Chapter 58: Dancing Shoes (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival)
The passage is made of scattered debris, and every step makes Mark tremble.
In the distance was an ominous crimson light, and beneath our feet was an abyss of nothingness. Even if none of the debris is actually floating, all of them are nailed to this spatial location with an incomprehensible mysterious force, but not everything can bear the weight of a person.
Mark had tried to step on a stone the size of a millstone, and who would have thought that it would burst open as easily as a biscuit.
If it weren't for Minnie pulling him lightly, he kept more than five large pieces of gravel as a fulcrum from beginning to end, and he would probably have fallen by relying on Mark alone.
Jumping over more than 300 meters of debris passages, Mark came to a place that resembled the ruins of a temple.
This temple structure, which is generally rectangular and box-like, reminds Mark of a Greek temple.
It's just that most of the roof of this temple has long been lifted, and the four tall walls are now only about three-quarters of the front side, standing alone in the void along with the triangular roof of the temple.
Statues of gods are usually placed on the top of the temple.
Unfortunately, the stone statue, which was supposed to be full of glory, now has only two half-cut calves left, and nothing can be seen except that the deity enshrined was originally in human form.
Uh, very hilariously, with a newspaper between my legs.
A gust of void wind blew, and the newspaper made a rattling sound, quite harsh.
Mark looked up, his gaze was 20 meters away, and he could barely see the words "Leyte Daily" from the front of the newspaper.
He suddenly wanted to laugh: "I don't know what century this newspaper is." β
If this thing is taken to the Earth Celestial Empire, you think it is from last week, and it may be from Shang Zhou in minutes!
In the distance, a red glow streamed through the gaps between the pillars and the ruins on the floor tiles of the temple, outlining the shadow of every raised piece of rubble.
This gives the impression that the floor of the temple is not a piece of land, but a river with a quiet flow of red water.
In addition to the temple, there are two or three small houses in this ruin hanging in the void, but judging by the size, most of them are workers' houses or something.
[Blood Moon Baptism] has experienced an unknown number of times, and in terms of common sense, this kind of ruin has long been turned over and over again by the forerunners for an unknown number of times.
There shouldn't be anything good left, that's the right thing.
However, there are no absolutes in the world, who dares to say that no strong person died here last time?
"Alas! It's all here, be careful, let's go in and have a look. β
Mark leaned against the ruins of the temple's outer walls, listening to the ruins hum in the reddish breeze, and though every brick and tile in the temple flowed with light, it was clear that the focus of all the light was finally coming together.
A chest with a shining golden glow was placed in front of the broken idol in the center of the temple.
Because it is so bright, even in this dark void, it still resembles a bright nebula.
It is impossible for anyone who comes here not to notice its presence.
It's a pity that when he saw this thing, what was Mark's first reaction?
Mimic!
It's the kind of monster that disguises itself as a treasure chest and swallows people alive when adventurers get close.
"Miss Bison, can you do me a little favor?"
"Well, as long as I don't go to be bait......"
Mark silently ignored the shadow in his own extraordinary heart and said what he wanted.
After a while, a slightly frizzy and frightened man touched the ruins of the temple, and he looked left and right, but finally could not suppress the excitement in his heart, and raised his hands to open the golden box.
Wow! Golden Legend ......
It's weird!
Almost as soon as he touched the top of the chest, almost every inch of the shadow in the ruins of the temple suddenly moved.
Coincidentally, from extremely static to extremely moving, more than thirty shadows made the same movement.
The demons that pounced on them were extremely fast, and as soon as the man let out an exclamation, the whole person was torn apart, no, turned into a cloud of mist.
"Well done!" Mark complimented Bison from the bottom of his heart.
He read that right, the self-aware Anomaly is gifted with concealment and apparition. As long as he passed on the image he had come up with in the soul connection, Bison could simulate it, and add a little bit of soul crystal.
In the eyes of the demons, this is a real unlucky bastard, exactly like the fool they tore apart before.
Unfortunately, this time they were destined to come up short.
When they stopped, Mark saw their images. These blackened monsters, haunted by black shadows, appear to be a male human figure with the upper body of a red fruit.
