Whispering Verse

Chapter 2582 Centennial Demon and Monk

The iron fence around the cemetery is mainly to prevent wild animals from breaking in. This remote and shabby family cemetery has no gravekeeper, so it cannot prevent grave robbers.

But the Bennet family has a good reputation in the local area. They have been very popular with the townspeople since the baron era. In addition, the folk customs in Creekwood are really simple, so there has been no vicious grave robbery incidents so far.

"Thomas Bennet's father is Bruce Bennet, his grandfather is Baron James Bennet, and his great-grandfather is Howard Bennet when you arrived in Creekwood. All three are here."

After opening the gate of the cemetery with the [Gate Key], Shade muttered to himself.

The structure of the cemetery is relatively simple. Behind the gate is a trail leading to a low stone house in the center of the cemetery. Opening the door of the stone building is the steps leading to the underground tomb, where all the Bennetts are buried.

The underground tomb was not complicated. The cold but dry open square space was supported by six pillars. The coffin was placed in the groove of the wall. The stone wall next to the coffin was inlaid with stone tablets to introduce the achievements and past events of these barons.

With a snap of his fingers, the torches on the walls and stone pillars lit up one by one. Shade, who was expecting to encounter evil spirits, took a look around and was disappointed to find that it was very clean.

The red-haired girl raised her hands, and with a rumbling sound, the heavy stone coffins flew out of the wall together and were neatly placed beside the wall.

Shade looked at her in surprise. It should not be so powerful to cast such a basic spell "Moving Objects" with the power of the seventh ring. Obviously, her spell has also been uniquely adjusted to be so amazing, and the young sorceress smiled and said:

"Even if I am one ring lower than you now, I am not an ordinary seventh ring."

There is no cremation tradition in the local area, so those stones are all corpses. Shade asked Miss Danister to be on guard, and he opened the coffins one by one for inspection.

Mummies, skeletons, burial objects, Shade touched every item for safety. The order of inspection was from modern times to ancient times, but there was no trace of the time curse on all the corpses.

But when Shade inspected the oldest coffin, which was the bones of the first Baron Bennett, who lived from "1499 to 1551" on the tombstone, although there was still no time curse, he felt an extremely dirty and cold power when he touched the dry bones:

"This is the visual demon!"

The magic was activated, and his eyes immediately saw a layer of faint black light attached to the remaining bones in the dim firelight:

"Demon?"

"What?"

Miss Danister, who was checking the inscription on the tomb, turned around and asked, and walked to Shade. Bian:

"What did you find?"

"The stench of the devil, the ancient evil spirit devil."

Shad squinted at the things in the coffin:

"Very faint devil power, if it weren't for my strong perception and this magic specifically targeting devils, I wouldn't even be able to detect it.

The first baron of the Bennet family was once contaminated with devil power, but he shouldn't have directly accepted the devil's deal, otherwise the power would be stronger."

Miss Danister stretched her head to take a look at the inscription on the side:

"He lived in an era more than three hundred years ago, and was conferred the title of baron because For military merit. He participated in the war between the then-unified Carsenrick United Kingdom and the Eastern Delinor Kingdom. In the war, his right leg was injured and amputated, and he also lost his left eye. Finally, he retired as a lieutenant general and returned to his hometown, Ximu Town.

It was really a magnificent life, so the skeleton does not have the right leg part. "

Shade thought for a while:

"Three hundred years ago? When I first came to the local area, I heard from the locals in the black market that about two or three hundred years ago, an ancient evil spirit appeared in Ximu Town. The town was very small at that time, and the only church was the Church of Nature. There were not many ring sorcerers, and that accident almost caused the town to disappear. "

Miss Danister nodded gently, obviously she had heard the story:

"There are records specifically about this kind of ancient evil spirit in the college library. I did see this incident when I was looking up the history of Creekwood Town. The first Baron Bennett may have encountered that incident. He was one of the few nobles in the town at that time, and it was normal for him to be corrupted or controlled by the devil. "

Although the body still retains the power of the devil, there is no need to worry about it. It will completely disappear in another one or two hundred years. The only value of these bones is probably to be sold on the black market as "cursed materials". Of course, Shade will not do such a thing.

"Does the book say who the devil is? How did he come from? How did he solve this matter at that time? "

After confirming that there was no clue in the last coffin, Shade closed it again.

