Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Necromancers

In my heart, two feelings are colliding and fighting; one is to investigate the tunnel on the right; the other is to enter the tunnel on the left because one thing is worse than one thing. At this moment, something came out of the tunnel on the right, it was a figure.Ragged people, someone lives here.The man leaned on that simple iron-like spear as a crutch, and walked step by step with this crutch, his head shaking strangely.He came out of the tunnel on the right and walked towards the cave wall on the right—the remains of the altar. When he reached the place where his appearance could be clearly and unmistakably displayed, roots seemed to have taken root under his feet, and he couldn't move.

That's not human.It had been just a person—it was a skeleton.Skeleton is wrapped in ragged clothes and walks with a spear.Every time it took a step, the hinge of the lower jaw shook, and the teeth "clacked". Gen's big teeth also began to "cluck".The kneecaps parted to the left and right, and began to tremble, as if trying to escape separately. Be calm, be calm!do not be afraid.Gen closed his eyes hard, and warned himself.I overcame the test of the four great generals in the "Try Cave" and gained wisdom and courage.Moreover, there is fire dragon protection.Will not be defeated by mere skeletons.

The skeleton that came to the cave wall swayed with a spear, and soon fell apart with a "quack" sound, turning into a pile of bones on the spot. Suppressing his disgust, he forced himself to walk towards the tunnel on the right.The mountain of spears at the entrance was all dirty and rusty. The depth of the tunnel on the right is a bit dark, and with the naked eye, only the surroundings of the entrance and exit can be seen.However, when Gen put the sword in a ready-to-fight posture, the blade of the sword began to emit a quiet light, as if it would raise the white light of the cave square.Although not as good as a horse lantern, it can also be used as a sufficient light source.Genti sword broke into it.

We have advanced four or five meters.On both sides of the tunnel, there are three tiers of wooden canopy beds that look like sleeper cars on a train.The train was full—every bed was filled with people. It's the skeleton lying there.This is the sleeper car of the skeleton. Suddenly there was a "click" sound from behind.Gen turned his head as if he had been whipped, only to see a skeleton wrapped in rags slid down from the sleeper behind him.It didn't lean on a spear like the skeleton just now, but swayed and spread its hands, and fell down on Gen's body. Gen desperately jumped back, but there was no sound.Although he escaped from the embrace of the skeleton at the very moment, the finger stretched out by the skeleton still scratched the tip of Gen's nose.The skeleton swiped its hands like swimming, made a small "click click" sound, and fell to the ground.

An unbelievable scene came into view; the full passengers were about to get out of the sleeper berth, one skeleton clung to the armrest of the berth, and the other skeleton hugged the spine of the skeleton next to it.The sound of bones bumping against each other, and the scraps of clothing and rags covering them touching and rubbing against each other, can be heard like many moths huddling together and their wings touching. The eyeballs that shouldn't be in their dark and empty eye sockets are all focused on Gen.As they approached, he felt his hair stand on end. His legs suddenly regained strength, and he ran away.It wasn't too far from the entrance of the tunnel, but the distance to the exit was helplessly long.The square with the remnants of the chapel was dimly lit, and the tunnel to escape there, like the escape exit to hope, looked more clearly.Gen desperately moved his legs, but he didn't move forward at all, just like running in a dream.

The skeletons stretched out their hands one after another as if they were asking for help, some wanted to grab his clothes, some wanted to pull his belt, and some wanted to pull his hair. He inadvertently let out a whine, and now he understood what the bones were going to do.They swarmed up and piled on Gen's body, trying to crush him with a mountain of bones.Can't fall down, once it falls down it's over. Because he was too flustered, he lifted his chin and slowed down.A skeletal hand reached out from behind and grabbed Gen's shoulder.He pushed it away, but his body lost his balance. One knee almost fell to the ground. He paddled his hands in the air to maintain his balance and not fall down.

At this time, a lattice window can be seen on the wall directly above the entrance and exit of the tunnel.Gen had a flash of inspiration: it was the gate.If you escape and lower the gate, you can lock the skeletons inside.The mechanism to operate the gate must be somewhere. Looking around desperately, I saw another handle wrapped with an old rope on the wall beside the tunnel entrance.The rope connects to the gate above.While running, he held up the sword of the brave, and slashed down on the rope with all his strength. There was a feeling of being hit, the rope was cut off, and when the dust rose with a "bang", the gate fell vertically.Gen's eyes suddenly went dark: It's too early!In this way, he also closed himself up together!

