Finally, the old priest finished reading the eulogy and completed the last ceremony. After everyone at the scene took off their hats and observed a moment of silence, the priest announced that Misha would be sent to the eternal resting place of Devonshire's ancestors. Then several guards who had been prepared for a long time came up, lifted the coffin onto their shoulders, and walked into the church.
Since Misha's secret accident did not leave any body behind, the coffin was only loaded with some of Misha's clothes and favorite items during her lifetime, so it was very light.
Although the coffin was light, in order to express their respect for the dead, the guards responsible for carrying the coffin walked very slowly and steadily.
The empty coffin was slowly carried into the church, and after passing the altar, it was carried into the basement through the stairs at the back of the church. The huge stone door that had been sealed here was now opened, and the funeral procession walked in. After passing through a long downward corridor, they entered the catacombs.
Here is a large underground tomb. Four thick stone pillars support the spacious underground space. On both sides of the space, there are several tall stone statues of knights. On the floor of the space, there are rows of thick sarcophagi. On the ceiling of the tomb space, there is a large luminous gem inlaid, bringing a faint light to the entire dark underground space.
After the funeral procession entered the underground tomb, they went straight to a corner. Here, a sarcophagus had been opened. The dark coffin was empty. After the funeral procession arrived at the side of the sarcophagus, they put the small wooden coffin they were carrying into the larger sarcophagus.
After putting the wooden coffin in place, the old priest performed a brief final ceremony. Then, several guards who were originally responsible for carrying the coffin lifted the lid of the heavy stone coffin and placed it on top of the stone coffin. After a muffled sound, the wooden coffin was sealed in eternal darkness.
After completing the last part of the funeral, the funeral procession left the underground cemetery together and returned to the church above through the original corridor. Amid the roar of the mechanism, the huge stone door slammed shut, and the entire underground cemetery fell into silence again.
In the stone coffin that had just been buried, and in the wooden coffin that should have contained only clothes, a pair of eyes were slowly opening at this moment.
In the darkness inside the wooden coffin, a strange, translucent, illusory light was flowing. Suddenly, this translucent, empty object gradually became real. The original strange light gradually disappeared, and was replaced by a real entity. After a while, a solid body appeared in the coffin almost out of thin air, and then a breathing sound was heard in the darkness.
"call……"
Then, the lid of the wooden coffin was pushed open, and a dark shadow sat up from the coffin that should have been empty. The dark shadow was wearing a tight black dress and a hood on his head. Under the hood appeared Misha's face.
"I never thought that I would have such an experience in this life..."
Sitting in her own coffin, Misha used her night vision ability to look at the clothes she liked in the past in the coffin and couldn't help but sigh softly. At this moment, a steady male voice sounded in her mind.
"How does it feel to be alive and experience your own funeral, Ms. Misha?"
Hearing the voice in her mind, Misha was slightly startled, and then responded according to what she was thinking.
"It feels very strange... As soon as I heard my mother crying in here, I almost couldn't help but lift the lid to give her a hug. I thought it was strange enough to experience fake death once, but I didn't expect that there would be something even stranger like experiencing my own funeral..."
After responding, Misha raised her hand and put it in front of her eyes to examine it carefully. After fully feeling the reality of her body, she sighed in her heart.
"But then again, you always surprise me. Rosicrucian, a name that can accomplish highly efficient secret communication with just a prayer, a means to control a person's transformation from real to fake at such a long distance... How many secrets do you have that can surprise me? You are indeed a society that can play tricks on the Eight Points..."
"Thank you for your compliment, Miss Knight. We also took this opportunity to verify some of our techniques..."
In a secret room far away, Dorothy turned on the system's "voice changing function" to talk to Misha through the consultation channel. In her hand, she was holding a stacked ball with exquisite hollow carvings. This was the "Shadow" divine object, the Phantom Scale Incense Cage, which Dorothy had borrowed from the little fox not long ago.
This magical object has the powerful function of transforming the user's body from a real physical dream into a dream body. Just now, Dorothy used the spiritual thread to transmit the effect of this incense burner to Misha in the distance, transforming her entire body into a dream body, and then made Misha, who had turned into a dream body, hide in her own empty coffin that she had prepared in advance.
Since this Glory Hall tomb was built with a certain amount of cold stone, it is impossible to physically travel into it with an illusory body. One can only hide in an empty coffin first, and then be carried into the Glory Hall by the funeral procession. From the beginning of the funeral, Misha's dream body was in the coffin, and was later carried in by someone. Misha's own body should not be in the coffin, and the coffin cannot have extra mass, otherwise it will arouse suspicion from others.
"Anyway, I've finally gotten in here. Now all I have to do is open this stone lid..."
Sitting in the coffin, Misha looked up at the sarcophagus cover above her and murmured in her heart, and just as Dorothy was about to say something in response, her small corpse doll that followed the funeral procession into the crypt suddenly discovered something unusual.
"Wait...wait a moment, don't go out."
"ah?"
While Dorothy was speaking and Misha was puzzled, in the dark tomb, within the dark shadows, unusual changes occurred.
A shadow, a pure black shadow, wriggled out from the darkness accumulated in the corner of the tomb, and snaked forward on the ground, crawling quickly on the surface of the ground.
"Is this... a shadow? A shadow that moves independently without any entity?"
There was only a moving shadow, but no entity corresponding to the shadow. The strange shadow, which seemed to be a kind of creature, "swam" to the center of the tomb in a strange way, and then it hovered there and there. After it coiled into a circle, from the black shadow, something hung from the ground and slowly rose up three-dimensionally. It was not a person!
As if emerging from a shadow cave, or as if the shadow was directly shaped into a solid entity, a slightly shorter figure wearing a hooded cloak and completely concealing his body appeared in the tomb. After looking around at the large sarcophagi, he slowly walked towards the nearest one, came to the side, and looked at the inscription engraved on the coffin lid.
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