In the dark basement, messy books are scattered all over the floor, sketches and drawings, and papers filled with various words are scattered on the desk, silent.

A quill with ink on the tip of the pen was placed on the edge of the desk, and the remaining ink was connected to the half-written text on the paper below, as if the owner was writing something and suddenly encountered an unexpected situation and hurried away.

In the corner of the desk, an inconspicuous glass ball sits quietly on the side of the inkwell, its dark gray appearance makes it look very inconspicuous, but the occasional gray churning appearance is quite extraordinary.

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"I didn't find any hell here."

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"There's nothing upstairs."

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"The last time I visited, I noticed something unusual in the basement."

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There was a faint sound of conversation outside the door, and the sound coming through the wooden door was a little muffled, but if you listened closely, you could still hear two young male voices.

As they spoke, the ball on the table rolled and fell to the ground. It was as if it had fallen to the ground due to a shaking, but unlike a normal shaking drop, after a moment of pause on the ground, it began to roll again, on a flat, dull floor.

The gray floor, the gray ball, squeaked, and the two people who pushed open the wooden door and entered the basement did not realize the existence of this thing, while the ball kept rolling, moving, moving, and finally quietly stopping on someone's path by relying on its camouflage.

"That's where I found the anomaly, but it seems to be gone now......"

The young man's clear voice sounded, and his tone was quite puzzled.

Another replied, "Perhaps you have encountered a floating wraith that never stays in one place for long, but always wanders around. ”

"Tourist? It seems that these resentful spirits have lived a good life after their deaths. ”

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In response, Charles suddenly paused, feeling as if he was stepping on something, so he removed his foot and looked down, and a gray ball came into view.

It looked like it was just an ordinary glass ball, and Charles didn't notice anything unusual when he picked it up and looked at it carefully, but the hint of the Eye of Truth had changed his otherwise casual state of mind.

[The glass ball containing spirituality, please be careful, it may be hostile to you]

The hostility of a glass ball?

Strangely enough, Charles was about to show it to Elliot, who was with him, when a flash of gray flashed out and shot at his cheek like lightning.

Without the slightest time to react, the gray light quickly penetrated Charles's eyes, and he exclaimed.

"What's wrong with you?" Walking in all directions of the basement, the young man in the white suit who was carefully inspected noticed his abnormality and came to him with a frown.

"No, nothing? Maybe I'm dazzled. Charles replied absentmindedly.

He seemed to hear screams just now...... Delusion?

Looking down at the glass ball in his hand again, the originally dim and turbid sphere had turned into a transparent one at this time.

After a few careful glances, no more anomalies were noticed, and the Eye of Knowing indicated that the thing had lost all of its transcendent elements.

He shook his head and placed it on his desk, then looked at the dusty shelves.

"I hope I can get something out here." Secretly praying, Charles began to rummage.

Before coming to the basement, he had rummaged through the books and pen and ink traces of the entire castle, and he had found nothing of value except for a few strange novels and knightly hymns.

"Maybe you should take these things back and look at them again. It's getting late. Seeing him like this, Elliot couldn't help but remind.

"The night is the domination of demons, and it is not a good choice to travel overnight."

"Okay, listen to you." Nodding, Charles closed the book he had just opened, scanned around and said, "But there are so many books, our carriage may not fit it." ”

"You can hire one locally."

Elliot said, suddenly saying, "There's nothing unusual about this castle, but I don't recommend you live here?" ”

"How?" This is not a man for no reason, so Charles is more concerned about his words.

"I'm not sure." Elliot frowned, "I just don't think the mayor of Canyon Town we met when we came here was not simple. ”

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After leaving the castle, Charles glanced at the lewd mayor several times, but he didn't see anything unusual, and the hints of the Eye of Truth didn't notice anything unusual.

But despite that, Charles wasn't arrogant enough to take it lightly.

Just because the Eye of Knowing doesn't have a hint doesn't mean it's all right, the ability and the knowledge he has are interconnected, and if there is something that he doesn't understand at all, then the Eye of Knowing won't see anything.

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After hiring a local carriage, the two hurried on the road and returned to the city of Pita before the full moon rose.

