Volume I: Chapter 76: A Labyrinthine Castle
Cesare tugged at the monster's tongue again and heard "Bang!" With a bang, the monster's long tongue was pulled out by the roots, and it fell to the stone ground and writhed a few times before turning into a pool of stagnant water.
And the monster also covered its mouth in the most extreme pain and fell into the depths of its own dark cell, and the black blood gushing out of it flowed out through the crack in the door.
The surrounding prison doors were silent, and a pair of eyes trembling in the darkness looked at Cesare in fear, no longer daring to make a sound.
Cesare gasped, shook his hands nonchalantly to wipe the black blood from his body, and looked at the eyes that were afraid of him, but Cesare was thinking about other things.
Thinking that these monsters locked in the dungeon have silver rings on their fingers...... It shows that Hunyadi has been studying how to inhibit the infection of hyphae in the human body.
Cesare looked at his fingers and fell into deep thought as he looked at the ten lightweight "silver rings" that were tightly fastened to his hands...... Sterling silver can inhibit the activity of mycelium, but it is not a long-term solution, and it can become a terrible thing again at any time......
Shaking his head, it was useless to think nonsense now, and he had to ask the Earl for clarification.
When Cesare looked at Anya again, the girl blinked at her in surprise as if she were looking at a complete stranger.
"What's wrong?" Cesare asked faintly.
"Hmm...... Nothing, just feeling like I don't want to eat roast duck tongue anymore. Anya shrugged her shoulders and forced a smile on her face.
"Go quickly, lest anyone hear here."
Cesare tightened his cloak on his body with all kinds of blood, human blood and monster blood, blood of different colors seeped into the fabric, and it exuded a terrible fishy smell, which showed a seeping luster.
The two continued to explore, the stone brick floor of the dungeon that would send sounds far away, both risky and helpful to Cesare.
As long as they slow down their steps and make as little noise as possible, they can hear the footsteps of patrols in time to avoid being spotted.
After going around for a long time, I finally found the staircase that went up in a large area. Luckily, there were no guards guarding here, probably because they learned that someone had fled, so they chased them outside to find them.
The staircase was long and there was no end in sight, and the more you walked up the stairs, the narrower the walls on both sides became, and the light above couldn't shine down, and the light in the dungeon couldn't shine either, and it became darker and darker until you couldn't see the stairs under your feet.
"Anya... Can you drag some of my clothes so I know you're still behind. ”
Cesare walked ahead, and although he knew that the staircase was nothing more than a little dark, Cesare still longed for more peace of mind.
Anya, who was close behind her, smiled in response, and then Cesare felt the corner of his cloak being gently pulled up, and although he was in the darkness again, Cesare could at least feel that he was not alone.
Walking cautiously one step after another, I remembered that there was a staircase that stretched down with no end in sight in my childhood memory, but I never had a chance to go down to find out, and I didn't know what was under the stairs.
Remembering that it might be the staircase he was walking on now, Cesare finally knew what was under the stairs, but when he was a child, he wanted to go down to see it, but when he grew up, he was anxious to go out.
Fortunately, the unpleasant smell in the dungeon slowly disappeared as they gradually moved upwards, and the air they breathed became fresher.
The long staircase stretches like an infinite stretch and there are a few turns that I can't remember the direction of, but no matter how long the staircase is, it will eventually come to an end.
Cesare faintly saw the door at the end, and a tiny amount of light filtered through the crack in the door, shining on his face. Cesare walked briskly to the light source.
First, I subconsciously pushed the door and found that it couldn't be opened, remembering that the stairwell in my memory was opened inward, and with a slight pull, the door opened.
The breeze caresses the face.
Walking out of the stairwell door, the familiar corridor reappeared in front of me.
A soft dark red carpet stretched out to the corner in front of it, the retro walls on both sides were just as dark in color and pattern as they were in memory, and moonlight poured into the corridor through a row of narrow windows, and the tulle curtains were blown by the breeze.
But why is it dark again? Cesare complained to himself, having lost his concept of time in the dungeon, and could only pray that he had only passed out for a day.
Before Cesare could continue to sigh, hurried footsteps sounded from the depths of the stairs behind the two of them, sounding like someone was coming up from the dungeon.
After softly closing the door to the stairwell again, Cesare quickly took Anya's hand. "Follow me." As he spoke, he led Anya down the corridor, and as he walked through one of the rows of windows, Cesare subconsciously looked out of the window.
The dark green thorns were still tangled around the windows, and some had even crept into the room, leaving gaps on them that had been trimmed by the servants.
I remember that there was a pure white rose blooming on the thorns, but when I came back this time, the rose was long gone, and it must have withered a long time ago.
To Cesare's surprise, there stood a pitch-black crow on top of the thorns, flying or singing, as if waiting for Cesaredo here, with a pair of scarlet bird's eyes looking at Cesare, as if a statue had never changed in any way.
Cesare quickly ran through the window, feeling an indescribable strangeness in his heart, as if nothing had changed, as if something could never be returned......
Touching his forehead, the rising temperature of his palms also made Cesare realize that he was starting to have a fever again, and that he had to meet the old count soon.
At the end of the corridor is a large hall, followed by more corridor forks. The interior of the castle of the Hunyadi family is intricately constructed, and the layers are like a labyrinth that makes it difficult to understand the direction.
However, it was not a problem for Cesare, who grew up playing hide-and-seek with his sister here, and he could tell the way by the portraits and stone pillars in his memory.
Through door after door and corridor after corridor, the huge Hunyadi Castle has nearly 300 rooms, and it is rumored that the interior of the castle is also designed to prevent enemy infiltration.
If you are a stranger who intrudes here, you will never be able to find out the whole picture of this castle in a few days at the earliest.
Anya was completely unable to distinguish between east and west after only being pulled around by Cesare a few times, and the girl only felt dazzled and dizzy as she watched the complex rooms and corridors around her change in front of her eyes.
Remembering that she was able to find the dungeon because she had a kind cardinal to guide her way, it would be difficult to find Cesare even if she had been left to explore the castle by herself.
Coupled with the fact that only the moonlight outside the window could illuminate at this time, Anya had no idea where she came from or which direction she was going, and even finding the gate of this castle was a problem.