Chapter 8 Altar
Swimming out of the corridor, Ash used a necromancy's water-absorbing spell to instantly dry her clothes and the fur on the boy's body. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The young man's eyes widened in surprise, his back arched, and the hair on his whole body flicked, feeling that there was indeed not a drop of water on his body, and he immediately smiled.
He didn't know the horror of water absorption magic in necromancy, but more than 70% of the human body is made of water, once a person's * is applied to absorb water... Tsk, that consequence is just look at the mummy.
Ash followed the boy as he surveyed the cavern underground. She felt like it was man-made, not natural. There are always stalactites, stone flowers, or stalagmites above and around ordinary caves. And as they advanced, the top of the cavity and the walls of the cave became smoother and smoother, as if polished by high-grade sandpaper, and it seemed that it had been artificially planted with glowing moss, forming patterns that looked like various animals, which was suddenly interesting.
The cavity in the ground is not a straight one, but is full of hollows like cheese that has been eaten by rats. Ash followed the boy around the corner, and then came to a three-way hole.
Seeing that he was about to reach the nest in his mind, the young man excitedly quickened his pace, but suddenly noticed that the ash had stopped.
He tilted his head in confusion and asked with a whimper.
Ash said, "Did you hear anything?" ”
As soon as the words came out, she frowned secretly, the young man didn't understand human language, she asked in vain.
So she pointed to the hole on the left, took a few steps, and signaled that she wanted to go here.
The boy blinked, looked to the right, then to the left, and then readily agreed, and walked into the hole on the right. In his opinion. The warm nest will not run away, and it is also appropriate to satisfy the curiosity of your companions to explore.
After countless twists and turns, Ash walked towards the place that had been calling her.
She is used to grasping the unknown. Because the unknown is an uncertain factor, all the uncertainties that will hinder their work must be erased. This is what she was taught.
It's just that now, she is curious, because the one who keeps calling her is clearly the voice of the demon king!
All the way into the narrow tunnel, but the surroundings are getting darker and darker. The glowing moss that had been growing around the cave walls was becoming less and less, and when viewed from back to front, it looked like darkness had turned into a large mouth. It is as if the light is swallowed up little by little.
In the darkness, the gray and wolf-like boy groped his way cautiously, and after a while, the boy suddenly stopped moving, and turned back and whined.
Ash stepped forward and touched it. Outside the entrance to the cave was a steep downward slope, but it was so dark that it was impossible to see what lay below.
Not only her, but even a teenager with wolf-like vision, but she couldn't see everything around her clearly in this environment where there was not even a little light.
Ash thought about it, and his weak spiritual power surged. I saw a faint blue undead fire flashing out of the pitch black, which was miserable and terrifying.
The young man's eyes widened suddenly, and he grabbed an undead fire beside him with great interest. Watching the undead fire come out of his hand whined amusefully.
The sound of bones arching out of the earth caught his attention again, and under the light of the undead fire, he could clearly see the bones of Bai Sensen squeezing out of the dirt slope and stacking them into steps from top to bottom.
The bones are all the same bones, if they are under the blue sky and the white sun. This white bone staircase may still have some beauty. But under this gloomy fire of the dead, tsk, even the brave people can't help but tremble.
The young man cheered and immediately stepped on the bone staircase.
Ash rubbed his aching temples, the necromancer magic of this ladder of the dead is usually used by necromancers to summon abyss demons, but they use it to decorate the altar... Although it is a very chicken magic, it will increase the demand for spiritual power as the length of the laying needs to be laid.
I don't know how high this steep slope is, which makes the gray head who is now lacking in mental strength throb.
All the way down, observing and stepping to the end, Ash confirmed the surrounding terrain. The hillside looked like an irregularly sloping mountain wall left behind by a flash flood, and it was either mud or hard stones, and in some places it was a deep hole. Without the ladder and the undead fire, she and the boy would inevitably bump into each other.
The place where they came down happened to be in the middle and upper part of the mountain wall, at least more than a hundred meters away from the bottom, and Ash guessed in his heart that this place was most likely formed after the collapse of the mountain stream.
But her suspicion was soon shattered, and the ghostly fire flickered, dimly reflecting the brilliant colors of the cave walls.
It's a mural!
Isn't this a mountain stream?
Ash endured the headache and released more undead fire, and the blue light gathered, illuminating the entire cavern.
It is a huge cave with a semi-oval shape, and the walls of the cave are depicted with frescoes of human worship, but the objects of worship are strange creatures with curved horns and pointed tails that Ash has never seen before.
The frescoes are so well preserved that they stretch from the bottom of the cave walls to the top of the cave that are not clearly visible, and if it weren't for the darkness of the undead fire, the brilliant colors would have to make people dizzy.
A young man howled in the distance, and he spotted a pillar that stood tall and abruptly in the middle of the cavern.
Ash found that the closer she got to the pillar, the clearer the voice in her head became.
The voice said softly, "Drip your blood on it." ”
The ash didn't move.
"Trust me, it's going to be fine."
Ash still didn't move.
