Relying on what she saw during the dream-entrance ceremony, Jane accurately pointed out the way to the catacombs in the mansion.
"For God's sake, what kind of person would build a mansion right on a tomb?"
The female knight Sandra made a ring salute and murmured a prayer for God's blessing.
"Didn't you deal with similar incidents? I remember you told me."
Venakana said to her sword master.
"Weiner, I still remember that,"
Sandra was reminded of her memories and said:
"It was a remote village, and that family was all those abominable shamans. If it hadn't been reported by the farmers on the territory, no one would have known that the tombs were full of corpses and ghouls."
Then, Sandra took off the buckler on her back instead of the kite-shaped shield usually worn by knights today. This is because when fighting in a small area or fighting alone, the buckler is much more flexible and convenient than the kite-shaped shield.
"Knight, this place is probably much scarier than what you have encountered before."
Jane explained with solemn eyes. She was carrying a package on her back and a holy bell for exorcism in her hand.
"Fortunately, we are true believers and can receive the Lord's favor."
Sandra nodded slowly.
In front of the three people was a wooden door leading to the basement.
Through the crack in the door, you can see the darkness inside, and even the outlines of objects are so blurry that you can't distinguish them.
Vina Cana and Jane lit the torch, and then the nun took out a portable oil lamp and handed it to Sandra. It was made by a dwarf. The craftsmanship is very exquisite and can be hung on the waist for lighting. It only needs to be hung every half hour. Add lamp oil once.
After the three of them were ready, Sandra lowered her body and pushed open the wooden door of the basement. A dull breath hit her nostrils.
The basement is just like the basement of an ordinary aristocratic mansion. It stores dry food, baskets of shelled wheat grains, dusty bad wine, and some bacon for the servants to eat...
This basement is so ordinary that it doesn't seem to deserve anyone's attention.
But with the firelight in her hands, she was keenly aware that there was a hidden grid on the wall where the rows of bad wine were stacked.
She walked over, put her hand on the grid, and pressed it lightly.
Click.
Venakana turned around, and the princess heard the sound of a door lock opening somewhere.
"Isaya."
She whispered ancient sayings and no longer suppressed her divinity.
Within the divine vision, Venakana saw the source of the sound.
On the floor where debris was piled, a small door suddenly appeared.
"Sandra, there."
After the female knight heard this, she looked over and saw the small door.
So, Sandra took a deep breath, opened the small door, and the wooden ladder suddenly appeared in front of the three people.
Sandra went down first to investigate the situation. After she finished the investigation, she raised her hand to let Vina Khanna and Jane come down.
The three of them arrived at the tomb.
The cold breath swirled around, blowing the flames to the point of collapse, and sparks fell one after another.
Venakana smelled bone meal.
She touched the Yin book pages between her clothes, her expression calm.
"Let's go."
The three of them marched forward, with Sandra holding the sword in her right hand and holding a round shield half-raised in her left hand, walking at the front.
The dark wind howled softly in the tomb.
Venakana's feet were slippery, and unknown moss grew everywhere on the ground. It was strange and sticky, which proved that the tomb was rich in moist moisture.
call!
When the group of people walked dozens of meters, suddenly, pitiful and sad cries sounded from the depths of the tomb.
The firelight of the three people suddenly shrank in a circle, as if there was some sticky darkness coming from all directions.
Sandra's eyes widened, and she stepped forward slowly, holding the sword in her hand tighter and tighter.
The most terrifying thing is when you realize that danger is coming, but the danger doesn't show its appearance.
Faced with this fear, Sandra swallowed her saliva again and again and looked around warily.
sand!
Inexplicably, she heard a rustling sound from the place she just walked past.
Sandra lowered her eyes and glanced down.
There was a bony hand on the sole of her foot.
After seeing clearly what it was, Sandra calmed down a little and continued moving forward.
It is common for large tombs to have some bones scattered around.
Suddenly, Sandra's steps stopped.
Her heart skipped a beat.
Something grabbed my trousers!
"Sandra!"
The female knight heard the call of the princess behind her and turned around quickly.
A skeleton-like corpse slowly climbed up from the ground. Its empty eyes shone with a faint light, and its upper and lower jaws separated and made a sound.
Soon after, Vinacana took a step forward, exerted strength with her arms, from left to right, a silver light flashed, and the neck of the skeleton parted in an instant, making a crisp sound.
With a snap, the skeleton fell to the ground, and the glimmer of light in its empty eyes slowly extinguished.
Sandra was a little frightened, but as a knight, she quickly regained her composure.
"Weena, thank you, thank the Lord."
Sandra kicked the bones under her feet:
"Fortunately, it's a corpse without flesh and blood."
Generally speaking, the more flesh a wight has, the more difficult it is to deal with.
The fallen skeleton in front of me was black and covered with moss, and it could be seen that it had been dead for a long time.
"It's nothing, be careful, Sandra." Venakana warned.
The female knight nodded obediently and regained her energy.
To be honest, even if Sandra's reaction was a few steps slower, it wouldn't pose a threat to them, and it couldn't even be considered an interlude.
But...this doesn't mean that the entire tomb is filled with such easy-to-deal with corpses.
The skeleton corpses on the ground were like a warning, a reminder that they should not let down their guard during the rest of the journey.
Vinakana followed Sandra, looking around carefully, her sword always kept in a half-raised position.
