The secretive mother Gowther, like Craven, rarely performs performances. Even if she does, it is for the nobles and rich people of the Glory City who spend a lot of money. This kind of public performance is still not available in Amphel Village. first.
Many villagers had no idea she could dance so well.
The only flaw was the faint sound of sobbing that came from the ruins of the hotel behind the Happy Hall.
The villagers of Anfeier Village were not surprised and ignored it, and no one came here to investigate the cause.
But tonight, there was one person who broke this routine. Naturally, this person was none other than Gavin.
It was not difficult for him to get out of the banquet.
Nominally, he is the protagonist, but after he gets to know the people he needs to know, he basically has nothing to do with him.
Especially after Gowther's mother danced with the escort girl, no one cared about him.
I went straight to explore the ruins of a haunted hotel alone at night.
It's not that he is talented and bold and thinks he has enough strength to face all changes, but because he knows the truth behind the Weeping Witch.
The Weeping Witch is not a real undead, but someone pretending to be a ghost.
Gavin has repeatedly verified this in the past few days.
The ruins of the hotel are desolate, but there is no residual aura of negative energy, let alone the aura of death.
Because he has the immortality in hand, Gavin has a very keen sense of this area.
Undead souls all exist based on negative energy. If there is no negative energy left, where can the undead come from?
The Weeping Witch is named Filancini. She is not a witch but a powerful mage. She suffered a curse and was bound to another dimension by powerful magic.
She can only use her connection with the magic book to project her power back to Faerûn at a special time.
It is said that the magic book in her hand originated from the Netheril Empire and the greatest arcanist Iolum.
It was the great arcanist Iolum who invented the Myser Energy Core, raised the first floating city, and developed the Iolum Immortality Technique.
It was also he who unearthed the spiritual knowledge of the Zamdas Empire, integrated it with arcane magic, and created a new advanced professional arcanist.
Gavin didn't know how true or false the legend was, because in his previous life, he had neither acquired this magic book nor had direct contact with the Weeping Witch.
The only thing that was 100% certain was that this magic book contained the advanced knowledge he needed.
This is relatively speaking, the easiest to get started with.
If he can't handle it here, or if there is a mistake in the intelligence, he has a backup plan - that is to go directly to Iolum's last disciple, Ms. Taborah, who is at the Bagwit Hotel not far from here.
That legendary arcanist has a longevity longer than that of an ordinary dragon.
It's just that it's easy to find her, but how to explain how he found her and convince her to impart the knowledge he needs is the biggest problem.
Unless absolutely necessary, Gavin doesn't want to have close contact with a legendary spellcaster now, especially a legendary arcanist with bottomless knowledge. If he is not careful, he will be stripped of his pants.
In comparison, he prefers to take the situation into his own hands.
The Laughing Bandit Hotel is the most standard square hotel layout.
There is only one gate in the middle. After entering, there is a corridor that runs from north to south, dividing the entire building into two. On both sides of the corridor are symmetrically distributed rooms with basically the same size.
There are at least twenty rooms on each floor, and there are four floors in total.
This is enough to accommodate a small army.
About 60% to 70% of the stone part is still relatively intact, and most of the parts can be repaired with complete repair techniques.
Those made of other materials have basically no repair value.
It's combustible and almost burned.
Most of them are incombustible and have been melted and twisted, and their only value is to be remade.
Most places here remain as they were after the fire was extinguished.
This shows that in the next three years, people in Anfeier Village basically did not visit here, and they were obviously full of fear of it.
Ever since Gavin stepped into the hotel, the sound of crying women had been surrounding him, either left or right, in front or behind, far or near, erratic.
But in Gavin's eyes, the other party's scary tactics were just a joke.
Don’t forget, Gavin is now equipped with the semi-artifact Insight Gem, which opens the Eye of Truth.
Whether it is the shadow plane, the fairy plane, the etheric plane, the upward or demiplane, all the invisibility abilities related to it are ineffective against him.
He found the source of the sound at a glance. It was a vague mist, not even a shadow. It flashed from time to time. Every time it changed positions, the position of the sound would change.
Gavin did not feel the negative energy on it, so the shadow plane was eliminated.
The fairy plane is also closely related to himself, and the natural aura associated with it must be strong, so it is also excluded.
The greatest remaining possibility is the etheric plane.
If the Feywild and Shadow Planes are material echoes of the main plane, then the Ethereal Plane is the spiritual echo.
Although it has material components, it is affected by the mind and spirit, so it is also called the spiritual world.
Therefore, there is a huge gap in the understanding of the etheric plane between different people, and even different regions.
Some call this place a holy land of faith because the spirits they believe in live here. This kind of country is represented by Leatherman.
