Chapter 242: Seeking the Dragon and Dividing the Gold to See Chanshan Mountain (Part 2)
The cemetery was surrounded by ancient trees, and moonlight shone through the treetops, dappling the winding paths. The night breeze was gentle, and except for the occasional rustling of leaves, the silence was so quiet that it made Fang Yu feel a little uneasy.
The Belvitt family cemetery is at the edge of the Misty Forest, where all direct descendants of the Belvitt family are buried.
If George had not inherited the earldom and fiefdom in the future, he would not have been buried here. However, his father, Edward Belvedere, could be buried here because he was the direct descendant of the old earl.
Of course, Edward's mausoleum looks like just a slightly larger tomb, which is certainly not comparable to the tombs of the earls of past dynasties, which are decorated with exquisite stained glass and complex murals inside and even have two stone lions guarding the door.
Now, the soil on top of the tomb has been completely turned over, revealing a coffin inside that looks somewhat new.
"Edward has been dead for eight months. He shouldn't be able to make it, right?" Claudia asked quietly. Even a succubus would find it hard to accept that she ran to her husband's grave with her adulterer in the middle of the night.
Fang Yu put on a gas mask first. Claudia was surprised to see it, so Fang Yu explained, "It's deodorant. Do you want one?"
Claudia hesitated for a moment and said, "No, this person has been buried for eight months. When the coffin is opened, the smell will definitely be unpleasant."
After all, it's your husband who is buried in there, and there is some moral pressure to think he stinks.
You are a succubus, where does your strong sense of morality come from?
In the end, Claudia reached out and took the gas mask and goggles from Fang Yu's hand, and put them on her head like Fang Yu did.
"Lord Gis, isn't the museum open yet?" Claudia couldn't help but urge Fang Yu when she saw he was still fiddling with something.
"Right away, huh, I finally found it."
Claudia couldn't help but feel a little strange when she saw Fang Yu jump into the tomb.
He's a druid, so he can just summon some vines to open the sarcophagus? Why would he have to go down there himself?
But Fang Yu was holding a candle in his hand. He placed it in the southeast corner of the tomb and lit the candle with a flick of his fingers.
Is this... a ritual magic?
Just when Claudia wanted to see what Fang Yu would do next, she saw Fang Yu fly up again.
"According to the tradition in my hometown, if the candle in the southeast corner goes out, it means the tomb owner does not welcome us. We have to close the coffin quickly and leave. Otherwise, bad things will definitely happen, and we may even lose our lives here." Fang Yu explained seriously.
What do you do in your hometown? How come there's a tradition of open coffins?
Fang Yu thought to himself, this is nothing, it’s just that I haven’t learned how to use a compass yet, otherwise I would definitely let you experience how to find dragons, divide gold, and see the mountains, each layer of mountains is a level of difficulty.
I'll check to see if there's anything valuable in the tomb.
No, the tomb owner’s wife is still here.
What a pity, such a good opportunity to experience the feeling of Hu Bayi was wasted.
However, Hu Bayi went into the tomb so many times, but it seemed that he didn't get anything out.
The only yak bead that was retrieved was eventually thrown into the bottomless ghost cave.
Fang Yu waved his hand, and more than a dozen tough vines emerged from under the tomb, tied up the coffin lid, and pulled it to the side.
Boom boom boom~
The sarcophagus was pulled open by vines, and a light green smoke filled the air, revealing the bones inside.
The soft tissue of the body, which had been dead for eight months, had basically completely decomposed, leaving only hair and some skin tissue attached to the bones, while underneath the body was a yellow and black oily substance.
Fang Yu estimated that if he took off his gas mask now, he would vomit immediately.
Huh?
Is there really a dead body?
Fang Yu couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
He originally had a guess that the mastermind behind this might be Edward, and that he was faking his death.
That's why he persuaded Claudia to open Edward's tomb and check it out.
But now it seems there is someone else.
Forget it, since there is a corpse, I can just ask it directly.
Fang Yu performed a 0-ring magic trick of dancing the wind in the tomb, expelling the polluted air from the tomb.
The wind blew and the candle went out.
Claudia's eyes narrowed slightly: "Lord Gis, the candle is out, should we..."
Fang Yu snapped his fingers and the candle lit up again. He said casually, "Oh, that's superstition."
Claudia: ...
Fang Yu and Claudia jumped down from the tomb. Fang Yu walked around the coffin and used lime to form a complicated magic circle. The center of the magic circle was a larger circle that encircled the coffin. There were many thin lines radiating outward from the central circle, and these lines connected to several smaller circles on the periphery.
The edge of the entire magic circle is covered with twisted runes, and at every key node of the magic circle, there is a small pile of lime powder.
After drawing the magic circle, Fang Yu placed a spiritual bottle on Edward's forehead.
