Chapter 543 Principal
Snap, Franka kicked the hand bone that tried to stop in front of him and tripped him.
"It's annoying, can't you change the trick?" She cursed and turned her head sideways, looking at the street sign next to her.
That meant they had finally arrived at their destination.
Each floor of the catacombs is very large, otherwise it would not be possible to accommodate so many skeletons, and the content that can be marked by the street signs at each node is quite limited, only showing the most iconic place names and the nearby tombs.
Unlike the fourth floor of the tomb, which is basically closed, where no corpses and bones are piled up on the road, there are scattered bones and decaying items everywhere, filled with a faint and unpleasant stench.
Jane Na's eyes looked over the pile of bones outside and saw several metal sheets embedded in the tomb wall, their surfaces were all blurred, with traces of severe corrosion, and only a vague view of the shield wall and thorn symbols were originally engraved.
"No wonder it's called the 'Tomb of Thorns and Shields'." Seeing this, Franka sighed.
At the same time, under the light of the dim candlelight, she saw some funerary goods placed in the lattice grooves on the wall of the tomb, some of them were made of wood, which had long been weathered and decayed, and some were glass and ceramic vessels, existing in the form of fragments, and the only well-preserved one was a glass vial, which was inlaid with a hollow pattern like gold on the surface, with a chic gold lid, probably because of the protection of these metals, the glass vial did not break, but looked gray and not so transparent.
"It's very exquisite, it's like a work of art." After Franka's evaluation, she wondered, "Why didn't the workers who repaired the catacombs take it?"
This looks quite valuable!
"It may have been put into this tomb after the catacombs were built." Jane tried to explain.
The two "witches" didn't think much about it, and Jane took out one of the stand-in mirrors and handed it to Franka.
She leaped, jumped over the pile of bones that seemed quiet and actually hid danger, and landed like a feather at the door of the "Thorns and Shield Wall Tomb".
After confirming the surrounding situation and not getting a spiritual warning, Jian Na carefully approached the slot on the side wall along the ground that was not covered by pale bones.
She instinctively stretched out her right hand, shrank back, took out an old handkerchief from her pocket, and put it in her palm, not directly touching the antique tear bottle.
The tears in the tear bottle have long dried up.
Jane looked at it repeatedly for a while before putting away the tear bottle, returned the same way, and jumped to Franka's side.
"It's so simple to complete the commission?" She whispered a little uncertainly.
It was completely different from the last time she received the disappearance of the gatekeeper of the Deep Valley Monastery.
Franka sneered:
"What difficulty do you want for a 1000 Felkin commission?"
"Yes, the difficulty is whether you have enough understanding of the hidden dangers of the third level of the tomb." Jane summed up the experience seriously.
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Solo Inn.
Change back to Louis. As soon as Berry-like Lumian walked into the front hall, he saw the youthful brown-haired girl wearing a long dress with black stripes on a red background dancing in the corner, sometimes stopping to correct her movements.
Lumian thought about it, walked to the front desk, and took the opportunity to ask:
"What is she doing?"
This time, he used the Intes language directly.
The boss, whose hair was gray and his cheekbones were red, and who was dressed in a loose white robe, was stunned for a moment, and replied in Intes with a Dalliege accent:
"She is my granddaughter, Isabella, and she is practicing the 'Sea Dance' that she will perform next month."
"Dance of the Sea"...... The "Sea Dance" at the Sea Prayer Ceremony? Lumian didn't expect to get this answer, and smiled reflexively:
"This will make many girls jealous, right?"
The boss showed an obvious smile:
"This is not to become a 'maid of the sea', not so many people are jealous, but participating in the 'Dance of the Sea' performance is indeed something that can make her proud and happy for a long time."
Lumian motioned for Lugano to take Ludwig back to the room, and asked the boss in a casual manner:
"Are you from Daliege?"
"Yes, I am Guillaume." The boss laughed at himself, "Ota. Guillaume, when I saw your identity card in the morning, I wanted to greet you in Intis, but in the end I gave up, you know, Intesians are not the same as good people, even if they are fellow townsmen, I have met several guys with poor character."
"How long have you been in Santa Harbor?" Lumian supported the table at the front desk with his right elbow and asked with interest.
Old Ota thought about it seriously:
"Forty years, it should be forty years, at that time, I was a caravan guy, I met my wife here, stayed, hehe, she has now become a nagging old lady, either worried about how to arrange clothes after the cold, or told me to go home for dinner, leave the hotel to the guys, she always arranges everything properly, I don't need to worry, how good, it's hard to meet such a woman in Dariez."
