Chapter 1095

Of course, before officially setting off to go deep into the island, Xia De placed the two newly obtained 【Youth-Preserving Leaves】 in front of his eyes. The miracles given by the leaves could be obtained directly without any learning ritual, and Xia De thus obtained the miracle "Light of Imprisonment" and the spell "Flying Flower Curse" belonging to 【Silver Moon】.

When Xia De took the leaves away from his eyes, Iluna asked Xia De to try his new power to facilitate its use later.

The casting of "Light of Imprisonment" did not require spell materials. Iluna watched Xia De draw a circle in the air with his right hand. After the silver light trace remained in the air, his right hand passed through the light circle and struck toward the horse behind Iluna from a distance:

"Light of Imprisonment!"

The light circle was strung on Xia De's arm. As his arm struck out, it turned into five silver light circles flying toward the skeleton horse, and circled its head, neck, body, and tail respectively.

"The effect is quite good; my mount really can't move."

Iluna said, and then asked Xia De to cast a spell on her. This time Xia De cast the spell with the minimum power, but there were still three glowing, rotating light circles flying out, binding Iluna's neck, hands, and feet respectively.

"This state makes it impossible to act or cast spells, but speaking is not affected."

Iluna said, and then frowned, trying to break free. With a crisp sound, all three light circles shattered like glass, leaving only silver light spots blown away by the wind:

"The imprisonment effect is not as good as your 【Chain of Sins】."

"But the casting speed is faster, the distance is farther, it automatically tracks the target, and it can cast spells on multiple people."

Xia De was quite satisfied with the new miracle, and thought about trying it on Little Mia after returning home, so that he wouldn't be afraid of not being able to catch it next time he washed the cat.

Then he experimented with the spell 【Flying Flower Curse】. This spell required the spell material "petals of any variety," and Xia De had this material on him.

Iluna watched Xia De hold the petals in his palm, then put his right hand in front of his mouth and blew a breath of air at the petals.

"Oh!"

Iluna expressed amazement in a low voice, watching the pink petals being "blown" into thousands in the dark night, scattering and falling toward the thick fog in front. They fell at an extremely slow speed, interlacing with the snowflakes in the air, and there was some pink miasma in the space filled by the petals.

"Flying Flower Curse, blowing out a petal, turning it into more petals. If I want, I can make the flying petals sharper than flying knives. And if I consume a lot of spirit, these petals can be poisonous, but not fatal, only making people faint. This is equivalent to a large-scale 'Fainting Curse'."

Xia De also watched the petals fall with Iluna. Compared to the miracle "Light of Imprisonment," the effect of the spell "Flying Flower Curse" was indeed not very strong. But Xia De was never a greedy person, and he could understand what "Flying Flower Curse" was more clearly than Iluna.

Manipulating plants belonged to the power of "nature," and "one flower turning into many flowers" actually vaguely had some time effect similar to "Blade of Chaotic Time and Space."

The Old God 【Father of the Infinite Tree】 was the god of time and nature, and "Flying Flower Curse" was the first power he gave Xia De that possessed both "time" and "nature." Compared to the actual use of this spell, what Xia De cared more about was its representative meaning.

"At least I don't have to carry a small knife when I go out in the future."

Xia De beckoned to Iluna:

"Let's go."

The Pantanal Voodoo Cult and their collaborators seemed to have deployed most of their defense and resistance means in areas outside the central lake of the great swamp. Except for the thick fog, there was nothing on the island.

This sounded incredible, but considering that this island was not safe now, and several important rituals were about to be held here, in order to prevent those dangerous relics or summoned objects from harming the ritual itself, it was indeed quite important to minimize the damage to the island's own environment.

Of course, this did not mean there was no danger in the fog.

Xia De and Iluna first walked carefully along the shore for several hundred meters. After finding the abandoned small pier marked on the map held by Iluna, they planned to follow the small path of the pier to go deeper into the island.

This pier was built by the army that had once been stationed here. Although the army had withdrawn from this island for hundreds of years, the pier could still be used, and it looked like it had been used frequently recently.

Bloodstains were sprinkled on the snow layer of the dilapidated pier's trestle bridge. Xia De bent down and wiped it with his finger, finding that the bloodstains were very fresh.

"There should also be danger in the lake. If Desire wasn't traveling with us, how to cross the big lake would probably also be a problem."

Xia De straightened his waist and said to Iluna, using 【Blood Wine Brewing】 to brew those bloodstains into blood wine and drip it into his eyes, and then using 【Echo of Blood】 to see the bloody figure of a burly man.

After Xia De's description, Iluna identified that it was a thirteen-tier warlock of the Creation Church, who had led a team from the west of the Pantanal region into the swamp region, and it seemed they had successfully landed on the island.

This thirteen-tier warlock seemed to have a way to prevent tracking. The bloody figure extended into the fog and disappeared, and the footprints on the snow surface were also cleaned up.

