Pluto's Banquet - Allies of Shadows

"'Some secrets have to be buried', that's how I really feel right now."

"What a coincidence, I also heard a saying called 'the secret in the abyss should continue to be kept in the abyss'."

Pluto's butler "Flash of Enthalpy" Laila, and the former butler "Leaking Hand of Dark Memory" Donghua are expressing the same opinion on the things in front of them at this moment.

After leaving the gate of Yingfeng Temple with everyone 10 minutes ago, Leila walked into Yingfeng Temple alone, but this time it was a little different. She was looking for something, something that suddenly felt before. Something that disturbs her.

But she didn't know what she was looking for, but the feeling of familiarity and strangeness began to arise from the moment she entered the hall of Yingfeng Temple.

Ordinarily, it is normal for there to be some evil or secret things in the imperial city, which is the capital of the underworld, but what Lila felt this time made her very uneasy and even a little frightened.

"The follow-up work will be carried out as I arranged before, and we will be dismissed now~"

Regarding what Pluto said before, the task assigned to Laila is to summarize and analyze the information sent to her by other people, and then respond and deal with it one by one.But now she is not in that mood.

After searching around on the first floor of Yingfeng Temple for a long time, Laila finally found a clue.

In fact, on the floor in the center of the hall on the first floor, there is a pattern of a sword with a crown between the two pairs of wings representing the Pluto symbol, which is slightly crooked now.

And Laila saw a very faint circle of light around the pattern, and it turned out that this was actually an independent circular floor.Raise your hand to inject strength into the ground, and the circular floor begins to rotate until the original pattern is completely reversed.

At this time, the pattern glowed purple and began to fade away.Finally, a huge circular staircase leading underground appeared on the ground.

Laila hesitated for a moment and went down, but at the same time as she went down, the floor that had disappeared appeared again to cover it, and the stairs that Laila stepped on lit up at the moment when the light was about to disappear. It was the stairs that turned pure white, while the surrounding area was still pitch black.

After walking for about 5 minutes, the stairs disappeared, and the surrounding seemed to be a very wide place, and a slender line of purple mist could be vaguely seen in the distance.At this moment, Laila suddenly felt someone behind her, and she turned around suddenly and jumped back, but someone hugged her waist and covered her mouth.

"Shh, don't be afraid, it's me!"

Hearing the familiar voice, Laila almost slipped because she lost her footing.

"Huh, don't scare me, Sister Donghua."

"I was also taken into hiding by you. I thought it was the enemy, but I wanted to attack from behind but found it was you."

Although it was in a dark place, Donghua's orange pupils could be distinguished at a glance.

"Elder Sister Donghua has just come in, right?"

"Well, how did you find the entrance?"

"Pluto's sign is crooked."

"It's the same as me, but if you can come in, it means that the pattern should still be crooked now."

"Probably because of today's action, the magic that was originally used to hide here was damaged by the land movement, so we discovered it. How often does Sister Donghua think Sarah comes in?"

"I don't think they come here very often."

"why?"

"Because Sarah doesn't like stairs the least, the fact that the facility in front that should be "rectified" is still there must mean that she doesn't come here very often, maybe even once."

"That makes sense...is that the door in front?"

Lyra asked.

"It should be, but I didn't go over to investigate."

"Then I'll try it."

As she spoke, Laila raised a hand, and soon a small white ball of light appeared in her palm.Then the ball of light flew forward slowly, and suddenly disappeared when it was about to touch the slender purple mist in the distance.

"Disappeared?"

"Well, it should have encountered something like an enchantment."

Leila replied.

"Could it be that there is a Taoist gate over there, and it's related to Pluto's..."

"I feel the same way as you, this place is like the 'Secret Chamber of Origin'."

When Lila finished speaking, a slow music suddenly came to mind in the dark space.

The two became alert.

No one blesses the world anymore,

My hands are full of scars,

The gods have long since left us,

unable to seek their help,

Accompanied by soothing music, a female voice sang a song. Although Leila and Donghua didn't know the language, they could understand the content. They hadn't felt this way for a long time.

I would like to go back to the era that can save my life, but everything can't be repeated,

I would like to go back to the time when justice was justice, but everything is gone,

The world where there was light, the world full of flowers,

It's dark now, it's devastated now,

The cry of a child is no longer heard, the tears of a woman are no longer seen,

The blood of the brave has long since dried up, leaving only the wild laughter of the demons.

"Have you ever heard that song before, Laila?"

"No, but this lyrics and this voice, if it's an allusion to the past..."

"Hey, don't talk nonsense, the past of the underworld can't be like this. If this is really the case, then what's the point of our existence, then Pluto..."

Donghua clenched his fists and looked around, trying to find other clues.But after the song was sung, the surrounding area was still dark.

"I don't want to come to the truth, but why is this song right here."

"What did you say about the singing?"

"I feel like I've heard something similar."

"Let's go back for the time being, and come back after we sort out the situation. I think it's better not to ask Sarah."

"Well, I think so too. And I have a lot of things to deal with during this time. I will contact you when I find any clues, Sister Donghua."

Then the two walked up the stairs again, and the closed circular floor disappeared again the moment they were about to reach the end of the stairs.

Back in the lobby on the first floor, the circular floor reappeared, still slightly crooked.After the two looked at each other, they poured strength into the floor again, this time to let it return to its place.

"We should find a magic to forget the memory and erase everything just now."

"That's not your style, Laila."

"Don't talk about Elder Sister Donghua like that, it's been a long time since I felt so much fear and anxiety like today."

"But you want to know what's in that door and the meaning of that song just as much as I do. But let's forget about it for today. It's meaningless to talk about it now. Let's think about hidden things."

"Secret thing?"

"The floor is closed, but I think Sara will find out that the magic here is broken sooner or later. We have to do something before she finds out and fixes it, so that we can go in even if she restores the magic here."

"Oh, don't worry about this, it was already done when the light ball was released just now."

Leila said.

"That is the 'profound bond'?"

Donghua was a little surprised to say the name of a certain magic of Laila.

"Well, because it was originally a boring magic, I modified it a little bit, but I didn't expect it to be used today."

While they were talking about this, in the pitch-black area under the floor, the line composed of slender purple mist was constantly expanding, and a door from which a large amount of purple mist gushed out opened.

A long-haired black figure walked in slowly, and the door closed again as the footsteps disappeared.