Heart of the Castle

Chapter 286 The Last Hidden Killer

The terrifying face that appeared on the coffin caused the surrounding knights to let out low exclamations, but no one retreated, because those who can become knights always have more courage than ordinary people, and because of that There were no sharp claws or anything sticking out from under the face.More importantly, Lord Cedric and Lord Wilps also did not retreat, but bent down towards the coffin.

"What... is this?" Lord Cedric's short stiff beard trembled, and he looked at that face with a disgusted expression.

"This is the lock of the vampire's coffin." Li Wei also pressed a few times on another coffin, and sure enough, a terrifying and distorted face appeared.He paused and added softly. "It's a lock, but it's also a troublesome trap."

"My Lord of Glory, this is the Specter Face!" Wilps looked as if he had just drank a glass of bitter wine, "No one can open this thing, not even Master Sugard."

"I think, I can give it a try." Li Wei's voice carried a hint of uncertainty.

"This kind of idea is too stupid." Wilps commented bluntly, "Master Levi, the ghost mask is not something that can be tried to crack. This kind of trap has the characteristics of magic and curse at the same time, and only the person who set it Only then will we know in what order to untie them.”

"What if the order is wrong?" asked Sir Grace, frowning.

"Destruction, including the vampire's coffin and everything within ten meters of it." Wilps said word by word.

This answer silenced everyone.

The old knight of the Sherwood family cleared his throat uneasily, and broke the silence and said, "It would be fine if Sir Chirawala hadn't passed out. His judgment on magic traps is the most accurate among us."

"I'm not underestimating the Maestri family's magical arts, but when I first saw this trap, it was cracked by an experienced great magician." Wilps shrugged.

"How was the result?" Knight Dickway asked curiously.

"It exploded on the spot, killing six people, including the great magician." Wilps clenched his fists, as if he still had lingering fears about what happened at that time. "Although Sir Chiravala is a collateral member of the kingdom's number one magician family, his understanding of magic knowledge may not be comparable to that of a great magician, right?"

This is a matter of course, and the old knight of the Sherwood family nodded in agreement.

"That's because he chose the wrong way to open it. If there is no key, it is really difficult to crack the ghost face. It takes many steps to operate, and it may cause an explosion." Li Wei suddenly explained. "But if you use the key, the ghost face has no lethality at all."

"My lord Levi, what is the key you speak of?" asked Sir Grace.

"Blood." Li Wei replied simply, and then took out a small golden dagger from his waist.This short sword looks extremely sharp, the edge is like a cold spring, and the spine and hilt are covered with patterns of ivy. If Tang Na is not unconscious, he must be able to recognize the shape of the sword that imitates the victory and oath golden dagger.

"Now I'm going to open the vampire's coffin. Please get out of the way, it's better to stand ten meters away." Li Wei said, sticking the golden dagger on his palm.

"Master Li Wei, this is too risky!" Wilps blurted out his persuasion, and at the same time stretched out his hand to grab Li Wei's wrist. "Once the opening method is wrong, the ghost face will explode. I don't know where you heard the method of opening the vampire's coffin, but the magic trap that even the great magician can't break, can it be broken so easily? ?”

"There should be no problem." Li Wei answered briefly, and he still had a hard time saying, "Maybe a great magician really can't crack it, but it's not unimaginable for a master alchemist to crack this trap." what."

Of course, Levi has never touched a vampire coffin or a magic trap ghost face, but Mr. Dish in the heart of the castle is different. The knowledge of this old magician is not just a great magician or a master scholar. can be compared.

Seeing Levi sticking to his opinion, a trace of worry flashed across Wilps' face, but he had no better way.Not to mention that Master Sugard may not be able to decipher the magic of the ghost face, even if this master scholar can decipher it, at the speed of the Griffon King, it will take several hours to go to the Viscount's Castle and return.

After the average person is put into a vampire coffin, they will be corrupted into vampire derivatives within an hour or two at most. Whether it is Miss Lisa or the special envoy of the kingdom, it is difficult to wait until the arrival of Master Sugad.

If Viscount Lane's niece and first order heir, Miss Lisa, and the special envoy of the kingdom all turned into undead creatures, I am afraid it will be very difficult for Li Wei to prove that he has nothing to do with this matter.The territory and wealth left by Viscount Lane are enough to attract the nobles in the royal capital, large and small, and it is not uncommon for Li Wei to be slandered from a hero who ended the disaster to a degenerate who colluded with the devil.

"Your Excellency, Lord Cedric, please get out of the way with the knights of the lord's coalition army." Wilps whispered to the commander of the northern border next to him. The latter immediately opened his eyes and replied displeasedly: "Why, Lord Wilps, do you think we are afraid of danger?"

"No, that's not what I meant," said Wilps, making several gestures to Lord Cedric.The muscles on Sir Grace's face, who was standing aside, moved with a very familiar feeling to these gestures.

