Chapter 1215 Blood Stains

"Crystal python."

Audrey sighed, and with a slightly hoarse voice, expressed the consensus in everyone's hearts at the moment.

"Medea didn't lie to us, that monster really exists!"

"I thought so too, but then again, I'd rather guess wrong." Holden said with a wry smile.

"I know a spell that can be used to verify whether your guesses are true." Joan said thoughtfully.

"Is it the spell you used to find Arnold's whereabouts last time, called 'Blood'?" Hailar looked at Joan.

"A message of blood."

Joan walked up to the nearby corpse of a dwarf miner, took out a mirror from his pocket, collected a little blood from the wound of the corpse, and daubed it on the mirror.

Joan chanted a mantra against the blood-stained mirror, and performed the casting ceremony of the third-ring language spell "Message of Blood".

After a minute of preparation, Qiao An successfully completed the casting ceremony, then held up the mirror and asked questions to the mirror.

"Who are you?"

In response to Joan's inquiry, the distribution of magic nets around the mirror was regularly distorted. At the same time, the blood that Joan randomly smeared on the mirror seemed to be pulled by an invisible thread, slowly wriggling, like several small red snakes, crawling on the smooth mirror, and finally formed a line of simple symbols.

"What kind of symbol is this, it looks like a kind of text..."

Hailar moved to Joan's side and looked curiously at the bloody text on the mirror.

"Dwarven characters." Joan replied.

"Dwarven characters?" Hailar looked surprised, "The deceased was obviously a dwarf, shouldn't the 'Message of Blood' display the dwarf characters?"

"The dwarves have only their own language, but they have not created a unique writing system. The written text they use borrows the letters invented by the dwarves. The literary works created by the dwarf artists include many words directly borrowed from the dwarves. , so it looks similar," Holden explained.

In the field of language and writing, Mr. Poet is no less knowledgeable than Joan.

"So that's the case! Then what do the words displayed on the mirror mean?" Hailar continued to inquire.

"Ophin of Sudli." Scholz translated at the right time. "This is the name of the dwarf miner. His name is Orfion, and he comes from Sudli Stone City."

"Gnomes are not like us humans. Each family has a unique surname. They only have a first name, and the surname is replaced by the place of birth." Holden added.

"Sudeli Stone City... This reminds me of a nasty guy." Hailar frowned.

"I guess you're talking about Belling, but this matter has nothing to do with him. Sudry Stone City is one of the largest settlements of subterranean gnomes in the Underdark, with a population of no less than 100,000, and is closely related to the New Avalon Colonial Company. "

"Master Fei hires the gnome prospecting team from Sudli Stone City to search for ore veins, just like Mr. Klein was hired by the Midgard Colonial Company for business cooperation." Audrey said lightly.

Hailaer nodded, then turned to Joan and asked, "What information can the blood of this Mr. Ofion provide us?"

"His race, occupation, why he bled, and when he was killed."

Joan pointed to the mirror, and the bloody text was being reorganized.

"There is no need to ask race and occupation, the answers to the last two questions are very interesting." Hailar said.

"Who killed the dwarf?" Klein asked Joan.

"Judging from the text displayed on the mirror, it can be literally translated as 'a big snake made of blue rocks'."

"Ha! What an apt description!" Klein folded his arms across his chest, "Isn't this exactly the same as the crystal python Ms. Gauguin described to us?"

"It was expected." Audrey asked Joan. "The last question, when is the death time of Orpheus the dwarf?"

Joan stared at the bloody symbol on the mirror and thought for a long time before speaking.

"This is a set of timekeeping symbols used by gnomes. Converted to the general calendar of the surface world, it should be July 25th, around 8:00 am... what date is it today?"

"Today is July 25," Audrey took a deep breath, her expression becoming more serious, "That is to say, the dwarves encountered crystal pythons here this morning, and then were massacred. Less than four hours!"

"When the crystal python left here, it must have been stained with the blood of the victim." Qiao An looked towards the deep cave opposite, "If we track it down now, we still have time to catch up with the monster that caused the massacre."

"The question is, should we really chase after the crystal python?" Hailar shrugged and spread his hands. "The misfortunes of the dwarves deserve sympathy, but we have no obligation to avenge them."

"I also think that we shouldn't take the risk of chasing down the crystal python. On the contrary, we'd better avoid the area where the monster is active." Audrey said cautiously.

"Mr. Klein, what do you think?" Joan looked at the dwarf brother, expecting him to make a decision.

Klein stroked his lush beard, furrowed his thick eyebrows, and remained silent for a long time before replying.

"Brother Joan, do you still remember what Ms. Gauguin said before she left? She once warned us that the crystal python's spirit comes from the earth elemental world, while its body is made of magic crystal ore, and it is strengthened by the magic power of the earth veins." and become stronger than steel."

Joan nodded.

He certainly remembered these words of Medea, but what could this prove?

"You may think that what I just said is nonsense, but if you are like me and have dealt with ores for most of your life, you can sum up a rule."

"If there are earth element biological activities near a certain mine, and the physical characteristics of this creature are closely related to the local ore, it means that this creature is likely to be the guardian of the local mine!"

Klein gritted his teeth, murderous look appeared in his eyes.

"Unless these earth element creatures guarding the mine are completely wiped out, there is no way to explore the mine with peace of mind!"

"In the eyes of those mine guardians, we are out-and-out intruders, thieves who covet the mine, even if we just take away a piece of ore specimen, we will anger the guardians and be hunted down!"

Klein kicked away the dwarf's corpse's backpack, and a pile of light blue magic crystal ore rolled out with a splash. The stones were still stained with dazzling blood.

"Unless we give up exploring this vein, we can only fight to the death with the crystal python. On this issue, neither we nor the crystal python have the possibility of compromise."

Klein's powerful words echoed in the empty cave for a long time.

Everyone was silent, bowing their heads and thinking about their own concerns.

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