Volume 1 The Mystery of the Shadows Chapter 40

Jack and Jenny crouched in the corner, listening to the sound of dense walking in the street, they looked at each other, but they couldn't speak.

A few minutes earlier, Benedict, who had been hiding with them, had rushed out in the blink of an eye, and then cursed at His Excellency the Horn of the Sun, and then fled with Harriet's Excellency in embarrassment...... After a few words, the two of them were forgotten in the room.

"Don't be afraid, Jenny." Jack swallowed a mouthful of saliva and lowered his voice very low, "We'll be fine, just hide in the house and wait for the time to pass." ”

Jenny looked at Jack affectionately, and in her heart, Jack's figure suddenly became taller.

The room they were hiding in was not large, only more than ten square meters, with only a bed and a table in the room. The odd bed was low, with no feet and no height to the knees of an adult, and unlike the Odric habit, Öze's bed had a four-cornered shelf with a curtain of semi-sheer black veil, giving the room a mystical atmosphere.

As for the table, it's also low enough to sit on the floor. On the table was a tray containing a white skull, a small piece recessed at the top of the skull, and a extinguished candle inserted.

Jack couldn't see anything in the furnishings, and he said to Jenny, "Do you think it's strange? ”

Jenny was puzzled and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Looking into Jenny's eyes, Jack squeezed a voice from between his teeth: "Didn't you notice?" There were a lot of people on the street, but there was no sound of talking! ”

Jenny looked puzzled, and she listened for a moment, the expression on her face becoming more and more strange.

"It seems to be true."

Jack took a deep breath and said, "You stay here and don't move, I'll take a look outside." ”

Jenny grabbed him and said worriedly, "Don't go, Benny said that the people outside are acting weird." ”

Jack took her hand and said gently, "It's okay, I'll just go to the window and take a look." ”

Under Jack's reassurance, Jenny hesitated for a while, but finally let go of her hand and whispered, "Be careful!" ”

With a forced smile on his composure, Jack crept over to the window. It is worth mentioning that all the buildings in the Obsidian City do not have glass windows, and they are all open windows without obstruction.

Jack poked his head out and looked out the window with half of his eyes exposed:

Whether it was a shirtless man or a girl wrapped in light gauze, the people of the whole street stopped what they were doing and looked at the window together, each with the same smile on their faces.

Nevenmor died at the hands of the Gorgon's arrows, or rather, it wasn't her real body at all.

At this moment, Archer Blaze realizes that she has been deceived, and that perhaps the cooperation with Nevenmor was not valid from the beginning, and the other party was just trying to extract information from her...... But that doesn't make sense.

"Athena!"

Hill's voice brought her to her senses.

"Don't mind Nevenmor, don't forget our mission."

Listening to Hill's words, Archer gritted her teeth, she looked at Gustav Blaze who was walking towards her, and with a flick of her finger, the fireballs around her flew out and shot at the false "father".

Gustav walked towards her with a blank face, he raised his heavy knife and easily used his blade to deflect the oncoming fireball, without a pause.

Archer was not surprised by his father's strong ...... Even her father more than a decade ago was no match she could defeat, but if she didn't fight hard at the moment, it wouldn't be in line with her beliefs.

She immediately chanted [Silaya Barnes's Mini Fire], a high magic born out of the forbidden flame spell [Gigmy Slash], adapted by Rudolph into a miniature version of the lower power, the most powerful means she could currently use.

With no arrows left, Hill Manvenlin rushed towards the demonized Gustav, the demon was a shadow in her mind, but she didn't intend to back down. Leaping onto a boulder, she grabbed the corner of her longbow and leaped high, smashing it into the head of Gustav the Demon.

The longbow struck at the horns, but Ciel was mercilessly flicked away, and the demon flailed its arms and its massive claws flapped her away like flies.

The hit Hill flew upside down, and she rolled around on the ground a few times before quickly getting back to her feet.

At the same time, on the other side, Archer finished chanting, her right hand reached out, her fingertips became hot, and a thin line of fire pierced from her fingertips, and the center of the flame revealed a light white, containing extremely high heat.

In the face of this "mini-forbidden spell", Archduke Gustav raised his heavy knife and crossed it in front of him, and the blazing white line of fire bombarded the blade, splashing like water droplets falling on the rocks.

It had no effect, and still did not cause Gustav to pause even a single step.

He had already arrived in front of Archer, raising his heavy knife burning with flames - even if it was aimed at his own daughter, he did not hesitate to slash the blade off!

In the nick of time, Hill sprang out from the side, rolling to the side with Archer in his arms, and behind them there was a heavy thud, and black pieces of rubble mixed with smoke and dust dispersed.

Archduke Gustav's heavy knife slashed into the ground, and a crack of more than ten meters spread out, the crack was very deep, and the depth of sinking into the ground was at least as long as an arm.

He pulled his heavy knife from the ground, and then slashed it aside, and the flames on the blade rolled towards Ciel and Archer, who had not had time to get up.

Hill held Archer's head down with one hand, pinning her to the ground, causing the other to swing his longbow and smash Gustav's blade. In this disparity of power, Hill was slammed into the wall along with Touch, and the entire black house collapsed in smoke.

"General Hill!"

Archer got up and threw four fire bombs the size of a human head at Archduke Gustav, and at close range, Gustav did not dodge or block, allowing the fire bombs to explode on his body, but he did not even frown.

He raised his heavy knife and slashed at the top of Archer's head!

Suddenly, a strong wind struck from the side, and this medium magic did not shake Gustav in the slightest, but it rolled up Archer's body and blew it more than ten meters away, allowing her to temporarily avoid the fate of being cut in two pieces with a knife.

The Winter Saintess reluctantly cast a spell to support Archer in a quick exchange with Rudolph, and her heart was even colder than it seemed.

