Chapter 2765 Branding Ceremony and Key
Just as Shade expected, while he retreated, the body of the third treasure box opened, revealing the scarlet tongue inside. Before the box was lifted up to reveal the slender legs and arms underneath, the thunderbolt light penetrated directly into the open gap in the box.
“Mimics”, monsters that appear due to the sublimation of greedy desires, are not real alien creatures, but are variations of items such as “treasure boxes” due to concepts.
So even if this secret room has not been opened for tens of thousands of years since it was sealed, the originally normal box inside may turn into a Mimic. In particular, Shade also admitted that he was indeed greedy when he saw these three boxes.
Unfortunately, different Mimic Monsters have different behavioral habits. This is the third one Shade has encountered. Although the [Mimic Monster] is classified as a clerical level, in fact, based on the preciousness and antiquity of the treasures it contains, the upper limit of this thing’s power is actually quite high.
Although the one Shade encountered this time did not show characteristics such as “blocking the road” and “throwing bait”, it was definitely not just a clerical level.
The thunder gun was successfully thrown into the “mouth” of the monster that stood upright, but the thunder did not explode because the black red tongue popped out and actually pushed the thunder gun in the opposite direction. Shade:
“Can you rebound attacks? Night Seal!”
The ink-colored shield silently absorbed the silver-white thunder gun, and when the shield disappeared, the monster with two-meter-long legs like dead branches strode towards Shade. While flicking his tongue, his two hands directly grabbed Shade’s neck.
“Body of Courage!”
Shad didn’t mean to dodge, but took a deep breath and his whole body suddenly expanded until his height was exactly the same as the upright treasure box.
Then the monster’s hand changed from trying to strangle his neck to hugging Shade’s body. It suddenly tried to pick up Shade and stuff it into its mouth to gnaw, but Shade’s feet were just As soon as it left the ground, it fell back again.
Both sides of the enemy were very surprised. The Mimic didn’t understand why this human being was so powerful. Shade was surprised how the Mimic was so powerful this time.
The lid of the box opened wide again, and the black and red bacon-like tongue shot towards Shade’s throat. Shade then grabbed the tongue with his left hand, and then the huge thunder gun appeared again in his raised right hand, and this time it penetrated completely into the monster’s mouth.
The thunder gun exploded in the narrow space, and the lightning even hit Shade, the caster. But fortunately, the “rebound attack” method mastered by the Mimic this time seemed to rely on its tongue. Therefore, when the tongue was caught by Shade, the thunder gun successfully penetrated its body.
“Oh~”
After a long wailing sound, the tall monster turned into gray-white sand and quickly sprinkled the ground, and Shade’s body returned to normal size. Although it seems easy to win, that’s because Shade’s power after getting bigger just overwhelms it.
For an agile monster like “Mimic Monster”, which most attacks are only physical means and have extremely high body resistance, things will become quite troublesome once its own strength cannot match it.
The box turned into gravel, and the original contents were buried in the gravel.
Xia De bent down and rummaged around expectantly. Sure enough, he did not find the “Everything Is Impermanent” he was thinking about. Instead, he first found a strange silver metal sign. The sign was not a regular shape, but like This is the front view of the treasure chest:
“Whispering elements. Relic derivatives-[Greed Brand]!”
Xia De was really shocked now. After something like a “mimic monster” is killed, it has a very low probability of condensing its own “greedy” concept into an entity, thus generating a “greedy brand”. That is what Shade is holding in his hand.
As a relic token, it has the same rating as the Mimic itself, which is also clerical. The negative characteristic is that it greatly enhances the wearer’s own greed, while the positive characteristic is that when encountering a scenario of “probability of obtaining something”, such as “probability of obtaining a Greedy Brand by killing a Mimic”, wearing this silver medal will increase the chance of obtaining something. The probability of the item.
Because this kind of relic derivative does not need to be worn close to the body for a long time, it can be worn on the body when needed, so its negative characteristics can be avoided to a certain extent. This also makes this relic derivative extremely valuable.
But people value its collection value more than its practical value. After all, if Shade remembers correctly, the total of all existing [Greed Brands] will not exceed 30 yuan:
“Do I really have this kind of luck?”
Then he thought of a rather serious problem:
“Wait a minute, [Greed Brand] isn’t something that was originally in this box, is it?”
The “she” in my ear laughed again, but fortunately Shade guessed wrong.
