Chapter 3430: God's Inn

First was the room number. This room's number was "1024," representing that the room was located on the tenth floor of the inn, and the total number of rooms on this floor, inferred from the room numbers, was at most 100, from 1000 to 1099. It was just that the corridor itself was very dangerous, so even after being here for so long, they hadn't been able to fully explore this floor.

"Most rooms here have things in them, and the locations of the rooms will constantly change, but fortunately, they only change on the same floor. Do not stay in the darkness for too long, otherwise you will encounter danger; but you cannot light a light source at will, otherwise you will become the most conspicuous target in the darkness. The light sources here also include the light when casting spells."

Middle-aged witch Ms. Gerd, who introduced the situation to Xia De, said, then pointed to the fireplace:

"The safe way to trigger light is to use matches, and they must be the special matches in this inn. It doesn't matter what you ignite, but the source of the fire must be the matches here."

The flames ignited by each match can only exist for a certain amount of time, and the flames will extinguish after the time limit. And the flames will last longer if you don't move; the more you walk, the easier it is for the flames to extinguish. This is the most precious supply in this inn; we can endure not eating or drinking, but we absolutely cannot be without fire."

She didn't tell Xia De how many matches they had in total:

"Miss Kearns' current situation is because last time we went out to try to search for matches, we accidentally encountered something like a slime monster that could spit mud in the corridor. After being touched by the mud it spat, Miss Kearns' lower body lost sensation and was turning into rock."

The twelfth-rank vampire also added:

"I sucked her blood to analyze the reason, but this is not a curse; this is part of the relic's characteristics. By constantly changing her blood, I have now barely controlled the petrified body to be limited to the lower body, but it's hard to say what will happen later."

"I have a way to solve it; I can try."

Xia De said this, stood up, rummaged through his pockets for soil and petals, and then used the miracle that had helped him a lot all along:

"Power of the Earth-Healing Aura."

He had released this incantation into the environment before; this was the first time he had cast it on a person. But fortunately, the effect was not bad. After the phantom Holy Grail took shape and entered Miss Kearns' heart position, the earthy-yellow aura surged through her body.

In just a moment, her lower body regained sensation. But perhaps because the target of this spellcasting was not the environment but life, after the spellcasting ended, Xia De did not receive the "Holy Grail" as a reward for purifying the earth.

Miss Kearns still couldn't stand up independently at this time; she still needed a short period of recovery. Xia De only dispelled the influence of the relic, but her physical damage still existed. She expressed her gratitude to Xia De very seriously; losing mobility in such a place was no different from lying down and waiting for death.

Seeing that Xia De really treated their companion, and used "Earth Divine Arts" that were quite ancient, vampire Miss Novare and middle-aged witch Ms. Gerd trusted Xia De a bit more.

Xia De took the opportunity to ask:

"So your understanding of this place is limited to the rules of matches, right?"

"No."

The vampire girl shook her head:

"There are stairs in the corridor, which can go up or down. The general rule is that the lower floors are safer, but the probability of finding good things is also smaller. The floors that the stairs going up lead to will become increasingly dangerous. The slime monster we encountered was on the fifteenth floor."

She knew what Xia De was thinking:

"There are empty rooms on every floor, but those empty rooms, even if you light a fire, will be dangerous if you stay for a long time. Only this room with the statue of that Old God is absolutely safe. Before you appeared, we originally planned to go out and explore again to see if we could find a way to lift the relic's characteristics. We were just discussing this outing plan when the knocking sound came."

Everyone sat down in front of the fireplace. Miss Kearns leaned halfway against that beautiful red-haired vampire. Xia De felt that they seemed a bit too close. However, considering this was the Fifth Era, this was also normal.

"Vampire and demon hunter..."

The food Xia De took out was shared by everyone. Eating fresh food after a long time, and with the companion also healed, the witches clearly became happy.

The warm flames of the fireplace always made people feel a sense of security, even if the flames were not particularly vigorous. This time, without Xia De needing to continue asking, vampire Miss Novare continued to share what she knew:

"Except for a few empty rooms, most of the rooms here are very dangerous even for a twelfth-rank witch like me. But fortunately, the room numbers don't change, so we recorded all the rooms we explored. We also entered the 1022 Demon Room you mentioned once. What exists inside is the ancient evil spirit-Ice and Snow Demon Hrimthur.

