Chapter 3169: Funerary Object Rules

"In this world, the boundary between the living and the dead is very blurred. So when I met Xia De, this man, just now, the nun wouldn't let me go over immediately."

Theresa explained in a low voice while serving soup to everyone. The girl was embarrassed, and then explained her identity:

"I am actually an... archaeologist, and I was cursed because I broke into an ancient tomb of a devout believer of the 【Grave King】, so I appeared here."

Theresa put the soup bowls in front of Xia De and the nun who were sitting at the table, and then handed the third bowl to the "archaeological scholar." She struggled to sit up from the bed, and Theresa didn't help her at all. Although she was still as green as when she just graduated two years ago, but being trained as a successor by the side of the Witch Emperor, Schultz Theresa was definitely not the girl who had just left school.

"The situation you mentioned is impossible. Formal academic institutions or archaeological activities funded by Witch Emperors will not touch any ancient tombs protected by gods of the death system. Even if there is a very small probability that the origin of the ancient tomb was not investigated clearly beforehand, such archaeological activities must at least have a twelfth-level witch sitting in town, and a mid-level witch like you cannot be sent to the dangerous front line."

From this, one could see how sufficient the manpower of the witches was at the end of the Fifth Era—this time point was the most prosperous era of the Witch Era.

Sister Belen did not participate in the discussion of this topic. Theresa stuffed the soup bowl into the hand of the young girl who sat up. Although the two were of similar age, the girl who followed Teacher Violet to learn now had a much stronger temperament than the girl who worried about how to write her graduation thesis back then:

"So, you are a grave robber, right."

This was not a question but a statement, so the girl with flaxen hair lowered her head and said "um" lightly. Seeing Xia De also look over, since her identity was exposed, she told the truth:

"An employer paid a high price to commission me and two others to enter a large tomb left in the Third Era and take away some black stone slabs. But we encountered a spatial abnormality as soon as we entered the underground, and I was separated from the other two people. I also got lost in it, and accidentally approached the main tomb chamber. Some black shadows grabbed me and threw me into a coffin.

I originally thought I was dead, and kept knocking on the coffin wanting to escape. I didn't expect that after being saved by you, I would come here from that ancient tomb of the Third Era."

She did not explain the reason for becoming a "grave robber," although this might win some sympathy:

Xia De actually wanted to talk to Theresa in detail about what happened to her, Miss Violet, and Miss Eliser after he parted with her in the Sea of No Light last time. But even though the time was quite abundant this time, he could not waste it, so after eating, Xia De proposed to go out and take a look:

"Because they voluntarily gave up this power and forcibly kept themselves at the last step of leaving."

Sister Belen said softly.

The young grave robber had flaxen hair, but the hair color was lighter than Miss Swift's. She was a seventh-level witch, calling herself "Giana Liard," and did not dare to take the initiative to speak when sitting at the table with everyone. After all, her level was the lowest here, and the identity of "grave robber" did not sound good in any era. She planned to honestly follow the two high-level witches and the strange man to find an exit.

"I am willing to listen to you, as long as you don't let me die, I can do anything... and this, the employer asked us to find this. The other party didn't contact us directly, it was through a broker, I really didn't know that the ancient tomb was protected by the 【Grave King】 beforehand, the employer might have deceived us."

She turned out two photos from her pocket—this era has cameras, and it is more developed than the Sixth Era where the outsider arrived. Both photos were the corners of a black stone tablet. Although there were letters on it, the number of letters was small, so it was impossible to see what was written on the stone tablet.

The two photos were viewed by Xia De, Sister Belen, and Theresa respectively. Xia De and Theresa didn't know what this was, but the nun wearing an eye mask "saw" the clue:

"Before Miss Theresa arrived, I had seen similar stone tablets in this wasteland. Very far away, not very real, but it did exist."

"Maybe this is the clue that we can leave."

Grave robber Miss Liard said in a low voice. She and Theresa came here because of accidents, so they just wanted to leave. Although Sister Belen would not leave until finding the fire seedling, the goals of the three people were actually the same, and they even needed to do the same thing.

"How much do you know about this wasteland? Is there an exit to leave?"

Xia De asked the two ladies who came here first.

"Although it is impossible to reach death here, there are indeed passages back to the world of the living after digging open some graves."

