Chapter 89: The Forest of Sunken Corpses

Finally, it was getting late and darkness fell.

On the Gullard warship, a clean execution knife in the distance killed the Iron Masked Warlock. After picking up the dropped items, he jumped off the warship and landed on the Spirit Fire Ship.

On the way back to the city, he also took stock of today's harvest.

[Execution Gloves (Excellent)]

[Type: Weapon]

[Effect: Slightly enhances the damage of Gulad's spell, and the spirit +1 when held]

[Explanation: It was cast by the skilled craftsmen of the Gurad Empire. It contains ingenuity and gave up the ordinary staff shape. Its function and power are not weak at all, but perhaps only a specially trained iron-faced warlock can. Wave your fingers. 】

The execution gloves are completely black, with some golden edges on the palms, and the back of the hands is inlaid with light gray steel scales. The power of the spirit can flow smoothly through them, so that the spellcasting effect is not inferior to that of the staff.

Beautiful and practical.

After putting on the execution gloves from a distance, gather your mental strength and put your palms forward.

Not long after, the red magic ball began to condense, and the blood stone exploded and flew out quickly, without affecting its power at all.

At present, players have basically clear information about the profession of spiritual mage.

First of all, a mage does not necessarily need a staff to attack. If the spiritual attribute is strong, he can also rub the magic ball with his hands.

However, the damage is very low, and the killing range will be greatly reduced.

This is similar to a warrior fighting without weapons, but a mage without a spell-casting weapon is much weaker than a warrior using fists.

Then, Yuanfang took out another trophy.

[Gulad Iron Mask (Excellent)]

[Type: Accessories]

[Effect: Slightly increase your casting speed (this accessory and certain equipment cannot be worn at the same time). 】

[Explanation: For most people, they have never seen the Qurad Law, but the majesty of the law is firmly engraved in everyone's heart, because the punishment for breaking the law comes from the iron face, and the iron face Symbolizes coldness and death. 】

Yuan Fang tried to put it on, but found that it was blocked by the garrison commander's helmet on his head.

This made him frown slightly.

Afterwards, after taking off the helmet of the garrison commander, he finally put on the Gulad Iron Mask.

But he still tried to put it on again.

But obviously, the equipment that cannot be worn at the same time as Grad's Iron Mask is the helmet...

After many unsuccessful attempts, Yuanfang finally gave up.

Without the helmet, the slightly damaged ghost cloak looked quite stylish on his shoulders.

…

"Goodbye, Miss Nonia, I'll come see you after I get off work!"

After Guagua waved goodbye to Nonia with a smile, he logged off and went to work.

Seeing that the number of players on Zhuxing Island was significantly reduced, Nonia was slightly relieved.

Although she had made some mental preparations before coming, when she actually saw these warriors summoned by Rogge, she still felt a little... incredible.

They... seem to have no sense of crisis in a broken world.

Nonia didn't know why, and she couldn't quite understand the online and offline information.

But in her opinion, perhaps these Mr. Rogge's warriors should come from a peaceful and stable world...

"How does it feel?"

At this time, a tall body appeared beside her and asked.

"...They are a group of passionate and brave warriors."

"I'd love to be friends with them if I could."

Nonia looked at the spiritual candle swaying in the night on the coast and said seriously.

Rogge shook his head and smiled: "Haha, they must be a group of strange guys, and...didn't you hear that some of them wanted to kill you with a sword? Aren't you scared? Do you still want to make friends with them?"

If he were an aborigine of this world, he would definitely feel strange when seeing such a group of people and become extremely vigilant.

Especially an outlaw player like Niu Niu. If Rogge hadn't been able to cure him, he would have started to become a monster.

"A little bit." Nonia did not deny it, but she then added: "But I see that most of them are very friendly."

After saying that, she smiled at Rogge.

"Same as you."

Very friendly?

Rogge didn't know how she saw it, and he still didn't fully trust her.

"Let's go and continue interpreting the notes."

After Rogge finished speaking, he paused.

"And don't mention my name to them."

"You already said it, I remember it." Nonia responded softly.

Although she was also curious about why Rogge didn't want these warriors to know his name, she didn't ask. Just like the relationship between Rogge, Lingzhu, and these warriors,

There are some things that when someone wants to tell you, there is no need to ask.

…

Thanks to the unremitting efforts of the players, the offshore situation has finally been explored.

