"Viscount André …" Anna repeated the name in a low voice, her voice full of uncontrollable fear.
The young man standing before the altar was exactly their future liege, Viscount André. He had a chiseled face that was rough, tough, and gloomy. Like other members of the Vladimir family, he had blond hair, blue eyes, and a unique tough-guy style. It was a pity that his eyes were brimming with indescribable fear. There was no telling whether it was because of the easy defeat of Duda and the frost giant Knight, or because he was blocked in the place of demon worship.
However, Anna did not notice Viscount André's face. Her heart was filled with the intelligence, stories, and legends about the guy: a genius Knight, the future Count of Calcate, a member of the Vladimir family, a great Knight at a young age, and a student of an epic Knight recently …
Those titles and deeds were enough to intimidate a common mercenary like Anna. Therefore, after they were combined, even though Viscount André had not taken action yet, and even though Sister Katrina, a powerful sorcerer, and a handsome vampire were floating next to her, she was still trembling from the bottom of her heart.
"He must have something extraordinary about him. Even among the level-five grand Knights, he must be one of the most distinguished ones. Otherwise, he couldn't have been appreciated by an epic Knight …"
"He is the future Count of Calcate. If the battle is discovered, the heavenly Knight will definitely kill us …"
"Also … Also, he is a student of an epic Knight. There is no telling whether or not 'Death Storm' Ninier has granted him senior-rank items and special powers … If Sister Katrina kills him, will she be hunted by an epic Knight?"
Countless thoughts popped up in Anna's head at the same time. Leaving aside whether or not Sister Katrina and the handsome vampire could defeat Viscount André, his identity as an epic Knight's student was enough to make them hesitate to kill him. If André was killed two to three months after he became his student, Ninier would certainly feel that he had been slapped in the face. Who on the spot could escape the pursuit of an epic Knight who controlled the power of death?
Similar worries, panic, and fear spread out in every mercenary's heart. Yakov was no exception. However, he soon calmed himself down. Viscount André was going to kill them. If they did not resist, they would definitely be killed right now, but if they resisted, they might still survive in the future. After all, they were just ants on the ground for the epic Knight and Count of Calcate. If they ran further, it was possible that they would not be bothered to hunt them in person. if they did not resist, they would definitely be killed right now.
So, the choice was self-evident!
"You shouldn't have come in. You forced me to do this. You forced me to do this …" Before the altar, André kept repeating those words, and the bloody mist spreading out of the altar grew denser and denser.
"What's wrong with him?" Although Viscount Carendia boasted that he knew a lot of mysterious knowledge, he still could not understand André's current state. So, he asked through the telepathic bond that Katrina enhanced in advance.
Katrina looked at Viscount André who had lost his mind indifferently and made a judgment calmly. "It's probably because we interrupted the ritual and corrupted him by the demonic power. He's in a temporary mental anomaly. Seize the opportunity and take him down."
While she was talking, a layer of pure and brilliant light lit up on her body. Then, dazzling light shot out like fireworks one after another, hitting the dense blood mist, the dark statues, and the weird altar.
When she performed 'Arcana Light', she seemed to be wearing a feather cloak made of light, making her look radiant and sacred. In the eyes of Anna, Yakov, and the rest of them, she was like an angel who had arrived and unfolded the wings of light on her back. Such spells were all created by the Congress of Magic with reference to the divine power. They looked very similar except that they did not have the special waves of the divine power.
Streaks of light hit the blood mist and burst out with dazzling light. However, the blood mist around the altar was obviously stronger than the ones in the outer hall that were blown away by the wind spell. After being hit by the Arcana Light, the blood mist only became a little thinner.
Katrina's' Arcana Light ', on the other hand, woke up Viscount André. The panic in his eyes was gone, and he said gloomily, "As I said, you forced me to do this!"
As he spoke and gestured, black lines appeared on the floor. They extended from all directions and drilled into the altar, forming a three-dimensional magic circle. Dark mist gushed out from the center of the altar, making the statue looming and emitting a faint sense of coldness.
"Do it now. The ritual is about to be completed!" Katrina attacked the altar and Viscount André with 'Lucien's Fireball', 'Scorching Sun', 'Thundercloud', and other spells, while she urged Viscount Carendia to take action.
The moment the ritual was activated, she sensed intense danger. The ritual was about to be completed and was only waiting for the final activation!
Viscount Carendia sniffed. "I thought that things would go well …"
The cloak on his back rose and turned into intense darkness, enshrouding the altar together with himself and corroding the magic patterns.
Inside the protection of the magic circle, Viscount André watched the blood mist, the black mist, and the magic patterns collapsing under the joint attack of the two of them. He shook his head gloomily and said, "You forced me to do this!"
He took out a dagger that did not glitter from his storage bag. It was ivory in color, but it looked rigid and full of the air of death. Looking at it, one would feel that they were seeing the summon of death!
"This is' Niner's Invitation ', a senior-rank dagger that my teacher gave me. Now, I will use it as the offering of the ritual. Triggered by the ritual, it will turn into a pure and complete storm of death. None of you will be able to escape! "Viscount André laughed crazily and threw 'Niner's Invitation' into the center of the altar.
"You are the master of darkness and the embodiment of desperation. You will freeze the world when the doomsday comes …" Viscount André raised his hands and chanted the ritual prayer aloud, like a priest of a cult rather than a Knight.
