Academic Gathering with Lich Colleagues

Chapter 176
Like a piece of ice floating in the ocean, Lyall felt his emotions slowly melting away, gradually becoming part of the dark tide.

Tears flowed from the knife marks in my heart. This is the best ending. After all, I am just a monkey fishing for moon shadows in the lake. Time will make the reflection in the lake disappear.

Lying down on the soft bed, with her hands spread out, following the direction of her arms, she looked at the blood-red moon outside the door and window. She seemed to be right between her fingers, but she was actually hanging in the distant sky.

The bloody figure replaced the moon.

Lyle sat up, palpitating.

"How did you come?"

Arianna's figure appeared outside the door, the bright red skirt dragging on the ground, like blood flowing from her body.

The voice is empty, like the breeze passing through the valley at night.

"I can't leave you alone. This castle is very dangerous. My strength can protect you."

As if the unhappiness between the two just now did not exist at all, Arianna walked into Lyle's room, leaning against the wall, like a puppet placed.

"Arianna..."

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Kevin and William still stayed in the main hall, watching couples of noble men and women dancing tirelessly.

"Aren't you going to show your elegance, Mr. Heir." William rubbed his neck and teased his friend.

Kevin glanced at him with contempt in his eyes.

"Then I might as well find a hanger and dance, at least the hanger won't slather myself in heavy make-up, or use heavy perfume to cover up the totally overwhelming body odor."

"You are making an excuse, this is your subjective impression printed in your mind." William complained casually.

In this regard, Kevin smiled. "So, are you studying the objective impression of female elves? My dear William, you have never left Fanilla's eyes."

"No way! I'm just... just concerned about whether she finds me!"

"Hey, you know, the lifespan of elves is much longer than ours."

"...Mages have plenty of ways to prolong their lifespan."

Kevin picked up the red wine handed over by the waiter, "Courageous friend, why don't you hurry up, get in front of her, and tell her softly..."

"Dear Fanila, I am the lecherous clown you miss. Hahahahaha!" Kevin laughed unabashedly, he hammered William on the shoulder, and the scarlet wine dangled in his glass .

"No, let me take it easy." Kevin brought the wine glass to his mouth, ready to moisten his dry throat.

A hand snatched the wine glass from Kevin's mouth.

Beatrice with a gloomy face appeared beside Kevin, she looked at Kevin with a stunned face, her voice was cold.

"Where's Arianna?"

Beatrice, who was pale, was not as drunk as before, like a queen who was going to war, waiting for the howling of the enemy.

"Uh...you should stay with the plague doctor now. I just saw them leave the main hall one after the other."

"Why don't you stop them! Don't you know where this is! Or do you really think you are Hamlet's heir!"

Kevin didn't know how he offended this beautiful woman, were they all roses with thorns?

"Relax, Beatrice, they'll be fine..."

"You idiot! They're already engaged! Quickly gather your companions! I'm going to find my sister."

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There was silence in the room, looking at Ariana who was standing on the side, although she turned her head sideways and her eyes were not on her, Lyall felt that she was being cruelly judged.

Time seemed to stand still, and only Lyall's slight movement from time to time could prove the passage of time.

In the silence, Lyle heard a slight voice.

Click click click click click.

While Lyle was looking for the source of the sound, the noisy voice amplified in an instant.

Corresponding to this was the bang of the door suddenly closing.

Arianna immediately floated to Lyle's side, grabbed his arm, and raised her wand with the other hand, aiming at the door.

"Double roar!"

Two formed ghosts appeared behind them, roaring, and the roaring sound waves bombarded the door.

The impact of the collision caused the entire room to vibrate, and the red wall paint on the ceiling fell one after another, like balls of falling meat.

When all the meat paste fell, what was revealed was a magic circle shining with blood.Under the light of the magic circle, the door was intact.

Lyall finally knew the source of the noisy sound, which was in the wall of the room.

The wall paint and wallpaper in the room turned into peeling flesh. Behind the flesh, there were dark holes densely arranged on the wall.

From those pitch-black holes, head-sized insects covered in blood red with terrifying mouthpieces crawled out one by one.

Like deformed leeches with three pairs of legs and feet, their fat bodies have spiked carapaces, they crawled out of the holes in groups, hundreds of legs and feet moved, and they made scalp-numbing noises. click.

There is also a layer of evil and gloomy red light on their bodies.

The swarm rushed towards the two of them, and Arianna raised her wand again.

"Symphony of the Mourners!" "Nia!"

The sonic boom and the bladed tentacles rushed towards the swarm, like a stone thrown into the water of a lake, leaving only circles of ripples.

"They are immune to mental shock, and that layer of red light protects them." Arianna pulled Lyle back to the corner.

"Physical attacks work, but the effect is negligible, their armor is too thick, and most importantly, there are too many of them!"

The sound of the tentacles projected by Nia being bitten by bugs, the continuous clicking sound, that kind of sound pierces the ears, like bugs crawling in your brain.

They were about to surround the two of them, and Lyall pressed the Andry emblem on his hand.

"It's useless, plague doctor, that magic circle has sealed the room into a whole, and any of our magic messages cannot be sent out."

"Could it be like this, watching the bugs eat us up! There must be another way!"

Arianna looked at Lyall, who looked agitated, and she held him, with strength in her slender finger bones.

"You'll be fine, Plague Doctor."

Arianna led Lyle to the other side of the room, where there was an armor decoration. In order not to interfere with the overall beauty of the room, a person-high depression was specially set up where the armor was placed.

Arianna threw the armor into the swarm and put Lyall in the pit.

"Nia! Come to me!" Nia heard Arianna's call, got rid of those annoying bugs, and got into Arianna's body.

"Just like we are resting in the coffin in Naslan Castle, plague doctor, just sleep well."

Arianna's body clings to Lyle, her bright red dress falling and disintegrating like a spatter of blood.

Among the fire butterfly-like fragments flying all over the sky, Lyle saw Arianna's true appearance, as well as the faint blue soul flames in her eye sockets.

"do not look."

White finger bones covered the lens of the mask, and Lyle could only hear her voice.

The disintegrated dress fragments were like butterflies, perched on Arianna's bones, filling the gaps, and together with Arianna, formed the cover of the pit.

It's like sleeping.

In a daze, Lyle heard her voice and whispered in his ear.

"Plague doctor, I can feel your heartbeat."

Then, the sound of the swarm swallowed everything.

(End of this chapter)