Lord Highlander

   Chapter 412 411. Evil Spirits Under the Ruins

The stone steps in the basement extend down 20 steps, and there is a slow platform at the corner of the wall. Turn left 90 degrees and continue down 20 steps, and Suerdak steps on the bluestone floor of the basement. It was full of a faint musty smell, and a kind of coldness that could penetrate into the body made everyone in the group shiver.

With the soft light of the torch, the area within a range of more than ten meters can be seen clearly. The entire basement looks very empty, and there are some independent rooms separated by iron fences. Each room has an iron door with a lock. There is only a space of less than ten square meters inside the iron gate. There are no living utensils such as beds, tables and chairs. There is only a layer of weeds like a bird's nest in the corner. The musty smell probably comes from here. The basement looked more like a prison cell.

  The basement was empty, and Suldak explored the depths of the basement along the passage between the iron fences. He felt that the colder the bone marrow, the deeper he went.

Fearing that the evil spirits would come out of the darkness anytime and anywhere, the group did not explore separately after entering the basement. Everyone gathered together, and Suldak walked into a room surrounded by iron fences. The bluestone board was covered with some claw marks, and there were some fine bone fragments near the weed pile. Suldak held the torch and squatted down beside the iron fence. There were some bite marks everywhere under the iron fence. , A beast that can leave tooth marks on this cast iron fence, apart from the amazing bite force, must be very crazy.

  A member of the first team stood behind Captain Miluo, and couldn't help muttering: "What the **** is this place, a prison?"

  Captain Miluo said with a normal expression: "Every noble manor probably has a place where prisoners are held, isn't it the first time you've seen it?"

  Suldak stood up, took a deep breath and said, "These rooms don't look like a place for prisoners. It looks like some ferocious beasts were raised here."

  The torch of holy light exuded a soft incandescent light, and wherever Suldak went, the darkness quickly receded like a tide.

  Going a little further inside, the room in front of me became extremely empty, it looked like a hall of several hundred square meters, and there was nothing in the hall. Standing next to the wall, you could see some mottled marks on the wall.

  The team member couldn't help but said again: "I didn't expect the basement of the Fornak Manor to be so big. It's really too cold here, and it's also very gloomy..."

  Captain Miluo ordered the other two members of the first team behind him: "Light two more torches, and let's search around."

At this time, Carl said: "Concentrate, and retreat immediately when you find something abnormal. We are facing the evil spirits hiding in the depths of the manor. Think about the way Isaac Knight is lying on the bed, maybe you will be there in the next second." It will be like that."

   "..."

  Captain Miluo and several members of the first team looked at Karl with complaints in their eyes, and they couldn't help getting closer to each other.

Looking at the bluestone slabs that were originally very flat under his feet, it seemed that something had corroded a layer of them and became uneven. On the top, a layer of stone skin on the surface of the bluestone slab was crushed by iron boots, revealing a hole the size of an egg, and around the hole there were marks poured with red copper.

Suldak didn't pay much attention to it at first, but when he passed through that hole, what came to mind was the huge summoning circle in the cave of Grenfell Manor, the magic pattern of that circle It was the imprint carved on the stone slab and poured with magic metal. Suldak stopped and squatted down to carefully observe the remaining traces around the hole.

   "This doesn't seem to be a storage room at all!" Suldak scraped a thin layer of magic red copper from the slate with a dagger, and said to Karl who was standing beside him.

Then I looked at the direction of the broken magic lines extending from the hole, and said to the captain of the first team: "Captain Miluo, ask your people to stand apart and go out along these lines to see if you can Find this hole."

   Miluo didn't dare to neglect, and quickly followed Suldak's instructions, together with himself, a total of four people searched in the direction Suldak pointed.

   Sure enough, about ten meters away, a member of the first team shouted: "Captain, I have a hole of the same size here!"

   "I have it here too..." The other two members of the first team also found out.

  Suldak’s operation obviously involved the field of magic. Karl, Miluo and others were confused about this. Karl couldn’t help asking curiously: “Dark, what’s going on?”

