Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 745 In-depth exploration
At this time, Angel and Klein were floating on the edge of the city in the form of spirits containing the "Card of Blasphemy". Below them were two silent puppets, "Winner" Enzo and "Admiral of Hell" Ludwell, dressed in servants' clothes. Four pairs of eyes were quietly looking at the city below.

"I can't see deep into the city, and divination has failed. It's best not to get close to areas shrouded in darkness."

Angel said after her eyes flashed continuously. Her voice came from inside her spirit body and spread out in all directions without being restrained. It seemed very abrupt in the quiet outskirts of the city.

"Red Light Elmoria also reminded me of this. After Graygari's failed attempt to revive through the City of the Dead, the city mutated. The deeper you go, the more dangerous it becomes," Klein nodded in his Tyrant form and replied, "It is said that most of the spirit world predators are in the core area of ​​the city, but there are also a few scattered around the periphery. It will be enough for us to find just one."

After deciding on the strategy, the two of them tested whether their extraordinary abilities were effective in the kingdom of the "God of Death" Gray Carrie.

Angel condensed the ice layer and arranged a crystal clear ice mirror. He confirmed that Calderon was also connected to the mirror world and did not have an independent small world like Trier in the Fourth Epoch. Only then did he feel relieved.

At worst, she could leave Calderon through the channel in the mirror and return to the spirit world.

But this does not mean absolute safety. Even the "Iron Knight" Syrio Soran can use certain methods of the "Man in the Mirror" to block the mirror world, and the power left by the God of Death may be able to do it as well.

Next, she tried various methods such as black flames and diseases, and found that most of them were the same as in the outside world. They were not suppressed by the spiritual city. Instead, the flames burned more vigorously, allowing the fierce fire she created with the "Iron Knight" extraordinary characteristic to spread automatically and almost uncontrollably.

Klein was using his own secret doll to test magical items such as the "Word of the Sea" and "Flower of Blood" rings. The cane was extremely quiet under his training, and the "Creeping Hunger" did not shout out the name of the true creator, which made him very satisfied.

Finally, he instructed Ludwell to whisper Mr. Fool's name, and after a moment he chuckled to Angel and said:

“Mr. Fool also responded to me. If I encounter a problem that I can’t handle, I can still ask Him for help.”

It's a pity. If Anne could come, we would be the strongest investigation team... Hmm, but where should the "Queen Anne's Revenge" be parked? Maybe it can only be stranded outside the city and used as a fixed turret... Angel muttered secretly and nodded:

"Then follow the plan. I will stay hidden nearby, and you will command the secret doll to explore."

This was the tactic they had decided on before setting out. In light of their experience in hunting the "Gazers", the two believed that once an enemy far stronger than the "Spirit World Predator" appeared, this intelligent spirit creature would most likely flee in panic, or even burrow into the real spirit world and disappear without a trace.

Therefore, as a demigod, Angel, who has enhanced his status with the help of the "Witch" card and has almost stepped into Sequence 3, must hide behind the scenes and let Klein explore the way through the secret doll and use himself as bait to trick the "Spirit World Plunderer" out.

After instructing Klein, Angel, wearing a black dress and with her bare feet slightly drooping, disappeared into the faint gray mist outside the city. At the same time, she had the anti-divination ability of the "Card of Blasphemy" and the "invisibility" ability of the witch. Even if a real demigod appeared in Calderon, he would not be able to find her.

Of course, I can use the "Spirit Line" to find her when she's invisible... Klein smiled secretly, opened his vision to observe these black lines that every living thing has, looked up into the sky, and suddenly found that he couldn't find Angel's location!
She left through the "mirror world"?
Klein was startled and squinted his eyes to confirm again. Only then did he discover that there were still a few thin black lines in the air. They did not spread to infinity, but disappeared into the void not far away from the center point. This was why he did not notice them at the first time.

"What happened to your spirit thread?"

Although he couldn't save his pride, Klein still asked curiously.

"Hehe, after you initially controlled the spirit lines and interrupted my movements, I thought of this method to hide my own lines," Angel's somewhat proud voice came from the air, "Using the 'mirror substitute' to cover up my own existence, I should be able to make most of the 'spiritual lines' turn into the mirror world instead of appearing in front of you like a hedgehog... Judging from your reaction, this method should be effective?"

“In fact, some lines still appear…”

Klein refuted weakly, but he knew that if Angel floated a little further away in this state, it would be difficult for a normal "Puppet Master" to detect her existence.

This can shorten the visual line of the "Spirit Line" of hundreds of meters to less than twenty meters. For the "Master of Secret Dolls", this is the distance between life and death... I'm afraid she came up with this method specifically to hide in the dark and avoid being discovered by the "Spirit World Predators", not for being in bed... Klein muttered and retracted his gaze to the sky.

After confirming that the other party had hidden, Klein also restrained his spiritual power and made his body, which was in the robe of a "tyrant", transparent. He then commanded the secret puppet Enzo to go in front and Ludwell to follow behind, and they slowly walked down the pale stairs surrounding the deep pit, step by step, through the thin mist, and entered the "City of the Dead".

