Chapter 3439

The positions of all rooms were constantly changing, so the owner of this room, like the witches, had only recorded information about the many rooms it had explored; it was not completely invincible here either.

However, now was not the time for a careful inspection. In short, after confirming that everything that could be scavenged had been packed up and turned into toys, the two set up a simple trap in the room using the items they had on hand, and then returned to the front of the coffin.

The cast-iron black coffin looked quite aged and heavy. Those who used such ornate iron coffins were generally liches. As for vampires, Mr. Bernhardt had emphasized many times that they really did not sleep in coffins; they also liked beds very much.

"Then I will unlock it—Door Key."

Xia De's finger pressed against the keyhole of the coffin and turned it gently, and then an inexplicable clicking sound rang out, and the silver arcane lock ritual marks appeared on the surface of the coffin. As the silver faded, the coffin was opened.

After waiting for ten seconds and then looking at the closed door, black mist surged inward from the door crack, and then those mists gathered at the doorway until a soul emitting dim black light from its entire body floated out.

"Dawn Oath Sword!"

Miss Kearns, who had already completed the charging, slashed out with her sword, and the light and shadow drawn by the sword light seemed to form a light curtain at dawn. But that glowing long sword was blocked by the soul that looked like a male figure reaching out.

It floated in the air, its spirit body black but transparent. It was over two meters tall, and the spirit body was wearing a brown stand-collar trench coat.

With a wave of its hand, 【Dawn Break】 flew out of Miss Kearns' hand toward the ceiling. The undead's right hand reached toward Miss Kearns' head, but the huntress pinched a magic seal with her left hand, and a golden shield resembling the 【Heaton Seal】 popped out, but it was directly poked through by the undead.

But this did not matter. The sword on the ceiling buzzed and automatically flew back, directly cutting off the undead's outstretched right arm. While the spirit body automatically recovered, Miss Kearns, who was holding the sword again, took a deep breath, and then the sword she slashed out seemed to want to illuminate the entire room:

"Heavy Strike · Dawn Oath Sword!"

Although the spellcasting relying on the sword looked like a warrior's technique, the flow of ether proved that this was indeed a certain secret art.

The nascent dawn radiance dispersed the gloomy winds around the undead. This time it did not reach out to block, but instead let the spirit body become ethereal again and then turned into that ball of black mist, and then suddenly appeared next to the pile of skeletons in the center of the room.

Miss Kearns' sword light directly hit the door, but the door remained intact due to the hotel's special rules.

When she turned around, the undead had already reached its hand toward the pile of skeletons. Deep black light was sucked into its body, and after Miss Kearns was slightly stunned, she jumped to the corner of the room—

Boom~ with a loud noise, the bomb she had already placed in the pile of skeletons exploded.

While skulls and bone fragments flew everywhere, blue glowing dust directly attached to the undead along with the bomb's explosion. This was one of the few remaining alchemy bombs in Miss Kearns' small bag, and those blue dusts were "Spirit-Driving Dust" whose formula still remained in the era where the Outlander lived.

The formula for this peculiar alchemical substance had been modified and strengthened many times in Miss Kearns' inheritance. At this moment, after the explosion, the Spirit-Driving Dust even directly caused a corrosive effect on the surface of the spirit body.

It dodged the sword slashed by the huntress again, and found an opportunity in the witch's increasingly fierce sword dance to spray a ball of foul-smelling black mist.

The "Undead Cloud" temporarily forced Miss Kearns back, and the soul quickly came to the side of the coffin under the bed that had been flipped open.

It noticed that there was still an angel statue covering its face standing by the bed. Inspiration reminded it that this statue seemed a bit unfamiliar, but the light of dawn behind it had already broken through the cloud of undead.

Thus, the inspiration that had just appeared was interrupted, and the coffin lid was opened by it, revealing the "corpse" sleeping inside, which looked exactly the same as the undead.

So he was not an undead at all, but an undead scholar who had deliberately transformed himself into an undead temporarily to facilitate his actions in this hotel.

The undead flew toward his own body, attempting to reappear in the form of a living person. In the spirit state, he was severely restrained by the witch's power, but once he no longer had undead characteristics, Miss Kearns was definitely not his match.

Just a moment before the spirit body was about to touch the corpse:

"Corrupt Blood Mist!"

The blood-red poisonous mist spat out by Xia De at the side of the coffin passed through the spirit body, and in just an instant, it corrupted the "corpse" into ghastly white bones. Then, to the undead's astonishment, even the bones turned into bubbles in the blood-red mist.

It turned around to see who was casting the spell, and then was hit head-on by a blood-colored long whip:

"Soul Lash!"

