Chapter 862: Ritual and Door (2-in-1)
Ancient wraiths are ghost-like creatures with a mixture of extraordinary characteristics, among them, cursed objects are related to a certain part of their life, which is combined with the characteristics and becomes the basis of their existence, because of this, the corresponding manifestations of cursed objects of different ancient wraiths will not be the same, but the essence is the same, and dust is another characteristic, the source of most of their abilities, as for the residual spirituality, it is slightly equal to the blood and other materials of monsters.
Seeing the few remaining items in front of him, Furth had some realization, and then looked at Abner, and after bowing his head slightly, he walked over to collect the materials one by one.
During this time, the attitude of the three official Extraordinary Beings was to turn a blind eye, knowing in their hearts that it was entirely the work of the young man named Abner who was able to slay this excessively powerful ancient wraith, and although the three of them also contributed, they were not indispensable.
Therefore, it is completely reasonable for the other party to ask his wife to get the materials.
The member of the "Purifying Light" named Dorne even walked up to Abner, bowed deeply to him, and said sincerely, "Thank you for helping us avenge Ed and Brown......
"You're welcome, without the information you provided, I wouldn't have been able to calculate it so easily." Abner waved his hand and said politely.
He wasn't talking nonsense, if he didn't know anything about the ancient wraith that seemed to be Austen, even if he could win, he wouldn't be as calm as he was just now.
After a few polite words, Furth had gathered up the materials and returned to Abner, and the men re-entered the foyer of the palace and began to explore the relatively intact part of the building.
Although the three official Extraordinaries of Captain Defoe had also explored some areas by relying on the opportunity to sacrifice their teammates, they had never looked at it in detail at that time, so they followed Abner and the others to search again.
The first thing that caught their eye was the crumbling staircase, the overlapping remains of the superstructure, the sharp stone pillars that jutted from the roof into the basement, and the shattered glass shards of the dome.
The sound of the wind blowing, and the cold meaning that seeped into the bone marrow made Furth shiver.
All kinds of horrific scenes flashed in her mind, and she had to turn on her spiritual vision and look around slowly, until she saw Abner's back, and then she was relieved.
However, she noticed that on the right side of the ruins, there was a stone staircase that was still intact.
The staircase was mottled and stretched down, leading to nowhere.
Naturally, Abner noticed the staircase, but according to his instincts and experience in previous games, he didn't go there immediately, but first rummaged through the rest of the palace.
Among them, the east and west side halls have not yielded anything, but in the collapsed corridor of the main hall on the north side, many broken murals have been found.
The murals depict a middle-aged and elderly gentleman wearing silver glasses performing some kind of ritual, and three different forms of insects are placed on the altar of the ceremony.
One of them twisted into a ball, one with twelve transparent rings, and one shimmering with brilliance......
"This is Benjamin, lord of Bernie during the Gustavian dynasty. He is a member of the legendary Abrahamic family, the great nobles of the Fourth Age, and we at the Purifying Light have a detailed record of him...... I suspect this relic is a byproduct of some evil ritual he was performing. Captain Defoe revealed what he knew.
However, Abner didn't care about Defoe's words, he stared at the murals, took out a single lens again, put it in front of his right eye, and began to analyze and decipher it:
"Spirit Worm, Time Worm, Star Worm......
"This seems to be one of the rituals to unseal Mr. 'Gate'! How did it end up here?
"Benjamin himself is only an extraordinary person in the middle sequence, and it is impossible for him to hear the 'whisper' of Mr. 'Gate' and get this ceremony......
"So...... This is what Russell told him?
"From the whispers of the full moon that can still be heard in Forth, it is clear that Benjamin must not have succeeded in performing that ceremony, and did not even reveal the content of the ceremony to the Abraham family!
"If you are bold enough to assume, perhaps these murals were also arranged by Russell to ensure that Benjamin would faithfully complete some of the tasks he had assigned to him after his death, and the true content would not be revealed until Benjamin met certain conditions...... So the other frescoes were destroyed, only it was relatively intact because it was sheltered by the power of Russell's 'order'.
