"Something seems to have flown over there." Yugari stood up and said to the smoke billowing in the distance.

"I don't know, I just saw a few lightning bolts."

"Let's go and have a look." Yugari looked at Miria and the others, and everyone nodded, and immediately turned on their horses and galloped away in the direction of the fire.

Still some distance from the target, Yugari saw several light brown humanoid monsters with huge wings, hovering over a carriage, occasionally spitting lightning bolts from their outstretched fangs, and attacking the carriage below.

The wagon that had been hit had flipped on its side, one wheel had been destroyed without a trace, and the body on one side had been smashed into charcoal black. In front of the carriage, a middle-aged uncle with a hammer and a middle-sized boy wielding a long sword were fending off the monster's attack.

"It's the Thunder Rock Wing Ape." Miria reminded loudly, "It should be a monster from the other side of Chiyan Mountain." Watch out for its lightning strikes. ”

"Understood." Yugari responded.

"Divine Light Barrier!"

"Frost, Crystal, Frost Strike!"

A sacred barrier immediately appeared in front of the young man, and instantly bounced out a thunder rock winged ape that swooped down with fangs and claws. At the same time, a frost crystal suddenly exploded in the sky above the carriage, and a thunder rock winged ape was immediately covered with a layer of white frost. It was noticeably sluggish in its movements, and it struggled in the air a few times, forcing it to fall to the ground. Miria rushed forward with a swift stride, sweeping her scythe and slicing it in two. Another thunder winged ape in the sky was just about to rush towards Miria when she was split in half by the leaping Blala behind her. The remaining few were immediately frightened and fled in a hurry.

"Are you alright?" Yugari and the others gathered their weapons and walked to the carriage.

"Thank you so much." The bearded uncle thanked him generously, "Fortunately, you rescued me in time." ”

"Where, you don't have to be so polite."

"Did you also come out of Sunset to escape the plague?"

"Not really." The uncle continued, "Our father and son are here to collect materials. We sell all kinds of herbs, mixtures, alchemy potions, etc., so we often come here to collect some herbs. No, as soon as I packed up my goods and was about to go back, it rained heavily. While sheltering from the rain, these monkeys appeared again, thanks to you. ”

"Huh? What a coincidence. We're going to Sunset too. ”

"Really? That's great, I'll fix the carriage and we'll go over together, right? At this time, the uncle patted the shoulder of the young man next to him and said, "I forgot to introduce, my surname is Gu, just call me Gu." This is my unsuccessful son, Gu Yiyuan. What do you call it? ”

"My name is Eugari. Please advise. ”

"Miria Hill."

"Brala."

After some introduction, Yujiali and the others helped Gu to pick up the herbs scattered around the carriage.

"Are you all professional adventurers? Look at the very good you just stretched out. Old Gu praised as he removed the broken axle.

"Where, it's okay." Eugari replied modestly, "We haven't been adventurers for long. This time, I plan to go to the Chiyan Mountain to investigate the plague. ”

"Huh?" Lao Gu said in surprise, "This is not a joke. To be honest, this plague is very powerful, and it is not at all something that ordinary people can solve. I've been learning alchemy from my parents since I was a child, and I've been encountering plagues a few times before, but it's not comparable to this time. You don't really want to go, do you? ”

"Don't worry, no problem." Miria said proudly, "We've done a high-level commission before. ”

"So powerful?!" Lao Gu exclaimed, and then turned his head and complained to Gu Yiyuan, who was carrying the spare wheels, "Stinky boy, look at people." This is the true adventurer. ”

"......" Gu Yiyuan didn't say, pouted, and continued to do the work in hand dissatisfied.

"What? Are you also a professional adventurer? Yugari asked curiously.

"Hmm!" Gu Yiyuan replied heartily, "My profession is an assassin, I can enter many dangerous places to carry out tasks, and then escape with my whole body, and I can ......"

"You can't even beat a fighting pig, so don't brag there." Lao Gu in the distance said lightly.

"Don't talk nonsense! That's the Boss of the Fighting Pigs! It's the chief! Gu Yiyuan blushed and shouted loudly.

"It's not the same. Spanked to the point of urine. ”

"How can it be so miserable!"

In this way, everyone chatted about their situation and sorted out the goods that had been spilled on the ground, and in a short time the carriage was repaired and all the goods were reloaded onto the carriage. As the weather gradually cleared, the old Gu father and son sat in the driver's seat again, carrying a cart of goods and Yujiali and them, and drove in the direction of returning to Sunset Town.

"Let's get here first. It had just rained, and I couldn't see the road clearly, so it was still too dangerous to walk. Looking at the night with no fingers in sight, Gu turned back to Yujiali and the others.

