Spear and Cross

He made a mistake, he used Embogle's affection for him earlier to get Lilian, but now it seems that Embogle was never as obsessed with him as he showed--or more than that, maybe from the beginning He was part of the trap set for him.

As for the man behind the scenes who set the trap and forced him to this point, if he guessed right, it should be Priest Moxi.

But why did Priest Moxi do this?He couldn't think of any reason for the other party to frame him. There was no conflict between their responsibilities and interests, and when he found the Andema phantom butterfly larva, he had just returned to the capital for less than two months.Before becoming a battle priest, he and Priest Moxi only met a few times at the inauguration ceremony and the morning meeting, and they had almost no intersection. Why did he target him like this?

"This curse was originally not a fatal poisonous curse, but it has a great test on the level of the caster. In addition, the material is scarce and requires the secretion of the scent glands of the Gege beast, so it is close to being lost. Even I did not I can recall it very quickly. I didn’t realize that the swirl pattern on your hand is very similar to the ‘Eye of Harthotho’ until I accidentally read Apochev’s notes today.” Priest Moxi stroked the gemstone on his ring , said slowly, "At first, I wasn't sure if you cursed Rein with this spell, because Gege beasts are so rare...until someone told me that you borrowed one from Viscount Embogle earlier. It's just a beast, but it didn't report this to the chief priest."

This "inadvertently" happened by coincidence. It turned out that Priest Moxi was unwilling to tell him the result of the examination directly in the morning to pave the way for this scene.

Fraxis raised his eyebrows, turned his gaze to Enbogle who was sitting next to him, and smiled slowly.

"The reason why I didn't report this matter is because I want to beware of the mastermind behind the breeding of Anderma's phantom butterfly larvae in the civilian area, and wants to use the Gege beast as a secret weapon. No one knows if there will be a second Ender Ma Huandie, I was just making preparations in advance. Naturally, there is no need to put the Peg Beast in front of people, is there? And on the night Miss Hathaway was assassinated, I had already mentioned to the chief priest that I would ask Viscount Embogle I borrowed the matter from Gege Beast."

The chief priest nodded: "Indeed."

"Of course I don't want to speculate on Priest Faronard with malicious intent. After all, he is a rare genius in the temple for hundreds of years, but the characteristics of the 'Eye of Harthotho' are too obvious." Priest Moxi said from himself He took out an old manuscript from his priest's ring, and gently spread it out on the table, "This is Apochev's handwriting. It is clearly written on it. It will only appear in the hands of the caster."

Apochef Rufus Gradger was the most notorious curse master on the mainland more than 500 years ago, but he was also a genius who studied curse spells, a legendary figure.Fraxis was not at all surprised that the temple kept his diary, and this diary was kept by Priest Moxi, probably because he was the only one who was good at curse spells among the twelve priests in the temple.

But it was precisely because of this that Fraxis did not believe that he "accidentally" flipped through the page of the Eye of Harthotho today, and thus became suspicious of him.Although Priest Moxi is not young, as a spellcaster, he has no impression of the spells in his field of expertise, which is a bit strange.

The chief priest read the page of the manuscript, and his face became a little dignified.

"Fracis, come and see."

The volume of manuscripts was old and yellowed, so fragile that it would be torn if read lightly. Fraxis twisted the thin paper with his fingers, and carefully read the relevant part of "The Eye of Harthotho" .

This curse was originally created by Apochis, and its damage is not high. It will only make the cursed suffer from nightmares. It is more of a test of the caster's curse ability and casting accuracy. The damage received by the person will be much stronger than the original effect.If the caster's ability is not enough to control the spell, causing the power of the curse to go out of control, the cursed person will be transformed into an undead creature under the erosion of the curse.

This kind of curse, which is not very useful and can easily cause large-scale riots and attract the attention of the temple, is naturally not widely spread, at least Fraxis has never heard of it.But judging from the legends he had heard about Apochis, it was not surprising that the curse master would create and use such a curse.

