Chapter 522: The Grave Keeper and the Blood Rune (1/4)

When he came out of MI3, it was already a little dark, and Link took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, it was already 6:20 p.m. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

Link used to remember that at this time, Greenstone City was still very lively, but now, there was almost no one on the streets. The wind blew through the streets, making a 'whining' cry, and the city was full of people, but it was like a ghost.

It can be seen that the recent plague has had a great impact on Greenstone City.

Link and Celine first returned to the timber warehouse where King Ryan and the others were hiding, briefly introduced the situation, and then he and Celine continued to set off for the south of the city.

The cemetery south of the city is near the garden area south of Greenstone, quite far from the old town, and Link blessed the two with a traceless magic and walked incognito.

By the time we got to the garden area, the streets were quieter. The garden district is inhabited by the city's upper-class elite, who are well-informed and have enough financial strength, and most of them have fled for their lives at this time.

Along the way, Link found that many of the houses here were empty, and even the occasional lighted houses were only lit by one or two oil lamps, and one or two old servants were watching over the master's beautiful garden villa.

Because there was no one, no one lit the street lamps on both sides of the street, and all the way down, the whole street was black and hollow, like a giant beast with a huge mouth open waiting for people to throw themselves into the net.

Celine said softly, "I can feel that there is a great danger hidden here。。。。。 It looks like we've been targeted by a wild beast. ”

She held both guns in her hands.

Link held one hand on the hilt of the Dragonlord's Fury, and he continued to pump dragon power into it while keeping his whole body on guard.

He is not afraid of any beast, he is just worried that this beast is the divine favor of the Agatha snake people, and if there is a divine favor, there will be a snake man sacrifice. Link is naturally not afraid of a real fight, but this is Gliston City, and if the other party is provoked, the entire city may be affected by the aftermath of the force, and that will be a disaster.

Link didn't want any violent clashes with his opponents in the city.

After walking a few hundred meters, the sky became darker, the garden area was full of ancient trees, the shade was thick, and a faint white mist appeared, and the temperature began to drop, which could make people feel a cold air drilling into the cracks of the bones.

"It's very wrong." Link said softly, "In this air, I don't feel any destructive divine power, but there is a very secret dark aura. ”

This aura is very thin, ordinary priests will definitely not be able to detect it, and may not even be able to cause a divine reaction, and Celine beside Link doesn't feel anything, even if it's Link, he only feels a trace of nothingness.

But if there is a dark aura, it means that there is a dark force intervening.

There are two dark forces in the north, one is the dark elves, and the other is the demons that have been scattered. Demons are migrated from the plane, and most of them are warriors, and it is unlikely that these people will do such dark and mysterious things, so the biggest suspect is the dark elves.

Celine's mind also turned extremely fast, and she whispered: "You say, will the dark elves join forces with the Agatha snake people?" ”

Link nodded: "If the dark elves still have some ambitions, they will join forces with the Agatha snake people." ”

In fact, they have joined forces, and this matter is recorded on the scroll of the brigade mage Eisenis, but the record on the scroll is biased towards the general trend, and it was updated to half a month ago, and there is no information on Greenstone's story scroll, so Link has no way of knowing the details of what happened inside Greenstone.

At this time, the gate of the cemetery has appeared in front of me.

Because the people buried in it have a lot of status, the cemetery is built very carefully.

On both sides of the gate are two stone pillars five meters high and half a meter thick, and the entrance is a carved hollow iron gate, and not far behind the iron gate is a small square, in the center of which is carved a stone sculpture of the sleeping saint Aragrion of the Lord of Light, and the stone carving is a long candlestick, on which a requiem lamp is lit.

Because the people were all gone, and there was a lack of maintenance, most of these requiem lamps were extinguished, leaving only a few faint green beans.

The fog in the cemetery is getting thicker and thicker, the temperature is getting colder, soaking people's muscles and bones, the wind here has basically stopped, there is no sound, and the cemetery is very silent.

Celine has been living in the vibrant Scorched Earth City for a year, and when she first came to this kind of ghost, she was very uncomfortable, and she quietly moved a few steps towards Link.

"Let's go, let's go in." Link whispered, feeling the subtle darkness in the air intently, as he walked towards the depths of the cemetery.

After walking more than fifty meters, Celine pointed to a hut on the side of the road and said, "Look, there seems to be a light there, and it seems to be the residence of the grave keeper." ”

Link came back to his senses, turned his head to look, and through the vast mist, he saw a small house, with a dim light shining through the room.

"Let's go and see."

If it's a grave keeper, they're sure to get more clues, and any clues are crucial before facing the unknown.

The hut was not far away, 30 meters away, the door of the hut was closed, and although there was a light, no sound came from the house.

