Chapter 124: The Ending
Just after Count Frank left the castle, Pierre, taking control of five monsters, began to search the castle in an attempt to find the remnants of the imposters and raze the castle from the inside.
It didn't take much effort for them to find the real Elizabeth in the underground chamber of the castle, whose soul was now imprisoned in the aging body of Count Frank, and who had been abused and dying due to lack of food and water.
The irony happened, because Elizabeth had no strength to speak due to old age and weakness, so five dark monsters who hated Count Frank ended her life, and for them, Count Frank was their enemy, whether real or not.
Pierre did not object to this, and who in this world would sympathize with her lover's husband?
As a result, Elisabeth died in front of her lover's eyes, but she was powerless to struggle, and Pierre watched her lover die without realizing it.
Outside the castle, the progress of the battle was beyond everyone's expectations.
The Holy See failed to achieve its goal, Count Frank, who had two secret treasures and combined the two heads of light and darkness, was unexpectedly powerful, even if the other two Divine Punishment Knights and dozens of paladins shot together, they could not completely subdue him, and could only temporarily surround him in the castle.
Count Frank has also reached the limit, the two treasures have not been fully combined, and they cannot exert their maximum power, so they can only retreat to the castle of Said, relying on the dark circle arranged in the castle earlier to defend, and have no ability to rush out.
The two sides were at a stalemate, and neither could help the other.
As for Pierre and the five dark monsters, they had already left here long before Count Frank returned to the castle, and they did not dare to meet Count Frank, fearing that he still had the hole cards to control the five monsters, nor did they dare to meet the Radiant Holy See, no matter what dark creatures, the best fate of encountering the Radiant Holy See is to be purified.
After they escaped from the castle of Said, Pierre demanded that they swear to the darkness that they would not harm him or his descendants, and then lifted their grip on them and gave them their freedom.
After that, Pierre traveled to the Danube, and with the jewels and gold he had taken from the Château de Seit, he shook his head and became a wealthy merchant with generosity and benevolence, where he branched out and formed the Pierre family.
The five monsters went their separate ways, some to the New World, some to Australia, and did not return to Europa until they were removed from the Order list, though most of them stayed in the British Isles and rarely traveled to the mainland.
In the past few hundred years, the connection between the Pierre family and the five monsters has not been broken, but as the years go by, coupled with some spells, Pierre's descendants gradually forget the identities of these five people.
Count Frank and the Holy See were at a stalemate at Fort Seit for a year, until the Mesopotamian War changed and the Holy See was forced to withdraw from the war.
After that, Count Frank cut the castle of Seit out of the world through the power of "Dark Awakening", forming an independent small space, further strengthening the defense, and then, through the power of the blood pool, the vitality inside the castle became bloody and fierce, and outsiders could not adapt to it at all, which was the later secret realm of the castle.
After all this, Count Frank fell into a deep sleep, leaving only some of the dark creatures he had subdued in his early years to guard the house, and only when a strong enemy came in would he be awakened.
The battle with the Holy See was not easy, and Count Frank was also seriously wounded, but he was holding on to the blood pool.
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Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, eight hundred years have passed.
When Count Frank awoke from his slumber and found that his injuries had healed, he continued his plan to combine the "Bloodpool" with the "Awakening of Darkness", this time very smoothly, and no one bothered him.
After completing this, he planned to continue to improve his strength, but found that for some strange reason, his strength reached a bottleneck and could not be further improved.
It took him a long time and a lot of secrets to find out that due to the soul replacement, his soul and Elizabeth's body were not completely harmonious, and there was still a gap between them.
If you want to solve this problem, either summon Elizabeth's soul back, he will leave this body first, let her soul return to this body to continue cultivating, and after breaking through the bottleneck, he will perform a second soul replacement.
Either he devours her soul, and then he will have some characteristics of Elizabeth's soul and break through the limitations of the physical body.
It's just that both of these methods need to get Elizabeth's soul first.
For Frank, this is not difficult, he has Elizabeth's body in his hands, and through some secret method in the Book of Judgment of Anubis, he can influence Elizabeth's soul in this world through his body, and then, the idea summons her.
So, he did not hesitate to do so, and after that, Lucy Li, who was far away in New York, began to have nightmares and had the idea of coming here.
Yes, Lucy Li and Elizabeth have the same soul.
At the same time, with the awakening and strength of Count Frank, the secret realm of Seyt Castle has also undergone some kind of change, and this change has quickly been noticed by those who have a heart.
The Radiant Holy See, the five dark monsters, and several seniors of the Shangqing Sect all noticed the changes here and made some kind of arrangements.
The Radiant Holy See sent Berugut to investigate what had happened and, if possible, to recover the Dark Awakening.
The five dark monsters use induction and hypnotism to lure Pie's descendants here, and in their opinion, Pierre betrayed Elisabeth, and if Elizabeth was still alive, he would tear Pierre apart before attacking them.
Several benevolent brothers of the Shangqing faction came to Pang Xie through the Reverse Scale Sect, wanting to recapture the "Great Cave True Scripture" before the great changes in the secret realm occurred.
For these people, Count Frank carefully screened and controlled.
He already hated Pierre, so he let Pierre in as soon as possible, and then, Li Yuling and his entourage also came here, and he also let him in, and after that, he put in Beruguet, anyway, he also planned to solve the problem in front of him, and then leave the castle of Said, and by the way, kill a master of the Holy See, and collect some interest.
In the end, he put in five dark monsters, which he had been preparing to put in a long time ago, and the shackles in the depths of the souls of these monsters, even after eight hundred years, have not been removed, and they are just being used by him. At the same time, these monsters can also provide him with the best essence blood replenishment, allowing him to recover his strength a little faster.
So far, the plan has been perfect, with the only variables being Ponsei, Dean and Sam.
Although Dean and Sam are peculiar, they are from the Holy See and are well aware of the strength and fragility of the Chosen One, so he manipulated Pierre with a little trick and controlled Dean and Sam with the chains of divine punishment.
As for Pang Xie, a mere guardian-level cultivator, what was he in front of him with the combination of two secret treasures?
After ruling out any possible mistakes, he did not hesitate to start executing the plan, step by step, smoothly and perfectly.
Until Pang Xie made a move, Yuan Tu's sword was unsheathed.