After thanking Elliot, Charles returned to the house and began to rummage through it.

There were a lot of documents and books that had been taken out of the basement of the castle before, and there was no classification, so Charles could only find them all. However, if you are alone, it is a needle in a haystack to find some information from a book that can fill at least an entire shelf.

I want to find a helper to help me, but unfortunately none of my servants are literate, and the only literate housekeeper Grace is still a little presbyopia, and it is very troublesome to read.

So, after realizing this, Charles simply let her go back to rest and get to work on her own.

He decided to get a few literate bookmakers tomorrow to "clean up" the pile, and in fact, if possible, he wanted to go out and hire it now, but it was getting late.

Constantly flipping through the books, reading for most of the night, Charles did not find any useful clues, and finally tired and dizzy, he only felt a moment of sleepiness, and unconsciously collapsed on the desk and fell asleep.

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In the dream, he seems to have become a girl, born into a wealthy family, with long black hair and beautiful green eyes.

As a child, she was a good baby, coming and going behind her mother's ass all day long, not crying or making trouble, and full of curiosity about everything.

When she was a girl, her personality became a little rebellious, and she was no longer as obedient to her parents' discipline as before, but rather resistant.

At a social ball, the girl has a crush on a young nobleman and gives her first time to him after a date.

However, after that time, the young nobleman changed his former politeness and became cold to her, and the girl continued to pester, and finally the young nobleman threw her a notebook.

It was a notebook full of dark arts, and he said that if she learned it, he could associate with it.

As long as I learn the above things, he will like me again.

Yes, that's it!

So the girl began to study hard, study day and night, stay at home all day, no longer go out, no longer participate in any social interaction.

The family didn't know what she was doing, but they couldn't ignore her abnormality, but neither her father's strict discipline nor her mother's soft voice could change her whole state of being like a madman.

In a careless manner, her brother discovers her secret, but she threatens him with the same secret, and in the end, she does not let it go.

Then the days gradually became regular, and as time passed, the girl also became a knowledgeable aristocratic lady.

The warm and quiet life is enjoyable, but the nagging of the family and the discipline of the elders make her more and more impatient, and finally after the coming-of-age ceremony, she decides to leave the family, regardless of the opposition of her parents and the reluctance of her relatives.

She left her hometown in Ron County, passed through the bustling county of Bonnet, walked through the cold county of Geni, stopped for a long time on the border between the kingdom of Durin and the Chauvin Empire, and finally came to the edge of the kingdom, outside the port city of Pita near the Poison Dragon Strait, in a small place called Canyon Town, and became a local baron.

I was going to learn all the things in this note, and then go to the capital to find the person I thought about day and night.

Who would have thought that one morning, she would actually meet her prince charming in the middle of town!

She thought she was dreaming, but it wasn't a dream.

So, he rekindled his old relationship with her

For many years after that, she could see her lover every once in a while, so gradually, she also extinguished the idea of returning to the capital and returning to the family, even if her father urged her one after another, even if her mother died of illness, she did not set foot on the place where she grew up again.

Is it to resist, or to escape?

She vaguely understands some of the consequences and doesn't know, but she never slacks off to complete some things that her lover told her.

As a result, she adopted a little girl with long curly brown hair, a lovely girl named Anne.

She likes her a lot because looking at her seems like seeing herself as a child. However, the way her lover looked at the girl made her jealous, and she gradually became disgusted with her.

As time passed, she was no longer the girl who exuded youth, her smooth and elastic skin gradually dried out with the passage of time, and her once firm chest was shriveled and sagging.

The original bright and emerald green eyes were unconsciously full of haze, bags appeared under her eyes, her face was withered, and her appearance changed to a certain extent due to years of exposure to dark forces, and finally she became a gloomy woman with triangular eyes.

This also made her hate her adopted daughter more - look at that, how vigorous and enviable the little man who is waiting to be released?

No wonder he thought so highly of her.

So she finally decided to change her body, and the goal was clear.

However, the ritual failed!

The girl is very special, she didn't succeed in snatching, and she can't return to her original shell!

I watched my body being lifted out, put on makeup, buried, and rotting in the ground, revealing dry bones...... It's not humane, but it's not the most unbearable.

