Chapter 34 Cutting off the beard
The three girls looked at each other and shook their heads.
Fanny said lazily: "There is no demonic breath, no devil's breath, and no disgusting mage smell, I am not very familiar with dark energy, so I don't know if it has anything to do with the shadow realm." "It was caught by a high-level mage and forced to sign a contract in the mage tower, and by mistake he became a magic pet for Morel, so he didn't have a good impression of the mage.
Clannie and Sylvie are even worse, a maid who is just a Morel, and although she believes in the unicorn lady Rari, she can only do a little simple swordsmanship; And Sylvie became a low-level mage in the teaching because her parents were mages, but unfortunately her qualifications were average, and her parents, who were intermediate mages, also died in an experimental accident, so she followed Morel.
Seeing that there was nothing to be done about the three girls, Morel was optimistic: "Okay, since everyone has nothing to do, then let's break in directly!" Anyway, this ruin will disappear at dawn, and we should calculate the time, so there should be no danger. ”
"But, Morel, this kind of ruin, will there be undead or something......" Sylvie reminded in a low voice.
"Don't be afraid, I don't have this!" Morel confidently pulled out a scepter.
"Huh? [Ludwig's Sacred Scepter]? It turned out to be in his hands! In the distance, Shepard, who was carrying two swords and bows and arrows, and sneaking to follow the four people, clearly saw the scepter in Morel's hand at a glance, it was a scepter the length of an ordinary man's arm, two fingers thick, made of silver-white mixed metal, and the top was carved with a spiral pattern, which was inlaid with an egg-sized sunstone.
"Good thing, I'm thinking of finding something as a status symbol of the Pope, I must find a way to get it!" Shepard, who was originally in a relaxed state, suddenly changed his state, [Ludwig's Holy Scepter], this authority made of Mithril and several high-grade alloys is the weapon of the legendary paladin Ludwig.
The holy warrior of Loshanda, who believed in the Lord of the Dawn, was extremely powerful, and this scepter received a lot of divine grace with him, not only becoming an enchanted weapon almost an artifact in itself, but also giving Shepard a glimpse of the power of the former sun god Amanata, and now Lansendel, and increasing his understanding of the priesthood of the solar system.
Amanata, Loshanda, Ransendel, this is the name of a god in ancient times and present, he has gone through several dynasties, and even nearly lost himself, and has witnessed the rise of magic, the fall of the gods, the resurrection of the gods, and the disgrace of the gods being swept from the sky, and he is still alive today.
Shepard's heart was a little excited, this feeling was like you picked up a stone on the side of the road, took it home and washed it and found that it was gold, and asked someone to find that it was actually more precious dog's head gold.
The paladin Ludwig once found traces of the devil while traveling on the continent, it is said that he fought a big battle with the sixth layer of hell lord that appeared at that time, and almost destroyed the city where the devil was found, and then Ludwig disappeared, it is said that he chose to die with the devil because he killed too many civilians, this is impossible to investigate, but it is a fact that the lord of the sixth layer of hell has not appeared for many years.
After Ludwig's death, most of his equipment was recovered by the Church of the Lord of Dawn, except for a few weapons and shields, including the scepter, disappeared without a trace.
At this time, the four Morel had already entered the castle in Shepard's sight, and when they did not enter the gate of the castle, they suddenly disappeared as if they had entered another world, and the castle became empty again.
At this time, Shepard stood up and walked straight to the front of the castle, but did not enter the hall, but took his bow and arrows outside, stretched out his bow and arrows, and aimed them at the sky above the castle.
He pulled the longbow into a full moon, and the leaping white flames gradually flowed like water on the arrows, and the glowing white light enveloped the longbow, but it was he who learned from his previous experience and attached his divine power to the bow to protect the longbow from turning into ashes after a single shot.
In the next second, Shepard suddenly let go, only to see a white light rush straight into the sky in the blink of an eye, pulling out an old white flame trail behind him.
Rumble!
The arrows attached to the power of light and fire caused by the divine power exploded as if they had hit something transparent in midair, and rolled open against the sky, like a canopy of flames.