There are also skeleton hands to pull the skirt, very powerful.Gen closed his eyes, lowered his head and rushed towards the gap between the fallen gate and the tunnel floor. The gate fell to the heels of Wataru who rushed through the exit.The force of the fall caused the gate to rebound half a meter high, clamping the heads and hands of several skeletons that rushed in, and closing it with a bang. Gen, who fell on his back to the ground, didn't care to see what was going on with the gate, so he quickly rolled and crawled away.Then he turned his head in shock and looked behind him. On the other side of the solid lattice door, the skeletons became a mountain of bones.They hit the door and fell apart.The heads and hands of the still intact skeletons squirmed to push aside the mountain of bones, trying to squeeze forward.

There are also skeletons caught by the gate, only the head and hands stretched out here.Gen stood up in fear, and approached. The bones of these stumps were wriggling, and as soon as Wataru approached, his fingers moved to grab the shoes, and the skulls snapped together, trying to bite his fingers.Disgust and fear made Wataru take a few steps back. "What are you?" Even if you ask them, the bones can't answer. "What are you doing here? Are you believers? Are you locked here by Kakdas Vila? Or, are you staying behind closed doors?" As he watched, the movements of the arms and jaws slowed down and soon stopped, becoming mere skeletons falling to the ground.

Gen twitched unconsciously, he didn't realize it until he touched the tears on his face.I thought it might be fear, but in fact it was not just fear, he felt sad.These skeletons are so pitiful. Frustrated, he turned to another tunnel.The center of the heart becomes a ditch during heavy rain.All the emotions make a rattling sound, pouring there.Mixed with anger at the unheard and unseen pseudo-religion of Kakdas Vila.Before he knew it, he gripped the hilt of the Sword of the Brave so tightly that the knuckles of his fingers turned white. The tunnel runs gently downwards. —Where will it lead all the way?

