Whispering Verse

"Oh~"

Emilia was startled by her rich imagination. If she looked carefully, it was clearly just a stain.

She nervously looked away and stopped looking over there, but in the corner of her heart, the thought of "could there be a body buried in the wall?" burst out uncontrollably like weeds after a spring rain.

This feeling was very strange, and it reminded her of the feeling she had when she was just an elf girl thirty or forty years ago, hiding under the quilt at night and scaring herself.

But this time, although she had grown up, there was no quilt around her to hide in. The more she thought about it, the more frightened she felt, and finally her body started to tremble with fear.

"Little Lianna, I feel something is wrong."

When she reluctantly spoke, she was surprised at how hoarse her voice sounded. The pure white beast also sensed something was wrong at this time, and gently poked the back of Emilia's hand with its horn. Facing the stained wall, it screamed loudly.

Then golden luster burst out from the unicorn, and even for an underage unicorn, its full burst of divine power was still astonishing.

The spreading spirit and the thick whispering elements that appeared at an unknown time offset each other in the air at the bottom of the bell tower, but this also allowed this hidden relic to fully reveal its own characteristics.

Golden light illuminated the surrounding walls, and Emilia could clearly see dozens of human-shaped protrusions appearing on the wall at the bottom of the bell tower. The postures of these people seemed to be forcibly kept inside the wall during the struggle. As Emilia watched them, the elf girl first felt that she subconsciously wanted to enter the wall, and then noticed that those human-shaped protrusions were actually Moving.

"oh!"

She stood up from the chair in panic, and the little unicorn continued to work hard to make its horn shine to resist the power derived from the relic. Emilia already knew what this was. After all, among this series of relics, this was the only one she had not encountered:

"[Corpse in the Wall], the initial manifestation is to frighten the victim through the suggestion of the existence of a corpse in the wall, and then attract the victim to tear down the wall and build himself in; if the mental suggestion is resisted, the mid-term manifestation is that as long as the victim touches the wall, They will actively be sucked in; if they can stay outdoors away from walls, doors and windows, then in the end the endless corpses will actively break through the walls. This is an angel-level relic."

She didn't understand why such a powerful relic appeared immediately after Shade left, even though nothing major happened during the week she lived in Belindle Manor.

The little unicorn was slowly retreating at this time. It was not yet mature enough to confront such a powerful relic. Emilia also realized this. She looked at the windows and doors, knowing that she had no chance to leave here.

So she gritted her teeth and turned to look at the stairs and elevators. The gas system was temporarily not working, and the steam furnace might not be enough to drive the elevators. Her only choice was to go up to the top of the clock tower with the little unicorn through the winding and narrow stairs, and then jump down from there to the empty square.

In short, we absolutely cannot stay where we are now.

The dual effects of the mental enhancement brought by the unicorn's power and the mental pollution brought by the angelic relic have already appeared on Emilia's body. Refusing to look at the wall to prevent herself from being attracted, she tugged on the little beast's hair, and then retreated towards the stairs with it.

[Corpses in the Wall] The appearance of event-like relics usually requires a development process to become the most powerful. Therefore, at this time, the wall leading up the stairs is still normal, but the raised human figures on the wall are also moving towards Move here.

Emilia ran in front, and little Liana ran behind. They quickly went up the stairs, and the bulging human figures in the wall chased behind them with thick darkness.

The light emitted by the little unicorn had reached its limit, and Emilia had already summoned her life ring to continuously perform thaumaturgy on herself to keep her mental and physical strength normal. However, after just running a few steps, she felt herself There's probably no way to escape this time. Belindell's Big Ben is so towering that they have no chance of winning this race.

The power of the angel-level relic spread so fast that the elf girl had just started to carry out her "death-death memories" when she accidentally slipped and fell on the stairs. She suddenly felt numb in her hands and feet, and she fell down there without the strength to stand up.

The little unicorn screamed anxiously beside her. Seeing the darkness behind it and the human figures in the wall still approaching, it lowered its head and let Emilia climb onto its back, and then carried it unable to move. The girl took four hooves and ran upstairs quickly.

It has the ability to fly, but due to the impact of the relic on the entire bell tower, it cannot fly here. The unicorn's ultimate running speed can even exceed the flying speed of the dragon, but in the narrow stairwell, it can only maintain a speed similar to Emilia's normal running.

The anxious little beast tried to activate its own stronger power, but it had reached its limit.

