Lord of the Mysteries

Chapter 954 Strange Ancient Castle

Fors’s gaze met Xio’s in midair as both parties remained silent.

After a while, Fors chuckled dryly.

“Haha, you haven’t fallen asleep?”

Xio frowned and said, “What happened to you?”

“Nothing. Didn’t I tell you before? Whenever the full moon happens, I won’t be in a good state. It’s even worse during the Blood Moon,” Fors replied as though everything was normal.

Xio sized her up and pulled her blanket.

“I remember that you brought sleeping pills?”

“There’s no need for that. I’ve fine now.” Seeing that Xio wasn’t pressing further, Fors secretly heaved a sigh of relief. “Go back to sleep. We still have to head into the forest early tomorrow morning.”

Xio didn’t say another word as she turned around, gripped the blanket, and closed her eyes.

Before long, her breathing turned heavier and became more drawn out and uniform.

Fors stared blankly at the ceiling as her thoughts ran wild. At some point in time, she fell asleep as well.

The next day at noon. In the core region of Delaire Forest, in front of a collapsed, ancient castle covered in green vines.

Fors wiped the perspiration on her forehead and exhaled.

“We’re finally here…”

Xio shot her a glance and said, “The boss at the hotel told me that we only need two hours to get here.”

They had set off before six in the morning, but they had spent nearly seven hours to arrive.

The corners of Fors’s lips twitched as she said, “Ideal conditions and reality are different. There weren’t any trails for us to take towards the end. We needed to explore and forge a new path ourselves!”

Xio took out her triangular blade, nodded, and said, “You should’ve foreseen this from the beginning, but you refused to have a guide as suggested by the hotel’s boss.”

“As an Astrologer, I don’t believe such trivialities will cause any trouble. Look, aren’t we there now? Besides, the time is perfect. The wraiths and ghosts are definitely in their weakest state.” Having forced a smile, Fors held Leymano’s Travels in one hand as she pointed with the other. “I didn’t notice it before, but the more I think about it, the more puzzled I become.”

“About what?” Xio also cast her gaze to the ancient abandoned castle that was covered by vines.

Fors casually found an excuse.

“Tell me, who would build a castle in the middle of a forest? Furthermore, they didn’t open up a trail to it…”

finished her sentence, she really found

said, “Perhaps there was a trail, but after the castle was abandoned, whatever traces of it

by her

would

an uninhabited castle. If it’s just for vacations,

“Could it be because

thought for a few

who can build such a huge castle hire Beyonders to

that the three Churches and the kingdom’s government don’t know of this ancient castle. Otherwise, it doesn’t

saying that, she

ancient castle of the

extraordinary creatures enjoyed living in places with few people. Furthermore, they were usually connected to dark forests and

castle came

the Sanguine be afraid of ghosts? They definitely have the means to deal

the search for Beyonder ingredients? Fors recalled Mr. Moon’s behavior and denied her hypothesis. In deliberation, she

would become more dangerous

Xio tersely agreed.

preliminary investigations while the sun is still

the half-collapsed ancient castle

stone walls were mottled and heavily weathered as though it had been in existence for a

to enter. Calling out to Fors, they circled around the

puzzlement, “This castle’s style is purely defensive. It doesn’t seem to consider the problems needed for living in it. Besides, many of the peculiarities of the building are

Beastmen? Treants? They’ve all gone extinct after the Cataclysm. Haha, don’t tell me that it’s a building from the Second or Third Epoch?”

with Xio before arriving at a relatively complete

experience, she was rather skilled when it came to the various aspects before a

in front of her, allowing Fors and Xio to instantly enter the abandoned

from above. There were rays of pure sunlight shining in from above, as well as masonry and rotten wood. There weren’t any animal or bird feces or

wind seeped into their bones, chilling them despite

activated her Spirit Body and surveyed the area, but she failed to

remnant collapsed

and scuffed as it extended downwards to an

over there to take a look?” Fors shot a glance at Xio and made a

stacked together. If they wished to do thorough investigations, it was certain that it would take a rather long amount of time. Therefore, it was better to gain a general understanding of the overall picture to assure

glanced around

is gathering underground… I suspect that all the wraiths

stone staircase and followed the steps, which were

person to pass at a time. Furthermore, they spiraled down, leaving Fors

into the distance, the

lantern in her hand as Fors opened Leymano’s Travels, swiping a page

ahead of them. Tensed, Fors and Xio walked down one

them overreact and nearly cause them to