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墨書 Inktalez
Chapter Three Hundred Sixty-Four:
Next to the black hole was a rectangular stone platform, with goat heads carved on all four sides.
The goat's head had twisted, spiky horns that occasionally flickered with a dim light, as if they were about to extinguish.
Freya lightly landed beside the stone platform and glanced at the bottom of it, where a ring of gray-white dust was scattered around.
Her expression slightly darkened as she bent down to pinch some of the dust between her fingers.
A wave of scorching heat immediately emanated from her fingertips, and soon wisps of blue smoke began to rise.
Ignoring the temperature on her hand, Freya frowned slightly and looked up at the dark cave beside her.
"Something has actually gone in there during this time? That kind of Bandage Creature?"
After thinking for a moment, she took out a new Magic Crystal and inserted it into the Rune Platform before turning to walk toward the cave.
Whatever it was, she needed to see it with her own eyes to know for sure.
Chilly winds occasionally swept around the dark cave, and her boots crunched on the gravelly ground, making crisp 'crack' sounds.
Once the light source behind her completely disappeared, Freya snapped her fingers.
Two bright yellow flames suddenly appeared around her, illuminating the surrounding black cave walls.
About ten minutes later, the narrow cave opened up as she remembered.
Freya noticed that the black gravel beneath her feet occasionally revealed pale fragments of bone, a strange chill gradually enveloping her, creeping into her neck.
"We're almost at the fork where we encountered before."
As she murmured softly, she pulled her robe tighter to block the cold wind. A faint glimmer passed through her amber-green eyes.
With the increasing frequency of bones appearing underfoot, the once spacious cave began to branch out, with densely packed black holes dotting the walls.
A wailing wind blew from the holes, causing Freya's green hair to flutter slightly in front of her.
Freya's gaze swept over the large caves branching out, and she noticed that there were significantly more bones on the ground compared to before.
They nearly covered the black gravel beneath, forming a path like that of dried bones extending into all the caves.
In addition to a faintly decaying odor, the air was mixed with a light scent of blood.
This bloody scent seemed to gather on the back of her right hand, slowly being absorbed.
In Freya's hazy vision, she saw thick gray-black tendrils subtly extending from within these caves, gently swaying as if trying to grasp something.
She also seemed to hear various creatures screaming in her ears.
Her physique had always allowed her to see vague Grievance and Death Qi, often attracting the attention of Spirits.
However, as her strength grew, even elusive Spirits dared not provoke her; sometimes she even regarded this ability as a form of warning.
Seeing the thick resentment at this moment, it was clear that the dangers within were quite tricky.
Freya recalled the eerie figure dragging chains that she had seen earlier using the Shadow Prophecy Technique and took a light breath of the cold air.
"Regardless, let's test it out first."
After pondering for a moment, she opened the black leather case she had been carrying and took out five test tubes filled with Azure Liquid.
After removing the stoppers one by one, the Azure liquid quickly evaporated upon contact with the air.
Streams of dark blue wind rapidly coalesced in the air, and soon five Azure figures of varying heights appeared before her.
One of them, a tall and robust wind element wielding a massive sword, stepped forward and slightly bowed to Freya.
"I await your command."
Freya pointed to several caves where the resentment was heavier and calmly said, "Enter the caves, eliminate any moving objects inside, and report back with any information you find."
"Understood."
Upon receiving the order, the five wind elements immediately dashed toward the respective caves and soon disappeared from sight.
These wind elements were created by Freya using compressed Secret Art along with other rare resources.
Compared to ordinary wind elements, its strength has nearly reached the peak of the first level, even surpassing some specialized First-Level Wizards in wind elements.
Even though she is currently a Third-Rank Wizard, she can only summon five of them at most.
Freya stood quietly at the numerous cave entrances, and through her subtle mental connection, she could only faintly sense that these wind elements were advancing at an extremely fast speed.
