Chapter 128: The Hidden Door
"No way? Didn't you really find any other dark passages around here, Miss Dark Elves? Hearing Camussa turn her head and say that there was no way ahead, Countess Calea, who was protected by the young people in the middle of the procession, looked disappointed, but did not want to give up, so she asked Camussa about the hypothesis of a secret way.
An experienced explorer, Countess Callea had a wonderful intuition and sense of space that felt that there were many other places within the ruins that were far from being discovered by her own group.
Camussa could tell from the countess's face that she was looking forward to the ruin, but reality was reality, and the Dark Elf girl shrugged her shoulders at the countess's question, and rechecked the surrounding walls, floor tiles, and vaults of the corridor, only to find a dead end.
"Perhaps, some part of the wall around here is a false wall of illusion?" In the middle of the night, Arya leaned out half of the way from the back of the team, and with the help of her low-light vision and the glowing stone lantern used by the exploration team to illuminate it, she glanced at the stone wall in front of Camussa blocking the way, and guessed after thinking about it.
The blonde elven girl remembers the first time she and Finn teamed up, they saw the illusion wall in the undead barracks deep in the mines of Melore.
She made her point in a calm tone, but her casual remark seemed to inadvertently poke at one of Telks' sensitive nerves.
So Telkes, carrying the staff in his hand, turned from the front of the line and looked at Arya with some displeasure, and said disdainfully, "Don't be stupid, Miss Elf. If there really is a magical reaction generated by the [Phantom Wall Technique] around here, a professional wizard like me, who graduated from the Royal Wizarding Academy, will definitely find it at the first time and accurately capture its specific location, don't you think this should be the case? β
"But thinking back to the previous performance of disarming the spell trap along the way, your explanation may not be as credible as what Lilith said." Before Arya could respond to Telks' rebuttal, Camussa teased Tarks with great interest, "Don't you think that's how it should be, Your Excellency?" β
"You-!" Hearing Camussa's sarcastic sneering voice, Telkes's face swelled, and he immediately turned his head and glared at Camussa, "Are you laughing at me, Dark Elf!" β
Camussa's words almost completely angered Tarks.
Fortunately, he noticed that his brother's bad temper was about to explode again, and Leah saw that the situation was not good, so he immediately ran from the back of the team to the front of the team like a firefighter and persuaded Telx a few words, which calmed down the resentment in Telkes's heart a little.
Tarches' anger subsided, but the status quo showed no signs of changing.
Finn stood between Lilith and Terx and looked up at the stone wall in front of him, and for a moment he tried to remember the exploration process of his previous life, but after half a minute had passed, he only remembered that the player team he led in his previous life seemed to have stopped here, thinking that this was the end of the ruins and turned back to the surface.
"Could it be that there are other forks in the road somewhere before?" With a blink of an eye, the young paladin clenched his fist in front of his chin, and his brain quickly tried to look through his memories for what might have been overlooked among the many paths that everyone had walked not long ago.
He was wondering if he had overlooked himself in the ruins in his previous life and his self in this life, when Lilith suddenly sensed something, and walked forward to the stone wall that blocked everyone's way.
"Lilith?" Finn immediately looked up at the back of the maiden and the owl above her standing in front of the wall.
Lilith didn't look back, and then craned her neck to look at the high part of the wall, her dark eyes dazed, and after a while, as if possessed by something, she began to whisper a series of strangely pronounced sentences.
The strange behavior of the warlock girl attracted the attention of everyone present, but for a short time no one understood what she was doing.
It wasn't until about half a minute had passed that Lilith suddenly closed her lips again and stopped her voice as if she were chanting a spell, and then looked back at Finn, who she trusted most of them all, and said to him with a calm face: "Door." β
"What?" Finn looked at Lilith and was stunned.
"There's a door here." Lilith repeated her words more clearly.
The girl's voice was calm and emotionless, but at the same time it was like a lightning bolt that struck everyone's minds without warning, so that Camusha, who had just been in charge of scouting the physical mechanism, was the first to say yes, and retorted: "This is impossible, I did not forget to pay attention to the traces of the secret door when I checked the trap, but there is not a special convex or dented surface in this wall, not even a small crack. β
"In the name of the wizard who graduated from the Violet King Wizarding Academy, I didn't feel any magical reactions here, whether it was a spell trap or anything else." As soon as Camusha's voice fell, Telkes, who was in charge of detecting the magic reaction with Lilith just now, also put aside his prejudice against Camussa and stood up to reach an agreement with the dark elf girl, "If the magic form door exists around here, I am sure that I can detect it when I detect magic, after all, magic doors generally exist in the form of portals, and the magic reaction of this kind of magic door is very large." β
"So, Lilith, what exactly are you talking about?" Seeing that Camussa and Terkes immediately stood up against Lilith, Arya regained her composure faster than most after the initial moment of surprise, and then motioned for Lilith to continue.