Recently, I have been searching the library for knowledge about knight halos and dual cultivation of magic and martial arts. I also have some basic knowledge of magic. If it is other magic circles, Suldak may not know it, but this magic pattern circle is very important to him. But it is still fresh in his memory. In the cave at the back of Grenfell Manor, Suldak saw a shadow terror crawl out of the magic circle with his own eyes, and later he was in Cyrus. In Hickok's magic notes, he saw several kinds of magic patterns. Obviously, these black magicians are also constantly trying to make some improvements to this magic circle.

There is actually a similar magic circle in this basement, and most of the traces of the magic circle were deliberately destroyed with corrosive liquid. Suldak vaguely guessed something, and a cool air rose from the tailbone to the Above his head, Suldak looked at Karl beside him, and said to him: "If I guess right, this is not a storage room. There should have been a magic circle engraved here, but it was destroyed for some reason. The place where we were just now is the place where the magic circle is inlaid with magic crystals, and it is a very common hexagram-style magic circle."

  Carl rubbed his chin, frowned and thought about it seriously, and said with some hesitation: "I don't remember that the Furnak family has a magician noble..."

  A gust of cold wind blew in the basement, and the torches in the hands of the members of the first team were extinguished, leaving only the holy torch in Suldak's hand to illuminate the surroundings.

A group of flames suddenly erupted with blue light above everyone's heads, and an evil spirit wrapped in black death energy flew out from the blue soul fire. It stretched out and attacked Suldak, as if it wanted to grab his arm holding the holy light torch, but the evil spirit obviously underestimated the light emitted from the holy light torch.

When it pounced on Suldak, its body in the darkness was completely exposed to the holy light, and the dead energy surrounding its body was quickly melted under the light of the holy light, and the dark arms of the evil spirit were constantly outward. Evaporating the resentment, the dark bone claws stretched towards Suldak were gradually fading under the light of the holy light, turning into the true color of bones little by little.

The evil spirit seemed to feel the pain, so it let out a sharp and piercing howl in front of Suldak. Although Suldak was knocked into a daze by the sound waves, but because he was wearing a wake-up hanger, a soft light came from The sobriety pendant on his chest emanated from it, resisting the mental shock from the evil spirit, and the same light appeared on the chest of Karl beside him.

Apparently Karl was also wearing a sobriety pendant, but Karl's nostrils were bleeding from the mental impact of the evil spirit. He held his forehead and showed a pained look. The other members of the first team and Captain Miluo stood far away. Not being affected too much, the members of the first team quickly rushed towards the place where the evil spirit appeared.

  Captain Mi Luo quickly ran out of the basement according to the previous agreement. Now that the evil spirit has been found, he must run outside as soon as possible to release the prepared magic flare.

At this time, the evil spirit didn't seem to have many other means of attack. Seeing that Suldak was not affected by the 'scream of soul', it opened its mouth suddenly, and blew a thick stream of death at Suldak. Qi, but the evil spirit quickly retreated into the darkness.

Seeing the evil spirit retreating quickly, Suldak would not let it go so easily. The task of this operation is to find out the evil spirit hidden in the manor, and just persist until Captain Sol arrives. The evil spirit would flee back into the darkness as soon as it rushed out, which was unexpected by everyone.

Suldak was also worried that after the evil spirit escaped, he would find a hidden place to hide. In that case, even if all the members of the support squadron were dispatched collectively, they might not be able to find the evil spirit from the manor, so he quickly followed the evil spirit. Behind Ling, strode to catch up.

  The evil spirit retreated quickly, but above its head was a dark blue soul fire burning fiercely, making it invisible in the darkness. But it immediately discovered this situation, opened its mouth and sucked the soul fire above its head into its stomach, and these evil spirits completely disappeared into the darkness.

Not familiar with the layout of the basement, Suldak stopped holding the torch of the holy light at this time, and Suldak and three members of the first team followed up panting from behind, and only then did they have time to relight it Looking around with the torch, they found that everyone had passed through the stone gate, left the underground hall just now, and came to another basement.

