RNP Chapter 3401: Cause of Death of the Deceased
Chapter 3401: Cause of Death of the Deceased
Chapter 3401: Cause of Death of the Deceased
Like Miss Liad, Miss Violet disagreed with digging graves again. She simply thought it was a trap:
"We just got a tool that allows us to dig graves at will, and now we need to dig graves right away. How can this be such a coincidence?"
Xia De believed that the god would definitely appear, and digging graves at random before He appeared might trigger some unexpected curse.
He then took the shovel from Miss Liad:
"Although this is not a burial object, this shovel is also meaningful in this wasteland. How about using it to offset the loss?"
The skeleton actually agreed:
"Okay, but are you sure you want to do this? I can only give you a very low price - four burial objects. You have another shovel, which can also be used to deduct one burial object."
Then it reminded:
"You may not realize that the soul is the most valuable thing here. Give me the joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness in your soul, or those deep memories, and they can be used as burial objects. Where do you think the burial objects come from? Maybe some of them really come from the real world, but most of them are the condensation of the soul."
Xia De pretended not to hear it talking. Once the integrity of the soul was destroyed, it would be hard to say whether the person was still the original person.
The number of burial objects reached 16+5=21, still eleven pieces short.
"I can stay."
Sister Belen said calmly, but Shade ignored her:
"Everyone, take a look at what you have on you and take out anything that can be used as burial objects."
The skeleton didn't want any of the relics except the Philosopher's Stone. But Shade still had a use for the Philosopher's Stone, so he couldn't exchange it either. Shade originally thought the feather of the angel of requiem was valuable, but the skeleton didn't want it either, and of course he didn't want the Book of Eternal Sleep either.
Six soul bullets and nine soul tears, however, seemed pretty good to the skeleton:
"All bullets count as one burial object, and three tears count as one burial object."
But out of caution, Xia De discussed with everyone and was only willing to give out six teardrops, bringing the number of burial objects to 23.
"Let's bargain again. I really am one of your own."
As the girls continued to search, Shade continued to speak to the skeleton:
"I know the accuser."
"I know him too."
The skull on the door said calmly:
"If you call it, it can open the door directly to you, but we all know it is gone. The angel who was supposed to announce the end of the world, the guy who was supposed to blow the horn of the end of all things, was killed by the hands of the ancient god himself."
"Ok?"
Xia De felt as if he had heard something extraordinary. The skeleton's tone was still calm. It was actually willing to tell Xia De these ancient things:
"The end of the First Era should have brought an end to everything, but the Ancient Gods forced the world to continue. Therefore, the angel announcing the end cannot exist. It is not that the angel announcing the end of the world has the power to end the world, but that it itself has the destiny of announcing the end of the world."
It closed its mouth and stopped talking. Shade blinked, not knowing what to say. The skeleton of the Angel of Death was scattered all over the world. He had long been curious about how the angel became like this, but he didn't expect that the answer would be so easily obtained from here.
The first era was the normal world, and the subsequent eras were the afterglow of the apocalypse. Outsiders had long understood this. The answer given by the skeleton was indeed reasonable. Since the angel of death was destined to blow the trumpet of doomsday, it naturally should not exist before the end.
It's just God and his angel. Xia De doesn't know how to evaluate it.
"I've been to death, real death."
Xia De still wanted to continue bargaining, but the skeleton snorted:
"I've been there too, so what? Although the resurrected from the dead are rare since the First Era, they have happened before. This identity is not special."
"I have also sent many souls to death. They were originally unable to go on, but I sent them to the end, and they gave me blessings."
In addition to the souls of Mount Xikar, there are actually quite a few souls that Shade has sent away, such as the mother and daughter of the little black cat in Yuewan, and the corpse ghost Mr. Otto a few days ago.
This time the skeleton finally glanced at Shade again, and the flames in his eyes flickered a few times:
"You have indeed done a great service to death. I see the moon in your soul. Well, you are free."
"Meow~"
"Your cat is free too, please keep an eye on it, it feels like it wants to scratch my face."
Everyone was surprised that Xia De was able to lower the price further, which meant that the demand for burial objects dropped from 32 pieces to 24 pieces, so there was only one piece left.
But everyone really had nothing else on them, so in the end Miss Liad bit her lip and took off the pendant on her chest. She had always worn the pendant close to her body, and no one else had even seen it.
