Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 165: Silver City Adds a Demigod-Level Seal

After hearing what Earl Brandon said, Odysseus was very interested: "Oh? Please tell me in detail."

"The Brandon family obtained their title during the Twenty Years' War and became earls during the White Rose War." Earl Brandon said:
"When the Brandon family received the title of nobility, they were granted a piece of land in the northern suburbs of Backlund. However, more than half a month ago, the grapevines on that land suddenly died in large numbers. No matter how much water was poured, the land remained dry and not a single blade of grass grew.

"I've had many people look at it and tried many methods, but nothing worked."

Odysseus pinched the long beard stuck to his face and asked, "Has your family been sick or injured recently?"

"No."

"Have you been unlucky lately, or have you suffered financial losses?"

Earl Brandon shook his head and said, "No."

He was somewhat disappointed because some of the people he had come to before had also asked similar questions.

Odysseus smiled and said, "It is the land that is cursed, not your family."

As he spoke, he put away his research notes.

Earl Brandon did not continue the previous topic, but smiled and asked: "Is that some of your research?"

Odysseus hummed and said, "There is no end to the study of witchcraft."

Brandon was slightly taken aback, perhaps because he hadn't expected witchcraft to require further study. "Excuse me, the knowledge possessed by some Beyonders seems to come naturally after taking the potion."

Odysseus shook his head and said, "It's like the relationship between talent and hard work. Having talent is certainly something to be happy about, but if you don't work hard, the talent will disappear."

Brandon smiled and said, "That's an interesting theory."

Then he suddenly said seriously: "For a noble, if the ancestral land is cursed and there is no way to solve it, it is the beginning of the family's decline.

“Although I am not as wise as my ancestors, I don’t want to see this happen.

"So, that curse must be lifted."

Odysseus thought to himself: This must be one of the elite among the nobles.

Although the other party was not an extraordinary person, his way of speaking was very skillful and oppressive.

Even though he was thinking this, Odysseus asked, "What is your faith?"

Lord Brandon replied, "The Lord of the Storm."

"Have you asked someone from the church to check it out?"

"Yes, the church members rained on that field all day, but the land was still very dry." Brandon pinched his temples. "Where did all the rain go?"

"Let me guess," Odysseus said with a smile, "Did the church tell you to wait for the curse to disappear on its own?"

Earl Brandon seemed to see hope again and nodded, "Yes."

"Let me guess again," Odysseus asked, "Did you, at the suggestion of some Beyonders, secretly seek help from the Earth Mother Church?"

Brandon suddenly sat up straight and said in surprise, "Yes."

"How's the effect?"

“The vines are alive, but the land is still very dry.”

Brad, who was standing by, noticed the Earl's confusion and asked with a smile, "Mr. Wizard, did you learn these things through divination?"

"This is just a reasonable guess." Odysseus smiled and said, "Although each church has a rich reserve of knowledge, their styles of doing things are still different.

"The Mandated Punisher is better at direct combat, but not at removing curses or the like.

"Of course, they certainly use some items and work hard to cultivate some extraordinary people to make up for this shortcoming, but they are not good at it. Even if they water the land for a whole day, they can't analyze the inner workings of this curse.

“Also, when it comes to land issues, people will first think of the Church of Mother Earth.

“No matter what problems arise with the land or crops, they can generally solve them.

“There are only a few problems they cannot solve, and what Earl Brandon encountered is one of those ‘few problems’.

"It's not their fault because they are not good at solving these kinds of difficult problems."

He pointed to his notes and said, "This requires erudition, wisdom, and constant study of nature."

Earl Brandon asked with a smile, "You seem to know how to solve the problem?"

"I do have some ideas," Odysseus said, "but I still need to visit the vineyard and find evidence to support my ideas."

Brad clapped his hands: "That's great!"

He asked, "Can we leave now?"

Odysseus nodded and said, "You guys go wait in the carriage for a while, I'll make some preparations."

