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Chapter 714 has been blocked.

"It is indeed difficult for ordinary people to understand your behavior of seizing ancient books simply to look up information."

"I also find it hard to understand why you have to find a dark corner to squat in for half an hour every time you climb a certain distance. Do you want to take a dump?"

"Half an hour? Is it that long...? I'll try to speed things up next time."

"..."

"By the way, what was it again that you said you had a way to break the fog wall?" Milo made a gesture of taking off his clothes.

"That? Don't worry about it."

"Okay, then give me some more dry food, I'm hungry."

"..." (Tears a piece out of his bag)
...

"There seems to be something dark and dirty in your eyes."

"It's not dirty."

"what is that?"

"you guess."

"Okay, I think I've already guessed it."

"What is it?"

"you guess."

"..."

Milo is rarely outwitted when it comes to witty banter, but Freya did, and she even found Milo's humiliation quite endearing.

As they approached the location where the Weeping Demon was sealed, she noticed that more and more black matter was gathering in Milo's eyes, and there was hardly any white left in his eyes.

"Wow...so cute~"

Freya then grabbed Milo's head and stared curiously at his almost pure black eyes.

“How is this done?”

“Guess,” Milo muttered.

“I guessed it.” Freya replied without hesitation.

When it was Milo's turn to speak, he didn't fall for it this time and simply nodded and said, "Okay."

Freya froze for two seconds before she started to panic:
"Hey! Why aren't you following the rules? You should be asking 'What is it?' Hurry up and ask!"

But Milo ignored her and continued toward the next piece of fear.

……

...

As you get close enough to the sealed area, everything in sight is covered in frost. The cold is already dry, and the little moisture here is completely frozen, making each breath feel like needles pricking your nose and lungs.

Freya had been saying for a long time that she felt very sleepy.

At first, Milo didn't pay much attention and let her keep shouting.

But as they got closer to the sealed place, Freya gradually became silent, as if she had lost her energy, and her eyes almost closed as she walked.

She was not injured in the battle at the ruins, and even if she was injured, her bloodline would have quickly healed her. Her current strange state can only be explained by the influence of the sealed land or the Weeping Ghost.

...

"I really want to sleep..."

This was already Freya's countless yawns on the way.

"Aren't we there yet...?"

"Ah~~~"

...

Milo did not understand the specific reasons behind it.

But he didn't have time to respond to Freya for the time being. Following the direction of the guiding fragments, he found many hoofprints along the way, so he dared not let his guard down.

It seems that the people of the Hook Temple did not abandon the seal on the Crying Demon because of the Hunter's appearance.

Meanwhile, at the far end of the field of vision, separated by a mountain peak, an even more brutal battle was taking place.

The area was shrouded in a wall of fog, and the situation inside was unknown.

And just as Milo and Freya had previously speculated.

It's no longer about who owns the Star Beasts; this is a battlefield where the various temples settle their personal grudges with the hunters.

As for which side released the message about the poem, that's no longer important. It's likely that both sides believe they are the hunters and the other is the prey.

...

Joan Byrne was within that fog wall domain.

Milo can be 100% certain of this.

But he could only tell himself over and over again to suppress that hostility. There would be plenty of opportunities to deal with that bitch later.

...

While Milo was staring blankly at another mountain peak, Freya had already squatted down next to him, hugging her knees, and fallen asleep.

"Hey, hey, hey? Get up, get up!"

Milo shook Freya awake.

"Why don't you go back first? I can climb the rest of the way by myself," he suggested.

“No, I don’t know the way.” Freya shook her head, determined to stick close to her. ...

And so, Freya, fighting off her drowsiness, followed Milo and walked with him down the last stretch of the icy, frosty slope.

As she walked through a stone forest, she didn't notice that Milo had stopped walking ahead of her and almost bumped into him.

"arrive?"

Freya looked ahead, her eyes still blurry with sleep.

She only saw a few warhorses left in the open space; they belonged to the Temple of Hooked Finger.

