"boom!!!"

The explosion suddenly sounded, startling the flowers, and Rosalind, who was sleeping next to her, also woke up. She sat up and looked around anxiously.

"What happened? Sister Flower?"

"I don't know either. It seems to have come from outside..."

“Boom boom boom!!”

At this moment, there was a sudden hurried knock on the door. Hearing the knock, Xianhua immediately became alert and asked.

"Who is it?"

"It's us, miss."

Coming from outside the door was the voice of the frivolous monk, Tokito Jirobo Seigen.

"What's the matter?"

"Yes, I heard that Miss Red Ponytail and Master Heine seem to have found the attacker, and they want you to rush over immediately."

"Yeah?"

Hearing this, Rosalind became excited. She jumped out of bed and wanted to open the door, but was grabbed by the flowers next to her.

"Sister Flowers?"

"Rosalind, come behind me."

If Xianhua was just wary of the monk's words before, now she has risen to the level of suspicion. After all, as a companion, Xianhua knows that Hongmawei has a lot of strange high-tech. If she wants to contact her, she won't use this ancient method of passing messages and ask others for help. After all, when she came out this time, in order to facilitate communication, Xianhua also got a mobile phone. If Xiaohong really wants to tell her something, a phone call can solve the problem directly.

Why do we need to send someone to deliver the message?

Flowers waved her hand, signaling Rosalind to hide behind her, and quickly reached out her hand. Soon, there was a flash of light, and the next moment Flowers opened the door. Outside the door, the frivolous monk was standing there with a smile, and it seemed that he had not changed much from before.

"Where are they?"

"Hahaha, them, I'll take you to see them now..."

However, before the monk could finish his words, Xianhua saw him suddenly raise his right hand, and then the bowl in his hand flew up quickly and hit her forehead.

"boom!"

However, the next moment, a scorching flame shield suddenly erupted, blocking the attack of Jirobo Qingxuan at that time and pushing him away.

"What do you mean?!"

"cut."

Facing the question from Flowers, the Frivolous Monk did not answer. He just smacked his lips and raised his hand again. At the same time, Flowers also raised her right index finger and pointed at the monk in front of her. Soon, a magic missile shining with light burst out from Flowers' fingertips and flew towards the monk in front of her.

Secondary magic missile storm!

"What's this?!"

The frivolous monk had obviously never seen this kind of magic, but he was not completely helpless. He grabbed the bowl in his hand, and the magical light flashed around him, forming a solid shield.

But this was meaningless. The whistling magic missile shattered the monk's defense after hitting him four or five times in a row and hit his body. With a scream, the frivolous monk flew backwards and fell heavily to the ground.

"What on earth do you want to do?!"

Flowers took another step forward and stood guard at the door. Her index finger pointed at the frivolous monk, and the magic light gathered in Flowers' hand again. At this time, suddenly...

“——!!!”

An invisible sound wave instantly came from the other side of the corridor, rushing towards Flowers and Rosalind. For a moment, the corridor began to tremble, the glass shattered, and the wall peeled off. However, Flowers and Rosalind standing there... did not react at all.

"how so?"

At this time, the frivolous monk also slowly climbed up, and when he saw this scene, he showed an unmistakable expression of surprise on his face. He looked at the flowers in surprise and opened his mouth.

"You... don't have a magic mark?"

"We at Thousand World Tree don't need that kind of thing!"

At this moment, Flowers had confirmed that the monk in front of her was her enemy, although she didn't know what was going on, so she fired magic missiles at the monk again without hesitation. However, this time, the magic missiles failed to hit the target, because just when they were about to hit the target, suddenly, a huge black shadow suddenly fell from the sky, appeared in front of the monk like a shield, and blocked the magic missiles.

"What is this...?"

Seeing the monster that looked like a mixture of a wolf and a spider, Hua Hua was also stunned. Although she had already started to learn magic, this was the first time she had seen a monster. After all, the ones she had seen before were all things in movies. To Hua Hua, seeing a monster in real life was really unreal.

"roar--!!"

At the same time, the monster roared at the flowers again and showed its claws.

At this moment, Flowers panicked and used the most powerful transmutation magic she knew.

“Fireball!!”

"boom--!!"

Explosions and flames suddenly appeared, attracting the attention of others.

"What happened?"

"ROSALIND!!"

Heine shouted and then hurried towards the castle, and the others hurried to follow.

But compared to these magicians, Fang Zheng's was much easier. She jumped from the wall below to the exploded room in just three or two jumps. The originally luxurious room was burned black by the flames. The bright red flames kept burning. Rosalind hid behind the flowers and trembled, and the flowers also looked pale.

"What's wrong? What's going on?"

"Xiao Hong!"

Seeing Fang Zheng appear, Xianhua finally breathed a sigh of relief. She hurriedly pulled Rosalind to Fang Zheng's side and began to speak.

"We heard an explosion just now, and then... then the monk knocked on the door and said you wanted us to come over. I felt something was wrong, so I cast a fire shield for myself, and then I opened the door, and the monk suddenly attacked me. Although I knocked him down, a monster suddenly appeared... I... I don't know what to say... Then I cast a fireball..."

Although Hua Hua tried to keep herself calm, Fang Zheng could sense from her trembling voice that she was indeed quite nervous and uneasy. This was also normal. No one had ever thought that they would encounter an alien on the set of Sherlock Holmes, right?

If there are aliens around, what's the use of Sherlock Holmes?

Shouldn't we look for Ripley at this time?

"Okay, don't worry, I'm here...just protect Rosalind."

