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…”

really found the matter

a trail, but after the castle was abandoned, whatever traces of it had

the hair by her

why would they abandon

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

out, “Could it be because it’s

thought for

such a huge castle hire

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

she raised

castle of

living in places with few people. Furthermore, they

castle came from the

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

money and don’t care about the search for Beyonder ingredients? Fors recalled Mr. Moon’s behavior and denied her hypothesis. In

case, her operation would become more dangerous than she

Xio tersely agreed.

investigations while the

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

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

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

after the Cataclysm. Haha, don’t tell me that it’s a building from the Second or Third Epoch?” Fors

observed the terrain and left the entrance with Xio before arriving at a relatively complete

she was rather skilled when it came to the

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

collapsed staircase 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 green weeds on the

wind seeped into their bones, chilling them despite

area, but she failed to

right of a remnant collapsed wall, there was a rather

and scuffed as it extended downwards to

Fors shot a glance at Xio and

of view, 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 amount of time. Therefore, it was better to gain a

glanced around and

wraiths and ghosts are hidden in the area where the staircase

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

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

As their footsteps echoed into the distance, the light

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

the mottled stairs ahead of

them overreact and