We're Already In Close Combat And You Still Say You're A Mage?

Leaving the mural, Xu Bai continued to walk deeper into the fork in the road.

As he went deeper, the fluorescent moss on the stone walls of the fork in the road was gradually decreasing.

Some brown lines as thick as a baby's arm appeared among the moss, sparsely intertwined.

Gradually, Xu Bai walked not far, and the luminous moss on the stone wall completely disappeared, completely replaced by brown lines.

These brown lines on the stone wall emit a faint earth-yellow light, replacing the fluorescent moss and continuing to illuminate the scene in the forked road.

At this time, brown lines had covered the stone wall, and they were densely intertwined, forming a spider web-like pattern that continued to extend deeper into the fork in the road.

Xu Bai continued to move forward along the brown lines that continued to extend inward.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, a stone door also covered with brown lines blocked his way.

Xu Bai stepped forward and knocked hard on the stone door.

Bang bang~, bang bang~.

The echo came out, indicating that there was still space behind the stone door.

So, he tried to push the stone door.

The stone door didn't move at all.

Xu Bai put more force on his hand again, but Shimen still didn't respond.

There was no other way, so Xu Bai had to take two steps back, lowered his shoulders, exerted his strength, and punched the stone door.

"Boom~."

"Chirp~!"

There was a loud noise, accompanied by a faint scream.

With Xu Bai's basic strength of 32 points and the blessing of the Dragon Hunting Set, he can now directly smash the stone gate with one full blow.

Xu Bai waved his hand to disperse the smoke and dust in front of his eyes.

The space behind the stone door was revealed.

That's still a pathway.

The brown lines on the stone wall still extend into this passage.

Xu Bai kicked away the gravel at his feet and walked in.

Suddenly, he stopped and leaned down to pick up something among the rubble.

It was an object that had turned into flesh. Judging from its shape, it looked like a bat.

Xu Bai took the bat in his hand and played with it a few times in disgust. Finding nothing unusual, he threw it aside and continued walking deeper into the fork behind the stone gate.

Along the way, the brown lines in the forked road became more and more dense.

In the end, the brown lines even connected into one piece, covering the entire stone wall of the forked road.

Fortunately, this phenomenon did not last long.

Xu Bai moved forward for some distance, and the space in the fork in the road suddenly opened up and gradually became wider.

At the same time, the brown lines on the stone wall of the fork road began to gradually decrease, and slowly returned to the previous grid shape, covering the stone wall again.

The branch road that gradually opened up in front of us no longer extended forward horizontally, but sloped downward, forming a huge slope.

A huge circular hole appeared at the end of the slope, which was the exit of the forked road.

Xu Bai tightened the "Dragon Hunter Cloak" on his body, squatted down, and sat on the slope like a slide, sliding towards the entrance of the cave.

Sure enough, it was just as he guessed.

After sliding out of the hole, Xu Bai fell into a huge space.

However, due to the effect of the "Dragon Hunter Cloak", he did not fall immediately. Instead, he entered a gliding state and slowly fell.

While gliding, Xu Bai looked down.

I saw that the space below was still full of brown lines, and a faint earth-yellow light illuminated the space.

A huge and towering palace stands in this space deep underground.

Above the palace, a handmade flag with a whip of thorns embroidered on it is eye-catching.

Xu Bai did not recognize this flag.

In today's Hunter Guild, I am afraid that no one except the president would recognize this flag.

However, what if there was a vampire hunter here from the time when the Hunter Guild was founded 300 years ago.

He will recognize that this flag is the flag of the Duke Nathan Cortes family, which ranked third among the six major families of the Blood Clan back then.

But this ducal family disappeared within just 10 years after the Hunters Guild was founded, as if it had never appeared.

...

Xu Bai moved away from the palace and continued to look down.

He saw that the front of the palace was filled with vampires holding various weapons.

In addition, there was a middle-aged vampire wearing a black robe and blood-colored metal heavy armor standing there.

With Xu Bai's current eyesight, he could clearly see that the blood-colored heavy armor of the middle-aged vampire was engraved with the same thorn whip pattern as the flag on the top of the palace.

It's obvious that he is the owner here.

This middle-aged vampire holds a large black sword in his hand.

Like Marquis Cecil's silver stabbing sword, this jet-black sword also has jagged blood grooves.

However, the Marquise's stabbing sword gave people the impression of a soft and agile poisonous snake, catching the prey's flaw in an instant and killing it.

The pitch-black sword in the hands of this middle-aged vampire is like a predatory tiger that wants to tear into pieces and devour all incoming enemies.

At this time, all the vampires on the ground were looking up at Xu Bai, who was slowly falling above him.

These vampires did not attack Xu Bai, who was still floating in the sky, but watched him and let him fall slowly.

The scene in front of him made Xu Bai feel inexplicably familiar.

Suddenly, a thought exploded in his mind like thunder.

The scene before him was not exactly the scene depicted in the third mural he saw on the fork in the road!

Xu Bai looked at the majestic palace below, the crowd in front of the palace, and his unique way of appearing.

Isn’t it the mural that shines into reality?

In an instant, countless thoughts passed through Xu Bai's mind.

That mural actually accurately predicted my current situation!

Xu Bai's heartbeat began to accelerate, and cold sweat broke out on his face.

He suddenly felt the actual malice of the mural creator from endless years ago.

Why did the other party predict the future?

And why did he predict himself?

Why is it me?

Various thoughts kept flashing in Xu Bai's mind.

He didn't even notice that he had landed on the ground...

Until a slightly magnetic voice sounded in his ears.

"Here you come, man of prophecy."

...

Xu Bai raised his head and saw the middle-aged vampire wearing red heavy armor.

There was only one person on the other side, and there were no other vampires around him.

The middle-aged vampire stretched out a hand towards him.

Xu Bai was shocked, and immediately put all the distracting thoughts in his mind behind him, quickly retreated, and distanced himself from the middle-aged vampire.

Immediately after turning his wrist, Po Xie appeared in his hand, pointing the tip of his spear directly at the middle-aged vampire opposite.

Seeing Xu Bai's posture, the middle-aged vampire also took two steps back and spread his empty hands to indicate that he had no weapons and no ill intentions.

Xu Bai looked behind him and found that the black sword in his hand was inserted right where he was standing.

"Man of prophecy, welcome to your arrival."

"I'm Nathan "Duke" Cortez. "

"Maybe you haven't heard of my name. This is normal. After all, no one will pay attention to a family that has been living alone for nearly 300 years."

With that said, the Duke approached and stretched out his hand to Xu Bai again.

"Why should I trust you?"

Xu Bai did not put down his spear, but still stared at the vampire duke in front of him with vigilance.

The Duke hesitated and thought for a moment.

Then he waved, and a vampire from behind immediately stepped forward.

The Duke took a black sealed bag from his hand and threw it to Xu Bai.

"You should recognize this thing, and maybe you've had a lot of it."

"However, when you drink it, you should only focus on fighting the deepest fear in your heart and never taste it carefully, right?"

"Now, as a hunter, you can smell its scent carefully, and you may make new discoveries."

Xu Bai took the sealed bag thrown by the Duke.

After opening it, there was a glass bottle filled with thick purple liquid.

Xu Bai took out the bottle of thick purple liquid from the sealed bag.

A prompt from the Court of Origin appears.

"Tip: You have obtained the Silt Potion"