The moon was dark and the wind was high, and a crow with red eyes crossed the sky, flapping its wings and falling into the hands of the magician.
A note was tied to the crow's claws. After the magician took off the note, the crow was released.
A line of words was written on the note: "The Forest of Resentment, the Cave of the Dead".
"Why are you gathering here this time? What is Michelle thinking?" The magician frowned after reading the typography, and handed the note to Angel beside him.
Angel arrived at the magician's stronghold at 8 pm. Because the magician is his guide, if you want to go to the extraordinary party, you must first meet the magician.
But what he didn't expect was that the note from the meeting place was not delivered until it was close to the early hours of the morning.
"Who is Michelle? Is it her real name?" Angel took the note and glanced at the location on it. He was completely at a loss as to the location mentioned above.
"I don't know if it's his real name." The magician explained, "He is the leader of this gathering. We have a leader for every extraordinary gathering, and this time it's his turn."
Angel frowned and said suspiciously: "With such a rotation system, aren't you afraid that someone will set up traps and ambush?"
The magician shook his head: "It is impossible to set traps. For us, communication is the only way to promote strength."
Angel originally wanted to ask, is he not afraid of murder and robbery? But thinking about the net worth of this group of people, it is estimated that there is no place worth robbing. The only place they can make good use of is probably only-live well. Only by living can we communicate and communicate can grow.
"Let's go, if I didn't introduce you today, I wouldn't want to go when I saw this place." The magician complained and left first.
"What's wrong with this location?" Angel asked.
The magician shook his head: "There's nothing wrong with it, it's just rumored that it's haunted. I've been there before, and there's nothing weird about it, but it's too dark and smells bad."
Angel pondered: "The corpse cave, this name seems a bit inappropriate?"
"It's more than wrong, there is simply a big corpse cave! The Grudge Forest is in the Byzantine Mountains, and the corpse cave is actually where the forest guards deal with the corpses. For poachers, or people killed by wild animals, the forest guards will Throw the corpses of these people into this hole, and the corpses will be countless over the years." The magician complained.
Angel remembered that the magician mentioned their past gatherings, and most of them were champagne wines and feasts. Occasionally, those who are more low-key are also first-class in looking for an ancient castle, and it is the first time to go to a corpse cave for a party. No wonder he looked disgusted.
Angel also felt that this gathering seemed a little different. Why did you choose the Dead Man's Hole for a good exchange gathering
When the two left the city, their footsteps began to speed up, running towards the mountains and forests all the way.
The more he ran, the more familiar Angel felt... Wasn't this part of the road the same as the one he walked when he left the forest
When he arrived at the Forest of Resentment, a dim light flashed in Angel's eyes.
This piece of wood happened to be the section of wood that Angel passed through after he came out of the forester's hut. When he passed by this place, he had doubts about it.
Because of this forest, the plants are too lush and dense, the trees are tall and luxuriant, blocking all sunlight, even at noon, walking here is dark as if at night. But these are not enough for Angel to take it to heart. The reason why he is deeply impressed here is because there is a faint resentment here.
At that time, he also guessed whether there were many people buried in the ground... Now it seems that his guess is not wrong, but it is not underground, but a corpse cave.
"Here, here is the corpse cave." The magician pointed to a dark underground cave.
The hole is located in the middle of several lush trees, with an opening of about five or six meters, and the bottom is invisible. Before Angel got close, he could smell a strong rotten breath.
"The plants here are so prosperous because of this hole." The magician looked at the hole with disgust, the strong stench made him really not want to step into it.
However, thinking that when Angel joined the extraordinary party, he would definitely provide a kind of knowledge, he pinched his nose and jumped into the hole.
Angel also jumped down. However, after jumping into the hole, he secretly alerted Toby. The original magician's complaint when he received the note made him feel a little hypocritical. When he really came to the corpse cave, he saw the environment here and felt the filth around him, and he understood why the magician was angry... It is indeed very problematic to choose such an environment for the wizard party.
"Damn Michelle, I must let him know later, how wrong it is to choose a party here!" After the magician landed, he cursed angrily and prepared to make a fuss.
"Wait, don't set fire." Angel smelled a strong pungent smell in the air, both rancid and gas.
Angel's thoughts moved, and he used the light technique.
With the illumination of the Light Art, the surrounding situation instantly became clear.
There are corpses all around, some have been turned into bones, and some are still rotting. The magician found that there was a half-rotten corpse beside him. There were maggots crawling on the corpse, and the ground was covered with small black shells that carried carrion. insect.
The magician kicked the corpse's head away: "In a place like this, at a party tonight, who has the appetite to eat! Michelle is not paying attention to our disgust?"
Angel glanced at the magician silently: Are you still thinking about eating
"Is the meeting place inside?" Under the illumination of the light spell, Angel saw a winding passage in the cave. At the end of the passage, it was dark and faint, like a huge mouth that was devoured by others, exuding a strong stench.
