From Witcher to Lord of the Empire

Keyan was a little extra enthusiastic about exploring the manor.

The four Snake factions each glanced secretly at him who was eager to try, and shook their heads inwardly, sighing that this is indeed Cat faction.

The other demon hunters who didn't have an [item] immediately checked their alchemy backpacks, and applied sword oil to the gaps in the wall, making sure that everything else they needed was within reach.

After confirming that the preparations were correct, everyone stepped into the Everec Manor together.

It was obviously only abandoned for a few years, but the manor looked as if no one had visited it for dozens or hundreds of years. There were crazy-growing trees everywhere, and gravel and fallen leaves almost paved another layer of road on the ground.

The manor is huge, and everyone turned on the witcher's senses to move forward.

The first thing they saw was a fountain with cold water.

"Something is wrong." Lei Suo suddenly said, "There are signs of activity here."

His amber snake pupils were shining brightly, obviously opening up the witcher's senses, catching the subtle traces in the air.

Colgrim kicked a sack beside his feet, echoing Letho's words: "I found two bags of compost, very fresh, obviously someone is still tending these plants."

Keyan looked at a reclining chair thoughtfully: "The wood is very worn and very new. It seems that the guys still living here are very leisurely."

"Lan, you said that Ogierd left the manor by himself, but imprisoned his wife here, right? Is there really a lady or a lady who can endure such an environment?"

Kiyan patted the recliner, stirring up a thin cloud of dust.

"Did she sit directly on such a big piece of ash?"

Lan shook his head and said something incomprehensible: "I'm afraid it's not a 'she', but an 'it'."

Before the words were finished, Lan and Kayan seemed to sense something, and looked up at one place keenly. [Psychic medium] The talent touched their senses and pointed out the direction for them.

Under the shroud of mist, a dilapidated easel stood beside a field of bright flowers.

And among the flowers, a black dog and a black cat suddenly paced out, squatting on both sides of the easel. Their fur is shiny and clearly well cared for.

But everyone knows that they are definitely not ordinary cats and dogs, not only because their harmless appearance is incompatible with this environment, but also because of their eyes: cloudy, black and white, like two old oil lamps shining in the dark. With eerie light.

It wasn't until this time that the badges on the demon hunters' necks began to vibrate belatedly.

It wasn't over yet, Lane and Kayan looked behind the cat and dog with some feeling, and a tall figure strode out from the mist. His movements were rough, but he carefully avoided the flowers and plants on the ground.

The demon hunters drew out the long swords behind their backs together.

I saw that figure dressed as if it were a gatekeeper, wearing a tattered black hooded robe, and wielding a tattered shovel.

But if it’s just this, it’s definitely not worth the demon hunters facing such a big enemy. The key point is the "unrecognizable" face he showed in front of everyone: his face seemed to be torn off along the facial features, and then As if a new piece of human skin was sewn on, there was nothing above the mouth, only a circle of rough sutures, revealing the scarlet and hideous flesh.

Such a face with a human body is far more chilling to the onlookers than those ferocious monsters.

Keyan chuckled: "I don't even know if I should call this guy ugly, after all, he doesn't even have the qualifications to be 'ugly'."

Except for Lan En, the other five reached out and wiped the top of the alchemy backpack almost like muscle memory, and immediately there were two bottles of potions in their hands.

[Swallow] who continues to recover from injuries, and [Thunder] who strengthens his muscles.

Lann's movements were a little slower. The opponents he usually encountered rarely needed him to use potions. But the gatekeeper in front of him has surpassed the regular enemy.

And the atmosphere is already here, I feel a bit out of place if I don't drink two bottles.

He also flipped his left hand, and there were two more alchemy glass bottles in his hand. The color of one bottle of potion is golden orange, like the vitality of spring, it is [Swallow]; the color of the other bottle is deep and blue, as if the sea is concentrated in it, it is called [Petri Potion].

[Petri Potion]: Enhance the strength of the seal, and increase the probability of special effects of the seal such as igniting and knocking down.

Gryphon School Potion Special from Geron. The potion entered his throat, and Lan only felt that the chaotic energy in his body was awakened.

