Chapter 745 In-depth Exploration
At this time, Angel and Klein, in the form of spirits containing the "Card of Blasphemy", floated at the edge of the city. Below them were two silent puppets dressed in servants' attire, "Winner" Enzo and "Admiral of Hell" Ludwell. Four pairs of eyes quietly looked at the city below.
"I can't see deep into the city, and my divination failed. It's best not to approach areas shrouded in darkness."
Angel said after her eyes flashed continuously. Her voice came from inside her spirit body and spread out in all directions without converging. It seemed very abrupt in the quiet city periphery.
"'Red Light' Elmoria also warned us of this. After Graygari's failed attempt to revive herself through the 'City of the Dead,' the city mutated. The deeper you go, the more dangerous it becomes." Klein, in his Tyrant form, nodded and replied, "It's said that most of the spirit world predators are in the city's core area, but there are also a few scattered around the periphery. We only need to find one."
After determining the strategy, the two of them tested whether their extraordinary abilities were effective in the kingdom of the "Goddess of Death" Gray Carrie.
Angel condensed the ice layer and arranged a crystal clear ice mirror. He confirmed that Calderon was also connected to the mirror world and did not have an independent small world like Trier in the Fourth Epoch. Only then did he feel relieved.
At worst, she could leave Calderon through the mirror channel and return to the spiritual world.
But this does not mean absolute safety. Even the "Iron Knight" Syrio Soran can use certain methods of the "Man in the Mirror" to block the mirror world, and the power left by the God of Death may be able to do it as well.
Next, she tried various methods such as black flames and diseases, and found that most of them were the same as in the outside world. They were not suppressed by the spiritual city. Instead, the flames burned more vigorously, allowing the fierce fire she created with the "Iron Knight" extraordinary characteristic to spread automatically and almost uncontrollably.
Klein, on the other hand, was using his marionette to test magical items like the "Word of the Sea" and "Blood Flower" rings. Under his training, the cane was extremely quiet, and the "Creeping Hunger" did not shout out the name of the true creator, which made him very satisfied.
Finally, he instructed Ludwell to whisper Mr. Fool's honorific name, and after a moment, he chuckled to Angel and said:
“Mr. Fool also responded to me. If I encounter a problem I can’t handle, I can still ask Him for help.”
What a shame! If Anne could come, we'd be the strongest survey team ever... Hmm, but where should the Queen Anne's Revenge be docked? Perhaps it can only be stranded outside the city and used as a fixed artillery position... Angel muttered to himself, then nodded.
"Then follow the plan. I'll remain hidden nearby while you direct the marionette to explore."
This was the tactic they had decided on before setting out. In light of their experience in hunting the "Gazers", the two believed that once an enemy far stronger than the "Spiritual Predators" appeared, this intelligent spiritual creature would most likely flee in panic, or even penetrate into the real spiritual world and disappear.
Therefore, as a demigod, Angel, whose status has been enhanced by the "Witch" card, has almost stepped into Sequence 3. He must hide behind the scenes and let Klein explore the way through the secret doll, using himself as bait to lure out the "Spirit World Plunderer".
After instructing Klein, Angel, wearing a black dress and with her bare feet slightly drooping, disappeared into the light gray mist outside the city. At the same time, she possessed the anti-divination ability of the "Card of Blasphemy" and the witch's "invisibility" ability. Even if a real demigod appeared in Calderon, he would not be able to detect her.
Of course, I can use the "Spirit Thread" to find her in her invisible state... Klein smiled secretly, opened his vision to observe these black lines that every living thing has, looked up at the sky, and suddenly found that he could not find Angel's location!
She left through the "looking glass world"?
Klein was startled and squinted his eyes to confirm again. Only then did he discover that there were still a few thin black lines in the air. They did not extend to infinity, but disappeared into the void not far after leaving the center point. This was why he did not notice them immediately.
"What's going on with your spirit thread?"
Although he couldn't bring himself to lose face, Klein still asked curiously.
"Hehe, after your initial manipulation of the spirit threads interrupted my movements, I came up with this idea of hiding my own threads," Angel's somewhat complacent voice came from the air. "Using the 'mirror double' to conceal my existence, I should be able to divert most of the 'spiritual threads' into the mirror world, rather than appearing like a hedgehog in front of you... Judging from your reaction, this method should be effective?"
“Actually, some lines still appear…”
Klein weakly retorted, but he knew that if Angel floated a little further away in this state, a normal "Puppet Master" would find it difficult to detect her presence.
This can shorten the visual range of the "Spirit Line" from hundreds of meters to less than twenty meters. For the "Master of Secret Dolls", this is the distance between life and death... Perhaps she came up with this method specifically to hide in the dark and avoid being discovered by the "Spirit World Plunderers", rather than for staying in bed... Klein muttered and withdrew his gaze from the sky.
