the last king of darkness

Chapter 19

The familiar college environment made Rhodes heave a long sigh of relief.

Although he had only been in the academy for three days in total, he seemed to be used to it.

Perhaps, this is because he has spent most of the past decades in similar environments, and Kingworth College is completely different from them, but the inner essence has not changed.

As long as you accept its uniqueness, you can adapt quickly.

Rhodes rushed back to the dormitory. It was still class time, and there were not many people in the entire dormitory building.

Go through the empty common room and run up the corridor on the right.

His dormitory is on the third floor.

The dormitories of the entire tenth group are on this floor, so Kashan can bring the entire tenth group to knock on his door every time.

Rhodes opened the repaired door, lay down on the bed, folded his thumbs, and squeezed out the lightning symbol.

In the next moment, the vision became blurred, and the soul lightened, as if rising into the sky.

When the sight was restored again, there was already a faint gray mist flowing around him, a three-meter-high blue obelisk in front of his eyes, and a black altar behind him.

This is the fourth time Rhodes has come to the dreamland, and he is still amazed at its mystery and strangeness.

But he was more anxious to verify his conjecture.

Rhodes ran to the stele, but he didn't see the soul fire at the last location.

Touching the four sides of the obelisk in turn made no difference.

"Isn't it? Did I guess wrong?"

In a daze, Rhodes saw the black altar in a blink of an eye. On the big open hand in the middle of the altar, six soul flames floated in the air.

Five of them were very small, and when Rhodes focused, their information appeared in his mind.

【Dust-like soul】

There is also a line of small print below.

[Part of the soul from the ghost of the dead river]

This part of the text is in the common language, accompanied by his own voice, which is very recognizable.

These five flames are exactly the same, and the appearance is not different, they are all entwined with black spots in the pale flames as thin as gossamer.

Rhodes came to his senses.

Aren't these the five balloons that he blew up before, the "dead souls" that Lauren called?

Soul Devourer is indeed true.

Rhodes didn't know whether it was joy or anxiety in his heart, and he turned his gaze to another flame.

【The soul of the polluted Sotir Reid】

The line of small characters below reads [Part of the polluted soul from Sotir Reid].

really!

Rhodes clenched his hands tightly.

His soul is with me.

His name wasn't Bass, his real name was Sotir Red.

If he can dig out the secrets in his soul and connect the broken clues, maybe he can find the real murderer.

Rhodes was excited.

However, he soon discovered that he didn't know how to interpret this soul.

He tried to touch it, but his fingers went straight through.

He tried to talk to it, but there was no response.

This soul is like a phantom, there is no way to interact with it.

Rhodes tried his best, and finally only found one useful, that is to stare at it and listen to it.

Then, he heard a tiny voice.

"13 Baker Street..."

"Alex..."

They echoed in the depths of Sotir Red's soul, like the melody that made up this soul, repeating endlessly.

Only these two pieces of information.

It's a bit disappointing, but at least it's better than nothing.

Rhodes tried to listen to the other five souls, but only heard crazy noises and chaotic roars.

Although I only listened to it for a few seconds, I felt very headache, nausea and discomfort.

"Grass!"

Rhodes said angrily the name of a plant.

Sure enough, the voice of the soul cannot be listened to casually. This world is so weird, what if you hear something that you shouldn't hear?
Be careful, be steady.

Rhodes said to himself in his heart.

He looked at the six groups of souls in front of him and began to think about his next move.

He does not plan to hand over this news for the time being.

It is difficult to explain the source of information.

Second, when the situation is unclear, it is best not to rashly push forward the case.

If the situation permits, it is best to verify these two pieces of information by yourself before deciding on the next step.

Confused, Rhodes glanced at the obelisk, and thought again: "There seems to be so much information that can be obtained from the soul, I can try whether these souls can really ignite the light spots on the obelisk... ...If you can have more strength, it is not necessarily a bad thing."

Rhodes jumped off the altar and came to the obelisk.

Reaching out to touch the surface of the stele, the deep starry sky appeared again, and countless dim light spots appeared or disappeared on the black background.

The "Dark Devourer" in the middle exudes a dark red light, like an ominous eye.

It's no different than before.

However, when Rhodes concentrated his attention, he instantly noticed the existence of the altar, and his spirit seemed to be connected to it.

This is a wonderful connection, and the dark altar seems to be placed under his thoughts.

Rhodes had a feeling that he could put the soul on the altar into any point of light in the starry sky at any time.

However, when he tried to choose the target as a dark red light spot, a clear forbidden intention appeared in his mind.

"Uh... this won't work."

When Rhodes moved his gaze to other flickering light spots, the forbidden intention disappeared.

"It seems feasible."

Rhodes chose a pleasing one from the light spots all over the sky.

It's nearer to the upper right of "Dark Devourer".

When you don't look at it directly, it has a slight blue light, and the starlight is faint.

But when Rhodes focused on it, it became a black hole with a clear boundary, separated from the black background.

As soon as Rhode thought about it, six soul flames flew up from the black altar and sank into the obelisk.

Then, they appeared in the starry sky, followed Rhodes' line of sight, and fell into the black hole like meteors.

However, the black hole is not ignited.

These six tiny groups of fire quietly stayed in the black hole, occupying a small part of the space.

"not enough."

Rhodes thought.

"More souls are needed."

How to do?
Where can I get it?how to do?
Rhodes didn't think clearly for a while, and when he was about to continue looking, he suddenly tensed up, followed by a blur in front of his eyes, and the familiar feeling of falling appeared.

Oops!

He knew that someone outside must have disturbed him and made him escape from the dream.

really.

When his sight was restored, Rhode saw Cassan's lake-like light blue eyes and the blond hair hanging down his forehead.

"You finally woke up?"

She snorted, straightened up, and moved her face away from him.

"It's a hell of a sleep."

Rhode quickly put away his gestures. Fortunately, he was covered with a quilt, otherwise, with this cultist-like symbol, his suspicion would deepen again.

Looking up, there were a few students standing behind her who were clearly seniors.

One of them, wearing a red armband, took a step forward and said, "Rhode, we are from the Hospital Affairs Office, please go over now."

Rhodes was startled, I won't be fired, right?He hurriedly asked, "What's the matter? Is there anything wrong?"

The red armband smiled kindly: "Don't worry, it's just a test, time is a little tight, let's talk as we go."

Rhodes glanced at Kashan.

The latter misunderstood this look, raised his head, and said proudly: "Don't worry, it's not a bad thing."

"No." Rhodes said, "I mean, how did you get in?"

Kashan smiled slightly, a hint of cunning flashed in her light blue eyes.

"I have the key."

"Where did it come from?"

"When repairing the door, I made a pair, so don't try to lock me out of the door in the future."

This ambiguous statement caused a lot of misunderstanding.

On the way to the school affairs office, a senior sighed softly: "Young people nowadays really know how to play."

His tone was full of envy.

"Maybe we'll see a feat of freshmen taking maternity leave."

(End of this chapter)