Before entering Dark Castle, Angor returned to the Centenary Palace and put Fiona inside his bracelet.
He didn't fully trust the Grand Priest's words. Who knew what would happen if Fiona stayed here?
After taking Fiona away, Angor returned to the altar. He didn't enter the portal right away. Instead, he took Toby and climbed up the mountain again.
Not long after, Toby began to "sleepwalk" again. He flapped his wings and flew up on his own while he was unconscious.
Angor followed closely behind Toby, who soon stopped.
Toby was still halfway up the mountain.
If they kept going down, Toby would continue to "sleepwalk". Toby didn't resist Angor's order. But when they reached the back of the mountain … To Angor's surprise, he saw a small path extending from the temple to the other side of the mountain.
There was a cliff at the end of the path.
As a master of illusions, Angor could tell that the cliff was created by an illusion. Behind it was a deep and serene cave.
Before he even got close, he could faintly feel a cold and dangerous atmosphere.
Toby flapped its wings and tried to fly out of the cave.
Angor stopped it. If the Grand Priest was right, this path should lead to the center of the mountain. And Isabelle's Soul Orb might be inside.
Angor glanced at the cliff again and left the mountain.
He only wanted to see if the Grand Priest was telling the truth. So far, there was indeed a path leading to the center of the mountain, and Toby was looking forward to it.
Maybe the Grand Priest was telling the truth?
Whether it was true or not, he decided to pay a visit to Dark Castle.
Using Infinite Reticence, he walked to the center of the altar and entered the passage leading to the inner world.
What he didn't know was that as soon as he stepped into the portal … A small door in the hall of the Centenary Palace was pushed open. Following some "heehee" noises, Jia Mi, Jia Ao, and Jia Miao came out of the door in a panic.
The three brothers were holding a piece of paper in their hands.
After the three brothers arrived at the Hundred Year Palace, they began to chatter loudly, as if they were calling for someone … but no one responded.
They looked around, put the paper on the ground, and began to look around.
However, when Angor left, the hall was empty. Even Fiona was taken away by him.
In the end, the three brothers returned to the side of the note with sad faces.
A gust of wind blew the paper into the air and slowly unfolded it.
He could faintly see that there was a row of words written in blood on the note —
"Angor", "Leave", "Silent Hill", "Save me" …
…
Dark clouds were rolling in the sky, and thunder and lightning never stopped.
"So this is Otherworld?"
He was surrounded by darkness. Thanks to the flash of lightning, he could see that he was now inside a small forest.
Angor couldn't tell if it was day or night.
He didn't dare to use Light in this strange place. Instead, he activated Infinite Reticence and waited for the lightning to strike again.
Thunder rumbled, and lightning flashed across the sky above the bushes again. . using his memory, he found a hidden path.
He slowly walked along the path.
While walking, he observed his surroundings with the help of the lightning. There were withered grasses on the ground, black pebbles, and trees everywhere. There were no man-made structures in sight. The only traces of humans were probably the footprints left by the previous owner.
Soon, Angor smelled blood. At the same time, he heard the sobbing of a woman.
The sound of sobbing lingered in the air, lingering in his ears hundreds and thousands of times.
Angor didn't follow the sound. Instead, he kept walking along the path. However, the deeper he went, the louder the sobbing became. It sounded like countless women were crying in the woods.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky. In the light, Angor saw a naked woman floating in the air on one side of the path, crying with her hands covering her face.
Angor looked at her. The woman sensed someone looking at her. She quickly looked up, revealing a pale and horrifying face. Her veins were bulging, her fangs were stained with blood, and there were no pupils in her eyes.
As soon as she looked up, she released a strong aura of resentment.
"Undead?"
Depraved souls were called undead. They were different from ordinary souls. Souls were pure energy and didn't fear any exorcism methods. Undead, on the other hand, were not pure souls. They were filled with evil energy, darkness, murder, and blood. In both the mortal world and the wizarding world, undead were synonymous with evil.
Angor activated Infinite Reticence. The woman stared at the path for a long time and didn't see anything. She slowly relaxed her shoulders and went back to sobbing.
Angor kept walking. The sobbing became louder and louder as he walked. Every time he saw a flash of lightning, he would see several undead souls. Once, Angor saw nearly a hundred female undead souls piled up on a large tree.
They were all naked and crying with their hands covering their faces.