After confirming that the other party had hidden, Klein also restrained his spiritual power and made his body, which was in the robed "tyrant" posture, transparent. Then he commanded the secret puppet Enzo to lead and Ludwell to follow, and they slowly walked down the pale stairs surrounding the deep pit, step by step, through the thin mist, and entered the "City of the Dead".
Based on Angel's hunting of high-sequence materials, the "Gazing One" possesses a mirror double that can cause people to become nearly petrified. The "Spiritual Plunderer" should also possess certain special abilities from the "Fortune Teller" pathway. Based on the information obtained, it's highly likely a "Dollar." In other words, like me, it will have its own servants, acting as perimeter security...
Thoughts flashed through Klein's mind until the fog cleared and he could truly see the ancient city spiraling downwards. Just like what he had seen on the periphery, these buildings of varying shapes became more intact the closer they got to the city's core at the bottom of the pit. The area he was currently in was now in ruins, with little sign of its former prosperity.
It's so quiet... Didn't the "Death God" Graygari take her followers and descendants to the depths of the spirit world? Where did they go? What about those spirit beings who strayed into Calderon? Not even a corpse was left behind?
He stopped cautiously, hid himself behind the shadow of a collapsed building, and relied solely on two marionettes to form an exploration team, continuing to walk down the slope. His vision and hearing were "shared" with himself to obtain first-hand information.
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Hovering in the air, Angel's eyes reflected the "Winner" Enzo who was holding the "Death Knell" revolver and exploring the way with his own luck, and the "Admiral of Hell" Ludwell who was raiding the rear, and he felt inexplicably funny.
If the Puppet Master could digest his own potion and even add another puppet, they would be a fully equipped team. Perhaps, aside from herding multiple Sequence 5 Shepherds, this Sequence would have the most comprehensive capabilities... Of course, the Puppet Master himself was still vulnerable. If they could find him hiding in the background, everything would be over...
She glanced at Tyrant Klein, who carefully hid his spirit in the shadows, and prepared to float higher to take in the entire terrain of Calderon.
But after a moment, she found that there seemed to be some force above the city that was blocking her, preventing the spirit from passing freely through the entrance of the deep pit.
It can only be entered by following the pale stairs. Is this some kind of ritual, or a "code" spontaneously formed by the mutated city?
Angel took this information to heart and descended again in stealth mode, reaching the center of the pit, surpassing Klein and his two marionettes and going deeper into the city.
Of course, this is still some distance away from the real city core below. She is worried that there will be some undead creatures in the core area of the city that even demigods cannot deal with, and she may even have to face the remaining power of the "God of Death" directly.
Like the feathered serpent within the secret mausoleum in the raging sea...
Angel thought with some fear as he scanned the strange-shaped buildings around him. They looked like pale stone pillars, square coffins, and underground tombs. The only thing they had in common was that they had been eroded by time and turned into ruins.
She wondered what the scenery was like when this city was still the kingdom of the God of Death, with creatures of all races and appearances gathered together out of faith... She felt the deathly silence and looked up in Klein's direction. Seeing that he and the two marionettes were "cooperating" tacitly and continuing to explore the upper areas, she felt relieved and floated towards a building that interested her.
At this height, Calderon's buildings are different from the entrance above and retain a certain degree of integrity. Although they also show signs of being eroded by time, they have not collapsed. Through the doors and windows, you can even see traces of life inside, such as furniture and decaying items.
Angel came to a building that was different in style from the surrounding buildings and stood in front of the main door that originally had double doors, but the doors had decayed and only the stone frame remained.
"It's about the same height as me, which means its original inhabitants were humans, or at least humanoids... And this building seems to have the rudiments of architecture from the Northern Continent during the Quaternary Period, rather than a simple stone pillar or rectangular block..."
Angel muttered silently as he passed through the wall in spirit form and entered the building.
"There were simple tables and chairs, recesses carved into the walls for storing things, and they even separated the living room and bedroom..."
After an inspection, Angel was surprised to find that this building, which was built at least in the Second Age, had a structure similar to the current one. In that era, humans struggled to survive under the protection of gods, and it was classified as the "Dark Age" in various church texts. Unexpectedly, it already had the prototype of modern architecture.
"After that, Graygari fell and hid Calderon deep in the spirit world. The world then entered the Third Age, but where did the humans living in the city go?"
Angel examined the furnishings in the room, trying to find some clues, and soon found some words engraved on the wall, which seemed to be used for record purposes. However, they did not belong to any of the current languages mastered by humans, but to some ancient language based on hieroglyphs.
I wonder how many languages and scripts have been lost in the age of conflict. If I were an archaeologist, I'd be ecstatic. Hmm, maybe I can ask Klein to take a look. Isn't he from the archaeology department... Angel muttered, suddenly noticing a familiar symbol in the text.
It was a complex pattern made up of doors stacked together in order from large to small. Angel had never seen it before, but she had some impression of the doors that made up the symbol.
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