In a huge black castle in an unknown region.
Dark, cold, and silent, as if no one had set foot here for many years.
But tonight.
"Huff … Huff … Huff …"
Every time he took a breath, the dusty air felt like coarse gravel scraping through his lungs, causing Hawkins to feel a burning pain in his chest.
The young man with short blond hair could no longer remember how he came to this huge castle, nor did he know how long he had been running in this maze-like castle.
But he did not dare to stop at all.
Tap … Tap … Tap …
Hawkins walked with heavy steps, passing through a dark corridor filled with blurry portraits, and rushed into a slightly dilapidated room at the end of the corridor.
"Bang!" He slammed the door shut.
Then he moved all the movable furniture in his field of vision, old sofas, cabinets, bookshelves, tables … They were all blocked behind the door.
However, he didn't think that everything was fine. After he was done, he rushed to the other exit of the room without hesitation.
Hawkins, who had experienced it several times, knew very well that nothing in this building could stop the two terrifying monsters!
That's right, the monsters in the castle!
As expected.
Kaboom — —
When he ran to the other side of the door, the blocked door had been violently clawed open, creating a big hole.
A limb with curved wings like a pterodactyl, with sharp claws at the joints, reached in.
"Rip!" "Rip!"
The seemingly heavy furniture only added a little bit of resistance. In the continuous scratching sound, the four limbs that looked like wings and claws started to work at the same time.
In just a few seconds, all these things were sent flying!
"Crash …"
Then he did not even bother to open the door.
Two snow-white monsters that looked like both birds and humans had already smashed through the broken door and rushed in.
They were close to two meters tall, covered with cold white feathers. Their heads looked like a very common seagull, but they had some human features. Their lower limbs were a pair of strong claws like steel bars.
"Screech — —"
They opened their beaks, which were covered with fine triangular teeth, and let out a sharp cry. Even Hawkins, who had run far away from the room, felt his eardrums buzzing.
"Ah!"
She staggered and almost fell to the ground. She could only lower her head and cover her ears as she ran.
Then, the two bird monsters strode forward with their thick lower limbs and used both their wings and feet to chase after Hawkins.
The golden-haired youth didn't even have a chance to catch his breath. He could only run for his life.
Right now, he was being chased by the monsters.
The further they ran, the more dilapidated the furnishings in the labyrinth became, as if they were from an ancient era.
Moreover, there seemed to be countless tiny existences in the darkness whispering and commenting on him. There were even all kinds of inexplicably familiar and yet nowhere to be found gazes directed at him.
It made him feel that many of his acquaintances were hiding in the shadows and watching him make a fool of himself in this strange castle.
However …
Although he was familiar with all the things in the castle, with the terrifying monster chasing after him, he had no time to stop and observe carefully.
"Huff … Bastard! Bastard! "
Panting heavily, he felt weak all over. He didn't know how many times he had cursed in his heart, but it was meaningless in his current situation.
"Bang!"
Once again, Hawkins rushed into a very hidden small door. He wanted to use this small door to block the huge bird monsters for a while so that he could really shake them off.
However, in this maze-like castle, there was also an extremely strange layout.
After running for a long time, Hawkins' luck was obviously not good this time.
This was not the best escape route, but a sealed room with all kinds of weapon racks like a warehouse.
When the panicked Hawkins realized that something was wrong, it was already too late.
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"
The two huge bird monsters behind him had firmly blocked the only exit, completely trapping him here.
They raised their wing claws and violently scratched the stone wall beside the small door. Every time they scratched, a large piece of the wall's stone layer would be gouged off.
Obviously, it wouldn't be long before they could directly kill the youth and mercilessly take his life!
However, even if there was no way to escape, it didn't make him stretch out his neck to be killed. Instead, it aroused his courage.
This was very normal. If he was really a coward, why would he take a ship from the Old Continent and cross the Black Sea to the New Continent to join some privateer fleet?
"Clang!"
He pulled out a chilling sword from the weapon rack beside him and turned around to charge at the small door that was already half-opened.
"Ah, monster, die!"
"Raise the sails!"
"Bang!"
In between steps, Hawkins' body was already like a fully drawn bow. Strength rose from the soles of his feet, and most of the strength in his body was twisted into a thin rope.
The longsword in his hand was like the tip of a crossbow, shooting out with a whistling wind.
It went straight for the chest of the bird monster that had already half of its body in the room.
"Clang!"
However, even with the limit of his swordsmanship, he could only stab the tip of his sword into the bird monster's chest before it was blocked by the dragon bone protrusion. It could not go any further.
The bird monster just lightly swung its arm and sent him flying, crashing into a weapon rack.
"Huff … Huff …"
While he was struggling to get up, the two bird monsters had already expanded the small door into a large enough space and went in one after another.
