Chapter 367: The Edge in the Shadows of the Ancient Castle
Through the tunnels dug by the Marquis of Thunder in advance near King Gurman's castle, Antonio and Tali came to the walls of the castle's foundations, where they summoned the god of lights and told him to open a dimensional passage from here, avoiding the magical barrier outside the castle and entering the castle.
The dimensional gap opens from the dirt wall at the end of the tunnel, and the god of lights first sneaks through the tunnel into the basement of the castle, and after making sure that it is safe, he brings Antonio and Tali into the castle, and the knight leader summons the sacred spear and illuminates the surroundings with holy light, and finds that this is a wine cellar stacked with a large number of barrels.
The two of them cautiously passed the oak-scented barrel to the bottom of the staircase leading to the ground, and Antonio looked up to see a wooden door at the top of the staircase tightly closed.
According to the map given to us by Rogge, the first floor is the banquet hall, the living room, the kitchen, and the servants' quarters, the second floor is the piano room, the painting room, and other entertainment rooms, while the third floor is Prince Gouleman's study, bedroom, private reception room, and VIP rooms, and the top room is used for important things. ”
Antonio pointed to the third and fourth floors of the map spread out on the ground and said to Tali, "Our target is the third or fourth floor, and Prince Gurman will most likely imprison the queen in the VIP room on the third floor or the treasure room on the fourth floor." ”
Tali nodded in agreement, Antonio put away the map and beckoned to Tali, the two of them climbed the stairs one after the other, came to the wooden door and put their ears to the door and listened for a while, the door was silent, Antonio quietly opened the unlocked door, and looked out.
There was not a single figure in the dark corridor, and the vampires who were busy fighting were concentrated on the outer walls and gates of the castle, but the inner fortress was dead silent, and the two of them slipped out of the basement lightly, and followed the path pointed by the map through the corridor to the door of the living room on the first floor, from where they could ascend the stairs to the second floor.
The two of them carefully observed for a while, and after making sure that no one was there, they crept out of the door, and observed the surroundings as they approached the stairs.
But what they didn't know was that just when they thought they were unaware, a vampire maid was hiding in the shadows behind the stairs, looking at the sneaky man and woman with a pair of gloomy red eyes, and a sinister smile on the corner of her bright red mouth.
Silently, she reached for a rectangular brick on the wall beside her, and if she pressed it down, a large area of the floor in front of the stairs would collapse, and Antonio and Tali would instantly fall into a pool of blood underground.
The maid's eyes stared at the steps of the two, and when she saw them stepping into the area, she was about to press the green brick hard, but a hand stretched out in the shadow behind her, and a flash of silver light cut her throat, and the maid instantly turned into ashes, and the maid's suit was scattered in front of a pair of boots.
The boots stepped on the maid's outfit on the ground, and the owner of the boots peeked out of the shadows with one eye and saw that Antonio and Tali had disappeared from sight, and he faintly heard the sound of footsteps climbing the stairs above his head, and silently turned and retreated into the shadows.
Antonio and Tully, who had climbed to the second floor, had no idea that they had just stepped into hell with one foot, and they walked through the silent corridors on the soft red carpet, feeling that the whole castle was eerily quiet, compared to the earth-shattering fighting sounds outside the castle, the castle was too quiet inside.
"Something seems wrong. Antonio turned back to Tali and said, "How can it be so quiet, even if the guards are led away by the army, it is impossible not to leave even a single servant, where are the people?"
Tali also had a strange feeling in her heart, hearing Antonio mention it, she looked around at the closed doors on both sides of the corridor, stepped over to a door, and carefully tried to push the door open, Antonio looked vigilantly at the crack in the open door, beware of something suddenly rushing out of it.
When the door was pushed open by Tali, a dark room appeared in front of them, and the two looked inside to see that it was empty, a chair lying on the floor, fragments of cups and plates were visible, and the fruit bowl had been overturned, and the fruit was rolling all over the floor, looking like a mess.
The two looked at each other, and closed the door suspiciously, and when the door closed, a figure hidden behind the door appeared in the darkness.
The cloaked and black-clothed man glanced at the door beside him with a pair of alert eyes, listening intently to the footsteps of the two as they drifted apart, a shiny silver dagger in his hand hidden in the shadows, and a manservant's uniform stained with ashes in his boots.
Suspicious, Antonio and Tali went to another room across the corridor and carefully pushed the door open to check the situation inside, just as at the corner at the end of the corridor, a pair of blood-red eyes flashed out from behind the wall, and a red magic light gathered in the palm of the pale claw.
The vampire maid, lurking behind the wall, raised her hand and was about to throw out the magic light in her hand, when the door of a room diagonally opposite suddenly opened a crack, and a cold light burst out, hitting the maid's face door, almost at the same time, a leather-gloved hand covered the maid's mouth, suppressing her screams to a minimum.
But Antonio and Tali heard the strange noise, and when they looked back in the direction of the sound at the end of the hallway, the maid was gone, and the door to the opposite room had closed silently.
