Chapter 10 The Thing Behind the Door

pong! pong! pong!

Behind the bronze gate, the sound of slapping continued, echoing in the empty ground, as if it came from an extremely distant ancient time.

Forsi's body tightened, and she trembled uncontrollably, her voice was involuntarily lowered:

"What's behind the door?"

"I don't know." Xio shook his head honestly, subconsciously swallowing his saliva.

She had just picked up the right hand with the triangular thorn, the joints were protruding, the blood vessels were protruding, and she seemed to be exerting great effort.

pong! pong! pong!

The sound of knocking on the door came one after another, without getting faster or slowing down, maintaining the same rhythm, each sound was like hitting the hearts of Forsi and Xio, making their hairs stand up and their scalps go numb.

"It probably won't come out... If it's so easy to come out, it won't wait until now." Forsi comforted herself a little dry-mouthed.

Hugh nodded vigorously and said:

"When the material is formed, we will leave immediately."

In such an environment and such an atmosphere, her curiosity was completely unable to overcome her instinctive fear.

"Okay!" Fors cast her eyes on the place where the two ancient wraiths were purified, and complained in her heart that the information provided by "Moon" was not detailed enough, and she didn't even explain that there was such a strange door in the underground of the castle. .

At this time, a little bit of dark and glowing dust, like finely divided gemstones, continuously fell to the ground, divided into two piles, and gathered together.

Surrounding them, the almost invisible residual spirituality each condensed into a seemingly illusory crystal.

Accompanying the "crystallization" and dust are two different items, one is ring-shaped and completely transparent, like a ring that has been eroded, and the other is like an eye carved out of crystal, with a faint black air flowing inside.

Seeing this scene, Forsi suddenly realized:

Ancient grievances are ghost-like creatures with a mixture of Extraordinary characteristics. Among them, the curse is related to a certain part of them before they were alive. This combination with characteristics has become the basis for their existence. Because of this, different ancient grievances The manifestations of the cursed objects corresponding to the spirit will not be the same, but the essence is the same, and the dust is another characteristic, which is the source of most of their abilities. As for the remaining spirituality, it is slightly equal to the monster's blood and other materials.

pong! pong! pong!

The clatter behind the bronze gate was very persistent and never stopped, constantly testing the nerves of Forsi and Xio.

The two of them, who were so scared and cautious that their bodies trembled a little, had the illusion that the door was shaking slightly, and their hearts were always hanging high, beating wildly.

In a state where she might bounce towards the stairs at any time, Forsi finally waited until the dust and cursed objects of the ancient wraith condensed into shape.

While signaling Xio to be on guard, she squatted down and took out the three square iron boxes that she had prepared.

After hesitating for a while, Fors looked up at Xio, and said:

"These two ancient wraiths have been waiting for each other for too long, I think, I want to separate a part of what they left behind and bury them together... Uh, in this case, I will take a cursed object, and you will take a pile of dust, The remaining spirituality is divided equally, no problem?"

Without hesitation, Xio nodded lightly and said:

"it is good!"

Forsi breathed a sigh of relief, pursed her lips, flipped through "Leymano's Travel Notes", and slid across one of the pages with her fingers.

The five nails on her right hand suddenly grew an extra section, with sharp tips, covered with black patterns and symbols.

This is the "Claw of Corruption" derived from the vampire.

Seeing the change in the palm, Fors grabbed the ground and easily dug a hole, leaving traces of corrosion.

Immediately afterwards, she put the cursed object like a crystal eyeball and a pile of dust into the hole, and filled it with the bricks and soil that she just grabbed.

Whoosh, whoosh, she scratched lightly with her fingernails, and wrote an epitaph on the flat ground:

"Back for you,

Guard for you, never separate. "

After finishing all this, Forsi was about to sigh, but just happened to meet behind the bronze gate, and the sound of slapping suddenly became louder.

pong!

She almost jumped up in fright, and hurriedly put the remaining pile of dust, ring-shaped cursed object, and residual spirituality into different square iron boxes.

Then, she packed the box, straightened her body, and together with Xio, walked slowly towards the winding and narrow staircase.

pong! pong! pong!

The slapping sound behind the bronze gate became more and more intense. Forsi and Xio clenched their teeth subconsciously, and quickly went up the stairs.

They got faster and faster, and at the end, they were already running, not caring whether they would fall on the steps and roll down like wheels.

Finally, sunshine appeared in front of Forsi and Xio.

They shine in from the outside and sprinkle on the steps ahead, bright, pure and warm.

At this time, the faint knocking sound coming from the ground stopped abruptly, and there was no follow-up.

Forsi and Xio looked at each other, slowed down, made several leaps, and returned to the upper floor of the abandoned castle.

The two didn't have a conversation, and left here directly, returning to the edge of the forest.

After walking for a while, Fors calmed down, pursed her lips and said:

"It was really scary just now. Although the thing behind the bronze gate didn't cause us any harm, and didn't even show its appearance, I still think it's more terrifying than the ancient wraith, and everything I've experienced before, er, Terrible, in those few minutes, I couldn't help but imagine several miserable ways of death, one is more scary than the other, but it's not as scary as the slapping sound itself."

