That night, while Lorraine Hill and Charlene were attending a banquet in the castle.
"Who are you?"
Under the dim candlelight, Lottie looked at the person who suddenly appeared in front of her. He was wearing dark clothes that were easy to hide. If he stood in the crowd, he would look like an ordinary passerby. But this person who suddenly appeared
The extraordinary ability shows that this person is no ordinary person.
"I am a servant serving the Pascal family. I have met Miss Charlene." His voice was low and restrained, and he half-knelt in front of Lottie.
"You..." Lottie looked at the man who suddenly called her by her real name in surprise, feeling a little panicked.
Lottie was not surprised to see this servant of the Paskar family who suddenly came to find her. Instead, she was a little uneasy. This stemmed from the brutal struggle between the remnants of the Paskar family and the imperial royal family in recent years.
"Are you really a descendant of a vassal who serves the Pascal family? Why have I never understood this before?" Lottie looked at the man in front of him. He probably had the strength of Sequence 5, and could be said to be a rare master.
"This is because when the Paskar family was destroyed, the lady was still underage, and you have not fully learned many of the family's secrets and inheritances, which resulted in the current situation." He answered respectfully.
"Although the Baskar family is now being persecuted by the empire, I believe that as long as Miss Charallot is here, the many scattered forces will gather together again."
"Gather together..." Lottie bit her lip, feeling a little hesitant and uneasy, but as a descendant of the Dragon of Desire, she could not give up easily. The family members who died in front of her made it difficult for her to give up.
She couldn't just escape.
"But, what else can we do now? It's already too late. The family's legion has been exhausted, and the nobles loyal to us have been killed, imprisoned, and cleared. There is no longer any soil for our family to survive here." Lottie shook his head.
Shake his head.
"No, there are still some. Everyone is hiding in the dark."
"Although the empire has sent many investigators and patrol teams to pursue us, we still retain some of our strength. You have to believe that the Dragon of Desire has been operating in the southern region for hundreds of years. We still have many hidden secrets."
"As long as you are willing to stand up and show your identity and call, those warriors will come out of the mountains, valleys, and markets and join us."
"Perhaps you don't know that on the day the empire decided to abandon the Paskar family, we were making various preparations. The family even transferred a lot of wealth and treasures to safe places in advance." This assassin-like man faintly said
remind.
"Alas..." Lottie sighed without saying a word, sitting on the wooden chair under the bed and looking at the starry sky outside the window.
There was a brief silence in the room, and the man didn't speak to urge him anymore and just stood aside quietly.
After a long time, Lottie stood up. She found a pen and paper and prepared to leave a letter telling Mecia of her departure.
[I'm very sorry, Sister Mecia, please forgive me for leaving without saying goodbye...]
Under the quiet candlelight, the metal pen tip scratched across the page, making a rustling sound, and the black ink drew arcs and trajectories one after another on the yellowed page, until the end, ending with a long and long arc.
.
After finishing writing, Lottie used a candlestick to press the page on the table so that Lorraine Hill could see it when she came back. After doing all this, she simply packed up her things, and then placed the long black sword on the table.
On the table, I felt a little relieved.
"let's go."
"Yes, Miss." Soon the two disappeared into the night.
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The flames burned cracklingly, bursting out tiny sparks from time to time. The pine oil-soaked torch illuminated the forest in the dark, forming a long dragon in the night.
As the destination arrived, Viscount Moreau asked the guards to set up a brazier and then stood guard outside.
"This is where the relics of the past are buried." Viscount Moreau stood under a rock and waved briefly. The butler led people forward, slowly pushed the rock aside, and then dug down half a meter, revealing a hidden cave.
Floor door.
"Are you here?" Surprised whispers came from the crowd.
"I have lived here for decades and have never heard of it. The Viscount keeps it secret very well."
“It makes people look forward to it.”
Seeing the underground passage open, Viscount Moreau turned around and said to everyone: "First, we must open the closed restriction. This process may take some time and requires the assistance of high-sequence extraordinary beings."
"I would also like to ask the extraordinary beings above Sequence 4 to step forward and follow me into the underground."
After finishing speaking, he looked at the people in the venue, and the one who attracted the most attention was the Eastern swordsman, Yan Liuyan.
"Haha, it's our duty of course." With that said, the strong man stepped out.
"Several military adults, please also ask." Viscount Moruo looked at the officers in the field with a complicated expression. Although these people were also helping, he really didn't want to see the soldiers, because these may lead to accidents. For example, will
The sacred objects are kept as one's own or withheld from them.
