1533 Burning Evil Eye (2/2)
”Are we Cursed by the ancient god?” Vani recalled the Curse that was said to befall anyone within three kilometers from the Sunset Shrine.
As soon as Vani mentioned the Curse, everyone immediately panicked as they recalled the horrible corpse they had seen in the photograph.
”Stay calm. No Curse can last for a few thousand years, let alone one with such a huge area of coverage. There must be something we missed,” Mo Fan said.
”But we haven't come into contact with anything!” Zhao Manyan exclaimed.
Mo Fan looked up, and stared at the moon with an eerie green glow hanging in the sky.
”Don't tell me you're considering the moonlight poisonous?” Heidi asked when she saw Mo Fan staring at the moon.
”The letter Anna sent me mentioned that they suspected the wounds on the rotten body were caused by some kind of Light Magic, but the victim clearly went to the Sunset Shrine at night, and the only light here is from the moon,” Mo Fan replied.
”How could the moonlight cause this? Unless there's some evil energy hidden in the moonlight that we aren't aware of...” Heidi said.
”I believe that thing there might be the cause of it,” Mo Fan pointed at a tower further away.
The tower was over forty meters tall. There was a huge hole in it, with something glowing inside. Zhao Manyan had believed it held some kind of treasure, but he did not dare go any closer, as they were too many Silver Snake Warriors nearby.
”Let's go take a look?” Heidi suggested.
”Yeah,” Mo Fan nodded.
It was difficult for the whole group to move around. Some of them were now suffering greatly from the festering. Mo Fan only brought Heidi and Sofia, who was also a Shadow Mage, along.
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Heidi was a Sound Mage. She could keep a lookout for the demon creatures nearby with ease.
Mo Fan and Sofia had no trouble sneaking past the Silver Snake Warriors with the Shadow Element, they just needed to conceal their presence. These Silver Snake Warriors that had not reached the Commander-level were unable to detect their shadows.
They flitted past a few gardens overgrown with weed and looked up the pitch-black tower. The glow it was emitting felt quite eerie!
”Don't...don't you think it looks like an eye?” Sofia asked in a trembling voice.
”It is an eye!” Mo Fan said confidently.
Heidi's night vision was not as good as the two Shadow Mages, yet she was covered in goosebumps when she heard Mo Fan and Sofia mentioning that the thing glowing on the tower was actually an eye. How was an eye so big and glowing? What kind of creature was it?
”I've seen something similar before,” Mo Fan went on.
Mo Fan remembered there was something like an eye in the Ancient King's imperial tomb, called the Wicked Eye Copper Mirror.
The Wicked Eye Copper Mirror's uses were very odd. Han Ji had mentioned that it was made using the Light Element and the Chaos Element.
Mo Fan referred to it as an ancient surveillance camera. It was not difficult to understand how the Wicked Eye Copper Mirror worked if he considered it a combination of the Light Element and the Chaos Element.
The thing on the tower was not a living creature. It was something evil, similar to the Wicked Eye Copper Mirror, and was fixed into the tower. When the light it emitted was mixed with the moonlight, the moon turned an eerie green in the eyes of those looking at it.
”It must be the Burning Evil Eye,” Mo Fan said.
”Burning Evil Eye? What's that?” Sofia asked curiously.
Heidi was also staring at Mo Fan. She was extremely curious about how Mo Fan knew these things. He definitely did not look like the knowledgeable kind to her!
”I read about it in an ancient manuscript in Greece. In the early days, when humans had just invented magic, their ways of using magic weren't mature yet, so they used the organs of dead ancient beasts to forge some defensive artifacts to stop demon creatures from invading their cities. This Burning Evil Eye was quite popular back then. It's similar to a light barrier, but it doesn't stop the enemy from entering. However, the light will destroy the enemy's cells inside the barrier. The longer the enemy stays inside it, the greater the damage. It seems like the guy that died to the Curse of the Sunset Shrine was actually killed by this Burning Evil Eye instead!” Mo Fan declared confidently.
”How did you learn all that?” Sofia asked with a confused face.
”It's normal to prepare myself before coming here. I read about these things in some old books,” Mo Fan replied loftily.
The God of Death in Greece, Egypt's national beast, and the Totem Beasts in China; it seemed like every ancient civilization was tied to these sacred beasts in some ways. Therefore, when Mo Fan was convalescing at the Parthenon Temple, he had read a lot of books about the European countries and the countries to the south of the Aegean Sea. The books at the Parthenon Temple had historical records that were not disclosed to the public. Mo Fan just wanted to see if the Totem Beasts had any ties to the sacred beasts in foreign countries, while learning about their ancient civilizations at the same time.
Greece and Egypt were tied closely together, and it seemed they had even once clashed with one another because of the Burning Evil Eye!