RNP Chapter 2773: The Burning Village
Chapter 2773: The Burning Village
Chapter 2773: The Burning Village
"It looks like this is a cellar where the villagers store vegetables for the winter. I've seen similar cellars when I was investigating in the south of Carsenrick before."
Miss Owl said.
The entrance to the vegetable cellar was hung with a rusty iron chain, but Shade opened it with just one knock. After opening the door, he felt no trace of elements, and after jumping down, he found that the entire cellar was empty, and there was nothing here.
"Look at the dust on the ground. Something was placed there."
The cat's eyes shone in the darkness, and through her reminder, Shade also saw that in addition to the footprints on the ground, the ground at the southeast corner was particularly clean. Judging from the traces on the ground, there should have been a lot of boxes piled here, and now those boxes have been moved away through the dock.
Even judging from how dry the mud on the footprints was, this should have happened in the last two days.
Whoever moved the boxes was very careful and left nothing behind except the overlapping shoe prints. They also did not drop any identification documents or clues such as matchsticks and cigarette butts that often appear in detective novels.
Fortunately, Shad is not a real detective:
"Echoes of the past!"
Then, a man with an obvious Riverwood accent spoke rudely.
"Move everything up there quickly. The waterway will be difficult to navigate after dark. Batty, Claude, you two go move the last box. Don't slack off behind me."
Oh, damn fools, if you break something in the box, I won't be able to pay for it even if I skin you alive. Hurry up, move faster, I know it's dark here and I can't turn on the lights, but be patient for a while, you can smoke when you get back to the boat!"
After that, Xia De heard the rude man's voice repeatedly urging the people who were suspected to be porters to speed up, but no one revealed any information about their identities during this period.
"It looks like that group of people came during the day."
After listening to the voice, Shade said to the cat:
"And it sounds like they didn't bring any lighting tools even if they came here to move things. Considering that those people are most likely ordinary people, even if they have lighting tools, they should only be torches and lanterns."
"So, they don't dare to light a fire here?"
The cat then asked, and Shade meant the same thing:
"The appearance of fire here seems to be a very dangerous thing, so..."
He raised his right hand, and a slender, clear yellow flame appeared in the palm of his hand.
This light was reflected in the eyes of Shade and the cat, but with the appearance of this fire, the originally dark basement did not become brighter, but became even darker, and the village under the gloomy sky above the cellar was completely shrouded in darkness at this time.
The sunlight that shone through the cellar entrance into the bottom completely disappeared, and it seemed that in the next breath, Shade smelled a strong burnt smell in the air.
This smell not only means that something is on fire, but also means that the human body is burning. This is the last smell that the stranger smells in his hometown before coming to this world, and he is deeply impressed by it.
"Whispering elements."
The cat on my shoulder whispered, looking around in the darkness:
"I thought this would directly attract the devil."
"If the other party shows up so easily, wouldn't it be meaningless for us to conduct such an investigation?"
Xia De immediately extinguished the flame in his palm, causing the surroundings to fall into complete darkness:
"You are the judge of what this relic is. It is incredible that my fire is on the verge of losing control."
Both Shad and the witch have the ability of dark vision, but the surroundings are very strange at this time, because their eyes still cannot see the deep darkness in front of them, but their other senses are still normal.
Rustling sounds gathered from all around, and soon Shade felt something grabbing his legs. As he lowered his head, two silver balls of light flew out from behind him, illuminating the basement covered with coal dust.
This coal ash did not exist a few seconds ago, and seeing Shade lower his head, the cat on his shoulder also lowered his head to look at his feet:
"What's wrong?"
There was nothing on the ground grabbing Shad's legs, and the silvery moonlight was so soft that it did not reveal any marks on his trouser legs, nor any footprints or other traces on the coal ash.
“I just felt something grabbing me.”
boom!
The next second, a raging fire that broke out suddenly without any warning engulfed a man and a cat, but then a gray translucent shield that repelled the flames in all directions cleared a safe area for them.
This was Flora casting a spell, and it seemed to be a spell of the undead, but Shad couldn't recognize it.
But he could tell that the fire around him was getting more and more intense, and the flames filled every corner of the empty vegetable cellar. In just a few seconds, it turned into a sea of fire in the state of fusion with Sister Defulin after he opened the maze "Clock Tower Lovers".
Cat was able to maintain her shield for now, but she still issued a warning:
"Something is wrong. The temperature and intensity of this flame are increasing too quickly. This is not an ordinary fire. Let's leave the cellar and take a look outside."
