At the bottom of the stairwell, a weak light shone out from a door. It illuminated the figure of the man standing on the last step of the stairs.
"If you're not afraid of death, then come in, you two reckless fools." The voice of the Demon King came from behind the door.
These words made Dorothy stop in her tracks. She already had a very bad feeling, and she didn't know why she was so obsessed that she actually followed him. In fact, she regretted it halfway down the stairs. Now that she received such a warning in front of the door, she was even more determined not to enter.
However, the man who came down first didn't have such self-awareness. He walked through the door without any hesitation.
From the perspective map of the ancient castle, this basement was the deepest room in the underground. It wasn't big, and looked like it was built for some kind of ceremony. The magic circle was standard equipment, and the workmanship was very rough. The candle made of some unknown material was burning, and it gave off a strange, pungent smell. The most special thing was that there was an item floating in the center of the magic circle.
The curious Lin walked into the magic circle, wanting to see the item clearly in the dim light. He had to get closer. But … why is my face wet?
He reached out and wiped his hand, and his sleeve was covered in blood. He then wiped his face, and his fingertips were covered in blood.
Fen, who suddenly appeared in front of him, slapped Lin's forehead and said, "You're bleeding from your eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, and you still want to stay here? Do you really want to blind yourself and kill yourself before you're willing to stop? "
Fen picked up the man who was bleeding from his seven orifices and walked out, saying, "Let's go. Let's go up and see if there's any material that can be made into a container and take this thing away. "
The man who was picked up didn't argue with the Lich, which was rare. This was because there were waves churning in his body, layer upon layer, crashing into every part of his body. His entire mind was focused on how to calm the restless power in his body, and he didn't have time to argue with the Lich.
Because the stairwell was too narrow, Dorothy, who had followed them down, blocked the entire way. The abnormal state of Lin's horrifying face shocked the noble Lady of the Vampire Family. For a moment, his mind was in a mess.
Fen didn't stand on ceremony and shouted at the vampires blocking her way, "Hurry up and get up there. Don't just stand there. Otherwise, I'll be stepping over your dead body. "
Dorothy returned to her senses and walked up without hesitation. It was extremely difficult to walk down, as if he had walked for most of his life. However, going up was like going from hell to heaven. It didn't take long for him to walk out of the spiral stairwell.
The two apprentices had already done their preliminary sorting. Several large piles of items were placed in a corner of the secret room.
As for the person who was carried out of the spiral stairwell, he was thrown to the side of his apprentice.
Halloumi and Kaya had been concentrating on the tasks assigned to them. The sudden interruption naturally caused them to be dissatisfied. However, when he took a closer look, he realized that it was his teacher. It was fine if he didn't look that good, but now, his face was bloodless, and his facial features were bleeding profusely. For a moment, the two of them nervously wiped their faces and were completely at a loss for what to do.
The restlessness in his body gradually calmed down. Lin recalled what had happened … No, he couldn't remember anything at all. He couldn't remember what he had seen. He only knew that he had walked forward and wanted to take a closer look. Then, he had been hit. If it wasn't for the other force in his body that resisted it, he would have died here today.
In the dream, there was supposed to be a lonely, unfinished two-story magic tower and a sky full of stars. But now, there were a lot of grayish-white broken limbs. Some were hands, some were feet, but most of them were octopus-like tentacles. A fatty and a middle school student were in a sorry state. It was obvious that they had gone through a fierce battle.
Looking at the things that had just invaded his body, the fat otaku couldn't help but complain, "Since when did tentacle demons target men? Could it be that the original version has already been in and out in reality?"
Pushing up his glasses, the chuunibyou avatar retorted, "As far as we know, only one system's tentacle demons will attack men, isn't it?"
Imitating his chuunibyou avatar, he pretended to push up his glasses and said, "It's definitely not the Japanese H-Game system, but … it can't really be that, right? There's actually a mystical land? "
"Yes. An indescribable existence … "As soon as the chuunibyou avatar finished speaking, the only two people in the dream world looked at each other helplessly. The mystical land was very dangerous. They really wanted to go back to Earth.
In reality, Lin, who had regained control of his body, was panting heavily. With a horrified expression, he looked at the Lich who was rummaging through something and asked, "What was that thing just now?"
"Oh, I was just about to praise you for being lucky that you're not dead or blind. Now you're asking such a question."
"There's always something you can tell me, right?" Lin continued to ask helplessly. It was one thing to play safe. It was another thing to be in a daze and not even know what to be on guard against. Also, he had a vague guess about what had happened to him.
