Chapter 39: Gianna's Shyness
It's silent outside the Karazan Tower, but that doesn't mean it's the same inside the tower.
Embraced by night, countless visions dance between the terraces and walls, some of them are mere remnants of Karazhan's past, released as figuratives of Medivan's former madness, while others are the ghosts of the human guests of the tower, who continue the feasts and dances of the past in Karazhan's bustling halls.
Chirping-!
There was a knock on the door, and Gianna and Claudia stepped into the tower, which had not had guests for many years, and looked around, Gianna twitched her beautiful nose and frowned.
"The smell of corruption is terrible."
"No way, it's been deserted for twenty-five years, and I've heard that Medivan came back once five years ago."
Claudia shrugged her shoulders, compared the location in front of her with the map of Karazan in her mind, and then asked, "Gianna, do you want us to go separately, and you go up the stairs to the library to read the books first?" I'll just go and purify Acanagos. ”
"Don't," Gianna felt that her words were a little too little girl, her tender face was slightly red, and she quickly added: "How can you let yourself do all the dirty work, I am the apprentice of the mentor, and I have to do it well, let's do it together." ”
"Okay, let's go together." Claudia laughed.
On this trip to Karazhan, Egwen's most important task is to recharge Elunis, but there are other tasks as well, such as taking a few books from the library, purifying Acanagos, and taking away the chaste saint.
According to Egwen, twenty-five years ago, when she learned of Medivan's death, a self-reproachful Egwene infiltrated Karazan, and she had a lot of things to do, but because of her lack of mana, she had to do the most important thing in the end--- she took Medivan's body, determined the location of Medivan's soul, and spent years awakening and resurrecting Medivan.
After resurrecting Medivan, Egwen's mana was even weaker, and she could no longer afford to come to Karazhan to deal with her past regrets, so recently, she asked Claudia and Gianna to deal with the affairs here.
For example, Acanagos, who was a noble blue dragon and a close friend of Egwen, later when Medivan fell into madness, Akanagos accompanied Egwene to Karazan to try to stop the crazy Medivan, but Acanagos and Egwene failed, and the blue dragon was also enslaved by Medivan and turned into a bone dragon, suffering from the flames for eternity, and constantly wailing in pain.
The fate of this blue dragon friend is a great regret in Egwen's heart, and she hopes that Claudia and Gianna will come this time to let the soul of this blue dragon rest in peace.
As for the chaste saint, it is a titan creation.
The last time Egwene infiltrated, she found the giantess using the Holy Light, who was furious and purifying something inside Karazhan, but Egwene, who lacked mana, didn't want to expend too much strength to kill the giant, so she could only lead the giantess into a trap and imprison to prevent the giantess from causing too much damage inside Karazhan.
After meeting Claudia, Egwene had a choice, she wanted Claudia to use the authority of the Guardian of Order to subdue the giantess and take the giantess away from Karazhan, so that Claudia's power could grow and Karazan would be one less threat, which was why Claudia had to join this journey.
"These people are so pitiful, they think they are still alive."
Claudia said softly, at this time Claudia and Gianna had already walked to the location of the Karazanne Opera House, the opera house was full of ghosts, some were audiences, some were actors, a famous love tragedy was being staged on the stage, the actors were working hard, and the audience was watching quietly, everyone was as if they were alive, no one realized that they were dead.
"I thought you'd purify them." Gianna replied.
"How come, they are fundamentally different from that Eredin outside, they are not evil spirits, and they will not harm others."
"But is that really good?" Gianna questioned, "Let them live forever in the last days of their lives." ”
Claudia smiled, a bitter smile.
"But is it better to purify them? Gianna, do you know what the Shadow Realm is like? ”
Gianna hesitated for a moment, then replied softly, "When I was an apprentice, Archmage Kel'thugad was not yet fallen, and he used to trumpet the horrors of the Shadow Realm, saying that it was dark, cold, and decaying, and that it was much more terrifying than the most terrible nightmares...... That's why many mages pursue immortality and take refuge in the Lich King......"
"Actually, it's much more terrifying than he said," Claudia nodded, sighed, and said:
"I am Valkyrie, and I have been to the Shadow Realm, Gianna, which is eternally dark, full of endless pain, coldness, despair, and as far as the eye can see, monsters whose souls have been twisted to the extreme, and they are all vicious and take pleasure in tormenting the souls of the living."
……
"I've seen a big tadpole crawling on the ground with thousands of fleshless legs and a back full of dense eyes, and I've seen a one-legged with black blood knees and a fanged mouth jumping past me, and there's even a monster that I almost had a nervous breakdown just by looking at it, and I can't put into words how ugly and terrifying it looks......"
Claudia stopped talking, Gianna had already grabbed her arm, and her face was already faintly pale, Claudia immediately realized her mistake, she took off the gauntlet of her right hand, and grasped Gianna's hand tightly.
As a tranquilization technique flashed, Gianna's face suddenly looked a lot better, Claudia patted Gianna lightly, and an apologetic smile appeared on her face, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said it in such detail, it was my mistake, I'm sorry, I apologize to you, Gianna." ”
"It's fine."
Gianna said this, but it was obvious that she was fine, and she still held Claudia's hand, and Claudia didn't ask any more, because the two girls had already walked to the banquet hall.
