Whispering Verse

Chapter 2765 Brand, Ritual and Key

Just as Xia De expected, as he retreated, the third treasure chest opened, revealing its scarlet tongue. Before the chest rose to reveal its slender legs and arms, the thunderbolt penetrated directly into the gap of the chest.

"Treasure chest monsters" are monsters that appear because of the sublimation of greedy desires. They are not real alien creatures, but are a kind of abnormality of "treasure chests" due to concepts.

Therefore, even if this secret room has not been opened for tens of thousands of years since it was sealed, the normal chests inside may become treasure chest monsters. In particular, Xia De also admitted that he was greedy when he saw these three chests.

Unfortunately, different treasure chest monsters have different behaviors. This is the third one Xia De encountered. Although the [Treasure Chest Monster] is classified as a clerical level, in fact, according to the preciousness and antiquity of the treasures it contains, the upper limit of its power is actually quite high.

Although the monster Xia De encountered this time did not show characteristics such as "blocking the road" and "throwing bait", it was definitely not just a clerical level monster.

The lightning gun was successfully thrown into the "mouth" of the monster that stood up, but the lightning did not explode, because the black red tongue popped out and pushed the lightning gun back to Xia De:

"Can it rebound the attack? Nightfall Seal!"

The ink-colored shield silently absorbed the silver-white lightning gun, and when the shield disappeared, the monster with two-meter-long legs like dead branches had already strode to Xia De's front. While the tongue was swinging, the two hands directly grabbed Xia De's neck.

"Body of courage!"

Xia De did not mean to dodge, but took a deep breath and his whole body suddenly swelled up until his height was exactly the same as the upright treasure chest.

So the monster's hand changed from trying to strangle his neck to hugging Shade's body. It tried hard to pick up Shade and put him in its mouth to eat, but Shade's feet fell back again just after leaving the ground.

Both sides of the enemy were very surprised. The treasure chest monster didn't understand why this human was so powerful, and Shade was surprised that the treasure chest monster was so powerful this time.

The lid of the box opened wide again, and the black and red bacon-like tongue shot towards Shade's throat. Shade's left hand then grabbed the tongue, and then the huge lightning gun appeared again in his raised right hand, and this time it completely penetrated the monster's mouth.

The lightning gun exploded in the narrow space, and the lightning even splashed on Shade, the caster. But fortunately, the "rebound attack" method mastered by the treasure chest monster this time seemed to rely on its tongue, so when the tongue was caught by Shade, the lightning gun successfully penetrated its body.

"Oh~"

After a long wail, the tall monster turned into gray-white sand and quickly scattered all over the ground, and Shade's body returned to its normal size. Although it seems to be easy to win, it is because Shade's power after becoming bigger just overwhelms it.

For a "treasure box monster" that is mostly a physical attack and has extremely high resistance, things will become quite troublesome if its own strength cannot match it.

The box turned into gravel, and the original things inside were buried in the gravel.

Shade bent down and searched with expectation, but he did not find the "Universal Impermanence Card" he was thinking about. Instead, he first found a strange silver metal plate. The plate was not a regular shape, but looked like the front section of a treasure box:

"Whispering Element. Relic Derivative-[Greedy Brand]!"

Shade was really shocked this time. After a "treasure box monster" is killed, there is a very low probability that its own "greed" concept will be condensed into an entity, thereby generating a "Greedy Brand", which is the thing in Shade's hand.

As a relic derivative, its rating is the same as that of the treasure chest monster itself, and it is also at the clerical level. The negative characteristic is that it greatly enhances the wearer's greed, while the positive characteristic is that when encountering a scene with "a probability of obtaining something", such as "killing a treasure chest monster has a probability of obtaining the Greed Mark", wearing this silver medal will increase the probability of obtaining items.

Because this relic derivative does not need to be worn close to the body for a long time, it can be worn when needed, so its negative characteristics can be avoided to a certain extent. This also leads to the fact that this relic derivative is particularly valuable.

But compared to its practical value, people value its collection value more. After all, if Xia De remembered correctly, all the existing [Greed Marks] would not add up to more than 30 pieces:

"Do I really have this luck?"

Then he thought of a rather serious problem:

"Wait a minute, [Greed Mark] wouldn't be something that was originally in this box, right?"

The "she" beside him laughed again, but fortunately Xia De guessed wrong.

