"Is it possible that it is a private operation of a certain party?"
Ling still believes that the disappearance of the shadow is inseparable from the dirty blood, which is indeed the most likely at the moment.
"Foul blood is not as powerful as you think. Nils and I are already the best of Enoch's blood in the past hundred years. Although I am still relatively weak, there will not be many people here who can be stronger than Nils .”
"It is unlikely that a single party can come up with a lineup stronger than the Paris Hunter Squad."
Indeed, if it is true as Fetili said, even if such a team makes a sneak attack, it is unlikely that the shadow will disappear without conveying any information.
This is not good news. Compared with powerful enemies that you know something about, unknown threats are more terrifying.
Victoria, who had been silent all this time, suddenly interrupted their conversation,
"There's filth here... there's a bad smell, it's close—not dirty blood, it's your wizards'."
There is no blood in Shadow's doll body, but Victoria's sense of smell seems to be subtly different from ordinary dirty blood. She does not make judgments entirely by blood, but by a certain smell that even she cannot explain.
After being reminded, Fitili also lay on the ground and barely found something from the snow-covered bushes.
It was stained with dirty oil of the same color on the black vines, and it was easy to be overlooked if one didn't observe carefully.
"And the smell of curses and pollution...it should be Wendigo's blood."
Ling Wenyan put one hand on the branch, and with the force of this pull, he deftly bounced himself up from the ground, and landed firmly on a tall black twisted tree.
She narrowed her eyes, and the pupils under her eyelashes turned sharp dark yellow.With the help of talents and some small spells, her field of vision was incredibly wide even in this weather.
"There is a house on the hill five miles to the north. I think it may be the one you saw in the divination, Ella."
Chapter 44 Torn Gloves
The sky had gradually darkened, and a simple two-story stone hut appeared not far ahead.
It is a dark gray building made of large irregular stones stacked against the mountain wall.
A few arm-thin tree trunks were tied together with grass ropes, serving as the crude wooden doors of the stone house.It now hangs askew on one side of the stone wall, looking broken for some reason.
Ella took out the paper with the divination results from the inner pocket of her coat, and the scene in front of her gradually overlapped with the pattern on the white paper.
The position of the chimney, the shape of the house, and even the damaged wooden door are exactly the same.
"It should be here, be careful."
Ella rolled up the drawing and put it back. Fittili walked into the stone house first. With her physical characteristics, even if she was ambushed, she would not be severely injured on the spot.
"No danger."
Fetili's voice came from inside the room, and the first thing that caught his eye was the huge monster corpse with antlers and gray hair in the corner of the room.
Sharp black crystals grew here and there on the exposed body of the Wendigo, which was obviously the trace left by the shadow.
It leaned against the wall with half of its body, and a slender crystal cone was deeply embedded in the right eye socket.It was the blow through the brain and skull that nailed it here.
Shadow followed the monster to its lair that night and killed it neatly.
The body showed signs of being dissected, and it looked like Shadow took several key parts after killing it.
"Miss Shadow has indeed killed it... It seems that the accident happened after this battle?"
Fetili looked through the Wendigo's body, but found nothing unusual.
The space on the first floor of the stone house is not large, but it has more complicated furnishings than Xia Delin's wooden house.
According to Nosferatu, Aaron was a doctor in the village before he went missing in the forest. Nod's concept of "doctor" is different from that of the outside world.Most of them are half-doctors who have mastered a few witchcrafts. Relying on their own understanding of the properties of some materials, they concoct some strange potions that are not less harmful than their own effects.
In addition to a small bed made of animal skins and withered grass, there are a few simple utensils and material boxes on the stone table in the south of the room, and half a simple homemade wardrobe.There are several sets of clothing of different styles hanging in the wardrobe. Different from the villagers' clothing or militia armors in Balan Village, they are mostly travelers' clothing, and there are even two sets of untimely complex and luxurious palace dresses.
In addition, there are several rows of antler-shaped decorations of unknown meaning stacked on the second floor separated by logs as roof boards. These white objects occupy almost the entire space on the second floor of the stone house.
The antlers were vaguely stained with a few faint blood stains, and were frozen by the cold wind that poured into the stone house.
Ella vaguely felt that there was something wrong in the room, but she couldn't find a clue in a short period of time.
"look at this!"
Ling seemed to have discovered something. She bent down and picked something up from the ground.
It was a black silk rose-pattern glove. It looked like it had been used for a long time, and the finger joints had been worn out with holes the size of pigeon eggs.Because of Roger's design style, the gloves worn by the doll's body are always the most prone to wear in these positions.
No doubt this was something Shadow had used.
Ella found this glove, and she felt something touched her inspiration.Under the influence of Lingxin's vision, a few faint silver threads spread along the glove into the night outside the stone house.
This is the trace left by space magic. Ayla, who has the same magical nature as the shadow, is more likely to perceive her spellcasting path left in the air. Based on the experience of the shadow, she is unlikely to leave such a short-distance transmission. Obvious flaws.
"No...this guy from Shadow left it on purpose."
After the shadow revealed its existence, she and Ella lived together in almost the same body for several months, so they have a considerable understanding of each other's personality and thoughts.
This glove and the remaining magic power were left to her by the shadow. Once this thought arose, many things began to fall into place.
"She had a premonition of something, so she used short-distance teleportation to quickly leave the stone house... But even so, Shadow still felt that she was not out of danger. She had already guessed that she would be in a bad situation, These traces are the clues she left for me specially!"
At this moment, a small explosion came from not far outside the house, followed by a series of the same sounds.
Victoria suddenly leaned down warily, her right hand resting on the multi-barreled rifle that slipped out of her cloak, and Ling almost instantly took a step forward, blocking between her and Ella.
"what are you planning to do?"