Apochis was gifted in curse spells, but unfortunately, like most geniuses, he was a lunatic.He was crazily hungry for power, and keen to show his strength, but he never became the target of the temple at that time, because his hiding place was too difficult to track.

He almost never kills directly with curses, but likes to leave a difficult curse or two where he passes, and then watch the temple clean up the mess for him, and take pleasure in it.

This "Eye of Harsotho" is obviously also one of those difficult curses, and in Apochis's time, grid beasts were not uncommon, and other raw materials were not difficult to obtain, this curse became his favorite little The game is not surprising at all.If the curse is successful, it will not leave any marks on the cursed person. The only obvious feature is that a swirl-shaped pattern will appear on the caster's hand. Apochis took a curse from an ancient language. The pronunciation of the word, call it "hasutho", which means cursed eye.

In addition to the required materials and cursing techniques, Apochis also drew the swirl pattern in his notes. Even after more than 500 years, the traces of the pattern painted with ink on the paper page are still very clear-a swirl like an eye, and Fred Lacis had almost exactly the same one.

He carefully closed the precious manuscript, returned it to Priest Moxi, and emphasized again: "Before today, I have never heard of this curse, let alone how it is cast, Lein What happened may indeed have something to do with me, but it is definitely not a curse I put on him."

Fraxis is very clear that there is no way to forge this manuscript. With the presence of the priest Moxi, the curse of "Eye of Harsotho" can be known if it is true or not. Take it out.Since the manuscript clearly stated that the whirlpool was the "eye of the curse" left by the agreement with the undead, and he couldn't prove that the whirlpool in his hand was not out of intention, now it is really difficult for him to clear up the suspicion of cursing Rein.

"We can't come to a conclusion yet about the real effect of this curse. After all, it was recorded more than 500 years ago. No one can guarantee that its effect is still consistent with what is recorded in the manuscript." Priest Moxi put away the manuscript, Turning to Enbogle, who was still sitting on the side, "Then, why don't we listen to Viscount Enbogle before verifying its effect? ​​Viscount, why do you accuse Priest Falenard of borrowing Gege for personal gain?" Beast, and cursed Lein? We hope to hear your reason, after all, this is not a trivial matter."

"Line is the gardener in my manor, I think you all know it." Embogle glanced at Frasis, but his eyes were completely different from before, full of strange resentment, "except for the work of the gardener Besides, he's a lover I keep hidden from Samantha."

Fraxis was stunned, and then realized who Samantha was—the Mrs. Savy who brought Enbogle a title and a large fortune. Of course, she should be called Embogle now Madame.

"Line didn't mention this relationship between you to me. I didn't know he was your lover." Fraxis frowned, recalling what Rein said before he left, and added, " Not only that, but he told me before he left the temple that he had lost his job as a gardener because of his injury—"

"Because he fell in love with you, didn't you find out? Your Excellency Farenard." Empogel interrupted him coldly, "How could I fire him? On the contrary, it was after he came out of the temple You never saw me again, and you don't want to come back to my manor!"

"...But I just saved him. This is my obligation as a priest." Fraxis did not refute his words, but emphasized what he had done, "I saved a man in a civilian area." A dying young man, take him back to the temple for treatment until he is cured, Viscount, did I do something wrong?"

He did feel that Rein had a crush on him, but he didn't think too much about it, because Rein himself never confided anything to him, and the most obvious one was just inviting him to his house as a guest before parting. .As for his relationship with Enbogle, Frasis is not very interested. If it is said that Enbogle did the following series of things because of Rein, to be honest, he doesn't really believe it.

"Yes, you are not wrong, you are just too good to attract an ordinary person who looks up to you. But why did you curse Rein? He has been sick in bed since he came back from the temple. I went to him several times , he couldn’t get up in a daze, wasn’t you the last person to see him in the temple? You even have the mark of the curse on your hand, how do you want to argue?”