Xio turned his head, nodded in agreement and said:

"Well, I felt like I was walking on the edge of a cliff."

Fors was about to say something more when she suddenly saw two streams of bright red blood flowing from Xio's nose.

"Hugh, Hugh, you have a nosebleed!" Fors quickly reminded her friend.

Xio froze for a moment, his pupils slightly opened and said:

"You have a nosebleed too!"

"Ah?" Forsi stretched out her hand in a daze, and wiped the tip of her nose, only to feel that it was warm and the liquid was slightly thick.

She was stunned for a while, and hurriedly brought her right hand to her eyes, only to see that it was stained red with blood, which was bright and eye-catching.

"Cause of being too nervous before?" Fors asked in confusion.

At this moment, she found that under the sunlight penetrating through the shade of the forest, a light dark spot had grown on her wrist at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The black spot spread rapidly, covering the forearm, the back of the hand and other places.

"Ah!" Fors subconsciously called out, and hurriedly raised her head to look at Xio beside her.

Immediately, her eyes reflected the black spots on Xio's cheeks and neck!

"This, this is not normal!" Fors blurted out.

Xio also noticed the abnormality of his friend and himself, and recalled:

"Do you still remember what the female resentful spirit said?

"She said that the previous guards were corrupted by the power seeping from behind the bronze gate!

"Will we also be eroded?"

Fors froze for a second, nodded solemnly and said:

"possible!"

She hastily took out the potion she had prepared before, and gave some of it to Xio. Then she unscrewed the cap, and Gulu drank two bottles in a row.

However, the two of them didn't get any better, and the dark spots grew and grew, so that their vision began to blur.

Plop plop! Not long after, Forsi, who failed to save herself, heard her heartbeat and felt her body begin to lose strength.

Unable to think of anything else, she moved her lips a few times, gritted her teeth, turned around abruptly, took a few steps sideways, and distanced herself.

Immediately afterwards, she lowered her head and recited the honorable name of Mister Fool.

In about ten seconds, a crimson light appeared in front of her eyes, submerging her like a tide.

A few roars and ravings disappeared in a flash, and Forsi saw the familiar mottled long table and the ten high-backed chairs opposite.

She immediately discovered that the dizziness and blurred vision in her head had completely disappeared, and there were no strange black spots on the spiritual body.

"Thank you for your help." Fors quickly stood up and saluted the figure at the top of the long bronze table shrouded in thick gray mist.

Then, she heard Mister Fool say in a flat tone:

"Your spirit has been corrupted by some force.

"It's all right now."

Has been purified by Mister Fool? Forsi's heart moved, and she was about to ask for advice on how to save Xio, when her eyes suddenly turned red, and light appeared again.

After a short interval, she found that she had returned to the real world and returned to the Dreyer Forest. The black spots on the back of her hands and wrists were rapidly fading and receding, and the blood dripping from her nose had stopped.

Turning around, she saw that Xio was weakly supporting the tree next to her, with black spots on her face, which was extremely terrifying. The muscles on both sides of Forsi's neck tensed suddenly, and her thoughts began to turn rapidly.

A few seconds later, she approached quickly, pressed Xio's shoulder, and said quickly:

"I have a way to save you, but you need to follow my description!

"Using the ancient Hermes language, the fool who does not belong to this era..."

Xio struggled to roll his swollen eyelids, looked at Forsi for two seconds, and then recited in a low voice:

"The fool who is not of this age;

"The mysterious ruler above the gray mist;

"The king of yellow and black in charge of good luck..."

Before he finished speaking, Xio was stunned to see a crimson starlight gushing out of nothingness, sweeping him.

The indescribable roar lasted for a second before disappearing from Xio's ears. Immediately afterwards, she saw that she was in an ancient and majestic palace, sitting at a long mottled green table, with endless gray-white mist under her feet. , and there is a figure looking down at him in front of him, giving people a majestic feeling.

This scene was both strange and familiar to her. She had seen it once in a "dream", but she never recalled it after the exorcism ceremony.

That purification was actually useless... Xio suddenly had such an idea, stood up after considering it, and saluted the figure shrouded in gray mist:

"You are the great king of yellow and black?"

She didn't appear too surprised or terrified, as if she had expected it long ago.

"You can call me 'Mr. Fool' directly, sit down." The figure with breath like mountains and seas responded calmly.

Xio saluted again, sat down, and confirmed that he had gotten rid of the bad state just now.

She glanced around, thought for a while and said:

"Dear Mister Fool, does Forsi Wall have a seat here?"

The Fool shrouded in gray mist nodded slightly and said:

"Yes."

Xiu was silent for a second, and said directly:

"Can I join like her?"

"The Fool" chuckled lightly:

"It was a party they organized themselves, called by me.

"There are still seats available for you to join.

"Let's draw a card. They all use one of the main Tarot cards as their code name here."

Xio didn't ask much, didn't say much, nodded immediately and said:

"Yes, Mister Fool."

On the long bronze table in front of her, there was an extra set of Tarot cards immediately.

Xio stretched out his right hand, solemnly cut the cards, drew a card, and opened it on the table.

Her card depicts an angel with a trumpet and the dead awaiting redemption.

"Judgment" card!