The soulless who sleep in the shadow world are alarmed.
They are the inhabitants and bricks of this world of shadows and dreams. Before being awakened, they are all combined with this world in a "fusion" way. They are the stone carvings and murals that can be seen everywhere in the shadow fortress, and they are dead trees. The distorted face on the top, the weird stones in the corner, and the overlapping shadows produced by the clouds when they move, all of them are hidden in various corners of this world. When outsiders break into this place, they all "wake up" in an instant , everywhere in the blink of an eye.
Under the leadership of Heather Anna, Hao Ren and his party fought and retreated. After dispelling countless phantoms and ghosts, they finally retreated into the tall and sturdy building of the castle. After they closed the heavy and huge oak door with force, the courtyard The endless screaming screams finally quieted down, weakening into waves of faint wind.
However, retreating into the building does not mean that it is safe. Soulless guardians are everywhere in this world. Hao Ren looked warily at the wide and towering Gothic-style corridor, which was surrounded by countless thin walls clinging to the walls. The long pillars are divided into tens or hundreds of sections, and the narrow high windows between the slender pillars look down on every intruder coldly like countless pairs of eyes hanging high above the head. Burning pale candles, the flickering candlelight reflected the oil paintings hanging under the windows in a particularly gloomy way.
Just like any medieval aristocratic mansion, this "reflection castle" can be seen everywhere in oil paintings and photo frames, and as if to match the atmosphere of this building, the style and content of all oil paintings appear gloomy and strange, while In the photo frame, only fuzzy portraits without facial features and hidden in the shadows can be seen. Hao Ren must be careful about these "paintings", because they may suddenly come to life when the light and shadow intersect.
As if in response to Hao Ren's vigilance, just as everyone took a breath, several oil paintings near the door suddenly started to burn. While the pale flames engulfed those pictures, translucent shadows struggled to break free from the smoke. When they came out, they held long swords in their hands, like noble knights in full armor, and one "knight" even held a banner depicting wild roses and long swords in his hand. These soulless people awakened in the form of ghosts let out screams, and then charged in the direction of the intruders.
Responding to them was Hesianna's magical whip and Hao Ren's hail of bullets.
"These things really can't be killed!" Lily couldn't help but yelled loudly after finishing off these ghost-like soulless people, "By the way, what is the origin of these soulless guards? Such a team?"
"Soulless people are born from Vivienne's dream," Heatherana explained while leading the crowd in a seemingly endless long corridor, "Only when she fell into a deep sleep, the soulless The longer she sleeps, the stronger the soulless will be. These soulless guards are born out of Lord Vivienne's past memories. People and things she has touched may turn into soulless Appeared in this shadow world. To be honest, except for those desperate demon hunters, no one has ever dared to disturb Lord Vivienne's dormancy, because any offense may cause the soulless to wake up and vent from the dream. It turns out that there was even a city-state that was wiped out in this way in history—those daring guys dug through Lord Vivienne’s cave in order to steal the 'inheritance of the ancient gods', and as a result, the whole city was swallowed up by a nightmare overnight , not even the dross is left."
Hao Ren thought silently in his heart: Actually, those demon hunters don't want to trouble Vivienne... If it wasn't for fear of being copied from their hometown, they would be full to provoke this moody evil star
"Wow, bat... Vivienne is quite powerful," Lily stuck out her tongue, and almost said the nickname called Habit, "By the way, do we have to fight all the way in? Didn't you say that you can control the soulless?"
"I'm on my way to the tower that can control the soulless!" Hesianna was a little impatient, "Don't push yourself too hard, the road I'm taking you is already the route with the fewest soulless people! I'm afraid other places It’s already crowded with those monsters, and you have to die outside even if you have great abilities.”
While speaking, a strange scream and sinister laughter suddenly came from all around, Heatherna immediately grasped the long whip, and she noticed that the team had passed through the corridor and came to a rectangular shape like a crossroads Hall, there is an open, dark door in four directions of the hall, and laughter comes from the depths of each door, a gorgeous and heavy chandelier swaying above the hall, as if humans cannot perceive The Wind of Shadow is blowing across the room.
The temperature in the hall was dropping, and a layer of frost had formed on the floor tiles at some point.