Not only that, Lann also continued to take out an ordinary mirror from the [item bar] and pointed it at the gatekeeper, looking expectant.

It's a pity that things didn't go as he expected. Seeing the janitor walking towards him and the others with firm steps, Lan looked at the mirror and shrugged helplessly: "Sure enough, we can't take advantage of the loophole."

In the next second, a faint blue flame-like light burst out from the gatekeeper's body. Among them, the light on his shovel was the brightest, even faintly overshadowing the long rune sword in Lann's hand.

"hide!"

There was no need for Lann to remind him. All the demon hunters had more experience in fighting enemies than him. When the gatekeeper just started to shine, he turned into a black shadow and scattered in all directions.

"Boom!" The shovel in the gatekeeper's hand seemed to have turned into a glowing heavy crossbow at this moment, rushing straight with astonishing momentum and speed, directly kicking up a burst of flying dust like a meteorite falling on the place where everyone was standing just now.

The white mist in the manor also thickened accordingly. In the smoky northern border like a demon realm, the gatekeeper who was shot in the air slowly stood up and turned his head.

Six pairs of eyes of different colors looked at the big pit at the gatekeeper's feet, showing a dignified expression. This is definitely not the power that a gatekeeper's size can explode, and it can definitely kill a person with just one blow.

With a flash of light, the Demon Hunter was simultaneously covered with [Quen's Sign].

At the same time, as soon as Lan slapped the ground, a huge purple magic circle far beyond the normal range rose up on the ground. A purple hourglass mark appeared in his sight, and he hung it on the gatekeeper without hesitation.

With a "click", the purple magic beam struck the gatekeeper like a thunderbolt, almost knocking over the monster that was still in the concave shape.

Except for Lei Suo, other demon hunters who had never seen the function of this new type of seal were shocked on the spot. Are all the seals of the Griffin School like this?

But at this moment, they were in battle. Even though everyone was surprised, the movements in their hands were not slow at all.

The four pairs of snake pupils pulled out amber trajectory in mid-air at the same time, and the silver blade was unimpeded in the magic circle.

With a sound of "clang", Lei Suo's thick arms firmly supported the gatekeeper's shovel, and he was shocked all over, surprised by the huge force erupting from the opponent's thin body.

"Puff", "Puff", "Puff", and three other long swords dexterously exposed their fangs from the palms of their respective masters, piercing the gatekeeper's throat, heart, and waist respectively.

The four snake demon hunters seem to be one, they are different from other demon hunters who fight alone. Since the fall of the school, they have been acting collectively and fighting together, and the tacit understanding between them is unimaginable for other schools.

With such a serious injury, no matter what kind of monster it is, there is no possibility of living anymore.

But the gatekeeper's body shook violently twice, and he was still wrestling with Lei Suo with a shovel after being pierced with three silver swords!

At the same time, the ground under the gatekeeper's feet cracked slowly, and a faint blue light that was the same color as the gatekeeper's body faintly leaked out from those gaps.

Lan En hurriedly shouted: "Quick back!"

The members of the Snake School had already sensed that something was wrong from the shaking of the badge, and they didn't even have time to pull out the sword from the enemy's body, and they backed away from the scene.

Only Leto was stuck, and he was wrestling with the gatekeeper. If he had a slight tendency to shrink back, the shovel in the enemy's hand could open his head. The Snake faction's [Quen's Seal] is not as tough as Lan's system skills.

Fortunately, he is not alone at the moment.

Lann, who was not far away enough to look at the audience, had already sensed the goalkeeper's attacking intentions and realized Lei Suo's plight, so he decisively adopted a rougher method——

[Alder Fayin·Magic Explosion]!

The violent magic power turned into a hurricane and swept across the ground. Lei Suo felt that he was suddenly hit by a heavy hammer on his back. The balance between the long sword and the shovel in the confrontation was instantly broken. The shovel made a tearing gash in the gatekeeper's shoulder.

However, Lei Suo had no way to expand his record. In the next second, he and the gatekeeper all flew into the air, and the impact of thought force was continuously used as kinetic energy behind them, pushing them out of the atmosphere shrouded in the blue earth all the way. .

