The Whispering Verses Chapter 749: Gift from the Witch Emperor

Chapter 749 The Witch Emperor’s Gift

"Is this a proverb? The road ahead is the passage to death. It is indeed a dead end."

Xia De reached out and touched the stone tablet to confirm that it was just an ordinary item. But based on Shade's understanding of the Witches' Council, it is likely that after this incident is over, this stone tablet will be taken away by the great witches for collection.

"It's really interesting."

He went around to the back of the stone tablet and found that there were also words on the back. But unlike the neatly written letters on the front of the stele, the words on the back are like traces left by a slovenly mathematician on the corners of the paper at hand while doing calculations.

Even the words on the front and back are not the same:

"This is."

He squinted his eyes and looked closer, and found that this was a broken sentence:

"Go deep into the border and kill the resurrected. Before death"

He read out these words and frowned after thinking for a moment:

"Remnants of the Psalm?"

Although the texts are very short, the grammatical structure is very similar to what Schade had seen on the stone figurines that were buried with Mr. Pasuolo.

"This is not like a sentence to judge the identity of the chosen one, but rather like a ceremony for the chosen one that requires the location of the ceremony to be on the boundary between life and death, and the person who performs the ceremony must kill those who have risen from the dead. Then , need to do something before real death"

He recorded these words, maybe they will be useful.

Continue walking inward, and after leaving the platform, there is another long and narrow passage. The howling black wind containing the power of death was almost at the same level as the depths of the narrow natural church at this moment.

A fierce battle had obviously taken place here. The ground was covered with a layer of black bones, and the bones were sprinkled with silver powder and holy water used to ward off evil spirits. It looked like traces left half an hour ago. Although Miss Aurora and the others entered earlier, it seemed that it took a long time to solve the troubles that Shade did not encounter.

When we first entered the passage, it was very narrow, but after a few dozen steps it opened up. Different from the passage outside, the passage here is surrounded by flat stone walls, and there are vague traces on the wall that cannot be identified.

The wind containing the power of death forced Shade to stretch out his right hand to block his face. He vaguely saw a bright light in front of him.

After speeding up the pace, he soon saw the witch's followers stopping in the passage. Two-thirds of them were casting spells to resist the howling black wind. Among them, the ninth-level lady even held a green orb to resist death with the power of nature.

Mia the cat will probably like this round bead.

The remaining one-third used special black ink that was prepared in advance and was scented with cinnamon and roses to smear the mottled ritual symbols on the walls.

The black wind can't dissipate the strong smell, at least not close by.

After more than two thousand years of baptism, the ancient runes and murals that originally existed on the walls have become very blurred. These are the outermost ritual arrays of this seal, which are equivalent to the silver lines and the talismans and bells on the silver lines that Shade saw in the natural church.

"Miss Swift! Where are Miss Aurora and Granny Cassandra?"

Shad asked, and the crowd moved aside, allowing him to reach the wall.

Grandma Cassandra's young apprentice, Miss Rita Swift, is directing the sorceresses to restore the ritual traces on the wall according to the records of the Council. She replied:

"Mr. Hamilton, why did you come in? The teacher and Miss Aurora walked forward, and the core of the ceremony was in front."

"I want to go inside and have a look. Do you have anything you want me to tell you?"

Seeing that Shade wanted to move forward, the young girl with flaxen hair hurriedly stopped him:

"Please don't move forward. The teacher said that the front is not a place we can get close to. There is really only a thin line between death and death."

"It doesn't matter."

Xia De shook his head:

"Grandma Cassandra took me to see the seal on the top of the mountain. I can resist it."

It was not curiosity that made him want to go inward, but he thought that since he had seen the passage between the foot of the mountain and the top of the mountain when he rescued Priest Augustus and reunited with Helen and Grace, he wanted to go and see what was on the mountainside. Passage, he didn't waste most of the autumn at Fort Midhill.

"Okay, please be more careful."

Seeing that Shade was very persistent, the young girl threw him an oval smooth gray rune stone.

There are huge glowing runes on the front and back of the runestone. The front side looks like a spiral tree pattern, and the back side looks like the veins of a leaf.

These are runes in the Elvish language, meaning "life" and "health" respectively. This kind of rune stone can help resist the wind of death. According to the knowledge of elves that Shade obtained, he believes that if the materials are complete, , he can also make similar alchemical products himself.

