Late at night.

The king, who had been in a noisy for a day, fell asleep.

The whole city is quiet.

Occasionally, a few barking dogs and cats were heard, but they were quickly covered by silence.

The moon hung like a roulette wheel in the dark sky, shedding a silver-gray light that shone on the majestic Mobiza Palace.

In the dark night, the Mobiza palace was like an old man in the twilight, very quiet.

Only in some places, there are still lights on.

From time to time, heavily armed soldiers patrolled by.

William, dressed in a cloak of wishes, wandered around the palace like a ghost.

Not a single soldier could spot a second-level wizard.

William easily arrived at the heart of the palace, the old king Philip's bedchamber.

It is a luxurious room.

The entire dormitory is resplendent and symbolizes the luxury and wealth of the Ketranian royal family.

Although the Kingdom of Svak is a landlocked kingdom, there are many gold mines in the territory, and the Ketranian royal family has the most and best gold mines in the country, so the wealth situation has always been very good.

The ceiling of the dormitory is beautifully painted with frescoes, and the corners and eaves are decorated with gilded reliefs that complement the frescoes.

In the center of the room was a large bed with a curtain, the couch of the old king Philip.

He sat there in silence.

At this time, the old king Philip did not wear his jeweled crown, which symbolized the power of a country, nor did he wear his intricately patterned royal dress, and he did not have the majesty of the day.

Now he is just a frail old man in silky pajamas, with bags under his eyes like dark circles and a pale face.

His brow furrowed, and his eyes were hesitant.

I don't know how long he was silent, but he seemed to have made a decision, and suddenly got up from the curtain bed, dragged his long dressing gown, and walked to a corner of the bedroom.

I don't know what he did with the relief on the corner wall, but he only saw the mechanism touch, and the dark red floor silently revealed a wide cellar entrance.

Old King Philip looked commonplace, he touched an iron ring on the ring finger of his right hand, and then walked in resolutely.

There are stone stairs inside the cellar.

As soon as the old king Philip entered, the bronze torches hanging from the walls on either side automatically ignited, illuminating the cellar.

What appeared in the eyes of the old king Philip at this time was a long, downward stone staircase, which stretched all the way to a distance of nearly a hundred meters, and then an obsidian gate carved with mysterious magic patterns.

A few minutes of time.

The old king Philip had just walked this distance and came to the obsidian gate.

He took out a small silver knife from his bosom and slashed it into his palm, and red blood flowed out.

The old king, who was also born in Rongma, did not frown his brows, and dripped blood on the magic pattern of the obsidian gate.

Suddenly, the magic patterns on the gate of the Black Yao Stone lit up one after another like an electrified light bulb, emitting different colors of light, and flowing like mercury, and in a short time, they were combined into a mysterious six-pointed star array.

At this time, the iron ring on the old king's ring finger also lit up, shooting out a ray of light, right in the center of the six-pointed star array, and the dazzling light suddenly bloomed, making the prepared old king close his eyes uncontrollably.

When the light faded, a doorway made of light appeared in the obsidian gate.

Without hesitation, the old king walked into the Radiance Gate, and his figure disappeared into the Radiance Cave.

William's figure walked out of the mirror space, looking at the hole of light with thoughtful eyes.

"In this formation, there is definitely the intervention of wizards."

"No wonder during the day, when the magic mirror probed the palace, it didn't find this, it turned out to be hidden by the magic array."

"Hey, hey, these royal families, one of them is more devout to the Lord of Light than the other, and they actually have their own little ninety-nine."

The corners of William's mouth curled, and he followed him into the light cave.

It is a magnificent hall with many columns, and the ceiling and surrounding walls of the hall are carved with reliefs to form a series of story patterns.

The most frequent of these motifs is a winged human-faced sphinx.

And in the center of the main hall, on a stone platform, there is the body of a half-monster.

If you look closely, isn't the body of this half monster the human-faced sphinoid monster that appears in the pattern?

It's just that it seems to have been split in half by something, the water of the corpse has evaporated, the skin is attached to the bones, like a dried corpse, only its only remaining wing, but it is full of life.

The black-brown feathers seemed to have a little light on them, flashing with sparks of wisdom, but if you look closely, they don't seem to have them.

The whole body exudes a sacrosanct majesty.

This feeling, even if William is hiding in mirror space, can be felt, and it reminds William of some pictures in his memory.

To be precise, some of the images in the memory of Asclepius, the god of medicine.

This is Kamui.

It's a mythical beast.

Sphinx!

William remembered that this was the mythical Sphinx.

In Greek mythology, the queen of heaven, Herapis Sphinx, sat on a cliff near the city of Thebais, stopped passers-by, asked them riddles taught by the muse, and those who did not guess would be eaten by it.

The riddle is: "What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three at night?" When he has the most legs, it is also when he walks the slowest and his physical strength is the weakest. “

Many people couldn't guess, so they were killed by the Sphinx.

Only Oedipus guessed the correct answer, and the riddle was "man".

The Sphinx was so ashamed that he jumped off a cliff and died!

But rumor has it that the Sphinx did not die of shame, but was killed by Oedipus.

How he died, William is not clear.

However, William knew that the Sphinx was born to the furious goddess Ekadena and her son, the two-headed dog Odyssius. His human face symbolizes wisdom and knowledge.

Ekadena is a squinted-eyed, white-cheeked nymph on the upper body, and a large snake on the lower body, which many people may not know, but when it comes to the children he gave birth to, it is not unfamiliar.

The three-headed dog of hell, Cerberus, the hydra of Leerna, the chimera with the head of a lion, the invulnerable Nemean lion, the hundred-headed dragon Ladon, the two-headed dog that guards Sunset Island, the dragon of Kolchas who guards the Golden Fleece, the fox of Thomesus of Tomesha, the Caucasian Condor who pecks at Prometheus, and the harpy Harpy......

These are the most famous monsters in Greek mythology, and they can be said to be the mother of monsters.