He bent down and searched quickly in the pile of sand a few times before discovering something new. It’s just that it’s not the Impermanence Card, nor is it a glass-shaped “time fragment”, but a very familiar emerald green leaf:
“[Youthless Leaf]?”
This touch did not trigger [Ancient Voice], which probably means that this secret room was established in the Second Era, but two items from the First Era were put into it.
Xia De looked at the leaf suspiciously, his first reaction was disappointment, but then he thought that the leaf was more than just a leaf:
“There will be power and information here?”
He raised his head skillfully and put this brand new leaf in front of his eyes. As the golden light traces flowed along the veins of the leaf, a piece of information appeared in Shade’s mind out of thin air.
This information points to an ancient ritual, the “Proof of Time,” which involves finding a giant tree in the forest and digging a pool beneath it. Holding the “Eternal Youth Leaf” in his mouth, he jumped into the pool carrying an item related to time such as a clock, an hourglass, etc.
Ten minutes later he resurfaced from the water and left his name on the tree. In this way, the ritual is completed, and as long as the name on the tree is not destroyed and the person carries the pocket watch or hourglass as a “proof of time,” then the person who completes the ritual will not enter other times due to accidents.
Of course, if there is no “Eternal Youth Leaf”, a magical item called “Time Cicada” can also be made through alchemy. This kind of magical item can also play a role similar to the immortal leaf in this ritual. However, judging from the information obtained by Shade, this kind of magical item is expensive and requires the power of a **** related to time. Make.
“Avoid entering other times? With this ritual, others can come to the Vista Grove with confidence.”
He thought this, and then pulled the pile of sand doubtfully:
“That’s all? No more?”
The seeds that can be planted in the tree hole, the crown that symbolizes the elf kingship, and the ritual that can prevent being affected by the power of the tree hole are certainly very good, but Shade tried his best to unlock the “Temple of Time” The secret is not for this.
“What about the ‘time fragments’ that lift the time curse? Where are the clues related to the Chosen One Ritual? Couldn’t this be the Chosen One Ritual?”
Of course, the ceremony of the chosen one will not be that simple. Even the simplest ceremony of Iluna’s “Hanging Sacrifice” in exchange for power and knowledge is much more complicated than this.
But there was really nothing else in the pile of sand. When the confused Shade stood up, he didn’t know whether he should be happy with the harvest or disappointed that he didn’t find what he was looking for.
But he did not leave immediately, because outsiders knew from the many stories he had read in the past that there might be a secret room inside the secret room. The “Temple of Time” in the forest has a hidden passage behind the secret room that is a good example.
Then the life ring appeared, and the spiritual light of the [Time and Space] spirit rune illuminated the surrounding walls. Shade originally just wanted to give it a try, but he didn’t expect that under the spiritual light, something actually appeared on the wall facing the stairs.
But this time it was not a hidden passage that was revealed, but a small square hidden grid that appeared on the wall. Although the [Time and Space] spirit rune was still used, Shade felt that the power of time rather than space was at work this time.
There is no need to solve the puzzle this time. There is a wooden key floating in the secret compartment. This is of course a time key that Shade is familiar with, so Shade is even more puzzled:
“What does this mean? And why is the color of this key so dark?”
Thinking in his mind, he reached out to grab the key, but suddenly there was a sound of wind behind him, and Shade turned around subconsciously. As his body turned, the yellow moonlight sword appeared in his hand and swept across. With a ding~ sound, the moonlight sword was shattered by the pointer tied to his hair.
In the sky full of orange light, the brass pointer continued to pierce Shade’s face unabated, but he turned his head and dodged it. So the pointer touched the time key in the secret compartment behind Shade. When the two came into contact, the key was tightly attached to the pointer.
Just when the hair wanted to pull the pointer and the key back, Shade’s hand grabbed the woman’s hair first. In a flash of silver moonlight, the tough hair had been cut off.
Shad reached out to grab the pointer and key with the whispering elements, but they disappeared out of thin air before his eyes.
He looked up at the stairs. He looked like he was in his forties. His naturally curvy long black hair was braided into thirteen bunches. The lower end of each bunch of hanging hair was tied with twelve metallic clock hands. The “clockmaker” has held the hands and keys.
Her left eye, which resembled a glass bead with a dial inside, shone slightly, and she found the scene where the secret room was completely underground ten minutes ago:
“Time returns!”