() Unknowingly, the two of them had arrived in front of Henry Conrad's mansion. It was a majestic red brick building in the dynasty style. The gorgeous building was no less elegant than a nobleman's country house, and the rooms should also be upscale.

There are hundreds of rooms. It can be seen that Henry Conrad has worked hard on the waiters, and even the rooms have been prepared for them.

"What a magnificent building!" Just at the first glance, Kirito had to sigh at the amount of money the designer of this building spent on it. Even the nobles living in the royal capital may not have such money.

capital.

"Thank you for your compliment." The butler who greeted the two of them said with a smile that was neither humble nor overbearing.

"Is Mr. Conrad also in there?" Kirito asked the real meaning of this purpose. After all, if the master is not here, then the meaning of coming here will be lost. This is not the result he wants.

"Yes, the second floor is the library, and the master's room is upstairs."

"learn."

Looking at the majestic building in front of him, Kirito frowned in thought, because at this time, the night had already spread, and the surroundings were already pitch black. However, there was not a single room with lights on in the building in front of him.

No matter how he explained it, he might not be able to get a satisfactory answer. Moreover, the familiar smell in the air was so faint that he could hardly smell it. Kirito shook his head and thought it was a problem with his sense of smell.

Walking through the front door and arriving in front of the hall, the stairs leading upstairs were designed in a Y-shape, which was in line with the contemporary design style. However, the increasingly clear smell in the air made Kirito finally know that it was not him.

There was something wrong with his sense of smell, and his keen vision even caught a few hidden huge claw marks, which were absolutely impossible to cause harm to humans.

There was no maid to greet them, and Richardson, who had called several times, felt that the current situation was very suspicious. After ordering Kirito and Darian to wait where they were, he went up the stairs first.

"...Maybe...it's too late." Dalian muttered. She had just taken a few steps, but her right hand had already been grabbed. When she looked back, she found that it was Kirito, but he was so helplessly beaten again and again.

Dalian grabbed her body politely, and Dalian, who had an arrogant temperament, could not bear it. Just when she was about to reprimand the other party, she found that the other party's eyes seemed to be unusually serious, which made her swallow back the curse she was about to say.

"Follow me, otherwise I won't be sure I can protect you at any time."

"What do you mean?" Dalian frowned, because she might already know the answer from Kirito's mouth.

"Ahhh~~~~~~!!!" A long and drawn-out scream resounded throughout the entire majestic building. Kirito stroked his forehead and then said: "Okay, maybe there are probably more people in the entire building.

We are the only two human beings who can still move."

When the two of them walked through the hall and arrived at the reception room, they stopped one after another. A strange smell filled the building, a strong smell of blood and the disgusting smell of burnt meat.

"Dalian, if you know something, please tell me quickly." At this time, Kirito's tone seemed extremely urgent, simply because everything in front of him could never be caused by humans.

It looked as if a giant beast had made trouble. Stone pillars and marble statues were scattered on the ground. There were burnt marks on the carpet. Hotel servants were scattered everywhere. With just one glance, you could tell that they had died of exhaustion and had been killed.

Some were burned to death, some were killed by a single blow from a sharp knife, and some were even torn in half by sharp claws.

"If tonight is a full moon night, then the answer may be revealed." Without answering Kirito's question immediately, Dalian just said something irrelevant, and then continued to walk forward.

Now she is no longer the timid girl who was afraid of strangers in the basement at the beginning. Even in the misery in front of her, she is still calm, as if everything in front of her is just an illusion and ridiculous.

"Go to the study. The source of all the changes should be in the study." Darian broke away from Kirito's hand, and ran towards the study. In desperation, Kirito had to follow closely, with a look in his eyes.

A look of boredom flashed through him. To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that the old guy Wes had clearly entrusted the other party to him in his last words, and that the other party was a girl, he would have wanted to leave long ago.

After all, no matter how troublesome it is, it's not his turn to take care of it.

When they passed through several doors and came to another hall, the two found Richardson's body on the ground, which still retained some residual warmth. The blood hole on his forehead indicated that he was killed by this blow.

of.

"Pay attention to the front!" Following Dalian's shout, Kirito looked forward. From the stairs on the second floor, a dark figure walked down. In his right hand, he seemed to be tossing a shimmering silver gun.

Cold things.

Suddenly, a dark figure ran over quickly with agility behind him, turned around in the corridor, and threw the shining silver object in his hand. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a short sword.

"Bang." He grasped the dagger forward with his bare hands and caught the dagger that was flying towards him. Kirito also turned around and threw it back. However, an unexpected scene happened. He saw that he was throwing it away.

The dagger turned into a ball of black powder as soon as it left his hand. This phenomenon made Kirito stunned for a moment.

"Kirito!" This was the first time Dalian called Kirito, and there was a hint of panic in her voice. When Kirito came back to his senses, he discovered that the figure opposite him had taken advantage of Kirito's stunned time and shot him again in a short time.

The swords were thrown, this time there were two swords, one was naturally aimed at Kirito, and the other was actually aimed at Darian, without any intention of showing mercy to the other person since she was a girl.