Moreover, as the distance increased, her connection became increasingly vague.
Five minutes later.
Just as these wind elements were about to reach the limit of her mental control, suddenly the connection with three of the wind elements jolted violently.
It seemed they encountered some situation; from the dark cave came faint sounds of wailing and dull fighting.
This phenomenon lasted only a minute, after which the mental connection with two of the wind elements abruptly severed.
Only the strong wind element in the middle, wielding a large sword in both hands, continued to fight.
Freya patiently awaited the outcome, and after another minute, that mental connection stabilized and did not break.
"Oh? Did they win?"
As she murmured softly, the wind element soon flew out of the cave.
However, compared to its dark blue color upon entering, the wind element now appeared light Azure, as if it had consumed quite a bit of energy.
The intellect was also affected.
Glancing at the somewhat dazed Wind Elemental, Freya reached out to touch his forehead.
"Let me see what you've encountered."
With her eyes slightly closed, Freya's vision suddenly dimmed and then brightened.
The black stone wall was rapidly retreating, and the sound of howling wind filled her ears; this was a fleeting memory of the Wind Elemental's swift run.
Five minutes ago, everything seemed quite normal except for the occasional meaningless gray light spots and the numerous shattered bones beneath her feet.
However, after running for five minutes, a pair of purplish-blue hands suddenly emerged from behind the Wind Elemental without warning, tightly choking his neck.
The hands appeared as dry and weak as those of a desiccated corpse, yet their strength was exceptionally great.
Caught off guard while running, the Wind Elemental crashed directly into the stone wall ahead.
For an ordinary wizard, this impact could have easily resulted in a severed head and body.
However, this caused little harm to the Wind Elemental of the Elemental Entity.
Then, in the Wind Elemental's line of sight, a figure entirely covered in purple slowly crawled out from the shadows.
The figure had two withered heads, no legs, and its limbs were all arms supporting its body, looking extremely bizarre.
The wind element then raised its double-edged sword and struck according to Freya's command.
The chaos turned the narrow cave into a state of disarray. Although the creature was bizarre, it was incredibly strong. Moreover, it was elusive, like a ghost.
If it weren't for the wind element's unique body, it would have died countless times.
Finally, just as the wind element was about to dissipate, it suddenly turned and thrust backward.
With a 'crack,' that strange creature was unexpectedly split in half and fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Freya opened her eyes and looked at the wind element with an unusual gaze.
"What a fortunate coincidence."
After a pause, she took out a test tube from her waist. The soon-to-dissipate wind element immediately dove into it.
Not long after the wind element entered, the remaining two wind elements returned to her side.
However, the information brought back by those two wind elements was merely that the path was clear; there was nothing useful.
She placed the remaining two test tubes back into her suitcase.
"The creature encountered by the wind element, although formidable, seems to be just an ordinary hell creature. It appears these caves are much deeper than I had imagined."
What Freya anticipated was that strange bandage creature containing immense bloodline power; ordinary hell creatures held little significance for her.
After a moment of thought, Freya chose the cave where the surviving wind element had entered.
With her speed, she walked for ten minutes. The smooth cave walls were covered in chaotic white scratches, and the ground was in disarray.
Freya glanced around and slowly walked toward a corner.
On the ground lay two halves of a strange purplish-blue corpse, which had been killed by the wind element—a Hell Creature.
She reached out her hand, and a stream of crimson energy automatically flowed into her palm from the corpse, temporarily replenishing her depleted Bloodline Power.
Using the bright yellow flames beside her, Freya looked into the still dark cave, where translucent gray-black tendrils floated like seaweed.
Narrowing her eyes slightly, she took out a pouch of green powder from her waist.
"Sausananiqa, heed my call of the wind."
With the incantation spoken, a gust of azure wind suddenly swept up from behind Freya as she released her grip on the powder.
The powder was carried by the azure wind and spread throughout the cave.