"Why is the 'Big Steward' here?" Hesianna showed a serious expression on her face, "Shouldn't it be patrolling the cemetery?"
"What is the butler?" Lily asked curiously, "Where is Vivian and the butler?"
"Soulless people are empty shells without souls and thoughts, but they will still spontaneously form a set of organizational structure and leader system. The big steward is the leader of the soulless guard who is responsible for the defense of the inner court. Under normal circumstances, it is The place where Lord Vivienne sleeps, that is, the 'cemetery' is patrolling around... but somehow it wandered to this place."
"Tch... Vivian's sleeping place is so troublesome this time." Hao Ren smacked his lips and slightly raised the spear in his hand.
And as his words fell, there were bursts of Kerala's joints colliding suddenly, and then, besides the gate that everyone passed through before, a huge swaying figure appeared in the other three doors of the hall at the same time.
Those were three giant-like skeletons. Each pair of skeletons was more than three meters high. They carried heavy black long swords and wore crowns made of mist on their heads. In the chest cavity of the skeletons, a pool of blood The red light kept expanding and contracting, like a heart—in this black and white world, Hao Ren saw such bright colors for the first time.
Only Vivian's power can produce color in this black and white world. There is no doubt that the three skeletons represent Vivian's "confidant guards".
"Does the butler have three?" Lily was taken aback by the three huge skeletons (of course, her appetite might have been whetted), "How come there are three of them all of a sudden?"
"These three are one!" Hesianna yelled as she rushed towards one of the skeletons, "Destroy them at the same time! Otherwise, this guy is completely invincible!"
When the battle broke out in the Shadow Fortress, in the real world outside, a group of hunters in black finally found the deserted territory on the hill.
Demon hunter Lockheed got off his horse. He squatted in front of a house, his eyes gleamed with silvery white light, and clusters of faint human-shaped lights appeared in his field of vision. These human-shaped lights dangled like It is to reproduce the activities of Hao Ren and his party here not long ago.
"The breath has stayed here for a long time," the master witcher said in a low voice, "the elder is also included."
"This is the place where the ancient vampire slept," another demon hunter looked at the ruins of the castle on the hill. "That damned guy, did he kidnap the elder here to sacrifice to the vampire?"
"That 'vampire' doesn't want this kind of sacrifice," Lockheed obviously knew the origin of the person sleeping here, "The entrance should be in that old castle, and we will search separately after going up. Everyone should remember that what we have to face is an ancient who lived in this world before the age of mythology. She is extremely special. Our task is to hold her back until she wakes up, not to compete for credit Put your life in it—even if the Presbyterian Order came here, they would not dare to be this hero, do you understand?"
"clear!"
"start to act!"
In the "Crossroad Hall" of Shadow Citadel, three heavy falls announced the end of the battle.
The so-called "big steward" is several times stronger than ordinary soulless guards, but that's all. In this shadow field, soulless people have always crushed the enemy with endless numbers and endless resurrections Yes, but the chief steward wandered here "alone" without his subordinates, which was tantamount to losing the greatest advantage of the soulless. After a fierce battle, Hao Ren and his party finally smashed the three amazingly strong skeletons into pieces. The ground was shattered, and the entire hall was devastated by the power of magic and guns during the battle.
The cracks on the walls and the ground began to squirm and heal themselves, and the broken bone fragments of the "big steward" slowly rose into smoke, drifting towards the three gates: it will soon reappear in a certain room of the Shadow Castle. Resurrection, as long as Vivienne has not fully awakened, this soulless person will wander in this illusory building forever. Of the three skeletons, only one complete skull was left. This terrifying head rolled down at Heatherana's feet. The latter stretched out her foot and kicked it, frowning in thought.
Hao Ren glanced at the little bat spirit: "What did you find?"
"The butler will never voluntarily leave the cemetery, unless it is ordered, or forced to be expelled by an irresistible will," Heatherana pressed her finger to her chin, this action is exactly the same as Vivienne's habit , "During the battle just now, I felt that there were many violations in this guy's actions, which shows that he is in a state of contradiction, so there may have been changes in the cemetery..."
"It's the evil thought body," Hao Ren said, "She has already started to move."
"We have to split up." Heather Anna said suddenly.