Chapter 615 12. Three puzzles
The consciousness of the forest... This touches the blind spot of a warlock's knowledge.
But since the magical world allows creatures like tower spirits, the birth of consciousness in a forest does not seem so unreasonable.
Is this considered ‘something incomprehensible’?
“Are you here to find me?”
The girl in the forest shook her head: "I just came to take a last look at my home."
Annan looked at the oak forest again, thinking that he could consult Tadel, and withdrew his gaze, "What is the last... …?”
As a result, he found that the girl and the white deer were gone, and all the animals that had been surrounding him disappeared, and the whole forest fell into a stagnant silence.
All disappeared.
This is something incomprehensible...
Annan stood under the warm morning sun, but a layer of fine pimples appeared on his skin due to the chill.
Some kind of invisible ominousness quietly lingered around him. Annan touched the amulet and the leaf of the World Tree, and accelerated towards the south.
Not long after, Annan felt relieved when he saw the withered vegetation, and felt an indescribable and strange sense of relief.
Especially when he saw a group of screaming banshees fluttering like veils approaching, he felt a sense of intimacy.
Annan stood in front of the withered woodland and released his friendliness: "I am here to deliver a message to the Skeleton Duke on behalf of the vampire princess."
"Please begin the test."
The fluttering screaming banshees issued a cold whisper that seemed to overlap with shadow and reality. Their appearance was similar to that of ghosts. Their pale and thin cheeks did not have much beauty, and their open mouths exposed The sharp teeth are even more frightening.
"Beautiful sister, I am a messenger, not someone here to participate in the test..."
A screaming banshee floated out, surrounding Annan and letting out a harsh, friction-like laughter. : "The Duke will only summon intelligent beings. You must pass three tests to see the Duke."
"I will take you there."
The playful screaming banshee grabbed one of Annan's arms, and the other banshees swarmed up and lifted Annan into the withered woodland.
In the distance, a large cemetery is located in a vast corrupt land, with many undead creatures wandering around it.
Annan was carried by the screaming banshees and landed in front of the cemetery.
There are two guests here: a mad skeleton holding a giant leg bone, and a lich wearing a mage's robe. The latter looked at Annan with eyes burning with soul fire because of Annan's momentum.
"Thank you..."
Annan politely thanked the Screaming Banshees, and they retreated into the distance, looking over and letting out bursts of cold laughter.
Click.
The door of the necropolis suddenly shuddered open, and a rotten corpse fell out of the tomb. It shook its head, picked up the cloudy eyeballs that rolled out and stuffed them into its sockets, crawled out and left.
The necropolis exudes an undead aura that makes Annan uncomfortable, guiding the next person to participate in the test to enter.
“It’s my turn...”
The crazy skeleton grumbled and carried the leg bone into the first tomb.
It saw a colorful wide door and heard a voice: "What are the three thinnest books in the world?"
"What are books?"
...
The Crazy Skeleton was driven out of the necropolis.
It seemed to have lost its memory after entering, and muttered in confusion: "Why am I here? Oh, I will test..."
"You failed the test, leave here." The Screaming Banshee regained her coldness. , drive away the losers.
The crazy skeleton who picked up the leg bones left, and it was the Lich's turn to enter the necropolis. It saw a whole wall of bookcases, and a voice came from inside: "What are the three thinnest books in the world?"
The Lich's soul fire flickered: "How to define the thinnest? If I have a book like a parchment, is it the thinnest? How to define a book? If I have a book like a stone tablet, is it a book? This is a question..."
After a while, the voice in the bookcase said: "Wise Lich, you passed."
...
The door to the necropolis opened, but this time the wizard was not thrown out. .
Either the Lich was swallowed, or it passed.
“It’s your turn.”
The screaming banshees surrounding Annan pushed Annan gently.
“Do you know what the test is?” Annan asked the Screaming Banshee quietly.
The Screaming Banshees said one after another: "The book soul will ask you three questions, you just need to answer them."
Annan walked into the necropolis and passed through a passage that was not long. Finally, he came to the first tomb.
There are no bones and dust here. It is surprisingly clean. There is only a faint smell of the dead, and there is a bookshelf on the wall in front.
"I am the messenger of the blood clan and I have brought a letter from Her Royal Highness the Princess." Annan said proactively.
There was no response to the voice from the bookshelf, only the first question: "What are the three thinnest books in the world?"
How did Annan know? Fortunately, as long as he didn't take the initiative to provoke, If he gets the answer wrong, he will be kicked out...but it's better to answer it right.
Annan pondered, and as the time took longer and longer, an hourglass appeared on the bookshelf and began to pass.
The remaining sand was getting less and less, and more and more sand was leaking out. Annan had to give up searching for barren knowledge and compiled: "The three thinnest books in the world are... from the Tatooine Empire. The Book of Etiquette, the History of Independence of the Principality of Montabulok, and the Book of Wisdom of the Kingdom of Recanl.”
The tomb was silent for a moment, and a voice came out: "Humans who have taken a different path, you passed."
"Actually, I am a vampire..."
Annan couldn't help but explain, the bookshelf in front of him It moved away with trembling, revealing a new passage.
Going through the passage behind the door to a new tomb, Annan just saw the lich's back disappearing behind the closed bookshelf door in front.
The voice continued to ask: "What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?"
This is not difficult for Annan. It is simpler than the question of the first level: "It is something with four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening."
The second tomb was silent for longer than before: " Humans disguised as vampires, you passed."
Annan gave up explaining and walked towards the bookcase door that was moved forward.
The first two questions are not difficult. It seems that as long as the answer conforms to the logic of the question, you can pass it. He guessed that the three tests were just to screen out the completely mindless undead creatures like Crazy Skeleton.
So the strange thing is, how did the first messenger who died and the second messenger who almost didn't come back fail...?
Annan, who entered the last tomb, unexpectedly encountered the lich, and its answer was coming to an end.
"...'I' am all things."
"You passed the final test."
The third bookshelf moved away, revealing a downward-stretching steps.
The Lich did not leave, and stood aside to observe Annan, who was preparing to accept the third test.
"'I' is a being that is loved by others, 'I' is a being that makes people cry and laugh, 'I' is a being that makes people pursue hard but never get it. What is 'I'?"
< br>Annan didn’t even think about it: “It’s me.”
(End of this chapter)