Unfortunately, as soon as Benjamin deciphered the meaning of the mural, the mausoleum was suddenly destroyed by the eternal sun...... So he died here too......
"And the reason why Benjamin's necro is not trapped in the palace is because it was dragged by a being to the nameless island that Russell discovered, and has even been 'resurrected'...... Just like Edwards in the original book.
"Heh, Russell's behavior is still contradictory, deliberately leaking a ritual that threatens the security of the world, but designing to bury it - how can I think that the attack of the 'Church of the Eternal Sun' will not really be so coincidental......
"Speaking of which, this lens of Amon is really useful, without it, I can't get so much secret information just by relying on my current 'pure white eye' analysis ability."
Taking off the lenses, Abner secretly sighed, and then simulated the "wind blade" to completely flatten the content on the mural.
It's better not to let others see such a thing, even if the difficulty of this ritual is actually very high - after all, how can the demigods of the Gou San family be so easy to grasp? Not to mention the need to catch one person per family......
The three official extraordinaries and Furth did not stop this scene, the ritual depicted on the mural, those creep-looking insects, no matter how you look at it, are not a serious thing, and it is natural to destroy it.
After that, the group explored the main hall and returned to the stone staircase that led to the underground.
"Go down and have a look?" Furth glanced at Abner and offered his own proposal.
Abner observed for a moment, nodded slightly, and said:
"The source of the remaining power of this palace is underground...... I think that's the heart of the whole palace. ”
At this time, Captain Defoe also interjected: "That's right, our previous explorations have stopped at the stone steps, no matter how much you attract that resentful spirit, as long as someone dares to approach here, it will immediately 'flash' back.
"That's why we've been suspecting that there's a clue down there to leave this ruin."
"I can go down and explore the way first!" Seeing that Abner was still cautiously blessing many spells on his body, Dorne and Lady Darcy said in unison.
"No, your highness is fine." Abner, who had several layers of 'barriers' and 'guards', shook his head, then held the "magic mirror" in one hand and Furth's hand in the other, and carefully walked to the mottled stone staircase, and walked down the stairs scattered with a lot of rubble.
Once something happens, he is ready to release the "Bone Dragon" at any time and run away with Firth "Dream Shuttle".
The staircase was so narrow that it could only be passed by one person, and it was the kind that circled deep and round, and if it weren't for Abner holding his hand, Foirth would have been terrified.
Da, da, da, as the footsteps of several people echoed more and more far, the "Flame of Light" condensed by the two members of the "Purifying Light" seemed to be suppressed by some force, and they were extinguished one after another. Corn
Abner's Five Fireball Secret Technique could not be maintained, and only the "Divine Light" simulated with the "Pure White Eye" remained the same, illuminating the staircase with many mottled marks in front of him.
Da, da, da, in a cramped and deserted environment, Furth followed Abner and finally finished walking the steps, stepping on the flat and solid ground.
She wanted to say "staying in a place like this for a long time really makes people crazy", but due to the silence around her, she couldn't really make a sound, and she was afraid that breaking this state would cause a very bad change.
With the light of the Holy Light floating diagonally above, Firth looked ahead, trying to see what the end of the staircase looked like.
It is a hall, nearly 10 meters high, paved with black tiles that have dripping with water, and there are signs of cracks and damage everywhere.
Dozens of meters away, on the other side of the hall, where the light could barely be reached, stood a bronze gate that opened quietly.
The gate went up to the top, and the stones on the left and right walls were falling off, and the statues were broken, revealing the dark brown dirt that was hidden below.
The surface of the gate is painted with dense symbols and strange patterns, giving people an intuitive sense of mystery and heaviness, as if something is sealing.
And directly in front of the gate, there is a stone platform, on which is placed a statue of a knight kneeling on one knee, with his head bowed, but his hands raised high, as if he was holding something.
The meaning of this scene in the eyes of Abner, who has played multiple triple-A titles, is obvious: the door will not open until the corresponding item is found and placed in the knight's hand.
