Not a Witch

In the cobweb-covered jungle, there are silk threads and white cocoons everywhere, some of which are used to hatch small spiders, and some of them contain dead beasts.

After cutting some white cocoons with a sword, Lorraine Hill handled these things carefully, and saw the remains of a few fish bones which were rare.

Is there a river near here?The girl guessed, and then remembered the raccoon dog she met before. This kind of animal often lives by the water.

After the inspection, no human corpses were found, which made the girl heave a sigh of relief. Maybe this place is too remote, so few people come here.

She walked out of the dark spider forest, took out a small pot, and poured the prepared fire oil along the edge of the forest.

Stretching out her fingers to feel the direction the wind was blowing at the moment, the girl nodded, then threw down the match, and lit the grass pile below.

Immediately, a burst of green smoke floated among the dead leaves and grass, and a small flame rose up in the billowing green smoke, igniting the surrounding green smoke, and soon other parts also burned, and the green smoke gradually faded.

Smelling the scent of burning plant ash in the air, Lorraine Hill stood aside, watching the fire gradually spread and scorched towards the spider forest behind.

In the evening, the fire became more and more intense, and the fire that soared into the sky brought waves of heat, rushing to the surroundings, making people feel the burning sensation on the face just by looking at it.

"I hope it won't be too noticeable." Seeing the fire getting bigger and bigger, the girl said worriedly.

It's not that she's worried about the fire getting out of control. She's prepared for this, and she's prepared a fire barrier in advance. It's because she's afraid that other people will rush over and misunderstand that she's setting fire to the mountain, even though it's true in essence.

As the night gradually fell, the fire remained unextinguished, and it was particularly conspicuous in the dark night. The bright yellow light of the fire shone around. Lorraine Hill was sitting not far away, with a few treated fish stuck on the ground in front of him.

After finishing the task, she looked around for the next four weeks, and found a rushing small river in the forest behind the hillside, so she also caught a few fish for dinner.

Under the firelight, the swordsman girl looked at the lingering fire with a little anxiety, walking back and forth.At this time, the black and white raccoon trotted over again. It hid in the grass in the forest, and its small black eyes looked hesitantly at the charred fish.

After rustling for a while, the cat-sized raccoon came out again, came to Lorraine Hill, watched the girl bark a few times, then raised its front feet, and landed in the direction of the grilled fish.

That look seemed to be saying, can I eat it?It looks a little pitiful and cute.

"Okay, I know you're hungry, so I'll give you one." Lorraine Hill squatted down funny, looking at the little animal.

"But only one, I'm hungry now." The girl took advantage of this to pat the raccoon's head.

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On the other side of the mountain and forest, the back door of the lord's castle was pushed open again, Viscount Moruo walked out with the butler and the girl again.

"Try it again tonight, I don't believe it." After a day of irritability and anxiety, Viscount Moruo was still a little bit unwilling to give up.

"Yes, my lord."

The housekeeper followed at the end, and the girl with dark blond hair was in the middle. Compared to yesterday, her clothes were much tattered, as if scratched by branches and thorns.But today, he still staggered behind Viscount Moruo.

"You'd better go faster, I don't have time to wait for you." After walking a certain distance, Viscount Moruo turned his head, looked at the girl and shouted.

"Yes, my lord." After hearing the scolding voice, the girl trembled in fear, and then answered in a low and uneasy voice.

"Hmph." Viscount Moruo turned around again, and the three of them walked slowly towards a hidden place in the forest.

In the end, the three of them stopped under a big rock, about two miles away from the castle, so far and near.

After stopping here, the butler stepped forward according to his orders, found a hidden corner under the boulder, and injected some magic power. Soon after, the stone turned slowly, revealing the passage below.

Holding torches and lanterns, the three of them stepped into the dark passage, and then the boulder slowly closed again.

Walking in this underground passage, the world seems to be quiet, only the slight crackling sound of the torch and the whirring sound of the flame passing through the air can be heard.

The surrounding walls are fairly flat, and the steps under the feet have no signs of weathering and aging. It seems that they were built in the past ten years.

After the three of them walked this long passage for a long time, the surrounding walls and steps became another style, more primitive, and full of traces of time erosion.

The gray and black bricks are exposed on these walls, some of which have been crooked, and the steps under the feet are also incomplete, full of various gaps and gravel.If you walk in it, you will fall if you are not careful.

After walking through the long and quiet staircase, everything around became more and more silent and depressing. At this time, the world on the ground seemed to be a very distant existence, but at this moment, the sound of my own breathing was so clear.

"Here we are." Viscount Moruo's voice sounded, there was no surprise or excitement in it, only exhaustion and anxiety.