Enbogel's eyes fell on his right hand exposed from the cuff, and his face was full of sarcasm: "If Rein knows that you are such an unscrupulous guy, I don't know how he will feel."

"I really don't know why the 'Eye of Harsotho' appeared in my hand, but since it is in my hand, I can't clear up the suspicion. I know this very well." His right hand, which had been deliberately covered by his sleeve, fully exposed the slowly rotating vortex, "Priest Moxi can examine it again, and I will continue to use suspicion until I rule out the suspicion of murdering Rein." remain in the temple as a human being, and suspend all priestly duties—are you satisfied with this, Viscount?"

How Lein was transformed, he had no idea at all, but in the end he transformed into an undead creature, and the power of the curse was out of control to "infect" other people. These situations were almost exactly the same as those recorded in the Apochis manuscript.Needless to say, the authority of Apochis' notes, no matter whether Enbogel can produce other evidence to prove that he cursed Rein, the current situation is enough for him to fall into a situation where he cannot defend himself.

Enbogel snorted, turned to the chief priest who had been silent all this time, and said, "Your Excellency, did you hear that? Please punish the murderer who killed Rein severely, and don't let the crown of the Goddess of Light be covered with dirt!"

"Of course, the goddess will show us the path of justice so that Rein's soul can be redeemed." The chief priest nodded slightly, and then motioned to Priest Moxi to send him out, "Flasis, you should go back first, tomorrow morning At the morning meeting, I will invite the remaining ten priests to discuss your problem, and then come to a solution as soon as possible."

Fraxis nodded slightly in agreement, but he was still thinking about other things.Priest Moxi glanced at him before taking Enbogle out, and he didn't react at all. He just followed them and left the room of the chief priest, and then walked towards his own room.

Judging from the chief priest's reaction to this incident, it may not be as serious as he imagined.Although he did not express his position clearly, so far, the chief priest has only taken away his priestly ring. He has not been subject to other restrictions because of this, and he still enjoys a lot of freedom in the temple.He couldn't figure out what the chief priest was thinking, but judging from the current situation, it was obvious that the chief priest was temporarily on his side, thinking that he could not be easily convicted without solid evidence.

However, did the priest of Moxi leave other "evidence"?If so, what would it be?

He raised his right hand, stared at the slowly rotating vortex, and suddenly found that its rotating speed seemed to be slower than before.

Why is that?

Maybe he should go to see Lein, wondering if there will be any abnormalities after it was thawed?While thinking this way, Fraxis turned around and was about to go to the dungeon where Rein was held. When he looked up, he found that Hampton was walking towards him from that direction, with a sword in his hand, dripping with sweat. Looks like he just came back from training.

But there was only the dungeon of the temple in that direction. How could Hampton rush over from there with his sword in hand?

"Priest Moxi has checked for you so far?" The knight stopped in front of him, looked him up and down, and finally fixed his eyes on his right hand, "Any new results?"

"Yes." Fraxis smiled helplessly, "He found a curse that exactly matches the performance of the whirlpool in my hand."

"Sounds like a good thing, but your expression tells me that it doesn't seem to be the case." Hampton stared into his eyes, taking in all the complex emotions in his eyes, "Well, I also have some things I want to tell you, find a place where no one is there to talk."

"Wow, I didn't expect them to have such a relationship."

After hearing Fraxis' retelling, Hampton raised his eyebrows with interest, "I can see that Rein likes you, but I didn't notice his relationship with Enbogle at all."

"If it was so easy to see, I wouldn't be so passive now. Let me go, Knight Commander, I'm busy." Fraxis gave him a helpless look, then turned to add hot water to the teapot to make tea .

His slender fingers gently touched the lid of the teapot, and with the other hand he lightly poured hot water into the small ceramic teapot.Hot water was poured into the teapot, and after submerging the tea leaves, a burst of fragrant steam was generated. The steaming mist added a blurred beauty to Fraxis' side face, even if he just lowered his eyes and made tea seriously. Tea is also very charming.

