Chapter 685: Abnormalities in the Sin Mansion

"Sorry, what did you say?"

The term "Original Sin Scholar" is not Delarion language; Xia De reacted for a while before barely understanding the meaning:

"What is an Original Sin Scholar?"

"Then you are not."

That strange old man shook his head and led Xia De back toward the foyer:

"Your sin is high enough to go to the highest floor. Guest, please follow me, you will get what you want."

After speaking, he stopped paying attention to Xia De and walked toward the stairs again. Xia De immediately followed. In the 【Sin Mansion】, if there is no guide and one walks around randomly, it is very easy to be attacked by things living here.

The interior decoration style of this building is quite unified, somewhat like the appearance of those old noble houses after gas pipes were installed. The gold decorations on the stairs, as well as the oil paintings on the cracked walls, all highlight the grand occasion when this place was still an ordinary house.

However, the red carpet on the ground made Xia De feel strong unease. Because in the observation of 【Blood Echo】, almost every place on this carpet has a red halo, which means this carpet can almost be considered to have been dyed like this with fresh blood.

Not long after, they came to the third floor, and the corridor extended to the left and right sides from the top of the stairs. On one side of the corridor were windows, and on the other side were rooms. On each door was a rusty yellow metal doorplate, but those doorplates were empty.

But before the old man with the lantern could lead Xia De to choose a direction to turn, the ground suddenly vibrated.

"Earthquake?"

It was not a very strong vibration, and it didn't even affect standing firmly on the ground. It's just that, with the vibration of the building itself, Xia De heard the sound of an explosion coming from the second floor. At the same time, in those terrifying portrait paintings on the wall, the human faces all looked downward in unison, as if something had gone wrong downstairs.

"What's going on? Did Mount Sikar have an earthquake again? Or did this house have an accident?"

【The Sin Mansion has undergone new changes; while the ground vibrates, the malice here has deepened.】

"This way."

The old man with the lantern didn't care about this strange vibration, and Xia De's inquiry didn't get an answer either.

He led Xia De toward the left corridor, opened the third door, and signaled him to enter and wait:

"The trader in the mansion will be here soon, please wait a moment, guest."

After Xia De walked in, the door was closed by the old man with the hunched waist.

Xia De observed the room. This is a bedroom with a fairly large area. A four-poster bed with pink curtains and thin gauze, a desk, a wardrobe, etc., which look like antiques, are all available. There are even two small doors on one side, leading to the washroom and cloakroom. Xia De has seen similar room structures in Miss Galina's manor and the Aurora Mansion in Coldwater Harbor.

The room is still dim, and only the gas desk lamp on the desk is on. The style of that gas lamp is quite classical, which is completely different from the popular style of 1853. Xia De didn't walk toward the desk but turned around and grasped the doorknob. After testing, he found that this door was locked, but if he opened the door with the 【Key of Doors】, he could also open it.

"Next is waiting. Judging from the experience of Ringed Shushi who have walked out of here in the past, a trader will ask me what I want to obtain from the mansion in a while. And in the middle options where the list is not easy to notice, there is an option to leave here at the cost of increasing one's own sin."

Thinking in his heart, he walked toward the desk. A piece of white paper was placed face down on the desk under the desk lamp. Xia De was stunned; it seemed that there was nothing under the desk lamp when he entered here just now.

His eyes had already captured the traces on the paper surface. On it, with very fine pencil lines, a woman with long hair sitting in a rocking chair was outlined.

The woman's body occupies less than one-fifth of the area of this paper, but her hair occupies almost one-third of the paper surface. Because it was only outlined with simple lines, the woman's face only had simple facial features. When Xia De gazed at that face, that face actually smiled.

"Hmm?"

A fatal sense of crisis made Xia De subconsciously raise the sword in his hand. This time, he was faster than the reaction speed of the sword in his hand.

Clang!

The tail end of the pitch-black long hair actually shot out from the painting, wanting to pierce Xia De's forehead like an arrow, but was blocked by the blade of the Night Watcher long sword.

"No, the information didn't say that there would be this kind of attack, right? I didn't do anything against the rules!"

Thinking in his heart, his left hand pierced into the air, pulled out the bright yellow long sword, and cut off the black long hair that wanted to wrap around the Night Watcher with a flick of his hand. Compared to a greatsword, this kind of long sword is more suitable for such actions.

Xia De retreated quickly, and at the same time squinted his eyes to gaze at that piece of paper:

"Ignite!"

Basic miracle Ignite; as Xia De's Ringed Shushi level improved, it was no longer just to the extent of making the paper smoke. Even more because of the improvement of Xia De's strength by the 【Sin Mansion】, and the elemental wine drunk at the God's Banquet made the power of the miracle greatly enhanced, so that piece of paper with whisper elements was ignited at once.

But as rolling black smoke emerged, a withered cyan hand actually stretched out from the paper page:

"This is clearly not the normal trading process of the 【Sin Mansion】; what on earth is going on? Is the relic out of control?"

The chain extended from Xia De's right sleeve and wrapped around the hilt of the long sword in his hand. 【Night Watcher】 vibrated violently, as if disgusted by the 【Chain of Sin】, but didn't break free in the end.

"Ha!"

He threw the silver sword violently, and the blade accurately pierced the palm of that hand stretching out from the paper page.

A sharp wail almost pierced Xia De's eardrums. Black ink flowed out from the cyan hand, and the gushing ink even extinguished the burning paper page.

That hand struggled free from the blade violently, and the white paper with black edges fluttered to the high sky while shaking violently. With the violent trembling of the paper page, black long hair surging like river water surged out from the paper page.

"Although I like girls with black long hair, it's clearly not this kind."

Pulling the Chain of Sin to take back the long sword, he retreated quickly to the wall to avoid those black hairs that had already landed and were squirming. This is a physical entity, and it is difficult to cause much damage with the erupting moonlight, and the other miracles of the moonlight series that Xia De currently masters do not have large-scale damage capabilities, so—

Whistles roared, bells rang. In the surging steam fog, a corner of the Fate Ring was revealed, and the 【Witch's Light】 Spirit Rune flickered with brass spiritual light:

"Felianna's Witch's Light!"

He extended his right hand fingers forward, and the golden light shone on the surging black hair in a posture of melting everything. As black smoke continued to rise, the hair disappeared quickly.

At the same time, Xia De's left hand raised, drawing the moonlight toward the paper page in the sky. The moonlight disappeared after cutting off the hair wrapping the paper page, but immediately after, 【Night Watcher】 was thrown again.

And this time, the blade completely pierced through that piece of paper.

Another ear-piercing scream, and at the same time that Xia De appeared to have tinnitus and headache, that piece of paper exploded into fragments, and the black hair also disappeared. After the long sword fell to the floor, it returned to quiet here again.

The chain retracted on the ground, making a clattering sound, and the hilt retracted into Xia De's sleeve along with the chain, and was grasped by Xia De again.

He observed every part of the room vigilantly to prevent other attacks, but there were no other abnormal phenomena in the room.

Only the paper fragments burning spontaneously on the ground proved that something had indeed actively attacked Xia De just now. ===== CHAPTER 686 =====