Heart of the Castle

Chapter 226 The Sealed Horror Statue

After passing through the two collapsed gates, everyone finally entered the interior of the tower ruins. Li Wei and Wilpus walked side by side at the front. The silver-white and fiery-red fighting spirit lights complemented each other, as brilliant as two human-shaped torches. The interior of the tower will reveal every detail.

If the enemies in the tower ruins were human beings, their actions would undoubtedly become the targets of all kinds of bows and crossbows, but now entrenched in the ruins are the dead who commanded the undead troops. The vision and life of the undead Unlike the others, whether the light is strong or weak does not cause their field of view to change.But among the people following the two, only the hag leader Stiba has the ability of night vision, and the fighting spirit light can greatly boost everyone's combat effectiveness.

When they first stepped into the ruins of the high tower, everyone raised their hearts and were ready to deal with fierce battles at any time.Especially Captain Els, who carried a heavy shield on his shoulders. He was responsible for protecting Levi and Wilps, who were most likely to be targets of long-range weapons.When the battle qi light just illuminated the interior of the tower ruins, he let out a roar and rushed out like an enraged bull, holding up the tower shield with both hands, covering Li Wei and Wilpus behind.

However, something that puzzled them happened. There was no sign of any enemies in the ruins of the tower, and there was a smell of dust in the air, which is typical of abandoned buildings that have not been visited for a long time. Otherwise, it was empty and empty.There was a thick layer of dust on the ground, and some damaged tables, chairs and furniture were lying in the middle of the dust, almost invisible.

"It seems that no one has been here since the day I was abandoned." Faron covered his mouth and nose and said softly, his voice sounded a bit dull through the palm of his hand.

"It's very possible." Levi replied, "The two gates don't seem to have been damaged."

"But where did the priests and knights sent by the Temple of Storms go last time? We didn't see their bodies outside, not even the traces of a battle." Captain Els dragged the tower shield to the side After a few steps, I squatted down to check the traces on the ground.

The dust on the ground was very thick, with a very special off-white color. It didn't look like ordinary dust, but rather some kind of carefully ground powder.Captain Ayers twisted a handful and put it in his palm to examine carefully, but after looking at it for a long time, he still couldn't figure out what it was, so he stood up and clapped his hands and said, "I'm afraid there is nothing special on this floor. Look up."

"These powders..." Babrupa's voice suddenly appeared. This short guy was the last one to walk in. He had been lying on the wall to observe something carefully, and now he finally seemed to have found something. Grabbing a handful of off-white powder, he cried out.

"These powders are made from the bones of dead people!"

This sentence changed everyone's face.The tower site was originally used as a strong military magic fortress, so the area is much larger than the magic tower in the ordinary sense. The widest first floor can almost accommodate hundreds of fully armed warriors.Such a vast area is covered with a thick layer of bone meal, and the number of victims may have to be calculated in hundreds or thousands.

"It's not humans, it's the aborigines of our rotten swamp." The hag leader Stiba said coldly, snorting at the snakeskin beast beside her, shaking its huge head, as if mourning for something.

"Whether it's human bones or not, in short, there must be more than one deceased person here. Since there is nothing worth noting on this floor, let's go to the upper floor now." Pastor Fallon suggested.

"Wait a minute, Reverend Fallon, let me go ahead this time." Captain Els said, holding the huge spiked shield in front of him, and carefully stepped up the spiraling stone steps in the center of the tower.Li Wei followed behind with a long sword in his hand, and the fighting spirit on his body was surging, as if he had his own life.

The caution of the two proved to be ineffective, until they stepped onto the second floor of the tower, nothing happened, neither the sinister mechanism nor the attack of the undead appeared.

With such a lax defense, it doesn't look like a place occupied by a murderer.Li Wei felt a little uneasy in his heart. He looked around and found that the second floor of the tower was as empty as the first floor.

Apparently, this place used to be a palace of magic, and there are traces of the magic circle on the ground, but the precious metal and gem powder on it have been taken away when the tower was abandoned, and the erosion of the years has also made the remaining grooves dilapidated and mottled .

A strange statue about three meters square was placed in the center of the magic circle. Li Wei glanced subconsciously, and found that the statue actually depicted only a head with a helmet, and the neck part had irregular ridges. The fracture marks seem to be part of a larger statue.

