place was to serve as a fortress and underground fortification against the army of darkness. In order to prevent the invasion of giants, the corridors were extremely narrow - —
But it is said that the goblins - the giant's servants and Nagas will still invade from the sewers. The Oshu people started a tug-of-war with the dark creatures in this underground fortification, and repaired and expanded it again and again. Later, the place gradually became... It formed a maze-like scale today.
Among the densely packed tombs on the wall are indeed the victims of the giant war. This place is located under the barrier of the Ori Temple, so it is impossible for the resurrection of the dead to happen, and tomb robbers do not dare to enter this place. For thousands of years, time has seemed to stand still in this underground tomb.
There were coffins one after another in the darkness, and the tombs seemed to extend to the end of the field of vision. The air was filled with the smell of dust. After all, even the priest of Ori could not come down to clean it all the time.
The only ones who come here once a year are the magicians from the seven families.
Jita gradually approached one of the halls, and she soon met some magicians. The first one was wearing a red robe, who should be from the Eisengreen family. She stopped not far away and listened to the conversation of these astrologers. But it was just a dirty joke among some nobles.
Miss Scholar blushed after hearing this, and had no choice but to ignore these people and move forward. She also saw some magicians wearing brown robes, who should be members of the Terry Funk family of the Badger of Change. These magicians were silent and hurried forward. .
The work of the school of change is somewhat similar to alchemy, both of which change the properties of matter, but one is temporary and the other is permanent. The magicians of the Trifunk family are also the most pragmatic among the seven families. They are only interested in themselves and magic.
The outside world rarely hears rumors about these sorcerers.
Jita knew something about the characteristics of these transformed magicians, and she was curious to follow them to see what was going on, but at this time, a strange movement caught her attention.
To be precise, it was a low shudder, passing through the ceiling like rolling thunder. The movement was very short and disappeared in an instant. Then she saw several magicians in purple robes speaking hurriedly from the passage in front:
"It's Carl Layer's people again. Are they planning to collapse this place?"
"That snake is the guardian of the grimoire, and Carl Layer's people can hardly suppress it."
"We shouldn't have let Carl Layer's people come. Those old poisonous snakes are not of the same mind as us."
"The key is the magic book, not to mention we have to rely on the eyes of the poisonous snake."
Jita watched those people hurriedly passing by in the dark, "The magicians of the Hawke family, why are they here?" She was startled, listening to the conversation between these people, and subconsciously followed them. .
Now the entire empire knows that the Hawke family has suffered a big change. Duke Hawke's ship was attacked and crashed in Appenand. Now his life and death are uncertain. The reason behind it must not be as simple as encountering air pirates or cultists.
Everyone thought they had nothing to worry about, and never thought that the other party's magician would appear in this gathering, and those people didn't look very worried.
The Kalley they call is the most mysterious one among the seven families, the mind snake Kalley Draka. The Empire people call it the poisonous snake. It is precisely because the magic control magic is good at playing with people's hearts, not only In the eyes of others, most people within the Seven Mage Family are unwilling to deal with the masters of these psychic spells.
One of the five magic books in the possession of the Seven Magicians is in the hands of the psions, but that magic book has no owner.
The Empire has seven grimoires, but only six naturalists, for this very reason.
Jita didn't care about Carl Layer, and she didn't know much about this mysterious family, but she became curious about the Eyes of the Serpent. When she asked 'Hyena' Schubert, the other party mentioned the Seven Magicians. The magicians of the Shi family will hold a ceremony.
It’s not surprising that magicians perform ritual spells. Most of the reasons why the Council of Seven Sages hold this underground gathering throughout the year is to perform several ritual spells, the most important of which is the prophecy ritual.
In fact, the great prophecy of the Empire seven centuries ago was derived in a similar ceremony.
Of course, that big prophecy was the result of a grand gathering of astrologers from the Council of Stars and Moon. At that time, the most famous astrologers in the entire empire were invited by the Magic Emperor to gather in the imperial court.
