Having arrived here, Helene has completely calmed down.
At this time, she has gone deep into Underground Mausoleum. According to the map, it is estimated that she is probably directly under the square in front of Knowledge Church, but it should be more than a hundred meters from the ground, and even the vertical distance is more than "Affliction"Demoness takes advantage of Mirror Substitution's transfer restrictions, not to mention that there should be rioting Exile ers above now, and there are no mirrors arranged for transfer.
At this point, unless she goes back the way she came, gives up competing with Gusin and Lisa for "Salinger’s Blood Banner", and lets her two months of hard work go to waste, there is only one way forward.
Not to mention, she felt that she still had certain advantages.
The unexpected Dual Pathways, the powerful "Rose Necklace", the gaze of Miss Angelica, and the Holy Emblem that might keep me safe in the dark. The most important thing is that knowledge itself is power... Thoughts surged in her mind, she touched the wall with one hand and the other, continued to move forward against the wall, and soon came to the entrance of the hall in her memory.
On the map, this area is marked blank, and it is undoubtedly the most special.
The destination of every nightmare of Helene is the mountains of corpses in the hall. They all end with him raising his eyes to the top of the mountain, suffering the pain of being burned by flames, and having a strong curiosity about what is going on at the top of Corpse Mountain.
As she continued to approach the hall, the desire to remove the blindfold and see the scene around her became more and more intense. If her hands had not been occupied at this time, she might have been unable to help but pull the black cloth.
If Miss Angelica had not reminded me of these taboos, and I had read relevant books under the guidance of Archbishop Hella Berg, I might have taken the risk of taking off my blindfold and taking a look... Helene was filled with fear, and the scenes he saw in his nightmares could not help but appear in his mind.
In a huge space that is not as wide as underground and with a height of more than 100 meters, countless steel figures holding weapons are surrounded by a circle. The interior is a wasteland strewn with charred bones or corpses that still have some body tissue. In the center, a mountain made of corpses almost touches the ceiling. The top is shrouded in clouds and mist, making it difficult to see specific things.
And Helene was walking into the encirclement of soldiers, stepping onto the road paved by corpses with dark red or pale flames burning in their eye sockets.
Her vision, which was completely dark due to her eyes being closed and covered with cloth, gradually overlapped with the scene in her dream, as if she was walking in a nightmare again.
Suddenly, she found that her pace accelerated uncontrollably, she stepped over the corpses, and began to climb the peak that seemed to have no top.
Wait... no... I'm being controlled? Controlled by Sealed Artifact?
Helene still had her own consciousness in her mind. She tried her best to stop her legs from moving forward, and soon found that her body was back under her control, as if everything just now was just part of the nightmare. She suddenly woke up and stood still on her feet, barely stopping in front of the piled corpses, only one step away from the real "hillside".
"I can move again... That was not an illusion just now, but some kind of power in Corpse Mountain trying to control me, making me a real puppet and a part of the mountain...
"This should be the pollution mentioned in "Principles of Sealing". If it reaches a certain level, I will completely become a part of Underground Mausoleum... No wonder those "Experiment Personnel" obey the taboos but are still decreasing. They need to be replenished from time to time. Repeatedly entering and leaving the mausoleum will deepen the pollution, and eventually become part of Corpse Mountain!
"The books I read about Underground Mausoleum and Sealed Artifact allowed me to understand them step by step while suffering relatively safe pollution. It wasn't until I dreamed of this mountain that Hella Berg said, 'The time is almost here'... Now the pollution I received is at the critical point where I can get close to Corpse Mountain without being completely under control. Is this the basis for getting closer to that Sealed Artifact?"
"That's not entirely true. If there was such a safe critical point, then 'Experiment Personnel' would have escaped a lot long ago... Is it because of my own special characteristics? Miss Angelica's 'gift' gives me the specialness?"
Helene's thoughts were running at a speed that surprised her, but her feet moved forward again, and she controlled them in time.
It's still trying to control me... Leave this hall first and find another way... She was thinking, and just about to stay away from Corpse Mountain while she wasn't completely under control, she suddenly heard a subtle friction sound coming from her ears.
It was the sound of clothing fabric rubbing against each other, like the sound of insects that was difficult to discern, but in the silent corpse hall, it was very clear to the ears of Helene, who had the sensitivity of Hunter and Demoness.
It is different from the noise that Gusin deliberately made before, and if he appears, he will definitely bring a soldier puppet... Could it be Lisa? "Invisibility" was used to eliminate most of the movement, but because it also suffered a certain amount of contamination, "Affliction" Demoness Lisa moved involuntarily toward Corpse Mountain? Helene made a judgment immediately.
She was not sure whether the other party had the same ability to see as Gusin, so she could only expect the enemy to treat it as an enemy with normal vision, so she no longer stayed next to Corpse Mountain, but immediately turned back and ran towards the entrance of the hall.
But the moment Helene was far away from those corpses and skeletons, countless lines of sight suddenly converged on her from all directions. Some came from the various soldiers surrounded by the hall, some came from the corpses lying on the ground forming a huge mountain, and there was also a sight that came from an unknown source but was full of malice.
Malice Perception!