Getting closer, Link's ears moved, and he heard a strange breathing sound, which was very slow, far lower than the breathing rate of ordinary people, and between exhalation and inhalation, there was a trace of trilling, as if there was viscous phlegm in the lungs that could not be dissolved.

Link already knew in his heart: "There are people in the house, but they have been infected by the plague. ”

"Huh?" Celine had always heard of the plague, but had never seen anyone infected by the plague, so she swallowed her saliva a little nervously and asked, "Do we still want to go in and see it?" ”

"Of course, it doesn't hurt to see."

Link used the mage's hand to open the small door of the wooden house, and when he pushed it open, there was a soft 'squeak', and the smell of rotting flesh suddenly came to his face from inside the door.

Immediately followed by an inhuman strange sound of 'Whoa~', a figure pounced towards Link.

Mage's Hand!

This grave keeper has indeed been completely infected, but his strength is very weak, but at the level of a level 1 warrior, Link just used the little magic of the mage's hand to lift his body, and then carried it into the house, no matter how much the grave keeper struggled, it was useless.

Once inside, Link's mind moved again: the Dark Cage!

This is a level 3 small magic that Link learns in his free time, which only requires 10 points of dragon power, which is very convenient for the weak.

There was a soft 'buzz', a chain glowing with silver brilliance sounded out of thin air, and a few crisp sounds of 'click~click' wrapped around the infected's body, binding him to the ground and unable to move.

Then the two of them began to look around.

First of all, this grave keeper, he was wearing a priest's robe, he was supposed to be the lowest member of the Radiant Sanctuary, his flesh had begun to fester, but there were no maggots in the wound, and his whole person looked like a skeleton with a coat of rotting flesh.

Celine didn't want to look at it anymore, she kept covering her nose, the rancid smell was too strong.

Link used another small blast spell to change the air in the cabin a bit, and the smell was much lower, and then he began to check the cabin.

The light source in the cabin was a magic lamp, and in the corner of the cabin was a small desk with some writing instruments on it, including a notebook.

This made Link's eyes light up, and he walked over to let go of the note and look.

After looking at it for a while, he realized that it was a diary, which should have been written by this grave keeper, and he recorded in great detail what had happened in the cemetery recently, and at the same time he also recorded the changes in his body, which he wrote until 7 days ago.

This grave keeper should have been formally trained in record-keeping, and he is very objective in what he records, even if there are changes in his own body, he tries not to mix personal emotions and try to record the most intuitive details.

Link watched carefully, and Celine also walked up to look.

The most valuable is a diary entry from 9 days ago.

Today there were a few mischievous little ones playing hide and seek, and these guys were so uneducated that they hid behind the tombstones of the deceased, and I didn't look at them for a while, and they ran away。。。。。。 After a while, I saw the children run out again, they ran very fast, and one of the children was crying, and they seemed to be frightened by something. I was curious, so I walked over and took a look. I saw a lot of runes carved in blood on the tombstone in the innermost part of the cemetery, I walked over, and I felt a shock all over my body, it felt like my bones had been stung by a wasp, and the pain was unbearable, I was so scared that I didn't dare to look at it again, and I ran back to the house and fell ill。。。。。。 Something evil must have entered my body. ’

Later in this diary, the tomb keeper also drew three runes from his memory.

Link suddenly narrowed his eyes: "It's the blood rune commonly used by the dark elves, and sure enough, they're making trouble!" ”

He looked through the two diaries in the back, and he remembered that the diary was rather messy, showing that the priest was in a very bad mental state, and he recorded the process of his body changes little by little, although it was messy, but it was very specific.

After reading it, Link frowned: "According to this description, this is basically the same as the level 3 necromantic magic 'Undead Ray', but these people don't have any power breath inside their bodies, and this magic must have undergone some kind of improvement." Let's go and see those blood runes. ”

Putting away the notebook, Link was just about to turn around, and an alarm suddenly appeared in his heart, and at the same time he heard something coming from the window, it seemed to be something like a crossbow arrow, he didn't think about it, he immediately pulled out the dragon king's wrath, and slashed his sword in the direction of the window.

A black-red tongue stained with corrosive slime was severed by Link and dropped on his desk.

The tongue is not dead, it is constantly beating, and the mucus is thrown everywhere, and wherever it is touched, it makes a 'snort' sound, and it corrodes a big hole.

At the same time, a sharp cry came from the window, sounding like the scream of a woman who had been choked by the neck, and the sound kept going away, and in the white mist, a black shadow could be seen flying away.

Link immediately said to Celine: "Go, catch up, this is the Hell Summoning Beast Zampo, there must be a summoner around here!" ”

Zampo is a phase beast, the best at stealth, and the most terrifying means of attack is its venom and piercing tongue, which is very terrifying for the average warrior, but for Link, it is a small thing, the rat meets the dragon. (To be continued.) )