There were even astrologers from outside Sintaan who participated in that gathering and joined forces to witness the prophecy. Astrologers have left many prophecies over the centuries, not just for mortals, but also for the rain divine priests of Gudasok.
However, 'Hyena' Schubert repeatedly mentioned the Eyes of the Serpent in his words, which attracted Kita's attention. Naturally, a Brotherhood killer did not understand the magical objects of the magicians, and the other party had probably only heard of them. .
To further ask what it is and what it does, Schubert couldn't answer.
Now that these magicians mentioned Carl Layer again, Miss Scholar naturally became curious. Moreover, she had sufficient reasons to follow these magicians of the Hawke family. It was enough for them to appear here. Strange.
Unexpectedly, if she followed that direction, she would be followed by an extremely long dark corridor. The distance was so long that Jita even doubted whether she had left the area of the Holy Temple of Ori, and the target she was following had also disappeared.
The other party walked faster than she expected. If it weren't for the fact that there were no forks in the road along the way, she would have almost thought that she had lost track of him.
But just as she was thinking, a fork in the road appeared in front of her. The corridor was perpendicular to the one she came from, forming a T shape. From left to right, light rose from Miss Scholar's fingertips, but even the faintest light could not illuminate it. Exit the end of the corridor.
Both sides of the vision disappeared into the endless shadows.
Jita frowned. She opened the page and chanted softly, and a white ghost rose from the ground. The ghost without face or features floated in front of her, and Miss Scholar asked: "Where should I go?"
The ghost paused for a moment, then floated in one direction.
Jita hesitated for a moment. This ghost was the one that King Angeles encountered in the legend. During the Northern War, he and his knights were lost in the dark forest, but a mysterious ghost led them out of there. A labyrinth created by the evil magic of dryads.
That was also the turning point in the establishment of the Northern Empire, and it is one of the stories that people in the empire are familiar with. But the ghost she summoned here is just a fictional existence in her story. In fact, in essence, it is more similar to a prophecy spell.
The problem with prophecy is that fate sometimes misinterprets people's hearts. As astrologers say, the correct future is not necessarily the best one. They just find out the answer, but the answer sometimes does not mean everything.
She should have asked, "Where did those people go?"
The clearer the problem, the more obvious the role of prophecy spells, but this time the people she wants to track are a group of magicians, not Brotherhood killers who know nothing about magic.
What's more, those magicians who are in the spell department are best at sensing spells. As long as the etheric connection is exerted on the other party, the other party can immediately sense that someone is tracking them with spells from behind.
However, Jita only hesitated slightly. She looked at the direction in which the ghost disappeared and quickly followed it.
There was no one in that corridor, and only the rustling of footsteps was left in the darkness. Jita used a small spell to eliminate her footsteps. After walking in silence for a while, she felt that she had entered a small room.
This time she didn't cast another lighting spell.
She vaguely felt that there seemed to be something in the room. She took two steps forward and saw a statue standing in front of her - it was a young girl standing with her hands clasped in a bush of thorns, and even those thorns were It is carved from stone, and even the barbs on it are delicately visible.
Thorns are growing around things that symbolize death. Poisonous snakes crawl out of the eyes of those skeletons, and thorny roses grow on the other side. The statue of the girl is located in the center of these symbols of life and death. Her eyes are closed tightly, and her long hair is straight. Drop to the floor.
The scholar lady couldn't help but stretched out her hand, and the fingertips of the clasped hands of the girl's statue responded with a cold touch.
She recognized the scene before her.
In the hand-written notebook that Fang Yu got from the eldest princess Rupert, one of the inserts was exactly what she was seeing at the moment, but the girl painted in the insert was mysterious and unpredictable, and the person in front of her was This statue is full of sacred atmosphere.
What surprised her slightly was.
How come the things in the notes I got in Istania appear here? In Sinta'an, within the empire?
Jita frowned. This sacred aura suggested that this statue might be part of this shrine, but she had never heard of such a god in her knowledge.
Is it life and death in the shadows?
