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Dark City.

This place is also known as the dark world, the underground world... a strange place filled with darkness, cruelty, struggle and blood.

On the road leading to the city, the surrounding houses have simple structures and spread out on both sides of the road in a disorderly manner.

In the central area, a black castle looks out of place among the surrounding buildings.

The cobblestone road was now covered in black dirt with a hint of scarlet. There were scattered items and garbage everywhere, as well as stinking and rotting corpses that no one cared about.

There was a pungent smell in the air.

The people coming and going all exuded a sense of coldness. At a glance, they were all alone, and it was almost impossible to see anyone walking together.

Those who can appear here are basically people who are fleeing or have nowhere to go.

And in a tavern in this city.

A group of people with broken arms and legs were gathered here, and there were even quite a few destitute beggars, but no one dared to look down on them.

How could anyone who could still be alive here be an ordinary person?!

It's nothing more than a difference in strength.

"What's going on at the Black Castle lately? That Haresi guy is furious every day, making life difficult for us."

"Who knows? For a bunch of cripples like us, it's best to say less about those people in the Dark Courtyard, lest they hear us and chop off our hands and feet again."

"Have you heard about the incident that happened in Longguo a while ago? Haresi disappeared on that day, and he came back like this. Could it be related to that incident?"

"You mean... Elizabeth's treasure?!"

"Shh - keep your voice down, do you want to die? How dare you mention that thing here?" The one-eyed man quickly signaled several people to keep their voices down and looked around at the same time.

There were many people around looking at them with unfriendly expressions.

Looking at the situation around them, those people calmed down a lot and immediately picked up their drinks to drink, pretending that nothing had happened.

Just then, the door of the tavern was pushed open, and several figures wearing long black robes and hats walked in.

They scanned the entire tavern, and when the people in the tavern saw that it was someone from the Dark Courtyard, they immediately lowered their heads.

"Why are the people from the Dark Courtyard here again? How many people are they going to take away this time?!"

Everyone trembled and dared not move.

After a quick look around, the people from the Dark Courtyard came to the front desk. The leader nodded and waved his hand, "Take them back to me."

In an instant, the people in the dark courtyard controlled the dozen or so frightened people, and everyone looked panicked and scared.

"Why are you arresting me? I didn't break any rules. Let me go! Let me go!"

"My Lords, please, I don't want to die yet."

“Wuwuwu…”

The gap in strength was fully reflected at this moment. Although there were only six people in the Dark Courtyard, these dozen or so people were no match. They had no strength to resist at all and were all taken down.

"Shut up, everyone! It's your honor to be able to enter the Black Castle!!!"

Seeing that someone was still not behaving well, the man in black shot that person to death on the spot, and the whole place fell silent.

Seeing this, the leading man in black snorted coldly, and swept his cold eyes over everyone. At that moment... you could hear a pin drop, and only the sound of everyone's breathing could be heard.

The dozen or so people who were captured had despair and fear on their faces. They were like lambs to be slaughtered as they were taken to the road to the Black Castle.