"It looks like this is a vegetable cellar used by the villagers to store vegetables for the winter. I have seen similar cellars when I visited the south of Kasenlik before."
Miss Owl said.
There was a rusty iron rope hanging at the entrance of the vegetable cellar, but Shade opened it just by knocking. When he opened the door, he didn't feel any trace of elements. But after jumping down, he found that the entire cellar was empty and there was nothing here.
No.
"Look at the dust on the ground. Something has been left there."
The cat's eyes were shining in the darkness, and through her reminder, Shade also saw that the ground at the southeast corner was exceptionally clean in addition to the footprints on the ground. Judging from the traces on the ground, there should have been stacks here.
A lot of boxes have been passed, and now those boxes have been moved away through the dock.
Judging from the degree of drying of the mud on the footprints, this must have happened in the past two days.
The person who removed the box was very careful and left nothing behind except the overlapping shoe prints, let alone any identification documents or matchsticks, cigarette butts and other clues that often appear in detective novels.
Fortunately, Shade is not a real detective either:
"Echoes from the past!"
Then a man with an accent obviously speaking in the dialect of Ximu Town spoke very rudely——
"Move everything up, hurry up, the waterway will be difficult to navigate after dark. Barty, Claude, you two go move the last box, don't be lazy behind me.
Oh, damn idiots, if you break the contents of the box, I won’t be able to compensate you if your skin is peeled off. Come on, move faster. I know you can’t light up the lights. It’s very dark here, but be patient for a while and I’ll get back to the boat.
I can smoke now!”
After that, Shade heard the rude man's voice repeatedly urging the people suspected to be porters to move faster, but during this period, no one said any information about their identities.
"That group of people looked like they came during the day."
After hearing the sound, Shade said to the cat:
"And it sounds like even if they moved things here, they didn't bring any lighting tools. Considering that those people are most likely ordinary people, even if they had lighting tools, they probably only had torches and lanterns."
"So, they don't dare to light a fire here?"
The cat then asked, and Shade also meant the same thing:
"The presence of flames here seems to be very dangerous, then."
He raised his right hand, and a slender orange flame appeared in his palm.
This light was reflected in the eyes of Shade and the cat, but with the appearance of this firelight, the originally dark basement not only did not become brighter, but became darker, and the village above the cellar under the gloomy sky,
At this time, it was completely shrouded in darkness.
The sunlight shining into the bottom of the cellar completely disappeared. It seemed that with just his next breath, Shade could smell the strong burnt smell in the air.
This smell not only means that something has been set on fire, but also that the human body has been burned. This is the last smell that a foreigner smells in his hometown before coming to this world, and he is deeply impressed by it.
"The Whispering Element."
The cat on the shoulder whispered, looking around in the dark:
"I thought this would directly attract the devil."
"If the other party shows up so easily, wouldn't it be pointless for us to conduct such an investigation?"
Shade immediately extinguished the flame in his hand, completely plunging the surrounding area into darkness:
"You decide what kind of relic this is. It's incredible that my fire feels like it's on the verge of losing control."
Both Shade and the Witch have the ability of dark vision, but the surroundings are very strange at this time, because the eyes still cannot see the deep darkness in front of them, but other senses are still normal.
Rustling sounds gathered from all around, and soon Shade felt something grabbing his leg. When he lowered his head, two silver light balls flew out from behind him, illuminating the cloth.
A basement full of soot.
This soot did not exist a few seconds ago, but when Shade lowered his head, the cat on his shoulder also lowered his head and looked at his feet:
"What's wrong?"
There was nothing on the ground grabbing Shade's legs. The silver moonlight was very soft and did not reveal any marks on his trouser legs, nor did it reveal any footprints or other marks on the soot.
"I just felt something grabbing me."
boom!
The next second, a raging fire suddenly ignited without warning and swallowed up a person and a cat, but then a gray translucent shield that rejected the flames cleared a safe area for them.
This was Flora casting a spell, and it seemed to be an undead spell, but Shade couldn't identify it.
But he could tell that the fire around him was getting stronger and stronger, and the flames filled every corner of the empty vegetable cellar. In just a few seconds, it almost turned into the scene where he merged with Sister Devlin after unlocking the secret lock "Bell Tower Lover".
In a state of fire.
The cat can still maintain the shield state for the time being, but she still issued a warning:
"Something is wrong. The temperature and intensity of this flame are increasing too fast. This is no ordinary fire. Let's leave the cellar first and go outside to take a look."
"No problem, Raglay's jump."