"Please be careful!"

"Don't worry."

Xia De waved his hand and continued to move forward despite the strong wind.

The area where Miss Swift and her group are located is the widest part of the passage. Moving forward, the passage narrows again, and the power of death becomes more intense.

When the cold wind left the first wound on Shade's face, and the golden light inside the wound dragged out the glow toward the back, he knew that he was almost at the end.

The emergence of the afterglow of divinity made Sha De become even more powerful at this moment. Therefore, when there was a sound of "???" in front of him, and a pile of bones that had obviously been broken up not long ago were reassembled into dark skeletons, Shade did not feel panic:

"Can the undead be resurrected?"

Any monster that can exist in such extreme close to the death zone must be taken seriously. Shade frowned, holding the [Night Watch] in his right hand and looking at the black bone sword in the black skeleton's hand.

The two charged towards each other almost at the same time, and the two swords touched each other at the moment of the exchange. After a crisp sound, [Night Watcher] and the black bone sword were bounced away at the same time.

The black skeleton sprayed a stream of black mist towards Shade, but before the mist could touch Shade, it was dispelled by the glow of the afterglow of divinity.

Holding the sword with one hand, he stabbed forward, accurately hitting the bones of the skeleton's right hand. After flying the black bone sword, Shade took a step back, held the sword in his right hand and slightly moved it to his left chest, took a deep breath, then unleashed all his strength and quickly thrust the sword forward.

Relying on the strong physical quality and the leaping power at this moment, the three swords thrust out in an instant almost turned into afterimages in the black wind. The golden marks on his arms formed thick golden light pillars in the air at this moment.

With the [Blade of Chaotic Space and Time], six swords appeared almost simultaneously within one second. [Night Watch] demonstrated its power against evil brilliantly. As Shade sheathed his sword and held down his wrist, six points on the surface of the skull showed signs of fragmentation, and then it was scattered again into a pile of dead bones.

He walked quickly against the wind to the black bone sword, and found that the bone sword was also scattered into bone fragments. This made Xia De, who thought he could get a bargain, disappointed. Then he continued to move forward. As the golden marks on his body became brighter and brighter, there were even light spots like flaming embers dragging behind Sha De:

"How did Miss Aurora and Granny Cassandra get here?"

Even he found it very difficult to move forward.

After walking for more than twenty steps, the temperature on the Detection Witch badge hanging on his chest finally defeated the temperature of the black wind, allowing Shade to feel its presence. Continuing forward, the passage continues to narrow, finally ending in front of a stone door that only allows one person to pass.

There is a seal on the stone door itself, but it has been broken by the witches. At this moment, the door was pushed open, and there was a symbol like a holy emblem on the door, and the main body looked like an upside-down question mark. Shade suddenly had a feeling that this symbol was the holy symbol of the ancient **** [Chaos Witch].

After walking out of the stone door, outside the passage is a circular space about the same size as the [Witch Council] venue.

The dark wind was lingering in it. Shade squinted his eyes to see that there was a well in the center of the space. The well is located in the center of the circle, and violent black wind blows out from it. This is the passage on the mountainside.

This place is very empty. Apart from the well and the opened stone door, there are only mottled ritual traces on the wall, garbage on the wall, and a bronze skeleton on the wall opposite the stone door.

Miss Aurora and Granny Cassandra are standing in front of the metal skeleton. Because of the sound of the wind and the strong power of death, they did not notice Shade's arrival. It was not until Shade approached that they were surprised to see the dense golden cracks on Shade's body.

"Devlin also behaved like this, but it was fiery red. Did she give the flame to you?"

Grandma Cassandra asked, Shade shook his head.

He then noticed that both witches were wearing jewelry that could directly open the passage of the parliament. Miss Aurora’s is the [Ancient Witch’s Gold Ring, first on the right], and Granny Cassandra’s is the golden button on her chest. This must be the [Ancient Witch’s Gold Button] among the thirteen pieces of witch jewelry.

It was these two pieces of jewelry that helped them arrive here successfully.

"Xia De, why are you here? No, how did you get in?"

"Since Miss Carina can take a fancy to me, I naturally have something special about me."

He stretched out his fingers, and even the silver light on his fingertips seemed to be swayed by the wind. The rusty bronze skeleton in front of him looked very familiar.

