Groups of nightmare creatures surged past in the dark and dim corridor, running towards the battlefield.
And in the shadows above the corridor beyond their sight, a palm-sized, inconspicuous black figure was slowly but surely crawling forward.
The surface of its body is covered with fluffy hairs, its sharp claws gently grasp the gaps between the rocks, and it moves forward silently against the shadow angle on the ceiling.
The battle outside the castle is still fierce, which can be seen from the trembling of the walls and the speed at which the nightmare creatures consume.
This is already the fourth floor of the Nightmare Castle. The nightmare creatures pouring out of various secret rooms and secret passages have all reached the highest level. They are all terrifying monsters that abuse others outside. But here, it is just a battle.
They are just consumables for high-level warfare.
Mary is not as powerful as Grim and can fight Keslin head-on. Therefore, once she is exposed, what awaits her will be an encirclement and suppression by powerful nightmare creatures.
But to Mary's great surprise, after sneaking in from the third floor of the castle, her actions became smoother than ever. Although the interior of the castle was filled with an astonishing number of nightmare creatures and densely packed with terrifying magic traps, her
There seems to be an invisible god silently guiding me in my brain.
What route should be taken, where are the traps, when should you wait quietly, when can you pass with confidence... Under the guidance of that small voice, Mary passed through many checkpoints and obstacles, bypassing a
A lurking sentinel and trap actually reached the fourth floor of the castle.
And if she sensed it correctly, the rising core of consciousness that was fighting a ferocious soul battle with Greem was extending from here.
Not daring to let her spiritual consciousness escape her body at all, let alone using her spiritual perception to scan everything around her, Mary gave full play to the characteristics of her bat demon transformation, disappeared all the way, carefully explored all the way, and finally crawled along the long corridor.
Entered a tall and towering witchcraft hall.
The predecessor of this place may be the core hall of Keslinburg. The central platform is densely packed with crystal clusters, and a ten-meter-diameter black light ball is suspended on it. Through the dark and deep magic light belts, it connects itself to every part of the castle.
The regions are linked together.
On the surface of the black ball, there are hundreds of strange magical images floating, which are all real-time images transmitted from various places in the Nightmare Castle. Among them, the battle images in front of the castle are the most numerous, accounting for almost 70% of the magic images.
More.
At this moment, there is a hazy and illusory human-shaped light and shadow standing in front of the central platform.
He looked up at the ever-changing images on the black ball, and his hands moved quickly like a dance. Under his control, the attack, defense, and the flow of huge life energy throughout the castle were so well-founded and orderly.
sequence.
Although the human figure's light and shadow are illusory, a particularly bright halo of light is flashing on his chest, vaguely transmitting a soul wave unique to living beings.
The core of Keslin’s soul…
Mary was so excited that she wanted to climb over the dome.
But as soon as her thoughts moved, the strange voice in her mind came out.
"Be careful, that humanoid figure is an impostor... This place is full of witchcraft traps, don't get even half a step closer!"
Mary's body trembled slightly and she immediately stopped.
Being so far away, she is bound to be unable to actively sense the soul breath of the other party, so it is really difficult to judge its authenticity easily.
But along the way, the voice in her head had helped her a lot, so Mary chose to believe him without hesitation.
"Then what should I do? We don't have much time..." Mary asked silently in her heart: "Alice, if you know how to do it, just tell me directly, and there is no need to pretend to be a ghost to trick me!"
The voice in my mind paused for a moment, and finally replaced the neutral and deep voice with Alice's sweet and crisp voice.
"Hehe, I'm not afraid that you will hesitate whether I will harm you!"
"Humph, I don't know if you will harm me. But I just need to know that you will never harm Greem. So... I believe you!" Mary said decisively.
Alice paused for a moment, then sighed quietly: "If you and Grim meet, I don't know who is more lucky! Well, you should..."
Mary didn't want to spend any time thinking about and analyzing the other party's complicated psychological changes, but closed her eyes and listened quietly to her plan 'strategy'. In front of the powerful witch of fate, no one can keep or hide their secrets.
Even the newly born Keslin is like this!
As long as she wants to, there is no secret that she cannot find out. The only difference is whether she is willing to pay the high price to obtain these secrets.
With Alice as a cheating artifact, Mary, who transformed into a petite bat, was like a divine help, weaving in and out of dense witchcraft traps and psychic threads. And her target was no longer the human figure standing in the center of the hall.
It was a shadow, but it was a small secret room behind the hall blocked by a tall pillar.
The small secret room is only a dozen square meters in size, and the furnishings inside are extremely simple, with only a table and a chair.
