Five thousand steps south is just a rough distance. In fact, you don’t have to go that far. You can already feel how appropriate the villagers’ fear and description of “cursed Togus” are.

At the end of the green wheat field is black soil that never grows. If you step on it, you can lift the rotten dust that hides your ankles. The air inhaled into the lungs contains a lot of smoke and mold. Remove the collapsed rocks and shows that smart creatures have lived in it, and no life-like characteristics can be found in this land.

Today, the ruins of Togus are full of adventurers, most of which are mercenaries, and mages only occupy a very small number of people who are headless flies. They are almost searching by digging three feet into the ground, not missing any places that may hide magic.

Victor looked around the entire ruins and found no buildings that could be called "towers" or similar. It took out the map given by the Red Robe Mage, and after careful observation, it discovered something that was ignored when he first glanced.

The layer marked with red arrows seems to be the interior of the tower, and at the top there are only a few short sentences about the specific location of the tower.

[The third auspicious day of the month of harvest, today's brightness is very good, and it is the best day to find the entrance.]

Although I wrote a few sentences later, my handwriting was too sloppy and I couldn't see clearly what was recorded. In addition, the age was a bit too long and it became even more blurry.

After carefully distinguishing the results, the Lich gave up looking for the Tower of Shadow from the map.

Wait...shadow?

Suddenly, the name of the destination came into his mind, Victor stopped and looked up at the sky. The sunset only left the last bit of afterglow on the horizon, and night was about to fall.

It decided to wait for a while to see if its thoughts that suddenly appeared just now were correct.

I found a pretty clean stone nearby, and sat down without caring about the strange gazes thrown by the adventurers nearby.

"Hey~ This place is very dangerous. If you want to rest, go to the nearby village of Bere." Occasionally, kind adventurers would remind you, but Victor had already entered a meditation state. Seeing that it did not respond, the adventurers shook their heads repeatedly and had to re-enter the search.

Before the night came, most adventurers had left. Occasionally, a few people found pottery hundreds of years ago. Even if they could not receive high commissions, those broken but still considered antiques could make a small profit.

The large number of adventurers left was not only because the ruins were filled with various terrible legends, but also because several adventurers had disappeared in the past few days. So they all returned to Beret Village after the sun sets, and no one was willing to play and get in close contact with the undead without the priest.

As the night gets deeper, the entire ruins become quieter as stagnant water. Without insects and birds, there is an indescribable mystery in the quiet wilderness.

When Victor opened his eyes, the cold moonlight shone on the black ground, gradually revealing a different scene from the daytime. It can be seen that there is a huge base on the flattest open space to the west.

Very brightness really refers to moonlight or starlight...

He stood up and walked towards the base. Victor circled around twice, but did not find the entrance. He reached out and touched the stone base that was blurred to the point where it was unobstructed. The surface was not smooth and had uneven patterns. After careful exploration, he could identify magic secret words of different sizes.

Due to the serious damage, we can only roughly piece together phrases such as darkness, shadow, blackness, king, servant, etc. that seem to be related but have no actual annotation.

Is a spell? Or a mechanism? There are too few clues...

When the lich, who was thinking hard about the answer, was considering whether to cast a spell to knock down the pedestal and see if there would be new discoveries, a sudden flash of inspiration in its mind.

By the way! Why did I forget this? The prayers in the middle world are slightly different from those in the underground world.

Victor, who was full of confidence, slowly sang the spliced ​​complete words and sentences in a similar to the tone of singing.

"The deepest shadow of darkness, the spreader of death and plague, the king of nothingness, I am your faithful servant and worshiper."

The base moved in the rumbling sound, revealing a dark hole. The stone steps hovered down and extended into the deep darkness.

Witnessing Victor enters the tunnel, the ranger Dunan, who has been following him, waves to Hawke, who is hiding further away, signaling that he can step forward.

"How about it?"

The warrior's vision is not as sharp as the ranger at night, and he can't see anything.

"I found the entrance, and the man was indeed a famous wizard. Although someone had discovered that strange pedestal in the past, he was the first to open the authentic one. Hey~ Wait!" Du Nan grabbed his hand and wanted to look forward to see the final companion: "Let's wait for Renna's signal, she is not easily discovered by herself."

