Mystery: Undead don't die from passing fire

Chapter 319 Civil engineering, even dogs don't do it

late at night.

At Congressman Macht's house, while everyone was in a deep sleep.

Hazel quietly got up from the bed, and with the help of her night vision ability, she changed into clothes that made it easier to move.She climbed down from the balcony of her bedroom, carefully avoided the bodyguards at home, and sneaked out of the garden all the way to the middle of Boklund Street—not all sewer entrances allow humans to pass through freely and have vertical Straight metal ladder.

Arriving at the entrance of the sewer, Hazel watched vigilantly around for a few seconds, then moved the manhole cover and climbed down. The whole process was done in one go without any sense of stagnation.

It can be seen that this is not the first time she has done this, and the skillful movements make people feel distressed.

Stepping on the slightly slippery ground, she moved forward quickly with a clear purpose along the rusted iron pipes and the slowly flowing sewage river.

The sewers extend in all directions, and unfamiliar people can easily get lost in them.But Hazel passed through several corners with ease, and came to the end of a fork in the road - there was a moss growing darkly, corroding the obvious wall.

Hazel didn't hesitate, she pressed her hands on the wall and groped for a while, and opened the secret door hidden in the wall with a burst of noise.With excellent night vision ability, even in the dark sewer, Hazel can see everything around her clearly.

Passing through the secret door, the space in front of Hazel's eyes suddenly opened up. It was a semi-natural and semi-artificial cave. It was less than 1 meters high and 8 meters wide. On the ground were shovels and other objects wrapped in oilcloth. There is a lot of dirt and gravel piled up, and there are two hidden passages extending diagonally in front of it.

The one on the left is only five or six meters deep, and the one on the right is nearly ten meters deep, but there is nothing there because they are still being excavated.

Hazel skillfully picked up the shovel on the ground, lifted the wrapped oilcloth layer by layer, and walked straight to the secret passage on the right.This proud young lady of the upper class turned into a civil engineer at this time, carrying out excavation operations in the dirty and smelly sewers one shovel after another without complaint or regret.

A voice suddenly sounded beside the girl's ear:
"Do you need help?"

Hazel was startled by the sudden sound, turned around suddenly and found a man standing behind her.

And most importantly, she knew this man—she had met him at a dinner party at her house.

The fright in Hazel's eyes faded, replaced by gnashing of teeth in anger:
"You follow me?"

She was annoyed that the other party would follow her, and she was annoyed that as a Extraordinary, she didn't notice.

But after getting annoyed, Hazel suddenly realized a more serious problem, why couldn't she, as a Extraordinary, discover the other party?

Hazel is confident that it is impossible for ordinary people to escape her detection, so there is only one possibility - this person is an Extraordinary who is stronger than her!
Hazel took two steps back in some doubts:
"Are you an official Extraordinary?"

At the dinner, Ember and Bishop Elektra had a good chat, and she originally thought it was just because of the other party's noble status.But now it seems that there are obviously deeper factors!
"You may think so."

Ember nodded lightly, looked past the girl to the passage that hadn't been fully excavated, and asked:
"How did you find this place?"

Hazel looked at the passage behind with some hesitation, and didn't give an answer immediately.

She was measuring the strength gap between herself and Ember, and she was also weighing gains and losses.

Although the other party is the official Extraordinary of the Church of Evernight, but his teacher is a legendary demigod!
Ember looked at the girl who seemed to be hesitating, and slowly said:

"Your parents are both believers in the Church of Evernight."

Hazel suddenly raised her head, her eyes were a little unbelievable, as if she couldn't believe that the other party would threaten her with such a despicable method!
Ember looked at the girl's clear and stupid eyes, and said calmly:
"Don't get me wrong, I mean, if your family wasn't a believer in the Church of Evernight, I wouldn't have told you so much at all."

"I……"

The girl pursed her lips lightly, her heart was full of entanglements, she didn't know what to do.

After being silent for a long time, Hazel still hesitated and said:

"I, I dreamed about it. Teacher... She told me in the dream the way to become a Extraordinary, and asked me to find a way to come here to dig something. I didn't believe it at first, but I dreamed about it for several days in a row Seeing the same thing, the potion formula told to me in the dream did make me a 'thief', so..."