He turned his head again, looked at the young girl reflected in the firelight, was silent for a while, and then stepped aside to reveal the scene behind him.

It was a small enclosed space with a stone wall at the end of the square passage.A relief of a skull is painted on the wall, along with a crescent moon wrapped with branches and wisteria flowers in full bloom.

This is the symbol of the mercury dynasty, and its style is still that of the early dynasty.Although there is nothing in the square space, if you put your hand in it, you can feel a repulsive force, as well as a feeling of life being extracted and corroded.

This is the ban left by the Mercury Dynasty in the past. If you must break in by force, you must at least have the strength of Sequence 8, and this will also trigger the self-destruct secret technique left behind, allowing the intruder to return empty-handed.

In order to fight against the orc empire and the elven kingdoms in difficult times, the Mercury Dynasty established dungeons in various places in the early days. These dungeons are not suitable for life, but they have little effect on undead creatures. They have the advantage of fighting at home, so as to resist tenaciously .

And if you really can't resist the evacuation later, you will seal up what you can't take away.

According to Viscount Moruo's search and translation of ancient documents for more than ten years, he has figured out that a 'sacred object' obtained during the Mercury Dynasty is sealed here.Compared with ordinary creations, 'sacred objects' have extraordinary functions, and these things are not made by humans or elves, but are the heritage of gods.

Just like saying that the witch is a fragment of a god, the holy object is a smaller fragment. Although these fragments are separated from the crown and it is difficult to return to it, they still retain a little bit of power.

And the 'sacred object' representing the power of the gods is also a treasure that has been chased by various organizations and heroes for several epochs. Possessing it can even allow ordinary Sequence 9s to resist the terrifying power of the witch in a short period of time. Will' be able to check and balance the reasons for many witches.

The "Sages' Society" that gathered the legendary heroes still retains a large number of "sacred objects". Although they are not often used, they have always guaranteed the supremacy of this organization as a powerful deterrent.

There are these red rust-like traces on the gray and white stone wall, which seem to be caused by the penetration of groundwater. Against this background, the skull and crescent moon on the wall also look more dilapidated, as if abandoned by time.

"It's a pity." Looking at the unreachable stone wall, Viscount Mo Ruo murmured, and then stretched out his hand to feel the resistance in the square passage below again.

The hand seemed to touch a soft barrier. In the extraordinary perception, a kind of fresh and warm energy slowly flowed from the body. Before the body was damaged, Viscount Moruo retracted his hand again.

Now he only has the strength of Sequence 3, which can only be considered ordinary among nobles, and he has not improved for many years.

Before the world changed, he still had the strength of Sequence 4. After everything changed, it seemed to be more difficult for him to practice. Now that he has returned to Sequence 3, there will be no change.

Thinking of this, he shook his head again, then took out the holy white sphere in his arms, held it in the palm of his hand, and stretched it out again.

At this time, the viscous resistance in the air seemed to be neutralized and became weaker, and he was able to move forward slowly, and finally touched the skeleton on the wall.Some stone chips and dust peeled off from the wall and fell into his palm.He tried to input magic power or drip blood into the skull, but there was still no response.

Seeing this, he turned his head and looked at the girl not far behind him.

"come here."

The girl raised her face, touched her hands in fear, then walked over with her head down.

Compared with Viscount Morrow, this girl suffered much less resistance.But even so, her face turned pale, and her body seemed to be crumbling.

After she got close to the stone wall, Viscount Moruo grabbed the girl's hand and drew a small opening with his nails to let the blood flow out.

Drops of dark red blood dripped onto the mottled skull, and then the skull trembled, and there were bursts of rattling sounds from behind the stone wall.

Seeing this, Viscount Moruo and the butler focused on the stone wall, waiting for some kind of change.

But after a few minutes like this, the movement gradually quieted down until calm was restored.

"It's the same as yesterday." Viscount Moruo frowned, and slapped on the wall in annoyance.

What went wrong?He kept thinking in his mind, and then recalled the information he had queried from the classics over the years.

The device in front of him is obviously to verify the seal of the bloodline, and only people with a specific bloodline can use blood to undo it.Although such a structure is rare today, it was once popular in the distant past.

Tracing back to the origin of this occult technique, we have to mention the era of the first human empire, the True Red Empire.

In the empire that was good at the demon sequence, various blood-related secret arts flourished, and the nobles were also proud of their own blood, so they invented this thing that could verify the blood of their descendants.

It's a pity that this kind of secret technique gradually declined during the Mercury Dynasty.Compared with an empire ruled by blood inheritance, the Mercury Dynasty is more like a union of necromancers, so it pays more attention to the inheritance of master and apprentice than blood.Therefore, as time went on, this kind of secret technique was used less and less. After the disintegration of the Mercury Dynasty, these ancient secret techniques were lost in wars and disasters.