"Xia De, this is"

Grandma Cassandra wanted to introduce it, but Shade had already recognized the thing in front of him:

“This is a soul-casting skeleton, a forbidden alchemy weapon made by people in the Second Age using ancient knowledge. Like the 'Giant God Soldier' ​​found in the underground ruins of Tobesk, it is a servant of the ancient supernatural beings. Oh. , the Witch Emperor at the end of the fifth era, can actually come up with such a thing?"

Although the details are slightly different, the thing in front of him is of the same type as the skeleton guarding the "Yager Scroll" that Shade saw in the Valley of Death in the Fifth Age. Only this time what was held by the skeleton was not a stone slab, but a stone box.

"You also know this? Then there is no need to explain. My mother-in-law and I think this is a gift left by the witch emperor Violet Marshall for those who come after us."

Miss Aurora doesn’t look very good. She can’t stand it after being in this place for a long time:

"But we are all living people. If we take the box away, we will definitely fight with this skeleton. In a place like this, we don't want a fight to break out."

"It doesn't matter, I'll do it."

Xia De stretched out his hand as he spoke.

In the fifth era, Miss Olanold asked Shade to touch a skeleton once on the grounds that "you have not been born yet, so you are not considered a living person". At that time, Shade understood that this thing had no ill intentions towards him, definitely not because of time, but because he had entered the land of death.

Sure enough, after reaching out his hand, he was only stopped by the skeleton instead of being attacked:

"Answer me, in the nothingness before the birth of the world, besides those ancient gods, what else was there?"

The Witch Emperor probably reprogrammed the language for this skeleton. It spoke the ancient language of the Fifth Age. The question this time was different from the one Shade heard last time, but he also had an answer:

"Primal Flame."

Mr. Edmund of [Guiding Light Monastery] said that [Primordial Fire] was used by the ancient gods to illuminate the world before the birth of the world.

The skeleton resisted Sha De's arm and was retracted. The bronze hand bones held the stone box and lifted it towards Sha De.

"Look, it's easy."

He said to Miss Aurora with a smile, and then the three of them saw the stone box turning into powder in the black wind.

Only three items were left on the skeleton's hand bones. A comb with an iridescent glow, made of something like ivory; a wooden key, which looked very familiar to Shade; and finally a roll of parchment, which looked better than the "Pink Book" of Desire for Shade. The codex is even longer.

None of the three items rotted in the dark wind, but only the wooden key was a relic.

"Time key?"

Xia De was slightly surprised. Judging from the sparseness of the wood grain on the surface of the key, this key is still the time key to the fifth era.

"Since it is the time key, then it is yours."

Miss Aurora reminded, reaching for the comb:

"What is this? It doesn't look like a relic, but... it's beautiful."

"It is the ritual core replacement left by the guardian of Widun."

Grandma Cassandra took the parchment and unfolded it and said, the old witch stood next to Shade, using the light from his body, squinting in the wind to read the contents of the parchment:

"Here is a letter from the emperor to the later generations, which contains some historical information, some knowledge, and yes, at the end, the complete seal content. In order to facilitate later generations to repair the ritual, she condensed the core of the ritual into By throwing the comb into the well and using the witch's power, we can repair most of the ritual. But if we want to complete the repair, I think we are not ready enough."

"Then what other materials are needed for the ceremony? Are you going to repair such a large-scale ceremony with just this comb and nothing else?"

Xia De asked.

"Of course not. We have prepared some things to be used in advance. In addition, the ritual materials include this."

Miss Aurora touched her long hair:

"The hair of the great witch is enough to be used as a casting material, especially in the rituals of the witch system. Hair is often used as a ritual material. Although the ring magicians in the sixth era do not know this, this is common knowledge in the fifth era."

Seeing that Shade hesitated to speak, the lady with curly brown hair added:

"I know what you are thinking, oh, young knight, controlling the growth rate of hair is the most commonly used secret technique by witches. Except for the vicious 'bald head curse', nothing can prevent us from having beautiful hair. hair."

Seeing that Shad was really fine standing in this place, the witches gave Shad the blue lizard blood ink and the special Nim silver alloy wire in the ritual materials, and asked Shad to help restore the broken ritual. site. Part of the knowledge in [Witch Reverberation: Feliana] also helped Shade better understand the work to be done.

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