Hazel hesitated to speak, but Ember could guess the ins and outs of the matter.

Hazel's situation is similar to that of Audrey back then, and she is also a young lady longing for the mysterious world.

The difference is that Audrey will become a Extraordinary through the Tarot, so she will have a strong sense of belonging to the Tarot, and even have a strong sense of ownership.So every time the Tarot Club starts, 'Justice' will be the first to greet everyone, and she is often the one who introduces other members to the newcomers.

But Hazel didn't have such good luck. She was entrusted with a dream by a demigod with other plans to help her become an Extraordinary.

But Hazel didn't know this, so just like Audrey's strong affiliation to the Tarot Club, Hazel also had great trust in that demigod, so this proud young lady didn't hesitate They get into the dirty and smelly sewers, do jobs that even the poor in the East Side are unwilling to do, and do civil engineering in the sewers in the middle of the night.

Seeing that Ember was silent for a long time, Hazel couldn't help asking:

"What are you going to do with me?"

The girl glanced at the gap on the right side of Ember with her peripheral vision, and held the necklace around her neck with flickering eyes.

After hearing this, Ember turned her body sideways and said:

"You can leave now."

"what?"

On the contrary, Hazel was stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly:
"that's it?"

Ember stared at her calmly, and slowly said:

"Early tomorrow morning, you will go to the Church of the Evernight with your parents for mass. At that time, I hope you can take the initiative to confess to Bishop Elektra what happened here. For the sake of your parents, Bishop Elektra will not Lock you in the Chanis Gate, but your personal freedom will definitely be restricted, he should accept you as a Nighthawk and tell you what impersonation is."

"This is the best choice for you and your parents."

Hazel looked surprised, and took two steps back warily.

What do you mean you won't shut her in the Chanis Gate?Although I don't know what the Chanis Gate is, it sounds like a terrible thing!The Nighthawks should be the official Extraordinary of the Church of Evernight, she can understand that, but what is the way of acting?
Seeing that Hazel did not let go of her guard but became more vigilant, Ember shook her head and said:
"It seems that you don't understand at all."

"Anyway, the opportunity is already in front of you, it's up to you whether you go or not."

"I……"

Hazel hesitated for a long time, looked at the aisle behind her, then pursed her lips and looked at the road that was moved away by Ember.In the end, he lowered his head and silently passed the embers, and quickly walked out of the passage.

After Hazel disappeared from the field of vision, Ember looked back to the passage ahead.

The tunnel was clearly far from being completed, and it was impossible to slowly dig out the embers one by one.

It is impossible to fight ashes, even in this life.

What's more, why use digging for mining?Isn't it obviously more efficient to use explosives?

With this in mind, Ember took out the old man's crystal staff from the space, and aimed the blue crystal at the tip of the staff covered by the stone-like body at the passage in front of him.Without chanting incantations, the ice-blue magic power surged at the end of the wand, and finally converged into a terrifying torrent!
【Soul Torrent】

[When Lothric and the Great Library were founded,

The magic taught by the original sage.

Can shoot a large number of soul torrents.

The original sages are not just those who doubt the transmission of fire,
And it is rumored that he is also the prince's teacher in private. 】

boom!
The ice-blue energy beam emerged from the tip of the crystal staff, instantly dyeing the passage in front of him blue.In the dark sewer, the icy blue torrent washed everything in front of it, completely annihilating everything that stood in its path.

When the light dissipated, there was only a smooth and flat wall in front of him, like a passage made of cement.But before Ember could enter and take out the opened passage, a black figure suddenly sprang out from the deep darkness and rushed straight towards Ember!
This is the hidden demigod, Flora Jacob from the Jacob family!
Flora originally planned to trick Hazel into digging a tunnel, and when the other party broke the seal, she could parasitize it instantly and turn it into nutrients to restore her own strength.It's a pity that all of this was ruined by the man in front of him, but it's not a bad thing—Flora's excavation work, which was expected to be completed in a month or two, was completed in just a few seconds with the help of this man. Completely destroy the seal!