He bent down and searched the sand quickly for a few times, and then found something new. However, it was not the Vientiane Card, nor was it a glass-like "time fragment", but a familiar green leaf:

"【Leaf of Eternal Youth】?"

This time, the touch did not trigger the 【Ancient Voice】, which probably means that this secret room was built in the Second Age, but two items from the First Age were placed in it.

And Xia De looked at the leaf suspiciously, his first reaction was disappointment, but then he thought that the leaf was not just a leaf:

"Is there power and information here?"

He then raised his head very skillfully and put this brand new leaf in front of his eyes. As the golden light traces flowed along the veins of the leaf, a piece of information appeared in Shade's mind out of thin air.

This information points to an ancient ritual, the "Proof of Time," which involves finding a giant tree in the forest and digging a pool of water beneath it. Holding the "Eternal Youth Leaf" in his mouth, he jumped into the pool carrying an item related to time such as a clock, an hourglass, etc.

Ten minutes later he resurfaced and left his name on the tree. In this way, the ritual is completed, and as long as the name on the tree is not destroyed and the person carries the pocket watch or hourglass as a "proof of time", then the person who completes the ritual will not enter other times due to accidents.

Of course, if you don't have the "Leaf of Youth", you can also make a magical item called "Time Cicada" through alchemy. This kind of magical item can also play a role similar to the immortal leaf in this ritual. However, judging from the information obtained by Shade, this kind of magical item is expensive and requires the power of a god related to time. Make.

"Avoid entering other times? With this ritual, others will be able to come to the Vista Grove with peace of mind."

He thought this, and then pulled the pile of sand doubtfully:

"That's all? No more?"

The seeds that can grow tree holes, the crown that symbolizes the elven kingship, and the rituals that can prevent being affected by the power of tree holes are of course very good, but Shade has worked hard to unlock the secrets of the "Temple of Time". Not for this.

"Where are the 'time fragments' that lift the time curse? Where are the clues related to the Chosen One Ritual? Couldn't this be the Chosen One Ritual?"

Of course, the ceremony of the chosen one will not be that simple. Even the simplest ritual of Iluna's "Hanging Sacrifice" in exchange for power and knowledge is much more complicated than this.

But there was really nothing else in the pile of sand. When the confused Shade stood up, he didn't know whether he should be happy with the harvest or disappointed that he didn't find what he was looking for.

But he didn't leave immediately, because outsiders knew from the many stories he had read in the past that there might be a secret room inside the secret room. The "Temple of Time" in the forest has a hidden passage behind the secret room that is a good example.

Then the life ring appeared, and the spiritual light of the [Time and Space] spirit rune illuminated the surrounding walls. Shade originally just wanted to give it a try, but he didn't expect that under the spiritual light, something actually appeared on the wall facing the stairs.

But this time it wasn't a hidden passage that was revealed, but a small square hidden grid that appeared on the wall. Although the [Time and Space] spirit rune was still used, Shade felt that the power of time rather than space was at work this time.

There is no need to solve the puzzle this time. There is a wooden key floating in the secret compartment. This is of course a time key that Shade is familiar with, so Shade is even more puzzled:

"What does this mean? And why is the color of this key so dark?"

Thinking in his mind, he stretched out his hand to grab the key, but suddenly there was a sound of wind behind him, and Shade turned around subconsciously. As his body turned, the yellow moonlight sword appeared in his hand and swept across. With a ding~ sound, the moonlight sword was shattered by the pointer tied to his hair.

And in the sky full of orange light, the brass pointer continued to pierce Shade's face unabated, but he turned his head and dodged it. So the pointer touched the time key in the secret compartment behind Shade. When the two came into contact, the key was tightly attached to the pointer.

Just when the hair wanted to pull the pointer and the key back, Shade's hand grabbed the woman's hair first. In a flash of silver moonlight, the tough hair had been cut off.

Shade reached out to grab the pointer and key with the whispering elements, but they disappeared out of thin air before his eyes.

He looked up at the stairs. He looked in his forties. His naturally curvy long black hair was braided into thirteen bunches. The lower end of each bunch of hanging hair was tied with a twelve-ring metal clock pointer "clock". "The craftsman" already holds the pointer and the key.

Her left eye, which resembled a glass bead with a dial inside, shone slightly, and she found the scene where the secret room was completely underground ten minutes ago:

"Time returns!"