Chapter 2: The Shadow of Death

The fourth floor of the Wizard's Tower.

Mo Ya carefully knocked on the delicate iron door and said softly:

"Lord Urus, the seven people you brought have been settled, do you have any other orders?"

After a brief silence, a hoarse voice came from behind the iron door:

"Go down, there's nothing you need to do today."

"Yes."

Moya bowed and walked unhurriedly to the bottom of the steps, until he returned to his room on the second floor, closed the door, and then breathed a sigh of relief, leaning against the wall as if he had broken away, and breathing deeply.

Then, Moya lay down on the bed and looked at the dark sky outside the window, gradually becoming distracted.

"Speaking of which, it's been almost two years?"

Mo Ya looked at his palms, two years ago, these hands were the same as the few noble slaves who just came today, although they were not so delicate, but there were no traces of work, but now, they were full of calluses, like a peasant who had lived in the countryside for a long time.

"I don't know if the empire still exists? However, looking at the appearance of those people, even if they still exist, they should not be much better. ”

Among the seven people who came today, one of them had the surname of Karenna, and if Moya remembered correctly, it was the surname of the Grand Duke of the Empire.

Urus never told Moya about the outside world, so Moya had always learned about the changes in the outside world from the people who had been brought here by Uros, though he had stopped asking about these things since a year ago.

For Moya, who never knows if he will be able to see the sun tomorrow, the words of the outside world seem to have become an incomparably distant topic.

In the past two years, he has seen too many corpses, some nobles, some commoners, some knights, and some merchants, but no matter what their identity is outside, here, there is only one fixed identity:

Servant of the Dark Wizard Urus.

Moreover, among the many servants, Moya Kanter was the only one who managed to survive for two years, which is why he was able to live in the room on the second floor of the wizard's tower and gain the right to manage the other servants.

But Moya is well aware that this is only temporary after all.

If this continues, he will eventually make a mistake one day, and then he will be ruthlessly placed on the laboratory bench by Urus, becoming a cold specimen on the third underground floor.

What's more, he had actually violated Urus's ban a long time ago, but he hadn't been noticed by the other party.

"It's fast, hold on for another month, and you'll be able to wait for a turnaround."

Moya looked at his palm, holding it in front of the sky, muttering to himself.

Soon.

As long as he held on a little longer, the turning point he had been waiting for would come, and if he could catch it, it might be his only hope of escaping this desperate life.

……

Half a month later.

"Isn't there a sunny day in this place?"

Moya looked at the clouds outside the window, and after getting dressed, he walked out of the house with a blank face.

But the moment he pushed the door open, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he immediately lowered his head and said in a panicked tone:

"Lord Urus, do you have any orders?"

I saw the tall wizard shrouded in black robes standing quietly in front of Moya's door, his face in the shadow of his hat brim difficult to discern even in the dim light.

"Bring them all to the fourth floor."

The hoarse voice stuck to Moya's ears like maggots, and the muscles behind Moya's back suddenly tightened, and at the same time, his head was a little lower.

"Yes, Lord Urus."

Seeing Moya's reaction, Urus bowed slightly, turned away, and quietly disappeared into the shadows of the corridor.

It was only at this time that Mo Ya suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and looked into the depths of the tunnel with palpitations.

Then, Moya walked briskly to the first floor of the Wizard's Tower, where the ordinary handymen rested, and the seven of them were mixed together in a large utility room.

Boom!

Almost like slamming the door, Mo Ya kicked the door open and broke in directly, and the cold expression on his face directly blocked the screams of the three girls in his throat.

"In ten minutes, assemble on the fourth floor, this is Lord Urus's order."

Urus's order, this sentence alone was enough to make everyone present realize the seriousness of the matter.

Without any superfluous words, the seven people immediately got up from the bunk, and after putting on their clothes haphazardly, they didn't care about washing or anything, and hurriedly followed Mo Ya to the fourth floor.

Unlike usual, the delicate iron door at the end of the fourth floor was rarely ajar at this time, and the group stood in front of the door with their heads bowed, completely afraid to peek into the room.

"Come in."

The dark wizard's hoarse voice reached everyone's ears.

Mo Ya dared to raise his head, pushed open the door, and slowly walked in, while the others followed behind him.

Unlike the dark and damp corridors, this dark wizard's room was not actually dark and dirty, on the contrary, the floor was unusually clean, the light was bright, and there was not a trace of blood on the test table.