Archmage Rudolph, Duke Gustav Blaze, and a suspected demonized Archduke Gustav, she knew very well that all three of these enemies were genuine Sage ranks.

How could she, who had just been promoted to the rank of Grand Magister, be able to compete with the three Sages?

The only thing to be thankful for was that the gorgon, whose strength was unknown, did not stay, but quickly left in a certain direction, as if chasing someone or something.

"Athena, get out of here!"

Anna said awe-inspiring that she didn't know why the court mage was so weak that he hadn't even reached the rank of a mage, but she didn't want to watch her weaker people be slaughtered.

The green-robed Rudolph blew a bitter wind at her, dyed in a faint green color, with a distinct Rudolph style.

In the face of the wind spell, Anna urged the whistling cloak to dodge, but was ingested by Rudolph, who had expected it, in the invisible hand, and fell to the ground.

As soon as the Winter Maiden's body touched the ground, it turned into a puddle of water, and her main body appeared in front of Gustav and the demonized Gustav, and she quickly chanted, erecting a thick wall of frost, blocking one person and one demon.

However, this medium defensive spell could not stop Gustav's flaming heavy knife and demonized Gustav's charred claws, and the ice wall only lasted a few seconds before falling apart.

But this short respite was precious, and the dusty Ciel jumped out of the ruins of the house, glanced at Anna, and said in a very fast voice, "Your Excellency Winter, there is no hope of victory in this battle. ”

After saying that, she immediately grabbed Archer beside her, and the two of them went into the alley on the side and fled into the distance.

Knowing this, Anna didn't delay, she rolled in the air to dodge Gustav's heavy knife slash, and then swung her whistling cloak and swept away to the other side of the street.

Gustav and the Enchanted Gustav did not hesitate and chased in the direction of the Silver Queen and the Fire Brier, while the green-robed Rudolph hung his green Whooting Cloak and followed closely behind the Winter Saintess.

Unbeknownst to both the Winter Maiden and Hill and Archer, most of the outsiders in the city are in a similar predicament, perhaps from the natives of Ozer, but also from the deepest shadows within each of them.

And the owner of the city, or the tomb owner of this mausoleum, Terella Cleopatra, was leaping and weaving through the streets, her long ice-blue hair dancing wildly in the wind, and a pair of wings as thin as cicadas flapping rapidly.

Behind her, a snake-tailed Mayvis snawled around and shot cyan arrows with her bow drawn, chasing after her like a deadly grim reaper.

Terrara flew with a blank face, dodging the arrows from behind her. With her shape-shifting body and wings to fly, she navigated through the gaps between people and buildings, gradually widening the distance between her and Mayvis, and it didn't take long for her to reach the doorway of a large circular building.

Terrella folded her wings and landed on the ground in a normal-sized body. She looked up and saw that the black-domed building was identical to the [Secret Presence Opera] where Levi had taken her to rest, except in the opposite color, and a faint singing voice could come from it.

Without staying long, she resolutely stepped up the stairs, through the gate, and into the interior of the opera house—

Black stepped benches lead down from the entrance to the stage. There were pairs of spectators, and the huge obsidian stage had no actors, except for a coffin in the center.

A ray of sunlight poured down from the skylight at the top of the arc and fell on the coffin in the center of the stage, and the coffin with black wood as the base and silver carving as the decoration looked delicate and beautiful, setting off the identity of the person in the coffin to be particularly noble and mysterious.

Sensing that someone was entering, all the Ozers in the opera house turned their heads at the same time, looking at Terella neatly, a strange smile on their faces.

Terella walked down the stairs as if she were oblivious to these glances. She stepped up dozens of steps, stepped briskly onto the stage, and went straight to the coffin.

This coffin has no nail board and no lid, and it is open to reveal the inside:

On top of the soft red silk, a witch lay quietly in it, her eyes closed and her expression peaceful.

Her skin was dark blue, her black hair was like satin, her pointed ears were delicate and lovely, the bridge of her nose was tall and straight, and she had a mole on the lower left side of her lips.

She wore a ruby chain on her forehead, a black gauze skirt, nine silver bracelets on each wrist of her hands, and her feet were naked in the air, without any ornaments.

Behind her, a pair of slender black wings curled up in the coffin, arching her body in the middle; Her hands were folded on her chest, and she held a one-meter-long three-pointed sword with a gold-inlaid hilt and a pointed tail, also set with a ruby.

Terrella stared at the person in the coffin, she took a deep breath, a complicated look on her face.

The person in the coffin was herself.

After a thousand years of absence, she finally saw her body again, and she was banished into the void with this mausoleum.

Terella looked at the chest of the body in the coffin and muttered, "Terella's heart...... It's ridiculous. ”

She stepped into the coffin, stood unceremoniously in the coffin, then crouched down, reached out and took out the three-pointed forked sword, her eyes showing a hint of nostalgia: "See you again, my [Thorn of Pleasure]." ”

Terella raised her sword and looked at it in the sunlight for a moment, then stabbed it into the coffin board beside her, and removed the corpse's stacked hands, she grabbed the black veil that wrapped her chest and tore it off—

She didn't succeed in ripping her clothes because a dark cyan hand grabbed her wrist.

Tyrella Akasha Cleopatra opened her eyes from the corpse that had been sleeping for thousands of years in the coffin, her scarlet pupils staring at Terella, who was squatting on top of her and looked exactly like herself, the corners of her mouth slightly curled.

A bell rang slowly—

("Slash of the Gods: Forbidden Spell of the Heat Flames, directed sexual magic, created by Siraya Barnes.") The ultra-high flames take the form of white lightning bolts, splitting the target into a handful of ash fragments. —The Forbidden Spell)