A cold wind often blew in the tomb, giving the three of them goosebumps.
Sandra looked ahead, and soon she saw a fork in the road, which divided into left and right sides.
"Which way?" Sandra asked.
Vinakana stared at the two forked roads with divinity. She pressed the pages of the Yin book under her skirt, and after a while, pointed to the one on the right.
Sandra looked at the road with some surprise. It was extremely narrow inside and could only barely accommodate two people. If there were any traps inside...
The female knight kept looking back at Venakana, her eyes saying: Are you sure?
Venakana nodded slowly.
"Sandra, walk slowly, slow down and listen to my voice."
Venakana told him calmly:
“The road that leads to death is broad, and there are many temptations.”
Sandra took a deep breath, determined to believe the princess.
Because Sandra knew that the princess and her mother were both people who had received miracles.
“The Lord is watching me and caring about my future.”
Sandra whispered, then straightened up her shield and stepped into the narrow intersection.
This section of the narrow road was filled with a terrifying silence. Not even the sound of the cold wind could be heard in the ears. It was so quiet that even the sound of one's own heartbeat was frightening.
After a long walk, Venakana suddenly made Sandra listen.
Sandra stopped immediately and stared carefully ahead.
"Trip rope."
Venakana pointed to the ground and said.
Sandra quickly looked at her feet. There was a tiny trip rope one meter away. It was almost the same color as the surrounding environment and was extremely inconspicuous.
Venakana asked Sandra to step back. She raised her hand and pressed it on the trip rope, gaining divine insight into its structure.
Disarming traps is actually a part of knight training, but most knights don't pay attention to it, and the prospective knights who are taught by them don't study it carefully, because it is rarely used on the battlefield.
After a while, Venakana removed the trip rope and the trap was not triggered.
The female knight couldn't help but be surprised. The image of the princess in Sandra's heart was a little more refined.
"Just keep walking."
The three of them moved forward, and soon they came to a tomb with an urn.
Dust was falling overhead, hundreds of jars of ashes were scattered everywhere, and the smell of bone meal permeated every inch of the space.
Jane looked around and said solemnly: "These ashes... all come from the people who were buried with them."
Sandra took a breath when she heard this.
She had heard that those buried without reason often turned into innocent souls. The people of Leiden in ancient times used these innocent souls to guard their tombs.
After Jane finished speaking, some of the hundreds of jars of ashes in urns made a crunching sound. The dust above their heads fell down, and there seemed to be insects crawling in the gaps between the floors.
The three of them felt at the same time that the temperature in the tomb had dropped a lot inexplicably, and Sandra couldn't help but shudder.
The female knight clenched her sword and shield with both hands, her eyes widened, staring at the surrounding darkness that was not infected by light.
She stood firmly with her legs and feet, and there was a faint cold current passing by her ears, and bursts of coldness penetrated the back of her ears.
"Sandra, Sandra, Sandra..."
Sandra's thoughts froze, her fingers froze, and something seemed to be whispering her name in the darkness.
"Sandra!"
Venakana shouted suddenly.
The sword light flashed for an instant, and the princess's long sword: Queen Claudia, instantly passed through a cold and hard arc.
Sandra's pupils shrank, she regained her thoughts, and suddenly saw a tall corpse in front of her, wielding a battle ax and striking at him.
Venakana crossed Sandra, and the princess's long sword could barely block the ghoul's battle axe. She gritted her silver teeth, pulled out the dagger, and slashed at the ghoul's leg bone.
The sound of slicing through the air-dried flesh sounded, and Sandra asked about the smell of antiseptic spices. She reacted, her heart lifted, and she quickly raised her shield and knocked away the tall flesh-and-blood corpse in front of her.
With quick eyesight and quick hands, Venakana took advantage of the corpse being knocked out of balance and stabbed it through the neck.
With a thud, the corpse fell to the ground.
Before Sandra could breathe a sigh of relief, the three of them saw...
The surrounding urns were all opened at some point, and the burned ashes were scattered into the air.
Immediately afterwards, each ashes seemed to be alive, moving towards the fallen corpse, filling the wounds on its body, and gathering into bone armor.
The ghoul turned its legs over, plunged into the ground in an unimaginable posture, and then slowly got up.
"Step aside!"
Jane said loudly, opened the kettle, and poured the consecrated water on the corpse.
"Saint Jones, exorcist angel, in the name of the Lord..."
She recited prayers quickly and rang the holy bell.
Under the crisp ringing of the holy bell, the holy water on the ghoul's body emitted a pale light, its dry mouth opened wide, and the ghoul began to wail in pain. Every time the holy bell was rang, the ghoul peeled off a layer of flesh and blood.
After the nine holy bells rang, the corpse fell to his knees, the battle ax in his hand slipped weakly, leaving only an empty skeleton on his body, and the light in his eyes extinguished.
Seeing this, Sandra finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Venakana's eyes were solemn.
The princess stared into the deep darkness ahead, and the divinity told her that the end of the tomb would be far more dangerous than here.
She exhaled and whispered: "Sandra, give me the shield."
The female knight was startled, her heart tightened, and she hurriedly said: "Princess, I just didn't pay attention for a moment, I..."
"Sandra, I know what you're thinking."
Venakana turned her head, her eyes seemed to be able to see through Sandra's soul.
She said word by word:
"But now, I have to be at the front. What I can see, you can't."
