Chapter 489: Important Discovery in the Secret Room

An empty secret room.

A pungent stench.

With limited time, Reina quickly searched for clues that might be useful in the secret room.

Her attention was focused on finding someone just now, so she only had time to pay attention to other things in the secret room.

Although the secret room is quite spacious, the layout inside is extremely simple.

There are only a few shelves and low cabinets.

"What is this used for?"

When she looked at the ground, Reina was stunned.

On the gray stone floor, there was a strange magic circle made up of a large number of circles and triangles stacked and interlaced.

The radius of the magic circle is about one meter.

The "pigment" looks like dark purple.

Reina suddenly realized something.

She quickly lay on the ground, put her nose close to the strange magic circle, and sniffed it gently.

"Sure enough!"

An extremely pungent and strong stench!

She found the source of the strange smell in this underground secret room.

There is something wrong with the material used to draw this magic circle!

Moreover, under the pungent stench, Reina felt that she could vaguely smell a faint smell of blood.

Confirmed again.

This time she was sure! It was the smell of blood!

This smell of blood was not difficult to determine, mainly because the pungent smell was too strong. If you don't distinguish it carefully, it is difficult to detect the mixed smell.

Reina pulled out a dagger from the scabbard beside her leg.

The sharp blade was shining with a dangerous cold light.

Carefully scraped off a little bit of the "paint" used to draw the magic circle, wrapped it with a cloth, and stuffed it back into the bag.

Reina soon discovered the second abnormality in the secret room.

"What is this?"

Because it was close enough to the ground, Reina found a small ball of wool on the ground.

It was different from the clean wool that had been processed.

Reina put it in front of her nose and tried to sniff it carefully.

Although there was a strange stench in the environment, Reina still smelled a more obvious sheep smell.

This ball of wool was tangled and tangled together, and there were traces of burning, with some burnt and blackened hair roots.

Judging from the smell, it seemed to have fallen directly from a live sheep.

"Why is there wool here?"

Dwarves don't raise sheep or other livestock.

The environment in Stone Castle is not suitable for raising sheep. There are only stones in the mountain, and it is impossible to develop agriculture and animal husbandry.

Food and other things must be purchased from the Kingdom of Reyak, or go hunting in the Spirit Wing Wetland and bring back some beasts that have not been polluted into monsters by the power of the evil god.

Some dwarves specialize in this job, collecting and supplying meat for Stone Castle.

The staple food of dwarves is actually bacon and bacon, and grain is mostly used for brewing.

Roasted meat is not considered a staple food, because roasted meat can only be eaten for one meal.

Those that cannot be eaten must be smoked or pickled immediately, and then stored for a long time in a cool warehouse hidden deep inside the mountain, away from the furnace and the magma lake.

A very famous Stone Castle "delicacy" is called Stone Castle Blood Sausage. The method is to mix fresh animal blood and meat together, sprinkle with salt and other seasonings, and then stuff it into sausage and cook it for consumption.

The dwarves of Stone Castle are not short of salt. They can even sell salt to the Kingdom of Reyak.

However, their salt comes from a salt ore called "rock salt".

The usage is very simple. Just grind it thoroughly and crush it completely.

The meat in Stone Castle basically comes from various beasts in the Spirit Wing Wetland. Unlike the Kingdom of Reyak, the meat people can eat is mainly mutton, supplemented by a small amount of beef and pork.

If you want to find live sheep in Stone Castle, there is only one way, that is to buy the meat sheep shipped from the Kingdom of Reyak!

"Maybe it was someone who had entered this secret room before, and the wool on his body accidentally fell off!"

Reina remembered the "code" she had heard before.

"The lamb has been slaughtered."

"Could it be that the wool was brought by that guy?"

"The ritual they are going to perform requires participants to kill a lamb first?"

"How strange! What kind of ritual would have such a requirement!"

Reina couldn't figure it out.

But she was sure that this clue was definitely valuable.

Even if she didn't find more information, she had a clear goal next.

If the other party had "conditions" such as slaughtering lambs, then their demand for meat sheep was definitely not low. As long as we investigate this aspect, we should be able to find those guys accurately!

After confirming that there were no more clues on the ground, Reina stood up.

Quickly checked the shelves and low cabinets in the secret room.

A book with a cowhide cover was placed on the shelf so openly.

The book was closed and needed to be opened to see the contents.

Reina stepped forward and opened a page.

"What is this?!"

Looking back and comparing the magic circle drawn with dark purple paint on the ground, Reina was a little surprised.

On the paper was a magic circle that looked like it had been scaled down. It was also composed entirely of circles and triangles of different sizes, but the final pattern structure was somewhat different from the magic circle on the ground.

Below it were a few lines of dwarven language.

The illusion magic spell promptly gave the corresponding translation:

"Scaled up 10 times, the normal magic circle radius is 1 meter."

"Drawing materials: 50 grams of hell sulfur powder, 15 grams of graveyard moss powder, 20 grams of animal fat, and pure monster blood."

"..."

Reina suddenly felt dizzy!

The magic circle and words on the page in front of her seemed to come alive, and began to twist and rotate in front of her, faster and faster!

It was as if there was a deep vortex that was going to suck her spirit and soul into it!

Reina tried to get rid of this feeling, but her sight seemed to be stuck and could not move at all!

She felt like she was being stared at by some malicious existence, and the other party could not wait to open the abyss, just waiting to swallow this fresh mortal who came to the door!

Danger!

Will die!

Moreover, the danger intuition reminded Reina that if she could not get out of this state, she might end up with a real death that even the [Resurrection] magic could not save!

"Great God of Knowledge! Please! Protect me!"

Reina subconsciously prayed to Nowen.

The next moment

The bad feeling suddenly receded.

The distorted text returned to normal.

The dizziness and confusion as if falling into a whirlpool disappeared.

The feeling of being stared at was gone, as if it had never appeared.

The book in front of her seemed to have become the ordinary appearance before she opened it.

"Hu... Hu... Hu..."

Reina gasped in fear. Although the previous process only took a few seconds, it had already made her sweat!

"This book! What's going on?!"

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