"Okay." After saying that, several officers in red clothes and swords also walked out of the column and looked at the underground passage in front of them.
"Finally, we have to trouble a few powerful guests." At this time, Viscount Moruo's mood improved a little.
At least these mercenaries and adventurers are easy to handle. Even if they get the sacred objects, he can still steal them from them.
"Then let's go in first. We also invite our friends outside to wait together." After saying that, he took the lantern and led the people down the long stairs, which led to darkness.
After walking in the winding passage for about ten minutes, the walls in the passage were first made of relatively new modern structures, and gradually turned into dilapidated and ancient stone walls. The collapsed stairs and broken stones on the ground all showed that the
The antiquity and long history of the place.
Finally, everyone stopped in front of a gray mottled stone wall.
There are symbols of the Mercury Dynasty such as the skull head, the wisteria-wrapped moon and other symbols on the wall. At this time, everyone also felt a cold magic power sinking here, making people feel cold.
Feeling the familiar magic power of the undead, Lorraine Hill thought that if she could restore the undead order, her strength would be greatly increased here. However, in order to keep it secret, she still had to maintain her identity as a war order at this moment.
"This is where it is. Although it is protected by a ban, our family has been studying it for nearly a hundred years and understands the mechanism."
"So, as long as you follow my command and break the protective restrictions at the critical moment, you can enter." He said, moving his eyes to the back of the team, where stood the steward, holding a leader by his hand.
Girl in hood.
After nodding slightly, Viscount Moreau asked people to disperse, and then began to explain the key points and timing of the attack, as well as how to distribute it.
After straightening it out, he first stood in front of the open space in front of the stone gate, and once again put his hand into the restricted area. A slight ripple spread around his hand, and then he felt that the energy in his life was being sucked out.
"That's it now." He shouted lowly, and then Yan Liuyan chopped it off with a knife and draped it on the corner of the wall. The scorching magic power seeped into it and even melted part of the surface, turning it into turbid crystals.
Seeing this, Viscount Moruo stretched out his hand again and felt it carefully. In this way, several people took turns to use magic attacks, and finally unlocked the key switch, causing the forbidden circle that had been running for thousands of years to slowly stop.
"Phew, it's finally solved." A Sequence 4 adventurer breathed and sat aside. The continuous use of high-power skills had consumed most of his magic power, and now he had no energy to go deeper.
The restraining circle was successfully unlocked and the reaction device was not triggered. This made Viscount Moreau breath a sigh of relief.
The next step is to open the door. He thought, and then took out a small oval bottle from the inner pocket of his clothes. There was intoxicating bright red blood in it, which shone under the light of the torch.
Standing in front of everyone, he slowly poured the crimson liquid down, and then the skull on the wall began to move.
With a clicking sound, the mechanism slowly pushed open the dusty stone wall, and then a cold air swept over, making people feel chilled.
The air seemed to have the smell of damp stone powder, and then everyone saw a dark red and rusty world.
A guard carefully reached into it with a torch and illuminated the surroundings. The hall was filled with fragments of collapsed shelves and wooden boxes. The materials originally contained in them were either reduced to dust, or only a small part of the remains were indistinguishable.
Show the appearance of the past.
Can treasures be left behind in such a situation? Several people who were originally in high spirits became silent, as if they felt like they were being tricked.
"Now, I have to trouble the few who are able to move down with me." No Ruo took a look at the current situation, and then invited the remaining Sequence 5 Transcendents.
"Hmph." Looking at the situation in the hall, a non-commissioned officer snorted, expressing his dissatisfaction.
Unfortunately, Viscount Moreau didn't care and continued to invite.
"There may be something else down there. I think if there is something that can withstand the erosion of time, it must be something extraordinary."
"Since we're all here, I think it's time for you to continue walking." Yan Liuyan shook his head and followed Sheng.
Several other people in the underground space looked at each other and had their own thoughts.
"I'll wait here while you go down and assist Viscount Moreau." The officer in red crossed his arms and stood at the entrance, looking around at the wreckage and the murals on the wall.
"Yes, Lord Widwin." After saying that, the three Sequence 5 military officers stepped forward and stepped into the deep underground.
"Miss Mecia, are you going?" After he gave the order, he turned his head and looked at the girl on one side. He had not given up his previous plan and wanted to get more familiar with this beautiful lady.
"Well, since I agreed, I still have to go." Lorraine Hill said, and then glanced around, she needed a weapon.
When she attended the banquet in the middle of the night, she was not like those officers who carried a sword with them. Although it was not difficult to take one out of the storage space, it would expose too much.