Fang Zheng patted Xianhua's shoulder, signaling her to calm down, then walked to the burning corridor and waved his hand. Soon, a cold chill instantly erupted, completely extinguishing the flames in the corridor.

but……

"Woohoo, it looks like this is hopeless."

Looking at the charred body of the monster in front of him, Fang Zheng smacked his lips.

Although Flowers looked quite nervous, her judgment was correct. In the narrow corridor, the power of the fireball was almost at its maximum. Half of the monster's body had been completely burnt, and the monk behind it was not much better. His robes were burned black, and one of his arms was burnt and deformed. He was shouting on the ground.

“This, this is…”

At this moment, the other people who rushed over were also stunned when they saw this scene.

"What on earth is going on?"

However, something even more surprising happened.

“Mom! Mom!!”

Jirobo Seigen cried and screamed as he rushed towards the monster and threw himself on it. Seeing this, everyone was stunned.

"Xiao, Xiaohong...what's going on?"

At this moment, Flowers also brought Rosalind to Fang Zheng's back. Looking at the scene in front of her where the monk was hugging a monster and crying bitterly, she couldn't understand what was going on.

"Who knows? Ask Sherlock Holmes."

Fang Zheng was too lazy to think about such boring things, so she just raised her head and looked at El-Melloi II.

"What do you think, Holmes?"

"I'm not Sherlock Holmes, Miss Red Ponytail."

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, El-Melloi II sighed helplessly.

"But...I already know the truth about this matter very well."

"Oh? Tell me about it then."

“It’s very simple.”

As he spoke, El-Melloi II pointed at the monk.

"He is the son of Ashberwin."

“…Huh?”

Hearing this, not only Fang Zheng showed a surprised expression, but Luvia and others beside him also looked confused.

"Wait, didn't they say Ashberwin didn't have any children?"

At this moment, Flowers also raised a question. The reason why they came here to inherit the inheritance was because the magician named Ashberwin had no direct blood relatives. If he had a son, then why did he ask them to come?

"That's just an excuse. No... In fact, Ashberwin did have a son. I heard about it from old man Orlok, but that son died a long time ago."

As he spoke, El-Melloi II took out a cigar—but after noticing the unfriendly look from Red Ponytail, he silently put it away.

"And it is precisely because Ashberwin's son died that this incident happened."

"So what you're saying is...his son wants to be resurrected?"

Luvia frowned and spoke, while El-Melloi II shook his head.

"It's not just that simple. You all should know Ashberwin's nickname, the repairer of magic seals. And for us magicians, magic seals are like organs. So repairing magic seals is similar to organ transplantation. So, have you ever thought about what materials are needed to repair magic seals?"

“…”

Hearing this, everyone present couldn't help but think, and then Heine frowned.

"...Other people's...magic seals?"

"This is simply impossible!"

"It's impossible. Such words are not suitable for a magician."

El-Melloi II shook his head again.

"I guess you've probably heard about this rumor before. After an organ transplant, some people's personalities change drastically, or they suddenly learn things they never knew before."

"Ah, I've seen similar movies."

At this moment, Xianhua also secretly approached Fang Zheng and whispered to Fang Zheng and Rosalind.

"I remember the content of that movie was about an honest man who got a heart transplant from a death row inmate, who turned out to be a robber. Later, the honest man's temper became more and more violent, and in the end, he started committing crimes as if he was possessed by the death row inmate... and so on..."

At this point, Flowers was startled.

"Could it be that..."

"Just as Ms. Kurogiri said."

Just then, El-Melloi II took out a notebook.

"This is the record I found in Ashberwin's secret room. It lists the names of magicians who came to repair the Magic Seal, and Jirobo Seigen was among them. This proves that he has been to Peeling Castle and received repairs on the Magic Seal."

Hearing this, everyone looked at the monk with different eyes. If it was just El-Melloi II's reasoning before, without any evidence, then the evidence now was completely different. After all, no matter what, a person who had come here to receive magic seal repair, pretending to know nothing about this place and coming here again to blend in, it seemed like something was wrong no matter how you looked at it.

"In other words, Ashberwin used his son's magic seal to repair the monk's magic seal, and then used the monk's body to revive his son? I have to say it's quite creative. If that's the case, why did he call us here?"

At this moment, Fang Zheng also raised his question with great interest, while El-Melloi II sighed.

"This is just my speculation. When Mr. Orlok was alive, I once communicated with him. He said that he had studied some secret arts with Ashberwin in this castle. Now that I think about it, this is probably the secret art of resurrection, and this secret art requires a large number of magic marks - hence the invitation. After all, those who come here after receiving the invitation are definitely magicians who are interested in the secret method of repairing magic marks, and they should all have magic marks on them. In fact, this is exactly the case... The reason why one person is killed every other day is probably because it takes a day to peel off and preserve the magic marks."

Luvia frowned, looking unhappy.

"So, we were lured here as prey?"

"That's about it."

This time, it was not El-Melloi II who answered, but the monk. He slowly stood up with a smile on his face. Although it was still the monk's voice, the tone was completely different from the monk's.

"Are you Ashberwin's son?"

"That's right."

The then-Jirobo Seigen - wrong, it should be said that Ashbowen's son nodded.

"I am Guranid Ashobwin."

“…”

At this moment, everyone fell silent. Although they had heard El-Melloi II's reasoning before, it was a completely different situation when the monk in front of them actually admitted in an unusual tone that he was a dead person.

But at this moment, no one noticed that the monster lying at the monk's feet opened its mouth again.

The next moment, a piercing sound suddenly erupted.