Some regard this place as the birthplace of terror, and people here never mention it. This situation usually occurs in small places with little information, or places that are secretly manipulated and ruled by interested people.
Some people regard it as a convenient place to travel, because there are ethereal curtains leading to the material plane, shadow plane, fey wilderness, and inner planes (earth, air, fire, water), passing through They then reach another dimension. Those who do this are usually the spell casters, the more powerful spell casters. At least Gavin will not do this until he has an extraordinary level.
In fact, the Aether Curtain is no stranger to the cover text. In the rocky ground, the curtain connecting the Spring Bud Forest in the Fairy Wilderness is the standard Aether Curtain, which is only temporarily fixed.
In the Land of Three Rivers, on the Fairy Midsummer Night, the temporary curtain leading to the Mother Dragon Oak Tree is also an etheric curtain, which fully demonstrates the plasticity of the etheric plane - the Land of Three Rivers and the Fairy Wilderness sing a song together, and both sides There was a resonance, and they used their own ideas to jointly shape this temporary curtain.
Due to the mental plasticity of ether, it is easy to get entangled with those spiritually powerful creatures, especially spirits. Many spirit creatures have the ability to enter and exit the ether plane and hide in the ether to hunt.
This is determined by the special relationship between ether and the material plane.
The material plane can be seen at the etheric border, but the line of sight is relatively narrow and can only be seen about ten meters. Any deeper and it becomes fog, but the etheric plane cannot be seen from the material plane.
This is the third type of invisibility besides goblin invisibility and shadow invisibility.
Compared with the first two, this kind of invisibility is more common. All professional abilities, without special explanation, refer to this kind of invisibility.
Because he believes that you cannot see him. When this belief is extremely firm, it will receive a response from the etheric plane, allowing it to integrate into the etheric border and naturally disappear without a trace in the material plane.
Because of this characteristic, many people confuse the Shadow Plane with the Ethereal Plane.
The etheric plane is divided into etheric frontier, deep etheric and special etheric world.
The etheric border is easy to understand. It is a place that overlaps with other planes. You can see other planes in the ether, but you cannot attack or touch them. You can pass directly through them because the dimensions of both sides still exist. A thin line.
The deep ether is purely inside the ether. Under normal circumstances, it is shrouded in all kinds of rolling mists. There are curtains of various colors everywhere, leading to different planes. Many powerful spellcasters will come here to find their way to other places. Plane method.
As for the special etheric world, also called etheric space, it was shaped by a powerful being or a group of people, and it has characteristics that are different from other places, ranging in size.
The small one has only one house and is surrounded by fog.
The larger one may be an isolated island or city in the fog.
It may even be a country and have its own civilization, which falls under the category of ether civilization.
What Gavin was facing now was a mist of ether, presenting a blurry image of a woman with disheveled hair.
Her strength was very limited, and she did not even have the ability to cross the etheric border and enter the material plane. Only the monotonous sound of crying could be heard.
The unknown is the scariest thing.
Once the essence is seen through, its terrifying level will be greatly reduced.
Not to mention, Gavin himself was afraid of its lack, and said to this etheric mist: "It's just a trick, it's good for scaring ordinary people. Don't waste your efforts to deal with me. Let me open your eyes." See what the art of scaring is.”
After finishing speaking, Gavin found an open place to stand, took out a phantom crystal ball, filled it with energy points, and threw it out.
As the negative energy surged, a phantom curtain appeared out of thin air, and a phantom image began to play.
The phantom playing inside is none other than Regina's latest horror short film.
The main content of the short film is to use sound to create a scary atmosphere and scare people to death.
This is an original story, filmed by a professional opera bard and then edited.
The performance level of the actors in it is absolutely online, more real than real.
The sound of horror is Regina's specialty, and the atmosphere is absolutely perfect.
Compared with the obvious fluctuation of yin and yang, the sound of fear is played by eighteen kinds of instruments.
The Crying Witch simply scares people with her cries, which is so hollow and boring.
The phantom horror short film only played for a few minutes before the crying sound completely disappeared.
But Gavin could see clearly that the foggy shadow did not disappear, but stayed a few meters away from the phantom, which showed that the other party was watching the phantom played by Gavin.
Gavin is the only one who can show ghost movies to ghosts.
After the screening of the phantom horror short film was over, Gavin put away the phantom spiritual crystal ball and said to the shadow of the fog: "Now you know, this kind of pediatric intimidation method is ineffective against me. Why don't we try another one?" The way is, sit down and have a chat. If you have any difficulties, you can just say it and I can find a way to help you solve it. Scaring people away is not the solution.
Even if you scare me away, it won't take long for others to come. After all, this is a village and it is on a commercial thoroughfare. "
The shadow of the mist actually reacted and floated directly in front of Gavin. It kept opening its mouth as if it wanted to say something.