"Miss Mecia is looking for weapons." Before Charlene beside Loren could react, Widwin guessed what the girl was thinking. This was also because he was a person who had been fighting all year round, so he naturally understood the critical moment.
The importance of carrying weapons with you.
"I lent this sword to Miss Mecia, and I hope you won't dislike it." As he said this, he untied his sword and handed it over to Lorraine Hill.
"Well...then thank you." Now is not the time to be entangled, and Lorraine Hill did not refuse.
"As long as Miss Mecia likes it, haha." As he said this, the officer in red also smiled and seemed to be very satisfied with Mecia's move of taking away his sword.
Shaking his head and not thinking about the weird meaning, Lorraine Hill took out his sword and waved it briefly before continuing downwards.
Holding a torch, walking through the cold and dark passage, a long corridor appeared in front of you, and there were many rooms connected to both sides of the corridor, some of which were full of black and gray debris, looking like a kind of corrupted grain.
Some of the grains are just pieces of rust. It is estimated that weapons and blades were stored here in the past, and some rooms are clearly visible, with only special magic circles engraved on the ground.
A girl who is familiar with the knowledge of the Mercury Dynasty can recognize it at a glance. This is a spiritual summoning circle that can summon ghosts or resurrect corpses into undead warriors. However, judging from its style and inscriptions, this is probably the second generation of the dynasty - cry
The effect of the Howling Array is not stable and requires the joint casting of several wizards.
In the inheritance left to her by Trinasha, the spirit-summoning array at the end of the dynasty has developed to the sixteenth generation - the Youming Array. By then, the appearance and pattern had changed greatly, and a single person could summon a large number of people.
Corpses and ghosts, but there were not so many high-quality corpses available at that time.
After walking through this room, Lorraine Hill continued to move forward. On the way, he saw the footprints just left in front of him, distributed among the gravel floor, and there were also white marks from rummaging and hacking.
It seems that the people in front are very anxious.
The girl thought silently in her heart, and then a burst of fighting and screaming suddenly came, which seemed to be the sound of a ghost wailing.
Well, this is to be expected. After all, it is the ruins of the Mercury Dynasty. It would be strange if there were no ghosts wandering around. Thinking of this, Lorraine Hill let go of his perception, filtered out irrelevant information, and walked quickly towards
Go forward.
"The Fire of Huilu·Fourteen Swords!"
With a loud shout, Yan Liuyan jumped up high, his figure turning and flashing like a giant in the dark space, and the red flame sword in his hand flew past like lightning, splitting this dead world.
The scorching hot fire blade seemed to be the natural enemy of the ghost. After the blazing fire knife slashed through it, several Necronomicon Sequence 5 ghosts wailed and turned into smoke, gradually disappearing into the underground space.
Viscount Moruo, who was huddled aside, looked at the scene in front of him with cold sweat on his face. He was almost attacked by the ghost just now and leaned over. Fortunately, the Eastern swordsman was not far away and rescued him.
"Thank you very much. When I go back later, I will definitely repay Mr. Yan Liuyan generously." After being attacked by the ghost, Mo Ruo woke up from the previous eagerness and fanaticism and no longer dared to act alone.
But the desire for power in my heart is getting stronger and stronger.
It would be great if I also had such great strength, this thought quietly emerged, and then was hidden deep in my heart.
With the sound of ping-pong fighting, everything about the underground ruins was slowly revealed, and everyone gradually approached the central area under its control.
At the same time, outside the ruins.
The forest shrouded in darkness was very quiet, and occasionally a few calls of gray forest owls could be heard in the forest.
A group of guests who had been brought here filtered out their original uneasiness and sat under the torches chatting with each other, telling the story of the rise of the Moruo family, and then speculating on the changes in the future situation of the empire. If it were not for tonight's sudden action, these people would
It is also rare to get together to exchange information.
In the shadows of the forest, out of reach of everyone, a beautiful woman slowly emerged. She had a pair of eyes as blue as lapis lazuli, and her body was covered in a blue-black dress.
The woman sat on a horizontal branch, looking at everything in the camp with her lapis lazuli eyes, and then a gray forest owl with brown and white feathers flapped its wings and landed beside her.
"...Really...I know." She seemed to be able to understand the message silently conveyed by the bird beside her, and bursts of brilliance began to flow in her eyes.
"I finally found you, our lovely Star Witch, Giggle."
The woman lightly covered her lips and smiled, and as her laughter became more and more exaggerated, the bright blue in her eyes became more and more intense.