"Well, there are a lot of demons and monsters at night, and it's near the forest, so you don't have to hurry. Let's set up tents and sleep in the open. With that, they jumped out of the carriage and set up a tent with them on the side of the forest.

"Huh?" Deep in the forest, at the end of Eugari's vision, a dark castle could be faintly seen.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Yugari staring at the forest in a daze, Miria walked over and asked strangely, "Is there any problem?" ”

"There's a castle there." Pointing to the night in the distance, Yugari asked, "Do you know what it does?" ”

"Huh?" Since Miria didn't have the ability to enhance her vision at night like Eugari, she didn't see anything else except the pitch darkness of the night.

"You can see the castle on such a dark day." At this time, the nearby old Gu came over and said with admiration.

"It's okay." Jugari said embarrassedly, "Do you know what that castle is all about?" In such a remote place. It's dangerous again. ”

"I guess I know a little bit." Lao Gu touched his beard and said seriously, "It is said that it was built by a person who came here from the human kingdom a long time ago. But I don't know exactly who he is, I just heard that he is a very powerful man. It is unknown how long he stayed here, during which time he was said to have been approached by a Clari patriarch from the western continent. He has not been seen since. Some say he went to the western continent, others say he is buried beneath the castle. No one knows how. What is certain is that the castle has been abandoned since then and is no longer inhabited. Over the decades, countless merchants and adventurers have entered, but none of them have come out. It is said that there are a large number of high-level necromancers roaming inside, which is very dangerous. Some people call it the Necronomical Castle. All in general it is better not to come close. ”

"Necromancy?" Yugari repeated in surprise.

"Haha, it doesn't seem good to say this in the middle of the night." Lao Gu smiled apologetically, "But don't worry, as long as you don't go in, it's fine." No one had ever seen the necrons come out there. Rest assured. ”

"Where did that patriarch go?" Blala suddenly asked coldly.

"Huh? What's this...... I don't think I've heard of it. Lao Gu frowned and said, "It's all just rumors." Whether it's true or not has not been investigated. So it's too detailed to say. ”

Since everyone had simply eaten something while they were in the carriage, they didn't build any more bonfires, and after setting up their tents, everyone quickly went back to their tents to rest.

Time passed little by little, and Blala, who was pretending to be asleep, sat up slowly at this time, she didn't want to wake up Miria and Yujali next to her, so she gently lifted the curtain and walked out.

After leaving the battalion commander, Blala walked into the forest alone. Like Miria, she doesn't have the effect of increasing her vision at night, so she can't see the castle in the distance in the dark forest. At this moment, Brala just walked towards the depths of the forest in the direction that Yugari was looking at before.

After walking for a while, when Brala brushed aside the branches in front of her, a winding path appeared in front of her. The path was a little muddy, and it zigzagged to a small hill not far away, on which a tall, black, slightly dilapidated castle stood in front of Blala.

Although it is a castle that has been abandoned for many years, it has not been destroyed by time like other buildings because it is built in a special black color. Because when I was in the camp before, I heard from Lao Gu that there might be many high-level necromancers in the castle, so when Blala came to the city gate, she immediately summoned her "Dragon Slayer Red Dragon Battle Axe".

Although he is a flame attribute mage, but Blala does not have a more balanced cultivation of spells and physical skills like Miria, but puts most of her experience on the practice of physical arts, for flame-based spells, although she can cast powerful skills, but almost all of them attack with his weapon skills, and her mastery of greetings is also very limited, so even now, in such a black-lit environment, she can't keep the surrounding light by summoning flames, I can only use the little moonlight shining in from the castle to slowly grope my way forward.

As far as the eye could see, there was no one everywhere, there was a thick layer of dust, and there was not a single sound to be heard, as quiet as a cemetery. Brala, who was observing in the hall, had just turned the corner when a skeleton soldier glowing with a faint dark energy appeared in front of him in an instant, and the distance was so far that Brala could almost see the cracks on the skull. In the moment when Brala was stunned, the skeleton soldier swung the thin sword in his hand and slashed in front of Brala, who couldn't dodge, and was cut with a long blood mark from his chest to his shoulder.

Brala, who staggered back a few steps, stabilized her body and immediately raised her tomahawk to slash at the skeleton soldier. The skeleton soldier raised his sword to parry, and under the impact of the battle axe, he took a few steps backwards, although the bones of his whole body made a trembling sound, and it seemed that it was not a big deal. Brala thought that this attack would break the skeleton soldier's emaciated fractures, but when she saw that the skeleton soldier was still intact, she couldn't help but feel impatient. She clenched her battle axe in both hands, and burst out of her body with intense fire energy, slashing at the rushing skeleton soldier with all her strength.