Lord Cedric also narrowed his eyes, moved his fingers, and responded with gestures as well.Then he coughed heavily, and said to the knights around him: "Everyone retreat ten meters away, don't disturb Lord Li Wei..."

In the middle of speaking, Lord Cedric suddenly stretched out his hands without warning, grabbed Levi's shoulders and pulled back forcefully.The white vindictive light immediately suppressed the silver-white vindictiveness that Li Wei's instinctively burned.Li Wei was caught off guard. In fact, he had been prepared for a long time. After being pulled by the dignified Lord with a sword, he would involuntarily withdraw.

Sir Grace and Knight Dickway backed away at the same time. The former understood the gestures peculiar to adventurers that Wilps and Cedric used to communicate, and the latter was pushed hard by Wilps on the breastplate. He staggered and fell ten meters away.

A sound of exclamation came from behind, especially Li Wei's voice.

"Wilps, what do you want?"

Wilps stretched out his left hand, put it on top of the pale face, and said softly in a voice that could only be heard by himself: "Master Levi, if there is any danger, please let me bear it for you."

When he passed by, Wilps had already snatched the golden short sword from Li Wei's hand. He looked at the hideous and terrifying pale face on the vampire's coffin, a flash of determination flashed in his eyes, and then used With a slash of the small sword in the palm of his left hand, the sharp blade easily tore through the skin of the palm, and blood gushed out immediately.

A drop of blood dripped into the open mouth above the face, and the pale face that had been stiff and frozen like a plaster statue suddenly came to life. The expression gradually changed from ferocious and terrifying to calm and serene, and finally closed his mouth in satisfaction.

When the ghost face reintegrated into the vampire's coffin, the ancient blood-red runes directly above the coffin lit up one after another, emitting a light like fresh blood, making the surroundings ablaze.Wilps took back his fist that was still bleeding blood, put the small golden sword in his belt with his right hand, and clenched the long sword tightly, ready to go.

Everyone's vigilant eyes were all on the mutated vampire coffin. They saw the black coffin's top cover slowly move away by itself, and then a gust of icy white mist emerged.

"The undead are inside!" A knight's voice trembled, and it was hard to tell whether it was due to trembling or excitement.

A deep groan came out of the coffin, as if a ghost crawling out of hell was panting, and then a hand covered in hoarfrost stretched out with all five fingers, as if trying to catch something Waved twice.

Wilps almost swiped his sword, and if Li Wei hadn't suddenly yelled, he might have done so.

"Help him quickly, the man is still alive, but his body is already very weak."

Wilps heaved a sigh of relief. He didn't need to do it himself to help the special envoy of the kingdom climb out of the coffin. Two knights from the Lord's United Army lifted the top cover of the vampire's coffin aside, and then put the whole body of the vampire inside. Frost-covered men were lifted out.The man was wearing chain mail with several holes in it, but the cowhide shirt underneath was still intact, and an iron chain was tightly wrapped around his body.

A knight wiped the hoarfrost from the man's face and beard with his hands, revealing a livid face of a middle-aged man with a mustache.

Knight Dickway rushed to identify him, "It's the special envoy of the kingdom, how is he?" he yelled loudly.

"He is as cold as ice," said one of the knights who carried the kingdom's envoy from his coffin. "But still some faint breathing."

"It's nothing serious, it seems to be frozen." The old knight of the Sherwood family knew some medical skills, walked over and touched the man's cold forehead, and then ordered: "Get some strong wine and wipe his body , and then let him stay in a warm place for a while, and it will be fine."

This idea was indeed not bad. Lord Cedric waved his hand and sent a few knights to carry the Kingdom envoy outside. The old knights of the Sherwood family followed behind to see if they could supervise these people to do better.

Now it was the turn of the second coffin, Wilps walked to the side of the coffin, put his clenched fist on top of the ghost face, and wanted to drip two drops of blood into it.However, because he had just aroused the flame fighting spirit to guard against unexpected situations, and the wound cut by the golden short sword was relatively neat, and now it has formed a blood scar, and not a drop of blood flowed out.

Wilps couldn't help showing a wry smile on his face, he didn't expect that the fighting spirit that many people dream of would make him suffer an extra blow.But this didn't make Wilps flinch. He took out the golden dagger and was about to cut his palm again, but at this moment, a very young and proud voice stopped him.

"Master Wilps, please wait a moment." A tall and straight figure stood out from the crowd beside Cedric, "I am a retainer of His Excellency Lord Cedric, the commander of the Northern Territory, Bray of the Ulli family. Knight Wen, please allow me to sacrifice this blood on your behalf."

Wilps frowned almost imperceptibly. He didn't think that the knight of Braven was simply offering blood in his place. out.

However, the determination of Knight Braven was obviously strong enough. Before anyone could stop him, he had already pulled out a sharp long dagger from his belt, and slashed fiercely on his palm.He used such great strength, as if what he cut was not the palm of his hand, but a piece of tender and juicy meat steak, the blood rushed out immediately, and flowed to his wrist in the blink of an eye, and then it was like a little red snake The same crawled towards the elbow.