And the long-missing wizard Fried was sitting silently on the wooden chair, with a black dagger stuck in his head, his eyes turned white, his body trembling, and a hoarse howl came from his mouth.
Obviously, that Keslin is still in the midst of a fierce soul 'fusion' with this Fried. If he hadn't wanted to completely obtain the knowledge and memory in Fried's soul, I'm afraid this soul war would have ended long ago.
Mary carefully climbed to the door of the secret room, but was blocked here by a thin energy light film. Although the light film was thin, it had extremely amazing energy intensity. An assassin like Mary who mainly focused on agility wanted to strike.
And it is quite difficult to break.
And with it blocking the door, Mary would have no chance of sneaking in silently.
Just when Mary was at a loss, Alice's voice sounded again.
"Be prepared! I have communicated with Grim. He will launch the most violent attack in 7 seconds. That attack will trigger the energy operation of the Nightmare Castle and make this light film disappear for half a digit. You can be sure
You must seize this time well. The first moment you rush in, use your soul mark to control the other party..."
"Understood!"
The connection of thoughts is undoubtedly the fastest. No matter how complex or tangled the ideas are, they can be communicated to others hundreds of thousands of times in an instant.
Therefore, when the blow that shook the entire castle came, Mary instantly transformed into a human form, and took advantage of the moment when the light film dissipated to rush into it.
Although her movements were swift, this was Keslin's nightmare territory after all. With the advantage of home field, the slightest fluctuation of blood-colored energy was captured by Keslin who was very close at hand.
The witchcraft hall outside immediately roared with energy, and a terrifying spiritual pressure pushed over like a hill, threatening to crush the place into pieces.
In the secret room, 'Fried''s body suddenly shook, and he suppressed all the fighting in an instant. He raised his head, and two dazzling lights lit up in the depths of his turbid and yellow eyes.
There is not much time left for Mary to adapt!
For top powerhouses like them, a thought occurs almost instantaneously in their minds, and immediate reaction when suddenly encountering an enemy is also an essential part of instinctive defense. These things do not require thinking or hesitation at all, and Mary's breath is almost leaked
'In an instant, the entire Nightmare Castle and Keslin's counterattack was ready to go.
The energy light film that disappeared for a moment because the aftermath of the war affected energy transmission reappeared. They spread from the door wall and quickly closed to the center. Maybe it only takes half an instant for them to reseal the secret room.
door.
At that time, the only way for the intruder to attack Keslin is to break the energy light film first.
Unfortunately, half a moment is also time.
For Mary, who has super agility, her opponent's quick reaction is still just a ridiculous slow motion in her eyes.
One moment, there was a bang at the door of the secret room, filled with bloody energy, transforming from the form of a small bat demon into a normal human form. The next moment, Mary's bloody figure had passed through the door of the secret room and appeared beside 'Freed'.
Two small tornadoes appeared between the two of them in an instant, and turned into terrifying wind vortices and wrapped around Mary's body. Each piece was as thin as scales, and its fast blades of wind were raging on the surface of her body like a drum array of knives.
, even with the blood energy body protection, countless tiny wounds still appeared on Mary's body, as if she had been delayed instantly.
The wind vortex blade is still expanding and spreading, trying to block all Mary's attack routes.
'Fried's' idea is very simple. Use this terrifying instant witchcraft to push back Mary and try to buy yourself a certain amount of reaction time. With just a finger, no, just half a finger, it can mobilize the power of the core of the castle.
Power, protect this body, allowing your core consciousness to escape smoothly back to the central crystal.
Of course, this means that it has to give up this fourth-level advanced wizard soul, and it also means that it also gives up the opportunity to hit that terrible threshold in the short term.
Although it was a pity, it did not hesitate at all.
So the soul is so subject to human suffering that it doesn't want to try anymore!
It's just a pity that the enemy it faced today, in addition to the legendary fire wizard making trouble outside the castle, was also the super-sensitive blood wizard who was also at level 4. But what really decided its fate was the invisible man behind the scenes.
The instigator of the tragedy - Alice, the leader of the Witch of Destiny!
Mary had no intention of retreating or dodging. She actually withstood the terrifying witchcraft of the opponent's instant counterattack, broke through the strangulation of the sharp blade of the wind, jumped on the body of 'Fried', and bit his neck fiercely.
superior.
At the same time, a strange dazzling light poured into the body of 'Freed', and actually forcibly kept the newly born Keslin in this body.
No…………
'Fried' screamed, and two voices clearly appeared in the hoarse roar.
But no matter how it struggles and roars, its powerful vampire instinct still covers its consciousness... (To be continued)