Chapter 1616 The Family Secret Room
Things such as blood, internal organs and human tissues can be preserved for a long time by using the organ embalming spell. Some blood was drawn from Flavia in advance, even in hot weather. Inside, it will look like it was just taken out.
As for why I say this, it’s because if Aldai and the others want to go back, they need Flavia’s blood.
After the three people passed through the doorway, they just lit the torches and lighting spells when the door behind them was closed again, and it was completely sealed.
To be honest, this operation made Neemia's right eyelid jump, which didn't feel like a good sign.
However, as a rogue, Nemea's professional ability is still quite good. The three of them still advanced in a formation with Nemea at the head, Aldai in the middle, and Zola behind.
Immediately after entering the door, I saw a staircase sloping downward. Judging from the degree of damage, it should be several hundred years old, not too old.
From time to time, you can see a shallow pit filled with some kind of solidified grease on both sides of the stairs, which is a lighting torch that can be lit.
Going straight down, about thirty meters down, a typical dungeon-style corridor appeared in front of the three of them.
There are traps in the family secret room, and there are definitely many of them.
This kind of trap can basically be dispelled by a specific bloodline. It can be said that if Flavia is here, everyone can move forward boldly without being hurt by the trap.
But the small bottle of blood in Aldai's hand is obviously not enough, so the three of them need to be extra careful about traps and magic spells used as traps when moving forward.
Time will destroy many things, but in a dungeon that is only a few hundred years old, most of its mechanisms and spells are still intact.
Nemea searched almost inch by inch for possible trap triggers, and Aldai immediately attached several prophecy spells to her body to provide the team with early warning of danger.
Everyone walked along this road for about forty or fifty meters, and there was a right-angled bend in front of them.
This was the hardest hit area where traps would appear, so Nemea carefully explored it.
But the trap was not found, but something else was found.
“There is a hidden door here.”
Facing the passage from which he came, on the wall, Nemea grabbed a handful of dust from the ground and sprinkled it lightly on the bricks. superior.
You can see that the dust is slightly sucked in, but it is difficult to see where the gap is with the naked eye.
Aldai took a step forward and waved her staff at the wall:
"Detect the secret door."
Almost instantly, a door-shaped red halo appeared on the wall.
She lowered her head and looked at the dust on the ground and said:
“This door was originally protected by paint that had the ability to avoid detection, but time caused the paint to decay and fall off.”
I remember Flavia said that no one has entered the family secret room in the past one or two hundred years. Apparently the Subian royal family has neglected to maintain it.
Compared to the passages in the open, the secret door is obviously more suspicious.
Zola asked the other two to retreat, put on defensive magic, and used a short sword as a crowbar to insert into the crack of the door and pry open the secret door.
Almost at the same time, four or five dark arrows were shot from behind the door, but Zola was already ready, and the arrows just made a clanging sound.
Oldai first threw the ball of light from the dancing light technique into it, illuminating the darkness.
The first thing that comes into view is a wall with a shooting hole on it. The arrow just came out from here.
Then Nemea stepped forward to check if there were any other traps. After confirming that it was safe, everyone filed in.
Bypassing the wall that shoots arrows, the first thing that comes into view is a narrower passage than the outside, with mirrors on both sides of the passage.
Each mirror is the size of a dressing mirror, placed neatly against the wall. However, the mirrors have now been smashed, with a large number of fragments scattered on the ground, leaving only the gorgeous frames decorated with gilt craftsmanship. . "Why are there so many mirrors?"
Aldai pondered for a moment before replying:
“Maybe it’s a strategy to avoid being discovered.”
“Strategy? To avoid being discovered by whom?”
“ Mirrors are very effective refractors and have a blocking effect on magic or supernatural perception. It’s hard to say who to avoid. Let’s go ahead and see.”
The mirror must be a royal device of Subia. , Aldai found the emblem of the Subian royal family remaining on the frame.
Continuing forward along this strange passage, I saw a skeleton leaning against the wall not far away.
It has been dead for a long time. Not only has it completely turned into bones, but its bones have even begun to turn into fossils.
But when everyone approached, the skeleton suddenly turned its head and raised its arms to point at them, which shocked Nemea.
"That's not an undead creature, otherwise it would have rushed up long ago."
"Then why is it moving?"
"It's probably the residual resentment."
Oldey came closer and found that it was the skeleton of an elf, with a wand in his hand.
The size of the wand is slightly longer than the chopsticks. It is visually made of elderberry. Judging from the shape, it is at least a popular style hundreds of years ago.
Magicians at that time did not like to use wands because they thought they were too heavy and too heavy. Instead, they preferred short wands, which made casting spells look as elegant as conducting a concert.
After all, the mage profession is impossible without money. Basically, a mage is either from a merchant family or from a noble family, so he will definitely lose face.
But later it was discovered that face cannot be used as food, and the increase provided by the wand was too short and too weak, so now the wand has become the mainstream.
Zola stepped forward and used a purifying sauna on the skeleton to confirm that the thing was indeed dead. Then Aldee stepped forward and pulled the wand away from the skeleton's hand.
Although this thing has no practical value, it can be used as a cultural relic for research.
"If I guessed correctly, this person should be the mage who built the underground palace. In order to ensure safety, the builder of the underground palace was locked up here."
Under the left chest of the skeleton There was a very clear stab wound, roughly in the shape of a dagger, and the ribs were broken. It was most likely a murder.
It is very troublesome to excavate a huge underground project secretly. After all, this is not something that one or two people can handle, and with more people, it is difficult to keep it secret.
But it is not difficult to let mages do this. Many mages will dig underground palaces as laboratories in unknown places for the purpose of magic research, and hide there to conduct magic research for decades.
The mirror may have been broken by this person. Everyone found traces of dislocation and breakage on the bones of the skeleton's hands, but it is not yet clear why it did this at the last moment of its life.
It suddenly moved just now, which was actually closer to a warning, telling visitors not to move forward.
He casually used a flaming hand to cremate the skeleton man on the spot, and everyone continued to move forward.
You said you won’t leave until you move forward?
Have you stopped farming after hearing the cries of crickets?
Not far forward, they came to an arched doorway. Aldai raised her hand to let the light ball of dancing light go in first, and found that there was a quite spacious room. Neemia stretched out her head. After looking around for a while, the first thing I saw was a huge statue standing on the other side of the room.
The statue seems to be alive, you can even feel the eyes of that thing meeting...
(End of this chapter)