Light Spirit Epic Chapter 2244: Dark Forest (8)

Chapter 2244 Dark Forest (8)

"Is that it?" Arthur looked at the little glowing thing in the crack of the wall, intending to reach out and touch it.

"Be careful, maybe it's another trap with poisonous spikes hidden in it," Bedivere reminded.

"Well...not like a trap," Arthur said. The crack in the wall is actually very small, and adults or people with thicker arms can't reach in and touch the mechanism at all. Only women and children with slender arms could touch that organ.

Arthur is now borrowing the body of a teenager, so he can touch it. He guessed that the witch hiding in the cave was also a slender person, and this organ was prepared for her, close to a tailor-made thing.

The intruder can't touch it, and it's even difficult to find it. Only the witch herself can touch and know its location. The probability of a trap hidden in it is extremely small.

Arthur boldly reached out and touched it. Sure enough, it was a ring switch that could be pulled, and it was full of rust. It was estimated that it had not been used for many years in this damp cave. Rusted. Rather than worrying that this is a trap, it is better to worry that the mechanism is so rusted that it cannot be pulled and the shortcut cannot be opened.

However, Arthur's worries at that moment were unnecessary. The witch who set up this cave dwelling was very meticulous, and her work was extremely meticulous. As expected, such emergency escape exits were often prepared. Therefore, although the pull ring is rusted, it does not affect the smooth operation of the internal structure of the mechanism. Arthur pulled hard, the pull ring tilted the chain, and the chain drove the entire mechanism hidden inside the cave. With a rumbling sound, something opened.

Arthur thought there was another secret passageway hidden away. He was half right and half wrong. In fact, it was still the cave that went down, but because of the influence of the agency, countless stone platforms for one person to stand on suddenly protruded from the rock wall of the cave. The entire cave immediately turned into a giant spiral staircase, and people could go down immediately after walking on those stone platforms.

"So it is. If the witch disappears in an instant, the pursuers will know that this cave is not the correct way, but there is another hidden secret way. That's why I use this method to let myself walk upright. "

"But the pursuers will see the witch fleeing up the stone stairs, right?" Bedivere asked, "The pursuers will also chase up the stone stairs. Does it make sense?"

"It is estimated that this mechanism has created a condition that only witches can pass in one direction, and the shortcut that is opened will soon be closed behind her." Arthur said: "Look, it started to close."

The original stone stairs, that is, the stone stairs close to Arthur's side, have slowly retracted back and were hidden in the stone wall again. On the way forward, more stone steps also retracted into the wall one by one, and continued to extend downward in this trend until everything returned to its original position. When all the stone stairs disappeared, what was left in this dangerous cave were the drawbridges and narrow stairs that were full of traps.

"Do you want to run this stone ladder in one go after the engine is turned off? The witch is quite confident in her physical strength." Bedivere couldn't help complaining: "What if I don't have enough physical strength, if I get injured and run What should I do?"

"That kind of thing is left for the witch to think about." Arthur stretched out his hand to pull the hoop again: "Start, follow me, hurry up!"

"Oh!" The human wolf has long since changed back to the appearance of a big white wolf, and Bedivere in this appearance is more agile and convenient to move around.

The mechanism was activated again, and countless stone stairs protruded from the wall. This is a delayed stone staircase that retracts into the wall after a while. Arthur and the others knew that this would be the case, so they didn't continue to linger, and ran directly to the stone stairs.

Clap. Arthur landed on the first stone staircase. The platform was quite large enough to securely catch a petite teenager like Arthur. And the surface of the stone ladder is obviously treated, with a grid-like anti-slip texture on it, making it almost impossible for people walking on it to slip. This should have been part of the emergency escape route specially used by the witch, the witch has maintained all this very well, and her mind is terrifyingly meticulous. Walking the stone stairs should not encounter traps, Arthur and Bedivere ran all the way, moving down the slightly spiral ladder, and soon came to the bottom of the cave.

Here, as Arthur imagined, there are countless spikes in the center of the cave, and there are several corpses that have long been reduced to bones. There were indeed adventurers who came in through the back door of the Witch's Cave before, but these people obviously did not find the hidden passage, so they proceeded along those dangerous suspension bridges and narrow ladders, and finally fell from a height and landed at the bottom of the cave. A tragic end to the spikes. It's not enough to just let people fall to death, but also to set up this kind of thorn trap that is bound to be fatal when falling on it. The witch is not only vicious, but also works without leakage, and will not give her opponent a chance to survive and threaten her----- - Not even the slightest bit.