With a sound of "boom", it seemed that the underground fountain finally found its outlet, and the dazzling stream of light brushed against Lei Suo's heels and soared into the sky. He definitely didn't want to taste the feeling of being bathed in it.

The shattered light of [Quen's Sign] on Lei Suo's body flashed away, but was unexpectedly shattered by a long-distance shock wave from Lann.

But fortunately, the experienced Snake faction leader adjusted his posture in mid-air, rolled decisively on the ground a few times to remove the impact, and glanced at Lan's direction with lingering fear.

Turning around, I saw the gatekeeper waving a shovel again and turning into a black shadow, rushing towards him again.

Only this time, Keyan had already raised the cat pie's crossbow behind the gatekeeper.

With a sound of "噗嗤", the magic-blocking gold arrow accurately penetrated the gatekeeper's neck, making it stop suddenly.

But Lann noticed that the light around the opponent remained undiminished. Obviously, the attack method of this faint blue light is not driven by chaotic energy, nor is it magic in their traditional understanding.

The monsters in the manor were all summoned by Ogierd from another world with black magic, and the inability of the magic resistance gold in this world to it barely makes sense.

Lan En was thinking this, but the gatekeeper in front of him shook his body violently twice and fell to his knees. It seems that although its body structure is different from normal creatures, it is by no means immortal, and it can also be injured.

The people who were fighting with the gatekeeper were overjoyed when they saw this. The Snake School's silver sword was still stuck in the enemy's body, and the Snake School's members immediately drew out their silver-plated daggers and were about to attack again, but they saw the gatekeeper's feet cracked again and there were gaps showing blue light.

The bodies of the demon hunters froze suddenly. With the previous demonstration of the underground fountain, it was naturally impossible for them to rush up again at this time.

Kaiyan raised the crossbow in his hand again, while the four Snake factions took out four bombs from the alchemy backpack.

Two [Honeycomb], one [Dancing Star], and one [Dragon Dream]. They are all sponsored by Eternal Flame, and the four Snakes would never be so decisive in normal times.

With a "boom", the suddenly expanding flames immediately enveloped the gatekeeper. The demon hunters narrowed their eyes slightly, and from time to time they could still hear the sound of iron nails scattered from the [Honeycomb] piercing into the flesh.

If they were replaced by themselves, there would be absolutely no possibility of surviving at this time, and even replaced by other remnant monsters such as the deer head spirit, they would have to become half dead under this set of tactics.

But the demon hunters still dare not relax. Because the badges on their necks began to vibrate again.

At some point, the white mist around them turned black.

Lan En felt something in his heart, looked at his feet, and found that the black mist was actually seeping out from the ground.

The flames and smoke dissipated slowly, and the gatekeeper appeared on the spot in tattered clothes. His body was covered with burns and cuts.

Kaiyan frowned: "Lan, was I just as ugly when I was rescued by you?"

Lan glanced at the Cat Pie witcher who was speaking out of time: "I'm glad you can joke with your former self now, but our troubles have not been solved yet."

The black mist gradually condensed and turned into ghostly figures, thin and small, with staggering steps.

Looking at the doorman again, it pulled out the magic-blocking golden arrow stuck in its neck and threw it aside, and rushed towards the black shadows dangling.

"It's indeed injured, and its skills have slowed down, but these black shadows... are [Magic Summoning]?"

The Snake Demon Hunter looked at these black shadows that could not walk easily, and was surprised that the other party summoned such a helper with no combat effectiveness.

"No!" Lann shouted, "This is another kind of black magic. This monster can recover its own injuries by killing these shadows. We need to kill these shadows first!"

"It needs to use this method to recover, which means that it has suffered a lot of injuries, and it is almost dead!"

All the demon hunters couldn't help being shocked when they heard this, and immediately scattered to find the black shadow to solve it. Lan En and Lei Suo approached the gatekeeper again, using special seals and superpowers to delay the gatekeeper's pace and cause damage.

Those shadows staggered and were quickly wiped out by the demon hunters who were proficient in killing without any resistance. The gatekeeper was seriously injured, and soon fell into a hard fight after being familiar with the attacking routine.

When the other demon hunters freed their hands again, the six surrounded them, and finally the gatekeeper fell to his knees with a roar.

