Laws of the Insect Hive

Aura was still holding the ring and seemed to be looking at the writing on the inner wall of the ring, while Shava immediately moved to the side of System to be on guard.

"Where is this place?"

System sent a spiritual message to Aura, while turning his head to look around, he found that this time the hall seemed to have no windows, only these magic lamps resembling candles glowed.

After waiting for a while, Ola seemed to want to understand something, and sent a spiritual message: "The key to the shadow..."

"The Key of Shadows? Why is there such a strange name here?"

Aura didn't seem to hear System's question, but instead sent a spiritual message to System to himself: "The key to the shadow, the text on this ring means this."

"..."

System snatched the ring from Aura's foot and sent a very angry spiritual message to Aura at the same time.

"I mean where this is, not the words on the ring."

And Aura, who was robbed of the ring, finally found out that their location had changed.

At this time, he was no longer in the empty room of System's lair, but appeared in an unfamiliar palace.

Aura turned to look around and said with a blank expression: "System, where is this? It seems to be a half plane."

"Half plane? What is that?"

System asked Aura, and Aura showed a contemplative look again, and continued to start recalling.

Looking at Aura with a dazed expression, System wanted to immediately stretch out his tentacles to torture this lazy butterfly.

But after thinking about it, System finally sighed helplessly.

Ignoring the butterfly who was still thinking, System looked at the corridor next to the palace hall and walked over at the same time.

...

Although it appeared here inexplicably, System's [intuition] did not feel any danger.

There seemed to be no other existence in this palace besides him, Shava, and Aura, and System's tentacles did not hear any movement other than the three of them.

There were scattered skeletons in the corridors, most of which were human or elf skeletons, not the jackal or rat man that System had conjectured.

There is no flesh and blood on the piled skeletons, and there is no mildew-like smell in the palace. It seems that these skeletons have been processed.

System quickly moved to a pile of skeletons, broke off a small bone fragment with his tentacles, and put it into his mouth to chew.

The bones may have been completely air-dried because they have been placed for too long, and they are very crisp and taste very good, but the taste is very ordinary, only a faint chocolate taste.

These bones are estimated to have been in place for at least decades, if not hundreds of years.

And these bones also gave System a little peace of mind.

These bones can be eaten as food, and Ora can make ice cubes, and their water source is guaranteed, at least for a short time, they will not starve to death due to lack of food.

The corridor where System walks is about tens of meters long. The corridor is about four meters high and six meters wide. Every few meters on both sides of the corridor, there will be a picture frame made of bones with a black shadow on it. portraits, and some portraits also have an eerie red eye.

If System had expected it well, it was undoubtedly a palace or a shrine dedicated to Rafael, the god of shadows and curses.

However, this temple should not have been built by the Rat Man.

It's not that System questioned the ability of the Rat Man, but that the many magical candles in this palace, as well as the portraits of Rafael, were placed a little higher.

With a height of about one meter, these portraits would not be placed at a height of about 1.7 meters, which is more like a creature as tall as a human being.

...

After walking out of this corridor, System appeared in a circular hall more than ten meters high. In the center of the palace, there was a seven-meter-high statue of Rafael.

The statue was carved to life, and Rafael's red eye just glanced at it, and he seemed to be deeply immersed in it.

There seems to be a pool with a diameter of nearly 20 meters below Rafal's statue, but what exists in the pool is not water, but all kinds of skeletons.

System also saw a nearly two-meter dragon skull in the pool.

Much smaller than Ola's original faucet, System swallowed the mucus that had inadvertently flowed out from the glands in his throat, and chose to leave.

He was somewhat apprehensive about Rafael's idol, System. After looking at it from a distance, he saw that there was nothing unusual, and System moved to the corridor on the other side of the main hall...

The whole palace looks very empty, except for the blue-gray stone walls and black floor tiles, there are only three common things, bones, portraits and magic candles.

The structure of the palace is also very simple, a hall more than ten meters high, with corridors dozens of meters away on both sides, and the end of one of the corridors is connected to several rooms.

The structures of several rooms are similar. There are some test benches, and there are bottles and jars like Rat Man wizards. They seem to be bottles containing plague bacteria, but after twisting a few, System found that these bottles The plague germs have lost their activity and all died.

There is also an underground passage in one of the rooms, which leads to a cell.

There were also some torture instruments, some iron chains, and some knives and tools that System did not know in the cell.

System also found a dead corpse in the cell. The flesh and blood on the surface of the corpse had dried. Looking at the pointed ears on the corpse's head, System speculated that it should be an elf.

But aside from this elf, System didn't find anything more.

This temple does not have any windows, and this temple does not have any exits.

...

After exploring back and forth in this temple for several hours, System finally stopped helplessly and looked at Aura the Butterfly who was playing with the black gemstone ring again.

It was this black gemstone ring that brought them here, so there was a high possibility that System could leave the three of them by using this ring.

However, Ola vowed to fiddle with the ring for a long time, and nothing happened, and the gray light that brought the three of them here before never reappeared.

And just now, Ola gradually expressed what seemed to be a panicked mood.

Although Ola still pretended to be calm on the surface, and told System not to worry.

But System knew that it was already difficult to rely on Ola to use that ring to get out of here.

Now there is only one way to leave this palace, and that is to carve the statue of Rafal by hand and communicate with this evil god.

Communicating with the Heretic God is somewhat dangerous, but there is still a great chance to leave here by means of sacrifice.

But looking at Aura who was playing with the black gemstone ring, System suddenly had an idea.

Why should the communication evil god be him?

Aura is not the same and can communicate with the evil god and become a believer of the evil god.

Isn't it fair that you have to take responsibility for your own mistakes?