It was only at this time that Arthur realized that he had been admiring the witch's power since just now. Judging from the layout of every part of the cave, the witch has invested a lot of heart in her own residence, and she has thought very carefully, really taking into account every detail. In this era, in this different world where the photon civilization is extremely low, there is such a powerful character, and Arthur's admiration is only natural.

Although she was a witch, she might also be an admirable enemy...?

So Arthur is looking forward to meeting this witch even more, and he wants to see with his own eyes what a powerful character this witch is.

Once you reach the bottom of the cave, there is a wide corridor leading to the deepest part of the cave. Seeing this, in the room behind the iron door at the end of the corridor, there is that witch waiting.

"Let's go." The King of Knights said to Bedivere: "This witch has many tricks, and she must not let her guard down."

"Ah." The big white wolf replied vaguely. He also tried to pretend to be an ordinary beast, hoping to deceive the witch he was about to face. Although he also knew that his previous series of actions should have exposed his identity. It is very likely that the witch was monitoring the deep cave just now and saw their every move.

A wide and deep corridor without half a trap. This kind of environment is also not suitable for trapping, the witch probably gave up doing so.

Anyway, Arthur and Bedivere walked to the iron gate without incident, looked at the iron gate that seemed too heavy to push, and stared blankly for a moment.

Arthur tried to find the door next to the door, because he knew that this kind of heavy iron door could not be opened by his own strength, and the witch herself could not open the door by her own strength, which means that there is another mechanism to open the door. .

And that mechanism is not deliberately hidden. An ancient pull ring attached to an iron chain lay quietly on the wall to the right of the iron gate.

Arthur pulled the hoop without thinking, and the mechanism was successfully triggered. With the sound of gears turning, the iron gate slowly opened.

As soon as the door opened, a strong scent of herbs wafted out. It is difficult to describe whether it is a pleasant aroma or an unpleasant odor. The smell is quite complex, it should be the smell of at least twenty kinds of medicinal herbs with fragrance mixed together, and Arthur's research on herbal medicine is not deep, he can only judge that there is a little lavender in the smell.

If a large part of the road before was used to prevent intruders from traps, something like a cellar labyrinth, this can be said to be the real residence of the witch, the place where she lives. There are many wonderful wooden cabinets in this large room, which are presumably used to store dried and processed medicinal materials; and there are countless medicinal materials that are being dried on the hooks next to them, among which there is indeed lavender (other medicinal materials Arthur is one). don't even recognize it!).

The witch doesn't seem to be in the warehouse where the herbs are stored. Where did she go?

There is also a door in the front that connects another room to this one. Is it there?

"It seems a little hot..." Bedivere whispered suddenly.

"Yeah." Arthur replied. Although it is not extremely hot, the heat here and the coldness of the cave they just walked through are completely two extremes. And the heat seems to be coming from the floor. Arthur just walked on two legs, and he was wearing boots, and he felt far less geothermal heat than Bedivere, who walked on four legs. Originally, the lower the cave was, the colder it was, and the colder it was. However, because of the influence of the geothermal heat, the situation was completely reversed. Maybe the bottom of the cave would be more comfortable to live in than the humid cave above?

No wonder there are so many herbs hanging here and hanging on hooks waiting to dry. This bottom cave should be very dry and comfortable due to the influence of geothermal, giving the medicinal materials an ideal air-drying condition.

This heat can be found underground either because there are veins of hot springs underneath, or because of the lava underneath (though it should be far apart). The United Kingdom is originally located in the Mediterranean Sea—the Himalayas volcanic earthquake zone. It is normal to have some geothermal resources occasionally. The interesting thing is that the witch has found such a cave with geothermal resources to live in~IndoMTL.com~ Here is the witch The fortress is her comfort zone. If there is no interference from outsiders, she can probably stay here until the end of the world, and she doesn't care about the outside world at all.

But such a witch actually spread the Black Death, killing countless citizens of England and France. Arthur came to crusade the witch, naturally there is a reason... right? Of course, Arthur wasn't the type to listen to rumors. He decided to wait until he saw the witch and confirmed it with his own eyes, and then he would judge whether the truth of the witch spreading the Black Death was true.

He walks through the storage room and pushes open the door. In a hall that was very brightly lit by torches, but empty, there was only a woman in a black cloak, waiting for Arthur and Bedivere.

"You're finally here." The witch turned around and looked at Arthur.

At that moment, the King of Knights suddenly froze.

Appearing before him is his mother, Iglyn.

------Or at least, a woman who looks exactly like Iglin.

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