At the bottom of the stairwell, a faint light shone through a door. The figure of the man standing on the last staircase was illuminated strangely.
"If you're not afraid of death, just follow them in, these two guys who don't know how to live or die." The voice of the Demon King came from behind the door.
Such a sentence stopped Dorothy. She had a very bad feeling, but she didn't know why she was so obsessed that she followed him. In fact, halfway through, she regretted it. Now that she received such a warning in front of the door, it made her determined not to enter.
But the man who came down first had no such consciousness. He walked into the door without any hesitation.
The location of this basement, from the perspective of the castle, is the deepest room underground. It's not big, and it looks like it was built for some kind of ceremony. The magic circle is standard equipment, the workmanship is very rough, and the candles made of unknown things are burning, emitting a pungent smell. The most special thing is that there is an object suspended in the center of the magic circle.
Curious, Lin walked into the magic circle. He wanted to see things clearly in the dim light, but he couldn't do it without getting closer. But... why is my face so wet?
He stretched out his hand to wipe the middle part of the body, and his sleeves were actually covered with blood. Then he wiped the wet area on his face, and his fingertips were all stained with blood.
Fen suddenly appeared in front of him, slapped Lin's forehead with his palm, and said: "You have blood coming out of your eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and you still want to stay here. You really want to blind yourself and kill yourself." Are you willing to give up?"
Picking up a man who was bleeding from seven holes, Fen walked out and said at the same time: "Let's go. Go up and have a look, see if there is any material that can be made into a container, and take this thing away."
The man who was picked up rarely quarreled with the lich. This is because there are waves churning inside the body, layer upon layer, impacting every part of the body. All his attention was on how to calm the turbulent power in his body, and he couldn't care less about talking nonsense with a certain lich.
Because the stairwell was too narrow, Dorothy who followed her blocked the entire path. The strange appearance of Lin's terrifying face shocked the noble vampire lady. For a moment, my mind was in chaos.
Fen was not polite about this and shouted to the vampire blocking the way: "Hurry up and don't stay down there in a daze. Otherwise, I will step on your body and walk up."
Dorothy came back to her senses and walked up without hesitation. It was extremely difficult to say it down, as if I had walked for most of my life, but walking up was like walking from hell to heaven, and I walked out of the spiral stairwell in a short while.
The two apprentices have already made preliminary classifications. Several large piles of things have been sorted into categories and stacked in a corner of the secret room.
The person who was carried out of the spiral stairwell was thrown to his apprentice.
It turned out that Halumi and Kaya were concentrating on doing the assigned tasks. The sudden interruption certainly aroused their dissatisfaction. But upon closer inspection, he turned out to be his teacher. It doesn't matter that the person doesn't look very good, but now on that bloodless face, blood is constantly coming out from the facial features. Suddenly, the two of them wiped their faces nervously and fanned themselves, completely at a loss.
The restlessness in his body gradually calmed down, and Lin recalled the past... No, he couldn't remember anything at all. He couldn't remember what he saw. He only knew that he stepped forward to take a closer look, and he was tricked. If it weren't for another force within the body to counteract it, I'm afraid I would have to explain it here today.
In the dream, what was supposed to be a lonely, unfinished double-story magic tower and a sky full of stars was now filled with many gray stumps. Some are hands, some are feet, and more are octopus-like tentacles. A fat man and a junior high school student both looked embarrassed, obviously after a fierce battle.
Looking at the thing that had just been invaded, the incarnation of Fat Mansion couldn't help complaining: "When will the tentacle demon also target men? Could it be that the original one has been in and out in reality?"
Pushing up his glasses, the second incarnation retorted: "As far as we know, there is only one system of tentacle demons that will attack men, isn't it?"
Following the example of his chuuni incarnation, he pretended to push up his air glasses and said, "It's definitely not from the Japanese AE system, but...it can't really be that. Is there actually one in the Midlands?"
"Yes. An indescribable existence..." As soon as the second incarnation finished speaking, the two people who existed in the dream world looked at each other helplessly. It's very dangerous to be in the Lost World. I really want to return to Earth.
In reality, Lin, who had regained control of his body, was gasping for air. With a horrified expression, he looked at the lich who was rummaging for something and asked, "What was that thing just now?"
"Oh, I just wanted to praise you for being lucky. You are not dead or blind. Now you are asking such a question again without thinking about life or death."
"There's always something you can say, right?" Lin continued to ask helplessly. It's one thing to protect one's self wisely. It's another thing to be confused and confused about what to guard against. And he had a vague guess in his mind about what happened to him.