"They worship Gonheim, the 'Prince of Demons'!" The deeds of the Demogorgon of Darkness had been heard a lot in the Atom Institution in recent months. So, Katrina was no stranger to it. She reminded Viscount Carendia.
Inside the altar, darkness gushed out and covered the surroundings with a layer of frost. Suddenly, the altar, the main house, and the manor started to shake violently. A vortex that was deeper than the darkness and more desperate than the coldness slowly emerged. Seeing it, Anna felt a chill from the bottom of her heart. It was the same feeling she had when she was on the verge of death.
All the mercenaries, including Yakov, were attracted by the cyclone. As it revolved, they felt that their souls and their bodies were arguing and fighting uncontrollably.
After a bam, the darkness outside of the altar was lifted under the influence of the cyclone that was more and more intense. Countless black bats hit the wall and lost all their vitality.
"Storm of Death …" Viscount Carendia appeared before Katrina. His face paler than before, he grimaced. "I hate battles where the power of senior-rank items is triggered with rituals the most …"
While he spoke, he took out a picture frame from his pocket, in which was a portrait of the silver-haired and silver-eyed Rhein. The painting looked more decent than the man himself.
Experiencing the sense of death from the depths of her soul, Anna thought in desperation and fear, "Is this the power of legends? A senior-rank item that only contains part of the air of a legendary Knight can unleash such terrifying power? "
She struggled to turn around and look at Katrina, hoping that she would leave her behind and run away. She should be strong enough to escape, but she could not make any sound under the deterrence of death!
"Huh. What is Sister Katrina doing?" When her head was almost blank, Anna suddenly saw that Katrina's left hand was pressing a silver badge on which all kinds of mysterious symbols were drawn.
"Haha. You are about to taste the taste of 'Storm of Death'." André laughed crazily, not caring that the bloody mist and magic circles were shaking under the nonstop attacks.
Anna was about to close her eyes in pain. The pressure of death was too unbearable. However, at this moment, she heard Katrina's high and distant voice, which was very different from her usual voice.
"A cry from space, calling for the arrival of the Atomic Universe …"
Anna saw, in shock, that a boundless cosmos appeared behind Katrina. It was dark, deep, and brilliant, emitting different colors from the normal ones.
"The arrival of the cosmos?"
"The arrival of the cosmos?"
She, Yakov, and the rest of them all had the same question.
Then, they sensed the vastness of the cosmos and the subtlety of the stars, which seemed to contain infinite mysteries.
The feeling of vastness immediately eased their mind that was oppressed by death. They no longer felt any desperation or pain.
"What … What's this power?"
"Is it legendary too?"
In their widened eyes, a gaseous planet changed into a blueness that froze everything, and Katrina threw out a tube of colorless liquid with her right hand.
With the enhancement of the Atomic Universe, she simply broke the tube without casting any spells. Then, the liquid was condensed into a weird, colorless ray, before it hit the magic circle that was on the verge of collapse.
The water vapor was frozen, the blood mist was frozen, and the surrounding air was frozen. Deep blue, light blue, and transparent colors were intertwined, and the black death storm that erupted was also frozen, like pieces of black snowflakes.
Inside, Viscount André was frozen too. His items cracked, his skin was like ice, and his blood was completely solid. His face was frozen in the last moment of shock.
Then, the coldness was gone, and everything began to melt. Everything before turned into sparse drops of water.
Looking at the unbelievable scene, Anna and the rest of them felt that they were still in a dream.
"Had I known that you had such a pre-prepared ritual, I wouldn't have brought out the picture frame …" Viscount Carendia put away Rhein's portrait. "Evans's cold ray?"
"Yes." Katrina's face was rather pale, and cold sweat was popping up on her forehead. "It seems that André held a ritual to worship the Demogorgon of Darkness in order to improve his strength and potentials."
"It should be. Otherwise, he wouldn't have become a student of 'Death Storm' so soon after the ritual. Also, the Demogorgon of Darkness is most like a devil among the Demon Lords. It's only natural that he has believers." Viscount Carendia nodded, deep in thought.
… …
Inside a castle, a light beam that looked like a mirror reflected everything that happened in Duda's manor.
"Master, in fact, you could've killed them easily." A beautiful and sexy woman was kneeling next to a young man and feeding him red wine. She had a pair of cute black horns on her forehead.
The young man stroked the woman's hair and slowly moved his eyes away from the light beam. He had a face that was identical to Viscount André's!
"Hehe. Even if I killed them, so what? One of them is a student of a grand arcanist, and the other is a close descendant of a vampire prince. Do you think that things will be settled just like that? " "André" smiled. "If they were regular sorcerers and vampires, it wouldn't have been a big deal if they were killed. The Congress of Magic and the vampires wouldn't have paid much attention if they found a murderer to cover it up. However, these two have come, and we can only give them an 'answer'. After all, our plan has worked out, and André's identity can be removed now."
The sexy woman nodded. "Yes. If the Congress of Magic and the vampires continue their investigation, our future operations will be much more troublesome. However, master, how did you know that it was Katrina, a student of 'Atom Controller', who was sent by the Congress of Magic? Otherwise, Duda would've killed Yakov and the rest of them on the way. "
"André" smiled but did not give a direct reply. "All in all, this is the end of the matter. I don't want anything to happen to them, or Lucien Evans and Rhein Carendia might've come. Such things are most annoying and annoying …"
More importantly, he was no match for them …
He stood up, and the muscles on his face wriggled. His body shrank, and he turned into a black-haired middle-aged man with a cold face.
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