Richard stared at the corpse and said nothing.

The dark and gloomy hall was now surrounded by boundless silence. Not long ago, the upheaval of the world was turned upside down, and it was like an illusion of oneself. Only the corpse in front of him was always a reminder of the absurdity that had just happened.

…… What to do?

He was at a loss.

He had only met Rasputin a few times in total, and the big man was so far away that Richard had no particular emotions about his death. Of course, Richard was grateful for the promise that he would be officially embarked on the wizarding path as a reward for providing an ancient text commentary, even though the promise disappeared with his death......

In any case, Raspuchin is dead, and this matter can never be hidden. With the fall of a wizard leader, the Rasputin School, now one of the most powerful factions in the tower, will no longer exist, and the legendary wizard, one of the pillars of the Wizard Tower, will fall, and there is no doubt that it will be a "storm" that will sweep the entire tower.

And the center of the storm is likely to be him.

Because there were only two witnesses present, Richard was the only one who survived. He knows the secret of the death of a legendary wizard and is the only witness.

I am afraid that the truth of Raspuchin's death will not be paid much attention, and the key is the fact that he died itself. You don't need to think too much, it will definitely be used by people with good intentions. However, there are fierce contradictions in the magic tower itself, and there is a confrontation between the internal schools and the forces of the association, so people are destined to start a struggle with the death of Raspuchin.

And standing at the center of this struggle, what kind of treatment will he receive?

A weak apprentice is equivalent to not having the slightest ability to resist. For the people on the magic tower, it's like meat on a chopping board.

As soon as he thought of this, Richard couldn't help but tremble.

Not only was the hope of a higher place dashed, but now even life was in jeopardy, and the entire Novich school had lost its refuge...... No, if he thinks about it, he has long heard of the unscrupulous selection of test subjects and experimental methods by wizards, including beasts, demons, and even slaves of humans and other intelligent races, vivisection is commonplace, and if it falls into the hands of such a group of wizards who conduct all kinds of terrible experiments all day long, it is not surprising that nothing cruel can happen, and maybe losing their lives is a better ending.

Richard took a deep breath, his face unusually pale. His mind raced, trying to figure out what to do next, but none of them were possible. Destroying corpses? It's impossible to hide it. Escape from the Magic Tower? What was he going to do, it was hard to even get out of this door now.

This is the sorrow of the weak. In a society where the law of the jungle eats the strong, his life is like a boat sailing on a stormy sea that may capsize at any time. Only a strong person can grasp the direction of fate, but for him now, he can only be delusional.

What to do? To whom do you ask for help? But he didn't even have an acquaintance who could be called a friend......

At this moment, Richard's gaze inadvertently fell on the clay tablet that fell to the ground.

*

- Rasputin was killed by this magic book.

When he realized this, the finger that he wanted to reach out to touch retracted instinctively as if he had been electrocuted.

But......

Richard recalled the scene just now. At the beginning, there was no mistake in the ritual of using the Demon Dao Book to summon the demon god, and judging by Raspuchin's reaction, it might have been successful. What killed him was a black light that appeared later. The apprentice looked at the wall behind him, and saw a vague black shadow embedded in it.

As the previous speculation had suggested, it was still a huge risk for a legendary wizard to connect with the supreme spirit world through a book of magic from the ancient imperial period. That black light is the biggest danger hidden in it, I'm afraid it is some kind of seal or countermeasure on the Demon Dao Book.

That...... Now after the appearance of black light, does it mean that it is safe?

Since the magic tablet still exists and is not destroyed, its previous owner, or maker, or someone who set up the Black Light Seal, probably didn't mean to kill anyone who intended to open it.

According to the records in the Demon Dao Book, the Demon God can fulfill anyone's wishes, as long as they have signed a contract with them, all of them have become famous figures in history without exception. If all this is true, if he can summon the Demon God instead of Raspuchin, it is not impossible to get out of the current predicament.

Richard didn't let himself hesitate for long.

Some information has been leaked to the outside world from the previous anomaly, and the people in the temple may not dare to enter because of Raspuchin's power, but this is not a long-term solution, and sooner or later what happened here will be discovered by someone with a heart. Now he has to hurry.

"Anyway, it's just a 'death' word, at least it's better to be killed all at once."

Richard gritted his teeth and reached for the Demon Dao Book.

The hard and cold touch is transmitted back to the brain, not so much a "clay tablet" as a slate. But he waited unusually nervously in place for a moment, but nothing happened.

"Are there other steps? That's right! ”

He remembered Raspuchin's last action before he died, which was to bite open his skin and touch it with his blood-stained palm. Richard relentlessly did the same.

When the blood from the wound dripped on the stone slab, Richard couldn't help but have a strange thought in his mind:

"Could this be the legendary god 'Dripping Blood Confession'?"

His ramblings weren't over, and the scene around him had changed. The halls of the real world swept backwards, replaced by silver-white buildings, each rising from the ground, as tall as a stretch of mountains, and he sat in this silver-clad world.

The grand illusion flashed away, and Richard soon returned to the real world.

Without too much astonishment, a faint shadow appeared in front of him, the outline of which was quickly outlined, showing a figure as tall as him, and a head shorter than an adult male to be exact.

Richard looked at the scene in front of him in a daze, and only felt unbelievable.

It seems that he is really about to summon the "Demon God". Even the ritual of the legendary wizard's death in the process was easily completed in his own hands? His ambition as a time-traveler has long since been wiped out by reality. But at this moment, Richard couldn't help but have the ridiculous idea of "maybe he is the hero".