The Twilight Brotherhood and the Cult of the Lightdoers in Helia belong to two different factions.

If the Lightdoers are dedicated to collecting and protecting knowledge, sealing dangerous arcane items in case the outside world descends into chaos, the Twilight Brotherhood's claim is even simpler—to save lives.

These monks have been with the dead for many years, and they have a good understanding of the subtle boundaries between life and death, and they have contracted almost the entire funeral and end-of-life ceremonies on Fukuko Island.

Most Helias like to call them "soul shepherds".

And as a monk with the talent of "yin and yang eyes", Yorick can communicate directly with the dead.

After some introductions, Gendakaya introduces Josh and Rhyz to Yorick and the Twilight Brotherhood.

Then, Zhendakaya casually found a relatively clean table, pushed all the books and scrolls on it to the ground with a big hand, and then asked his two assistants to bring the stone chairs.

"Time is pressing, let's start the meeting now!"

It seems to have guessed the minds of Josh, Ryze, and Yorick, and it seems to be muttering to himself.

Before the meeting began, Zhendakaya added: "Oh~~ Don't think about my other two assistants, they can't help with anything other than cleaning...... Heck, and always messing around with our stuff! ”

She pulled out a stack of sheepskin scrolls from her satchel and spread them out on the table, revealing to everyone's surprise that it was the accurate map of the Hammerstone Prison.

Not only maps, but also very detailed data and dotted lines are drawn on them, and in many places there are notes on how to enter certain forbidden places that have been banned by magic.

"The Lightbearer found it from some abandoned storehouse in the territory of Ellock Greel, the Hammerstone Warden who was killed by the Darkspawn, no wonder he was able to find so much water of life."

Speaking of which, no one but Josh noticed Ryze's sudden change in face.

Quietly kicked Ruiz under the table, and when the panicked junior brother looked at him, Josh gave him a serious look.

I felt the grains of sand under my hands...... Grell is dead, and no one knows I stole the eaux-de-vie.

Ruiz looked around, and quickly recited the words of meditation, suppressing the tension in his heart and returning to his casual appearance.

"Not only that, but the Honorable also said that they found the former Supervisor Maxim, who had been tortured to the point of being inhuman, in a certain storeroom......

"Light bless, he just starved to death, how pitiful......"

"Ahem......" Piot cleared his throat.

Zhendakaya, who was across from Rhy, realized that he had digressed and apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I've done my old mistake again." ”

Immediately afterward, her face was playful, "Although the Light Dependents don't want the outside world to know about the existence of the Water of Life, but now in order to deal with those dead souls, those old stubborns have to let us take action." ”

"The water of life?" Yorick spoke, "Why don't you let outsiders know about the water of life?" ”

His voice was dull and full of breath, and he spoke with a strong local accent.

Piot turned his puzzled gaze to his boss and hesitated, "Because...... Curse? ”

"That's right, curse!" Jindakaya nodded mysteriously, "That's the main reason I've invited you here today. ”

Yorick pulled out a small, transparent glowing bottle from the collar of his black robe, "The water of life, the water of the holy spring, according to the name of the Brotherhood - the tear of life, it is a sacred object that saves the wounded, where does the curse come from?" ”

"Oh my God, I was suspicious at the beginning, I didn't expect your bottle to be really water of life?!" Ayla looked suspicious, "Can I take a look?" ”

"I'm sorry." Yorick shook his head, "The Tear of Life can be replenished, but it's too precious for me to give it to outsiders unless I have to...... I mean, you can join the fraternity. ”

He glanced at Eyla's slick head.

"Huh...... Forget it, I don't want to spend all my days with boring men......"

Suddenly sensing that her words were inappropriate, Ayla added, "I don't mean to be offended, but I actually like the spiced spirits brewed by your brotherhood!" ”

"Okay, don't get too serious...... Wait a minute! ”

Zhendakaya slipped into the depths of the workshop, and within seconds she was back, and the debris piled up on the road did not slow her down.

"Look at this."

She brought a rough drawing of the faceless white ghost that Josh and Ryze had encountered.

Recalling the unbearable past, Ruiz's face turned a little paler, and he began to regret why he took the initiative to participate in this operation.

"What is this?" Yorick felt that the pattern of this scroll was a little familiar, and frowned and said, "One night in the past, I got up to go to the toilet and seemed to have seen such a white ghost in the Twilight Chapel. ”

He paused for two seconds before adding, "Unlike all the undead I've seen on a regular basis, those white ghosts...... How to describe it? Far from returning to rest, they are full of life, but this is not possible for the dead.

"The next day I asked the bishop of the Brotherhood, but he was silent about it and warned me not to inquire into the origin of the white ghosts......"

"That's supposed to be the ghost of your Twilight Brotherhood collecting the source of the Water of Life." Ayla looked horrified.

Yorick held up the bottle on his chest and stared thoughtfully at the glowing holy water inside.

"That's what we're going to focus on today." Zhendakaya became rare and serious, "The curse of the water of life, it is both a gift to us from Fuguang Island, this land, and at the same time a curse. ”

Raising his chin to Ayla, Aira, who had already cooperated tacitly, instantly guessed Zhendakaya's intentions and spoke:

"According to the limited information that Archbishop Marcusa has provided us, these spirits come from the benels of the Shining Tower, the source of the Fountain of Life.

"According to our guess, the wandering strange undead seem to be bound to reality by the water of life after death, unable to travel to the spirit realm to calm down, but they will be attracted to magic or people who carry the water of life."

At this time, Josh, who had been silent for a long time, interjected: "So, is the mission that Margusa has given you to destroy these undead?" ”

"It's not 'you', it's us, we're already in the same group."

Zhendakaya winked at Josh, the corners of his mouth curled, and out of nowhere, he found a holy stone crossbow with no launch slot or trigger and held it up to the side of his face.

"Archbishop Marcusa just asked us to investigate the situation of the well, but ......," she smiled, "the sentinels have always been to solve all the troubles!" ”

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Sacred Stone weapons that are crafted from Holy Stones, do not require ammo, and can be activated by the will alone, have a miraculous effect on the undead.

Of course, this is only the conclusion reached by the three sentinels through theoretical research, and has not yet been put into practice.

Therefore, Josh and Yorick are the followers that Zhendakaya is preparing.

One of them has the power of the Darkspawn and can unleash powerful runic magic, while the other can communicate with the dead, though they don't know if the faceless ghosts still have human sanity.

As for Ryz......

He was just an "add-on", and he wasn't in Zhendakaya's original plan.

The three sentinels are hurrying to complete the final stage of the Holy Stone weapon assembly.

Taking advantage of this moment, Ruiz called Josh out the door to a remote corner at the end of the hallway.

Seeing that Ruiz's face was nervous, pacing back and forth in place, as if hesitating, Josh shook his head and said, "If you are still afraid of ghosts, I don't recommend that you participate in this operation. ”

"It's not because of this!"

Ruiz smacked his lips and stood in silence for a few seconds, before he pulled out a keystone about a palm's length from his pocket, with a sharp lower end carved out of the top, and a symmetrical arcane rune carved on the whole.

"The keystone of the well of ten thousand years...... One, I stole it from Grell when I was fighting. ”