The monster content of this large map is undoubtedly rich.

Apart from the two bosses, the Graad Warship and the Flower of Drowning, the only ones left are the Plunderer, some small plundering sailboats, and some fish monsters in the sea, which are similar to those in the offshore area of ​​Zhuxin Island.

However, in addition to monsters, players also made new discoveries.

"Puff..."

The scheming frog is leading several frogmen players to explore deeper waters.

Suddenly, a player let out a big breath, as if he was frightened by something.

Everyone looked at him in surprise, and the latter pointed forward.

When the others looked in the direction he pointed, they were all shocked.

They saw a pile of vaguely visible corpses floating in a kelp bush in front of them.

These corpses had their hands tied, their ankles were firmly tied to a stone, and they were floating in the water with white corals in their mouths, moving with the current.

And the most horrifying thing was that there seemed to be some white souls attached to these corpses.

They looked like balloons tied to ropes, and there were so many of them that you couldn't even see the end at a glance...

The scheming frog's heartbeat also stagnated at this scene.

But soon, he calmed down and thought of the big map boss, the drowned flower.

After thinking for a while, he gestured to the others, saying that he wanted to go in and check it out.

A slightly timid player shook his head violently, and then swam towards the surface of the water.

Seeing this, the scheming frog didn't say much, but swam in by himself, preparing to search these corpses one by one for clues.

As the scheming frog moved forward, he seemed to hear some sounds.

A white corpse was originally staring at the front, but was pushed by the current to face the scheming frog who was looking elsewhere.

This made him, who was concentrating, suddenly freeze.

Then, he heard the whispering and wailing of the soul in the corpse in front of him.

[It hurts so much... Why can't you just kill me...]

Damn, this game always makes very detailed things in some inexplicable things...

The scheming frog thought to himself, and then he realized that the souls in these corpses seemed to have something like last words before death.

After thinking for a while, he suppressed the urge to leave here and began to listen to the last words of these souls one by one.

[It's obviously the damn bitch's fault for wearing revealing clothes. Why wasn't she the one who was sunk into the sea? I hate it...]

[Herzaken, harsh and cold-blooded emperor, I curse you...]

[...You damn woman, why did you believe in that damn sect, and even implicated me...]

[This is a dead country, evil Heerzaken, you will die without a burial place...]

[My omnipotent Lord, please save your faithful believers...]

[...]

The more the Scheming Frog listened, the brighter his eyes became.

This is a bit creepy, but it reveals a lot of information!

If you tell this to the storyteller, this kid will definitely jump for joy!

While listening, the Scheming Frog found a stone tablet in the middle of these corpses.

After turning it over with great effort, the Scheming Frog saw a passage engraved on it.

[Suppress the pain and resentment here. The sinners who violate the law must also be imprisoned. ]

After the scheming frog turned it over, it quickly returned to its original appearance.

It was obvious that it was integrated with the surrounding environment.

After listening for a while, the scheming frog surfaced.

After taking a look at the sky, he wrote down this location and prepared to go back and inform the storyteller.

…

Li Miao just finished class that day, and when he was about to log in to the game, he caught a glimpse of a hot post on the forum.

[Analysis of the background story of Lingzhu in the second issue, the harsh laws of the Guraid Empire, and the new check-in point "Forest of Corpses"]

The author of the post below is naturally the "storyteller".

"Wow, the storyteller has updated again, let's take a look first."

Just when he was about to click on the video, he suddenly paused.

Then he took off his helmet, turned on the computer that had not been used for a long time, opened the storyteller's video on the small broken site, and took out a bunch of braised snacks.

"Not bad, it goes well with rice."

After nodding with satisfaction, Li Miao ate snacks while watching the video.

[Hello, everyone, I am the storyteller...]

It was still the familiar opening remarks, the familiar stacking of armor, and then slowly entered the main topic.

[...Okay, I won't say much nonsense, let's continue with our main topic today, the background story analysis of the virtual reality game "Spirit Candle". ]

[I believe that many friends have watched the storyteller's last video and learned about the Law Knight who was polluted by rot, which is the boss of the Exile Island. ]

[However, the protagonist of today's storyteller is not it, but its affiliated forces (snap, fan sound)...Gulard Empire. ]

[To listen to a good story, you need a good device...]

"You are still on Guangzi!"