And Abner immediately had the target of suspicion - the "God's Box"!
Benjamin arranged for the "God's Box" placed in the First Bank to be left to Forth by name; In this Benjamin fiefdom, Firth is constantly in contact with this dream relic; And it is likely that Russell used the mural as bait to arrange for Benjamin to complete......
After stringing it together, it can be seen that it was Russell who needed to come here and open the door with the "God Box" in his hand...... And Benjamin is just a "tool man" used by Russell to cover people's eyes.
On the other side, Furth, who was extremely active, obviously thought of this as well, and after thinking about it, she finally couldn't help but speak:
"Would you like to put that box up there and try it?"
The three official extraordinary people were stunned when they heard this, and then looked at it, and at the same time they had some expectations in their hearts, after all, they were prepared to see these two.
Abner thought for a moment and said, "Wait, I'll ask the original guards first. ”
Guard? Before he could figure out what this meant, he saw Abner put the "magic mirror" in front of him and began to project the memories of the knight's wraith.
Of course, because it is an ancient ghost that has been dead for many years, only the more profound part of its memory remains.
Soon, an important imprint on the life of a woman whose real name is Austin Abraham slowly unfolded in front of the eyes of Abner.
For the sake of the family, he married the marquis of the Augustan family, who was nearly thirty years older than himself; the good times of falling in love with Baron Conwal; The uneasiness and happiness of secretly giving birth to the baron's illegitimate child......
It wasn't until she and Baron Conva came to the castle in the middle of the Delaere Forest in order to seek the materials of the "ancient wraith", that they were polluted by the breath behind its underground gate, and died helplessly and unconscious.
Many years later, when she woke up again and became conscious, she became an "ancient wraith" after she was originally seeking an "ancient wraith......
By this time, she had been handed over by a descendant of the Abrahamic family to a man named Russell, who had placed her in the mausoleum he had built.
It was only then that she realized that the reason why she was able to wake up and leave the forest castle was because the gate under the castle that she didn't know what to seal was actually demolished by a man named Russell and turned into the gate of the mausoleum he built!
Mrs. Austin's memories came to an end, and the "Magic Mirror" turned off the projection in due course.
The apprentice who sought out the "Ancient Wraith" eventually became the "Old Wraith......
At this time, although others were quite embarrassed about the lady's experience, they did not feel that there was anything terrible.
But Abner looked at the bronze gate abruptly, and his heart had already set off a storm:
"In the original book, the gate under the ancient castle in the middle of the Riddle Forest seals the entrance to the 'Chaos Sea'!"
"Russell actually moved that door away?!
"How did he do it?
"Moreover, if the gate is removed, what will the Sea of Chaos do? Don't the gods care? ”
In a flash of thought, Abner suddenly remembered the special state of Baron Conva, and he had speculated in the "1-025" incident before...... That is, after being polluted by the "Chaos Sea", that baron became the experimental subject of Daniel's predecessor and the tool man of the subsequent layout!
Although if you think about it, Daniel himself may have been experimented with by the god of knowledge at that time......
However, since Daniel had studied Baron Conwald in the Castle of Draere Forest, it was likely to be the site of his experiments on the equilibrium of various "essentia" contaminations......
Maybe he used "balance" to truly seal the entrance to the "Chaos Sea", so that Russell could safely remove the gate?
But then again, why did Russell have to tear down that gate? What exactly does it mean? It's not always "showing off your wealth", is it?
Fortunately, the feeling here is completely different from the first floor of the "Dream Labyrinth Tower", and I can be sure that the entrance to the "Chaos Sea" behind this door is definitely not it!
Thinking of this, Abner directly used the "active prediction" ability blessed by the "wheel of fate" when the analysis with the "pure white eye" and the "decryption" with the monocle failed to achieve the expected results.
Although Lilith had warned him to use as little as possible in front of the demigods, otherwise he might pay several times the price to repay the "gift of fate......
However, using less does not mean not using it, and Abner will never hesitate when necessary.
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