Whispering Verse

The most dangerous category of relics is that of natural phenomena. Even the "Chasm of Life and Death" in Mibao can be classified as a natural phenomenon.

But Shade was not bothered by the information Iluna gave. Instead, he frowned slightly. This is not because he is confident that he has no fear of death, so the black shadow is not strong, but because he feels as if he has encountered something he encountered before:

"Iluna, are these shadows pretending to be people we know well to deceive us?"

Although the seventeen-year-old girl didn't know why Xia De asked such a question, she still shook her head slightly:

"Absolutely not. If this is really [death phobia], they are ourselves. How can we pretend to be other people? They are us, ourselves."

Her right hand held Shade's left hand tightly, as if she wanted to rely on Shade's body temperature to make herself stronger. The fear of death amplifies the fear of death itself. Even a determined girl like Iluna was inevitably affected as the shadows approached and glimpsed their true nature.

"There is no record of how to defeat them in the church's records, but as long as they are not touched by them within a few hours, they will leave on their own. Although they will follow later, in the case of four or more people, These things don't come out. They absorb happiness and positive emotions, and we have to live with that."

Iluna said tremblingly, wanting to turn around and let Shade hug her, but she bit her lip and tried not to let Shade see her "weakness".

"It won't happen in a four-person situation, and it's just us. I understand... We don't have time to waste."

Shade extinguished the moonlight on his fingertips, and just as he thought, the black shadows facing them walked towards them again. The undead skeleton horse stood beside them docilely, waiting for its master to set off again. The flames on its body became much dimmer due to Iluna's relaxation of will.

[Yes, it is indeed the kind of thing you encounter in the Silver Mountains. 】

Shade took a long breath from his nose, and the white smoke merged into the wind and snow like a long dragon:

"The matter about Miss Chloe is now fully understood. It turns out that the meaning of the 'lost people' mentioned in the mission is not just getting lost in the snowy mountains."

He squeezed Iluna's hand:

"Don't worry, leave it to me."

His right hand gently slid down in the air, and a dark crack opened in front of Shade. The door of death opened again, and the black shadow in Shade's direction immediately retreated.

"Iluna, attack it together."

After whispering the instructions, Shade closed his eyes and turned in the direction of Iluna. The [Night Watcher] stabbed into the snow at his feet, and the silver-white thunder gun in his right hand floated.

Iluna's left hand was also raised at this moment, and the [Thunder] and [Sun] spirit runes on the life rings above their heads flashed at the same time. Two thunder spears, one gold and one silver, were thrown at the black shadow facing Iluna. Although Iluna's [Sunshine Gun] was far less powerful than Miss Chloe's "Thousand Cats Curse", in conjunction with Shade's thunder gun, it still shattered the black shadow.

Then the two of them did the same thing as before, except this time Iluna closed her eyes and Shade opened her eyes. Together with their cooperation, they also exploded another black shadow that was temporarily frightened by the [Death Door].

It was only then that Iluna hugged Shade's neck and "hanged" on his body as if paralyzed. Shade reached out and hugged Iluna. He was not surprised by Iluna's performance at this time, and even thought that Iluna was brave enough. You must know that even Miss Chloe, the "eleventh level" witch, behaves very badly when facing this kind of ghost.

The witch who was holding little Mia at the time had the courage to step out of the tent to help Shade even under the urging of the cat. And now that I think about it, it's not certain whether Miss Chloe is the eleventh level.

At this moment, thinking of the cat as warm as the sun, Shade felt that his spirit had improved a lot. He carefully held Iluna, took out the holy water from his pocket and fed it to her, and then performed further treatment with [Cindia's Silver Moon Gift], which specializes in mental healing, before the seventeen-year-old girl recovered. Some.

"You're always so reliable."

She clung to Shade, but soon pushed him away. Iluna Beas was never weak.

The time was eleven-thirteen at night, getting closer and closer to midnight.

If Shade is not in good condition, he can use the time key to rest for forty minutes, but Iluna cannot get a rest. Therefore, Shade did not hurry up, but helped Iluna onto the horse. He led the horse in front, and under the yellow moonlight above his head, he led her forward one step at a time.

The wind and snow blurred their figures, and also covered up other things happening in this large swamp. At this time, Shade could fully imagine that battles of varying degrees were taking place in all directions centered on the "Pantanal Lake" in the center of the great swamp.

The badge hanging on his chest has not responded yet, which means that the witches have not caught up yet. Although he said he didn't have to worry about the safety of the witches, he actually missed Miss Carina, Miss Aurora and Miss Sylvia.