Li Miao rolled his eyes and skipped it directly.

[...As we all know, as the plot of our Spirit Candle game progresses, the candlekeeper has anchored the Exile Island again and unlocked the new map offshore, which is the large map of the game. 】

【In this large map near the sea of ​​the Exiled Island, we will not mention other monsters for now, and only focus on two monsters, "Drowning Flower" and "Iron-faced Warlock". 】

Speaking of this, the storyteller also kindly gave two image pictures.

【Well, considering that the appearance of the boss Drowning Flower is really a bit curious, the storyteller will not release it here to spoil everyone's appetite. Friends who are interested can go to the Lingzhu Forum to search for it by themselves. 】

[Let's get back to the point. The Drowned Flower and the Iron-faced Warlock, two seemingly unrelated monsters, are actually closely related in the storyteller's opinion. It can even be said that the appearance of the former is most likely caused by the Iron-faced Warlock. ]

[The reason for this is that after careful and focused investigation, the storyteller found clues from many equipment items in the game. ]

[The most obvious sentence is the description of the equipment "Gulard Iron-faced". ]

["The punishment for breaking the law comes from the Iron-faced, and the Iron-faced symbolizes coldness and death." From this sentence, it is not difficult to see that the laws of the Gulard Empire are extremely strict and have strong enforcement, which has made most people in the empire tremble with fear. ]

[And the executor of the law is the Iron-faced Warlock. 】

【At this point, if we look back at the description of the monster Drowning Flower and the equipment information it drops, it is not difficult to know that tying people and sinking them into the sea by tying them to stones is most likely one of the punishments of the Guraid Empire. 】

【The storyteller has been paying attention to these two pieces of information for a long time. The reason why there has been no video is because there is no way to be completely sure. 】

【The reason why we can update today is that we have to mention our old friend Frog, who has made great contributions this time. 】

【In a place on the seabed behind the Exile Island, Frog discovered a very scary place. Let's call it the "Sunken Corpse Forest". 】

【Just by listening to the name, you know what the scary thing about this place is. The storyteller simply describes it to everyone. It's like the hydrogen balloons all over the street, but the ropes are not hanging balloons, but corpses that have sunk to the bottom of the sea...】

【And the punishment of the Guraid Empire does not seem to end when they die, but imprison their souls together and torture them for a long time. ]

[That’s why, after entering the Forest of Sunken Corpses, we can hear the “last words” of many souls. ]

[We can get a lot of information from these last words. ]

[Apart from some meaningless last words, the storyteller sorted out four very useful sentences. ]

The first two sentences are curses on the Guraid Emperor Helzaken, praying to “my omnipotent Lord”.

The key sentences of the last two sentences are “Iron-faced Warlock, you cruel executioner, I will definitely drag you into the water” and “The storm will not stop the reckoning of Guraid”.

[The information of these four sentences will be very large. ]

[First, the Guraid Emperor, we learned his name “Helzaken”, this character is expected to appear later. ]

[The second is the executed prisoner praying to “my omnipotent Lord”, which should be contrary to the laws believed in by the Guraid Empire, and it is estimated that this is also the origin of his crime. 】

【Then there is the curse of the Iron-faced Warlock as the executioner, which basically confirms that the appearance of the Drowned Flower is inseparable from the Iron-faced Warlock. 】

【After all, the corpses in the sea near the Exile Island may all be sunk by him. 】

【By the way, the box in the Gurad warship, which is the Iron-faced Warlock's private box, the equipment information in it directly leads to another name "Law Guardian". It seems that it is in the same camp as the Iron-faced Warlock and may appear in the future. The storyteller will bury a pit here. 】

【As for the last sentence, it obviously echoes the Storm Lord mentioned before, and basically confirms the hostile relationship between the two forces. 】

【In short, through these fragmentary information, we roughly pieced together some information about this important force "Gurad Empire". 】

【This is an empire based on the Gurad Law, led by Emperor Helzaken, with strict laws and strong control over the entire empire. 】

【However, under the strict laws, there are also many lawbreakers. They include believers of other faiths and unknown sects who are ready to make a move...】

【So, what kind of empire is this? Its full picture is still mysterious, waiting for us to further explore and uncover...】

【Okay, let's talk about this issue...】

Next time.

After throwing away the garbage in his hand, Li Miao closed the computer directly and put on the virtual reality helmet.

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