But when it reached Gavin's ears, it turned into a cry with different tones.
Seeing this situation, Gavin couldn't help but make a bold guess.
Perhaps the Crying Witch was not crying from beginning to end, but wanted to communicate with others, but was restricted.
When the sound reaches the ears of others, it becomes an out-and-out cry.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that my guess was correct.
Gavin hurriedly asked: "What on earth do you want to say? I can't understand. When they got to my side, everything turned into crying. Can you hear me? If so, we can communicate in another way." .
I can see you, so you can just write. "
The crying stopped on the spot, and the shadow of the fog suddenly changed. Each and every beautiful small character composed of fog appeared in front of the shadow of the fog out of thin air.
This small font is shaped like magic runes, weird and unique.
If Gavin hadn't been equipped with the Insight Gem, he would have had to put in a lot of effort.
This writing is that of the arcane empire of Netheril.
"Leave here, leave here forever. This is not where you should come. This is a cursed place. There are dangers you don't know about. Ignorant exploration will kill you. Leave here and warn others not to let them get close. here."
A series of warnings and threats, with only one purpose, which was to get Gavin to leave this place.
Gavin asked directly: "Are you Filancini?"
This question directly caused all the small characters in the fog to collapse, and then the next second, new small characters in the fog condensed and emerged at a faster speed.
"Who are you? Who told you this name? What do you want to do here?"
The corners of Gavin's mouth turned up and he couldn't help but smile.
Although the other party did not answer his question directly, her reaction gave an indirect answer.
This foggy shadow is the cursed witch Filancini. Her current form is probably due to the curse she received.
Gavin gave a positive answer to her question: "My name is Gavin, Gavin Nott, and I am the new owner of this hotel. Next, I will lead people to renovate the hotel and re-open this place. I came here specially." Let me know."
"I don't agree. I don't allow anyone to touch this land. It contains dangers you don't know about. It is a good thing for everyone to leave here and keep it as it is now."
Even in words, you can feel the intensity and excitement in the master's words.
"Don't fool me with such ambiguous rhetoric. It's useless to me. Come up with something substantive and useful, such as where does the danger come from? If I judge that it is true, I will naturally stop the action. Otherwise, I can only think that you are pretending to be a ghost, deliberately intimidating others, and don't want them to get close to this place and the secrets you hide here." Gavin's counterattack went straight to the core of the problem.
The secret hidden by the other party is probably none other than her magic book.
In other words, the magic book he needs is most likely hidden in the ruins of this hotel.
As for whether the magic book was destroyed by the original fire, Gavin had no worries at all.
Magic books are not ordinary books, they are usually protected by magical power.
Not to mention a magic book inherited from the Netheril era, which must have more magical abilities.
"Leave here, otherwise you will die..." leaving an unfinished line, the shadow of the mist disappeared completely.
Those small words in the mist were formed by consuming the mist in its body, which had been completely consumed just now.
This shows how weak the Weeping Witch really is.
Gavin sighed helplessly. He was able to contact the other party, but it was almost as if he had not been contacted. He did not get any useful information from the other party at all.
Well, that's wrong.
There are still two pieces of useful information.
For example, confirm the identity of the other party as Filancini, the owner of her target this time.
Another example is to basically confirm that your goal does exist in this hotel.
This can be considered a big gain, after all, this is just the first contact.
Of course, the opponent did not dissipate and die. The shadow of the mist just now was not the opponent's body, but a remote consciousness projection or the like.
As long as the opponent accumulates some strength, he will definitely be able to create a new one.
Next, we will adopt a two-pronged approach and continue to contact the Crying Witch if there is an opportunity.
The hotel was renovated and renovated, taking advantage of the time to restore the hotel and turn it upside down.
As long as the magic book is found, the remaining problems will be solved.
Gavin is a standard action person. They started taking action while the entire Amphier Village was still sleeping.
"We follow the order of easier first then more difficult, first down and then up. We will start with those well-preserved parts that serve as supporting foundations. Don't move those rocks easily and keep them in their original position. When we put the first Go through it almost, then go back and make repairs slowly."
This is not the first time that Gavin and the others have engaged in repair work, but it is the first time that they have repaired such a severely damaged large-scale building.
But it was not difficult for them. After a simple discussion, they decided on a basic maintenance plan.
Strengthening its foundation first to prevent it from collapsing is the top priority.
Kobolds are experts in this matter.
Most kobolds can tell at a glance whether the cave or stone building is in danger of large-scale collapse, and determine where the core load-bearing pillars are. This is their innate survival instinct, just like birds, they can tell at a glance whether the cave or stone building is in danger of large-scale collapse. It can determine whether they can fly through gaps in the distance.
(End of chapter)
