As soon as they came out of the prison, they were attacked right at the entrance.
Because right in front of them, on a crooked tree, there were two men who had been stripped naked and hung upside down.
The wind was blowing, and they were swaying from side to side.
Lady Merlo seemed to have seen a lot. She remained calm as if she didn't see anything. Behind her, Sybil's pupils contracted. She almost screamed, but she managed to hold it back. She couldn't afford to lose her cool image.
As for the third woman, Amessa, she didn't react much either. As someone who grew up in a junkyard, she had seen all kinds of despicable things. Still, she couldn't hide the disgust in her eyes.
As for Angor, just like the other men, he did not react much. He only glanced at the knight's armor on the ground and contacted Dorcas in silence.
"Did you kill the two people at the door?"
Dorcas quickly replied, "You saw it? What do you think? Do you find it artistic? "
Even though it was just a simple message, Angor could feel the pride in Dorcas' voice.
"Artistic? I only saw something that was blown away by the wind. "
Angor paused. "You hung them upside down on the tree. Are you trying to imitate the princess?"
"That princess has some crazy tricks up her sleeves, but I have to say, she gave me a different kind of artistic feeling. I came from the castle and saw them hanging outside the prison. My hands got itchy, so — "
Angor cut off the conversation. It was enough to know that Dorcas did it. What he was going to say next was pointless.
"Ms. Merlot, was this done by the empress?" A cold voice asked softly.
The one who spoke was Sybil. She maintained her etiquette and tilted her head to ask for Ms. Merlot's instructions. At the same time, she blocked out the eye-piercing scene on the opposite side.
Lady Merlo didn't know how to answer. When she was in the fourth level of the prison, she heard from her cellmates that the princess was someone who could even kill her own subordinates. But she didn't know whether she did it or not.
Angor spoke up, "You can think of it as her doing. If you follow me to the princess' castle, you'll see more things like this. Or even crueler. At the very least, the two people hanging on the tree have only fainted and are not dead. "
Of course, they were not far from death. This could be seen from their red and swollen faces.
"So, do you still intend to follow me?"
Angor said he was giving them a choice, but they didn't have a choice. Lady Merlo was the only one who could make the decision. Only Lady Merlo, who had regained her strength, could bring them out of the Queen's Castle.
Lady Merlot nodded without much hesitation. "Let's go together and bring Glaus and Blaze back."
In Lady Merlot's opinion, it was nothing more than a cruel scene. It was much friendlier than the way the dark wizards chose talents. It just so happened that if there were more cruel scenes in the castle, it would be good to let these talented people experience the reality of the human world first.
"Let's go then." Angor considered for a moment and nodded.
Actually, he was hoping that Lady Merlo would take these people away first. However, Ms. Merlot seemed to have misunderstood him.
He didn't want to take these people with him because Dorcas already told him that the hanging man was imitating the princess' style. Also, Dorcas mentioned that Blaze and Glaus were hanging upside down in the princess' room.
They were both men, so it wasn't a big deal for them to be seen naked. However, it was his future colleagues who saw it. Angor would feel embarrassed if he put himself in their shoes. If they could survive, at least in the next few years, they would avoid these people whenever they saw them.
Since Lady Merlot didn't get his point, Angor had no choice but to lead them to the castle.
As Dorcas said, they didn't see many people along the way.
When they arrived at the castle, they saw more people around them. A large number of guards were patrolling the area, while many servants were taking care of the amusement park's facilities.
Normal people would have nowhere to hide in such a situation. However, under the cover of Angor's illusion, they were able to enter the castle without having to worry about anything.
They walked through the main entrance because the main entrance happened to be opened. A group of people wearing black tutu dresses and white headscarves, looking like nuns, walked out with their heads lowered and plates in their hands.
When Angor and the others walked past them, they could clearly see the marks of swords on their faces.
Presumably, these were the castle maids that Dorcas had mentioned. The princess did some "artistic" work on the maids' faces, and this was the result.
As for what was in the tray the maid was holding, they didn't know at first because it was covered by a silver cover.
One of the maids stumbled a little. She didn't fall down, but the lid fell off the plate. Everyone could clearly see that the plate contained a human foot that had been chopped off.
The maid hurriedly closed the lid, lowered her head, and left with the others.
Angor and the others walked past them and entered the castle.
"Using a plate to hold human feet … Is that empress an ogre?" Before the lady could speak, the three men who were gathered together had already started discussing with a trembling voice.
"I don't know if she's an ogre or not, but if you don't shut up, you'll be found out sooner or later," Sibyl spoke in a cold voice.
The three men quickly realized that something was wrong and stopped talking.
However, they underestimated Angor's illusion. If it could block people's senses, it could also block their voices. Even if they sang loudly, no one would notice them, let alone whispering to each other.
Angor didn't bother to explain himself though. It was better if they didn't talk.