All the wounds on its body emitted a green light at this moment, and then a thick black smoke drifted out from his body. The black smoke seemed to represent its life, and after it cleared away, it completely remained motionless.

Panting heavily, everyone carefully approached the gatekeeper to confirm that the gatekeeper had really lost the ability to fight.

"No eyes, no nostrils, no vitals, but it is a body of flesh and blood. How can such a thing really exist?"

Kaiyan frowned. He contributed the least in the mission just now, because the monster in front of him was simply an assassin like Tianke who pursued one-hit kills.

It's not just him, this kind of battle is also handicapped for the Snake School who is proficient in using poison. Only Lan can fight smoothly, relying on the fully automatic [Yarden Sign] like a duck to water.

Colgrim sighed after savoring the details of the battle just now: "The body is strong and proficient in melee combat, and at the same time has the magical ability that is perfectly integrated with the combat system. Is this kind of power... Could it be that Arzu created the hunter? What power did you pursue when you were a devil?"

Leto slapped Colgrim hard on the back of the head: "Don't think about these things, check if there is any injury, and rest in place."

Then he turned to Lann again: "Are there more monster manors of this type?"

Lan En thought for a while and replied: "There are monsters that are similar to harmless, and there is also a demon spirit that can shuttle through the painting. But it should be the strongest of all monsters."

Lei Suo glanced at the inside of the manor expressionlessly: "I have been a demon hunter for so long, but I have never seen these monsters. I didn't expect to be able to see them all at once today. It's a pity that the products of [Magic Summoning] are all It cannot be used as an alchemy material."

The monsters summoned by [Summoning Magic] are all possessed. For example, the black mist that just escaped from the body of [Gatekeeper] is actually the main body. Therefore, it is rare to get any good results from the corpses of these prey. For a demon hunter, it is not as good as a ghoul or a water ghost.

Lan En looked at the janitor's shovel on the ground: "That's not necessarily the case."

Everyone followed Lan En's line of sight, revealing strange eyes, Lei Suo thought: "Judging from the feel of the battle just now, the material of this shovel is indeed high-quality, but as our weapon..."

Lan shook his head: "As far as I know, it is also a magic weapon, just like my Sword of the Lake Maiden. This shovel has the ability to recover from injuries after attacking the enemy."

Such a miraculous ability made the eyes of the demon hunters light up.

"But why didn't it work when we were fighting just now?"

"It is estimated that the trigger mechanism of this enchantment is still limited." Lann thought for a while, "It may be necessary to actually cause flesh and blood damage to the enemy, but we just carried it with the magic seal and did not give the enemy a chance. You have to experiment a lot to figure out how to use this weapon."

This kind of magic weapon that can restore one's own injuries is unheard of. Keyan is very interested in this, and this effect is most suitable for someone with his style of play.

But judging from the shape and weight of this shovel, it is estimated that only Lei Suo can wield it among the people present.

"But the experiment is not in a hurry." Lan turned his head to look at the flowers and easel not far away, as well as the black cat and black dog under the easel. "We still have some enemies to deal with."

The two obviously non-mortal animals have been squatting quietly watching the crowd hunt and kill the gatekeeper, and they have not left until now.

They were obviously just cats and dogs, but everyone could see the indifference in their eyes, which were like kerosene lamps, and even felt uncomfortable being looked down upon.

Colgrim raised his chin: "They've been watching us just now."

Oakes thought: "They must not be ordinary cats and dogs."

Serrit glanced at his partner: "You can see this just by looking at it, right?"

Kaiyan took a deep breath and his eyes lit up: "I think they come from the same place as the one that is dying on the ground."

Everyone looked at Kaiyan, then at the gatekeeper on the ground, and when they looked back at the cat and dog, they suddenly disappeared.

"'Death' and 'life' are defined differently in different places. The controversy is especially fierce in the field of philosophy."

A cold female voice sounded from behind, and everyone turned around, only to see the black cat and black dog appear behind them at some point.

At this moment, the black cat's mouth opened and closed, and it uttered the woman's voice they heard just now: "The gatekeeper is not considered 'dead' now, perhaps he desires this state more than what you define as 'alive' .”

The sight of the animal speaking human words immediately caused everyone to turn their swords and point at the black cat and black dog.

