Whispering Poems

Chapter 701 Abnormalities in the Sin Mansion

"Sorry, what did you say?"

The word "Scholar of Original Sin" is not in the Delarion language. Shad reacted for a while before he could barely understand the meaning:

"What is an original sin scholar?"

"Then you are not."

The weird old man shook his head, and led Xia De back to the hall:

"Your sin is high enough to go to the highest floor. Come with me, guest, and you will get what you want."

After finishing speaking, he stopped talking to Xia De and walked towards the direction of the stairs again.Xia De immediately followed. If there is no guide in the [Sin Mansion] and he walks casually, he will be easily attacked by the things that live here.

The interior decoration style of this building is quite uniform, somewhat similar to the appearance of those old aristocratic houses after gas pipes were installed.The golden decoration on the stairs and the oil paintings on the cracked walls all show the grandeur of this ordinary house.

But the red carpet on the ground made Xia De feel strongly uneasy.Because in the observation of [Blood Echo], there is a red halo almost everywhere on this carpet, which means that this carpet can almost be regarded as dyed with blood.

Not long after, they came to the third floor, and the stairs extended to the left and right sides with corridors.The corridor has windows on one side and rooms on the other.There were rusty yellow metal number plates on every door, but the number plates were empty.

But before the old man with the lantern led Xia De to choose a direction to turn, the ground suddenly shook.

"earthquake?"

The vibration is not very strong, and it does not even affect the stability of the ground.However, with the shaking of the building itself, Xia De heard the sound of an explosion on the second floor.At the same time, in the horrific portraits on the wall, the faces of all the people looked down in unison, and it seemed that something went wrong downstairs.

"What's going on? There's another earthquake in Mount Sika? Or is there something wrong with this house?"

[New changes have appeared in the sin mansion. While the ground is shaking, the malice here has deepened. 】

"This way."

The old man with the lantern didn't pay attention to the strange vibration, and Shade's inquiry was not answered.

He led Xia De to the left, and after opening the third door, motioned him to enter and wait:
"The trader in the mansion will be here soon, please wait a moment, guest."

When Xia De walked in, the door was closed by the stooped old man.

Xia De took a look at the room. It was a rather large bedroom with a four-poster bed hung with pink curtains and tulle, a desk, a wardrobe and other furniture that looked like antiques.There are even two small doors on one side, leading to the bathroom and cloakroom. Shad has seen similar room structures in Miss Galina's manor and Aurora's mansion in Coldwater Harbour.

The room is still dark, only the gas lamp on the desk is on. The gas lamp is quite classical in shape, completely different from the popular style in 1853.Xia De didn't go to the desk, but turned around and grabbed the doorknob. After testing, he found that the door was locked, but if he opened it with the [Door Key], it could be opened.

"The next step is to wait. Judging from the experience of ring warlocks who have walked out of here in the past, some traders will ask me what I want to get from the mansion. And among the middle options that are not easy to notice on the list, there are those who use their own sins as a reward. The price, the option to leave here."

Thinking in my heart, I walked to the desk.A blank sheet of paper was upside down on the table under the desk lamp, and Xia De was taken aback. When he entered here just now, there seemed to be nothing under the desk lamp.

The eyes have already caught the traces on the paper, on which a long-haired woman sitting in a rocking chair is outlined with very thin pencil lines.

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

"Ok?"

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

Dang!

The end of the long black hair actually shot out from the painting, trying to pierce Xia De's forehead like an arrow, but was blocked by the blade of the night watchman's long sword.

"No, doesn't the information say that the current stage is completely safe? I haven't done anything illegal!"

Thinking in his heart, he pierced the air with his left hand, pulled out the bright yellow long sword, and cut off the long black hair that was trying to wrap the night watchman with his hand.Compared with the big sword, this kind of long sword is more suitable for such actions.

Xia De retreated quickly, while squinting his eyes and staring at the piece of paper:

"Fire!"

The basic spell to ignite fire, as Xia De's ring magician level increases, it is no longer the level that can only make the paper smoke.Moreover, because [Sin Mansion] improved Xia De's strength, and the elemental wine he drank at the God's Wine Party greatly enhanced the power of the spell, so the piece of paper with the whispering element was instantly ignited.

But as billowing black smoke came out, a withered blue hand actually stretched out from the page:
"This is obviously not the normal transaction process of [Sin Mansion]. What's going on? The relic is out of control?"

The chain protruded from Xia De's right sleeve and wrapped around the hilt of the long sword in his hand. The [Night Watchman] vibrated violently, as if disgusted with the [Major Sin Chains], but in the end they did not break free.

"Ah!"

He threw the silver sword violently, and the blade precisely pierced into the palm of the hand protruding from the paper.

A sharp wailing almost pierced Shad's eardrum.Black ink flowed from the cyan hand, and the gushing ink even doused the burning paper.

The hand snapped free from the blade, and the white paper with its black edges swayed violently while flying high into the air.As the page trembled violently, long black hair gushed out of the page like a river.

"Although I like girls with long black hair, this is obviously not the case."

Pulling the mortal sin chain to retract the long sword, he quickly stepped back to the wall to avoid the squirming long hair that had already landed.This is an entity, and it is difficult to cause too much damage with the burst of moonlight, and the other thaumaturgy of the moonlight series that Xia De currently masters does not have the ability to damage a large area, so——

The siren blared and the bell rang.In the turbulent steam fog, a corner of the ring of life was revealed, and the [Witch's Light] spirit rune shone with a brass aura:

"Flianna's Witch's Light!"

He stretched out the fingers of his right hand forward, and the golden light illuminated the turbulent black hair in a gesture of melting everything.As the black smoke continues to rise, the hair disappears quickly.

At the same time, Xia De raised his left hand, drawing the light of the silver moon towards the paper in the sky.The moonlight cut off the hair wrapped around the paper and disappeared, but then [Night Watchman] was thrown out again.

But this time, the blade penetrated the paper completely.

There was another ear-piercing scream, and at the same time Shade felt ringing in his ears and a headache, the paper exploded into pieces, and the black hair disappeared. After the long sword fell to the floor, the place was quiet again.

The chain contracted on the ground and made a rattling sound, and the hilt of the sword retracted into Shad's sleeve along with the chain, and was held by Xia De again.

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

Only the pieces of paper that were spontaneously combusting on the ground proved that something had indeed attacked Shad just now.

(End of this chapter)