"The diameter of the head alone is three meters... Wouldn't this statue have a height of more than 20 meters?" Li Wei was a little surprised, and took a step towards the head in the middle of the magic circle.

A red light flashed, and at the same time, Captain Els' urgent warning came from beside him.

"Get out of the way, it's dangerous!"

Li Wei twisted his body subconsciously, and fell to the side without hesitation. Two red lights almost shot past his body, splashing bright sparks on the wall opposite the tower.There was a smell of burnt hair in the air.

With a bang, Li Wei fell to the ground firmly on his side, and a burning sensation came from his left arm at the same time.Wilps rushed up from behind, bent down and grabbed Levi's arm, and dragged him out of the range of the magic circle.

"My Lord of Glory, Master Li Wei, what you did just now was too risky!" Wilps growled a little angrily.

"Mr. Will, I'm sorry." Li Wei apologized and got up with a wry smile. The warning from Captain Els just now was very timely. Apart from two scorched black marks on his arms, he didn't receive any other warnings. harm.

"Did those two red lights just come from the eyes of the statue?" Li Wei looked at the head statue standing quietly in the center of the magic circle, and asked Captain Els with lingering fear.

"That's the statue." Captain Ayers also had a very ugly expression on his face. He carefully raised the shield with one hand, pointed at it with the other hand, and said, "See, I stopped it just now. But instead of stopping it, two transparent holes were pierced through the shield instead."

Li Wei looked at the hole on the shield. Captain Els's spiked tower shield was made of fine steel. Although the steel fire is not as good as a good sword, the thickness and material make up for this deficiency. It can be said that is indestructible.Even if Wilps used the fighting energy that had reached the peak of Sanhua to attack, there was no way to break through the defense of the rock fighting energy and the refined steel shield in a hurry.

However, the two red lights easily penetrated the two finger-thick holes on the shield, and the edges were very smooth, without even a trace of burrs or cracks.After penetrating the shield, the red light didn't even weaken much. It shot through the vindictive protection spontaneously formed on the surface of Li Wei's body again, and burned two scorched black marks on his arm.

If Li Wei had stood still just now, a corpse with two big holes in its chest and abdomen would have fallen to the ground now.

"Thank you very much for your reminder, Captain Ayers." Li Wei was afraid for a while, and thanked his companion holding the tower shield repeatedly.Captain Els was a little embarrassed, raised his hand and patted his helmet and said, "Mr. Levi, this is what I should do as a guarding knight, and I didn't block the two red lights that shot at you." , I'm still sorry."

"No one needs to be sorry. The power of this statue has exceeded our expectations. Even in the years when I traveled to the Great Kingdoms, I have never seen or even heard such a terrible red light." Wilps explained with a serious face.

"I don't know who put this statue here. Is it the royal magicians who abandoned this tower? Or the deceased who is now entrenched on the ruins?" Li Wei murmured, his eyes fell there again above the statue.The carving technique of the statue is not exquisite and delicate, but it has a very unique rough aesthetic feeling. The facial features are as tough as a knife and an axe. Even the marks that look like they have been eroded by wind and frost are so heroic. Li Wei even feels The statue is actually alive.

"Master Li Wei, there is no trace of the deceased here, let's continue upward." Wilps' voice sounded from Li Wei's ear, waking him up from his reverie.

"If we want to study this statue, we have plenty of time after we eliminate the deceased."

Li Wei nodded in agreement with Wilps' proposal, and then the two of them held their long swords horizontally and stepped on the steps that continued to spiral upwards.Behind them, Captain Els was directing others to pass through from a safe area.No one noticed that when Li Wei's figure disappeared at the entrance of the upper floor of the tower, the heavy-looking statue suddenly turned half a circle silently, and his face was raised at an angle, Just so that a pair of deep eye sockets can see the place where Li Wei's figure disappeared.

Two faint red lights lit up from the statue's eye sockets, as dark as blood.At the same time, a faint voice sounded inside the statue. Although it was the common language, it had a very special feeling, as if the sound was made by countless tiny metal pieces rubbing and colliding with each other. Inorganic coldness!

"I found the holder of an extremely high-level alchemy item...Master the data comparison...The database is seriously damaged, and the comparison fails...Start the provisional commander identification rule...The rule is passed, and the provisional commander's qualification certification is passed."

The sound stopped, and the red light in the statue's eye sockets gradually went out, as if nothing had happened.

(End of this chapter)