……

"The Land Forsaken by God", the swamp in the north of Silver City.

The exploration team continued to move forward, but the members' spirits all felt that they were getting closer and closer to real danger.

Chief Colin, who was walking in the front, suddenly raised his hand, and the team members immediately formed a defensive formation.

They looked ahead quietly and found that in the deep darkness ahead, there seemed to be some spots of light moving.

At this time, a flash of lightning flashed across the sky. In the moment when the lightning illuminated the earth, they saw a strange scene in the distance.

It was on a small island in the middle of a lake, with a few tall plants, grass, and some small, faintly glowing flying insects.

They found it strange because they had never seen such plants and insects.

At first they thought they were some monsters in the shape of plants, but later they thought the plants were beautiful and the scenery of the island seemed very nice.

They stared blankly for a long while before Chief Colin suddenly said, "That's a normal plant."

Several team members were surprised at first, and then their eyes filled with tears. They had never seen what normal plants looked like. The only normal plant was black-faced grass, but this plant did not grow in the soil and seemed a little abnormal.

When they suddenly saw normal plants, they didn’t even recognize them!
Colin added: "This should be a sealed object that we are relatively unfamiliar with."

Everyone immediately became alert and followed the chief forward step by step.

After walking a few steps forward, Derrick suddenly felt an itch on his left hand. He looked down and saw that next to his thumb, another thumb had grown!
He hadn't come to report to the chief yet, and the "psychiatrist" beside him said, "I, I seem to have grown an extra eye."

Everyone looked at her, and the female "psychiatrist" really had a third eye growing on her forehead. Then the "Guardian" found that he had a nose growing on the back of his head. The most unlucky one was the "Undead Mentor", who felt like he had grown an extra heart.

Colin watched all this quietly, and suddenly he drew out his sword again and smeared some pure white grease on it.

Then he held the sword in both hands and slashed at everyone fiercely. Derrick and others felt as if the connection between their bodies and some external factors had been severed.

Then their mutations disappeared and they returned to normal.

Colin glanced at the island and said, "That seal seems to have the ability to eliminate mutations as well as produce them."

He sheathed his sword and clenched his hands. Suddenly, bright morning light appeared around him. "Keep going!"

The Demon Hunter's "Dawn Light" can eliminate surrounding abnormalities and evil, as well as most extraordinary attacks that affect status.

After walking a distance forward, a few roars suddenly sounded from the front.

Colin said in a deep voice: "Derrick!"

Derrick immediately stepped forward, praying devoutly. A ray of sunlight pierced through the darkness and shone forward.

The members of the exploration team saw huge human figures crawling out of the swamp in the distance.

Some of them were made of rocks, and some were made of surrounding green plants. What was the same was that their faces were ugly and ferocious, and they were roaring at Derrick and the others!
Derrick and the others held their weapons tightly; they were not afraid of this kind of real battle.

After a brief observation, Colin drew his sword and led the members to charge, and the "stone golems" and "wood golems" also charged towards the intruders.

Their charge began, but when they got closer, the "Stone Golem" suddenly pounded the ground with its two thick arms, and immediately strange rocks emerged from the ground, making the road in front of Colin and others very rugged.

The "Wooden Golem" also pounded the ground with its thick arms, and vines emerged from the swamp and swept towards Derrick and others.

Angel, the deputy captain of the "Council Guard", rushed to the front, clenched his hands and suddenly made a downward chopping motion, and a giant sword shining with dusk light appeared in the air!

The somewhat illusory giant sword suddenly exploded, forming fragments of morning light. These fragments were densely packed, like a hurricane of light blowing towards the enemy.

bang bang bang~
The fragments of light hit the rocks that emerged and hit the "stone golem". These hard rocks were like being hit by dense and armor-piercing bombs, making dull explosion sounds.

At the same time, these fragments of light also hit the vines and the "wood golem", blasting the vines into sawdust and blasting holes in the "wood golem".

