If it weren't for the urgency of time, the monk would have praised the priest who wrote the notes for his carefulness and meticulousness.

Unfortunately, everyone was anxious to find out what was going on in the village, so the monk only turned about a dozen pages, and after confirming the location of the people and the details of the village, he quickly flipped through a large stack of notes with his fingertips.

In the first half of the book, he did not find any useful information, but the monk was not in a hurry, and patiently flipped through it several times, until the last ten pages of the notebook, and the style of writing changed suddenly.

"June 29, 340 A.D.," the note on this page is obviously much heavier than the previous one, showing the urgency of the priest who recorded the note, as if he wanted to vent the pressure on the paper through the tip of the pen.

The monk paused for a moment as he read this.

The previous events were all inconsequential 'little things', just a record of the daily life of a village.

Therefore, when the pastor recorded it, he did not specifically specify the date.

Song Qingxiao caught the pause in his breathing at this moment, and quickly reacted to the so-called 340 years of the federal calendar, which should refer to this year.

Four hundred years ago, the two great sages led the thirteen saints and the elites of various races to drive away the evil dragons, and it took a total of 60 years to succeed and then establish the federal government.

If you calculate the time by the time of the establishment of the Confederation, it is exactly 340 years.

In other words, at least until this year, there was no accident in the village, which is very consistent with her initial guess.

"Aria in the village has disappeared, and it's night, and she hasn't returned to the village."

"His family was very anxious, and after informing the village chief Soke, they asked me for help."

For a calm and peaceful mountain village, the sudden disappearance of a villager for no reason is indeed a 'big event' worth recording, so the pastor deliberately recorded the date when recording this event.

This also made it easier for latecomers to check it, and when the monk read this, he did not rush back as quickly as before, but glanced at the elf Fianor.

"The sub-elves have a strong family concept." Moreover, the elf is gentle and peaceful by nature, and will not run away from home for no reason, and if he suddenly disappears, it should be something that has happened so that he cannot rush back to his people.

The monk thought something about the same, and then continued to turn the page:

"Recently, a lot of unknown snakes and insects have suddenly appeared near the village, they are very aggressive, and they are very worried about the loss of closeness and tolerance to the sub-elf clan."

As a race favored by the creator gods, elves possess many qualities that humans do not possess.

Nature loves them, and even the creatures that are nurtured by mountains and rivers are full of affection for them.

From snakes, insects, rats and ants to ferocious and ferocious, extremely aggressive monsters, they will generally release goodwill when facing the elves, and they will not attack wantonly.

This is also the reason why this vein sub-elf can live in the misty forest for many years without incident.

The snakes, insects, rats and ants in the dense forest will avoid the villages here and the life of the elves.

However, according to the notebook, a week before Arria's disappearance, extremely aggressive snakes, insects, rats, ants and other objects began to appear near the village.

These creatures seem to have violent personalities, and even the elves who see them leaving the village do not hide from them, so the village chief Soke has already issued a warning early in the morning, reminding everyone to be careful.

It's just that the elves are optimistic by nature and don't take such a 'little thing' to heart, until Arria's disappearance has caused the village chief to worry.

"We've got magic lamps, incense, cutlery, tents—" The monk sighed silently as he read this.

More than 300 years of comfortable and stable life have dispelled the vigilance of these people.

Even if the 'Moon' Sage was not completely wiped out, but was sealed in the Abyss Territory at the end of the Misty Forest, everyone's worship and trust in the 'Sun' Sage reached an extremely terrifying level.

They firmly believe that the darkness of the Misty Forest is only temporary, and according to the prediction of the Great Prophecy, in the year 341 of the Federal Calendar, the Thirteen Saints will once again seal the rebellious Moon Sage, and then the Light will suppress the darkness and cover the earth again.

This page of the diary records that after everyone made the pre-launch preparations, there was nothing else meaningful.

As for some of the preparations, it may be due to the optimistic nature of the elves, or it may be because they are convinced that they are a favored people who will not be harmed in the dense forest, so they regard this mission to find the missing people as an alternative outing.

But all this fell into the hands of those who came after him, and this page of optimistic record is particularly heavy.

There was no living person in the village anymore, and when he saw these notes again, the monk's eyes were sad.

He calmed down his mood for a while, and then flipped down:

"O my god of light! There were an incredible number of snakes and insects near the village, and they gathered around the village, and they seemed to be stimulated, and their temperament was very vicious. ”

"We've avoided them on our own initiative, but there are so many of them that the Sultan was nearly bitten by a spider hanging from a tree while searching for Aria."

"Fortunately, at 1:32 a.m., we found his whereabouts in the col of the Fallen Dragon Vein."

When the monk read this, he paused, as if he was afraid that Song Qingxiao would not understand, so he turned his head and explained: "The vein of the falling dragon is a place where the evil dragon once died in the legend. ”

It is located in the eastern section of the Misty Forest, nourished by the soul and body of the evil dragon, and many harmful demonic beasts have been derived, and even according to records, there is a powerful miasma, and ordinary people will be poisoned when they get close, even when the Misty Forest is not shrouded in dark breath, it is a place that people of all ethnic groups on the continent avoid and fear.

I don't know why this sub-elf in the village suddenly went there and suddenly fell unconscious.

"He was unconscious, and he didn't look like he had been attacked by a large, ferocious beast, but I don't know if he had swallowed poisonous plants, so we carried him back to the village."

For the next two days, the diary was devoted to the unconscious Arria.

"He wasn't awake, we looked every corner of his body and we didn't find any wounds. We've tried a lot of things, and his situation seems to be getting worse by the day. ”

The pastor prayed for him, but to no avail.

Two days later.

"When we cleaned him up, we found a weird gray spot on his hairline."