At this moment, Wilps obviously had no reason to stop the knight of Braven. The title knight showed a helpless smile, sheathed his long sword, and walked towards Li Wei.

"Master Wilps, are your hands okay?" Levi asked him in a low voice, and then said in a complaining tone: "How could you do this just now? If there is a problem with my judgment, wouldn't you Will it be dangerous?"

Wilps shook his head, "The current viscounty land can live without Wilps, but it cannot live without Levi Ston. Lord Levi, please take good care of your health for the sake of the people in the territory and the knights who support you. , don't take any chances."

Li Wei nodded with a wry smile and said, "I see, Mr. Wilps, I will keep your words in mind." Then he looked at the man with the excited light on his face, pointing his blood-red palm towards the top of the vampire's coffin. The ghost-faced Knight Breven said jokingly, "But you really should have waited a while. This knight seems to be very happy to face danger instead of me."

"He's not that kind." As a fellow knight of Breven, a knight wearing a cloak with a broken chain and shackle badge muttered, and then kowtowed to Li Wei and Wilps. "I am the south wind knight of the Darda family, and I salute the two adults, salute."

"The Darda family?" Wilps recalled a little bit, "Oh, it's the family usually called the Broken Shackles, right?"

"Yes, from now on, if the two adults have something to do, the Broken Shackle Family is always at your disposal." Knight of the South Wind had a smile in his eyes, but Li Wei could see his deliberately pleasing attitude.

"You just said that the Knight of Braven had bad intentions? Isn't that a bit too much?" Levi spread his hands and said.

"Maybe it's too much, but I want to remind Lord Li Wei to pay attention to this guy, Knight Braven. When Viscount Ryan was still alive, he had made many marriage requests to the Viscount. Of course, the target is to have the right to inherit the territory. Miss Lisa." The south wind knight twirled the mustache on his chin and said, "Although Miss Lisa has lost the right to inherit the territory, Mrs. Li Wei, don't forget that the right to inherit the title of Viscount is still retained. It is also a very rare wealth.”

"Miss Lisa's suitor?" Li Wei smiled with a weird expression, and a subtle feeling rose from the bottom of his heart.If there was no Knight of the South Wind, he would really have forgotten that in the days before Knight Ston was killed in battle, Li Wei, like other young attendants in the Viscount's castle, once regarded Miss Lisa as his dream lover.

Although Miss Lisa is the only niece of Viscount Lane and the first heir to his estate, but unlike the viscount who is miserly and greedy, this Miss Lisa does not have the arrogance of the usual noble ladies. Instead, it carries a gentle aura unique to the believers of the goddess Elara.Moreover, he has a kind and benevolent personality, or if he has a shortcoming, he is a little weak.

This is also the reason why Viscount Ryan did not educate the only heir as a lord. Miss Lisa's character is really not suitable for being a feudal lord who controls one side.

Presumably Viscount Lane also wanted to find a suitable husband for her.

"The trap is lifted." Wilps' voice interrupted Li Wei's thoughts, and the young knight turned his gaze to the second vampire coffin. Sure enough, under the blood of the Braven knight, the pale and distorted ghost's face was already satisfied The expression disappeared on the top of the coffin, and then the top slid to the side, and white cold mist emitted from the coffin again.

"Miss Lisa, don't be afraid, Braven is here to protect you!" Knight Braven's face flashed a gleam of joy, but he didn't want to wait for the other knights to come up to show his courtship, the coffin lid had just slid halfway open, He hurriedly leaned forward and stretched out his hands to hug Miss Lisa in the coffin.

All he embraced was the bone-chilling air.

"There's nothing in the coffin!" Knight Breven blurted out, and then he straightened up, with a disappointed expression on his face that he couldn't hide. "That damned accuser lied to us! I'm going to tear him to pieces!" The disappointment made him growl, so that he didn't hear the rustle of cold wind blowing over the ice field behind him.

Then he saw the horrified gazes cast by the companions of the lord's coalition army.

"What's the matter, why are you looking at me like this?" Knight Braven muttered, but then he felt an indescribable cold embrace from behind him silently, without waiting for him to do anything. With any struggling movement, the mass of ice-coldness completely merged into his body, making the grudge he had gathered just now disappear.Then the coldness turned into warmth, and then into hotness. Knight Braven's expression relaxed. He doesn't want to think about anything now. Whether it's Miss Lisa or anything else is far away from his mind, he just wants to sleep. , sinking into the dark abyss of eternal silence and serenity.

The body of Breven Knight fell forward, maintaining a smile on his face and a posture with his hands stretched forward, smashing to pieces on the ground.

Looking at the familiar face of the translucent woman who appeared behind Brevin, Levi felt as if his chest was pressed against a mountain, making it hard to breathe.

"Miss Lisa...how did you become like this!"

(End of this chapter)