"Caw caw caw!"
The terrifying screeches seemed to be telling the excitement of tasting human flesh, but it also sounded the death knell for the youth who had already made his last effort.
"Rustle …"
Hawkins sat on the ground and stepped back step by step. Under the heavy pressure of death, the expression on his face began to crumble.
"Huff … Huff … I haven't been able to make a name for myself and return home with a large amount of treasure.
Am I going to become the bird monster's food today? Mother … I'm sorry, I broke my promise … "
As he muttered to himself, he suddenly felt that the floor under him was a little strange. It was unexpectedly cold to the touch.
"Hmm?"
He looked down and saw a small iron door that had been sealed by dust for a long time. It seemed to be an entrance to the cellar.
Hawkins was instantly energized.
When the two monsters were about to pounce, he did not have the time to think about why he did not notice the small iron door in the beginning. He had already opened it.
"Huff …"
The wind that did not seem to be gloomy rushed out first.
He looked down and saw that it was pitch black inside, as if it was shrouded in a thin layer of gray fog. It looked like the entrance to hell.
But at this moment, he couldn't care less about what strange things there might be in the pitch-black underground space. He directly jumped down.
He fell quickly and disappeared into the darkness in an instant.
However.
After he disappeared, the two white bird monsters instantly stopped attacking and lined up in a row like well-trained servants.
It was as if the previous continuous pursuit was just to let the youth enter the small door of the "cellar".
"Tap … Tap … Tap …"
At this time, footsteps came from behind the small door again. Two young men, one with brown hair and the other with blue hair, wearing gray robes like fog, walked in.
They passed by the two motionless bird monsters and went straight to the entrance of the "cellar".
"This Mr. Hawkins is also an inheritor of the 'White Sail Sword School'. It's a bit surprising.
At such a young age, he can come all the way to the New World to join the privateer fleet. It seems that he is also a person with a story. "
"I don't know if he has a story or not. I only know that this guy is subconsciously very defensive, or he has a past that he doesn't dare to face.
He subconsciously built such a large maze in the dream and ran desperately for half a night under fatal threats before exposing the entrance to the lower layer of the dream.
I'm about to die from exhaustion! "
Even in the dream of ordinary people, the brain would subconsciously create various conveniences for the owner of the dream so that he could escape from all kinds of incredible desperate situations.
At this time, it was already the limit to use the dream to explore some useful information. If he wanted to directly kill someone in the dream, it was already beyond the limit of the two of them.
Elvin automatically ignored the lazy guy's words and looked at the door that was opened by Hawkins. It seemed to be the entrance to the dark well that led to the depths of the underground.
"Although the workload tonight is not small, it is worth it to get a rare talent in business and internal affairs.
Think about the benefits of him passing the test. You don't have to be my secretary anymore. Don't you feel motivated now? "
After that, Elvin jumped down first.
"Even if you don't need me to be your secretary, I don't have any motivation. Besides, didn't we agree that we won't play this game anymore? "
But although she complained, Milan's body was very honest. She had already jumped down with Elvin.
After passing through a layer of fog, the two landed on the ground in the blink of an eye.
A person's dream had a unique layered structure. Even the people from the Crafty Dream Sect could not say how many layers there were in the dream.
But for ordinary people, the dream was mainly divided into two large layers: the shallow layer and the deep layer.
In the shallow layer, people had a certain level of consciousness. Some people could even realize that they were dreaming and could bring some blurry memories back to the real world.
But the deeper one went into the dream, the more one would be able to fuse with the information in the deep layer where one's secrets and memories were hidden.
They could no longer distinguish between dream and reality.
When the two of them entered Hawkins' deep dream, they happened to see a part of Hawkins' true memories.
And it had not happened that long ago.
It was a large chamber of commerce with a lot of people and looked very impressive.
On the second floor of the merchant guild, a group of well-dressed employees were working in an orderly manner.
Although he was not old, Hawkins' status among the employees was not low. He was leading three employees who were obviously much younger than him to sort out a few business contracts.
Like an outsider, Elvin looked at the furnishings and signs in the merchant guild and could not help but be surprised.
"Huh? This is the Elia Kingdom's Egret Merchant Guild?! "
At this moment.
Tap … tap … tap …
A middle-aged man with a short beard and an unremarkable appearance but extremely imposing aura, wearing a decent noble's suit, walked past the independent room where Hawkins was, surrounded by a group of attendants, and then walked down the stairs without looking sideways.
Seeing the egret emblem on the man's sleeve, combined with the information he had specially collected, Elvin's body suddenly trembled. His eyes narrowed dangerously as he enunciated each word.
"That person is … Count Wright Nicol!"
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