Lan En could see that they had no intention of attacking, so he took the initiative to ask: "You seem to know it and this house very well, why don't you introduce yourself?"

The cat closed its mouth, and the dog began to speak, this time in a deep man's voice: "We are friends of this house, friends summoned by the master of this manor to accompany the mistress."

Kaiyan frowned, looking at the female voice's cat for a while, and then at the male voice's dog, with interest on his face.

The four Snake Demon Hunters remained silent and remained vigilant, while Lan continued to communicate with the cats and dogs.

"We brought the hostess here to find the hostess. If possible, we want you to help lead the way—after all, this manor is too big."

The black cat looked at Lane, tilted its neck, and seemed confused: "You brought Ogierd Everec here? But I didn't see him, and I didn't sense him."

The black dog sniffed: "But you do have his smell on you."

Lan shrugged: "The host is very shy and guilty, and only willing to come out when he sees the hostess."

The cat and the dog looked at each other, and then at Lann. Suddenly, their bodies exploded into a cloud of black mist that dissipated in the air, and then condensed into shape at a distance of about fifty meters.

It seemed to be signaling Lane to follow.

"Do you believe them?" Leto stood beside Lann and reminded in a low voice.

Lan nodded: "They have their own demands and will be our friends."

Lei Suo's expressionless face finally began to frown: "I wanted to ask before, did Ogierd tell you all this information?"

Lan thought for a while: "This is the power of the ancient blood."

Lei Suo took a deep breath and said frankly: "I don't like this feeling. I don't seem to need to think when I'm with you. I have all the information I want. But the most important thing for a demon hunter is to collect information before fighting. Be prepared, in other words - the more times I fight with you, the weaker I may become."

Lei Suo's worry made Lann stunned. Could it be wrong to make the battle easier?

But if you think about it deeply, it’s actually not difficult to understand. Losing the school’s base for a long time makes everyone in the Snake School feel particularly insecure, which is why their desire to control the situation is particularly strong, and their desire to maintain their own abilities is also very pathological. .

Lan En thought for a while and said with a smile: "In the face of a big war, isn't the more complete the information the better? Usually, I should take on more demon-hunting missions to maintain my state. And my intelligence is not perfect, so I need more information." My partners are by my side to help me check for leaks and make up for gaps, and even help me regain my vigilance when I am careless due to my own strength."

"So Lei Suo, you shouldn't stop using your brain, but you should change your way of thinking."

Lei Suo frowned and thought for a while, then reluctantly nodded.

As soon as Lan reached out and put the gatekeeper's shovel into the [item], he led everyone towards the direction pointed by the cat and the dog.

The Everec family manor was astonishingly large. Lane and his party passed through an arch bridge and opened two iron gates before finally passing through the garden of the manor and arriving at the main courtyard of the manor.

Pushing open the door, the aged wood creaked. The sky was already covered with dark clouds, and the building had no windows, so the inside was completely dark.

It's just that this kind of darkness can't help the witcher.

Six pairs of eyes of different colors sparkled.

"Ogild should be in his thirties, right? Her wife will only be younger than him...Maybe in her twenties? I don't believe that a young lady in her twenties will live in this kind of place..."

Kaiyan looked at the interior of the manor building, and he didn't know whether it was disappointment or something.

The room in front of me seemed to have been ransacked by robbers, with collapsed tables and chairs everywhere, and even broken beams.

As everyone entered the room, dust above their heads was even shaken from time to time, like a series of small waterfalls flowing down from upstairs.

Colgrim said what everyone was thinking: "This house won't collapse anytime soon."

Just as everyone was observing their surroundings, two small groups of black mist condensed again. However, because the room was too dark, the appearance of cats and dogs seemed to have teleported out this time.

"The hostess is in the bedroom, and you can see her through the gallery on the second floor."

"She actually lives here?" Kaiyan raised his eyebrows, "There is a gallery, which means she likes to draw, so...wrong!"

The red light in Kaiyan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he suddenly looked up at a painting on the wall, which was a portrait of a woman, a portrait of a beautiful woman.

A voice suddenly came from the painting:

"Who... came in?"