It turned out that the sky above the castle was not empty, but there was an invisible barrier that enveloped the castle and this space, or the castle was in an independent space.
At this time, Shepard burst out with divine power, which immediately shook the space barrier, and even alarmed something in the ancient castle.
There were a few bangs, and I saw that the four Morel who entered first suddenly fell out of the air, and some fell to the ground in embarrassment, and the scepter in Morel's hand released a circle full of positive energy circular barrier, protecting the four of them.
"Hey, protect the demon with positive energy, if Luoshanda knows, will he be furious?" Shepard laughed and hid quietly, leaving the four men to stay in the castle hall in a daze.
"Morel, what's going on?" The little maid Cranie nervously grabbed Morel by the sleeve and asked.
"Hmm, what a weird smell, there's something tricky coming out!" Fanny the Succubus frowned and suddenly said loudly.
Shocked by this, Morel hurriedly protected Colanie and Sylvie behind him, not only grabbed the scepter in his hand, but also took out a magic scroll that exuded powerful power fluctuations out of nowhere.
'There's a lot of stuff in the cache, what kind of scroll is this?' Shepard thought to himself, there is a semi-independent space in the ruins of this ancient castle, once you walk in, you will fall into the trap set by the organization that owned this ancient castle back then, and be besieged by a large group of cursed creatures, which is extremely difficult.
But if a large amount of positive energy is released outside the castle, even if it is not a powerful spell, it will alarm some of the mechanisms of the castle, and the monster that was originally the final boss will be released in advance, and the semi-independent space will be automatically destroyed, shattering everything in it.
However, all the story tasks that promote the progress of the game, or have very rich rewards, have a pre-set warning mechanism, in case there are lucky players who skip the key points to get the benefits directly, which is not in line with the original intention of the task designer, so the task steps can be omitted, but it is difficult to go straight to the throat.
In this way, players only need to deal with the boss, which greatly reduces the difficulty of the strategy, but in this way, the monsters in the game will increase the probability of mutation in the second to third phases, and in the real world, it is impossible to say, especially Shepard bursts with divine power to stimulate the mechanism, even if the monster appears directly in a mutated state, he is not surprised, the purpose is also to see how much money Morel has.
The sound sounded like a baby's cry, but it was not at all cute and clear as a baby should be, but like a dead baby who had been drowned or died of illness, crying full of despair and resentment before dying.
"Morel, I, I'm so scared......" The voice of the least daring Colanie was crying, and the other people did not look good, even Fanny, who was a succubus, said nervously: "Be careful!" It's out! ”
The sound of footsteps sounded on the wooden spiral staircase, and the sound of dripping water was also heard, and the flowing red and dark green liquid mixed and flowed, and the strange and unpleasant smell also pierced the noses of the four people, as if blood and amniotic fluid were mixed together, as if rotting and mildew had been rotted and mildewed by long-term prevention, and the smell was even more disgusting.
The mixture of disgusting liquid flowed down the stairs into the hall, flowing down the shield that protected the four of them, the shield released by pure positive energy and the power of the Lord of Dawn did not react to the liquid in any way, perhaps just rotting amniotic fluid and blood, without any energy contained in it.
The shield couldn't stop the smell of no toxins or curses, so much so that the expressions of the three humans, though different, were all ugly.
The footsteps grew closer and louder, and as the footsteps turned the last corner, a terrifying monster that was two feet tall appeared in view.
He was hairless, with only pale and wrinkled horror skin, a human-like skull with twisted features, a mouth so large that it even crossed his cheeks when it was cracked, exposing his dead white flesh and bones, and occasionally turning to one side, exposing his skinless back to the crowd, and an unknown thing like tentacles or blood vessels was entrenched behind it, like a living, twisted corpse.
It had no cover on its body, rows of bones on its chest, neatly arranged under its skin, and on its hands were weapons full of red pus like scythes, and the scythe was indistinguishable from the hand, as if it had grown on the hand in the first place, or had been mutated from the hand.
"What a disgusting thing." Morel wailed.