Lumian listened to Old Ota's chatter for a while before moving on to the topic:
"I was invited by a friend to come to Santa Harbor to watch the sea prayer ceremony."
"It was lively, and the whole harbor was reveling." Old Ota didn't skimp on his compliments.
Lumian glanced at Isabella, who was still practicing dancing, and chatted "casually":
"I heard that there was an accident at last year's sea prayer ceremony?"
"No." Old Ota responded with a puzzled expression, "I watched the flower boat parade, boat race and 'Sea Dance', and there was no surprise."
Speaking of this, he frowned and fell into memories:
"However, Sandro did say that the number of shipwrecks has increased a lot this year, there have been more pirate encounters, and the harvest of fishing is not as good as last year...... Was there really an accident in last year's sea prayer ceremony? Is it a vigil or a sea festival? Those old guys from the Fisheries Guild hid the problem?"
"Who is Sandro?" Lumian asked.
Old Ota smiled again:
"It's my child, Isabella's father, who works as a minor clerk in the government, and his wife is a grammar school teacher."
Does the sea prayer ceremony in Santa Harbor really work? After being pranked by "April Fool's Day", the effect of shelter has decreased? Lumian naturally flashed through his mind with some information he had obtained before:
Among the three "April Fools" marginal members who participated in the prank, one went to Toler, the capital of Gaia province, to order a uniquely shaped gold ring, one was in charge of bribing the fisheries guild to send the lamb stuffed with the gold ring as a sacrifice to the special boat where the sea sacrifice was held, and the other disguised as a reporter followed the members of the fisheries guild throughout the process, observing and recording their reactions.
——The expressions of astonishment, surprise, fear and anger of the elderly people when they heard a certain news made the participants of "April Fool's Day" happy for a long time.
Lumian asked about the sea prayer ceremony again, said goodbye to Old Ota, and walked to the suite upstairs.
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4 p.m., Trier, Observatory District, near Purgatory Square.
Janna, who changed into a black robe with a hood and painted her face as an "exaggerated woman", came to a street selling funeral items according to the feedback given by the client.
Most of the Triers who come and go here are quite normal, but a small number of them wear white masks, hold unsharpened scythes, wear black robes, pretend to be messengers of the dead in folklore, or sew white skulls and other objects on their shoulders, looking very artistic......
Thanks to their presence and thanks to Trier's unique temperament, Jana, dressed as a wizard and wearing a hood, is not at all eye-catching.
She stopped in the corner and took out the beautiful tear bottle.
Not long after, a person dressed similarly to her stopped in front of her and asked hoarsely:
"How much is this tear bottle?"
"1000 Felkin." Jian Na suddenly got a little excited.
This is the first time she has truly completed the commission.
"1001 Felkin." The man dressed as a wizard took the initiative to increase the price.
Seeing the code matched, Jane "insisted" on only charging 1,000 Felkin.
When both parties completed the confirmation, she handed the tear bottle to the other party, accepted the reward, and left here.
The hooded man held a tear bottle in his hand and walked through the nearby streets, spending nearly a quarter of an hour going around back to Purgatory Square and walking to a road chair at the edge.
There was a person reading a newspaper.
The hooded man handed over the exquisite tear bottle inlaid with hollow gold patterns and whispered:
"I have completed your commission, has the money owed to you been offset?"
The person sitting on the road chair put down the newspaper and raised his head.
He was dressed as a junior clerk, with slightly curly black hair, sunken eye sockets, dark eyes, thick lips, and a crystal-like monocle in his right eye.
"Mr. Monite?" The hooded man asked confirmingly.
Monit took the tear bottle, gently rubbed the golden pattern on the surface, and the corners of his mouth slowly hooked up.
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Solo Hotel, in the suite on the fifth floor.
Lumian didn't go out all afternoon, sitting on a lounge chair, staggering as he continued to learn the highland language, and flipped through travel books about the customs and customs of the Kingdom of Fenneport from time to time.
It was almost evening, and Lugano, who had gone downstairs to chat with someone, returned to his room.
He approached Lumian and lowered his voice:
"Boss, a lady is looking for you."
Lady...... Hearing this term, the hair on Lumian's body stood up at the same time, and his back muscles tightened.
Which "lady" is this?
After a second of slowdown, Lumian realized that the lady Lugano was talking about was a lady in the normal sense, not a "lady" in the transcendent world.
"Which lady, what are you looking for me for?" He sat up calmly on the surface and asked for his translator.
Lugano shook his head and said:
"She didn't say anything, just said that there was something to entrust to the well-known adventurer Louis. Berry."
Lugano stressed the phrase "well-known adventurer".
(End of this chapter)