It fears the matches in the inn more than any existence in the darkness of this inn; we escaped at that time by relying on this."

Saying this, she looked at Xia De curiously, hoping he would explain how he escaped. But Xia De didn't know about this either, only guessing that it was probably the Father of the Tree's power that temporarily suppressed the demon, and by the time the demon's power gradually recovered, he had already walked to the door.

If there was a chance, Xia De would really like to chat with that demon; the other party should have seen the scene when he "appeared" with its own eyes, and Xia De was very curious about this.

Besides demons, many dangerous things like evil objects, humanoid relics, etc., were also imprisoned here. Some doors even directly connected to the interior of certain dangerous building-type relics.

The demon hunter came from a desolate village, and it was highly likely that she mistakenly opened a door connecting a relic to this inn. And on the summary data they shared with Xia De, Xia De even saw a relic he was familiar with:

"Behind door 1713, is it connected to the Sin Mansion?"

Theoretically, leaving this place by entering the interior of a location-type relic and then returning to the normal world from the interior of those strange buildings was also a way to leave, but this method was too dangerous, and they couldn't do it either.

"Could there also be a door connecting to the House of Falsehoods here? No, no, this is the 【House of Falsehoods】 of this era; it's useless for me to leave."

On some dilapidated, yellowing notebooks, they recorded the places they had explored according to page numbers.

Xia De noticed that they had been to the second floor at the lowest, and most of the rooms there were empty. A few rooms would intermittently appear with some very bad-tasting food, and they would regularly go to check; the witches had been to the 23rd floor at the highest, but no rooms were marked on that floor. They only wrote down "The corridor is dangerous, this floor cannot be entered."

Although as long as you keep a light in the stairwell, you won't encounter danger, but out of the principle of not wasting matches, they hadn't been to higher floors, so they didn't know how many floors this inn had.

"Haven't you been to the first floor? Is there an exit to leave here on the first floor?"

Xia De asked. Vampire Miss Novare was brewing black tea at this time. The other two were eating, but only she seemed to have a greater need for black tea than food:

"The situation on the first floor is a bit different. When we explore each floor, I first release bats to scout the situation. If the bats can stay in the corridor for more than twenty seconds, we will enter.

The danger of the 23rd floor was discovered this way. But the 1st floor is different. After the bats entered, I saw some things, and then the bats disappeared, and that memory of mine also disappeared."

"I was out with Novare at the time, and the situation was very strange."

The hunter girl, who was sitting up eating chocolate bread, put down her food and said. She didn't like to talk while holding food because it was impolite:

"Novare was bleeding from her mouth and eyes at the time, but she didn't realize it herself. After the bats disappeared, she even said to me: 'Then I will release bats to the first floor.' There should be some kind of super-standard thing on the first floor, so although Novare saw it, she forced herself to forget."

Ms. Gerd chose cold meat steaks, and she heated a portion for everyone before starting to eat:

"I have some guesses about the situation on the first floor, but I just can't verify them.

The notes left by my mother say this is an inn, and we have seen various evil things, demons, and even more terrifying things here. Since the inn can imprison so many things, then its founder and administrator must be stronger than them... perhaps the one on the first floor is a saint.

Besides gods, I can't think of what kind of existence could build such an inn."

Now Xia De knew what he should do.

The task time this time was fifty minutes, and the communication with the girls took ten minutes. He didn't have too much time to continue wasting:

"I want to go to the first floor to see the situation."

He recorded the floor summary intelligence shared by the witches:

"My situation is a bit different from yours. It's very troublesome to explain in detail, but there should be power on the first floor that can help me. So, can you lend me a few matches?"

He had given out food and daily necessities just now, and also treated that hunter girl, so at this time he could actually directly ask for matches, but Xia De still used the word "borrow."

They were just slightly surprised by Xia De's proposal, but no one raised an objection. After the three witches communicated silently with their eyes, the strongest Miss Novare said:

"I will go with you. In our plan, there was originally a plan to explore the first floor again when conditions allowed. Although I don't know why you still have the confidence to go after hearing that there might be a saint on the first floor, we choose to believe you.

I will lead the way for you; after all, you don't know much about this place."

She pried open the wooden floor in front of Xia De and took out the two matchboxes inside. The workmanship of the matchboxes was quite old, and there were a total of 32 matches inside. Those were old-fashioned non-safety matches that could be ignited by striking them anywhere. ===== CHAPTER 3431 =====