Derrick and the others took the opportunity to rush forward and quickly dealt with these "golems".

Finally, the exploration team arrived at the shore of the lake in the swamp.

At this time, monsters crawled out of the lake one after another. They were covered with moss, and their appearance and posture were very ugly, as if they had undergone huge mutations.

The battle then resumed, and Derrick and the others soon discovered that these monsters were essentially impossible to kill. No matter how severely injured they were, their wounds would heal quickly and they could continue fighting.

Colin suddenly said, "Head for the island!"

He drank a bottle of potion, then raised his hand, and a road with morning light appeared on the lake, and the water seemed to condense.

Derrick followed everyone and jumped onto the condensed water. His feet suddenly felt soft, as if he had stepped on something soft.

It’s a pity that he has never eaten jelly, otherwise he would definitely use jelly to describe the feeling under his feet.

But this did not stop them from running. They soon reached the island in the middle of the lake. Derrick looked at the lush grass and the glowing insects, and suddenly he heard his own heartbeat.

He felt a surge of vitality throughout his body, and he seemed to be growing taller.

Everyone's hair, beards and nails grew longer rapidly, and even the leather clothes they wore grew a layer of animal hair.

At this time, they saw a branch emitting a faint green light in the center of the island. They knew very well that it was the seal they were looking for.

Colin's pupils flashed with illusory light again, and his eyes became very deep.

Suddenly, the weeds around began to grow, and in the blink of an eye, they had grown from knee-high to chest-high.

The number of insects in the grass suddenly increased, and their size grew larger. They were originally no bigger than a little fingernail, but now they were the size of a palm.

The big trees also began to grow wildly, and their crowns became larger and larger, blocking their sight and preventing them from seeing the seal in the center of the island.

The group of monsters behind them had also rushed to the island and were attacking them.

Soon, the weeds were above their heads, and before they lost their sight in the distance, they leaned together, ready to face the monsters' attack.

Colin, who had been observing the surroundings, suddenly said, "Stop those monsters!"

As he spoke, he smeared a layer of iron-black grease on his sword and thrust it forward. The grass in front of him immediately stopped growing and turned withered and yellow.

Colin rushed into the withered grass and quickly disappeared into the bushes.

At this time, the monster also rushed over. Derrick and others fought hard and finally blocked these monsters.

But the surrounding plants were still growing wildly. The trees and weeds had grown so tall that they blocked out the sun. Derrick seemed to have an illusion that he was about to be buried on this small island by these weeds.

The battle was fierce only at the beginning, but soon the surrounding grass seriously hindered the fighting between both sides.

These original weeds grew thicker and thicker, constantly squeezing their space, and finally it became difficult for them to even swing their weapons.

The space around me was getting smaller and smaller. Even if I tried my best to cut down the "weeds" around me, the feeling of being buried alive became more and more obvious.

Suddenly, after a certain moment, the "weeds" stopped growing and quickly became smaller and shorter.

Soon the surrounding vegetation returned to its original appearance. Derrick and the others saw that in the center of the island, Chief Colin, whose body was entangled in thorny vines, was holding high in his hand a branch that was glowing green.

The branch quickly changed its appearance and became a green wooden cane.

Immediately, the vines on Colin's body faded away, and everything around him returned to normal!

Chief Colin has mastered this seal!

At this time, the monsters rushed towards Colin like crazy, and the battle became fierce again, but this time the monsters could be killed, and the wounds on their bodies were no longer so easy to recover.

Soon, Decree and others discovered that these monsters could actually produce extraordinary characteristics.

After a moment's thought, Derrick realized that due to the "Law of Aggregation of Extraordinary Characteristics", these monsters with Extraordinary Characteristics were attracted by the seal.

However, the spirits and souls of these monsters had undergone significant mutations before they arrived, and they were unable to control the seal.

……

On the northern outskirts of Backlund, Odysseus rode in Earl Brandon's carriage and arrived at the nobleman's vineyard.

(End of this chapter)