Chapter 128 A sickening smell of rotten fish
"! Is this the Giles family's underground grave?" Hedda's eyes widened, "Why isn't Louisa's grave on the surface?"
Her ancestors were buried in the same cemetery, piled together with the coffins of all the Turner family members. How could the ancestors of the Giles family be placed alone underground?
"I remember Louisa's grave was on the ground." Amy recalled, "It seems to be a fake."
"The coffin is not buried..." Edith thought, "Maybe it's because there is something else in Louisa's coffin?"
Everyone then remembered the spell book of Louisa that Edith had mentioned. "That is to say, the Giles family has always known that there is something hidden in Louisa's coffin, but they just don't have the ability to take it out." Tuttle concluded, "But just because they can't take it out doesn't mean that outsiders can't, so they specially parked the coffin in the underground secret room and assigned someone to guard it."
"If I can't get it, no one else can get it either. It seems that thing is really important."
Edith recited the last thing she saw in Louisa's biography: "According to Longman, Louisa's coffin was divided into two layers. They opened the first layer and found this biography and some records of spells, but they couldn't open the second layer no matter what."
According to Louisa's will, she didn't even want to hand over this biography to her family, hoping that the spell she created would sink into the ground like her body.
"But if Louisa has this ability, why didn't she use it on the first level? Does it consume too much mana?"
"Maybe she did it on purpose." Bell thought for a moment. "She knew that the family would not give up until they got what they wanted, so she left the unimportant things outside to appease them, and only placed the truly important things close to her."
Whatever the reason, it turns out that this thing placed next to Louisa is of great significance.
Edith was silent for a moment, with a strange look on her face.
What really matters...
The fish, the stew, the stick or the hair?
......
Duke Eddie could not wait to knock out the gravekeeper with a spell, then he skillfully circumvented all the triggering mechanisms and approached the translucent coffin.
The Giles family probably didn't expect that anyone would be able to come here smoothly, so they didn't design more protective measures. Even a stupid butler followed Duke Eddie's route and didn't suffer any attacks.
"The first layer of Louisa's coffin has been opened." The butler came over to take a look, "Then we only need to open the second layer!"
Duke Eddie said nothing. He quietly approached the small opening on the coffin and looked down through the transparent crystal above.
Louisa was lying quietly inside.
Her flaxen hair was spread out and spread messily under her body, dry and rough without any luster. Her eyes were calmly closed, with wrinkles spreading around her eyes, as if she was just sleeping.
Duke Eddie watched quietly for a while, then suddenly sneered, "Because of your messy hair, the Giles family didn't dare to open your remains to the public at the funeral... You're so cool, you took the initiative to get into the coffin and lock yourself in it. Are you so willing to accept death?"
When she was young, Louisa didn't like to take care of herself. When her hair was too long or too messy to affect her life, she would cut it off with a sword. She never had the habit of combing it. Later, when she was old, sometimes the younger generation wanted to help her comb her hair, but she refused them all.
"No," she said righteously, "It would make me feel like a monkey in the forest."
At that time, the Giles line had already developed into a family under the leadership of Louisa and had a status. The people who had originally behaved normally suddenly became picky and complained about the fact that Louisa did not look noble.
"There's something wrong with my brain," Louisa commented at the end of the biography. "I also heard someone was thinking about how to dress and organize myself after I die so that the world would see me differently... just forget about the wrinkles on my face."
"I've decided to die early. From now on, I'll start designing a coffin. When I feel happy, I can just lie in it. No one can stop me."
And she did.
On an ordinary summer day, Louisa had dinner normally, walked around the garden twice, and said she was tired and wanted to rest. When everyone found her again, she was dead in the coffin in her old pajamas.
——Of course, she also holds all the hard work of her life.
But Louisa probably didn't expect that what she thought was a perfect death would one day be broken by Hope Eddie.
A mocking expression appeared on Duke Eddie's face.
"If Louisa sealed the coffin herself... are we capable of opening it?" The butler clearly understood his own strength and hesitated for a moment, "After all, she is..."
That’s the legendary Louisa!
Many ancient wizards left behind spells, but not many left their bodies intact. Now, just standing beside them and looking at their corpses, he felt an inexplicable panic, let alone destroying the coffins.
Does anyone know what defenses are in there?
"I am prepared."
Duke Eddie chuckled, stretched out his hands gently in the air, and a scroll suddenly appeared in his hands out of thin air.
"I've kept them for so many years, and I only have two left."
But compared to Louisa's spell book and her own life, what is the precious magic circle?
He could hardly conceal his excitement and trembled slightly as he pressed the scroll against the coffin.