The voice was hoarse and ethereal, with a strange echo. I don't know how many times the witcher badge started shaking again today.

Then, a pair of withered hands grabbed the picture frame. A green flame began to burn faintly, but the canvas inside was intact.

A black veil was exposed from the bottom of the frame under the reflection of the flames, but it seemed that there were too many people in the room, the veil and hands disappeared quickly, and the green fire went out again.

"Demon Spirit?"

The scene just now exposed a lot of information, Lei Suo immediately frowned and began to analyze:

"The demon summoned by black magic needs to possess a physical body, and it will not appear in the form of a spirit like just now, so it is a demon spirit. And is it a demon spirit with special abilities that can shuttle through the painting?"

Then the Snake Demon Hunter glanced at the cat and dog on the ground again: "The demon spirit is transformed after death, and Ogierd summoned the demon to prevent outsiders from entering the manor. Theoretically, there can only be one woman in the manor." , so this demon spirit... is Lan En the mistress you are looking for?"

Lan En nodded: "Yes, it seems that she is indeed dead."

Lei Suo's expression became more and more absurd: "So you came all the way to this manor just to get rid of this demon spirit? I thought you were here to completely solve Ogild's trouble!"

Lane nodded again: "I really want to completely solve the trouble, and we don't have to kill this demon spirit—on the contrary, she will help us, but there will be some twists and turns."

Having said that, Lann suddenly took out the jade statue transformed into by Ogierd from the 【Inventory】.

Regardless of the fact that he might be attacked by surprise, he walked up to the portrait of Alice and said loudly, "Ma'am, your husband is back."

Then he turned his head towards the stairs again, as if he wanted to shout his voice to every corner of the room: "Alice, Ogierd is back!"

He held up aloft the jade statue of Ogierd, a work of art dimmed in the darkness.

The house was quiet for a while.

With a "bang", a piece of wood broken from the roof hit Lann's feet, and when he turned around lightly, a cloud of dust like a small waterfall covered the place where he had just stood.

Kayan suddenly felt that the feeling of being surrounded by demon spirits all the time disappeared.

The cat and the dog stared fixedly at the jade statue in Lann's hands, and now they sensed the aura of their summoner: "This is the magic of the warlock, that's how you brought Ogild back? But before you Where is it hidden, why can't we feel it?"

Lan didn't answer the cat and dog's question, but observed the surroundings for a while. He also has the induction talent of [psychic medium], at this moment he can confirm that Alice's soul is far away from everyone. After thinking for a while, he suddenly pressed his hand on Alice's portrait, and put the painting into the 【Inventory】.

After doing all this, he said to the cat and the dog:

"This is not your concern, take us to the bedroom to find Alice."

Everyone went upstairs through the stairs that seemed to collapse at any time, and passed through a long corridor full of various paintings in the middle. The four of the Snake School were always on guard that there would be demon spirits coming out of the paintings, but in fact they were All the way was uneventful.

Kayan began to comment on a painting, which showed a couple, Alice and Ogierd.

"Every happy family is the same, and every unhappy family is different."

As if feeling that he had said something very philosophical, Kayan nodded, took down the painting, and showed it to Lei Suo:

"Look at Ogild above, isn't it completely different from the current one?"

Lei Suo, who was vigilant around him, glanced at him without looking at the painting: "It's really different."

Talking perfunctorily to Kaiyan, Lei Suo wondered in his heart: Is this cat like this before, or did it become like this after being caught for an experiment, or did it become like this after being rescued by Lann?

Regardless of the mental activities of several people, after passing through the corridor, a locked door appeared in front of them. This couldn't stop the witcher at all, and Lan kicked him away with a little force.

Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up. This was the only place with light in the whole house.

A woman was lying on the bed with her back to them. The stove behind her was slowly burning to provide warmth for the people in the room. She seemed very considerate and worried that the sleeping woman would catch a cold.

But inside the house, there are tables and broken bookshelves lying around, and there are cobwebs and dust everywhere. If it hasn't been cleaned for several years, it will definitely not show such a scene.

A young man and five big men gathered around the bed, looking at the target of his group's trip - Ogierd's wife Alice.

At this moment, she has become a skeleton in black mourning clothes.

