"Let's go back to the cave first."

The staff floating behind Xia emitted a dim light, and the head of the shopkeeper, who had been struggling and howling, slowly quieted down, and it didn't take long for it to hang down, and the evil spirit condensed inside had already dissipated.

"Since we're acquaintances, I'll make a little more effort."

She uses a kind of undead magic similar to summoning repatriation, which is said to send the dead back to the other side, although there may not be a real underworld in this world, but the living will always have similar wishes, hoping that the souls of the deceased can have a perfect home.

"I was worried that the ghouls were manipulative, but now it seems that there is a deeper reason."

Natsu and the black-clothed little Lori searched in the rain for a while to make sure that there were no missing undead, and then returned to the cave together.

"Stephanie, go around and find the source of the ghouls and see if you find anything."

She re-set up a defensive circle at the door, and ordered the black-clothed little Lori.

"Good master."

After leaving some food, the little Lori in black flew out, spun around in the air a few times, and reported in her mind:

"There is nothing abnormal in other places, only some bad feelings remain in the north, master, I will go over there to take a look."

"Go ahead."

Natsu dried his clothes, then lay down on the mat and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Regardless of whether it was humans or monsters who manipulated ghouls and killed the inhabitants of the fortress, there could be a fierce battle later, and she needed to get some rest.

The little Lori in black came back later than expected, and the news she brought back was disappointing:

"The ghoul's lair is on a hill 60 kilometers from here, and it's empty, and not a single monster is left; And that lair seems to have been established for a long time, and there is no trace of the necromancer. ”

"Simply because of the lack of food, smelling the corpses and moving into the forest? Or is there anyone who wants to use the ghoul's talent for devouring corpses to cover up some of the evidence...... These are all possible. ”

She lay there thinking for a moment. In the end, he still felt that he could not rest here with peace of mind, so he took the long sword and walked out of the cave.

The magic fluctuations generated by flying are very conspicuous in the eyes of French classes and monsters, and if she wants to find clues herself, she must do so on foot.

"Master, actually, just let me go around again, you don't have to go out in the rain."

The black-clothed little Lori took out a special cloak and draped it over her body. This thing is coated with a layer of grease, and even if the area is not large, it can more or less block some rain.

"After all, you are not a magician, and you can only use physical methods to find clues to deal with dead objects, and many traces must be seen by special means, so I better go there myself."

By the time the two of them came out of the cave, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it hit her like sharp arrows, and she was thumping.

"No, I can't. It's too loud. ”

Natsu reluctantly took off his cloak and began to brave the rain to walk through the muddy forest everywhere.

Wearing a noble dress can halve the stealth effect, not to mention this kind of harsh sound that even ordinary people find harsh, it is like tying a gong and drum to one's body, beating the enemy and telling the enemy that I am coming.

"Let's go to the north and see the lair first, maybe I can use magic to detect something."

She's much faster and lighter on her feet, and spends most of her time walking through the treetops to be more efficient. Although she consumed some more body, it also made her leave the rainy area early. Came to the desolate mountains.

"It's supposed to be part of the Zekanha Mountains, and it doesn't seem like our town is very safe."

Shaking the water on his body, Natsu recognized the area in front of him.

By her footsteps, it was only a few days away from the town, and the old witch's treehouse was not far away, which was technically close to human activity. There is a ghoul lair on such a large scale that local patrols and hunters don't know about it.

"Where is the exact location of the nest?"

Xia asked the little Lori in black.

"Behind a large vein of rock, it's very hidden, but I've found it."

Following her to the entrance of the lair, a foul smell came to her face. Natsu frowned and checked around the cave entrance and found a suspicious spot.

"It's ...... Traces of the Sealing Circle. ”

Xia squatted down and looked at the remaining magic runes on the ground:

"A powerful magic used to block the movement of monsters, it seems that someone has known that there are ghoul swarms here."

A faint gray glow glowed on her glove, and when she touched the faint runes on it, the runes didn't react in the slightest, and it seemed that the energy had long been exhausted.

"It's a little strange for such a powerful magic array to appear here."

