Who hid my body?

Chapter 367 The Entrance to the Abyss Prison

Rocky stared blankly at Diana, then involuntarily swallowed the saliva stuck in his throat: "You mean... Vessas is still alive?"

“I didn’t say that.”

“But that’s exactly what you mean!” Rocky said. “Otherwise, why are you so afraid to break his seal? Isn’t he just a soulless corpse?”

“That’s true. Vessas’s soul has long since vanished. This is something the gods have confirmed countless times. The lowest level of the Abyss Prison contains a soulless, ruleless corpse,” Diana said. “But even so, it is still Vessas’s body. It’s hard not to think about it, especially for people like you and me who have felt Vessas’s power.”

"To be honest, I don't feel the power of Vessas as deeply as the one outside does right now." After confirming that Vessas couldn't be brought back to life, Loki breathed a slight sigh of relief, then pointed to the sea of ​​fire outside. "I really don't know if Vessas will wake up, but what the one outside is going to do is already obvious. Don't you think he'll break the seal here from the outside?"

"of course."

“That solves it,” Rocky said. “If you don’t use those seals to deal with him, he’ll have to break them himself, and then it’ll all be for nothing!”

Diana's expression didn't change much, but she sighed deeply in her heart.

She was well aware of this principle. Isaiah had already pushed her to this point; if she couldn't stop him, then everything would be meaningless.

So she had no choice at all, and this was the contractor's duty, it's just that no contractor had ever actually used it in the past thousand years.

Just then, the Guardians' urgent report came from outside again, informing that Isaiah was still advancing steadily and that the Guardian forces they had sent to stop him were being defeated one after another. They requested that Diana make a quick decision.

In fact, Diana could see it herself without the Guardians' reports.

Under the starry night, her servants fell one after another, like moths drawn to a flame, unable to stop the Star Remnant sorcerers from turning into flames despite their best efforts.

She hadn't even seen Isaiah make a move yet.

We can't hesitate any longer.

Diana took a deep breath and then said to Rocky, "I need your help."

Rocky was immediately startled: "You don't want me to fight Isaiah, do you?"

"Now that things have come to this, do you think you can still remain uninvolved?"

Rocky knew perfectly well that things had escalated to this point, and he could no longer extricate himself. Even if he miraculously survived and the Land of Contracts dealt with Isaiah on its own, neither the Land of Contracts nor Rhine would let him off the hook afterward. And if the Land of Contracts failed to stop Isaiah, then there was no need to say anything more.

The only way he can save himself is to help the Land of Covenants deal with Isaiah. Then, Diana, as the person in charge, can help him cover up his mistakes, and no one will be able to find fault with him.

Rocky came to find Diana precisely because he understood this.

But that doesn't mean he'd be willing to die. If he were to fight Isaiah, he'd rather just run away; at least he'd have a chance to survive.

Diana clearly saw through Loki's thoughts and immediately said, "It's not like you're going to fight Isaiah one-on-one. We'll assist you. Our Guardian Legion isn't weak; it's just a side effect of the destruction of the four divine tablets. As long as they have some time to recover, at least those Star Remnant sorcerers won't be a match for them."

"The Star Remnant Sorcerer doesn't care at all; it's Isaiah who matters!"

"I didn't ask you to defeat him, just try to stall for time, and I'll cooperate with you."

"Your so-called cooperation is just staying in the room micromanaging?" Rocky, already aware of Diana's rules, couldn't help but sneer. "You want me to go up there and fight?"

“There’s no point in hiding anywhere if we can’t stop Isaiah.” Diana was too lazy to argue with Loki and said bluntly, “Besides, I need to break the deeper seal, which will also take some time. My servants and the Guardian Legion will buy me that time; they will risk their lives. As for you… just do your best.”

Rocky saw that Diana had already put it this way, so he had no reason to refuse.

If Diana is willing to break the deep seal and give him hope of defeating Isaiah, he is willing to take the risk.

After all, he had no choice.

However, there is one more thing.

"What about Hand and Eye?" Rocky looked at Diana. "That guy is very likely at the slumbering monument. Are you really not going to do anything about it?"

“Of course not, I’ve already sent people to check,” Diana said. “Whatever he tries to do, I won’t let him succeed. Of course, you can also tell Isaiah about what he’s doing.”

Do you think he'll stop because of this?

Diana shook her head and said slowly and deliberately, "It's just a possibility, but as long as he's willing to stop, I guarantee he won't be held accountable afterward."

"I think this is a meaningless statement, and he would never agree to it."

“Of course he wouldn’t agree,” Diana said calmly, “but at least it will make him watch his hand and not dare to go all out against us. That will be enough.”

Rocky thought about it and felt that Diana's words made sense. Isaiah definitely didn't want his hand and eye to survive until the end, which would naturally greatly reduce their pressure.

“Then I’m off,” Rocky said. “You fucking have to come and help me out.”

Rocky left, while Diana remained in her residence, watching the meteor shower outside that showed no signs of abating, and then slowly clenched her ring finger.

As she mentioned before, the contractors of each generation also had a mission: to take charge of the things at the bottom of the prison.

Diana was their owner, a fact she already knew when she received the finger from her mother.

This was also Diana's true power, a power capable of overturning the world.

Diana never dared to use this power, because a contractor needs to be in sync with his servants to control them.

However, they have no "heart"; all they have is the most primal bloodlust and killing.

Now, Diana is going to channel her will into this ultimate madness.

Diana looked at the finger her mother had left her and whispered, "Will I go crazy, Mother?"

No one could answer her, after all, her mother had been dead for many years.

Before he died, he left her with only this one sentence.

"The prison must never be opened under any circumstances; this is the contractor's mission."

