Steampunk: Sixth Era Epic

Chapter 731: Chapter 731 Deep in the Mine

After glancing at the three Rings of Fate ahead, Shard began to survey the surrounding environment.

The place where the elevator descended was the middle section of a mine shaft, looking like an abandoned tunnel that extended in both directions without end in sight.

The ground was littered with bones, rocks, pickaxes, shards of glass, and other assorted debris. Every now and then, thick wooden supports in the center of the tunnel held up the ceiling, preventing a complete collapse.

The temperature and eerie atmosphere inside the mine were even more dreadful than the desolate village above, while the undead spirits that roamed the area were almost visible to the naked eye of ordinary people. However, the evil spirits drawn by the battle of the Truth Society’s Circle Sorcerers still would not attack Shard and the girl in the black dress; they even actively circled around them.

These evil spirits weren’t merely spiritual bodies; when the Circle Sorcerers of the Truth Society destroyed them, their soul fragments unexpectedly dropped remains of bones and flesh.

Because the black mist in the mine was denser, Shard also tried to inhale a breath of the black mist filtered by the Red Butterfly, so diluted it was almost insubstantial, and thus learned that this black mist had the functions of undead curses, flesh mutation, and soul distortion.

This mountain village did not originate from Sicarl Mountain or even the villages of the Midland in the Fifth Era, yet in this age, it matched the disaster unfolding in Milestone City. If the Relic went out of control and allowed the evil spirits lurking in this desolate village to escape, the church’s sealing ceremony would likely have to be postponed for a long time.

“Professor, are these disgusting things really of research value? We still have samples of the undead calamity from the Fifth Era, aren’t those more valuable than this rotten flesh?”

The young apprentice carried an older woman on his back, with the High Ring Sorcerer at the forefront, while the Inner Ring sorcerers collected the remnants of flesh left behind by the vanishing twisted evil spirits.

“Undead calamity of the Fifth Era?”

Shard heard another new term.

“Everything progresses forward; if one wallows in the glory of past eras, then what truth is there to seek?”