Dark Elf Graveyard Past

Chapter 3 Turbidity
Although the hunters eliminated their prey, they were also scarred. Although Sean's team solved the team that followed them, they paid a huge price.

Gloria was severely traumatized by the overdraft of magic power and the death of Shar. She was in a coma for a while, and was awake but weak for a while. This situation lasted for three days.

After they left the primeval forest, the group continued to march towards the dark elf cemetery, with Dan Knight leading the way instead of the dead Shar and Sean.

But the nine people who survived were in bad condition.Some people were visibly restless, as if a mysterious force was affecting their minds, Sean now believed in his speculation even more, maybe they were escorting a devil sealed in the cup.

Gloria and the others were originally six people. They lost two partners instantly in this battle. The ghost swordsman named Rand among the remaining four people, Sean is almost sure that he is the berserker route. Continuing in a state of restlessness and constant conflicts with Pete, if it weren't for the strong suppression of Burton and Dan Knight, the two would have already fought to the death.

None of the mercenary group led by the Dan knight survived. Although the Dan knight was somewhat consumed and slightly injured in the battle, he basically maintained a good state.But the two ghost swordsmen under him seem to have a tendency to withdraw from this mission.

They left the primeval forest, and after another day and night of trekking, they finally arrived at the entrance of the dark elf cemetery. Dan Knight discussed with Gloria and Burton for a long time, and finally decided to have a good night's rest.

That night they rested in the valley near the entrance to the cemetery.

On the eve of falling asleep, Sean was called out of the cave by Dan Knight.He saw several leaders in the team waiting for him.

Gloria was half-reclined, awake, and although she could stand, her sadness didn't seem to be getting any better.

Sean stood beside Pete. His tall body, like an iron tower, stood blankly beside Dan Knight, which gave Sean a sense of security.

On the opposite side, Burton and Rand stood behind Gloria respectively, while the fighter named Miller stood beside Gloria.

"The night before Shar died, he told me something about Sean." Gloria said slowly, with deep fatigue and sadness in her voice, "I had a bad feeling at that time. , but I didn't expect him to go so fast. He valued Xiao En a lot during his lifetime, and I think, as a guide, this kid can know more."

Gloria didn't continue. She waved her hand lightly, gestured to Burton beside her, and closed her eyes again.

Burton Knight's elegant gray goatee seems to have been untrimmed for many days and is a bit messy. He said to everyone: "I will tell you some frank news here, and hope that our cooperation can come to the end of the mission."

Burton sighed softly and continued: "We are all members of the Serbers family of the Delos Empire, and the young master Gloria is the eldest daughter of the family. The goal of our trip is to seal the blood in this metal cup." A powerful soul. It has brought too many disasters to our family..."

Burton stopped talking, took out the metal cup on his body, and showed it to everyone in the palm of his hand. He continued: "The young master's father discovered this soul, but he also died because of this soul. According to the order of the family council, We must enter the deepest part of the dark elf cemetery, use the ancient magic circle there and add a new magic circle, and finally seal the evil spirit forever."

The metal cup is gorgeous dark gold, with exquisite and complicated patterns engraved on it, and the mouth of the cup is a tight metal cover, with a dark blue magic circle shining on it. Sean knows that the cost of this cup will definitely exceed his imagination , because everyone knows that this kind of high-level magic circle can be engraved on the lid of this palm-sized cup, and the alchemist needs to spend a lot of energy.

Burton continued: "The evil spirit in the cup can confuse people's minds. Even the holy grail of the church can only suppress part of its power. Therefore, those who guard the cup must use their will to resist this temptation. Originally, this responsibility was shared by Young Master Gloria, her fiancé Shar, and me. But in the current situation, Young Master is not competent enough."

Burton paused for a moment, then continued: "I hope Dan Knight, and Pete Knight, both of you can share this responsibility with me."

"What's the result of being seduced?" Dan Knight asked, staring warily at the cup.

"Being controlled by evil spirits, but will gain great power." Gloria added in a weak voice.

After Gloria said these words, the head of Deputy Captain Pete suddenly moved. He, who was staring straight ahead in a daze, turned his gaze to the metal cup.

"My father died because of this. According to family rules, the council and other members of the family killed my father at a huge price and sealed the evil spirit." Gloria's voice was weak and hoarse, and she subconsciously moved her arm She shrank into her arms.

Dan Knight noticed that his younger brother Pete was staring blankly at the metal cup, and the ghost swordsman Rand and the fighter Miller on the other side seemed to know the inside story, especially Rand, who stared blankly at the cup, He seemed to be muttering something softly in his mouth.

Knight Dan hesitated for a moment, and said, "Knight Burton, you and I will bear this responsibility together. I believe that our belief in the Holy Light is indestructible."

After thinking about it, Cavalier Burton nodded while looking at Cavalier Dan's resolute face, and said, "Yes. But I have another request. According to the rules of our family, if there is any act of disloyalty to the family, in the case of conclusive evidence In this mission, if my person shows signs of being completely seduced, I will personally execute him on behalf of the council. Young Master is no exception to this point. Because she can only be here Representing the Sebs family on this trip."

