The bottom of the lake was also completely dark, which completely blocked his vision. Angor quickly constructed a hexagonal model in his mind space and pushed it with his mana. A white ball of light appeared inside the Purification Field and illuminated the surroundings like a lamp.
It was a level-0 cantrip, Illuminate.
During these two months, Angor learned most of his common cantrips, including Illuminate, which he didn't want to learn before because it was a waste of time.
Illuminate only emitted light, and the light it emitted was not very bright. It could only illuminate two or three meters around him at most. However, torches could not be used underwater, while Illuminate had no such limitation.
There was another advanced cantrip for Illuminate, which was called "Glitter". It could illuminate an area of dozens of meters. However, Glitter was only a level-1 cantrip, and Angor needed to accumulate enough knowledge to learn it. It would take a long time to learn it, so Angor had no intention of learning it for now.
With the help of Illuminate, the dark and cold lake water was finally illuminated a little bit.
He looked around with the help of the dim light. There were some unknown black dregs floating in the water, and he also found some strange black threads that looked like human hair floating quietly in the water.
Even with the protection of the Purification Field, Angor could still imagine how disgusting the smell would be.
The lake was not deep, only about four or five meters. Angor soon reached the bottom of the lake. The bottom of the lake was full of unknown black paint-like things. At first, he thought that they were petroleum resources, but when he wrapped a part of the black paint with magic power and put it into the Purification Field, a nauseating, rancid smell filled the tip of his nose.
It wasn't oil. Angor thought for a while, but he still couldn't tell what it was based on his experience, so he gave up.
The bottom of the lake was not deep, which also proved one thing. In the past, the villagers could not have relied on this water to survive. Maybe this lake used to be running water, but it was blocked for some unknown reason.
With this thought in mind, Angor began to look for the blocked pipes in the dark water.
Every time he took a few steps, a "tornado" would be released from his palm, which rolled up the dregs in the water. The lake began to shake violently, and many things hidden in the dregs were lifted out.
He had been maintaining the Purification Field, which temporarily blocked out the dirty water and debris. With the help of Illuminate, he was able to see many strange things clearly.
For example, a small, shabby iron box flashed in front of him for a second.
He quickly captured the iron box and dragged it into the light shield of the Purification Force Field. He assumed that the box had not been opened for a long time, and he was afraid that opening it might cause the item inside to change. So, he decided not to open the box. Instead, he reached his spirit feelers inside to check what was inside.
His spirit feelers showed him something that surprised him. He thought the box was meant for jewelry or jewelry, but it was filled with medical equipment, such as syringes, medicine bottles, syringes, and so on.
He considered for a moment and used Cleanse to clean the box. Then, he removed the smell with Purify and put the box into his bracelet.
He didn't throw the box away because he noticed a strange symbol on the medical equipment inside.
A snake was coiled around the circular cone.
This symbol might reveal something about the village.
As the tornadoes fell, the hidden items that had been buried for nearly a thousand years came to the surface one by one. There were even several skeletons whose hair was still on them.
He didn't see any bodies in the village, so he thought everyone here had escaped. But it seemed that wasn't the case. He only cleaned a small corner of the lake, and there were already eight corpses. How many bodies were there at the bottom of the lake?
Did everyone in the village go to the bottom of the lake?
Thinking about this possibility, Angor felt a chill down his spine. No wonder the lake smelled so bad. A thousand-year dead lake with countless dead bodies buried in it couldn't possibly smell good.
Angor jumped out of the lake with the corpses and placed them beside the lake to check them one by one.
After checking all eight skeletons, Angor revealed a smile on his face. After careful inspection, he confirmed that they were all humans, not humanoids. Based on their height and bone size, Angor assumed that they were common people in the southern wizardry region.
This made Angor even more certain that he didn't leave the wizarding world.
There were humans in other planes, but most of them were supernaturals, not regular humans. Angor was sure that these corpses belonged to mortals. Also, the village at the center of the earth was strange, but after searching for a while, he was sure that there was nothing supernatural in it.
A village filled with mortals would never appear outside the wizarding world.
Since he was still in the wizarding world, he didn't need to worry. As long as he didn't go too far, he would find a way back.
Angor used Hand of Spell to dig a giant hole and put the eight corpses inside. He had basic respect for the dead.
