The Whispering Verses Chapter 2583: The Hundred Years Demon and the Hermit

Chapter 2582 The Hundred Years Demon and the Hermit

The iron fence outside the cemetery is mainly to prevent the intrusion of wild animals. There are no gravekeepers in this remote and shabby family cemetery, so it cannot prevent tomb robbers.

However, the Bennet family has a very good reputation in the local area and has been very popular among the townspeople since the Baron era. In addition, the folk customs in Ximu Town are really simple, so there has been no vicious tomb robbing incident so far.

"Thomas Bennet's father is Bruce Bennet, his grandfather is Baron James Bennet, and his great-grandfather is Howard Bennet at the time you arrived in Ximu Town. All three of them are here. ”

After using the [Door Key] to open the cemetery door, Shade continued to mutter something.

The structure of the cemetery is relatively simple. Behind the gate is a footpath that leads to a low stone house in the center of the cemetery. The door to the stone building leads to steps leading to the crypt, where all the Bennets are buried.

The underground tomb is not complicated. The cold but dry open square space is supported by six pillars. The coffins are placed in the grooves of the walls. The stone walls next to the coffins are inlaid with stone tablets one by one to introduce these barons. achievements and past events.

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

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

Shad glanced at her in surprise. Using the power of seven rings to cast such a basic spell "moving objects" shouldn't be so powerful. Obviously her spell has been uniquely adjusted to be so amazing. , and the young sorceress smiled and said:

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

There is no cremation tradition locally, so those stones contain corpses. Shade asked Miss Denister to be on guard while he opened the coffins one by one for inspection.

Mummy, skeleton, funerary objects, Xia De touched every item just to be on the safe side. The order of examination was from modern times to ancient times, but there were no traces of the curse of time on any of the corpses.

It was just when Shade inspected the oldest coffin, that is, the bones of the first Baron Bennet whose tombstone marked that he lived from "1499 to 1551", although he still had no time to curse, he touched the withered bones. But I felt an extremely dirty cold power:

"This is a sight demon!"

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

"Devil?"

"What?"

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

"What did you find?"

"The stench of demons, ancient evil spirits and demons."

Xia De squinted at the contents of the coffin:

“It’s a very faint demonic power. If it weren’t for my powerful perception, and this thaumaturgy is specifically aimed at demons, I wouldn’t even be able to detect it.

The first baron of the Bennet family was once contaminated by the power of the devil, but he probably did not directly accept the devil's deal, otherwise his power would be stronger. ”

Miss Danister stretched her head and glanced at the inscription on the side:

"He lived in an era more than 300 years ago, and was granted the title of baron for military merit. He participated in the war between the ununified United Kingdom of Kasenlik and the Eastern Kingdom of Delinall. During the war, His right leg was injured and later amputated, and he also lost his left eye. He was finally discharged as a lieutenant general and returned to his hometown of Ximu Town.

It was really a magnificent life, so the skeleton did not have a right leg. ”

Xia De thought for a while:

"Three hundred years ago? When I first came to the local area, I heard the locals talk about it in the black market. About two or three hundred years ago, ancient evil spirits and demons appeared in Ximu Town. The town was very small at that time, and the church There are only churches of the Church of Nature, and there are not many ring magicians. The accident almost caused the town to disappear."

Miss Danister nodded slightly, obviously having heard this story before:

"There are records specifically about this ancient evil spirit in the college library. I did see this incident when I was looking up the history of Ximu Town. The first Baron Bennet most likely encountered that incident. He Even among the few nobles in the town at that time, it was normal for demons to come to corrupt or control them."

Although the demonic power still remains on the corpse, there is no need to worry about it as it will disappear completely in a hundred 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 would not do such a thing.

"Did the book say who the devil was? Where did he come from? How was the matter resolved at that time?"

After confirming that there were no clues in the last coffin, Shade closed it again.