......
"What is that?"
From Amy's perspective, all he could see was Duke Eddie taking out a scroll that glowed blue. He turned to look at Edith, the only person present who might be able to tell what that thing was, "Is it a scroll that can open something?"
"...I don't know him."
Edith's face was not very good. "I have never seen this symbol in any book."
But it is conceivable that a scroll that can break open Louisa's coffin must have effects that are beyond their understanding.
"What's this?"
The butler asked the same question.
Good question!
Everyone was excited, and Heda couldn't hide the excitement in her tone, "It's great to have a fool around with the villain!"
Duke Eddie was used to the butler's stupidity, so he was not on guard. Or maybe he was just too excited at the moment and had to find someone to share his excitement with: "Guess?"
The butler looked at the scroll carefully and said, "It looks like... a clock?"
The magic circle on the scroll was in the shape of a ring, with a dot in the center and surrounded by incomprehensible characters. There were three vertical lines between the characters and the dot, just like the hands on a clock.
"It's the clock."
Duke Eddie said cheerfully, "There is a magic that can reverse time here."
Everyone's breathing suddenly stopped.
A...what magic?
Even Edith, who was well-informed, felt her heart stop for a few seconds after hearing this word. She could feel the air in her body being rapidly consumed, but it was difficult to breathe, as if she was trapped in a deep ocean.
Tuttle was the first to notice something was wrong with her.
He immediately stepped forward, grabbed Edith's wrist, and applied a little force.
Edith finally came to her senses.
She was a little dazed, shook her head, and cast a freezing spell on her forehead to calm herself down. She nodded to Tuttle to express her gratitude and looked inside the stone door again.
She was definitely not in the right state just now.
A magic circle that is beyond everyone's personal knowledge will cause greater harm to people with rich knowledge. She read half of the books in the association's library and had never even heard of this kind of spell.
Either Duke Eddie was exaggerating, or this was some lost ancient magic circle. But judging from Hope Eddie's statement that "there were only two left", it should be the latter.
after all--
"——Time goes backwards?!" Even the butler couldn't hold back his voice, "Is the rumor true?"
"If you mean the rumor circulating among the servants that 'the Eddy family has the magic to control time', it's true." Hope's mood was getting better and better, but before he could say more, an unbearable pain suddenly climbed up his head.
The time for sobriety is almost over.
"...No." He supported the coffin with his hands, gritted his teeth and injected magic into the scroll, "We have to solve it as soon as possible."
"What is the effect of this magic circle?" The butler still didn't understand the current situation. "Time is reversed...but our goal is to open the coffin."
"And if time really is reversed, wouldn't it be enough to just turn the time back to when you were not injured?"
"This magic circle cannot be maintained for long." Duke Eddie stared at the scroll. After injecting magic power to activate it, the pointer on the scroll slowly turned, and the speed gradually became faster and faster. In the end, only a sharp crackling sound could be heard - the blue afterimage of the pointer covered all the characters.
"It can't affect the entire space-time either. It can only target one thing and temporarily return it to its past state. Generally speaking, after three hours, the scroll disappears and the object returns to its original state. But the time we need to reverse is too long, so the duration may only be ten minutes."
"We're going to turn this coffin back to a time when it wasn't closed yet."
......
Outside the stone gate.
"That's not—"
Lynch's face was filled with shock. "If Louisa really lay in the coffin by herself, was she still alive when the coffin was closed?"
Everyone understood what he meant instantly.
——Will this scroll also reverse Louisa’s time?
Edith looked serious and instructed, "First, disguise yourself. Then, be ready to fight or escape at any time."
"I'll walk in front. If you find something wrong, don't worry about me and run immediately."
......
Inside the stone gate.
The traces of time on the surface of the coffin gradually decreased, but at the same time, the clock ticked slower and slower.
Duke Eddie had a splitting headache. All his joy had faded away, and his face was full of anxiety. "Damn it——"
This guy actually crawled into the coffin alive!
The time reversal effect on living objects and non-living objects are two different concepts. If you want to wake up Louisa at the same time, the power of this scroll may not be enough.
He shifted his gaze to the left, and in the butler's horrified gaze, he roughly pulled the gravekeeper closer, took out his hidden blade and slashed his wrist with force. Blood gushed out immediately, splashing on the scroll, and the pointer began to spin faster again.
"Only life can be exchanged for life."
He felt relieved, slumped on the ground holding his wand, and quietly waited for the moment when the coffin would be opened.
But somehow, a disgusting smell of rotten fish gradually spread to his nose and became stronger and stronger.
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