Ling's tone lost its warmth, and a handleless blade twirled between her fingers.
Feeling threatened, Victoria just stepped back slightly, shook her head and replied:
"The traps I set up along the way outside have been triggered, and something is approaching here."
Fittili raised her head abruptly. In her eyes, a large amount of purple-black blood energy was entwined into dense silk threads in the air, and they were woven into a net to wrap the stone house airtight.
"It's Wendigos, there are lots of them!"
Ella's face turned pale, and she already understood the source of that sense of disobedience.Both Aaron and Shadrin are man-eating monsters, and the latter's residence stores a huge amount of dried human flesh, but Aaron's place seems too clean!
She turned her head to look at the antler decorations placed in the corner of the wall. The old blood stains had stained their tips black, and there was a faint smell in the room.They're not decorations at all, but storage cabinets for visiting food!
Perhaps a day earlier, Aaron's prey had been naked on antlers, displayed like art or plate decorations.
Thinking of this, she waved her fingers twice in the air, and the cut cross shape was quickly pulled and expanded into a rotating vortex of light.
"Hold on to me! The teleportation here is not as stable as the physical space."
Ling and Fitili put their hands on Ella's shoulders successively, while Victoria hesitated for a moment, then grabbed the girl's clothes.
As the light door closed, the figures of the four people were outlined on the spire of the hut.
Victoria was not used to this kind of teleportation, her feet were unstable and she staggered and fell downward.Fittili reacted in time and pulled her over.
"Are you OK?"
The slender girl nodded first, then shook her head, pushing away Fittili who squatted to hold on to the steeple of the stone house.
Below the slopes, the forest boils.The twisted black trees squirmed like entangled snakes, and the blizzard mixed with hail formed a pure white curtain like a skirt between the sky and the earth.The invisible monster hides in the darkness and snow, only the sound of dull footsteps can be heard.
Chapter 45 Nature
Although Ella heard Fitili mention Wendigo's stealth ability and the way the shadow responded at that time, it was not a tactic she could replicate in this environment.
The lighting technique used by Ling was refracted by the ice and snow in the strong wind into countless complex light spots. Under this disordered and intertwined light spots, the snowflakes flying all over the sky were lit up into a shimmering sphere, which enveloped the hillside Everything in the heights made the vision even more blurred.
The footsteps moved from far to near, from slow to rapid, and the suffocating pressure was like a huge wall falling downwards.
The two antique copper rings on Ella's left finger ring started to flash at the same time, and she declared:
"Second commandment, it is forbidden to hide one's body here."
"Fifth commandment, the wind and snow will die down, and the dawn will come!"
Considering that this commandment needed to restrict multiple monsters with powerful magic at the same time, in order to ensure the success rate at this critical moment, she immediately used the last ring in her hand.
The wind and snow suddenly dissipated, and the crimson moonlight covered the entire forest from above. The moment they set foot on the moonlight, those transparent monsters had nowhere to hide.It seems that a huge brush has applied a layer of bright paint on the transparent glass sculpture, and no matter whether it is dark or pure white snow, it can no longer be their cover.
There were five wendigos that appeared at the foot of the hill, which was even more than the night the mission camp was attacked.The figures of the beasts were also exposed under the cover of darkness. Counting their numbers was meaningless. Most of the beasts in this area had already gathered here.
At the moment the precepts take effect, two negative rules are simultaneously generated.A mechanical whisper echoed in her consciousness:
【Do not harbor hatred. 】
[You should remain silent. 】
Ella snorted, and two nosebleeds dripped down her lips.She immediately used hints to temporarily isolate part of her memory in order to avoid further harm caused by the punishment.
Ella undoubtedly had a strong murderous intention towards Ulysses Philip, which made her directly bear the negative effects of the second commandment.
The fifth commandment prevents her from speaking until the end of the night. It means that when facing these Wendigos, Ella cannot use high-level magic that requires the assistance of spells, and can only use some of the silent spells she masters.
This greatly limits her power, but considering the negative effects brought about by the fifth commandment, it is not an unacceptable result.It was only now that Ella was sure that her luck had returned to normal levels.
After the wind and snow in this area completely cleared, this phenomenon brought about changes that Ella did not expect.
Under the crimson moonlight, the auras of Fetili and Victoria both increased significantly. This effect was similar to the gain brought by the sacred object Nadasdi Crown, but the magnitude was even greater than that.
In fact, one of the functions of Mrs. Nadasidi's crown is to summon the phantom of the Crimson Moon in any area, and thereby bring a certain degree of benefit to the Vampires.And of course this false phantom cannot be compared with the real Crimson Moon.
As a sacred object, its main function is to help the wearer restrain desire and maintain sanity.
The aura of the high-ranking Vampire filled the forest like an abyss and sea. Victoria raised the multi-barreled rifle, her movements changed slightly, and her pupils shrank into two tiny cross stars.
The Wendigos who felt threatened became restless, but they did not take the initiative to attack, which made things a little weird.
Fetili signaled her to retreat, while he stood in front of everyone and said a name that she had not used for a long time.
"I am Abigail Cain of Clan Toledor."
One of the largest Wendigos shrunk rapidly and returned to human appearance.It was an old man who seemed to be over 60 years old, which was very rare among humans in the land of Nod. The curse and harsh environment made most people live no longer than 50 years old.
"The great nobleman of Enoch...why did you enter the Forest of Silence, this is against the rules."
His voice sounded unnatural, as if he hadn't used human language for a long time.There is this tacit law in the land of Nod. In the wilderness outside Enoch, humans and monsters all rely on this tacit understanding to survive.
Isaiah's output is not enough to fill everyone's stomach, and the existence of Wendigo is a link to maintain balance. This is very similar to the natural law of the material world, but the difference is that this law is born in a distorted environment. The same twisted balance.
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