The silent passage, plunged into endless darkness at both ends, I don't know what is hidden, the passage is very badly damaged, and you can see cracked walls and protruding roots and vines everywhere.

In the darkness, a firelight moved slowly, and under the light of the fire, it was possible to recognize an old man with scrawny skin and dry skin leading the way. Behind the old man, a grim young man in a black robe and holding a steel cross sword slowly followed behind the old man.

"More than twenty years ago, I discovered the anomaly of the largemouth under the moat, and painstakingly dug a passage to find this ancient tomb. Like you, my students and I encountered monsters resembling that woman in that cave, and my students all died tragically.

Through observation, I found out that the weak point of those monsters, that is, the flames, I first blocked the passage with the earth wall technique, stopped the flow of water, and the dry environment made the flames even bigger, forcing back the monsters' attacks, but I couldn't fight tirelessly.

Soon, I was in a crisis, and then a sudden earthquake saved my life, and that earthquake made me discover the passage and the stone slab of the monster nemesis, which kept me alive until now. The old man led the way in front of the passage and said to the black-robed young man behind him who was curiously looking at the passage.

"You've been hiding here for so many years, and you haven't thought about escaping?" the young man suddenly asked in the quiet passage.

The old man's figure paused slightly, and then he seemed to sigh: "Go out, if I could get out, I would have gone out a long time ago, why make myself look like I don't look like a person, a ghost, or a ghost." ”

"From the moment you and I entered this ancient tomb, there was no chance to go out again, and the only chance to escape from this ancient tomb was to get that thing. The old man continued.

"Why? As long as we go back from the cave, we can't go back to the moat. The youth seemed to be a little unconvinced.

"Don't believe me, you kid, do you think there's only one monster in the cave? Think about how many empty crystal coffins there are? That's at least hundreds, and I was forced back into this passage before I got close to that cave. Hearing the disapproval in Ivan's tone, the old man was also angry, and said in a deep voice.

"What the hell is that woman?" said Ivan, whose eyes flashed at the old man's words, and asked another question.

"Those monsters are called corpse puppets, and their bodies have been carved with a very vicious secret spell of master and servant, and when the master is alive, they are the most humble slaves, and the master will live if he wants to live, and if he wants to die, he will die, and he cannot resist half a point.

Even after the death of the master, he will be killed immediately, and the soul will be imprisoned in the body that has long died, mutated into this monster called the corpse puppet, the walking dead, invulnerable, and can only painfully respect the master's last life, guarding this cemetery until the end of time. The expression on the old man's face was hidden in the shadows, and Ivan couldn't see it clearly, but he could feel a trace of emptiness and ethereal in the old man's tone.

"Since the cave is guarded by many corpse puppets, you can't escape, so how did you survive all these years?" Ivan puzzled, since entering this ancient tomb, he had not seen any other creatures except those corpse puppets, listening to this old man, he had been going forward for more than twenty years.

If you can survive without eating or drinking in this tomb for more than 20 years, then this old man is not a human, but a god.

"I came in with five other students, all of whom died, and I was able to survive on them in the first place. Later, those students were all eaten, and in desperation, I fixed my eyes on the flesh and skin of the corpse puppets, and it took a lot of generations to break the jar and kill one of them, and I don't need to say more about the final result. The old man opened his old but still neat teeth, and the remaining flesh on the teeth seemed to be the bloodthirsty smile of the devil.

However, the old man's imaginary expression of fear, disgust, and surprise did not appear on Ivan's face, and he didn't even frown, but just asked: "Those thousands of years old corpses, plus the invulnerable shell, your teeth can be bitten?"

The old man looked at Ivan with a calm expression, and even discussed the problem with him very seriously, he really wanted to ask, do you often eat people?, why does it seem that human flesh has become a home-cooked meal in Ivan's mouth, and now the students of the academy have become so cruel? That's people, intelligent beings of the same kind, not pigs, cows, horses, sheep and anything else.

Seeing that the old man looked stunned as if he had been hit, Ivan kindly asked, "What's wrong?"

The old man woke up from a dream, and after coming back to his senses, he replied: "Although those corpse puppets have existed in their bodies for thousands of years, the long time has produced a special solid stone in their bodies, and as long as they eat one, they can go without food for several years. As for the hardness of the yin puppet's body, after the yin puppet dies, the body will soften and can naturally be easily dissected. ”

"I see. Ivan nodded.

"The master of the Deathmatch Secret Realm, the ninth-order necromancer of the Megatron Empire thousands of years ago, enslaved many small mage families during that chaotic period, and engraved that master-servant secret spell on those middle and low-level mages and their families, and carried out cruel human experiments.

That's why the Supreme Academy of Magic has a fair and honest reason to occupy this deathmatch secret realm, but unfortunately, those greedy high-level leaders who have searched the secret realm are only interested in profits, who knows that there are thousands of painful souls buried under the Yin Puppet City. The old man sarcastically said, his sharp voice concealing a deep hatred and disgust for the academy.

"You're talking about that chaotic time, aren't you?" asked Ivan.

"You guessed it, that's right, it's the end of the alchemy frenzy that swept the empire back then, the end of alchemy. The old man pursed his lips and replied.

"The mage family that was enslaved by that ninth-order necromancer, isn't it?" Ivan straightened up, his expression quite excited.

"Hehe, who do you think can be the mage family that can be enslaved during that period?" the old man hooked his lips and smiled, with an expression that you asked knowingly.

Sure enough, it was indeed the alchemist's family, and he was a little excited, and Ivan continued to ask: "That means that there was an alchemy scroll in that cave just now?"

If there was really alchemy in that cave, then he would have to find it desperately, not to mention the precious knowledge contained in ancient alchemy, which could provide him with powerful convenience for making magic tools in the future. Mr. Kanongamen's regret is that he has never seen alchemy directly, and it is nothing to risk his life for the sake of his teacher, who is very good to him.

The old man nodded, shook his head again, and had such an expression: "Alchemy naturally exists, but the scroll that records alchemy is not in the burial cave, the ninth-order necromancer buried it in his main burial chamber along with that thing and many treasure resources of alchemy, as for whether you can get these treasures, it depends on yourself." ”

"On my own?" said Ivan, surprised.