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"These stone giants have settled here for generations, but they rarely get in the way of anyone else, which is really a disaster......

Following in the footsteps of the Red Dragon Lich, Ilminster stopped at the mountain pass, the traces of the brutal battle along the way made him frown and complain to the woman beside him.

The woman who listened to him complain next to him was not Leila Silverhand, although she also had long silver hair, and although Penny didn't like Leila Silverhand's appearance very much, as a famous witch in Waterdeep, Leila Silverhand still had the temperament that wizards admired.

Quiet and elegant, for example, but none of this was visible on the woman's face - although she had many similarities with Leila Silverhand in terms of features.

The hem of the black robe was tattered, and he looked unkempt, and he was even more raunchy than Ilminster.

"The Imaskans buried their ancient evil here, and they don't seem to have sought their advice. The scruffy woman shrugged her shoulders and seemed to feel a little disapproving: "They can only be counted as unlucky." ”

"Okay, bad luck, but most of the deaths of these giants have nothing to do with the tricks of our old friends, so let's say it's the Shadows who got here first......"

"And the breath of a zombie dragon......" The woman sniffled twice, her gaze suddenly became as sharp as a falcon, and her steps stopped.

"What did you find? Elaslan?" Ilminster summoned the woman's true name, which few people knew, and in the vast Albertoriel, most people called the woman Hembo, the Queen of the Storm.

"I mean, isn't it a little stupid for us to wander around here aimlessly?" she said in a slightly dissatisfied tone, "Do you think you can find the place where the ancient people buried their things by following them?"

"Is there anything else we can do to do it?". Ilminster's expression was a little helpless.

"That Searle's stinky boy. Simbu raised his eyebrows: "I bet with you, Ilminster, that he was hiding something, otherwise how could he have disappeared after informing us?

"You're thinking too much. Ilminster wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Don't always be nervous about the Searles, from my personal experience, that's still a good boy, well, it's not a good thing, but it's not a bastard." ”

"Anyway, it's a bit rash for us to be lured by him with a message, Il. ”

"But Samast and the Shade are indeed here. ”

"That said, I always suspected that the kid might be playing a trick. The distrust of the Ser people filled Simb's heart with suspicion about this operation: "Ilminster, if he really has ulterior motives for us, we may be right in his arrangement if we follow the Dragon Witch Cult and the Yin Spirits like this." ”

Ilminster took the cigarette pouch from the corner of his mouth:

“...... What do you think, dear?"

He shook his beard, with more than a thousand years of experience, he could certainly see that Penny was hiding something, but he still chose to come to the Giant Run Mountains.

A gut instinct made him feel that Penny's concealment was more like a conservative self-preservation, and that the Dragon Witch Cult and the Yin Spirits were precisely the enemies of the goddess elect, which made him not hesitate for much time.

However, after listening to Xinbu's words, he also began to feel that such aimless walking was indeed not a good way.

What if he looked away, and that kid from Searle really harbored evil intentions?

It's really worth thinking about.

Maybe a different path is a good idea.

"It's too inefficient to aimlessly find and track here, and we should ask some locals who are familiar with the terrain. Walking through a village of golems ruined by the Shadows, Simbu set his eyes on a flesh-and-blood golem.

"They?" Ilminster shook his head disappreciatively, "I don't think they may know where the ruins are, and if they do, it is impossible that after so many years, there are no rumors about this ruins in the whole of Faeron." ”

This is not to say that giants are not trustworthy, but because it is difficult for a slightly inferior giant to control his own tone.

It is conceivable that the grave keepers only use these giants as allies to exploit. ...,

"What if it's a deeper native?" said Simbu, his gaze turning underground.

Ilminster stopped, turned his head to Simb, and his eyebrows twitched slightly.

"You mean...... Cairnheim?"

......

"I beg your pardon for my rudeness, Elder, but I'm curious, and if I'm right, the person who smashed your body to pieces must be Lord Hylather. ”

Arriving at the gravekeeper's village, Penny had thought that he would not be too far from the ruins, but he had been wrong, after one labyrinth and enchantment, the road in front of him was still winding endlessly, and the dense forest was still full of murderous opportunities, and the visibility was only three yards away, and if he broke away from the group, he took the wrong step, and the consequences were unimaginable—though neither Penny nor the locals knew what the consequences would be—because no one who entered had ever come out alive.

In comparison, the one in the Sunrise Mountains is really too simple, but it is understandable that this ruin has not been excavated day and night by a few Searle red-robed mages for ten years, and it is still a virgin land, and the power of the ancient empire is extremely clear.

This extremely strict setting made Penny feel how much effort the Ancient Empire technicians had put into sealing the ancient evil things, and not long ago, Penny could feel that this area had been separated from the main material realm.

In other words, from here, is where the real seal lies.

Although the fog was thick, Penny could still feel the stares of many of the grave guards, and many of the young locals looked at Penny with a hint of hostility.

They certainly couldn't accept an outsider suddenly becoming their leader, even if that order came from their esteemed patron saint.

Now, the strange leader who had arrived suddenly was talking to himself, but the tribal elder who had come closer knew who Penny was talking to, and a jewel hung from his neck in a silver chain, and within the crystal clear light was the shadow of the elder.

This is also the object of the stone shrine, and it is through this orb that the elder of the tomb keeper conveys his will to her people.

And her soul was sealed in the depths of the ruins.

