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…”

sentence, she really found the matter

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

stroked the hair by her ear and

would they abandon

they had considered safety back when 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 way nobles do things, they wouldn’t abandon it even if

out, “Could it be

for

a huge castle hire

government don’t know of this ancient castle. Otherwise,

that, she

castle of the

in places with few people. Furthermore, they

addition, information about this ancient castle came

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

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 what made

become more dangerous than

Xio tersely agreed.

do some preliminary investigations while the sun is

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

that, beneath the green vines, the stone walls were mottled and heavily

out to

problems needed for living in it. Besides, many of the peculiarities of the building are ones I haven’t heard of before. It has

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

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

lacked combat experience, she was rather skilled when

her, allowing Fors and Xio to

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

a whoosh, the wind seeped into their bones, chilling

the area, but she failed

the right of a remnant collapsed wall, there was

scuffed as it

head over there to take a look?” Fors shot

in at a glance or collapsed and stacked together. If they wished to do thorough investigations, it was certain that it would take a

glanced around

the wraiths and ghosts are hidden in the area where

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

was rather narrow, allowing only one person to pass at a time. Furthermore, they spiraled down, leaving Fors

their footsteps echoed into the distance,

lit the lantern in her hand as Fors

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

past them, making them overreact and nearly cause them to