The black coffin was left in the open without a tombstone. Also, the lid of the coffin was nowhere to be seen. The skeleton inside was exposed.
This skeleton was very small. It had a small skull, a small skeleton, and even its limbs were very short and small. From what he could see, it was only about 1.2 or 1.3 meters long.
Clearly, it was the body of a child.
He moved his gaze away from the regret and looked at a shining spot near his neck.
The reason he noticed the coffin was because when the lightning flashed over his head, there was a reflection in the coffin.
Angor took out the reflection. It was a necklace. The necklace was made of platinum, and the pendant was a heart-shaped ruby. The gem was crystal clear. It was carved into sixteen sides by a jewelry maker. As the lightning flashed, the smooth sides reflected a bright light.
Angor rubbed the gem and found a mechanism on the edge. Click! A small hidden compartment was opened.
"Just as I thought." Angor noticed that the gem was polished into sixteen sides. The reflection from the sides made it difficult to see the true depth of the gem. It looked like the jewels were fully inlaid, but in fact, the jewels were only a thin layer. The reason for this illusion was that the eyes were deceived by the light.
Hiding things in personal accessories was something most nobles liked to do. Of course, since the accessories were too small, the hidden items were not too valuable. However, nobles who were bored did not care about valuables. They just wanted a gimmick and a surprise, or something to talk about in noble gatherings.
Angor also had this problem. For example, he hid his hologram tablet in the hidden compartment of his pocket watch.
Because of this, Angor was able to open the gemstone's mechanism in no time.
When the hidden compartment was opened, a broken piece of silk floated out.
The silk was thin, but the stitches on it were very neat. This broken piece of silk was not something ordinary people could get their hands on.
Maybe the child's body used to belong to a noble.
Angor unfolded the silk. It was not big. One palm was enough to hold it. There was a drawing on the silk. A little girl with curly hair was smiling happily. Her nose was a little flat, and her face was covered in freckles. She did not look very pretty, but her smile was bright and cute. On her left was a young man who was hugging her shoulder. However, the young man's face was damaged and she couldn't see his face clearly. Her right hand was raised high, and a small bird with patterns that looked like eyes and peacock feathers was flapping its wings on the back of her hand.
At the bottom of the silk, there was a row of tiny words.
However, the handwriting was very messy and ugly, like the scribbles of a child. He spent a lot of effort and waited for several lightning bolts before he could make out a few words.
"… Little Sister, for your ninth birthday …"
It seemed that this little girl's brother or sister had given her a present for her ninth birthday. If the person who drew on the silk was the giver, then it was probably the young man whose face she couldn't see clearly.
He put the silk back into the hidden compartment of his necklace and placed it beside the corpse. If there were no surprises, this child's corpse should be the little girl in the painting. She appeared to be a young noble lady, but for some reason, she died in the Inner Plane's graveyard.
He didn't really care since he didn't get anything useful from the coffin. Originally, he didn't have any expectations.
He circled around the coffin and slowly walked toward the pit he came from. If he wanted to take a shortcut to the entrance of the graveyard, he would have to go around this pit.
This time, he didn't cause any noise when he reached the edge of the pit.
The longer he walked around the pit, the more uncomfortable he felt. It wasn't because of some strange power. It was because he could clearly see what was inside the pit with the help of the lightning bolts.
Old skeletons, rotten corpses, and fresh corpses were all tangled together.
Leaving the skeletons aside, the corpses that weren't rotten or half-rotten were quite shocking. The pale skin, the venomous and soulless expressions, and the stiff movements before death. You pester me, I pester you. It was like a dark and bloody painting of corpses in all sorts of states.
Especially when these corpses were all naked women. It also added a hint of sex to the painting, which made it even more creepy and perverted.
Judging from the degree of decay, they all died at different times. Some died recently, while others died a long time ago.
Their corpses were clean, except for a dark red wound on their chest. He believed that this was the fatal wound of these women.
This place was close to Dark Castle, so the killers were probably from Dark Castle.
But why did they kill these women? And so many of them?
And to create so many undead creatures, they must have suffered a great deal of pain before they died. Otherwise, they wouldn't have gathered so many undead creatures.
