Chapter 152 049: Weird Manor
“Hoohoo~”
Suddenly, there was a sound of wind in his ears, and Bafil felt an inexplicable chill coming from behind him. He subconsciously stopped and looked back.
"What happened? Bafil?" At this moment, another apprentice in front turned around and asked.
This is Nadal, also a senior apprentice of the Withered Forest. It was he who discovered the ruins and took the lead in organizing this operation.
Bafil looked back in confusion: "I feel like there is something behind me."
After hearing what Bafil said, the other people in the team turned their heads and looked back, but they didn't find anything.
Nadal asked in confusion: "Are you kidding us? There is nothing over there."
Bafil retracted his gaze: "I don't know, maybe I'm too nervous."
"You are so suspicious. If you are so scared, just go back to the tower and play with the two girls you just captured. Why do you have to meddle in the affairs of the ruins?" At this moment, a harsh female voice sounded.
This is Julia, the only witch in the team, who is also a senior apprentice.
Bafil looked at Julia's fair swan neck, pulled an ugly smile at the corner of his mouth, and hit back unceremoniously: "If you don't know how to speak, I can open your throat for free, so that you can keep quiet."
Julia raised her eyebrows and said, "If you think you have what it takes, you can come and try."
The relationship between the two was not very harmonious when they were in the tower. They had once had an unpleasant argument over a bottle of soul-splitting solution.
If Nadal had not taken the lead this time and precious relics were not involved, it would have been impossible for Julia and Buffell to be together, let alone complete the task together.
At the critical moment, organizer Nadal tried to smooth things over: "Okay, everyone, stop talking. Now we need to focus on the ruins. Julia, Bafil's magic is the key to whether we can successfully explore the ruins."
Julia snorted, but didn't say anything else.
Bafil is an apprentice who specializes in necromancy. He is proficient in souls and perception, and has raised several mature ghosts. He is very helpful in ruins exploration, which is also the main reason why they invited Bafil this time.
The team continued to move forward, but no one noticed that there was one more person in the team.
Luo Xi looked at the apprentice named Bafil with a little curiosity. He was now in the sound state. As long as he did not mobilize his mental power, even high-level wizards would find it difficult to detect him.
But this apprentice could vaguely sense that something was wrong, which was a very strange thing.
"Did you learn any special magic?"
Rosie was curious.
The team walked along the valley bottom towards the river valley, and after passing through several forks in the road covered with thorns and weeds, they came to a valley.
This is the confluence of two rivers and valleys, in the shape of a Y, covered with thick dark green vegetation. A small stream about one meter wide flows slowly along the valley bottom.
The valley was filled with thick grayish-white fog, and the scenery behind the valley could not be seen clearly.
"Mist! Is this the place?"
Everyone's attention was focused on Nadal, the only apprentice who had been here.
Nadal nodded: "This is it."
He looked at the thick fog in front of him with a puzzled look in his eyes: "But when I came here, the fog didn't seem so thick. At that time, I could vaguely see the scenery in the fog. It feels weird now."
"Never mind the mist, the ruins are the most important."
As Julia spoke, she couldn't wait to walk forward.
The rest of the people followed closely behind.
"Hmm? This fog..."
Walking into the thick fog, Luo Xi suddenly felt a strange mental force field coming from the fog. Although there was no way to judge the specific level of this mental force field, judging from its strength, it was at least above the wizard level.
"Huh?"
At this moment, he seemed to have discovered something again. He suddenly looked in a certain direction of the team and squinted his eyes.
“Crunch! Crunch!”
After walking in the fog for about ten minutes, a sour metallic sound suddenly came from the depths of the fog. It sounded like the friction of some rusty metal parts, so sharp that it made my teeth ache.
In the thick fog in the distance, the outline of a manor appeared vaguely, in Gothic style, with a large, mottled iron gate of Hideyoshi at the entrance, and the sour grinding sound just now was made by this iron gate.
The group arrived at the gate.
The team originally consisted of 23 people, 20 knights and three wizard apprentices, but after passing through the fog, no one realized that the number of people in the team suddenly changed to 25, two more.
No, it’s not that no one noticed it, exactly.
At the end of the team, the invisible Luo Xi kept his eyes on the two "knights" wearing leather armor.
The wizard's mental power is very sharp. Although these two guys did not attract the attention of others when they joined in, Luo Xi discovered how they could escape his elemental vision when they just sneaked in.
'What's this?'
Although the appearance is human, the feedback from mental power is not. Luo Xi just can't tell what it is for a while.
'It looks like these apprentices are in trouble.'
The apprentices, who were completely unaware of the situation, were now completely focused on the ruins in front of them.
At this moment, the gate of the manor in front of him was open, and there were some messy footprints at the entrance, which were obviously left just now.
Seeing this, the faces of several apprentices changed.
The three of them said in unison: "Someone got there first!"
Julia raised her eyebrows and asked Nadal, "Nadal, what's going on? Is there anyone else who knows about this place?"
Nadal's face didn't look good either. "There were several apprentices who came into the fog together. I don't know who they were. It's possible that the apprentice from the Wizard Tower in Angmar leaked the news."
Bafil frowned and said, "Angmar Wizard Tower? Didn't I hear that something happened there some time ago? I heard from my mentor that the blood wizard Angmar came to borrow a soul-restoring potion from him before. From the mentor's tone, it seems that the injury was very serious, and half of his soul was destroyed."
Julia said with a dark face: "I don't care about this. We'd better not waste time on this kind of thing. I don't want to make a wasted trip."
Nadal nodded: "Julia is right, let's go in first."
Bafil was a little hesitant. He looked at the gloomy manor and asked in confusion, "Aren't we more cautious? I can ask Ghost to investigate the situation first."
Julia said, "When your ghost gets a clear look inside, all he'll see is a mess."
"You guys can wait as long as you want, Alf, let's go."
After saying that, Julia walked in first, and the knights behind her saluted to Bafil and the other man and followed.
Seeing this, Buffell and the other man didn't know what to say, so they just followed him in.
Soon, the group disappeared in the thick fog.
Just after everyone left, the space at the entrance of the manor distorted slightly, and Luo Xi took off his hood and walked out of the thick fog.
He glanced at the manor in front of him, but did not follow in immediately. Instead, he came to the gate first and his eyes fell on a unique pattern on the gate. (End of this chapter)
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