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…”

she really found the

castle was

stroked the hair by her ear and shook

would they

building it, it would be more dangerous building it far from the town in an uninhabited castle. If it’s just for vacations, with the

blurted out, “Could it be because

thought for

who can build such a huge castle hire Beyonders to deal

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

that, she

castle

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

ancient castle came from the Sanguine to

“Will the Sanguine be afraid of ghosts? They definitely have the means to deal with the ancient

sense… Don’t tell me those Sanguine don’t like money and don’t care about the search for Beyonder ingredients? Fors recalled Mr. Moon’s behavior and denied her hypothesis. In deliberation, she said, “Unless there’s some problem that’s not easy to resolve.

become more

Xio tersely agreed.

investigations while the sun is still

Travels and approached the half-collapsed ancient

discovered that, beneath the green vines, the stone walls were mottled and heavily weathered as though it had been

rush to enter. Calling out to Fors,

returned to the entrance, 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 of before. It has probably existed in the late Fourth Epoch or

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?” Fors

and left the entrance with Xio before arriving at a relatively complete wall.

skilled when it came to the

of her, allowing

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

seeped into their bones, chilling them despite

activated her Spirit Body and surveyed the area, but she

she noticed that on the right of a remnant collapsed

was mottled and scuffed as it extended downwards to an

Fors shot a glance at Xio and made

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

glanced around

wind is gathering underground… I suspect that all the wraiths and ghosts are hidden in

mottled stone staircase and followed the steps, which were

was rather narrow, allowing only one person to pass

echoed into the distance, the light that

as Fors opened

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

overreact and nearly cause them