The bloody banquet in Hidden Moon Castle was still going on, and at the same time, several uninvited guests came to the second floor of Philip Academy Library.
The moonlight is very bright tonight, and the library is completely illuminated.
Grand Duke Philip "Nightcrow" sat on a chair and flipped through an ancient book, as leisurely as an old fisherman. And on the wall behind him, there happened to be a painting of "Blood Earl" Ralph D.
Capone's oil painting.
Those uninvited guests easily broke through the library's magical restrictions and appeared quietly in front of Archduke Philip.
"Om, what do you mean by coming here uninvited?"
Archduke Philip raised his head and asked the leading man in black robes, without any surprise in his tone.
Tonight is the ancestor's last chance to escape. It would be strange if nothing was arranged over there.
Among the several uninvited guests, the first one was tall and tall. Even under the large black robe, one could still see his strange figure that was definitely not human. Under the bright moonlight, one could vaguely see it.
A furry, sharp-mouthed wolf face.
This person was apparently Grand Duke Orm who had transformed into a werewolf. Facing the legendary "Night Crow", he did not take it lightly.
And behind him, there were four men in black robes with the same strong aura.
"Tsk tsk... The number one bounty hunter in the Black Sea, 'Foil' Lubis, the vice president of the Alchemy Guild, Ukedo, the deputy leader of the Blood Skull Pirates, Olga... Hey, this last person is quite impressive.
Some strangers...I feel deeply honored that several of them came together..."
Although Phillip said this, he did not see any fear on his face, but instead sneered again and again.
When he saw the young man in black robe standing behind a few people, there was obviously a trace of suspicion in his eyes. Any of the people in front of him were big shots who could shake the black sea with just a stomp of their feet. He was not very surprised that these guys would
Come.
But for some reason, he always felt that the mysterious man shrouded in black robes was more dangerous.
Several people's identities were revealed, and they had no intention of hiding it. They lifted their cloaks one after another, revealing cautious and indifferent expressions. Only the mysterious man at the end remained silent, obviously not wanting anyone to see him.
true colors.
Grand Duke Orm looked at the moonlight above his head. The scar across his left eye looked particularly ferocious because he had transformed into a wolf. His shining blue pupils were faintly flashing with a bloodthirsty red luster in the moonlight. Unknown
Unconsciously, his aura suddenly increased a lot. It turned out that as soon as they met, he had already entered a violent state.
After doing all this, Orm said in a deep voice: "After tonight, your Philip family will no longer exist."
Hearing this, Philip raised his eyebrows and said coldly: "Oh? So confident? You don't know how unafraid I have always been..."
Aum seemed confident and said with a sly smile: "Haha... you will know if you try it?"
Obviously, both sides expected that there would be a fierce battle tonight, and each had already prepared for it. But who would win in the end could only depend on whose skills were higher!
"In that case, let me test the strength of some of them... After that battle, I haven't done anything serious yet. I'm afraid someone has long forgotten my name as 'Night Crow'..."
That year, Philip had just inherited the title of Duke, and there were constant power struggles within the territory. All the forces peeking at Philip's territory couldn't help but take action. His dear brother even joined forces with foreign enemies to assassinate him in order to seek power.
.
The battle was so dark that Grand Duke Philip fought alone against eight Sequence 5 masters and almost died... In the end, he understood the secret method in a desperate situation, killed everyone, and forged Philip's leader "Tianlan Di" with his blood.
The status of "first leader"...
After that battle, the name "Night Crow" resounded throughout the Black Sea.
Philip didn't mean to say much. He could only fight to the death tonight. His eyes suddenly turned dark, like the black pupils of a crow shooting out a cold light that meant death.
These people want to hold him back, so why don't he want to hold them back too? As long as the incident at the Ancestor Hidden Moon Castle is successfully completed... these guys are just clowns!
"Arcane Solution·Night Crow!"
At this moment, his gentle and elegant face suddenly became very ferocious, and jet-black feathers sprouted from his skin visibly to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, he suddenly turned into a huge crow with spread wings, soaring into the sky.
After his transformation, the void suddenly appeared behind him like a spring opening, and countless black crows poured out like a tide, covering the sky and the sun in the blink of an eye...
...
"I'm just a messenger."
When Raymond said this, he clearly noticed something was wrong with the way everyone looked at him.
There are seven people in this room, and although the origins of the other six are not simple, there are more or less traces to follow. Only Raymond's sentence of "delivering letters" seems particularly abrupt.
