Law of the Swarm

Chapter 139 The Palace

Aura was still holding onto the ring and seemed to be reading the words on the inner wall of the ring, while Shava immediately moved to System's side to be vigilant.

"Where is this place?"

System sent a spiritual message to Ola while turning his head to look around. He found that there seemed to be no windows in this hall this time, and only these magic lamps that resembled candles emitted light.

After waiting for a while, Ola seemed to want to understand something, and sent a spiritual message: "The key of the shadow..."

"The Key of Shadow? Why is there such a strange name here?"

Aura didn't seem to hear System's question, but instead sent a spiritual message to System, saying to herself, "The key to the shadow, that's what the text on this ring means."

"..."

System snatched the ring from Aura's foot, and at the same time sent a very angry spiritual message to Aura.

"I'm talking about where this is, not the words on the ring."

And Ola, who was robbed of the ring, finally found that the place they were in had changed.

At this time, he was no longer in the empty room of System's lair, but appeared in a strange palace.

Aura turned her head to look around and said with a blank expression, "System, where is this? It seems to be a demiplane."

"Demiplane? What's that?"

System asked Ola, and Ola showed a pensive expression again, and continued to recall.

Looking at the dazed Aura, System wanted to stretch out his tentacles to torture the lazy butterfly.

But after thinking about it, System finally sighed helplessly.

Ignoring the butterfly who was still thinking, System looked towards the corridor next to the palace hall and walked over at the same time.

……

Although it appeared here inexplicably, System's [intuition] didn't give off any sense of danger.

Apart from him, Sawa and Aura, there seemed to be no other existence in this palace, and System's tentacles did not hear any movement other than the three of them.

Scattered skeletons would appear in the corridor every now and then. Most of these skeletons were human or elf skeletons, not jackals or ratmen as System guessed.

There is no flesh and blood on the piled bones, and there is no musty smell in the palace. It seems that these bones have been processed, and the pile is only for decoration, to enhance the eerie atmosphere here.

System quickly moved to a pile of bones, broke off a small bone fragment with his tentacles, and chewed it in his mouth at the same time.

The bones may have been completely air-dried because they have been left for too long. They are crispy and have a good taste, but the taste is very average, with only a faint chocolate flavor.

It is estimated that these bones have been placed for at least decades, or hundreds of years.

And these bones made System a little more at ease.

These bones can be completely eaten as food, and Ola can make ice cubes, and their water source is also guaranteed, at least in a short period of time, they will not starve to death due to lack of food.

The corridor that System walks in is about tens of meters long, the corridor is about four meters high, and the width is about six meters. On both sides of the corridor, there will be a picture frame made of bones every few meters, with black shadows on it. Some of the portraits also have a strange red eye.

If System's expectations are correct, this place is undoubtedly a palace dedicated to Rafal, the God of Shadow and Curse, or a temple.

But this temple should not have been built by the Ratmen.

It wasn't that System questioned the Ratman's ability, but that the many magic candles and Rafal's portrait in this palace were arranged a little higher.

Since Ratmen generally have a height of about one meter, these portraits would not be placed at a height of about 1.7 meters. This height is more like that of creatures as tall as humans.

……

After walking out of this corridor, System appeared in a round hall with a height of more than ten meters. In the very center of the palace, there was a seven-meter-high statue of Rafal.

The statue was carved so lifelike that Rafal's red eyes just glanced at it, and he seemed to be deeply involved in it.

There seems to be a pool with a diameter of nearly 20 meters under the statue of Rafal, but what exists in the pool is not water, but various skeletons.

System also saw a nearly two-meter-long skull of a giant dragon in the pool.

It was much smaller than Aola's original faucet. System swallowed the mucus inadvertently released from the glands in his throat, and chose to leave.

System was a bit apprehensive about Rafal's god statue, and after taking a look at it from a distance, he found nothing unusual, and then moved to the corridor on the other side of the hall...

The entire palace seemed very empty, except for the blue-gray stone walls and black floor tiles, there were only three common things, bones, portraits, and magic candles.

The structure of the palace is also very simple, a hall more than ten meters high, connected to corridors tens of meters away on both sides, and the end of one of the corridors is connected to several rooms.

The structures of several rooms are similar, and there are some test benches, on which are placed bottles and jars like ratman wizards, which seem to be bottles containing plague germs, but after unscrewing a few, System found that these bottles contained The plague bacteria had lost their activity and all died.

There is also an underground passage in one of the rooms, leading to a prison cell.

There were also some torture instruments in the cell, some iron chains, and some knives and tools that System didn't know.

System also found a dead body in the cell. The flesh and blood on the surface of the body had already dried up. Looking at the pointed ears on the head of the body, System speculated that it should be an elf.

But apart from this elf, System didn't find anything more.

This temple does not have any windows, and this temple does not have any exits.

……

After searching back and forth in this temple for several hours, System finally stopped helplessly, and looked at Butterfly Aura who was fiddling with the black gemstone ring again.

It was this black gemstone ring that brought them here, so it is very possible to use this ring to make the three of System and the others leave.

However, Ola vowed to play with this ring for a long time, and nothing happened. The gray light that brought the three of them here never appeared again.

And just now, Ola gradually expressed what seemed to be panic.

Although Ola still pretended to be calm on the surface, and told System not to worry.

But System knew that it would be very difficult to rely on Aura to leave here with that ring.

Now there is only one way to leave this palace, and that is to personally carve the statue of Rafal to communicate with this evil god.

Communicating with the evil god is somewhat dangerous, but there is still a great chance of leaving here through a method similar to sacrifice.

But looking at Aura who was fiddling with the black gemstone ring, System suddenly had an idea.

Why is it him to communicate with the evil god?
Aura can also communicate with the evil god and become a believer of the evil god.

Isn't it fair that you have to bear the responsibility for the mistakes you make?

(End of this chapter)