With each additional day of the ghost phase, a part of her memories and emotions would be lost, and she knew better than anyone else what would happen to her.

Reluctant, she decided to rely on what she had learned to survive—she imprisoned herself in a special glass ball.

It's a pity that the glass ball can only maintain her spirituality and not continue to overflow, but it can't change her condition.

She wanted to go over and take the shells of other people, but this spell was not something that could be used casually, it required careful arrangement of ritual and spell casting materials - she couldn't do it in her current state, and the rules of the ritual made it impossible for her to fake others.

Feeling helpless, the family suddenly sent a young man of the same bloodline!

Although spells need to be arranged for a long time, they can ignore all kinds of restrictions under special conditions, and this special condition is the blood connection.

So she was overjoyed. Although he is quite resistant to the male body, at this time of crisis, he can't care so much.

However, she never expected this to happen, and suddenly realized that what was supposed to be the bead that protected her spirit body had now become a shackle that bound her.

In desperation, she could only command the only servant who still obeyed the command, and personally sent one of her notes to the lovely and irascible nephew, giving him strength, giving him courage, and then letting him come close to herself, and then to herself......

He'll be here soon.

She's sure of it!

In fact, the nephew did come, but to her disbelief, he was able to resist his spiritual voice!

Watching him drift away and eventually leave the castle gates, no matter how much she used her spirituality, she couldn't draw him any closer, which filled her with despair.

"Am I going to be stuck here forever?"

Countless dark days and nights, she muttered like this, and her heart felt like falling into the abyss.

It seems that she is an old Zhuhuang, and her lover who is the same kind has not come here for a long time, and she doesn't know any other kind of people except him, or even if she does, she doesn't dare to expose herself casually in this state.

So, can only be so sleepy?

Just when she thought that her fate was already doomed, unexpectedly, the lovely nephew she had been thinking about day and night appeared in front of her again!

Although he appeared with a Demon Hunter of the Church of Thorns, he was just a rookie in the first ring of the Church, and he couldn't compare to the strength of her Throne of Bones, let alone discover the spiritual body hidden in the crystal ball—her faction was already good at using spirituality.

So she rolled excitedly, letting herself fall, let herself roll, and let herself get closer and closer to the lovely and delicious little nephew.

As long as his eyes see himself, as long as his eyes see himself, as long as his eyes ......

Repeating the mutter, fortunately, his eyes did see the glass ball that was being stepped on under his feet.

So she took advantage of this and flew out.

The first time she had encountered the process of diving into spirituality, it was a wonderful journey, her eyes entering, moving rapidly, surrounded by light gray diffusion arcs, as if she were traveling deep through the deep dark pupils.

The process was mysterious and short-lived, and it didn't take long for her to reach her destination.

It was a place in the deepest part of the darkness, up and down, left and right, all around it was pitch black, there was nothing, only a humanoid luminous figure floating silently.

The eyes of the humanoid luminous body were closed, floating in the deepest part of the darkness, and the facial features could vaguely see the handsomeness and immaturity of the young man, wasn't it the appearance of the little nephew outside?

Seeing this luminous body was as if she had seen the most delicious food in the world, and although she was surprised by the holy aura emanating from this nephew's spirit, she no longer bothered with this question when she thought of the priest who had come with him.

So under the effect of inner urgency, she hit her head.

However, when she bumped into the other party's spirituality, she had just penetrated the surface layer, and before she reached the core, she was stunned to find that the spiritual aura around her, which should have been lively and holy, had turned into a resentful body with thick black smoke emitting thick black smoke all over her body in the blink of an eye!

Caught off guard, she didn't have time to brake, and she didn't have the option of braking at all, so she crashed directly into the resentful spirit!

The black resentment suddenly slammed into her fragile spiritual core, and the picture that should have been clear and clear was blurred, her thoughts were scattered, and the darkness gradually spread.

"I took the initiative to take away a ghost!? No! Substitute for the death imp? Hah, Ghost Masquerade...... This...... How can it be...... He, he's ......"

She screamed, her consciousness being swallowed and stirred like an abyss, and finally completely dissipated.