The tunnel sometimes turns to the left and sometimes to the right, but it is generally very straight and keeps descending.As we went down, the pale light seemed to gradually intensify, and we could see something like words or pictures painted here and there on the wet rock wall. It can only be understood as a crucified person, a crowd kneeling before an altar with its head on the ground, a person raising an ax to cut off the neck of an animal resembling a Darubaba.Unintelligible words scribbled in blood-red colors. Also, the black figure standing in front of the worshiping crowd with outstretched hands.This person's physique is beyond ordinary, and there are horn-like things growing on his head.Behind this strange person is a luminous body as bright as the sun.It's almost as if a stranger wants to cover the luminous body, so that the crowd bowing their heads and worshiping in front of them can't see it. Is this alien with long horns Kakdas Vera?Looking at the cave, he suddenly felt creepy. While walking down the tunnel, Wataru noticed another thing.There are many lanterns, candlesticks, pine embers and the like on the ground.Although they are all old, they were not simply discarded, but damaged and broken. It is obvious from the damage of the lantern that they were once smashed on the rock wall. There used to be quite a few people here, and it seems that they were not allowed to carry on with the lights, and they had to discard the light source here and move on. Gen pulled himself together and continued down the tunnel.The road gradually narrows, rises and falls, and soon turns into a steep uphill road when it comes to a certain place.About half a meter above the head, there is a skylight-like hole in the rock wall, and white light leaks from here. Gen jumped up and grabbed the edge of the hole with both hands.With a strong hand, the body was lifted up, climbed up the hole, got out of the same hole and walked forward.At this time, he came to a place with a high bottom and a large area. I was dumbfounded.In terms of height and width, this place is twice as large as the square where the traces of the chapel were just now!Standing in a place protruding into the center of this space, protruding like an eaves. In front of you is an underground lake full of clean water.What clear water!The snow-white light shines from the bottom of the lake. ——Awesome! The shape of the underground lake is round and pentagonal; when viewed from above, it looks like a huge gemstone, its beauty is intoxicating.If you look at it, you will feel as if you will be sucked into the bottom of the water. Gen forced himself to turn his head, looked around the surrounding rock walls, and tried to find a way to go down.He saw that there were many raised places on the rock wall, just like the place where he was standing at the moment, he moved skillfully, and it seemed that he could walk down to the shore of the underground lake. He watched his step and moved carefully, so that when he stood by the lake it took a lot of time.However, he was a little breathless with tension.When he stood by the water, the white light was even more dazzling, and whenever the water rippled lightly, there was the sound of salad.There is no breeze in the ground, so where did the waves come from?There might be water gushing out from the very center of the underground lake. Gen retracted the sword into its sheath, knelt down on one knee, and stretched his right hand toward the water.He soaked his hands in the water from the back of his hands to his wrists. The water was cold and smooth as silk, and he felt like touching something sacred. The white light source must be something placed at the bottom of the lake, just dive down like this, can you find it?However, the water is so cold, if you don't prepare for exercise, your legs will cramp... He looked at the clear water and thought about it, and suddenly found something: not only was he looking at the other party, but the other party was also looking at him. ——What is looking at me? A big eyeball.At some point, a basketball-sized eyeball appeared under the water surface, staring at Heng without blinking.Even the dark pupils and the tiny blood vessels on the whites of the eyes can be seen clearly. The strange staring continued for several seconds.Gen was unable to move for a while as if possessed by an evil spirit.Then, he suddenly woke up as if regaining consciousness, and wanted to withdraw his hand from the water. Something jumped out of the water like lightning, strangling Gen's wrist.It was the white right hand that appeared in the ruins of the church and waved to Gen.The skin is wet and dripping with glistening water droplets.Just looking at it, there is no doubt that it is a graceful female wrist, but its strength is also quite amazing.Gen struggled silently, wanting to get rid of that hand.During this time, the eyeball under the water was still watching him. "let me go!" Gen yelled, and pulled back his wrist with all his strength, but was pulled back with even greater force, and his shoulder joint was almost dislocated.Just as he was struggling, his legs couldn't move.He was struggling frantically, but at this moment, the mummy-like black hand appeared under his leg.The hand protruding from the water under his feet grabbed the ankle of Gen's left foot. It was the hand that took the lantern!Look carefully, it's the left hand.Here are the paired hands: white with black, left with right.They cooperated tacitly and wanted to catch Gen and control him. "Hey, what are you doing?" Gen Bian yelled and wanted to kick it, but instead lost his balance and fell to the ground.The two hands pulled harder, it seemed that there was an opportunity to drag him into the water!And that big eyeball has been watching quietly. "help!" Instinctively, he shouted unconsciously.Gen's screams reflected on the top of the wide cave, forming an echo.As if mocking him, the voices of "Help me" and "Help me" subtly changed their pitch, bouncing back from various rock walls. Wataru struggled to reach for the sword of the brave with his left hand, and was only a short distance away from getting it—— The black hand yanked at the left foot.At this time, the white hand that was holding onto Gen's right hand was released in perfect cooperation.Gen fell on his back, with a "plop", and was dragged into the water from the waist down. --Oops! The white hand appeared in the air again.Above