Path of light

Chapter 99 100. Night in the Castle

"Roy, do you have any good ideas?"

Claire immediately became interested and asked quickly.

Roy smiled and said: "I think you can carve a bust of Count Amelia based on her portrait on the fourth floor. The other parts can be made a little rougher, but the face must be clear and the features of the face must be maximized. Maybe it’s a little more magnified, yes, it’s the characteristics of Count Amelia.”

The two were worried that speaking too loudly would disturb other members of the expedition team, so they kept their voices as low as possible.

Claire's eyes lit up and she said: "This is a good idea. I had thought about carving a Magala Jungle Monitor before. Your idea is more reliable than mine. Thinking about the scales of the monitor lizard, I almost wanted to." Collapse, I can’t sleep now, how about we go see Count Amelia’s portrait again?”

Roy looked around and saw that everything was quiet except for the chirping of insects in the woods, and asked, "Now?"

"That's right! There can be fewer people now," Claire said.

Roy tugged on the clothes on his body and shrank into the tent:

"Stop it, are we going to climb to the fourth floor of the castle now? I think we should wait until tomorrow morning!"

Roy didn't want to go, and Claire couldn't force him.

Claire didn't want to whisper in front of the tent, so she pulled Roy and said, "Roy, I heard that the scenery in the back garden of the castle is very good. We didn't even have time to take a look during the day. Otherwise, let's go to the back garden for a stroll." ?”

"It's so dark, how can we two go..."

Roy looked at the darkness all around and didn't want to go out at all.

Claire said, "Can't you help us illuminate it with a glimmer of light? Under the snowy moonlight, the garden of Castle Ellington is extremely beautiful. You really don't understand the romance of elves."

Roy also felt that it was not good to reject Claire's suggestions several times in a row, so he agreed: "Okay."

Then he dressed carefully, and then he and Claire walked along the wall path to the back garden.

Roy released a ball of sacred light, which emitted a soft light above the two people's heads, immediately dispelling the chill of the night.

In the night sky, the silver moon is like a hook.

The cold moonlight gives Castle Ellington a hazy beauty.

Some dilapidated buildings are hidden in the shadows, reflecting the lonely beauty of the castle.

Under the illumination of a sacred dim light, Roy took the lead in climbing to the high platform of the bread tree. The terrain here is much higher than other places. It is sheltered by the high walls of the castle, so it is absolutely hidden.

Edith said that this breadfruit tree is almost 2,000 years old. It is the oldest tree in Ellington Castle. Originally there was a tree of life in the back garden of the castle, but for some unknown reason, Ami Not long after Count Leia's death, the Tree of Life also withered and died. This was almost the biggest loss to Ellington Castle.

The two climbed up to the high platform and were not in a hurry to go to the garden behind the castle.

Because Roy found that the stairs under the high wall had cracks, and from this high platform, he could just have a bird's eye view of the back garden.

Under the moonlight night, the back garden covered by grass is still lush and green. Many trees have lush branches and shrubs and low walls are connected with the grass.

Claire sat under the breadfruit tree, put the stone between her legs from the magic waist bag, then took out a carving knife and started carving...

Although Roy is not very good with his hands, Ms. Belinda is a little-known sculptor. This kind of stone is the most displayed in her studio. Seeing Claire starting to trim the stone, Roy put the Holy Glimmer Move closer so Claire can see better.

I also picked a breadfruit from the tree and put it in my satchel to eat later.

The day after tomorrow, the two of them will leave Castle Ellington and enter the depths of the Malaga Jungle. Roy believes that there will not be any danger in the Malaga Jungle, but there will not be rich resources. The two of them are likely to meet each other along the way. I can only eat some sour berries, but instead of that, I might as well bring some breadfruit, which tastes good and makes me full.

The divine light floated above Claire's head, and Roy sat quietly opposite Claire...

Claire's carving techniques were very unfamiliar, which made Roy always want to complain.

Just when Roy put the breadfruit into his bag and looked up at Claire, he didn't know when a dead soul stood behind Claire. Her face showed the majesty of a superior, and her eyes It happened to fall on the stone in Claire's hand.

At this moment, Roy felt that the hairs all over his body were standing on end.

Because that face clearly looked like that of Count Amelia, and at the moment when Roy's expression was a little strange, she looked up at Roy...

In her eye sockets, there were two groups of dark blue soul fire, but the two groups of soul fire were condensed like the eyes of an elf. If the soul fire hadn't jumped occasionally, Roy wouldn't have been so easy. Identify.