She had heard of Amaya's twin sister, Lady Shadow in the Forest, not long ago. However, the shadow lady was said to look very much like Lady Amaya, except that one lived for life and the other lived for death. In terms of image and dress, Just slightly different.
It is said that the goddess of the shadow in the forest rarely appears in front of the world, so much so that some believers in Amaya even believe that she and the forest lady are the same person. All things grow in the forest, but there is also the chill and withering of winter. The two are inherently different. As one body.
And this one in front of me.
She looks much younger than Ms. Amaya, and her brows are frowned, as if she has witnessed some suffering. That kind of painful look is definitely not something that can be seen in the field where Ms. Forest and her sister work.
The color of suffering adds a bit of indescribable weirdness to the mystery. Miss Scholar has actually seen that style before, but it is only on the icons of some cultists. They advocate pain and disaster. They Most of the statues are this kind of uncoordinated unity.
Both divine and depraved.
Jita came closer to see the many scrolls hanging on the slender stone arms of the girl's statue. Those scrolls were naturally carved in stone, but they seemed to be engraved with some kind of text, and they were so detailed - she first I thought it was a prayer, but later found out it wasn't.
Jita raised her head slightly and looked around. She had not forgotten that she was chasing the magicians of the Hawke family here. Although she was a little surprised by the scene in front of her, she also wanted to make sure that she had not stepped into a trap. .
As she raised her head, the magic book in her hand also glowed slightly, and an undetectable spell spread out in all directions. If there was someone within her detection range, the spell would naturally warn her - of course, the other party would Also aware of her spells.
But at this time, she didn't care so much anymore. There was no perfect plan in this world.
It's just that the spell swept into the empty room and found that there was no one else here. That feeling made Jita a little strange. Her spell seemed to have fallen into a quagmire. In theory, even if there was no one, it should be able to to the four walls.
To be on the safe side, she cast another spell, but it was the same feeling. But even Jita herself didn't notice that when her magic book lit up, the scroll on the arm of the stone statue also lit up slightly.
It's just that the light was so dim and short-lived that it didn't attract Miss Scholar's attention even in the dark.
Her attention was entirely focused on this room at the moment. She stopped her spell, walked around the room, and confirmed with her own hands that there was indeed a wall there. After measuring it, she also concluded that there was nothing wrong with her spell.
This room is actually not big. It should be similar to a shrine. There is only this statue in it, and there is no one else.
Although she was a little confused as to why her spell had such a response, Jita returned to the statue again, and this time she could finally read the words on the scroll on the arm of the statue carefully. It was okay not to look at it, but when she looked at it, she was surprised to find that she could read the words——
That is Yuanhai Document.
Her understanding of the Abyssal Document came from her time in Istania, when she and Luo Yu met the great mage Karatu, and learned advanced knowledge about naturalists from him. It was also there that the transition from narrator to reader was completed.
At that time, what Karatu showed them was actually the Abyssal Scroll.
Although they later learned that there were many Yuanhai scrolls, they did not specifically refer to a certain part of knowledge. But the things Karatu showed them at that time were indeed those related to the incident in Istania more than ten years ago.
The Battle of Bain, the Abyssal Tablets and the Holy Relics.
Some of those stone slabs should be provided by the Traveler Star.
But part of the text she saw before her eyes was exactly the same as what she had read in the sea of sand in the past. She couldn't help but read the words softly just like that day:
'Darkness returns, disaster strikes -'
'The fire of Venus, falling into dust. '
'The branches of the holy white forest stretch out, and the shadows of the forest bring winter;'
'Under the gaze of Snake Eyes——'
'The tail of the comet streaked across the sky. '
'Under the seven obelisks are buried ancient secrets, the place where twelve stars shine, eternal life, and endless wisdom. '
Jita's eyes suddenly widened. Some of the words on the scroll were familiar to her, but some seemed strange to her.
But this last sentence, isn't this the prophecy of the seven obelisks?
Why is it here?
She was about to continue reading, but suddenly a shuddering cold feeling crawled up her back.
It felt like a cold gaze was watching her from behind.
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(End of chapter)
