Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 2156 The Altar
At the end, there is an uncovered door.It was dark inside the door, nothing could be seen, only death energy kept coming, whistling in the ear like a dark wind.

Frode closed his eyes, the power of the soul vibrated between his brows, ripples invisible to the naked eye rippled out.

After a while, Frode opened his eyes and said: "The specific situation inside is unknown, but there is no soul left, and there is no breath of living things."

After confirming that there were no living creatures or undead threats, Frod and Angel stepped into the door.

The gloomy and dead air inside became more intense.Even without any energy driving, there were all kinds of ghost cries spontaneously in the ears, as if a large number of grievances were whispering.

Angel was not affected, but Frode's eyebrows kept beating, with a look of suffering.

Seeing this, Angel took a light step forward, and as the steps fell, an invisible spiritual force field enveloped him and Frode.

Under the protection of the spiritual force field, Frode finally breathed a sigh of relief: "This must be the place where Mrs. Sila sleeps, and the remaining resentment is extremely strong. Just standing here can stimulate the accumulated energy in my soul." Dead mad."

If it weren't for Angel's protection, Frode wouldn't last long here.Once he inhales too much resentment, he has only one end, which is to fall.

"So, it seems that this place is more suitable for practicing soul tricks than Star Lake Castle." Angel muttered as he stretched out his hand, and a bright ball of light slowly rose from his palm.

The ball of light rose to the top of the head, and the incomparably brilliant light immediately dispelled the darkness and shone around.

This is an advanced form of light, a 1st-level cantrip of light.

Under the illumination of the Radiance Art, they could already see clearly the situation within a range of tens of meters nearby.Within the range of light, there is nothing special about it. The ground is abnormally flat, with obvious traces of polishing, which is artificially created.

Directly in front of them, at the edge of the light, a staircase was vaguely seen.

"It seems that this place is even bigger than expected." Angel muttered in a low voice, and ten light balls made by the Radiance Technique appeared in his palm at the same time. With a light flick, the light balls flew in all directions.

The dark burrow is like opening a skylight for direct sunlight, instantly brightening the hall.Even the deep dark corners are replaced by light.

When the light completely replaced the darkness, they finally saw the scene in the huge hole clearly.

The area of ​​the burrow is very large, even two or three Xinghu castles can be put down without any problem.The entire burrow is very flat, and right in front of it is a high platform similar to an altar. There are a large number of regular cuboid stone platforms near the altar. Around the edge of the burrow, there are small black holes every few meters. In addition, There are no other traces of artifacts.

Frode frowned and looked around for a week, and finally fixed his eyes on the high platform.

"This high platform..." Frode pointed to the high platform like an altar: "The death energy on it is extremely strong, as if it is real."

Angel has already sensed it without Frode saying it.

Although it seemed to the naked eye that there was nothing on the high platform, the aura of death, withering, and silence was extremely conspicuous.It can even be said that all the dead energy in the entire cave is emanating from the high platform, and there is...the source.

"It always feels a bit strange here. Let's split up and see if we find anything. Finally, let's go to the high platform." Angel did not go to the high platform to explore the source of the dead air immediately, but planned to split up with Floyd first. The situation in the cave.

Frode nodded, he was also very puzzled about this cave, why is there such a cave here, who built it?what to do
Angor exerted a mental force field on Frode, and then went to the left side of the high platform by himself, while Frode went to the right.

Angel first sensed it with his mental power, and the only things worth exploring on the left were the cuboid stone platforms and the small caves on the edge of the cave.

He walked to the side of the cuboid stone platform.

These cuboid stone platforms protrude directly from the ground, regardless of their height and shape, they look like workbenches in a laboratory.

And on the cuboid stone platform, objects are placed like a workbench.

a skeleton.

To be precise, it is a broken human skeleton.

It is a left-hand skeleton, which has been completely withered. Under the washing of the strong dead air, brittle cracks appeared on the skeleton, and it is estimated that it will be weathered if touched.