After passing through a plain corridor, they arrived at the main hall on the first floor. As soon as they arrived, they smelled a rich, buttery smell.
The sweet smell immediately whetted their appetites.
The smell came from a gap between the curtains on the left.
Everyone looked at the curtains instinctively. Just then, the curtains were pushed open, and a maid came out with a cart with her head lowered.
The maid lowered her head, but Angor could still see the unspeakable sadness around her.
As for the reason, it was probably the "thing" on the cart.
It wasn't a buttery dessert like they expected. Instead, it was a dead person. The dead person was wearing the same clothes as the maid, so she must have been a servant of the castle when she was alive. There was a giant axe stuck between her eyebrows. White brain matter flowed out from the gap and covered the front half of the cart with a sticky substance.
The group of talented individuals who had rarely seen such a scene stared blankly as the maid slowly pushed the cart away.
It wasn't until the maid walked behind another curtain that someone whispered, "Why? Why did she die?"
"Maybe she's a traitor of the castle? Was she punished? "
The men's discussion revolved around why the maid had died.
At this moment, Sybil didn't stop them from talking because she was also whispering to Madam Merlot.
"I think I saw a piece of paper on the dead maid's body. There was something written on it —"
Lady Merlo finished the sentence for her. "It said, 'Cream Cake'."
Cream Cake? Why was this name written on it? Could it be that the smell of butter they had smelled before had something to do with this dead person?
Everyone was trying to figure out what was going on.
His spirit feelers followed the dead body into another room, where he saw a fat man in a chef's suit chopping up the dead body of the servant with a giant machete in his hand. Soon, the man finished chopping the body into several large pieces, put them on a plate, and covered it with a lid. At the same time, the fat man ordered the maids who were waiting by the door to carry the plates to the farm.
Angor already knew what was going on. The maids who carried the plates at the door must have left through this chef's place.
The "farm" referred to the Forest of Phantom Beasts where he first came to this world.
Angor didn't think about why those beasts were so fat. Now he knew the answer.
Angor withdrew his spirit feelers and sighed in his mind.
He now understood why White Bear had to run away from Goman Kingdom even if he had to walk for years.
Goman Kingdom was only the territory of the Elder Princess' daughter, and it was already so dangerous.
However, Goman King had a lot of children. Many of them were related to the king. If they all acted like the Princess' Castle, one could imagine how chaotic the Goman Kingdom would be.
As for Goman King's descendants and relatives, would any of them be good people? Maybe there were, but they would all fall under Goman King's tyranny. For example, the kidnapping of supernaturals was definitely an order from Goman King. If the princess was doing it, how could the other children and grandchildren not do it?
When Angor came back to his senses, he saw that the others were still talking about the "Cream Cake" note.
There were all kinds of guesses, but none of them were right.
After all, even if these talents had evil thoughts, they were still normal people. Normal people wouldn't understand the thoughts of a lunatic.
"It's the human wheel," Angor announced the answer.
When the princess was having her meal, she would occasionally come up with some "creative ideas". The human wheel was one of them. She would stick the name of the food on a person's body, then put the person on the wheel. The wheel would spin, and whoever hit the target would get to choose the food.
That was what Dorcas told Angor.
However, Dorcas only saw the wheel and didn't use it yet.
Now, it was time for the princess to have her meal. Judging from the current situation, at least two people had died because of this.
Even Lady Merlo gasped in astonishment after hearing Angor's explanation.
Such a cruel method was only part of the princess' meal?!
"She's only 12 years old, right? She's still so young …"
"To be precise, she was 11 years old and eight months old."
Because the princess was still a child, there was an amusement park here. Of course, only a small part of the park was for the princess to play with. The rest of the items looked like entertainment items, but they were actually torture devices.
The others were also shocked. Angor told them that there were crueler things in this place, but they didn't expect to see such a crazy scene as soon as they entered the castle.
Angor glanced at the curtain the maid brought out from the carriage.
Using his spirit feelers, he saw a little girl eating a cream cake with her back facing him.
She was probably going to be the Empress.
Angor didn't keep watching because Dorcas told him that the princess was protected by a wizard. Also, Dorcas sensed that the princess herself was also a threat, but he didn't know where it came from.
Angor already saw the wizard protecting the princess. The wizard was sitting in a corner, looking at the human wheel with a pitiful expression.
Angor had heard about this wizard before. He was a wizard from the Raven Family who called himself Gray Raven.
The Raven Family had been in charge of this wizard market ever since it was still called Morandy Market. Morandy Market was now called Princess' Town, and the wizard from the Raven Family became the princess' bodyguard.
There must be something else going on between them.
But that wasn't important right now. He only needed to know that Gray Raven had been recruited by the Goman Royal Family.
Since the princess was having her meal on the first floor, and Gray Raven was also here, there shouldn't be too many guards in her room right now.
He didn't plan to confront the princess right now. He needed to save Glas and Brazier first before he thought about anything else.
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