Gen's face, it glides down like an evil bird and pounces on it.It wanted to grab the chest of the shirt and drag Gen into the deep water. At the same moment, Heng pulled out the sword of the brave with his right hand, and slashed it almost without thinking and aimlessly.This time, the sharp sword also drew an arc on its own initiative, slashing from left to right towards the white hand that was grabbing it.The palm with five fingers spread out like an annoying spider was cut into two from the middle. The screams erupted, making people tremble.The eardrums were numb, as if they could no longer accept any sound. The split palm was not bleeding, but pink muscles were exposed at the wound, wriggling as if talking.This time, Heng swung his sharp sword at the black hand that grabbed his ankle without hesitation. The lake began to stir.It seemed that several waves would surge up from the bottom of the lake, but what surged up was a column of water almost as high as the top of the cave. A waterfall of water poured down over his head, drenching Wataru thoroughly, but he felt that his left foot could move freely.He stood up quickly and retreated to the water's edge, clutching the sword of the brave in his hand. A huge black shadow emerged from the water column.Because its back is against the white-lighted center of the lake, the front of its body is completely backlit, forming a black silhouette, almost like the shadow of a monk in cassock—except for the fact that it is huge. Its head moved slowly from side to side, facing Wata directly, and then opened its eyes, which were the eyeballs that appeared under the water just now.The only eyeball that almost filled his face was shining brightly. Gen shouted loudly: "Who are you? Are all the bones in this cave the believers you killed?" The black monster didn't make a sound, but rolled its eyes "Gulu Gulu".The pair of left and right hands flew into the air and returned to the monster.I think this opponent will be accepted by the monster. But not so.The opponent hovered in the air wobbly, and then clenched into a fist.His clenched fists were full of veins. ——What are you going to do? The left and right hands opened their fists together, as if a magician conjured coins or flowers out of nothing, and shot small needle-shaped things from the empty hands just now.White hands fly out of white, black hands fly out of black. The needles flew towards Gen.The moment he ran away, he saw that the countless needles were actually a small hand, a pocket version of the white hand and the black hand.These little hands are like vicious little fish, attacking in groups. Gen raised his hands to cover his head and face, and ran by the water.The little hand monsters adjusted their direction and came after them. When they were flying in the air, they could hear the humming of feather insects flapping their wings. He lowered his face, swung the sword of the brave, and tried his best to avoid the crowd of small hands.If you don't rush through here, you will be torn to pieces by the hands.Although the hands are only fifteen centimeters in size, their fingertips are sharp, and they may scratch the skin, poke eyes, or penetrate into the clothes. can't stop.Ever run. There came a growl, the sound of a one-eyed monster standing with its legs crossed beside the water.I don't know where its mouth grows, how does it make the sound?Obviously laughter.It is enjoying this scene.It finds it very interesting to run away desperately under the hot pursuit of the gang. It barked loudly and moved.It rolled up the sleeves of its black cassock, exposing its arms.The left and right arms protruding from Yisulou looked like the rotten bottom of a wooden building and the carcass of a dead snake.no fingers.The end of the arm is fin-shaped.It raised and dropped the arm, slapping the water hard. With a "pop", the water foam flew across and landed on Gen's body, it was like a bucket of water poured down from his head.The eyes are blind, the feet are slipping, and then-- "Woo-cha!" There was a savage roar.Immediately after that, a sharp object pierced through the hole in the cave, whistling, and pierced into the left arm of the monster in vestment.The monster roared again, this time a cry of pain. "Wen, are you okay?" While fending off the attacking hands, Wataru raised his head.On the steps of the rock wall stood Ki Kima holding a large axe, above it was Toren carrying a javelin, and on the highest step was Katz, who was kneeling. "I'm coming! You have to hold on!" Ki Kima yelled, and leaped down from the ledge of the rock, his agile movements didn't match his huge body.The black monster pulled out the spear stuck in its left arm, and threw a counterattack at Ki Kema.Katz's long whip whizzed out, and it flew towards Ki Kima's spear, knocking it into the water.Toren then threw a second spear.The spear flew past the monster's big eyeball and fell to the ground. "Oops, I'm going to turn this monster into meatballs!" Ki Kima rushed to Wat's side, protected him, swung the big ax in his hand, and spun around himself like a hammer thrower, and hordes of flying white hands and black hands were knocked down to the ground. "How, how, how do you know it's here?" An Xin and joy made Gen dizzy. "I've seen through what you want to do!" Katz said sternly, made a somersault forward, gently avoided the attack of the monster fish-fin hand, and fell down by the lake.Without turning her head, she knew that the white hand was rushing towards her neck from the side, and she repelled the white hand with a "slap" of the whip. "What is this guy? Is it a monster worshiped by Kakodas Vila?" As Torun said, he held the third throwing gun on his shoulder, and moved to aim at the big eyeball. "Or, is this the incarnation of Kakodas Vera himself?" "Whatever it is! Get it done!" Katz said disdainfully.This time she wrapped the black left hand around with the whip, twisted her body, turned around and slammed on the rock wall fiercely.The black hand made a dull "slap", and was smashed beyond recognition, falling to the ground like a rag. The rocks by the lake were piled up with the corpses of countless little hands, chopped down by Gen's sword and Ki Kima's axe, with almost no place to stand.Katz and Torun carefully positioned themselves to confront the black monster standing with its legs crossed at the water's edge. The monster's eyeballs turned left and right, as if making a comparison