Chapter 2213: [Corpse in the Wall]

"Oh~"

Emilia was startled by her own rich imagination. Looking carefully, it was clearly just a stain.

She nervously looked away and stopped looking there, but in a corner of her heart, the thought of "whether there is a corpse built into the wall" erupted completely uncontrollably, like wild grass after spring rain.

This feeling was very wonderful, reminding her of the era thirty or forty years ago when she was just a little elf girl, hiding in the quilt at night and scaring herself.

But this time, although she had grown up, she didn't even have a quilt to hide in. She felt more and more terrified the more she thought about it, and in the end, her body actually trembled because of this fear.

"Little Liana, I feel something is very wrong."

When she forced herself to speak, she was surprised by her own hoarse voice at this moment. And the pure white little beast also felt that something was wrong at this time. After gently poking the back of Emilia's hand with its horn, it faced the wall with the stain and let out an "ang~" sound.

Thus, golden luster erupted from the horn. Even for an underage unicorn, its fully erupted holy power was still astonishing.

The diffused spirit and the thick whisper elements that appeared at some unknown time offset each other in the air at the bottom of the clock tower, but because of this, the hidden relic completely revealed its characteristics.

The golden light illuminated the surrounding walls. Emilia clearly saw dozens of human-shaped protrusions appearing on the walls at the bottom of the clock tower. The postures of these people were all as if they had been forcibly left inside the wall during a struggle, and as Emilia noticed them, the elf girl first felt that she subconsciously also wanted to enter the wall, and then noticed that those human-shaped protrusions were actually moving.

"Oh!"

She stood up from the chair in a panic, and the little unicorn also continued to try its best to make its horn glow to resist the power originating from the relic. Emilia already knew what this was. After all, among this series of relics, she had only not encountered this one:

"【Corpse in the Wall】. The initial manifestation is to frighten the victim through the suggestion that there is a corpse in the wall, followed by attracting the victim to dismantle the wall and build themselves into it; if the mental suggestion is resisted, the mid-term manifestation is that as long as the victim touches the wall, they will be actively sucked in; if one can always stay away from walls, doors, and windows outdoors, then in the end, endless corpses will actively break through the walls... This is an Angel-level relic."

She didn't understand how such a powerful relic appeared immediately after Xia De left, when nothing major had happened during the week she lived at Belindell Manor.

The little unicorn was slowly retreating at this time. Being underage, it was not enough to confront such a powerful relic head-on. Emilia also realized this. She looked at the windows and doors, knowing that she had no chance to leave from here.

So she gritted her teeth, turned to look at the stairs and the elevator. Now the gas system was not working, and the steam furnace was probably not enough to drive the elevator. Her only choice was to climb to the top of the clock tower with the little unicorn through the curved and narrow stairs, and then jump down from there to the empty square.

In short, she absolutely could not stay where she was now.

The dual effect of the mental enhancement brought by the unicorn's power and the mental pollution brought by the Angel-level relic had already manifested on Emilia. Forcing herself not to look at the wall to prevent herself from being attracted, she tugged at the little beast's fur, and then retreated toward the stairwell with it.

The appearance of event-type relics like 【Corpse in the Wall】 usually requires a development process to become the most powerful, so at this time, the wall of the stairs going up still maintained normality, but those human-shaped protrusions on the wall were also moving toward here.

Emilia ran in front, and little Liana ran behind. They quickly moved upward along the stairs, and the human-shaped protrusions inside the wall carried thick darkness and chased behind them.

The light emitted by the little unicorn had reached its limit, and Emilia had also summoned her Fate Ring to continuously apply miracles to herself to keep her spirit and physical strength normal, but after only running a few steps, she felt that she was really unable to escape this time. The Belindell Big Ben was so towering, and they had no possibility of winning this race.

The speed at which the Angel-level relic's power spread was very fast, so the elf girl even just started to have a "deathbed flashback", and unluckily slipped and fell on the stairs. She immediately felt numbness in her hands and feet, and the whole person fell there, actually without the strength to stand up.

The little unicorn was calling anxiously beside her. Seeing the darkness behind and those human shapes in the wall still approaching, it lowered its head, let Emilia climb onto its back, and then carried the girl who was unable to move and ran quickly toward the top of the stairs.

It possessed flight ability, but because of the relic's influence on the entire clock tower, it could not fly here. A unicorn's extreme running speed could even exceed a dragon's flight speed, but in the narrow stairwell, it could only maintain a speed similar to Emilia's normal running when it ran.

