Beauty and the Python

68.

Maggie came to Atalas in the third year after Dylan entered the Titan Tower. During these three years, she wrote countless letters to Dylan, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea. Not to mention replying, there was not even a splash. stand up.

Some people say that the Titan Tower is too high, much higher than the other six towers, neither owls nor eagles can fly up, and letters cannot be delivered at all.Some people also said that Dylan Ludwick was the lucky one chosen for the first generation of dukes, and now the status is supreme, and she doesn't remember her sister who stayed in the secular world at all.

No one supported her, but Maggie still traveled thousands of miles and embarked on the journey alone.

She and Dylan were the only ones left in Ludwick's family. If she also forgot her brother, then Dylan's last link with the world would be severed.

On the second day after she came to Atalas, she went to the Titan Tower. Although it was in the most prosperous city, the surroundings of this tower were extremely deserted, and no one could see it.She explained her identity and purpose of coming to the iron door at the door, and begged to meet Duke Dylan. Unlike the expected cold reception, accompanied by a heavy and long voice, the iron door slowly opened in front of her, and she As soon as he walked in, the door lowered behind him again, and the darkness swallowed up the ray of light little by little.Years later, that voice still echoed in her mind from time to time, and it was only after she walked in that she realized what it meant—that door opened a huge chasm, separating the inside from the outside, hell from the world.And the world inside had nothing but an inextricably thick darkness.

She meets Dylan at the top of Titan Tower.

"Have you heard the story of Prometheus?"

"He stole fire from the gods for mankind, and for this Zeus punished him by ordering the mountain god to chain him to a rock in the Caucasus mountains and order a hungry vulture to come and eat his liver every day. , On the next day, his liver will grow back again, and it will continue like this day after day for 3 years."

"When I read this story when I was a child, I was afraid of the cruelty of God, and at the same time felt the endless pain of reincarnation for Prometheus. Such torture, it is better to die immediately at this moment, return to the river Styx, and obtain eternal peace."

"I thought the same thing when I saw Dylan in the Tower of Titans."

Maggie didn't recognize Dylan immediately.

An old voice came from nowhere in the dark space, "Ludvik, your sister is here, don't you want to see her?"

After a long time, she heard the sound of some kind of metal colliding together in the deepest part. She opened her eyes wide, and after a while, she could barely make out a vague outline. The figure moved and panted too hard. It seemed that the mere movement caused him pain.

He looked up at her from under his messy, filthy hair—he had beastly scarlet eyes.

It didn't look like a person, more like a wounded beast.

—That shouldn't be her brother.

The six mages conducted countless cruel experiments on Dylan in the past three years. They were all human sacrifices based on the most evil black magic recorded in the forbidden book. Several times their experimental products narrowly died in the process. , even if he already has a tenacity and a desire to survive that surpasses ordinary people, and even occasionally makes them find it incomprehensible—it doesn’t matter, they are the most powerful mages, they have the most perfect healing skills, and they won’t even leave any traces on his body. The next bit of trace.

After all, for this body to be sacrificed to the devil, it must be perfect.

However, after experiencing the bitter taste of failure one after another, they almost gave up on this person and let him fend for himself.Until after another experiment, they discovered that Dylan's eyes had turned a strange red.

——That is the proof that the devil had a connection with this person!

This man was indeed the most suitable sacrifice, and they felt that hope was at hand, but only the last step.

It's just that this last step seemed to be infinitely stretched out. The devil hadn't come for a long time, and the time was running out. The six of them were a little restless. It happened that Maggie came at this time.

So it was proposed to let her in.

"Doesn't the devil love the blood of virgins?"

*****

Maggie went to see the man again that day.

Before she had time to get closer, she suddenly saw the man move.

So she stopped.

He slowly raised his head to look at her, his face was pale and haggard, lifeless, his blood-red eyes devoid of any human emotion.

He moved his lips.

Maggie struggled to identify, and it took her a long time to read out what he was talking about, but it was just one word—"Go."

He kept repeating, saying the word all the time.

Of course she couldn't get out.

When she went back to the bottom floor and tried to open the iron door, the mage grabbed her back. They threw her beside Dylan, cut her wrist roughly, and surrounded Dylan with blood. Formed a magic circle.

That night, the devil they had dreamed of finally came.

"He's not a devil, those people are." Maggie said precisely, her expression was close to a paranoid, she lowered her head and stroked the non-existent wound on her wrist, "He killed them, but he didn't kill me, he saved I……"

"He's just been in the dark for too long, it's been too painful..."

"Why... no one can save him." The girl covered her face, tears leaking from between her fingers.

*****

So Elaine said, "I know why the Son didn't kill Dylan."

Edgar gazed at him thoughtfully.

"Dylan said that he is 120 years old this year, so he should be 20 years old when he was cursed, but he only entered the Titan Tower when he was 20 years old. Why did the three years in between disappear out of thin air?" Elaine said and looked at into the red box in Edgar's arms.

"The Holy Son tried to search for traces of the devil in him, and found that the devil was hiding in his memory, so he extracted that memory and locked it in this box."

"Now Dylan should remember everything, and the devil is one with him again."

"Princess," Edgar looked at him deeply, "at this time, has your mind not changed?"

"You are too stubborn." Elaine shook her head helplessly, "Why me?"

"That's because of another trap set by the Holy Son in the curse. Even if the curse is lifted, the contract between you will still exist unless you terminate it yourself.

Otherwise, even Dylan can kill anyone and life in this world, except you. "

"What if he kills me?" Elaine asked.

"Then..." Edgar hesitated, "He will die too."

Everything is covered.Elaine admired this holy son: he is really a scheming foreigner.

Edgar continued: "Dylan is extremely defensive, and it is impossible for others to approach him. Besides, I am a unicorn, and I am destined not to kill people."

He still wanted to do it himself?Elaine felt that she didn't know each other well enough before.

He understood, "So from the very beginning, another object of this curse has assumed the double identity of lover and assassin."

"I take back what I said that the Holy Son doesn't understand love. Now that I think about it, it's too stupid..." Elaine murmured to herself, "He really understands people's hearts exceptionally well."

Edgar couldn't help but feel discouraged when he saw that the other party didn't focus on the right point at all, "Well, I know it's impossible to ask you to do such a cruel thing all of a sudden..."

"Then..." He suddenly grabbed the other person's hand, "You can go with me!"

"What are you doing?" Elaine felt that this person was really inexplicable today.

"Dylan can't kill you, maybe even fell in love with you. That's good. It was originally in line with the Son's plan. Even if he can't influence him, you can still hope that there is finally someone in this world who can restrain him?" Ed Jia looked at him with extremely complicated eyes, "It's just that I didn't expect that this person is you."

"He can't kill you, but he still has a thousand, ten thousand ways to torture you."

Elaine couldn't laugh or cry, "Edgar, what are you talking about?"

Edgar sighed inexplicably, "Even you didn't expect this."

"You have to know..." He lowered his voice, but his tone was extremely firm, "You are the one who defeated Dylan and cursed him 100 years ago!"

After finishing speaking, he suddenly took a step back, bent over and knelt down on one knee in front of Elaine, held his right hand, bowed his head to kiss his knuckles, full of the purest respect and admiration.

He called softly: "Holy Son, my teacher."

He said something in a language that Elaine couldn't understand, it seemed like an extremely strange name.

"Wake up—"

Elaine saw a golden magic circle clearly emerge between the opponent's brows, and the light burst out in an instant, and the light became bigger and bigger, and it kept getting closer to him, and then enveloped his whole body.

The feeling was so warm and familiar, Elaine was defenseless, and couldn't even think of resisting.

He lost consciousness completely.