Even though he knew that telling the truth like this would easily lead to suspicion, he felt helpless inside.
The few here are all spiritual extraordinary beings. They are at the Silver Boss level in the game, and their perceptual abilities are stronger than the last. If you just make up a lie at random, people will see through it in an instant, and it will probably end badly.
"If you really want to say it, this bald guy is indeed quite suspicious."
At this time, Moloch rubbed his eyebrows, seemed to have thought of something, and said: "I can more or less sense the strength of everyone sitting here... But from the moment this person walked in, I felt that he
The breath on my body is very strange, it goes up and down..."
Hearing this, Raymond actually wanted to complain in his heart, you feel wrong, it is just low, not high and low! I am a Sequence 9 rookie, how can I be so high in front of you?
Mary on the side didn't seem to be on guard.
Instead, she approached Raymond, looked at him carefully, blinked and said with a smile: "Little handsome boy, is it possible that you are the owner of this castle? Or an insider?"
This is obviously a common doubt in everyone's mind.
The fat man, Lolita, and the doctor also cast meaningful and suspicious looks, as if they didn't mind killing this guy of unknown origin first as long as Raymond couldn't tell him the reason.
"Um... I'm really just a messenger. I don't know why I got involved inexplicably..."
Raymond couldn't hold back the indifferent master's character and said directly: "If you don't believe it..."
Click!
Click!
Click!
Just before he finished speaking, there was a strange movement in the room.
After listening carefully, it seemed that there was a faint sound of gears turning from under the floor under the feet. The guys who were still at the dining table also clearly felt the vibration of the ground, and they quickly retreated.
At this time, everyone watched as the entire marble dining table slowly sank into the ground, and then another strange round table made of black crystal rose. A closer look revealed that the table was densely carved with ancient and mysterious figures.
The magic lines look like an ancient altar used in some kind of magic ceremony.
Next to the table, there happened to be seven black iron chairs made of steel.
What's even more surprising is that there are seven dinner plates covered with transparent glass covers on the table, each with a treasure placed on them.
They are a devil mask with horns on the forehead, a yellowed treasure map, a narrow ninja knife with shining silver, an ancient scroll full of magic symbols, a palm-sized straw man, and a book.
A thick gilded secret book, and a tissue paper that looks like a magic potion formula...
These things on the table successfully attracted everyone's attention.
"Huh... these things look familiar. They are not the legendary special props in the game..." Raymond looked at some of the items and they looked familiar.
But when he saw the other six people's eyes falling directly on the items on the table, he realized that these guys were probably attracted by these things tonight.
Judging from the intense looks in their eyes, it was obvious that they had put all doubts about themselves behind them.
"No wonder...if it is really those special props, no wonder these people would take the risk to come to such a strange castle at first glance..."
Raymond rolled his eyes and muttered in his mind, "It seems that tonight's highlight is about to officially begin..."
Seeing this battle, he finally knew what would happen next.
He had vaguely guessed that the scene of this banquet was a bit like the famous hidden copy "Altar of Sin" in the game.
Later, when he matched up several other people in the house with NPCs in the game, he became more certain about what tricks the owner of the house wanted to play.
It turns out that the entire castle is an ancient altar used to seal away demons.
The sacrifice requires seven extraordinary beings representing the seven original sins, and uses their lives to activate the seal.
The eel just now not only enhances people's mental strength and perception, but also amplifies people's desires. Even...the whole room is a huge magnetic field amplifier, and the outcome is the same whether you eat it or not.
Here, everyone's mental power will be unconsciously affected, and the desires in the heart will be revealed without reservation... In the end, the more heartily the desires are released, the stronger the emotions representing sin will be, and the more effective the sacrificial seal will be.
good.
The little girl Lilith represents "fury", the surgeon Jack represents "lust", the mercenary leader Moloch represents "lazy", the fat man Felgo represents "gluttony", Jedla represents "greed", Mary should be "
arrogant"...
Raymond probably guessed that the guy he replaced should represent "arrogance".
"But...this kind of sacrificial game is usually used to seal demons and so on...The vampire boss cares so much, is it possible that he is the protagonist who is sealed this time?"
Although there are still some things that he can't figure out, Raymond can roughly guess the whole incident.
Some people want to use this method to seal the vampire boss, but due to some special reasons, the boss cannot be defeated head-on, so they can only use this method to destroy the seal from inside the sacrifice.
"Who on earth wants to attract the attention of the vampire boss? Could it be the top brass of the world government? But...even if vampires are known as immortals and can be killed by a few more general-level masters, why would they choose to do this?
