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…”

her sentence, she really found the

a trail, but after the castle was abandoned, whatever traces

the hair by her ear and shook

would they

would be more dangerous building it far from the town in an uninhabited castle. If it’s just for vacations, with the way nobles do things, they wouldn’t abandon it even if

blurted out, “Could it be because

thought for a few

who can build such a huge castle hire

the kingdom’s government don’t know of this ancient castle. Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense that they will leave the Beyonder ingredients

that, she

ancient castle of the

with few people. Furthermore, they were usually connected to dark

castle came from the Sanguine to begin

Xio first agreed before disagreeing. “Will the Sanguine be afraid of ghosts? They definitely have the means to deal with

Moon’s behavior and denied her hypothesis. In deliberation, she said, “Unless there’s some problem that’s not easy to resolve. That’s what made the bigwigs choose to skirt around

operation would become more

Xio tersely agreed.

some preliminary investigations while the sun

Leymano’s Travels and approached the half-collapsed ancient castle one step at

two-thirds blocked by rocks. They discovered that, beneath the green vines, the stone walls were mottled and heavily weathered as though it had been in existence for a very,

wasn’t in a rush to enter. Calling out to Fors, they circled around

she said in 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 ones I haven’t heard

gone extinct after the Cataclysm. Haha, don’t tell me that it’s a building

left the entrance with Xio before arriving at a relatively complete wall. She reached out

was rather skilled when it came

front of her, allowing Fors and Xio to

first thing that they saw was a collapsed staircase and layers of remnant concrete from above. There were rays of pure sunlight shining

whoosh, the wind seeped into their bones, chilling

Body and surveyed the area, but she failed to see

the right of a remnant

was mottled and scuffed as it extended downwards to an unknown

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

everything else in the castle could either be taken in at a glance or collapsed and stacked together. If they wished to do thorough investigations, it was certain that it would take a rather long

glanced around

all the wraiths and ghosts are

and followed the steps, which were covered in

staircase was rather narrow, allowing only one person to pass at

footsteps echoed into the distance, the light that shone inside

as Fors opened Leymano’s Travels, swiping a page with

warm light burst out, illuminating the mottled stairs ahead of them. Tensed, Fors and Xio walked down

them overreact and nearly cause them to launch attacks at nonexistent