Chapter 8： Statues, altars, sacrifices

Say goodbye to a friend who has only known each other for a few hours, but probably never see each other again.

Su Lun felt a little down.

The surrounding scenery suddenly changed, from that luxurious manor house to a...ruin.

"This is... the remains of the previous manor?"

Although all the decorations in the house are decayed, judging from the uncollapsed frame structure of the house, this is the manor where he stayed before.

The banquet hall, corridor, study... the layout is very familiar.

"It will take hundreds of years at least to decay like this..."

Su Lun felt a little weird.

He felt that he was already very prepared, but seeing the dilapidated scene in front of him, he still felt that his mind was a little too difficult to turn around.

Could it be that the mansion before was an illusion, and the Pestoya, Baldhead and others encountered were all illusions?

But he looked down and saw that he was holding a wooden box in his hand, which was the box containing the "rune doll".

And his chest is also wearing the butterfly brooch decorated with black gems.

"Things are real..."

Su Lun stroked the box in his hand. There was a feeling of waking up from a dream and then bringing the dream back to reality.

"Is the brightly lit manor just now a special space like a game copy?"

Su Lun looked around, but couldn't figure it out.

His knowledge of the world is too limited, and many problems cannot be understood by thinking.

However, now he faces another question: where should he go now?

And for the first time, he thought of the information on the retina.

"The original owner came here to find some ‘Sir Isaac’s Relic’..."

After leisure, Su Lun has time to carefully look at the obscure information on the retina. He also realized that the "treasure" that the original owner came to look for seemed very difficult.

just right, he is also very interested in that kind of "extraordinary ability".

After thinking about it, Su Lun decided to check it out first. He also speculated that there should be no other dangers in this manor. If so, Pestoya should also be the biggest BOSS.

......

Based on his impression, Su Lun found the banquet hall of the mansion.

then counted along the left hand and found the seventh room.

The door of the room was completely decayed, and there were spider webs everywhere, which looked very gloomy. But the structure of the house is fairly stable, except for the mottled paint on the wall, it can be generally recognized as a storage room.

Su Lun walked in cautiously, except for occasionally hearing a few "squeaks" of mice, there were no scary monsters that would appear in horror movies.

He glanced at the furnishings in the room and saw the hexagonal lampstand on the wall.

I found the correct lamp, twisted it clockwise, and heard a "click" and "click" gears, and a hidden door appeared.

"It's been hundreds of years, this mechanism can still function normally..."

Su Lun appeared in the deep passage before his eyes, slightly surprised.

didn't hesitate much, and walked in.

The passage is probably isolated from the outside air, and the preservation is very complete.

I tried a little bit, and it was not stuffy, and I could breathe normally.

The 　　 corridor is made of blue bricks, and a wall lamp is hung on the wall at intervals. Although the light of the topaz, which is not known for its material, is very weak, it is enough to illuminate the entire secret passage.

Su Lun didn't dare to touch anything. Since the secret door could be opened normally, 80% of the mechanisms in the secret tunnel could still function normally.

The information on the retina has a special warning, do not touch anything outside of the safe line.

Just like that, not long after he left, Su Lun found that the corridors around him had become a little weird, as if they were exactly the same everywhere.

He knew that this was entering the maze.

There are visual interference mechanisms here.

carved some necessary direction marks with stones on the ground, and he continued forward.

"After the first fork in the road, left, left, right, up, down..."

Fortunately, the correct way to move the maze was left on the retina, and Su Lun did not encounter any trouble along the way.

After about a quarter of an hour, he arrived at his destination, a spacious closed stone room.

There are that kind of huge luminous gems here, which illuminate the whole house.

"Is this the "Great Hermit Altar" marked by the treasure map?"

Su Lun didn't step into the stone room in a hurry, but took a closer look.

The center of the round stone room is surrounded by five tall stone statues. It was dressed in a cloak, covering the whole body and most of its face, and looked very mysterious. If you close your eyes carefully, you will find that three of the statues have cracks, and only two are intact.

And behind the cloak of each statue is engraved with a special symbol: ?, §, ?, ?, ?...

seems to be a special code name.

What surprised Su Lun was that just looking at these statues, a feeling of sacred majesty rushed over his face, making people feel like they wanted to worship.

That kind of feeling, as if being watched by a god, makes people instantly feel as small as dust.

"It's really a peculiar statue..."

Su Lun looked at this scene, feeling a bit in his heart.

has unveiled the veil of the world, and is exposing its mystery a little bit before his eyes, making Su Lun's desire to discover more and more intense.

......

There is nothing superfluous in the secret room.

The five statues stand on one side, and the center of their faces is a circular altar with a diameter of about five meters.

The altar is carved with an eight-pointed star magic circle, surrounded by special characters and runes that are not understandable, and there is an inscribed pattern of "Ouroboros" and "Balance" in the center.

"This altar hides the secret of the way to obtain the bald head's ‘talent’ with hard bones and bullet resistance?"

Su Lun looked at the carved lines on the altar, and a deep thought appeared on his face.

There is still this passage on the retina:

"My dear Fick, I'm sorry, you have lost everything; through deciphering and deciphering, I found an amazing secret from the mysterious [Isaac Alchemy Manuscripts] I got from the family: Extraordinary talents can be awakened naturally and passed on by blood. In fact, there is a third way, which is to use specific conditions to direct awakening...Although it is only an unproven "treasure map", this is the best way I can think of to compensate you. .."

Su Lun didn't think about this passage. The cause and effect are no longer important.

He captured several important keywords: sacrifice medium, directional awakening, talent.

says that after UU reading "sacrifice his own eyeballs", he "may" obtain a very powerful S-level talent ability. An extremely rare ability that everyone in the world of alchemy dreams of.

If it were on the earth, Su Lun would definitely take it as a joke when he saw this.

dig out one's own eyeballs to sacrifice and gain super powers?

Go to your sister's super powers!

But after seeing so many extraordinary powers just now, Su Lun thought about this issue very carefully.

As for the word "possible", it also has the element of gambling.

because no one has tried it.

"I remember that bald head said that his hard bullet-resistant ability was called [C079-Steeled Bone]? "S Grade"... it seems to be more powerful..."

Su Lun weighed it in his mind for a moment, wondering how the talent ratings in this world were different.

But if you can get the "extraordinary power" like a bald head, it seems to be worth the price.

There are already certain ideas in his heart that are already eager to try.

Besides, there is another reason that made Su Lun make up his mind.

He also thought that the background of the original owner did not look simple, and the big man who left a message on his retina would recognize in honorifics that the altar specifications were extremely high, and perhaps the talent for awakening here would be stronger than the "tempered bones". .

Opportunity, no matter which world it is in, there is always an element of gambling in it.

The worst result is blindness and nothing.

Su Lun, who has just experienced the battle of life and death, feels that this does not seem to be an unacceptable price.

If you want to get it, you have to pay. This is a basic rule that all worlds follow.

Thinking of this, he raised his eyebrows and comforted himself: "It's all here...try it?"