The outline of her body was so clear. She was wearing a mithril armor and two long swords hanging on her waist. She stared at Roy and asked quietly:

"Can you see me?"

The powerful coercion revealed by the strong man made Roy dare not act rashly, and he nodded honestly.

When Count Amelia saw Roy's human face, his eyes immediately became extremely messy. The fire of the soul in his eyes surged. He pulled out the storm sword from his waist and flashed in front of Roy, and asked viciously: "You Is it a human?"

Claire turned pale in fright at the sudden sound behind him. He turned around suddenly and saw the ghost of Count Amelia, and was speechless.

But when the ghost of Count Amelia flashed in front of Roy, two storm swords were placed on Roy's neck.

A strong pressure made both of them unable to move...

"He is a half-elf, and his mother is a pure-blooded Silver Moon Elf. Now he lives with his mother..."

Claire rattled off all of Roy's information.

"Half-elf?"

When Count Amelia's soul heard Claire's explanation, its anger subsided a little, and the soul fire in its eyes turned into dark blue pupils again.

She moved closer to Roy and smelled him, her sharp eyes softening.

"Why can you see me?" The ghost of Count Amelia asked Roy.

Roy quickly explained: "I am a trainee priest, and you will appear under the holy light."

The ghost of Count Amelia before her was not the ghost in the Black Pearl's execution chamber. The power she showed made killing Roy and Claire as easy as crushing an ant.

Seeing Roy and Claire standing honestly under the bread tree, Count Amelia retreated to the edge of the bread tree and said in a cold voice:

"Okay, I understand. Don't tell anyone about your meeting with me. You don't want to get into trouble, right?"

Roy and Claire quickly said at the same time:

"We'll keep this a secret."

Count Amelia turned around and disappeared, leaving only a half-dead bread tree on the platform.

Roy and Claire were no longer in the mood to carve under the bread tree. They hurriedly ran down from the high platform and slipped back into the tent of the weapons depot.

The ghost of Count Amelia still remains at Castle Ellington.

The two of them were shocked and a little unbelievable...

After the elves die, some elves will enter the kingdom of gods under the guidance of the moonlight goddess Elune and become followers of the moonlight goddess. Of course, more elves will become elves in soul form wandering in the forest or the spring of life. waiting for reincarnation nearby.

Count Amelia belonged to the elf aristocracy and had made great military exploits during her lifetime. Logically speaking, the Moonlight Goddess should have given her guidance to Moonlight as soon as possible after her death, allowing her to become a member of the Moonlight Legion.

But now, what Roy and Claire see is that Count Amelia still remains in the ruins of Castle Ellington.

She neither became a follower of the Moonlight Goddess nor reincarnated into an elf who forgot all her memories. The so-called elf is the soul consciousness of a group of elves.

The two did not dare to discuss it. After all, they were still in Ellington Castle, and maybe Count Amelia was secretly following them...

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Early the next morning, several elf girls picked some black berries from the bushes in the back garden of the castle. Although they were not very tasty, squeezing the juice into it and pouring it on the breadfruit would also add some flavor to the breadfruit. Flavor.

Everyone gathered around the dining table set up in the armory and had a pretty good breakfast.

Before dark last night, several more inspection groups came to Ellington Castle. They were all freshmen at the Elf Academy.

So many elf students gathered in the castle, making it noisy.

After breakfast, Edith suggested going to Earl Amelia’s tombstone to pay her respects.

As the granddaughter of Count Amelia, since she came to Ellington Castle, there was no reason not to visit her grandmother who was buried here.

An elf girl asked curiously: "Is Count Amelia buried in the castle?"

Edith explained: "Well, this was my grandmother's last wish. Her grave is on the high platform behind..."

After speaking, her hand pointed to the location of the bread tree.

Roy and Claire looked at each other speechlessly.

If Edith had said this yesterday, then the two of them would not have had the temerity to talk under the bread tree last night!

Under the bread tree, Edith presented a bouquet of flowers.

There were no tombstones, nameplates or cypress trees, only a huge bread tree that was half dead. In the breeze, the sparse leaves on the top of the tree swayed gently, as if to welcome Edith's arrival.

The expedition team spent the whole day moving around the castle.

With Edith's introduction, everyone can easily understand such a large castle. In fact, many buildings have different functions...

After two days of contact, Roy found that Edith was a very qualified captain. Her shrewdness, determination, bravery, and fairness had won her a high reputation in the expedition team. No wonder the other members of the sixteenth group The elf girls are very convinced of her.