Angor investigated through the dual vision of the naked eye and the spirit, and found that there seemed to be traces of energy infiltration when the left-handed skeleton lived.However, he couldn't be sure, he didn't fully understand the bone knowledge applicable to wizards, so he could ask Frode later.

In the absence of other discoveries, Angel went to another cuboid stone platform.

Like the previous stone platform, there is also a broken skeleton here, but this one is smaller, it is the right hand metacarpal bone.

Judging from the metacarpal bones, the knuckles are distinct, not missing, and there are also traces of energy moistening.

Angel recalled the previous left hand, which seemed to be bigger than this right hand, and it should not belong to the same person.

Immediately after, Angor went to other cuboid stone platforms. Each stone platform had incomplete skeletons, all of which were in different parts, and some of them were not human.

After seeing the cuboid stone platform, Angel went to the small cave that was dug out on the cave wall.

He had checked the situation in the small cave with his mental power before, and now he just came to confirm again.

After reading it, Angel confirmed that the result was the same as that of the spiritual vision: the small caves were not big, and the inside was only two meters deep, and there was a complete human skeleton sitting cross-legged in each small cave.

Angel looked around the cave for a week. These small caves were every few meters, and there were 360 ​​caves in total.

In each cave, there is a human skeleton in the same cross-legged posture.

This is absolutely not normal.

Angel seemed to have thought of something, his eyes suddenly darkened, and he walked back to the high platform in the center silently.

Not long after, Frode also came over.

Frode: "The stone platform is full of broken bones, including human beings, humanoids, and some alien races from other planes. I feel that some extraordinary person may have done some secret research here. Because, all There are traces of the use of energy in the bones of the bones, and they should not be mortals."

Frode's judgment was similar to what Angel thought, and Angel pondered for a moment: "If it is really the secret research of the extraordinary, it is normal for humans and humanoids to appear here. However, there are bones of alien creatures, It reminds me of a certain ethnic group."

"The Calabbits." Frod echoed softly.

The Calabbits love nothing more than studying creatures, especially outsiders.

Angel nodded: "Maybe it's a Calabbit wizard, doing experiments here."

Frode: "It's possible, but judging from the situation at the scene, it has been abandoned for a long time, and there is no trace of any experimenter, so this guess cannot be confirmed."

Angel nodded. There is no more information about the skeleton on the stone platform, so it can only be put down temporarily.

Angel: "I am most concerned about the skeletons in those small caves."

Frode recalled for a moment, trembling slightly: "Those skeletons are all intact, but they are all in the same cross-legged posture, which makes me feel a little creepy."

After a pause, Frode asked curiously, "Why do you care about those skeletons?"

Angel pondered for a moment: "The distance between each small cave is the same, the size of the inside is the same, the skeleton is also human, and they pose in the same posture. Everything follows a unified standard. This reminds me of It's..."

Angel hesitated for a moment before uttering the word in his heart: "Ritual."

ceremony.Frode murmured the word softly. Ritualology in the Southern Region was not hunted down by extremist sects like inscriptions, so he had heard of it, but he only heard it, but rarely touched it.

However, he knew that basically all sacrifices had something to do with ritual science.Even, some schools of thought believe that ritual studies, like inscriptions, were born out of demon gods, but ritual studies were born out of the sacrificial rituals between demon gods and believers.

"I was exposed to praying rituals at Anada, and later learned some basics of rituals with Greya." Angel recalled some of the ritual content taught by Greya: "If there is no control over the ritual Before, there was little freedom in ritual studies, and everything had to be done in accordance with rituals.”

"The etiquette of ritual science is a very strict and rigid norm. For example, in the sacrificial ceremony, the positions of the presenters must be scattered beyond the distance of ten times the tribute, and all the presenters must be three meters apart. The position must be 90 degrees..."

"It is precisely because of the existence of these norms that the ceremony can be carried out completely. And the existence of the small cave here, in my opinion, is a series of absolutely strict norms."

