Chapter 467 Underground Palace
"Evil spirit? The Tudor family?"
Klein, too, hadn't expected Tao Yu to come up with such a thrilling piece of intelligence, but his expression also seemed somewhat exhilarated.
Although he looked timid, always divining before doing anything, he could actually be quite reckless when he decided to act.
But was the ability to extract information in dreams that he himself couldn't obtain a spiritual enhancement brought about by the mid-sequence?
Could it be this significant…
Thinking about the speed at which Tao Yu learned ritual knowledge, Klein sighed, perhaps this is what a genius looks like.
"What about him? He knows now."
Klein said hesitantly as he looked at Raft.
"I planted something in his mind. If he goes against us, it will explode directly; we should be able to control him for the short term. We also need to act quickly and head there together."
Tao Yu spoke swiftly, implying that not controlling Raft was not much of an issue.
As a remnant, that guy actually feared exposure more than the two of them.
Tao Yu didn't suggest going tonight. Facing an evil spirit from two millennia ago, they couldn't act rashly. It was still necessary to call upon Miss Sharon of Sequence Five…
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"That evil spirit has survived for two thousand years?"
Sharon, upon receiving the notice and hearing this news, also seemed quite surprised.
"Is there a problem?"
"Ordinary evil spirits cannot exist for such a long time, especially since it seems to still possess a certain level of consciousness."
"Even if an evil spirit can draw power from the Spirit Realm, without some extraordinary characteristic to support it, it would still be affected as time passes. Its position before death must have been very high."
Sharon's words made Tao Yu and Klein nod thoughtfully.
An extraordinary characteristic does not fade, but without one, things like the temporary weapons they purchased would have their Sealing Techniques' power limited by time.
However, learning that the power of evil spirits came from the Spirit Realm was a first for them.
An evil spirit that lasted over two thousand years, from the last era to the present, was rather terrifying.
This was after it became an evil spirit for two millennia!
They didn't even know how long it had lived before that.
"Truly the Era of the Gods."
Tao Yu uttered a sigh of emotion.
"Are we still going?"
Klein asked.
"Of course, it might also be a chance to witness history."
Tao Yu was not one to give up on an opportunity where he had an edge.
If it were a power from two thousand years ago that had been sealed and had not died, he would turn tail and run without a second thought.
But if it were merely an evil spirit…
The temptation was a bit too much to resist.
Still, Tao Yu didn't completely believe Raft's words. What if the other party also didn't know the exact truth?
So, he called upon Miss Sharon of the Sequence Five Wraith Path, just to be on the safe side.
It wasn't that she was stronger than him, but her ability to sense evil spirits was stronger in such an environment, providing a second layer of insurance…
"We can try it step by step, cautiously probing as we enter."
Sharon also felt that it was worth a try.
"Alright, this is an underground palace I discovered while on a commission. There's a better main entrance there. I think it's a good idea for us to go in under the pretext of the commission. You'd be my assistants."
Klein revealed his plan.
His discovery of the underground palace was somewhat of an accident as well.
"Alright…"
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"The prayer's effectiveness should last about an hour, which ought to be enough."
Tao Yu wasn't entirely reckless. Before entering, he still planned to activate his full capabilities that could be utilized in this world, stuffing himself with a handful of the dark mud following a prayer.
However, this time he didn't cover his entire body with the mud to become a shadow person. Instead, he used the Witch's inherent invisibility along with the Shadow Force, advancing while hidden within the shadows until he arrived at the agreed location.
Klein, waiting at the alleyway entrance, suddenly heard a voice coming from his own shadow, which made his scalp tingle.
"Don't worry, it's me. I used some unnatural power; it's not very appropriate to appear in the open."
Tao Yu's words eased Klein's nerves, but at the same time, he felt somewhat speechless.
At that moment, he felt an extreme negative energy within his shadow!
This reminded him of the content of Azik's letters and the time they dealt with the Tingen issue.
Was this the power of his fellow countryman?
No matter how he looked at it, it seemed like the role of a villain!
Although the extraordinary abilities in this world were inherently bizarre and ominous, the feeling in the shadow was just too much like something from The Underworld.
"No wonder he chose the Witch Path."
Klein mumbled in his mind.
"Hurry up, there's a time constraint. Are you thinking about something impolite?"
Tao Yu urged Klein, feeling that this guy was silently criticising him.
