The dinner passed in that strange dreary state of thought, and at about ten o'clock the nobles began to depart one after another. Towards midnight, the nobles had already left the apse of Fort Savoie, except for the servants who had cleaned up the feast.

They may also call their friends for the next banquet, and enjoy the warmth of the girl by the way. But none of this had anything to do with Charlotte, and after the turn of the clock, in the early hours of March 18, Charlotte cast the astral body spell again.

The Shadow Guard had reported seeing Aven, Vivien Leigh, and Claire appear in the torture room at the same time last night, which aroused Charlotte's suspicions. Vivien Leigh and Claire may have discovered the Chamber of Secrets out of curiosity, but why did Evan appear there?

It stands to reason that Evan shouldn't have met with Vivien Leigh and Claire who were exploring the secret room in order to avoid suspicion, but since he did so at the risk, it means that there are still some undiscovered mechanisms in that secret room.

Charlotte didn't give Alinie's deception mask to the Starlight Body this time, because he had a vague premonition that he would gain something tonight. Starlight nodded, and left the room and walked straight to the torture room.

All went well, and the astral body used illusion to perfectly avoid the patrol guards in the castle, and he opened the secret door of the torture chamber according to the information given by the shadow guard, and then walked down the stairs into the dilapidated guard room.

At this point, even though Charlotte was far inferior to Claire in the study of the necromancy, he could still feel the faint breath of death and negative energy.

Dodging through the open iron door, a long, deep passage flanked by separate cells, just as Claire had done that day, and Charlotte had searched for traces of the cells. But it was clear that he found nothing in the torture chamber except for the withered bones of the torture.

"Wait!"

Everything that the astral body saw was fed back to Charlotte, who was in the room, and this feeling was very strange, as if her own perception was split in two, and Charlotte could perceive and manipulate two completely different bodies. If it weren't for the mnemonics that gave him a similar experience, the inverted perception of using astral bodies would have driven a person crazy.

Charlotte used memory processing to retrieve memories, and he had peeked into the secret room of the resurrected Calamity Witch in Lu Sien's memory, and although he didn't know how to open it, the bad environment here made him reverie.

He contrasted the scene in his memory with the one he remembered, and in his mind, the map of Fort Sava was displayed in a holographic shape. Soon, he circled more than a dozen anomalies and manipulated the astral body to retrieve the traces one by one.

His guess was right!

At the third anomaly, when the astral body tried to pull the torch hanging from the torture chamber, an anomalous turning sound was heard from within the stone wall.

- Go down and have a look!

Charlotte held her breath and gave a new order to the astral body.

Proceeding down another downward spiral corridor, if the landmark on the first floor of the castle is plus or minus zero, it is already about thirty meters underground. At the end of the spiral staircase was an open stone door, and Charlotte did not hesitate to enter the stone door, the painted carvings on the walls of her memory had become mottled, and the cracks in the floor were stubbornly growing moss representing decay, but other than that, all the terrain was exactly the same as the place where the witch was resurrected.

- It's almost there!

Charlotte, who was in the room, didn't know what her mood was at the moment.

He clearly knew that only by revealing the truth could he force Ai Wen to confess to himself, and he also knew that only by detecting the forces controlled by Ai Wen could he gain an advantage in the negotiations. But now he was a little afraid to enter this last stone room, and he was afraid that everything he was afraid of would become a reality.

This ostrich mentality made Charlotte's brow furrow in the room, and after a long moment, he took a deep breath and gave the final order - keep going!

The starlight body left the gloomy stone path, and in front of him was a wide square, with an arch at intervals, and the magic lantern of three thousand years ago still hung on the dome above the square, and the bright but soft light dispelled the gloom in Charlotte's heart.

However, when the astral body had just adjusted to the change from the darkness to the light source, Charlotte, who was in the room, couldn't help but gasp.

The square was filled with dense iron beds, each of which contained a corpse, whose limbs and necks were held in place by iron rings attached to the iron bed, and every fifth iron bed was a mobile shelf with scalpels, pliers, and glass.

Some of the glass dishes were soaked in preservatives for blood-drenched organs such as the heart, brain, kidneys, spleen and liver, and some of the eviscerated experimental objects were still twitching from time to time, and the power of the spell kept them alive, so that these victims had to endure this inhuman torture.

The dense iron beds are placed in this wide square, like sesame seeds on a pancake. Charlotte felt that the square was like a factory for canning human flesh, where each experimental object that was sent in was cut off and arranged in different categories, and they were no longer intelligent and thoughtful beings, but lambs to the slaughter. And the vast square is like a huge mouth of the evil god, wanting to chew every lamb to pieces!

"What have you done...... Aven!" Charlotte, who was far away in the room, murmured at the same time as the astral body.

The astral body froze through the gaps between the iron beds, which were a labyrinth of flesh and sin, freezing people's minds. Those who walk in it will be tempted by the murmur of pain and sin, and will never be able to find the direction of their thoughts on their own.

The cold touch came from the hand of the starlight body, and Charlotte in the room subconsciously shivered. It was only then that he realized that the murmur of pain and sin was not an auditory hallucination caused by too much shock, but that someone was actually moaning in pain in the labyrinth of the iron bed.

Starlight looked behind her, noticing that the handheld hand of the woman who had been cut open on the iron bed she had just passed was somewhat unnaturally twisted, and her fingers were struggling to hook out, and it was she who had touched the back of his hand with her cold fingers as Starlight passed by.

Starlight walked back to the woman's side, and noticed that her chest and abdomen had been opened, and the heart inside it had disappeared, but the blood in the bloody chest cavity was suspended in a strange form, looking like a medicinal soup that had been boiled all night into bloody porridge.

When she noticed that the starlight body had returned, the woman's desperate eyes revealed a hint of hope. Starlight looked back at the mobile storage table next to it, where a beating heart was soaked in a glass dish, and a nameplate named Anna was attached to it.

"Anna?" the astral body asked.

Tears welled up in the woman's eyes, and she nodded weakly, her chapped and pale lips opening and closing slightly, as if to say something.

Starlight had a sad expression, and he leaned close to Anna's lips to hear her say in a staccato voice—help, me, relief, relief!

The astral body looked up and froze for a few seconds. In the room, Charlotte hid her face with her hands and clasped her short hair with her five fingers.

Word for word, he ordered—

Kill her!

"I'm sorry!"

Starlight stretched out her index finger towards Anna's almost transparent forehead, and for a moment, Anna smiled palely, and she finally squirmed her lips and fell into eternal sleep with a relieved lightness.

- Thank you!

That was Anna's last voice in the world.