The city center of Tobysk is peaceful and tranquil, and the late autumn evenings in the northern pearl are so pleasant.
St. Teresa's Square, the warm light of the street lamps around the square sprinkles on the neatly arranged stone slabs of road. Only a few lights flicker occasionally, as if there is a small problem with the gas pipeline.
The street lights illuminated the walls of No. 6, and inside the house, on the third floor, Luvia sat in a chair anxiously, waiting for the arrival of the star whales in a few hours. This room was filled with various experimental equipment that she had brought in little by little throughout the fall for stargazing, including a huge astronomical instrument and a highly accurate telescope.
But Luvia was not happy about the upcoming completion of the autumn work, but took the marriage contract of Gu Luo Winston. The powerful perception of the fortune teller made her guess that something must have happened to Shade at this time.
She moved the crystal ball in front of her and wanted to try divination again. But before she could do anything, the familiar face appeared in the crystal ball:
"Shad?!"
Study room at Carina Manor, southern suburb of Tobisk City.
Although it was late, the red-haired Duchess was still dealing with some difficult documents and was worried about the tax payment ratio this year. Although Saradir County was her fiefdom, she also needed to pay part of the tax to the kingdom.
There was a knock on the door, and Tifa, wearing a black and white maid outfit, came in with a tea tray and poured the steaming hot tea into the empty cup:
"You're always so thoughtful."
Miss Carina praised, and Tifa smiled and nodded slightly, then came behind the Duchess and placed her hands on her shoulders.
"Oh, yes, that's a nice force."
Picking up the teacup and preparing to take a break, the witch turned her head slightly to look at the night outside the window:
"I don't know what Shade is doing now. I'll go to the parliament before going to bed. I think there will be new news about Midhill Castle... Oh, I lent the necklace to Shade, so I can't enter the parliament now. However, there should be new news tomorrow morning..."
She stopped talking abruptly because Xia De's face appeared in the reflection of the tea.
He frowned suspiciously and looked down at the tea, then asked Tifa to let go of his hand:
"Tifa, prepare the carriage, we are going to number six of Saint Teresa's Square now."
"Do you need anything extra?"
The maid asked softly, and the witch thought for a moment:
"Bring your people with us into the city, and go to the basement to prepare the relics and spell materials... I'm afraid this is going to be a big trouble."
The sound of horse hooves and wheels in the middle of the night disturbed countless citizens along the street. The driver received an order to move forward at the fastest speed, but even so, when the witch and her group arrived at St. Teresa's Square, the time was already close to eleven o'clock tonight.
In addition to Miss Carina and Tifa, there were two high-ring sorceresses and six middle-ring sorceresses accompanying them.
Tifa got off the carriage first. She knew that Shade was not there, so she wanted to break the door lock and open the door. But she didn't expect that the door would be opened as soon as she walked up the stairs. The girl with purple eyes opened the door, as if she had been waiting for them.
Because Luvia had stayed at the manor before, and Tifa knew her relationship with Shade, she recognized who this person was:
"Good evening, Miss Annette."
"Good evening, come in, I also received Shade's 'last words'."
She waved outside, and Miss Carina nodded as she got off the carriage. Then she led a group of people into No. 6 St. Teresa's Square, where the lights were on in the lobby.
There was no time for small talk. Luvia went upstairs and spoke very quickly:
"Shad asked us to find a way to open a door to real death here."
"Even though he asked me for help, I couldn't do it."
The red-haired Duchess said, her boots making a hurried sound on the stairs, and the group walked towards the second floor.
"I have a way. Shade once told me something about what he saw and heard in the Fifth Era."
Tifa passed Luvia on the stairs and opened the door to the second floor. The group entered. Luvia continued:
"He told the story like this: We need to find a place where death and life meet, and have a formal member of the parliament act as the executioner. With the power of the parliament, we can draw the projection of the Gate of Death at the border. The effect after the gate is opened will be exactly the same as the original. (Chapter 722)"
Miss Jialina frowned slightly as she sat on the sofa. The mid-level warlocks went to the third floor to wait first. The two high-level warlocks stood behind the sofa waiting for orders:
"Borderland? Shade mentioned to me that the third floor here is the borderland. But there is still a problem. The border between life and death at No. 6 Saint Teresa's Square is in an extremely inactive state. Unless we are lucky enough to open it again tonight, we cannot enter it..."
If the border area of the third floor could be opened so easily, the church would not have checked it so many times without finding anything strange on the third floor.
But Miss Carina frowned again and said:
"I remember Shad said that the big earthquake in Midhill Castle would temporarily open the border here."
"That was in the past. Now, the upstairs has been sealed by the ritual, and it is impossible to open it automatically. But it doesn't matter. I have this."
Luvia took out the blood-stained parchment scroll "Grown Winston Marriage Contract" and placed it on the coffee table:
"One of the characteristics is that writing the names of the living and the dead can break the boundary between life and death. (Chapter 558)"
The Duchess smiled and looked at Luvia:
"It seems that he chose you, and it's not without effect. But there is still a problem. Even if we enter the border area, we can't attract the projection of the Gate of Death. Maybe the Witch Council of the Fifth Epoch can do it, but now in the Sixth Epoch, the Council has long lost such means. At least, I have never heard of the Great Witch being able to do this."
"No information at all?"
Luvia hadn't thought of this, but soon came up with an idea:
"Let's open the border passage first. I think there will be a way."
Breaking the boundary between life and death by using the "Grown Winston Marriage Contract" actually takes advantage of the characteristics of the relic when it is out of control. This is extremely dangerous, so the sorceresses brought by Miss Carina, combined with the sealing ceremony on the third floor, arranged a more complex relic out-of-control counter-ritual.