Without any extra movement, a normal roundhouse kick kicked away the rapidly rotating dagger that came in front of him. At the same time, the kicked dagger was just right to knock away the dagger aimed at Dalian.

"Hide!" Kirito ignored Dalian's mood and scolded him in a commanding tone. Then he turned into a ghost in the dark night and rushed out. In an instant, he was in front of the figure that was thrown.

Only then did Kirito realize that the other party was dressed very gorgeously, like a circus character about to perform.

The figure probably didn't expect Kirito to be so fast. The flying knife he was about to throw had to be thrust into the figure in front of him, but the right hand that had not yet been inserted was tightly held by the opponent. The next moment,

The figure in front of him had already moved into his arms.

Without any hesitation, Kirito hit the opponent's chest with a Eight-Ji Fist Eight-Kai Elbow. The powerful force directly sent the opponent flying away like a cannonball. Once again, a scene that challenged Kirito's vision appeared.

Suddenly, the circus knife-throwing man who flew out turned into a black powder in the air like the flying knife.

"Sure enough, it was Conrad who took away the phantom book." At some point, Darian had already arrived beside Kirito, squatted down and picked up some powder in his hand to observe.

"This death state is just... like being stepped on by an elephant." Leaving aside the corpses that looked like they had been torn apart by wild beasts nearby, Kirito pointed to the 'jelly' on the ground that had been trampled into a pulp by the huge soles of his feet.

Said, the content of the words made Kirito wonder if he was dreaming.

"Yes, it was stepped on by an elephant."

"Wait a minute, you said it was just an elephant...!?" Well, Kirito was already pretty good without immediately becoming a Spartan. Looking at Dalian's side profile, which showed no emotion at all, it seemed that he

It doesn't seem like he's lying.

"It's not just the elephant, there's that..." Following the direction of Dalian's finger again, Kirito saw a pair of shining golden pupils.

"Lion, are you mistaken... um, wait? Elephant? Throwing flying swords? There are still lions now. No matter how you look at it, this is..."

"Yes, it's a circus." Well, Dalian's calm tone really made Kirito calm down. In short, he thought that after solving this incident, he must ask the other party how much he knew.

The lowered right hand suddenly grasped the air. Under Dalian's ghostly expression, a deep black sword that seemed to have been eroded by murderous intent appeared in her right hand. The sword blade shone like a lake, which made Dalian

His pupils shrank, his lips opened slightly, and he murmured: "Indestructible lake light? Isn't this sword supposed to be?!" Dalian suddenly realized that the man in front of her was probably worthless except for his attractive face, and there seemed to be a puzzle about him.

More than myself.

After blocking the lion's attack, the black swordsman turned over, held his sword and stabbed towards the back. Just as he expected, the lion whose chest was penetrated turned into a pool of black ashes the next moment. He squatted down in confusion.

He lowered his body and held a handful in his hand. "Paint!?"

"Yes, have you ever heard of three-dimensional picture books?" Dalian spoke at this time, with an indescribable pride in her tone.

"3D picture book?" Kirito frowned and said, "Are you going to tell me that these things came out of the book?" To be honest, it was difficult for Kirito to accept this fact immediately, but in his heart

My sixth sense told me that this was the truth.

"Yes, illusions, books that should exist in the world, because they are all born with the wisdom of the devil or the taboo rituals of demons..." Taking this time, Darian said a little bit about the existence of illusion books, which seemed to be Henry.

Conrad was not recognized by the phantom book, and he opened the phantom book on the night of the full moon when the magic was at its strongest. As a result, the monster inside escaped and slaughtered all living creatures in the entire mansion.

"That guy Wes, it seems he really threw a hot potato at me." He complained impatiently, feeling that his body did not consume much magic power, and he only needed to take a nap to replenish it.

It seemed that Dalian's petite figure had continued to move forward, so he had no choice but to follow.

Finally, after approaching two lions and an elephant again, Kirito looked at Darian's weird look of "Are you a monster?", and the two finally came to the door of the library, and stopped in front of them.

After the final obstacle to the creature's progress, both of them stood blankly on the spot.

A huge, twisted figure, with scaly skin, sharp and twisted horns, ugly bat-like vascular wings, and a huge blood basin spewing red and hot breath.

"Are there dragons in the circus?!" This time, Kirito could no longer feel calm. Although the sword in his hand had a history of slaying dragons, he had no history of slaying dragons. The only one he had ever slain was a snake girl who was close to a dragon.

Echidna.

"Yes, don't you know? The circus has a museum that displays rare and exotic animals, including dragons of course." Darian's tone of "Are you an idiot" made Kirito unable to understand. After all, there are dragons in the circus.

, no matter how you look at it, it is beyond ordinary people’s knowledge.

The red heat in the mouth of the giant dragon in front of him suddenly flashed, and the next moment, a scorching dragon's breath hit the position where Kirito and Dalian were standing. It was obviously just a creature that ran out of a book, but it could use flames.
Chapter completed!