At the same time, in the administrative district towards the city center, the underground building of the Guild of Oak White Mages.

Ted Hirst stood in his magic lab, lifting its octopus head with a few dark purple tentacles hanging from its chin and looking up at the top of its head, the end of which should have been the ceiling of the basement, but now a hole that ran through the hall, straight up to the great blood-red eyeball in the night sky.

The thing called the Eye of the Abyss......

The Soul Sucking Mage was still wearing the blue robe, but he had removed his disguise and looked up at the huge eyeballs in the sky in his original form, and out of the corner of his eye, he could also see the broken scenes on the first, second, and third floors above the basement of the guild hall in an orderly manner, and the visual sensation was as if a burning column-shaped hole had been hollowed out in the center of a building, and the hot fire burned everything above the surface.

He smelled the blood and scorching stench of corpses in the air, but was indifferent, even though it was the mage's guild he had established in Twilight City with his own abilities after following Victedo to establish it.

Then, he just held the staff in his hand with a blank face, turned his body, and looked at the other two people who were in the same basement with him at the moment.

One of those two people was none other than the red-headed leader of the Red Scorpion Adventure Band, Dambert Kirchas.

The red-haired Scorpion Leader stood there with a natural smile, still wearing the enchanted hybrid sword he had used to fight Urs in the halls of the Adventurers' Guild, but his armor had been replaced by a neat and elaborate black robe tonight.

The other one present was an adult woman. She was a human, with long black hair, black eyes, a wheat-brown skin that was the hallmark of the Kasha desert region east of Emerald Bay, and a translucent turban and veil that dotted her beautiful face with a touch of exotic mystery.

As for the clothes on her body, it was just an apprentice robe of the Oak White Mage Guild.

That seemed to symbolize her identity.

But Ted, as the head mage, was silent for a while, and then bowed respectfully to her, and congratulated her in a deep guttural voice with calm emotions: "The ceremony is complete, Sana-sama." ”

Sana, that's supposed to be the woman's name.

Ted Hearst called her "Mistress", and she accepted the congratulation with resignation, a tanari banshee between her lips under the veil: "Yes, the ceremony was done, very smoothly and perfectly...... Thanks to the offerings you have provided, Ted, Dambert. ”

As the words fell, she was full of inner pleasure, and her eyes swept over a large magic circle drawn with fresh blood under her feet.

The essence of the Eye of the Abyss is a giant portal between the main material plane and the bottomless abyss, and the ritual of summoning this large eyeball requires a sacrifice on a spectacular scale, so the member mages of the Oak White Guild and the adventurers of the Red Scorpion Adventure Group have become the sacrifices of this ritual.

This crazy woman had resorted to such extreme blasphemy not so long ago that the laws of the plane of the bottomless abyss had answered her prayers.

The pillar of fire seen by the inhabitants of the city actually contained the souls of the living creatures in the entire guild building, except for the three of them standing in the magic circle. This magic circle is necessary for her initiation ceremony, and it is also necessary for self-preservation.

"But Lord Sana, or our Apostolic Lady, the honorable Doomsday Priest." Dambert shrugged his shoulders and suddenly mentioned, "Ted has offered you all the mages in his guild, both official and apprenticed, as sacrifices, and it took me a lot of trouble to trick the adventurers who followed me into coming to this place in the middle of the night......

"What do you mean, Dambert?" Sana glanced sideways at him, her dark eyes bottomless.

"Oh no, no, no, my apostle, you misunderstand me." The red-haired man hurriedly waved his hand and laughed to defend himself, "I have no intention of asking you for a reward, but I just want to remind you that Victor may have noticed us...... After all, we made such a big move under the nose of that city lord. ”

"I also think Victor will be coming this way soon." Ted's deep, cold voice agreed with Dambert's consideration, "But I'll stop him here, and you take the opportunity to rush to the rich district to grab the artifact." ”

"That means you're willing to sacrifice your ego for the sake of the overall situation? Yes, a brave plan, the Soul Suckers. Sana was satisfied with his enlightenment, "The revelation of the Lord makes my perception clear, and I, as His apostle and priest, can 'hear' that it is indeed on the rich part of the city, but you are sure that you are capable of defeating our old adversary?" A dragon vein mage in the transcendent realm? ”

"For the revelation of the Lord, the ultimate knowledge, and the brain of Victedo." The Spirit Sucker didn't seem to have the slightest intention of changing its mind, and its milky eyes even seemed to be determined for a moment for some kind of imminent goal, "What's more, this is my guild, and it's half of my mage tower, even Victor can't be reckless in the home of another high-level mage!" ”

"Well, Ted Hearst, a faithful and devout follower of the Doomsday Cult, your plan will surely move our Lord and make him take out his universe-like knowledge and stuff your octopus head, huh...... Oh, don't be upset, I just wish you to achieve your dreams and gain the ultimate knowledge as soon as possible. Dambert's face still had that mocking smile on his face, which made people want to slap him in the face, "Then let's get ready for the next step, Sana-sama." Lord Entropy should be in the temple area now, and my teleportation technique will be at your disposal. ”

With that, he reached out and pulled a short wooden wand out of his robe. The wand differs from the wand in that it is a small charge that stores mana like a scroll, but is not consumed after use.

Dambert knew that the little wand that belonged to him contained a teleportation technique that could be used once a day.

At this moment, there was a rude "bang" sound on the wall of the magic laboratory under the guild hall, and the door at the edge of the room had been sealed by the spirit sucking mage using the door sealing technique, and at this moment, someone used a percussion technique to force it open from the outside in.

The three people present immediately turned their heads to look at the door of the laboratory. They saw a red-haired girl holding a long staff in her hand, panting and leaning against the wall by the door frame of the room to break into their sights, and her panicked sea-blue eyes looked at the red-haired red scorpion leader with a look of help: "Father, are you alright?" What just happened? You...... You? Why... With a Psisucker? ”

The girl was stunned, and her sapphire-like pupils reflected the figures of Ted and Sana.

"Dorothy?" Dambert stared at his daughter, and suddenly his eyes widened in surprise, and his brows followed a lock, "Are you still alive?" ”