As for the group of lightly armored knights and their saintess, they were nowhere to be seen.

...

The winds on the Lengyuan Mountain peaks are usually very strong.

Normally, it would be impossible to fully open one's eyes, but at this moment, the Frosty Land was exceptionally quiet.

To be precise, it was deathly still.

The warhorses weren't just standing there in a daze; they turned their heads and stared intently at Milo and Freya, motionless...

The animal, which should have been highly intelligent, appeared extremely dull and lifeless at this moment, with no particular emotion showing in its eyes, as if it had turned into a machine wrapped in flesh and blood.

When you find yourself unable to detect hostility even in the gazes directed at you, goosebumps have probably already crept up your back.

...

Is this the place you're looking for?

Freya pointed to a dark cave that had not been formed naturally, directly in front of her.

The thing looked like it was formed by splashing ink on the stone wall, and it was impossible to see the scene inside the cave from the outside.

Even so, the two of them gritted their teeth and entered the cave.

This is an underground cemetery.

An artificially constructed underground cemetery.

The Scarlet Witch's guide fragment ends here. Milo has already devoured all the fragments he could see along the way, and the last one is at the entrance of the graveyard.

Although the interior of the cemetery is not covered in frost like the exterior, the chill is noticeably more biting.

It's hard to imagine how the builders managed to carve out this cemetery on the summit of this cold, remote mountain.

The internal structure is also very complex. It is not simply a single space, but contains multiple burial chambers, corridors, and staircases.

Apart from the parts that are too dark to see, the rest of the visible area is a dull gray tone.

The steps, the brick walls, the eerie reliefs on the stone walls, and the heavy stone coffins placed at the end of each corridor are all in a lifeless, gloomy tone, as if all the structures here were built with the intention of making people uncomfortable.

In addition, there are labyrinthine corridors and tomb chambers.

Everything that could be seen constantly reminded one of the suffocating and oppressive atmosphere on the cold plains.

……

According to Milo:
"This feels a bit like sealing away ghosts and monsters."

"I remember you said before... that you could bring the crybaby back to his senses?"

Freya, who was already extremely sleepy, became even more so after entering this dimly lit space.

She pulled out a homemade torch and lit it, which barely illuminated the environment of the tomb where the two of them were.

"correct."

Milo carefully observed the footprints on the ground and the totem reliefs on the walls throughout the journey.

“It seems that this cemetery was built by the Cold Plains people, so the Cold Plains people should not have been enslaved by the Moon Beasts in the generation when the priest dynasty just fell... It couldn’t have been built by the Hook Finger Temple, could it? Impossible... So the way to awaken the Crying Ghost is actually simple, just destroy the false illusion created for it by the Hook Finger Temple... That’s right, that’s right... It may not even be necessary to break the seal.”

"Why?" Freya felt like her brain was frozen, completely unable to keep up with Milo's train of thought.

“Someone once visited the Cold Plains and told the Crybaby some things.” Milo tiptoed and took the torch from Freya’s hand, pointing to the mural directly in front of him.

The image depicts a large group of people from the cold plains kneeling and bowing around a man in a red robe, as if they were praying for something.

On the other side, the mural depicts a dark figure climbing up the cold plains, granting liberation to the bound ancient priest.

The latter is clearly a hope for the future.

...

Freya looked at the shadows on the mural.

He looked down again at Milo, whose eyes were dark.

After repeating this several times, she suddenly realized:

"You're that person, aren't you! Can you really free it? I mean, that black shadow in the mural looks pretty powerful."

"No." Milo shook his head frankly.

Perhaps in the Scarlet Witch's mind, Milo had already reached the CCD level by this point, which would have easily ended the Crying Clown's torment, as she could still suppress him even after he had fully embraced the Forbidden Fire.

But things are different now.

"Why?" Freya didn't quite understand.

"I……"

Milo thought for a moment before speaking:

"My main account got banned."

(End of this chapter)