If it weren't for the rows of bottles and jars of various organs placed on the shelves behind the dark wizard, the seven people behind Moya would have almost thought that they had come to the wrong place.

Crunch.

There was a slight rattle from the seat beneath the dark wizard.

The tall wizard stood up and crossed Moya, looking down at the seven behind him.

The brim of the pitch-black hat shook slightly, and finally, the dark wizard looked at Dina, who was hiding behind the crowd, and pulled out a bottle of scarlet potion.

"You, drink this."

Dead.

As the dark wizard's words fell, the atmosphere in the room suddenly fell into dead silence.

Finally, under the gaze of the dark wizard, the girl stepped forward tremblingly, took the potion with trembling hands, hesitated for two seconds, closed her eyes, and drank it down.

There was a brief silence and nothing seemed to happen.

Just when Dina thought she had escaped this fate, her face changed suddenly, and she covered her mouth and fell to her knees.

"Uhhhh

Terrible and high-pitched screams echoed wildly through the room, Mo stared blankly ahead, and the six people behind him turned pale.

"Help... Help me! I don't want to, I don't want to die! ”

On the ground, Dina was still struggling frantically, her limbs began to twitch constantly, a large amount of blood gushed out of the seven orifices, and the pungent fishy smell suddenly permeated the surroundings.

After a while, Dina, who fell to the ground, stopped moving.

"Failed again?"

A hoarse voice came from under the black wizard's robes, and his tone seemed to be a little lost.

As he spoke, the dark wizard nodded towards the corpse on the ground, and then, Dina's blood-soaked corpse, which was all cracked and covered in blood, slowly stood up under the horrified gaze of the other six, and dragged her steps to the laboratory table, and lay down on her own.

Then, the dark wizard stretched out his index finger and hooked it slightly, and a pitch-black bone blade instantly broke through the skin of the index finger and pierced into Dina's corpse.

With a slash of the bone blade, the skin and flesh on the surface of the corpse were suddenly cut apart like tofu, but when the bone blade cut through an organ under Dina's body, it suddenly stopped.

"You're bolder than I thought."

The Dark Wizard stepped out of the way so that everyone could see what was in front of them.

I saw that inside the organ that had been cut by the bone blade, some liquid that clearly did not belong to Dina was sticking to it.

"It looks like I'll be doubling my life tomorrow."

Moya looked at the scene in front of him and already knew the ending.

"Come, tell me, what's your name."

The Dark Wizard walked straight to one of the teenagers standing on the far right and asked.

The panic in the boy's eyes had betrayed him when he asked that sentence.

"No... It's not me, Lord Urus, I... I... That's right! That's right! She was the one who seduced me herself! ”

The boy sat down on the ground, incoherently defending, the fear on his face reaching the extreme.

The dark wizard frowned when he saw the boy's reaction, and then moved his gaze to Moya.

Mo Adam immediately understood, and said in a calm tone:

"His name is Tula Zagu, 18 years old, he knows breathing, and he is currently in charge of cleaning the first floor."

The dark wizard nodded, frowning and soothing, obviously satisfied with Moya's cooperation, so he continued to look at Zagu, who was sitting on the ground and was speechless in fright, took out a bottle of scarlet elixir that was no different from before, and said slowly:

"Come, drink it, so that I will forgive you for this mistake."

Zagu looked at the potion in front of him and began to shake his head desperately, his eyes full of fear, obviously Dina was deeply impressed by the death of him.

Suddenly, a look of despair appeared on Zagu's face, and he reached behind him, took out a somewhat broken dagger, and stabbed the dark wizard desperately.

"Ahhh

A roar of fear and anger mixed with that.

Sting!

The sound of flesh tearing rang out.

There is no suspense about the result.

The pitch-black bone blade shattered the dagger in Zagu's hand in an instant, and then pierced through his eyes, piercing through the back of his head.

The Dark Wizard looked at Zagu's corpse in disappointment, withdrew his bone blade, and then glanced at Moya and the remaining five.

"You five can go, Moya stays and cleans."

"Yes, Lord Urus!"

The other five fled the room as if they had been granted amnesty, and Moya stepped aside with a blank face, expertly picking up tools and beginning to sweep the blood from the ground.

In a few moments, the bloodstained ground took on a new look.