Whether as an undead or as a human, it had never felt such intense pain. Its consciousness even went blank for a few seconds due to the pain that surged at this moment, and by the time it regained consciousness, the blade emitting dawn radiance had already passed through its spirit body from behind.

The power of death was dispersed by the radiance of dawn, and the spirit body weakened at a speed visible to the naked eye, but soon a more violent aura of death surged, even suppressing the power of the Sage-level relic:

"Now, I am finally a complete undead!" (Fourth Era Ancient Language)

"The spirit body is more afraid of my chains!"

The pitch-black chains flashing with the runes of the nine great sins immediately locked the spirit body, and although the undead's violent struggle made the chains jingle, fortunately, it did not yet have the ability to break free from the chains that could even lock ancient evil spirits.

"This spirit body itself has immortality."

Miss Kearns found this quite incredible:

"What exactly did it do to its own soul? Did it completely refuse to move forward, leaving no way out for itself at all?"

Every soul has the right to continue to "move forward"; this is the most noble right of the soul. And to actively refuse means to desecrate the soul itself, which is even more serious than the consequences of believing in an evil god.

Because this also means that this soul can never reach the end again, and its fate is similar to the "Undead Ghost · Bernhardt" that Xia De had seen in the "Past Life". So Xia De already understood why the other party appeared here:

"If it didn't possess such special characteristics, just researching souls and undead wouldn't be enough to have a room here. We don't need to solve it; our goal has already been achieved."

The two 【Great Sin Chains】 only barely managed to control it, and then the two quickly picked up the lantern and candle they had just placed on the ground and retreated out of the room.

But when trying to open the door, Miss Kearns accidentally discovered that the door had been tampered with. When she reached out to touch the doorknob, she directly triggered a death curse. But fortunately, her luck was good enough, and the death judgment did not take effect... at least that's what she thought.

And in Xia De's eyes, it was another horrifying scene. The black mist symbolizing death collided with the seven-colored light symbolizing illusion that emerged behind her and then disappeared. It clearly looked like the demon's power was protecting her, the host.

However, Xia De still pretended that he had not discovered anything.

When the two retreated back to the corridor, and the door closed and the chains disappeared, a scream from the soul came from inside the room, and even Xia De felt a slight sense of dizziness. After they closed the door, they used their bodies to hold it against the door, and then amidst the violent impact, they quickly used the key that had fallen to their feet to lock the door. The door, as well as Xia De and Miss Kearns in the corridor, were both shaken, but fortunately, the door was ultimately locked by them.

Xia De then breathed a sigh of relief and summarized the enemy this time:

"He himself is a scholar who studies necromancy and souls. In fact, he is still considered a living person, so he had a torch when he first came here a long time ago. But after transforming his own soul into what it is now, he already has the potential to become an evil thing that can continue to exist even at the end of the world."

"Isn't the end of the world a bit of an exaggeration?"

The black-haired huntress, who was smiling and leaning against the door, said. This was the first time Xia De had seen her smile.

"Not an exaggeration. After all, I have seen similar things, but this is the first time I've seen one that was artificially manufactured. What exactly did it do to itself?"

This question was destined to have no answer, but the fact that no similar things had appeared before the end of the world seemed to indicate that the other party's technology could not be replicated, or at least had not been spread, which was good news.

The two who successfully completed the task were both relieved, but the corridor was not a safe place after all, and they could not stay here forever.

【Ten more minutes.】

"She" whispered, reminding Xia De that this time-adventure was coming to an end. Thinking that he originally had twice as much time to continue exploring the secrets of this hotel and his companions, and even had the chance to see the traces left by the werewolf girl from the past, Xia De felt even more hatred for the 【House of Falsehood】.

He now fully understood Dr. Schneider's emotions.

"The walls of the 【House of Falsehood】 can actually be broken through in other ways."

When they continued on their way and saw that Xia De's mood seemed a bit bad, Miss Kearns thought he was worried about what would happen later. Xia De had already mentioned the matter of the 【House of Falsehood】 in front of the fireplace just now, so she knew the problem Xia De was currently facing:

"I have read a record, and it is said that weapons made from unicorn horns can briefly break through the walls of the 【House of Falsehood】. This is what was said in the notes left by predecessors... I have a short dagger here made primarily of unicorn horn, which I usually use for self-defense. I'll give this to you, Mr. Hamilton. Although it may not necessarily be useful, it is at least worth a try."

As she spoke, she reached toward her skirt. To facilitate movement, the skirt she was wearing was actually more like armor or similar equipment. The dagger should have been tied to the inside of her thigh, which was the last means for girls to protect themselves.