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Thanatos, the Scarlet Castle.

It's one of the darkest castles in the world, and unlike the glittering main castles of the rest of the country, there are only closed, dusty windows, broken curtains, and long-uncleaned rat droppings in the corners.

The castle has not been cleaned for many years. When I opened the door, I was greeted by cloudy air and dust floating in the air. It's noon, but if you enter the castle, you'll find that it's night. It seems that the owner of this castle did not like to appear in the light very much.

In the center of the castle's main hall, a black stone altar shaped like a coffin sat silently, with no clutter on the altar, only an unlit red candle, as if preparing for some kind of ritual.

In front of the Blackstone altar stood a slender man in a high-necked trench coat (in fact, he was quite slender because he was so thin that if he took off his clothes, he would almost look like a skeleton), and the man looked out the window from time to time, his fingers tapping rhythmically on the edge of the altar, as if waiting for someone.

The man had a terrible scar on his right eye, and his mouth was bloody and bloody, as if he had been tortured so inhumanely that he could not speak normally, he made sign language and asked a black-robed man sitting high in the hall.

"It's all at this point, it should be soon, doctor, you wait a little longer. The black-robed man sat on the throne with his right hand on his cheek, and a thick black mist covered his face, faintly making it difficult to understand. I saw that he was neither anxious nor impatient, and seemed to trust Lu's ability to do things.

This man is the Immortal King, the supreme leader of Tanatos, and the mastermind behind the Nozer coup. His true body has never appeared in the world, he has no wife, no concubines, no heirs, no one knows his appearance, no, to be precise, everyone who knows his identity has returned to the Dark Realm, and the only people who can enter the Scarlet Castle for close contact are only six under his command, no, now it is only five swordsmen.

"It's been a long wait..."The door of the Scarlet Castle was kicked open with a hoarse voice, and the dark red armor broke in with a body bag. As he entered, the door closed behind him.

{Open the bag and let me see the 'container'}

"It took a little more time to find a Heroic Spirit who was similar to Alpha's stature and had a better preserved body..."Lu opened the body bag and dragged the body out and placed it on the blackstone altar.

The corpse's costume was classical, as if it was from the early era, and it was covered in frost, as if it had just been dug up from an iceberg somewhere.

The doctor glanced at him, shook his head, and reluctantly began to examine the rest of the body.

"Lu, what is the origin of this corpse, is it at the level of a Heroic Spirit?" the black-robed man asked.

"Not really. "Lu's words were about to make the black-robed man angry, but he was interrupted by the sign language of the healer-{Although this person is not a heroic spirit, or even a commoner's body, he exudes an extremely strong aura of resentment, which can be used by me... But where did you find it}

"My trip took several months, and I went to the Boundless Mountains to the west, and found a group of prisoners who had been exiled by Silver Shield City in a snow-covered exile land..."Lu looked at the work he brought back with some pride, "Among this group of prisoners who were frozen alive into ice sculptures, only this one can make me feel extremely resentful in an instant, and what we need is precisely this..."

"The resentment that even you are surprised by, what a resentment it is, very good, very good, hahaha!

The healer nodded, and after unsealing, he took out a box of half of the brain soaked in embalming liquid from the bottom of the altar.

"Gurgle... Alpha, I didn't expect you to be so desperate to eliminate the three generations, and in the impact of the black spear and the holy shield, only this little thing remained..."The eyes of the fish were traumatized and could not be closed, and could only bulge like a fish's eyeballs, with a strange expression.

"Don't talk about it, Lu, shut up for me, even if you have an immortal body, like Alpha, you only have half a brain left, I'm afraid it will be difficult to recover!"

{Alright, time is running out, I need to start the ritual, Lu, you stand back} The healer lit the candle on the table, held his right hand in the shape of a knife, and easily cut the corpse's head open, and then he fiddled with it for a while to remove half of the corpse's brain, and sewn the soaked half of the brain into it.

Time was running out minute by minute, and it was almost impossible to stitch up the brain and connect the nerves, but before the candle was about to go out, the doctor successfully completed this incredible task.