"This gray spot is very strange, I asked Pastor Dora, who took care of him yesterday, and he didn't notice the existence of this gray spot."

July 3, 340 in the federal calendar. Afternoon.

"I noticed that the gray spots on Aria's hairline were increasing, they were moving down, I swear, I saw them moving!"

Because the gray spots appear on the top of their heads, this arouses the curiosity of the sub-elves and the three priests of the village of Og.

"We searched on the top of Arria's head and found two meter-wide blood holes in the middle of his parietal bone. They hide in the roots of their hair, they are overlooked, and they look like they have been eaten by some poisonous creature. ”

"We were very happy to find out why."

The elves' use of plants has reached a very magical level, and the villagers of Og Village found herbs to remove biological toxins such as snakes, scorpions, and spiders, boiled them into juice, cleaned Arria's wounds, and fed him to drink.

"But it didn't help." There was a tone of helplessness in the pastor's words: "He is not awake, the medicine seems to have lost its effect, and it is possible that our guess is wrong." ”

July 3, 340 in the federal calendar. At night.

The gray spots on Arria's face had spread to the center of his eyebrows, and it was terrifying. They took up Aria's entire forehead, as if someone was carrying Aria's legs and hanging him headfirst in a basin of gray paint, slowly submerging and dyeing it. ”

The situation of the sub-elf who had been the first to happen was clearly unsettling to the priest of the record, and the unconscious villagers and the strange black spots that spread rapidly allowed the priest to record several of what he saw and heard in a single day.

But it is precisely because of his meticulous personality that it provides very detailed information for later generations to understand what happened.

July 4, 340 in the federal calendar. Late at night.

"I couldn't sleep, and I was always worried about Aria in the main temple, and the venerable priest Yega lit the holy water for him from the Holy Court, hoping that the Illuminati would bless him and awake him."

"I hope Aria will wake up and listen to the sound of the main temple all the time."

But he waited a long time, and did not hear the sound he expected, and finally the pastor in charge of recording could not sit still.

"I look in the direction of the main hall, the night is so dark tonight, I don't know if it's my delusion, I feel that the night is coming faster and faster recently."

"The main hall is lit, but tonight the church seems to be much darker than usual. The church, which used to be reassuring, calm, and comfortable, somehow made me feel a little scared tonight. ”

"The two priests, Yaga and Dora, were sleeping soundly, and there was no sound, and I seemed to hear a strange sound, as if some snake was devouring something."

But the village is inhabited by elves, and they are a people who are favored by living beings, and where they are there, evil spirits will not act rashly.

"Maybe I'm thinking too much."

This is the end of the page.

Roughly speaking, this note is more like a pastor who can't sleep in the middle of the night, and what he writes down casually is not so much an incident report as an expression of his mood in the middle of the night.

But judging from the notes, it was clear that the priest had sensed the presence of the dark aura and was feeling uneasy.

The note had been recorded to the end, and the monk's fingers paused on the page, not knowing what to think, and then sighed silently, and finally turned to the next page:

"O my god of light! The gray spots on Arria's forehead had spread to the tip of his nose, and the top half of his face seemed to be soaked in a strange dye! ”

"Above these gray spots, strange black streaks appeared, as if some kind of mysterious ancient curse."

"The black patches form strange lines, some of which look like spiders that have been cut in half, it's terrifying!"

"What the hell happened to Aria in the Fallen Dragon's Vein?"

Such doubts are not only in the minds of the pastor at this time, but also in the hearts of the four people who entered the church at this time.

The next three days passed, and Arria's condition did not improve.

According to his diary, the gray spots on his face spread to his neck the following afternoon.

A complete black line appeared on his face, and the shape of the pattern was like a spider dragging a long tail with a hook, and each had four long feet on either side of his cheek, covering almost the entire face of him, which was very frightening.

The priests in the night clearly heard the crawling sound of 'snorting', which grew louder and louder, and the three priests who lived in the church fell into a panic.

"The gray lines on Arria's body have spread to his abdomen, and his body is very cold, like a dead man, but his body still has the sound of blood pulsing."

"I feel that the gray lines on his body seem to be 'alive', and when night comes, it is the time when it grows most actively."

To test his guess, the note-taking priest also conducted an experiment.

July 7, 340 A.D. 10:25 a.m.

"Today I am in charge of the care of Arria, who has been lying here for seven days and has not seen any improvement, and Pastor Yaga proposes to send him to the court of the Sun Worship, in the hope that he may receive the mercy of the Holy Maiden and drive away his suffering with the light."

"The gray marks have spread to his thighs, and I always feel that poor sub-elf is in great pain, as if he was begging me for help."

"I prayed for him all day, hoping he would open his eyes."

"The 'spider' on his face is darker, as if he is about to come back to life, I may be too tired to see the 'spider' move his legs."

In his diary, from 10:25 a.m. to 5:55 p.m. on July 7, the gray shadow on Arria's leg had increased by about five centimeters.

But after 18:00 in the evening, according to the pastor's account, the rate of increase in the gray streaks was very frightening.

"I saw the gray shadows seem to come to life, crawling under Arria's legs at a very slow pace."

Even in order to record this, and to prove that he was not dazzled, the priest even took a pen and, despite his panic, drew a very visible mark on the middle of Arria's thigh at 19:21.

"When the quills touched Arria's body, I felt the muscles in his legs hit me hard, as if a 'hand' inside was pushing me viciously, trying to pinch me."

"At 19:35 I saw with my own eyes that the gray shadows were slowly crawling over the marks I had drawn with my own hands, that is to say, they were more active at night than during the day, as if they were afraid of the light, the brilliance of the god of light, and did not dare to come out to meet people during the day."

"It's a big discovery, and I have to report it to Pastor Yerga."