Chapter 8: Encounters

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"Meow ......"

The black cat's cry became strange after passing through the golden ball, but the urging did not change.

Magellan walked into the mass of unknown things, and despite the strange feeling of watching a ball of gold against his eyes, he still did not close his eyes.

Through a golden mist, Magellan saw a brief moment of confusion.

Then the light dimmed, and he found himself in a dark corridor.

A sound of footsteps was approaching.

Magellan extinguished the sun, freed his hands, and drew his sword.

Almost instantly, a sharp blade landed on his forehead.

When a wound opened on his skin and blood oozed out, Magellan did not react at all, he ignored the blade, and instead held the sword flat forward with his right hand, and stabbed it like lightning.

The blade retreated before it touched the bone, for the man holding the knife was about to be pierced.

The sound of blood dripping on the sandstone was particularly viscous, and the red color was particularly deep.

Magellan watched with satisfaction as the thin man in front of him bent over in pain and pressed one hand against the wound in his abdomen. This is a bearded man with a scarf, gray eyes, and a sophisticated killer, but still no match for Magellan.

Magellan was ready to end this sudden fight, he had expected his reaction to decay, so he was not affected too much, and the man opposite had no chance.

He swung his sword and slashed forward, then was blocked by a scimitar, and for a moment, Magellan felt that he had slashed a stone.

But his sword was enough to cut through steel.

With three swords in a row, the man staggered back, a huge wound in his chest spurting blood.

And then it all went away.

A black mist enveloped the man, as if the ground had turned into water, and he disappeared into the darkness.

Magellan put away his sword and walked to the place where the man had disappeared.

There was a black cloud left there.

It belonged to any kind of essence infection that Magellan knew, and the earthy yellow sandstone was black like a solidified mist, natural and ugly.

"The ...... of the Underworld"

Magellan bent down and tried to touch the black.

At that moment, the black condensed into a small snake that shot straight into his face like lightning.

But it's still too slow.

Magellan grabbed the baby snake by the tail and flicked it twice in the air like a whip, making two crunchs in the air, and then brushed his other hand from the snake's tail to the snake's head.

At this time, the pure black viper was already a corpse.

The kitten Shi Shiran walked to the side of the corpse, looked up at Magellan, and let out a cat meow of unknown meaning.

"Is this Emunchet's magic?"

Magellan looked up and asked the countess, who had come to him.

"It's not. ”

Helen's face was strangely distorted, and Magellan reacted to what had happened in an instant, and he put his hand in his arms and lit the oil lamp.

The corridor widened in the darkness, and there was silence all around, with neither the corpse of a venomous snake nor the trace of the essence.

"Hallucinatory ......"

Magellan looked around and sighed in the darkness: "The camels I know are not like that. ”

"That means ......"

The countess had the bad news that the camels had completely mastered the ancient imperial heritage here, and he had left Magellan a number of "gifts".

"Camels are not experts in magic. ”

Everything seems to point to some ominous possibility.

"It's clear that he now has a new magical advisor. ”

"Meow ......"

The kitten seemed completely unable to comprehend the strange atmosphere that suddenly appeared between the two humans, and it expressed its displeasure with a cat meow, and then gracefully wagged its tail and walked towards the front of the corridor.

"Let's go. ”

Magellan nodded and followed the countess.

The light of the "sun" was very dim, perhaps because the light in the corridor was not as scarce as in the temple, and the passage was very wide, but it was not known where it led.

Gracefully and confidently moving forward, the kitten did not hesitate to snatch the power to decide the direction of its head, and walked towards the depths of the tunnel where it leads.

Magellan carried the heavy gold chest on his back, and watched his shadow swaying on the yellow slate like a kitten's doppelganger, and fell into endless thoughts.

At least Magellan's never did this until Athena took away most of his brain.

Then his thoughts were pulled back.

The corridor had come to an end, and behind the collapsed stone gate was a bright hall.

It was the lair of two giant serpents.

In the inverted hemispherical hall, two venomous cobras are coiled on the left and right, and above them, in the middle of the hemisphere, is a huge ball of pure gold, which is radiating a brilliant golden light contrary to common sense.

"Meow ......"

For the first time, the kitten lowered its head high, it stopped in confusion, and was picked up by a pair of hands.

"Is this a puzzle trap?"

Magellan didn't have a problem with this, he just couldn't understand why there was a puzzle mechanism in the temple.

"To guard the collection of the gods. ”

"So, the way we went in wasn't the right way?"

"That's ...... Cave theft. ”

The countess said as she walked to the middle of the hall and looked up at the huge twin snakes and the sun-like golden orb.

"Isis, the goddess of wisdom, loves to guess riddles, and in this respect the goddess is no different from her enemy Thoth. It's just that Isis's puzzle has its own characteristics. ”

"The goddess of magical mysteries believes that the most important part of wisdom is determined at the time of one's birth, and that those who cannot understand true knowledge should never want to understand it. ”

Magellan looked up at the twin snakes.

He didn't see the answer to the puzzle, he didn't even find it.

"It seems that I don't really have intelligence. ”

"At least you once had. Helen turned to face Magellan, "I don't know if Athena can take that kind of real wisdom, now we can see." ”

Magellan smiled wryly and put away the oil lamp and stepped onto the body of a giant snake.

It was a pure black cobra, its scales carved out of obsidian, its tail hidden under a stone slab on the ground, its upper body swirling and rising against the edge of the hemisphere, its hideous head facing the golden sphere, and its eyes empty.

He climbed along the serpent's back to a position where he could look at another white cobra, but still didn't find any puzzles.

"Tusukiz. ”

This is the real name text that stands for "problem".

Then the two giant snakes moved, and they slid silently on the ground, changing their posture, and finally turning into lying on the ground.

Magellan shook his head: "Bad news. ”