Whispering Verse

As expected, Priest August's bloody halo appeared at the entrance to the cemetery, and there was only a continuous shadow, which meant that he had only visited once in 24 hours. However, Shade could still only see the priest's figure entering the cemetery in the fog, but did not see the priest's figure reappear.

"Strange, did the priest climb over the railing and run into the mountains?"

Shade followed the priest into the cemetery and was not particularly worried about the evil spirits. Theoretically speaking, unless it is an evil spirit formed by a relic or other external factors, it is not a big threat to a three-ring warlock like him.

After all, even if you become an evil spirit with resentment, it is only the power of a soul. The power of unreasonable human resentment is more powerful than the power obtained by ring warlocks who risk their lives to read ancient texts, touch ancient relics, and chase crazy old gods. Although the Ring Warlock is an idealistic force, he is also very basic.

Because the priest had already obtained the location of the tomb from Ms. Michelle of the "House of the Blind", he did not go to the tombkeeper to search. Instead, he walked on the stone road between the tombstones with a clear goal and successfully found the location with the words " Tombstone of Matilda Fox.

The tomb is located under a large leafy pine tree in the center of the cemetery, and the figure of Priest Augustus stayed here for a long time. Shade didn't want to pry into other people's privacy, but those overlapping blood-red halos undoubtedly pointed to the mood of Priest Augustus who sat down and looked at the tombstone.

"He failed to hold her hand when he was young. This is a lesson to me, must hold on"

[But you don’t seem to have enough hands. 】

Her voice suddenly appeared, almost frightening Shade, who was a little sentimental.

"Don't underestimate me. Also, are you sure there's nothing wrong with the fog?"

The white fog spreading from the mountains and forests is actually more exaggerated than the haze caused by industrial development in Tobesk. Not only was the water vapor extremely heavy, but the visibility in the fog was even worse than Shade had imagined.

[At least it’s okay for now. 】

Shade then opened his mouth and took a deep breath, inhaling a small amount of mist into his lungs. Because the inhalation was a little too strong, he couldn't help coughing:

"What now?"

【no problem. 】

Shade nodded, bent down and straightened the handful of wilted white chrysanthemums placed in front of the tombstone, and then prepared to continue searching for the whereabouts of Priest Augustus.

His eyes glanced around, and there was actually a soul with a transparent body floating in the fog not far away, but it was restricted by the corpse and couldn't stay away. This harmless soul would leave soon if left alone, so Shade ignored it.

After the priest climbed up from the ground, he did not return along the original path, but walked towards the small church in the center of the cemetery. He must have wanted to inquire about the daily management of this tomb.

But the priest failed to reach the church. After Shade followed his figure from another path between the tombstones and returned to the stone path in the tomb area, before taking a few steps, the figure of the priest Augustus actually acted like he was frightened. , and then defensive actions.

"What?"

Shade realized that he might be close to the truth.

After being attacked, Priest Augustus did not hesitate to fight, but turned around and ran towards the entrance of the underground tomb area further away. The red halo clearly described the figure of the priest when he was escaping. I had to admit that although he was a little older, his skills were still very good.

"What attacked the priest?"

Shade did not follow directly, but looked around, returned to the tombstones again, and found the floating soul he had just seen.

He stopped at a tombstone that read "Joel Penn", and the cause of death written on the tombstone was that he died of heart disease at the age of 47.

Mr. Joel Penn's soul is particularly transparent, and his expression is relatively peaceful. Although it is unknown why it stayed, this kind of soul is harmless.

"Sir, may I ask, did you see anything strange around here yesterday afternoon?"

Shade walked over and asked very politely. There were no people in the cemetery in the afternoon, and there was heavy fog in the mountains and forests, so Shade didn't have to worry about being seen talking to the "air".

The soul still retained basic rationality, but it just glanced at Shade, expressionless and did not speak.

Shade raised his finger, his expression became more serious, and moonlight appeared on his fingertip:

"Sir, did you see anything strange yesterday afternoon?"

It seemed that he was a little afraid of the moonlight in Shade's hand, and Mr. Pang's soul spoke:

"Lend me your body for a day, let me experience a healthy life again, and I'll tell you."

A threatening expression appeared on Shade's face. The chain in his sleeve shot towards the soul's forehead, but suddenly stopped at a position only a little finger away from the soul. The sharp metal at the end of the chain pointed at it:

"you say."

The horror and filth of [Chains of Sin] can be clearly felt by even a living person, let alone a soul. Mr. Pang was obviously frightened. He turned around and wanted to run away, but he was restrained by his body on the ground and could not run away:

"I know! Yesterday afternoon, an old gentleman wearing a priest's robe came here, and then he met a monster jumping out of the grass. It looked like a humanoid, with rotten brown flesh all over its body, and a strange head that looked like three It's pyramid-shaped, and it's lying on the ground. Oh, that thing is so scary! Just looking at it, I feel like my soul is being shaken."

"Ghoul?"

Shade frowned. This is the lowest level undead creature that a ring warlock will learn in the first grade, even lower than skeletons. The upper and lower racial limits of such low-level undead creatures are very different. If Priest August encounters a very powerful ghoul, he may not be able to cope with it.

"But how could there be a ghoul in a public cemetery? Moreover, would Priest Augustus, who was proficient in the power of death, actually be killed because of a ghoul?"

