It was Elizabeth's voice.
The masked man in white did not turn around. He saw the shadow of the girl behind him in the glass window of the corridor. The girl's blonde hair was a little messy. She clutched the aquamarine ring on her finger and said with a pale face: "Lucian? You are Lucian, right?"
Seeing that the other party did not answer, she took another step forward: "I just saw it! There is a small red mole on your wrist, look carefully! You..."
As she spoke hastily, the man in white just turned his head and glanced at her, then continued walking forward as if he had been burned. The attendant beside him also stopped Elizabeth who was about to chase after him with her skirt lifted up: "Miss Green, I don't like to be disturbed..."
"Get out of the way! He doesn't dare to make a sound, which means he is Lucian! I recognized him!" Elizabeth said impatiently, trying to wave his hand away, "Lucian!"
"Tell me, is what they said true? Or is it just a fabricated conspiracy theory?" The blonde girl said angrily, "What did Vader do to you? Lucian! Speak - or are you really the liar? You deceived us friends, and then in order to survive, you shamelessly became Vader's slave..."
“Bang!!”
The change happened at that moment, and an explosion that seemed to be able to shatter the heaven and earth rang in everyone's ears!
Then the whole mansion shook. Large pieces of glass on the window frame were shattered, and the fragments shot into the corridor. Elizabeth screamed and fell to the ground because she couldn't stand steadily. One of the fragments grazed her arm, and bright red blood flowed down.
Her voice was quickly drowned out by the greater tremors. Screams and horrible sounds of fighting rang out from all over the mansion. A dark object shot out from the window toward the frightened blonde girl who was sitting on the ground. As it flew straight in front of her, a white figure suddenly appeared and picked up a metal vase at the foot of the wall and swung it at the shadow.
The blow was really powerful. The shadow was smashed against the wall. It wanted to get up again, but was hit hard again and again. Finally, it fell to the ground like mud, and Elizabeth screamed again: "Bat, bat..."
"It's not a bat, it's a dark creature from the abyss of the demon world." Lucian stared at the mutated fangs and said, "It doesn't want to suck your blood."
The girl was shocked: "What is that?"
Lucian raised his finger and pointed it at his temple: "Your brain."
He dropped the vase and strode towards the broken windowsill. In the dim sky, he saw a full moon!
A full moon that has gradually begun to turn crimson...
Lucian's pupils shrank, and then he whispered to the system: "What is this? Is this in the original work?"
"Varied… "
"Turn it over quickly!"
After throwing the original question to the system, Lucian left the window. In order to go to the bathroom, Lucian walked a long way on the same floor. He heard a horrible chewing sound coming from the corridor not far away, followed by the sound of people crying and screaming and running up and down.
“Help, help, help!!”
At the corner of the corridor not far away, a waiter ran towards them. Lucian remembered his face, he had served food in the banquet hall. When he saw the two people and the servants beside Lucian, he showed a look of salvation, but he didn't stretch out his hand yet...
Then it fell to the ground forever along with his upper body.
Behind him appeared an extremely strange monster. It had a dark humanoid body, a face full of eyes and a long beak, and large and strong bat wings on its back. There were several of these monsters, and one of them had blood on its beak, which looked like it had cut off the waiter's waist.
The moment Lucian met their eyes, he recognized their race.
That is the terrifying monster from the bottom of the abyss... the marrow-eating bird!
Although the demon clan's territory is widely known as the "Abyss", there is still a huge crack in the abyss. Under the crack are the most terrifying demons. The scorching evil spirits burn them, preventing the most terrifying demons from climbing up.
The marrow-eating bird is one of these monsters. In the war between humans and demons, some high-ranking demon generals tamed them to assist in the battle. A cluster of marrow-eating birds is enough to wipe out a well-equipped group of paladins. Unfortunately, the number of marrow-eating birds that can escape from the rift is very small.
This kind of monster is rarely seen even in the abyss, but why now... they actually appear in the mansions of the nobles in the human royal city? !
The monster stuck its beak into the waiter's head. After a while, it raised its head, staring at the two people in the far end of the corridor with its dark green eyes, and opened its beak -
Elizabeth was almost paralyzed with fear.
"Help, help, help!"
The waiter's dying voice actually came out of its mouth! The other three flapped their bat wings, hundreds of eyes looked at Lucian and others, and laughed "chuckle" from their mouths.
"ah!!"
Elizabeth let out a heart-wrenching scream.
"Take Miss Green and go!" Lucian shouted.
The guards followed Lucian's order and pulled Elizabeth up. The three of them ran quickly in the narrow corridor, and the marrow-eating bird flapped its bat wings and chased after them.
Although this was the direction away from the banquet hall, they had no choice at the moment. If they turned back, they would be surrounded by the monster.
Lucian knew that he was not good at close combat, and it was 1v3.
Suddenly, one of the marrow-eating birds let out a whistle and flew towards the glass window. Elizabeth couldn't help but look down, and at that moment, the blood in her body froze.
Through the broken glass, she saw the hellish scene in the garden downstairs.
In order to show his importance and financial resources for the dinner, Duke Houston ordered people to hang up lights in the garden. During the chat time after the auction, many nobles had a tryst or chatted here. Now, these lights completely illuminated this hell on earth. The nobles fled in panic under the cover of their ministers, but the servants were not so lucky. A servant was pushed out by his servants while escaping and was torn to pieces by several monsters on the spot.
Those were monsters she had never seen before...even in the encyclopedias, she had never seen any monsters before!
"Fissure-type monsters! They are all crack-type monsters!"