When Burton said this, he didn't look at Gloria, but looked at Rand and Miller, and then he stared closely at Dan Knight and said slowly: "Dan Knight, if I was tempted, Then I hope that you will use the Holy Light to fulfill my faith with your own hands."

Dan Knight seemed to understand something from Burton's words. After watching Gloria and nodding to him, he was silent for a while before saying: "I agree to your request, Burton Knight. In addition, if my people , showing signs of being tempted, after getting everyone's confirmation, I will follow the rules I set in the past, disarm him, throw him in a dangerous place, leave him with food for three days, and let him fend for himself Extinct. This is my bottom line."

Dan Knight's words carried an undeniable tone. After exchanging glances, Gloria and Burton agreed, and promised to increase the remuneration by half in return.

Burton handed the metal cup to Knight Dan. Sean observed that Pete looked away and returned to that dull form.

Dan Knight put it in his arms without carefully observing the metal cup, and then he began to lead everyone to study the map drawn by Sean, and discussed in detail with Sean the various details in the cemetery.

During the discussion, Sean saw from the corner of his eye that Rand had been staring at Dan Knight, and everyone knew that that look was abnormal.

That night, Sean and Dan Knight talked alone until late.They compared the map of the cemetery purchased by Dark City with Xiao En's hand-painted map to confirm the location of the monster gathering place, the level of wisdom of the monster, the general orientation of the ancient magic circle, and the place where the team can rest. In his cautiousness, he was repeatedly checked, and it was almost dawn before Sean could go back to rest.

During his short sleep, he had been dreaming, and in the dream, it seemed that there was a voice calling to him, piercing his heart like a thorn, which made Sean feel extremely uneasy.

The morning light soon entered the valley, and Sean felt sluggish. He observed that the others didn't seem to be resting well, but under the pressure, everyone quickly prepared and finally stepped into their final destination of this mission. .

The interior of the dark elf cemetery is like a huge maze. Under the guidance of Sean, they slowly moved forward according to the established plan, hoping to steadily enter the first foothold marked on the map.

The team has been going deep underground, time seems to have stopped flowing in the cemetery, but Gloria's magic clock is accurately recording the time, they have been walking for a day and a night, Sean and Dan Knight slowly lead the team, actively Avoid the monster colonies shown on the hand-drawn map.

The accuracy of the map surprised Sean himself, because it was a map he drew based on his memory three months ago, but the gathering locations of several monsters he encountered so far have hardly changed.

Sean believes that this weird smoothness will not last long, because in his memory, the powerful existence and unique monsters here will wander around.

Although they moved forward day and night, after calculations, Dan Knight still found that their itinerary was not completed as planned. This situation is very dangerous, because in a dangerous place like the cemetery, accurate grasp of time is a team An important criterion for surviving to complete the task.

Dan Knight decided to change his route and pass through an area with more spirit eaters, so as to be able to meet the original planned timetable.After he discussed with Sean and Burton Knight for a long time, after confirming the feasibility, they accelerated their progress.

Knight Dan held a weapon in his hand and slowly explored the way ahead. As he went deeper into the cemetery, the traces of artificial excavation began to gradually decrease. The dark elves made full use of the local cave terrain to build this huge tomb.

Reminded by Gloria's magic clock, the whole team knew that a new night had come again.

Dan Knight looked at the endless darkness deep in the cave, and firmly held up the magic torch.The light blue light continued to illuminate the road ahead, and they slowly entered the area with more spirit devourers.

There are still traces of the dark elves digging hundreds of years ago in this area, with unique but slightly rough small buildings inlaid on both sides of the huge cave.

The entire cave seems to be a huge exhibition hall, filled with the masterpieces of the soul devourers.

Before entering the cemetery, Sean introduced to the whole team that the spirit devourers are a kind of strange elemental creatures. They use magic energy as their source of survival, so they are only interested in the dead, because the corpses of the dead can be transformed by them for magical energy.So as long as you don't take the initiative to attack them and add some concealment means, you can easily pass them.

When Xiao En came here alone, he discovered this feature. Most of his alchemy materials were obtained from the area where the Soul Eater was.

So the spirit devourers have a disgusting habit, that is, they collect dead bodies like food reserves, and they are not very picky about the types, sources, and ages of dead bodies.

The whole team slowly moved along the edge of the cave. In the light of their blue magic torches, they could see the center of the hall, where countless different corpses gathered, with different degrees of decay. Under the slightly cold air of the cave, The stench of corpses wafted beneath their feet.

After Cavalier Dan carefully inspected the corpses, he continued to signal Sean to go to the fork on the left. At the fork, they saw many independent small tombs that were usually used to place tombstones, but each tomb had been destroyed. The valuable property in it has long been emptied, and the corpse has long since been dug up by the Soul Eater.

These traces of tomb robbery may be left by adventurers, or they may be left by monsters called ghouls. They will all come here to find the wealth of the dead,

As they continued to go deeper, they could see that there were more and more spirit devourers. Their flaming bodies gathered around several fires. The light and heat of the fires dispelled the darkness and cold in the air.