Then, Fang Yu placed six black candles on the six small circles of the magic circle, and placed a bowl of blood on each rune.
"Spiritus, audi vocem meam!"
After all the arrangements were completed, Fang Yu opened his arms and chanted a spell loudly.
Finally, Fang Yu injected 1 unit of magic power into each of the six black candles.
The candlelight suddenly jumped more than two feet high!
With a "pop", the bottle of spirituality shattered into countless residues. After the spirituality overflowed from the bottle, it was quickly absorbed by six candles. The candlelight suddenly turned bright white, illuminating the entire tomb as bright as day!
At the same time, the bowls of blood made gurgling sounds and looked like they were boiling, but if you look closely, you can see that the blood was boiling while decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye!
As the blood decreased, a mouth with a tongue and vocal cords slowly grew out from the mouth of Edward's skull in the coffin!
Except for this mouth, everything else is still a pile of bones!
"Ho ho ho~" A meaningless ho ho sound came out of this strange mouth.
Fang Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
The spell worked!
Fang Yu is now casting a second-level ritual spell - "Talking with the Dead".
After casting, this spell can make a corpse that has been dead for less than one year partially alive, and obtain a part of spirituality from the astral plane that is easy to return, so that the corpse has certain life characteristics, so that it can answer the caster's three questions.
After the three questions are answered, regardless of whether the caster is satisfied with the answer, the spell effect will end and the corpse will return to its original appearance.
This spell can only be cast once on a corpse. If it has been cast before, the spell will fail.
"Talking with the Dead" was originally a standard third-level spell, but after gaining enough spirituality, Fang Yu discovered that he could modify the spell model appropriately, add spirituality as a casting material, and then change the spell from a standard spell to a ritual spell. In this way, he could downgrade it to a second-level ritual spell.
Since it is a lowering level spell, the effect of the spell will definitely be weakened, and it becomes a question that can be answered by the caster with three answers of "yes" or "no".
Of course, this change doesn't really mean much in the Age of Great Arcane.
A bottle of spiritual energy is too precious. This bottle of 10,000 units of spiritual energy is worth at least 1,000 magic crystals. How can we waste so much spiritual energy just to downgrade a third-level spell which is already a low-level spell?
But Fang Yu didn't care. Although spirituality was also very precious to him and this bottle could give him an extra teleportation point, he now wanted to know who was the mastermind behind the scenes.
Please call me Kudo Shinichi from another world.
Kindaichi is also fine.
Although my grandfather passed away before I was born, I have a grandfather.
"Were you killed by Harold Bellwitt directly or by someone else?" Since the answer could only be yes or no, Fang Yu first asked the question that Claudia was most concerned about.
"No..." A word came out of the newly grown mouth vaguely, but it was still understandable that it gave a negative answer.
Claudia, who had already started to cry and kept murmuring her late husband's name when she heard the sound of the corpse, was suddenly stunned.
No? Wasn't it Harold Bellwitt who killed him?
Who killed him? Did Edward really die in battle?
From the day Lord Edward died, she firmly believed that Earl Harold must have killed Edward in order to complete the blood sacrifice.
But now, Edward actually said in person that he was not the one who killed Harold?
No, it must be because Lord Giss’s question just now was not rigorous enough. Harold did not kill Edward by blood sacrifice himself, nor did he instruct others, so Edward answered "no".
It must be like this.
"Did you die in a blood sacrifice?" Claudia asked first, but the mouth did not respond.
"Only I can ask." Fang Yu used a communication spell on Claudia. Now, no matter what he said publicly, the spell would judge it as a question to the dead, and one question would be wasted.
"Did Harold have a motive to kill you?" Fang Yu asked in a broader way.
"no……"
No motive? Since Harold didn't kill her, and Harold had no motive, then Harold really wasn't the murderer.
Claudia was completely desperate.
Originally, the power of hatred could support her to keep looking for the truth, but now, she found that she had always hated the wrong person.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" Claudia suddenly let out a scream. Fang Yu hurriedly waved his hand and cast a silencing spell above the tomb to prevent Claudia's scream from being heard.
Otherwise, the cemetery guards will be attracted.
Claudia pulled off her gas mask and stumbled towards the tomb exit, using her hands and feet to quickly crawl out.
Is this woman crazy?
Could it be that the succubus actually has true feelings?
This is a bit new.
Fang Yu originally wanted to chase after her to prevent her from causing any trouble. Just as he was about to turn around, an idea suddenly struck him.
Fang Yu's pupils shrank slightly. He carefully considered his words and asked the third question.
"Are you Edward Carlton Bellwitt?"
The strange mouth on the skull opened and uttered a sound that was not human but completely understandable: "...No..."
(End of this chapter)
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