He didn't bury the corpses immediately. Instead, he went to the bottom of the lake and began to make waves.
Just as he had expected, the entire bottom of the lake was simply a mass grave. He scooped up corpses one after another. There were men and women, old and young. Among them, there was even the skeleton of a baby that was held in the arms of its mother. Angor had mixed feelings as he looked at the mother's body, which seemed to be filled with love but was also cold and heartless at the same time.
It was impossible for a baby to seek death, so these corpses seemed to prove one thing: the people here were either murdered or killed themselves.
Leaving aside the fact that the child was murdered, Angor could not understand what kind of feelings the mother had when she committed suicide. She would rather die than leave her child behind?
"Ugh …" Angor sighed. The past was already buried in the passage of time. No one could tell why. The emotions of mortals, due to their short lifespan, were more impassioned and passionate. This was the passion that Magi, who had a long lifespan, lacked.
Perhaps a thousand years ago, a bloody disaster happened here. Or …
Angor looked back at a certain spot in the village. There was an old nest where the rainbow dragonflies lived. He wasn't sure if it was because of their visit that something went wrong.
But who could tell what happened a thousand years ago?
Angor dragged the corpses out from the bottom of the lake and threw them into the giant pit. What he didn't know was that while he was doing these things, a golden vertical eye was quietly staring at him from the bottom of the lake.
In the end, Angor found about a hundred corpses. It sounded like a lot, but considering the size of the village, there should be more than that.
"Maybe some of them escaped the village?" Angor guessed.
Angor spent half a day at the bottom of the lake and took out almost all the corpses. However, he didn't find the "underground passage" that proved this lake was once a living water lake.
"Could it be that my guess was wrong? There's another water source in this deserted village? Is this lake purely built to look good? "
But who would build a stagnant lake for people to see?
Or was this lake the tomb of the villagers? Did they end their lives by being buried in water?
Angor wondered. Since he couldn't find an answer or an exit, he had to leave the lake and bury the corpses first.
There were too many corpses and the pit was too small. Angor ordered Toby to smash a bigger pit nearby and put the corpses inside.
After covering the pit with soil, Angor found a large rock and melted it into a tombstone using Thaw. He then used Hand of Spell to carve a row of neat universal characters on it.
[Nameless Village. Over a hundred corpses were buried in the lake. Today, a tombstone is erected as a memorial. ]
[Erected by: Angor Padt. ]
As the inscription was set up, he began to wonder if there were any other ways to go about it. There was a stupid one, which was to dig a path himself. However, he didn't know where the foundation of this place was located. It would be bad if he accidentally dug a path and caused it to collapse.
Suddenly, Angor heard water gurgling behind him.
He turned around and saw a whirlpool on the surface of the lake.
Of course, Angor knew what a whirlpool meant. He happily called Toby back and jumped into the lake.
Angor went directly to the whirlpool and was surprised to see a dark hole at the bottom of the lake.
It was this abrupt hole that caused the whirlpool to form.
"I didn't see it here." Angor was confused. He tried to recall what happened here.
But after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't think of any useful information. The bottom of the lake was too dark. Even Light could only illuminate a few meters around him. The bottom of the lake was also uneven and covered in black paint. It was normal that he couldn't remember anything.
"Perhaps when the tornado was used to lift up the hole, and then when the villagers were buried, the last layer of membrane was crushed because of the water pressure?" Angor couldn't think of anything else. There was no one else here, so he could only make such a guess.
As for whether it was an undead creature … Angor could tell. He didn't sense any undead energy in this place. Besides, the chances of a mortal surviving as a spirit were too low. A thousand years had passed, so there shouldn't be any undead creatures here.
When the bottom of the lake became calm again, Angor carefully stepped into the dark hole.
An unknown hole, an unknown path. No one knew what was ahead. Angor could only stay alert.
"Toby, you should be on guard too!" Angor reminded Toby. But when he looked at Toby, he saw that the bird was looking at him with a serious expression.
"Toby?" Angor was confused.
Toby waved at Angor. "Tweet, tweet, tweet."
"You're going out?" Angor was surprised. Wasn't Toby supposed to be a clean creature? Why did he have to go out and touch the stinky water instead of staying in the purification field?
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