"There are three places in the Randall Valley, one in Tobesk, and one in the Pantanal. In just half a month, I saw five places."
Shade sighed as he took out the normal soil prepared in advance from his pocket and prepared to cast the spell. However, after the soil was crushed and sprinkled, the spell failed to work:
"This time is different from the previous situation. I need to see the core of the contaminated area in order to purify this land."
Shade wiped the dirt off his hands, Iluna nodded, and the two of them still had to enter the building in front of them first:
"Then what are the characteristics of this crazy land? It's not the petrification or gathering of evil spirits you mentioned."
The spirits in the mansion don't look like evil spirits, at least not to their eyes.
"Let's talk about it after we go in. The residual power of the evil object has seriously affected our perception. I can't tell what will happen."
He pulled out the [Night Watch], and the silver blade shone in the moonlit night. The long sword sensed the power of the evil object, and the runes on the blade lit up. Shade was ready for battle.
Of course, there were no lights in the abandoned mansion. After entering the corridor under the moonlight, the two found the stairs to the second floor, intending to meet the soul trapped here first.
The interior of the house was far more deserted than expected, and even the stairs were broken. Fortunately, this was not a big problem for the two Central Warlocks.
Only when they reached the second floor did they realize that all the souls who were standing at the window staring at them were gone. The deserted corridor was illuminated by the bright moonlight, and this scene was quite scary.
"Let me take a look."
Iluna said, went to the window and took a look, put her hand on the window sill, golden light shone under her palm. After waiting for a moment and looking up, she noticed the message:
"There are so many souls here. When we get to the third floor, they are all waiting for us on the third floor."
"they?"
"All the souls here, at least hundreds."
Although we don't know how many people there are in the Farmer family, distant relatives of the Granger family and the legal owners of this land, it is obviously impossible to have so many people.
The stairs from the second floor to the third floor are also broken, and there are many black blood-stained graffiti written on the walls of the stairwell. Those crazy words either curse the people who come here, or complain about their fate.
Injustice, or just meaningless curses, a lot of things have probably happened here before.
It is now impossible to verify who built this manor, but it was obvious that at the beginning of the construction, the largest room on the third floor was used as a banquet hall. When Shade and Iluna came to the third floor, it was like
Music like a ball song appeared very suddenly in the empty building, and the door of the banquet hall on the left side of the stairs was open, warm yellow light spilled out, and the voices of men and women chatting gradually became clearer, like
Grand banquets are still being held here.
Shade and Iluna looked at each other. When they came to the door of the banquet hall, they saw a banquet being held under the bright crystal chandelier and kerosene lamp on the wall. Ladies in formal dresses and gentlemen in tuxedos.
People were dancing, and waiters in white shirts and red vests were walking back and forth among the crowd carrying trays and wine glasses. An elderly man wearing a monocle was sitting on the sofa in the corner seating area, talking to acquaintances about interesting things.
, middle-aged people and young people in military uniforms looked at the distant scenery by the window.
Such a lively banquet in the abandoned mansion made the scene even more bizarre. Xia Deming knew that this was a lie, but he could not see the truth for the time being. From the side of Iluna, the scenes in his left eye and right eye were completely different.
The eyes of the divine structure are enough for her to see through the truth here.
"Really, you are playing such a trick. Let me use it for a while."
She took the [Night Watcher] from Shade's hand angrily, and stabbed the sword in both hands into the red carpet illuminated by the light in the banquet hall:
"Laws-Destroy the Demon!"
The golden light traces spread along the ground with the sword tip as the center, causing no ripples in the corridor with peeling walls behind the two people. However, in the banquet hall in front, as the golden ripples spread, the magnificent banquet hall seemed to have faded.
It has returned to its old and dilapidated appearance, and the well-dressed people have disappeared like soap bubbles.
The warmth felt on the skin turned back to the coldness of a winter night. The cold wind poured in from the glassless window, and then blew into the corridor from the door. The empty banquet hall was illuminated by the three-color moonlight coming from the window on one side. There was nothing here at all.
During the grand banquet, there were only hundreds of shadowy souls indoors looking at the two people at the door.
In the center of the banquet hall was an old long table without a tablecloth. The suspicious marks on the table looked like large swathes of blood. At the end of the long table, sat a well-dressed male soul. He was dressed in old clothes.
