It's a stone gate.

The notice is constructed of white marble that fits perfectly with the surrounding walls, and is more like a wall than the edge of the stone door is outlined as a door.

This "wall" blocked the footsteps of Allen and his group, and stood in front of them, the surrounding rock wall was narrow, and the dark hollow behind it was silent, there was no fork in the road, and there was no way ahead.

After more than an hour of walking, they finally came to the end of this secret passage.

"So, what's next?" Alan looked at Noland.

Facing the young man's gaze, Norland smiled wryly: "If I knew, I would have taken the things behind the door a long time ago, how could so many things happen?"

Hearing this, Alan asked in wonder, "Then why do you still guard it like a treasure?" just for this strange stone gate and what I don't know what is inside?"

"Nope. ”

Noland shook his head, because his hands were tied, so he couldn't make other movements, he could only lift his chin against the stone door, and gestured, "I think you should know this." ”

Alan followed the route his chin pointed, and a mural came into view.

The mural stands in an unremarkable corner not far from the stone gate, and the portrait depicts a half-knight in armor, standing with a sword.

Because of the armor, they couldn't see the knight's appearance, and the armor on the knight's body was not very brilliant, and it looked very dull under the light of the light technique.

At first, Alan didn't pay much attention, but after a closer look, he was suddenly stunned.

He didn't know the knight, but he recognized the sword in the knight's hand!

The sword is smooth and gracefully curved, and the overall shape is a cross sword, with an oval ruby set in the center of the cross.

As a weapon, the sword was much more brilliant than its owner, but that wasn't why Eren paid attention to it.

He'd seen this sword!

Or rather, he'd seen a cross sword that looked exactly like this one!

A year ago, the venue of the awakening ceremony was held - the gate of the Golden Red Hall!

On the door of the Golden Red Hall, there are traces of this sword!

It was also a mural, but it was painted on the door.

But unlike the current mural, it shows a long sword attached to a flaming shield, which is the family crest of the Chrissy family.

Why is this here?

Stroking the mural in front of him, the rough and cold touch came, and Alan fell into thought.

Could it be that it has something to do with the Apocalypse Knight? Or is it something to do with the Apocalypse Knight?

The middle-aged pirate's voice interrupted his musings, and he said, "I think you know why we're so clung to it. ”

Nodding absentmindedly, Alan observed for a while before retracting his gaze, looking sideways, and found that Norland was also staring at the sword at this time, and it was difficult to hide the greed in his eyes.

"How did you recognize that?"

Alan asked curiously.

He didn't know the reason for this sword, but he knew that the shape of this sword was very rare, and he had only seen it a few times during the time when the Awakening Ritual was being planned, and he had never seen it anywhere else.

Norland replied, "The Sea Serpent was born in Duolun City and was once a reserve knight, but..."

He shook his head, clearly with no intention of continuing.

Of course, there is no need, Alan has already vaguely guessed some probabilities;

It's nothing more than intrigue within the family, this kind of thing is not common in the stars, but it is not uncommon - not all knight families are thin, many families are very prosperous, and some have no less than a hundred people under the long-term wealth.

Relatively speaking, the number of the Chrissy family is very scarce, counting Allen, there are only three, and perhaps you can also add the Fisher father and son who were expelled from Klich a long time ago, that is only five people, which is a pitiful few.

However, although there are few people, there is also intrigue among them, and it is obvious that Fisher is excluded, although few people know about this matter, but as the number one news dealer in Reef City, Alan still has heard of it.

It's just that Alan is not interested in this, it was just because he was involved in his own family, so he learned about it, if it weren't for this, he wouldn't have the time to pay attention to this kind of bloody incident where brothers and nobles turned against each other.

So at the moment he didn't have the idea of asking, and seeing that Norland couldn't do anything, he turned to look at the mural again, thinking about how to open it.

There were no knockers or handles on the stone door, and it looked flat.

It can only be said that it is not to blame that these pirates are too stupid to find a way to open the door, and Alan is now at a loss in the face of this wall-like stone door.

There weren't any traps or anything like that, and Alan didn't even bother to search for them, because he knew that if there were any traps, the pirates would have discovered them a long time ago, and it was impossible that the door hadn't been opened yet.

"Who opened the door of the Golden Red Hall at that time?"

He began to recall what had happened this year earlier.

At that time, because he was about to get the knight's awakening, he seemed to only care about excitement, and he didn't pay much attention to this kind of thing that seemed trivial to him, so his memories now are messy and difficult.

Fortunately, Allen's memory is very outstanding, and after recalling for a long time, he finally found some clues.

"The mural .... Need blood?"

He muttered, turned his head to look at the stone door, then at the mural in front of him, and after thinking for a moment, he began to try.

So under the strange gaze of the others, Alan bit his finger and smeared it along the mural in the light of the light spell.

The guards didn't know exactly what Alan and Noland were talking about, so they were also at a loss for what to do about the situation, and of course they couldn't help much.

Noland was expecting Allen's behavior, but after a long time, the mural in front of him was smeared messily, and the stone door was still silent.

The pitch-black passage was silent, the area illuminated by the light spell was surrounded by countless darkness, and the secret passage behind it was extremely dark, and after a long time, the disturbing silence seemed to be contagious to everyone's hearts.

"Maybe you can come back next time," said Norland, "for we have been researching for a long time and have not been able to find a way to open the door, and in fact we have not stopped studying it until you have stayed in the castle." ”

Alan glanced at him, ignoring it, still focusing on the mural in front of him.

His self-healing ability is very good, and it doesn't take long for his fingers to be bitten and stop bleeding, Alan simply slashes his palm with a portable dagger, and then paints the mural with his hand stained with golden-red blood, waving his arm, and his fingers seem to be smearing randomly, and there is no pattern.

In fact, he was really scribbling, and for the memories of the past, Alan only barely remembered a little of the picture of Taryn smearing the mural with his own blood and then opening the door, not that he had a bad memory and forgot anything else, but that he didn't pay much attention to it at the time.

Blood smeared the mural, and then opened the door, but he didn't know how to apply it.

"It shouldn't be very difficult, I remember it didn't take long for old Taryn to open the door..."

"So, so, or so?"

"Gems on the cheeks, eyes, forehead, tip of nose, cross handles..... Maybe I can ....."

After sketching for a long time, Alan suddenly connected all the places covered by his blood with blood stains.

Then he suddenly noticed that the marks he had painted on the door seemed to have changed slightly!

From the forehead, eyes, to the connected blood stains of the sword body gem, the blood stains began to gradually emit a golden light, at first this light was not conspicuous, because Allen's blood was bright red with gold, but it didn't take long for the light to become as dazzling as a twinkling star!

"This...."

Norland was stunned as he looked at the changes in the stone gate in front of him, and seemed a little incredulous that the stone gate that he and others had not opened with all their might would be opened so easily!

"Are you sure you're here for the first time?"

Seeing that the light on the stone door was getting more and more dazzling, he couldn't help but ask.

However, Eren had no time to pay attention to him at this time, because as the light became more and more dazzling, the flat stone door embedded in the wall in front of him had begun to tremble slightly.

An inexplicable attraction appeared from behind the stone gate, affecting his whole body and mind, and the young man's heartbeat accelerated!