"Did you succeed?" looked at the corpse on the table with an excited expression, the corpse's head was stitched with a long, ugly suture, and when the last thread was stitched on, the original pale face gradually became full of vitality, and then the mutilated left arm grew back at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Wow!" the corpse snapped to its feet, a mouthful of black blood spurting onto the dark red armor of the man. The latter didn't dodge, letting the black blood spurt all over his body, and he only had this person who had come back from the dead in his eyes.

"Lu... Doctors... Your Majesty...""Corpse" grinned and jumped off the altar, "Alpha, it's back." ”

"Good! Wonderful! He is worthy of being a healer, and his technique is really clever!" the Immortal King was overjoyed to see Alpha come back from the dead, and walked over with an arrow, carefully examining the resurrected man, "Since you have come back from the dead, can you use the Plague Sword again?"

"Plague Sword?" Alpha moved his somewhat stiff limbs, and after getting familiar with his new body, he whispered a spell, only to hear the sound of "Zla", the plague sword came through the wall, and was firmly grasped in the hand of the person who recited the spell, "Naturally, besides, this body has a strong grudge, and the resentment is connected with me, so that I have gained stronger strength than before!"

"Very well, now that you have come back from the dead, continue to put on your black armor, return to the head of the six swords in the name of the Sword of Plague, and continue to serve me. The Immortal King said.

"Your Majesty, the minister, you're back~" Another person entered the main hall and saluted. The man was dressed like a wandering swordsman, and his entire body was hidden in a gray linen robe. He wears a clown mask on his face, and the expression on the mask is like "laughing".

"Joker, you seem to have come back a little early. The Immortal King asked, and then sat back down on his throne, and in front of him was a quaint long table with a map made of parchment, marked with the coordinates of the various regions of Tansforg and the military distribution.

"Hehe, the minister was ordered to go to the north to test his intentions, but he made a new discovery that night, and he had to return in advance to report the matter~" The clown reported in a weird manner.

"Oh, new discoveries... Could it be that it has something to do with Nathorox?"

"Yes, as you say, Thorox attacked Silbera's parliament last night~"

"Parliament, why did he attack Parliament, and at this time?"

"Your Majesty, the ministers were ordered to make a few tricks around Silbela, but those councillors hesitated and were very jealous of us, and the meeting was finally led in the direction of seclusion~"

"Hmph, the empire that he desperately built is now in the hands of this group of cowards, it is no wonder that Thorox was provoked and directly appeared to forcibly intervene in the council, it seems that his mind is still very clear, and he has not been completely distorted by my forbidden art. The Immortal King paused and sighed, "I really underestimate his strength, or maybe I'm too confident in my forbidden arts, and releasing this monster has become the biggest failure of this war..."

“... Next, with his personality, should be ready to reorganize Serdia, lightning strike. The Immortal King looked at the strategic map on the table and fell into deep thought.

Serdia cavalry is known to be numerous, extremely mobile, and very suitable for "blitzkrieg". As early as the First Age, the War Emperor Thorox took advantage of his army and captured Thanatos and Nozer with lightning speed before Silver Shield could react. Even if the strength of the Six Swordsmen still exists today, this is a national war after all, and it is more about strategy and stratagem than personal ability. Once Thanatos is surrounded by Sorox's "lightning surroundment", the surrounding villages and towns will also be looted, and the Six Swordsmen will be scattered to protect the border, then the defense line of the main city will become extremely fragile, and the allied Nozer is a warrior with a broken arm, still recuperating from his injuries, if Sorox continues to wave his army south to attack Noze at this time, then Noze will become a trophy to be handed over, and the Nozer coup will become meaningless.

"However, even though Thorox is an outstanding elite strategist, his strategy and tactics have always been exquisite and efficient, but now Tansfogg has undergone centuries of changes, whether it is inside or outside Cerdia, its pattern has long been reshuffled, and his current appearance is not convenient for the people, it will definitely take a while to rebuild the military force, and this time may be able to gain a greater advantage for our army. The newly resurrected Alpha calmly analyzed, and the Immortal King nodded in approval after hearing this.

