After breaking the illusion circle, Sigourney and Ash can continue to the wizard tower.
But they did not set off in a hurry. Instead, they followed the wailing sound and turned around.
"Is Sigourney trying to save them?" Ash asked.
Sigourney did not answer him. She took him to the nearest place, raised her hand and pointed at a man lying in the thorn bushes, and asked, "Can he be saved?"
Ash peered over from behind him.
It was a bloody man whose face was scratched beyond recognition by hard and sharp crystals. He was like a skinned ball of flesh, lying face down there. The gray crystals around him were stained with a thick layer of dark red, approaching an eerie black.
Most people would be almost dead if they reached this stage.
But the man lying on the ground was still groaning, and his breathing seemed to be pulling a huge bellows.
"He..." Ash frowned. The man's hands and feet seemed to have melted and merged with the surrounding crystal grass.
"He will merge with this forest and become the nourishment for these crystal plants." Sigourney paused, "He will remain awake during this period - because the forest likes living nourishment."
Is this the curse of the woods?
As if she knew what Ash was thinking, Sigourney said, "It's just one of them."
There are countless vicious curses hidden in this forest. If a person is contaminated by any of them, he will have to watch himself step into hell.
Sigourney asks if the man can be saved, and Ash now knows that there is no hope.
Or stay awake and become the nourishment of the forest.
Or the moment you lose connection with the forest, you will lose your vitality.
Sigourney took Ash away from this place and headed to the next place where the sound came from.
Ash lay on Sigourney's shoulder and heard the moans behind him suddenly stop and become quiet.
His eyes froze for a moment, then slowly softened and returned to normal.
They found many more people lying in the forest.
The first time Ash saw a curse in the wizarding world, he was blown away and dazzled.
After the bones melted, only a layer of flesh remained.
The body was swollen and the skin was stretched and shiny, as if it would burst if poked.
The bodies of two people fell together, growing together in a twisted posture.
A part of the body that is deformed or distorted...
What is the most painful and torturous way to die?
The gray forest showed all of this to Ash.
Ash watched in silence.
The most painful thing is not what we see in front of our eyes, but what we cannot see with our eyes, the tormented souls of these people.
Among these people, there are ordinary humans used as materials, as well as wizards of the Pale Throne.
The curse reached out its grim hand and grabbed their souls, regardless of who they were.
In Ash's eyes, Rachel was a strange old woman with malicious intent who broke the peace of Duogu Village and endangered everyone's lives. If we were to add other impressions, there would probably be labels like well-informed, popular among the villagers, a bad person who died too quickly, and Sigourney's enemy.
But from the time I entered the Crystal Forest until now, the old face in my memory began to become clear and three-dimensional little by little.
Rather than using the words crazy or vicious to describe Rachel, Ash felt that the word inhumane was more appropriate.
Perhaps he really regarded himself as a god, which is why he despised and trampled on all other lives. He had no awe or respect for life and manipulated it as if it were a plaything.
When Sigourney stopped, the forest filled with wailing finally quieted down and turned into an oppressive silence.
Until Ash's voice broke the silence: "Sigourney?" His voice was still soft and calm.
"...Someone avoided this illusion circle." said Sigourney.
"Those wizards who sent in the experimental materials? Are there any survivors?"
"Meng said that his hunter friend saw a snake orc in the team."
Ash suddenly realized, "I didn't see any snake orcs just now. Did they go in another direction?"
Sigourney did not deny his guess and said calmly: "It won't be smooth either way."
That snake orc... and maybe his other companions, may have died in other corners of the forest, may have walked ahead of them, or may be trapped in other magic circles like the illusion circle.
After confirming the situation of the other team in the forest, Sigourney did not delay any longer and took Ash to the center of the forest.
Along the way, they once again witnessed the treacherous handwriting and rich background of Rachel, who was obsessed with ancient magic.
First, they encountered ten gargoyles - cold-blooded killers that only existed in ancient times - of course, these ten were just alchemical puppets made by Rachel using the remains of the gargoyles, otherwise it would not be so easy for Sigourney to take them down.
After that, they fell into the undead swamp full of negative energy, which is a closed space where all natural elements are vacuumed and only the power of death remains. This space is the nemesis of countless wizards, but as a creature of the night, Sigourney is like a fish in water in it, and quickly breaks through with Ash.
After passing through this enclosed space, what followed was actually a simplified version of the Radiant Magic Array.
Perhaps Rachel also realized that the Undead Swamp could not hinder the pace of dark life, so a level was needed as the nemesis of all dark creatures to kill the existence that broke through the swamp space.
He set up a simplified version of the Radiant Array.
The Radiant Circle is the highest achievement of ancient magic circles that has survived to this day, so it is normal for him to have some knowledge of it.
The fact that he was able to set up this magic circle that required a lot of precious magic materials once again demonstrated how wealthy his family was.
However, this time, facing the brilliant magic circle again, Ash was no longer helpless, and Sigourney was no longer constrained by the natural weaknesses of vampires.
Ash immediately took out the Ball of Everything and skillfully stimulated the aura of the 8th-level monster Wildfire Snapping Turtle. In the terrifying aura, he successfully exchanged bodies with Sigourney. After the exchange, Sigourney threw him into the coffin and then comfortably bathed in the light.
He could easily walk out of the magic circle that had previously made him extremely embarrassed.
But he thought about it, knocked on the black coffin, and told Ash: "Rest for a while." The human body can get tired.
Ash's voice came through the coffin, becoming very quiet: "What if someone else gets ahead of us?"
Sigourney pointed out calmly, "It will get more and more dangerous ahead, and I can only exert less than one tenth of my strength in your body."
Ash: "..." He will definitely train his body well with Teacher Zexis in the future!
Seeing that Ash was quiet, Sigourney walked to the edge of the magic circle, cleared a large area of snow, put the pine coffin aside, sat on the ground, and looked into the distance in a daze.
The glorious magic circle that restrains all darkness has become their protective umbrella at this time.
There is no need to worry about any evil things approaching them, because under the shining light, all darkness and evil will be melted away.
Ash closed his eyes depressedly in the black coffin, trying to take the time to rest. In fact, along the way, as a "danger detector", his mind was indeed tense. He also guessed about Sigourney's past several times, and his emotions fluctuated several times. How could he not be tired after all this?
Located within the range of the Radiant Magic Circle, this is probably the safest and most peaceful place in the Crystal Forest.
Ash thought about this and fell into a light sleep.
He began to dream again.
In his dream, he was sitting in a dark and cramped room. There was only one narrow air vent in the room, but the air vent did not lead to the outside world, so he could not see the sky from the window, but only the pale magic lamp outside.
He looked around and quickly noticed his hands.
These are a pair of hands that are both familiar and unfamiliar.
The familiarity came from the beautiful contours of these hands. Even with his eyes closed he could tell that they were Sigourney's hands.
They felt strange because these hands were delicate, white and soft, with blood flowing under the skin and a light peach pink under the fingernails. They were the hands of a living being, not the hands of a vampire.
This is Sigourney's body.
Sigourney's body is full of life.
Do you dream about what you think about during the day?
Because he exchanged bodies with Sigourney, so in the dream, he was also using Sigourney's body?
Was it because of the dream that he successfully brought Sigourney's cold body back to life?
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