But this kind of longing did not last long, and the whispering element appeared again in the storm. At this time, it had only been twenty minutes since Shade took the horse and set off again with Iluna.

"What's wrong?"

The girl lying on the horse asked in a low voice. Shade had to be very careful to hear her voice amid the howling wind.

"I'll take care of it, you don't have to worry."

Shade comforted him, holding the sword in one hand and holding the reins in the other. This time he could see at a glance what was blocking the road again——

A woman with black hair and a pale face revealed half of her face behind a large stone embedded in the snow not far from the swamp. Most of her body was behind the stone, and her upper body looked like she was not wearing any clothes. As Shade stared longer, the woman's rotten face became clearer and clearer, but it was clear that the weather in the snowstorm should not have such a good view.

"[Swamp Witch]."

The first time I came into contact with this humanoid relic was when I saw the cursed old photo at Professor Drake's house in late autumn. Later, when Shade visited the "Lady of the Lake" for the first time, she appeared when Shade was chasing a wild wolf, but she only "resurrected" a wild wolf and asked it to lead Shade to the residence of the "Lady of the Lake". Disappeared.

After not seeing her for nearly two months, Shade didn't expect to meet her again under such circumstances.

"It will guide the way out for good-hearted women who are lost in the swamp, and may even protect them. But for impure-hearted women and any men, it will impose a soul-corrupting curse."

Shade thought about the characteristics of this relic, and held the sword in his hand vigilantly, wanting to see what the other party would do this time. Because she helped Shade find the Lady of the Lake last time, which completely deviated from her recorded characteristics, Shade did not directly regard her as an enemy.

"I'm definitely male."

He added in his mind, and then he heard "her" laughter.

The woman behind the big rock just "peeped" at Shade. After noticing that Shade was standing still, she actually stretched out her rotten and pale hand, pointed behind her, and then disappeared.

"What do you want me to see?"

The direction pointed by the swamp witch was not the path pointed out by the yellow moonlight for Shade. Obviously, following him would waste more time.

Shade couldn't decide by himself, so he asked Iluna what she thought about this. The girl, who was still a little depressed, lay on the horse and whispered to Shade:

"I'll listen to you."

Shade nodded and led the horse away from the path forward, towards the back of the big rock.

The "Swamp Witch" did not set a trap to induce Shade to follow. After Shade came behind the big rock in the swamp, he saw a series of not very clear footprints on the snow.

He rode on the horse and hugged Iluna, put on his cloak to cover the two of them, and let Iluna lean on his chest. Iluna and Shade held the reins together and followed the set of footprints deep into the swamp that no one had explored for hundreds of years.

The horse, called by the bone whistle, crossed the muddy swamp, passed through the fog miasma area with complex terrain, moved forward along the hill slope with an angle of almost 70 degrees, and found the horse before midnight. The end point to which the footprints extend.

It was an ordinary-looking piece of snow, located at the bottom of a low hill. Not far away was the ruins of a temple left by humans of an unknown age. Judging from the appearance of the temple, it looks very much like the "Pantanal Temple" in the painting that Shade once entered by mistake.

Shade jumped off the horse and stopped just after taking a step toward the last footprint:

"What a powerful curse!"

This is a soul-corrupting curse, a curse inherent in this land itself. There are obviously traces of plants in other places nearby, but only the end point where the footprints extend is the bare snow.

The curse was limited to an area of ​​about 26 feet (about 7.9 meters) square. For Iluna's safety, he asked her to stay on the horse and not get close. He relied on the characteristics of his powerful soul and the protection of divinity to forcibly Breaking into the snow.

He stepped deep and then lightly to reach the location of the last footprint. He endured the strange feeling of a snake wrapping around his body as the curse spread. He bent down and used his hands to pry open the snow layer to see the land below. After hesitating for a moment, he rummaged through his pocket for a while and found a small toy shovel.

After restoring it, first trample the ground, use [Feliana's Witch's Light] to "melt" the hardest soil layer on the surface, and then use a shovel to dig.

Digging alone in the depths of a blizzard swamp is a very strange behavior. Shade did not dig too deep, so he took a step back and appeared five meters away.

The thick and strange vines are covered with unknown transparent mucus. The surface is gray-green but covered with dense knots. Like tentacles, they pierced out of the dug pit and pulled the shovel that Shade had not taken away into the shallow pit. Then Shade heard the harsh sound of metal twisting.

After the sound subsided, Shade cautiously walked over to check the shallow pit. After just one glance, he was forced to close his eyes, and while his eyes shed tears of blood, he turned around and fled the area.

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