With a loud bang, the tomahawk slashed the skeleton soldier's thin sword along with the emaciated bones, and the entire skeleton immediately fell to the ground, burning with blazing flames. However, the skeleton soldier did not die there, and it didn't take long for the burning flames to be consumed by the black energy on its body, and the fragmented estimate gradually began to repair. Although it can't heal immediately, it still surprises Blala in front of her.

Brala didn't want to get too much entanglement with it here, so before the skeleton soldiers could move, she quickly dodged and ran towards the depths of the castle with her tomahawk. Along the way, Blana continued to encounter similar skeleton soldiers, they were either in three or five, or acting alone, although Brala did not completely destroy them, but due to the slow recovery speed of these skeleton soldiers, it was no longer a sensitive movement speed, Blala still ran all the way towards the "heart" area of the castle.

She stopped when she came to a very ornate-looking door. "This must be the castle owner's room." Thinking of this, Blana carried a battle axe in one hand, pushed open the door with the other, and walked straight in.

It was an unusually spacious room, opposite a stone window, a stone bar that had long since broken due to age. The faint moonlight filtered through the stone windows and filled most of the room. Blala took a cursory look around the room, and although it was very dilapidated, she could still feel that it had been built with ingenuity. Unlike other rich people's rooms, there are no antiques, calligraphy and paintings, pearl agate, more weapon holders, bookcases, instruments and the like. It makes people feel that the owner here should have been a figure who was both civil and military or admired literature and martial arts, rather than some rich man with a lot of money.

In this way, Blana slowly walked around the room while looking at the situation in the room. As he walked through the shadows in the corner, he felt a gentle tap on her shoulder from behind her. So, she subconsciously turned her head. A skull glowing blue immediately appeared in front of her, so close that it almost touched her face.

"Cloth ...... La...... La...... I...... Good...... Hate...... Ah......h

"Ah——!h Completely frightened, Brala screamed and hurriedly turned around, but in her hurry, she tripped over herself and sat down on the ground, and the tomahawk fell beside her.

"Hahaha, hahaha." At this moment, the skeleton in the corner suddenly let out a smug laugh. As the laughter rang out, the surroundings were instantly lit up by several sacred light sources, and Yugari, who looked embarrassed, was holding a staff in her hand, standing at the light source and looking at Blala embarrassedly. Miria, who was carrying a skull in the corner, was holding a long-handled scythe, crossed her waist, and laughing breathlessly, as if tears were about to come out.

"Alright, stop playing tricks on Brala." Eugari said to Miria over and over again, picking up Brala. Blala looked unhappy, looked at her cheeks, and twisted her head to the side.

"Alright, alright. No kidding. Miria seemed to smile and walked over to Brala, "I knew you were going to be here, so I came with her." What do you think? Did you find anything? ”

"Nope." Brala replied simply.

"Really?" With a teasing look on her face, Miria continued, "We've made a big discovery. What do you think? Do you want to listen to it? ”

Hearing Miria's words, Blala immediately turned her head, her eyes widened, and she looked at Miria with eagerness.

"Well......" said Miria, as if deliberately hanging on Brala's appetite.

"Alright, don't make a fuss." Eugarie took out a book over and over again and said to Blala, "Actually, we found a diary here. ”

"Say what?" Brala asked eagerly.

"I haven't had time to look closely. It seems to have been written by the housekeeper here. Roughly speaking, the owner of this place has brought some people from the human kingdom due to some changes. Later, for some unknown reason, they killed everyone here one by one. Before the butler died, a guest came here, and it was not written whether it was the patriarch of the Clari tribe. But the butler guessed that the master might follow him to the Western Continent later. ”

As he spoke, the door was slammed open, and a group of skeletal soldiers with teeth and claws burst in, surrounding Eugari's holy light, their scarlet eyes flashing and staring at them deadly.

"We'd better get out of here as soon as possible." Miria suggested, "Not only these skeletons, but there must be a lot of higher-level necromancers in the castle, so it's better to evacuate as soon as possible before they arrive." There's not much value to be gained anyway. ”

"Wait a minute. Accompany me to get something first. With that, Yugari immediately chanted a spell and teleported everyone to a relatively small bedroom. Yugari searched around for a while, "There it is." With that, he rushed to the desk at the head of the bed, took out a small box with exquisite workmanship from the drawer, and put it into the magic space.

"Alright, let's go." After doing all this, Yugari turned around, chanted her spell again, and left the castle before the necromancers chased her.

"Next time, don't sneak out by yourself, it's dangerous!" As she ran back to the camp, Miria lectured Brala.

"Hmm......" Blala said after a moment's thought, a little ashamed.

"Blala also wants to find clues about her family quickly." "We've already brought back the diary, and we'll take the time to study it together when we get back." See if there's anything you can do to help Blala. With that, the three of them quickened their steps and ran briskly in the direction of the camp.