Once all the powder had been dispersed, she withdrew her hand and stood quietly in place, waiting.
One minute passed, then two minutes.
Five minutes later, her expression began to darken.
"How can it be this deep?"
What she had just cast was a simple exploration spell. But strangely, the feedback from the exploration indicated that the cave seemed endless.
"Either this cave is truly bottomless, or the spell has been interfered with by something unknown; otherwise, such absurd feedback would not occur. I need to see if that's really the case."
Muttering softly, Freya suddenly waved her hands, and a layer of gray clouds was summoned to lift her body as she flew deeper into the cave.
She flew quickly, causing the entire cave to echo with the sound of rushing wind.
The bright yellow fireballs on either side elongated at this speed, resembling two chains of flames attached to her sides.
The stone walls rushed past her, and Freya noticed that the white bones beneath her were becoming denser and more complete.
The previously faint Bloodline Aura gradually became clearer as she advanced.
However, in addition to the increasingly intense Bloodline Aura, a faint buzzing sound reached Freya's ears from somewhere.
It felt like the sound of bees or mosquitoes flapping their wings.
At first, the sound was so soft that it could be ignored, but as she delved deeper into the cave, the buzzing began to grow louder.
After flying for more than ten minutes, the bright yellow fireball on Freya's left suddenly exploded with a loud bang.
The bright explosion of flames made Freya pause for a moment, halting her movement.
"Does this sound have a disruptive effect?"
Without the howling noise in her ears, the buzzing seemed to become clearer, as if it were right next to her ear.
She frowned slightly and covered her ears with her hands, but strangely, the buzzing did not diminish at all.
"What is this!?"
The buzzing gave Freya a sense of unease, a feeling of frustration building up inside her.
It felt as if she needed something to vent her emotions.
"Damn it!"
She released her arms from covering her ears and suddenly struck the nearby stone wall.
'Bang!'
With a dull thud, countless dark cracks suddenly appeared where she struck and quickly spread outwards.
The cold stone wall jolted Freya awake. She turned to look at her palm, surprised to find a faint trace of blood oozing from it after that strike.
"What is this!"
Freya let out a cold snort, and the King Cobra Mark faintly glowed, a strand of light green radiance enveloping her ears.
The buzzing sound that had been persistent suddenly vanished.
"The limitations of Elemental Power here are too great; even a slight disturbance can cause it to collapse."
For safety, she had kept her Bloodline Power partially activated since entering the cave, and now it seemed that decision was very necessary.
Without the buzzing, the feeling of frustration in her heart also disappeared.
Freya glanced at the ground beneath her feet; it was a path made up of large white bones piled together.
A sense of decay and chill emanated from below.
Her expression turned slightly cold, and she once again took flight deeper into the cave.
Time passed, and the surroundings remained shrouded in darkness with stone walls and a white bone path beneath her. Aside from the Hell Creature she encountered at the beginning, there were no other signs.
It was hard to tell how long had passed.
It could have been a moment, an hour, or even a month.
As Freya felt her Bloodline Power gradually depleting, she suddenly noticed that the path beneath her had transformed into square stone tiles without her realizing it.
The previously rough stone walls had also become smooth.
“Artificial Product!?”
She lowered her body and reached out to touch the smooth, gleaming stone wall beside her, feeling the cold sensation pass through her fingers.
The stone wall seemed to be covered in a layer of white dust due to its age, and when she wiped it away, intricate black patterns emerged.
These patterns were unusually twisted and lacked any logic, resembling something a child might have drawn carelessly.
“What are these things?”
As she puzzled over the chaotic patterns, she suddenly noticed one area filled with countless crooked circular designs.
These circles overlapped each other in various sizes, resembling a dark vortex or a large face made up of round shapes expressing terror.
“Hey, what are you looking at?”
Suddenly, a hoarse voice came unexpectedly from behind Freya, causing her body to stiffen.
A chilling sensation crept over her heart. (To be continued.)
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