Angor looked at the majestic castle at the end of the winding road. At this moment, he felt a sense of disgust towards Dark Castle.
Not long ago, he met the current master of Dark Castle, Queen Isabella of the Twilight Castle. She was still smiling when she saw him, but in the next second, she ordered An Ying to kill him without saying a word.
Since the upper beam was so crooked, it was reasonable for the lower beam to do things like torture and kill women. Or even worse, he might have been directly killed by the "roof beam".
Isabella, that lunatic, would do such a thing.
Angor walked around the pit and reached the entrance of the graveyard.
The gate was open, and Angor was surprised to see a row of footprints in front of it.
Judging from the pattern, it was very similar to the leather boots that Shadow was wearing. Perhaps not long ago, Shadow had also left from here?
As he pondered, he suddenly felt something moving in his chest pocket.
Toby was in the chest pocket, but why was Toby moving at this moment?
Angor carefully took Toby out of the pocket. The bird's eyes were still closed, which meant it was still unconscious. But Toby's wings were fluttering as if he was going to fly.
Toby's condition reminded him of the time when Toby was in the holy mountain. It was exactly the same.
Was there a Soul Orb nearby?
But there was still a long way to go to Dark Castle. Angor's mind was filled with questions. He quickly grabbed Toby when the bird was about to fly away.
There were so many undead creatures outside. If Toby left Angor's side, they would surely notice him. If Toby was awake, the undead creatures wouldn't be able to catch up with him. But Toby was "sleepwalking" and didn't know what was going on. Angor didn't want to let Toby fly away.
He could only rely on the direction that Toby was flying in and bring Toby there himself.
Angor frowned when he saw where Toby was pointing.
Toby wasn't pointing to Dark Castle. Instead, it was pointing to the other side of the graveyard.
Angor landed on the right side of the graveyard, but Toby was pointing to the left side. Angor tried to recall what he saw when he jumped off the cliff. The left side of the graveyard didn't seem to have anything out of the ordinary. There weren't any messy graves like the ones on the right either.
Angor considered for a moment and decided to walk there.
If there was really a Soul Orb or something that could help Toby's soul, he would definitely check it out.
The left side of the graveyard was a bit cleaner. At least there weren't too many exposed coffins. Angor could still hear the crying of women, but he didn't see any undead creatures.
Most of the gravestones were empty, but some of them had names written on them. However, these names were all written in blood instead of engraved on the gravestones. Most of them had already turned into puddles of blood due to the humidity.
Looking at the different handwriting on the tombstone, Angor pictured a naked woman writing her name in front of the tombstone while shedding tears of blood.
Were the names on the gravestones really written by the dead woman herself?
If that was the case, it would be too horrifying.
Angor shuddered and kept following Toby's guidance.
Finally, he stopped beside a well.
The well looked ordinary from the outside, and there wasn't any strange smell coming from it. But it was strange enough that there was a well in a graveyard. He also noticed that there was a thin layer of mana around the entrance of the well, which contained a strong dark attribute. Any undead creature that got close to the well would be "purified" by the dark energy.
Someone must have set it up on purpose.
Angor couldn't even hear the cries of the undead creatures, which meant the "purifying" power of the well was quite strong.
Strange well, mana that could expel undead creatures … All these signs pointed to the fact that something was down there. But Toby was pointing to the bottom of the well.
In the end, Angor jumped into the well.
About three seconds later, he landed on the ground. The well was dry. There wasn't any water vapor. Angor didn't sense any resentment from the undead creatures nearby, so he decided to use Light.
With the illumination of the Illumination Spell, the surroundings were revealed.
The bottom of the well looked like a karst cave. There were stalactites that looked like small spires growing on the ground. Behind the layers of stalactites, a dark hole that led to an unknown place was revealed.
Toby, who was "sleepwalking," was pointing in the direction of the cave entrance.
Angor became more cautious and slowly moved forward.
He didn't walk far before he heard someone sobbing again. However, compared to the mournful cries that he heard outside, this cry was much simpler. It felt like a sincere cry, a cry that did not express any emotions.
Angor kept moving forward. It wasn't a big cave. Soon, he saw the end of it.
At the same time, he saw the owner of the "crying".
It was a little girl wearing a yellow dress.
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