When Duke Gross hurried back to the castle, he saw a strange scene.

The tall figure turned his back to the gate, blowing the flute and drifting, and not far away, Catherine's mother and daughter and a group of guards were dozing groggily, and when Gross returned, they didn't even greet each other immediately, their eyes were blank, as if they were about to sleep.

"What's going on, dear?" asked Catherine, but before he could get a response, he understood something.

The rhythm of the flute is very strange, and the overall style is not at all like the bloody battle song of the stars music, but rather heavy and sad.

Gross had never heard of this tune, but I have to say that it sounded pretty good, but it didn't matter if it sounded good or not compared to the special magic it contained.

The power that flowed through his blood made Gross completely immune to the strange energy in the song, but he could sense that it was shaking his entire will.

"This is magic, too?"

He subconsciously frowned.

Samuel has a lot of mages, and Gross has never been in contact with mages before, but he never knew there was such a spell hidden in the music.... Does it affect people's minds and souls?

"You're finally back!"

Gross's silence did not affect the others' gradual notice, and Catherine suddenly woke up after a moment of confusion, and then glared at the fat duke and shouted, "Where have you been? so slowly!"

"My dear, I'm going to inspect the city. Gross responded.

Catherine glared and said, "Why don't you tell us about the city?

Gross was stunned and said, "I didn't expect this to happen, and shouldn't Renee be in the room?

"Staying in the room all day only gets crazier and crazier, don't you think about that as a father!" Catherine's assertive look seemed natural.

"It's... Honey, I...."Gross didn't know what to say. What can he say, and it's also to blame him?

However, Catherine was "unreasonable" and shouted, "What are you, why don't you send Renee back quickly!"

“......”

The duke's quarrel woke the drowsy people around them, and then, as if they had immunity, they ignored its effects under the sound of the flute, though they could not help but doze off.

"Lord Duke!"

"Father. ”

The guards were busy greeting each other, and Margaret's soft voice sounded from behind one after another, Alan had already known about Gross's arrival, but he still didn't put down the flute summoned by the spell in his mouth, staring at the girl who collapsed on the long table, his expression focused.

This spell is called drowsy, and it is also a gray spell drawn in the underworld, with a summoning instrument, the first time I used it, the effect was not bad. It's just that there is a big drawback that can't be stopped...

"Okay, hard work, let me do it. ”

There was a tap on the shoulder, and Gross's voice came to his ears.

Alan nodded slowly, not reluctantly.

The sound of the flute stopped, and the sleeping girl's eyelids began to throb, as if she was about to wake up.

However, Gross didn't wait for her to actually wake up, and began to make his own moves.

Because right next to him, Alan could clearly observe Gross's movements, and he just waved slightly, and the long table under the girl suddenly changed.

Vines suddenly "broke out" from the smooth tabletop, the thickness of the brown-green thumb, and quickly wrapped around the girl's body after appearing, like a long snake, the swishing sound of breaking through the air can be heard clearly.

The girl opened her eyes suddenly, she tilted her head to look at the vines on her body, stunned, and then let out a scream - "Ah——!"

Screaming, the girl began to struggle vigorously, but unfortunately Gross's methods were not something that the girl could break, no matter how hard the girl tried, the vines did not waver in the slightest, as if they were made of steel, one by one wrapped around her body, tightly imprisoning her.

"The power of the apocalypse and the spell are actually quite similar. Gross said beside him. He didn't seem to be in a very small mood at this time, his face was heavy, as if because of the previous quarrel and the imprisonment of his daughter with his own hands, his tone was not as cheerful as before, and it was a little low.

Alan didn't have the idea of getting involved in the Duke's family affairs, so he nodded along with Gross's words.

At the moment, it looked like the effect of the spell, but he didn't perceive any spell fluctuations.

"But it seems that not all apocalypsees can achieve this effect?"

"You're right, the apocalypse is also divided into types..."

Gross's words did not affect the movement of the vines on the long table, and the vines did not stop after entangling the girl, despite the struggle, they continued to grow, and then gradually grew into a vine man under the gaze of the people around them!