"No problem, Raglai's jump."
After preparing the spell materials, Shade jumped up and appeared in the village on the ground with the cat. Then the flames disappeared and darkness enveloped the surroundings. The fine raindrops disappeared, and the sky was now pouring down the burning ashes with faint sparks.
Just like the cellar just now, darkvision is completely useless here, and the flying sparks are not worth mentioning.
And when the silver ball of light illuminated the surroundings again, they saw that the surroundings were no longer an abandoned village integrated with nature. The surrounding buildings were all intact. Radishes were drying on the walls, the doghouse was open and there was chicken manure on the ground, and there was a pitchfork next to the open door with a farmer's hat hanging on the fork. The place was full of life everywhere.
And in the third second after the light ball appeared, the dazzling flames ignited all the surrounding buildings. Then the fire spread along the ground, and in an instant the surroundings turned into a sea of fire again.
"Chloe's Ice Breath!"
An extremely cold air was exhaled from Shad's mouth, and the cat on his shoulder also opened its mouth at the same time, but what came out was not cold air but dark frost air containing the power of death.
The two forces simultaneously attacked the raging fire. At first, the fire was quickly contained and even began to retreat. But soon, as the fire became more raging, the flames actually began to suppress the combined spells of Shade and the witch.
"Thaumatology - Primal Power - Repulsion!"
The cat on his shoulder slapped Shade's shoulder heavily with its claws, and Shade felt his shoulder sink. Then, with his feet as the center, a huge repulsive force immediately affected the surroundings, and the sea of fire that tried to devour them was forced to retreat at least ten meters, but then quickly surged up again.
"Original power: repulsion!"
The cat clapped its claws left and right, and the sea of fire kept moving back and forth amid the surging air waves. But this obviously didn't have much effect, because Shade could clearly feel that the whispering elements around him were becoming stronger.
The seemingly deserted village was completely engulfed in flames, and the raging fire even covered the sky. Everything was red, and in the depths of the sea of fire, human figures were running madly.
"That does not work!"
The cat reminded loudly, and then thought of other ways:
"Stop it for now, I still don't understand what's going on - Thaumaturgy - Wall of Sighs!"
With a rumbling sound, three high crooked walls in the shape of an equilateral triangle rose up around Shade. The gray stone walls collided with each other above his head with a rumble, and then enveloped him like a triangular pyramid.
"Isn't this magic a little too omnipotent?"
The sea of fire was blocked by a stone wall. Shade asked in the darkness, while the cat on his shoulder panted and said:
"So this is the Thirteen Rings Magic. Even though the incomplete power I currently possess has integrated spiritualism, defense, and summoning into one, it can even be used as a staircase to take me to a higher place sometimes."
But it seemed that casting the spell in this way was also very exhausting for her. Soon the cat discovered the problem in the darkness:
"The temperature outside is dropping, and I feel that the speed at which the Wall of Sighs is being destroyed is also decreasing. Wait... the fire outside is extinguished! I can't feel the Wall of Sighs being destroyed! What's going on? Is the fire over?"
So Xia De asked her to stop casting the spell temporarily, and as the wall disappeared, the outside world really returned to darkness.
Even though there were sparks of ashes floating in the sky, the darkness was too deep for the two to see through. But their perceptions still reminded them that there was an empty village around them, the ground was covered with ashes, and there was no life here.
"I think I understand a little bit."
The cat whispered softly in Shade's ear:
"Just now, every time the flames appeared, it was after you summoned the light ball to illuminate the surroundings. But once we come to the ground where there was no fire from the burning basement, or enter the closed environment without light from the burning village, the flames will disappear.
Does this mean that as long as the light is triggered, the flames will become increasingly intense around it?"
"It should be like this, but it's not safe without light."
As he spoke, Shade kicked forward and kicked away the thing that was grabbing his leg. As the darkness continued longer and longer, dense rustling sounds were heard frequently from all around him. He could not sense any monsters, but his hearing made his brain immediately associate a large number of living creatures crawling on the ashes around him.
The cat's ears twitched, and then she quickly got into Shade's clothes, leaving only her little head exposed from his chest:
"We seem to be surrounded. We can't see with our eyes, but other senses can sense what's around us. Resentment, souls, and ashes, these three things make up the enemies around us. Look at me, this is my specialty - Thaumaturgy - Dispelling Resentment!"