Chapter 3252: Sir Foul-Smelling Corpse

【Outsider, you have officially stepped into the "Corridor of Time".】

The familiar endless glowing white mist filled the entire world. He walked toward the arched gate made of slender tree trunks, vines, branches, and green leaves in front of the white mist, stuffed the cat toy into his pocket, and walked directly into the arch.

【Message from the Ancient God "Father of Infinite Trees":】

【Autumn, 5182, Fifth Era, Central Continent, Tombstone Wasteland.】

【Event: Grave Robbing.】

【Duration: 40 minutes -> 80 minutes (2/3).】

【You have obtained additional information.】

【The figure of the Father of Infinite Trees watches you.】

【The Ancient God of Time gives you a test.】

【Assist mortals in learning the secret of the Old God - "King of Bones".】

【The Father of Infinite Trees will give you a reward: Miracle Spirit Rune - Envy.】

His body passed through the arch, the surrounding mist dissipated, and Xia De frowned slightly, trying to shake off the discomfort caused by the sudden change in the direction of gravity.

It was pitch black all around. As expected, he was buried in a grave again. With the experience from last time, Xia De quickly let himself crawl out of the soil behind the tombstone, and by the way, he found a gold bracelet from the grave as a burial object.

"This is..."

The short stay in the grave caused a serious loss of physical strength and spirit. Leaning on the tombstone, he gasped and looked at the surroundings. In the faint mist, there were groups of tombstones illuminated by candlesticks and lanterns everywhere. But after reading the information on the surrounding tombstones slightly, Xia De was very clear that the "grave" he appeared in this time was not the same grave as last time.

This situation where the appearance location was different during time adventures was the first time he had encountered it.

The tombstone of the grave he climbed out of last time only had a simple moon symbol carved with a chisel, while the center of the tombstone this time had the symbols of the moon and the sun snuggling together. This also proved from the side that the location where he appeared this time was indeed different from the last time.

And looking around, Xia De determined that he didn't see the shadow of the gravekeeper's hut, so he decided to stay in place for the time being, waiting for the "Corpse Tree" or Theresa and the others to find him.

The mist here was not completely motionless, but was slowly circulating, but Xia De couldn't feel any wind at all. The stench of corpses and the smell of damp soil were mixed together, making Xia De gradually suspect that his nose was about to lose its normal function.

He was still thinking about what the fire Sister Daelin took out from her chest meant. While leaning on the tombstone waiting to be found, he curiously checked the situation of the surrounding tombstones, and thus saw a flirtatious guy who provoked too many girls and finally died miserably in the hands of those jealous and angry women.

【This might be some kind of "hint".】

"She" said with a smile, Xia De gave a dry laugh in his heart as an echo, and thought about whether the supplies he brought this time would suit the tastes of the nun, Theresa, and the grave robber Miss Gianna Liard.

The cat was still in the pocket inside Xia De's coat in the form of a toy, and it was very obedient this time. And after his own state returned to normal, in that piece of silence, Xia De heard some sounds.

But what he heard was not the sound of hounds running or witches walking, but the sound of birds flapping their wings.

He changed from leaning on the tombstone to standing straight, closed his eyes while constantly changing directions on the spot, and then suddenly threw his hand forward:

"Moonlight Greatsword!"

The silver greatsword emerged from the air, and then turned into a pure silver whip and lashed toward the depths of the mist. The sound of breaking through the air echoed far away, and Xia De clearly saw a cluster of pitch-black blood flowers explode in the depths of the white mist.

Then the flapping sound became more and more dense, and large swaths of undead crows gathered toward the top of Xia De's head from the direction where the whip was retracted. Xia De first threw out a silence spell, and then a rotating fireball appeared in his empty left hand.

But before he could throw the fireball at the crow flock in the air, a voice suddenly said:

"Wait a moment."

In the dense flock of undead crows, a small part of the crows pulled a carriage constructed of wriggling black flesh and kept descending until it landed not far from Xia De.

The surface of the carriage looked like it was alive, and it was even dripping pus or corpse oil onto the ground. The stench was becoming heavier. As the flesh carriage window opened like a sphincter, a corpse head poked out from the carriage window:

"You have a relic on you, right?"

It used a language Xia De had never heard before, and although it looked like a corpse head talking, Xia De clearly felt that it was the carriage that was talking. The part of the corpse that couldn't be seen was probably already fused with the carriage.

"Hand over the relic, and I'll let you go."

