The Paladin in the Abyss

Chapter 773: Chapter 784: The Answer

“Let’s come back to this later, okay?” Bruto said somewhat impatiently, waving his hand, “We already know that the monster’s weakness is its joints, that’s enough…”

“Bruto is right,” Lancelot pulled the Great Sword from the ground and slung it over his shoulder, “Let’s go, Uncle Barrend is still waiting for us.”

After speaking, he turned and headed down the steps, and his companions immediately followed. Nonetheless, Lancelot continued to ponder in his heart what exactly the contents of the note he had obtained meant. The note mentioned that the ‘Madam’ had proposed an improved plan targeting the weakness to fire, but this required removal before the ‘part’ was ‘completely transformed.’ If the petrified state of the golem limbs was the result of the improvement, then the unpetrified joints would correspond to the need to remove them before complete transformation. But if ‘part’ meant the dismembered corpse, the implications suggested in the note were rather horrifying—the people here could no longer use corpses for ‘experiments,’ a carpenter had his arm sawed off while he could still scream, and a certain ‘sample’ had reacted to his daughter’s name…

Just then, a vampire turned into a little bat and suddenly tugged sharply at his cloak, causing Lancelot to immediately stop in his tracks.

“What’s wrong?” Before he could speak, Bruto at his back asked anxiously, “Is there an enemy? Where?”

“No, there’s a trap ahead.” Little Isha reverted to human form amid a puff of smoke, “Watch the wall over there, see those few black holes? Those should be arrow slits, and there are definitely triggers in some of the floor tiles ahead…”