Hearing the wizard's inquiry, the elder's response was a little strange: "Hyrasser, he confessed this to you?"

"Is that true?" Penny raised an eyebrow, "but it doesn't sound like you hate him." ”

"We are grave keepers, and when we enter the ruins, we are already dead, and our lives are only grave keepers. The elder sighed, "My name is Ansenfia, you can call me by that name." ”

"Elder Ansenfia. The wizard frowned, "I'm curious, it sounds like you're a little confused. ”

"Confused, I am indeed confused, I have been guarding here for more than a thousand years, and that day he suddenly broke in - although he has changed a lot, but I still recognize him at a glance, it seems that he did absorb all our magic knowledge in that thousand years, I did not have any resistance in front of his spells, my body was torn to pieces in a few breaths, I thought I was dead, but he just imprisoned my soul in the ruins. Ansenfia said slowly, in a very soft tone, and as the words deepened, the confusion in his tone became thicker and thicker: "He is really crazy, even if he is a little sober when he imprisons me, he still does not answer any of my questions, and after doing this, he immediately disappears in front of my eyes." ”

"Sounds like you don't know why he killed you?"

The wizard's eyebrows furrowed, confirming the most abnormal part of Ansenfia's reaction.

"Yes, I've always been puzzled, and this is the question that has plagued me the most in the last few thousand years. Ansenfia replied with a frown.

"He told me that the Tomb Keeper of the Ancient Empire had manipulated the spells he had been taught, causing him to form a flawed methodology that not only forced him to perform his duties as a tomb keeper forever, but also made him a madman—"

Feeling the need to dig deeper into why, Penny finally told the truth.

However, before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Ansenfia's shrill voice full of anger:

"It's ridiculous"

The wizard's mind fluttered, and things deviated from his conjecture, and did not seem to match Hyrasser's account: ...,

"How could we have adopted such a stupid solution? Someone did propose this at the beginning, but most of us rejected it, and this idiotic method is simply not appropriate. Ansenfia continued in a hurried tone, her emotions seemed to be out of control: "I personally reviewed the memory stone given to him, and there was nothing abnormal in it at all, how could this kind of thing happen?"

This recount convinced Penny that there was some misunderstanding between the two sides.

However, there is no shortage of possibilities for Ansenfia to deceive her in order to gain sympathy.

Extrapolating from common sense, Ansenfia was beaten to pieces by Hylast, and her heart must be full of hatred, and in the face of the messenger sent by Penny's enemy, it seems that she still has some ignorance of the truth, so she can pretend to be generous and tolerant, and then put herself in the position of the victim through rhetoric, and deceive, and then pave the way for the subsequent conspiracy......

Using the ideas of conspiracy theorists, this inference is very likely to be true.

However, Penny was not very willing to think so, perhaps because Dilpool's example was too good, and he preferred to believe that Helast had made some mistakes herself.

All in all, if it's not Ansenfia lying to him, it's a misunderstanding.

Such past events also made Penny sigh a little, the entanglement between these grave keepers is really not ordinary complicated.

“...... We were just asking him to create a Gravekeeper organization for us within a hundred years of wakefulness, and that's the most laborious job......" Ansenfia continued to babble on and on to let Penny know more about the past between the Gravekeeper and Helast:" I didn't expect him to suddenly break into the ruins and turn me to ashes, well, after that, these people who were chased and killed by outsiders came to me with his guidance, which really made me wonder for a while, it seems that the hatred is directly aimed at me, but he also fulfills the duties of a grave keeper, it turns out that he actually thinks so, it's really inexplicable......"

Penny vaguely grasped the crux of the matter, and it seemed that if he wanted to find out what misunderstanding had happened between the gravekeeper and Hylast, he had to find out why Hylast's black robe was crazy.

Once this is understood, the truth will be solved.

Ansenfia apparently thought of this as well: "So, young man, how long has it not been since Helast has just come to his senses?"

"Yes. Penny nodded: "For this he reset the methodology." ”

"Reset the methodology...... It seems that something really went wrong...... Ansenfia muttered to herself in some distraction, "We have to know why he's crazy." ”

Hearing something special from Ansenfia's words, Penny vaguely felt that this seemed to be something of special significance to the grave keeper.

However, it is also understandable, if his body is broken by another person, even if it is inconvenient to take revenge for some reason, at least the other party's reason for doing so must be understood, so it is not surprising that Ansenfia is not worth the end of the day.

"Elder, Master Diesel, Soddock" At this moment, the druid Morin in the middle of the line seemed to have noticed something, and walked over with a black gem, the expression on his face looked a little impatient.

And everyone's eyes were focused on the black stone, which seemed to be some prop used by the caster for divination, and there was a scene of smoke condensing floating on it: a convoy was surrounded by a group of stone giants covered in black gas, and a dozen guards were in the midst of a fierce battle, and it seemed that they could collapse at any moment.

Although he hadn't seen a few Golems, Penny had a distinct sense that the Golems seemed to be a little different.

Soddock and Ansenfia fell silent at the same time when they saw the giants, and Penny could see that Soddock's face suddenly became ugly.

"The supply team outside the mountain entered the belly of the mountain in the morning, and was blocked by the group of dark stone giants on the way, and the signal for help was just sent," Morin said in a hurried tone.

"Damn it. Soddock clenched his fists fiercely: "These fools actually went into the mountains at this time to make trouble...... ，