Ash Fortress, Council Chamber.

Tension pervades the hall used by the Ash Council to mediate disputes.

The dark red fire slurry spread all over the floor of the hall, slowly flowing, it was the ash fire, the legend is that it was the corpse of an elemental creature that awakened its true name, and it was able to awaken its true name, which means that they are at least fourth-order creatures, and the power contained in the real name has made the ash fire burn for hundreds of years without extinguishing it.

Above the ash fire floated five black high-backed seats, separated from each other and faintly facing each other, and in the deepest part of the hall was a dark red throne, the dark red throne was empty, only a cloud of ash-like shadows slowly circulating.

The head of the Tower of Nightmares, Moriago sat on one of the black chairs with a gloomy face, and there was an empty seat next to him, which was Elvis's position, and in the Ash Council, any second-order powerhouse was eligible to get a position here, which represented the qualification of the councilor.

The three positions on the opposite side were two empty, and only the one in the middle sat a figure with its entire face hidden in the black mist, the black mist rolled, occasionally flashing away to reveal the hidden face under the black mist, which was a skull with no flesh and blood, only white bones.

The head of the House of Souls - Soth.

"Soth, stop this senseless war. Moriago's calm voice echoed through the chamber like a dream.

"This war won't stop until I get what I want. Soth responded.

The tone of Soth's voice changed with every word he spoke, as if there were countless people who spoke, each speaking a word, and then spelling it out into a sentence.

"You can choose to say no, just like Wolfheart once did. The black mist on Soth's body conjured into a hideous face.

"I prefer to get it all by conquest, and the choice of Wolfheart Castle has given me the thrill of conquest, and I hope the Tower of Nightmares won't let me down. ”

A dangerous glint flashed in Moriago's eyes, "Are you threatening me?"

"I'm threatening you. The hideous face let out a roar, "Because the House of Souls has three seats, and the Tower of Nightmares has only two." ”

"Two blasphemous knights of unknown origin, that's not the power of the Soul House itself. "They don't bring power, they bring destruction, and the house of souls will be destroyed by the power of blasphemy." ”

Although he was contemptuous, Moliago's heart was extremely solemn, the two blasphemous knights who suddenly appeared in the soul house were not only second-order powerhouses, but their blasphemy power was even more powerful, in the hands of a temptation with the Wolf's Heart Castle, one of the blasphemous knights was almost completely immune to first-order witchcraft, and with only one raid, a first-order official wizard was split into two pieces.

Although there is a gap in rank, the shock of this kind of instant killing of official wizards still makes people's hearts palpitate.

In that battle, if it weren't for the intervention of the Ember Bringer, Wolfheart might have killed more wizards.

Although the Ashes Council sternly warned the Soul House afterwards that it would never allow similar things to happen again, it could not completely restrain them, and in the Ashes Council, strength represented the right to speak, and the three second-order Soul Houses already had a considerable right to speak.

While Moriago and Soth were negotiating at the Castle of Ashes, dozens of apprentices of the House of Souls quietly bypassed the border guard posts like ghosts and infiltrated the territory of the Nightmare Tower.

The men immediately dispersed after infiltrating and quickly disappeared into the night.

Although the official wizards of both sides have exercised restraint due to the constraints of the Ember Council, the large-scale invasion of each other's realm by such apprentices is already a sign of a full-scale escalation of the conflict.

A pale, thin black robe walked the territory of the Nightmare Tower.

Behind him was a town that had fallen silent, the smoke had long since risen and there was no movement, and the original noise had disappeared, except for a beetle with a blue light on its back flying around the town.

"Elvis...... Jie Ji ...... Here I go again. The black robe let out a low laugh with his head down, and only when the hood was occasionally blown by the wind, did the pale face inside, and the pair of lifeless blue eyes, be revealed.

The energy fluctuations on the black robe's body are not strong, and he is not yet a second-level apprentice, so only in this way can he hide from those elusive ash crows.

In this body, he was originally an apprentice of Cisse, intelligent and gifted, and if it weren't for the arrival of those two blasphemous knights and the damned, crazy plan they brought with them, he might have had a chance to try to light the Beacon of the Soul and become another Cisse within ten years.

But the temptation of an advanced second-level wizard was so irresistible that Cisse didn't hesitate to destroy him, just like the other wizards of the Soul House did.

With just one Dark Rite, even a first-order apprentice can be promoted to a third-order apprentice in a very short period of time, albeit at the cost of never being able to be promoted to a full-fledged wizard and a drastically shortened life.

"This sacrifice is nothing compared to his own promotion. Cisse thought,

It's all about getting stronger.

In order to absorb the soul, he can kill a large number of ordinary people without hesitation, and in order to be promoted, he can also kill all the apprentices.

In Cisse's eyes, apprentices are just like commoners, they are a consumable resource, the only difference is that apprentices are a little more expensive.

In fact, when Soth was persuaded by the two blasphemous knights, the vast majority of the apprentices of the House of Souls, with the exception of a handful of direct blood, were destined to fall victim to that mad plan.

The Dark Rite, an incomparably evil witch array, has shown its power to the fullest in the conflict of the Wolf's Heart Fortress.

In the absence of a formal wizard, the apprentices of the Wolf's Heart Castle were completely suppressed by the Soul Trick House, and the battle loss ratio of the two apprentices reached an astonishing three to one, if it weren't for the wolves roaming on the fertile grassland, the rout of the Wolf's Heart Castle would have come even faster.

It's just that the after-effects of the Dark Rite are just as obvious, and those sacrifices that were forcibly converted through the First Order Apprentices died one after another after the end of the war.

This war with the Tower of Nightmares has caused many apprentices who have escaped the first transformation to not be able to escape the second transformation after all.

The body controlled by the Soul Eater Beetle was a victim of the Second Transformation.

After devouring three villages and nearly five hundred souls, this parasitic soul eater beetle in the black robe has entered the metamorphosis stage, as long as it devours another powerful body, this body will evolve into a flesh assassin comparable to the top third-order apprentice, and then it will wander, hunt, and kill within the territory of the Nightmare Tower, until it finally dies.