Theresa sat on Xia De's left hand and held the soup bowl. Xia De was very curious about how they knew. Sister Belen, who came here first, pointed to the wooden box at the foot of the single bed:

"It says 'Funerary Object Storage' on the box lid. After I put the gold objects obtained from the grave where I appeared into it, I found that I could make a wish to it by offering funerary objects. The way to leave, the iron shovel used to dig open other graves, the method of discovering other people's appearance, and the basic rules of this wasteland, these were all obtained from that box."

"Funerary objects? These?"

The gold bracelet and gold ring obtained from the two graves were taken out by Xia De. Their characteristics were that the craftsmanship was unusually rough, but they were all genuine gold objects.

"Yes, if evil spirits or other dangerous things appear after digging open the grave, there is a high probability of funerary objects appearing, and sometimes even more than one. If there is no danger in the grave, then there is only a small probability of funerary objects appearing."

Theresa nodded lightly, and "grave robber" Miss Liard asked in a low voice while drinking soup to warm her body:

"Is there a difference in value between different funerary objects? I mean, the effectiveness when making a wish."

Theresa shook her head:

"There is no difference. The more funerary objects given when making a wish, the closer the result is to our expectations. The rule that Sister Belen and I have summarized so far is that two funerary objects can be exchanged for an iron shovel to dig open a grave. This time we used an iron shovel to save you, but you brought two funerary objects, so it counts as breaking even."

"How many funerary objects are needed to find the grave to leave?"

Xia De inquired, this was the most critical question, and Sister Belen had the answer to this:

"I once made a wish to ask a similar question—finding the grave where the initial fire is located requires 7 funerary objects, and the grave to leave requires 13 funerary objects."

"Then what is the number of funerary objects currently owned..."

Theresa took off the small package tied to her belt and poured the things inside onto the center of the table with a clatter.

Two gold bracelets, one gold ring, two gold pendants, one gold pocket watch. The craftsmanship of the six gold objects was not very good, among which the gold pocket watch undoubtedly used the most material, but it could still only count as one piece.

At present, the four people have 6+2=8 gold objects, and there is an iron shovel in the hut that can dig open graves. In order to prevent accidents, Sister Belen and Theresa generally keep two iron shovels in the hut.

And the source of funerary gold objects, in addition to digging open graves, also has a very small probability of being picked up directly in the wasteland outside. But this kind of thing only happened once to Theresa, and that star-style gold pendant was picked up by her in the wasteland.

Of course, although Theresa and Sister Belen, who had been here for a long time, had basically understood the rules of this weird world, they could not explore outward continuously.

This desolate world influenced by the power of the Old God not only limits the recovery of physical strength and spirit of witches and sorcerers like the strange time adventure journeys Xia De had experienced before, exists with extremely strong mental pollution, time and space are completely chaotic, and the basic rules are different from the real world, but because this is the world of the dead, walking on the wasteland, the rapid loss of vitality, physical strength, and ether is just the most basic trivial matter. What is more important is actually those monsters hidden in the darkness and thick fog.

They might be the real "gravekeepers" here, specializing in killing the living who do not honestly stay in the graves.

And in addition to those monsters with strange skills, the erosion of the body and soul by the power of death also limits the frequency of their exploration. Even high-level witches and nuns holding fire cannot stay outside for a long time.

Therefore, before Xia De appeared, the two ladies were trapped in this hut most of the time, and the interval between each exploration and return required a long time to rest and recover.

"But thanks to Sister Belen, her fire can illuminate the way back for us. This wasteland is alive, and we can't find our way back if we rely on ourselves after leaving the hut."

Theresa added at the end, Sister Belen "looked" at Xia De, this was definitely not his illusion:

"That is the miracle called 【Ember Return Journey】. The fire-bearer can mark the location with this power and return to the previous safe resting area."

"She wouldn't be..."

【Wants to teach you.】

"She" smiled lightly, but Xia De still remembered the abnormal attitude of Sister Daifulin after he learned the power of fire from Sister Belen's sister and the nun in death last time, so he pretended not to understand this "hint." The kiss in the wind and snow before the Year-End Festival was clearly more important than this secret technique that was temporarily meaningless.

Of course, if it was really needed, Xia De would also learn it after informing Sister Daifulin.

PS1: Remaining funerary objects 6: 3 gold bracelets, 2 gold pendants, 1 gold pocket watch.

PS2: Add more and seek monthly tickets!

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