Amber Sword

Chapter 1199: Chapter 303: Whirlpool VII

Through the crisscrossed tunnel piled high with grains and water, built like an underground defense structure, Jill quickly found the place where the three mysterious people buried the ’treasure’; in the narrow passage, a giant bag lay quietly on the ground.

Jill and Bu’s eyes lit up simultaneously, "Jill, shall we open it?"

"Of course!"

The two clumsily untied the ropes, but what emerged first from the bag was not dazzling gold but a young girl with a face pale as a sheet and eyes tightly closed. Both let out a scream, retreating as if they’d seen a ghost.

"Ahhh! Jill, this is not treasure!"

"Of course I know, dear God, this must be a murder! Martha above, it happened right under her nose, Heaven knows, I didn’t do anything!"

"Bu, pull me up, my legs have turned to jelly."

"Jill, me too. It’s not just my legs; even my back has turned to jelly." Bu said with a mournful expression, having never seen a dead person before in his life.

"Don’t talk nonsense, Bu, how could a back turn to jelly!"

"It’s true, Jill, it’s all limp, I even feel the wall behind me turning limp..."

"Nonsense, how could a wall turn soft?"

"Really, and I said it was just an illusion!" Bu replied angrily, seeing his companion unwilling to believe him.

Just as he finished speaking, a gentle voice behind him said, "I don’t think it’s an illusion—it’s because you’re leaning on my foot."

"Ah!" Bu screamed in shock and turned around, seeing a young man in a black noble suit, wearing a longsword, standing amiably behind him.

"Ahhh!" Bu and Jill jumped in fright; encountering a noble in such a ghostly place felt like a rat meeting a cat, both nearly petrified, "Ahhh! This has nothing to do with us, we were just...just happened upon it, you mustn’t take us to the Port Authority..."

"I just mean...just mean, you mustn’t accuse the innocent..." Jill stammered, eyeing the silently appearing stranger—though he was audacious, punishment for murder in Ambeser was harsh, involving revocation of citizenship, confiscation of all property, and execution by hanging.

Of course, to Jill and Bu, the most severe part was the confiscation of all property.

It felt like a plunge straight into Hell.

The young man who appeared suddenly was naturally Brand, whose body contained half a soul traversed from the ’future’, so of course, he knew about this passage under the Holy Temple; it’s designed along with the Ande Fulei Great Temple by Rogning, originally intended as underground defense but later used for several shady deeds.

The passage’s entrance and key should be in the hands of the Great Priest, inaccessible to ordinary people. But unfortunately, in Amber Sword, there’s a mission related to this passage, giving it an ’extra entrance.’

This unknown entrance connects to a sewer, one of the ’back doors’ left by Rogning from years ago. During the Ambeser defense battle, players on Erune’s side often used this secret entry to repeatedly capture the Ande Fulei Great Temple under Madara’s control, making it once known as the ’Holy Temple’s lifeline.’

However, in this era, descendants of the Roggen family who provided the task should still be living miserably in Gray Wind Harbor, waiting for Destiny’s call, and Brand had reason to believe that besides himself, no one else could know about this secret passage.

Therefore, he was surprised to see Jill and Bu.

He initially thought Princess Magdalene might also possess the passage’s key; given her status near Wood, the Princess could easily make a copy. Although it didn’t match her identity, given her boastful confidence in front of him, Brand could guess some of it.

Yet, he never expected to encounter a pair of Big Elves, being familiar with their race known as a haven for thieves, with many famed ’nightingales’ among the players originating from this race.