Sean and the others were a little dazed looking at these fire lights, because they hadn't seen such a hot light source for three days. A unique skeleton monster in the cave is sensitive to light and heat, so the whole team can only use the cold light produced by special lighting magic. Carry out activities.

More and more spirit eaters began to gather around the fire, and they kept pulling corpses onto the fire. More and more corpses were gathered into several larger fires, and the spirit eaters surrounded the fire , spinning around and around, as if some ritual was going on.

The dull movements of the spirit devourers seemed to be an ancient dance, expressing everything they could not understand for humans.Xiao En looked at these spirit devourers quietly, as if he had returned to the time when he was making a living here alone.

The fire made his face flicker, and he remembered too many past events.

He remembered that he was waiting in the endless darkness for the opportunity to collect alchemy materials so that his family could live.

He remembered that he had also witnessed here, adventurers competed with each other for wealth and the hope of getting out alive, there were battles between strangers, there were plots behind acquaintances, and of course, more were between relatives and friends Life and death.

He understands that maybe one day, he will also become cruel, for his mother or younger brother, wandering in this continent called Arad, to obtain various things that are the basis of survival, and to snatch them as weapons All kinds of power, even in order to survive for himself, he would not hesitate to make the choice to deprive others of their lives.

Sean pondered and fantasized about whether it was possible to complete this mission and return home alive.

He has lived to such an age and has experienced many things.His mother has always taught him only one criterion for selection, which is to help others as much as possible, even if he suffers a disadvantage, he doesn't have to care too much.

But he didn't believe in this standard at all. The cruel life made him understand that only with enough strength to protect himself and his family can he talk more about helping others.

But it is so difficult to obtain power. In the process of being a guide this time, he thought about countless possibilities of accidental death, being pierced by adventurers who peeped at their wealth, or being abandoned by the entire team in the depths of the tomb, or dying. Under the claws of some monster, it finally turned into a pile of dust.

He clenched his fists, feeling a little sad suddenly. He thought, if he had more power, maybe that day, he would be able to participate in the battle, Shar would not die, maybe he could be like Yilan, better Protecting my family as much as possible, maybe I can...

In his fantasy, Sean stared at the fire with ecstasy. He walked numbly, watching the spirit devourers twirling around the fire, as if he wanted to forget everything. He understood that this is the way of survival of elemental creatures. Some silly persistence.

The road ahead began to narrow slowly, and the stalactites formed slowly over hundreds of years hung down from the top of the cave, giving people an inexplicable sense of abruptness.

They were about to leave this gathering place of spirit devourers, but there was a strange shout in the air.

The shout came from Burton Knight's arms. The muddy and deep female voice echoed in the cave, and all the magic torches trembled in rhythm with the sound.

Knight Burton's face turned pale instantly, as if he was under tremendous pressure, he shouted at Knight Dan: "Dan! Let's go, this thing is resisting."

Burton Knight was trembling, holding the holy grail in his arms tightly with his hands.

Suddenly, several high-pitched screams came from the cave, and the soul eater seemed to feel the stimulation of the soul in the Holy Grail.Sean saw that several large groups of spirit devourers had stopped spinning and started devouring corpses frantically.

The corpse was burning, turning into orange ash, food for the devourers.

Sean suddenly felt terrified, because this was the first time he had seen a Soul Eater eat.

Sean knew that if the dead bodies in front of the Spirit Eaters were used up, they would not spare any creatures that could turn into dead bodies.

Sean gestured frantically at Dan Knight and let out a hasty roar.

Dan Knight also noticed that the spirit swallower was abnormal, and he whispered back the order,
The entire team, in front of the huge number of spirit devourers, seemed to be an unarmed ordinary person.

The soul devourer is eating quickly, venting the most primitive desires.

Under the firelight, Dan Knight led the team to run fast. They knew that when the eating ceremony behind them ended, the killing would begin.

Sean calmed down while running. He reacted very quickly. He quickly took out the parchment and charcoal from his belt, and wrote on it: "Corpse, Gather, Fire."

He stuffed the parchment into Knight Dan's hand, and Knight Dan glanced at it and immediately understood what Sean meant.

Without hesitation, he immediately gave an order to the entire team in a low voice, asking them to gather the corpses under their feet in the narrow passage.

The whole team immediately understood Dan Knight's order. They acted quickly, regardless of the decay and stench of the corpses, gathered all the corpses under their feet, and blocked the not too wide passage.

After saluting to the pile of corpses, Knight Dan poured oil on the corpses and set them on fire.

The flames soaring into the sky, accompanied by thick smoke and stench, reflected the panic on everyone's faces. They knew that this fire would resist the Spirit Eaters for a short time.

Without hesitation, they set off immediately and rushed to the next foothold.

The soul in the Holy Grail seemed to be aware of everything. Its cry gradually became smaller and ended in a strange hum, bringing an unforgettable fear to the entire team.

(End of this chapter)