Xia De and Iluna went forward together, following the small path toward the direction of the lighthouse firelight. Before long, vague black figures appeared in the fog. In the heavy snow in the middle of the night, as the stench became more and more obvious, the monsters lurking in the fog finally revealed their forms.

Those were humanoid creatures crawling on the ground. Their skin had turned into a disgusting brown due to high decay, their heads were swollen, and their yellowish teeth were turned outward.

"Ghouls."

Iluna said in a low voice, but this kind of ghoul was different from normal ghouls. Not only was the individual volume larger, but there were actually three gray-green mushrooms the size of fists growing on their bodies. Those mushrooms squirmed spontaneously, and every time they moved, they would spray faint green smoke into the air.

"Affected by the power of the evil object."

Xia De nodded, seeing that there were even clothes on the monsters. That was the unified dress of the old-style Karssenrik United Kingdom Army. Those ordinary people who had once gone missing in this place had obviously long since turned into undead.

"Should not be summoned; they are monsters that were originally active on the island."

Xia De stated his conclusion, kicked his right foot forward, and the arc-shaped moonlight flew along the snow surface toward the ghoul that was hesitating whether to move forward. The latter had been frightened by Iluna's undead horse and did not launch an attack immediately.

Although the silver moonlight was silent, the holy power was incomparably conspicuous to the undead who only had the instinct to eat and murder. It let out a beast-like scream of fear, and after its right foot was severed by the moonlight, it limped and fled toward the depths of the thick fog.

"What a pity, the kind of mushroom on its body seems to be the extinct 'Ghoul Mushroom,' I remember it being very valuable..."

There were quite a few native monsters on this island with a large area, but for Xia De and Iluna, they would not constitute too much of an obstacle. It was just that the environment on the island was very different from that old map. After walking forward along the small path in the snow for five minutes, they saw a circular deep pit the size of a house. The deep pit was carved by man, from the outside to the inside, it was a level of stone steps going down, and the bottom was a large circular flat ground, but at this time it was also covered with snowflakes.

"Ritual venue, looks like it was dug out decades ago."

Iluna judged, but this had nothing to do with their goal tonight. The Pantanal Voodoo Cult had obviously done more than one thing in the great swamp over the years.

Continuing forward was a dead forest. There were intermittent barbed wire fences at the edge of the forest, which were left behind by the army before withdrawing according to the map's markings. The dead forest in the snow should have been the camp of the garrison, but at this time, no trace could be seen at all, and it had instead become a gathering place for ghouls.

While Xia De and Iluna were moving forward along the small path, pairs of brown, turbid eyes were peeking at them in the dead forest, but none of them dared to jump out of the forest to attack them.

Arriving here, there were still no ring warlocks appearing in front of them to block the way.

"Did the Pantanal Voodoo Cult and the Truth Society send all the ring warlocks out to intercept?"

Xia De muttered in a low voice.

Continuing forward, a fork appeared on the small path in the snow. To the left led to another old pier and old warehouse on this island in the middle of the lake, and to the right led to an old manor and lighthouse with a history of hundreds of years.

The correct direction to move forward was of course to the right, but at this time, a series of blurry footprints appeared on the snow, and all the footprints went to the left. After checking, Xia De and Iluna confirmed that these footprints were left about ten minutes ago. If they had come later, the footprints would have disappeared in the snow.

"Who went to the left?"

In the fog of the heavy snow in the middle of the night, one couldn't see very far, and coupled with the power of the "Pantanal evil object" diffusing on the island, even Xia De's perception couldn't tell him what happened in the distance.

Fortunately, there was Iluna by his side. The church's team had already thought about the situation of being separated before setting off, so they had made preparations for contact after being separated in advance.

Except for the candle head mentioned by Iluna, they had other ways. The seventeen-year-old girl bent down to look for a while in the snow at the fork in the road with Xia De, and soon found a small pink conch hidden in the snow.

"Iluna Amelia Beiya."

She said her name to the conch, and then put it to her ear to listen, her expression gradually becoming solemn.

"What's wrong?"

"The situation is a bit complicated. The ritual locations on the island are not just under the lighthouse. Specifically, the Stonehenge under the lighthouse in the northeast of the island in the middle of the lake is for holding the Chosen ritual. There are three other directions that will also simultaneously hold rituals to release the Pantanal evil object, as well as other strange things sealed in the great swamp."

Xia De frowned slightly:

"Forcing the church's team to separate?"

"Yes."

Iluna nodded and said to the conch again:

"Beiya is heading toward the lighthouse."

Then she hid the conch in the snow again:

"The church's plan is very perfect. For others, the main task this time is not to stop the Chosen ritual, but to stop the Pantanal evil object from unsealing. Stopping the Chosen ritual, or arresting or killing the Chosen, is my task."

She pointed to herself, and then looked at Xia De.

And for Xia De, stopping the Chosen ritual was also not the first task. The task that must be completed was to confirm the identity of the Chosen and see the Chosen ritual with his own eyes. Stopping the Pantanal evil object was also something he had to ensure.