Now he found this thing again in the ruins. After continuous research and testing, he finally determined the target on the remnants of the Mercury Dynasty.

After the disintegration of the Mercury Dynasty in the second era, many blood descendants of the original dynasty were exiled to the Isle of Eternal Darkness, and this situation continued until after the disaster of chaos at the beginning of the third era.

Because in the calamity, necromancers played a role again, the high-level human beings no longer continued to suppress this sparse sequence, and some remnants of Everdark Island were able to return to the mainland, and a large number of them were assigned to the barren and desolate northern part of the empire. environment, and the most well-known of these remnants, and as a representative is the Trey family with the gray raven as their coat of arms.

It was the undead army led by this family that finally captured the unfallen magical city Oudemite in the country of Oz during the war between the Green Empire and the country of Oz.

After the war, the survivors of Everdark Isle returned to the barren northern border, but a small number of blood remained in the southern border. They may be the product of temporary love during the war, or they may be greedy for the warm climate in the southern border. stayed.

Viscount Moruo spent a lot of time investigating one by one, and finally found the girl who was about to be executed in the prison in Longyi Province.

According to the obscure records of her ancestors, she is a survivor of Eternal Darkness Island, so she also has the blood inherited from the Mercury Dynasty.

Why didn't the mechanism behind the wall respond after it rotated and vibrated? Could it be because the bloodlines didn't match?

Viscount Moruo pondered slowly, but rejected this conjecture.The blood of this girl is genuine, or in other words, after hundreds of years of living in Everdark Island, the residents of the island have intermarried, and their blood has long been mixed. No matter how she can get a little blood of those quicksilver wizards back then.

Is it not pure enough?Maybe that's the case, but where else can I find a pure-blood descendant of the Mercury Dynasty? Even the Trey family, after so many years of intermarriage, can't be said to be absolutely pure.

Viscount Moruo was thinking, watching the blood-stained skull on the stone wall motionless.

After a long time, he slowly lowered his hand from the wall, put away the small holy white ball, and walked out of this square passage again.

"Master?" the butler asked suspiciously.

"Let's go back first." He looked at the blood remaining on his palm, and a message in the past slowly emerged in his mind.

It is said that during the period of the True Red Empire, there was a secret art of purifying blood. Although this was first used in Warcraft to extract blood to make potions, it may not be impossible to try it now.

The only obstacle is that he needs to think about where he saw this message.

It is estimated that this time we will have to search through the family library as a whole.

Thinking about something in his mind, Viscount Moruo walked ahead without saying a word, until he returned to the ground again, and the edge of the sky gradually revealed a cold white.

Another new day begins.

Volume Chapter 90 The Girl in the Forest

"Quick! Don't let it escape."

Urgent voices came from the forest, and several adventurers in light leather armor were running in the forest, jumping over obstacles, tearing aside obstructing bushes, and chasing the figure that was about to disappear from sight.

They received the mission and were chasing and killing the black iron-clawed wolf. Originally, the mission required three wolfs, but during the setting of the trap, one of them escaped by luck.And this kind of monster is a cunning creature, if you don't catch it this time, it will be difficult to find it next time.

The rewards for the mission are calculated based on the number of monster corpses reported. If one is missing, it will be regarded as unfinished, and only a small part of the reward will be obtained. This is a big loss.

Regardless of the wooden thorns that cut their hands in the forest, they staggered and ran on the rugged mountain road, and occasionally shot barbed arrows to get crossbow arrows, hoping to slow down the iron-clawed wolf.

But it is a pity that it is much more convenient to have four legs in the forest. After a while, the few people gradually fell down, and the black wolf gradually disappeared.

"Damn it, can't you catch up?" One of them panted heavily, and his steps slowed down, and the companions beside him also gradually slowed down their steps.

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When several people were thinking about whether to give up, the black wolf's wailing and screaming came from ahead, followed by the sound of rolling into the forest leaves.

Is someone else blocking it?These adventurers thought so, glanced at each other, quickened their pace, and ran forward.

Pushing aside the thick bushes, several people finally saw the scene in the open space. A young girl was standing in it, with blood still remaining on the long sword in her hand, and the wolf had already fallen to the side.

"Thank you, we chased this wolf for so long that we almost thought it escaped."

"According to the mission, we should kill three Iron Claw wolves, and this is the last one. Since it is our mission, can you give us this wolf corpse? Of course, we will give a certain amount of compensation according to the market price." Among them An adventurer wearing a flat hat stepped out and negotiated with the girl.