Their current appearance is most likely from when they were alive, but their faces, shoulders, chests, and backs are covered with strange tattoos that have been eroded by the power of shadows.
There were no eyeballs in the cracked sockets of their eyes, only a dark one that looked extremely hideous.
Their lower bodies are only a lump of black shadows, and their two forearms are claw-like structures made of ink-like dark matter.
If you run into Mark when he just crossed, he would be scared half to death when he saw this kind of guy.
Now I'm scared, I'm scared, and my heart jumps to the point of "oh".
"Roarβ"
After discovering that they had been tricked, they spotted Mark as soon as possible.
They were furious at the humans who had voluntarily appeared next to the ruins.
The twisted creatures collectively turned and pounced, their claws turned into by the dark power and suddenly grew thirty centimeters, to say no less, and became sharp and long.
Dozens of shadow demons pounced, and the momentum was truly terrifying.
However, it is only terrifying.
Creatures that lack enough intelligence to hunt only on instinct are quite easy to judge their movements.
As soon as they swooped down on the ruins, they were suddenly covered from the sky with a large net woven in advance by spiritual silk.
Clean sweep!
As soon as Mark raised his hand, 12 [Blasphemous Flying Swords] slashed through the sky, emitting a piercing scream, and stabbed into the net.
At this moment, the shadow demons seemed to be bathed in the bombardment of a battleship's dense secondary guns.
The more condensed soul sword scorched their less concentrated spirits, eroding their flesh and blood, and large swaths of the shadows that made up their bodies were dissipated into a black mist that was dissipated by the high heat, and finally completely destroyed.
The inescapable Shadow Demon attempts to shrink in the center of the net, escaping the penalty of destruction with the flesh and blood of his companions.
It's a pity that the cowering fear finally turned into a personal despair.
In less than half a minute, the battle ended.
Mark couldn't pull anything out of the demons, so he could only pin his hopes on the treasure chest, which was likely to be a pit.
He didn't get closer, but pushed the lid of the treasure chest open from a distance with Minnie's spiritual silk.
I'm a little disappointed that there are no Mimics!
Even more disappointed, there was only a pair of dancing shoes.
Looking at the pair of women's shoes pulled out of the treasure chest, Mark's face collapsed.
The structure of the upper part of the shoe is the same as that of a ballet shoe. The lower half is a 20-centimeter-long 'high heel'.
Other high heels are paired with real high heels, and their heels are in the shape of skate blades.
The blade rests on the sole of the shoe to form a β-shaped heel.
"This is also dancing shoes?"
"Yes......" Miss Doll appeared on her own, tiptoe over in a standard ballet position, and tried to put on the eerie white dancing shoes.
It's amazing that the shoe adapts to Minnie's small wooden soles and fits them perfectly.
As soon as Minnie stood on the ground, the sharp blade scraped on the ground, and immediately made an unpleasant scraping sound.
Minnie's wooden eyelids blinked, and a piece of spirit silk lifted her body for a moment.
She made an incredibly light 720 sideways spin in the air and opened her right leg gracefully.
In a flash of cold light, a large section of the ruins fell like sliced cream, leaving an extremely flat incision.
"How?" Mark asked.
Miss Doll tilted her head: "It's okay......"
It's okay, it's just improvised.
Minnie is an A-class anomaly, so these sharp knife dancing shoes are B-class extraordinary, or even only C.
In the chest, there was also a blank card, Mark picked it up, and immediately found that there was something in the card, which happened to be the monsters he had just defeated.
"[Shadow Demon]? Class B? β
The description of the card, Mark couldn't understand. I just know that this thing is just a level of improvisation.
This brought a question to Mark's mind: Where did my 20 hit?
"Minnie, it's good for you to use it." Mark held his chin: "I still have a question, my gut tells me that there is something better in this ruin. You two help me think about it, what else is in this ruin that is anomalous and unreasonable? β
"Yes! Don't you think that newspaper is very inconsistent? β
Newspaper!?
Mark was agitated, and immediately turned his gaze back to the top of the main entrance of the temple, the newspaper that had been rattling in the wind from beginning to end.