"Okay." Hawk was stunned for a moment, and then remembered his outfit. Although most of them were leather armor, important joints and chest and abdomen were metal pieces. As soon as he walked, there was an uncoverable friction sound, which was very easy to expose his position.

After a while, a fire lit up in the direction of the base, and it went out after only two flashes.

"It's a signal! Let's follow." Ranger discovered the signal that Reina was used to with sharp eyes.

When they walked to the pedestal, the two realized that the entrance was much more ordinary than they thought. There was no horrible decoration or totem mark, just a dark staircase, and they didn't know where it led.

"Where is Elou?" The female wanderer asked worriedly, "She will definitely come with her."

"I tied her to a hotel room. This mission is different from the past. Taking her with her will only cause trouble for us." Hawke was quite troubled by his younger sister. After both his parents died, he held two positions. Although the rewards received by being a mercenary can solve the problem of food and clothing, it is not a big deal to take her around like this. As a mercenary, he knew that he would die a day due to the mission. Who will take care of this reckless sister then?

"How is the situation below?" Du Nan knew that Reina must have explored the way. If it was too dangerous, she would rather give up the commission for this mission than risk losing her life.

"Fortunately, I didn't encounter any mechanism to remove mold and moss, just..." Reina hesitated a little when she recalled the spot she had just scouted.

"Just?" Noting that something seemed wrong with her tone, Hawke stopped thinking about Ellu and focused his attention on the task.

"That mage... I don't know why, but I always have an ominous premonition. He gave me a very...what to say, a very strange feeling, as if I have always known my existence."

After being a companion for three years, Dunan knew Reina's abilities very well. Although she was a woman, she was an excellent wanderer and her strength was obvious to all in this county. If she felt this way, it means that the black-robed wizard had already known their existence. In this way, in addition to being careful of the traps in the tower, she also had to beware of this guy of unknown origin...

"Old rule." Reina took out a silver coin and held it in her hand: "Advance or backward."

The other two looked at each other and each created a silver coin.

Three coins were thrown into the air at the same time and then fell back to the owner's hand. A rare and consistent front appeared in the spread palm.

"If you die inside, you can only blame the goddess of fate." Hawke remembered that he left all their logistics items in the room before leaving, including the savings he had accumulated over the years. Those few gems that earned bad quality with their lives should be enough to maintain Alu's life until he was adult.

Taking a deep breath, he followed the steps of his two companions who had entered the tunnel and stepped onto the moss-covered stone staircase.

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After Victor walked along the stairs for a while, his eyes suddenly became clear.

The crystals embedded in the walls faded the darkness, and enough light also made the three adventurers who arrived later realize that their place was a wide lobby. They were empty and nothing except the glowing crystals on the wall.

The road was interrupted again.

"Although it's very presumptuous, I still want to invite you to join." Reina looked at her back standing quietly not far away, and plucked up her courage to walk forward, and said another suggestion in the tavern.

She once again emphasized that her profession was finally answered by the Lich immersed in thinking.

"I still want to say sorry for your sincere invitation because I don't work with non-professionals."

"Hey? Non-professionals... are we?" Hawke thought there was something wrong with his ears. The top five teams in the county's Adventurers Guild were actually called unprofessional enough. This mage was a little too arrogant, right?

"Just because you didn't find my career a little bit, it was enough for me to classify you among the second-rate team." Looking at the gaze, Victor bent down and brushed away the dust that had been deposited by the years with his hands.

Like the pedestal outside, the obscure magic secret words informed the origin and purpose of this sealed stone chamber - the Hall of Five.

The corrosion and weathering inside are far less severe than the outside, and the lich reads the meaning of that line of letters easily.

The number ‘5’ has a special religious significance. The calendar stipulates that thirty days per month. Except for the day of the creatures representing the twenty living beings of the day of creation, the remaining five days are the day of faith of Mara Light and Kara Dark respectively.

Any religious building is without exception and cannot be avoided. It has a room associated with the "Five" to express respect and worship of the gods.

This is troublesome...

He raised his head and swept over the three people with surprise, dissatisfaction and deep thought on his face. Including them, there were only four of them, and they could not meet the requirements of the five.

The five-person hall means that there must be five people to open the passage to other rooms of the tower. If the owner of the tower is an evil mage, it means that the other four are sacrifices, and if it is a good camp, four alliances of the same faith are required to open it.
Chapter completed!