The group crowded into the corridor and made sure everything was ready. Luvia pierced her fingertip with a fine needle, dripped blood into the ink, and wrote Shad and her name with the blood-mixed ink.
Because Shade died physically, his "ghost" was not summoned by the contract. But in the corridor on the third floor, a faint white mist suddenly appeared:
“It’s open.”
Miss Carina said, staring at the increasingly thick fog in front of her:
"Annat, Tifa, come in with me. Fadil, Nina, you stay here to keep the passage stable."
The three of them stepped into the fog that represented a border. As the space changed, they stepped on the old floor of the third floor of No. 6 St. Teresa's Square, which seemed to have been abandoned for a hundred years.
This place looked even more dilapidated than before Shade repaired the third floor. And because this boundary only included a part of the corridor, it was extremely narrow and stuffy.
The border between life and death was only black, white and gray, and the evil spirits that stayed here soon discovered these living people. But before they could make a move, Tifa took the initiative to "clean up".
This is not Midhill Castle. The evil spirits here are just ordinary evil spirits. Not to mention Tifa, even the third-ring Shad can deal with them with ease.
"So, this is the so-called boundary between life and death..."
The red-haired witch sighed, reached out and touched the gray moss on the wall, raised her eyebrows slightly, and was surprised by the strong smell of death:
"It turns out that Shad sleeps near this environment every day. He has never considered moving. Is he really relieved, or is the so-called curse of this house affecting him?"
Luvia ignored the witch's mumbling. Her eyes looked blankly into the void while she listened attentively to the sound.
Miss Carina also noticed her abnormality, but this strange look did not last long:
"I got a hint from my 'other self', and she helped me capture some traces of fate. The Witch Council of the Sixth Era lost the method to summon the projection of the Gate of Death, but it doesn't mean that the Council does not have this function."
Miss Carina nodded:
"Indeed."
"I don't know how witches did it in the past, but we can give it a try. The key is to 'summon the power of the council', 'point to the door of death' and 'open the door'."
"Although the necklace is not with me, I am a witch with a seat after all. It is not difficult to summon the power of the council, but what should I do to point to the Gate of Death?"
Luvia thought for a moment and took out a coin from her pocket. It was the soul coin of a fanatic that the Prophet Association helped to buy. In addition to the face of a man covered with a mask, there were also words written in an ancient language on it.
Faith is valuable.
Luvia said nothing, and threw the coin in front of the witch. The relic turned into ashes in front of Miss Carina, and Luvia got the answer:
"Using a relic with door properties, painting the holy emblem of the ancient god of death on the door, it can be referred to as the 'Door of Death' in the border area."
"Shad's taste in choosing women is really good."
Miss Carina smiled and reached out to grab Luvia's chin, but the latter dodged it.
Luvia said sternly:
"Sorry, I'm not interested in women. I only like Shade."
"That's a coincidence. I like Shade too... Is there a door here?"
"Of course, room two downstairs, the traveler's door."
"There really is everything here..."
The wooden door with a metal base was quickly moved to the border by two middle ring sorceresses and erected in the middle of the dilapidated corridor.
Tifa took some corpse grass growing in the corner, mixed it with corpse oil and special spirit ink brought from the manor, and carved the holy emblem of the ancient god of death recorded in the ancient books of the parliament on the wooden door. The original decoration on the wooden door was a "two-faced man" with his face facing two directions, and the holy emblem was painted on the top of the two-faced man's head.
"Praise the Chaos Witch. May her glory last forever."
As Miss Carina prayed, eleven golden steps representing the power of witches appeared behind her. At the end of the steps, a door with the holy emblem of the ancient god Chaos Witch appeared. A little miracle and whispering aura permeated from behind the door and shone on the traveler's travel door in front of Miss Carina.
The relic was melting, or it looked like it was melting. The holy emblem of the Ancient God of Death was influenced by the power of the Ancient God of Chaos. The wooden door was gradually transforming into a stone door, and on the stone door was the pattern of the Gate of Death that Shade had described.
Miss Carina reached out to push the door, but it didn't budge.
Her life ring and the golden steps appeared at the same time, and her hands, which were endowed with various magical powers, exerted force again, but even so, the door in front of her still did not open:
"Call upon the power of the Council and point to the Death Door. Now that these two points have been achieved, how do we finally open the door, fortune teller? This should be very difficult. Even though I don't understand the characteristics of the Death Door, I know what opening this door means."
Tifa looked at Luvia, who thought for a moment:
"Maybe it won't be that troublesome."
He reached into his pocket again and this time took out a black iron key. The slender ancient letters like earthworms were written with a sentence that Xia De remembered deeply. The only lock that could not be opened was the lock of the girls' hearts (Chapter 650).
She handed the key to the Duchess, who took it hesitantly:
"Is this the Poet-level relic master key? Why is it in your hands by such a coincidence?"
'Maybe it's fate'
Luvia said, but the fact is that when she woke up this morning, the whispering sound in her ear told her to take the key with her.
Miss Carina shook her head slightly, as if in a warning, but also as if in a caution:
"Everyone has their own secrets, and Shade seems to like girls like you who have secrets. We can talk about your matter later, but now we should rescue that troublesome young man first."
She pointed the key at the stone door, and as the veins on her fair wrist bulged, she turned the key with great force. The key turned into sand due to being used, and flowed through the witch's fingers.
The door in front of them actually opened slowly, and the cold black wind forced the people who were currently on the border of the third floor to retreat.
Not only that, the four-ring life ring behind Luvia, the six-ring life ring behind Tifa, and the eleven-ring warlock life ring behind Miss Carina all appeared automatically and rotated rapidly.
The dark iron aura was enriched, and the breath of death surrounded them. The ladies who opened up a new path of death in the material world received unexpected feedback.