The strange language said so, so the fireball that had just gone out in Xia De's left hand ignited again. The rolling heat and light impacted the carriage, and the corpse immediately changed its words:

"I mean, you living people coming here must want to leave, right? Give me the relic, and I can provide you with information. I am the 'Sir Foul-Smelling Corpse' of this kingdom, and I won't lie."

Although this title was strange, Xia De had also encountered strange existences in this wasteland who were willing to accept relic transactions last time, and thus learned about gargoyles, dead frogs, bone nuns, white candle monks, and other more common monsters:

"I only have one relic."

"Oh, so it's a poor ghost~"

"What did you say?"

"I mean, one relic is also fine. Give it to me, and I can tell you anything you want to know."

A black arm grew out from the bottom of the flesh carriage and reached toward Xia De. Xia De then said with a smile:

"Alright, then you catch it!"

The turning slash movement left a gorgeous light shadow in the mist with the Moonlight Greatsword. The greatsword with noble runes cut off the body of the black slender ghost shadow that appeared silently behind him, causing it to melt completely in the light of the silver moon.

That carriage didn't want to trade with him at all. The conversation just now was just to distract Xia De's attention.

Seeing the sneak attack failed, the carriage quickly disappeared under the cover of the crows, and the thousands of undead crows above Xia De's head all became active. Xia De, who had re-sensed the location of the carriage, suddenly pointed his left hand into the air:

"Chloe's Frozen Time!"

A certain area of crows in the air solidified like an oil painting at this moment. These undead crows had no souls and were just puppets, so they could be affected by this strange spell.

Immediately after, the rotating fireball flew toward that piece of solidified "time and space", detonated the crow flock at the moment the frozen time effect ended, and exposed the black flesh carriage hidden behind. Even with the effect of the "Silence Spell", the sound still spread very far.

"Thunder Spear!"

The silver-white thunder pierced upward, defeating all the blocking remaining crows, but finally, it was blocked by the shell of the flesh carriage. But it still didn't dare to stay and tangle with Xia De, and after controlling the crow flock to continue to harass Xia De, the carriage drove toward the distance of the wasteland full of tombstones in the pitch-black sky.

"Moon Fire!"

The silver light stream broke through the pitch-black sky, and the pure silver light blasted a quarter of the carriage, but the remaining part still carried a large group of crows and disappeared completely into the depths of the white mist.

Xia De had no intention of chasing the enemy. After simply clearing the remaining undead crows around, he walked to the location where the carriage debris fell. Most of the enemies in this wasteland would not leave corpses after being "killed", but would be directly absorbed by the wasteland itself.

The carriage made of black flesh was the same. When Xia De found the carriage wreckage, only a very small part of the wreckage was still wriggling on the ground. And beside the black flesh that covered a certain unlucky grave, two roughly made gold rings and a gold scepter that was a full meter long lay beside the tombstone.

"Is this also a burial object?"

Judging from the rough workmanship of the scepter and the luxurious use of pure gold, this was indeed a burial object, but the fact that such heavy gold and those "light" rings, earrings, etc., were all "one piece" was incomprehensible to the Outsider who had been very poor in the past.

Above the pure gold scepter was a golden sphere, and the scepter itself was engraved with dense bone-style letters. Xia De took a rough look and found that most of the content was praise for this 【King of Graves】, and besides that, it recorded the knowledge of controlling undead crows and the ancient version of "Corpse Explosion".

As for the golden sphere at the very top of the scepter, it was also branded with the bright holy emblem of the 【King of Graves】.

"It's a pity that this is just an ordinary item."

Such a big commotion was made here, and Xia De also knew that he couldn't stay here for long. He wanted to find a direction to move for a distance, but when he looked up and looked around, he saw the familiar spiritual little hound standing among the tombstones not far away.

It wagged its tail and panted. After Xia De walked over quickly, it turned around and led the way for Xia De among the tombstones. Since the 【Corpse Tree】 found him first, Xia De followed the little hound in front and walked forward.

It was just that his chest suddenly wriggled, and the disobedient cat really revealed a small cat head and stared at the hound wagging its tail in front. But the cat was soon pressed back into the pocket inside Xia De's chest by Xia De. The death energy here was too heavy, and even if the cat didn't want to be turned into a toy, it was better not to be directly exposed to the air.

The black shadow of the "Corpse Tree" was not far ahead. Only after getting close could one see the black roots protruding from the ground, the blue tree crown, and the corpses hanging under the tree crown swaying without wind.

The shriveled dog head embedded in the tree trunk opened its pitch-black eyes after its daughter happily returned to the tree. It looked at Xia De who was brought, but before Xia De could say hello, it noticed the pure gold scepter.

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