The third precinct of the southeast region of Ridmar City. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This is a precinct known for its small, upscale estates, which are home to many manors, including the "Jasmine Love" manor, which was recently destroyed by Leo and Cleverley vs. Ignati, the lich.

I don't know if it's some kind of habit or the tacit understanding reached by the owners of the manor inadvertently, most of the names of these manors are related to flowers, such as the love of lilies, the beauty of roses and so on.

A figure as faint as light smoke flew quietly in the sky above the area, like a sharp arrow from the string, and quickly crossed the sky.

The moon had been swallowed up, and the sky above the city of Ridmar was so dark that it was impossible to see anything outside the range of the lights, and the figure flying in the night sky was like a nocturnal sky predator, flying silently over most of the area, and finally landing in a manor called "Night of the Roses".

It was already early in the morning, and most of Ridmar City was already asleep, and the Rose Night Manor was no exception, and there were no lights in the entire manor.

The black shadow came to a white rockery in the manor, stretched out his hand and pressed it in a secret place, and after a soft sound, a stone door that seemed to be integrated with the rockery suddenly opened, revealing a black hole downward passage.

A dark shadow drifted into the passage.

The passage was not long, and after the last small bend, an underground hall appeared in front of the dark shadow.

If several parties were present in the fierce battle that day, they would be surprised to find that this underground hall was almost identical to the one in Jasmine's Love Manor.

Unlike the rest of the manor, which had no light at all, nearly a hundred flaming torches were inserted on the four walls of this underground hall, illuminating the entire underground hall as bright as day, without any blind spots in the light.

The shadow was revealed in the light of the torches, a man wearing a wide black cloak and a black hood on his head, and could no longer be informed by his appearance other than that it was an adult by his height.

A man in his fifties greeted the dark shadow, this man had gray temples, although he was wearing civilian clothes, but his eyes revealed a kind of majesty that only a long-time ruler could have, it was the current prime minister of the Spanne Empire, Duke Paul.

It's half a distance from Duke Paul's Ice Bear Mansion, and even a gallop would take at least half an hour to arrive, so why would Duke Paul appear in the underground hall of this Rose Night Manor in the middle of the night?

Duke Paul looked at the dark shadow in front of him and said very calmly, "You're late. ”

Obviously, this is not the first time the two have met.

A deep male voice came out of the hood under the dark shadow: "Something happened, but it's still too late, are you ready?" ”

Prime Minister Paul nodded and gestured behind him: "One thousand one hundred and eleven, all here." ”

Yes, Prime Minister Paul and the Black Shadow are not the only ones in this hall. In addition to these two people, one thousand one hundred and eleven others were also in this underground hall.

The more than 1,000 men were all healthy, burly adult men, all of whom were naked/naked, and in the same posture - head down, eyes closed, cross-legged, palms flat on thighs, palms and soles facing the sky.

It was surprising that there were so many people sitting in the hall, but there was no sound in this underground hall except for the conversation of Prime Minister Paul and Prime Minister.

There was not even the sound of breathing, as if there were more than a thousand corpses.

Even though every corner of the hall was illuminated by the glow of torches, it still looked quite a penetrating scene.

"In two hours, the potion that these sacrifices drank will be gone, and you'd better do it right away." It was Prime Minister Paul who spoke.

The black shadow nodded, and without any movement, he floated out of thin air, flew towards a circular platform in the center of the hall, and then landed steadily on the platform.

The one thousand one hundred and eleven "sacrifices" formed four circles and surrounded the circular platform where the black shadow was located from four different positions, front, back, left and right.

Not only that, but there are thousands of intricate magic patterns painted on the floor of the hall, which connect everyone into a magic circle that encompasses the entire underground hall.

And although these lines seem to be very complicated, they are actually very organized, and each line connects a "sacrifice" to the others, and finally all of them are connected to the platform where the black shadow is located, which is also the core of the entire magic circle.

In the center of the high platform also sits a "man".

The reason for the quotation marks is that this "person" is actually a corpse.

It was a corpse that had been frozen for several days, a young adult man with an extremely gloomy face, dressed in the most elaborate costume, and a very obvious wound on his forehead that appeared to have been thrown by some kind of hard object.

The shadow's hand reached for the corpse in the ice, and there was a slight pause in the middle of it.

"You're not leaving?"

This is the question of Prime Minister Paul.

The old prime minister, who was standing near the entrance of the hall, smiled slightly, did not answer, and had no intention of leaving.

The shadow's hand continued to move forward, as if through soft tofu, through the incomparably hard ice, and the palm of his hand pressed firmly against the corpse's heavenly spirit lid.

After a crunching sound, all the ice cubes turned to powder in an instant.

A phantom suddenly appeared above the corpse's head, it was a huge black heart.

"Tong!" The phantom of the black heart suddenly beat very powerfully, and the invisible sound wave instantly swept through the entire underground hall.

A thick black aura rose in an instant, enveloping black shadows, corpses, platforms, torches, and all objects within the scope of the magic array, including thousands of sacrifices.

The old prime minister's face remained unchanged, but he quietly retreated a few steps under his feet, just retreating into the passage and leaving the range of the magic circle.

"Tong, Tong, Tong!"

The phantom of the giant black heart was still beating, and each beat made the entire magic circle run faster.

The underground hall was soon completely covered by black gas, and countless dense black gases kept rolling around in the hall, like fierce black dragons biting and attacking each other, trying to decide the final winner.

In addition to the ubiquitous black gas, a faint smell of blood began to waft through the hall, and it also became more and more intense as time passed, until it was extremely pungent.

As the minutes passed, the power of the magic array became stronger and stronger, and it was about to reach its peak.

At this moment, the black gas in the hall was so thick that it was like substance, and Prime Minister Paul could even see that the red blood that was quietly flowing on the floor of the hall was dyed black at some point.

It is worth mentioning that this magic circle seems to have some kind of function of isolating the perception of the outside world, even if it is filled with such a strong dark aura, it is not noticed by anyone in the outside world.

The night passed gradually, and just as the last trace of darkness before dawn on the ground was about to dissipate, a very strange scream suddenly sounded from the very center of the magic circle, which did not resemble a human voice at all.

After this scream, the thick black qi that permeated every corner of the hall seemed to find an exit all at once, quickly thinning out, and after just a few seconds, it completely disappeared, revealing the scene in this underground hall.

Prime Minister Paul perked up and looked nervously into the hall.

One thousand one hundred and eleven sacrifices had all fallen to the ground and lost their lives.

They were all sturdy adult men, but at the moment their corpses were as thin as hemp stalks, as if the flesh under the skin had been completely emptied, and they looked extremely strange.

The huge heart phantom in the air has disappeared at some point.

The black shadow sitting on the circular platform breathed a long sigh of relief, removed his hand from the heavenly spirit cover of the corpse in front of him, and then stood up, with obvious exhaustion, and said word by word:

"Wake up, children of darkness."

This sentence seemed to have some kind of strange magic, and as soon as the words fell, the "corpse" in front of the black shadow slowly opened its eyes.