"It didn't mention the origin or the specific identity. The demon was finally sealed by the thirteenth ring warlock 'Forest Hunter' sent to the local area by the Church of Nature using an angel-level relic. Now the relic is still being kept in the Church of Nature, so there is no need to worry about encountering this thing during our stay in Vesta City."

"Why haven't I heard of the name of this 'Forest Hunter'?"

Shad asked again, and the red-haired girl smiled and looked at her student:

"Because that gentleman lived more than three hundred years ago, he passed away when my teacher was still a student, so of course you haven't heard of him. The teacher once told me about the gentleman, and at that time I"

She suddenly smiled, and although she was looking at the sarcophagus, it seemed as if she saw something more distant:

"When the teacher talked to me about that gentleman, I was exactly eighteen years old."

She looked up at her students in front of her and thought of the conversation many years ago. Everything has changed, but she has not changed. She was a little absent-minded for a moment, and her eyes were a little dazed.

Suddenly, she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up and saw Shade looking at her with a smile: "If we can meet your teacher in the future, how surprised do you think she will be when she sees you now?" "But the library says that the teacher has died in Xikar Mountain." She shook her head, but Shade said: "Yes, but this is Ximu Town, there is a tree hole here. I just don't know if your teacher has also been to Ximu Town." Miss Danister Gustav was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Shade, I know you are joking, please don't give me such unrealistic expectations." Since no clues were found in the cemetery, the next step of the investigation can only be pinned on tonight's banquet, or the half of the newspaper that the two ladies brought back from a hundred years ago. But because the newspaper has traveled through time twice, it is difficult to divine its origin. At least it is difficult to divine before getting new coins and Shade is willing to consume coins, so Shade still hopes to find something interesting at tonight's banquet. But this trip with Miss Danister was not the end. She had another purpose, which was to establish contact with the [Hermitage in the Forest].

When she first arrived, she hoped to meet those hermits through the identity of "Red Moon Witch-Danister", so that communication would be relatively convenient.

But she had become the current 18-year-old before she met the other party, so she could only communicate with the [Hermitage in the Forest] as an ordinary ring wizard. If the other party was unwilling to cooperate, she would then show her own Saint Byrons background.

The [Hermitage in the Forest] is located deep in the Vestal Forest, but no one knows the exact location except themselves. The hermit group believes in the old god who has left-the White Sacred Tree. According to Saint Byrons's estimate, the core members of the group should be between 50 and 80 people.

Although this sounds like a lot, in fact, the core members also include a large number of ordinary hermits who have given up their lives in the civilized world and voluntarily returned to the mountains and forests, so there are probably only about 20 ring wizards among them.

Although Miss Danister successfully established contact with the hermits, it was obviously impossible to take Shade directly to their station. The meeting place of the two parties was a small village in the southeast of Vista Forest. There was only a small road connecting it to the city that could allow the carriages carrying wood to pass through. The village was called "Little Mig Village".

The village could exist in such a deep forest because there were large logging sites in the east, west and north directions. Except for a few farmers and hunters, most people in the village depended on the workers in these logging sites for their income.

Therefore, there was a tavern in the small village. However, it was noon on Tuesday, and the lumberjacks usually did not appear in the village but ate at their workplace, so the tavern was very quiet.

The low-rise wooden townhouse was the main building of the tavern. Although the sun was bright outside, it was a little dark and cool inside the tavern. When Shade and the red-haired girl walked around the edge of the city and came to Little Mig Village, the hermit who came to meet them had already arrived at the tavern in advance and sat down at the table against the wall.

Shade asked the butcher-like tavern owner for drinks and lunch at the front desk, and then walked over with Miss Danister.

"John Watson."

After sitting down, Shade extended his hand to the middle-aged man with a brown robe and a light beard, who shook his hand:

"Bell Van Buren."

He looked about 40 years old, and the whole person was very vicissitudes. Although the brown robe was washed very clean, it was obvious that the material of the cloth was not very good. He looked very shabby, but his eyes were particularly bright, which was in line with Shade's imagination of the special profession of "hermit".

There was only a newspaper, a glass of water and a piece of bread on the table in front of the hermit Mr. Van Buren. The people in the "Hermits in the Forest" really lived a hermit life and did not advocate eating and drinking:

"Good afternoon, Mr. Watson, and this strange lady, did you get in touch with us through the black market in Ximu Town? Before we officially start the conversation, please allow me to ask, where did you get the "Friendship Oak"? "

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