"Why are there monsters here?"
"Banquet Hall... Go to the Banquet Hall! Shelley and His Royal Highness the Paladin are there! They have set a holy seal on the door of the banquet hall..."
“Help… Help!”
A noble lady screamed hysterically, she twisted her ankle due to her high heels and fell to the ground. In just the blink of an eye, she was torn into pieces by several marrow-eating birds, and her blood and flesh flowed all over the ground.
Being chased by the marrow-eating birds, they went up and down the stairs and finally escaped to a completely unfamiliar place in the mansion. The remaining three marrow-eating birds were too fast and extremely agile. Lucian and the guards kept pulling out the weapons they could use to deal with them. Lucian crippled one, but the other was still injured.
A marrow-eating bird attacked the guard, its beak piercing through his body. Lucian's holy light ball could only smash its face in vain. The guard, who had been corroded by the poison, hugged it fiercely. He pierced both himself and the marrow-eating bird with a knife, broke the glass and fell down the stairs while holding it.
“Run… Run… Hide!!” He coughed up blood with the last utterance of his life, staring at Lucian, “Your Majesty will come…”
This was the last sound in his life, followed by two dull crackling sounds.
Now there were two marrow-eating birds left, attacking the two. They were in a hall full of portraits, with no shelter. The wound on Elizabeth's arm was getting bigger and bigger, and the blood stimulated the nerves of the marrow-eating birds, which stretched their wings and made excited cackling sounds.
It was obvious that it was very fond of Elizabeth as its prey.
Lucian grabbed Elizabeth's arm and fled with her. Blood flowed down her arm and onto the ground, forming a series of blood drops. It seemed that even if they continued to flee, they would only be fighting to the last.
"Lucian, I can't run anymore." Elizabeth started crying, "I don't have the strength anymore, Lucian... put me down."
She sobbed, as if she had lost the will to live. The man in white looked at her and finally spoke.
She heard Lucian's voice again.
"Do you believe it?"
Elizabeth was stunned for a moment. The next moment, she felt a pain in her arm and a heavy push on her shoulder!
Lucian pushed her out...towards the marrow-eating bird!
Lucian... is going to kill her
At that moment, all the memories of her life flashed through her mind. Her body fell heavily to a spot. Two marrow-eating birds cried in surprise and ran towards her with their wings dragging!
During this interval, Lucian can escape.
Then the next moment, the smelly beak pierced her head, and the two monsters fell heavily to the ground.
They seemed to be restrained by something and could only cry mournfully, unable to get any closer.
Elizabeth fell to the ground and stared at them blankly.
"The center of the formation." She heard Lucian's voice, "When you were escaping just now, I used your blood and the things I collected along the way to draw a formation here. Fortunately, this hall is spacious enough. In order to lure them to that place, you, who they are more interested in, were pushed into the center of the formation as bait."
But he succeeded.
The young man in white pulled out a sword from his armor by the wall. He whispered some magic to the sword, and the sword was shiny and new, with a faint glow flowing on it. Then, he walked towards the two bound marrow-eating birds and stabbed the sword into their brains.
His movements were swift and fierce, and he even stirred the inside of the body until the marrow-eating bird was completely dead. Dark red blood splattered all over him, along with the silver mask.
It was only then that Lucian finally took off the silver mask and put it on his head.
The familiar face came into view. After Lucian confirmed that the two monsters were dead, he held the sword with his fingers and said with disdain, "It's so dirty."
He turned around and wanted to leave the hall, but he heard hurried footsteps behind him. He turned back subconsciously and was slapped in the face by Elizabeth.
Fortunately, he dodged quickly and the slap just barely grazed his face.
Lucian narrowed his eyes.
Elizabeth looked at him, her face flushed, her face full of anger at being used as bait and confusion at having just escaped death: "I almost died just now!"
"That guard is really dead." Lu Xi'an said leisurely.
Lucian held the sword that he hated so much and continued to walk out. He hadn't taken a few steps when Elizabeth caught up with him again. Lucian ignored her and continued to walk out.
As he walked, he listened to the system's report: "I just flipped through the book, and there is indeed such a charity dinner in the original work..."
"So where did those monsters come from?" Lucian frowned. "They are all rift species, the most terrifying monsters even in the demon world. How did these things get here? Who did it?"
He didn't expect the system to give such an answer: 'The original work only briefly mentioned this dinner, but...'
"But it did go smoothly," the system said. "There were no monsters, no attacks."
Lucian stopped.
He could still hear screams in the distance. It seemed that there were still monsters around. Lucian heard a small "I'm sorry" behind him, and just a soft shush.
"Keep your voice down." Lucian stared outside, "The monsters haven't been destroyed yet."
Elizabeth nodded hurriedly. She seemed to have finally regained some composure. Her eyes were filled with apology for her loss of control and she suppressed her sobs.
When they escaped just now, they came to a part of Houston's mansion that they had never been to before. Now they needed to find a safe route to leave here. Lucian looked at the full moon in the sky and knew that his magic power as a human was weakening.
His magic was induced by the full moon and suppressed the magic of humans. Fortunately, Wade fed him every night these days, so he could temporarily suppress his magic with magic.
They walked carefully in the corridor. When they approached the corner, Lucian heard chewing sounds coming from outside the corner.
There was more than one chewing sound.
"Go back," Lucian said with his lips.
The two of them then retreated cautiously.
“Crack.”
However, at this moment, the sound of a door opening was heard behind them.
"Is the party over..." A listless voice came from inside, "Hey, you guys..."