The water rippled on the wall as Liam walked through the door.
After entering the house, he did not immediately start exploring. Instead, he stood there and looked around to get a preliminary understanding of the general layout of the study.
Under the gaze of the "curtain", black mist occasionally emitted from the rows of bookshelves.
Liam walked over, pulled out the black foggy book from one of the rows of bookshelves, and put it in front of his eyes to look at it.
"Anderson's Travels." I flipped through a few pages and found that a young man named Anderson fled his hometown and wandered around, encountering all kinds of strange things.
"It's just a fairy tale. Why are you reading this kind of book?" The black mist means that it is marked with black magic. This book can never be as simple as it appears on the surface. There must be secrets hidden inside.
Just like Morse code, a communication code that expresses meaning through different sequences of letters and symbols.
Unlocking this communication code can decipher the message conveyed by the Dark Will Cult.
There is no internal guidance for this kind of password. It relies solely on personal understanding and there is no way to know it.
However, Liam is not interested at all in the so-called dark will. This terrifying existence of the same era as the Creator God, the farther away the better.
I checked several tagged books, and the content was very different. There were fairy tales, historical biographies, unofficial histories, and autobiographies of characters.
Liam put down the "Eighteen Hands" in his hand, wondering if he was looking in the wrong direction. The other party didn't use magic to record important items at all.
Thinking of this, he carefully examined the surrounding layout. This study room was quite large, already as big as the living room on the third floor.
The four walls are covered with bookshelves, with a round ball placed in the middle and a desk next to it. A black toad is placed in the upper right corner of the desk, and a notebook is placed in the center.
There was no black mist on the desk, so Liam subconsciously ignored it when he came in.
The desk is facing the door, and the floor-to-ceiling windows behind it are sealed with wood. The entire study is like a sealed container, and the only tool used for lighting is a burned out candle.
Liam walked to the desk and bent down to look at the toad.
I don’t know what material the toad is made of. It is completely black, and there are white poison glands hidden under the bumpy skin. The eyes are made of night amber, which can emit a faint light at night. If it is embedded in the eye socket, it will
It seemed like a living creature that could blink.
"What a weird little thing." Liam didn't want to touch this thing with his hands. Just looking at it made him sick to his stomach. If it felt like the real thing, then...
The cover of the note placed in the center is gray, with an engraving on the surface showing a palm resting on it.
After hesitating for a few seconds, he picked it up.
This notebook is very light and thin in texture. It looks thick but actually doesn't weigh much.
Opening the note in front of him, Liam looked stunned.
The reason why this notebook feels so light is that it turns out that it is empty inside. There are three pits of different shapes dug out in the center of the notebook, and two bronze keys are placed in two of the pits.
Among them was the sheep-headed key that we had met once before.
"It's hard to find a place after wearing iron shoes, but it takes no effort to get here." Liam put the key in his pocket.
The fire in the Hovog Orphanage, the first-born humanoid creature with two horns, the bloody sacrificial ritual, the silver skull butterfly, and the sheep-head key.
All of this points to Joshua. The lock opened by this key contains the secret of the fire at the Hovog Orphanage.
Thinking of this, his palms clenched into fists unconsciously.
Exhaling a breath, I still need to be patient and continue to explore this study.
With this lesson in mind, Liam focused on items that were not marked by black magic.
I leaned over and crouched down, and made a new discovery.
All the drawers are sealed with wax. There must be important items hidden inside, and they cannot be opened yet.
I looked for other suspicious points in the study and soon found them.
On the first night after arriving at the mansion, the candles in the study burned until midnight. Little Emily also said that the old Viscount often lit up the lamp to read at night, and sometimes even in the morning she could still see the dim candlelight in the study.
However, the candlestick was covered in dust and looked like it had not been used for at least half a year.
So, where does the candlelight seen by the servant come from? Or, why is there candlelight in the room?
Liam scanned the surroundings, and finally his eyes rested on a strangely shaped sphere.
Three pillars support the outer frame. The outer frame is made of three arc metal projects. The ball stays in the center of the outer frame, and the core is passed through by a soft metal. It can rotate up and down, and can also move in a small range.
