Dezerby was right. There were two level-1 wizards and nine arbitrators from the Church of the Storm in their group. Even if they encountered a black-blooded fox bear, it wouldn't be a big deal. They might even be able to get some magical beast materials.
However, although black-blooded fox bears were more than ninety percent of the time, there was still a ten percent chance that they would bring a family with them. If they really encountered such a situation, they might be in trouble …
The group continued to move forward and search. Soon, the two official wizards, Connor and Dezerby, saw the ruins that the scout had reported.
It was a dilapidated building made of stone walls and wooden walls. The scale wasn't very large, and it looked like there were only five or six houses.
Even though these dilapidated walls looked like they had been battered by wind and rain for a long time, one could still vaguely see that these stone and wooden walls were imprinted with magic runes. It was obvious that the people who built these houses, or who originally lived here, were Magi.
Seeing this, Connor and Dezerby exchanged glances. Dezerby then waved his hand and ordered the arbitrators beside him to start setting up the formation. Connor, on the other hand, observed the ruins closely, trying to find something from them.
A few minutes later, Dezerby led the others to set up the formation that Connor needed. Connor didn't waste any time and stood in the center of the formation, chanting in a low voice.
"Kutszewski … Lucinz … Sargio … Pic …"
As Connor chanted, the formation that Connor was in gradually emitted a black glow. Connor Ferguson, who was in the center of the formation, also had a great increase in his mental strength with the help of the formation. He began to explore the depths of the ruins.
Connor used his mind power to penetrate through the black soil and hard rocks. Finally, he found the thing that was buried 40 meters underground.
Frowning slightly, Connor slowly retracted his mental strength from the depths of the ground. As Connor moved, the black glow on the formation slowly extinguished. Seeing that Connor ended his exploration so quickly, Dezerby, who was guarding Connor, was a little surprised. After Connor finished casting the spell, he immediately asked Connor tentatively, "Is there something underground?"
Hearing Dezerby's question, Connor glanced at him and nodded.
Seeing Connor nod, Dezerby, who was used to disappointment, suddenly had a look of surprise in his eyes. He continued to ask Connor, "Can you confirm what it is? Is it the ruins we're looking for? "
Smiling helplessly, Connor pointed downwards and said bitterly, "There is indeed something 47 meters underground, but it's a corpse pit!"
"There are about a hundred corpses that have already rotted into bones in the corpse pit. Among those bones, there are shamans, but most of them are ordinary people. There are men, women, old, and young. There are scars on each of the bones. I can imagine that they were tortured before they died. Then, they came here, were slaughtered, and were buried in this corpse pit!"
Hearing Connor's explanation, Dezerby, who originally thought that he had seen hope, suddenly had an unpleasant look on his face. After a few seconds of silence, he asked Connor again, "Can you tell how long these bones have been dead?"
"I can't tell the exact year, but I think they've been dead for about 30 years!" Connor hesitated for a moment, but still gave his own judgment.
Hearing Connor's answer, Dezerby glanced at the stone and wooden walls with a hesitant look. Seeing this, Connor shrugged his shoulders slightly and said casually, "If you want to observe it yourself, it's up to you. Anyway, it's 47 meters underground. It's not too deep!" "That's right!" Dezerby nodded.
After Connor's words, Dezerby was obviously more tempted. Just as he was about to instruct his subordinates to dig, an arbiter in charge of guarding the periphery suddenly shouted at Dezerby as if he had discovered something, "Sir Dezerby! Come here quickly, take a look at this! "
The arbiter's shout immediately attracted the attention of Dezerby and Connor. Without hesitation, the two of them flashed and appeared beside the arbiter. Following the arbiter's line of sight, Connor and Dezerby also saw what he had discovered.
It was a lump of completely dried, dark-brown thing in the waist-high grass. At the sight of this thing, Connor didn't recognize it at first; however, Dezerby's face slightly changed as he subconsciously exclaimed, "What's that?"
"Not good!"
Hearing Dezerby's exclamation, Connor was undoubtedly more curious about what the dark brown stuff was, but before he could ask, Dezerby had already taken a deep breath and shouted at everyone, "Release the signal flare to the scout in front! Tell him to retreat quickly, and everyone else to evacuate immediately! Quick! Quick! "
"Dezerby, what the hell is this?" Seeing Dezerby so flustered, Connor couldn't suppress the curiosity in his heart and asked him, "What's the matter?"
While Connor was speaking, a blue signal flare was already fired from the other arbiters' hands. Dezerby organized the arbiters' retreat while explaining to Connor beside him, "This dark brown stuff is the excrement of a black-blooded fox bear, but it's completely dried, so you can't sense any scent of a black-blooded fox bear! Judging from the quantity and distribution of the excrement, it's definitely not produced by a single black-blooded fox bear! "
Hearing Dezerby's last sentence, Connor immediately realized something, and his expression changed abruptly. At this moment, not far from the forest, a miserable howl suddenly sounded.
"Ah …!"
The howl suddenly stopped halfway. It was clear that the fate of the owner of the howl had come to an end.
Although Connor wasn't very familiar with the scout, he could still tell from the howl that it was his. Dezerby and the other arbiters who also heard the howl turned pale, but it was obviously not the time to express their grief.
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