He caught Halumi off guard and let the dying man rest on Kaya's lap. Fen organized her words and made sure that what she said was what she could say, then she said carefully: "That is part of the Dominator. And don't think that it is just a part. It shouldn't be What kind of threat it poses, the power of the Dominator is unimaginable. Even if it is only a small part, it is still related to the original body."
Dominator, this name only appeared when the demon king Tikal came to dominate the world, that is, in the early days of the Dark Ages, he was the main combat force that slaughtered the old gods. But in fact, when someone first hears the name Dominator, the first thing they think of is the Crusu myth, the European and American version of the fantasy horror story, which contains the Old Ones.
However, records of rulers are quite sparse and unclear in history. So Lin didn't delve into it after seeing it. Anyway, it was far away from him, and it was not something that a little person like a magician could come into contact with. But we still met today. Is this luck? Or unfortunate?
This reminded someone of the lucky coin Halumi tossed at the fork in the road. Is something broken? Otherwise, how could we encounter such a dangerous thing?
Follow the command, remove the necessary parts from a pile of useless magic equipment, and then use shaping to change its appearance. Harumi asked: "Sister-sama, isn't the Dominator your ally?"
"They will not be allies with anyone but each other."
"Then how did they help you get rid of the old gods?" Halumi asked. The girls also learned a lot about the evil deeds of the old gods from Fen. So they didn't have a good impression of the old gods either.
Regarding the girl's question, Fen said with some pride: "When your strength reaches a limit and there is no way to develop, you will naturally look for some breakthroughs. And the best reference is of course those beings who are higher than yourself. In the early days, I was not strong enough to kill the gods. In other words, I had no clue about the gods at that time. So I disguised the fragments of the ruler I got by chance as trophies. I escaped from the gods once. , pretending to fall inadvertently, the fragments of the ruler entered the eyes of the old gods. The levels of power in different directions, and existences far higher than the power of the lost land, all attracted the greed of the old gods, Let them see the opportunity for breakthrough."
"Then what?" Upon hearing the story, the two girls' eyes lit up and they asked again and again. Maybe they only heard it as an adventure story, but to Lin's ears, it was a proper historical secret.
It’s just that the people listening don’t have that consciousness, and the people speaking don’t care. So Fen continued: "I let out the news that a certain god got the ruler fragment, and that god was kind enough to get angry, loudly announced that he didn't get anything, and sent countless heroic spirits to hunt me down."
"Isn't this just like the teacher said, trying to cover up something is obvious."
"Yes, it's a cover-up. In short, other gods also took the bait, because the rumors were not fiction, but true. So in order to snatch the ruler's fragments, the gods launched a divine war that was also fatal to them. No. Who is willing to hand over the opportunity to break through and surpass other gods easily? The gods who are competing are not only trying to take away the opportunities for other gods to advance, but also fighting for their own opportunities to surpass the gods. So the first step in my great cause of killing gods is One result comes from the war between the gods.”
"But sister, haven't you thought about using it yourself to study the secret of the ruler before killing the gods?"
"At that time, I was so filled with hatred that I didn't think too much about it. What happened after that was fortunate that I didn't do that."
"What's wrong?"
"The gods who studied the power of the rulers, and somehow there was something wrong with them, they actually opened the barrier of the world and welcomed in the true form of the rulers. Of course, those who were willing and able to come. Then, everyone was finished together. .”
"Everyone is finished together?" Halumi was confused by such wording.
"Just like the words say, everyone will die together." Fen emphasized again before continuing: "Everyone who has been contaminated by the power of the Dominator has fallen into varying degrees of madness, even me. And those who went deep into The gods studied became the first victims after the Dominator's invasion. Those who survived were some unknown minor gods who were not qualified to compete for the Dominator's torso in the previous war. And these gods escaped But my butcher knife. In the end, all the gods entered infinite reincarnation. They kept resurrecting and were hunted by me."
"What about the invading rulers later?" It was Kaya who asked. She asked keenly about that group of powerful beings who had no mention in history.
"Although rulers are dangerous, they are not evil. In other words, all the things I heard in history are actually just their instincts, but they are all judged from a human point of view. It's like you are walking on the road and don't care about your feet. No matter what bug you step on. When a mosquito lands on your face, you will just slap it to death. Whether it is a human being or a god, it is just this kind of existence to the ruler. So be sure to be dominated. Shrouded in the instinct of the devil, everyone is afraid of Him and dare not mention Him again, so they naturally stay away from our world.”
