Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 345 The Art of Debut

"So, that old Houston thing is hiding on it?"

—— Xia Houyan asked while wiping his hands with a handkerchief, and looked forward.

What he saw was the door opening in the stone wall of Rock Creek Castle facing the "Rainbow Six" team.

The doorway was dark, and only a winding stone staircase could be vaguely seen.

This staircase leads to the main tower of Rock Creek Castle, which is also the current hiding place of Duke Houston and the black priest according to Master Leon Houston——

——Originally, the entrance to the tower was firmly sealed by a solid wooden door with a lock, but it was effectively broken by Eldridge's dark sword.

Hearing the boss's question, all the horse boys of the "Rainbow Six" team hurriedly nodded like chickens pecking rice.

In fact, it’s no wonder they are so fearful—after all, the lord of Shuangfengling asked the question while cleaning up the blood on his body calmly after stabbing the captain of the army to death with a sword. At this moment, his face is still stained Spotted with blood, that handsome face looked a little more terrifying than the Shura ghost.

"Boss! I'm afraid it's not on the tower, ah, it's dangerous! Let me go first!" Eldridge volunteered to be a leader, as if he had just accepted the dollars printed by quantitative easing.

Regarding the requirements of this product, of course everyone agrees:
If heavy warriors with large shields don't take the lead, should we let the weak mages and lords who eat delicacies and wear silk clothes go first?

So, Eldridge asked the magician in the team to temporarily enchant a light spell on the large shield, and then strode into the tower with the flash shield, and the rest of the team surrounded the lord and followed behind. file in.

It has to be said that this huge group of people walked aggressively towards the Grand Duke's residence, all thinking about honoring the emperor and begging for traitors, the whole scene suddenly seemed quite bitter.

To everyone's surprise, the interior of the main tower of Yanxi City seemed quite peaceful.

This tower is tens of meters high. The ancient spiral stone stairs circled round and round along the curved inner wall of the tower, but not only was there no one guarding the entire cylindrical space, even a fly that hit the wall In the end, only the ethereal sound of water dripping along the stone wall echoed in the tower.

The special forces members who had just experienced several bloody battles outside couldn't help but feel an inexplicable palpitation for a while.

But everyone knows that the target of this trip, the Duke of Houston, is hiding in the attic at the top of the tower at the moment cosplaying Disney princesses. Even though they feel extremely weird in their hearts, everyone still climbs up the stone steps to the top of the tower silently. go.

To the disappointment of the guarded team members, there were no ambushes or traps at all along the way. It seems that the Duke of Houston really sealed the tower he was in, as the intelligence said, and no outsiders were allowed to enter or leave. up.

In the end, the group tremblingly climbed to the top of the tower. The only danger along the way was that Master Laurie almost lost his footing and slid down the stairs, but he was stopped in time by Master Buckingham, who had quick eyes and quick hands.

The top floor of the tower was equally quiet, eerily quiet.

Eldridge raised his shield high, and the flickering magic glow illuminated the door leading to the Grand Duke's room in Houston—the door was only ajar, and there was no sound coming from inside.

Eldridge turned his head, exchanged glances with Master Laurie, and then looked at the lord.

Xia Houyan simply made a tactical gesture symbolizing an attack.

So Eldridge leaned against the door leaning on his shield, silently gestured three times;

When the count reached "three", the rose knight in the team kicked open the half-covered door, and Master Buckingham threw a pack of chalk powder into the door, which was enough to blind a dog's eyes, and then the whole team borrowed Under the cover of flash bombs, following Eldridge who kept yelling "GOGOGO", they all rushed in.

Then everyone was dumbfounded.

Because of the layout of this room...

...is weird enough.