"It should be." The magician walked towards the passage first, while Angel lowered his hat, lowered his sense of existence, and followed behind the magician.
"Is this the Illumination Technique?" The magician looked at Angel enviously as he walked: "That's great, you can do more tricks than I do."
Angel smiled and didn't answer.
The magician originally wanted to blackmail him to see if he could get some information on the Lighting Technique, but Angel didn't even reply, so he had to keep silent.
Such a cold atmosphere continued until the end of the passage.
At the end is a door, the door has been opened, you can see that there are many people sitting outside the inner round table, only one seat is still empty.
Everyone sitting at the table looked at the magician with a smile.
"Magician, you are so slow, you are the only one left." The brunette young man sitting in the main seat greeted.
The magician scolded the young man fiercely: "Michelle! What the hell are you doing, why did you choose to have a party here?"
The brunette young Michelle said with a smile: "Every time it's a luxurious banquet, this time it's a little different. Are you surprised or surprised?"
"Accidental fart." The magician scolded.
"You're not bad boy, I haven't seen you for half a year, and you can actually learn the light art." Michelle didn't care about being scolded at all, walked out of his seat, grabbed the magician's arm and dragged it towards the door.
"Brightness is..." The magician turned around and wanted to introduce Angel, but found that there was no one behind him, and the brightness disappeared.
At this moment, Michelle had dragged him into the room. When the magician entered the room, he wanted to break free from Michelle's hand and was about to look back to see where Angel had gone, but before he could go out, Michelle stopped him.
There was a weird smile on the corner of Michelle's mouth: "Come on, don't leave."
This sentence matched with Michelle's expression, which made the magician's heart feel a little bit of vigilance. He looked around the other people in the room, all of them were smiling at him, but both men and women, their expressions were stiff like puppets.
"You... what's the matter? Pooh? Captain? Long ears? Pluto?" The magicians shouted one by one, but no one responded until he saw a man wearing a short, wide-brimmed hat. Finally got a response: "Shadow?"
The man took off his hat and waved to the magician with a smile: "Ah ah ah, it's been a long time."
"Shadow? What's going on?" The magician had fear in his eyes, he already felt something was wrong and stepped back step by step.
But when he stepped back, he was stopped by Michelle. But at this time, Michelle's expression also became as dull and dull as the others, only with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.
"What's going on? A party? Take your seats, I'll tell you something useful today." Shadow pointed to the only vacant seat and said to the magician.
The magician refused tremblingly: "No need, I, I have to go back first."
However, before the magician turned around, the door behind him slammed shut. The heavy copper door made a loud noise and also set off a wave of dust on the ground.
The magician ran to the door, trying to open it. But helplessly found that the door was locked and could not be opened without the key.
"What are you doing? Robbery? I don't have anything on me!" The magician remembered that the mask had asked him not long ago, was he not afraid of being targeted and set up a trap? He also swore at that time that no one would do this, but the current newspaper will come soon.
By the way, the magician's eyes lit up, doesn't he still have a mask? Where is the mask? Did he discover something was wrong in advance, so he hid it away
Think of this possibility. The magician shouted loudly: "Fake..." Help me!
But before the words could be said, the magician saw a small black shadow descend from the sky and swept in front of him. Just when the magician was about to say something, he saw the little black shadow gently stretch out his hand and pull out a struggling shadow from the magician's body and put it into the gray cloth bag...
When the little black shadow saw the shadow in his hand, he let out a strange laugh of "hee hee hee hee", jumped back to the shadow's shoulder, and then handed the little gray cloth bag to the shadow.
Shadow touched the little black shadow's head, as if giving a compliment.
"What's that?" The magician felt weak, but he didn't pass out like other people who lost their shadows.
Shadow touched the small cloth bag, "This is my trophy."
Booty? The magician seemed to have thought of something, and lowered his head to look at the ground—
"My shadow... is gone?! Sure enough, the person who stole the shadow in the city is you!"
Shadow raised his eyebrows: "Ah? When did you find out?"
The magician gasped. "Blonde... you always sit next to Kabasha and little John..."
Shadow suddenly realized: "It turned out to be because of this... I didn't expect that you are still the smartest person present. Then, now you need to give some rewards to smart people."
As he spoke, Shadow suddenly opened his hand, and white lines appeared from his ten fingers. The white lines charged with a surging magic power and rushed into the gray cloth bag containing the magician's shadow.
A miniature black figure was dragged out of the cloth bag.
If you distinguish it carefully, you can see that this black figure with the size of a slap is similar in shape to a magician, but it is black and has no distinguishable features.
The shadow held the black figure with a white thread and slowly moved on the table.
At the same time, the magician's expression suddenly became dull, and he followed the shadow on the table, moving slowly... The shadow raised his left foot, and he raised his left foot, and the shadow raised his right foot, and he raised his right foot.
Like a real puppet.
And the puppeteer is the shadow!