Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 35 I Appear From the Shadows

The legendary necromancer Simon Adrian really taught the young people 800 years later a good lesson, what is the "three caves of the cunning rabbit":
In a small, unremarkable two-story building with four walls and four walls, there is actually a magic laboratory hidden under the ground, which is considered to be of considerable scale even today!
And under the bronze statue of the magic laboratory, there is actually a secret wellhead leading to a deeper underground!

The prudence in the layout of Adrian's house made Xia Houyan feel that this old senior also has the potential to engage in espionage work;

It's just that setting "virgin" as the voice keyword for activating security is a bit less rigorous...

The five members of the Igor family, led by the newly resurrected bodyguard Tom Lawrence, grabbed the iron handrail on the wall of the passage and descended step by step.

As the people moved, the lighting crystals inlaid on the wall of the well also sensed the breath of life, flickering and lighting up one by one, bringing the light back to this secret passage that has been silent for 800 years in the dark.

The entire secret passageway is not long, only five or six meters. Tom Lawrence at the bottom of the team soon found that his feet were on solid ground.

So, Lawrence took off the lighting crystal from his belt (the one he had just buckled from the laboratory wall above), held it high in his hand, and illuminated the environment at the bottom of the well:

Directly connected to the bottom of the secret tunnel well is a narrow corridor that can barely accommodate three people walking side by side. On the ceiling of the corridor, there are several ever-burning lamps—these are lighting tools fueled by whale oil. , After 800 years of wear and tear, the light has become very weak, thus breaking the absurd rumor that "deep sea magic whale oil can burn for thousands of years".

Even the magic power is not inexhaustible, the so-called "unextinguishable" whale oil is just an extraordinarily durable fuel.

It is precisely because of the dim light of the Everbright Lamp that the entire underground corridor presents a gloomy and gloomy feeling, which is in sharp contrast with the brightly lit magic laboratory upstairs;

However, despite being deep underground, the air here is not as humid and dirty as everyone imagined. It must be that Adrian set up some kind of ventilation device in order to stay here for a long time before his death, so that the air here can be circulated with the outside world. .

The group climbed down the shaft ladder one by one, and stood firm at the entrance of the promenade—at this moment, a familiar breath rushed towards everyone from the promenade.

Master Victor Laurie shuddered, while Xia Houyan and the three guards felt a sense of intimacy in their hearts.

"Lord Elliot, this is..." Alice felt a little confused by the atmosphere around her.

"If I guessed correctly, this should be..." Xia Houyan turned to look at Master Laurie, and got a positive answer in the other's eyes.

"It's ghost magic!" The master replied, gritted his teeth, "The air in this corridor is full of strong ghost magic! Lord Lord, do you remember that the formation of this infected area was because of Adrian's undead back then. The magic experiment led to the accidental leakage of the ghostly magic power!"

"So..." Xia Houyan looked thoughtfully at the deep corridor.

"So, this promenade is likely to be the test site of the year and the center of the undead infection outbreak!" Master Laurie said quickly, "Lord Lord, please recall that in the magic laboratory above, was there any follower? Necromancy-related things? Isn't that too strange for an archmage known for his necromancy?"

Xia Houyan recalled the scene upstairs and nodded in agreement.

The master swallowed excitedly and continued:

"It now seems that Adrian back then probably left all his necromancy magic and his treasures at the bottom of this more hidden bottom layer. The magic laboratory above is just for him to store common materials and conduct experiments. Under the guise of general magic research, this is the real secret place of the legendary mage Simon Adrian!"

After listening to Master Laurie's analysis, everyone's breathing was a little heavy.

If it is true that Adrian has put the core of magic research in this corridor, as the master said, doesn't it mean that the probability of finding his magic rhythm here is greatly improved?
Without further ado, everyone continued to line up in the original order and set off to the depths of the corridor.

And as the environment inside the corridor came into view, Xia Houyan became more and more sure of the master's judgment.

——Within a few steps after entering the promenade, the Lord found that on both sides of the promenade, there were many transparent crystal cabinets about a person's height and slender in shape, placed against the walls.

Due to the age, these crystal cabinets, which should have been completely transparent, have been covered with dust on the surface, making it impossible to see what is inside.

Curious archer Chris walked to a cabinet, stretched his sleeves and wiped off the dust on the surface, only to be scared back three steps by what he saw.

When the lord leaned over to look at it, he was surprised to find that there was actually a mummified corpse inside!

Not even just this one crystal cabinet—Lawrence wiped several cabinets one after another, and found that each crystal cabinet contained a human corpse, male or female, old or young!

Where is this crystal cabinet, it is clearly a crystal coffin!

Neatly arranged crystal coffins are placed in rows against the wall, and in this long corridor, there are hundreds of corpses stored there!

"That's why necromancy is considered taboo." Master Laurie looked at this "crystal graveyard", and his heart didn't seem to have any turbulence, but sighed, "To study and cast necromancy, it is necessary to A large number of human corpses are used as raw materials - even if Senior Adrian did not kill and manufacture these corpses, it is natural to violate the laws of the Empire by buying and selling them as magic raw materials."

Even though he was a living dead who had returned from the underworld, but surrounded by so many corpses, the three guards shuddered, and Alice, who had always been brave and fearless, bit her lip and leaned against the Lord Lord, intentionally or unintentionally. .

"Unfortunately, even after storing and using so many corpses, Adrian's experiment still failed." Xia Houyan also sighed.

He could observe that the corpses in these crystal coffins had large or small magical traces on their bodies, proving that they were all used by Adrian as an experiment in necromantic research.

Perhaps it is precisely because they have been dealt with by Adrian that these corpses were not infected by ghostly magic as zombies like the residents of the town, but remained in a mummified state after death.

"The further you go in, the stronger the ghostly magic in the air." Master Laurie wrinkled his nose and sniffed hard, "Adrian's test site should be at the end of the promenade - if he is as rumored Died in the experiment, we should still be able to find his body there."

Xia Houyan understood: The corpse of the magician himself is of course the best source of his magic rhythm!
However, Xiahou Yan was about to go deeper when he suddenly heard heavy footsteps in the darkness ahead.

— In the corridor that has been empty for 800 years, there are footsteps?

Before Xia Houyan could realize what was going on, he saw a giant figure wearing a burgundy-style black steel helmet and pure black armor rushing out of the shadows, ramming straight towards him. here yourself!

Without any hesitation, Lord Lord, completely relying on his self-defense instinct, quickly pulled out the crowbar from his waist and swung it towards the black steel canned man who came by surprise!

But the words that came out of the iron can helmet made Lord Lord's elbow sink, and the crowbar came to a sudden stop in mid-air:
"Your Majesty, spare your life!"

(End of this chapter)