Castlevania of the Pigeons from Fairy Tail

Chapter 26 Pluto's Palace

The walls were covered with strange characters of all sizes. Bruno took a look in the dim light of the fire and found that the characters were all written in dark red blood, not the characters of today.

He clearly couldn't understand the text that came from nowhere, but he felt a slight pain in his temples and a little dizzy.

Then, he had a strange feeling, as if, as if...

Preshito and Urrutia were a little slow to enter, and the door behind them creaked back and slammed shut, tightly.

Urrutia glanced back at the gate and gave up the idea of retreating. She turned around and was deeply attracted by the scene in front of her, which looked like a cult base.

Preshito narrowed his one eye as he looked at the strange characters. He recognized that they were all ancient characters from a lost country at least four hundred years ago.

From it, he recognized the most crucial line of words, which read the name of this palace - "Pluto's Palace".

Preshito thought for a moment, and then, feeling certain, he calmly said, "I think, since the ones we encountered before were all from the Nine Ghost Gates, the one guarding this place now must be the 'Pluto', right?"

Snap, snap, snap——

Some people applauded.

The soft applause echoed off the walls. Precito and Urrutia both looked over and saw a figure standing up in a shadowy corner as a rocking chair rocked.

Maldo, with his long black hair, casually lifted up the candlestick beside him and walked step by step in front of the crowd, revealing his rather young and elegant profile.

Urrutia nervously rolled a round crystal ball from under his arm and took a stance.

"No need to be so nervous." Maldo chuckled and glanced at Urrutia, then looked at Precito. "How strange! This must be the first meeting between Pluto and Hades, right?"

In some specific myths, Hades is actually Pluto, and Pluto is Hades.

However, Maldor's "Pluto" actually refers more to Tartarus, and even the gate of the underworld is translated from Tartarus, and its meaning is "hell".

Theoretically, Hades is the god of the underworld who rules over Tartarus.

"It is indeed our first meeting," Preshito said with a smile. "Although we formed the Balamu Alliance, we have never met in person. I didn't expect that our first meeting would be in such an occasion."

"Yes, it's really touching." Maldo placed the candlestick in his hand on the long table beside him. "If possible, I would rather not meet you."

The long table was littered with leftovers, but a closer look revealed gruesome remains of corpses. Many internal organs were even placed on plates, with blood-stained knives and forks beside them.

Preshito said sarcastically, "I never thought that the president of the Hades Gate would be reduced to being a watchdog for the Demon King. He even had to fight against the three of us alone. He is really depraved."

"I need to correct two things." Maldo said gently without getting angry. "First, I am not the president of Hades Gate. I never have been. END is our president."

"Second, it's not just me against the three of you, it's the two of us against the two of you."

Urrutia was puzzled. There were three of us and he was only one, but how did he say it as "the two of us against the two of you?"

Suddenly, Urrutia felt that Bruno next to him was a little quiet. Normally at this moment, he would definitely make a mocking sound, so why was he silent now?

Turning around, Urrutia's face paled with horror. Brunoto had been enveloped in black smoke, covering most of his face. Only a pair of crimson eyes stared at Precito and Urrutia.

"President Hades!" Urrutia quickly warned, "Something's wrong with Bruno!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Brunotte turned his head to look at her, raised his right arm, and instantly a strong force hit her body, causing her to be catapulted towards the distant wall and embedded into it, shattering the wall.

The crystal ball in Urrutia's hand naturally fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

Not only that, the strange force field created by Brunote using gravity made Urrutia stuck in the pit, unable to move, as if his hands and feet were filled with cement and then dried up.

Horrified, she quickly activated the time arc, trying to make the wall jump through time and quickly leap to the future where it would collapse.

At this time, Brunotte said coldly:

"I've seen time arcs and similar time magic many times before. You haven't mastered them yet, and your use was too deliberate."

Urrutia's heart moved, and he realized that the Brunoth in front of him was no longer Brunoth, and his consciousness might have been replaced by someone else.

The one who can do this is most likely the "Devil" himself.

As for what the Demon King said, "I've seen similar time magic many times," she couldn't guess who he was referring to.

She swallowed and did not argue with the devil. She turned her head nervously and watched the bricks blocking her wall cracking one by one and about to break. She was about to smile, but was shocked again.

I saw the walls that were heading towards a destroyed future recovering rapidly.

how so? how so?
Her mind raced, and she remembered the advice President Hades had given her at the beginning.

"Time and space, time and space, are one and the same. Moreover, the caster is far more powerful than you and seems to be quite familiar with time magic..."

Urrutia realized that he was at his wit's end and quickly looked towards his only hope, only to see that President Hades seemed to be in danger as well.

It turned out that after Maldo said those words, the stone road under Preshito's feet suddenly cracked and a huge plant spewed out!

Preshito retreated quickly, and the underworld plant soared into the sky, causing a strong wind, causing the candle flames to run wild, the shadows to go crazy, and the flower bud on the top suddenly exploded, scattering poisonous spores!

He quickly mobilized his magic power, and several black chains flew out from between his arms, stirring up a violent whirlwind that actually blew away all the spores. Then he looked at Maldo sternly.

"Spells..." Preshito murmured softly as if talking to himself, "Now that I think about it, Castlevania is simply the perfect place for the cycle of demons, cursed energy, and spells."

Maldo stepped forward, smiling elegantly like a great scholar, and said, "You are right about some things. I am forced to stay here, but you probably can't escape this fate either."

"Ha." Preshito sneered, "I left the light and retreated into darkness. I've spent most of my life chasing the abyss of the devil, the only magic. Fate alone can't hold me back!"

Maldo looked down at his empty hands, his smile fading slightly: "I hope so..."

(End of this chapter)