The two hurried to the place where the sound came from, and found nothing but some ashes on the carpet around the corner, and Antonio and Tali's inner suspicions grew stronger, and there was an eerie atmosphere that lingered around them, making them feel as if their hearts were being held tightly by an invisible hand.
"This place is so weird, let's find the queen and get out of here!" Antonio said back to Tali, and the two hurried around the corner of the hallway, finding the spiral staircase that led to the third floor, and ascended to the third floor of the Vampire King's Castle.
When they came up from the staircase on the third floor, they hid behind the wall next to the stairs and looked into the corridor, and saw that the corridor was still empty, and the two of them moved forward against the wall on the left and right, listening to the movement in the rooms on both sides, and suddenly, Antonio heard a strange noise coming from the room in front of him.
He pointed to the source of the sound to Tali, and the two approached the room one after the other, Antonio was standing facing the door, Tali dodged to the other side of the door, reached for the doorknob with her back against the wall, and tried to push inside, but the door seemed to be locked, and the door lock did not move.
Antonio was about to break the lock, when he heard the sound of a key opening the door, he took a sharp step back, pointed his holy spear into the door, and when the door opened, a beautiful face met Antonio's eyes in the light of the holy light.
"Your Majesty!" Antonio was taken aback, and hurriedly lowered his spear to meet him, and Tali followed behind him to look at the Itali Queen Erin61 Austin standing in the doorway, a beautiful woman with silver hair and blue eyes, although her hair was messy under the captivity of the vampires, there was not the slightest panic or panic on her face.
"Captain Antonio?" Queen Irene looked at Antonio in surprise and said overjoyed: "I didn't expect you to be here, are you here to save me?" The masked men just now said that someone would come to save me soon, but I didn't expect it to be you!"
"Masked man?" Antonio looked at her in amazement, he glanced back down the hallway, led Erin and Tully into the room and closed the door, and asked, "What's going on? What masked man?"
"Just now, four masked men suddenly shot the vampire who the vampire prince left behind to guard me from the window, and then entered through the window from the outside, hacked several other vampires to death, and untied the ropes that bound me. Erin said, pointing back to the vampire clothes scattered on the ground.
Antonio glanced at the clothes on the ground, strode to the window and looked up, and found that about ten meters above the window was a section of the wall of the inner fort, which looked like an open-air platform.
"They must have climbed down with ropes, these people were obviously prepared!" Antonio turned back to Erin and asked with concern, "Did they say who they were?"
"At first I asked them, but they wouldn't say more, and I couldn't help but ask them again and again, and they seemed to be worried that I would pester them to delay time, and the one who took the lead said to me, 'You can call us Apocalypse'. Erin said as she recalled.
"Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!, Inquisitor of the Gods!" Antonio muttered in surprise, and Erin and Tali looked at him blankly, unsure of what they were saying to him.
Antonio had no time to explain, so he immediately led them out of the room, and hurried back to the basement to escape from the castle while the vampires were busy fighting before they could find out.
Just as the three of them were going down from the third floor to the second floor, a big red bat flew in through the broken window of the room where the queen was being held, and turned into Elizabeth's figure in the red light.
"Your Highness, this ...... What should I do?" asked Anne, the tricky maid who had fallen beside her, looking back at her hostess.
"You go and report to the Prince, and let him send someone to patrol the castle, and I will search the castle, and I must stop them!" Elizabeth told Anne to leave the room in a hurry, and Anne turned and flew out of the room, and went to the outer city wall to report to Prince Gurman, who was overseeing the battle.
When Elizabeth approached the staircase on the third floor, the door of a room suddenly opened, and a woman in white jumped out from the inside, and fired four shots at her with two snow-bright silver guns in her hand.
"Sure enough, it's you!" Elizabeth gritted her teeth and looked at the woman in white, looked around vigilantly and asked, "Where is the lone wolf?"
"He's not here, he's said he's not going to take part in this operation, but he's sent his Messenger of Judgment!" replied Catherine with a smile.
"Huh, it's up to you?" Elizabeth sneered, waving her hand and sending out a swarm of vampire bats to pounce on Catherine.
The girl turned and rushed to the window across the stairs, the vampire bats in hot pursuit, and Catherine jumped out of the window without looking back, raising the silver gun in her hand and shooting two fire bombs into the window.
The first flame charge instantly turned the swarm of bats crowded at the window into a fireball, and the second flame charge passed through the fireball and hit the ground, igniting the red carpet on the ground and turning the entire staircase into a sea of fire.
Blocked by the flames, Elizabeth dispersed the swarm of bats that had been burned by the flames in her window, and rushed out of the window to see Catherine fall from mid-air to the ground, and fall on a vine slide between the castle wall and the grass outside the city, sliding quickly towards the outer city.
"Damn!" Elizabeth cursed in annoyance, turning and flying towards the front of the castle.
At the same time, on the branch of a lone tree outside the city, a black figure with a cigar in his mouth smiled and spat out a smoke ring, and said to the little owl on his shoulder: "The exam is over, little villain, tell everyone to retreat." ”