Shade bid farewell to the souls frightened by him and continued to follow in the footsteps of Priest August. Priest Augustus went straight to the underground tomb area, but the door leading to the underground was locked, so the priest's figure broke the door lock without hesitation.

The tombkeeper has changed the door lock, and now the door lock blocking Shade's face is new. He opened the new lock and entered the underground tomb area, which although there was no fog, was colder than the ground.

Although after the adventure in the [Dark Realm], Shade's eyes could see in the dark, but this vision was not clear, so he still lit up the moonlight on his finger. Of course, there are also gas pipes in the underground tombs and antique gas lamps on the walls. But Shade didn't want the old tombkeeper who was guarding the tomb to be frightened when he saw the gas meter that managed the gas pipeline in the tomb suddenly turning.

The air underground was extremely dull and smelled of decay. Following the figure of the priest who was fighting and retreating, he came all the way to the deepest part of the tomb area. Judging from the metal plaque hanging at the corner of the passage, this area was the earliest underground tombs in the tomb area that were excavated more than 30 years ago.

The priest did not enter any of the tombs, but retreated to the wall at the end of the passage, where an unlit kerosene lamp hung. Then, the red halo that Shade had been following disappeared.

"Huh? The effect of [Echo of Blood] is over?"

Shade turned and looked behind him. Those figures with clear tracks still existed, but the last figure did disappear under this wall.

"Hidden wall? Fort Midhill has two exits from the [Space Maze]?"

Hot steam spewed out from the narrow tomb passage, and four-colored auras of flickering runes floated on the life ring. The light of [Time and Space] shone on the plain earth wall in front of me, but nothing happened.

However, something seemed to be reflecting on the ground illuminated by the spiritual light. Shade bent down to pick it up and found that it was a brass pendant with a notched ring. The notched ring on the brass color is the holy emblem of the righteous god [Mr. Dawn]. This pendant should have been left here by Priest August. Shade has seen him wearing this jewelry.

"It seems that you went to the right place, but why did you disappear? Is there a mechanism? Or does it require a secret word to open this wall? Or, the priest can actually do magic spells such as [Through the Wall] and [Earth Travel]?"

Shade narrowed his eyes and made the priest's last figure become a continuous movement. The figure retreated to the earth wall and made an action similar to thaumaturgy with its back to the earth wall. Then, the priest suddenly disappeared, and his last movement was still casting a spell, as if the priest was instantly erased from the world by a huge eraser.

"What exactly happened? Are there any traces of elements?"

[Foreigners, you need to put your hand on the wall to get something to come over. 】

Shade turned around and looked in the direction he came from. There was no light or shadow in the deep tomb passage, but he also heard footsteps.

It was obviously not human footsteps, but rather like an animal on all fours, running at high speed. The sound came from the tomb passage next door. Shade's actions just now seemed to have awakened something dormant here.

As a series of footsteps got closer and closer, Shade drew a cross in the air with his right hand, letting the cross stop in front of him.

Under the illumination of the cross lights, in the tomb passage in the distance, the terrifying monster, whose body was covered with pieces of rotting flesh, with its hands and feet on the ground, its head swollen, and its scorched teeth turned out, finally appeared.

"It's indeed a corpse."

Because of [Unfortunate One's Long Hair], Shade will attract evil spirits or undead creatures more strongly in the next period of time. This is probably why the tombkeeper here was not attacked when he was dealing with the damaged door lock, but Shade was attacked as soon as he arrived.

"Is it the one that attacked Priest Augustus yesterday?"

Thinking in his mind, Shade raised his foot and kicked the cross moonlight stationary in the air forward.

The tomb passage in the underground tomb area is already narrow, and the arc drawn by Shade's hand almost blocked the entire passage. But when the monster coming from a distance met the intersecting moonlight, it suddenly jumped out and got through the intersecting gap.

"So agile?"

After just a few ups and downs, the terrifying monster whose body exuded the smell of corpses had already rushed in front of Sha De. Not only was it terrifying in appearance, but seeing it at close range, a sense of unreasonable fear appeared directly in Shade's heart. This was the innate fear power of the undead.

But for Shade, who had faced the Dreadfort, this fear had little impact.

First, he threw out a beam of moonlight, forcing the agile corpse to dodge, and then Shade pointed his finger forward:

"Silver Moon!"

The burst of moonlight appeared in the cold tomb passage. This moonlight itself has sacred attributes and has extraordinary damage to undead creatures.

Sure enough, in the light of holy silver that was even close to pure white, the corpse with black smoke all over its body quickly retreated. The organ of this creature is completely damaged, so it cannot express its anger and fear with screams. But this silence made it even more terrifying.

"Feilian"

I originally wanted to use [Feliana's Witch's Light] to melt the opponent's limbs, but the magic became more powerful the closer it was, and Shade didn't want to get close to the thing on the opposite side at all.

"Raglai's Leap."

He prepared the materials for casting spells long before entering the underground tomb area, so before the moonlight at his fingertips still receded, he stepped forward, and then appeared behind the retreating ghoul.

The moonlight in his hand got closer and closer to the terrifying thing, and this seemed to inspire the other party's ferocity. He suddenly turned around and grinned his rotten mouth at Shade, and then rushed towards Shade with the terrible injuries of black smoke coming out of his body.