"Your Majesty, why don't you just send me to take his head, why don't you just do it neatly once and for all. In the corner of the hall, a woman in light armor appeared, unusually nameless, with only a code name - "S", and the only female swordsman among the six swords of Tanatos.

"Even if you want to assassinate Thorox easily, it will not be easy, Altinis fought for his life to destroy him, and now is the time to employ people, we can't afford to take this risk, we should find a more secure way to deal with him. The Immortal King waved his hand and vetoed the idea.

"Gurgle... Nuoze's heroic spirit named Bivis knows some of the sealing techniques of the sideways, but unfortunately he was returned by the guardians and cannot be re-summoned for the time being. Lu had witnessed Bivis's tricks and sighed.

"What else is the strength of the analysis, if you want me to say, just lead the army to suppress the realm, and take the Iron Rock City before Thorox, you know, the spars in the Iron Rock City can double the action capacity of our army!" One person broke into the main hall, this person was named Bicester, one of the six swords, with a tall body like a beast, just a helmet, it was three times larger than the helmet of an ordinary soldier. Every step he took forward, like a multi-ton rhinoceros walking, caused the floor of the hall to tremble, and the ceiling above it had not been cleaned for a long time to fall a lot of dust.

"Controlling the hedron resources, big enough to arm the entire country and forge all kinds of spar weapons, small enough to win over some unknown mercenaries in the Black Forest, or even neutral bandit groups in the wilderness, can indeed give our army an advantage. The Undead King analyzed, and then changed his words, "The more urgent it is, the more you must not act recklessly and intuitively, Bicester, you remember, when a city is first taken during wartime, you may wake up the next day and see your head fall to the ground, now it is imperative that the golem grow as soon as possible enough to resist Thorox, and before that we need to act in containment and delay the decisive battle as much as possible... Military Seals... Cerdia's military seal and my remaining forbidden spell can't control Thorox, but I'm afraid that his strength after recovery is immeasurable, so it's better to be careful. ”

"The minister dared to interject, maybe there is another reason for Thorox's uncontrollability, Your Majesty~" The clown's face still wore a mask of "playful".

"Another reason? Don't sell me off!" The Immortal King was quite dissatisfied with the Joker's behavior, and he was respectful in his mouth, a small minister on the left and a Your Majesty on the right, but he knew that among the six swords, the Joker was the most dismissive of military discipline, such as asking him to get rid of a person, he had to torture the tortured person, make some movement, and call it "art", and he simply did not put his own monarch in a high position.

"Thorox's soul is not pure, it is mixed with the breath of the dark realm, although it is quite well hidden, but it still can't escape my perception~" The clown said slowly, "It is this power that has regained control of the resurrected Thorox, and its priority is far above the military seal and the forbidden spell pattern. ”

"Infected with the breath of the Dark Domain..."The Immortal King thought for a moment, "The moment the soul of Mo Fei Sorox was revived, it was controlled by a certain strong man, and this strong man was also from the Dark Domain!! "Suddenly, there is another threat from the outside world, and what is even more terrifying is that the identity and purpose of this enemy are still unknown!"

"No, it can't be, how could the Dark Realm pass through the barrier and interfere in the affairs of the Human Realm!" the Immortal King denied his own idea again.

"Your Majesty, let Xiao Chen say one more thing, Thorox is a suffering soul floating between the human domain and the dark domain, and it happens to become the medium of the two domains~ In fact, it is not difficult to guess this force, looking at the human domain and the dark domain, it can perform such cross-border anti-heaven manipulation techniques, and the recipient is a figure like the Northern Emperor, I am afraid that only one person can do it throughout the ages~" The clown said unhurriedly, "Then I am afraid that it is the former king whose soul has long been classified into the dark domain, Ezeius." ”

The Immortal King !! Ezeisius was in utter shock, he knew who Ezeisius was and knew more about Ezeiseus' past than the Joker.

Now, he's going to redefine this war!