Chapter 3350: Possessed Witch

With Xia De's small boat, the group moved more safely and quickly.

After continuing forward, except for encountering a team of "White Candle Monks" with white candles on their heads, they didn't encounter any other trouble for a long distance.

Seeing that they were getting closer and closer to the destination, everyone's mood became slightly better. The cold wind blew toward them with the rapid movement of the small boat. The thin fog here had turned into thick fog, which looked terrifying on the lightless plain.

The fog was getting thicker and thicker, until even if Sister Belen held the tattered lantern in her hand high, she couldn't illuminate the scenery within half a meter around the small boat. This scene was obviously wrong, but even the hound couldn't remember for a while what the sign of this thing's appearance was.

"Why did the wind stop?"

Miss Violet asked suddenly, and then everyone realized that although they could still feel the air flowing now, this flowing air was only because the small boat was traveling fast.

Xia De stopped the boat directly. The bottom of the boat made contact with the ground with a slight collision. The witches and Xia De stood on the boat and looked around, and everyone raised their hands, and lights of different colors lit up respectively.

It was strange to say that after they used the light spell together, the fog around suddenly dissipated, and everyone's face became quite ugly.

The two sides were no longer the wasteland lined with tombstones. It was a small matter that walls appeared, but the key was that the top of the head was no longer the black sky, and the solid rock wall was only two meters above the head. Even if 【Enhanced Spatial Perception】 was not very useful in such a chaotic time and space, Xia De could perceive that everyone's position now was actually underground.

The hound told everyone that the area of the underground part of the 【Tombstone Wasteland】 was far larger than the area on the ground, and the "Great Mausoleum" of the underground world was the area truly controlled by the owner of that kingdom.

At this moment, they had arrived underground for no reason, but no one on the boat knew how this happened.

The current position seemed to be in a corridor of a large tomb. Both the front and back were passages extending to the distance, and there were colorful, detailed murals on the walls on both sides. Compared with the dilapidation of this corridor, those murals looked like they had just been painted.

The murals on the left and right were roughly depicting the story of a very beautiful woman, but the four paintings Xia De saw alone contained bizarre scenes such as chi/ren, yi. n luan, etc.

The back of the corridor was the direction they came from, while the front of the corridor was the destination. The rock wall on the top of the head was soon proven to be unbreakable, and when Miss Violet tried to break the murals on both sides, the instinctive sense of danger made the Witch Empress, who was currently in a poor state, stop:

"Continue forward, I want to see what this situation is."

The small boat slid forward in the long corridor, and everyone stood up and stared at one direction.

At first, Theresa was interested in the content of those colorful murals around, but soon those bizarre and terrifying scenes made her lower her head. Even if she didn't look at them anymore, the nausea and the pain in her temples still didn't disappear.

Miss Liard found a small bottle from her pocket and handed it to her:

"When we go down to a tomb, unless it is for the sake of murals or stone tablets, we will never look carefully at any pictures, text, or symbols in the tomb. Some pictures are the residue of ancient power. Drink this, it's mint-flavored, I like it very much."

"Swollen Lady."

Sister Beren, who had remained silent until now, suddenly spoke: "There is still fire remaining in the wounds I left on it, and the traces of those embers are right ahead. Lady Swelling is waiting for us up ahead."

Xia De, standing at the stern of the boat, looked toward the front of the long corridor:

"There is no way to avoid it now. Since it is waiting for us, let's go and meet it. The situation isn't the worst it could be yet; when I saw the mural earlier, I actually thought there might be a mermaid buried here."

This corridor of the underground tomb was a one-way path, and the small boat sailed straight forward without encountering any forks in the road. Three short minutes later, they reached the end.

"A dead end?"

The boat stopped, and everyone disembarked. After preparing for battle, Xia De and Miss Violet approached the wall ahead, only to discover a rusted, bronze-material skeleton embedded in the seemingly smooth wall.

The skeleton's design was exceptionally archaic, with mottled, unrecognizable runes carved into every single bone. Xia De recognized what it was immediately:

"Soul-Casting Skeleton!"

"What?"

The Witch Empress to the side asked in confusion, and Xia De explained:

"This is a forbidden alchemical weapon created by the people of the Second Era using ancient knowledge, used for guarding and sealing. I have encountered this thing twice before; once the skeleton was holding a stone tablet, and once it was holding a stone box..."

Xia De blinked, suddenly realizing something, and turned to ask Theresa, who was vigilantly watching their rear:

"Speaking of which, there is something I forgot to ask you, Theresa. Do you still remember the sword from when we first met at the 【Lost Lake】?"

