Ora still clutched the ring and seemed to be reading the writing on the inner wall of the ring, while Shava immediately moved to Sistrem's side to keep an alert.

"Where is this?"

Systham sent a spiritual message to Ora as he twisted his head to look around, and this time the hall seemed to have no windows, only the glow of these candle-like magic lamps.

After waiting for a long time, Aura seemed to understand something, and sent out a spiritual message: "Shadow... The key. ”

"The Key to the Shadows? Why is there such a strange name here? ”

Aura didn't seem to hear Systm's question, but instead sent a spiritual message to Heatham: "The Key of Shadows, that's what the words on this ring mean. ”

“……”

Systham snatched the ring from Ora's foot and sent her an angry spiritual message.

"I mean where this is, not the words on the ring."

Ola, who was robbed of the ring, finally found that the location where they were had changed its appearance.

At this time, he was no longer in the empty chamber of the Sistem's lair, but in a strange palace.

Ora turned her head to look around and said with a blank expression, "Sisstem, where is this?" It seems to be a half-plane. ”

"Half-plane? What is that? ”

Heatham asked Ola, who looked pensive again and continued to remember.

Looking at Ola, who had a blank expression, Systham was eager to stretch out his tentacles to torture the lazy butterfly.

But after thinking about it, Heatham finally sighed helplessly.

Ignoring the butterflies that were still thinking on the side, Systham looked at the cloister next to the palace hall and walked over at the same time.

……

Despite his inexplicable appearance, Heatham's [intuition] did not emit any sense of danger.

The palace didn't seem to exist except for him, Shava, and Ora, and the tentacles of Systm didn't hear anything other than the three of them.

The cloisters are littered with scattered bones, mostly human or elven bones, not jackals or rat-people as Sistemm suggests.

There was no flesh on the piles of bones, and there was no musty smell in the palace, as if the bones had been treated, and the piles were only used as decorations to set off the eerie atmosphere here.

Heatham quickly moved to a pile of bones, breaking off a small bone fragment with his tentacles, and chewing it in his mouth.

The bones may have been completely air-dried because they had been left for too long, and they tasted crispy and had a nice texture, but the taste was very average, with only a faint chocolate flavor.

It is estimated that these bones have been in place for at least a few decades, or even hundreds of years.

And these bones also put Heatham a little at ease.

The bones are perfectly edible for food, and Aura can make ice cubes, and their water is secure, so they don't starve to death, at least for a short time.

The corridor where Systm walked was about a few dozen meters long, about four meters high and six meters wide, and every few meters on either side of the corridor appeared a picture frame made of bones, with portraits like black shadows, and in some cases, a strange red eye.

If Systm was right, it was undoubtedly a palace dedicated to Rafal, the god of shadows and curses, or perhaps a temple.

However, this temple should not have been built by the nezumi.

It's not that Sistham doubts the Nezumi's abilities, it's that the many magic candles in this palace, as well as Rafal's portrait, are arranged a little higher.

With the average height of about 1 meter, these figures will not be placed at a height of about 1.7 meters, which is more like that of human-like creatures.

……

After exiting the cloister, Systham appeared in a circular hall more than ten meters high, and in the very center of the palace there was a seven-meter-high statue of the god Rafal.

The statue was carved so lifelike that Rafal's red eyes seemed to be caught in the middle of it.

There appears to be a pool nearly twenty meters in diameter beneath Rafal's statue, but instead of water, there are various bones in the pool.

Systham also saw a giant dragon skull of nearly two meters in the pool.

Much smaller than Ola's original faucet, Systm swallowed the mucus that had inadvertently flowed from his throat glands, but chose to leave.

Sistrem, the idol of Rafal, was somewhat jealous, and after looking at the idol from a distance and finding that there was nothing unusual, Sistemm moved to the cloister on the other side of the main hall......

The whole palace was very empty, except for the blue-gray stone walls and black floor tiles, there were only three common things, bones, portraits, and magic candles.

The structure of the palace is also very simple, a large hall more than ten meters high, connected on both sides by corridors dozens of meters away, and the end of one of the corridors connects several rooms.

Several of the rooms were similarly constructed, with a few test benches with what appeared to be bottles containing plague germs like nezumi wizards, but after unscrewing a few, Systrem found that the plague germs in those bottles had lost their vitality and were all dead.

There is also an underground tunnel in one of the rooms, which leads to a cell.

The cell also contained torture instruments, some chains, and knives and tools that Heatham did not recognize.

Heatham also found a dead body in the cell, the flesh on the surface of the corpse had been dried, and looking at the pointed ears on the corpse's head, Heatham speculated that it was an elf.

But apart from this elf, there was nothing more to be found in Systm.

The temple does not have any windows, and there is no exit from the temple.

……

After a few hours of wandering back and forth in the temple, Systham finally stopped and looked at Ola, the butterfly who had once again fiddled with the black gem ring.

It was this Black Gem ring that brought them here, so there was a good chance that using this ring would get the three of them away.

However, Aura had been fiddling with the ring for a long time, and nothing had happened, and the gray light that had brought the three of them here never reappeared.

And just now, Ola gradually let out a mood that seemed to be flustered.

Although Ola still pretends to be calm on the surface, and tells Systm not to worry.

But Systham knew it would be hard enough to rely on Ola to get out of here with that ring.

Now there is only one way to leave the palace, and that is to carve the idol of Rafal with his own hands to communicate with the evil god.

It's a bit dangerous to communicate with the evil gods, but through means like sacrifices, there is still a great chance to get out of here.

But looking at Ola, who was fiddling with the black gem ring, Systham suddenly had an idea.

Why is it that he is the one who communicates with the evil gods?

Aura is not the same as being able to communicate with evil gods and become believers in evil gods.

Isn't it fair that you have to bear the mistakes you make?