The ballroom was noticeably cleaner than the rest, and countless ghostly guests were chatting and laughing loudly, and skeletal servants were cleaning or bringing food to the table...... But this was not the most important thing, a frail old man holding a silver saucer and a pair of blindfolds on his head, shuffled slowly towards Claudia and Gianna with heavy steps.
"Is there anything Moros can do for you as the guests invited by these two old masters and the little masters?"
"Thank you, Moros, let's just shop ourselves." Claudia replied with a smile.
Moros nodded, and moved on to other things, unlike the other skeleton ghosts, he was a forsaken, but he also didn't realize he was dead.
In fact, Moros had gone mad long before he died, as he had witnessed the frenzied Madison and Egwen's mother and son, and the scene when Medivan finally drained the lives of all the guests and waiters, and since then the faithful old butler had gone insane.
Claudia watched Moros's busy back with some emotion, while Gianna's attention remained on the horror scene that Claudia had depicted earlier.
"Is it inevitable that this nightmare will befall our souls after death...... Isn't there a brighter place to go? Gianna asked.
"Actually, I've always wondered, what can I do for the world? What is my mission in this world? Claudia slowed down, looked at Gianna, and said, "Later, I found myself an answer. ”
"What answer?" Gianna asked curiously.
Claudia was a little apprehensive, a little hesitant, and a little embarrassed, and said: "I want to save this desperate afterlife, save the souls of mortals, and create a place of salvation for the souls of mortal dead, so that they will not suffer and suffer after death." ”
After finishing speaking, Claudia was a little nervous and said, "Gianna, you don't think I'm a little ...... It's whimsical, but I do...... ”
"How come," Gianna stopped, looked at the knight girl beside her with a smile, and said very seriously, "Although the mage's logic tells me that this is a difficult thing to achieve, but for some reason, I just believe that you can definitely do it." ”
"Thank you for your trust."
Claudia was happy, she could feel that Gianna was telling the truth, Claudia explained with a smile: "Actually, there is a certain degree of possibility, Freya, who is also a guardian, opened up the Emerald Dream to carry the souls of the wilderness demigods and druids, the great guardian Rai also created the four elemental planes, and even Hela, who is not a guardian, also opened up a half-plane, which is all precedent." ”
"But there are also troubles, the position of the Guardian of Order in the Guardian is a warrior, and there is no knowledge related to the creation of the plane in my inheritance, only the three guardians of Rai, Loken, and Freya know how to create the plane, Loken betrayed Rai and disappeared for the time being, and he may be able to ask Freya how to create the plane in the future, and if he can't do it, he can only deal with Hela."
Gianna laughed, "Look, now I have more faith in you. ”
"Thank you."
Claudia was even happier.
The two girls continued to walk forward, and by this time they had left the banquet hall and began to make their way to the room where the chaste saint had been sealed by Egwen, but before long, the faces of the two girls slowly began to turn red with shame.
There are hostesses everywhere here, there are women and female elves, all of them are as beautiful as flowers, dressed in revealing clothes, and there are all kinds of obscene ornaments on their chests and lower bodies, but after the silver glint in Claudia's eyes, she has already seen the true colors of these women and female elves--- they are all succubi, and they also obviously bear the prohibition and control marks of the mage tower, which makes them have no power to harm others, obviously they are all female slaves that Medivan once summoned and enslaved, for entertaining guests or satisfying their own selfish desires.
After not seeing any outsiders for several years, the group of hostesses immediately pounced on Claudia and Gianna like a pack of hungry wolves, and all kinds of coquettish words rang out one after another:
"Do you want to have some fun, little girl?"
"Trust me, I'll make you feel the pinnacle of happiness."
"Come to us, mage girl, our four sisters often study the mysteries of bliss together, only women can understand women, and today we can serve one of you."
Gianna had never seen such a battle, and her face was immediately red and her ears were extremely flustered, but Claudia relieved her, Claudia's eyes turned completely silver, and a majestic sigil appeared at the center of her eyebrows.
"Get out."
Claudia said succinctly, and the hostesses around her immediately dispersed as if they had been amnestied.
"Ignore them, come on."
Claudia tugged at Gianna's hand, who blushed and nodded, and walked forward.
Although the surrounding maids did not dare to gather around to cause trouble, the two girls did not advance long before they encountered something else, and bursts of happy Lego moans kept coming from a certain room in front of them.
Claudia frowned helplessly, and pulled Gianna forward, but when she passed by the room, she found that the door was open, and the two girls subconsciously looked into the room, only to see four naked hostesses in the room "fighting" passionately on a large bed, they had props, tongues, fingers, and tried their best to satisfy each other, although they were all women, but their lewdness made Claudia, who had unlocked all of Varian's various postures, wide-eyed and dumbfounded.
"Really...... I finally know why Egwene was so hesitant to mention it. ”
Claudia sighed and said, after all, she and Varian had studied the mysteries of the human body for several years, and they had three children, so this scene was just a novelty to her, so she quickly came to her senses.
But Gianna is different, after Claudia's voice fell, she didn't see anyone around her reply for a long time, and she turned her face to look.
I saw that Gianna was still petrified, she looked at the lewd scenes in the room, the usually white jade-like skin on her face was about to drip blood at the moment, and the hand she held with Claudia was already full of sweat, and her throat moved slightly unconsciously.