"Is it 【Night Watcher】?"

At that time, 【Night Watcher】 was in the hands of those at the lakeside (Chapter 877), that much was certain, so Xia De asked again:

"I didn't see you carrying that sword this time. Is it no longer in your possession? If it were here, the upcoming battle might be easier; after all, that sword has a special damage effect against evil."

The bespectacled girl assumed Xia De was just asking about the whereabouts of the weapon:

"That sword, in the two years after I graduated, when the teacher accepted a mission from the Council to go and seal a remote mountain range in the Central Continent..."

"Moon Fire!"

Silver flames suddenly erupted from Xia De's mouth, immediately igniting Miss Violet's head. Amidst her screams, he opened his arms and pulled the girl, who appeared sixteen, into his embrace, causing the silver flames rising over his entire body to set her whole form ablaze.

The pitch-black Chains of Sin tried to entwine the two, but it was too late. Amidst the blonde girl's screams, she opened her mouth and spat out a beam of black light. And within that light, a woman's voice Xia De had never heard before laughed and said:

"What a pity I couldn't occupy this beautiful body, but it doesn't matter. See you later."

The black light was ignited by Sister Beren's flames and burned to ashes. Only then did Theresa and Miss Liyade react.

The hounds barked uneasily, circling the living. When the silver flames extinguished, Xia De held the weak Witch who had opened her eyes, pressed his right index finger to her lips before she could speak, and then thrust his left index finger into her forehead.

This was no joke; Xia De had truly pierced the skin and touched her skull with his finger. Only after confirming through close contact that Miss Violet was the only one left inside this puppet body did he withdraw his finger and fill the small hole in her forehead with "Active Clay."

The aggressiveness and healing properties of "Moon Fire" could be chosen by Xia De himself. The holy silver flames had just forced out the consciousness that had attached itself to the puppet body; now, only the Witch Empress remained.

She held Xia De and offered a weak smile:

"That consciousness appeared when we were fighting the ghouls after you separated from us upon encountering those skeleton knights. I knew you would notice... because of the Soul-Casting Skeleton?"

"Yes, because of the Soul-Casting Skeleton."

He continued to use Moon Fire to treat her mental trauma, and of course, did not forget to explain to his nervous companions why he had acted that way:

"I have seen a Soul-Casting Skeleton twice before, once in a library in the middle of the Fifth Era."

That was when he was with Blaney, and they had obtained a book from the First Era titled "The Long Scroll of Ye Ge" from the skeleton's hands. That book was said to record the secrets of the ancient God of Death, though unfortunately, no one had been able to read its contents. (Chapter 721)

"The second time I saw a Soul-Casting Skeleton was in my own era, in a mountain. At the entrance of a hidden cave on the mountainside in the real world, 【Night Watcher】 was sealing an ancient Fire Demon (Chapter 665). And in the edge world between life and death, at the deepest part of that hidden cave on the mountainside, was the rift leading to 'The End' sealed by the Witch Empress. The Soul-Casting Skeleton was there (Chapter 748)."

The sixteen-year-old girl looked at Xia De with a gentle smile; she knew Xia De remembered everything.

"The skeleton in the future was left behind by Miss Violet. I saw the echo she left behind at the time, and in that echo, she called herself a Thirteenth-Tier Great Witch rather than a demigod (Chapter 680)."

So Theresa understood:

"In other words, before the teacher ascended to demigodhood, she must have already known about the Soul-Casting Skeleton, since it was left behind by her."

Xia De nodded; Theresa had explicitly stated that the current Miss Violet was a demigod:

"To prevent the possibility that the echo at the time was Miss Violet modestly not calling herself a demigod, I asked Theresa about the whereabouts of 【Night Watcher】 just now, to determine whether Miss Violet had already experienced the events at that mountain.

And since Theresa said 【Night Watcher】 had already been left in the mountain, it means the sealing of the Fire Demon in the normal world and the seal at the edge of life and death have both been completed, and the 【Soul-Casting Skeleton】 has also been placed. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Miss Violet not to know about this thing."

The logic of this analysis was very sound, but Miss Liyade still felt a lingering fear:

"Seeing you launch an attack directly just now, I was really scared. You were so decisive."

Xia De shook his head slightly:

"I was also afraid that I was overthinking it, so I specifically used Moon Fire. It is a... very gentle power. The moon's flames are used more for healing and recovery, so even if I were wrong, it wouldn't have harmed Miss Violet."