The fastest moving convex human figure inside the wall has now arrived at the side of the pure white beast, carrying the thick and irreversible darkness. So the wall was squeezed out by the hand inside the wall like plasticine. The wall wrapped the arm and stretched out towards Emilia.

Fortunately, the amulet worn around Emilia's neck suddenly glowed with emerald green light. This breath of life did not affect the relics, but suddenly made Emilia and the little unicorn recover a little. strength.

Before the hand inside the wall came into contact with Emilia, the pure white beast accelerated suddenly and finally distanced itself from the strange thing inside the wall again. At this time, Emilia had recovered some of her mobility, but the elf girl with pointed ears was unable to get off the unicorn's back and was still being led by it to run.

The spiral staircases in the bell tower made Emilia feel dizzy, but she couldn't tell whether it was the effect of the relic. The chase continues, and the speed of the darkness and the humanoids moving within the walls is also increasing.

The little unicorn, who desperately carried Emilia up and ran upwards, finally reached the halfway point of the lighthouse. Just like Emilia just now, her unlucky hoof missed the mark and she fell onto the stairs. superior. One person and one beast rolled together. If Emilia hadn't supported the ground with her hands in time, her head would have just barely touched the side wall of the stairs.

"Little Lianna~"

Ignoring her bruised elbows, knees and forehead, the pointed-eared elf girl hugged her friend in pain. The weak light on the little beast was weakening, and it was unable to move just like Emilia just now.

"Ang~"

His blue eyes narrowed slightly, his head shook slightly, and his weak cry was to urge Emilia to continue walking upward. But of course Emilia would not leave like this. She looked at the darkness spreading from the bottom of the spiral staircase in panic, and desperately hugged the little unicorn, trying to pull it up.

But even if he mustered up all his strength, he only had to carry it up five flights of steps before he no longer had the strength.

The raised human figure on the wall had now bypassed the blind spot in the field of vision, and entered Emilia's eyes along with the darkness from below. Compared with the simple bulge just observed at the bottom of the bell tower, fine cracks have appeared on the surface of the human-shaped wall at this time, and disgusting yellow-green mucus and tiny maggots are constantly pouring out from those cracks.

As the human figures on the wall approached, Emilia saw that along the route they traveled on the wall, the wall was left with several continuous root-like cracks. Emilia didn't even dare to think about what else was hidden in these cracks. She could only rely on the strength spurred by fear to pull the little unicorn up two steps again, but she really had no strength to move anymore.

With tears in her eyes, Emilia Siam Nord hugged her friend and looked down with her lips pursed. She mustered up the last courage to cross the little unicorn and opened her arms to block it:

"This time, I will protect you."

The little elf faced the darkness alone, but still shouted that name in fear and grievance:

"Shadow, help me."

Suddenly a red light flashed, because the relic sealed the space at the bottom of the clock tower. Shade, who flew outside Belindle's Big Ben in the form of [red butterfly incarnation], finally found the opportunity to locate the seal of the power of the relic with "powerful space perception" The lowest point yet to be reached.

He did not return to his human form outside the tower, but forcibly used "Raglai's Jump" in the form of a swarm of red butterflies. Therefore, in Emilia's eyes, a large red butterfly suddenly appeared, drowning her and the little unicorn who fell on the stairs.

But before the spreading darkness and the hand reaching out from the wall touched them again, the relic [the corpse in the wall] actually retreated down at least ten steps as if afraid of the red light. But after Shade returned to human form, its power surged up from the bottom of the bell tower like a wave again.

"It sensed the power of Helen and Grace. [Corpse in the Wall] and [Red Butterfly Twins] are both relics related to urban legends and corpses, but Grace and Helen are obviously stronger."

If Shade blows the "Butterfly Calling Flute" to call the Red Butterfly Sisters at this time, the problem of [the corpse in the wall] will be solved, but Shade's purpose this time is not to disperse the relic.

Even if the other party recognizes that Shad is not Grace and Helen at all, it doesn’t matter, because Shad has already stood in front of Emilia and the little unicorn, holding runes on the angel-level relic [Night Watch] held in both hands. Drained by the moonlight, the unparalleled bright silver moonlight illuminated the deep darkness under the stairs as the sword fell:

"Moonlight Slash!"

PS: Additional update 2/3. Originally planned to add three chapters, it was changed to four chapters, and the other two chapters will be posted at 12 noon.