"It didn't say the source, nor the specific identity. The demon was finally sealed by the Thirteenth Ring Warlock 'Ranger Hunter' sent to the local area by the Church of Nature using an angel-level relic. The relic is still in the Church of Nature. It is contained in the Holy See, so we don’t have to worry about running into this thing while we are in Vista City.”

“How come I haven’t heard of this ‘ranging hunter’?”

Xia De asked again. The red-haired girl looked at her student with a smile:

"Because that gentleman lived more than three hundred years ago and passed away when my teacher was still a student. Of course you have never heard of it. The teacher once told me about that gentleman. At that time, I ”

She suddenly smiled, obviously looking at the sarcophagus, but she seemed to see something more distant:

"When the teacher told me about that gentleman, I happened to be eighteen years old."

She looked up at the students in front of her again, thinking of the conversation many years ago. Everything has changed, but only you have remained unchanged. 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 see your teacher in the future, and your teacher sees you like you now, how surprised do you think she will be?"

"But the library stated that the teacher had died in Sikal Mountain."

She shook her head, but Shade said:

"Yes, but this is Ximu Town, and there are tree holes here. I just don't know if your teacher has also been to Ximu Town."

Miss Denister Gustave was startled for a moment, then laughed:

"Shad, 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 based 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 until new coins are obtained and Shade is willing to consume the coins. Therefore, Shade still hopes to find something interesting at tonight's banquet. .

But this outing with Miss Danister does not end there. She also has another purpose for going out this time, which is to establish contact with the [Hermits in the Forest Group].

When she first came to the local area, she hoped to meet the hermits through her identity as "Red Moon Witch-Danister", so that communication would be relatively convenient.

But she turned into the eighteen-year-old she is now before meeting him, so she could only communicate with the [Forest Hermits Group] as an ordinary ring warlock first. If the other party is unwilling to cooperate, then indicate his St. Byrons background.

The [Forest Hermits Group] is stationed deep in the Vista Woodland, but no one knows the specific location except themselves. The hermits believe in the departed old **** - the Holy White Tree. According to St. Byron's estimation, the size of the sect should be between 50 and 80 core members.

Although this sounds like a lot, the core members actually include a large number of ordinary hermits who have given up their lives in the civilized world and voluntarily retired to the mountains and forests. Therefore, there are probably only about twenty ring warlocks among them.

Although Miss Danister successfully established contact with the hermits, it was obviously impossible to take Shade directly to their residence. The place where the two parties met was a small village in the southeastern part of the Vista Woodlands. It was connected to the city by only a small road that could allow carriages transporting lumber to pass. The village was called "Little Miguel Village".

The reason why the village can exist so deep in the forest is because there are large logging camps in the east, west, and north directions. Except for a few farmers and hunters, most people in the village rely on the workers in these logging camps for their income.

For this reason, there is actually a tavern in the small village. However, it was noon on Tuesday, and the loggers usually did not appear in the village but ate at their workplaces, so the tavern was quite quiet.

The low row wooden house is the main body of the tavern building. The sun is bright outside, but the inside of the tavern is a bit dark and cool. When Shade and the red-haired girl walked around the edge of the city and arrived at Xiaomigu Village, the hermit who came to meet them had already arrived at the tavern in advance and sat down at a table against the wall.

Shad ordered drinks and lunch from the bearded tavern owner who looked like a butcher 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 wrapped in a brown robe and with a stubble beard, who shook his hand briefly:

"Bell Van Buren."

He looked about forty years old, and his whole person was very vicissitudes of life. Although the brown robe was washed very clean, you could tell at a glance that the material of the fabric was not very good. He looked extremely shabby, but his eyes were particularly bright, which fit Shade's imagination of the special profession of "hermit".

On the table in front of the hermit Mr. Van Buren there is only a newspaper, a glass of water and a piece of bread. The people in the "Hermits in the Forest" really live the life of hermits and do 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' from? Where did you get it? ”

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