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 finished her sentence, she really found the matter

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

by her ear and shook her

why would they

far from the town in an uninhabited castle. If it’s just for vacations, with the way nobles do

“Could it

for

can build such a huge castle hire Beyonders to deal with the

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

that, she raised

castle

enjoyed living in places with few people. Furthermore,

addition, information about this ancient castle came from the

of ghosts? They definitely have the means to deal with the

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. That’s

operation would become more

Xio tersely agreed.

investigations while the

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

which was 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, very long period

enter. Calling out to Fors, they circled

they 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

there to defend again? Beastmen? Treants? They’ve all gone extinct after the Cataclysm. Haha, don’t tell

arriving at a relatively complete

when it came to the various aspects

allowing Fors and Xio to instantly enter the abandoned

and layers 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 or bird feces or any

whoosh, the wind seeped into their

the area, but she failed to

remnant collapsed wall, there

staircase was mottled and scuffed as it extended downwards to an

look?” Fors shot a glance at

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 amount of time. Therefore, it was better

around and

that all the wraiths and

towards the mottled stone staircase and followed the steps, which were covered in

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

their footsteps echoed into the distance, the light that shone inside

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

burst out, illuminating the mottled stairs ahead of them. Tensed, Fors and Xio walked down one level at a

making them overreact and nearly cause them to launch