After listening to Angor's explanation, Frod also understood why Angor valued the small cave.

First of all, the ceremony itself is already rare; in addition, human bones are used in the rituals of this ceremony.

Regardless of whether the human bone is sacrificed by a living person or a dead person, it all means that this is a ritual that is suspected of being a sacrifice.

Sacrifice naturally has a target, and humans are used as the target of rituals, generally speaking, they are demon gods, evil gods, monsters with divinity that feed on humans, or giants from other worlds that are hostile to humans.

Otherwise, there is no need to use humans as ritual conditions.

And whether these are demon gods, evil gods, or existences from other worlds, they are not easy to deal with, and they are all the focus of the wizarding world.

There is such a suspected sacrificial ceremony here, which really needs to be taken seriously.

"Since there are human bones as rituals." Angel turned to look at the nearby high platform: "then there is no doubt that this high platform is the center of the ceremony, the altar."

"As for who is being sacrificed to in this sacrificial ceremony, you can find out if you go up and have a look. There must be clues there."

After Angel finished speaking, he took the lead to step on the steps of the altar.

Every step he took, Angel could feel that the death energy was washing over the mental force field more and more violently.

However, although the death energy here is very strong, it has not been controlled, it is just an unconscious impact, and it will not cause any damage to the mental force field.

There are a total of 36 steps, which just correspond to the number of small caves, which once again confirms the normative nature of the ceremony.

When they came to the top of the altar, what caught their eyes was a bone altar built with the dead bones of the deceased.

There is nothing on the bone altar, but the death energy here is the strongest.

Angel guessed that Mrs. Shila might have stayed on the altar before, which is why the breath of death and undead here is so strong.

Frode walked around the altar and saw no other abnormalities. In other words, they could only search from the bone altar if they wanted to find clues.

But at first glance, it is difficult to get clues on this bone altar. Not only is there nothing, but the altar is pure white and flawless, and there are no lines.

Angel reached out and touched the bone altar.

When the cold feedback came from the fingertips, Angel's eyes froze slightly.

"This bone altar has no energy left." Angel said slowly.

The bone altar is built with the dead bones of the deceased.As for the dead bones of the deceased, they are semi-finished magic materials in the wizarding world, and they must contain extraordinary properties.

But now, the dead bones of the dead have been reduced to mortal things without any extraordinary properties, which means...

"The ceremony has already been carried out."

Now that the ceremony has been performed, what exactly is this ceremony?Is the ceremony a success or a failure?Why is Mrs. Shira here?
When Frode was full of doubts, Angor's palm slammed hard, and the altar of bones fell apart in an instant.

After a "squeak" sound, the bone altar brittle into pieces and fell to the ground.

With the shattering of the bone altar, the ground below the altar was revealed.

"Hey, there's a symbol here!" Frode looked down, but saw a weird symbol obviously carved by humans in the center of the ground under the bone altar.

Angel also looked at the symbol.He shattered the bone altar just because he noticed this symbol under the bone altar.

Now that the symbol was revealed, Angel frowned.

He had never seen this symbol before.

It is very regular and can be divided into three parts.The outermost is a concentric circle, inside the concentric circle is a standard ritual hexagon, and inside the hexagon is a left-right symmetrical meandering symbol.

This symbol looks like two symmetrical and curved crickets. When you look closely, it is imprinted in your mind. It seems to be alive, twisting and twisting.

"Although this symbol does not seem to have any signs of extraordinaryness, it is faintly related to the strong death energy around it." Angel sighed: "Unfortunately, I have never seen this symbol."

The symbol inside the hexagon is obviously the key clue, perhaps pointing directly to the object of sacrifice.

Angel looked at Frode across the way, wanting to see if he knew.

Frode shook his head: "I've never seen it either. But it doesn't matter if I haven't seen it, we can ask for foreign aid..."

(End of this chapter)