"Yes, yes, Lilith, tell me what the door you mentioned is, and you won't sell it." As soon as Arya was reminded of her words, Leah suddenly seemed to wake up like a dream, and then she also looked at Lilith with curiosity and anticipation, eager to know the truth behind the words of the warlock girl.
Lilith looked at Arya and Leah and nodded her head to prevent Pol's dumb owl from falling off her head.
And thenβ
"Look over here." She whispered a reminder to everyone, then raised the staff of the wolf soul in her left hand and pointed it at the stone wall, and whispered a few more vague words in her mouth.
In the next second, in front of everyone's eyes, a faint layer of white light lit up on the wall that had no stone wall at all, and the position pointed by Lilith lifting the staff of the wolf soul at the top of the wall quickly refreshed several rows of hieroglyphs with strange and illegible fonts from the white light like a printing press.
"Babel!" When Countess Kalaya saw those rows of words, her eyes widened in shock, and the words came out of her mouth.
The Countess's shock stemmed from the fact that she was an experienced explorer herself, having explored many of the ruins along the coast of St. Fren's Sea, and often found time to discuss archaeology with the scholars of the kingdom in the nearby library, so that even though she could not translate many ancient texts now, she could identify them by their appearance at a young age.
The Babel language, a script coined by the Witch King White in the Third Age, is one of them.
Before Countess Kaleya's words of surprise fell, the white light on the stone wall and the Babel words suddenly dimmed again, and a shrill sound as if something had been forcibly torn apart came from the front of everyone, and the air in front of Lilith was torn open by a mysterious force, a strange crack.
The crack in that space immediately swelled and grew in front of everyone's eyes, and within a while, it expanded into a vertical oval frame, and the scene inside the frame was a dark blue wave that seemed to be surging with energy, and it did look like a strange "door" from the outside.
As soon as this strange door evolved from a spatial crack appeared in front of everyone's eyes, Telkes, who had only made a promise in the name of a graduate of the Violet King Wizarding Academy a few seconds ago, lost control completely, and almost pointed at the door in front of Lilith and the Warlock Maiden in a roaring voice, arguing loudly, "No, this is impossible! I'm obviously not lying, I really didn't sense any signs of magic reaction from here before, this magic door is completely contrary to the common sense of magic! I... I...... I suspect it's not a door at all! It's fake! β
Terkes's gaffe attracted a surprised glance from Countess Calea, which made the countess's impression of him a little worse for a while.
Leah felt that his brother had been ugly since he entered the ruins, and although he could understand his brother's desire to show himself in front of the countess, he could only hurriedly grab his brother for a while, and said "Brother, don't be like this", and closed his mouth with a "Please calm down" to comfort Telx, so Telkes, who caused this little farce, was quickly pulled aside by Leah, and gradually stopped after taking a few breaths.
After looking sideways at the young blonde wizard lord being helped by Leah to sit down and rest, Fain also felt for a moment that the door that Lilith led out of front of the stone wall was probably not a real magic door, after all, although Terkes wanted to save face and was a little narrow-minded, but he was a top student who graduated from the Violet King Wizarding Academy, and he should indeed be aware of the magic reaction of the magic gate.
"That is, this gate was not created by the power of magic, but a third thing besides magic and physical things." The young paladin put his fist in front of his mouth, stared at the oval crack door, and followed the clue that came to his mind, "Neither physical nor magic, the existence of a third non-living thing that excludes physics and magic......
"It's the law of the world." Much to her surprise, Lilith looked back at Finn this time, and after hearing Finn muttering to herself, she softly answered the young paladin with her own answer.
"Laws?" The Warlock Maiden's unexpected answer not only startled Finn, but also caused the eyes of everyone else present to widen, and they immediately raised their heads to look into her dark eyes.
"Well, the law." Lilith faced everyone's gaze, tapped her forehead, and confirmed, "This door is a law gate hidden in this wall, made by an innate ability called [Space Gate]...... That's what the words that just appeared on the wall told me. (To be continued.) )