Chapter 20: The Stone of Contract (II)
The Swamps don't trust alchemists and magicians, so their defenses against generally important items are hidden in the dark, or traps such as poisons and curses.
And when Daroman walked through this passage that was completely carved out of the rock, he seemed to know the trap settings and poison areas along the way, and watched him calmly and lightly dismantle it, if it weren't for Luo Lan's already knowing his identity, he would have thought that he was a master who knew the art of thieves.
"Here we are," Daroman looked ahead, a large and tall circular cavern space, with five horns standing in five directions, among which was an altar high above the ground, on which a statue of the god Modo was carved from black crystal, and green points of light formed a pillar of light around it, one of its hands was stretched forward, spread out in its palm, and a small bone-like stone with a glowing green light was mysteriously and quietly held in its palm.
Luo Lan's fingers trembled slightly.
Daroman's gaze focused on the stone of contract, and he said slowly: "These five horns around are intercepted from the demonic beasts that were slaughtered during the Heroic Age, and the pillar of light they form has been inflicted with the five deadliest curses, except for the Modo believers who have undergone the contract ritual, everyone else will be attacked by the curse once they get close. However, no matter how powerful the curse is, there is a way to crack it. ”
Luo Lan looked up and asked curiously, "What method?"
Daroman smiled strangely, he didn't answer, but sat down slowly, his facial muscles gradually tensed, as if condensing the strength of his whole body, after a while, there were bursts of mental fluctuations on his body, and his gaze immediately became extremely deep, he slowly stood up, and suddenly pointed at Luo Lan without warning.
Suddenly, Luo Lan felt a huge pressure enveloping his body, and then his right foot took a step forward stiffly, as if he had lost control of it, and then his left foot slowly took a step with difficulty, he felt that his limbs were as heavy as being filled with mercury, and he was not controlled by himself at all, and he took a passive step by step.
The direction he was heading was the statue of Lord Modo on the altar.
It's some kind of mental manipulation. He tried to break free from this restraint by various means, but found that it did not work at all, and his body still moved unhurriedly.
Daroman smiled darkly and said, "This is the manipulation technique of the dead that I learned from the Mage Guild Library. As if sensing Luo Lan's struggle, he took a step forward, continued to strengthen his mental control, and said in the tone of a victor: "In fact, there is no way to break the curse at all, so the only way is to find someone to sacrifice himself to take down the contract stone, I originally planned to find a random guy, but now there are only two of us here, so you have to bear all the curses, you can rest assured, even if you become a corpse, I can let you take the contract stone and continue to walk down." ”
Luo Lan walked slowly towards the altar and gradually stepped onto the steps, his hand slowly stretched out towards the contract stone in the hand of the god Modo, and when he was about to touch the green pillar of light that emitted rotten gas, he paused, as if he was resisting.
Da Roman took another step closer, a little bead of sweat oozed from his forehead, his eyes stared at Luo Lan's body, his fists clenched and trembled, as if he was exerting all his strength.
Under the stronger spiritual oppression, Luo Lan's hand finally reached forward again, firmly grasping the contract stone in the pillar of light.
At the same moment, the horns of the beast in all five directions flashed together, and his body shook gently as if it had been attacked by something.
Da Luoman's eyes shot a strange light, he gasped a few times, and manipulated Luo Lan to walk down steadily.
As soon as the Contract Stone left the Black Crystal Statue, wisps of green aura wafted from it, and they reluctantly coiled in a circle, slowly dissipating in the air.
It slowly reduced to a miserable white bone stone.
If Luo Lan was still conscious, he should be able to recognize that this bone stone was exactly the same as the Life Stone.
"Come, come!" Daroman kept giving orders, his eyes showed ecstasy, and he controlled Luo Lan to walk down step by step, and when the latter completely walked down the altar, he couldn't wait to walk up, grabbed the contract stone, and before he could come back to his senses, he suddenly felt something cold burrow into his chest.
He looked down at the place, where a dagger was inserted, and he looked at its owner in disbelief from the hand holding the dagger, with a look of horror in his eyes, and hissed, "Impossible, you are not a Modo at all, how can you be okay?"
Luo Lan smiled faintly and said, "I forgot to tell you, in fact, you don't have to work so hard, because I have the mark of accepting the contract ceremony in my body." ”
On that day, after absorbing some of the memories and abilities of the transformer Kaga, Luo Lan found that the swamp clan team had used an artifact similar to a certain life stone to imprint some kind of talent contract in his mind, which was like planting a seed in his body, and as this seed took root and sprouted, the source power in their body was slowly unearthed until the level became higher and higher.
In Kaja's fragmented memory, this contract stone was stored in a deep dark cave, as well as some fragments of the Athletic City related to it, and only Modo cultists who had performed the contract ritual could enter it safely, which made Luo Lan have to pay attention.
He immediately sensed keenly that this was another piece of demon bone lost in the corner of the world!
In order to find out the real answer, he is determined to get more clues and complete talent contracts from the members of the swamp team, which is why he chases and kills them.
However, the difficulty of the swamp team greatly exceeded his expectations, and there was no chance for several team members to devour their memories.
His eyes flashed back to the moment he dealt with the one-eyed Yago, and the moment the other party was eaten by the petrified light, he finally pulled out his memories from the two eyes that the other party had evolved, and filled in the broken contract.
In order to make it to Athletic City, he infiltrates a clan that is heading to Kakamila in the middle of the way, trying to gain a proper identity.
During this period, he slowly digested all the memories of Yago and Kaja, but at this time, he suddenly discovered that the talent contract is a contract to exchange lives for great power, and it no longer exudes spiritual temptation all the time, as this temptation grows bigger and bigger, and begins to interfere with his spirit, on the tenth day, it has reached the point where he can no longer bear it, in order to avoid being devoured by life, he has to use hypnosis to seal the memory of his complete contract, so that he completely forgets it, but because the time is too rushed, he does not have time to leave any clues for himself, only hints to himself, only stepping into the cave in Kaja's memory can this memory be recovered.
Just now, as the Stone of Contract was taken down from the altar, the Contract was completely dissipated from the body.
Luo Lan jerked out the dagger that had been inserted into Daroman's chest, and then dodged away from the blood that had splattered out.
Daroman clutched his chest and slowly fell to his knees with a face full of unwillingness and weakness, and the scarlet liquid of the Bo Bo slowly flowed on the ground.
Luo Lan stepped forward and grabbed his hair, looked into his eyes and said, "Tell me, the exit of the underground area." ”
In his other hand, he clutched the Contract Stone!
Alternatively, it can be called ...... Demon bones!
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PS: This volume is finally over, and the next one is back on track. Don't worry about Luo Lan running around anymore