Hampton leaned aside to watch him prepare tea and snacks, and sighed, "But I can understand why that red-haired guy did this. You must have fascinated him enough, otherwise he wouldn't have hurt you like this."

"...What kind of mentality is this? I can't understand." Francis pushed him away with his elbow, walked to the table with a tray, and moved the tea set and snacks to the table one by one, "I have been Using Enbogle, it would not be unfair to be bitten back by him, but Lein..."

Rein was originally an innocent victim. Regardless of whether it was a coincidence arranged by Priest Moxi or whether Rein voluntarily cooperated and became part of this trap, he would not have fallen into the trap. The point of becoming an undead creature.

So he still feels a little guilty towards Rein from beginning to end.

"Since you didn't hurt him, there's no need to feel guilty about him." Hampton saw his hesitation, reached out and took a snack and put it to his mouth.

Fraxis was stunned, and glanced at him, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing, and opened his mouth to bite the piece of snack.

Hampton originally just teased him, wanting him to stop entangled in the issue of Rein, never thought he would eat it.He was flattered to watch Fraxis reach for the pastry and carefully eat it with the other hand underneath.

"What did you say you wanted to tell me?" After eating his snacks, Fraxis wiped his hands with a napkin before picking up his cup to drink tea, "I saw you coming back from the direction of the dungeon, it's from Rein's side Anything new?"

"Indeed it is, and . . . I'm afraid my fears have come true."

Hampton stared at his right hand holding the teacup and whispered.

"...What?" Fraxis looked at his hand following his line of sight, and found that the vortex had stopped spinning at some point.

"Rein was 'thawed' just before I left the dungeon, but his body seems to be unable to hold on, and there is a faint tendency to collapse. He is probably completely dead now."

"How come? I'm using Freeze, it shouldn't cause any damage to it..."

"But no one knows how it became what it is now, and what effect he will have because of an insignificant freezing technique, let alone anyone knows, right?" Hampton stretched out his hand to cover his hand and pinched it. Squeezed and signaled him to calm down, "We can go and have a look at it, those guarding the dungeon probably haven't removed his body yet."

They went out together and walked towards the dungeon, but were stopped by a knight on the way.Fracis remembered his face, a knight from Vonner's squad.

"Boss, Priest Falunard," he probably came running, with his helmet still in his arms, and he seemed in a hurry, without even paying attention to saluting, "I just received the news, Embogle The manor is on fire—”

Embogle's manor was exquisitely designed. Although it was built close to the civilian area, it was indeed a beautiful manor even in the eyes of Fraxis.But now, they haven't approached the manor yet, they can only feel the burning heat through the soaring firelight when they look at it from a distance at the entrance of the temple.

It is not difficult to imagine what the manor has been burned to.

"Embogle is not in the manor, he is lucky." Hampton listened to the latest report and clicked his tongue. "His wife is unlucky enough. She was the only one in the manor except the servants when the fire broke out. No one has been rescued so far and should have been burned to death."

The guards were already fighting the fire in the manor, and it was not the temple's turn to do these things.It's just that the efficiency of human firefighting has always been low. The fire in the manor had happened nearly an hour ago, and the fire is still raging and has not abated at all.

"What is the cause of the fire? How come it has been burning for so long without abating?" Fraxis frowned as he stared at the bright fire in the sky, "And, neither too early nor too late, why did the fire start at this time? Tomorrow is the temple festival—"

"Go and see? Such a large fire is enough to investigate because it is suspected that the cause of the fire is related to heretics."

Hampton had asked someone to bring their horses, and after handing the reins to Francis, he teased, "If you don't look carefully, I think you will probably be thinking about the fire until dawn tonight."

Fraxis didn't care about his teasing. What he cared about was another thing: "I am no longer the priest responsible for the security work on the eve of the ceremony. According to the regulations of the temple, I am not qualified to be responsible for the fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation.”