The anxious little beast tried to catalyze stronger power from itself, but it had also reached its limit.

The human-shaped protrusion that moved the fastest inside the wall now carried that thick, inseparable darkness and arrived at the side of the pure white little beast. Thus, the wall was squeezed outward like plasticine by the arm inside the wall, and the wall wrapped around that arm and reached toward Emilia.

Fortunately, the amulet Emilia wore on her neck suddenly burst into emerald green brilliance. This breath of life did not cause damage to the relic, but suddenly allowed Emilia and the little unicorn to recover some strength.

Before the hand inside the wall touched Emilia, the pure white little beast suddenly accelerated, finally pulling away from the strange thing inside the wall again. At this time, Emilia had also recovered some ability to act, but the pointed-eared elf girl could not get off the unicorn's back, and was still carried by it to run.

The stairs rotating in circles inside the clock tower made Emilia a bit dizzy, but she could not distinguish whether this was the effect of the relic. This chase was still continuing, and the speed of the darkness and those human shapes moving inside the wall was also accelerating.

The little unicorn, which was running upward with Emilia with all its might, finally, when it came to the middle of the lighthouse, like Emilia just now, had a hoof step into the air unluckily and actually fell on the stairs. The person and the beast rolled together. If Emilia hadn't supported the ground with her hands in time, her head would have been just a little bit away from touching the wall on the side of the stairs.

"Little Liana~"

Regardless of her own scraped elbows, knees, and forehead, the pointed-eared elf girl hugged her friend painfully. The faint light on the little beast was weakening, and it was also unable to move like Emilia just now.

"Ang~"

The azure eyes narrowed slightly, and the head shook gently. The weak cry was wanting Emilia to continue walking upward. But Emilia certainly wouldn't leave like this. She looked at the darkness spreading up from the rotating stairs in panic, and hugged the little unicorn with all her might, wanting to pull it to continue upward.

But even with all her strength, she only moved it up five steps and then had no strength left.

The human-shaped protrusions on the wall had already bypassed the blind spot of vision at this time, and entered Emilia's eyes from below along with the darkness. Compared to the simple protrusions observed at the bottom of the clock tower just now, at this time, fine cracks had appeared on the surface of the human-shaped wall, and disgusting yellow-green mucus and tiny maggots were constantly pouring out from those cracks.

And as the human shapes on the wall approached, Emilia saw even more that on the routes they traveled on the wall, several continuous cracks like roots were left on the wall. Emilia didn't even dare to think about what was hidden in these cracks. She could only rely on the strength that erupted because of fear to pull the little unicorn up two more steps, and then she really had no strength to move anymore.

Tears appeared in her eyes. Emilia Sianode hugged her friend, pursed her lips and looked down, summoned her final courage to cross the little unicorn, and spread her arms to block in front of it:

"This time, I will protect you."

The little elf faced the darkness alone, but still shouted that name in fear and grievance:

"Xia De, save me."

Suddenly, red light flickered. Because the relic sealed the space at the bottom of the clock tower, Xia De, who was flying outside the Belindell Big Ben in the form of 【Red Butterfly Avatar】, finally found an opportunity to locate the lowest point where the relic's power seal had not yet reached with "Enhanced Spatial Perception".

He did not change back into human form outside the tower, but forcibly used "Lagley's Jump" in the form of a swarm of red butterflies. Therefore, in Emilia's eyes, it was as if a large patch of red butterflies suddenly appeared, submerging her and the little unicorn together.

And before the darkness that spread and the hands that reached out from the wall touched them, the relic 【Corpse in the Wall】 actually seemed to fear that patch of red light and actively retreated at least ten steps downward. But after Xia De returned to human form, its power surged up from the bottom of the clock tower like a tide again.

"It sensed the power of Helen and Grace. 【Corpse in the Wall】 and 【Red Butterfly Twins】 are both relics related to urban legends and corpses, but clearly Grace and Helen are stronger."

If Xia De blew the "Butterfly Calling Flute" at this time to call the Red Butterfly sisters, the problem of 【Corpse in the Wall】 would be solved, but Xia De's purpose this time was not to disperse this relic.

Even if the other party recognized that Xia De was not Grace and Helen at all, it didn't matter, because Xia De had already stood in front of Emilia and the little unicorn. The Angel-level relic 【Night Watcher】 held in both hands had its runes soaked in moonlight, and the unparalleled brilliant silver moonlight illuminated the deep darkness below the stairs as the longsword slashed down:

"Moonlight Slash!" ===== CHAPTER 2214 =====