The sphere depicts a picture of angels in heaven and demons in the abyss gazing at each other. This painting can be seen in the three major churches. The general meaning is that heaven and abyss are separated by a thin line, and the human world is in between. Human nature is complex, and sanctification and depravity are both.
In one thought.
When you tap it with your fingers, the ball emits a crisp echo, and the center is empty.
Suddenly, Liam had a bold idea.
He stretched out his hand, and a ball of fire emerged from his palm.
Level 1 magic "Fireball".
With precise control of magic power, this low-level attack magic takes on different forms, more similar to a small candle used for lighting.
He reached out and pressed it on the soft metal, and a strange scene happened.
The flame followed the soft metal and entered the sphere like a slide.
The entire sphere rotates automatically. As it rotates, the surface depiction changes rapidly, and a terrifying scene of scarlet hell appears on the rapidly rotating sphere.
Liam didn't expect that this inconspicuous sphere was actually a magic circle, and the activation condition was to light it with a candle.
Two rows of bookshelves opened from it, and a dark corridor led diagonally into the depths of darkness.
Liam looked at the sphere that was still spinning rapidly, then looked at the dark corridor, and made a decision.
Strided in.
Little Happy followed behind. As he walked into the corridor, he looked back at the rotating sphere. He raised his hand and pressed it. The two rows of bookshelves slowly closed. The fire inside the sphere in the study room went out and he slowly stopped.
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When the escape route disappeared, Liam did not panic, but chose to continue moving forward.
The corridor is very humid, and there is often water under the ground. The walls on both sides are pitted, and it doesn't look like it was dug by humans.
The corridor is not too long and it soon reaches the end.
At the end is a thick bronze door with an abyss of hell engraved on it. In the abyss without sun or moon, a ferocious beast is lying on the ground, looking up and staring upward, as if waiting for something.
The invisible pressure made my heart beat fast.
"Door" symbolizes connection and access in occultism. The shadow of "door" can be seen in almost all magic circles and rituals.
What lies behind this bronze door? Leading to the abyss? A summoning ritual? Or is a demon imprisoned?
Liam didn't dare to think about it, and he had no intention of opening the door.
At this time, Little Happy pulled the opponent's trouser leg and pointed to the wall next to him.
Liam followed the other party's guidance and looked carefully.
The color of the door is exactly the same as the surrounding wall, and it is embedded inside. If you don't look for it deliberately, you can't find it at all.
There are three doors in total with this peculiar design, and the keyholes of each door have different symbols.
"Cup, sheep head, woman." Liam took out the two bronze keys, corresponding to "goat head" and "woman" respectively.
The classic line comes to mind unconsciously, "A key opens a lock."
Taking out the "Sheep Head" key first, Liam hesitated whether to open it and what would be inside.
Taking a breath, he inserted the key into the keyhole.
Little Happy suddenly jumped to his shoulders, pressed his hands on the opponent's shoulders, and shook his head repeatedly.
"You mean, there's danger in here, and it's very hostile to me?" Liam withdrew the key. Little Happy was once the king of angels, and his spiritual perception was usually correct.
Jiao Li's disappearance, the Holger fire, the bloody sacrifice, and the secrets hidden behind the Sheep's Head Door are clearly right in front of us, but they cannot be opened.
After releasing a "clearing heart spell", Liam adjusted his mentality, put the key back in his pocket, and walked towards the door marked "Women".
This time, Little Happy didn't stop him. He inserted the key into the hole and opened it smoothly.
Reaching out and pushing open the door, there was no sound. A beam of white moonlight shone in from above, and the moonlight was exactly in the center.
Two iron chains hang down from above, hanging the naked woman in the air. Angelica's skin is covered with scars, and blood is still leaking out in some places. Her long purple hair hangs down to cover her face, and a pair of particularly pointed ears pop up from time to time.
Twitching in pain, an iron chain penetrated his ankle, and the other end of the iron chain was burning coals.
Various torture instruments were piled haphazardly in the corner, stained with black blood, and some were even broken.
Liam couldn't imagine what kind of abuse this woman had suffered, and he felt quite sympathetic.
Little Happy raised his head and stared at the woman, the flames in the depths of his pupils getting brighter and brighter.