"Not at all, Miss Sharon went to control a few zombies to come over as assistants and cannon fodder, we'll wait a moment,"
Sharon and Maric are of the same Path, and after she became a Sequence Five Wraith, her ability to control corpses was even stronger than Maric's.
As she arrived with three zombies and also concealed herself nearby, a line of 'people' followed Klein to the basement of that house.
Since it was originally a request from Klein, entering there was naturally smooth…
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Grand domes and towering columns constructed the underground palace before them.
"At least two thousand years of buried history…"
Tao Yu slowly emerged from Klein's shadow, exuding an extremely strong aura of evil and ominousness, far more severe than when he was in the shadow.
This caused even Klein to glance sideways, that aura on you, it hasn't driven you mad?
Sharon had also emerged from the zombie's body, looking at Tao Yu with a wary frown.
"What's wrong with you?"
Tao Yu's presence when he was in Klein's shadow had gone unnoticed by her, but now his aura had completely changed.
Even out-of-control extraordinaries are not as bad, right?
"You are a Wraith, and you find my state strange…"
Tao Yu felt somewhat speechless looking at Sharon floating in mid-air.
"This is a power I acquired using some special methods, which temporarily makes me stronger, just think of it as if I prayed to the Evil God,"
Tao Yu made an analogy.
However, this analogy made both Klein and Sharon exchange looks, that doesn't sound like comfort or explanation.
It seems even more frightening!
"Actually, there was no need to take such a risk."
Sharon sighed, thinking that the pressure here had made Tao Yu pay a great price.
Klein also nodded in agreement, remembering that his fellow countryman had said this ability came with a price.
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."
Even though Tao Yu's evil aura was chilling, making any normal person feel the abnormality, combined with his appearance, it instead held a strange charm, appearing as a kind of alternative naturalness.
This kind of negative energy seemed quite fitting with a Witch.
"Everyone who borrows the power of the Evil God thinks so, but without exception, their end is very bad,"
Sharon warned.
But she was no crusader of morals; she simply wanted to remind Tao Yu not to recklessly use this power, not that she meant to call for his punishment.
Indeed, as Tao Yu mentioned, her own Path was quite 'Underworld-ish' too.
Moreover, as one of the 'Temperance Faction,' she was actually the minority and the odd one out, often targeted by the 'Hedonist Faction.'
The pot calling the kettle black…
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The architectural style here was magnificent and massive, completely different from the current building environment.
"I've read about this in books, this is the style of the Fourth Epoch, no doubt about it,"
Klein, after all, had a proper identity as a history university student in this world and was quite familiar with these things.
The group came to a vast palace, and Klein, looking at the somewhat asymmetric relationship, in addition to other specifications, praised again,
"Worthy of involving the Tudor family, these standards are quite high for the Fourth Epoch, and the style of the Fourth Epoch is inherited from the Solomon Empire..."
Klein went on and on about the knowledge he learned from his history books.
In the spectacular hall in the center, there were two large chairs, like the seats of Titans, and at the very back of the hall, there were seven tall, heavy black stone doors.
"I'll divine a bit."
The second-rate Diviner Tao Yu, eager to try his hand again, began considering where to start.
Klein didn't compete with him because last time Tao Yu had indeed found something different about Raft.
"The divination shows that as long as we don't start with the center room, the rest are pretty much the same, let's start with the farthest left,"
Tao Yu said after finishing the ritual and divination.
Klein discreetly used a silver coin to confirm Tao Yu's words.
They then discovered the symbol of the Goddess of the Night on the first door!
To actually encounter the Goddess of the Night?
After pushing the door and entering, everyone saw a statue of a beautiful woman.
Although there were no longer any concrete descriptions of divine appearances now, the moment they saw the statue, even Tao Yu felt a flash of enlightenment in his heart.
This is the Goddess of the Night!
It is the image of a Divine Spirit that has disappeared in this Era!
"If this is the Night…"
Tao Yu thought, then behind the other six doors might be the other deities of the seven True Gods?
"No, according to the records, the God of Steam and Machinery hadn't become a god at this time, right? This period should be the six major deities!"
Tao Yu, who already had speculations about the War of the Four Emperors and knowledge of the True Gods, suddenly had a realization,
"To be listed alongside the six gods, behind another door there could also be something of equal status, and this is the territory of the Tudor family…"
"Emperor of Blood!"