In the small town of Bonn, Lilith and Sarah, who couldn't sleep and didn't dare to sleep, stood at the window and looked at the empty and quiet streets.
"Brother, I heard that since the Dark Ages, people in the town of Bonn have disappeared every other time, could it be the reason for the lock?" Lilith asked curiously, judging from the information she inquired, the longest time for the missing people to appear was more than a hundred years, and the shortest was for several consecutive years, which cast a strange color on the town.
Sara smiled bitterly and shook her head: "I don't know either. I don't even know what kind of lock it is, how to judge? But I think it should be somewhat related, you see, the uninhabited house originally belonged to one of the few noble gentlemen in the town of Bonn who could write, but his seven-year-old daughter disappeared on the evening of April 10 ten years ago and was never found again, so he and his wife chose to stay away from this place that made them sad and moved to the eastern country." He pointed to a house on the side of the street.
"April 10th, what a coincidence." Lilith replied thoughtfully.
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The little girl who seemed to have run out of the black and white photo had a bright smile, and her arms were open and rushed towards Lucian, as innocent and enthusiastic as a daughter waiting for her father's return at the door, but her floating body and empty and emotionless eyes made Lucian shudder, how could she dare to throw herself into his arms.
The difficult spell was pronounced, but no one including Lucian could hear it, and they could only confirm that the magic was successfully cast.
The air around the little girl began to be disturbed, forming invisible ropes to bind her.
Apprentice-level magic "Spirit Binding Technique"!
Lucian was sure without a doubt that she was a ghost-type creature.
The bright smile disappeared immediately, and a small face was distorted, full of resentment and ferocity, she raised her head slightly, opened her mouth, and let out a silent scream.
The "Silenced Barrier" formed a transparent barrier in front of Lucian, and invisible ripples made it vibrate violently.
After casting the "Spirit Binding Technique", Lucian was preparing this magic, which came from the understanding of the attack methods of vengeful spirit-like creatures, knowledge is the power of magicians!
But as soon as the "silenced barrier" appeared, it completely collapsed under the ripples that seemed to vibrate extremely slowly!
The ghost's scream was neutralized and hit Lucian directly.
The world was spinning, dizzy and "tinnitus", nausea and vomiting, Lucian's feet were like stepping on cotton at all, and even the internal organs seemed to have signs of resonance, and countless negative emotions emerged at the same time, panic, fear, resentment, etc. almost made Lucian unable to maintain his last sobriety.
Lucian's exposed skin glowed with a faint "gray" white glow, quickly becoming blurry and shaking, and then slowly stabilizing.
The timely "moonlighting" allowed Lucian to avoid the end of internal organs rupture, mental disorders, and even death, but moonlighting could not weaken the attack of "Wraith Scream", but only improved the defenses of fragile internal organs and brains, so Lucian suffered a lot of injuries on the spot.
"This is a ghost with the strength of a formal knight!" Lucian judged the strength and category of the "little girl" from this wave of attacks, and with a kick of his right foot, it turned into a faint afterimage of light and circled to the other side of this terrifying ghost, and then a silent spell was recited, and the "Light Technique" flashed.
Even weak ghosts are not afraid of most elemental damage, immune to a lot of magic, and only light (positive energy), flames, sound waves, etc. can damage them.
However, the light cluster that should have been bright turned pale in this strange locked world, and then was stained with a faint haze, and there was no feeling of illumination at all.
The little girl let out a "ghost scream" and floated in place for half a circle, then ignored the "Luminous Technique" and pounced on Lucian.
Lucian was in the buffer stage of casting spells, and could only turn into a gray-white afterimage to dodge, and the "vigilant" longsword swung backwards at the little girl.
The long sword penetrated the "little girl's" body without any hindrance, but did not cause any harm to "her"! Even if it's an enchanted longsword, even if it has the same attack power as a regular knight.
Without hurting herself, the little girl had no anger at the attack of the long sword and Lucian, and the distorted expression on her face recovered, and she smiled again.
Then her body disappeared transparently in place, and after a few seconds, she suddenly appeared in front of Lucian, still with her hands open.
Lucian's agility and balance were good, and he still had some energy left, so he immediately changed direction with a kick and began to prepare for "Homanz's Cough".
A little bit of white dust gathered, and the little girl magically appeared in front of Lucian again, and at this time a "silent roar" sounded, a cloud of dust flew up on the street, and the little girl's body also fluctuated with the vibration.
The expression of grievance and resentment appeared on the little girl's face at the same time, and then completely turned into resentment, first holding her head high and screaming silently, and then pounced on Lucian without pause.
Lucian immediately changed direction after casting "Homanz's Cough", successfully dodged the most ferocious front of "Wraith Scream", and quickly moonlighted.
But even so, Lucian was still affected by a wide range of "Wraith Scream" attacks, his feet were weak and dizzy again, his semi-glossy body rippled like water waves, and he paused in place.
It was this time that the "little girl" pounced on Lucian.