The evil spirit didn't know where it was hiding, and with the relighting of other torches, the entire stone room appeared in front of everyone. The crumpled magic parchments are piled up on the shelf, and there is a test bench in the middle of the stone room, and there is a crucible that looks abandoned beside the test bench, and some glass containers, beakers, purification vessels, etc. are placed on the test bench On the ground, just behind the test bench, there are some large glass containers and a one-meter-square iron cage.

Although Suldak had some psychological preparations in his heart, he still took a breath of air when he saw this magic experiment platform. He didn't expect his previous guess to be verified so quickly. There is indeed a magic experiment platform hidden here. In general, magic laboratories are built on high towers, so that it is more convenient to contact the four elements in the air. Only some dark magic laboratories that cannot be seen are built in the basement.

  At this time, Suldak and Karl not only looked at each other, but they didn't expect that the Furnak family also had some close ties with the Black Magic Priory.

Suldak bravely continued to move forward. At this time, everyone was thinking the same thing, that is, they wanted to find out the hidden evil spirit as soon as possible, otherwise when the leader of Sauron came, they found that the evil spirit had already I just slipped away, I guess the scene will be very embarrassing...

   This room is covered with thick dust, and there are no footprints on the ground. It seems that no one has been here for a long time.

   Captain Sauron probably couldn't find it when he was exploring the manor the day before yesterday.

Not feeling any dead air in the room, Suldak began to search around in the laboratory. When he approached the group of glass containers next to the test bench, suddenly a thick mass of dead air emanated from a round belly and long neck. The bottle came out and turned into an evil spirit with claws and claws in Suldak. It seemed to be very afraid of the holy light torch in Suldak's hand. He hid aside, and took the opportunity to pounce on Karl behind him.

Because he knew that there were evil spirits hiding in the manor, Karl was well prepared before he came. He drew a long thorium sword from his waist and slashed at the evil spirit without retreating. The sword just touched the evil spirit. The death energy on Lingjiu's body was reduced a lot again. He didn't dare to rush forward any more, and rushed to the door of the laboratory, but was blocked by the first team member guarding the door with a thorium light shield, so he could only retreat back to the laboratory in embarrassment. room.

This evil spirit couldn't escape, and could only fly around in the laboratory under Suldak's pressing step by step, but as long as it was exposed to the light of the holy light torch, the dead energy on its body would continue. As the ground evaporates, the dead air disappears, and the evil spirit becomes weaker.

At that time, the exploration team of the Fifth Battalion returned from the Funak Manor, and Isaac Knight was seriously injured. Carl and others once thought that the evil spirits hidden in the manor must be very difficult to deal with, and even Captain Sauron came forward to deal with it. This matter was just that Captain Sauron came to the Fornak Manor, and the evil spirits hiding in the manor didn't dare to come out at all.

   Now it seems that this evil spirit is really not good enough, he doesn't even have some basic combat experience, everything is acting on instinct.

  Even if an evil spirit of this strength does not come, the support squadron is confident that they can handle it.

With the cooperation of Suldak and Karl, this evil spirit was forced to a corner in the laboratory, and only a trace of lifelessness was left on its body, revealing a small skeleton, the spirit of the soul in its body. The fire was also in danger, and when it was about to go out, a scream came from outside the laboratory.

Suldak and Karl immediately recognized that the scream was from Mi Luo, the captain of the first team who ran out to release the magic signal flare. Everyone looked towards the door of the laboratory, where a translucent ghost stood , he still seems to have kept his life, a middle-aged nobleman in gorgeous clothes, he stood quietly outside the laboratory door, Captain Miluo was right in front of him, with his hands twisted backwards, a dagger stabbed him On the heart, but the wound is not very deep, obviously the other party did not kill him.

  Karl saw the blurred face of the ghost, and shouted in surprise: "Count Fornac..."

  (end of this chapter)