with several highland guards in Gasala Town.The whites of its eyes were bloodshot. It made a "gurgling" sound similar to clearing its throat, its one eye closed for a moment, and then opened with a "snap". The water in the lake began to stir.Pieces of the vestment covering the black monster's body peeled off and fell into the water.The four of them were shocked by the scene in front of them and showed surprise expressions on their faces. What emerged from under the vestments were mermaid-like, disgusting creatures.Armor-like hard scales cover its body.Something like a fish fin grew out of the left and right abdomen, and it moved slowly, pointing at them. The monster lifted the hand that was not wounded by Toren's stabbing, and tore off the remains of the vestment that covered his head.The one-eyed remains the same, but two horns are exposed on the head.Wataru remembered the murals he had seen in the passage of the cave. The skin under the one-eyed face splits left and right, revealing an ugly mouth.The mouth contracted like a flute, and then the cheeks bulged, and a fireball was spit out. "Danger!" Torun and Katz jumped out of the way.Fire bullets hit the cave wall, and rubble was scattered everywhere.It's a missile!Gen hurriedly tried to help Katz up, but fell down himself.The next fireball was aimed at Ki Keema.He dodges in a critical moment, but yells "It's hot!" "This is incredible!" Torun regained his stance and aimed his javelin at Cyclops.At this time, the fire bomb flew over again. "What kind of guy is this! Unbelievable!" Everyone was in a panic to avoid the constant fire bombs and blown rock fragments, and the monster swung its belly fins and swept over from time to time.Ki Kima used the big ax to block it, and the tip was snapped off.It was as if the guillotine had been lifted into the air. Although everyone turned to the defensive all of a sudden, they still struggled hard, trying to change their form, attacking the monster's body with sharp spears and long whips.Ki Kima, who lost his father and son, raised a rock and threw it at the monster.At this time, Heng discovered a strange situation. Everyone agreed that the monster's weakness was the one eye.Torun, Katz, and Ki Kima all targeted the monster's large eyeballs.However, attacking from the front is easy to be dodged by him.So Gen planned to launch a feint attack on the monster, and ran into the lake several times, trying to throw stones at him from the side, or chop it with a sword.As long as the monster is distracted for a moment, the opportunity will come. However, the monster never looked in Gen's direction.Although the fins on the abdomen swept over or swung its arms, the monster's head did not turn.One eye is always facing the direction of the lakeside rock field.In other words, it turned its back to the white light shining from the center of the lake. Gen recalled what he saw on the passage—many lanterns and candlesticks were broken and discarded.The three people who came here did not bring lights, maybe they were taken away by black hands or white hands on the way like themselves. Could it be that this monster is afraid of light? At first glance, it looks like a source of white light guarding the bottom of the lake.Block in order to keep foreign things from approaching the water's edge.However, this is not the case, is it?Just the opposite?Could it be that the monster couldn't look directly at the white light? --Ok! Come to the water's edge for a run-up and jump into the lake.Paddle a little, and you can see that the rocks on the bottom of the water are dug deep.He tipped his head to the surface to take a deep breath, then dived sharply into the water. Visibility is good in the lake water with white light, but the bottom of the lake is deep and concave, and it is impossible to know when exactly.Gen kicked on the water and swam, and when he circled behind the monster, he floated to the surface. The monster is breathing fireballs at the Highlanders.Wataru made up his mind again and dived into the water. It must be here, behind the monster.He spit out a few blisters, swung his arms, and dived deep.At school, he couldn't swim as fast as he could, but diving was his forte. Light.Light.Lights up underwater rocks.As if urged, Wataru drew out the sword of the brave.At this time, the sword was shining brightly, and without doing anything, it moved naturally. "It let me dive in!" Geng kicked the water vigorously. I felt uncomfortable, as if I was out of breath.Bear with me one more time, just one more time... This is, I saw the rocks at the bottom of the water.Only there it is flat.A white bead the size of a baseball sits in the center, emitting a bright light. Gen stretched out his free left hand, and lifted up the white bead.The sword of the brave in his right hand shone even brighter, as if expressing joy. He surfaced in one breath.The lungs almost exploded, and the whole body was starved of oxygen.As soon as he jumped out of the water, he was panting like a cow.The handle of the sword and the pearl are tightly held in the hand. As soon as the white pearl came out of the water, the light illuminating the cave became brighter.The one-eyed monster trembled and howled.Standing behind the monster, he quickly adjusted his breathing, dived into the water again, and walked around in front of the monster. It has to be just right.He held his breath and endured until he swam to the front of the monster.Then, the moment he reached the front of the monster, he jumped out of the water with the white pearl in his hands. The orb's light shot from the front to the monster's one eye.The monster's eyes widened, and its painful wail shook the ceiling of the cave.It raised a pair of strange hands, trying to block the light from entering its eyes. "Quick cast!" Following Gen's shout, Torun threw his spear.The spear flew through the air and hit the monster's one eye. Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa—— The monster screamed, trying to pull out the spear with both hands.But that was futile.Its body has lost its strength, like a pierced sailboat, looking smaller. "Aooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow As its body shrunk, its cry became lowered.Not only that, but the strange howl that came from the throat of some kind of beast gradually approached the tone of a human. After a while, the monster shrank to the size of a man and slowly sank into the lake.