After preparing the materials for casting the spell, Shade jumped up and appeared out of thin air in the village on the ground with the cat. Then the flames disappeared and darkness enveloped the surroundings. The fine raindrops had disappeared, and now the sky was filled with bright colors.
Fly ash with a few faint sparks after burning fell down.
This place is just like the cellar just now, dark vision has no effect at all, and the flying ash sparks are not worth mentioning.
And when the silver ball of light illuminated the surroundings again, they saw that the surroundings were no longer an abandoned village integrated with nature. The surrounding buildings were all intact, with radishes drying on the walls and doghouses on the ground with their doors open.
There are also chicken manure, and there is a pitchfork standing next to the open door, with a farmer's hat hanging on the fork. Everything here is full of life.
And in the third second after the light ball appeared, the dazzling fire ignited all the surrounding buildings. Immediately, the fire spread along the ground, and the surrounding area turned into a sea of fire in an instant.
"Chloe's Ice Breath!"
The extremely cold air was exhaled from Shade's mouth, and the cat on his shoulder also opened its mouth at the same time, but what was breathed out was not the cold but the dark frosty air that contained the power of death.
The two forces simultaneously attacked the surrounding fire that gradually became raging. At first, the fire was quickly contained and even began to retreat. But soon as the fire became more and more raging, the flames actually began to suppress the joint spells cast by Shade and the Witch.
"Thumbac-Primal Power·Repulsion!"
The cat on the shoulder slapped a paw heavily on Shade's shoulder, so Shade felt his shoulders sink, and then with his feet as the center, a huge repulsive force immediately affected the surroundings, and the sea of fire that tried to devour them suddenly fell back.
It went at least ten meters, but then quickly surged up again.
"Primal power·Repulsion!"
The cat opened its bow and paws continuously from left to right, and the sea of fire continued to retreat and advance during the surging air waves. But this obviously had no great effect, because Shade clearly felt that the whispering elements around him were becoming stronger.
The seemingly uninhabited village had been completely engulfed in flames at this time, and the blazing fire even covered the sky. Everything around was red, and in the depths of the sea of fire, human figures were standing there.
Running around like crazy.
"This won't work!"
The cat reminded loudly, and then thought of other ways:
"Block it first, I haven't figured out what this is yet - Thaumatology·Wall of Sighs!"
Amidst the rumbling sound, three high and skewed walls arranged in an equilateral triangle shape rose up around Shade. The gray stone walls collided above his head with a roar and then nested into each other, then enveloped him like a triangular pyramid.
included in it.
"Isn't this thaumaturgy a bit too omnipotent?"
The sea of fire was blocked by the stone wall. Shade asked in the darkness, while the cat on his shoulder panted:
"So this is the thirteen-ring thaumaturgy. It's just that the incomplete power I currently have has integrated channeling, defense, and summoning into one. It can even be used as a staircase to take me to a higher position sometimes.
"
But it seems that casting this spell consumes a lot of money for her, but soon the cat discovered the problem in the darkness:
"The temperature outside is decreasing, and I feel that the speed at which the Wall of Sighs is being destroyed is also decreasing, and so on. The fire outside is extinguished! I can't feel that the Wall of Sighs is being destroyed! What's going on? The fire is over
?”
So Shade asked her to temporarily stop casting spells, and as the wall disappeared, the outside world returned to darkness.
Even though there were ashes with sparks floating all over the sky, the darkness was too deep for the two people's eyes to see through it. But their perception still reminded them that they were surrounded by a complete and empty village, and the ground was covered with
Ashes, there is no life here.
"I probably understand a little bit."
The cat whispered softly in Shade's ear:
"Every time the flames appeared just now, it was after you summoned the light ball to illuminate the surroundings. But once we come from the burning basement to the ground without fire, or from the burning village into a lightless sealed environment, the flames will
disappear.
Does this mean that as long as the light is triggered, more and more intense flames will appear around it?"
"It should be like this, but it's not safe without light."
As he spoke, Shade raised his foot and kicked forward, kicking away the thing that had grabbed his leg. As the darkness lasted longer and longer, dense rustling sounds were heard frequently from around him, and he couldn't sense it.
There are no monsters in sight, but the sense of hearing allows the brain to immediately think of a large number of living creatures crawling on the ashes around them.
The cat's little ears twitched, and then she quickly got into Shade's clothes, only revealing her little head from his chest:
"We seem to be surrounded. We can't see it with our eyes, but other senses can feel the things around us. Resentment, soul, and ashes, these three things make up the enemies around us. Look at me, this is my specialty