Diana gently closed her eyes, and the true power of the [Contract] spread like threads into the deepest darkness.

And what it is about to pull up is the craziest puppet.

……

With a swish, Hevinia tapped her staff, and a melodious tune filled the air. Two fully armed guardians fell to the ground, revealing the gate behind them.

"Okay, okay, this is it! This is it!"

Seeing that Hevinia had dealt with the guards, Edwin, who was behind her, immediately jumped out, his face full of excitement.

Hevinia put away her staff and asked, "Is Vessas's corpse inside this door?"

“Of course not, you’re being too optimistic,” Edwin said. “Only after crossing that door do you truly enter the Abyss Prison. We don’t even know what’s inside yet, so how could we possibly find Vessas’s body so quickly?”

"Then why are you so excited?"

“Because getting this far has already been quite an achievement,” Edwin said, rubbing his hands together like a fly. “It’s gone much more smoothly than I expected.”

"Really? But I didn't feel any difficulties at all." Hevinia spoke her true feelings, and said with a slight frown, "We didn't encounter any obstacles along the way. Even if someone was outside helping us distract them, this is too smooth. Could it be that you took the wrong route?"

“Of course not,” Edwin said. “Because the road we’re on isn’t the main road, but an internal maintenance access road.”

"Inspection passage?" Hevinia raised an eyebrow. "Inspect what?"

“Of course it’s a seal,” Edwin said. “The Abyss Prison was built a thousand years ago. If it’s not maintained, even the strongest seal will be damaged. If I remember correctly, the various seals of the Abyss Prison are maintained every hundred years. The most recent maintenance was about fifty years ago, and the maintenance personnel went in through this passage.”

"You learned this from your student?" Hevinia looked at Edwin with considerable suspicion. "Your student must be younger than you. How could he have been involved in the maintenance fifty years ago?"

“I’ve already said it, the Nightmare Lord’s dream is a hodgepodge of knowledge,” Edwin said with a smile. “I can even find that absolute taboo, so what is this little bit of information? It’s just that I never considered entering the Abyss Prison before, otherwise I might have found even more information… Tsk tsk tsk, what a pity.”

Edwin walked forward, shaking his head.

After a brief moment of doubt, Hevinia followed, and the two of them stepped through the door and truly entered the Abyss Prison.

Earlier, outside, Hevinia had already seen what the Abyss Prison looked like.

In summary, it's an inverted triangle structure, with a large opening at the top that gradually narrows as you go down. They entered the prison from the side of this inverted triangle.

In theory, such a structure is so easy that as long as you keep going down it, you can't get lost and you'll eventually find your way—provided, of course, that you're not blocked.

The prison had no light source and the air was stagnant, creating a great sense of oppression.

Just as Hevinia raised her staff to cast a light spell, Edwin, sensing her movement, immediately hissed, "Don't move!"

Hevinia immediately stopped what she was doing: "What's wrong?"

Edwin did not answer. In the darkness, Hevinia heard a crisp "crack" sound, and a faint light illuminated the view ahead.

Edwin lit the torches that had been prepared beforehand.

“Come and take a look,” Edwin beckoned.

Hevinia followed and then saw some strange stone statues embedded in the wall.

These stone statues look like mutated humans, with extremely thin bodies and narrow bone wings on their backs.

“What is this?” Hevinia asked.

“Gargoyles,” Edwin said. “are very ancient creatures that live on magic and can no longer be seen in the outside world.”

"This thing is still alive?"

“Yes, it can remain in this stone statue form for a very long time as long as there is no magical input,” Edwin said. “It will only awaken when it senses magical input.”

What happens after you wake up?

“Devour the source of magic.” Edwin looked at Hevinia. “Yes, just like you think. As soon as you use magic, they will instantly awaken from their slumber and attack you.”

Are they difficult to deal with?

"Magic has no effect on them, don't you think?"

Hevinia frowned slightly.

Magic ineffective? Does that mean all her musical spells are useless?

“Direct magic is ineffective.” Edwin guessed what Hevinia was thinking and explained, “For example, flames converted from magic are ineffective against them. But if you strengthen your body with magic and then punch them away, that kind of attack will be effective.”

“I see.” Hevinia nodded slightly. “They are indeed very peculiar creatures. The Land of Contracts placed them here to deal with intruders like you and me?”

“What else could it be?” Edwin shrugged. “For those who are unaware of their existence, no matter how powerful they are, it’s an unavoidable trap. For example, if you had used magic to illuminate the area just now, all of these guys would have woken up.”

As Edwin spoke, he stepped back to let the flames illuminate a wider area.

Then Hevinia saw that there were thousands of these gargoyles on the wall in front of them, densely packed like bees in a hive, enough to trigger trypophobia in anyone looking at them.

And just thinking about it gives Hevinia a headache once all these magic-immune creatures awaken.

"Consider this a warning," Edwin said. "At the level of a Sealing Gargoyle, it can only guard places like this. The further down you go, the more trouble you'll encounter, and there might even be..."

Hevinia glanced at Edwin: "Stop keeping me in suspense."

"Heh, do you know about the Rhine Devourer?"

"what is that?"

“Something specifically designed to deal with those who possess body parts; they are very sensitive to the power of Vessas,” Edwin said. “And those things were formed from the fragments of dead gods.”

Hevinia's eyelids twitched.

A dead god?
“Even Rhine knew to use something like that to deal with Vesas’s power,” Edwin said softly. “Let alone the Abyss Prison? And Vesas’s true form is down there. To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if they put a true god down there.”

Hevinia didn't speak, she just stared silently at the abyss below.

What she didn't know was that in the deepest abyss, the giant serpent on the door slowly opened its scarlet eye.

(End of this chapter)