He took Hallumi away and allowed the half-dead man to lie on Kaya's thigh. Fen organized her words and made sure that she could say what she wanted to say. Then she said seriously, "That's part of the Dominator. And don't think that it's just a part. It shouldn't be a threat. The power of the Dominator is beyond your imagination. Even if it's just a small part, it's still related to the original body. "
The Dominator was a name that only appeared when the Demon King Tikal ruled the world, which was the early stage of the Dark Age. It was the main combat force that slaughtered the old gods. But in fact, when Lin Sheng first heard the name "Dominator," the first thing that came to his mind was the Crusu myth, which included the Old Dominators. It was a fantasy horror story from Europe and America.
However, records about the Dominator were quite rare in history, and they were not detailed. That was why Lin did not look into it after reading it. After all, it was very far away from him, and it was not something that a small character like a Mage could come into contact with. But today, he still ran into it. Was this luck? Or was it misfortune?
This reminded Lin Sheng of the "lucky coin" that Hallumi had tossed at the fork in the road. Was the thing broken? Otherwise, why would they run into such a dangerous thing?
Following his instructions, they dismantled a pile of useless magic equipment for the required parts, and then used Shaping to change the appearance of the equipment. Hallumi asked, "Sister, aren't the Dominators your allies?"
"Other than forming alliances with each other, they won't be allies with anyone else."
"Then how did they help you get rid of the old gods?" Hallumi asked. The girls had learned a lot about the bad deeds of the old gods from Fen. So they did not have a good impression of the old gods.
In response to the girl's question, Fen said proudly, "When your strength reaches a limit and there is no way to develop, you will naturally look for some breakthroughs. And the best reference is, of course, those who are more powerful than yourself. In the early stage, my strength was not enough to slay the gods. Or rather, at that time, I had no clue about the gods. So I disguised the fragment of the Dominator that I got by chance as a trophy. During one of my escapes from the pursuit of the gods, I pretended to accidentally fall, and the fragment of the Dominator entered the eyes of the old gods. And the different levels of power, as well as the existence that was far more powerful than the Maze, all of these attracted the greed of the old gods, allowing them to see the opportunity to break through. "
"And then?" As soon as they heard the story, the two girls' eyes glowed and they quickly asked. Perhaps they only heard it as an adventure story, but in Lin's ears, this was a proper historical secret.
However, the listener did not have the self-awareness, and the narrator did not care. So Fen continued, "I then spread the news that a certain god had obtained the fragment of the Dominator, and that god was very kind and exasperated, loudly declaring that he had not obtained anything and sent countless heroic spirits to hunt me down."
"Isn't that like what teacher said, trying to cover up makes it more conspicuous?"
"Indeed, trying to cover up makes it more conspicuous. At any rate, the other gods also took the bait, because the rumor was not made up, it was true. Therefore, in order to snatch the Dominator's Fragment, the gods launched a deadly divine war between them. No one was willing to easily hand over the opportunity to break through and surpass the other gods. And the gods who wanted to fight for the fragment not only wanted to take away the opportunity of the other gods to break through, they also wanted to fight for the opportunity to surpass the gods themselves. So, the first result of my great undertaking of slaying the gods came from the battle between the gods. "
"But elder sister, didn't you think of using the fragment for yourself to study the mystery of the Dominator before slaying the other gods?"
"At the time, I was blinded by hatred, so I didn't think too much about it. As for what happened after, it was fortunate that I didn't do that. "
"What happened?"
"The gods who studied the power of the Dominator, for some reason, opened the world barrier and welcomed the true body of the Dominator. Of course, it was those who were willing and able to come. And then, everyone died together. "
"Everyone died together?" Halloumi was confused by the use of words like that.
"Just like the literal meaning, everyone died together." Fen emphasized again before continuing, "Everyone who came into contact with the power of the Dominator fell into different degrees of madness, even I was the same. And the gods who studied the fragment in depth became the first victims of the Dominator's invasion. Those who survived were all unknown gods who were not qualified to fight for the Dominator's body in the previous battle. And these gods could not escape from my butcher's knife. In the end, all the gods entered an endless cycle of reincarnation. They kept coming back to life and kept being hunted down by me. "
"And after that, what about the invading Dominators?" Kaya was the one who asked. She keenly asked about the powerful beings who had not been mentioned in history.
"Although the Dominators were dangerous, they were not evil. Or rather, what we heard in history was actually just their instincts, but that was judged from a human point of view. Just like when you walk on the road, you don't care what insects you step on. When a mosquito lands on your face, you will only slap it to death. Whether it was humans or gods, to the Dominators, they were just that kind of existence. So, when the mystery was shrouded by the instincts of the Dominators, everyone was afraid of them and did not dare to mention them, so they naturally left our world. "
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