newbobooks Chapter 145 The Haunted Cemetery
Chapter 145 The Haunted Cemetery
Chapter 145 The Haunted Cemetery
"Oh no, my wallet!"
"Hahaha, Darkness, I told you you got scammed!"
"Damn it, that thief! Next time I see her, I'll definitely drag her to the police station again."
When it was time to pay the bill after the meal, Darkness suddenly realized that her wallet had not been returned.
Eris was the same; upon returning to the heavens, the goddess discovered that she was still carrying her follower's wallet.
"Fine, consider it an offering to help cast the blessing!"
The Church of Eris also offers a service to cast lucky blessings for a fee, and having a lucky goddess like her personally cast a lucky blessing spell is far more valuable than a bag of money.
The goddess of fortune was clearly unaware that her blessing was purified by Aqua's sneeze the moment she left.
"Forget about your empty wallet, now that we've eaten and drunk our fill, we need to get back to work!"
"It's already late, why are you still doing work?"
Darkness looked at Aqua with some confusion.
"It's nothing major, just a small favor that Miss Luna asked me to do when we were settling the tasks."
"Um?"
"I'm going to patrol the city's cemetery tonight; I heard someone saw a ghost nearby."
"Oh, so we're going to the cemetery. Hey, ghost, are we going to see a ghost?"
Darkness exclaimed in surprise.
"Why are you making such a fuss? You're supposed to be a Knight of the Cross!"
"But ghosts are immune to physical attacks. Isn't it normal for a Crusader like me, who only knows physical attacks, to be afraid?"
"Come on, you have absolutely no physical attack ability!"
Aqua glanced at her dismissively and patted her chest.
"Tonight's main force is me, Lady Aqua, and I am the High Priest, possessing the ability to purify ghosts. That's why Miss Luna asked me to come along. If you're scared, then don't come along."
"Scared? I'm not scared at all!"
Darkness was initially quite scared, but when she suddenly thought about being haunted by a ghost, she suddenly wasn't so scared anymore.
"Ghost, what's that? Is it tasty?"
Broly didn't really understand ghosts; he just wanted to know if they were edible and if they tasted good.
"It's not food, but the lingering consciousness of a dead organism..."
As Aqua explained, the three of them soon arrived at the large cemetery area of Axel.
The cemetery was very quiet at night, with only a few crows providing some atmosphere, occasionally cawing.
"Let me see, hmm, there are quite a lot of ghosts here."
Aqua wasn't afraid of ghosts; after arriving here, she stood on tiptoe and looked around.
"Hey, hey, hey, don't talk nonsense! We can't see anything!"
The unknown is what evokes fear. Darkness is not afraid of zombies or other undead with concrete forms, but she is afraid of the unseen and intangible ghosts.
"This is such a hassle."
As Aqua spoke, she leaned closer and grabbed Darkness's forehead. No one knows what she did, but after she let go, Darkness seemed to be able to see many strange things, and she sat down on the ground shouting, "There's a ghost!"
"Aren't you just talking nonsense? If there aren't ghosts, what are we doing here?" Aqua looked at the knight with some helplessness, then noticed Broly looking around curiously beside her, and asked, "Broly, do you want to see ghosts too?"
"Um."
Broly nodded, and after Aqua helped him open his eyes, he saw the scene Darkness was seeing. In this desolate cemetery, there were many footless ghosts floating around, most of them looking lost and dejected, but a few ghosts were looking at them with ill intent as they entered the cemetery.
Broly wasn't scared, just a little curious. He approached a ghost and poked it with his finger.
As expected, his fingers pierced through the other's illusory body, as if piercing through a layer of smoke.
"Ghosts are entities of consciousness; they cannot be touched by conventional physical means."
Aqua said from the side.
"Hey, it's true!"
Broly was surprised and was already raising his fist at the ghost next to him.
And after the ghost was punched through by the little fist, nothing really changed.
However, the other party seemed somewhat displeased.
"Hey, you brat, aren't you being disrespectful to the dead? Be careful, or I'll turn into a vengeful ghost and haunt you, then kill you!"
Broly was threatened. He looked at the ghost in front of him, and his fingers lit up.
As a beam of energy pierced through the opponent, the scattered spirits could no longer regroup.
The ghosts around them, whose gazes were originally filled with malice towards the living, immediately turned into expressions of terror.
But before they could get away, Aqua cast a powerful purification spell over them.
"You lingering souls on earth, what nonsense are you spouting? Since you don't want to reincarnate in the afterlife, then I, Lady Aqua, will personally send you to heaven. Purify, purify, purify, deliver you, deliver you..."
Aqua fired purification spells like a machine gun. She didn't have time to bother with things like appeasing the ghosts and letting them ascend to heaven peacefully. Whether the ghosts wanted it or not, she would purify them first.
"Accept purification, you evil spirits!"
Aqua, like a tiger among sheep, charged into the cemetery.
"Ah, we're not evil spirits yet!"
The ghosts in the cemetery tried to explain, but Aqua wouldn't listen at all.
For her, the ghosts of the near-undead were the targets that needed to be purified.
"Strange, what's going on outside the cemetery? Why is it so noisy?"
The lich Wiz carried the Soul-Guiding Lamp; she hadn't been here for a week.
"They might be grave robbers, Miss Wiz. Never mind that, please guide us to rest in peace."
The ghosts around them didn't care about what was happening outside; they only hoped to find peace as soon as possible.
"Alright, I have set up the requiem array. Once I infuse it with magic, you will all be able to rest in peace."
As Wiz spoke, he began to pour magic power into the magic circle underground, and a red light rose up as if he were performing some kind of evil ritual.
As the red light shone, the countless ghosts around them gradually relaxed, but their spirits slowly dissolved in the red light.
"Hmm, what's this? The aura of necromancy!"
Aqua, who was unleashing her full purification power in the cemetery, was startled and rushed towards the source of the necromantic magic.
When Aqua arrived, she saw Wiz maintaining the operation of the red magic circle.
At this moment, the human aura on Wiz's body had disappeared, replaced by the unique cold aura of the highest-ranking undead lich.
"So the strange things happening in this cemetery were all your doing, you lich! I'll purify you!"
Aqua shouted.
"Huh?!"
Hearing the commotion, Wiz stopped the requiem spell, realizing that he seemed to be being treated as a villain. He waved his hand, ready to explain something.
But Aqua is quick to speak, and after shouting, she unleashed a powerful purification spell. A goddess-level purification spell is not something to be taken lightly.
Even though Wiz instinctively activated a defensive spell, he still groaned in pain amidst the light of the Great Purification spell.
(End of this chapter)