"Isn't it just to look at the ruins that have been burned into a mess? This matter has to be done according to the regulations of the temple?" Hampton didn't care about these details, and he got on the horse first. Why don't you go for a walk with me?"

Fraxis got on the horse reluctantly, but he didn't accept his proposal: "It's getting dark, and I chose this time to take a walk with you, which sounds much more suspicious than investigating the cause of the fire in the manor privately. "

"Whatever you say, I guess people who are careful to observe have already discovered that we are in the same group, no matter how you explain it, it will be useless."

That makes sense.

Fraxis raised his eyebrows, and asked Hampton who was riding in front of him suspiciously: "Chief Knight, did you do it on purpose?"

"What purpose?"

"Deliberately let everyone know that 'we are in the same group'. You obviously have many ways to hide it, but you chose to walk with me without any concealment. Why?"

Hearing his question, the knight laughed.Fraxis couldn't see his expression, he could only hear the hearty laughter from the front, but he didn't think the question was ridiculous: "It's more advantageous for us to hide this matter, isn't it ?”

Hampton stopped after laughing a few times, and asked, "Why do you think I did this?"

"..." Fraxis was silent for a moment and did not answer him.

He vaguely guessed the reason why Hampton did this, but he still couldn't quite understand it, feeling that he was a bit reckless and naive.As for what the reason is...

Hampton didn't seem to care about his response, because he quickly answered the question himself: "There is almost a uniform bad nature in male creatures, always wanting to claim ownership of other threatening objects, you Do you understand, my dear nobleman?"

Fracis didn't speak, and in his opinion, the situation was not at all suitable for flirting, so he didn't intend to respond to the topic of "ownership".

Enbogle's manor is still burning, and the fire has spread to places other than the house. Even the flowers and plants in the courtyard are engulfed by flames. From a distance, the whole manor looks like a ignited flower, tirelessly releasing with heat.

Because it was too hot, they dismounted not far from the gate of the manor, and then walked to the front of the manor.The house was too far away from the burning house, and there was another big fire, so Fraxis couldn't see the situation inside clearly, but just listening to the crackling sound produced by the violent burning, they could easily figure out the possibility of the people inside surviving .

"Why didn't the guards invite a magician to put out the fire?" Hampton randomly picked out a question from the members of the city guards gathered on one side. The latter was originally staring at a certain point in the fire, and was asked by him Only then did he suddenly come to his senses, backed up a few steps and fell to the ground, pointing at a certain location and screaming: "There are devils in the fire! God, there are devils dancing inside—"

Fraxis immediately looked in the direction he pointed, which was the pointed attic part of the three-story building, one of the places where the fire was most intense in the entire manor.The high temperature made that position distorted, and it was supposed to be impossible to see anything clearly, but after the guard pointed it out, he actually recognized a blurry human figure from the violently burning fire.

It twisted its body in the flames, twisting together with the jumping flames, just like what the guards said just now, like a devil dancing.

"...It's Mrs. Embogle." His face became more serious. "Embogle introduced to me at his banquet before that the location is the bedroom of their husband and wife."

"What?" Hampton also looked at that position, and clicked his tongue after finding the writhing figure, "What is that? The cry of the soul?"

Fraxis felt incredible that he still had the time to make such a speech, and pulled him to use the flying technique to fly towards the attic: "Stop talking nonsense, follow me in and have a look."

He has seen a similar scene with the mentor of the Magic Research Institute. Although he is not sure whether it is the same situation, what is certain is that if they let the fire continue to burn and do not go in and take a look, they will lose a lot of knowledge about this sudden outbreak. Fire clues.

The place where the doll is located is the pointed attic on the third floor. Since the house is not completely symmetrical, this room happens to be the highest place in the entire manor.Before they even got close to the window of the attic, they already felt the rushing heat. Fraxis added an extra layer of protective spells expressionlessly, then smashed the remaining window lattice, and stepped in through the window together with Hampton. fire scene.