According to Angel's hunting of high-sequence materials, the "Gazer" has a mirror substitute that can make people fall into a state close to petrification. The "Spiritual Plunderer" should also have some special abilities of the "Fortune Teller" path. According to the information obtained, it is very likely to be a "Secret Puppet". In other words, it will have its own servants like me, and let them serve as peripheral guards... Klein's mind flashed one by one until the fog in front of him dissipated, and he really saw the ancient city that was circling downwards. It was the same as what he saw on the periphery. These buildings of various shapes were more intact as they got closer to the city core at the bottom of the pit. The area he was currently in was already in ruins, and there was little sign of its former prosperity.

Too quiet... Didn't the "Goddess of Death" Gray Carrie take her followers and descendants to the depths of the spirit world? Where did they go? What about those spirit world creatures that strayed into Calderon? Not even their bodies were left behind?

He stopped cautiously, hid himself behind the shadow of a collapsed building, and relied solely on two secret dolls to form an exploration team and continued to walk down the ramp. His vision and hearing were "shared" with himself to obtain first-hand information.

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Hovering in the air, Angel's eyes reflected the "winner" Enzo who was holding the "Death Knell" revolver and exploring the way with his own luck, and the "Admiral of Hell" Ludwell who was raiding the rear, and he felt inexplicably funny.

If the Puppet Master can digest his own potion and even add another puppet, then it will be a fully equipped team. Perhaps, apart from the multiple Sequence 5 Shepherds, this sequence has the most comprehensive capabilities... Of course, the Puppet Master himself is still vulnerable. As long as he is found hiding in the back, everything will be over...

She glanced at Tyrant Klein, who carefully hid his spirit in the shadows, and prepared to float higher to take in the entire terrain of Calderon.

But after a moment, she discovered that there seemed to be some force above the city that was blocking her, preventing the spirit from passing freely through the entrance of the pit.

It can only be entered by following the pale stairs. Is this some kind of ritual, or a "rule" spontaneously formed by the mutated city?
Angel kept this information in mind and descended again in stealth mode, surpassing Klein and his two puppets in the center of the pit and going deeper into the city.

Of course, this was still some distance away from the real core of the city below. She was worried that there would be some undead creatures in the core area of ​​the city that even a demigod could not handle, and she might even have to face the remaining power of the "God of Death" directly.

Like the feathered serpent inside the secret mausoleum in the raging sea...

Angel thought with some fear, his eyes sweeping over the strange-shaped buildings around him. They looked like pale stone pillars, square coffins, and underground tombs. The only thing they had in common was that they had been eroded by time and turned into ruins.

I wonder what the scenery was like when this city was still the kingdom of the god of death, with creatures of different races and appearances gathered together because of their beliefs... She felt the deathly silence and looked up in the direction of Klein. She saw that he and the two secret dolls were "cooperating" tacitly and continued to explore the upper area. She felt relieved and floated towards a building that interested her.

At this height, Calderon's buildings are different from the entrance above and have retained a certain degree of integrity. Although they also show signs of being eroded by time, they have not collapsed. Through the doors and windows, you can even see signs of life inside, such as furniture and rotten items.

Angel came to a building that was different in style from the surrounding buildings and stood in front of the main door that originally had double doors, but the doors had decayed and only the stone frame remained.

"It's about the same height as me, which means its original residents were humans, or at least humanoid creatures... And this building seems to have the prototype of the architecture of the Northern Continent of the Quaternary Period, rather than a simple stone pillar or rectangular block..."

Angel muttered silently, passing through the wall in spirit form and entering the building.

"There were simple tables and chairs, and recesses carved into the wall for placing items. They even separated the living room and bedroom..."

After inspecting it, Angel was surprised to find that this building, which was built at least in the Second Age, had a similar structure to the current one. In that era, humans struggled to survive under the protection of gods, and it was classified as the "Dark Age" in various church texts. Unexpectedly, it already had the prototype of modern architecture.

"After that, Graygari fell and hid Calderon deep in the spirit world. Then the world entered the Third Age, but where did the humans living in the city go?"

Angel examined the furnishings in the room, trying to find some clues, and soon found some words engraved on the wall, which seemed to be for record purposes, but they did not belong to any of the current languages ​​mastered by humans, but some kind of ancient language based on hieroglyphs.

I wonder how many languages ​​and scripts have been lost in the age of conflict. If I were an archaeologist, I would be ecstatic about this. Hmm, maybe I can ask Klein to take a look. Isn't he from the archaeology department... Angel muttered, and suddenly found a familiar symbol in the text.

It was a complex pattern consisting of doors stacked together in order from large to small. Angel had never seen it before, but she had some impression of the doors that made up the symbol.

That was the family crest that was modified after the Tamara family underwent a transformation in the Fourth Epoch to focus on the "apprentice" path. It consisted of double doors and a vertical sword, and the shape of that door was exactly the same as these stacked doors!
(End of this chapter)