The nobles of the era dressed up as middle-aged people when attending banquets. On the side of the long table near the door, there were two chairs, which were obviously prepared for Shade and Iluna.
"Are you Baron Farmer?"
Shade asked.
"Yes."
The seated man replied. As he spoke, the unknown souls around him began to stir, but soon calmed down.
"I am the owner of this manor. Isn't it a little rude of you to break into my house?"
The man asked while turning the ring on his right hand with his left hand. Shade and Iluna just walked in, pulled out the chairs and sat down respectively. There were just hundreds of souls, so this was not a threat:
"Then I'm sorry for breaking into your house."
Shade looked at him:
"No offense, I just want to ask you about someone. Mr. Thomas Granger, if my investigation is correct, the Farmer family has had a lot of correspondence with him. If possible, I would like to know your correspondence.
What’s the content?”
The middle-aged nobleman put his hands together on the table:
"Thomas Granger."
The soul was expressionless when he said this. He was stronger than most of the souls Shade had ever seen - Thomas Granger in the Emerald Dream and the mutated evil spirits in the Narrow Between Life and Death.
Except. Among the hundreds of souls that inhabit the house, this is undoubtedly the strongest individual:
"Yes, I do know him."
The thumbs of the soul pressed their knuckles against each other:
"About seventy years ago, he wrote to me to inquire about this manor and asked for records about this manor. For this reason, I remembered that my family owned this property, and it happened that the kingdom sent soldiers here.
We were stationed there, so I brought my family here. I was still thinking that maybe I could find letters or relics from my ancestors here, which might be useful to Thomas. A week after he landed on the island, an infectious disease broke out and we all
died."
He said this expressionlessly, and Iluna quietly touched Shade with her leg, indicating that he was ready to fight at any time.
"You resent him?"
Shade asked again.
"How could I not be resentful? If my good friend didn't talk about this manor with me, how could our whole family die here?"
The baron's soul stared at Shade, with green flames faintly visible in his eyes. The moonlight was obscured by the drifting clouds, but the room was not dark at all, and all the souls were emitting a miserable green light:
"Did you know? This land is alive. Anyone who dies here will have their souls permanently bound here and slowly be swallowed up by the earth. The land will draw strength from all souls, so the souls trapped here will become more and more alive."
The more we have, the longer we can exist.”
Shade's fingers tapped on the table unconsciously:
"Why, you don't mean to say that one of us must leave one behind before you are willing to tell me the location of those letters, right?"
"of course not."
The man shook his head slightly:
"I hope you both stay!"
There was a loud bang, and the door behind him closed automatically in the strong wind. The thick curtains that should not have existed covered the window with a swipe of sound. The souls wandering around seemed to have entities for a moment,
He pounced on Shade and Iluna with a horrific look of death.
The miserable green fire illuminated the banquet hall, and the sound of howls and cries was enough to make any determined person give up the will to survive.
"Silver Moon."/"Sun!"
The bursts of gold and silver light radiated from the tide of souls, and the holy and warm power directly melted the first batch of souls that rushed towards them. As Shade and Iluna stood up, two brass rings appeared.
The two people standing side by side rotated behind each other. The life rings were so close that when they rotated clockwise and counterclockwise, they collided with each other with a harsh sound and produced dazzling sparks.
The golden sun's rays and the holy silver moonlight illuminated the enclosed space together, and the wailing souls took the initiative to escape quickly through the wall without the two of them doing it themselves.
The baron's soul on the other side of the long table looked at the scene in front of him in astonishment, as if the sun and moon had really descended here. He also wanted to escape downstairs through the wall, but only his legs entered the floor and flew
The silver halo came and wrapped around his neck.
The movement of the soul suddenly stopped, and then several halos of light flew over and enveloped his hands and legs.
Shade stretched out his arms, and the chains of sin pierced out like a long snake. They passed over the long table and tied up the baron who was completely unable to move. He dragged him along the dusty long table like a dead dog.
Arriving in front of Shade and Iluna.
Although the soul does not have the instinctive reaction of the body, at this moment the Baron still felt that his whole body was shaking in front of the "sun" and "moon". He looked at the two people with wide eyes, and the spiked tail of the dark chain was already pointing at him.
The cold metal feeling on the face is not fatal, but the filth of mortal sin is enough to make this soul collapse.
"I believe you are not the only one in this manor who can answer our questions."