In her intuition, she didn't feel any danger, but in the face of this kind of unknown that she didn't fully grasp, she wouldn't be stupid enough to risk herself.
The voice was silent for a while, and seeing that Ash still didn't move, he reminded him again, but Ash still ignored it, just observed around, and the owner of the voice sighed helplessly.
The young man sniffed the strange pillar curiously, his ears moved slightly, but he heard a slight sound, and immediately bit the gray trouser leg and retreated.
Under the gaze of the two of them, the pillar looked like a drill bit drilling into the ground, rotating and gradually retracting into the ground, and finally revealing only a small section of less than half a meter.
"Stand back!"
Ash almost immediately sensed something was wrong on the ground, and pulled the boy back again.
"Silky—"
Change is only instantaneous. The originally hard ground suddenly softened in an instant, turning into billowing quicksand and surging down in front of the pillar. The quicksand flowed very fast, like an hourglass with the largest hole, and within a few minutes, the ground in front of them was sunken into a cavity dozens of meters deep.
"Whoosh ——!"
The boy snapped his eyes shut, and Ash had to cover half of his face with his fingers.
Under the cavity where the quicksand kept falling, three human head-sized light bullets popped out in an instant, and while flying out of the hole, they expanded into a huge light source the size of an arch, and then flew to the top sky in the next moment to gather into a condenser that glowed like the sun. Let the gray and the boy, who were accustomed to the faint light source of the undead fire, suddenly unable to open their eyes.
With the sound of the "whirring" wind, countless silver, black, and white stones were carried out of the hollow by a gust of cyan wind. It looks like it's been mixed with a tornado, chaotic and full of strange beauty.
Under the gaze of Ash and the boy, the countless stones were stacked and blended from the bottom to the top, forming a solemn altar in just a few blinks!
The wind stopped. There was a faint black light on the altar, and in her gray eyes, she saw the chirpin breaking through the air, and walked towards her with a smile.
"Pong, how are you—" The next words disappeared in Ash's throat and raised his dagger. "Who are you?" ”
There was a hint of surprise in his eyes, followed by doubt. said, "Hehe, I haven't seen you for a few months, and you don't even know me?" ”
Ash frowned, that mocking tone. The emphasis of the words is all telling her. The person in front of her was the one she remembered.
But...
"Don't pretend, I know you're just an illusion."
"Gong" raised her eyebrows and looked at the young man beside her with gray eyes, but saw that the wolf-like young man was sitting next to her safely, his eyes looking past him to the altar.
The young man's eyes flashed with curiosity, but because of the murderous aura that suddenly appeared on his companion's body, he tilted his head, a little puzzled.
Yes, if it was really the man in front of him, then the boy would not be so unguarded. He is a wolf child, and he is most sensitive to the breath of the living. And looking at his current performance, it is obvious that he did not see the "reium" in front of him, so the only explanation is that this "reperium" is simply an illusion that only Ash can see!
"Gong" suddenly pursed his lips and said, "I hate it, if it weren't for my lack of strength, I wouldn't have been seen through by you." ”
The cute expression and tone, coupled with the appearance of the child, made the ash have a fine and dense layer of goosebumps from top to bottom.
"Who are you?" What does it have to do with you? Why did he become like him? Where exactly is the reincarnation?
As if he understood Ash's question, "Gong" crossed his hands on his waist and laughed. "Want to know? If you are willing to sign a contract with me, I will tell you. ”
"Contract?"
"That's right, I've been stuck here for years, and I'm bored."
"If you can help me out, I'll tell you who I am, including the whereabouts of your friend."
"Don't worry, I won't harm you, I just need a drop of your blood."
Ash thought for a moment and nodded.
Her decision was deliberate. Yonkade had taught her that no matter what kind of contract circle it is, it requires the blood of the contracted person, and the final result, whether good or bad, will not cause great harm to the contracted person.
Of course, here the evil ones need to be sacrificed by the blood of the contractor with a large amount of blood to the contract formation.
And this kind of contract circle that only requires a drop of blood from the person being contracted is mostly an equal contract circle.
Regardless of whether the other party will keep his promise or not, her own small harm can make her understand the identity and purpose of the other party, and Ash feels that this deal is not cost-effective.
"Qiang" immediately smiled and said, "Quick, come here, drop blood here." ”
The boy followed Ash all the way up to the small three-story altar and watched as she cut her finger with a dagger, dripping a drop of blood in the center of the altar.
Seeing the wound that was still bleeding, the boy whimpered, and hurriedly leaned in to take his gray index finger in his mouth, and carefully licked it with his tongue. He didn't understand why his companion was doing this, but he was nervous to see that she was hurt.
Ash rubbed the boy's unkempt head and smiled, which immediately made the boy grin and let out a smirk.
Blood seeped into the center of the altar, and a dark glow spread outward from the center of the altar, revealing a complex black contract circle in the center of the altar.
Ash judged that this was a five-layer contract circle, and she couldn't understand the ancient contract language in it, but she knew that the more complex the circle, the more powerful it was.
(Although it is updated from time to time, it will soon be stable ~) (To be continued)