Helene once again switched the soul of "Rose Necklace" Grazing, trying to determine where Lisa's hatred came from, but found that This is like a knife cutting the sight sometimes from the left, sometimes from the right, and sometimes even shooting at her from above, just like many "Affliction" Demoness are planning to kill her in their hearts.
Helene, who had been Demoness for nearly a month, immediately realized that this was the effect of the other party hiding in "Mirror World" and using different mirrors to spy on him.
But wasn't Mirror World in the Underground Mausoleum area shrouded in a layer of fog that was difficult to see through... How dare she enter there and make false noises to make me think she was being controlled and exposed herself?
This is what Lisa relied on to enter Underground Mausoleum. Is it her unique "advantage"?
Helene's thoughts were spinning, and he no longer hesitated. Incandescent flames suddenly ignited around him, turning into Fire Crow with wings spread, flying towards the sources of "malice" in different directions, exploding into clouds of sparks, and igniting corpses that had not yet completely rotted and turned into skeletons.
At the same time, the clear sound of the mirror shattering also reached her ears.
Sure enough, Lisa was the first to enter here, and she even had time to arrange her own Magic Mirror. Fortunately, her maliciousness exposed the position of the mirror... Helene had just felt the joy of solving the opponent's trap, and suddenly felt a tremor on the ground, and her body could not help but shake.
Rumble——
The whole Underground Mausoleum made a huge noise, and the originally lifeless corpses around them were shaking continuously. The bones at the top of the mountain were shaken and thrown down, rolling down the hillside and falling next to Helene; the soldier puppets surrounding the corpse wilderness were also unsteady, and their heavy feet made a clanging sound on the floor.
But caught in the midst of it, there was a regular, continuous stamping sound approaching Helene.
It's Gusin, he's back with a new soldier puppet!
The three representatives of different forces, Hunter and Demoness, who entered Underground Mausoleum at the same time, finally met in the core area of the seal.
Helene was not surprised but overjoyed, realizing that now was a great opportunity to deal with the two competitors. However, she was not prepared to fight in the mutated corpse hall. Instead, based on the angle of the footsteps of Gusin's puppet, she changed directions and continued away from Corpse Mountain. She planned to leave here through another entrance and exit marked on the map, and by the way, lead the enemy to a familiar terrain that is more suitable for her battle.
"Gusin, that Demoness is here too!"
She did not forget to shout out to remind Gusin that there was an ambush by Lisa in the dark. Of course, this sentence could also mislead the "Affliction" Demoness, making the latter think that the two Hunter had formed an alliance and target Gusin and his puppets who were obviously more difficult to deal with.
It would be nice if the two of them had a fight first...Helene made a wish in his heart.
But before she could exit the hall, which was shaking constantly and with skeletons and corpses rolling all over the floor, the vibration that seemed to shake the entire Molora Underground Area suddenly disappeared, and the sound of the clanging puppets shaking around also stopped abruptly.
The mutation disappeared?
Helene felt suspicious in his heart, and his footsteps slowly slowed down as he ran towards the entrance of the hall, and he raised his ears to listen to what was going on around him.
Not to mention the vibration, even the footsteps of Gusin the soldiers rushing towards her disappeared without a trace, leaving only deathly silence. But the "Ice Mirror" Charm hidden in her pocket exuded a cold touch through her clothes, as if it had turned into ice cubes.
Charm reacted, and the vibrations and footsteps suddenly disappeared... Helene made a guess in his heart, touched the "Dark Holy Emblem" tied to his wrist, and felt that it felt completely different from before. He decisively reached out and took off the black cloth covering his eyes, and opened his eyes.
She was currently standing in the corner of a hall as vast as a wasteland, surrounded by steel dolls facing inward and holding weapons. The area surrounded by them was filled with countless charred skeletons and corpses that had not yet decayed. Dark red or pale flames were burning quietly in their eye sockets.
In the center of the wasteland, a mountain peak composed of more identical corpses stood, more than a hundred meters high, almost touching the ceiling of Underground Area. At the top was a concave platform, and the whole thing could not be seen clearly from Helene's current perspective.
In this dark and silent hall, with only the flames in the eye sockets of corpses and the lantern held by Helene as the light source, there were two people standing besides herself.
"Reaper" Gusin, wearing leather clothes and pants, with messy hair, was standing next to the entrance where Helene entered the hall before. There was nothing around him, and the puppets he controlled had long disappeared.
At the feet of Corpse Mountain, wearing a high-slit and low-cut long skirt, the beautiful "Affliction" Demoness Lisa stood among the bones, looking at the two people with a half-smile.
She wears a Sapphire Ring on her left little finger.
Except for the three people, everything else, including the steel dolls surrounding the hall, the countless bones piled on the ground, and even the ceiling above and the connected vaults and stone walls, seemed to be separated by an invisible barrier that people could see but could not touch.
Seeing this scene, Helene was completely relieved.
With the same perception as "Affliction" Demoness, Ice Mirror is in the arms With the power of Charm and the various knowledge she had gained recently, she was able to confirm that she and Gusin were both pulled into Mirror World by Lisa who was wearing a strange gemstone ring at the moment when the change occurred.
Moreover, it is different from Special Mirror World, which is dark and deep and has countless dark passages!
I feel like my reading time is getting slower and slower, but this plot should be almost over...