Just as Hao Ren guessed, the castle on the hill was where Vivienne slept.
Strictly speaking, it is the entrance to the sleeping place.
After a rigorous deduction and discussion, Hao Ren and Heatherana re-planned the entire process of opening the seal and entering the shadow world. In order to avoid long nights and dreams—those demon hunters may follow them at any time—they decided to enter before dawn old castle. Although the shadow power at night is very strong, it will cause some difficulties to open the seal, but Heatherana has decided to replace the key with her own shadow magic, and her power will be strengthened at night, so it doesn't matter.
Harrown Castle—It used to be the property of a human nobleman, but in the end it became the property of a vampire several times. At least when he first took over the castle, his family property was quite strong, so he rebuilt the human castle in an extremely luxurious manner, which can still be glimpsed even after the castle was abandoned and the walls collapsed. The whole castle is composed of four huge towers and two main structures. Between the two rectangular main buildings is a wide promenade. This structure makes the whole castle look like an "I" shape when viewed from the air. And the four towers are distributed in the four corners of this I-shape, which looks extremely magnificent.
Of course, more than half of this majestic structure has already collapsed, and the superstructure of the entire castle has basically become decayed with the weathering of the years: a fort made of stone would not decay so quickly, but the lingering The dark power in this land has accelerated the decay process of everything. Although it has only been a hundred years, the rock structure of the ancient castle has been riddled with holes as if it had been four or five centuries.
"There are many ghost legends about this ancient castle in the local area," Heatherana has been active in this area for a period of time, coupled with deliberate collection of information, she knows a lot about the castle, and led everyone When I stepped into the ruins of the castle, I introduced it by the way, "Some daring guys will venture in, trying to find some noble relics or rags that can be sold for money, but very few people can go back intact, even if they are lucky. Claiming that they encountered ghosts and other evil things in the castle, in fact, it was all caused by the power of shadows."
As he said that, the little bat spirit curled his lips: "Tsk tsk, I still hope to find treasures here, don't you know that this territory was poor back then, that Harrown couldn't find a copper coin in the castle when he left .”
Hao Ren didn't respond, but looked up: they were passing through the main building in the front half of the castle. The tall gothic roof had collapsed, leaving only some jagged skeletons hanging criss-crossed in the sky, tattered and twisted. The cloth strips and spider webs stretched from those tall skeletons to the walls on both sides, looking bleak and gloomy. Due to the collapse of the entire dome, the moonlight can shine into the front hall of the castle almost unobstructed. The originally bright and bright moonlight seems to undergo some mysterious changes when passing through the castle: it presents a lifeless gray-white The light was terrifyingly cold, it was a real cold, Hao Ren could even feel the real coldness of the moonlight on his skin.
Before entering the castle, the moon had sunk near the horizon, but after entering the castle, it hung in the very center of the sky, which is also a fairly obvious anomaly.
"The moonlight is never normal in places related to Lord Vivienne," Heatherana noticed Hao Ren's gaze, and explained casually, "We should be glad that the moonlight is not red at least—otherwise we have to turn around and run away." .”
"Vivienne would find such a gorgeous place to sleep," Lily said in surprise as she carried Hasselblad who was in a deep coma and followed the team, "I thought she could only sleep in a cave or something like that." What about the place..."
"She lived in this castle after it was abandoned for the first time," Heatherana sighed. "At that time, this place was already in ruins."
Lily: "... makes sense."
"Where is the entrance to the Shadow Fortress?" Hao Ren looked around curiously. He could already feel that the castle was being controlled by a powerful shadow force, but he didn't observe any obvious space breaking point. Obviously, Vivienne had made quite sufficient preparations before she fell asleep this time, and the place where she fell asleep this time was not as easy to deal with as the cave in Siberia.
"The castle is divided into two, and the castle in the real world corresponds to the light, so of course the 'shadow' castle is on its 'back'," Heatherna smiled, "right in front, there is a pool in the castle garden , the reflection in the pool is the entrance.”
Lily mumbled after hearing this: "It's this kind of nagging thing again... I'm the worst at dealing with this kind of stuff."
