Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Truth About the Riverbend Fortress
"Maybe it's time to put an end to this, I've been locked up in this dark cage for too long...... Even though she knew that he was old, she wanted to look at him again before she was close to death...... "Lady Vivian held her head in pain, and the skeleton crunched all over her body, making Qing Chi suspect that if she moved more violently, the skin that wrapped the skeleton might crack like a layer of paper.
"There's a kid downstairs named Dela, is he your son?" Qing Chi took out the key and shook it, "He asked me to open the seal under the statue of Beth. β
"N-give it to me!" As soon as Mrs. Vivian saw the key, she screamed and pounced, trying to snatch it. Qing Chi dodged her flutter, "Please tell me the truth about that incident in detail, otherwise you also know that as an adventurer who dares to go deep here alone, I have the ability to threaten you." β
Lady Vivian's face had a hideous expression, and her whole body turned a blinding red, like a precursor to an attack. This made Qing Chi's heart cold, his guess was wrong, Vivian was indeed the boss of the demonization?
Fortunately, after a while, the dazzling red light disappeared, and Lady Vivian's name turned green again, and she held her head in agony, and spun around in place for a long time before saying, "Oh...... It's been a long time, and I'm going to ...... it well Think about it......" After standing still for ten minutes, Vivian spoke slowly.
"That's ...... One night happened. The next day, I'm going to take Daila to the ceremony in Glory City. A few nights before that, I suddenly slept very badly, and I had a series of nightmares about Della turning into a bloody monster. I was at peace day and night, when suddenly in my sleep a black-robed mage told me that Della had been invaded by an evil force and that if I wanted to kill it, I would have to stab him in the heart with a dagger. β
"When I woke up, I thought it was just a dream. But under the pillow lay the dagger with a strange pattern. It was then that I found that Deira's bed was empty, and when I sneaked out, I found out thatβah! My Deira, in the white moonlight, has eaten the heart of a guard! β
Vivian held her head in pain, her mouth staccabling, "I can't believe it's my son." He's a demon! He was covered in blood and turned his face to me and smiled......"
Qing Chi seemed to have touched the truth of the matter, and hurriedly asked, "What happened later?" β
"Deira became nervous and went out to kill people every night. I was both worried and intolerable that he would become like this. Finally, I took the dagger and came to the shrine. The priest at the shrine told me that the dagger contained great power and could take away people's souls...... But I am not willing to let Deira die like this, he is my son after all...... When I heard that the goddess Beth was able to master the power of the soul, I brought the dagger to the temple of the goddess, and I prayed reverently under the washing of holy water......"
"At the ceremony, you discovered his anomaly again, and stabbed Della in the heart with a knife, and you were expelled from Eagle Valley City, right?" Qing Chi took her words and said.
"Oh...... Oh, yes. Della actually wants to kill Char, that's his father! He smiled like that weird again, and I had no choice but to protect Char. Vivian fell to her knees and wept.
I see. Qing Chi's heart was already roughly clear. It is believed that some vicious mage used some kind of illusion to deceive Lady Vivian's eyes, instigating and deceiving her to kill her own son and be expelled from the city. There may be some strange connection between that dagger and that mage.
"Then why are you here?" Qing Chi asked a little puzzled.
"When I saw Deira dead in my arms...... His pitiful, pale little face would never speak again...... In a moment of grief and indignation, I snatched the guard's sword and attempted suicide, but I did not die...... Char could not bear to sentence me to death, and imprisoned me in this distant fortress ever since. The university town placed a special seal on the fortress, and since then, I have been trapped here, year after year. Lady Vivian sighed.
Decades of mountains and rivers change, time is like a horse. I am afraid that the original small river was relocated and merged into a lake, and the bay of the mouth of the river became deeper and deeper, so the fortress sank underwater. Due to some special seals, the people inside could not come out, and could only wait for later adventurers to discover this place.
Qing Chi has roughly understood the truth of this matter, and the rest is to ask that Della for clarification.
Qing Chi kicked the lid of Dela's coffin. Deira, who laughed gloomily, crawled out of the coffin with a hint of joy in her eyes, "You killed that woman?" Has the seal been opened? β
Qing Chi squinted his eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, "Of course I killed it." β
"Great, hahahaha - that woman, trapped me for so many years, damn woman!" A maniacal smile appeared in Deira's eyes, but Qing Chi's next sentence made his laughter come to an abrupt end.
"How is that possible, I'm just kidding." A cold light flashed in Qing Chi's eyes, and he raised his hand to set up his bow and arrow, "You're the one behind the scenes, right?" Possessing Della to do evil, I thought that I could successfully frame Vivian, kill the real Della, and take away the soul of this child, which is really beautiful to think. But you've counted a lot of calculations, and you've missed out that the dagger has been purified by Beth's power. So your soul is trapped in Deira's body and can't get out. For some reason, this dagger has a connection to Lady Vivian, so as long as she lives, you can't get out of this body. Of course, even if you have the key to open the seal of the fortress, it won't work, you can't get close to her, oh, after all, the place where the seal is opened is the relief of the goddess Beth. β
Qing Chi shot an arrow into Deira's chest, and Dela's face was dark and composed, and the green name that was originally on her head and could not attack turned into a dazzling bright red. The demonized Della has some terrifying attack abilities. Qing Chi didn't dare to be careless, and fought against the demonized Della with a twelve-point spirit. I thought that he was trapped in Dela's body and his strength was not so strong, but when he saw one of Dela's icicle techniques directly knock down a wall, Qing Chi's back sweated a little. Fortunately, limited to the child's body, this boss can't match Qingchi's speed at all. Qing Chi nimbly climbed up to the guardrail on the second floor, hooked one foot on the guardrail, and with a flip of his body, he had reached the door of Lady Vivian. The demonized Deira, who had become a boss, had completely lost her ability to think, forgetting that the goddess in that room was afraid of her, so she just chased after Qingchi. When he reached the door of Lady Vivian's room, he trembled in pain as if he had been electrocuted. Qing Chi squinted at his eyes, shooting arrow after arrow, brainlessly, and even Yi Dye Bai Qing stood up crookedly and kept waving his staff.
Lady Vivian's spirit has become very abnormal, after recalling that, fell into the grief of losing her son, before Qing Chi was about to kill Deira, she pounced forward, hugged Deira tightly with a skeleton frame with only one skin left, and a burst of black gas came out of Deira's body, touched the pendant on Lady Vivian's chest, and turned into a pile of black ash. And the scattered skeletons tell the tragedy and death of these two men.