Yarra’s Adventure Notes
Chapter 1155 - 267: The Past of the Expedition Team

Chapter 1155: Chapter 267: The Past of the Expedition Team

"The specific process of exploration was too complicated and tedious, so I won’t go into detail about that. If it weren’t for the many strange creatures I saw while organizing the records, I probably would have fallen asleep halfway through," Catherine said with a wry smile. "Anyway, they eventually found their destination. Also, those two skeletons appeared again, and they successfully killed one of the clients. As for the price they paid to kill the target under the protection of the two half-gods, the larger skeleton suffered a severe blow, losing the lower half of its body, and the smaller one lost several ribs but still quickly carried away the larger skeleton and retreated."

Pannis narrowed his eyes but soon shook his head in resignation, chuckling helplessly. Although he always subconsciously replaced the two skeletons with Nellie and himself, after all, they were not real. They were just two undead creatures that might have their own senses and were willing to be controlled by Nellie. Whether Nellie manipulated them to save each other because she still believed that in such moments, the one who committed such a sin would surely save her, or simply because she couldn’t bear to see the two undead destroyed for her sake, was impossible to predict. However, it was probably the latter because, after all, he had let her down.

"It was the death of one of the clients that revealed their identity as undead mages," Catherine said regretfully. "However, by that time, grandfather had already discovered clues of a suspected temple through his scouting of the land. And for professionals of Legendary Rank or even demigods, an undead mage wasn’t something that couldn’t be mentioned, so it didn’t have much impact. The prospect of imminent success excited them too much, neglecting to consider the purpose of the undead mages seeking the relics of the deities. Grandfather later repented, thinking that if they hadn’t been blinded by excitement and had considered the identity of the undead mages, they might have linked their purpose to the ’Return of the Dead’ tragedy of that year, and then the chain of tragedies that followed wouldn’t have happened. Unfortunately, he didn’t do that."

"Let me think, the death of Mela suggests that their exploration had extended beyond the Forbidden Land of Living Souls, right?" Pannis said. "Having to continue exploring in such an environment probably meant they went through a series of battles, no wonder they didn’t have the time to consider the underlying reasons, it’s not entirely because they were blinded by success."

"I don’t know about that since grandfather himself couldn’t be sure either," Catherine continued as everyone’s attention became focused on the story. "After finding clues, the team protected the remaining client and pushed hard to reach their destination." Not dwelling on the process any longer, she directly said, "The destination turned out to be an ordinary forest, except that there weren’t many animals around while the vegetation was exceptionally lush."

"After all, that place was once the site of the Death Temple; maybe there’s still a faint energy of death lingering, which sentient beings cannot perceive, but it doesn’t mean ordinary beasts can’t," Pannis said thoughtfully. "No living creature likes the energy of death, especially small animals. Unless under special circumstances, they would instinctively avoid such areas, and without a food source, magical beasts would naturally move elsewhere, resulting in fewer animals."

"Perhaps that’s the case, but it’s not important. What’s important is that after finding the destination, the client used some strange magic to detect and eventually confirmed that the target was buried thousands of meters underground," Catherine said with a frown, seemingly dissatisfied with certain events. "The client said he needed to perform a spell to summon the underground relic back to the surface and then began the lengthy preparation process. At this point, grandfather and Cyp, oh, the former president, both began to have doubts. An undead mage summoning the relic of a deity was in itself quite unusual. However, they were overly confident and tempted by greed. They believed that even if the client had any schemes, with his strength, he couldn’t do much under the surveillance of two demigods and five professionals of Legendary Rank. And they couldn’t completely dismiss the possibility that the client had found some peculiar way to summon the relic. Therefore, the two of them wasted the last chance to stop the undead mage, adopting a wait-and-see attitude."

"Hmm, I see," Pannis nodded. "This clears up some of my confusion. I was wondering why they would just watch the undead mage’s suspicious activity, so it was because they chose to observe. Then, did they pay a price for it?"

"Yes, a very serious price. The whole world is paying that price," Catherine said with a sigh. "When the temple appeared out of nowhere on the ground, eradicating all the vegetation around it, grandfather and President Cyp knew they were in big trouble. They attacked the client immediately, but to their surprise, the client was already dead. He had used his own vitality as a medium for the spell, and he was prepared to die. Even though he was dead, the spell did not stop. The emergence of the temple had become irreversible."

"I can imagine," Pannis said. "And I can also foresee that they were about to face a huge trouble, a trouble that could be fatal."

"Yeah, if they had chosen to leave immediately at that time, it might have been slightly better; at least they would have had more time to prepare. But they chose to keep observing to unearth the truth. They needed to know what exactly they had summoned," Catherine, immersed in her grandfather’s memories and full of regret, continued. "The moment the temple materialized, three figures suddenly appeared in the open space in front of it."

"Using the power of a deity to cross space directly into the Divine Kingdom?" Pannis nodded. "In a way, the grand temple of the church is indeed an extension of the Divine Kingdom. Those three moribund figures are truly Danacus’s three popes."

"The three persons grandfather saw indeed fit the image of the moribund," Catherine said. "Upon seeing the appearance of the three, grandfather’s team immediately attacked the three moribund, but correspondingly, the adversaries harbored the same intentions. The attacks from both sides were almost simultaneous."

"Heh, they couldn’t win," Pannis recollected. "Even if there were only two moribund, their team would have had to pay a heavy price for a victory. And considering there were three moribund at the time, their defeat was inevitable."

"So, they lost."