Before she finished speaking, she felt Hasselblad on her back suddenly move slightly, and then the old hunter slowly woke up from a coma, seeing the witches around and Heather Anna leading the way in front of her, Hasselblad subconsciously He wanted to get his weapon, but found that his hands and feet were bound by a strange energy field, and he couldn't even exert any strength, so he yelled: "You..."
"Hey-boom!!"
"Speaking of which, I feel quite embarrassed," Lily stuck out her tongue, "I feel so pitiful for him."
The witches were taken aback by Hasselblad's sudden awakening, even Heatherana was no exception, but when they saw Lily slamming the brick and knocking the latter unconscious, they all showed extremely strange expressions, Madam Mary still He sighed: "This is probably the worst demon hunter I've ever seen in my life..."
Hao Ren looked up at the sky and didn't know what to say, so he was thinking about how to explain what happened along the way to Hasselblad after he was "pulled in" by him... By the way, the old hunter wouldn't be ashamed and angry, would he draw his sword and kill himself
Under the leadership of Heather Anna, everyone soon arrived at the back garden of the castle, and saw the pool that could serve as a passage between the two worlds.
It is located west of the center of the "I"-shaped structure of the castle, surrounded by a large area of withered thorns and kinked vines, the pool has a marble outer edge, but in the depression in the center of the pool, no one can be seen for a long time. dripping water.
Without water, naturally there will be no reflections.
Hao Ren cast a questioning look at Hesiana. He knew that since the little bat spirit brought everyone here, there must be another trick in this pool. Sure enough, Hesiana was not surprised at all when she saw the dry pool. She just stepped forward, bit her finger, and dripped a drop of blood into the dry pool.
Then she stepped aside and looked up at the gray-white moon hanging in the sky: "Without the key, I can only borrow the power of the moonlight... Sir Vivian, if you can hear me, please wish me success... "
After finishing speaking, she took light steps and began to walk around the pool at a very slow speed, and whispered an ancient spell.
The unthinkable happened.
A thin layer of shimmering light suddenly began to ripple in the already dry pool. The off-white moonlight seemed to be restrained by an invisible force, converging into a beam of light and shining straight on the bottom of the pool. The light seemed to condense into a liquid state. Cianna walked slowly, and it began to accumulate in the pool at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming more solid every second, and finally became as substantial as real running water!
As Heatherana took her last step down, she returned to the starting position, and just finished walking around the pool, and the "moonlight water" in the pool was just full, and the water surface was almost level with the edge of the pool, like a mirror stand still.
Hao Ren saw a clear reflection on the mirror-like water surface, and tall towers and majestic castles appeared in the reflections—however, in the corresponding positions in the real world, those towers and castle structures were already decayed and more than half collapsed .
Obviously, what the reflection reflects is definitely not the real world, at least not the real world in this time and space.
"The shadow passage has been opened, and there is another space beyond the pool," Hesianna wiped the sweat from her forehead, "Because it was opened by abnormal means, so I'm not sure what the situation is on the other side. If we're lucky, we will Won't run headfirst into those patrolling soulless guards, but if that wizard Bane has activated the defenses of the Shadowkeep with a key... get ready for a tough fight, I'm going to have to work hard after entering the shadow world In order to gain control of the Soulless Guard."
"This is all expected," Hao Ren nodded, "What should we do now?"
"It's very simple, just follow me."
Heather Anna stood on the edge of the pool while talking.
Then she just fell straight towards the "water surface".
There was no splash of water, nor the sound of plopping into the water, as if she had melted into the water, and the moment she came into contact with that layer of reflection, she disappeared silently into the water, without even causing a single ripple.
Hao Ren and Lily looked at each other, and then Hao Ren took a step forward first, and followed Heather Anna's movement and fell straight towards the water.
He also passed through that layer of "boundary" smoothly.
"Go in first!" Lily bared her teeth at a group of witches, "Prevent you from escaping!"
The witches had no choice but to come to the water's edge one by one, and then "fall straight into the water".
Lily came to the pool last, looking at the calm moonlight water, the husky girl wrinkled her nose.
"I don't like water..."
Then she closed her eyes and jumped down too.