She stood up from the ground:

"Although ghouls are very ferocious creatures to ordinary people, as long as a magician like Egnes came and swept them away, why do you want to set up this kind of thing that can trap S-class monsters?"

The S-class monsters here refer to the general classification on the continent, not the system's evaluation of boss-level enemies.

"There's no aura of a powerful monster around here, master, maybe this magician's brain is in water."

The little Lori in black learned from Xia's usual tone and analyzed.

"How is that possible?"

Xia knocked her:

"Even if I am asked to set up this sealing circle now, it will take about an hour, no matter how much water I have in my brain, I won't spend a lot of time doing this kind of thing at the door of the monster's lair, as long as a few ghouls come out to attack, it will be wasted immediately."

"Forget it, let's take a look inside."

Slowly pulling out his long sword, Xia Xiao lowered his body and launched a sneak, entering the foul-smelling cave.

"Most of the bones on the ground don't seem to have brought humans into this lair."

She identified the bones on the ground as she dived deeper into the cavern.

Ghoul nests are often built underground and in the belly of mountains near water sources, they prefer cold, damp places, and these undead creatures still have some human consciousness, but they no longer remember their names, and slowly become the embodiment of evil and depravity.

"Sure enough, there are traces of human activity here."

After searching the entire cave for most of the time, Natsu found a secret passage in the deepest part of the mountain wall.

The passage was rudimentary, like something huge had been dug out with its claws, and unlike the usual narrow and confined passages, except for the elaborate entrance, it was a wide space where two carriages could travel side by side, but the space was full of rubble and dirt, and it seemed to have been dug simply and crudely.

"Master, I found something here!"

The little Lori in black kept a distance from her and searched the cave separately, and there seemed to be some progress over there.

"What's that?"

Xia didn't want to give up the exploration here, so he asked in his mind.

"Looks like a teleportation array, master."

The little Lori in black replied with some uncertainty.

A lair of hundreds of ghouls, and there is a teleportation array in it?

She looked at the deep secret passage in front of her, and turned to walk towards the place where the black-clothed little Lori was.

Although this secret passage is very suspicious, the attraction of the teleportation array is obviously greater.

"Master, here."

The little Lori in black led her to a hollow position, pointed to a broken ring inside, and said:

"There's another one of these rings next to it, but it's all broken......"

"It's indeed a spatial teleportation array, the same kind as the one in the underground forest."

Xia squatted there and looked at it for a while, then stood up with a sigh:

"If there is a lack of 1 or 2 runes, maybe I can still find a way to deduce the complete array, but now there are too many of them, a total of 9 are missing; Even if I could make it up with my imagination, it would be dangerous to make a small mistake and not know where it would teleport people. ”

"You can let me test it, master, I'm not afraid."

The little Lori in black volunteered:

"Even if it's teleported into the lava, it's just a hot bit, and I'll be back soon."

"This danger doesn't just mean teleporting to dangerous terrain, I know too little about this thing, what if I teleport to another dimension, can you still get back?"

Xia shook his head and said.

Then she turned around and walked to another ring, and found that this ring was missing 7 runes, although 2 more than the one just now, but with her superficial understanding of space magic, it was still in the range that could not be recovered.

"This place is not simple."

She looked at the dim landscape around her, and felt a mysterious sense of this seemingly ordinary monster lair.

"I'll go over there and take a look, copy the magic array and rune patterns as quickly as possible, and then follow up."

A new mission was given to the little Lori in black, and she returned to the secret passage.

"It's a long passage...... And it's not going down, it's going up. ”

She activated her psychic induction and felt along the wall on one side:

"But that's fine, for things like the undead, exposed to the ground is always weaker, and those hidden in the ancient tombs and deep underground are very difficult guys."

The undead don't like sunlight, and even the high-ranking undead who can wander during the day will not be able to expose themselves to the scorching sun, so don't rush at night when traveling, and you don't know what terrible things you will encounter in those desolate wildernesses and mountain forests.

"It's really outside."

She emerged from the secret passage and found herself at the top of a mountain.

"Wow, what is this, it's disgusting."

In the middle of the hill there was a dark green pool of bubbling inside, and even though it was outside, the stench filled the nasal cavities, and the smell was even worse than in the lair. (To be continued......) R1292