Kyan looked at the painting, then at Alice, turned around and threw the painting aside: "You lit the fireplace for her, and took care of the home to prevent outsiders from hurting her, but now even her body Don’t even want to bury the corpse?”

The dog said in a bass voice: "We are not physically able to do this kind of thing now, and the janitor you just met was ordered not to go near him."

Kayan looked at the dog's paw and nodded in approval.

Lei Suo carefully observed the corpse and asked: "She has no external injuries, and the chaos in the room is not a trace of fighting. How did she die?"

The black cat gave an answer that everyone expected: "Her heart is broken."

Lei Suo was taken aback, as if he didn't understand the meaning of this sentence: "You mean a heart attack?"

The black dog said in a tone without any emotional fluctuations: "No, it is literally broken. Alice and Ogild also have an immortal body, and it is difficult for me to understand this situation."

The black cat fogs up by the window and condenses its figure on the bed. It sits next to the hostess and describes the scene when she died:

"While the gatekeeper guarded her, he also helped the master imprison her. She couldn't leave the manor, and she couldn't hear our voice like you. So she was always sad and lonely. One day Alice locked the front door, Lying in bed, and then... died peacefully. Like a rose that fades out of season."

The black dog paced forward and sat in front of Lan: "You turned Ogild into a statue and brought it back, and now you have seen Alice's body, what will you do next, and bury them together?"

Lan En raised his eyebrows: "Are you very concerned?"

The black dog nodded: "We were summoned here by Ogild just to protect Alice. Now Alice has passed away and even turned into an irrational evil spirit, but we are also trapped here."

The black cat also atomized in front of Lann, and said, "Either kill Ogierd, or free Alice's soul, or we will maintain our current form forever."

"You hate the way you are now?"

The black cat and the black dog gestured to their small bodies, and said together for the first time: "What do you think?"

Lan En thought for a while and said: "My purpose is to kill Ogild, but since you were summoned by him, you must know that he has a real immortal body. I have a way to break his immortal body , but I must meet the real Alice, so I need your help."

Having said that, Lan looked at Kaiyan.

Unlike Lann, who had a short career in hunting demons and knew little about the means of summoning spirits, Keyan can be said to be very familiar with it.

"Since the hostess has turned into a demon spirit, the matter is simpler. She is hiding from us now, we just need to bury her body in a peaceful place and add a spell."

But the black cat shook his head and said: "It's not that simple. The demon spirit you saw is just a part of Alice. The real her is still sleeping. You need to wake up the real her."

"How to do it?"

"Use the drawing board as a material to summon the demon spirit, and then she will lead you to the place where Alice really sleeps." The black cat looked at the painting of Ogierd and Alice, "That is very suitable."

Kyan looked at the painting that he had thrown aside, and smiled: "Good cat."

As he said that, the Cat Pie witcher actually reached out and wanted to touch the black cat. As a result, only a cloud of smoke can be touched.

…………

In the garden of the manor, there is a row of short and simple tombs. They are simply piled up with stones and then erected with a wooden stake on top of them. The area around the tomb was still full of blood, and it seemed that the people who buried the corpse were relatively rough.

"Those are people who invaded the manor." The black cat explained proactively, "The gatekeeper killed them and buried them here."

Kayan said in a teasing tone: "After killing the invaders, did they pile up graves for them? That weirdo is unusually gentle."

The black cat didn't pay attention to him at all, and turned into smoke and condensed on Lann's shoulder: "In front is the 'Place of Calm', where Alice often draws."

Lan looked over, and in front of him was a dusty and dilapidated easel.

After a while, another simple grave was piled up in front of the easel, and Alice was finally buried.

Kayan knelt in front of the tomb, his pupils were turned upside down, leaving only the whites of his eyes. It opened its arms to make its body appear in the shape of an inverse cross, and whispered:

"O tortured soul, I have buried your bones. Let go of your resentment, let go of your sorrow, and show yourself..."

Keyan repeated the incantation at a slow and steady pace, and Lane looked back into the manor if he felt something.

Where no one could see, the candlesticks, braziers, and fireplaces in every corner where Alice used to live were all lit with flames, briefly dispelling the darkness in the manor and even adding a little warmth.