The so-called "dancing devil" twisted its slender body not far from them, its whole body was wrapped in flames, and its gender could no longer be identified from its appearance, which could only be guessed from the remaining birdcage-shaped bustle on its body. It was about once a female.

It seemed unaware of their arrival, it just stood there and twisted blindly, as if seeing something terrible, screamed endlessly in horror, and even forgot the flow of time and the change of space.

Hampton noticed that there was a small door on the wall beside it. The door was dark. It was obviously a secret passage or a secret room, and he didn't know what was hidden inside.

He gestured to Fraxis, motioning himself to check the door first.While approaching the door, Hampton was wary of the burning black figure that did not change and continued to twist, while paying attention to the direction of Fraxis, but when his hand was about to touch the small door, When he was on the wall, he suddenly heard Fraxis' uncontrollable shout.

"Be careful behind you!"

Something sharp pierced through the light armor on his body and pierced straight to his back.

Under Fraxis' reminder, Hampton only had time to guard against the sharp object piercing his back, but he didn't expect that the opponent's purpose was not to stab him to death with one blow, but to attract his attention.

A slender, twisted black arm stretched out silently from the small door, grabbed Hampton and pulled it into the door.It was so powerful that Hampton failed to fight back when he was unprepared, and was pulled into the door by it with lightning speed. Then he heard a loud "bang", and the environment he was in suddenly changed. It was pitch black—the door was shut.

He was pulled by that arm and fell to the ground. Before he could stand up, he could clearly feel the narrowness of the space.Just in the current posture, his arms have already touched the wall, and he doesn't need to stand up at all. The cramped feeling brought by the low ceiling has already made him very uncomfortable.

For him who is tall, it is impossible to stand up here, that is to say, he lost the combat advantage he should have had in this small space.

Hampton couldn't help feeling a little thankful, fortunately, he was the one who was pulled in instead of Fraxis, and the narrow space restricted the caster far more than he did.

He didn't try to stand up recklessly, but first quietly pulled out the sword at his waist with his backhand.

Fraxis didn't realize it's existence until the second distorted figure suddenly appeared behind Hampton. It was too late to remind Hampton in other ways, so he had to yell directly to get his attention.Fortunately, although he was dragged into the wall, he should not have been stabbed by the claws of the human figure. Based on Fraxis' understanding of Hampton, as long as he was not seriously injured, this secret door leading to no one knew where it was. Might be able to trap him.

Then his task is very clear - Fraxis shifted his gaze to another figure who was getting closer and closer to him, turned the space ring worn on the index finger of his left hand with his right hand, and a short staff appeared in front of him on hand.In the face of guys with unknown dangers and retractable claws, he still prefers to use a staff to assist in casting spells. At this time, reducing the casting time is beneficial to him without any disadvantages.

"Ma'am, I'm sorry to interrupt your dance, but please believe that my companion and I have no malicious intentions." While trying to communicate with the other party, he stepped back cautiously, approaching the window through which they came in, and found that the fire was not only It still hasn't weakened, but it seems to be getting bigger and bigger, "I don't know if you still have an impression of me, I am..."

The distorted figure that was probably Mrs. Embogle opened its mouth wide and let out a sharp scream, its arms suddenly twisted into a completely unreasonable angle, and the end stabbed at him in the shape of sharp claws!

Fraxis withstood the blow with a short stick. His arm strength was not weak, but his arm was a little numb from the shock of this strange surprise attack.He avoided the flames that were burning to the hem of his robe, took a step sideways and then waved his hands. Three arrows of light struck the gathering monster from different angles, but the opponent nimbly dodged it.

The accuracy of instant spells is not high, it is difficult to aim at the twisting object in such a short period of time, and the fire is getting bigger and bigger, there is not much space for him to use, it is really difficult to defeat this thing directly with magic .Judging from the situation in the fire field, it is unrealistic to defeat it directly, because he will not be able to use the large magic that needs to be prepared in a short time, so he can only find other ways to trap it first.

While dodging the attack, he threw out several beams of light, only one of them barely brushed past the figure's side, and it screamed and rushed towards him directly.