And the moment the seal was broken, Flora made a sudden attack without hesitation, she wanted to parasitize this Extraordinary from the Church of Evernight!
This is also the reason why when she discovered that Hazel was being followed by the other party, she still did not act rashly—Flora was confident that the other party did not know her existence, because although he had been guiding Hazel through dreams, he had never told Hazel What is Rouer trying to dig.

Hazel had always naively thought that she was digging some treasure, but she never thought that what she was digging was the seal of her 'teacher'.

And Flora has also confirmed that the extraordinary person in front of him came alone.

The other party was probably also a Hazel who was digging some treasure, so instead of reporting it to the Church of Evernight, she followed an innocent girl in the middle of the night, wanting to monopolize the treasure the other party was digging!
Although Flora was a little surprised by his behavior of letting Hazel go, it didn't have much impact.Because when she successfully parasitizes this Nighthawk, she will kill Hazel's family and completely eliminate traces of her existence!
Of course, the premise of all this is that she can successfully parasitize the embers.

Although Flora's sneak attack was quite successful, she never thought about why Ember dared to come here alone!
When the black shadow rushed towards the embers, the embers who had just released the torrent of soul seemed unable to react. They stood still and stared at the black shadow, watching helplessly as the other party got into his body.

However, the moment that black shadow just touched Ember's body, she suddenly ignited.

Literally lit up!

The black shadow that was almost integrated with the surrounding environment suddenly lit up. At first, it was just sporadic sparks, but these sparks quickly filled her spirit body, and connected into pieces little by little, and finally turned into raging fire to make it burn violently!
"what!"

Flora, who has only a spirit body left, should be immune to similar 'physical damage', and the flames can't hurt her at all, but there seems to be some kind of higher-level power in the flames, even Flora's soul. Burning, the severe pain was unbearable for this demigod, and he screamed in pain.

And the parasitic process was forced to be interrupted, the former demigod could only curl up on the ground in pain, struggling desperately.

But no matter how she tried to save herself, the flames engulfing her body could not be weakened at all.

of course.

She was lucky.

The last demigod who tried to invade the Ember was a little deeper, so he was already burned to ashes.

As for Flora, if this continues, she will definitely be burned to the point where there is not even a slag left.

But this was not what Ember expected, his purpose was not to use this demigod as nourishment.

After all, burning a demigod can only be said to be better than nothing, at least burning an angel is meaningful.

If this demigod is burnt to the point that there is not even a scum left, then he can only find another demigod from the 'thief' path——

This kind of behavior of wasting time for no reason obviously did not meet his expectations.

So he took the initiative to 'extinguish' the flame covering Flora Jacob, so that her pain of being 'burned' could be slightly relieved.

And almost at the moment when the flame was 'extinguished', the black shadow attacked again!
She did not attempt to continue parasitizing embers, as this had proven unfeasible.

She just wants to escape from Ember as soon as possible!

As long as she leaves this sewer, she can find a random passerby to send it.And a parasite who parasitizes on others is definitely not so easy to find!

Ember still stood there motionless, not only did not expect the black shadow to escape, but also didn't care at all.

And when the black shadow finally escaped from the passage and came to the opened secret door to pass through.

An invisible force suddenly gushed out from her body!

"what!"

Amid the woman's shrill screams, the black shadow fell to the ground again, and the flames once again covered her spirit body, devouring everything about her.

"Why bother?"

Ember shook her head lightly, walked unhurriedly to the side of the black shadow, took out a small urn from nowhere, and threw the demigod who had completely lost her struggle into it.

This small box was the eternal home of the demigod until he got together the three offerings.
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Hazel pushed the manhole cover above her head, looked at the deep passage below with some fear, and closed the manhole cover with her lips pursed.

She avoided the sight of those bodyguards and returned to her room without disturbing anyone, her heart was full of apprehension.

She couldn't disobey the orders of Ember, the official Extraordinary, but she was also afraid that she would be punished by her teacher, the legendary demigod.

Ember told her to go to the Church of Evernight to 'surrender' tomorrow morning, but maybe she would dream of the teacher tonight!

"what should I do?"

Hazel hugged her legs and curled up on the bed, feeling a little confused.

(End of this chapter)