Troublesome seal?"
This is what puzzles Raymond the most.
It seems that the owner of this castle does not want Capone to die, but wants to use this seal... to achieve the purpose of utilization or enslavement?
Raymond looked at the corpses in the room and suddenly had a bold idea.
That rascal...
Don't you want to make the vampire boss a puppet?
...
At this time,
Everyone was surprised to find that the old butler whose head had been ripped off stood up again staggeringly.
He picked up the head next to him and placed it on his neck.
But because the spine has been broken, it cannot be placed safely. This "installation of the head" movement is a bit clumsy and funny, but no one can laugh.
The old butler probably gave up the idea of installing the head, and with a look of frustration on his face, he said: "The following is the game session that the master has arranged for everyone. If everyone can successfully pass the test, the things here can be taken away...
"
Hearing this,
Everyone's eyes showed solemnity.
Now that they knew he was just a corpse, no one did anything outrageous.
Moloch on the side turned his eyes and asked with squinted eyes: "I want to ask... what if we are not willing to cooperate with your master's game?"
"Jiejiejiejie...you will cooperate..."
After saying this, the old butler fell straight to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut off, his head falling further.
The few people here are not ordinary people. How could they be led by others like this?
Several people tried again to violently break the glass cover and get the things on the table, but they all ended in failure.
"It seems that we must abide by the rules of the game arranged for us by the owner of the house in order to get these things smoothly... However, the owner of the castle has evil intentions at first glance, and these treasures may not be easy to get...
"
Moloch shook his head, with some reluctance in his eyes.
Not just him, but everyone except Raymond looked at the things on the table with fanatical persistence.
The things here are indeed enough to make them excited, otherwise they would not come all the way to Phillip to get them.
At this time, Moloch thought for a while and said to everyone: "Now... we have two options. The first is to work together to find a breakthrough and leave. Of course, I don't think the 'owner' of this place will let us escape so easily.
;The second thing is that if we continue to play according to the rules of the game, we may be able to get these things as we wish..."
Little girl Lilith was the first to express her stance, shaking her head and saying: "I definitely won't leave... I came all the way here just to get this 'cursed straw man'... I can't get it,
I don’t have long to live.”
When she said these words, she suddenly seemed to have changed. She was gentle and quiet, without the slightest bit of mania before, and seemed very rational.
The fat man Fergao glanced at her, and his surprise disappeared. He thought for a while, and said with a longing look on his face: "Tsk tsk... If I could see the legendary recipes of the gods before I die... I would feel better.
The danger is worth trying."
Jack the Ripper shrugged, with a dangerous look in his eyes, and said coldly: "I don't care whether you stay or not... But what I'm more curious about is who is the owner of this castle and how dare you
Attention hit me on the head..."
Mary still had the same charming look, and said with a relaxed smile: "I have already told you that this place would be a good place to rest..."
"It is undeniable that the owner of this house also controls my destiny. I must take the potion formula on the table..."
Moloch himself sighed and said: "Whether it is to survive or to get these things, it seems that we can only continue to stay..."
Obviously, no one wants to give up easily.
While everyone was still discussing, a distant sound of reciting suddenly sounded throughout the banquet hall, like someone was chanting a magic spell, or like a bard murmuring to himself...
"Through me into the city of endless pain
Through me enter the pit of eternal misery
Through me, enter the eternal crowd
To propel my noble Creator
I am the crystallization of divine power and divine love.
Before me there was no eternal creation
I will be with heaven and earth forever
Anyone who enters will lose all hope..."
When Raymond heard this familiar opening poem, he murmured in his heart.
"Is the game about to start..."
This banquet was destined to have a tragic ending from the beginning. The seven people were destined to face this ending from the first moment they stepped into this castle.
Raymond knows the rules of the game,
No matter what they choose, they cannot avoid the ritual process that has already been started.
This ancient bloody ritual is like a game of Russian roulette,
Seven bullets, seven shots,
Each person takes a turn,
The final outcome is that no one survives.
"I hope the vampire boss can save my life in the end..."
Even though he guessed part of the plot, Raymond still felt uneasy because there were too many unknowns and variables.
The "Altar of Sin" in the game is just a simple rare hidden copy. There are not so many twists and turns of conspiracies, and there is no "master" behind the scenes who controls the banquet.
What's more, he is still the "seventh person" who is regarded as a mortal sacrifice!
...
At this moment, the gate of the castle, which had been closed just now, suddenly opened.