According to previous information, since the civil strife in Rock Creek City, the Grand Duke of Houston has stayed behind closed doors on the tower. Therefore, everyone thought that after opening the door, what appeared before them would be the living room where the Grand Duke lived;
However, they didn't even see anything related to "living":

After pushing open the door, the first thing Xia Houyan noticed was the strange lighting atmosphere—the room was terribly dark, and his eyes even needed a moment to adapt to the aftermath of the flash bombs before he could see the things in the room clearly;
This room at the top of the tower may have had windows originally, but it was completely covered at the moment—every wall in the entire room was covered by a blood-red thick curtain, firmly blocking the window. Any ray of light that may come in from the outside, so that the room is so dark that it can be used to develop photos;
And the only dim light in the room is the contribution of the candles——

One by one, pale as bones, candles were placed on sharp black iron bases.These candles are of different lengths and are scattered in every corner of this blood-red room. Their weak and bleak candlelight, rather than playing a lighting function, it is more like adding to the already disturbing room. There was a gloomy air.

"What the hell—" Master Ramos had only time to swear, and his throat got stuck.

Because this tidecaller from Giant Whale City, like other team members, noticed the weirder details in the room:
On the edge of the ceiling of the room, hanging with the blood-red curtain, there are one creepy white skull after another. Just by glancing at the size and shape of these skulls, the veterans present can guess that they are obviously from living humans;

As for the floor of the room, it was probably covered with carpets before, but now it has been rolled up, exposing the blue stone floor on the top floor of the tower——By the dim light of the white candle, everyone discovered in horror that on this stone floor, The blood-red lines criss-cross and weave into some kind of mysterious and mysterious figure.

"The magic circle..." Master Laurie's muttering was superfluous, because everyone could see it:
This room has been arranged as a typical ceremony place, and the red lines on the ground are more obviously part of some kind of magic circle - Xia Houyan himself once drew it when he was exploring Simon Adrian's laboratory The magic circle is also very familiar with these lines full of elemental resonance.

What's worse, apart from the above-mentioned strange things, there was nothing in the room at all: let alone the Duke of Houston, there was not even a shadow of a person.

"What... the situation?" Scanning the strange empty room, Master Laurie and Master Ramos, the two masters of magic, looked at each other.

Judging from the hanging skulls, eerie white candles, and heavy blood-red curtains, the magical rituals arranged in this room are obviously not serious—in other words, it is full of depravity, evil, and taboo from head to toe ;
If you also consider that the red lines on the ground exude a pungent bloody smell, and the materials used to draw them look quite suspicious...

"My lord!" Master Laurie made a decisive decision, stretched out his hand to protect the official Xiahou, and took two steps back to the door, "There is something strange in this room! You...you get out first!"

Xia Houyan opened his mouth and was about to speak when he suddenly felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end;

At the same time, Master Laurie, Master Ramos and several other magicians were also excited, and instantly pulled out their wands and protective props—

——The piercing wind blowing through the room at this moment is just generally uncomfortable to ordinary warriors, but the magician can immediately tell that it is clearly a wave of strong hostile elements!

Then, there was a sharp, ear-piercing buzz that pierced through the air.

Amidst the humming sound, this dark room suddenly became as bright as day—every white candle on the edge of the room burned violently like strong fireworks, emitting a dazzling pale light;

Under the radiance of this light, an empty voice rang out without warning:
"Dear gentlemen, welcome to... my... site of a miracle."

After the voice fell, the fiercely burning white candle returned to its original state.

But in the middle of the originally empty room, where the blood-red magic lines meet, there is a slender figure in a pure black robe, emerging from the nothingness.

That figure ignored the sounds of the "Rainbow Six" team members drawing weapons and chanting spells, but took off the top black top hat on its head, raised its white-gloved hands to comb After brushing his long black hair, he used the most elegant posture to perform a "Emperor Mikhail Salute" to the team members who were facing the enemy.

"Bartholomew de Hash, I am willing to serve you..." The man in black robe stood in the center of the blood-red magic circle, and after bowing deeply to everyone, he suddenly raised his head, showing an exaggerated look With a distorted smile, "Of course, you can also call me... the black priest."

While everyone was amazed at this man's pale skin like birch bark, his malicious smile at every angle, and his magical miracle of walking directly out of the void, only Xia Houyan's gaze was The nearly dried hyacinth planted on the girl's shoulder stayed for a long time.

(End of this chapter)