novelonline Chapter 3400 Buying money for traveling
Chapter 3400 Buying money for traveling
Chapter 3400 Buying money for traveling
The metal collision sent out sparks, the chain broke, and the shovel in Shad's hand turned into dust and disappeared.
"The basic rule of this wasteland is that you need a shovel to open all tombs. This is also a special tomb."
Shade explained his actions, untied the chain, and pushed open the gate with a creaking sound. The sound seemed to echo directly in their souls, and Miss Liad's skin immediately broke out in goose bumps.
"Follow closely, be careful."
Shade and Miss Violet were still walking in front. There were only some tombstones standing in the temple courtyard inside the fence, and there was nothing worth looking at. They originally wanted to go directly up the steps to the temple gate, but at this moment, the sound of rattling chains and heavy footsteps came from the right side of the temple building.
When the group looked over there, a tall figure was slowly walking out from the corner. It was a three-meter-tall humanoid creature, wrapped in a tattered black cloak, with a black iron coffin on his back, which was entangled with his body by chains.
Its left hand held one end of the chain, and its right hand held a huge shovel that matched its height. Apart from its height, it looked no different from an ordinary human. Although its cloak had a hood, it did not wear it, and there were four eyes on its head.
"This is the gravedigger of the coffin."
The Hound quickly warned, then took his daughter and hid under the skirt of Miss Liad, who was at the end of the team.
The gravedigger's four eyes looked at the group of people at the door:
"You are all grave robbers!"
The sound was like someone scratching glass with their fingernails, and then it continued to move towards the group at a slow speed. The huge shovel in his hand was attached with black light, and at the same time, the coffin wrapped with chains behind him began to shake violently, as if something was about to come out, which undoubtedly meant that it was preparing to attack.
Miss Violet and Sister Belen were about to raise their hands to fight, but Shade stopped them:
"We don't have time to fight it. We need to stay in good shape to face the situation in the temple. Now that we have come this far, I think we should try to see what kind of power this is."
He raised his right arm, with the back of his right hand facing forward and the palm facing his right eye. As the spirit was activated, the golden holy emblem of the Death God on the back of his hand immediately appeared, and when his arm was lowered, the holy emblem had already been branded into Shade's right eye.
[Outsider, the Death Mark can be used the remaining times (2/3).]
Obviously no one had taught him how to use this power, but at this moment, controlling this power was as easy as controlling the Vientiane card. Shade swung his arm forward, and a huge black sickle burning with black fire appeared out of thin air, directly cutting the tall "gravedigger" in half.
The whole process was completely unimpeded, and the gravedigger's body and the coffin on his back were broken into two pieces. The broken body and coffin fell to the ground and turned into a pool of black dust.
"It's pure death."
The Demigod Witch couldn't help but sigh, and then saw the mark on the back of Shade's hand fading. The mark became a little lighter, and the power contained in it was indeed amazing.
"The Ghoul Marquis has let us go, and the Swelling Lady and the Gravedigger have temporarily withdrawn. There are no more obstacles in our way."
Shade did not pay attention to his own achievements, but spoke to his companions.
Except for Miss Violet, no one else dared to comment on the power that Shade had just used. The moment he swung the black sickle, they seemed to see a purer death in this land of the dead than here.
Because the gravedigger was only cut in half, and did not die miserably like the "Swelling Lady" whose whole body exploded, so after it disappeared, something was left behind.
Theresa and Miss Liad picked them up. The first was a string of gold bracelets strung together with blood-stained hemp ropes. The bracelets were all the same style, a total of 11. Adding the remaining 4 pieces of burial objects, the number of burial objects became 15.
These burial objects were the least valuable things picked up by the two young girls, because Theresa was holding a handful of "soul tears", the most precious soul material in the world of the living. This time she found 8 of them.
Adding the remaining one from Miss Violet, she now had nine tears to support one-third of her soul to use demigod-level power.
Miss Liad held a small metal coffin in her left hand and the shovel that the "gravedigger" had just held in her right hand.
The shovel was originally longer than the tallest man present, Xia De, but after Miss Liad took it in her hand, it was directly changed to a length that suited her body shape.
