126.Chapter 126 – Frey seems to want to fast-forward again

Chapter 126 – Frey seems to want to fast forward again
The ancient stone wall seemed to be absorbing the shimmering light from the top of the mountain.

Quite a few corners of this ancient castle were filled with shadows, and behind every door could be hidden unknown secrets.

The cold stone walls and dimly lit corridors seemed to be permeated with an even more morose aura under the influence of the killing machine.

The group maintained a subtle distance as they walked between the hallways of the ancient castle.

Looking distantly out the window, all that could be seen was the faint outline of foggy forests and valleys, everything was hazy and mysterious.

Since the two betrayers who were blood dependents could only borrow the power of the blood master when he awoke, and it was the habit of the bloods to go to a safe location during the day to seal themselves off from the light and fall into a deep sleep, and only awaken at night.

So the Betrayer only has a chance to use the unknown and terrifying Count’s power once a day at night.

On the starting day of the five-day killing game, the challengers who had not been killed were at their full strength, and the two betrayers did not dare to start picking ten out of two when they were unable to use their blood power.

Instead, they wisely disguised themselves as normal challengers.

The daytime scouting strategy naturally turned into all of them getting together and not leaving each other’s sight.

This way the Betrayers would need to follow the collective action and would be unable to either commit murder or accomplish their own mission objectives during the day.

Likewise, it was also able to greatly slow down the progress of the betrayers’ mission.

Moving up the stone staircase from the hall of the sanctuary, through the winding stairway into the attic-like bank of the second floor, one could continue to get a clear view of the hall of the foundation floor, and moving inward, in addition to the three huge bedrooms that were locked and a number of lavatories and storage rooms, the most conspicuous thing that stood out was a double-decker library that led from the second floor of the castle to the third floor.

The library was made of dark mahogany, with tall, ornately carved bookshelves stretching along the walls and up to the ceiling, the shelves were piled high with all sorts of ancient books of the Horning Empire, including ancient manuscripts and precious maps, and right in the middle of it all there was a writing table with a feather quill and an ink bottle on it, so obviously this had once been a place for the castle’s owner, Sir Caligula, to peruse the books and do his work.

However, Frey did not ask all of them to join him in the library to spend a lot of time checking out the ancient books for clues, he just led them up the rotating staircase inside the library to the third floor of the castle.

Along the way from the third to the fifth floor, in addition to the three enclosed bedrooms that were fixed to each floor, there was also the private bedroom of the castle’s owner, Sir Caligula, the castle’s meeting room, iron casting room, armory, textile room, drawing room, apothecary, tower, and much more.

There are a number of old castle rooms passed along the way that look like they could unearth clues.

But the detective doesn’t have any ideas.

It was as if he had recognized the intervening items and was moving in a straight line only for the most efficient solution that his mind was already convinced of.

After a three-hour-long round of exploring the interior of the complete old castle, the challenger finally confirmed that the five-story castle’s building was covered with sturdy magical spells capable of withstanding extremely strong attacks, and that there were individually reinforced knots in the bedrooms in particular.

There were three bedrooms on each of the second through fifth floors, for a total of exactly twelve secure bedrooms, and each challenger already possessed a magical key to unlock the doors and windows of the corresponding room, which they carried in their own pockets.

By now, the mechanics of this Shadow World were also clearer.

At night when the Blood Lord awakens and the Betrayers can use their powers, the odds are that everyone gathered together will be killed by the two Betrayers all in one breath.

So the strategy for the night is obviously that everyone should separate and hide in the safe bedroom.

Even if any of the blood powers were attack-type or spell-dissolving-type that could break through the protection of the bedrooms, due to the restriction that powers could only be borrowed once a day, and considering the absolute reasonableness that the Shadow World had always maintained, at most one or two safe bedrooms could be broken through in a single night.

The more centrally located you live, the greater the probability of being killed by multiple challengers in one night in one breath, and the more spread out you live, the less likely you are to die that night.

If the Betrayer could not be caught out early enough, five days might be enough time for two Betrayers to kill off all the other Challengers.

The occupants corresponding to each bedroom were in the open before the Shadow World began, and challengers with important identities are especially dangerous, especially detectives.

The only way to avoid the danger is to go and share a room with a Challenger you can trust.

And while the challenger may have to protect the detective even at the expense of himself, the betrayer must be prevented from killing the detective outright on the first night. The sooner the detective dies, the more dramatically this Shadow World will tilt toward victory for the Betrayer’s side!

Accordingly, it’s also possible for the Betrayer to pounce all night long if he can be reasonably misled, or if he can play the perfect psychological game!

The people who had finished investigating the internal structure of the old castle at this moment, led by Frey, went all the way downstairs back to the foundation floor.

Frey headed to the kitchen and the ingredient store to find some portable food to put inside the slung leather bag he had found upstairs, and then went to the wine cellar to pick up a couple bottles of sweet white wine.

The time was nearing nine in the morning.

Ahead of the double front door casements, light surged freely between the window panes and through the colorful glass in the dome, setting off the interior of what had been a slightly darker building at times.

Frey pushed open the massive doorway, and the crowd followed, stepping out of the historic chateau for the first time from the foundation level, and at once the intense sunlight struck them in a way they had never felt before.

They also finally got a full view of this castle in the clouds.

Stepping out from the gate and looking back, the fine decorations on the ancient castle’s outer wall appeared especially clear under the morning sunlight, the limestone walls contrasted with the surrounding green forest, and the top floor overhanging platforms and spire towers appeared especially spectacular under the clouds.

What Frey now instructed everyone to do was to go together to the cliffside to confirm that the information from [Geographer] and [Lawyer] was correct.

If the intelligence was true.

There will be two people whose identities become more credible.

The castle was surrounded by mountains, rivers and trees, lush in every direction, and even more eerie in the sluggish fall.

Twelve silhouettes walked through the forest, and the atmosphere became more and more tense.

The trees all looked like eerie shadows in the mist, and the shallow stream turned into a mysterious passageway that disappeared into the mists.

They knew that what really mattered on this trip was to confirm the condition of the bridge.

It only took five minutes for the group to arrive at the location of the bluff through the direction accurately described by the [Geographer].

The sight in front of them was alarming, the road to the city-state was blocked by a huge cliff.

Even before the line of sight touched the edge, the eight hundred meter high and hundreds of meter wide cliff had already brought a strong visual shock.

Like Ranchi had predicted, the hundred-meter-long bridge had indeed been destroyed.

It was as if someone was deliberately trying to trap all the people in this ancient castle.

It had to be the work of the Betrayer using the Blood powers before the Shadow World began.

The height of over eight hundred meters and the distance of hundreds of meters to the opposite shore, as well as the air-control magical effect of the Defense Boundary, seemed to isolate them from the rest of the world, making them prisoners of this rocky island.

On this bleak morning.

Everything was at the stage of a clueless mystery.

The mood of the crowd is also because of the broken bridge is fast falling into the depressing extreme when.

Frey, like a detective who was nearing the moment of solving the case, walked towards the broken cliff alone!
(End of chapter)