The scene reminded Angor of Ness' Valley of Souls. The souls there were all naked as well. At least there were men in that valley. However, all the people in this forest were women.
One or two undead souls was fine. But why did all of them turn into undead souls? How much injustice, or how much resentment, would cause so many undead to appear?
The wind rustled, and a cool breeze suddenly blew from the front.
He looked up and saw that there were no longer any trees blocking his way. He could clearly see the dark clouds and countless lightning bolts.
When he got closer, he realized that he was at the top of a cliff.
He wasn't standing on a flat surface. Instead, he was in the middle of a mountain. The end of the path wasn't an exit. Instead, it was a cliff about a hundred meters high.
Standing at the top of the cliff, Angor could clearly see his surroundings with the help of the lightning bolts.
They were surrounded by mountains. Only a few thousand meters away at the top of a strange mountain stood a huge castle filled with an eerie atmosphere all by itself.
The castle's background was filled with countless lightning bolts. From time to time, he could see strange vines and strange black decorations.
It looked just like the residence of a vampire count described in horror stories.
Looking at it from afar, Angor couldn't help but shudder in fear.
But since it was the only building nearby, Angor's instinct told him that it was his destination — Dark Castle.
He had no choice but to go.
Lowering his hat, Angor began to plan the route to the scary castle in his mind. He should be able to reach Dark Castle by taking a detour. But he would have to enter the forest, which he already knew how creepy it was.
The other path, which seemed to be the shortest one so far, was a long, winding road that led directly to Dark Castle.
Angor looked down the long, winding road and noticed that the path to Dark Castle led to a … graveyard at the bottom of the cliff.
He looked down and saw that it wasn't a forest at the bottom of the cliff. Instead, it was a graveyard surrounded by an iron fence.
Looking down from above, Angor could see countless tombstones and flickering phosphorescent lights.
Outside the gate of the graveyard was the road that led directly to Dark Castle.
Should he go down the cliff or take a detour into the forest? On one side, there was a creepy graveyard. On the other, there was a forest full of undead souls.
Without hesitation, he jumped down from the cliff.
Since both sides were creepy, he might as well go with the shortest path.
As he fell, he could see more and more clearly. The graveyard below was a mass grave. The tombstones were in a mess. Some of them were even broken into several pieces. Not only that, but there were also some whose coffins were exposed to the sky. There were also some that had been dug directly into a large pit, but they were not buried.
Using a tornado, Angor successfully landed on the ground.
His landing spot was close to the gate of the graveyard. He only needed to go around a large hole to reach the gate.
But as soon as he landed, he heard terrifying screams coming from all directions. Pairs of pale hands reached out from the edge of the hole. Hundreds of female undead souls crawled out.
Angor was startled and quickly moved away from his landing spot.
With Infinite Reticence, these undead souls shouldn't be able to see him. But he made too much noise just now. If they noticed him, he wouldn't be able to hide anymore. Infinite Reticence didn't really make him invisible. It only weakened his presence until he could be completely invisible. But once he was noticed, he would no longer be able to weaken his presence.
Angor leaped several times and landed behind an open coffin.
He hid behind the coffin and watched the undead souls crawling out of the hole. They all swarmed to where Angor was standing before and kept looking around, trying to find any trace of "human life".
Angor's Purification Field didn't allow any aura to leak out. In the end, the undead souls returned to the hole in despair and covered their faces with their hands.
Angor watched them leave. Female undead souls again?
And why is there a graveyard on the way to Dark Castle?
These undead souls had low energy signatures, but Angor wasn't sure if he could defeat them. Undead souls were very troublesome to deal with. He either had to banish them, disintegrate them, or purify them. Most of the time, wizards didn't even bother to deal with undead souls.
Angor was starting to miss the "Rebirth" weapon he made for Prome. It was a revolver enchanted with Prelude to Elimination.
If he had it, he could easily ignore these undead souls.
However, he only made two. He gave one to Prome and sold the other to Vice. Angor planned to make one for himself as well. But the incident at Midnight Sovereign caught him off guard and sent him to Fairy World.
Here, he was extremely lacking in materials, so it was impossible for him to refine anything.
When the undead souls returned to the hole, Angor quietly stood up.
After he stood up, the first thing he saw wasn't the huge crater in the distance, but the coffin with its lid open in front of him.
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