Chapter 324 The Twin Mirror is a bit cruel
Director Cornelius walked ahead, leading Aiwass and Bayard to the end of the secret passage.
——In fact, as the supervisor, he personally took Miss Bayard through the secret passage, which can be regarded as a kind of sincerity.
Even though they were all children of the Moon and had a close working relationship, and Huyue Manor might need to continue borrowing money from Miss Bayard, putting someone directly in such a dark corner where no one knew about it and there was no way to seek help... it sounded too dangerous.
Whatever traps, rituals, seals, or ambushes were on the way, they could all be fatal. Furthermore, the space here was so cramped that if a fight broke out, there wouldn't even be room to dodge.
"Is there only one secret passage?"
Feeling Aiwass's fingertips gently scratching her palm, Miss Bayard asked, "The passage here is so narrow... What if someone happens to come from outside while we're walking?"
"Don't worry about that. We'll expand it later."
Director Cornelius shrugged. "Building too many secret passages isn't necessarily a good thing. We can't monitor so many entrances and exits simultaneously, and it would only make the manor less secure. One, no more, no less, is enough—not many people usually use this place anyway. If too many people were to block it, they'd turn into bats, wouldn't they?"
"Too."
Miss Bayard nodded in response.
She scratched Aiwas's palm with her sharp nails, indicating that she had confirmed that there was only one secret passage.
"And if we get out of here..."
Director Cornelius reached out and pressed the rune on the wall.
As he moved, three overlapping circles of white, yellow, and black gradually emerged. The intersections between them were filled with a blood-red color. In the center was the rune on the wall, meaning "Secret."
"Wind, Earth, and Dark. Injecting the three types of mana in equal proportions will open this secret door. A total of three units of mana must be injected simultaneously... This can also be considered a simple form of identity verification."
Cornelius smiled. "But any Moon Child should be able to open it. If you want to return to the banquet, you can go back through here. The other side also uses rune energy to open the door."
The Children of the Moon are a race as well as an extraordinary profession.
As Hengwo's favorite, this class possesses mana pools of three attributes simultaneously: wind representing change, earth representing burial, and darkness representing curse. This is also the basis for the Moon Child's versatility and versatility.
Whether it is the ability to transform into a bat, change appearance, or control others through "charm", it all relies on the magic power of the wind attribute to drive; and the soil from the hometown can strengthen the power of the children of the moon. After death, they will turn into ashes and then be reborn from the ashes, which is also a way of rebirth like the undead; as for the dark attribute, it is related to their abilities such as curse and corrosion.
……etc.
Aiwass' pupils shrank slightly.
She suddenly reacted.
...It’s a good thing I didn’t believe this damn mission prompt, Aiwas thought.
She knew that there couldn't be any serious "cooperative mission" in the New Moon Ritual.
If they enter the secret passage, they will find that they cannot open the door at all.
Although there are definitely people among them who have these three attributes of magic power, they are only three people.
It was absolutely impossible for three untrained people to inject exactly the same mana "at the same time." Furthermore, their mana was limited, so there was very little opportunity for trial and error.
If you want to force your way through this secret door, you'll have to use blood.
Infuse the blood with mana, then mix them together in the right proportions and apply it to the runes... This will also open the door.
But the problem was, they had likely just been drained of blood when they arrived. If they were to give out mana and blood, they might even faint—they didn't have a mana storage medium like fire essence, and pure blood couldn't hold much mana, so a large amount of blood was needed.
So they definitely don't want to.
But if a person dies, things are different - no matter how much mana they have when they are alive, after they die, the mana pool itself will be separated into the blood and internal organs. The part above ten points will enter the internal organs, brain and bone marrow, and a maximum of ten points can be retained in the blood.
No. 14's body has a maximum of three points of dark mana, so after she is killed, one-third of her remaining blood contains one unit of dark mana. The same applies to the others.
Find someone with dark, wind, and earth attributes, kill them, mix their blood and splash it on the rune, then you can get three points of mana injected at the same time, in a one-to-one ratio.
In other words, even if they reached a cooperation, they wouldn't necessarily know how to open the door once they reached it. Most likely, only a wizard on the path of wisdom or a transcendent on the path of love could understand this rune.
Then they would have to kill two or three people to open the door - if there was a wizard of the wisdom path as a sacrifice, they would have to kill one less person, after all, he alone could provide magic power of both wind and earth attributes.
But if they regretted their decision and went back the same way, they would find that the store on that side was also closed.
——You still need to kill someone to open the door.
If there were fewer than three people here, they wouldn't even be able to open the door, trapped here, silently waiting for time to pass. And this long period of more than ten hours...was enough time for some of them to change their minds, or for newcomers to arrive, tricked into the secret passage by a mission, and thus upset the balance.
"The mission given by Twin Mirror is so cruel..."
Aiwass felt a little nervous.
Fortunately, she did not take any chances and gave up the possibility of "loving each other" cooperation from the very beginning.
The last Crescent Moon Ceremony hadn't been that blatant... Of course, it might have been too blatant, which made Aiwass feel it was fair. In short, killing everyone was victory, a very chivalrous act.
And this time, she finally felt what a "bloody ritual" was.
Lies, deception, betrayal...
——Unlike the full moon ceremony, the new moon ceremony symbolizes the deviation and confrontation of the nine great paths.
As expected, we still have to regard each other as enemies...
Her mentality has changed a little.
Just as Aiwass was thinking this, the three eye-like reds were filled at the same time.
The sealed door finally appeared - a door of light suddenly appeared at the end of what was originally a dead end.
This wasn't a long-distance portal, but rather a doorway concealed by a preservationist using souls as material, using the concept of a "grave." As Aiwass passed through it, he felt a strong chill... like walking through a mass grave at night in a single layer of clothing.
After passing through this door, they did not arrive at any dim cave or cave maze.
Instead, he entered a lightless secret room with all the windows covered by heavy curtains.
The building was made of wood, and the air was filled with the faint aroma of essential oils, indicating that some ceremony had just been held there.
"here it is……"
Bayard felt that this place seemed a little familiar.
"This is Theresa's Monastery."
Director Cornelius had his hands behind his back, his back straight and his expression calm.
He introduced carefully, "A secret order dedicated to Sister Sasha. I'm sure you've been here before—when you first become a Moon Child, you're usually brought here to spend your initial period of unconsciousness."
"Theresa's Monastery..."
Aiwass also murmured, his eyes sparkling.
"So it's here..."
"Are you interested in Sister Sasha too?"
Bayard was a little surprised.
It was rare to see humans showing interest in Sister Sasha.
Aiwass nodded vigorously: "Yes, I am very interested!"
——Because this is a fixed location where equipment is dropped.
(End of this chapter)
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