Fraxis struggled to hold it with a short stick with one hand and stretched out to attack his claws, and pressed the other hand on its twisting body, releasing the imprisoning magic that had been prepared in advance and kept on the ring." Prison of Light".At the same time, a sharp thorn suddenly grew out of the monster's scorched body, which successively destroyed the three layers of protective spells on his body, and finally cut through his sleeve and stabbed him.

Fraxis didn't care about this injury. He first confirmed that the "Holy Light Cage" had indeed trapped the monster, and then strengthened it with two layers of the same spell, so he was a little relieved.

"Holy Light Cage" is the unique confinement magic of the temple. Dozens of light beams with purification properties are intertwined into a cage-like shape, which is continuously supplied by the caster's own magic power.As long as Fraxis doesn't cut off the supply of magic power, the cage can theoretically trap the monster until he exhausts his own energy.

Fraxis once used this method to trap a mature male demon in Thorn City. At that time, his magic power was consumed very quickly, but the twisted human figure in front of him was obviously not that powerful.He observed it, and found that it seemed to be a little afraid of trapping his beam, and after being isolated by the beam, it no longer showed such a strong aggressiveness before.

Why is that?

He was a little puzzled, and even wanted to study the reasons, but there was no time for him to do this now——Hampton hadn't moved since he was dragged into the secret door, so he had to check his situation first.

The house was already crumbling, and it looked like it couldn't stay there much longer.The guards should have invited a magician to put out the fire with water magic just now, but it didn't seem to work, because Fraxis tried to put out the fire with water in the attic where the fire was obviously, but it didn't work.After the flame was extinguished, it ignited by itself very quickly. Although there was no more combustible material, it still burned very enthusiastically. Obviously, it did not start naturally.

He stared at the hottest corner of the fire for a while, and suddenly found something. After thinking about it, he took out a handkerchief from his body and threw it into the fire.

The handkerchief fell lightly to the ground, unscathed, as if there was nothing there, let alone a blazing fire.

"...Damn."

Fraxis reached out to pick up the handkerchief and cursed blankly.

Both he and Hampton have been played, and from the beginning there is no fire, no Mrs. Empogle, just two monsters waiting for them here.

This is a trap.

Fraxis turned to the wall where the secret door was. Now there was nothing there. It looked like an ordinary wall. If he hadn't witnessed Hampton being dragged into the secret door by the twisted figure that appeared out of nowhere, maybe he would Completely ignore this place.

He stretched out his hand to cover the wall, chanted a few incantations silently, and a small door quietly appeared on the wall.When the door was opened, even though the fire outside the door was bright, the inside was pitch black and nothing could be seen.

Fraxis tried to throw a kindling into the door, but there was no change. The little fire seemed to be swallowed by a giant beast in the darkness, and disappeared without a sound after entering the door.

A dark realm.After activation, the field is completely dark, and no light can be obtained by any means. It will not disappear until the caster who set this field manually cancels it.Humans don't have dark vision, and they can't see anything in absolute darkness unless they use special means, and they just came here on a temporary basis to investigate the cause of the fire. Even he only brought the necessary equipment for casting spells, so Hampton's body is naturally even worse. It is impossible to have any props that allow him to see things in the dark field.

He was about to venture into the secret door to check the situation when a familiar voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Lord Faronard, what are you doing in my wife's room?"

Embogle was wearing a black cloak, which completely covered his whole body, except for a face that was extremely pale in the firelight.He stared at Fraxis, who was bending over to check the secret door, with dark eyes: "Where is my wife?"

Fraxis didn't show any surprise to his sudden appearance, straightened up, glanced at the wide open door without any trace, and replied in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I haven't seen Madam before I broke in through the window. At that time, there was only a charred humanoid monster in the room."

The Holy Light Cage was still standing aside, and the twisted figure was curled up inside. Seeing Enbogel walking towards it, he suddenly became agitated and hissed.