Lucian's mind became blurred, and he abstractly felt that his body temperature, physical strength, strength, and life force were all rapidly disappearing.
The little girl directly penetrated Lucian's body and threw herself to the other side, she looked at herself in a little disbelief.
The Ice Avenger ring that Lucian was wearing came into play, quickly regaining sobriety and focus, and then chanting the spell without hesitation.
The cold wind blew, and a resentful spirit with a blurred face appeared between the two "people".
Lucian didn't let go of the control of the low-level undead summoned to concentrate on the experiment before, and drove it to pounce on the "little girl". If his response just now was outside the maze, there would be no problem, and it would definitely not fall to the point of almost being seriously injured now, but this place was too strange, it seemed to be very suitable for the undead, extremely weakening the light magic!
Therefore, Lucian, who learned the lesson of "geographical advantage", began to use undead creatures against the undead.
The two ghosts were entangled together, their arms stirring each other's bodies, but what Lucian greeted only quickly fades and becomes transparent, and it looks like it will disappear completely in less than ten seconds.
Lucian was not in a hurry to escape, as the ghost seemed to blend into the surrounding air and moved quickly. After easing the previous magic fluctuations, Lucian spilled the casting materials again and recited the spell.
There was still no sound in this silent and deserted world, and a pale white wall of flames suddenly enveloped the two ghosts at the same time, and a strong smell of sulfur came to the nose.
The only problem is that the structure is not streamlined enough, and it takes more time and mental power than other apprentice-level magic.
In the pale white flames, the resentful spirits summoned by Lucian disappeared faster, and the little girl finally showed a painful expression, her body gradually faded, but the flames could not cause serious damage to her, because this was apprentice-level magic after all, and she was not an undead creature with a body and completely restrained by the flames like the water ghost.
However, the little girl seemed to be very afraid of the flames, but kept hiding in the flameless place surrounded by the Wall of Brimstone, and did not think of breaking out of the flames.
"Sure enough, the spiritual intelligence is not too high, instinct dominates, which is consistent with the last experiment." Lucian saw that things had changed as he expected, and breathed a sigh of relief, then turned around and was about to run away, quickly leaving the little girl's sense range. This kind of ghost with formal knightly strength is not something that a quasi-knight without a suitable weapon can deal with head-on, and the magic level is too low, so it can only be used as an assistant.
As soon as he turned around, Lucian subconsciously looked at the house where the little girl came out, and unexpectedly found a pair of gray-white bones lying on the wooden table in the living room, with a small skeleton and slender bones, so he remembered all kinds of knowledge about the resentful spirits.
Seeing Lucian approaching the house, the little girl showed a panicked expression, no longer afraid of the flames in front of her, and rushed out directly under the burning.
Lucian stood in front of the bones, sprinkled fine sulfur powder on the bones without hesitation, and then recited the spell.
The pale white flames wrapped the bones and burned fiercely.
In the firelight, Lucian vaguely saw several patterns of fingernails on the wooden table, first a simple family of three, and then a little girl who had been waiting at the door.
There are a few misspelled words under the picture, which roughly mean "Dad", "Mom", "I'm going home", etc.
When the flames burned the bones, the little girl's eyes stagnated at the door empty, with a sad expression on her face, and her body quickly became transparent.
Lucian guessed why she was here from the variations in patterns, text, and the entrance of the lock and the fact that ordinary people might mistakenly guess why she was here, and he immediately felt a little empathetic.
"Dad", "Mom", "I'm going home"......
His heart became soft, Lucian looked at the little girl who was about to disappear completely and said softly: "I will take you home."
In the complete, silent black, white, gray silence, the little girl seemed to understand Lucian's words, and even more transparent tears slipped down her transparent face, then nodded heavily, trying to smile with joy.
The little girl quickly disappeared, the bones turned into white powder under the burning of the magic flames, and the wooden table shattered like black shadows.
Collecting the white powder and putting it in his pocket, Lucian was even more puzzled about this locked world: "It's not like the 'Grand Cross Stand' maze lock arranged underground, it's too strange."
From the beginning to the present, even after such a fierce battle, there was no sound in the black, white and gray locked world, giving Lucian the illusion that he was deaf and mute.
Back on the street, Lucian held the "vigilant" long sword tightly and walked towards Lake "Elsinore", and there was real silence all the way!
When he reached the end of the town, Lucian strangely found that the cemetery that was supposed to exist here had disappeared, replaced by a desolate land overgrown with gray grass:
"Isn't the lost world strictly corresponding to the original world?"
Suppressing the confusion, Lucian took a few quick steps, rounded the corner of the barren grass, and saw a completely different Lake Elsinore.
It was no longer a sparkling and beautiful lake, but a water surface full of strange blood-red liquid, and the reflection of nine stars appeared on the water, connecting into a bright cross, completely enveloping those liquids!
This was the first time Lucian had seen colors other than black, white, and gray since he came in!
(End of this chapter)