The limbs and head of the vine man are made of vines, and he holds the bound madman Renee in his arms, the overall color is brown and yellow, the appearance is terrifying, and the "body" is thin and thin, a bit like a skeleton.

Renee's delicate face in its arms was already distorted by madness, and when she saw the vine man, she seemed to be even more insane.

"You light, don't hurt her!" Catherine frowned as her daughter was "carried" upstairs by the vine man, and took advantage of the gap between the two of them to speak.

"Don't worry, she's my daughter too. Gross glanced at his wife silently, his expression softened, and his tone was soft, as if he did not want to exacerbate the conflict.

Alan next to him was a little puzzled by this, obviously one is a knight of the apocalypse standing at the peak of strength and power, and the other is an ordinary person with no power, why is Gross afraid of his wife?

"It's weird. Muttering secretly, the group gradually made their way up the castle staircase.

Renee's "room" was on the top floor of the castle, and Alan had never been there before, and now that he saw the unhindered posture of the fat duke's family, he was ready to follow the situation to have a look.

"My sisters and I used to live on the top floor. The Gross couple walked in front, Ellen and Margaret followed behind, seeing Allen looking around after going upstairs, Margaret said with a melancholy face: "It's just that after the two younger sisters had an accident one after another, my mother asked me to move out of here." ”

"What happened to Renee?" Alan asked, looking at the childlike paintings hanging on the walls of the corridor.

"No one knew that she didn't go crazy right away, but lived a normal life for several days, and told us some adventure stories... Then one morning, she suddenly started going crazy. ”

Margaret's face was gloomy, and Alan wanted to pat her on the shoulder to comfort her, but when she raised her hand, she suddenly felt that men and women could not kiss, so she also put her hand on a painting on the wall.

"I remember she had a companion coming. Alan stroked the brown-black frame of the oil painting and asked, "Is she crazy too?"

"You mean Vivi?" Margaret shook her head, "She's not crazy, but..."

"But what?"

"She's dead. ”

Margaret said in a shocking voice: "On the day Renee went crazy, Vivi died suddenly, without the slightest certificate before her death, according to her family, she was still alive a moment ago..."

Alan was silent, two little girls, one went crazy and the other died, what did they go through?

He finally sighed: "I hope to find the real culprit as soon as possible." ”

The two of them were silent for a moment, but the corridor on the top floor of the castle was not too long, and the silence did not last long before they came to their target.

It was a room overgrown with vines, and from the doorway, the dark green branches were entangled with each other, densely sealing the room in all directions, and at a cursory glance, it looked like a prison made of vines.

After reaching its destination, the vine man at the front walked in with Renee in his arms without hesitation, and as it passed, the seemingly unanomalous vine suddenly moved, making way for it.

Mr. and Mrs. Gross did not follow in, but stood at the door and quietly watched their daughters being placed on the big bed in the room by the vine man, snuggling up to each other with complicated expressions.

"Will she be able to eat normally?"

After the girl was put down, the vines around the big bed spread out, locking the girl's limbs, looking at the girl's constantly struggling but futile appearance, Alan asked.

"This is thanks to the contributions of your mages. Gross pointed to some hidden places in the room, "There's a magic circle here that keeps people alive, so we don't have to worry about it. ”

"A magic array that keeps it alive?"

It was the first time that Alan had heard of this kind of magic array, so he couldn't help but be curious and asked, but Gross didn't know much about it, and only said that a mage friend helped set it up.

"It's similar to Katerina's treasure. ”

He muttered.

The corridor was silent, and it seemed that the area had been completely cleared, leaving Renee alone. Gross put his arm around Catherine, looked at her crazy daughter in the room, and sighed.

"Let's go. He said.

Catherine nodded sadly, took one last look at her daughter in the room, and then closed the door, but she did not finish closing the door, and a hand blocked her.

"What's wrong?" the Gross looked at Allen, who was suddenly blocked, with strange expressions.

"Wait, I... Something seems to have been discovered. ”

Alan stared at the girl's squeezed ankles in the room and said with some uncertainty.