After a brief inspection, Shade found the mark of the Angel of Requiem on the handle of the shovel. This thing might have originally belonged to the fourth angel of the ancient god of death. Miss Violet continued to look through the Holy Book of Eternal Sleep and found some records about this shovel:
"In this wasteland, this shovel can be used an unlimited number of times, but we are all leaving, so what good is it?"
The shovel is a divine item with obvious miraculous elements, while the small coffin found by Miss Liad is an alchemical item, and it is also the "space item" that the outsider has been thinking about since he came to this world.
The only real alchemical space item Xia De had seen so far was the coffin he gave to Sylvia as a New Year's gift, but that was a real coffin.
Apart from the coffin, even the chosen ones of space have not yet succeeded in creating stable space objects in the Sixth Era where the space conditions are quite bad - but they have produced a lot of unstable "space bombs" in the process of trying.
The interior space of the small black coffin was about 20 cubic meters, far less than the gift that Shad gave to Sylvia. It was not empty, but filled with a mountain of various bones, but no one dared to touch them. A very strong curse was attached to each bone in the coffin. It was unknown whether it was the gravedigger's curse or the effect of the coffin.
It was not impossible to lift the curse, but there was definitely no time to do so now. So Miss Liad temporarily held the coffin and the shovel that could be used as a weapon. After confirming everyone's status, the group of people at the temple steps looked up together, and Shade took the lead and walked up.
There are thirteen steps in total, and every step you take seems to allow you to hear the echo of your own soul.
The heavy black stone door at the end of the stairs is currently closed. There is a relief of an angel with six wings spread out on the double doors, and the gap between the doors is the center line of the angel's body. And on the angel's chest, that is, in the center of the door, there is a skull embedded.
This was similar to the situation underground, but this time it was not a "Soul-Forged Skeleton". After Shade pressed the door knocker on one side of the skeleton, green flames suddenly appeared in the skeleton's eye sockets.
It moved, not like a ghost, but like a living thing. The black skeleton looked at the people walking up and down the stairs, then showed a subtle expression, and its mouth moved and the content of its "speech" was easy to understand:
"Toll money."
"what?"
Shade asked in surprise.
"The toll is calculated based on the number of souls. Each soul has 5 burial objects."
The skeleton repeated, and everyone felt as if their souls were being seen after being stared at by its eyes that glowed with green fire. It was counting the number of souls here:
"It's a lot. Five living people, a cat, two dogs, and 40 burial objects."
"Wait a minute, the cat is"
"No matter which direction you pass through this Gate of the Dead, it doesn't matter what form you are in now. The true form of your soul will be revealed when you cross the gate, so don't try to use Transfiguration. 40 burial objects."
It uses a fluent common language, but if you listen carefully, you can understand that the air is not actually vibrated. It is actually using the soul to vibrate spirits and elements to communicate at the soul level.
The cat wanted to call out to the door, but Shade stopped it. Although he never charged for his ferrying, there were many legends in traditional stories about charging for the road to the dead:
"If our group sincerely wants to go to the temple of the ancient god to worship, will there be a fee for this?"
The skeleton with green flames asked back:
"Do you really want to come here to pray? I know you want to return to the world of the living. Don't lie to me."
Xia De then looked at Miss Violet. Currently, the total number of burial objects in everyone's hands was only 15, not even half of the number.
Xia De thought about it again, and reactivated the mark on the back of his hand and pointed it towards the door. But he did not attack, but whispered:
"Look, I'm one of you, too. Can you be flexible?"
The skull on the door stared at the mark for a while, and actually agreed:
"Well, I'll give you a discount. Each soul will receive four burial objects, for a total of 4. The scepter that the young woman is carrying can be counted as two. The price cannot be lower."
But even so, the number of burial objects was only 16, which was half of what was needed, but still not enough. Shade would never abandon his companions, and because he didn't know what was going on inside the temple, even if he didn't leave with them, he would at least follow them in to take a look.
It would be ridiculous to be stopped by "money" when we have reached the last step.
Theresa whispered:
"Let us go and dig up the grave goods. We still have one shovel left from the hut, and with this indestructible shovel, we can dig up as many grave goods as we want."
But before anyone else could object, Miss Liad spoke first:
"It's better not to be like this.
We originally dug other people's graves just to protect ourselves and to leave here, and the hounds also said that digging too many graves would attract attention. Now that we have reached the last step and are standing in front of the temple of the ancient god, it is best not to dig graves.