The ancient stone walls seemed to absorb the glimmer of light from the top of the mountain.

Many corners of this castle are full of shadows, and behind every door there may be hidden secrets.

The cold stone walls and dim corridors seemed to be filled with a more cold aura under the influence of the murderous machine.

The group walked through the corridors of the castle at a delicate distance.

Looking out the window, all you can see is the silhouette of the misty forest and valley, all that is hazy and mysterious.

Since the two betrayers who are members of the Blood Clan can only borrow their powers when the Blood Lord awakens, the Bloodline's habit is to seal themselves in a safe place during the day and cut themselves out of the light and fall into a deep sleep, only to wake up at night.

Therefore, it is only at night that the betrayer has a chance to use the unknown and terrifying power of the earl.

On the start day of the five-day killing game, the challenger side, which had no one killed, was in its heyday, and the two betrayers did not dare to start a two-on-ten battle when they could not use their bloodline powers.

Rather, they wisely disguised themselves as normal challengers.

The daytime scouting strategy naturally became that everyone gathered together and did not leave each other's eyes.

In this way, the betrayer is required to follow the collective action, unable to commit murder or accomplish their own mission objectives during the day.

Similarly, it can greatly slow down the progress of the Betrayer's mission.

From the stone staircase of the sanctuary hall, through a winding staircase, to the attic terrace on the second floor, the hall on the base floor can be clearly seen, and the main attraction is a two-story library that leads from the second floor to the third floor, in addition to the three large locked bedrooms and several washrooms and storage rooms.

The library is made of dark mahogany, with tall, ornate carved bookshelves that stretch along the walls to the ceiling, and the shelves are piled up with ancient books from the Honing Empire, including ancient manuscripts and precious maps, and in the center is a writing desk with a quill and an inkwell, apparently once where the castle's owner, Sir Caligula, read books and worked.

However, Frey did not ask everyone to spend a lot of time in the library to look for clues, he just led everyone up the spiral staircase in the library to the third floor of the castle.

On the road from the third to the fifth floor, in addition to the fixed three enclosed bedrooms on each floor, there is also the private bedroom of the castle's owner, Sir Caligula, the castle's meeting rooms, cast iron rooms, arsenals, textile rooms, painting rooms, pharmacies, towers, etc.

Along the way, there are many places in the castle rooms that seem to be able to uncover clues.

The detective didn't have any ideas, though.

It's as if he's seen through the distractions, and he's only moving in a straight line for the most efficient solution he is sure of.

After a three-hour exploration of the castle's interior, the challengers finally confirmed that the five-story castle's architecture was covered in sturdy magic spells that could withstand extremely strong attacks, especially in the bedrooms, with separate enchantments.

There are three rooms on each floor from the second to the fifth floor, and there are exactly twelve safe bedrooms in total, and each challenger already has a magic key that opens the doors and windows of the corresponding room, which is in their own pockets.

At this point, the mechanism of this shadow world is also clearer.

When the Blood Lord awakens at night and the Betrayer can use his power, there is a high probability that everyone will be killed by the two Betrayers in one go.

So the strategy for the night is obviously to separate everyone and hide in a safe bedroom.

Even if one of the Bloodline Powers can break through the Bedroom Defenses with an Offensive or Spell-Solving Ability, due to the restriction that the Powers can only be borrowed once a day, and given the absolute rationality that Shadow World has always maintained, it should only be possible to break through at most one or two safe bedrooms in a night.

The more concentrated you live, the more likely you are to be killed by multiple challengers in one night, and the more spread out you live, the fewer likely you are to die that night.

If the betrayers are not caught sooner, five days may be enough time for two betrayers to kill the other challengers.

The occupants of each bedroom are in the public before the world begins, and challengers to important identities are especially dangerous, especially detectives.

The only way to avoid danger is to go to a room where you can trust the challenger.

The challenger may sacrifice himself to protect the detective, and must prevent the betrayer from killing the detective directly on the first night.

The sooner the detective dies, the more the shadow world will tilt towards the betrayer's victory!

Correspondingly, if you can reasonably mislead the betrayer, or engage in a perfect psychological game, it is also possible to make the betrayer pounce overnight!

At this moment, everyone who had investigated the internal structure of the castle, led by Frey, went all the way downstairs to the basic level.

Frey went to the kitchen and food cellar to find some on-the-go food, packed it into the straddle leather bag he found upstairs, and then went to the cellar to pick up some bottles of sweet white wine.

It was nearly nine o'clock in the morning.

In front of the title pages of the two gates, light swells freely through the latticework of the windows, through the multicolored glass on the dome, setting off the otherwise slightly dark interior of the building.

Frey pushed open the massive door, and the group followed, stepping out of the historic castle for the first time from the base level, and suddenly the strong sunlight made them feel a shock like they had never felt before.

They also finally got a clear view of the castle in the clouds.

Stepping out of the gate, you can see that the details of the old castle façade are clearly visible in the morning light, the limestone walls contrast with the surrounding green forest, and the top terraces and minarets are particularly spectacular in the mist.

Now Frey instructed everyone to go to the cliffside to make sure that the geographer and the lawyer were right.

If the intelligence is true.

There will be two people whose identities will become more credible.

The castle is surrounded by mountains and trees, and it is lush everywhere, and the autumn is even more gloomy.

Twelve figures walked through the forest, and the atmosphere became more and more tense.

The trees in the fog are like strange shadows, and the shallow stream becomes a mysterious passage that disappears into the mist.

They knew that what really mattered on this trip was to check the condition of the bridge.

It only took five minutes for everyone to reach the location of the cliff in the direction accurately described by the [geographer].

The sight was terrifying, the road to the city-state was cut off by a huge cliff.

Even before the eye touched the edge, the 800-meter-high and hundred-meter-wide cliff already brought a strong visual shock.

As Lanch had predicted, the 100-meter-long bridge was destroyed.

It's like someone deliberately wants to trap everyone in this ancient castle.

It must have been the act of the betrayer using the power of the Bloodline before the Shadow World began.

The height of more than 800 meters and the distance of 100 meters to the shore, as well as the effect of the air control magic of the defense barrier, seemed to cut them off from the rest of the world, and they became prisoners of this rocky island.

In this bleak morning.

Everything is in a clueless mystery phase.

Everyone's mood was also at the extreme of depression because of the broken bridge.

Like a detective who is close to solving the case, Frey walks towards the cliff alone!

(End of chapter)