The pendant looked like the claw of some animal, but no one could identify what it was.
"My parents died very early. It was the teacher who took me in and taught me skills. Although this skill is very immoral and she never let me call her teacher, if it weren't for her, my sister and I would have died a long time ago."
She handed the paw to Shade, which still had her body temperature:
"The teacher died three years ago. She died from a curse she brought out from an ancient tomb. Even if we spent all our savings to find a 13th-level witch to remove the curse, she was powerless against that ancient curse. This claw was left to me before she died. She said it was given to her by her teacher. Wearing it can help us see farther and have better luck when we are in the underground world. I don't believe this, otherwise she wouldn't have died from the curse."
Miss Liad looked at Shad:
"Although the teacher herself would not admit it, I have read her books. Our sect has been passed down through the master-disciple method for a very long time. The earliest inheritance appeared in the Third Age, an era when evil spirits and demons were rampant. Intelligent life wanted to find a way out at all costs and was forced to look for knowledge and power that had been buried. This is our origin."
"Among the schools of witchers, there is also a school that specializes in dealing with ancient tombs."
Miss Violet said at this time, and Miss Liad nodded:
“The extraordinary people who wore this pendant in the Third Age can even be considered heroes of civilization. It was because of the ancient knowledge and power they discovered that civilization did not completely collapse.
But that era has long passed, and no one wants it to come back. Now... This is actually a talisman that was donated by the remaining clergy of the Death Cult in the Third Age and was blessed by the ancient Death God. Now, its mission has been completed. "
Taking this off was equivalent to completely giving up the inheritance of the witch who saved her. Whether it was for everyone to escape or to continue to take care of her sister, she made a very important decision.
Everyone was in awe of her willingness to contribute, and Miss Liad completely abandoned her past, but she also bore more sins because of this, and she felt sorry for her teacher.
The skeleton was willing to accept the amulet as a bribe:
"I haven't seen this in a long time. I really miss it."
All the "tolls" were stuffed into its mouth, including the scepter and two shovels. After confirming that the group was about to pass through this door, perhaps because they were still "generous", the skeleton actually reminded them:
"Death is not to be feared. Although you are alive, you should never regard it as an enemy. It is part of life."
Its face split to the left and right, and the black stone gate was slowly opening:
"Good luck to you then."
Xia De was still walking in the front. Before he passed through the gap in the gate, he asked:
"And who are you?"
The green fire in the skull's eye sockets flickered, but it did not answer the question.
The temple doesn't look large from the outside, and even smaller inside, about the same size as the ruined Temple of the Sun in the [Gravel Sand Sea], so Shad estimated that the thickness of the walls here is even more exaggerated than the vault of Tobesk Bank.
However, there were no chairs for living people to sit on in the Temple of Death, and there were no windows inside the temple. As the group entered, a faint green light lit up on the walls, which also illuminated the empty interior of the temple and the stone platform in the center.
Opposite the door hangs a huge holy emblem of the god of death. Apart from that, there are only a few coffins of the same style piled up against the wall in the temple, and each coffin also has the holy emblem of the god of death on it.
The temple looked ancient on the outside, but it was very ordinary on the inside. Shade stood at the door and took a look before waving his hand for everyone to follow. The five people quickly gathered around the stone platform in the center of the temple. On the surface of the stone platform, there were densely packed letters, with prayers praising the ancient god of death, but to living people, those were all very scary and cruel sentences.
Everyone can understand these words because the common language used here is still the same as that of the era.
In addition to the runes on the surface, there are three stone grooves on the stone platform distributed in a triangle. The topmost stone groove is located at the holy emblem at the top of the prayer, the left stone groove is located on the word "dead" in the prayer, and the right stone groove is located on the word "living" in the prayer.
If the Giant King hadn't reminded him, Shade might not have been able to guess what all this meant.
He first placed the stone given by Priest Augustus, which was taken from "death" and used to measure the weight of the soul, on the "holy emblem"; then he opened the suitcase that Miss Liad had carried all the way, and placed the frost-covered heart on the groove of the word "dead".
Everyone looked at Xia De with solemn expressions, and Xia De announced:
"The last step requires our concern for the world of the living. This will serve as our anchor for return. Please choose carefully."